skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we need at least another 6 trillion. Maybe 20 trillion. Why stop there? We should quadruple the money supply maybe, we need to protect commercial real estate investors, after all.

... and then in 2021 we can all scratch our heads and wonder why income inequality is worse than ever, and despite all this spending, we didn't even make an appreciable dent in the impact of Covid-19 on public health.
Ah, fair. Taking back to the root, I see the connection. Since you directed specifically at me, I took it just back to my entrance.

Continuing in that vein. I stand by pointing that the choice of benchmark matters. I've been burned by my own choices and choices from peers too often to agree that hypothetical benchmarks will see improvements for everyone.

I also find it dubious that there are many use cases that are better served today than in the past. I want to believe you, but the evidence is coming in weak with a ton of argument from authority. You don't get a pass just for being a developer to tell users they are wrong.
Propaganda and wishful thinking doesn't replace facts. Governments will build transportation and hospitals until the last day of our extinction.
As a US voter I am very frustrated With and tired of this obsession with election forecasting. Is it going to influence whether or not you go out and vote? If not, what is the point of it?

What value does something like fivethirtyeight add to our democracy, if any? Is this motivation the same as that of diving deep into baseball stats or Star Wars starship engineering, just like “nerding out” for its own sake?

Contrast the voter who never looks at any of these polls with one who keeps up with them daily. Is the latter voter better off in some way? Is this just about trying to read the tea leaves so you can strut and preen later about having been correct, should the dice roll be in your favor?

My concern is that these things are distracting and may actually dissuade some people from voting because they think they “don’t have to.”

Here’s an idea: everyone go vote for whoever you think the best candidate is regardless of what a stack of polls say.

Someone set me straight here, what is the point of all this stuff.
I'm generally quite price-sensitive and frugal and I want to describe why I think you are right in calling out the author on their "overpriced" comment:

Two aspects are important to keep in mind for a decision of this kind:

This machine is going to be your primary professional tool for the next several years - do you really care about a few hundred dollars extra? Especially if you have niche-requirements (read: non mass-market) like strong Linux desktop support and deep concern for privacy / security?

Sure - you could do the research and build yourself and pay less for the parts - but if you consider your time at market rates, are you really making a financially smart decision by not paying a small premium on the price of constituent parts?

Of course, I am aware of the excitement that can be associated with creating a custom build - if you are into that sort of thing: enjoy it as a hobby project, not because it is a better deal.

Humans seem to have a hard time taking costs into account that are not easily quantified.
We did studies with children ages 8-14 over the summer. It was quite successful. We'll be reporting on this evaluation once we've completed the analysis. Keep an eye out on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-t...
> Combined with congressional inaction on social spending a lot of people are going to be in very deep finanical issues.

I would imagine people are experiencing such things already seeing as how it’s been seven months with nothing but a single $1200 check.
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> making cameras illegal because people take photos and record videos of copyrighted material.

It's not like there are no better alternatives. Instead of making it illegal, just setup a fee and a distribution scheme.

In Germany, we do pay some additional fee (0.5€?) on usb-sticks, printers and hard drives, etc, because those things could be used to copy copyrighted material. These fees go directly to associations that represent copyright holders, like GEMA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEMA_(German_organization) ). This happens since forever.

So there is already precedent for blanket-regulation of and compensation for possible use/misuse of copyrighted material. In fact, this is what some people proposed as a kind of reasonable alternative to the Upload filters of the EU Copyright directive ("Article 13" and so on)

I'm noticing that this is not really a coherent argument, more of a braindump, sorry.
Macports seems much better than brew generally, but also under maintained and vastly under-used compared to brew for some reason.
> * We still don't have a button to signal that we intend to speak; we don't need a fancy "pressure sensitive chair" to accomplish this.

Jitsi Meet has this: https://meet.jit.si/
Not really. I usually just add 'wiki' to my query. Or use !w.
I had, from what I can tell, the 3.3v power Button wire met and catch fire, no idea how and it sounds very unlikely but the computer worked once the fire was put out - I just had to start it with a screw driver.
It is a cute policy, a historical anachronism. In these days of internet databases and facial recognition the actual security advantage of not knowing someone's last name is minimal. Anyone who really wants to can find it.

As a basic first-order op, start with a the graduation photos of the elite British schools, which wouldn't be hard to get from their libraries. Pass that to some basic facial recognition software and within minute you will have all those secret last names.
Thanks! Typo fixed too.
Why would it matter? Do you not have to pay property taxes if the space isn't leased out?
Meanwhile, in Canada…

http://trreb.ca/index.php/market-news/market-stats#commercia...

