skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It knows each types, it knows function to convert to each type, but... it doesn't do the conversions! So frustrating!

It surprises me that you are incapable of thinking one step ahead. Implicit type conversions undermine the type system and make your language completely unpredictable. Pretty much everyone regrets this feature in C++ and it is still a huge source of bugs because you have to opt out of it.

You want things to fail with a loud bang instead of continuing and destroying things along the way.
That's good advice for a world without bored people looking for entertainment in the form of other people's misery.

In this current world, people will send you death threats for releasing a game too late. You'll get doxxed for an unpopular opinion and you'll be beheaded for showing a picture of a person.

It feels like saying you were wrong will only put fuel onto t he fire. But I can only hope I'm wrong.
> all history is revisionist history

That would be the revisionist view.

But history is also one of the sciences, and with a methodology that predates postmodernism.
This[1], but it's being run through `sed` to filter some things out of the filter, since their idea of "virtual garbage" can be a little broad.

But at least I'm ultimately in control of what gets blocked, unlike when Apple decides what's best for you.

[1]https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
For the probably young students their biggest concern is having to be isolated for 2 weeks away from their friends and studies. The isolation is probably a bigger risk to their health than the disease.

It's the older staff and surrounding community where the health risks are much higher that these infographics deceive.
We have to go all the way back to 2000 when Bush v Gore happened and Democrats claimed the election was stolen. Actually no, we just have to go back literally to just the last election when Hilary asked for recounts after conceding and then the Democrats used false claims of Russian interference to discredit the election. Heard of the Muller probe? This is a highly unorthodox election due to the high number of mail-in ballots. We have unprecedented censorship of social media by corporations that function as arms of a political party. Trump has a right under law to challenge it. Hillary asked for recounts very late in the process in just the last election with no evidence of corruption. It is not a coup to challenge under law an election process and refuse to concede till then. It’s happened literally multiple times in US history. You are not from the US but you may be surprised to learn the US is not a direct democracy but has a system in place called the electoral college which is there for managing electoral disputes.
A 14 year old's pitch to a FinTech incubator in India
Your first sentence is peak HN :)

On a serious note, kentonv properly prefaced his opinion with a qualifier “I'd argue that ...” but you somehow interpreted it as a fact ...

Anyway, if you think the person you replied to does not understand the difference between binary and schema, after helping author protocol buffers at Google, then no one can really claim to know anything here on HN.

Healthy skepticism is fine as it helps keep the discussion grounded, but its blind use will more often than not stifle insightful contributions from being posted by people close to the action.

Edited for clarity.
Universal DOOM – a single EXE for DOS 6, and Windows 95 to Windows 10
This is what happens when you go on stage with a rock band act like you play the guitar, when you are not. I guess the music is over and the lights came on. Learn your lesson Mr. Ma - and fall in line.

The Ant Has been crushed. I say Reign them all in. China govt has figured out that the giants indeed to kill innovation and industry.

Down with them all. Fb, Goog, Amzn, Baba. All you HN folk who work for any of these toxic companies - may god have mercy on your souls when you leave this earth for the digital atrocities you have committed and been a part of.
The new fuel to come from Saudi Arabia
Oh, I forgot to mention that megabases currently are CPU limited. A truly new kind of megabase would be enabled by it.
Can this also be used for data storage in a 3D medium? It references a patent from 1991 on this, not sure how far things have come since then.
Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders?
I've found a few interesting online courses while browsing "startup Twitter."

They're related to different topics, but here they are:

1. [Productivity] Building a second brain (https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/)

2. [Growth] Demand Curve (https://www.demandcurve.com/)

3. [Growth] Reforge (https://www.reforge.com/)

4. [Product] Hooked Online Workshop (https://courses.nirandfar.com/)

Do you know of other courses like these? (I guess what they have in common is that they're startup-related)
Mostly Python & JS in containers + the infra-supporting work. I guess my main concerns are OS packages (e.g. image processing libs) and docker/k8s.

And RE ecosystem: yeah I hope you're right (and think you are), I guess I'm just wondering what the odds are, and how feasible a switch back to Linux is without losing out on he niceness of mac-land.
When thinking about modern distributed systems one abstraction I love to use is a Queueing System.

If you think about it, everything can be described as a system with an input, some buffer (queue), a bunch of workers doing work in parallel, then output:
* webserver (e.g nginx)
* database server
* network interface in your computer
* all the networking hardware in between
* the whole disk IO stack in your OS
* cpu (instructions queue)

I wrote about it [1] at some point in more detail if anyone's interested.

[1] http://blog.dfilimonov.com/2020/04/24/everything-is-a-queuei...
I just heard the Joe Rogan+Tim Pool interview w/Dorsey+Gadde. I didn’t expect to hear the whole thing but I got sucked in and couldn’t stop listening. It really bothered me.

