skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to stick to the topic at hand. This is not child pornography. We don't have to worry about Zuckerberg appointing himself the arbiter of child pornography because we have actual laws, arrived at via a democratic process, that define what that is. See how that works? We didn't just leave it up to companies to call something "child pornography" whenever it suits their interests to do so.

This is not fire in a crowded theater either. Bannon made a clearly hyperbolic statement about something he would do in some hypothetical fantasy scenario where he is in the White House and it is some kind of alternate reality where putting someone's head on a pike is a real thing that could actually happen.

Bannon is not in the White House. It is very unlikely that he will ever again be in the White House. Trump fired him over two years ago. Even if he were in the White House, I can't believe I have to explain this, putting someone's head on a pike out in front of the White House is not a real thing that even has the slightest, remotest possibility of happening. Even if Bannon were President, that is not something he could do. Do you understand that? He may as well have said "I'd incinerate Fauci with laser blasts from my eyes" that is about as realistic.

Fauci is a highly visible figure in the midst of a global crisis. It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that he needs security. Even minor celebrities get stalkers and death threats. At some point you become known by enough people that it is a statistical certainty that some of them will have a form of mental illness that may cause them to unhealthily fixate on you. That will happen regardless of anything Bannon says.
That's really interesting, thank you. Comment favorited.

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...
Sometimes the keyboard is all that is needed to put a stop to non-ascii names. I remember when I was traveling through Ecuador with a friend of mine named Jörg. We ended up renaming him to Jorge whenever we had to buy a bus ticket :-)
What screen performance are you referencing? Refresh rate? Pixel density? Color space? Color accuracy? Backlight bleed? Dead/stuck pixels? Nits? Size?
You are right. They can all take the maximum torque of the ICE.
Perhaps you could share your story to show that not all is dire like HN would make it seem.
First, every EV battery already has excess capacity you can't charge up.

Second, Nissan tried having the Leaf default to 85%. But they got in trouble for claiming more range than they should. The government rates the capacity in the default configuration.
> Curious. To me this is the worst thing you could ever do. Talking via streams to say `cat file.txt | grep ERROR | wc -l` is cool. But you could do SOOO much more, if programs would actually output structured data streams.

A lot of people have had this thought over the decades, but it hasn't really happened -- powershell exists for linux, but who's using it? The genius of the primitive representation (stringly typed tables) is that it has just enough structure to do interesting processing but not enough to cause significant mental overhead in trying to understand, memorize and reference the structure.

Case in point of the difficulties of adding more structure without wrecking immediacy of manipulation is json.

For anything with more than 1 level of nesting, I do stuff like

blah | jq . | grep -C3 ERROR

probably a lot more than I do

blah | jq $SOME_EXPRESSION

because it's just so much less mental overhead -- I don't have to think about indexing into some complex hierarchy and pulling out parts of it.

I'm not saying it's not possible to get out of this local optimum, but it appears to be a lot more subtle than many people seem to think. There may be an simple and elegant solution, but it seems it has so far escaped discovery. Almost five decades later, composing pipelines of weakly structured and typed bytes (that, by convention, often are line separated tables, possibly with tab or space seperated columns) is still the only high-level software re-use via composition success story of the whole computing field.
It takes only 4 + a concreted base to get to the point where it will skip some belts as you're moving too fast.
> good trackpad

Granted. Except it's useless from my perspective because:

* keyboard-centric tiling workflow + mouse

- is faster than-

* a standard K&M stacked windows workflow

- is mostly faster than-

* keyboard-centric tiling workflow + any trackpad

- is faster than -

* the standard macOS experience with a trackpad

It's an exercise in frustration whenever I have to get help from or help out a peer which uses a touchpad for everything (Mac user or otherwise, but more common in Mac users precisely because of its good trackpad) because it makes every operation slow as molasses. And if you care about a responsive desktop, the trackpad is mostly irrelevant because you'll be using a tiling setup which relies on a keyboard and simple mouse/trackpad usage.

> build quality

A computer that throttles at max frequency does not have good build quality.
A computer with a keyboard that falls apart with specks of dust does not have good build quality.

Macs have great screens and are slim, but they're far from the only ones with those qualities.

> stability

Except this is a meme. macOS stability is an absolute gamble like all other OSes, it will depend on your configuration macOS will behave or not, as is the case for both Windows and Linux. And macOS releases are known to be stability shitshows, Catalina being a big example and now Big Sur not being able to start applications because an Apple server is unresponsive.
Actually, when the HD standards were introduced, 720p/i was officially designated as "HD Ready", and 1080p/i as "Full HD", with the respective acronyms HD and FHD. Ultra HD obviously got the UHD acronym later on.

