skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all that works for you, that's mostly fine, and for the most part I don't think you should feel like you have to defend yourself. But two things:

1) Not all of us are like that. Admittedly I'm very far in the other camp: I run Linux as a desktop OS, and have done so for most of the past 20 years. For much of that I even ran Linux on Apple hardware (because I really did love their hardware), but a few years ago finally gave up due to the increasing frequency of undocumented things that don't work. But there are many of us (less extreme than I am, who would otherwise be content to run macOS and iOS) who absolutely do not buy in to a world where they don't truly own their devices.

2) There's a pervasive worry around here that Apple's approach will catch on, the end result being that full control over your own hardware and software will be a near impossibility. (Or, you'll be able to have it, but then be denied access to things like streaming media, and government and financial apps, a trade off people shouldn't have to make.) I think that's a very real possibility in the longer term, and I think the end result of that is total surveillance and a world where corporations decide what we're allowed to do with technology. And I think for this reason there can be a bit of hostility toward people such as yourself who are happy in the Apple walled garden and seem unconcerned about the future implications of this kind of computing model.

As an aside, I also reject the idea that it's necessary that the user give up agency over their devices in order to be protected from malware. A walled garden -- no matter how far away the walls are -- is not a requirement to keep bad stuff out.
> $100 each starts making way less sense when they have the same semantics as a burned optical discs for home users.

These tape-drives have 300MB/s+ of read/write speed. Sequential yes, but almost all backup tasks are sequential.

Optical has 10MB/s or so. You get more out of a 100Mbps connection to (insert cloud storage provider here), let alone Gbps.

At a minimum, a modern, reasonable mechanism for backups needs to be faster than cloud (100Mbps or Gbps), otherwise its basically worthless to the consumer. Hard drives and Tape get there, but there was no real way to improve Optical's read/write performance (outside of overengineered "jukebox" robots available to Facebook and a few other select groups), so it went fully obsolete.
Also enough time to shut down a nuclear reactor! https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/12/28/what-is-a-rea...

> A reactor trip causes all the control rods to insert into the reactor core, and shut down the plant in a very short time (about three seconds).
> The luxury isn't cooking. The luxury is being able to have a large room full of machinery dedicated to preparing meals for, on average, 2.5 people. These days, average people can barely afford living spaces as-is. That room adds to the cost substantially and is not likely to be recouped against eating out, unless eating out means eating at places that are selling entertainment alongside food.

So, my kitchen has a range, sink, dishwasher, and full-size refrigerator. It is small but it is a full kitchen. It is the smallest "room" in my apartment; I probably pay a few hundred dollars a month for it. The cost difference between cooking at home and eating out makes up for that in a couple of weeks for me.

Kitchens aren't that expensive.
A 10-year plan was presented at the beginning of the month to the federal Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/us-physicists-rally-...
One day I found a really cheap LTO-4 drive that costed $150. Interesting, but I found it was not practical despite the price and decided against it. First, an 800 GB LTO-4 tape is no longer high density by today's standard, it couldn't even hold a 1 TB HDD image, also, I still had to pay for the necessary SAS peripherals to get it working, finally, the mechanical assembly inside a 10-year-old tape drive was not something that inspires confidence for data backup... Last time I've looked up, the cheapest decommissioned LTO-5 drive still costs $1000.
I built such a cloud service; you can archive the data uploaded on our cloud storage to tape on demand, and we'll send you the tape back when requested (you basically buy the tapes once, and they're yours, no string attached). It failed to gain any traction, though.
stow needs a GUI frontend
Not a "fake time" at all, as many others here have already pointed out; but just an example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_error .
I've tried both. I was using stow before I switched to nix (on mac) and nix-darwin + home-manager. I use home-manager for everything except my vim config (I don't want to bury it in nix config and loose portability). home-manager is very nice when you want to create configuration that depends on other programs, e.g complex gitconfigs or crazy mutt setups.

I'm not sure if it's all worth it. I recently got a new machine, and it sure reduced the pain of setting it up. But I get a new laptop every four years or so. Bike shedding is fun.
Even just as a desktop markdown editor, Obsidian definitely delivers. You point to a folder with your files and that's it.
If you put * in the gitignore file you don't have to deal with ignoring the downloads directory. When you want to add a new file / directory just add the -f flag (git add -f) and everything else works as normal.
I think people are misconstruing what I am saying here. I said marvel at it. It's crazy that a handheld battery powered device has one of the greatest processors in the history of human existence in it.
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What happened with python support? Is it coming back or just dropped?

