skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume the developer popularity is a result of the iPhone gold rush, which Apple exploited using exclusivity tactics. Therefore I consider it an abomination to see developers embrace the platform so thoroughly.

That's not why most developers I know use macs. We use them because we got tired of spending a couple days a year (on average) unfucking our Windows machine after something goes wrong. When you're a developer, you're often installing, uninstalling and changing things... much more than the average personal or business user. That means there are a lot of opportunities for things to go wrong, and they do. Even most Google employees were using macs until they themselves started making high end Chromebooks; tens of thousands of google employees still use macs. Some users have moved on to linux, but most stay on mac because they want to spend time in the OS and not on the OS. I can appreciate both perspectives, there's no right answer for everyone.

I share your wish that the hardware was more serviceable but everything is a compromise at the end of the day and that's the compromise I'm willing to take in exchange for the other benefits.

Some complain about the price, but the high end macbook pros aren't even more expensive than windows workstation laptops. Our company actually saved several hundred dollars per machine when we switched from ThinkPads with the same specs. Not to mention, our IT support costs were cut almost in half with macs.

So, aside from gaming or some specific edgecase requirements, it's hard for me to justify owning a PC. That said, I have one of those edgecase requirements with one of my clients so I have a ThinkPad just for them. But, it stays in a drawer when I'm not working on that specific thing.
IIRC even the high end V8-fitted cars like the M5 had fake engine noises pumped through the speakers too.
They published one pretty recently on using reinforcement learning to control balloons
For some reason, I find meaning in pushing myself as far as I can, despite the constant stress it entails. A family member has commented more than once “why do you have to obsess over everything you do to the point of sucking all of the fun out of it?” But to me, the obsession is what makes it rewarding. I guess my view is that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. It’s not enough to play piano as a hobby; I have to do it 12 hours at a time. It’s not enough to get into cooking; I have to read all of the archived blog posts I can find from world class chefs and attempt to duplicate their approach at home with week long meals.

I’m not really sure why I am this way, but I do know that the periods in my life when I have tried to not be this way have been some of the most miserable.
Its just a bit annoying because it is a C extension and that can't be used in most managed DB in the cloud.
Google Calendar has been down all day for many non-Chrome users
Show HN: Find lesser known artists on Spotify with my playlist generation tool
Google made it pretty easy to migrate to chat/hangouts, too, by adding AIM integration.
Does avoiding memory accesses for short strings really provide much performance improvement? Surely the adjacent characters, which need to be read at least once anyway, will be in cache. I can see the benefit when the searched-for string is long.
I mean, this feels like a classic example of not choosing the best technology for the situation. Picking a more opinionated (or more batteries included) framework likely would have streamlined a lot of the problems he described. That doesn't reflect badly on React - certainly there are teams that could have used it to implement a project of this size - but it reflects badly on the author.

> I will not encourage using it for enterprise applications.

Almost like large-scale projects have different requirements and the tools generally used on large scale projects (like .Net) have adapted to reflect those requirements.
My 2018 Model 3 is quiet to the point that I will often hear creaks and rattles coming from outside the car. Now when I hear something I will instinctively speed up or slow down to see if the sound moves.

My mom's old Volvo required you to jam your knees under the dash to keep it from rattling.
Haha what I like about those icons is they're actually pretty effective at grabbing attention. That retro/throwback thing. Thanks for the link. Now I gotta find out if they're open source ;)
Yes. Are you?
Futuristic sleeping pods for homeless people installed in German city
"I get Intel doesn't own the stack/vertical integration, but Intel could have devoted 1% of its revenue to a kickass Linux OS to keep Microsoft honest a long time ago and demonstrate its full hardware."
Interesting point.. makes one wonder why didn't they do it while having a mountain of cash.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/476448932387693/?ref=share

/r/Sjogrens
/iih

Podcast
Sjogrens Strong

Good resource
Sjogrens foundation
John Hopkins Sjogren foundation for more up to date testing and articles
"Federal" try adding all your state/provincial, then local taxes. For me, in BC:

Provincial motor fuel tax (Metro Vancouver) — 1.75 cents
Provincial motor fuel tax (everywhere else in B.C.) — 7.75 cents.
B.C.'s carbon tax — 8.89 cents.
The B.C. Transportation Finance Authority tax — 6.75 cents.
TransLink tax (If you live in Metro Vancouver) — 17 cents, increasing to 18.5 cents on July 1.
Transit tax (If you live in Victoria) — 5.5 cents.
Federal excise tax — 10 cents.
Finally, pay the five per cent Goods and Services Tax on top of the total price.

