skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of preparation should include making our system less reliant on a centralized power grid. Shorten food supply lines. Everyone who can should be growing whatever they can in whatever dirt they have. Maybe drill more wells. If the power is out, globally, for even just a few months I’m guessing a very large percentage of the population of developed nations will die.
What is it with weather services and incompetent IT? Here in Australia, our federal "Bureau of Meteorology" (BoM) was hacked by a state-sponsored attacker, and used as a stepping stone to get into the networks of other government agencies that had private links to BoM.

Not the only time they got hacked: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/02/19/bureau-m...

This was called out a while ago: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-government-websites-that-...

The money shot is: "As part of this, BoM is planning to upgrade its web presence over the next two years as part of a $31 million digital channels platform deal with Accenture."

Two years later, they still don't have HTTPS on their main page. What kills me is that the main site URL is actually reachable over HTTPS.

Check this out: https://www.bom.gov.au/

You get an error message -- using HTTPS and a valid certificate -- saying: "The Bureau of Meteorology website does not currently support connections via HTTPS." and then you're redirected to HTTP!

Apparently $31 million and a year of effort is sufficient to buy a $50 SSL certificate, but doesn't stretch far enough to actually deploy it...

PS: In case you're wondering if this is some sort of infrastructure issue: Their site is served via Akamai CDN.
Huh, is that why target.com is so bad? I can’t think of any other e-commerce site that will tell you that, sorry, you can’t order those two items in the same transaction because they use incompatible fulfillment systems.
Epistemic Warfare
Agreed - small parks and greenbelts are definitely better. In Boulder, CO a few houses have bought their next door neighbors house just to tear it down and build a small park/open yard.
Brex?
Sorry it took me so long to answer, but I'm still learning it, so I was hoping someone else would pop in.

My impression/hope is that this is another spot where Smalltalk is like lisp. As a clean language with a simple syntax and clean semantics, it seems like where it shines is malleability. It's a substrate on top of which you build a domain-specific language that's tailor-made to whatever problem domain you happen to be working in.

There's https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/awesome-pharo
The overhead of translating x86 instructions to RISC-like microcode is known and is something like 1-2%. This is not the reason for the difference between Intel and Apple.
I respectfully disagree. Why can't Intel/AMD make new flavor of chips & motherboards explicitly saying - it doesn't support x86 ISA. Then, wouldn't we address that problem?
Yeah, I wasn't sure if that made sense. I'd like to see some of the science.
Can you elaborate on “Clojure can’t be parsed by IDE”? Surely some amount of static analysis is possible.
What you need is a kind of photo polymer that is polarizable by an electric field. Then you can write data in 3D from mold-able pour-able plastic resin.
The government isn't allowed to accept gifts to avoid the appearance of bribes. They can use a free service or offering but it has to be free for everyone
I think its pretty fascinating that some of the most active and dangerous hacking operations are all operated out of these small shops. It was the same case with APT41 which was linked to some small outfit in chengdu China.
A friend doesn't let a friend do a music startup.

Jokes aside, congrats on your results.

Have you ever considered dropping your really hard project to work on something easier to monetise?
Several comments mentioned Apple M1 doesn't need to support legacy, but Rosetta 2's support for amd64(yes I choose this term over x86-64) is beyond great, and I looked into that specifically a while ago, some mention Apple had something designed specifically for amd64 emulation, So I'm against that point.
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

You don't have to, others, like me, do. I have been harmed by the App stores capricious rules. You can have the walled garden and still preserve my ability to have apps I want.
I did some more testing and I think it's due to how Windows interact with the website slider.

I've tried with Chrome on Windows 10 and find that the slider works but only if I touch on the line the slider is sitting on to set a value. Attempting to tap on the round circle and pulling it to slide does not work.

I tried again on Firefox and if I very carefully tap on the line, I can set the slider. But touching the circle and sliding does not work. So, Firefox is more sensitive than Chrome when it comes to determining whether I am touching the line or not.

I presume this is due to how Windows interprets touch events and passes them on to the browser, making the sliders hard to work with in my case.
My advice to the attorneys general: It’s not about Zuck
Literally never seen a form with this question on it.

Is this an Amercian thing?
I spent a few weeks with it, and it was very frustrating.

The programming model is very odd. I found it next to impossible to share any code between tests, and most of the programming skills I've learned over the decades didn't seem to apply.

