skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is pretty misleading, because it shows a single item, and this favors items which cannot be subdivided further.

For example, USA has "Petroleum" as a most valuable export, same as Iran and Iraq.
But more detailed data [0] shows:
$95.8B "Refined Petroleum"
$191B "Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof"
$142B Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof
...

You cannot really draw any conclusions based on a name of a single "top export" alone, you really want to consider the overall contribution of this export.

[0] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa?depthSelector1=HS2D...
Can we take a longer hiatus on leap seconds, maybe 79 years or so, and only update once a century? Local apparent noon being off by 30 seconds or so has approximately zero impact on my daily life, but stupid things in datetime libraries do occasionally have impact. If we can’t throw off the oppression of UTC and greet TAI as liberators, at least adjust the clock at regular, very infrequent dates.
That’s been on my list to produce for SE for a couple of years, but it’s dauntingly big.
If you are like me two years ago and think that AWK is obscure, you might want to follow my twitter account where I try to teach AWK: https://twitter.com/mawkic

These days I use AWK on a regular basis for small everyday - tasks.
As someone who grew up in a fire trap of a falling apart trailer that was 25 years older than me deep in the Appalachian mountains, generally what most would consider poor as hell for an American, I was homeschooled. You can try and convince me we were rich I guess, but it wouldn't work.
By serendipity, I discovered a few YouTubers around that time who were showing how to do synthetic biology and biotech step-by-step on the cheap. After the trip, it dawned on me that perhaps I should put my intellectual abilities to work in this new field as it might bring the connection to life and meaning that I've struggled to find in tech.
One my the formative places I worked had all software folks do a rotation shadowing customer support reps. What a wonderful experiences for building rapport, and developing an understanding of customer's actual pain points.
I don't think that really holds up. I'm in a part of Australia that had a lockdown and we've rolled back most of the restrictions because we're successfully basically eliminated the virus in our state (in the community that is - we have a few cases in quarantine of people arriving internationally every couple of days).

The feeling is that people want to get back to normal, but understand that most of the regulations were necessary given the seriousness of the pandemic. I feel absolutely no sense that people are more willing to submit to Government control now or anything like that, and it's the same even talking to people down in Victoria that had a big second wave and way longer lockdown than we did. Their willingness to comply was to stop the spread of the virus so they could get out of lockdown, and it worked, and now the restrictions are being rolled back.

It's frustrating to hear people in the media here crowing on about 'authoritarianism' and 'government control' over this, especially because the State Governments that are in charge of pandemic restrictions have demonstrated little desire to maintain restrictions longer than was sensible given the virus. But at the same time, these conservative commentators who are aligned with our right-wing Federal Government happily ignore actual authoritarian, draconian laws that the Feds are passing to give police and intelligence services unprecedented powers for warrantless mass surveillance etc. over the last decade...

I'd even go as far as saying that the pandemic would actually be a really bad time for a Government to try and 'normalise' increased government control, because there's no legitimate or logical reason to maintain it once the pandemic is over (if we get a vaccine for instance). The desire to throw off all the restrictions once the virus is gone is just too strong.
> The big problem in todays age is we can no longer assume the government is accountable to us, or even get straight answers from the right people there.

Consider the notion that government has always been this way however its easier to tell this now because we are all so interconnected and informed.
The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed the Web (2012)
One Item Store actually solves a real problem that a lot of people have.
I know nothing about web development, and spent days getting a "one item store" WooCommerce/Wordpress site set up a couple of years back.
The performance is woeful and I've been hacked multiple times. Your sites are so snappy and I'm assuming secure-by-default as they're static.

On the other hand, though, your sites look more like Craigslist ads than actual eCommerce sites. The font choice is ugly, and the lack of things like logos, contact/about pages don't exactly fill the user with trust.

If you polished it up a bit, I think you could have a real winner on your hands.
I'm referring to GUI apps like the kind currently sold in the app store. There has long been a path to sell these apps direct to customers. But with each OS release, it has become more onerous (codesigning and notarization and whatnot). Still, no one wanted to tolerate the 30% tax. Now it's 15%.

The noise around the app store reminds me of all the complaints when Adobe said it would move its apps into the Creative Cloud on a subscription basis. Yes, a certain percentage of customers left. But the extra revenue more than made up for the loss.
> Phosh, their GNOME-derived shell, is now also used by many distros on the PinePhone, which is exactly the spirit of free software I wanted to see for the smartphone when I originally backed this.

