skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had a chuckle at Immortal's Battles in the North album cover, please watch the video for The Call of the Wintermoon [0], which was on their first album, Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism. I'm convinced they knew it was hilarious

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBdAY8eA9w
Why would Chrome OS be considered an alternative to Linux? The only thing in common seems to be the kernel running somewhere under the hood.
What Can Different Cultures Teach About Boredom
Google's culture is flexible (employees are encouraged to work when they like and how they like), fun (offices have nap pods, video games and ping pong) and founded on trust. ... Numerous micro-kitchens dotted around the Google campus are one way the company helps to bring people together.
It's going to be interesting to see how this develops. Will they include their eventual cellular chip on their SoC? Will they then include that in Apple Silicon Macs (highly doubt this one, as nice as a cellular-enabled MacBook would be)?

I'm expecting some decent improvements in efficiency, both in power usage and data transfer, whenever they get this spun up.
They were public about it back when they announced it, which was early in the pandemic.

This certainly ought to be approved, but they acted quickly and publicly to shut down disinformation in iOS apps.
I've just had a look at Newsy and it seems great, really good work. Have put it on a domain I've had knocking around, and am seriously considering putting it on another.

One thing, the Monetize help link doesn't seem to be working. Going to 'https://help.newsy.co/monetize' results in 'A slightl problem, let us check.'
Given that UK is not able to keep its word for more than a year (internal market clause), it is sensible for EU to not trust whatever promise the current PM is making.
You have to pay $200 and send an application to the Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms. It takes 8 months to a year; they will do a background investigation and send you an approval form if you pass. Then you can purchase the (used) machine gun. Fully automatic weapons are not currently manufactured in the U.S.

Florida, in particular, has banned machine guns like the AK-47 which is to say weapons that fire multiple bullets with one pull of the trigger.

Semi-autos are the dominant technology in firearms; when a bullet is fired, the energy released forces a fresh bullet into the chamber, ready to fire but you must pull the trigger again. This is known as "semi-automatic" and is legal everywhere, for now.
Why do people still use sleep? The lowest power saving modes are basically so great these days I can at least a couple of days out of them without any configuration whatsoever...

On Windows many newer laptops don't even use actual "sleep" modes but rather simulate them with lower power active modes. Linux' problems with traditional sleep modes are only going to get worse as a consequence since manufacturers are going to abandon them. I'd stop using them ASAP.
Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity
Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
Sleep is merely a few commands away. What's to complain about?
Did you not read about all of the credit card debt they racked up to keep the company afloat, before they had applied to YC?
Programmers have no idea.
The point is to make it sound like you're in a 5.1 home theater so if you turn your head you should hear different things.
The pace has already slowed down significantly, and will continue to do so.

The RFC for GATs was opened in 2016. It's still not clear when this is hitting stable Rust yet.
No? I’m arguing that I can’t stand up to Facebook or Google at all, but Apple can.
Careers in Formula 1
Nah. This decade is different.

Everybody will cut a lot of emissions. The economic interests point on that direction.
Libtards strike again, trying to erase history. What about Israeli flag ? What about CCP flag ? DOJ needs to come down on them hard.
A bunch of people have tried this over the years, they don’t get used, and the maintainers give up.

(Also, this would not assure that only one version is used of a dependency.)
There's both more and less news. Yes, I can now access all sorts of news worldwide which would have been difficult or inaccessible in the print era. But the newspapers in smaller markets are either disappearing or have greatly reduced capacity. It's much easier for me, in Kansas, to read about the current political struggles surrounding Brexit than it is about whatever my rural county is doing. There are rumors of corruption here. Certain decisions which are completely idiotic. But there's no one investigating. No newspaper or television willing to cover it in any detail. It's a black hole.

