skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it obscene to buy a thousand dollar laptop when 500 dollar laptops are fine for most users?

It probably is.

> $500 for headphones seems like a very arbitrary standard for what is excessive.

You could say that about any number. "Raise the minimum wage to 100 USD/h" "That's excessive" "100 for an hourly minimum wage seems like a very arbitrary standard for what is excessive" There is 0 insight there.

> They would consider spending $50 -- or even $15 -- on a restaurant meal to be obscene.

Yes those dumb poor people cannot see the difference between a 15 USD meal satisfying a human unavoidable necessity and a +500 luxury item.

> It's all relative.

So Einstenian of you.
I counted up the system frameworks it relies on that can be reasonably considered to exist for the purposes of serving the app.
> "Are you really arguing the that Windows CE platform was more open than Android?"

The topic is the control that the user has over a phone they purchased, not source code availability for the OS, so yes, I am. Windows CE smartphones provided access about the same as Windows 98/NT in terms of the freedom to run apps and providing apps unfettered access to OS level APIs. The same can't be said for Android and Apple's sandbox + walled garden model.

The only Linux smartphone I can think of from that era that offered similar access and control was the (I think?) Nokia N900 and interest in those was IIRC negligible.
So actually that’s the whole design of these things. You have to work to keep them running. In case of a meltdown, the fuel is passively drained by a plug.
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Remember when people said this about Tesla? "They have tents outside to build in. A disturbing corner cut". Bam! Better electric car than anyone else.
Because everyone's going to be looking for ways to keep their team running when they all switch to working remotely... wait...
My question is how someone can justify paying $550 dollars for headphones from Apple.

Like most luxury goods, it's a status symbol, and thus the price justifies itself.
I realize there's technical reasons/tradeoff's for using stainless, but goddamn it looks cool.

It will be even more magnificent if they can make the skin taut. Isn't that the intent in future models? Though the sheet metal waviness is nice in a retro way too.
If you look at the graphs or some HN comment, apparently, every language is flourishing, including cloture!

Conversely, using the same technique, one could also ascertain that every language is also languishing.
Whether or not there is torque applied is irrelevant. For the sake of argument, when talking with a carburated ICE (ie. no electronic optimization), at full throttle, whether you redline with a load or not, at the same RPM, the same vacuum will be produced at the intake, and you will burn the same amount of fuel, thus produce the same amount of heat.
I still tip mine over though, so maybe it isn't heavy enough?

But I think I agree that it's overkill, as the weak spot is definitely going to be the usb port.
VISA and Mastercard are close to monopoly there are also debt rating companies that control a market but cannot remember their name.
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Too late to edit, but was rereading this and i forgot that I made optional args too. For example i sometimes leave my self next instructions

notifyme "Now you can commit and push code"
notifyme "Now you can commit and push code" "Tests complete"
That's works as follows:
1) By default we detect location based on a Geolocation service at the city level based on IP address
2) Users can also override that by setting their location (currently country), if they wish. https://www.mojeek.com/preferences?tab=location
Even ignoring the radiation, how do you test that it keeps working with a 100 MW heat source inside it without putting nuclear material in?

Edit: where did I get the idea it’s 100MW from? Title talks of 1MW. That makes it a lot easier.
This is how we got where we are now.
Making things more difficult for cars seems to increase the quality of the experience for those not using cars. Making things easier for cars increases the problems cars cause.

It’s a huge subsidy that society pays to have cars around. There is a huge cost due to the space dedicated to cars, parking them, driving them and keeping them from killing people.
Be careful who you talk to. The average salary in my country is 1 USD/month. I am currently below that average.
Is it possible to change your answer once your are hired? Of course you could still get retaliated against but it certainly sounds better than not getting getting the job at all.
Then they shouldn’t require it by creating stupid rules that require submitting hundreds of largely identifiable apps.
Every evening when it's warm enough to not wear a thick coat, every park has people of all ages dancing, but mostly old people. In the cities I've been to, there are parks in every neighborhood. They have exercise equipment and places to gather and play games or do shared hobbies (kicking a shuttlecock, whip-cracking, etc). Being old in China is incredibly lucky.
I love your work Felix. I've been using Cold Turkey for a couple of years now, and it's a pretty irreplaceable tool for people with focus issues.
Nice work. Best of luck with the launch! (Sending this to a friend who runs a company in Africa)
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This. The world will end, if we treat every fucking word like an "opinion", which deserves to be heard.

"Covid19 is a lie!1!!" isn't an opinion. It's ignorant non-sense at best, likely malicious, indirect interest-driven misinformation. It absolutely does not deserve the same, attention, platform and range as scientific, or reasonably political debate.