If leasing activity and sales volume are good indicators, it’s down. Though prices are up slightly…

Also that data is nation-wide, and not specifically for Toronto, which is reasonable to assume would be the hardest hit. (Biggest city, and Ontario has not controlled this as well as British Columbia.)
The image I get from this article is that their work is very unorganized? They complain about issued with discussing stuff online, yet they don't use video?

> Engineers who worked remotely with the engineers in the U.S. said, “We miss the hallway stuff.” Andrei told me that when he spent time in Houston, he was able to build a mental map of “who knows what.” When he got back to Romania, the map got out of date quickly.

How the hell are you supposed to keep knowlage like this? What if someone leaves the company. Whay if you have someone new? Why would every person need to build this map. Create it once, share it with everyone, make it accessible and editable.

IMO online work often magnifies the issues that are already there.
Geese, perhaps? I think there's a canadian species thats numerous and hardy...

That is the best headline I've seen in a while. All it lacks is celebrity nudity.
"Historically", electrical engineers were the software engineers. You picked from a small collection of available parts which met your cost and design goals, and you put up with whatever horrific software tools supported the platform. This was my experience as an EE grad doing embedded SW work in the late 90s. Embedded back then didn't get anywhere near the attention that desktop processors received. Toolchains, debuggers, emulators, library support... all poor. Expectations were low and remained low. They could be, because most embedded stuff was handled by EE folks who didn't know any better and often weren't interested in the potential overhead of any 'better' ways. Embedded margins were always typically tight, so there really wasn't a bunch of money sloshing around to fund improvements. You're talking about an industry where fractional cent savings mattered.
can you give me one example of Google having influence over Government?
I use a 6 core 64 gb ram thinkpad, I also have a desktop I can use for long running, large disk tasks or virtualisation, when doing so I use RDP.
I used to use a similar setup. Just need to invest in extension cables, and it can work nicely.

Probably less of a concern, but it also moves the heat output.
That is 275 acres! Hard to even visualize
In WW2 we transformed every industry overnight to be geared for war.

I think we can handle setting up a payment system...

Like what kind of weak ass excuse is that? You can't figure out how to pay everyone?

Please. Give me a break.

Ubi is the effective and fair way to stimulate the economy btw.

All this stimulus aimed at businesses is absolutely moronic.

If people know they have secure pay coming in they will spend the money. Its the uncertainty that causes people to hard cash.

Businesses don't need the cash, if they can't stay afloat during this they shouldn't be allowed to make it through.

I do believe they deserve some help,aybe tax breaks, maybe short term allowance to make people redundant / reduce so they can equalise the books but there is no fair way to give them money and not the people.
No multiuser support :(
No ability to lock the screen :(
No integration with today’s web services :(

It was a great os 10 years ago but the freshness has worn off. Love the windowserver tho
It depends on when the lease was signed. AFAIK there's a pretty even distribution between quarters. Here's an article from this year (2020) about notable leases signed in Q2: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/10/six-nota....
You can "raise your hand" in MS Teams as a signal to everyone else
If they signed a 12 month lease in Q2, then yes.
Exactly, and back then we had MSVC and Borland's error messages to compare to gcc: it was pretty clear where the fault lay, even before clang came along.
I guess they could make bigger apartments if they are bottlenecked on plumbing.

But I wonder what people could do with commercial office space so cheap? For startups that can't really go 100% remote (mostly hardware) that's a dream come true!
1. Ripping a CD I just bought. Yes, I still buy CDs. So shoot me now.

2. Burning a bluray for backup. (I do backups on different media types just for insurance, and I like that blurays are write-once and incompetence and ransomware cannot fk with them.)
Any references that you would recommend for learning Make?
This has been solved: the home secretary can now authorise the security services to commit crimes completely legally.

/S
Just use a usb hub. I have all my accessories on the hub and then when I finish work I move the hub usb to my desktop so my kb/mouse/mic are all switched over.
I don’t think I want to live in a world where software engineers make up their own foreign policy.