My situation isn't unique. This is the reality across much of the US. Not just the rural areas. There are many cities where cutbacks mean the local press doesn't cover the cops or the city council as much as they did in past decades.
I'm not sure entirely, but IIRC it uses a chip to position the headphones spatially. Without the chip, the headphones wouldn't know which direction to set as "north" even with a gyroscope. Found link: https://locatify.com/blog/what-is-the-new-apple-u1-chip-and-...
Penny Arcade is considering running ads again partly because, as they put it, "I seem to have found somebody that won't serve weird scripts to readers, which has the scent of progress."

They go on: "Because I hail from another era of Internet publishing, there are certain classes of ads that I'm uncomfortable with - of course, these are the most lucrative ones.". Hence the bind less profitable websites find themselves in.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2020/12/09/gods
That's a lot of words and symbols for some not-very-impressive lower bounds. I present hnuser123456's function:

f(n)=n (n Knuth up arrows) n

Coming back to Rayo, my number is instead f(10^100) rather than Rayo(10^100), and given the series of lower bounds presented in that article, this should easily dwarf that, unless Rayo's will end up growing Knuth arrows faster than linear. I'm not smart enough to evaluate that though. If it would, wonder if this would beat it:

f(n)=n (n Knuth up arrows) n (n Knuth up arrows) n

Or n copies of n Knuth up arrows...
Windows still does sometimes. I've had two different windows 10 machines constantly wake themselves up (one was at at 1am!) regular as clockwork because a scheduled task you couldn't turn off had gone bonkers.

My laptop still has problems with a .NET "optimization" task you can't remove that basically thrashes the disk constantly erroring for x86 assemblies I don't even use. I ended up replacing the program with an empty one, but every year or two it restores the broken program.

I know it's back when my fan starts trying to take off like an aeroplane. I tried figuring out which .NET assembly was causing the problem, but in the end it was easier to just replace the offending program.

The most annoying part of that process is that you can actually remove the task, but windows would then see it was missing within a few days and add it back.
anyone that sells a linux on top; failing that its a crapshoot which mostly depends on developer popularity of that model / devices
one or two Dell models, the aftermarket "Linux Laptop" vendors, maybe a sliver of others

Lenovo also certifies ThinkPads for Linux:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...

Newer (?) ThinkPads even have a firmware option to switch between the default sleep state and one that is more compatible with Linux.
Sagemaker Clarify is the most important re:Invent announcement
Actually, my T480 on Ubuntu 20.04 drains battery drastically while “sleeping”.

I believe it isn’t hitting S3, but I haven’t done too much troubleshooting.
Almost every single one of your comments has had a negative slant, whether it's condescending, conspiracy-theorist, or just downright rude.

If you consider 600k subscribers to be paltry, perhaps you should focus your efforts on YouTube and leave the Hacker News community.
When frequent contact with parents is stigmatized after certain age, which it is in USA, then old people get lonely as they age and their contact with children will go down ...
Typical retailers have around 20% to 40% gross margins and about 6% net margins (on average). Even grocery stores (the sector with the thinnest margins) do better than 0.5% at around 2% net margins on average.

Large retailers can easily afford to to build good technology. The problem for them is not one of financing, it's culture. Most retailers, even "luxury retailers", have a deeply engrained culture of being extremely frugal. I once worked servicing that sector and recall visiting a higher end jewelry retailer. The store area that customers can see was very posh and slick. But step into the back office and everything was dingy and run down. This sort of thing is a conscious decision on their part.

Most of these firms will NOT pay top dollar to hire the best talent even if they could afford it. Most do not understand software development even a little bit. Most do not understand the role of technology for anything other than record keeping (at best). But (usually) they're not run by idiots either. So when they recognize these issues and try to isolate the "online" retail from the rest of the firm (e.g. Walmart), it creates a substantial amount of friction and rivalry. I've seen it first hand and, sadly, there is no simple solution.
The Veteran Spyplane Too Valuable to Replace
I really enjoyed the testing library when I used it. I recently came back to it and felt like they removed a lot of the documentation that I liked about the library. I'm not quite sure why they did, but it was very helpful to see their examples for integrating with common third party libraries.
There is always someone who is worse off than you are. If the rules say you are sufficiently disabled to get accommodations, you are. You don't abuse the system by following them.
Yes. The core reason that linux is horrible in this area is that so few people care about sleep functionality. Sleep was developed when turning on/off a windows computer took minutes (boot, antivirus self-scan, updates to xyz, reboot, scan again etc). A modern linux machine boots in seconds. So the usefulness of sleep/hibernate modes on desktops/laptops has shrunk.
>This isn't how it should be...

