skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love it. I hope they make their tile servers a little more torrent like.

I'd love to chip in but the requirements are just out of my league.

Symetrical gigabit sure...but 30TB a month. Don't think my ISP is buying that as residential use.

So I'll just stick to seeding linux ISOs...
Let's look at it storage wise. A 480TB Backblaze 6.0 pod costs $22,000 to build. Dropbox has 90% of their data stored on their custom systems, and they have 'multi-exabytes' of data.

Let's just say they have 5 exabytes. A petabyte costs roughly $50,000 using this scenario, and 5,000 petabytes would then cost $250 million dollars alone.

If they had 20 exabytes...they would have a billion dollars in storage hardware alone?

This doesn't include power, networking, labor, none of that.
Kotlin has the ability to target machine code using Kotlin Native[1], which utilizes LLVM as the backend.

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html
It's unclear to me why they don't support this. RDS has had it since years, Azure Postgres added support for Debezium recently (we helped a bit with that), Heroku has it, but Postgres on GCP is missing support for logical replication and thus Debezium. I'm subscribed to the feature request (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/70756171), it's upvoted by users weekly, if not more often.

Disclaimer: I'm the lead of Debezium
> I realize with horror that she’s spent nine hours on the phone that day. She was only awake at 11.

> My daughter doesn’t make collages or jewelry or sew anymore. A child who used to read in the bath won’t pick up a book unless threatened with the loss of her phone.

> Getting her to make a card for a family member — something she once did for fun — is like getting her to clean her room

> Yet still, each day is a battle over only one thing.

> And little by little, our daughter has chipped away at our rules and resolve.

Congratulations, your child is now in puberty.
Cutting my working hours, which gave me more peace of mind and time to study.
Yes, in a free market. This is a pandemic shutdown, not a free market and not the mixed economy it was before the shutdown. So the price increases, and profit increases, but only certain people are able to fill that demand while others are forced to remain idle along with their capital. Therefore businesses and people whom the government allows to work will make more money, and the stocks of inputs deplete because the businesses who replenish those stocks are operating at 50% capacity, and the baseline prices go up. This is all fundamental, I agree.

> People can eat?

Figure out how people can eat without someone working to produce and deliver that food and you can solve a lot of problems.
I am unaware of any colleges that don't have a career services office that help students get jobs and internships during and post-graduation. Even community colleges have these things. Though, like Lambda School, they can be of questionable quality.

Additionally, Lambda School is specifically to focus on getting a job. Getting a job can be one outcome of college, but it's not necessarily the specific focus. For that, a comparison to a trade school might be more on point, where the specific focus is to learn a trade and then get people a job in that trade afterwards. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be Lambda School to Barbers College.
Great analogy for physical therapy too!
That is an absolutely beautiful home page. Very Apple. Well done!
1. Certification, in the USA if you want to get paid from the government you must be certified. This isn't a small undertaking at all and requires quite a bit of development and then the cost of actually doing the third party testing. It has driven companies out of business and forced consolidation even among the larger players.

2. Configurability. EMR's are crazy configurable to meet any hospitals requirements. This means lots of consultant hours to get things setup and running. Take a look at how much money Epic and Cerner make just from "consulting".

3. Interoperability. Again, there are standards like HL7 and FHIR are widely used but the data isn't always great. We are seeing more and more API endpoints all of this requires a level of customization.

All of this adds up to a ton of cost for a small-ish market with a large pool of no or low profit buyers and pretty much a replacement market.

Oh, and you are building software that could cause harm or death. I can't imagine why people don't want to come into this industry and really push the state of the art.
Honestly, from their point of view, they less they change in the first gen the better. Reduces the risk of exciting first gen Apple product problems marring the M1 launch.

They did this with Intel, too, more or less.

Also, historically the Mac Mini has been a split line; one SKU with a low power (~20W) chip and one with a 45W chip. But otherwise mostly the same. It's fairly plausible that they repeat that here; when the M1X or whatever shows up I'd expect to see a more expensive Mac Mini SKU that has one.
Standard Ebooks is on the front page at the moment, but unfortunately doesn't have these titles. Would you particularly recommend any of the five they do have:

- Poirot Investigates

- The Secret Adversary

- The Man in the Brown Suit

- The Murder on the Links

- The Mysterious Affair at Styles

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie
Dunkin, Supercuts franchisee groups sue over California's AB5 law
I gather you're getting that from this single sentence:

> Quite apart from the pleasure she gives, reading her is not entirely a waste of time.

But let's look at the paragraph:

> I am a great admirer of Mrs. Christie. I enjoy her irony, and she sometimes reveals herself to be an acute psychologist. Quite apart from the pleasure she gives, reading her is not entirely a waste of time. She conveys to the reader the impression of enjoying the human comedy without bitterness or rancor, and thereby acts as an antidote to our resentment of the imperfections of the world and existence. There is also something deeply comforting about her fairy tales in which evil suddenly erupts into a pleasantly settled world only to be quickly defeated and for order to be restored. The world is not really like this, of course, and no one imagines that it is, but which of us never needs imaginative escape from reality?

