skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to be _too_ pedantic but the M1 macbooks are significantly cheaper than their Intel counterparts.

The M1 MBP is about 15% cheaper, which I guess might be significant to some, but isn’t a huge selling point to me like you’re making it out to be. GP was talking about a 15/16” MBP at $3k, not the 13”.
Or the weirdly mis-spelled version of "googol" that's just going to make people think "goggle" or "ogle".
I mean, I guess it depends. I have an Hour or 2 a week to game. For the past 4 years I've spent that exclusively in VR. I recently picked up some new pancake games, but I keep going back. The VR experience is so much more enjoyable to me.
I think that was intentional malice designed to get some high-bounce rates for non-amp to have something to point at for publisher. See, over there - w/o AMP you have ScArY nUmBeRs
What does that matter? We are talking about cops -- aka taxpayer-paid dudes with guns. If anything these are the folks you should want some cameras on when bullets start flying.
Big tech has jumped the shark with the 2020 election. They now ascribe to blatant political censorship and propaganda. They have monopoly power and power over our democratic process. They censor what content users get to see and what users can write for political reasons. They are controlled by and for foreign powers. I don't see how society can move forward without dealing with the big T problem now.
> Something does seem wrong about police in public not wanting to be recorded while doing their (taxpayer funded) job

For devil's advocate, there's a lot of negative feelings toward workplace surveillance, and for good reason. Having everything you're doing recorded isn't a very good feeling. It really takes away freedoms of judgement and latitude.

Whether or not you think police should have any freedom of latitude is a debate in and of itself, I suppose. I come from a city that has an apparently unusually strong track record with traditionally disadvantaged peoples (POC, homeless, immigrants, etc.) so I have very different gut reactions about police than most of the internet.
Nathan Myhrvold is also the anonymous writer behind "My First Gulfstream" [1] & [2]

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1998/10/gulfstream-199810
[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB90728999776621000
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The first article I found about this was https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2018-03-19-how-fast-is-amp-r..., which claims that AMP is actually faster in practice, probably mostly because it encourages good habits. Where are you seeing that it's not faster? This article is from '18 so perhaps there has been a change in how well AMP performs versus the baseline.

Also worth noting that we should probably judge AMP as a whole product. What if it didn't make things faster at all, but did make them predictable and amenable to prerendering? The product is AMP+Cache+Prerendering. Prerendering unquestionably gives huge speed advantages in many scenarios. If you don't have AMP, you don't have prerendering, which means AMP-as-a-product gives significant speed advantages, since it's on the critical path to prerendering. (All of this is of course predicated on the idea that you can't practically prerender normal HTML pages, which perhaps you can, I don't know. I'm just saying if that justification for AMP is correct, it shouldn't necessarily matter that HTML+AMP markup is not faster than HTML markup.)
I've been given formal warning for that, others have been fired. It made it front page of HN. I don't think that's wise advice in all cases dang.
... land true?

... fly straight?

... be useful..?
to be fair to red hat and ubuntu, those names don't have multiple inappropriate meanings
Well sure there is. Theres like 1500 reasons up front and 30 reasons per month after that.

I went the DIY route for my wife (though used a slightly nicer sunny bike - the B1805) and its a great setup (or at least she says so). The only thing you miss out on is leaderboards and 1-to-1 resistance settings.
I refer to it as the great index of humanity. what is tv/cinema but a way of capturing & portraying the many foibled forms of humanity? trying to re-distil those many portrayals out into organized, trope-ic forms? pure gold. an index of all humanity.
The 555-timer as a current-limiter seems... complicated... to think about.

I feel like an OpAmp can set a voltage across a resistor, and then a BJT transistor can be set into "current mirror" mode, and easily set the current-control needed to safely work with NiMH batteries. If you wanted 90mA or 100mA (or whatever), that seems like the most straightforward way to set a current across a changing voltage source (which a solar-panel is).
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It did plummet from about 100 books to 40 per year. For me the key was a) getting an ebook reader so I always have books on me and b) commuting instead of driving to work, that's an easy 90-120 minutes of reading per day.

The Goodreads reading goal used to help too, especially planning to write a small review with notes to myself forced me to read more actively. The pandemic lockdown has broken that though, I've lost all will to sit down and write.
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"Art" used ironically, or perhaps whimsically, is fairly common in English. "The art of being well deceived" appears in both Swift and Pope. Whistler wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
Things go in the other direction too: badge cams (and now even barrel mounted cams) have captured some chaotic moments that give a glimpse into the crazy stuff cops deal with from a crazy intense first person perspective. I think there's YouTube channels now dedicated to uploading badge cam footage.
If it was literally make-or-break for the entire platform, especially in the markets it was targeting, I’m surprised Mozilla never volunteered to subsidize or build a WhatsApp port.
> What's more important in this industry, or any field really [...], is knowing how to learn - especially at the junior level.