What makes you say that?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been accused of conspiring with the Italian health ministry to remove a report revealing the country’s mismanagement at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic – the publication of which was intended to prevent future deaths.
Building an app for doc management. Does the pitch resonate with you?
That's too low. I usually tip my customer service reps 25% of whatever they save me.
I sort-of disagree. Maybe for just browsing hn in general you’re right. That changes when you engage in a conversation with someone on a thread.

also, i don’t really believe in the idea of the “monkey brain”. our brain is both “hardware” and “software”. The tooling we are using is an extension of our brain.
It's a click-bait title, though it is true they haven't been paying rent, or partial payments across the country. This is what happens when private equity buys up your business and sells off real estate assets to optimize the balance sheet.

It is one location and the 15 year lease expired over a month ago:

HBC signed a 15-year lease, expiring Oct. 26, 2020, with the predecessor of the current landlord for the store at 6950 North Island Highway, Dover Pointe’s court document said.
Any plan that is to be implemented by the next political leader to run your country is worthless. It has negative value, because the existence of the plan is used to prevent current action.

What are you going to do IN 2020 to reduce emissions? What are you going to do in JANUARY 2021 to reduce emissions? What are you going to do in FEBRUARY 2021 to reduce emissions? These are the only important questions. The answer to each is "nothing".

"The next political leader to be elected in my country will definitely reduce emissions" has no meaning.
30k in Swedish krone?
Thanks for sharing! Never heard about Vornoi Diagrams before..
Platforms like FB are just a tool for abuse in your example. If not for FB it would just take place on different platforms or through different channels. This is the price we pay for an interconnected world, killing Facebook will not save "democracy" - whatever that is.
And so is the free market. What you're seeing is just how unrestrained Capitalism works. Businesses respond to market pressures and implement features/constraints based on what their customers want. In this case, Twitch has made a business decision that advertisers/users want this stuff off of the platform; and honestly as a user, I do want that stuff off of the platform. I want to be able to read Twitch chat without being subjected to racism.

But that's always been how Capitalism has worked. That's why people get concerned about excessive privatization and mass corporate consolidation. That's why it's not a good idea to blindly privatize literally everything. Free speech won't save you in an Anachro-Capitalist world, it wasn't designed to save you from that world.

I know that there's sometimes a perception that support for the 1st Amendment is a Conservative/Libertarian vs Liberal issue, but the irony here is that it was far-Left candidates like Warren who were pushing hardest for companies like Amazon to be broken up. Those people recognize that Twitch censorship isn't the problem, Amazon ownership of the entire streaming market is the problem.

I'm not trying to tell people how to vote or start an argument, but if you're actually concerned about private tech dominance over public spaces like communication and social networking, antitrust law should be one of the top solutions that you're looking into. A lot of the Republican solutions getting pushed through Congress right now are basically just the Fairness Doctrine v2. I don't think those people have thought through the implications and consequences of directly attacking private platforms' freedom of association.