It is hard to overstate the importance of this, no matter how you feel about Purism's hardware or the company...

Whether somebody personally prefers the Librem 5, or the Pinephone, or is holding out for some future higher-spec Linux smartphone - chances are that the work Purism did with phosh, phoc etc will benefit the entire community greatly.
Weren't you a (very depressed) newcomer yourself?

Don't take it bad but someone in an already bad mental state taking 2g more than what McKenna considered a god dose is pretty ... irresponsible (?)
We haven’t traditionally had that, as the books are improved gradually over time as we update the core frameworks and they get more proofing. A download all button would give you a static snapshot of a point in time that might take many years to consume.
AMD and Xilinx Demonstrate Converged ROCm Runtime
Perhaps more interesting than learning that "every cell in my body has the same DNA" is learning that they don't. Many mutations aren't repaired and the result is "mosaicism" which turns out to be more common than was once thought, particularly for neurons since they are so long-lived:

Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-surpri...
It probably has something to do with Israel being very popular with wide swaths of the American public (particularly evangelical Christians), to such an extent that it's not terribly uncommon to hear American politicians praise Israel to garner more support from themselves.
Is there even a way to vet information from official sources?
Would Apple need to cooperate in the situation where Microsoft was developing the drivers? I'm sure documentation would be helpful, but in the event that Apple doesn't give it... I don't know. Seems to me it would make sense for Microsoft anyway.
So what you are saying, is that spying is ok.

Got it.

So you don’t mind if other countries spy on America, right?
> I'm just not sure the distance between integrated and discrete graphics performance is a better indicator of Apple's hardware capabilities

It's not a better indicator in any way, except in terms of being more relevant to the comment I was responding to at the top of the thread, which contemplated the possibility that Apple's chips would become competitive with discrete graphics cards in the foreseeable future.
Vacation in the sense that SWEs and senior SWEs can earn many times the total compensation of a CS rep, I assume.
This might be the most HN thing I've ever read.
I tend to agree with this sentiment.

Lets take the Turkey case for example. For all intents and purposes, they are a close NATO ally since the Cold War. They were part of the F-35 program, where the specific electronic and radar profile are paramount to the tactical advantage of the weapon system. But Turkey decided they wanted to buy into the Russian S400 antiair system as well (given that their alternatives like Pariot is frankly quite lackluster).

Now lets put aside the potential of hidden Russian code providing telemetry back to the motherland about what is going on. Similar performance information about F-35 detections could easily be acquired through non technological means as well through human intelligence. The entire premise of the F-35 program is essentially that OpFor doens't really have great knowledge in the radar profile of what the F-35 looks like, meaning it could lead to an inefficient deployment of resources/unknown vulnerability in radar coverage.

So much of modern air war doctrine is premised on this notion, that the concern of what nation buys into what system creates systemic risk. If it's a narrow program that is intended to understand potential risk, I think it is easily justified. If it is to try to win contracts for American companies for a profit in a form of state sponsored industrial espionage a la China, I am fully against.
> If I was buying a PC for Windows or Linux, I'd buy something else.

Sure, but the ability to occasionally boot Windows or Linux is nice. I've used both on my Macbook Air for various reasons—mostly games on the Windows side, but also some technical Linux stuff that wouldn't have worked in a VM.
Based on my experience, the skill of persistently studying for your GMAT evening after evening highly correlates with the skill of persistently saving a fraction of your income month after month. Delayed gratification and everything.

So a more realistic scenario is that first she won't study in a library because she doesn't have a chair. Then, having a loan on the chair she won't study because the old phone is too slow. Then, having a loan on both chair and the new iPhone, she won't study it because it's just too hard and going to the pub with the friends is more fun. So she will end up with another loan for a liberal arts degree, and will then wonder how to pay it off from a Starbucks salary.

Sorry, like it or not, people appreciate hard-earned things more than something that comes seemingly for free. The best example is that 70% of lottery winners go bankrupt within the next few years [0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths...
This is a story of every second household. My wife's nieces are stuck on phone practically 24 hours. The day their internet balance gets exhausted is when they peep out of their phone screen and raise all hue and cry forcing their parents to recharge their phone immediately. Their sleep cycle doesn't exist and if their kid brother even if playfully hides their phone then he risks getting killed by them.

Another toddler in my extended family just had his eyesight treated because of addiction to mobile phone.

