skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use your reading. In the first part of the post, he uses the same format for successive paragraphs. They're all examples of individuals who wrote in support who he is mildly baffled or exasperated by. The example prior that was on the four NYT journalists who all said conflicting things about the policy, but they did legitimately want to help, just not in a helpful way. Same with this individual, he legitimately wanted to help, but in a baffling and somewhat scary way. The "I am humbled by their support" kind of seals the deal on the irony. At the end of the post, he uses the same repetition, but for individuals or groups he is legitimately thanking.

This kind of interpretation is why we can't have nice things. Everything you read these days has to beat you over the head with their point, or caveat everything in a sad and painful way. It's the death of joy and play in writing and reading. I'm glad people like Scott can write so boldly, even fully knowing, as I'm sure he does, that the joy and play will be read in the harshest light. And I mourn for all the joy and play I'll never read because people are rightfully afraid of being miscast and mischaracterized.
In my hobby project I just have a script that pushes docker images and rsync the files (docker-compose.yml and some volume mounted things), and then sshes to the server and restarts docker-compose.
It shards it this way (by primary key ranges) to support efficient range scans.
> of all of the battle rifles designed (The big three being the AR, AK and FAL/SCAR)

To be pedantic about terminology the Kalashnikov family of rifles are generally not Battle Rifles. Of your listed examples only the FN FAL and some models of the FN SCAR are considered Battle Rifles.

Battle Rifles as a term came out in the 80s to distinguish between autoloading rifles soldiers had fielded since WW2 that weren't assault rifles. Assault rifles are defined as a selective fire rifle using an intermediate cartridge with a detachable magazine.

An intermediate cartridge being one that is more powerful than a pistol but less so than a traditional rifle cartridge. Germany pioneered, or at least mass-adopted, this concept with the 7.92 Kurz [short] round in WW2. The USSR ran with this concept - through seeing the STG-44 (German 7.92 kurz assault rifle), capturing some German weapon designers and following the train of thought of the period. This ended up with the AK-47, then later variants on this pattern.

NATO countries generally also wanted to do this, see the .280 British - the original cartridge of the FAL (and the EM-2). With one big exception - the US Army Ordnance Corps pushed for adoption of a traditional cartridge, and NATO bowed (in part as the US agreed to adopt the FAL) and everyone ended up with the full powered 7.62 NATO round.

Despite pushing for it, the US soon found out that having a high powered cartridge (and the sort of weapon that goes with it) wasn't what they actually needed, and they chose the 5.56 NATO round as used in the original M16 rifle (AR-15 platform). The rest of NATO caught up soon enough, often with platforms based of the AR-18/AR-180. This left them in the 80's with a new type of rifle that we would call an Assault Rifle but they also needed to refer to the (more) modern rifles they'd been fielding since the 2nd World War.

This resulted in the term Battle Rifle being created to refer to a self-loading rifle using a full power cartridge with a slew of (optional) features like full auto (the SLR [UK's inch pattern FAL] was semi-auto only), pistol grips (the M14 had a traditional stock) and the like. The 7.62 NATO calibre versions of the FN SCAR are generally considered Battle Rifles, whereas the 5.56 NATO versions aren't.
an unsupported assertion is not conclusive proof. we’ve seen that people have been trying to substitute in-person meetings with video calls, but that doesn’t prove any additional utility beyond a conference call.

even in educational or therapy/coaching situations, a recorded instructional video accompanied by a phone checkin likely has better outcomes than video chats.
> I have a hard time following the idea that google should use its dominant market position to force others into submission

If it's just a case of legally avoiding the new law, it's not a case of using "its dominant position to force others into submission." If they remove the smallest level of what makes them noncompliant, which in this case might be removing search outright (because otherwise they are supposed to link to and pay the news sites), to me that's fair game and not monopolistic. If they threaten to do something to unrelated things like Gmail or GCP, that's not OK.
OK I love this, but I am pretty sure my chances of getting a mac in the future are zero. From which side should I expect the PC response? Intel? AMD? Microsoft? ARM? Samsung? I think Apple willingly or not has just obliterated the whole consumer pc market.
I've got a late 2019 iMac, and it's got the same piece-of-shit camera that the MBPs do. I think (without looking it up) recent iMacs bumped the specs. It is one of my few disappointments with this machine. OTOH, my workplace doesn't use cameras on online meetings. My musical jam group does, though. And I paid about $3K for this machine, so it shouldn't even be a discussion.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like... your opinion, man.
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Not yet though. The official API doesn't support it.
> won't bother to change the wallpaper on their desktop.

I use OSX and enjoy the fact that the wallpapers are dynamic with the time of day. Any photos I'd use myself don't do that, and I don't see much of the background anyway.