It is vastly superior to anything else we've seen in stability and polish. If I only could write reasonable code for it, things would be great...
you can '!g search' in ddg to search google instead
No, the question is whether or not people will agree to increasing their taxes for it.
Before the pandemic, when the huge mall a couple of blocks from me was frantically busy, I'd sometimes walk thru the HBC store. It was pretty much always an oasis of peace.
we dont have enough natural and renewable resources. unless we are going to find ourself a house in a high density 'sustainble' neighbourhood that rations water, pay astronomical rates for power, still have two cars in a walkable neighbourhood and get caught in freeways to work 30 miles from home with a 2 hour daily commute. towns full of children and not enough schools. old people and not enough open spaces. increasing public sector pension liabilities and sinking into debt every year.

this is happening in every part of the world. except countries with a low population. i think 5-7 million is the magic number for resource management purposes.

take NZ for example. 5 million. sparsely populated. high density in north island/auckland. i doubt if it would be called 'sustainable' or 'smart'.
I just wanted to say, thank you for pointing this out. The other half of it, though, is that you’re being sort of unfair. Airbnb isn’t boring.

YC’s goal was to make a tremendous amount of money. Without that, none of their other ambitions would succeed. Enough of their bets had to be right.

In that sense, it seems like YC was a success in their original mission. One does not kill google simply by wishing it.

That said, yes, you’re right about the special treatment. But that’s what the real world is like. It’s not meant to be a court with a judge. http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html

You (like me, once) can be uncomfortable with the idea of special treatment, but it’s hard to argue with the result. After all, Airbnb IPO’d.

EDIT: By the way, if you’d like to chat privately about the old days, feel free to DM me on Twitter. That 2008-era was interesting, and I remember you were there for it. I’m curious to get more of your impressions.
They've done it to far more companies than just spotify.
Yes, of course. That's part of the cycle. Democratically elected officials are not proactive, they respond to pressure. Calling out corporations that are acting irresponsibility creates enough pressure to have democratic governments act upon those corporations.
From IT point of view, they along with Canadian Tire still use mainframe - I remember 10 years ago Canadian tire had a billion item inventory, can't imagine how much its now.
> you would quickly see the real value of App Store and Apple Payment processing convenience - that 30% would probably come down to 10% where it provides the convenience value.

That might be good for developers but it does not necessarily also imply that consumers are harmed. You assume that if a store charged a lower rate that the savings would be passed onto the consumer, but this does not reflect the real world where developers might simply choose to pocket the difference instead.

As an example, the Epic Games Store is charging $59.99 for the new release of Cyberpunk 2077. What's the cost on Steam? Also $59.99.
It seems like you could easily build a fintech app that gives you a virtual pre-paid credit card to use with these services and gets funded only up until your budget amount. That might be a safer way to work with services like this. Could have a separate card where ever you expect a problem might occur. That would also avoid one service being able to take down everything else you need to bill

Card and billing management? Probably a legit need tbh
Spotify will kill RSS podcatchers like Twitter killed RSS readers
That's an interesting way of thinking which I've not really encountered outside of Soviet-style centrally controlled economy advocates and the like.

Do you feel the same way about all other things in life where you are presented with a choice? Would you prefer there to only be a single grocery store you get your groceries from, for example?
I second that, if anything the roads only need to be patched. The roads also have their cracks sealed every few years causing them to last even longer than drive ways normally do.

This is only true if it is built to high spec, I know some neighbor cul-de-sac in my town are not "Town" roads. They do not get plowed or town maintenance because the builder didn't build it to high enough / correct spec, and the home owners are required to pay for these things.
Could there also be hardware acceleration or built-in support for Objective-C's message-passing? I've always wondered how Apple gets decent performance with Objective-C in-spite of MP given it its complexity compared to vtables (and vtables have the advantage of being easily cachable in L1/L2).
Canada's Little-Known Emerald Isle
No one is disagreeing with that, but they have to be paid for or the town will eventually be broke, or forced to let them go to seed.
What set of rules are you actually picturing that you think echelon has that they're not applying to themselves?

As far as I can tell, the rules they're suggesting for singular "they" is that "they/them" can always refer to anybody in the singular, irrespective of their gender. (Maybe unless the person you're referring to indicates a preference otherwise.)

Like, maybe this is inconsistent with some set of standard SJW rules that you have in mind. But even if so, I don't see any reason in this conversation to assume that the person you're criticizing is attached to that standard set. (I also don't think there is a standard set at this point.)
Meh, of course lies spread faster than truth. You can design the lies for virality and transmission speed but the truth by definition is not designable.
I'm on 7+ year old hardware and a 1080 ti and it runs fine @ 1440p. Partner has a 980ti and it runs fine @ 1080p.

