skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Thanks for the interesting summary; what was the last year that you think Commodore was a viable competitor to Apple?

1985-1986, the period of about 18 months after the Amiga came out. You read BYTE magazine from then and it's clear that the magazine (and, more importantly, its readers) viewed the Amiga and the Atari ST as viable, realistic challengers to the Macintosh as leader of mouse-based graphical computing (i.e., anything not IBM/MS-DOS). Neither Commodore nor Atari succeeded in supplanting Apple for reasons I won't get into here.

But you're not asking the right question. Apple itself was having a very difficult time in convincing corporate customers that Macintosh was the answer to anything. Everyone acknowledged that Macintosh's user interface and software were excellent. But DOS was good enough, had a gigantic software library, and by the end of 1986 it was possible to pay $1000 for a PC clone that could run dad's spreadsheets he brought home, and also run Flight Simulator for him and educational games for the kids. The one exception was creative types; desktop publishing and graphic design, with the Laserwriter's PostScript capability, let Apple keep Macintosh alive, while the Apple II line kept bringing in cash even though the PC was eating it and everything else non-DOS alive.

By 1988, although the Commodore 64 still had the largest home computer installed base, the PC was growing so quickly that everyone knew that it would soon take over. Meanwhile, Nintendo was so popular that in one year it sold as the entire C64 installed base since 1982. So every game publisher began shifting to PC and/or consoles. Apple's also huge II installed base also kept it afloat as mentioned above, and the significant educational market let Apple keep producing II models until the early 1990s, almost exactly the same time as when Commodore went bankrupt and discontinued the C64. But realistically, neither the C64 nor the II had been viable markets for software or hardware companies since about 1990.

Apple survived because by the early 1990s Macintosh sales were finally trending upward, with the continuing creative market joined for the first time by substantial home and educational demand thanks to the low-cost Classic and LC models. But the relentless growth and dominance of the PC market, combined with mistakes by Apple in the mid-1990s, caused the company to come within moments of bankruptcy and/or sale in the late 1990s until Steve Jobs came back and pulled off a miracle.
there are no features on HN they just never developed it lol
Nothing stops exchanges from doing KYC prior to XMR txs in order to comply with AML regulations. Mixers probably aren't doing KYC...?
Did any voters actually fall for this? It seemed laughably fraudulent to me at the time, and it's not clear to me if the con worked or if politicians are so non-responsive to the voters that it didn't really matter if anyone was actually fooled.
seems like they could have at least considered bitcoin mining and negotiated for subsidized energy contracts
ARM is chipping away at x86, TSMC is deeper in the nodes... the only thing they really have doing for them is being US based.
Cryonics may turn out to be easier :)
> Somewhere along the way, WiFi absolutely became the expectation, wires became an oddity, and a lot of us techies missed it.

It's also extremely common now for people to use "Wi-Fi" as a synonym for "Internet connection"
With the minor difference being that the glass factory actually makes things.
For a CIA operative this guy talks too much. He is probably just trying to get some special pension as a “victim” of mysterious weapon that no one sure exists and body effects of which can’t be detected.

> But in the year since he left, he has become increasingly frustrated by the Agency’s reluctance to give him and the other CIA officers affected with the medical care they need. “It’s incumbent on them to provide the medical help we require, which does not include telling us that we’re all making it up,” he told me. “I want the Agency to treat this as a combat injury.”
Do academia (universities) and high/elementary school have such loyalty to each other? I thought that most colleges were quite friendly to homeschooled students.
All Blender movies can be downloaded for this reason: https://cloud.blender.org/open-projects

Last month they discovered a bug in Blender that was the cause of very slow hair rendering. The fix dropped render times for some scenes from 4 minutes to 40 seconds.

So it can indeed be useful to check if things can be improved for old movies.

But I am not sure realtime is an option right now. Most movies also use post processing per frame wich also takes some time.
> * "serverless" aka no IP grabbing and doxx

So long as you don't join a voice channel, right? As I understand it all the voice and video is webrtc, so p2p.
the world is balkanizing , he is wrong. its just right now certain players are dominent. 4chan has the least censorship of platforms right now and is probably the closest to global platform you can get. all others have to align some what with their countries origins. twitter vs president is just an internal dispute.
> I don't believe a website can upload your contact list, upload a list of apps on the device,

True AFAIK.

> log your GPS location or record using your camera or microphone. Is this no longer true?

Depends on what you mean. This is fully possible on many phones and only needs approval from the user.

Then again approval from the user seems to be becoming the standard in installed apps as well.