There is a reason why tech billionaires are sending their kids to schools devoid of screens. The general horde who are making these billionaires even richer by buying their phones and seeing virtue in being able to afford it should introspect the damage they are doing to their kids.
You're meant to use it with some other mechanism for code reuse, say React components.
How could I submit my own book? I can't find a way.
Willful naïveté can be a strategic move as well
This is a motte/bailey bait and switch argument. Please refrain from doing so in further discourse.
GNOME Maps?
A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century [video]
The only thing that works is trusting humans to be smart enough to make their own decisions and not forcing rules upon them.
There's no free money. If you see something like this and are willing to pay in cash, you can usually negotiate a discount.
Inspiring. His message doesn't apply only to biology. Several subjects in schools are teached in an uninteresting manner that doesn't captivate the students, and so they don't learn, and so they rather hate school.
Memorization of the wrong type of things for the sake of tests should end. We should focus more on what sticks with people.
I was interested by the following part:

>COWEN: Now, as you know, Wikipedia is open. It’s free. It doesn’t have ads. It’s a dream of the early tech utopians. Why is it the only surviving dream of that kind that has persisted?

>WALES: Well, it’s an interesting thing, and I’m not sure it’s the only, but it’s certainly the most famous and the largest.

Can HN think of any other examples? Funny enough I immediately thought of HN itself, although it does have some ads and I'm not sure it qualifies as big enough for what Cowen had in mind.
Also Maps.me, but tricky to build.
Why would that be a problem? It’s our job merely to make that difficult (ie not using Chinese equipment in your new 5G network)
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures
I don't really see how this is very similar.
Could this mean Jax support is coming via XLA?
This was my concern as well.

Millions of pieces of literature are going to be immediately obsoleted. Books, articles, whole interactive tutorials, everything.

What about tools that create the `master` branch locally then try to sync it from the remote? Sure it's not a great assumption anyway but those tools originally acting in good-faith will now break and the user will be left up to figure out why.

All because a few people who find offense in everything were super duper loud. Awesome precedent.
A.k.a. subprime mortgages, 2020 edition.
So far I haven't seen X, Y and Z articulated clearly. (what distinguishes "Fellows" from unpaid interns) Everything on the page linked by this post sounds like a typical internship or coop.
> we can try our best as individuals to promote welcoming environments

I think what's often missed is that this creates an unwelcoming environment for minorities who don't share your ideology.
It makes a lot of sense. How can you be in charge of running a business when you don't know how the parts work and what it means for an employee to have to perform their duties?
What are GOATS?
God I love that site.

> The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.

The average person really needs more context and intuition that they try to provide. Their graphs and demos never fail to impress.
SaleHoo – Apps on Google Play
Don't exaggerate. People are (rightly) concerned over the precedent this sets and the issue to tooling and other parts of the development workflow.

Of course this doesn't affect everyone the same way. Don't demonize people for raising concerns.
Very, very much depends on the model.
All of this arguing is political, not technical. This technical solution does nothing for the political disagreement.
> Nations should spy on enemies, not friends, lest they find themselves without friends.

Nations should spy on friends as well, lest they find out too late that who those whom they thought were their friends were actually working with their enemies against them.
> I hate it that as an iOS user, I'm sold to you as Apple's product.

I disagree. As a user, Apple has, over the last decade-plus, earned my trust that the software I decide to run on my device won't...

* brick the device
* stay on the device in any manner if I delete it
* access my private data without my consent
* intrude upon the experience of any other app(s) except by way of easily-managed notifications

... etc.

As a developer, the App Store is how you explicitly inherit that inbuilt trust from users. One can't put a price on that, because there's no fungibility in trust. It must be earned.

Apple can, and does, however put a price on sharing that trust, as well as the ongoing infrastructure, tooling, and processes needed to maintain it: a flat cut of revenue.
In this age among democracies it also isn't just governments that are blocking content -- it's companies that play gatekeeper in communications between people. People have stopped reading traditional forms of interpersonal communication, so my only way to get messages out to friends is through platforms like Facebook.

Unfortunately, Facebook themselves like to play gatekeeper on what my friends see and don't see, which I personally think is unethical. For example, if I post something about the election, its visibility may be restricted among my friends, so I need to do all kinds of Unicode upside-down tricks to prevent Facebook from even knowing my post is about the election. If I post a Youtube link instead of a Facebook video, Facebook downranks it because Youtube is a competitor, and downranks it to the point that friends don't actually see it. Sometimes they downrank text only posts to the point that I need to include e.g. a cat picture to get Facebook to give it the proper visibility.

