skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right but how often do novel viruses emerge?

Fairly frequently.

> So far it's once-in-a-lifetime (or less)...

No, it's not, even if you restrict yourself to novel betacoronaviruses that become significant human public health concerns (e.g., SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2).
But that's actually super common.

Look at Dr. Bronners soap -- it was for spreading religion. Turned out the soap was more popular than the religious message. But every bar and bottle is still chock-full of the religious stuff.

Or how people start movie theaters to show movies they love, but that's not profitable, which is why they have overpriced concession stands that actually make the entirety of the money.

If someone wants to bring organic food to a town, but the only way that's a sustainable business is to make it a small area of a large conventional supermarket... that's entirely normal.

I don't know why anyone would wonder about it at all?
Except that in this particular case the aren't "unrelated" markets: Office 365 is a bundle of (enterprise) Productivity Apps and Teams is an (enterprise) Productivity app.

You can expand the definition of "(enterprise) Productivity Apps" ad infinitum.
Self-victimhood is a personality type, researchers find
You’re really grasping at straws here. Even if the articles you linked to are true, that means Elon raised 90% of the initial $200k from outside his family. $20k from his dad is hardly what I would consider wealth privelage, especially after considering what Elon has gone to achieve
I never expected them to be that heavy. Is this meant for the Pro content creator market? Seems so.
RemoteOk developed by Pieter Levels: https://remoteok.io

His blog https://levels.io is interesting in itself.
> you can't take my analogy and twist it

My whole point is your analogy is flawed and you shouldn't use it for this purpose because it trivializes significant components of the issue at hand. You said:

> Once all the old/vulnerable wood is burned up, it's much more difficult for another forest fire of the same magnitude to happen ...

Which is demonstrably wrong when you liken _people_ to the dry brush, which is exactly what you did. We aren't optimizing to minimize deaths in individual years (or else we'd just kill everyone right now and the death rate would spike and then drop to zero), we're optimizing for general well-being of the population.

Your analogy is flat wrong, which is why I'm poking holes in it. It also belies a shocking lack of empathy for your fellow humans, which I frankly find alarming.

> Where do you draw the line?

I have no idea, and I don't think this is the venue to argue it, but I definitely don't think we're at it yet, and I would much rather err on the side of trying too hard to protect people's lives than not trying hard enough.

For example, when death numbers from COVID were first being released, people compared them to car fatalities, going "Why are we so worried? Car crashes kill 100x as many people in the same timeframe." The point is not "we should not worry about COVID because other things are more deadly" but "there is an alarming new source of deaths, and we should be working to reduce death as much as we can in the interests of maximizing the population's happiness."

EDIT: I mean, consider, the sitting US president called COVID "a hoax" for a good two months, then kept downplaying it for another two ("it'll be gone after November, you'll see"), and overall completely failed to make a plan at the federal level to, I dunno, provide more sick leave for people so they could actually avoid spreading it to their co-workers, or rent assistance for those out-of-work because we shut down the industries with high levels of communication, or support just wearing a mask when you go outside. We are so far and away from even a reasonable level of response to this it seems wholly disingenuous to pose the "but where do we _stop_ intervening?" argument.
Funny you mention 6502, because as wonderful as its assembly is, its not that friendly for higher level languages. I tried writing a basic C like language for it with 16 pointer support (see LDA ($ZP),Y), and came to the haunting realization that function calls require pushing the de-reference of zero page pointers to the stack which change their de-referencing address space from 0-255 (eg. main) to 256-512 for subsequent stack frames.

I then realized that at a speed of 1MHz, that the pointer de-referencing, the stack frame magic, and endless copies to just parse basic expressions just made 6502 a pointless target for a C like language.

It was fun though.
I imagine that the only way to truly set boundaries would be for the daughter to move away.
What about high deletion amounts? I've merged PRs with hundreds of thousands of lines deleted and none added. It took quite a bit of sleuthing to figure out someone had left entire copies of directories side by side with different names, where one was completely unused. Conversely, someone had a huge addition to the repo that actually was total garbage.
Install Thunderbird from a package manager. On Fedora I suppose that's DNF or RPM now, but it used to be yum or RPM.

