skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ping pong balls reportedly float on Xbox Series X's vent
You see?? The forum works fine, Dijit finds me on every thread without a follow feature anyway :P
>Gang, it would be great to shift the tone of this discussion,” Baquet jumped in to say during a fight about whether “Opinion”-section provocateur Bari Weiss’s description of a “civil war inside The New York Times

Right message, wrong person.

Journalism is in crisis but it's not money, there's more journalists today than there ever has been. More budget than ever before. More journalistic freedom than ever before. This freedom isn't the problem. The problem is that political activists are becoming journalists, this occurs at the same time where a political ideology is in their death throes.

USSR collapsing was a huge blow to the left-wing but worse China's free trade zones success is undeniable. Shenzen went from tiny town to over 10 million people because of capitalism. The free trade zones in China resulted in hyper globalization and all the 'problems' from China is because they adopted capitalism. In 2004, China made a huge change, they recognize private property.

Communism is dead, China has been shifting toward capitalism. Obviously you can't immediately switch to capitalism. Who are the remaining communists? Cuba? North Korea? Vietnam? Laos? Venezuela? Spain? Greece?

Not only is communism as dead as ever and it's leading to communist political activists taking over some journalistic positions and pushing communism. The problem is that they keep getting caught and rebranding. Marxists, collectivists, communists, socialists, postmodernists, etc. They go by many names and all propose the same thing.

The conflict in the NYTimes is that journalism tends to lean left and they certainly dont have any right-leaning viewpoints. So the conflict arises where moderate left-wing collides with the communist journalists.

Why is everyone a racist? Because communism requires a classless society and intersectionality demands this.

Why is Russia the big bad evil people trying to ruin everything? They are the ones who are anti-communist.
jimmygrapes was referring to the topics discussed, not the identity of the speakers.
The story about uneducated rural areas vs educated cities is slowly turning false. Previously you just hadn't access to culture and were cut off from most events, but that changed with a global network to a significant degree. If remote work becomes more established, there is actually little reason to stay in the city, especially if you found a family.

You find derisive comments on rural areas throughout writings of the 19th and 20th century and it will probably still be reiterated for decades.
How do you handle knowledge share?
Maybe you're rolling off a project or training a new employee. How do you ensure that all of the domain expertise and processes you've ingested can be documented and transferred appropriately?
This is an impressive course load ... looks like he started by taking Math 55 freshman year, reputedly the hardest freshman math course in the country.
Why the New Macs Are So Short of Memory
See discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998793
Yeah, but if you tax more the businesses that helped sustain working from home and keept some parts of the economy going on "as normal", would that incentivise people to create other companies that have that as a goal (or even side effect)? They haven't defrauded people or robbed the money - there was more demand for their product, good for them. Are you going to also tax, for example, any farms that saw an increased demand because of different culinary choices? Apps for home workouts? Restaurants that do takeaway/delivery? Toilet paper manufacturers?
Wifi Dabba HN thread from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790350

Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879335
An Attempt to Love MQL4
These legal limits are not 'the problem' but there for exactly this reason: operating the plant at full power would start killing aquatic creatures living downstream by excessively increasing water temperature.
I don't think that's a good measure, to be honest.

If Biden won every single county by 51%, by this metric you could argue 100% of the economy voted for Biden. In reality, 51% voted for Biden.

Also, I'm sure tech companies have an out-sized "GDP" metric.

That being said, I believe 70% is probably fair, because most of the high earners support democrats. Just pointing out an issue in the counting.
lolwut. you mean let your CI/CD on a real computer/server compile it much faster so you can keep working?
It doesn't seem like the author's reading past the first line of the comment. The HN commenter says 1kMRR from a side project is indeed impressive. Immediately after, the author states "$1000 per month from a side project is considered meh." The entire article is responding to a straw man.

FWIW the original article the comment came from was about 1k MRR startups. I think if you treat it like a startup, you better be making more than 1k/mo after a couple years (or, alternately, losing 100M per month) to be considered impressive.
Sorry folks, I'm gonna hard pass on that one.

I distinctly remember how this played a role with Mrbabyman on Digg c. 2008 or so.
Software is the key for me. I am by no means a power user but I really am loathe to give up even more of my software library to swap to Apple Silicon after Catalina cratered my gaming library in Steam and some older apps from companies long gone.

I don't expect I am alone in this observation but the number of software companies they highlighted during the M1 debut was very slim and to be honest I have not heard of half of them until then and don't remember them now.

So to me it matters not how much faster AS is, what matters is if I can run want I want to run. I am not going to own two separate machines to do what I want to do. If AS machines cannot do all I need I will keep my current Mac till support runs out and look again
Firstly, this is an awesome project, congratulations! (You'd be surprised, this is even a problem in parts of the US once you leave the metro areas.)