Any bugs I've encountered have been minor.

Makes me wonder what people's "rigs" are actually like. It's no Doom Eternal but it plays about as well as GTA at launch going from memory.
I like Cypress because it helps us easily validate when our backend teams introduce breaking API changes without notifying UI teams. Quality is often left to UI teams, when service teams need to step up and perform more due diligence of their own. Until then, Cypress is the tool for the job. Been using it for 6+ months. I'm not crazy about it, but I have no known superior alternatives, so I am grateful for this open source tech.
Microsoft took their entire userbase and successfully shifted them from DOS (and then Windows on DOS) to NT. They did it in a piecemeal fashion with e.g. Windows 95 and WIN32.

What else you would call it?
Once you figure out the correct meth dose almost anything is possible I guess
14 is the average, and yeah, I think he failed to account that less used roads (such as cul de sacs) can be replaced much less often.
> The core insight (that “light bulb” moment) of Strong Towns for me was that low density suburban living requires more roads, curbs, sidewalks, and pipes than it pays for in tax revenue—meaning, it’s not solvent.

I mean, whether or not that's true is a question of tax rates, and probably also a question of whether you are counting only property taxes paid by residents or other revenues driven by their presence of the housing, including those from businesses enabled by having housing that is attractive to the demographic that prefers suburban cul-de-sac style housing.

> If a cul-de-sac is stripped to its essentials and brought to the bar of the balance sheet, it has nowhere to escape....It exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to provide access to the homes built around it.

Incorrect. Cul-de-sacs, and non-grid suburban road designs more generally, exist to deter access to the homes built around them. Specifically, to deter non-resident access to and traffic, especially high-speed traffic, near them. There are a wide number of reasons, but promoting pedestrian (and particularly child) traffic safety, deterring crime, and reducing noise pollution are among the reasons.

> e.g., roads are assumed to have an average lifespan of 14 years according to our local Engineering Division

But are cul-de-sacs assumed to have that average life? The life of a road depends on wear, which depends on traffic volume, traffic speed, and vehicle weight (immensely!). Cul-de-sacs are designed to minimize all three compared to through roads, and thus should have much higher than average life for the broader class of all roads.
That’s like a programmer saying performance is somebody’s else’s problem. Just as we have to balance what we can develop and operate, an urban planner has to work within the constraints of a budget. This writer is making the case for taxes to do exactly what you propose to ensure that people aren’t expecting their choices to be subsidized by everyone else.
Pretty simply, it’s broken as there is a simple solution to just slightly raise prices now or sightly more 20 years from now.

It seems like a non-issue that isn’t particular to culs de sac but to any new community where they don’t charge enough in taxes to cover long term expenses.

In my region culs de sac are more prevalent in affluent areas that wouldn’t mind slightly raised prices. And the assumption that property values will stagnate is pretty easy to disprove and just count on increased property taxes.
I think it's pretty well accepted at this point that this is an unsustainable trend. I'm not sure why glass isn't used more as an alternative, I'd assume cost and convenience. But it might be more expensive for us not to make the switch in the long run
Apple spies more than its competition. The competition at least allows you to turn their spying off. There is no such option on Apple devices.

Do you want to get your location without Apple also getting your location? You can't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355587

Do you want to install an app on your device without telling Apple? You can't.

Do you want to build apps for your own device and not have to reinstall them weekly without telling Apple your banking details? Tough luck.

Platforms that don't give users an escape hatch to run their own software have nothing to stop them from abusing their users. They will abuse their users' privacy just as much as they will abuse their users' wallets.
This makes me wonder: If there's such a benefit from creating an integrated and specialized chip, will the next consoles follow the same approach? Will they be ARM based? If Microsoft and Sony follow this same model then PC games might be left behind with poorer graphics and fewer titles.
> there is a growing amount of people who are looking for alternatives to Google.

But this site is not amongst those.
What about Internet2?
Why is it that most surburbs have no parks in walking distance, but most older “inner city” neighborhoods do? And supposing you could pick between a cul-de-sac or a park at the end of your block (holding everything else about the neighborhood the same), which would you prefer?

One of the reasons older neighborhoods have more amenities sprinkled throughout is that narrower streets and rectangular blocks cost a lot less to build and yield more homes (with the same average yard size) compared to wide curvilinear streets. That extra money could be used for parks, schools, shops, libraries, etc.