Some analogous folders between Windows and Linux (the File Hierarchy Standard):

System-wide binaries (.exe) for userland software on Windows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\

C:\Program Files\

System-wide binaries for userland software on Linux:

/usr/bin/

/usr/local/bin/

System-wide configuration files on Windows:

C:\Program Data\

System-wide configuration files on Linux:

/etc/

Per-user binaries (.exe) on Windows:

C:\Users\JillS\AppData\Local\

C:\Users\JillS\AppData\Local\Programs\

Per-user binaries on Linux:

/home/jills/.local/bin/

(also various user-specified locations under /home/jills/)

Per-user configuration files on Windows:

C:\Users\JillS\

C:\Users\JillS\AppData\Roaming\

Per-user configuration files on Linux:

/home/jills/.config/

(A different location can be specified on most Linux desktop setups (i.e., those that use the X Window System) by changing environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to equal the desired location)

Admin (root) binaries on Windows:

C:\Windows\

Root (admin) binaries on Linux:

/bin/

/sbin/

The environment variable PATH works the same in principle on both Windows and Linux. On Windows you change PATH in the GUI "Edit environment variables for your account". On Linux you typically use a text editor to open one of the standard "dot" files in /home/jills/, such as .profile or .bashrc, and specify PATH in there.

EDIT:

It would help if you knew where Fedora's Thunderbird packagers put your Thunderbird email files. I think it's typically

/home/multicomp/.thunderbird/

If that's true in your case, then just find your `x1y2z3.default` folders on Windows and copy them to that Linux directory. Not sure if the `.ini` files matter, but copying those shouldn't hurt.
Why buy wireless headphones to begin with? I've had a pair of wired Audio Technica headphones for the past 5 years and have had no issues at all. Ear pads are user replaceable, headphone cable is detachable and standard, and I can use whatever DAC/amp I want (or just plug it straight into a device). Wireless just seems like a downgrade in every way
Airbnb’s business model is much more capital efficient than regular hotels. It can grow and respond to market conditions much faster than a hotel, has much lower customer acquisition/marketing costs, and operates in a wider market segment than hotels since extended stay is a much more common use case (yes, you can stay in a hotel for an extended stay, and there are extended stay hotels, but anecdotally I’ve never heard of a consumer paying for that out of pocket unless they are like homeless or temporarily homeless. It’s usually a corporation or insurance paying for it AFAIK).

I still don’t think it necessarily justifies the current market cap.
> China is ahead of everyone when it comes to electric cars and solar energy.

Debatable. China solar output accounts for maybe 2% of their total electricity production. They are ahead on electric vehicle sales.

But I find quite ironic that you would use China as an example, when the measures taken to curb pollution in Beijing include, among others: forcing the switch from gasoline powered motorcycles to electric/gas ones, limit the number of citizens allowed to own or drive cars, and forbidding the use of coal powered broilers.

Because I thought you were worried about lack of democracy, and government surveillance.
What do you yourself believe?
You should sit directly in front of a "main" monitor, and then have a secondary monitor alongside. Don't sit directly between two monitors!
The banks care because they do this all the time. One way they convince people to buy into the shitty IPOs is to also get them access to the good ones. Then the bank can make the fees from taking shitty companies public without upsetting the investors who buy those shitty IPOs.

An individual company is not part of an iterative game but the underwriters and institutional investors are, and it creates misaligned incentives.

It’s the reason for the hype around direct listings. So far no one has raised money that way but it’s only a matter of time. The difference is between floating publicly and floating publicly with a raise is basically nothing.
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The problem (IMHO) around notes, scheduling, and productivity apps is that they have only subset of features that a given user needs. User workflows are very unique and diverse. Some may prefer calendar integration, some may not. Others may prefer inline image support while some only require text. The examples are endless. It seems inevitable that a note/scheduling/productivity app can only bloat user experience while being in the infinite race to onboard features their users/competitors demand.

For the past few months, I have been designing an ecosystem of micro-apps that users can pick from to stitch together a workflow experience tailored to their needs. Users would obviously only pay for the apps they use. The idea is to eventually let developers contribute apps as long as they fit the goal of interoperability.

Some example micro-apps are browser extensions, spaced-repetition integration, email-able files, local only storage, encrypted cloud storage, calendar integration, vim support, reading queue, etc. Instead of dealing with the walled gardens of Notion, Evernote, Gsuite (despite their plugin support), do you think people will care for such an ecosystem?

Thanks for reading and any discussions/feedback will be much appreciated.
Highly recommend this book as well. The psychology he discusses I've found very relevant to life in general. Often I've wished something in my life was better and found self-imposed handicaps or my true goals differing from my stated goals (eg. really wanting esteem from peers even though business success is my stated goal) being the source of my difficulty. Exactly the "scrub mentality" Sirlin discusses in PtW: http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub
You're going too high. Apple doesn't sell $300 phones for $1000 to people who buy $20,000 bags. Well they do but they don't make hundreds of billions in profit by targeting the 0.01% of consumers. They do it by making lower class folk feel like the 0.01% when they spend $500 on headphones.