(This is a far cry from the days when I remember skipping wallpaper to save on memory, etc.)
Very few data processing activities are bottlenecked by single thread performance. Similarly as memory, thread count, and storage capacities of modern servers have continued Moore's law the number of applications that can fit within the same finite cost has also improved.

In terms of efficiency, the big question is "does an incremental gain in efficiency matter for this application?" if we're talking about < 10x performance/cost change the answer will be no for most teams. Consider how many of these big data applications are implemented in python or other interpreted languages.
The single most useful thing I've built with a hobbyist board is a pomodoro timer.

I also built my own wifi speaker using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and an open source implementation of the AirPort protocol, but we've stopped using it because it was flaky and needed regular reboots. Bluetooth turned out to be (barely) less annoying.
Some of us spent a little more on the car partly in order to reduce cost of fuel not because the price of the car was pocket money.
iCloud backups contain iMessage encryption keys so the messages can be decrypted and read by Apple.
It looks like they reverse-engineered the Android client.

https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook
Grothendieck did a lot of work in areas that were built off of Riemann's work.

So, for example, Riemann came up with Riemann surfaces, which were the inspiration for Riemann manifolds. Finding ways to generalize that was a major starting point for algebraic geometry. Which Grothendieck did a lot of work in.

As an example, Grothendieck's first famous theorem in algebraic geometry was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%E2%80%93Riemann%E.... Which finds an appropriate generalization of a result originally due to Riemann in a much more limited context.

Side note. When the name Riemann appears on HN, it almost always is in reference to the Riemann hypothesis. Which is a conjecture in number theory. This might mislead you into thinking that Riemann was a number theorist. He was not. His total contribution to number theory was a single paper where he used his complex analysis techniques to prove the prime number theorem, and made his famous conjecture.

The only other context that most on HN will know the name from was the Riemann integral. Which is the main integral that most who take Calculus will know.
How hard should I push myself?
To put some numbers on this, you can measure charge rates/fueling rates as number of miles worth of charge/fuel provided per hour of charging/fueling.

A Tesla V3 Supercharger can charge at a rate of about 1000 mph or 1600 kph.

A 240 volt 48 amp home charger home charger can charge a Model 3 at a rate of 44 mph or 71 kph.

A US gas pump can pump a maximum of 10 gallons per minute. If you refill at a station with such a pump, and your car gets 25 mpg (about average for the current US fleet), that's 15000 mph or 24000 kph.

Perhaps we should be pushing for plug-in hybrid EVs (PHEVs) as a transition between ICE and EV. PHEVs have ranges between about 20 and 60 miles on electricity, which for many people is enough to cover all of their normal day to day driving except possibly their commute entirely on electric if they have a place for overnight charging at home, and when they need more range it has the ICE engine.
Yeah, gas costs a lot more here in California. I don't really commute a long distance but I do take my cars on road trips often and I'm the one who drives most often with friends (before covid anyway)
These days Chris Crawford is probably better known as the founder of the Game Developers Conference, which (as the article notes) started in his living room, and and for being a visionary game developer, but back at the peak of his fame he was known for one thing: Balance of Power.

I remember playing Balance of Power, when it first came out, on my dad's Macintosh (the original black and white one, which these days you are more likely to run in to as a fish tank than a working computer, but back then in my kid-geek eyes it was the coolest and most sophisticated of any personal computer, at least until my true love, the Amiga, came along).

It was obvious that Balance of Power was really different from all the other games out at the time. For one, it was not about slaying dragons in dungeons or other adventures but about Real Life, featuring real life politics, and it was Serious, very Serious. I could tell that. I had fun playing it in the few times I visited my dad at work (it was his work computer.. we definitely couldn't afford to have one at home), but it was it was difficult, and had the infamous ending which featured just this single paragraph, which I still remember:

"You have ignited a nuclear war. And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air. We do not reward failure."

Back then I didn't have the words for it, but Chris Crawford had almost single-handedly ushered in the dawn of simulation computer gaming. This was 1985, four years before SimCity and six years before Civilization. There were other early contenders, like M.U.L.E (from 1983), and Seven Cities of Gold (1984), but they were all either cute and whimsical and/or set in a mythical/distant/nonexistent time or place.

This was the first game I remember which was set in today's world, with real-world politics in it, and which seriously tried to simulate this world as it is. Today it looks primitive, but back then it was really innovative and it was obvious to everyone that Chris Crawford was on a different wavelength than virtually everyone else in the industry, was seeing and aiming further than just about everyone, who were mostly focusing on much smaller and less ambitious aims.

Unfortunately, it seems that he was a bit too ambitious for the technology of the day, and he kind of disappeared from the scene, working on his magnum opus which was never to see the light of day.
Another adoption hurdle: A lot of folks live in apartments as well.

