skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well in effect that same thing happened to me.. Atari's tape drives were horribly unreliable. It was a tense time listening to the screeching during read operations. You could usually hear it go wrong, and some error would appear, having to start all over again (and the position counters were cheap and unreliable too).

My 1010 tape drive also had really really thin plastic stems under the buttons, which pressed on quite heavy mechanical tape controls.. Obviously they didn't last much longer than the warranty period :X I removed the front panel and pushed the metal parts by hand for a while until the whole thing just gave out.

The new-style XE tape drive I got after that was better but still had the poor reliability.

There was also a disk drive option but it cost more than the computer itself (and in fact it was almost another computer as it was powered by a similar CPU, just with less RAM). So being a schoolboy I never owned one.
Oh, you're right, I misread that part.
I read that more than half of new bikes sold in the Netherlands (around half a million per year) are e-bikes.

It has become more difficult to underestimate the popularity of e-bikes, now that I get overtaken by a steady stream of pensioners every time there is a slight uphill.
The More or Less podcast, also from the BBC, does a good job of digging into what the stats actually mean and whether they're correct or misleading.

Their main beef over the pandemic has been when ministers and the government have been lying fairly explicitly about testing targets (counting posted tests as completed tests).

I find BBC as a whole hasn't been as critical, but they certainly seem to be at least making an effort to explain and contextualise. They aren't parroting government statistics as much as they could be doing.
An anonymous Coinbase employee upthread has claimed that the "no politics" rule was in place before 2020.
Yes, to "give a shit" or a "damn" means to care marginally more than not caring at all.

He's using it in an ironic[1] sense to mean that they really do care. This is similar to BBEdit's tagline[2], "it doesn't suck," which, read literally, doesn't mean it's good.

[1]: contrasting with expectations and norms

[2]: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html
If you can protect the ship from interstellar dust it will indeed get really fast to destination from the crew PoW duets time dilatation, nog for those on the outside. No way around that with just moving very fast.
Amazon has built a delivery network that is almost on par with DHL and others. I would say that's not only a pretty good starting point to get involved in restaurant delivery, but would also increase the utilization of the delivery vehicles (think Uber Eats).
I'm building a website to document a gravel bike build, including links to buy the parts, price, weight, tips.

I would be happy to know if this kind of open specs for bike builds exist already.

It's far from solid and in French for now, sorry.

https://github.com/laem/velolibre

The bike components are described in YAML.

https://github.com/laem/velolibre/blob/master/vélos/1.yaml
> It's worth mentioning that, if you prefer, you can use the `data-` prefix when using htmx

I don't know why people who make frameworks either prefer invalid HTML, or if they do allow people to write valid HTML they seem to show the invalid code in the docs

You are not allowed to invent any old attributes you want and add them to any element and have it be valid HTML, but you can invent any attribute you want so long as it begins with `data-`.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#embedding-cu...
UK to pilot blood test that may detect 50 types of cancer
This might be of interest to people who are looking at this bike -> https://nireeka.com/
Low rates/cheap money is insane. We are on a variable rate mortgage, and our interest rate is 1.4%!! But it's actually the second time I've had a rate this low, we had a similar phenomenon after 2008 at some point.

I live in the exurbs, over an hour from Toronto, but a 3 bedroom home near my daughter's school in the small town / 905 suburb nearby just sold almost $100k over list, at over $1.5M. Absolutely insane.
So... two points.

One is that automation proceeds with or without unionization. It's a labour issue, if it's an "issue" regardless of unions.

Second is unions aren't really about "minimum wages." If the game is lower minimum wages or automation... that game is long lost as a viable way of making a living.

Amazon is already highly automated relative to the malls it replaces. Still, it's one of the worlds biggest employers.

There's another way of thinking about automation. Automation raises labour efficiency, by definition. In that sense it increases labour's earning potential. Put even more blunty, the reason why unionisation @ amzn is meaningful is that amazon have a lot to bargain for. Amazon will always prefer to automate than to hire. But they'll also prefer to pay high wages than have disruptive labour disputes.
The point is the person spending less on labor will have more to purchase more desirable land with, or build new hotels, or renovate with better materials. And most importantly, they will get to borrow much more since $100k extra in profit means $500k+ in borrowing capacity more than the business that spent it on payroll.

Henry Ford wasn’t making a commodity product at the time he offered those wages. Since then, automakers have dropped pay and payroll, see the myriad economically depressed towns where’s work moved to Mexico or southern states.
> Headline begs the question

The headline assumes its conclusion in a premise? Perhaps you meant the headline raises the question?
Sounds awesome. I've saved it and hope to find some time to dig in a little bit soon. Thanks for the additional details!
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> Everyone at Coinbase opposes racism.