Here we completely agree.

> so for an entry level role I'd rather pick the smarter person who's dabbled in his own projects and is eager to learn than the CS major who's expecting to be tackling interesting CS problems all day at work - unless of course the job actually requires this which until now has never been the case for any of my software jobs.

I disagree.

Using CS problems has two advantages. The first is that it establishes a common vocabulary. The second is that it's stack agnostic.

Personal projects are great, but sometimes it's hard to tell how much help they got from the internet...

Being able to learn CS fundamentals is, to me, a bigger predictor of later performance when they'll be tasked to learn Enterprise X Custom Stack that's not really covered online instead of Well Documented Framework With 1000 Examples.
Bite the hand that fed. They are not going to get more funding by condemning philanthropist.
I agree it's mostly about the ratio of workers. It can be below for relatively short periods (a few generations maybe). But if it stays below for long periods of time, you will run into some structural issues. Like the young workers you mentioned, tax burdens, some consumer durable industries, and possibly housing/real estate.
RedHat has to permit the redistribution per the GPL. But there is nothing stating that your support contract can’t be cancelled if you do it. (I don’t have any first hand knowledge of this, just a guess).
And in other news twitch users pick some other random term to use pajoritively...

Having maintained a list like this it’s amazing the words that get banned, and it’s a potential arms race. I’m not sure how you combat the kind of toxicity that I imagine twitch attracts, and I don’t envy the engineer that has to deal with it.

As always when this topic comes up, I’m reminded to say, thanks Dang for all your efforts here.
Sure.

They are of course free to no longer be your bosses and/or shrinks though.
Bill Gates, Amazon and British Airways are backing a hydrogen plane startup
Mindset of Picking Brandable Domains
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Read the article.

>..."they have a triangular rotor inside a peanut-shaped housing. We have the opposite, a peanut-shaped rotor in a tri-lobed housing. So take everything you know about the Wankel and turn it literally inside out. They have a long, skinny, moving combustion chamber, we have a stationary combustion chamber that's nice and round...
Thanks! Did you know that it's now a 2-axis variable font, with large ranges on both width and weight? Check it out on Google Fonts.

And also thanks for the kind words about my writing. I consider education to be a pretty big part of my personal mission, and take care to write clearly, explicitly trying to minimize controversy and misunderstanding (if you optimize for clicks or number of comments, it often takes you in a different direction). And sometimes my blog posts take a long time to gestate. "The compositor is evil" was 18 months from concept to publication, 11 of which were in my private repo. It's nice to hear that people appreciate the effort.
the right to record isn't necessarily the right to publish.
Think of it as your wine-cellar, you wouldn't keep all those bottles after you've drunk them!
Ask the tobacco companies if a major national lawsuit by multiple state attorney generals can have an impact.
Same here. Things that come to mind: Rocky, the champion boxer who can "go the distance" and never gives up... the Rocky Mountains, which are, well, rocky and strong... Rocky Road ice cream, which tastes good.

A zillion times better than trying to explain what a "Suse", an "Ubuntu", or a "Manjaro" is, and that's before talking about the various types of hat-based distros.
It's sexist and spitting in the face of gender equality. It's feminism not egalitarianism.
I see a lot of excitement around the product but no idea of what service Vercel provides. Can someone explain (ELI5) or for python/django folks what Vercel does.
Last I checked, they're not drafting police officers in the US.

If it hurts your feelings to be recorded while performing your public service job: find a new job.
Nobody knows what effects long-term exposure to low, but not zero, gravity will have, but assuming that it is substantially better than microgravity, stations with rotational gravity of somewhere in the 1-5m/s2 seem like they may offer benefits with substantially lower engineering challenges.
> Windows Phone, WebOS, Meego and Ubuntu Phone all "failed" around the same time period as Firefox OS. I have a hard time laying blame solely on Mozilla there.

I've seen a number of comments on Windows Phone since then (on HN), and one and all they emphasize how much better and nicer Windows Phone was -- from a consumer perspective -- than any other phone.

What was the failure? This isn't a retrospective that makes any sense.
As the parent comment says, police are tax payer funded and hold extra power over citizens. I think that trumps them being worried about "looking like the bad guy".
I'm not sure the decision on the basis of unit sales, in COVID's 2020, is a proper metric for "mainstream".