At the very least, enforceable sanctions give us options other than war. Giving that up could carry an immense human cost. An understanding of distributed software architecture does not come with the ability to understand and weigh that cost, nor does it make you a legitimate authority on which tradeoffs to choose. It’s probably inevitable, but I’ll be disappointed in our community if it happens.
I imagine we are approaching a tipping point where the cost of connection to the grid is more expensive than provisioning a home with enough solar + battery capacity to go fully off grid.
laptop docks so your not wiring everything every time and more ports. a desktop is a lot more modular but not mobile. with cloud sync(personal local or remote, or third parties) having two computers is less of a hassle. i see them with the same purpose but different circumstances but a laptop can play both roles with ease with the right setup.
the scope of the pandemic wasn't yet clear in Q1
Homeworld from 1999 was heavily inspired by Elson's work:

http://www.peterelson.co.uk/images/gallery/large/PebbleInThe...

vs

https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/3936-homeworld-gam...

There is even character named "Group Captain Elson" as tribute to Peter.
> No, you don't "lose out on exchange rates" especially if you are talking any real money

Your currency -> crypto, crypto -> destination currency are the two places you’ll suffer exchange rate losses.

> ... or know how to trade better.

Make a mistake, or you aren’t a trading wizard and you’re irrevocably out of luck though!

> it is all way less limiting and cheaper than any exchanges, way less limiting than a random fintech app with random monetary restrictions.

Until I later discover I’ve got pay tax on the gains or something later on and then have to sit down and work that out. Or that I had to declare it or something because I’m moving an amount above some threshold. Sure, it might take only 20 mins of everything goes nicely and you know exactly what you’re doing and someone doesn’t sneeze and tank the value of the currency out from underneath you, but I’m much happier going through proper channels where I at least know it’s going to work because it’s being done by people whose job it is to make it work.

Why would I use a stable coin, instead of just three fiat currency it’s backed by though?
AFAIK there is no actual public info on what the dollar amount is (I certainly don't know what it is).

The house report says they don't know how much Google pays and they pulled the numbers from a story on the web that was guessing.

So as of right now no one knows what the revenue or profit is.
I agree its very difficult and in making decisions like this we will incidentally help pick winners and losers.

I dont think temporary relief will make or break a business model effected by the pandemic. On some of those edge cases we will need to decide whether the government will get their money back or accept losses.
Having used paid software development tools, I really don't think this is the case. In particular, I'm thinking of Xilinx Vivado, a popular FPGA IDE that starts at $3000/seat and is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to use. FPGA developers aren't cheap; I shudder to think of the amount of money paid for time spent dealing with issues and bugs in this program.
> Not sure if I understand

sorry I meant a continuation of your quote as part of of the question there: ie. "is starting your own hive the own only way?"

I've started to plant bee friendly flowers, but they haven't grown much. I'll continue again in spring.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
I came here to comment on this exact quote. "Overpriced" is such an odd word for the author to use in this context, it undermines their entire argument.

Are these laptops more expensive than a similarly spec'd mainstream alternative? Yes. However, as is the point of the article, you're really not buying the laptop for the specs.

Unfortunately, the desire for open source being rather niche, these companies do not benefit from the economies of scale a mainstream brand enjoys. AND these companies are not positioning themselves to profit from their customers recurringly through cloud memberships, app stores, microtransactions, and the likes.
>The planets gonna be fine

I see this line a lot but everyday humans are doing irreparable damage to ecosystems. Taking millions of years to heal from events is not ‘fine’.
Just raise your hand on the web cam. Move it closer to make it visible.
> it was roskomnadzor carpet-blocking whole IP ranges of cloud providers.

Oh yeah, forgot about it. RKN block is usually an SSL error, a timeout, or a page from your ISP saying "this is blocked by the government, sorry". Never a 403.

Thankfully, smaller ISPs are terrifically terrible at complying with this.
This has happened every few years in corporate real estate for the past half century (Sam Zell's biography is a good take).

Every. Single. Time. Valuations too high. Debt too high. Equity too low.

I am pretty cynical because I have read a bit too much history and seen this so many times working in investment management but...so what? Some rich people lose a ton of money...okay? Capitalism has losers. You lose.

Also, in the last crisis, a ton of people (particularly Blackstone) made a ton of money buying huge deals at the very top of the market. None of this excess came out of the market. Lots of people who borrowed tons of money were just able to take their paper to the Fed, and keep playing.
Does sound, like light, have a maximum speed?
I think a quote from Bernie Sanders encapsulates the problem: "in the US, we have socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor".

Corporate lobbyists know the government is a cash cow, and they take advantage of this. They will always get relief if they ask for it.

