skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep repeating the same thing again and again, and people eventually start believing it.

I don't believe Apple processors are "game changing" as the hype warrants or that AMD and Intel or DOOMED, because the comparison with AMD and Intel CPU itself is flawed. It's only game changing like the lightening connector of Apple - it was based on existing technology that Apple was bold enough to customise and innovate for its specific needs. Their current processor is the same.

People are forgetting that this is not the first time that different CPU architectures are competing with one other! Apple themselves are historical proof of this with the many switches they have made over the last 3+ decade.

Apple has made a system-on-chip that is obviously quite different from the current Intel or AMD processors. Moreover their software is finely optimized for it. Kudos to them for doing so - they certainly have been bolder in pushing for these obvious existing innovations that no one was willing to spend some money to do so.

While Intel and AMD also offer integrated GPU with some of their CPU, they are nothing like the current spread of ARM SoCs that offer many other units integrated with the CPU - as this article itself points out, Apple's SoC contains a GPU, an image processing unit, a digital signal processing unit, Neural processing unit, video encoder / decoder, a "secure enclave" for encryption / decryption and unified memory (RAM integrated). (Note that this is not a unique innovation as claimed by this article, and some others - many ARM SoCs like these already exist in different variations. In fact, it's what made ARM popular.)

Obviously, when a system software or application uses these specific units of an SoC to process specific data, they may be faster than a processor that doesn't have these units. And Intel and AMD processors currently don't have these specific units integrated with their CPU. That is why comparing the Apple SoCs with Intel or AMDs processors and calling them "better" is bullshit to begin with as they aren't the same thing. If Intel and AMD also had these units along with RAM integrated within it, than it would be a reasonably fair comparison. (Assuming all the other hardware and software remain the same, which is quite difficult to do so with Apple computers as they make custom hardware that doesn't easily accept other parts.)

Yes, Apple system-on-chips for its desktop PC do appear to give a comparable performance to the current Intel and AMD CPUs (and even surpass it in some specific computing) through macOS. But calling it an AMD or Intel killer however is just illogical and exaggerated marketing - there is nothing that prevents either AMD or Intel to innovate even beyond what Apple has done, and integrate the RAM or build similar SoCs, if the market demands it.

I am betting that while Apple will certainly increase their profits and customer base with their own chips, they will also lose many "insignificant" customers like me who have no interest in buying an even less customisable and more closed system from Apple. Intel and AMD CPUs offer me more computing freedom than an Apple Silicon ever will.
Those are but some of the problems that IPFS, Dat (or Storj and probably Skynet too) do, or will face.

That doesn't make "rolling your own" any more reliable, performant, etc. So the question becomes even more apt: why will "building your own decentralised storage as requirement of a much larger project" work. If even the focused, dedicated "decentralised storage projects" cannot solve some problems?
> [...] a spring loaded system which takes force to load but then is released with simple trigger.

I.e. residential fuses? (At least here in Switzerland)
> 5% is nuts. They don't lose 5% of goods.

I don't know how you think insurance works as a business if you didn't already know that they charge more than the money they have to pay out?
The LG 38GN950-B [0] gets close. 3840x1600 so not quite your wanted resolution but close - enough to fit most 4K movies if you remove the black bars. Personally I am hoping someone will make an OLED with this format.

[0] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-38gn950-b-gaming-monitor
It's not the essay I dislike. It's the level of conversation here on HN. It's mostly drama and my personal opinion is that the reason for that is primarily because of the style of the writing.

I've proposed a remedy: That someone -- anyone -- more knowledgeable than me about programming should leave a top level comment engaging with the actual meat of the article. There's no reason it can't be you.

Engaging further with my comments is not a remedy for what I feel the issue is. And engaging with my comments specifically because they are mine is just adding to the problem.

I commented on the matter because I've studied social phenomenon and I see a negative social pattern here and because I value HN for its high quality discussion. This article is mostly failing to foster good quality discussion. The primary focus has been on Paul Graham and not on something more substantive, like his writing, his ideas or his work.

After I left my remarks, people began leaving remarks that deny that this is an ad hominem attack on Paul Graham. That's problematic because it means the focus remains on Paul Graham. In discussing whether or not it is an ad hominem, the focus remains on pg, not on something more substantive.

It's a little like when I used to argue with someone and say "All you do is talk about you and I am not even a part of this discussion" and the reply was "I'm sorry. I'm a dirt bag. I'm a terrible person. I'm a lousy excuse for a human being." Like, I wasn't asking the person to attack themselves. I was asking them to include me in the discussion. Going from "Me. Me. Me." to "Negative things about me, me, me." doesn't fundamentally change the fact the topic is still "me."