So it's not like sky invented that term.
So basically they needed their own silicon to deal with Arc's.
I think most physicists would be thrilled if we discovered something genuinely new and fundamental that forced us to reevaluate all our existing models.

It hasn't happened in a while, though.
No, all jobs don't disappear. Some, however, do. Some are no longer profitable, more are replaced by capital investments. Economics denialism is quite strong in your circles, as I noted.

It's even more of a pity because we should be investing capital in meaningful things, like biotech or space exploration or environmental progress or what-have-you, instead of on stupid things like robots and restaurant apps.
Are we really having a Ferengi _Rules of Acquisition_ thread now?

> War is good for business
A Former Fighter Pilot, Current Autonomous Vehicles Road Warrior
Your post included many more markers of political flamewar than that. Also, there is no such thing as a "simple fact".

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
President of Shopify comments on Reddit on how remote work impacts Canadian jobs
Severe penalties like a civil lawsuit? I guess doctors who accidentally kill their patients are living an authoritarian dystopia.
You know, I've always expected higher quality comments on HN.
This seems to imply something about the client side of your strategy that I wasn't aware of (but maybe I should have realized) that probably matters: that your clients will (almost?) all be Windows machines running the new-MS-strategy MSVC native apps written (at least partly) in JS, where "JS" on Windows now (as in Node) means Chromium specifically.

In a situation where you get to build the client all the way to the hardware, you're like Apple. You can probably get more advantage than most by matching client and server more deeply than the usual talk-to-the-API level. In your case, it sounds as though it's Microsoft's TS-in-Chromium spanning both.
I think they call them phase addressable full spectrum electromagnetic field emitters in Star Trek.
Sure. Can we use performance per watt or did you have another measure in mind?
“s/cannon/canon/g”

Never seen this before. Simple, elegant, and doesn’t make the poster feel bad. I’m stealing it...
> Trying to replace that with a "central brain" inevitably leads to severe misallocation of resources.

Now the question is: If a conglomerate has a dominate position in a marketplace, doesn't its administration face many of the same problems and challenges just like a central planner? In this situation, from a technical perspective, which are the similarities and differences here? Of course, one can answer, "this is why we have anti-trust laws", or "the free market still largely works, nobody can fully control an economic sector, even a conglomerate is bounded by the market". But it doesn't respond to the real question. For example, if Amazon or Google is trying to use an algorithm to optimize something globally, intuitively, it seems that they are effectively solving the same type of economic calculation problem, albeit at a much smaller scale. I made this comment because I recently saw an essay that also uses the book Red Plenty as an example to argue that many attempts on "AI", "machine learning" or "big data" by large corporations can potentially fall into the old central planning pitfalls.

What is your opinion?
I love Matt Yglesias and listen to Weeds regularly. Folks like him, Ezra Klein, Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi made their names attacking mainstream journalism from the left in the early 2000s. Now, they’ve decamped for platforms like Substack because they can’t speak their minds at liberal media organizations which in some cases they founded!

There is a great episode of Megyn Kelly’s new podcast where she and Taibbi commiserate about the direction of mainstream media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/i.... It’s cats and dogs lying together.
Hm. I guess different people just like different things.

I've kind of lost interest after building out all the non-infinite sciences. Scaling for the sake of scaling just doesn't appeal to me a lot.

(To be clear to people who haven't played it: Finishing out all the sciences is something that cannot happen until after launching a rocket which is the nominal 'win the game' condition. I thought factorio was tremendous fun, and it ate up all my free time for a week until I got a rocket launched.)

A lot of what I found interesting was these emergent challenges like train throughput being poor because of chests becoming unequally full and blocking the train with slow unloading... which can be resolved by using the logic control. I really liked setting up advanced oil processing to not block on overproduction. Stuff like that.

In some sense I think the logistic bots kind of break the game-- they eliminate most logistic challenges, but on the other hand they're also the only way to both reasonable scale up capacity and also to handle minutia and worry about larger scale things.

I guess I would have liked to see a parallel track of other technology which is harder to use that you could work on exploiting for those of us who don't find merely scaling up for the scale of scaling up that interesting.

E.g. I think it would be neat if there were advanced chemical processes that required writing PID controllers to effectively drive, or resources scattered on the landscape that you needed to program autonomous tanks to go gather. Different enemies that require different strategies to defend against, etc.