Naive unconditional free speech, "attention communism", if you want lol, is an ignorant and anti-democratic idea. The only reason that hasn't hurt us like this before, was the cost of spreading information effectively, pre-www.
> added a lot of stress to my life

A sick side effect of the US's consumer culture is that we define most of our experiences in terms of pleasure and pain, which is a shallow and unhelpful way to intepret it.

A couple of years ago, a dear friend died suddenly. I flew across the country to her memorial service. Her husband asked if anyone wanted to say anything. I'm very shy and not spontaneous, but I found myself getting up in front of a hundred people and talking about her and their marriage while tears poured down my face. I've never done anything like that before, and I honestly couldn't even really tell you what I said.

In the calculus of pleasure and pain, this was a miserable experience. Grieving for my friend and her absolutely destroyed husband. Terrified of public speaking, inexplicably ashamed to be crying in front of others, sobbing in sadness. If this experience was a blister-packed product I bought off Amazon, it would get a zero-star review.

But it is one of the most meaningful, important experiences of my life. Of course it sucked, but the fact that it sucked shows how much it was worth it.

The question is not whether your friends add stress. All friends will, even the best ones. In fact, the best ones will often add the most, as you empathize with their struggles and experience them as your own. The question is whether the stress is meaningful and worth it. Obviously, cut out toxic people who bring you down for no benefit. But avoiding all close friendships because they can hurt means losing the opportunity to have all of the deep difficult but meaningful experiences that make life worth it.
Is it so weird? Surely #general must be a holdover from IRC or some other pre-Slack messenger.
I'm not really a huge fan of his work, but I think Bob Ross is in the Smithsonian permanent collection. Kinda impressive for "Not an artist" I think!
To further complicate the web, obesity is itself thought to cause VDD: https://www.livescience.com/26961-obesity-causes-vitamin-d-d...
Before you do anything else, read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484825985

Don't rush through it. Read slowly, if needed, to get full understanding.

Source: I'm a software engineer whose marketing skills have so far generated multiple 6 figures in pretax profit, closing on 7.
Yeah the plastic isn't recyclable, but e-waste is full of precious metals and structural metals like aluminum that can easily be recycled.
Oh, compiler construction :) I really enjoyed that lecture during my M.Sc.

"parallelization, just-in-time compilation, and garbage collection" sound fun, too. Especially JIT.
At the same time, cargo ships transport an unbelievable amount of cargo. They're an order of magnitude more efficient per tonne/km than trucks, and two orders of magnitude more efficient than air freight. Economic incentives from fuel savings alone were enough to reduce the emissions per tonne/km by a higher percentage than many devout green governments reduced theirs.

Cargo ships are responsible for ~3% of global CO2 emissions. Not too bad for providing a backbone for the world's economy.
I know this is probably old hat by now but that thing looks massive with that person at the bottom for scale, especially considering it's only the upper stage.
When a browser has 90+% market share, you can make a credible business argument about why you can ignore every other browser.
Poorly, but Airbnb's website has poor support for historical reviews so I can't actually see what I wrote. This was 4 years ago or so.

I likely would have been kinder if it weren't advertised as "whole condominium".
she got into trouble with her housing association I think

The vast majority of AirBnBs are people violating the terms of their leases and/or making undeclared income. A legal AirBnb is just called... A BnB.
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+100 points for a website with pictures that is viewable and clickable with JavaScript disabled!

This is how the web should be.
The fanboism about SpaceX is beyond belief! Like they are the only private enterprise that works in this area! For example, there's no excitement here on HN about competitors such as Relativity Space [0], which has some really unique solutions! Or the many others in the field. Every failure of SpaceX is considered here a huge success!

[0]: https://www.relativityspace.com/
You seem to be saying both "weight made them more stable and less likely to tip" and "people were associating weight with value even though there's no connection".

I have an internet router, I don't routinely lift it, its weight is immaterial, except ... it has a power lead, internet lead, and some RJ45 leads connected to it, and if they move slightly, it falls over. I approximately never go near it or think about it, but the only times I do when I have to check something or connect/disconnect something, I'm annoyed by how it's designed to stand up precariously, and does so poorly because it's too flimsy cheap and plasticky.

This reminds me of the "I'm clever because I see the lottery is a tax on fools" sayings. Well, gambling is fun and mass is useful and stable clocks don't get knocked over when you dust the bedside table in their vicinity.
There are many Russian speakers even if Russia doesn't have a huge population - 258 vs 145 million.
That's an even better reasons to post them.
Amazing work, and really shows how amateur cryptographers can contribute to detective work.

