skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading your post reminded me of a common social conundrum among lawyers who negotiate deals.

Sometimes I will run into a businessperson, on our side or the other side, who loves to send follow-up messages, or even makes calls, demanding progress reports or turnaround times. Almost never do these messages have even the slightest effect on how quickly I get to a job, or finish it. I have a to-do list, a calendar, and a list of priorities. Their content-free follow-ups affect none of them, unless it includes genuinely new and relevant information. Very, very, very rarely does an ongoing deal slip my mind.

It may be that I was right in the middle of finishing a turn of an agreement when they interrupted me. I had no way to know their message wasn't reporting some important new development in the negotiation. Having stopped to check, I've broken focus, and will probably take longer to finish what I was doing.

But from their point of view, they're reinforced every time they send a low-effort follow-up message and see progress a relatively short time later, whether the two were causally related or not. Even if the message actually delayed delivery. This leads to yet more follow-up messages, both later in the current deal and in other deals. It leads to disappointed expectations when mashing the lawyer's button doesn't make them scribble faster.

Anecdotally, I see this most from people with strong sales backgrounds. Either way, I almost always find it worthwhile to cut it off preemptively, by making it very clear that I'm an organized professional, and not a rower in their galley. I have threatened to fire a client for putting me in their CRM for automated follow-ups. Things got much better, for both of us, from there.
I have to admit that as a youngster when an SR-71 surprise buzzed Vancouver BC circa 1986 that my first thought was that it was a UFO (flying saucer). Edge on they look very saucer like! It was only when they banked almost vertical that I could see the true silhouette.
The biggest reason I used them in production devices (and still use them at home) was the eMMC. Which made it well worth the price, even with the slow processor.

We had to work with the Balena.io (formerly resin.io) team to get full hardware support on the BealgeBone Green Wireless (wifi drivers were the biggest hangup, iirc) a few years, but they were incredibly responsive and have done a fantastic job maintaining a stable distro for these boards.

If you want a straightforward out-of-the-box experience, I highly recommend Balena.io.
It's not about clock speed per se. It's about the lowest possible energy expenditure to erase one bit of information (or irreversibly destroy it by performing a logical operation). The principle comes about from reasoning about entropy loss in said situations. There's a hypothesized fundamental connection between information and entropy manifest in physical law. The idea is that if you destroy one possible state of a system, you have reduced the entropy of that system, so the 2nd law of thermodynamics implies that you must increase the entropy of the universe somewhere else by at least that amount. This can be used to say how much energy the process must take as soon as you choose a particular temperature.

This applies to any irreversible computation.

IMO, The fact that it's only 38x the minimum is MIND BLOWING.
Looks like the admit it’s not scalable and only applies to workloads that are compute heavy, but a 46x increase over cmos when redesigning with an eye for superconducting env optimizations
When I read the headline I thought this article might be about domestic terrorism in the US. When I clicked on the article I saw it it was in fact about COVID-19.
This is how I test my assumptions.
What about it? The fact that it says January 2 while the caption says it's through January 7? I'm assuming that's just because the labels are generated at 11 day increments and Jan 7 isn't 11 days away from the 2nd.
No, not too complicated, though connectors of all kinds take lots of space (both physical space and routing). Not to mention the amount of power that SATA drives might take.

HardKernel/ODroid has things like the oDroid-HC4.

Also, USB3-to-SATA isn't completely crazy to do.
The article's price of £10/bbl for whale oil in 1730 would be £2,165 or $2,952 today. WTI crude (rock oil) was trading at $53/bbl today. 40-50 bbl could be squeezed out of a good sized whale, making them worth $118k+ each.

Some more concrete numbers are here, not quite as profitable by the 1830s. Multiply by 29 for inflation.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/info/ib69-3/
Ideally this server farm would attach to a giant rock somewhere in a stable orbit and drill heat exchange pipes deep into the rock, like how we do for geothermal energy here on earth but in reverse. This whole exercise would require a nuclear reactor to be feasible both economically and engineering wise.
It says 2020 instead of 2021.
No one is going to buy the argument of "bad apples" on Parler. It was designed because the bad apples were getting regulated on your standard platform.
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That sounds cool!
I wouldn’t want to be on call when something breaks on the moon....

Astronaut DRIs?
Ten years without Elixir
Currently there are 93 Internet companies with more than 1 Billion dollar in revenue and that list growing every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa...
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Thanks for the reply. Do you think the numbers are useful though? Or just the "status", e.g. popular or unpopular, which would be a simple change.

I would personally prefer to never see the actual numbers, as I know really high scores make me feel good, and low scores make me feel bad, and in a lot of people that sort of thing drives addiction and unhealthy habits (like checking and re-checking your upvotes as some sort of personal validation). Every so often I see people complaining about their scores which suggests it does affect people more than it should.

