skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm somewhat in the same camp. There is always going to be an Elite class in society. Why not let them stay there? Why do we have to play coy about the whole thing on how they are intrinsically evil when in fact they're often the ones with some of the most heavy of burdens. I do think that it's worth some concessions that they do get to have more luxuries in life due to that, but who cares, they were going to get them anyway. At least they're at the forefront for everybody to be aware of and seeing their activities.

I'm 100% also behind this because they aren't complete jaded "rags to riches" people. This is one reason why I think in the US we have such a huge issue with selfishness in general. If you worked for what you earned, it is yours. Therefore, it's in everyone's mindset to be selfish/greedy. Whereas if you had an Elite class handle things such as this, you can rest assured everything they do isn't solely for their self interest. They don't do things just for money. If their morals are somewhat sound in reasoning, I can't see why they'd overlook the cost of things much like we do in the US over literally everything.
Budgets are not a subtitute for programming talent and willingness to experiment it seems.
Another option would be to vertically integrate most companies and since that is anticompetitive the resulting company could become a public state owned enterprise.

I do prefer that alternative and if you take that away, I lose instead of gain.
It is indeed troubling how many people believe Biden has already won the election.

I'm just old enough to remember the 2000 election. That year, we did not know who the president was going to be until Dec. 8th.

I passed through the downtown of a nearby city last Saturday and there was constant honking of horns, cheering, and waving from drivers and pedestrians -- the first time at midday, and the second time in the evening. From what I gather, that scene was commonplace across all urban centers in the US last weekend.

All these people are all going to be very, very upset if it turns out that Biden did not win the election.

The fact that so many foreign countries with strong and active intelligence agencies, closely linked to ours, have also assumed the election is over, is one I haven't considered. The author is right; there may be two rival governments operating in the United States in January.
Does the product add value and work as intended? Cool. Most products designed by committee don’t.
To add on, the reason why it might seem that

> the HN crowd generally prefers native apps

is because it is hard to write a good Electron / web app that is actually performant + easy to use. Which is why many people here are wary of new Electron apps.
Expected Snoot Booper; found it
How would that work in NVidia’s case? You buy a card that the company is not allowed to ship in a state where you can actually use it, and then buy a driver from the other company? I guess that’ll solve the Linux driver issue by tanking NVidia accross all platforms and giving AMD an opportunity to get ahead.
They plainly state that software with AVX, AVX256, AVX512, virtualization, and other nebulous instructions simply won't compile using Rosetta 2.

They seem to be attempting to avoid newer, patented instruction sets (Intel issued a strongly-worded statement about companies that attempt to use their ISA that seemed aimed squarely at Apple), but that means that SSE3+ (and maybe SSE2) are also avoided which could mean a lot more software doesn't work then they'd like to admit.
People should stop cherry picking benchmarks (like SPECint2006) when comparing CPUs. And many seem to be misreading Anandtech's recent comparison as - Wow look M1 is almost as fast as a 5950X. Except that it's simply impossible.

Wait for the actual benchmarks to come out. Especially real world workloads. I'll be very surprised if desktop Ryzens (or even the Intel CPUs) don't run circles around the M1 in a laptop.
Cables are not exactly natural resources.

By all means, tax the spectrum. Also work on making its distribution egalitarian.
It might be somehow hard to believe, but Ukrainian is actually distinctive language with different words, different phonemes and orthography. It's not interchangeable with Polish.
Second after Excel?
How long 'til there's a WebML spec that abstracts of neural engine, tpu, etc.? Similar to WebGPU and WebAssembly SIMD.
Same question, why not “laser focus” your efforts on convincing one technically proficient investor with deep pockets, rather than having to convince 100s-1000s via crowd-funding?

Is it that investors need to provide the roof top too, so it’s a way to reach out to property owners?
> the notch probably would've been viewed as a design misstep

Why? The alternatives are a smaller screen or terrible audio when using one’s phone as a phone. It’s different. But it makes perfect sense and made perfect sense the first day.
It would be fascinating to find out where some of these parts come from. CuriousMarc had a video sometime ago where he got a batch of exotic HP custom ICs for his HP 9825 from a random seller in China. He first thought they were counterfeit, but after testing and decapping they turned out to be genuine.

I don't think there's any profit in cloning such rare, old chips. Even in China I suspect fab runs are too expensive to justify making old chips for a handful of retro-computing enthusiasts. I think it's more likely these are parts pulled from old boards before recycling or forgotten new-old-stock someone found in a corner of a warehouse somewhere.
What do you think brought on the scourge of ISIS? US policies.
Openbsd does. I don't think freebsd or netbsd does this.
Too late to edit the above, but ignore the last sentence. It was written first, and when I rewrote the comment I somehow forgot to delete.
There's been a lot of evidence accumulated for it since Darwin's time.
Thank you for the advice. But even that sounds difficult for a novice like me. How do I "adjust warp settings" so that two tempos are the same? And I don't want to just have the same tempo, I want to align specific beats.