Adds up to 50% tax ish.
And don't forget clothing... no need to get new outfits if you are home... no dry cleaning if you wore suits ...
OK but AWS already had Elastic xxx named product before Elastic search even existed. So the trademark issue can go multiple way in front of a court.
It was interesting to me that in the X blog post about Loon, they elevated Wing to the same level as Waymo: https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96
PR unfortuetly can give the extremes kingmaking powers which can go against the well being of the majority.

The German greens forcing Angel Merkle into shutting nuclear energy early and having to use more ghastly lignite coal.
> I've also been wondering if the death toll in the US is so high because, well, Americans are just really unhealthy and overweight and that increased morbidity in a way that was unique in the world..

Don't forget that the EU (at the moment) has a higher overall per-capita mortality rate than the US, and it looks like wave 3 is waning in both geographies. Interestingly enough, morbidity figures are much higher in the US, but that could be a self-reporting/self-testing issue, or even false positive rate of the tests, etc.
What an awesome website. Lots of good information well laid out.
>- where was this 1/2/10 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrino#Notebook_implementati...
Messages.app has a SQLite database that that be queried, I'm imagining they're building off of that.
The experienced .NET development team got blind-sided by a script kiddy with a Java Script package fetish.
It was before the election.
> ... the real problem was a poorly skilled team with bad leadership...

Given this kind of team and leadership, why does that still make React the best choice for them?
In a multi-user system using DPAPI [1] on windows protects secrets from other users, even if the disk is not encrypted. Secrets are encrypted with the user's password.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200830203837/https://docs.micr...
In the US at least, transmission loss seems to be on order of 5% of total energy distributed. Source: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3#:~:text=Th....

The economies of scale seem to be much larger. For example,
utility scale solar seems to be about half the unit cost compared to residential and commercial solar: https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/solar-installed-system-cost.ht...
Truly mind blowing being able to actually see the atoms align in an instant and the crystal structure just pop into existence.

Hard to believe it’s not a computer model. I mean, I guess underneath there must be a hell of a lot of signal processing going on to render that video, but atomic-scale video is wild.

Funny that it looks kinda like MPEGS online circa 1990s.
Try private mode....
This has to do with the stimulus checks.
Just reading the initial scope of the requirements. This project was guaranteed to fail, no matter what tech stack was utilized.

There's no future proofing in Software Development. As soon as an application is deployed to prod, it's obsolete. It must be on constant maintenance/upgrade schedule. And, the replacement project must be scoped out quickly.
Software development: it’s got nothing to do with computers
Using Nix gave me all the benefits of reproducibility and sane package management. Almost everything else differentiating then from now is just software as a service trying to suck the information from my existence and make me a fungible consumer.
that was an understatement lol (in hindsight)
At some point one has to see the trend of all these people hanging themselves with this one platform and maybe there's something to the platform, ecosystem, or community that is lending itself to the hangings.
At least in my own experience, when I take things in my life this way, I burn out on them fast. Consistency becomes elusive, and without consistency, real long-term progress is very difficult to achieve.
For some reason, I can't currently reach the web page -- but that doesn't matter --

THIS IS A GREAT IDEA...

That is, this, and tools like this, are highly necessary, in other words...
Yeah, Camo is probably the best out there at the moment.

But... (there's always a but)

1. they had a bug with Mojave which made it disconnect, especially with Zoom calls with many people (I imagine CPU issue?)

2. There's no way to control / switch off the camera from the app. The phone is still on with the app open and camera is working

3. I've got a nice holder, and used a dedicated older phone, but still it was a hassle, because you want to use the back facing camera -- to avoid seeing yourself. And then starting the app is effectively "behind" the camera. It's awkward.

4. They charge a yearly subscription fee. I can understand why, but in the long run I'm not sure it works out in their customer's favour financially.

I eventually gave up and got a Logitech Brio. So far I'm pretty happy.
Anything that supports shaders is fine, but M1 is a mobile-style GPU so it doesn’t behave exactly like a desktop GPU.
Slack Enters the Matrix: Element Bridges Slack to Matrix
Exactly. Not a chance until 1) street parking has charging sockets built into the meters, and 2) apartments/condos/parkades catch up and provide power at stalls.
What are your strategies for avoiding inflammation?
Performance Analysis – Methodologies Introduction
How do you connect all this to the computer? A typical PC has a single TRSS analog socket.

Do you use some USB interface that accept a separate microphone and a separate headphones jacks? If you do, any advice on what to look for and what to avoid?
I'm a North Carolinian - so it's fair to say that "creative" redistricting has harmed my state a bit more than most. However, I disagree with fundamental precepts they are using because they do not take culture into account. The representative system works best when it's able to group people with similar interests and values and lets them elect someone who can share those interests.

I do not think that valuing "compact" districts is necessarily helpful for that. The better approximation here should be to aim for grouping similar population densities together. For example, rural voters should have much larger districts, which are made up of mostly other rural voters and urban voters should have much smaller districts.