> 2013 - First Python implementation, known as “Fuck Everything”.

> Buttplug v1.0.0 is available in the following flavors:

> Rust – Crates.io, Github

> C# – Nuget, Github

> JS/Typescript (via WASM, Web-only currently) – NPM, Github
I don't think you could have a $3500 a month LVT for an apartment that rents for $3100/mo, because the land value is not fixed.

Put another way, I think the main thing that is going to take hit as the LVT % increases is not renters or landlords, but the land value itself.

A piece of land that rents for $3100/mo may have landlords willing to pay $2000/mo for the land so they can break even after construction, overhead, etc. Absent any taxes, maybe they could pay the whole $2000/mo in interest on a loan to buy the property. As the amount of land taxes increases, the budget to make the loan payments decreases, which should reduce the property value (since the same logic should apply to all the potential purchasers).

It gets more complex once you add land speculation but I think the core logic remains the same - instead of being willing to pay $2000/mo for the property the developer might be willing to pay $2200 anticipating a speculative land return (without LVT, so higher property values), but that shouldn't change in general the market rental rate or if construction is viable, so I think the main difference with or without LVT would still be the land values.
There could be other reasons than them being financially unsophisticated.

Could be that people with lower net worths are less comfortable risking what little savings they have on investments.

They may also need more liquidity in case of emergencies. Wealthier people can generally afford emergencies without going into their investments.
Sure, make that argument after it's down over a 2 or 3 year period. Not before
Architecture of the Game Boy Advance
Yes, that has been my plan for a while. But due to low memory on older systems, you can't upgrade to the newest versions of MacOS.

I had just assumed they were not user upgradeable. So knowing now that they are, I'll have to take a look again.
Better spellcheck. My Google keyboard still doesn't recognize COVID as a word, and I don't know how to teach it. I have screenshots too of Google docs giving red underlines to simple English words. I expected spellcheck to be far better by 2020. Perhaps incentives haven't been aligned.
Did you not even read the excerpt? It depresses the real value of labor wages. That is almost definitionally the poor.

Consider: You are spending 90% of your wages on day to day expenses and there is 2% targetted inflation. You have lost a whopping ~20% of your margin of survival (100%-90% == 10% -> 100% - 91.8% ~ 8%). If you are spending 20% of your wages on day to day expenses and there is 2% targetted inflation, you have lost closer to 2% of your margin of survival. It's much easier to find lifestyle changes or, more likely, shift your investment balances that will keep you prospering in the "wealthy" situation.

And, before you say "wages keep up". No they don't, otherwise the policy of using inflation to prop up employment doesn't work via the policy mechanism. Definitionally.

> they have debt > savings

You haven't been poor, have you? The wealthy are truly the consumers of low-interest debt. You can't do things like trade forex, place margin stock trades, place options, etc, so fluidly except in a low-interest rate, debt-fueled economy. These debts are awesome because the nominal payback is diluted by real loss in purchasing value. By contrast, the poor are consumers of high interest rate debt. Sometimes even in the annualized double digit regimes (sounds really bad, but this is usually short-term, on the order of weeks to months loans, so only slightly bad). These financial instruments are NOT substantially ameliorated by inflation. If you are in debt and poor, you are not waiting for hyperinflation to make it easier for you to pay off the repo man.
I wonder how brick adds up?
So the big win with functional programming is easier testibility and fewer hazards when trying to multi-thread your code.

With test-driven development is it not the case that you are forced down the path of making your C++ code testable anyway?

With multi-threading, there are numerous strategies to achieve this within C++ without blowing your foot off. Takes dicipline I know.

Basically what I'm saying is, if functional programming is so great, why did LISP et al not take over the world? (Not a LISP hater, just curious).
>The comment for the take method claims that put and take can be called be concurrently with each other. But both call get() on an UnsafeCell.

They can be called concurrently with each other, but the call to `UnsafeCell::get()` is guarded by an acquire-release latch for precisely that reason. This is already explained in the article.

>I'm scratching my head on the syntax. There is no read() method on MaybeUninit. Also, the type passed to the write() method is wrong. I need to clone this and see if I can compile this.

read() and write() are functions of `*mut T`, which is what is returned by `UnsafeCell::get()`
The Decline of IBM
That's why you have profiles, nobody expects the base spec to take over the desktop world. However, RV64GC is a perfectly fine base profile for desktop computing.

Its not yet complete and eventually for desktop a more extended profile will be needed, but that profile will be the standard that all open source distros will build around, just as now RV64GC is the standard profile.