I sent the following message to Jack Dorsey. I couldn’t find a way to reach Vijaya Gadde.

Question to HN: Are my suggestions technically feasible? Does it make sense?

My message to Jack Dorsey. [..] 1. Sending message because my tweet would be lost in noise 2. After watching an old joe rogan show w/you, here is a suggestion for moderation. 3. A reputation system based on audience input. 4. The more the audience dislikes tweets unpleasant to them, the text of the offending tweeter can ‘fade away’ so even if the tweet goes viral/reshared, it wouldn’t be seen by those who don’t care for it. 4. Freedom and segregation is better than interfering w/freedom of speech. My 2c. 5. Have a colour coded pin for every user so they can go from neutral to high tolerance to very sensitive. 6. As an immigrant who has faced racism, what scares me more is a silenced racist than a loud racist. Twitter policy is enabling all the nasty things it claims to ‘fix’. Regards. Thanks.[..]
Pretty sure Nerf preceded Ultima Online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerf
Sure, but do you think companies using it can allocate some of their budget to audit the _entire_ codebase?
You can use Google translate. This is how "ghadara" is pronounced which actually translates to "committed treason".

https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%BA%D8%AF%...

Here I added a couple diacritics (just to make it sound just like "ghidra".

https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=%D8%BA%D9%90%...
I think EV West has a BMW M3 E36 with a Tesla motor in it, also manual I bet, but of course that would already have been a beefy manual gearbox. Expensive donor cars to find.
> elected US Senators (originally they were appointed by state legislature)

That phrasing is interesting. Do you consider the heads of governments of parliamentary republics elected or appointed?
And yet they're still at elevated risk of death if they get CoVID-19, which they probably will if a "herd immunity" strategy is followed. The frustrating thing is that many people will then downplay their death by saying they had a comorbidity.
How I write Elm applications
> despite not doing anything remotely close to justifying that price

What ever justifies a price apart from what people are willing to pay?

If the restaurants are willing to pay their part and the consumer is willing to pay their part, then the price is right. If anyone was getting 'screwed' and the price wasn't worth it they'd walk away. We're talking delivery of junk food here as well - it's not like it's an essential service.
What's wrong with someone from HR watching ex employee leave? What if someone misplaced a document or an item and the absence could have been attributed to the leaving worker, but because someone is watching this could be excluded. You also never know if an ex employee was slowly boiling resentment and is thinking of doing some parting damage. I've seen someone couldn't handle it and threw a chair at monitors. Better safe than sorry. If people think this is degrading, they need to work on their ego.
Over the generations, I have had three Macbooks, four Vaios, a ThinkPad, a HP, multiple ASUS and Huawei. Most of the devices I have killed by travel: dust infiltration, vibrated the BGA chips off the boards by motorbike vibrations..

My requirements have all been fulfilled with the Huawei MateBook X Pro.

You could say it's heavily inspired by the MacBook. Aluminum case. Chiclet keyboard with decent travel. 2000x3000 display (2:3 ratio!). Awesome trackpad. Good battery life. Portable. Solid. 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A. Sustained multiple drops.

For context, I am able to pull solid 12-hour days on the device, without a mouse, without fatigue or frustration.

Cheaper than a MacBook. Might be worth a look.
Magnetism and Congress
> Most of it can be retrieved manually, but not with a script that runs regularly

this may be down to ability of the script or its author. most things retrievable manually are retrievable by scripts, bots, scrapers, etc.
the bigger data captors also provide APIs which can help to a degree, and where limits are imposed there are usually workarounds
Perhaps the best I have come across is y-combinators own "How to start a startup"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIJaCMEptJjxmmQgGFsnCg/vid...
Technology for Humans
there is also https://noping.cc

available in many os-repos

supports tighter measurement intervals
Why the American Press Keeps Getting Terror in France Wrong
> Goods are manufactured, shipped across the planet, to be dumped in a landfill.

Goods are shipped because someone bought them with their hard-earned money to fulfill a need they personally have. Whatever they do with it afterwards is up to them.

I fail to see how central planning comes into play in this scenario, unless you're trying to claim that you personally know best than anyone else what to do with other people's money or needs.

> A significant portion of food goes to waste

I fail to see the relevance of your comment. Demand is not predicted or specified by a crisp value, and even supply is subjected to stochastic variations. Thus you either underprovision, which causes scarsity, or you over provision, which increases the odds all needs are fulfilled at the risk of increasing losses.

So the problem boils down to either food shortages or "waste".

So, with this in mind, again what's the problem with "waste"?