That is clearly false, given the evidence collected by the Times, which shows an extensive pattern of racist conduct.
Well, I don't know what is going on in Coinbase. But the NYT has in the past overplayed the race card with no evidence.

Now I'm happy to agree that the retention rate of black people at Coinbase raises some questions. But the NYT, having asked those questions, came up with no particular evidence of racism.

The major piece of evidence that these issues are substantially due to race is that the NYT felt it warranted a hit piece. That is weak evidence. Being passed over for promotion and feeling unappreciated - which they lead with - isn't evidence. Most of us have been passed over for promotion plenty of times. Most people are unappreciated too.
Probably just an emulator if you want that to actually work.

Yes, it does take decades to wrap one’s head around all that stuff, but you don’t have to in order to have a straightforward programming experience.

Take this for example: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/

Almost as simple, vastly better to learn.

And it’s not like we understood how graphics worked, or how the basic interpreter was built in order to type those commands anyway. Even if some of us do now, most people who used those machines never understood them.

I do agree with you in essence - I want that simplicity back, but I don’t miss actually using those machines. I wrote some quite complex software in BASIC, and have no desire to return to that.

I want something with the immediacy and programmability of that era, but with modern capabilities and programming concepts.
Not in the article for some reason, but Tesla already did a recall in China for this issue. They claim that the road conditions in China are different, so this isn't an issue in other countries, but the suspension in the US is the same as the one recalled in China.
I know you were talking about floating point. That is why I said what I said using python code. It seems to be a concrete representation of IEEE-754 math. Also from my reading and understanding numpy is written by scientists that understand IEEE-754 perhaps a little more than some others.

I was fully away of that stuff you say about how NaN is represented and was also aware of how Inf is represented. My statement and link to the concept of Infinity on mathforum was an effort to support the idea of why most math done with code involving Inf will also result in an answer of Inf.

The article that this whole discussion is about seems to think it is OK (ie not a bug) to convert a float like Inf to a integer do some math and convert back to a float and get 1.5 and that is OK. It seems like a bug to me.
What you are getting from HN at your current age with your experience, is not the same that what your young self would have gotten from the same content
They made nonsemantic arguments, you made a semantic one. Not a big deal

Anyway I'm surprised that you read this all as people "correcting me". This is a mess of people shilling a diet book by a well-known quack, hence why the OP was downvoted to the bottom.
You could link other TLDR tools and then we could read the paper to learn how they're different.
They can't be an employee of a US corporation (as in, a person who gets a W-2, etc).

What they can do is either a) have the US employer set up a Canadian subsidiary that handles their payroll or b) set up their own Canadian legal entity (corporation, sole trader??) and execute a services contract between the two companies. Then they can pay themselves under Canadian rules out of that company, or do whatever plumbers do in Canada -- sole trader or whatnot.

ianal, nor Canadian.
You are the one who has to live there, if it was me I would give it a bit longer. Have You looked into other social scenes besides ML?

https://www.internations.org/budapest-expats

I've never been there but if it's like any other city, moving a few KMs in any direction should bring you to a different community. Maybe You just ended up in the wrong part of town, with the pollution and an unpleasant vibe.

There should be some sort of promoting ambassadors organization where for a small fee, locals will properly introduce You to the city with a personal tour.

Unfortunately because of the pandemic most places suck right now.
The idea that Apple wants to rid the world of websites that they don't approve of is baseless and delusional.

Least of all that Apple could've done this at any point in the last decade or so i.e. by creating an Apple VPN and forcing all Macs to use it.
Maybe my opinion is atypical compared to a lot of the comments here, but I'm of the belief that if you treat your team members not just fairly but well, invest in them, genuinely care about them, and trust/empower them, then the overall sentiment of the article makes a lot of sense.

I'm not a big fan of the current state of the world where people hop careers every couple years and are always looking for new opportunities continuously. It's driven by extreme corporate greed which is way too skewed in the wrong direction. I always thought there was something nice about lifetime or career companies. Again, if both employer, management, employees and community can create a culture and company that is in balance in all aspects, the author's position is justified in my opinion.

However, it's it's just empty words that maintains the status quo of Silicon Valley, then I don't agree with the author. We need less selfish egotistical thought leader CEOs following the trends and more down to earth and humble leaders who want to do meaningful work.
> I work at a FAANG and a massive percentage of employees are rabidly anti-racist, and wouldn't stand for anything like that.

I get nervous when I make a comment about Zoom being insecure because it's Chinese around Chinese coworkers, and I can at least point to its bad track record on security and how Five Eyes members are treating Huawei.
Coinbase took a stand against quotas and "anti-racist" "woke" dogma (not actually being against racism but the "anti-racism"™ that best-selling authors peddle to suburbanites) and now surprise surprise they're being attacked in the press by the arbiters of the very ideas they stood up against.