If there are people out there who would prefer more pavement in exchange for less of everything else, I think that’s fine as long as they pay the cost of it. But as for me I’d rather have a more efficient neighborhood design that leaves funding left over for other things besides asphalt.
> Intel can probably make faster stuff than they currently do but then their customers (PC manufacturers for instance)n would have to modify all their stuff

This is a crucial point. It's a coordination problem.

Drivers only need to be made for those components that Apple choose for their system vs the multitude combinations of GPU boards, drive systems, motherboard chips, wifi etc etc. that exist for a modern PC.

There's no steering committee for PCs (at least none that could be incorruptible by Intel) that could cause this change to happen industry wide. And there's been little appetite (yet) for Windows/Linux + ARM for consumer PCs to help this happen from the bottom-up.
ARM is RISC , Intel and AMD are CISC,
One important reason is their new pipelining facility.

Apple M1 has 16 units that can pipeline their instructions.

Meaning, they can reorder sequential instructions that aren't dependent on each other to run in parallel. That is not threads or anything, that can be and is being done in a single threaded program.

AMD and Intel have 4 units for reordering tops, because their architecture is CISC and on instruction can be up to 15 bytes. M1 is RISC and instructions are just 4 byte fixed-length.
Thus architecturally it is easier to reorder instructions for RISC than CISC.

CISC were better because of the specific instructions but now Apple has stuffed their CPU with specific hardware for alot of things including machine learning, graphic processor and encryption, instead of specific instructions, Apple has specific hardware, and can do with less instructions.

And since they control hardware, software SDKs and OS they can actually get away with such radical changes. Intel and others can't, without a big change in industry.

Source:
https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...
> Don’t force people into highly dense housing, let them pay for sprawl if they want it and can afford it.

'Letting them pay' for sprawl implies that it is already priced in, which it is not. Rather, it's often opposite: A few years back back Strong Towns did a case study of their Growth Ponzi scheme hypothesis on a town in Louisiana and found that under the current tax regime, higher density poorer neighborhoods were actually subsidizing lower density and richer sprawl areas:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
I didn't reinterpret what they said, I argued that you overestimate how much of a difference there is in both policy outcome and intention. What's the difference other than the branding? Women have fewer kids and they enter the workforce. The demographic development in China doesn't even look much different than in South Korea, in fact they have even fewer kids in SK.

In 'free' societies when governing elites want a policy outcome they dress it in women's liberation and rights language, put a tax on something or hand you a subsidy to remind you of what you're supposed to do, in China they don't give a crap and send you somewhere by fiat. tomato tomahto
Likewise flummoxed by the equivalent “race” question almost always asked on the innumerable forms you’re subjected to in the USA. In the country I was born in there was one correct answer for me (though the question was rarely asked); later that changed. In my mother’s country the legally determined answer is printed on your ID card, which at least removed the need to think about it. In the USA there is a very different “correct” answer, yet that is apparently wrong when I fill out a medical form. If I fill it out one way I can be scolded by the doctor, yet the other way and it has more than once been “helpfully” changed by front desk staff.

Frankly it feels like visiting the Dell web site: are you a small business? Medium business? I never knew what answer will give me he best price or product.

Humans are fucked up, and fucked up towards each other.
Please take 10 minutes to educate yourself on this topic.

https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling

https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-...
Happiest Baby on the Block for guidance on learning how to sooth very helpful the first few months.
They use plastic bottles instead of alternatives. I'm not saying consumers don't have responsibility, but it starts with coca cola ordering/producing these bottles to package their product.
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A new K8s ingress controller solution based on Apache APISIX
Wish there was more info on the difference between these services.

I really admire DDG but I don't think they check their ads well. I have been taken in by a scam ad once before.

For email, I've been using fastmail ever since I asked this[1] two years ago. It is terrific. It also provides a calendar.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574
I think the answer is that the marginal benefits of a better ISA were less than the marginal benefits of better node process and faster iteration that Intel enjoyed. But for various reasons Intel no longer enjoys those advantages. With TSMC Apple has the process advantage, and their smartphone business has given them both the motivation and cash to iterate their architecture faster than Intel. The simpler ISA has compounded those advantages.
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It’s reasonable to separate publishing data and providing data to the public. Their website only provides a subset of their API data so that missing data is provided to 3rd parties and curious computer savvy users, but not the public.
Remembering that Cydia came before the App Store was added to iPhone is one of the most important pieces of modern historical facts we should know.