That said, I much prefer web pages for things that need cloud or apps/desktop applications that works offline for the rest.
Just like the very egalitarian principle that says, "One rich man can advocate for his interests by himself and by the work of 100 poor man"
Modern farming assumes that the soil is a mostly sterile medium to dump both fertiliser and seed.

Basically sand with a tiny bit of organic fluff.

Firstly sand blows away, secondly it doesn't hold water anywhere near as well. This means that you need more drainage channels, which means you get more runoff, which means you need more fertiliser.

_proper_ soil, with plenty of organic matter is both more porous _and_ able to absorb more water.
Respectfully, as a power systems engineer, I'm unable to grasp how what you're describing is beneficial compared to current power networks or how it respects the underlying physics of electricity.

The design of power transmission and distribution networks is driven by several physical realities: high voltage is needed to transmit power over long distances with acceptable losses, it is easier and cheaper to transform voltage and switch ultra high power circuits in an AC network than a DC network, all power conversion is lossy, electricity is hazardous and therefore electrical circuits must be insulated and protected adequately to protect public safety.

I've heard this question of "why don't we have some kind of universal power outlet that any load regardless of voltage or current needs can connect to?" before. The answer is the same as in many other fields of engineering: it's not efficient to overbuild every node in an network to handle any possible load when electrical loads are usually well-defined and do not change rapidly. We don't have a universal train that runs in the metro, for freight and for high speed rail not because it's not possible but because that would not be efficient. The same applies here.
I pushed through for 20 years. I knew something was wrong, but doctors and family were awlaeays dismissive.

My body and mind completely gave out.
I’m essentially fully disabled, but because it’s not directly visible I couldn’t get disability. Even when I was in bed lights off for 18+ hours a day in horrible agony.

There are limits to what the body can take without correct treatment.
As a user who has switched back and forth between iOS and Android multiple times, Game Center isn’t gonna cut it for me. But I see how it could be enticing in some use cases.
Or as an old one....
The Rising Era of Web Application Development with PWAs
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are hotly debated at the moment. What exactly are progressive web apps, and what are their advantages over native apps?
One thing people seem to be doing it put incredible effort into timeliness of data nobody ever looks at. (Plus, creating hundreds of TCP/IP + JSON overhead for single bit events.)

I've used the following pattern in the past:
- generally only send batched data in as large an interval as possible
- if somebody looks at a device, immediately (well, might take some seconds) query the batched data and switch device to a "live" mode that provides live data instead of "wait and batch".

This will be a bad idea for scenarios where there's a reasonable expectation of surges of people needing "live" access, but for our use cases of industrial data, it works very well. We only watch our own devices, which are in the lower tens of thousands, but I don't see why this should not scale to more, under the restrictions mentioned above.
Semi related eco filter causes environmental problems as well

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/oct/15/eco-glitter-ca...
Part of the challenging is the difference between trying to persuade people and trying to resonate with them. For changing minds and creating change, resonating with people is probably more effective.
Thinking my way through this thing:

A. If there's a directed-energy weapon, we would know about it because we probably have one too.

B. If we have one and we know they're using it, we have two choices:

B.1 We call them out on it, but then we have to
admit we have the thing too, and we've tested it on
people so we know it does that.

B.2 We don't call them out on it directly, and we
just encourage affected federal employees to go
public and shame our friends in Moscow, Havana,
Beijing, country X we have some political problem
with.

C. If there's not a directed-energy weapon, it's either the pesticide thing or mass hysteria.

D. Normal people won't know what the real answer is until it's FOIA declassified in 60 years.

E. Working for the CIA in unfriendly countries can come with side-effects.
Basically, the capability to harden, temper, and anneal steel allows you to do a lot that you couldn't otherwise. It means you can take a single material and rotate it through any of soft and malleable, knife-hard and brittle, and strong and springy.

For example, without a heat treatment oven, it would be very hard to make a new hard cutting tool. What would you cut it with? You basically have only the option of grinding it, which is very difficult especially because if you overheat it at any time you'll destroy the temper.

But if you soften it, you can use other steel tools to sculpt it to any shape you like, and then you can harden it again!

Now you can make bearings, hinges, chisels, files, sawblades, knives, wear surfaces, deadbolts, springs, needles, gears, and all sorts of other things that require a hard material in order to perform or last a long time.
Absolutely not an expert here, but I do obsess about our churn numbers.

It seems this post is trying to make a model to predict churn or guess what future churn might be. But the main case for understanding churn to me is historical.

Last month we had 10 customers paying us $10 each. Two of them cancelled. I have gross churn of $20. That's not a model, just a historical fact. What's "wrong" with that calculation that these models solve?