It really shouldn't matter to you too much that it's me saying this -- unless it helps you figure out what my point really is. If you look at my comments and think to yourself "She has studied social phenomenon a lot more than she has studied programming and her observation is about quality of discussion here and I can see that" -- cool. Other than using what you know about me to help you understand my point, it shouldn't matter that I'm the author of the comment.

If you think that the substance of the article should be discussed, then go discuss it. If you think it's basically an ad hominem on Paul Graham, the best thing to do is ignore it.

I'm trying to step away from this discussion. Me being here is only deepening the issue that I dislike. It's not remedying it.
> I intentionally steered the conversation away from stats, as I had no way to prove anything about Kiss My Keto’s internal sales numbers,

Well, the author could have used one affiliate link to visit Kiss My Keto and make a purchase. That way, he would have had proof that at least ONE converted.
I understand similar fragmentation exists in payments for electric car charging. You need lots of cards, accounts, qr codes, sms and calls. This makes all the technological progress with billions poured into it not very useful, if you can't trust that you can charge on a road trip.

Someone could make a single app that would handle all that for you.
Everything makes sense now. Thanks.
I'm think (?) the author's point is that an immense amount of value is inextricably tied up with what appears to be "accidental complexity."

From the article:

> The legacy is the value, it can’t be thrown out.

I agree the author presents this in a bit of a confusing fashion, since the immediately preceding sentence is

> the ideas are what hold the real value.
Without the container struct, you'd have to pass the pointer to the pointer of the first element, remove(&head, elem), or assign the return value back to it, head = remove(head, elem). A container also allows you to maintain a counter and a tail pointer, for fast append and insert. Above all, a container makes it harder to return a pointer to just somewhere in the middle of the list and treat that as the head.
You'd expect that yes, but weirdly, you'd be wrong. Journal impact factor and likelihood of replication don't seem to correlate:

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...

Studies that don't replicate are cited at the same rate as those that do:

https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...

This year I've read a lot of epidemiology papers, and sometimes their peer reviews. There's something deeply wrong with peer reviewers in this field because they often write long, detailed reviews that completely ignore glaring problems in the papers, problems that jump out to 'lay' readers on the first glance through. My guess is that there are very complicated sets of unwritten rules about the sorts of problems that are and are not legitimate to criticise in peer reviews, and problems that are a little bit too fundamental, of the form "this entire paper should be rejected out of hand", don't get given when a paper has 25 authors at prestigious universities, even if the methodology or conclusions are absurd.
It's so frustrating when you want a link to a specific heading but the site doesn't have these links. So much online documentation has the ids but not the links. How else are you supposed to find the ID to link to a heading? Guess? Open dev tools? I will do both, because I'm particular about it, but 99.9% of regular people I know don't care enough to try either. But if it's right there (and they know what it is and what to look for), then maybe there's a chance someone will give me a direct link to the specific part of the docs under question instead of another enormous pre-compiled single page document with vague instructions to search on the page for what turn out to be frequently used terms.

Please make linking to content headings easy on your site!
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A signing bonus is kind of based on your reputation and the alternative job offers that you decline to accept this one.

Also, it depends on whether you contacted them directly, or if you were introduced by a headhunter, as the latter will charge them.

If you approach them directly, you have a good reputation, and they can see a clear way from your time to increased profits, I'd say you can get up to a year of salary as signing bonus, which for senior positions will be a lot more than $20k.

There's also the path of being acqui-hired, where the money that they pay for your past startup is kind of like your signing bonus.
Crypto for Creators: From Art Galleries to ‘Tokenized’ Collectibles
Integration Testing for AWS Lambda in Go with Docker-Compose
I used a customised MATE on a Raspberry Pi with touch screen. It wasn't an amazing experience, but the on-screen keyboard was reasonable. I don't know what OSK Gnome uses - it could just be a version of the same thing - but the one in Ubuntu MATE for the Pi was OnBoard.
Given that Australia, Canada, and the UK are extremely worried about people importing sex dolls (especilly from Japan, from which Australia has recently banned all adult imports) because they may resemble children, I'd say labelling your package as a sex doll makes it more likely to get inspected.
> I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.

This.

I just got screwed out of money by Couchsurfing when they started throwing a full-screen extortion prompt that prevents you from using the app or website at all so you can’t even delete your account until you cough up the dough.

They are using their own payment processing system. If they used the standard In-App Purchases, Apple could have given me a refund on the spot and hopefully booted them off the store for this bait and switch tactic.

Apple has always refunded me without question and I am willing to bet that most complaints about the App Store are from those entities that Apple protects users from.
What a great story.

Gordon did half the job. Told you to "do it", but didn't ensure that you had the ability to do so.