> all the while some other people starve

I fail to see the rational basis and relevance of your argument. It reads like apuerile appeal to emotion, in fact. I mean, if I forget some leftovers in the back of the fridge and later I decide to just throw it out to avoid any risk of suffering through a bout of food poisoning, am I contributing to a famine somewhere in the world? Would those fictional and hypothetical starved people benefit in any way if I didn't threw out my leftovers? Or would I be contributing to end world hunger if I ate all my food and left no leftovers at the end of a meal? And does the driver of a truck transporting food supplies be found guilty of causing famines if he has an accident which ends up destroying his cargo?

> We have given trillions to help pay for the losses of the bankers (...)

And here comes the rest of the anticapitalist bingo. It's as if centrally planned economies weren't forced to shift resources around during economic crises to avoid collapsing. I mean, al those shipments from the URSS to Cuba were never bailouts, right?
>> Even a company with the resources of Google found it difficult to establish their own ISP in the USA

That's because other companies were using their control over government to prevent it. We need a system where government actually governs and yet doesn't directly control or get influenced by companies. I have no idea what that looks like.
Platypuses glow under UV light. We have no idea why.
Perhaps it’s even worse than death? Dead people can’t really suffer.

I’m sure lots of (most?) people would choose the “temporary death” option over being prisoners inside their homes, just fall asleep and wake up free.
That 15% of the market is only relevant for companies targeting first world countries with people having wages to buy Apple stuff.

The large majority of the companies across the globe have already enough to do with their local markets with zero (0%) presence of Apple devices.

If Apple wants them to care about Safari, they can easily make Safari available in other platforms, has they have done when they were struggling for survival.
Interesting, maybe canvas is an overloaded term.
How have i never heard of this movie? Thanks for the tip.
National Geographic reconstruction of the pilot hanging from the window:

https://commonplacefacts.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/tim-lan...
>I still haven't been able to find a cause for intermittent entire UI froze I experience 2-3 times a day.

Well, that's hardly the usual behavior. I have uptime in months (or had, I rebooted to switch to Big Sur).

Maybe a faulty production run? Or some suspect app?
I usually think of "subnotebook" as implying the keyboard is undersized; a thin and light machine that is still wide enough for a standard keyboard layout is something else.

I think we should bring back the term "luggable" for those mobile workstations and gaming notebooks that are hot, heavy, have 2hr or less of battery life.
Aircrash investigation épisode

https://youtu.be/bqRWupOv8DQ
> The trillion dollar bailouts are central planning.

There's a difference between an measurement that's imposed by a dominant economic actor and having a centrally planned economy.

Bailouts were arguably applied centrally by a central bank, but they are distributed throughout all economic actors that apply for bailouts and meet requirements.
The most important structural thing which happened in 70s was going off the gold standard. This resulted in financialization of economy and thus skyrocketing inequality (asset holders benefit from rampant inflation while labor loses). Inequality results in growing tensions between rich and poor (urban tech/financial elites and rural deplorables these days).
Glad someone sees the problems most Australians turn an blind eye to while keep condemning other cultures.
>I believe all data warehouses are limited by the quality of their data model.

This is common and most organizations overcome this problem with a higher effort downstream by Analysts & BI. I personally prefer 3NF tables, event streams or Kimball, in that order, as solutions to create a better DW. The reality is ugly behavior in data modeling can be overcome by Analysts & BI tools. And that seems to be the norm these days...use a DW to structure data to make data accessible, then let Analysts figure out the metrics. With the recent emphasis on tools like Looker or Tableau, this pattern seems to be working.
Once upon a time, free-market capitalism did the 'make egalitarian' part just fine. In the 1960s, the USA had a 91% marginal tax rate for the highest income bracket (91% of income over 200k went to the government). In 2019 it's 37%.
I'll ding one more thing about Open API 3.

While it is an open spec, the spec maintainer, Swagger, definitely keeps its fingerprint on it for business reasons. Among other issues, their validation tools in particular require a sign-up. Postman also has an Open API 3 schema builder, but also requires a sign up. There is no technical reason for this, and you have to trust Swagger or Postman to be responsible with your API schema. I believe this front-and-center branding of the spec itself makes it not as appealing or dynamic as it otherwise would be

edit ApiBldr seems ok: https://apibldr.com/

edit 2 AsyncAPI seems interesting: https://www.asyncapi.com/
> NVIDIA 1050Ti, while way slower than the state of the art, is still the meaningful practical minimum discrete GPU

Not at all - I'm using it now. It's 5 years old and not adequate for most games & renders.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504734
There's currently an issue with Docker and they weren't able to fix it because the dev machines they where sending out didn't have virtualization enabled so they couldn't work on it.

This issue is regarding to starting docker.

Once that's up, there will be an issue with prebuilt images if they don't provide an ARM build. As more machines get out there, this should start to fix itself. For Python and JS, I don't foresee an issue with the projects that would prevent this. It's then an issue of who manages the project and if they want to do it or someone else forking it and providing arm builds. Not a big issue IMO. It's a fairly easy thing to do.