I will definitely get different churn numbers if I look at groups of customers in cohorts based on when they first signed up, or enterprise-vs-SMB, or whatever. So I have reports to create all of those cohorts and show me the churn for each. I look at that data - with all the historical context - and make a decision about what to do next in the business. "Selling to SMB's was a good idea, but wow they churn a lot more. Let's focus our marketing on enterprises this month."

To me the churn calculation at the top of the article is plenty useful. I'm not sure what value I'd get from these advanced models. If they just exist to predict future churn or LTV, that doesn't seem particularly useful.
something that is not underlined enough is that you're allowed to purchase Nitro for someone else channel you enjoy, via gifts.

that removes a lot of friction, compared to, say, splitting a teamserver costs or putting a paypal donation button.
I don't understand your argument. The church members individually have the right to practice their religion however they want so long as it doesn't impinge on others' rights or laws. The group aspect really doesn't come into play at all. In the same way, those same individuals can contribute as individuals to whatever cause they choose. The problem is when resources get pooled and an organization rather than its individuals decides where to allocate those resources politically. That's where the parent comment thinks the line should be drawn.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich (Book Review)
I could imagine Aaron and Tom doing a duet.
> True in Curling i never heard of doping.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/sports/olympics/olympic-c...

Your feelings are not in congruence with facts.

> And again not every Sport profits from Doping and not everyone takes them but lots and lots of them do, and having a blind eye because of profit is the unfair thing for the honest and sportsmanship'ish peoples.

Again, evidence or it did not happen. You are casting unproven claims as facts. That gives the impression that the default is an athlete is doped, and _that's_ what's unfair.
Right? With everything we know about the main social networks, I’d pass on this too.
I've been using git forever, and never even noticed that hunks get a class identifier. I pretty much have only been diffing Python. I guess it's so useless I never even noticed!
Also if the problem is "churn as a single number" is wrong because it misleads people (the example being churn is up because the company is growing) surely the answer is to show a cohort analysis or historical data - not a forward looking or "best fit" model?
Battle over EU ban on ‘veggie burger’ label reaches key vote
That question is still open for submissions, and this computer looks to be significantly smaller than the one submitted there. If someone were willing to expand the computer a bit (memory currently seems a bit small) and then port Tetris to it then I suspect they'd be able to beat the QFT processor.
Can corporations put “kosher” markings on food that is not kosher? Isn’t that already a limit on free speech?
The specific wording was "Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers."

So it's not the driver that is incompatible, it is Linux. And that led to the grandparent comment asking if Linux people are "deliberate to fuck with nvidia".

If nvidia had said "our driver is incompatible with the newest Linux kernel" then we probably wouldn't been having this thread.
I'm in the other camp on this one. I think the best thing to happen to IRC were the services that let you keep your nick or your channel without needing to maintain an army of bots. Channel takeovers on EFnet were a fact of life and it made things pretty unpleasant imo.
> a group of people campaigning for a politics cause would suddenly lose their right to free speech if they formed a corporation to simplify the activities

This doesn't make any sense. Every person in the group retains their free speech rights and can exercise them however they want, it's only the non-human "person" entity in the form of the corporation that would be limited.
The point of Germany being highly educated is overdone. The country was also heavily militarized, violent and generally massive mess. Hitler was not representing educated elite, quite the opposite. Part of that all was backslash against modernity, against arts etc.

In Russia, peasants were largely illiterate. As in, unable to read and write. The revolution did came from people who were able to read and write, obviously, it is kinda hard to coordinate without that. For that matter, monarchy was kept by educated people too, simply because you cant keep bureaucracy without writing.

But it was not some kind of great education they would have. And their propensity for violence had more to do with how violent Russia was even before then with anything education.
It's complex. There might be different views on this matter within the same company, and even different executions. If this is presented as a national security issue not even the CxO team might be fully informed.

It is not just PR. You actually want the 'bad actors' to believe your platform is not compromised or even not compromizable, because otherwise they wouldn't use it and your backdoor would be useless. So fighting openly for backdoors by 5e+2 would, if not a ruse, be entirely self defeating.

So you can vehemently protest or deny even the potential for backdoors, while at the same time having it in your product already.

As always the agencies potential for acting on information gained is not straightforward, as doing so would compromise the secrecy of the infrastructure. So second sourcing would be strickly required, and you would only nudge official enquiries in the right direction under very high stakes circumstances.
I wanted this, I essentially begged for it for 12 years with no success. I didn't need any extra motivation to read or do math problems and I was way above my grade level in both, but had behavioral problems because I was so bored in school. I still ended up with very high SAT and ACT scores too, but eventually broke down toward the end of college and graduated on time but with a few bad grades. My parents would have lost their minds if I had dropped out during any of the first three years when I also had an A-average GPA.