I think one of the reasons HN is so much better than other sites is the minimalist design, including the avoidance of "engagement" (i.e. addiction) anti-features, like emojis/reactions, automatic scrolling, and personalisation of the feed. Showing the scores also falls in that category to me and should be removed.
The final label on the x-axis says January 2, 2020 instead of 2021. I assume the GP was being partly facetious
Indeed it's a tough for companies like Dropbox to compete against the Big Tech players. The proverbial you win some battles but lose the war.

On the other hand, Dropbox could've shifted more towards the enterprise customers and gained traction before the likes of Microsoft and Google ramped up their competing products. That'd have built them a better moat than being subject to the fickleness of mass consumers.
I graduated high school in 2004. It constantly amazes me how far we've come.

Back in the 90s, CDs were the height of getting music. 1 disk would carry around 24 songs. That's it. The internet was accessible, but limited to around 56kbps on a desktop. Mobile data wasn't a thing. Texting wasn't a thing. Cell phones were barely a thing, but coverage was practically non-existent.

Most people got their media only from broadcast stations. You had radio, television, and the newspaper and that was pretty much it.

The fact that data is available pretty much everywhere is incredible. Even in the last 10 years, we've went from data being only available in the cities to being able to stream video in all but the most remote parts of the US.

On top of that, something not really appreciated by the general public is just how good codecs have gotten. It is INCREDIBLE what can be done with the same amount of bandwidth we had in the 90s. AV1 + Opus can very nearly stream SD content at 56kbps! 1Mbps wasn't enough for SD content with MPEG2 and MP3 audio. Now, 1Mbps is enough for 1080p HD content.
To the point you feel forced to use your Android phone without SIM?

I bought my android phone for less than 150€ and it does what I need (phone calls, navigation). For everything else I use a debian based distro on my laptop (in some rare case, I dual boot windows).

I really have no issues and I spent way way less than any Apple fan ever will to do basically the same thing.

Let's be honest, most people are willing to pay hefty prices for Apple's products just because of the social status they provide.
I think "a solution in search of a problem" isn't a bad thing the more it's closer to first principles. It's another meaning when the solution is farther away from first principles.
Also, if you’ve ever known someone who’s a new parent; the sheer volume of “welcome packages”, pamphlets, flyers, coupons, and free samples is staggering and clearly indicates (to me at least) that the customer value is uncommonly high.
Thanks for taking time to share your thoughts on the topic.

Totally. Now I realize that Instagram is here to stay at least for a while. Posts & stories is a perfect combination in their case. As a result we don't see as much spam in the feed like on Twitter. Want to post more? Just do stories.

Your thoughts on Discourse are also interesting. Added it to my notes. Will give it a try when there is a moment.
I've had two colonoscopies 5 years apart because in the first procedure they found and removed polyps, which put me on the side 5-year plan (every 5 years). In the last procedure polyps were also found and removed. Since at least one of the polyps removed in both procedures were benign but possibly capable of becoming malignant, the FIT test by itself is probably not sufficient for me as the only cancer screening test.
It will be interesting to see if Sia or Filecoin can compete in this tight market.
Hey: I'm sorry you are suffering so much you are thinking about taking your own life. I know your pain is real because I have felt it myself before.

I do not want you to commit suicide, please stay with us.

Please call the suicide prevention hotline and get help. Just try to talk to someone on this phone line at least once. It helped me: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Ah, that's definitely strange. A bug in the graphing software, maybe?
You said it better than me. All of the Parler-Ban-Survivors-Club posts intentionally neglect that it was their content, rhetoric and real world actions that lead to it being shown the door. And Parler was created because the people that populated it as you mentioned, were impervious to facts but would engage in endless bad faith arguments over and over again.
It's true, and it's part of the consideration. But the current mass emigration from WhatsApp seems to show that it's not as hard to jump platform as everyone thought it would be.
Unfortunately, as a smallish company, even the hint of having to deal with such a lawsuit made it the most expedient solution. We didn't have the cash to spend on something like that.
I thought the exact same thing- "The Ireland Event" being the Catholic-Protestant conflict in the latter part of the 20th century
My general rule is don't exercise stock from an early stage company because they have so many more rounds to go through that by the time you are able to liquidate them your original .3% that you exercised will be a fraction of that amount that rarely is worth it. Of course, there are exceptions.

FWIW from what I know and understand, there are different rules for shareholders of private organizations that haven't raised money and those that have which are required to register with the SEC. Anyone who raised a proper round had to file with the SEC so that changes the rules some, also the number of investors involved changes it, class of stock etc. Read your original Agreement and write the company and ask for a current standing of your equity (do not call, write). If they fail to respond in 30-45 days then I'd likely report them for failing to discharge their duties for shareholders. From what I understand it doesn't really get them in trouble but they will get a letter from the SEC stating they've been contacted with a complaint about failure to do XYZ and they have X period to correct it. Of course, IANAL and my information may be out of date with all the new changes over the past 3-5 years with the SEC.
That graph looks a lot like what California already did in December.