Anecdote, switching back to Linux, I've toyed with it recently and... it's not as frictionless (which sucks).

I run a bit of Linux infrastructure and I'm on servers all the time. But on laptops, I don't know why, I kept having issues. I went in knowing I won't have the integration and whatnot, but I still had some issues.

I ran it on extra, older, Apple hardware I have. Not sure if that might be why and newer or more compatible hardware would work better.
Many forget that a large number of Mac customers are not US based. In fact, many live in areas with no apple stores at all. Seems to me that apple is glad to sell to everyone but only really care about a few.
Like most times in life intent is not relevant. Actions are.

Nobody cares what you intended, they care how you actually affect them.
Works for human-powered processes too. Everything is a queuing system, and then everything is flow. And again, on its own it takes you only so far...
I've used a ARM chromebook reinstalled with Linux for dev work. I've ran into problems, especially where you depend on a third-party library that's difficult to build from source or isn't very portable, like JavaFX, some popular Python scientific libraries that are optimized with C code, some GUI packages on Julia behaved weird. I'm happy that Apple is moving to ARM, because it will invigorate the consumer ARM space.
I don't think a blanket answer will apply to everyone here: which specific tools that YOU use won't support ARM (and until when exactly)? If some tools won't support it for a while, can you live without them? Do you need to run all these backend tools on your own machine?

I think many people are trying to figure these questions for them out right now, as there is very little information yet on ARM support from many tools.
American Airlines is bringing back the 737 Max. Here's why that's disturbing
The RDBMS idea of using `insert`/`update`/`delete` to replace DDL is really interesting - it seems like a natural simplification of SQL. Maybe this is a case where the standardization of SQL has actually worked against such innovations? Or are there sound architectural reasons why creating a schema shouldn't be just `insert into meta.(schemas|tables|columns) …`? It would enormously simplify the amount of syntax to remember, at the cost of having to know the relevant meta-schema.
According to Wikipedia, he went back to work after less than five months.
This article is rather uncharitable. While maglevs have been in operation for a long time, I believe this is the one of the few examples of an inductrack. Iirc The technology hasn't really made it out as much because it has only recently come off patent.

A key advantage of inductrack is that it requires relatively little energy to achieve it's levitation, but the technology is still very new in the engineering sense, so you really wouldn't expect it to go fast. I'm frankly impressed that they were able to get a decently fast human trial up an running so quickly.
That is not how commodity production works. The evolution of the commodity form has been one of competing commodity producers, where one will always lose out and have to sell their wage labor to the winning commodity producer and the existing commodity producers absorb the labor power, means of production, and continue expanding in a way which someone starting from 0 can not overwhelm. This is the economy of scale. You can cherry pick "disruptive" technologies all you want, but if you look at who holds most of the wealth in the world (a handful of billionaires), and their control over various industries, what I'm saying becomes extremely apparent.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25091137
Copyright exists to motivate artists (and others) to extraordinary levels of effort by rewarding them extremely handsomely for their struggles (life copyright + 70 years for their kids). It’s arguable that 20 years still provides most of that same motivation and disallows huge corporations to profit off of artists who have been dead for 40+ years. What motivation to new artists does anyone owning the rights to Mickey Mouse do other than enrich people who had no hand in creating it?

Shortening copyright would allow DRM to focus on a very small subset of works and allow everyone to use and enjoy older works.

Yes, DRM may be arbitrarily placed on anything but if the work can be freely acquired elsewhere without fear of retribution, then no one will seek out the DRM version anyway.
I've used a few FBGs from them. They were so good we had to introduce a lot of loss to avoid saturation.
> Companies at the lower levels of the hiearchy are centrally planned entities with managers assigning tasks to employees instead of using a free market to distribute them within the organization.

Not really. I mean, there's a FAANG which is notorious for fostering a competitive environment between development teams even down to it's lower level employees, which includes flexible team configurations where individuals cooperate on separate projects.
"The previous windscreen had also been fitted using incorrect bolts, which were replaced by the shift maintenance manager on a like-for-like basis without reference to maintenance documentation"

Blind copy pasting in realworld.
Third party app stores are common here in Indonesia, while working on a previous app we found ~20-30% of users installed APKs via them.

They were the lowest converting segment, this was related to the demographic (rural & lower income). People were installing without understanding what the app did, subsequently uninstalling again as memory is scarce. Its hard to understand, but sometimes people just browse and download things out of boredom, curiosity or because they misunderstand what the app is for.

We also had complaints like yours "I didn't install this app" but when we contacted them direct (googled name, sent email/FB message) we often found that a spouse / kid had done so. Shared phones are common.

Im not sure if this could be related to your circumstances, it depends on the type of app you have. Also if its something that a kid may download, recent events may contribute. With covid there are lots of kids using their parents devices at home, with low cost / free data plans in place to support online schooling.