I once posted to my feed something about donating to a particular disaster relief NGO, only to be censored out by Facebook because they mostly censor external links (only a small fraction of friends actually see them). No friends saw it in the first hour in their feed. I asked several and they didn't see it in their feed. Fishy, eh? I delete the post and re-post the same thing saying "Google for XYZ to find the donation website" instead of an actual link and BAM 40+ likes in the first hour and several friends donated.

Personally I think this corporate censorship is unethical. It's okay for Facebook to play the ranking game with business-sponsored media but definitely NOT okay with them doing that between friends who have mutually agreed to follow each other. I'm okay with a "popular posts" section on top of everything else, but the "everything else" really must include every single post of all of the people I have chosen to be friends with unless I specifically tell them to mute a particular person's content.

Ironically, WeChat doesn't engage in this type of censorship. They obey government censorship, but besides that, I can guarantee on WeChat that a post that I make that passes the government test will be seen by every single contact if they happen to be looking at the feed. I much prefer that model, rather than Facebook's sporadic random non-transparent censoring.
I am using similar thing with two checking accounts & an excel sheet.

Account A gets all salary in. Account B is expenses. Zero Balance. Excel sheet has column for each expense, like Insurance, Phone, Internet, Car, etc. If I need to put $100 for Car, I send it to Ac B, & make an entry in Sheet with first column as Date, & Car's column as =100. When over time I spend that $100 or anything from that account, I log it as =-100. Kind of envelopes.
Human auditory system response to modulated electromagnetic energy
> All that tells me is that other phones aren't getting the most out of new batteries, and are instead limiting themselves to the performance of an old battery.

That's only one possible explanation.

Imagine two phones that can both draw 5 watts max. Phone A has a battery that can supply 5 watts brand new, and phone B has a battery that can supply 10 watts brand new.

It's true that phone A is "getting the most out of new batteries", and phone B isn't. But phone B isn't "limiting itself to the performance of an old battery". The 5 watt limit is there for efficiency and heat reasons, and it just so happens that the battery is never the limiting factor.
Why aren't HNers more excited about their laptop? I only see the the Liberem phone related posts on the front page every few months.
I was depressed, yes. But 7g wasn't my first experience with psilocybin. I was just saying that generally, I would not recommend 7g for newcomers. As for being irresponsible, I don't know man. I grew a Schedule 1 drug and then consumed it on my own terms in a way that affected no one but myself in a positive manner. There were risks involved, but when weighed against how I felt at the time, I took the chance.
D5 and cat here. I totally agree.
Could mRNA Covid vaccines be dangerous in the long term?
I would also recommend this podcast series (9 episodes) dedicated to Dolly Parton:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america

It’s by Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad. It is fascinating, even to me, that knew next to nothing about Dolly Parton. I listened to the whole series and came out with great admiration for her.
It's comical to see someone thinking this place as some unbiased utopia. HN front page and the associated top comments are consistently wrong on so many issues daily, it's absurdly US centric and even then, completely SF tech bubble centric.

The comparison is not apt in the slightest. This place has gone downhill for years and even PG laments it publicly.

Please take a step back and try to look clearly.
Consumer expectations matter. People would be rightfully mad if cars changed in performance after you test drove them, after all, even with no explicit promises.

And Apple does advertise benchmarks on their slides.
>HTML and CSS are not concerns, they're technologies. Components are a better way for separating concerns.

This is the clearest concise explanation of this I've seen, thank you.

That you frequently have to add <div>s in your HTML in order to get CSS to lay stuff out correctly is enough evidence for me. :)
Sounds like even though it runs on all Macs with macOS 11.x, AMD GPU on Intel Macs are not optimized: https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/issues/7
Hey, glad I'm not alone!

Can't use business calendars on my google home (so switched to Alexa which DOES support them oddly despite whatever mumbo jumbo google says).

Can't share home setup to my wife.

A variety of family sharing issues.

I mean, your evangalists (in addition to an actual business domain with big bucks I pay for gsuite for myself for little bucks) are locked out.

It really brings home how google never actually finishes / gets the final 10-20% done and working, stuff just goes to zombieland.
Azure Backup for Azure PostgreSQL long-term retention in preview
What causes changes in the rate of rotation of the earth?
Programming Paradigms as Language Destiny
we only have less than 60 racks. given every 2u can fit 4 x rtx and 4u can fit nearly 1pb raw. in general its cheaper than what people can rent to us for.

also. since we already exist. we run mail, ldap n a few other bits as well. i still think its all cheaper than 3rd party hosted.