I know there is a forum and documentation but if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions then all my creativity goes into finding technical solutions, rather than solving artistic problems.
The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low
The video links on that older post are very interesting, especially the Russian cosmonaut's perspective.

This interview with Michael Foale is detailed, candid and fascinating, but it's very sad that we don't seem to have a similarly detailed record of the Russian point of view on this dramatic incident.

In terms of teaching about the real hard task of surviving in space, I think the Mir collision accident is up with Apollo 13
Um, that's how science works. It's an effort to explain the world. Everything is a theory, nothing is final. Some theories (evolution, gravity) are more credible/developed than others.
What are the upgrade prices like? I might like to buy it, but I don't want a huge bill for upgrading every major version.
"Sortition" is a dumb name. Name it so what people already know what it is: "juries".

If you say "I think we should use sortition to decide voting districts" no one will know what the hell you're talking about. If you say "Voting districts should be approved by citizen juries" it is simple and clear. Avoid jargon that doesn't add any precision.
I'm pretty sure I know what constitutes a proof, and that wasn't it.

The core reason this did not constitute a proof is because physical security people misapply lessons from that domain to digital, and software engineers misapply lessons from digital to physical. In the virtual world, I'm open to 7 billion potential attackers. In the physical world, I'm open to a few. That leads to very different security practices.

If I leave my front door unlocked for a week, the security risk is minimal where I live. Casual security is good enough. If I leave my computer with even a pretty obscure vulnerability connected to the internet for 5 minutes, odds are pretty good it will be compromised.

Clipboards+lanyard+high viz vest is imperfect security (and I chose the example deliberately to illustrate that), but it is good enough security to practically prevent physical compromises in most instances. I won't run a military base that way, or a HIPAA-compliant data system, but it's good enough for 95% of uses, including, for example, a university physics department's research data system.

Even a military base doesn't have perfect security; a well-resourced attacker can compromise it. In contrast, in the virtual world, I want cryptographic protocols where I can prove perfect security, at least given a relatively small set of assumptions.
I’ve used both for many years and enjoy both. They’re largely equivalent in function, but they have very different feels. Ableton is more “hands on” and almost modeless. It assumes that you’re always manipulating and reworking things. Logic is more structured and “modeful”. Examples: Ableton defaults to time-stretching and transient slicing for audio; you have to turn it on in Logic. Ableton’s always in what Logic calls “marquee” mode, so you can grab pieces of audio and move them around. Ableton always shows you all the controls of all the (built-in) plugins; Logic makes you open them one by one. Routing in Ableton is dynamic; Logic has fixed “busses” you have to allocate manually.

Other than style, one killer difference is that Ableton has Push hardware, which is really an extension of the UI into physical reality. It’s a fantastic control surface that has no equivalent in Logic-world.

And of course, with all those features you can create amazing live setups with Ableton—thus the name “Live”! Logic’s comfort zone is very much as a studio tool.

Edit: I forgot to mention the higher versions of Live come with Max for Live, which is an amazing construction set for making audio/MIDI software. No Logic equivalent for that.
I think the shittier design is that it hasn't figured out a way to develop intelligence without hubris.
Spotify's latest acquisition is all about your data
Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
The data of people taking longer to reach professorship should have included the average age of retirement of professors over the same period, which I would expect to also have shifted during this interval (and roughly by the same amount, as I know it did in the Netherlands). It explains why there are relatively fewer open positions for people to transition into, simply because the current cohort of professors isn't retiring. Not as fancy as a comparison to drug dealers, unfortunately.
I would suggest a third type:

c) Logs that when present, "break" (using the term loosely) the application. The example here is when application is logging sensitive data, e.g. PII
It is amazing how much a well tuned and properly functioning database can handle. At my last job, this was a huge hurdle I was tasked with handling. They're CQRSish design slowed so many things down through needless complication or hidden inefficiencies. People always jump to "we need to scale and this will make it faster" when the real answer is often, "how about we focus on some fundamentals and just make our code more efficient"
Zero lock in is the killer feature for me

I also like that you can edit the wasp file and the app regenerates live in the local environment, feels super fluid
In theory there's nothing stopping Apple from making a large single die that contains a desktop-class CPU and desktop-class GPU. There are also rumors that Apple is designing their own "Lifuka" discrete GPU that would presumably be a larger version of the same design that they use in their SoCs.
How would it be mathematically possible for him to lose?
Yes, it's just annoying that the best workaround involves replacing the touch bar functionality with an inferior replica of the physical keys it replaced.
What is ARA2?
I agree, but I think it's the other way around. The urban neighbourhoods I've lived in are all very much a part of the city rather than actual communities themselves. Whereas the rural village I grew up in, that was an actual community. Though not much news ("headline: Bessie the cow escapes her field again" ;)
Not necessarily all options, but just maybe settings for connection to some 3rd party server. You will need the configs.
At first I would try sbt-tmpfs, and then the largest factor in compile time imho are dependencies. Make sure that you split your project in submodules of semantically valid units. That reduce the amount of code that has to be analyzed. And then make sure that you don't have many unused imports.