I'm not sure where to find Re numbers to compare with his discussed ones for Ireland. ANOTHER huge spike on top of the one that only now is starting to slow would be pretty terrible, or maybe we just saw the same thing already (new strains have been identified here, and behavior seems like it deteriorated before the holidays before getting improved after the spike).

I think it's fairly incomplete to make predictions about the US like the linked article (let alone speculation about government motivations) without discussing or comparing the current US numbers much at all. The author acknowledges that it would be a spread-out-over-time-regionally thing, but looks at aggregate country-level US data that is going to make it hard to see. The political speculation seems a bit out of left field: in the US I did hear a lot about "the winter will be tough" "it will be worse if people travel after getting fatigued with restrictions" "we can't let our guard down even though numbers are improving now". And we've heard a lot about "we need to keep an eye on new strains and such and may have to make further adjustments." Not this head-in-the-sand posture the author is describing.
Disclaimer: I'm Irish, working in tech but my hobby that gets me more of a social life is involvement with an Irish political party.

The new variant accounted for 10-25% of these new cases over the period of that spike. The spike happened two weeks after Christmas when lock-down restrictions were lifted, as planned in October, so people could have a respite after 9 months of all this. Did the government misjudge just how much people would socially interact? You bet.

But to claim that this event is a sign of things to come is to willfully ignore what Irish medical professionals (NPHET) are saying about what the root cause has been and fully buy into the government politicians attempts to cover their butts by blaming the new strain and not their own operational strategy.

Also note that it is coming up to three weeks since Christmas and new infections today is half of what it was last week already and dropping.
By now the word laser is so common that it is a just an uncapitalised word accepted by major dictionaries [1][2]. There are also inflections (lased, lasing) [3]. Nobody spells it in all caps now. Likewise with radar and soon lidar.

[1] https://www.lexico.com/definition/laser

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laser

[3] https://www.lexico.com/definition/lase
One of the features that I love about DropBox is that it's not Google. I use Google for a lot of things, but my backups of Google go into DropBox.
Possibly related:

02 Jan 2021 is a part of 2020 week 53.

I've noticed a few labeling issues caused by this calendar quirk.
> The difference in cost of producing liquid nitrogen and liquid helium is enormous.

Quick google search yields: $3.50 for 1L of He vs $0.30 for 1L of H2. So roughly 10 times more expensive.
Mostly agree, but Netflix isn't a feature just because Google and FB also do streaming. It's fair to call Netflix a product because it's something that end users actually care about for its own sake. You can pay for Netflix and nothing else and still get value out of it.

Dropbox is just a "feature" in that you can't do anything with it on its own, you need to have some other data from somewhere else to use with it.
> We don't know that Signal doesn't store data about users on its servers. Even the source code can't tell us that, because we don't run the servers.

Yes. Ultimately we have no choice but to trust trust itself.[a] That said, if the OP were a non-technical friend asking me the same question, I would respond more or less like this:

"Of all the widely used messaging services, Signal is the only one known to be designed to minimize the amount of user data needed to operate, and all indications are that they are operating as designed[b], so Signal is likely your best choice today if privacy is your main concern."

[a] http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...

[b] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25764526
It's since entered the vernacular as just "laser".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laser
Thanks to you too.
I think the idea is you have a subway that runs the length. One set of trains in both directions that are express and another set with lots of stops when you only want to go a couple of miles up the road, say to work. You wouldn't have to tunnel, just dig a ditch. Then have a park in place of the street, perhaps with bike lanes. Any cars would be parked just outside the city but still within walking distance. I personally think it's an interesting idea and hope it gets built.

Detroit is rebuilding the city around neighborhoods. The idea is you reinforce neighborhoods around the idea that most of what you need is no longer than a ten minute walk. They've built greenways connecting places to make this possible. Kind of ironic for the city of cars?
nice work. loved it!
It cannot; Apple's security policy towards third-party JITs is misguided. Such a feature is useful if you are interested in providing defense-in-depth for a JIT that you have taken effort to secure and would like stronger, hardware-backed mitigations for. The API should really be opt-in for the apps that want it–the real consumers of it are going to Chrome and Firefox.
I'm doing the knee ability zero program. Currently I spend about 40-45 mins 3 times a week doing the program. It's 15 mins warm-up with backwards walking and then about 25-30 mins of exercises. I'm sure if I was more efficient and didn't take as long of rests between things I could shave significant time off of that. Depending on where you are at in the progression it's shorter or longer. I'm not yet at the stage where I can do the patrick step-up to full ankle bend so I'm not yet doing the ATG split squat. So as you progress the time commitment gets a little longer as you meet the requirements to begin certain exercises. This time is including various stretches that are included as part of the workout and which I view as a key element of the program.