I especially like the software tools involved.
Open letter responding to Council Resolution on Encryption
You’re missing the point. The outcomes and upside are irrelevant, what is relevant is that Microsoft’s only strategy to attack was to give it away for free and bundle it, creating a profoundly unfair (and illegal) advantage that continues the trend of consolidating power and reducing choice.
> seat-choosing fee, bagage fee

Those are optional, cleaning fees are not. They should be included in the price shown on the map.
I don't think it can reasonably be called good faith - it arises from a sort of carelessness with the truth, wanting to be embalmed in justification of the worst cruelties of our society at ground level so as not to critically engage with them. Much more preferable to deal with cynical political operators who don't believe what they say. Those are quite rare, and usually more transparent, so would not explain why this sort of thing pops up so much online.

If that answer doesn't satisfy you then call it observational humor regarding urban & suburban neuroses. Not really sure what you're driving at otherwise.
The essay, and my comment, were not about that: they were wider reflections on the naming of the thing affects not just how society thinks of us but how we think of ourselves.

We all have several “labeled” roles or identities simultaneously: parent, child, driver, citizen, voter, customer, etc. Some are simple, some quite complex and many quite ambiguous.

I think most, if not all people understand the motivation for such questions and I hope most people understand that those questions are well intended. I also don’t know of a different way to handle the issue.

But it’s not a criticism to point out the problems and ambiguities that arise.
I know what stories are on the other apps... I don't know what this is: it sort of looks like it might be a library I can put on my website to make something that looks like stories, but it also sounds like it is on Google's website? Some people are saying it isn't on the website but is actually on the new tab page of Chrome? I'm seeing people say it involves AMP somehow?

Google should have 1) showed the context in which these show up and then 2) showed a snippet of code or metadata or whatever it was that made it work for some particular site, and then I feel like I would have gotten it; instead they threw up some marketing site that fails to answer even basic questions about what they are doing :/.
It was worth it for me.

I spend lots of time learning the tools I use for work (database systems, departmental protocols, client interactions) and having a better personal productivity tool is at the center of everything I do. It's worth months of heavy investment in the long run.
"A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial."

So it's less HIS definition than the actual definition.
I was thinking of specialists within the same specialty disagreeing. Read that way it is a contradiction but it’s now clear that’s not what you meant. I feel the point still stands!

When I read your first reply I hadn’t considered specialists in different specialties disagreeing on the same problem or issue. But that seems to further bolster my point, at least as it relates to the distance between common sense and specialized knowledge.
https://DiscoFlip.com is what I published most recently (planning to do a Show:HN next week after couple bugs are ironed out). The other ones have been taken down over time.
I just wish some of the downvoters would give their reasons. To me, the Starship project is unusually prone to safety incidents, which tells a lot about organizational culture.
It's a guideline, not a mandate.
They rejected it because the experience was garbage not because it was open. My least favorite part is constantly manually pruning open apps to fit in tiny memory.
Brave is doing what we hoped Mozilla would do.
I'll stick to my wired Sennheisers. They sound absolutely excellent, cost less than half the price, look sexy, and will work essentially forever.
I haven't kept up with Brave, is there a totally ad-free option yet? I mean, I pay money, and you don't show me ads. At all. My attention isn't for sale, and I want a company that will let me pay to make sure that's the case. Does this hit that mark?
Personally I think this is a really funny post. Kinda surprised how many comments seem to be taking it seriously.
I expect they'll be indispensable for me. Their first commercial explicitly calls out my segment and it was so nice to see that — Apple is perhaps the only tech retailer who considers my segment to exist at all. I'm really glad that Apple realized that I'm a market worth targeting with these. I can't wait for them to arrive.

(It's too easy to take apart and contradict and argue someone's specific personal circumstances as invalid/wrong/unjustified. That would only worsen my life, as I'm living those circumstances, so with apologies I'm not going to share the specifics of my segment for inspection and debate.)
How old are your kids? Do they all have the same mum?

ETA: you are not my ‘nightmare’. You are however a social anamoly in this day and age. it is unlikely that our paths would have ever crossed except on this little online outpost.

I come from a very large multi generational family totally (at times) 15 members. I am also from a country with a 1+ billion people and am aware how quickly exponential population growth will eat through the resource pile. I was able to migrate to America. Where will your children and grandchildren go? It’s already a crowded and resource dwindling world out there. However, I do have a dim view of single carrier of source DNA populating and sucking up resources over multiple generations that is meant for the entire species.

There are many rural families even in the USA who have double digit children and I understand the pros and cons. The pros only benefit your family. The cons hurt the whole community. This is called a win-lose situation.

Unless of course, you belong to a cult/religion that encourages this and then I am interested in hearing more about why you made a decision to have 13 children.
I'm 38, and very lonely lately (not just COVID) and seeing that "time spent alone" increases starting at age 38 really makes me depressed.
I think if a device is a professional tool, as in a studio monitoring headphone one would wear while doing music production or mastering, it's not obscene. That said, these have no such use case, the lack of a wire means: a) latency that isn't acceptable, and b) inability to master with high sample rates.