I don't understand why you even think the base spec should cover all things need for desktop, that was never the intention. In fact it was exactly not the intention.

RISC-V ecosystem explicit goal is to work form the smallest embedded core, to the largest super computer.
I also do this. I would highly recommend doing it otherwise you may accidentally commit your ssh keys or other secrets.
I'll rewrite parent's statement to apply to timers and stopwatches:

> Any sensible time handling solution will round off toward the starting value.

So a stopwatch won't display "1" until a full second has elapsed, and will look like this for five seconds: "0...1...2...3...4...5!"

A timer won't display "4" until a full second has elapsed, and will look like this: "5...4...3...2...1...0!"

In the stopwatch case, the display shows "0" for 0.999 s; in the timer case it'll show "1" for 0.999 s.
I once thought about contacting Ableton to offer my assistance in taking their DAW to the cloud so that we can have collaboration, version control and publishing in one place, to sort of marry Ableton Live with Soundcloud. I would love a service like that.
My grandfather went into a Skilled Nursing Facility briefly last year. They had TERRIBLE wifi and we ended up getting a Verizon Hotspot so he could check his email.
He didn't have any desire to play games.
Of note, the therapy department has a lot of low tech games and might actually have a budget for tech assisted therapy.
Placebo effect: how can knowing you’ve taken a treatment improve your condition, without having actually taken the treatment?
Tunnels. Even with Boring Company I think they are being underinvested in. Can completely revolutionize cities once the cost drops. More green space. Eliminates air, noise and light pollution. No more unsightly telephone poles and wires. Reclaim prime land for other uses.
No, that's a facile understanding. The loot-and-plunder style colonialism has given way to a unique variant that the US practises. It's not quite "take their resources" like the British Empire and friends did.

See Japan, a de facto US vassal state after WW2 and what they've grown into. Similarly, Korea and Israel. Also, Germany and France. They are just smaller participants in an alliance.

United Fruit style things still happen but the dominant style of US hegemony is different from VOC or EIC style imperialism.
It's cut and paste from a document I found from 2007. I don't think the text made it into official documentation at the time.

Subject : Draft Council Decision on the implementation of Decision 2007/…/JHA on the stepping up of cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime

[PDF] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

https://www.eumonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvik7m1c3gyxp/vi7jgt6y7...

[PDF] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
What judge signed the arrest warrant, and why are they still a judge?
I've never heard a drone even close to as loud as my neighbor's motorcycle but it's legal to drive that any time.

I have a small DJI Mini 2 drone and it's pretty much impossible to hear over the street noise in my neighborhood if it's more than about 50 feet up in the air.
That's it. The majority of these jobs keep the lights on and are very difficult, but the pay is not commensurate to those characteristics. It should be, but it's not.

That, consumerism, and the narrative that this country is mostly a meritocracy serve as effective barriers to people moving out of their socio-economic positions even if they are talented, hard working, and so on.
> I don't recommend backing up to HDD's. They are prone to early failure from portable use because of vibration and drops.

Your backup device should stay at home, on the desk or in the closet where you hide your networking equipment. There's very little benefit to trying to carry around your backup device with your laptop on a regular basis, and if you do, you still need another backup device that isn't going to get stolen at the same time as your laptop.
I wonder how many RFIs have been noted to be in the 982Mhz band, especially given we don't know how to transmit at that frequency?

> “We don’t know of any natural way to compress electromagnetic energy into a single bin in frequency” such as this one, Siemion says. [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-dis...
Basically a social network app, with calendar events, and without the ability to post (because interaction has to be done IRL)?
Also speaking as a recruiter. We often get ghosted by candidates.

As an industry, recruiters (myself included), need to do a better job managing rejection. But it is not as simple as name and shame.
I could counter those points but that is....pointless when the other party has no interest in entertaining the possibility that they have any merit, regardless of evidence.

The tl;dr is that a belief system that focuses on all the good stuff happening after one dies does a disservice to the people (but serves their masters well).

This is the only holy scripture we need: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

God bless!
No, and yes.
Yes, because I'm gullible for thinking that China is enslaving millions of ethnic Uyghurs...
> Six months is an eternity in the world of technology, ya know?

That's not even true in research, let alone production-ready deployment at scale.

Just because there might be a paper out that pushes SOTA by a few percentage points, doesn't mean there's a halfway usable product behind it as well.
Maybe 4°C+ climate change is how we'll maintain humanity under 500-million in perpetual balance with nature? https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/scientist-warm...