The people Apple will make their money on selling $550 headphones to probably make a lot less per year than the readers of this comment do.
The book "Good Strategy, Bad Strategy" discusses this. There seems to be a group of people that think that "grow by 8.2 percent" is a strategy. It is not, it is a goal. Companies with a good strategy will eat the lunch of a company who doesn't know what a strategy is.
The Ryzen 4000 laptop chips outperform Intel's as much as 45% in benchmarks, while getting 33% better battery life.

The M1 is roughly competitive with the Ryzen 4000 chips (depending on variances in TDP, cooling, etc.) but arguably gets as much as double the battery life.

No argument that it's an advancement of CPU technology, but I think you might have some magical thinking if you think momentum doesn't matter.

It's not like suddenly 100% of buyers look at only benchmarks where the M1 leads, or only at battery life, or only at software that runs on the M1 rather than all the software they use.

If users were only looking at CPU benchmarks, AMD would have a lot higher market share, and the same will be said about the M1 after a year as well. Will Apple users replace Intel laptops in record numbers? Probably! But the conversion of Windows users will be slow regardless of hardware.
Apple is a premium brand, not a luxury brand. That's what people are missing in the "Rolls Royce vs Honda" analogy.
The first piece of shareware I ever purchased was escape velocity. Wonderful little game
I'm definitely never going to work for a startup with an MBA in charge ever ever again. They enjoy negotiating and often assume that their employees do too, so it's like pulling teeth to get the smallest issues dealt with, much less big ones like getting reasonable pay without having to raise a stink first. It was stupid and counterproductive.
Thing is, though, there's nothing really stopping devices from having a middle ground: have the device persist the firmware, and only have the kernel feed the device a new version of that firmware if actually needed (e.g. because there is indeed a newer version of it).

Ultimately, though, the device enumeration and initialization is a tiny fraction of the startup time on most computers, be they desktops, laptops, servers, phones, tablets, or what have you. Usually the actual source of long startup times is the incessant need for these machines to spin up oodles and oodles of background services doing who-knows-what, and it's remarkable how much faster a machine boots when these services are pared down to more reasonable minima. And worse, it's these background services that often make modern computers feel so slow even after they're booted up.
I know some people are worried about this, but the true power of GATs is to allow you to add lifetimes to associated types. This leads to a whole avenue of new optimizations and efficient representations.

It’s not about making things “more like Haskell”, that just happens to be a consequence of making more low-level operations representable in safe rust code, which if you think about it is the way rust has operated from the very beginning.
> I suspect that the above reflects a very personal experience rather than something general.

Isn't the FP community in the Scala world at war?
A few things can play havoc with this type of measurement. One is that the way we determine the "quality" of the code is based on the current scope of the project.

If the scope right now is pull a bunch of values out of spreadsheets and generate reports on them, the highest quality code would be the most terse: it looks up the files, get the information, then displays it. If tomorrow the scope changes to "do that, but in realtime, across multiple machines", the highest quality code is the one that implemented a database and REST API.

Since scope changes all the time, we can never evaluate which set of code is the highest quality.
Yes and now you have academics getting MBAs to get administrative positions in universities.
There is this concept of "Gravity Storage" [1] which could be promising, if some testing were to be done on it.

Basically you cut a large cylinder out of the earth and lift it by pumping water below it. When you then need the energy, you release the water with the help of the weight of the cylinder and use it to generate electricity.

It sounds a bit crazy, but it could be worth testing that approach, since it can also be used in a flat area like a desert.

In any case, the company filed for insolvency this year [2].

There is a podcast episode [3] from "omega tau podcast" dedicated to it, which is worth listening to.

[1]: https://heindl-energy.com/

[2]: https://heindl-energy.com/about-us/

[3]: https://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/
Worst night for SDO is new years. Something will happen. Someone will be arrested. You will be talking to MPs new years day.
It's also an annoying writing style.
You and I seem to travel in the same way, but I know many people - even of roughly my generation, late 20s/early 30s, who literally don't know the right tools or communities to plan a trip like that. Its guidebooks, maybe some YouTube videos, and mostly things like Pinterest boards that get used to plan a trip. No trips to the local destination's subreddit, certainly no use of Google Translate to read some local media/magazines, etc.

For a lot of people, "tourist trap" doesn't register as a thing - those are just the things you _do_ when you go to whatever place you're going to.

If Airbnb becomes the safe, convenient, well-marketed way to discover reputable but not stereotypical local experiences in a marketplace that takes your credit card, they could do well IMO.
> Forcing other to wear mask has its consequences too.

As you've said before, people like you would be forced to wear something you think is uncomfortable. I'd even be forced to play the world's smallest violin for you.