These definitely are in the "gadget" rather than "tool" category, and while there may be worse things to spend money on, or better ways to distribute wealth, I won't disagree that these headphones belong in the same category as Gucci handbags.
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I generally agree that these discussions are tedious because of fanboys, but consider this: If SpaceX fans/employees didn't have an unreasonable amount of optimism, then SpaceX never would have put anything into orbit in the first place. If they weren't such fanatics, they would have given up 15 years ago before even trying.
It was literally provided below, and you equivocated by saying "well, THAT wasn't a summary execution!"

Which was entirely predictable.
I don’t think you’re getting my point. Democracy does not, can not, or ever be based solely on the written laws of a country. Democracies rely just as much (and more) on the norms of power sharing and loyal opposition as they do on laws around elections and who is allowed to vote.

Citing evidence that a party is intentionally destroying norms just underscores my argument.
> Forcing other to wear mask has its consequences too.

Like lower death rates and being able to reopen everything more completely and earlier?
At the same time, out of the rest of the new super-heavy launchers under development, New Glenn, Vulcan, SLS, Ariane 6, and Long March 9, none have flown. Yenisei is expected in 2028.

Meanwhile, SpaceX continues welding sections of their new rocket in tents in the Texas brush land, and days ago performed one of the most impressive tests in recent memory.
> For example the layman has been told women are paid 73 cents for a dollar for the same work, and people constantly vote to raise women’s salaries based on the assumption it is true, because TV said so. Yet programmers who use spaces instead of tabs are paid 20% more, showing that even the slimmest external variable can double one’s salary, not even talking about internal variables.

It's worse than that, because the media keeps saying "73 cents per dollar for the same work" when, first, the current number is 79 cents (73 cents is out of date), and second, it's not for the same work, it's overall across all jobs. For the same work it's around 95 cents, which is within the margin of error.

Basically, the "wage gap" doesn't even exist.
I have a childhood friend who helps his father run a family business and lives on the corner of the family farm. His wife left him about a year ago, because his mother wouldn't give them a moment alone and was constantly letting herself into their house. These folks had a fairly traditional life and multi-generational family structure, but his mother suffocated their marriage. Had nothing to do with their engagement with markets.
It's bad taste especially that it was used as a means to drive controversy and the song was basically constructed around the title also. But it is not about killing, instead one of the band members stated that "Virgin Killer is none other than the demon of our time, the less compassionate side of the societies we live in today—brutally trampling upon the heart and soul of innocence." [0]. Apparently the Band regrets it today and there's more background info and apparently there was a big Wikipedia shitstorm in 2008 about removing the artwork or not which led to some sort of edit ban in the UK [1].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100509235302/http://www.roadru...

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer#Artwork
Depends on what your needs are. For example if you are working on a team, Vercel* automatically deploying feature branches is extremely useful. Pushing a new blog post to your personal site? FTP is probably fine.

*Can't speak to Meli as I've never used it.
SpaceX set to roll next Starship to the launch pad days after SN8 crash landing
'Cloud-space' seem to be making use of hibernate to some acclaim (e.g. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Hibernat...)
Yes, but without a wire you can't achieve ultra-high sample rates or do studio mastering, so these are pointless for the high-end. Source: currently own six pairs of professional headphones.
I've rented a lot of homes with VRBO and never had any bad experiences. In my use-case I don't see what AirBnb offers over VRBO.
I’m interested. I may not have the most relevant background, though — I’m a data scientist with an econometrics education. The topic really does interest me, though.
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Neat, I'd never heard of it. It does look interesting!
Not an admirable example: a genetically determined group who are given special extrajudicial powers of life and death and their own legislature and courts simply due to an accident of birth.

The Harry Potter books mix this same trope in with a dash of Kipling as they look down upon and try to be paternal towards the mass of “Muggles”. Revolting!

Not something I would be willing to support, myself. Though its popularity might explain (be a symptom of perhaps) the support for certain political parties around the globe.
Me too. Life-changing. The smell permeating the house just as you're waking up is wonderful.
And it's a surprisingly common thing. Some women in my family have had huge fights with their moms because of stuff like this.
I think you missed my point. I'm saying that solid state batteries are decades out to be commercially viable. And one indicator of how far out is their lack of existence in day to day items like phones. The reason why you want to pay attention to that is because for batteries, big batteries are just small batteries joined together. So if you don't even have a small battery, like in a phone, on a commercial level, the big ones, like for an EV, are nowhere near mass commercialization. Sure you can make a couple of cars a year and sell them for 200k, but that's nowhere near the rosy picture the article posts. My bet, we don't see any mass commercialization in this decade.