> “In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something — namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people,” said Dr. Schellnhuber
My packages already show up looking like they were dragged behind the truck. I can't imagine what they'd look like if they got fired out of a rail gun.

In real terms, I'm doubtful that the majority of people's goods would withstand that kind of rapid acceleration. Consumer electronics frequently break from hitting the floor, a rail gun would probably shred them. You could accelerate more slowly, but then you need more runway, and you might end up building a skyscraper anyways to get a delivery radius that's more than half a mile.
I don't mind my printer. I buy refurbished/off-brand cartridges and they work pretty well.

The real question is, can it actually be done more cheaply (commercially)?
I found https://insightmaker.com/ which looks quite capable and polished.
Mature adults should be able to take criticism without getting butt-hurt about it. The real world can be mean and nasty and sometimes you need a wake-up call that you're being silly or screwing up.
I wish that would happen, too. Cynical answer for why it doesn't: buyers and sellers are in an antagonistic relationship, so it's not easy to optimize value for both simultaneously. Realtors are the middlemen who derisk both sides of the transaction, raking in money in exchange. They have the money, they have the tools.
but then Garmin couldn't charge you $5000 for another radio.
How to mount macOS APFS disk volumes in Linux
No, but this does sound interesting. The graph overview is lovely.

I am hoping for something that treats pen input/ white boards as first party and have text take a back seat.
Paaper is still pre-print so they might be waiting for reviews to complete before releasing the code.

The joys of peer review.
> Public shaming

Good to see lynching is still in style. Not even a pretence of allowing for good behaviour and rewarding that.

It's of course impossible to tell when people are lying since people don't apply for enough jobs to get a reputation that accounts in yelp etc get. All of which are still gamed anyway.

Lynchings after WW2 below - Perhaps they deserved it, and after so many dead what does it matter, but I intuitively feel like lynchings are bad and the way OPs web site is trying to solve the problem is far better.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/french-female-collaborator-...
Check out the glamorous toolkit https://gtoolkit.com/
Oh sorry yeah that’s not super clear in that explanation. There’s a “buttplug” package on pypi (see also https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug-py) now that can be used to access an external server (like intiface desktop: https://intiface.com/desktop) but the plan is to make direct links to the rust library to give things more flexibility. That’ll hopefully be done in the next month or two.
Well, advertising is usually billed to advertisers as a cost-per-thousand (really, cost-per-mil, or CPM) for impressions. For a small local news site, they'd be super happy to get a $10 CPM on a local online ad. So let's just say for fun that we'd get the same rate for the hypothetical 'Spotify for news' service. Say a locally focused article about the latest city council meeting gets 20,000 views. At a $10 CPM that only generates $200 (or $0.01 per person). Does that seem like enough revenue to cover the time it took the reporter to attend the meeting, write up the story, have it proofread/edited, and then posted online and printed and still make a profit? Probably not!

The sad part is that the $.01 per person rate is way, way higher than what Spotify apparently pays out (around $0.006 to $0.0084 from some Googling).

This starts to look better if you just go to something like $0.25 per read, but at that rate you're likely charging much more than it would cost to buy a print copy, or a per-day subscription rate, so i'm not sure the economics would work out there either.
> In a democracy, isn’t having an educated citizenry enough of a return?

idealy one would think so, but the issue is we have paired our democracy with economics that demand compound annual growth, and where the money goes, so follows everything else...
I feel like your numbers for google are wrong, or at least they look a lot more rosy for candidates, but I couldn’t find anything concrete. Google apparently have ~3 million applicants a year and hire 0.2%, or 6000 people, though I would guess that the chances for an average HN reader would be better than 1 in 500.
I did this for a bunch of government sites many years ago. It was amazingly simple and completely transparent to the user. No passwords. No auth cookies. No registration. Developers don’t even have to know about it. My understanding is that it’s still supported by every major browser. I’m not really a web programmer though; just stepped in on a lagging contract and it seems like the best solution.
This article always resonates with me a lot, since I'm pretty definitely part of tribe three but constantly feel inferior to members of the other two tribes.
Human longevity goes hand in hand with making our lives better. You don't make people live longer without drastically reducing diseases and healthcare costs whilst also greatly increasing the lifetime earning potential. Human longevity is one of the most important things we can be focusing on.
A way for a company I interact with infrequently to identify me over the phone. Pin codes and secret questions are easy to forget when they can literally go years without being used. What was my favorite movie when I setup my ISP account in 2016? This leads to customer service reps that are too forgiving and are easily susceptible to social engineering.