I was curious about a couple of things:

- You list some sophisticated machinery -- did you run into permit/regulatory challenges around running all this?

- Did you get challenged by incumbents, even if they weren't providing service in your specific locale?
A significant source for enabling corrupt behavior is the fact that the party (usually) controls the seat, and highly noncompetitive races where incumbents are almost guaranteed their seat. If a statesperson doesn’t “own” their seat, and they don’t have a party to cover them, they have to worry about the next person asking questions.
I was also thinking about this recently, it could be useful if HN borrowed some features from mainstream social media forums, in terms of community cohesion.

For example, being able to award/react to comments like Reddit, Facebook and Slashdot have. Sometimes it's good to just get a feel for what others are thinking of a comment, rather than having to read a comment which either basically repeats what the previous commenter said but with different words, or just disagrees without adding much. I think this would improve the information density of the forum by encouraging substantive comments, and replacing the useless padding comments to mere annotations.

(Perhaps this would be a good use of emojis? Keep them blocked from appearing in the comments themselves, but allow them as short annotations to other comments.)

Another example, having a comment thread on each user profile, which could have a mix of public or private comments. Sort of like Reddit's messaging, but with a public aspect too. HN currently has no mechanism for direct messaging for some reason, and it seems a glaring omission, considering the community-building advantages this can inspire. This would fill this gap nicely.

One more suggestion: being able to add a photograph to your own profile. It's great to talk to other people in cyberspace with text, but sometimes it's also nice to get a visual indicator of who you're communicating with. This doesn't have to be a real life photograph of course, any representative avatar would be fine. I think it would add colour and warmth to interactions on HN. Perhaps to make it more interesting for HN clientele, it could be limited to something like monochrome 256x256 for that old school feeling, or you need to upload a LISP program to generate it.

Anyway just some suggestions, would be interested to know other HNers' thoughts.
Also, Albania seems to be much more religious, even 9 years ago, when the effect of the previous regime could have been a bit more strong than today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania#Religion
Heh, I had forgotten that already. I had so much fun with Dr. Sbaitso in the early 90s when I bought my first sound card, SB Pro 2.0.
After all these years I can still remember the introduction lines word-by-word. Scary..
> Also, what to do when the family itself is part of the problem?

In my experience, almost nothing saves you from that. Yes, there are exceptions, but that's why we call them exceptions.
Thanks for the link. My first thought when reading the article was there had to be a more simplistic mathematical equivalent.
> Similarly, if commissioning new nuclear submarines is cheaper because the SMR research has already been done, then defence procurers can make a stronger case to buy more of them as opposed to other military technologies.

it's still a silly position. pretty much any research in physics/engineering enables the military to create more efficient ways of killing people. should we stall all technological progress to starve the military?
Sigh, they're a force of nature. Winter for a generation? Remember?
How to handle missed/failed events in a distributed transaction ?
My guess would be: because the audience - the general public - doesn't care about the in-industry competition for the top spots in music popularity charts[0]. People enjoy songs in isolation - a piece may be "good", or "bad", but isn't "unfair". In most spectator sports, however, ranking of the performers is everything, and perceived fairness is paramount - so the industry does its best to equalize every possible factor except the intrinsic qualities of people and teams.

--

[0] - Hell, at least for pop music, IIRC those charts are mostly manufactured anyway and have little to do with any subjective or objective qualities of the songs in question.
My dismissal of the original statement is well explained.

While some games with some anti-cheats won't work on Linux, the vast majority work well. There are options for viable future anti-cheats on Linux, between recreating what's been done for Windows, simple reputation systems, community moderation and actual event audits. The reason they'll be contemplated is the continued failure of trusted clients. And the significance of the 13 [of top 100] games that currently don't work is entirely down to player preferences.

Dramatics: you seem to be a person that understands the problem, understands individuality, but refuses to paint as more than a binary outcome. There are already a million gamers playing games on Linux, there's clearly room in the middle, and positive road to the future.

E-sports: the elite will continue to happen at real venues, but I think there's going to be significant growth in the every-day teams. Think five-a-side pub teams. They're not going to rent a £15k/d venue like Multiplay can, they're going to play online and need a way to ensure that all players are playing with the same tools. A cloud-rendered system does that and it'll only become more feasible in time. Yes, there's higher latency, but it's a known latency.
If it were about dodgy parts, it would be enough to use genuine parts. It's not. If it were about dodgy parts they'd make it easy for third-party shops to get genuine parts. They don't. Why do parts through their independent repair program cost more (to the point of being uneconomical) if the shop is replacing a non-OEM part or (god forbid) they want to stock up so they can actually replace parts when their customer walks in and not have to wait for Apple's approval[1]? How does charging more for replacing a non-OEM part protect people?