What a pity.
I generally agree; you can't rely on the average programmer to actively avoid mistakes. Instead you have to make it more difficult to make those mistakes. On the other hand, while I wouldn't say any language is perfect (let alone any that are suited to every possible task), I can think of a few that are better than C.
A man who posted himself to Australia
I'm not saying that it's only lunatics that are left.

The point I'd meant to make is that some people have 60-70% of their connection to eccentrics, online communities, etc. But they typically also have some contacts with work, from seeing family, when traveling, or chit-chatting with people at the store. Suddenly all of these other contacts are gone or much less frequent.

And the "normal" people you talk to are, as you say, depressed and much less normal.

I'm certainly in this boat to some extent.
That has to do with more freeware on android too. Android apps lean heavily towards free or freemium.
The comment/suggestion was different: ability to embed presentation inside a documentation ecosystem like MkDocs (similar to mermaid), optionally with unique URL--and also without external hosting.
You've never come across the car with the passenger seat full of whippits?

I guess they could have been a particularly overzealous cakemaker.

I'm just jesting. But more seriously, I think a lot of people think I'm pretty weird. And if I'd developed a nitrous habit they'd not necessarily know. How does my family differentiate between my normal eccentricity and if I go off the deep end one day?
A similar book is Philip Agee's book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" (1975), just not about Vietnam, but about Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Agee#Leaving_the_CIA

He also wrote books about the CIA in Europe (similar to Ganser's classic Gladio book "Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe") and Africa.
This is an AMAZING tool and very useful. I appreciate you working on it and love it. I feel like you offer suggestions for domains, but maybe its just pulling in the lists.
Your post is seriously meta:

To demonstrate how snake-oil people leap to conclusions and paint with a broad brush based on flimsy evidence…

…you leap to conclusions and paint with a broad brush based on anecdata.

> When I saw they had to go this low, I was pretty sure they have nothing.
Good point, but I'm struggling to remember people who were radicalised exclusively through ISIS websites. There probably have been a few just because there were so many cases by now they all blur together a bit, but usually ISIS sympathisers seem to have been exposed to a lot of ISIS propaganda during sermons. They may also have consumed online content but it was in addition to, not in replacement of, traditional offline radicalisation.
How much of that is auto-generated and pre-existing C code though? My dusty recollection from a while ago is that most of Tectonic's development is in Rust. It looks like the fork is trying to get rid of all the remaining C code?
Thank you for your encouraging words.

I am currently working on some of the "future directions" ideas and will post again soon about that.
No it's not. "Dangerous goods" in shipping terms is a specific term for a very broad category with multiple subcategories of goods covered by (in this context) the international maritime code on dangerous goods which enumerates in mind numbing detail what goods are covered and what arent. Anybody in the business, who this site is for, will know what "dangerous goods" refers to. Just because you don't know the meaning of a term doesn't mean it's not very precisely defined.
How could I not think of ziti?! My wife bakes ziti casseroles all the time.

And yes, it seems there are a lot of Z options :D
Trophy hunters unmasked as trolls target government over clampdown
It's called Plugshare and it works with most networks, and probably only works on Android (due to Apple's payment restrictions).
I think its just people protecting their egos and hiding their dev process. I've never been reading the commit history and thought, "boy I wish these were squashed." Much more often I wish commits were in smaller more reviewable bites.

I understand why its there. People want to sweep the details away. I feel it about my own commits as well. However, if I have to go back and read the history, I'd much rather read the ground truth.
How anyone could downvote such an important comment is beyond me. Of course this should be a priority issue!

The 'anthropocene' is a steady process of attrition - environment protection should be at the top of planning and management in every industry.
The problem is there are people for which a commute actually isn't this hellscape that drives them to the brink of madness. For example, I've noticed that the commute to and from work provided a nice break to get into work mode or to decompress out of work mode.

On my drive in, I can think about the things I need to get done during the day, maybe think about how to solve a tough problem. I can organize my tasks, think about what to do first, etc.

And many times on my commute home, listening to music allows me to put the work out of my mind, so when I get home I can fully detach. Obviously, it doesn't work this way all of the time, but without this barrier while wfh it feels like I'm in work mode even if I'm not doing work any more.

There is really no one size fits all for everyone, and it sounds like the vast majority of people don't want wfh. And for those that do, I think it's a good idea to try and see if more wfh options can be made available for people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25321836
> In 2014, IAC acquired ASKfm for an undisclosed sum.

Oh I knew I knew these asshats from back in ye olde days. Just about ruined the community.
What I've done has all been ad-hoc logic to build melodies out of patterns and whatnot, as opposed to an ML-style algorithm that learns from input data. That said, here are some samples:

a jazz chiptune: https://fenomas.com/2017/12/advent-17/

Zelda as gypsy jazz: https://fenomas.com/2017/12/advent-13/

vaguely fuguelike: https://fenomas.com/2017/12/advent-18/
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25293867 [300+ votes and comments]
Nice. One question though. It says there are 200 new levels, but doesn't say how many single-player levels there are. I remember Cube having a decent set of high quality fun single-player levels, while Sauerbraten has hardly any at all - has this improved?
Thank you! I had no idea.