Not surprised
That would probably violate privacy. It is unclear to me whether they can do that.
Google Minesweeper
Another way of thinking of it might be "good times." Industrial unions had their success decades when the sector was growing fast. It's always easier negotiating a growing pie.

Should is a big would, but companies that earn more can pay workers more.

That said... there has to be more to it than "pro union." Where's the goalpost. Say amazon organized... what sort of wage increases can they expect.
Dreamcast and GameCube Games Running at 60FPS (and upscaled) on M1 MacBook Pro
I mean it in the simplistic sense that we can sum up the revenue of the software industry. That's not really a complete calculation but it's clearer than trying to measure the value add of teachers.... even though it's arguably more.
Rustup has been about managing multiple rust versions since the beginning too. The tool it replaced was “multirust,” even.

That said, I do think it has to do with the age and strategy used. Ruby and Python hark to the days of everything being global by default, and so these tools set up clean room environments. rustup doesn’t create an environment, it keeps track of various tool chains, and defaults their binaries to the appropriate one. Cargo dependencies are already local to the project, and aren’t “installed” globally like in older versions of those systems. So like, I think you’re spot on with the broader point, but rustup has always supported multiple tool chains well.
>8/ Another "magic" trick is how their "Swift" programming language uses "reference counting" instead of the "garbage collection" in Android. They did something in their CPU to double the speed of reference counting.

What the hell does that even mean ?

Disregarding the nonsensical attribution of magic to Swift vs Java, if "reference counting" on translated x86 code is faster, then I suppose M1 does "lock add / cmpxchng" or whatever faster than X86.

I would love to know how. Other than just as a side-effect of a SoC, UMA architecture.
This seems alarmist, not far fetched, but a bit alarmist.

My suspicion is that we won't see Apple go completely down this road, because it would kill an entire market for their computers that currently helps them sell systems, and that's those of us who are developers that like the experience of the OS for development.

Let's say Apple does go down the path this article lays out. It would kill the machine in the science community, b/c no unsigned programs? No, Apple needs to encourage that, for the brand. "Most powerful machine, the M1, best for scientific computing", would they want to kill that brand?

If we do assume that Apple goes down that path, then it would definitely kill the platform for developers, scientific computing, school. I might even stop recommending it to family, which I currently do (b/c it lowers the instances of people calling me for help). I don't think they'll go down that path.
It's very much an issue with hCaptcha as well. I have to frequently identify US parking meters that I only vaguely know from Hollywood movies.
That's exactly what it is and sensible people know but are too afraid to tell their colleagues / friends. Say what you will but this is true.
Looks like the author is present...
So true. I’d love to have a modern macOS that is as streamlined and well thought out as OS 8/9 or a modern NeXTSTEP. Instead we have bloated, buggy, fugly operating systems that restrict what you can do more and more with every new version. What a shame.
Is working in Silicon Valley for some enormous multinational really that intellectually stimulating though?

When I visited Google in Silicon Valley (from Australia), I didn’t get the impression that the work was that more exciting or cutting edge.

But that said, I did notice how run down Silicon Valley and much of the US cities/suburbs are. It did not strike me as a nice place to live.
Canada is officially bilingual, so it makes sense that text-only signs are less common.

Thanks for link, it was interesting to see.
Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 – Finestructure
Jordan Peterson: How the Left Manufactured a Folk Devil
> Coinbase's stance there is fair, reasonable and moral

The 60 people who left makes it clear this is not agreed upon. HN has already played out this debate on the original post so I'll save going into it here, but it's disingenuous to say that Russ didn't quit because of race-related policy, whether or not you think the policy is race-related.

That said, putting out that "apolitical stance" in the direct wake of George Floyd/BLM is unavoidably tied. As others have said, timing is key. If they had the policy from day 1, they might have a leg to stand on. It seems likely in context with this article (and frankly, to many before this) that Coinbase's apolitical stance is not a rejection of all politics but a tacit rejection of George Floyd/BLM. No one should be surprised about a diversity problem in such a company.

This "what else can they do?" question stems from a criminal judicial standard of guilt and conviction, but that is not where this discussion exists. To think that Coinbase must be innocent and needs to prove that over many former employees being on the record + clear statistical issues that all align with the narrative the company has set with previous actions shows a central flaw in the tech community's approach to racism and politics.

I realize the question does not direct say that they must be innocent, but the implications and assumptions here are important to note, and certainly lean in that direction.
Some people believe the reason the R value was high in the first place was due to a higher false positive rate (aka miscalculation)

https://lbry.tv/Mike-Yeadon-Unlocked:0

For reference, this is the former head of research for Pfizer. The video (and him) have been banned off all the social media platforms due to “misinformation” (really a disagreement about the efficacy of the PCR protocol and how it has lead to a larger false positive rate).
Take a look at BigBluebutton [0]. It allows presentation sharing in a nice way and is generally built for sessions with 50 or less users. You have to self host it though but they have a nice install.sh script.