The thing is, you have to weigh those consequences (ideally non selfishly), not just assert they exist.

So, one the one hand, you have minor inconvenience and intolerable oppression of having to think of others for even a second. On the other hand, you have hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths and the economic toll of a poorly-managed pandemic.

I don't know, seems like a tough call. /s
I'm really struggling in learning ROS in a systematic way. The tutorials are all over the place and somehow unorganized IMO. When trying to replicate stuff on my machine, all kinds of weird errors pop up.

Honestly, I don't even get what ROS is about? Like it seems it is an "amalgamation" of tools and scripts to create a general API with some ideas of robotics application in mind. Also the naming of its stack seems weird to me: tf2, MoveIt!, the over-loading of terms like joint controller, robot controller, etc...

If anyone can point me to a free, coherent and hands-on study plan or guide with exercises that actually build and run fine that would be awesome.
Diamond will burn like super-expensive coal. Probably not ideal for those temperatures.
The thing is that I wasn’t selling hope, I was selling the opposite. The bulk of our habits suggest that snake oil will be sold and bought, especially in this case.

There are strong reasons that this particular solution is PR and big spending friendly. It converts the big issue into something which can be solved by “somebody else”

This does nothing to resolve the drives that generate pollution, and allow us to continue on our current path. It’s going to look amazing, the imagery of man grappling or synergising with Gaia will be relatively easy to sell compared to a say carbon taxes or voluntary targets.

Functionally humans operate at a global scale without a consensus mechanism that is effective at a global level as well as with our current development disparity levels.
I always wonder why Firefox Mobile is so unpopular. Isn't the internet basically unusable without an ad blocker (which they say none of the other mobile browsers support) nowadays? Are the 3.something percent desktop Firefox such a refusenik demographic that they don't browse the internet on their phones at all, or do the mobile Chrome forks have some advantage I am unaware of?
Oh, I didn't realize that. Yet, even my 90 year old grandpa has stated he's never seen anything like this, so were we just callous in the 60s when millions upon millions of people were dying of Asian and Hong Kong Flus? What changed between the last pandemic and this one? Technology has led us to believe we can save everyone?
Is e.g. Toyota MBA-driven? (I have no idea.)
In my state, items purchased for resale, items purchased to be used as consumable supplies in the manufacture of other items, construction materials, and several other cases are exempt from sales tax via a device called a non-taxable transaction certificate (NTTC). Obtaining NTTCs from the tax department is a slight hassle but it's done via a web system once per vendor and probably hasn't taken me more than a few minutes of my life, as a small-scale reseller. I've also never had an issue with a seller not accepting an NTTC, and in fact some places I obtain goods (certain surplus sales) actually require an NTTC as a condition of participating, since they have opted not to even be capable of collecting sales tax.

Having previously lived in a state with no sales tax whatsoever, I'm not really sure how common this scheme is across states, but given said national marketplaces that require an NTTC as a condition of entry I'm guessing exceptions where such an item doesn't exist are fairly rare (although other states do call them by other names, I have once or twice obtained a similar form from a neighboring state which required such a document for out-of-state purchasers).

So I guess I'm not sure that this author really understands the reality of sales tax in the US - if sales tax really was imposed on every step of the supply chain it would be a huge issue, but it seems that the general principal is that sales tax should only be imposed on sale to the final user.

Of course my state doesn't actually have a sales tax either but instead a gross receipts tax. While technically a tax on the business and not the transaction, the GRT is conventionally passed on to the customer just like a sales tax, so the two are fairly equivalent for typical transactions. Oddly some websites specifically mention New Mexico as a state in which the GRT is not charged to the customer, indicating that the author has never purchased anything in New Mexico...
Amazon skims off everyone and offers slower, less secure services than just DIY. Amazon PaaS is a scam. Break em up.
Still waiting for the "inevitable civil war Trump supporters will instigate, because they have guns", as mentioned to me by one of my friends.
No offense to you, but if this isn't the most Linux user's answer I've ever read...

The first line seems to disagree that there's any issue, says it has been "flawless". Then goes on to list what I would certainly consider some very big flaws which can only be partially worked around with custom shell scripts and the like.
As the parent comment said, moving high currents in cables isn’t that difficult. Mosfets are small devices, but cables have a lot of surface area and mass, so even dissipating kW into a cable is not an issue and can be solved with liquid cooling.

Imagine we used 35mm2 at 0.55 Ohm/km and we have 2 poles.
If the charging cable is 3m including inside the device, that’s 2x3 = 6m. That’s 6.6 mOhms total, so I2R on that at 500A is only 1.65kW, which is nothing.