I see a lot of people who get 90% of the way to "it's bad for a single company to control the entire market", but that for some reason haven't made the final jump to "the problem is lax laws around monopolies." If you're a Libertarian, donate money to Peertube, they're working on adding streaming support right now. If you're not a Libertarian, support sensible Democratic market regulations to make the market more competitive. And also consider donating money to Peertube anyway, just because it's the most promising federated alternative out there right now.
Just pointing out that Linux can sleep. It's not an inherent issue.
I was just about to write the same thing. Big headphones were of course the way most headphones were made initially. And it didn't matter until Sony released the Walkman allowing to have good audio in a mobile environment. For years though, they tried to make the headphones smaller, though being far away from todays in-ear phones.
I really think it was Beats what made people wear large headphones in the public.
My 2013 thinkpad on Ubuntu 20 with newest drivers doesn't wake up 1 in 5 tries.

It's frustrating, but at least now that I don't have to leave my house anymore, it doesn't matter too much!
> Portable headphones should be built to last, not just flimsy plastic.

Good plastic is not flimsy.

Polycarbonate, an almost commodity plastic, is really strong and light. The next step: composites are way better than any metal if you want a good strength-to-weight ratio. The best, most expensive bikes are made out of carbon fiber composite for a reason.

Plastic is commonly used as casing material for stuff designed for rough environments. Portable power tools, PA speakers, even guns. So if something designed to be used on the battlefield can be made of plastic, there is no problem for headphones worn, at worst, in the subway.

The only problem with plastic is that it suffers from being cheap, as in, not expensive enough. People want expensive products to be made of expensive materials.
Also, subconsciously we associate weight with quality, so much that cheap manufacturers sometimes add metal inserts to their otherwise low quality products to trick people into thinking they are better than they really are.

That it to say, unless you put a premium on look and feel (nothing wrong with that), don't hesitate to buy plastic headphones, they can last you a lifetime as long as the right plastic is used at the right place.
That doesn't mean Microsoft shouldn't be pro active

That reminds me of an interview with steve jobs, the mass doesn't necessarily know any better, the role of microsoft, apple and other big companies is to show people the impossible is possible

Speed, efficiency, fanless design without perf penalty, are a possibility, M1 is showing that to people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSg3fU9XWow
Global tech trends to watch in 2021
To clarify, the alternative to taking control of processing scene-referred data is to use camera’s JPEG rendering of its own idea of how the scene should look.
Save big-money-buy-online
as someone who also dealt with this and finally decided to just support a linux vendor (system76), i'm glad i did - the extra $$ is worthwhile & it feels much better knowing I supported an open-source friendly company
I wouldn't say that Thinkpads are immune. Was braking my brain trying to figure out, why my X230 doesn't sleep properly. Turned out, USB hard drive was causing the issue, even when disconnected. Not sure, if it was hardware or drivers, but that drive was causing issue.
I do not like to be negative and YC with PG are brilliant at what they do, but AirBnb and this self praising rubs me the wrong way.

I had only bad experiences with AirBnb and after couple attempts will never use it again. Arguably it was long time ago and maybe the company changed, but I do not think I will ever use it, because there's plenty of sites which fulfil my needs.

Problems for me with AirBnb (and their hosts) are:

- Pricing dark patterns. Fees balloon the price above the price of proper hotels.

- You can avoid cleaning fees, but then you will get filthy apartment for outrageous money. Even proper hostel would be better thing for your money then.

- No where to complain other than to airbnb itself, as hosts usually are not registered businesses.

All in all what I got from AirBnb is what they were creating - couchsurfing for money, but shittier. You pay price of a hotel, but get someones shitty couch, without socialisation, experience sharing, etc.
Do you have a good JS tutorial for beginners that meets the definitions you are proposing to compare and contrast?
You can read the exact definitions here, if you have the patience to wade through a military document.
https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/FOIA-R...

Certain military-grade rifles that are semi-auto but can also be made to fire fully auto are classified as assault weapons, officially and militarily speaking.

Civilian anti-gun activists just call anything "assault" that even looks kind of military, like a black AR-15 that might only fire .22 bullets, one at a time. By the way a .22 bullet might not stop a man unless it's a heart hit; this is why police (and bad guys) tend to use .45 or other larger caliber weapons. A .22 is quieter, less kick, cheaper ammo, and is good for killing rabbits.
I've had a couple of Dell XPS13 models over the past ~6 years. Linux on XPS13 for the most part 'just works'. Dell does ship a configuration of XPS13 with Ubuntu, and that's likely the biggest factor in its success.