That's an entirely complementary paragraph unless you read "not entirely a waste of time" to mean that it is somewhat a waste of time. But the author is clearly using "not entirely" ironically, iow, that reading Christie is not at all a waste of time.

The piece opens by declaring itself "an essay on the transcendent meaning and value of crime novels."

I see no attack on crime fiction in this piece.
Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"
i switched to DDG a few months ago. i liked it initially but lately i haven't been satisfied with the results. the only reason i'm still using DDG is the bangs, colorscheme and vi-keys.
Looks like Tensor Flow now supports ML Compute, which in turn uses the appropriate hardware.

In the case of the Mac Pro, I'm guessing ML Compute is using the GPU.

In the case of the Intel MacBook Pro 13", which as far as I can tell from Apple's site can't be purchased with a discrete GPU, that will be either the Intel Iris GPU, or the CPU.

In the case of the M1 MacBook Pro 13", I'm assuming ML Compute prioritizes the Neural Engine over the GPU (and CPU), but don't know if there are use cases where the GPU would be preferable.
We’ll have an entirely new generatiom of front-end developers who don’t know anything about CSS beyond some arbitrary class names soon.
I was in the same boat. It felt super wrong. It felt like the long, slow nightmare of maintaining an early Boostrap site all over again. But I got peer-pressured into trying it on a medium-sized project and yep: I'm in love. I'm in camp Utility Classes now.

The only serious issue I had was when implementing designs provided by an outside designer:

1. The design says this width needs to be 28 px

2. That'd be "w-7", which TW doesn't provide. Guess I'll add it to my tailwind config file.

3. Repeat ad nauseam until I broke down and added all "w-n" widths to my tailwind config from 1 to 500.

4. Repeat for min-width, spacing, border-radius, etc.

The result is that A) I get really good at converting pixels to rems to tailwind-scale, then back again in my head and B) My tailwind config is huge - the saving grace being the purge tool that gets rid of unused styles.
Sure. But that still isn’t terribly satisfactory. Why is it the case that there aren’t buyers and sellers at other prices? I don’t think we can concisely and accurately answer that.
Side note: Even if the leadership were True Believers (which I agree they aren't), Juche doesn't seem like the kind of ideology that could really be used to justify expansion. I understand it to be pretty ethnocentric. At most it would support unifying Korea. But I don't see it trying to expand outside "the homeland". You might see import substitution, less-open borders, restrictions on foreigners, stuff like that. If Korea had some grand historical claims I could see it going irredentist, but I don't think those claims exist.
This won't make you feel any better...

Many healthcare systems are a COBOL-dialect all the way at the bottom. Some of these had PHP layers shimmed in, when the web became a thing.

I've seen php scripts that shell out to .bat's, that interface with the COBOL engine. It's a mad world.

For context, a large amount of healthtech software was written in the 80s (kind of like fintech, the difference is that there's no competitive advantage to having better technology in health).

It's a minor miracle that anything works at all.
Some differences that might play a role, but I have no real idea.

In the Netherlands cheap supermarket pizzas often have more fake cheese than real cheese. I can imagine that might mean less lactose, but maybe something in the fake cheese is giving you problems.

In the Netherlands most milk is pasteurized. I can imagine this is the case in the US too. In the Netherlands there is a special protected branding of cheese that is not pasteurized (boerenkaas). Pasteurizing milk reduces the calcium level. I can imagine Italians might prefer using unpasteurized milk products more than people in other countries.
Handle CSS in Webpack – Extract CSS
Attention Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users
Ranked: The environmental impact of five different soft drink containers
Big fan of Listennotes in its entirety, but this feature is a real gem!
Love the trailer, and great job on the entire release.
I didn't enjoy the overlay of phone screens but I thought the show was lighthearted and generally enjoyable.
> Frankly, this way of talking seems to have its origin in the 2008 financial crisis more than in any actual technical economic language

The exact phrasing of "privatize the profits and socialize the losses" seems to have become popular in 2008, if not actually originating there, but the concept of the problem is much older; its essentially a new phrasing of what has both before (and even since) popularly been phrased as "Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor" [0].

But "socialization" for distributing a cost/benefit outside of the participants in a transaction, and "privatization" for concentrating it there is a common term that is disconnected from "socialism" except that their shared "shape" is not mere coincidence, but because they have related-though-not-derived-from-each-other meanings.

> And it speaks more to American's mis-education about what socialism is (or its history) than anything else.