Maybe some of this stuff exists in mods, I haven't really looked at those.
This article is clickbait. Autopilot was disabled for 40 seconds before the crash. The driver of the Tesla was either impaired or having a medical event, which could’ve happened in any make of vehicle.
I always liked gfblip: http://gfblip.appspot.com/

You can run this on your laptop and watch your WiFi drop in and out randomly (as other people around you download stuff, as Bluetooth devices interfere with it, etc.) It's also fun to run a speed test in another tab, and watch the latency increase 10x as needless buffers fill up and your latency-sensitive packets wait in line so your router gets a better review!
It says [0] the question excluded computer hours at work. Which seems bizarre in itself and to address the title, but does go quite some way to your point. (Most people's recreational computer time, I dare say, is 'mindless Twitter scrolling' and the like.)

And as a more general point, it's looking at 'history of major depressive disorder (MDD)' or not, not merely feeling a bit glum. I don't think the takeaway is supposed to be a tabloid-style 'avoid screen or become suicide risk', it's more like lifestyle choices you can make to maybe mitigate an issue you already present with. (IANA GP/psychologist/anything relevant, though.)

[0]: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
It’s not that bad... in fact, quite the opposite :-)

Whenever we peel back a layer to discover new physics, the old models are never lost, since the new models must necessarily reduce to those in more familiar situations!

Another factor is that as we learn more physics, as important as it might be to find answers, it is even more important to understand how our previous questions/notions might have been naive, and what might be better concepts with which to formulate our models. The variety of perspectives on the meaning of a “particle” merely illustrate that fact, applied to a naive word/concept that we’ve strung along for a long time.
There were utilities back in the day that stripped out the PowerPC code from fat binaries; I'm sure they'll return for this generation. There's probably a way to do it now from the command line.

Drives were much smaller and slower back then; getting rid of a few megabytes of unused across a bunch of apps could make a difference then.

The first Intel Mac mini in 2006 [1] started with a 60GB, 5400 RPM hard drive, so yeah optimizing space was a big deal back then.

There will come a time when macOS will only be updated for M1 Macs and there won't be a need to ship Intel code any longer. But that's at least 3-4 years away.

[1]: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_c...
That sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Does it have an equivalent to “umake” for installing latest-version dev tools?
I don't agree with the use case but to play devil's advocate, not every actor would be able to do something about it.
> Dealerships will update the vehicle’s battery software beginning next week.

Sound like you get to drive it in to the dealership anyway.

If I remember correctly some of the dealership agreements mandate that the dealer handles software updates preventing some manufacturers from legally being able to OTA without dealer involvement.
Those needs could be met in an agrarian model, but you'd get swept away by the industrialized nations in pretty short order.

Meeting those basic needs wouldn't be enough for long in a competitive global landscape.
I'm sorry, my computer is not 8-bit clean
"Virtually everything in the Gamer Laptop Category is going to be faster in virtually every measure"

So this statement is made on the basis of what data?
Yeah - once you've admitted your adversary is the NSA, you've already lost. Cosplaying secret agents with state level support is not going to end well.

"Threat: The Mossad doing Mossad things with your email account.
Solution: Magical amulets? Fake your own death, move into a
submarine? YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON"

-- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
> That's a little excessively dramatic, don't you think?

It's 2020, everything's a little excessively dramatic
> This is not like the AIDS crisis; the medical system was not at risk of collapsing.

Neither is it now? Even at the peak in NYC, the Javits center was never filled, nor the hospital ships. Likewise in the UK the nightingale hospitals were never used.

Should we be wary at all of our propensity for stigmatizing people with disease(especially a viral one)?

Should we berate anyone who gets HIV when they could have worn a condom?
Do we know that's why they made the decision? The article makes the claim, but others claimed the updated regulation has been in the works for a while, and it was Ant trying to speed the IPO ahead of it.
Sure, it's a serialization standard that uses schemas. In that sense we are definitely coming around in a circle.
> if we agree that denial is worse for society but currently better for the guilty, what can we do to change that

Why is it worse for society? Guilt is already an emotion that exists for society, not for self-interest, it relies on morals, which all are learned through other people. If people are leaning more towards denial, it means that the cost for an individual to do something immoral is already too high, doesn't leave much room for mistakes that people inevitably make from time to time, so more people denying might be a natural feedback loop to make more space.
10% instant range reduction for Bolt EVs.
>...Not only that, if I recall correctly the Wright brothers actually died penniless.

I don't think that is true.

Wilbur died in 1912 in the middle of the patent disputes.

>...Orville made his last flight as a pilot in 1918 in a 1911 Model B. He retired from business and became an elder statesman of aviation, serving on various official boards and committees, including the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor agency to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce (ACCA), predecessor to the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).

>...Orville Wright served NACA for 28 years. In 1930, he received the first Daniel Guggenheim Medal established in 1928 by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. In 1936, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

>...They tried patenting and protecting their flight controls idea which is to rotate the wings. It was impractical and inefficient so never really got anywhere.