I've accepted I won't be going electric until I buy a house. There is no way my complex will install chargers, until it's required somehow. No garages here.
House prices are hovering around $500,000 in my area. With a traditional mortgage, 20% down is a lot to save up (100K).

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This has made electric cars a unique form of social signaling: It basically states "I'm a homeowner!" (or can afford house rental, which is also very expensive... or went with an FHA loan/can afford that mortgage payment)

There are some apartments that have charging ports, but they're very high-end, with rents comparable to a single-family detached house anyways. They're also very rare in my area. Sure you can charge at whatever ports are available (not many here), but (IMO) it just doesn't make much sense to go electric and not have the ability to charge your car at home.
Is it? A lot of people report problems compiling the iOS client without replies.

It also has no licence in the repo or on the github page.
Thanks! In future updates, I will reduce the load time.
Also, I'm really curious what you're comparing sun to.... the sun itself?
sorry to bother, but have any good source for identifying anti-inflammatory dietary choices? an old boss went antigluten to great effect (knee issues)
yikes, you'd have to be really committed to buying an EV to choose that over a golf R at that price. I guess the tax credit softens things a bit.
To an extent, yes -- the current infrastructure is already over-provisioned by a factor of 2. (Each charger has two ports; if one car is plugged in it goes at full speed, if both are plugged in they get half. Each station has 4 parking spots, so that you can move the charging cord over to the next car when you're done charging your car.)

But when we start talking about "every parking spot" scale, then two constraints come to mind: (1) the charging rate is too low to be effective (L1 charging over "regular" 110V wall outlets gets you only a few miles of charge an hour), and (2) if you have too much current going through some common section of cable, it will blow a circuit breaker, or worse, overheat and cause an electrical fire (same as if you plug too many things into an extension cord at home or work).

Edit: I think the current state of the art for sharing is "push notification to tell the driver to move their car" because there is a non-trivial capital outlay for chargers even if you have enough electricity. So any scheme that involves all the cars being plugged in and some intelligent switching of who should go first still requires considerable capital costs, even before you get to upgrading the big transmission wires.
Awfully condescending opinion.

How about making _general_ computing devices more accessible via UI/UX to the _general_ public? That doesn't seem like such a crazy idea.
Possibly helpful example: the classic net neutrality example, in my mind, is a decade or so ago when Time-Warner Cable (in some markets) was throttling Craigslist to be painfully slow, because Craigslist was eating into the classified-ads business of other parts of the Time-Warner group.
See also TechCrunch article about this:

Google refreshes its mobile search experience

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/google-refreshes-its-mobil...
It's certainly a convenient arrangement. My only complaint about the design is that if there is an air-gap between the apartment building(s) and the parking garage, the garage tends to accumulate a ton of dust/atmospheric fallout due to the surrounding building restricting wind currents. The garage floors are almost always disgusting, and cars parked inside become filthy much quicker than if they were simply parked outdoors.
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I tried to contribute code to the pidgin project a long time ago. I was attempting to flesh out the plugin architecture and functionality (yes, including documentation! i was a big nerd back then. still am, tbh)

The guy who ran the project back then was an arrogant sanctimonious asshole. Everything was a goddamn power play with him.

I left that project quickly for greener OSS pastures.
A place where people who face problem needing commercial solution, makers who are solving/want to solve such problems can participate in constructive discussions to make products which people want.

Problems are the first class citizen at needgap[1] as problems are something which exists now unlike an startup idea which becomes real only when executed and a startup could be made out of it.

If you're interested in why I had to create it, I've detailed it in 'Startup ideas vs Problems'[2].

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/5-needgap-submit-problems-for-s...

[2]https://hitstartup.com/startup-ideas-vs-problems/
The Soviets almost built their own internet before the U.S. It was ironically killed by the bureaucrats that it would have largely made redundant.

https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-sovie...
Yeah, I think there's a tremendous amount of use cases for Materialize for companies that already have data store infra and want real time analytics or such use cases.

However, I also think differential dataflow solves a big problem for smaller companies building out their MVP or in early-stages. Firebase is popular because it's easy to set up, and it's realtime functionality on the client side mean you don't need to write a client-side data management layer, you can just use firebase's realtime functionality.

The issue is that firebase is completely untyped, isn't relational, and has limited queries. So you end up writing gnarly non-transactional code that makes many round-trip requests to query basic stuff.

I think there may be an opportunity product that combines the performance of and client-side tools of firestore, the ease of use of airtable and the real-time query and materialized view functionality of materialize into a database platform for businesses that want to scale their product.