In every project I've been are some former Eclipse users that are accustomed to collapsing all imports and adding new ones automatically. They never look at their ever growing list of unused files that are searched, loaded, and parsed.
Very popular in academia, moderately popular in industry when it comes to data science/analysis. In any case, very powerful while Python has certainly numerous advantages over it.
Really? You see nothing wrong with a news article throwing around terms like "Far Right"?
FruityLoops! But yes, I agree with all of this.
> if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions

Any musician has to learn their instrument. Commit to that.
This is intended for the retro PC community. Interest in building vintage PCs has taken off, but it's getting really hard/expensive to find certain working components like the Sound Blaster.
Heeey, glad you asked!

I'm not full-time on this, but I'm trying to build an OSS DAW. Here is a first tiny demo: https://timdaub.github.io/wasm-synth/

I also wrote about it: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
It's really not. We never did :)
> Last time I checked, Xorg was running as root pretty much everywhere

Xorg hasn't needed to run as root for a long time; kernel mode setting (KMS) removed the main reason for it to run as root. Its successor (Wayland) never runs as root (unless, of course, your user is root itself).

> But then again, privilege escalation is not the main risk for desktop user, because their data is readable by their OS account

The current push towards sandboxing (flatpak, sandboxed browser processes, etc) makes privilege escalation relevant for desktop users again.
Lots of scientists like it, psychologists and statisticians and such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Random_Access
SOTA DeepRL on video games, with matches and tournaments streamed live on Twitch
Standard Live 10 -> 11 is 159. It's nested behind a bunch of links.
The main reason it's probably right:

>In 2019, researchers in Germany made all four [RNA bases] at once. They placed simple carbon-based chemicals in hot water on a mineral surface and subjected them to repeated wet-dry cycles.

And no one else has been able to do that under other conditions such as undersea vents.

(I guess that would then kick off RNA world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world)
Great resource. I also want to post this series by Rachel Thomas of Fast.AI.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmWHNX-gukIc92m1K0P6...

She's a phenomenal teacher, and has grounding in the practice of applying it to ML and deep learning.
Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments After the Big Bang
In Romanian, it's something like "you can't reconcile the lamb and the cabbage" (because the lamb eats the cabbage if they're together).

And in Hebrew it's "You can't eat the cake and leave it whole" or "you can't hold the rope from both edges".
I was referring to the Apple Event:

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/november-2020/
I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io

I setup a discord channel the project https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG
I think you underestimate how many people care about cameras a lot--or at least think they do. Personally, I'm inclined to give Apple the benefit of the doubt that it knows what it's doing by having a cheaper mid-size model and a more expensive one with a better camera.
Do you mean I'm a democratic strategist? I'm the one that proposed the the distinction, and I'm no political strategist. If that part of your comment was meant for me, then I really have no idea where you got that impression.

The comment I was responding to seemed to be saying that a person cannot acknowledge that the protests would lose votes without automatically believing the protests should stop, even though they might support the issues being protested.

That's not true. A person can believe-- about any issue-- that fighting for that issue may have negative consequences but also that fighting for it is still the right thing to do, that the cost of the fight is worth the consequences.
If you want a DAW that is similar to Ableton and works on Linux, you should go with Bitwig, which is in some ways better and more modern than Ableton, but has a smaller user base.
Probably but this seems like the most edge of edge cases.

Also if it got popular, the recording would still be copyrighted.
Praying doesn't exclude a more "physical" action. When a catholic is praying for something, they should actively pursue the goal. The New Testament (James 2:14-26) states it explicitly. "Faith without deeds is dead" - praying is just one of many things people can do, sometimes the only thing.
I didn't mean to make an overly broad assumption about your business. I'm sorry if I did. There are indeed ways to combat the platform's influence within it like strong product branding and differentiation backed by a legal monopoly.

What I'm really after here is to say that all those tools that the platforms give you come at a very high cost.