Likewise, "minimal county splits" is not especially meaningful either. In NC, Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County - that county probably shouldn't get split. However, the population which lives edges of the counties which surround Mecklenburg (ie, southern Iredell, parts of Cabbarus county, Gaston county - are hugely impacted by Charlotte. Those counties have tons of growth from commuters to Charlotte and have very different needs depending on how close they are to Charlotte. These outer suburbs voters should be represented together, across county lines.

And finally - I don't every district needs to be all that competitive. We shouldn't be pitting people with totally different needs against each other for representation just for the sake of it.

It's a cool idea and interesting to see what a "fair" algorithm says - but the fundamentals here are critical.
62 is the number of letters and digits in ASCII, so it's the most compact encoding that doesn't need special punctuation characters (which aren't always safe to use).
The tax just moves over the vehicle registration. In Georgia it was calculated in the tag fee and was about $250.
The problem is that hydrogen is more likely to be made with steam-methane reforming, not electrolysis using clean energy sources.

It is also difficult to store, so I suspect the hydrogen ship has sailed.
If hackernews was around in the early 1900s, a similar comment would have appeared, but replace ICE cars with horses.
React's blogs show great care for backwards compatibility. Just look how long they've taken to get rid of string refs

https://reactjs.org/blog/2015/02/24/streamlining-react-eleme...
> if the death toll in the US is so high because, well, Americans are just really unhealthy and overweight and that increased morbidity

But the US doesn't have a higher IFR than most European countries. The difference in number of dead has to do with a. the population differences, b. differences in proportion infected.

The gaps between France and the US in per capita deaths, for instance, are not that huge.
> There is a general purpose computer under there but most people don't interact with it like that.

The same could be said about 90% of laptops and desktops purchased for home use. How many people actually use "computers" for tasks they couldn't do on a phone or tablet if those devices had larger screens and keyboard support.
That's a shame. What's wrong with optics on that? I can't imagine the 18-55 kit lens costs much more.
Matrix – The Universal Communication Bus
Most doctors think Sjogrens means dry mouth and dry eyes. They advise eye drops and gum.

I basically quiz doctors until I find one that knows the basics.
I have a rheumatologist. But if I need forms filled out only a PCP will unusually do that. Unless they don’t, then your screwed royal.
As someone who has pushed themselves far beyond what I thought was possible for a person not experiencing literal life/death situations - I'd highly recommend against pushing yourself far.

> It makes you more susceptible to heart disease, it makes it harder to recover from illnesses, it can affect your sleep, and it can even affect your working memory.

If you start experiencing chronic insomnia from chronic stress where you're getting 30 minutes to 2 hours of sleep everyday for weeks... Know that you're not pushing yourself - you're fucking yourself over. You won't remember anything. A couple days will feel like a week. Things that happened a few days ago feel ancient. You'll be living the life of Sisyphus because you will have to redo things because you will inevitably have forgotten what you did.

If you get sick (and you will get sick), you will take months to recover from a simple cold. Your body will eventually shut you down and put you in bed from the stress and simple cold you got. The stress will compound because you are not able to do your basic duties due to the sickness and now you're even more stressed. Stress begets stress - in my experience. It's easy to find your stress levels on a runaway train.

So, now, ask yourself - is it worth it? Is it worth being unable to stay healthy, unable to sleep, unable to even remember anything, and constantly being miserable as fuck just to think you're gonna turn Super Saiyan or some crazy shit if you just push yourself further? (Pro-tip: You won't ever have some anime level breakthrough - those don't happen in real life. That's why it's anime!)

You likely won't. I haven't. I don't think I've had a single breakthrough or meaningful change in my life that came from putting myself through incredibly stressful times. So, IMO, avoid highly stressful situations. They don't really prepare you for anything - they just deal out trauma and set you back.

Some stress can be nice - but if you're like me - your daily stress levels are way higher than most people's. So, your idea of what a "normal" amount of stress is very likely highly distorted. You're probably living - like I am - just one bad day from getting riddled with sickness, insomnia, and amnesia but you don't even realize it because you've thought for so long that this is "normal" or "healthy" or what you should be doing to break through. After all - life is a game... More stress means more XP, right? More XP means higher levels. Higher levels means I can do more. Doing more means more $$$. More $$$ means that house in Palo Alto finally. That house in Palo Alto means someone will finally notice me. Someone finally noticing me means I'll have happiness. Something like that I guess - for the typical HN crowd.
Ugh. 720p is plenty of pixels for the use case, if the sensor is good quality. If the sensor is not good quality, more pixels won't help. Sensor size is a better first approximation of quality than pixel count.
Using Pidgin for Discord is probably a bad idea unless the Pidgin plugin has Discord's blessing. They ban for using third-party clients.
For me, I just like the idea of self-reliance and being able to function in the event of an issue with the grid. I've unfortunately experienced weather events that have led to 2 week outages of power, for example. Fossil fuels provide that security and benefit to some degree, and also have the added bonus of transportability. Yes it is not self-reliance in the sense that you still depend on a supply chain to produce those fuels. But it is easy to store a lot of those fuels for an extended period of time. It's not really practical to do so for electricity, however. A Tesla Powerwall is much much more expensive than a tank, and only stores 13.5 kWh.
Which platforms are actually supported? I didn't find that on the landing page. Seems like an interesting product if it works on linux and with Signal etc.