Plus: it's an attractive design, tiny bezels, super light.
Uber's almost disastrous Obj-C to Swift rewrite
Scott Manley's account has the events taking place in 1959 IIRC. Not sure when they'd have been written up, but 8 years is a longish stretch.

Clearer CIA- hosted PDF confirms 1967 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25384808

Thanks.
water or cpus or gpus.....it's all the same....secondary markets only allow abuse, not 'fair access'
> They've been leading the charge on all clean energy tech so far.

No, they did not. Germany did and China profitted.
I’ve always heard COBOL devs referred to as either highly paid consultants keeping critical applications alive for corporations or wage slaves maintaining a painful app for below average pay.
Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest
The Gestapo, complete with jack boots
https://github.com/torqu3e/Bonafizy

Not really automation now with WFH but I had it hooked to a cron or tasker to turn the kettle on 5 minutes before the morning alarm goes off. Am quite proud of my ingenuity solving for my laziness :)
Did we see that? A lot of what is said by capitalist press about socialist countries is not true. If you ask an Eastern European old enough to have lived before 89, they’ll tell you a very different story.
I don't even want kids. I don't know why the 'time spent with one's children' line hurts so much, but it does. It sharply rises, before plummeting at age 40. That's got to be a jarring transition. No wonder so many folks have trouble with the 'empty nest' and mid-life crisis.
Micro ops?
Cypress uses bluebird for their promise implementation which are A+ spec. [1]

Also (nearly) every command in Cypress is a promise which allows you to make them then-able. [2]

I don't agree with using Cucumber for anything. The way most teams implement Cucumber makes it such a pain to write a test. I do like the suggestion of puppeteer tho. If you haven't heard of playwright [3] I'd look into that. From the same creator as puppeteer but was hired to work on playwright full time. They have the advantage of being to test on gecko, chromium, and webkit browsers which is really nice because IME anything Apple becomes such a pain to setup to properly test.

[1] https://docs.cypress.io/api/utilities/promise.html#Syntax

[2] https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/then.html#Yields

[3] https://github.com/microsoft/playwright
I think sleep means that the RAM is powered. This is vs hibernation, which is RAM saved to disk and everything is shut down.
It's a perfectly legitimate way for a browser vendor to generate revenue and far from the most intrusive collection of data on internet usage, but you can't honestly claim to be a privacy conscious browser that removes all tracking and fingerprinting codes whilst surreptitiously inserting codes for the specific purpose of enabling third parties to send you money based on use of your browser. The 'sorry, but we thought leaving the source code for people to scrutinise was the appropriate level of disclosure' attitude doesn't exactly inspire confidence they won't make a worse 'mistake' next time either.

If you really want to avoid being tracked, you probably want a more robust solution than simply choosing the browser vendor that's least honest about its monetisation strategy, and you're particularly unlikely to want to be getting browser history based feed recommendations from your browser vendor's CDN anyway
Last I knew, they did not support hibernate.

I understand it's not quite the same thing, but it means you either need to turn it off, or charge it every week, even if you're not using it.
Agreed. But a silver lining of the pandemic is that my wife is now my office mate. As a result, we've spent the majority of most days together over the last 8 months and I could not be happier!
The author knows they can legally answer yes, but is considering whether it is worth it to answer yes.
I would kill to get a personal mainframe though. Read a story some time ago about some guy who snagged one from a government auction. Sadly they never have anything cool when I look.
But as life has continued spinning off more “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful,” extinction has acted as the flipside to evolution as our planet’s biota continually reshapes itself.
How this is a reaction humans have to problems boggles my mind. You're just giving up because they're trying a little harder to escape the law?