[0] https://bigbluebutton.org
Thank you dang! (considering being critical gets you banned, this is the only comment you can make in this thread)
I learned C programming on an Amiga. It made me very careful. If you messed up, you were looking at the guru followed by a couple minutes for a reboot. Fun times...
People have all kinds of motivations:

- change the way something works

- make money to achieve a goal now or in the future (pay rent vs. fund kid's education)

- support a friend

- make a change in the workplace or the industry

- develop experience and a career, further a craft

But it's almost never "make your business succeed at the expense of other parts of their life."

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> The uncomfortable truth is that most people don’t give a shit. For example, it’s absolutely shocking that the common paradigm for engineers at Google is to come in at 11am and leave at 4pm. In no world can you be working 5 hours a day and be giving a shit, and so the conclusion is that very little meaningful work gets done at Google. Maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but not far from the truth. That culture is broken.

This guy is basically giving a performance review on people he doesn't know doing work he's unaware of based on a single metric. The ego involved here is indescribable. I would never, ever work at Scale.
>>> you’re definitely achieving more.

Quite the opposite in fact.

The google engineer could work few hours and make life better (or worse) for a billion people.

The startup engineer has little impact in comparison. For this company specifically it's probably near zero, it's basically outsourcing like mechanical turk.

I personally recall moving from a small startup to a Fortune 50. I could spend half the time in the office and achieve a hundred times the outcome, easily.
fantastic news. only Brexit left then to sort out in less than a month
Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects? (2008)
There are plenty of constraints in the server markets. The primary ones are economic.
oh that and the worst post war debt coupled with unprecedented economic downturn..
Firm is NOT market. In fact fir property right economics why firm exist is a big study area. Why such contractual transaction is efficient compared with free market. (May be it is not as open source “economy” has organised transaction that is not possible with firms. And firms does cooperate.)

The question further is this model extended to say china. Many things happened in china was closed to outside. Not much as a secret but more like a big firm operate cheaply in a world economy. Would others compete or like apple others have to follow inline to get the supply. One wonder.
Wow, spent some time fiddling with this framework. I really like it and I think the potential is huge, unfortunately I am too lazy so I will probably just stick with PowerPoint. Maybe make an adapter and publish to this format is possible..?
Thank you! Yes, it worked well for me, but I can't help but think the real intention of the visas is just to bring "extraordinary people" to the US. Saying that, I have no idea how to devise a fairer criteria to judge that (because I'm not that extraordinary, obviously). In my mind, I'm thinking of some people I know who are definitely a lot smarter than me but just don't have a PhD and publications. Some of the best people I know don't even have degrees. How can an immigration official with little knowledge of the area of expertise differentiate those people and bring them here?
> People give Apple shit for their QA but I think most of them have not used Wintel in the last 10 years.

I assume a significant amount of long-term Mac fans give Apple shit not because they're comparing to other ecosystems, but to an ideal of Not Sucking.
What you’re seeing is the response of The Hacker community. The most wise thing you can do is listen, especially if you disagree.
Can I just step in, in defense of individualism and meritocracy here?

I would like to challenge the perception of issues as systematic being a universal fact. You first have to accept that groups, as opposed to individuals, are responsible for action. This doesn't seem to hold up. Any delineation of people into any sort of groups is arbitrary. Corporations are legal fiction. Actions are perpetrated by individuals.

I would like to live in a society that optimizes for enthusiastic consent in, and at-will termination of all interactions and relationships for any reason whatsoever. This seems to be the only reasonable way to live in a society of people who disagree about fundamental things. To take this to the extreme, if you want to run a company full of racists, and be racist in your hiring policy, you should be able to do so. It is quite possible to support this standard of liberty without being racist oneself. I may disagree with what you say and all.
They did make a 286 and 386SX Bridgeboard:

https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=329
https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=330
Congratulations on the release, i have been following htmx for a while and whilst have yet to use it, conceptually i think the ideas are solid.

I think the trend towards SPAs and everything is Javascript/JSX has created a situation where people build SPAs then add SSR as an afterthought.

This is anathema to the ideas of document driven web pages and i think htmx could be a good middle ground. Of course for some applications SPAs are the correct choice but I see many people reaching for them as the default rather than creating pages and enhancing when necessary.

I am working on some tooling in this space and hope to see how htmx could fit into progressively enhanced websites.
Whilst people are wishing for a better book logging system, please allow me to politely plug what I'm working on: https://beta.readng.co

We're just getting started, but we're planning on tackling some of the pain points mentioned in the article