After I disabled background app refresh I installed a firewall (https://www.lifewire.com/why-you-need-a-firewall-app-for-you...) - in my case the open source, security audited, on-device-only firewall "Lockdown" see https://lockdownprivacy.com/
The Linux kernel uses intrusively linked lists a whole lot - that means memory management is a separate concern from managing the list links.
That’s also why they scan in b&w with a potato. Also has the side-effect of making many graphs/charts impossible to interpret.
> There's some companies already in that space though, so I might take some time to check out some existing solutions and see if there's some kind of needs gap.

Which companies are you thinking of? It's been too long since I looked beyond $dayjob and investigated what could be possible.
the safe network is going to be autonomous so it won't even need anyone to act as an admin. all you will need to do is log in to access your files

https://safenetwork.tech
> Alcohol use among high school seniors in the US is on the decline, so is use of any “illicit” drug.

Sounds wholesome, but is probably just the symptom of people going out and socializing less, resulting in increased isolation and loneliness.
...but it's forked from an existing Rust port of Latex.

That's the bit that intrigues me; what is the difference between this port and the original?
There's plenty of land in Stanford suitable for simple infill.
We have 2 versions, community and PRO, yes we have paid organizations who use PRO versions. Also we have free clients who use community versions. We professionals and our clients who use PRO paid, but we started from opensource some times ago, that's why github version limited.
> That said, for modes, AFAIK the names are all 100% arbitrary

This annoyed me a lot when learning the basics. One thing I noticed when I experimented with what things would be called without the traditional names is that I would lose the "namespace" of what I'm thinking about. I think the names are awful, but Dorian means something specific, C something specific, etc. You can map it to just numbers like... scale 1 for note 1, mode +1, chord 5 and it may be initially easier to "calculate" the result, but also more confusing.

But then you just get used to the names with enough practice. A bit of a Stockholm syndrome. They're still awful, but familiar enough you stop caring.
Just emerge from the package in the middle of customs wearing a hi-vis vest and clipboard.
Does Flutter help in alleviating these issues?
Aliceandbob.io – Creating a light and easy to use PGP encryption tool
>"I think "intelligence" agencies are dynamical entities that currently find opposition only from other entities of their type."

What does that mean? Aside from the scare quotes are you saying that intelligence agencies only work against counter-intelligence, or are you saying they're all collaborating. What does 'dynamical' mean?

>"A combination of nearly unbounded public funds, a definite impunity and presumptuousness, and a solid position to feed the monster of the military industrial complex has led to a situation where their actions seem to be directly opposed with what would benefit the average citizen, of either their respective countries or the world."

I think you need to read a little more about public opinion, and about how government works. The intelligence agencies are often working against their military (navy, army, etc.) counterparts, as competitors. In addition, most people believe their government is working to further truth and justice, so they actually support the espionage agencies.

Your comment seems to imply that your anti-expionage/military/industry views are common and righteous, yet unspoken or unacknowledged. I think you're totally wrong; there's no conspiracy, and people have widely disparate (often inconsistent) goals.
I've spoken to 1,500 people about remote work in the last 9 months
Normal rush hour traffic means an hour each way between PA and Newark, plus the bridge toll.
In principle it leaks information, so is always worse practice than not leaking. For example, one could imagine an edge-case where given a set of average-colour password images collected over time, for a password field that has a dynamic in its presentation that is exposed in the averaging, useful information could be discerned and used to supplement other attack vectors.

Say for example, the password field had one of those password strength colour indicators that subtly changed the background or font colour to indicate password strength, and the images were captured and obfuscated at that point. Information useful to an attacker would now be embedded in the colour average.
Also, it helps a lot to hammer out a lot of design and implementation details before writing any code. For any work project I start that I anticipate taking more than a few hours to code, I spend an hour or so writing an "architecture document" which I then distribute to anyone I think will have an opinion about it. That gives folk a place to ask questions and "bike shed" the problem long before I've invested any "artesianal coding energy". By the time the code reviewer looks at the code, they know what it's supposed to do and why it was written that way. As a pleasant bonus, I usually code about 3x faster when I have the document to reference.

I try to get new hires into this habit as early as possible to varying degrees of success. The folk that embrace it tend to be very productive; I don't know if it's causation or just correlation though. I have a slide deck to emphasize function over form, titled "Writing Mediocre Architecture Documents". It's a cult classic hit.