That's true of the older form (though less so the newer, though it derives some rhetorical utility from the similarity in words), though not in the obvious way. At least the earlier form was coined and is still popularly used by people who know very well what socialism is; it deliberately and directly leverages the way (not just the fact, but the specific arguments used) that the people who support what it criticizes have poisoned the well
against socialism and misleading used to promote capitalism, turning it against the system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_cap...
I often use an iPad in a keyboard case and I have a BT mouse. I constantly switch control methods depending on the situation. Sometimes you want precision and use the keyboard or mouse. Other times you want more interaction and will use the touch screen. Scrolling is often easier using touch. If I had a touchpad, the mix might shift a little but not drastically. I also like to switch up controls as a hedge against RSI.

Touch is not an ergonomic nightmare and it is not the last resort. It’s just an option where appropriate.
Credit is different as it’s a loan, not money that is rightfully yours. Due to that, a bank can close those accounts at any point (and still require you pay them down), but checking and savings are regulated in ways that prevent them from holding your money hostage unless a court orders them to. I can’t remember the citation, but these regulations came about over time since the Great Depression.
You could tie CSS/JS event handlers to HTML elements, but if someone edited the HTML file and changed the hierarchy, things broke.

You could tie CSS/JS event handlers to class and id attributes in the HTML file, but you'd have to add those attributes into the HTML file to target the right elements.

Web SoC always felt more SoF (Separation of Files) to me. There is no advantage in putting the HTML/CSS/JS into separate files if making routine changes requires visiting multiple files. React puts it all in one file, which makes me think that the concern is the Component and not the individual browser parsing libraries.
Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU for AI
amen. Not comprompsing layout for responsiveness... things have improved since the 960-grid days. (you've been around!)
Amen.
agreed on the counterintuitiveness. I echo a lot of your points on my Why Tailwind essay: https://www.swyx.io/why-tailwind/
Sure, but flu season in the US is usually the winter, when most people are indoors.
Ask HN: How to handle taxes for Payment APIs/Stripe as a SaaS company?
We're currently a startup SAAS company with some revenue coming in. We have to pay out taxes and currently using Stripe to save the financial data using Tax Rates API so we can pay out taxes on our own. Our customers are in the US and also international like in Europe.

Currently we're using Stripe for payments and also using their Tax Rate API to construct the tax data that need to be paid out and then paying it out manually ourselves to each respective government. However it is a very painful process as we need to create a tax rate manually for each US state and province of any country we sell in it seems.

Is there a better solution for handling automated tax calculation and remittance for SAAS companies using payment APIs? Or any best practices that we should pay attention to? We're a new company and wondering how other mature companies handle this?

We also talked to Stripe Customer Support but I think we are beyond what they can help with there.

See: https://stripe.com/docs/api/tax_rates/create
Agreed - I think some of this shows that perhaps what the author considers "ambient" is really just shows they weren't paying attention to.

The episode about the guy in Lima was really moving.
Publicly internet shaming someone for a middle school joke overheard at a conference is less professional than making the joke, and I buy the argument that it would "interfere with her doing her job." It'd be different for a more direct or egregious joke or if someone on stage said it.

Apparently she's been a lot more quiet for the past few years to the point that she's harder to google without second order effort. This backs up that what she did was unprofessional and interfered with her job, but I'm torn over this because it also means she got silenced. Then again, are "dongle" jokes the hill you want to die on? Or TWSS? This was in 2013 before the term "woke" was even popularized.

Not sure what her race has to do with this, though.
What could possibly go wrong with an organization with absolutely zero customer support holding your money?
I'm not OP but I am politically engaged with not 100% the same opinions, so sometimes I get annoyed by the environment and have to remind myself not to care.

Imagine your workspace was full of aggressive pro-Trump messaging. A bit distracting maybe?
Have you read the book "Running on Empty" by Jonice Webb? It describes a pattern she identifies as "childhood emotional neglect" (a possibly misleading label). The pattern she describes usually includes a combination of lack of attention, lack of an emotional connection between parent and child, and lack of appropriate responses to problems the child faces.

Your comment made me think of that book, and I certainly found it very useful in overcoming some of the lingering consequences of my odd upbringing. My mother was not abusive, but was alternately neglectful and controlling, and I only recently found out that she was continuing patterns from her own childhood. I highly recommend the book if your situation is at all similar.
Haha, among the most popular EMR you'll find a snarl of Perl, PHP, VB, Mumps/M, C#, old Java, cobol, and several proprietary languages. There is a small number of people who die in the US every year do to medical mistakes attributable to software bugs.
The Apple ML Research group announcement has more details:
https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/ml-compute-trainin...

Key line:

Until now, TensorFlow has only utilized the CPU for training on Mac. The new tensorflow_macos fork of TensorFlow 2.4 leverages ML Compute to enable machine learning libraries to take full advantage of not only the CPU, but also the GPU in both M1- and Intel-powered Macs for dramatically faster training performance.