I've done things Apple's way, and my reward was losing access to my work tools for two weeks. They can pay for prime real estate but they can't pay to train their Geniuses to actually fix things? To change a battery? They can't keep parts in stock? Doing things their way is miserable---they are capricious, they deny they ever make any design errors, it is inconvenient. This drives people to third-party providers where they can actually get better service for the products they paid a premium for. How does this protect people?

I'm not even talking about component-level repair. I'm not talking about changing a bad chip.

These are the feet[2]. They stick on. No soldering required. But apparently that's too hard for their Geniuses to do.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCUF-V1esM

[2] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-and-MacBook-Pro-Uni...
The key differentiator is the camera on the Pro, which significantly increases the cost. Some people will pay a premium for the privilege of owning the top model and yet others will go for the Pro precisely because of the more advanced camera.

By having separate lines, Apple can sell the 12 for cheaper than the 12 Pro, and those who are willing to pay for the 12 Pro camera can do so. Don’t see any muddying here.
The way things are going, large part of the planet (say, latitudes -30...30) won't be habitable in the next XX years
What about Mirror Life? These wrong-handed molecules would be transparent to all existing life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life
Ask HN: What are the best Economics online courses?
I am a Software developer and would like to get a better understanding of Economics. Where do I begin? Any good online courses you can recommend?
I joked somewhere a long time ago about "California banning fire", and it seems like it's coming to pass.
CQRS is a great pattern. But like any pattern ist should not be applied system-wide.

It's not a fit, imo, as a system architecture. It's more a subsystem design where you apply it to something which has many writes and a eventual consistent read-store, which can of course be built from the write-store. That doesn't really matter.

This can aslo easily be done without adding event sourcing, and the two does not per se go hand in hand.

The key point being that you sometimes cannot build a view "fast enough", based on data which is constantly entering the system. So the system with in the CQRS design, which handles a query is very important to design based on this.

I see it as a pattern that really helps you to perform on the read/query load due to the almost impossibility to make a query perform over a massive amount of commands/writes
Demystifying Linux Kernel Initcalls
OUI.sncf Built Its CDN with HAProxy
You can hold pretty much anything wrong. Sometimes the onus is on the user to understand the tools. Sometimes the onus is on the tools to not be unnecessarily dangerous. DI is a well understood pattern, it just takes some time to wrap your head around it.
I wonder how the return would have differed if they had advertised in The Talk Show, Gruber's fantastic podcast, rather than his blog. My guess is there is a lot of overlap between readership and listenership.
My mother's a German immigrant. It's entirely possible that my negative reaction to dating as a teen in the US is because I had European expectations of just spending time together and getting to know each other and that's not how that went.
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Your state-capitalism solution punishes the firms which successfully adapted, to rescue the firms which were incapable of adapting. This creates substantial moral hazard and is a key reason why state-managed capitalism sees less innovation, and is instead plagued by inefficient zombie firms which make their profits off bailout funds instead of in the market. The scheme rewards the entrenched interests for running fragile operations, while shutting out new competitors who might be better or more resilient.

Mind you, these zombie firms proliferated in Europe after the 2007 crisis, so this is really nothing new. And the good news is that when you do such a thing, you can avoid more disruption. But the bad news is that doesn't leave the economy more resilient when you're done: it leaves it more fragile. In the years ahead, if Europe is further tested by crisis, we may see the real price that her people have paid, and it might very well fall hardest on those who can least afford it.
This will allow Sketch to kick Figma's ass as soon as they solve their online multi-user editing
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Scaevolus is pretty much exactly that. It doesn't highlight new responses but no one replies after more than a couple of days so it's not really necessary.
Panfrost update: Mesa 20.3 to feature Bifrost support out-of-the-box
In 2020 when core counts are going up and up I reach for Elixir where I might have used python in the past for these reasons.
Tell that to the ton of wildlife around everything but the refactor proper?

And also even taking your argument at face value, I fully believe a handful of 20,000 year dead zones would be superior to global warming at our current rate. The alternative we get now is way more than 20,000 years of wrecked biodiversity almost everywhere.

How is the orange website so full of self-avowed rationalists so incapable of comparing sudden and quick vs slow and steady harm...
Population is one variable. There's also some sort of concentration/community factor. e.g. there are college papers (although that works mostly because there's a lot of free labor). But I could imagine a coherent urban neighborhood working better for hyper-local than a spread-out largely residential small rural town.
Seeing some people as inherently violent is a very destructive attitude. Almost nobody is inherently violent. It all depends on context. Someone who might be violent in one context might not be violent in a different context. Changing the context can help a lot. A US prison is probably not it.
> but dominant in design

Debatable. If anything, modern Android designs are cleaner than iPhone looks.