Direct payments are the opposite of this.
I don't see a lack of USB ports as a complete dealbreaker for using a laptop. USB hubs work fine to attach large numbers of lower-speed USB devices to a laptop.
I love your certainty. I'm not sure it's warranted though.
|Most security breaches (including ransomware events) are insider attacks

I'm interested in this suggestion, do you have any data ?

The breaches that I recall most vividly (and I appreciate that confirmation bias is at play here) involve outsiders accessing cloud based data stores (almost always S3 because of market dominance) the access rights of which have been inadvertently set up to allow public access.

I can recall a case like the above which was then exploited by a disgruntled insider but mostly, it seems to me, it's outsiders.

Would be interested to see some numbers although given a lot of ransom events are, I assume, never made public it's probably difficult to get anything definitive ?
https://archive.vn/Ap28N
What's a platform?
It's likely only partially temporary. Many companies were already decreasing hiring in the bay area pre-pandemic. That will only continue as other places are much cheaper.

Between the high tax corporate rates of SF & California along with increased salary due to cost of living, an SF-based engineer must produce 2x as much output as an engineer based elsewhere and 3x as one based on Canada.
That factor has made a fair amount of my meetings better. Meetings that really only needed 2 or 3 people, but 12 end up getting invited. All the extra meeting passengers no longer feel as though they have to appear engaged, so the conversation takes place between the people who actually needed to talk, everybody else zones out and pipes up with a quick “thanks everybody” at the end.
You can accuse RMS for many things, but he definitively does not 'virtue signal.' He at least (from all public appearances anyway) practices what he preaches.
When rowing I can throw down a significantly larger amount of power than when I'm cycling (almost a kilowatt in a short sprint), but ultimately my average sustainable power in both sports is about between 150w-250w. This article got me thinking about calculating the amount of LED bulbs someone could power given a certain V02 Max... hmm.
Not on Apple devices, but custom operating systems are alive and well on most non-Apple laptops, tablets, phones, servers, or even embedded systems with no signs of it changing. PostmarketOS is a great example.
Yes and states have run out of funding. They literally cant pay people the services they promised them when taking taxes.
So Mexico paid for that right? Asking for a friend
This is the dream setup. When you’ve got lots of USB-C devices, plugging in one cable and connecting to everything feels great.

I’ve got a USB-C dock hooked up to my TV too with a wireless KB/mouse combo connected into that, if I want to plug my laptop in on the couch.

Even works with your phone, if you've got one that supports it. Recent flagship Samsung phones with DeX do, but I'm really holding out for more external monitor support in Phosh so I can plug in a Librem 5 like this.
I did archive all my CDs to HDD (gotta love 10Tb drives!! why buy anything less?), but I keep the CDs as backup in case (cough) the machine catches fire and burns up my hard drives (cough).
A term I've used is "ambulatory wheelchair user" - there are lots of us!

I think it's more important to have the information available. I might not go to a place with a step at the entrance by myself but if I have people with me I can decide that I'll risk it.
Interesting. It's a good, concise interface. Still not a fan of horizontal scrolling, though. I probably won't ever get used to that. :) But then I'm one of those weirdos who has a portrait-mode secondary monitor set up. (I'm the author of TwitGrid.)
Thanks! (Love the username btw)
Are Progressive mayorships in places like SF and New York the right mentality at the right time when it's an economic catastrophe to be averted?

The Mayor of NYC said a few days ago, 'Midtown is not the center of the universe' when asked about sudden new squalor and economic catastrophe. Unfortunately it is the center of jobs for the region. Is SF run like this as well?
You can also use the hand you are born with. It will be even more visible. It didn't feel that awkward in school, so we can use it now too.
An excellent point.

How many people are/were barely attached to the banking system? Especially if you’re working, well, a bit under the table, in day labor situations like construction or office cleaning.

I got my stimulus check. Basically immediately. Because I have a standard 9–5 salaried job with direct deposit, so the government knew exactly where to send the money. But that seems to obviously not have the force multiplier effect of sending it to someone who just got fired from a movie theater.
AFAIK mobile CPUs max out at 8 physical cores, whereas you can get 16 at the higher end of mainstream in desktops, and up to 64 in the enthusiast segment. Core count isn't the whole story, obviously, but an important consideration for many applications.
How relevant is this to average people? I.e., seems this only affect the rich?
My friend who’s also a realtor in The Bay says the exact same thing. I hope they are wrong and just being fatalists!