The public schools I went to all had a gifted program in various forms, which most years was just one hour a week and taught topics that should have been available to every student in the school. Amazingly, the teacher showed us the structure of a URL in around 1994 when I was in first grade.
I'm not going to say anything new when I say that this is the other side of the centralization coin.
If curious see also Tom Lehrer in other threads (including several appearances by former students):

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24279151

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036813

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774608

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684409

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675682
by that logic, everyone in the "old world" would have stopped farming in 1100/1500.

Until about 1870 it wasn't possible to "intensively" farm land. Intensive requires mechanisation. Practically that requires internal combustion engines.

Intensive farming started when tractors became cheap enough for everyone to use. As soon as it was practical to plough hundreds of acres in a day, thats when "intensive" was a thing.

In the US thats roughly the 20s.

The second revolution was cheap pesticides with short half-lives. That was Glyphosate in the 70s.
I am not talking about that at all.
Relevant passage from https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer, a magnificent portrait that everyone who likes TL should read:

Meyn originally posted content to the channel without Lehrer’s permission and called him from overseas in December 2008 to apologize, a conversation he later posted on the “Tom Lehrer!” Facebook page. An excerpt:

TL: Well, you see, I'm fine with that channel.

EM: You're very kind. But my question is: Who in your family will take care of your copyright and your songs in the distant future?

TL: I don't have a family.

EM: OK, but what do you think will happen to the channel and your songs? And if you have someone who will act on your behalf, could you give them my name in case they'd want the channel taken down?

TL: Yes, but there's no need to remove that channel.

EM: I was just wondering what will happen in the future, because you're certainly going to continue to sell records.

TL: Well, I don't need to make money after I'm dead. These things will be taken care of.

EM: I feel like I gave away some of your songs to public domain without even asking you, and that wasn't very nice of me.

TL: But I'm fine with that, you know.

EM: Will you establish any kind of foundation or charity or something like that?

TL: No, I won't. They're mostly rip-offs.
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> plenty of people try it, find it doesn't work for them, and quit.

This seems like it would lend itself to selection bias - only people for whom homeschooling is a good fit continue to pursue it.
My feature request came true :D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587562
Companies Are Rushing to Use AI–But Few See a Payoff
Yup, it's fun to chase-down arguments and points you were curious to hear feedback on.
Now imagine how much worse it'd be if more people were homeschooled and not exposed to opposing views. If their only source of information was a parent who believed in strange conspiracy theories and only associated with friends and family who had similar views.

School's greatest purpose is putting kids in a room with a couple dozen other kids that they may disagree with or even hate, and forcing them to learn how to deal with their existence.
Damn I had this idea few months ago.
To allow half the planet's population to also be competitive in sports. And often times, the style/technique slightly differs between them too.

In some sports you even have different weight classes. Rowing has 2, wrestling has 6 (olympic), boxing has 8-10 (olympic). The techniques there also differ slightly.

And there are other partitionings of the population too that restrict in who can participate in a competition. You have world championships, but you also have nationals. And regional competitions. And junior leagues. And school competitions.

Then there is also the paralympics.

You can find all that reasonable or ridiculous, but I'm not sure how that's related to doping.
Weimar Republic was democracy, because WWI victors forced Germany into democracy. Weimar Republic was also failing mess, from start to end. With fights and screaming in parlament, with political murders, with attempted revolutions and with increasing violence in the streets. Germans themselves did not wanted democracy at any point. They have found loss in war humiliating and unfair.

Weimar Republic also had highly militarized civil service, comited to military values rather then to democracy.

Russian Empire was dictatorship to large extend. Not as much as communism, but it was not democracy with political freedoms. The little reforms they had were basically too little too late. There were little of such a thing as citizen right in most places. Peasants also had huge illiteracy rates.
Alas, often "no child left behind" also means "no child let ahead".
If you can't even remove CAs from the trust store without breaking it, then it doesn't fucking work, does it?
I should have written that the overall quality hasn’t changed. A lot of products have changed, in one way or another, but the overall quality isn’t worse than it used to be.
I used to play Battlefield (an FPS) a lot. Organised games ranging from 5 vs 5 up to 32 vs 32.

The one sure way to find / detect players with cheats was... to use the same cheats. It saved my sanity but cost me the joy of playing.

I now can't play FPS's anymore but am limited to MMO's :(
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