There are also additional upper-body and off-day stretching routines that you can do on off-days, but I am personally just doing yoga on off-days so I can't give you a review of those aspects of the program.
Once I got a remote office to work in, WFH got way, way, way better for me. Having a small office
at a WeWork has been awesome.

I need a lot of dedicated focus when I'm writing code, which I've spent much more time doing lately.
Having a dedicated space for this really helps. I still miss travelling and having as much time for
myself as I did then, but I also really like being able to spend more time with my wife.

(I also like having the office because I need a commute; being in our apartment all day was a huge
letdown in the past, even with walks and such.)
In other words, they fired the bottom ~ 10% of people incapable of being productive (to their definition) while working from home...
I get that this is not entirely serious, but it's easy to build a case for why muggle weaponry would not pose a serious threat to witches/wizards in the harry potter universe. the series makes several references to passive defensive enchantments. if the entire campus of hogwarts can be made almost impenetrable to hostile magical forces, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to imagine that robes could be enchanted to be bulletproof. a skilled enchanter might be able to create passive defenses against most/all conventional weapons.
Maybe a date formatting problem? I saw something similar in the past due to passing the wrong format string, and Jan 2 was the Saturday of the "last week" of 2020, before the "first week" of 2021?
The worst part was, it wasn't just the two of them. It was essentially everyone on the team aged < 30 years. As a footnote, they both ended up leaving within a year, and just in time to avoid a nice cash bonus resulting from the company being acquired.
I wonder how much of the easy access to credit in the US is simply the strength of the dollar - we keep printing more $$ but the dollar doesn't devalue as much. Add to the fact that our poor interest rates on savings accounts makes private equity investments the only means to increase wealth.
Reminds me of

GTK which stands for GIMP Toolkit where

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program where

GNU stands for GNU is Not UNIX where

UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information and Computing System

And on top of that there is a variety of software built on GTK whose names are acronyms containing a G that stands for GTK.
Hyperloop is a bad idea, at least the vacuum tube implementation. It would take more energy to maintain the vacuum than it would save by reducing air resistance.
In the real world 99.9% of people require fiat currency to obtain water, food, shelter, and the rest of the things required to keep them alive. This is actual real-world value, as opposed to the theoretical value that Bitcoin might possess some day if everyone buys into it and nothing goes wrong.
> Grow a spine, have self respect, value your time, learn from the experience.

Having read the linked post, I sincerely doubt Adam Piggott lacks a spine, self-respect, a proper sense of his time's worth, or an inability to learn from experience.
Thanks for the link, I was able to deploy my first full fledged nocode app at last!
Vanc over Montreal is understandable for weather reasons alone, but Edmonton??
I think in general you are right, however, there will certainly be sectors where it will be a lot easier to just throw it at a wall of computation than pay someone to think about it.

But architecting complex systems so that they are maintainable, scalable, and adaptable... there's not gonna be enough cheap computation to solve that problem and omit top talent for a long time.
Turkey’s personal data watchdog KVKK launches probe into WhatsApp
Did the speech alone incite violence? No. Did it, combined with his tweets, rallies, Fox News segments, etc incite it? Yes.
I can’t think of a reason it would violate any basic physical laws. Use a peltier cooler in reverse as the transducer from heat to electricity, apply to an appropriately spec’d solid state laser. Surely the devil is in the details somewhere..
https://www.google.com/search?q=ireland+covid+cases

Same graph. Happy?
> Scientific theory is about bayesian reasoning, not about proving to yourself that you're right; which is a likely phenomenon in the thinking nature of conspiracy theorists.

For that comment to be true, there would be no science without bayesian reasoning. Since bayesian reasoning differs from hypothetico-deductive, that is false.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos

There's more in better info in the original USS Nimitz UFO Incident page. But Wikipedia authors scrubbed it when they merged the pages for whatever reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Nimitz_UFO_in...
That dramatically overstates the importance of Twitter, Facebook, AWS, and technology on political campaigns. Technology matters at the national level, any maybe even at the Senate level, but below that it's a nice-to-have and definitely is not an essential.

And Georgia demonstrates that technology matters very little even in high-stakes races. One In-person contact and live phone calls (meaning that the person from the campaign is an actual person, not a recorded message) matters more than a thousand tweets, more than a thousand Facebook posts.

AWS makes it easier not to use hardware, sure, but many campaign websites are just customized Wordpress. You can run that on any webhost, or even an old laptop in the back of the campaign office.