Because VR manufacturers were unprepared for the surge in demand, things like the Quest were out of stock constantly for months. The Quest 2 is still extremely hard to find outside of crazy scalper prices or a 1-month wait if you buy direct.

Besides which, 10,000,000 seems very large for an early adopter group a anyway. I'd argue that anything selling 1million+ units has pretty much made the mainstream.

Still, that wasn't the bet, but it may very well be that demand for 10,000,000 existed, it just outstripped supply, at which point I'd say the spirit of the bet was fulfilled.
Brownout is the commonly used term for this.
> people are not thinking as much about them anymore

I disagree. I don't observe much difference in this sense, but I feel more free to be my authentic self without worrying about how that might be perceived by people who are not a meaningful part of my life.

I only recognise the meaning in "life begins at 40" since I reached it.
Not with a freemium model, which is what would make the most sense for Mozilla, IMHO.
What is it about wireless routers that makes them stop working correctly after about two years? That has been my experience. I feel like an old laptop doing the same job would last longer.
Requesting the name change to the more subtle “RoachDB”
$100k is close to twice what you make in academia unless you’re a professor.
I read that as Bug Sir, but I'm a little sleep deprived.

Apple announced MST support back during Sierra, and we still can't daisy chain on USB-C. Have to run each display to separate TB3 ports.

What I haven't tried is daisy chaining running Linux on a T2 Mac, which I don't know is possible yet. My enthusiasm for Apple's Intel-based hardware tapped out around 2014, though, so I'm calling anything pre-M1 a wash.
> And no one is going to buy a phone and reimage it.

People do this all the time. I did it with my first android phone, a Nexus S, despite having bought the phone with no intention of doing so. The Chinese crapware it came loaded with didn't really leave any alternative.
That sure is nice. Meanwhile in Croatia, filming the police is a violation of GDPR, according to Croatian data protection agency.
Workplace surveillance generally isn't surveilling someone with extra authority to end someone's life (whether literally or just putting them behind bars) and then have their word (and only their word) trusted in a court of law.

Workplace surveillance generally isn't surveilling someone doing their work in public which usually has significantly different privacy expectations.
ARM vs. x86
1. You're basing all your claims off your opinions, which should convince even less people, now that it's clear you don't accept decent evidence. As to another source, Myhrvold is likely worth less than 2B, else he'd be on the Forbes 400 for 2020. He isn't. In fact, he's also not on their real-time billionaires list, so he's likely not even worth $1B [2]. He's not on any recent lists, from Forbes or Bloomberg, all the way back to around 2000, so it's highly unlikely he is worth more than the $800M above. It's looking pretty solid your beliefs don't match reality.

I guess you can claim he has mystical money hiding powers, and Forbes is not a decent source of values, and so on, but I prefer to go on what is reasonably demonstrated. Once we start making up things, then we can believe he's worth $0, or 500 trillion, or eats kittens, or any sort of speculation.

While we're on #1, here's [1] a Forbes article on how badly IV has done - I guess you won't accept any of this either since it goes against your beliefs. However, I find Forbes much more trustworthy than a person untethered to demonstrable evidence.

Is there any place that makes you think your claims about his worth or the source of it are are true? A single source with defensible values?

2. I didn't need to address it, since it's opinion. The parts you claim as fact don't line up with published sources of info I can find. You so far post none.

3. As a professional inventor, and having done business with both IBM and IV, I'm guessing your claims are again not based on any experience or solid stats, but unfounded opinions. I've found both to be professional and good businesses to work with. I don't view either as good or evil, which is a silly type of judgment - they're both interested in turning ideas into reality.

As someone who's been around inventors for decades, around law firms representing them, around startups, again I find the rabid hate some have for IV is the same rabid hate others have/had for MSFT, or Apple, or Comcast, or banking, or restaurants, or farming, or pretty much every single company of any size. All such entities have value, which is why they have customers. It's just that somehow people that either misunderstand the issues involved start detaching from reality and believing whatever suits their narrative.

So, given that a significant number of inventors have benefited from both companies, care to define how you concluded a statement about "inventors everywhere"?

4. "Please don't attempt to deflect ..." - you mean "Please don't bother to clarify with facts when I have a narrative I need to be upset with". I was just posting some fairly checkable facts that are opposite what you claim, and since that set you off, I suspect you're not operating on facts. I prefer to get the facts straight before I go on a lynching rampage. Less mistakes that way....