Big ask obviously, but I know that a product like that would help me launch products much faster, I'd pay a lot for it.
The new Ryzen mobile processors should be interesting. Their GPU drivers (while not of the best code quality) are in the mainline Linux kernel. So it all should just “work”
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>Also, where do you draw the line on what content Google should have to pay to index? What about independent bloggers for example? This policy could potentially open a whole new can of worms.

I'm actually curious now about the principle here. Can the same idea be applied to the news websites themselves? If a news organization links to a Twitter thread then can Twitter or the users of Twitter demand payment from the news organization? If not, why not? What if it's a blog instead?
But smartphone is a computer, personal computer with telephony hardware. And Android is Linux with different userspace, mainline Linux can boot quite a lot of smartphones. Terminology is so wrong.
Many of those side businesses might be even more profitable with EV chargers as the main attraction rather than gas stations. EV charging doesn't require you to stay by the vehicle like gas fueling does (or at least is supposed to). Having a property with a constant flow of people who have 5-15 minutes of free time sounds like a great way to make money for a taco shop, liquor store, general convenience store, or any number of businesses.
Here are two other blogs I found through the same (now unknown) source:

- https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

- https://jasoncollins.blog/

Though they've gotten a bit more topical and/or political in recent times.
Except these are basically the same overlapping issues, and you're describing the more difficult way to solve it.

If vehicles have twice the range, you only need about half the charging infrastructure.

If I don't have a personal charger at home, 1-2 charges a week while I'm shopping is doable. But that's not something most people will be willing to do daily, away from home, unless it's super convenient.

>Solving the day-to-day charging problem .... comes down to availability of charging.

This might work in idealized theory, but not in practice. From a market-systems perspective, it'll be the opposite, because range is the more flexible, independent variable. More required charges means more constraints, which requires a much more complex (and therefore inefficient) system to solve.

And this is even more applicable when factoring in grid supply/demand/capacity.

Separately: the market isn't always rational. If people say they want the range to drive to Indianapolis, believe them, no matter how irrational that demand is to you. Especially if meeting that requirement (range) also satisfies their others (daily charging).
I understand your position; however, I think it comes from a position of privilege that both of us share. Do you would consider yourself a worldly person who can put themselves into other people's shoes? If you can, then consider this: the people are who left behind in culture, economy, and the political system do not want to be transient workers who move from one city to the next. That is a projecting cosmopolitan values and perspectives unto people who have decades and sometimes maybe centuries of history in their area. How would you feel to leave behind everyone you know and everything you are familiar with?

If you want to understand the rise of racism, look into the split labor market theory[1].

If you still believe that 70 million people (in the USA) are upset because they are lazy, stupid, trash and that these populists, like wizards, conjured up their latent virulent racism for their own power with no other possible explanation read: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/are-co...

The ticket into the elite professional class who controls the economy, government, and culture is a basic four year degree. It is becoming virtually impossible for working people to obtain that ticket. The working class only has numbers as its power.

The erosion of unions, mass-membership civic organizations, and the elitism of modern political parties has eliminated the voice of working people in the west. Political democracy is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a democratic society. The economy is increasingly controlled by oligarchs, for instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_labor_market_theory
The Patient Change Agent. Don’t become part of the problem
VLC? OBS?
Ah, you must have missed the part where the article says “at worst”.

Even if it didn’t say that, I think we can figure out from context that the article is talking about worst-case memory accesses.
In my view, phone cameras are used for photography, in addition to conferencing. So they need to be better quality for that use. Nobody takes pictures of their outdoor adventure, or an image of a document, with a laptop camera.

Well, some people do. My kids were in the youth orchestra, and they had to issue a rule that parents are not allowed to hold an iPad up in the air for the entire duration of the concert.
Is the mom test actually worth the money? I’ve seen it touted in a few places and again here.
Some would say that Tesla is still learning how to put together a car.
I think "genius" has a lot to do with being recognized and widely known, which is tied to luck and fashion to a large extent, and almost always a prominent evangelist "marketing" the work is playing the main role in establishing someone's work as "genius" in public opinion. Social network dynamics are driving the exposure and acceptance of someone's work as exceptional.

Johann Sebastian Bach would have been an obscure and almost forgotten composer if not for Mendelssohn discovering and popularizing his work 140 years after his death[1]. Same with Vincent van Gogh and countless other geniuses tolling in obscurity whose output was perhaps equally great but never became popular if not for their resourceful high-profile evangelists.

Jesus of Nazareth would have been a long forgotten Jewish rabbi if not for Paul and the apostles making the Gospel go viral.

[1] https://musicwithvision.medici.tv/clef-notes/this-week-in-mu...
I'd consider stickies a decent jump.

My past self never would have predicted the world has moved to a form of hieroglyphics of fuzzy animals to talk to each other.