> aesthetics

Again, debatable.

> and, most importantly, profit margin

This is the key factor, and it's tied to something you missed.

Apple products and iPhones are ahead in profit margins because Apple consistently delivers reasonable quality goods, with few disappointments, so that users trust them. They've gained user trust despite obvious "design, aesthetics" mis-steps such as the notch or the touch bar.

The key words are: consistent delivery, reasonable quality and few disappointments. That's how they hook users in. Apple mostly delivers on time something very close to what they promised and that thing doesn't have catastrophic flaws. That's a much taller bar than you'd think, in the tech sector.
Sorry to be blunt but you are comparing oranges to apples.

A poor country PhD student/grad in the US/EU still has to live under minimum wage conditions. The fact that the stipend might be considerable more money in their home country, does not necessarily mean that in PPP terms - phd grads are better off than say, a 'developed country' individual.

If you moved to a developed country with higher living standard costs with higher salary than your home country. Even though, you earned considerably more than your home country; the money might be nothing more than minimum wage in your new place of residence.

Comparing developed country humans to developing country humans's expectations just adds more fuel to the assumption that people from poor countries are happy to work for less. It applies the same for developed country humans moving from place to place and even states here in the US.
> The 2018 worldwide levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for offshore wind was $134/MWh

It's closer to $86/MWh in 2020. [1]

[1] https://www.lazard.com/media/451419/lazards-levelized-cost-o... (PDF, slide 3, center of page)
Thanks for your service – Our turn
Asshole Thai King Vatchiralongkorn
Followings are facts;

1.) His Mum killed more than hundred of red shirt protesters who were against royal family.
2.) Vatchiralonkorn abducted and killed anyone who opposed to him.
3.) He and his daughters always take advantage of thai people as their slaves.
4.) Royal family try to rule and obsess whole country by using millitary power.

there are in fact a lot more evil things he has been doing.
Right now, there are protesters across country . They try to reform monachy and expel deficient existing ridiculous prime minister who is truely
a running dog of royal family.
According to the above info, You all may know why royal family is so ultra super wealthy in contrast to poor thailand.
I am myself so unbearable. This is why I would like to let you all know the truths.
Right, my response was primarily to the claim that “there are so few multi user machines in existence”.

As for trust, there are probably few, if any, attack vectors more common than privilege escalation, so I’m not sure I follow that line of reasoning either.
It depends on the dependencies.
Quibi Founders’ $1.7B Failure Is a Story of Self-Sabotage
"Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol", https://doi.org/10.1109/CSF.2007.21

"This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of the Republic in 1797. We will show that it has some useful properties that in addition to being interesting in themselves, also suggest that its fundamental design principle is worth
investigating for application to leader election protocols in computer science."
Can you give me some examples where Apple's collaboration SW falls short?
> I can't figure out the economics here. They project $2.7B to construct each 440MW plant. This is presumably an optimistic estimate since they haven't even designed it.

Same here, this makes no sense from an economic perspective.

The article quote was even worse: they think that after they have built a few, they think they will be able to build them at roughly $2.7B a pop. How much will the first few cost?

Who pays for the handling and storage of the nuclear waste? That's never included in the cost estimates for nuclear plants, mini or not.

How much grid-scale battery would $2.7B buy today? Looks like a Tesla megapack is ~$300/kWh with all the batteries and electronics included (https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/05/tesla-megapack-powerpac...). $2.7B would pay for ~9GWh of grid-scale storage, or about 20 hours of output from a 440MW plant. Of course you would still need to add the generation piece - solar or wind is cheapest today.

I'm going to guess that in 10 years, when those mini-plants may finally be a reality, the combination of grid-scale batteries with solar/wind or wave generation will be so much cheaper that there will be no market for mini-nuclear plants.
> the problem is always quality

But writing quality apps requires quality API documentation. I don't know how developers fumbling around in the dark can result in quality apps.

Being "dedicated" to Apple platforms is not the same as being dedicated to quality.
Well they do...it's not new:

https://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
So your manager has asked you to be on-call. Now what?
In general I think “Show HN” can be a WIP or a beta (for example the ruby/python/JavaScript libs all say “coming soon”). I do agree that if judged as a sales page and not a WIP it is half-baked
Proteins, DNA, and other life structures could be mirrored, but sunlight, minerals, water, and acids can't, and right-handed life has already monopolized them.
RIAA and MPA Want Domain Registries and Njalla on US Piracy Watchlist