I'm done. You seem wholly uninterested in learning or even looking into reasonable points counter to your solidly formed beliefs.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
I was thinking more about _why_ people want that. If you're changing the system regularly, upgrading is valuable because you don't want to spend your time dealing with old software or backporting newer versions. Most of the scenarios where you do want that are long-term commercial operations where you need to deal with requirements for software which isn't provided by the distribution, and in those cases they likely do want a support contract.

I'm not sure there are enough people left who have the “don't touch it for a decade” mindset, aren't working in a business environment where they're buying RHEL/SuSE/Amazon Linux/etc. anyway, and are actually going to contribute to the community. 100% of the people I know who used it were doing so because they needed to support RHEL systems but wanted to avoid paying for licenses on every server and they weren't exactly jumping to help the upstream.

Red Hat bought CentOS in the first place because they were having trouble attracting volunteer labor and I think that any successor needs to have a good story for why the same dynamic won't repeat a second time.
It failed... it is not able to sustain itself.

Whatever replaces it either needs a better business model (to pay for maintenance, RHEL, Ubuntu) or more community involvement (work for free, Debian). But when you’re effectively repackaging another distro, it’s probably hard to get other people excited enough to help.
General intelligence.
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(For those who don't know, Dries is the 'BDFL' of the Drupal project, and a founder of Acquia.)
> better put the effort into an extra-stable-extra-LTS fork of Debian or even Ubuntu

I've always thought of Debian LTS as basically the end all be all of Linux server OS stability (let's ignore the BSDs for this exercise), is the main draw of CentOS over that just the longer LTS period or is it also meaningfully more stable?
Realistically, isn't that the only path to a competitively priced product? What other launch provider are they going to use? Surely they can't utilize the falcon / starship as that directly funds their competitor
One has to have a theory of (public) harm. There are a bunch of them from a legal perspective, and maybe they will carry the day. They don't necessarily make sense from a non-legal colloquial perspective.

From a non-legal perspective, one of the big harms (I would argue) is in the destruction of the business model for small ad-supported publishers. Google was taking 80% of money that should have gone to them, and digital and physical publishers (like local newspapers) have had a mass extinction.

That said, out of the ashes, rises the phoenix. Substack and other subscription models owe their opportunity to Google's monopoly, and in many ways they're the mammals in this ecosystem of dying dinosaurs.
Been looking for something like this for a while, +1 for adding support for options.
The thing that makes this so interesting is that it's a 2-stroke, 3-lobe engine. The traditional wankel being a 4-stroke, 1-lobe.

I don't expect emissions to be any good since it's fundamentally a 2-stroke, which is perfect for non-road based applications. I don't think we'll see this on the road... ever.
I have no experience in the field and I would like to quickly get in it. I want to dive in with experience and I’m trying to figure out what things would get me there quicker if someone wanted to tutor me at work. What would you say are the things in your experience that are most useful to be able to contribute in a development team?
> it doesn't run an init or normal system daemons

There’s no technical limitation stopping you from running init or system daemons inside a container, it’s just an anti-pattern and missing the point of a container in most cases.
Except one time they did and it was wonderful - the N9. Then Elop came and canceled it, as ordered by the the Nokia board that hired him.
What isn’t bad ass about Brave’s Basic Attention Token initiative? At least it theory users and content creators get better compensated for their work/attention?
I think Rocky is good. CockroachDB on the other hand is an awful name. Cockroaches are only associated with filth and are revolting to most people. Plus, you got that cock in the name which isn’t helping matters. You might think it’s obnoxious that people always point out the name without considering the product but tone deaf branding is a misstep and begs the question: what else are they screwing up if they could get the brand name so utterly wrong?
Where did it go then?
There seems to be an inverse relationship with power and accountability/responsibility: the less power you have, the more accountability; the more power you have, the less accountability.
> Google had designed their browser ecosystem and usability around that update model

I don’t know why more Windows software doesn’t use Google’s approach. A low priority scheduled updater is more user friendly than update on launch, and it doesn’t kill boot times like an update on reboot.
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E-books would largely solve this problem for me but they are normally way more expensive than the used physical book to not be worth the additional cost...
What is the base knowledge you’d like to see if your boss brought you someone new and told you ”he’s going to be learning with you”?
> If I buy a laptop from Lenovo I don't get to say oh I don't want to pay for tablet development, I just want all of this money to go to your laptop division.

9HZZRfNlpR is right. Not only do you get to say this, you have no other choice but to say this. Buying a laptop sends the strongest possible message that you're giving your money to the laptop division, and not to the tablet division. If you wanted to support the tablet division, you would have bought a tablet. And Lenovo will keep very careful track of this. They may choose to cross-subsidize, but your message will be received loud and clear.