So, looks like it's faster on both Intel & M1, but the M1 MBP has a much faster GPU than the Intel MBP
In one comment you said that the contrarian dynamic works on HN threads and to internet comments in general.

I just went and opened 10 random Reddit threads on the front page to read the top comments, and found only 2 where this was true, and 8 where this was totally false, most notably [1].

The main reason for negative comments here on HN (IMO) is a self-fulfilling prophecy. People have learned that usually the #1 comment is a negative one, so you have a bunch of people "competing" to be #1 by trying to nitpick whatever is wrong with the original article (even if there is none) in hope to win the popularity contest.

This is why I've seen some friends recently leave HN (their exact words: "couldn't hand the toxicity"). I hope that you, as a Head of Growth, can actively work to break this cycle.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/jw8xbe/if_w...
IIRC Roblox Studio is only on PC, so their point stands.
My experience with therapy is similar to yours, albeit with one therapist (so far). The guard rail is not a bad thing, but all in all the process does not seem to lead to actually solving deeper issues.

Interestingly, in talk therapy it seems to be the patient's own talking that helps, rather than how the therapy is done or who's the therapist. Mark Manson sums the research up nicely in this piece:

https://markmanson.net/how-to-get-better

Turns out that any way to examine and express one's thoughts and emotions that otherwise run unattended is helpful. Therapy, journaling, meditation.

Still, to me this is by it's very nature limited - to what you can consciously dig out and express. If the issues that cause trouble are not conscious, tough luck. Like trying to fix email infrastructure issues by rigorously applying inbox zero.

Perhaps lasting improvements in such cases require forms of therapy that involve consciousness altering techniques? Psychedelics are recently making a comeback in therapy. "How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan is on my reading list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Change_Your_Mind
> As soon as the M1 Mac mini arrived, I tore it down to confirm a few things Apple didn't make clear. All M1 Macs come with Thunderbolt 4 ports.

I think there's some nuance and technicality to this, because even though the ports themselves could meet Thunderbolt 4 specs under different conditions, they don't in the current configurations. Apple deliberately calls these "Thunderbolt / USB 4" ports, leaving out the version number from Thunderbolt. One of the requirements of a Thunderbolt 4 port is it can drive 2 4k displays, which Apple is very clear it cannot in the current models. So, that alone makes these not Thunderbolt 4. I don't think anyone's tested the rest of the Thunderbolt 4 features to know which ones are and aren't present.

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/...
I think this might be a case of over-stating all the negatives, because the alcohol industry has done such a good job at promulgating the falsehood that “moderate” alcohol consumption is health _promoting_ — and of course drinking can be fun so people like to be validated in this way. I come from a heavy-drinking culture that is now promoting “Mediterranean-style” drinking habits as being a “healthy alternative” to binge-drinking.

Maybe this is a good public health tactic, to push people to a “lesser evil”, but according to meta-analyses like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17478320/, there really is no safe level for alcohol. And even a “lesser evil” approach can be applied while being honest — know that when you’re drinking, it should always be pure indulgence, not under some false pretense of getting resveratrol or some other nonsense. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25670722/ provides something of an overview.

Apropos of nothing, sci dash hub dot se.
I still don't understand what they mean by "loss". Why is this even a problem? The information isn't gone, its right -there- in the black hole, which until proven otherwise, is part of the universe.

Until someone can prove the universe cares whether the info is in a black hole or not, its not really a problem is it? If anything the universe usually shows it doesn't care what we humans think, its going to do its own thing, regardless: i.e., weak nuclear force and "symmetries"
I was at an F500 that spent a lot of money with AWS. I heard rumors that services were becoming more expensive. If you are spending a ton of money, moving off of AWS is major project that will require a lot time, money, and personal. You are kind of locked into AWS unless you convince senior management you should move off.
The charts are comparing “accelerated” performance versus what appears to be a cpu only baseline. It is not clear which M1 hardware beyond the CPU is used
This thread exercising various mental gymnastics to find other causes for her behavior honestly reminds me of a bunch of climate change deniers arguing why human activity has nothing to do with atmospheric heating.

Being cautious with assuming causations is usually a good idea - but it falls flat when we know the causal chains that are at work.

In the case of climate change, we know for a fact that humanity is releasing ever-growing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and we also know the physical chain reactions this CO2 will trigger. Predicting climate change in broad strokes is not statistical guesswork, it's just applying physics.

Likewise, we know apps are addictive because they are actively being designed that way. Maximizing user retention and engagement is what app developers do. It's how they make money and it's one of the core metrics that investors use to estimate the value of an app.

So you have someone showing signs of addiction after using a device that was specifically designed to be addictive. Occam's razor really doesn't give a lot of room for alternative hypotheses here.