>...In January 1914, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict against the Curtiss company, which continued to avoid penalties through legal tactics. Orville apparently felt vindicated by the decision, and much to the frustration of company executives, he did not push vigorously for further legal action to ensure a manufacturing monopoly. In fact, he was planning to sell the company and departed in 1915. In 1917, with World War I underway, the U.S. government pressured the industry to form a cross-licensing organization, the Manufacturers Aircraft Association, to which member companies paid a blanket fee for the use of aviation patents, including the original and subsequent Wright patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
Even in phones, even those phones offered by a single vendor, there’s a pretty wide performance range targeting a generally accepted (if evolving) set of market/form factor/use case categories. “Phone” is so broad a category as to be meaningless for comparison. “Laptop” as well. It’s just as silly to compare an ultraportable to a 17” 7lb gaming laptop as to compare an upscale ultraportable to a budget Chromebook.
So far this one has been great... for me. Everything feels faster now and I'm digging the new UI. I'm pleasantly surprised.
I'm not familiar enough with this case. Which friends was the rule waived for?
I don’t know of any laptops with an RTX 3090 GPU or a Threadripper, let alone in a MacBook Air thin form factor running on 10 watts with 15 hour battery life.
In my previous startup I used my Postgres database to generate out JSON Schemas (detailed in [1]). It was great for validations. We even generated some of the UI from the Schemas.

> Just to add to this, things like authorization, login, registration, etc, seem tiresome to write every time for a new API

Check out Supabase [2], which is similar to Parse (disclosure: I'm a Supabase cofounder). We use Postgres as a backend and we hope to database as the source of truth (using Row Level Security + JSON Schema validation for the front end).

[1] https://paul.copplest.one/blog/nimbus-tech-2019-04.html#decl...

[2] https://supabase.io
> but for better jobs that aren't paying minimum wage the threat of losing your job is real and the gap before getting a similarly paying job is real and threatening to a lot of people.

But for better jobs that aren't paying minimum wage, the rules don't really change anything. Most of the better jobs pay salary instead of hourly anyway, and even for the ones that don't, if you're making non-trivially more than minimum wage then you can negotiate around the restriction anyway.

Averaging $25/hour because you worked 80 hours at $25/hour is the same result as having a base pay of $20 and working 40 hours of overtime at $30. So if you were getting paid $25/hour and want more hours, you can offer to work for $20/hour, get the extra hours and still average $25, i.e. in practice you can waive the overtime premium because doing so doesn't put you under the minimum wage.

> Companies are paying below minimum wage, refusing to pay over time, requiring off clock time, etc and employees feel like they can't come forward because they can't afford any interruption in their wages because of a number of things but chief among them is if you're living paycheck to paycheck even missing one week's wages can put you in a debt spiral.

These are really just unlawful methods of avoiding the negative effects of the prohibition on choice.

There exist employers who don't do those things, so why don't those people quit and work there instead? Because their existing job has some countervailing benefit. Maybe it's less of a commute, or has more flexible hours, or the alternative job is higher stress or more dangerous. It's not legal to have you work 50 hours and pay you for 40, but when the alternative is that you lose the job because it can't actually command that hourly wage, prohibiting that choice (or the equivalent one where you get paid for all your hours but at a lower hourly wage) isn't actually helping. Because then you get stuck with the alternative where you work for 40 hours and get paid for 40 hours but spend 12 extra hours a week commuting, which might be legal but does nothing for you than to cost you an extra two hours a week and $150/month in fuel.
> And that seems more likely with every passing decade.

How so?

Average/median life expectancy has gone up, sure. But we had 80+ y.o. and 90+ y.o. people in the Roman Empire, too.

Tell me where's the real science to suggest that we are really extending lifespans. I don't see much.
I don’t understand how taking a fee for a service which both sides agree to can possibly be ‘screwing them over’.
What if I have made the personal moral choice, after extreme introspection over months, to believe that the risk equation is better served by mostly trying to continue normal economic life, albeit modified for better hygiene, instead of huddling in my basement until the heat death of the universe?

Yes, some people are going to die. Yes, they could be people I know and love. It is what it is - I'll accept that risk before I accept the greater risk of watching a free society decay into totalitarian liberalism.
Most Australians found the argument that plain packaging laws amounted to an unconstitutional acquisition of tobacco companies’ intellectual property ridiculous. Ultimately, the courts agreed, but the argument does follow from the premises often accepted by people who emphasise the primacy of property rights: that the government can’t take them without compensation, and that they include rights to commercially exploit trademarks and copyrights.