My point was that platforms are indeed hurting small businesses. We are now forced into a kind of surfdom. That's not a great future.
Show HN: Dead easy Python for executing many HTTP requests asynchronously
I am pretty left- leaning and this also struck me as weird. Like the author, I too have a pretty good sense for the political affiliation that this sort of clothing represents (especially on a police officer) but it's not explicitly endorsing a political party and seems to only include the text of an oath made by all U.S. soldiers.

It seems similar to someone wearing clothing that contained text of the Pledge of Allegiance, the Constitution, or the Declaration of Independence. Yes, we know the right wing loves this stuff but I really don't think it rises to the level of 'electioneering'.

In fact, the guy was probably thinking 'Here's another lefty that hates the United States and the military'. It really does seem like there was some (unconscious?) bias at play here.
The article you are commenting on is literally about Apple‘s success being rooted in the integration of hard- and software...
Yep, agreed completely.
How to make Tesla Autopilot adjust to highway speed limits with one tap
The free software DAW is ardour. https://www.ardour.org/
Unfa has made some youtube videos about (and with) it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A
It does not offer the same possibilities of workflow though, as far as I can see.
R is a nasty nasty language for productionalizing things, honestly it's just too flexible and let's you do the craziest things.

But being so flexible makes it really expressive for doing ad-hoc analysis where you really don't know what you're looking for yet.
Trump administration removes senior defense officials and installs loyalists
Banks are almost government entities. They are far away from "pinnacle of capitalism".
I'm not in the least surprised.

Think of other popular messaging systems that claim to offer some kind of E2EE, but are proprietary software: WhatsApp, Skype, FB Messenger, Viber, Threema, Line…

Distrust by default!

I am always amazed when folks even consider the alleged support for strong E2E encryption in those apps… the value of those claims is exactly zero.
Mental Models for Product Managers
Designer Babies?
So if I understand correctly, I can define bits of JSON / values in your interface. Then when my client app loads it'll hit your service backend to fetch them.

Seems pretty interesting. In terms of how it works it seems similar to how LaunchDarkly fetches its feature flags.

In practice if we configured all small bits of data in here it'll happen at app startup and be on the critical path. Do you have some sense about the latency there?
I work with people who mostly have a background in the social sciences or humanities and who work in R pretty much every day. They dont see themselves as programmers and Python is complete gibberish for them, while R just makes sense. When i meet people from other companies in roughly the same space (i work in healthcare doing data analysis), it's mostly the same. I actually meet more people who use SAS/SPSS than Python.

For data analysis, R is in my opinion better than Python. It's when you have to integrate it in existing workflows that Python quickly becomes a better choice.
I'm spending more on heating, electricity, water and food...
Docker doesn't work yet. https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733
Needed when executing 1 million API requests for example. Use the full force of your machine by utilising async IO via the excellent library Trio.

It has been tested in the wild with more than 10 million requests. Automatically handles errors and executes retries.

Also provides helper functions for executing embarrassingly parallel async coroutines.
I think it's just because this is the rare case where pretty much everyone agrees with how stupid the proposal is (thanks again, Europe's regulatory culture!)

When there's a significant balance of good-faith disagreement, mocking turns the temperature up substantially and people tend to avoid it more.
As a data scientist who is proficient in both Python and R ecosystems, in my opinion R/tidyverse is substantially better for ad hoc EDA and data visualization.

However, Python is better for nearly everything else in the field (namely, working with nontabular data, external APIs, deep learning, and productionization).

It's about knowing which tool to use.
Great question.
There's a few reasons. First, It's taken ~20yrs, the Indian government, 15 telecom companies and more than $200B to bring ~600M out of 1B Indians 4G. Broadband deployment is more expensive and currently only 20M Indians have 10mbps or greater 'broadband' connections. Even at Wifi Dabba's dramatically lower deployment cost, the price tag to connect 500M Indians is enormous and we're not willing to wait 20 years. Even if we're insanely successful and we raise a ridiculous amount of capital, the sheer magnitude of capital required is crazy high. Second, The reason net neutrality, censorship and other malaise that ails the internet happens is because of the high deployment cost of broadband networks, this automatically makes ownership of these networks only accessible to nation states and mega large corps. Power becomes centralized. This approach we are taking at Wifi Dabba is one small step in exploring more scalable ownership, deployment and maintainence models. The basic logic is this, as the price of broadband distribution tech goes down, the more number of people that can afford to buy and distribute it and therefore everyone gets connected faster. We'd like to accelerate that process. We have raised venture capital from YC and others and will continue to do so, but we also have a really strong focus on the long view.
They're certainly well on their way to remove all GPL code from macOS itself if they haven't yet, but there's not much they can do to prevent you from installing GPL software yourself (nor much of a motivation to do so for that matter).
Netflix is bringing TV channels