BUT: Stating "Privacy first." as a goal and then requiring to sign up with google is … inconsistent at least (I get that it's easier though).
Electrical distribution in the US is actually aging quite badly and is in deep need of replacement of large parts of it. Inefficiency isn't entirely the problem, although many (including me) would argue that it isn't as efficient as it could be. DC power transmission at high voltages is now feasible due to new technologies, and it is more efficient as well as easier to step up/down. At large scale, even such seemingly small losses do start to add up and matter.

Decentralization brings an obvious benefit - if power is consumed near generation, you need less infrastructure to distribute it, thereby lowering costs. Once we start adding large numbers of EVs charging at home, our energy consumption will tilt more and more towards the home, making generation and consumption on the spot much more efficient and useful.

Another benefit of decentralization is grid resilience. Removing single points of failure by distributing them means that large scale power outages (while already infrequent) would become less frequent.
19 Year-Old Kroger Supermarket Worker Stole $1MM from Store
Me too. I do not understand
Why people still post to Medium (despite people saying we shouldn't)
As a counter point, I was almost fired for not choosing to build a SPA for an internal app which was going to be used by 3-5 people, 5-10 times a month, if that many.

I worked at large accounting software provider, and internal billing system used static pricing which was changed once a year. The company wanted to move to a more flexible system where pricing can be setup based on few rules like customer type. For this the ui and backend system needed to be developed. Design I proposed was a single "monolithic" service which did everything including UI and UI was supposed to be a old style mustache templates and some minor jquery. Instead they went with pub-sub systems, 4 different microservices, a react based UI, api which used json-schema, even to send data back to UI. When I left a team of 6-7 people was working full time on this and they were about 20% done.
Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, etc. He thinks the sources should pay their fare share.

I'd like to learn what fare means, how to curtail consumer throttling, how yo curtail free loaders (bypassing transit fees), what system would be more fair.

Surely we can design market mechanisms to balance these concerns.
I believe I understand what you're saying but I don't buy it. Good experts state their assumptions and acknowledge their biases. The assumption seems to be that they don't or that they aren't, but I see it often. Furthermore, part of the job of the media is to mediate these experts, find consensus among those experts, and explain issues and tradeoffs to the public. This is also under attack by the same people for the same reasons. These reasons are not to make people believe lies, they are to make people believe there is no such thing as "true" and "false". In other words, these reasons are to make people believe that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge". This tactic works for muddying the cause of climate change, but doesn't work for "Biden won the election".

For democracy to survive, we need to teach information and media literacy broadly and early.
Yeah, on top of it all, given all of the shots of the reference models look vaguely like a Mac Book, it really feels to me like Intel dug around in their couch cushions to come up with a response.
Submitters: please don't editorialize titles—this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (Submitted title was "Firefox: Paying Mozilla to promote your extension has failed". We've changed it to what the article says.)
from "creative writing" to AI (industry or academia) sounds like such a wide gap, I did not think such a jump would be possible... congrats!
Well actually you are starting to convince me of the opposite.

My horizon is limited to the galaxy. The hypothesis here is that the Earth is an early bloomer in the Milky Way.
Then we are dealing with 1 billion Earth-sized planets, only a fraction of which is orbiting stars capable of sustaining life, only a fraction of which in the habitable hone around their stars... They also need to be in the right region of the galaxy in which heavy stars were formed and died with the right conditions to produce heavy elements. Candidate planets also need to be far enough from sources of gamma ray bursts. And finally, even if they have life, it still needs to develop in the right direction for it to be complex enough and interested in reaching out and colonizing the galaxy.

So, the odds are a billion times a tiny fraction to one, a sustainable hypothesis as far as I am concerned.

I believe I saw a model somewhere, predicting that most habitable planets are yet to form in our galaxy, but I did not bother to look hard enough for references.
Common words or phrases like "open source" are not copyrightable on their own. Copyrights protect "original works of authorship" -- i.e. creative works.

Words or phrases that are identifiers used in commerce are protected by an entirely different type of IP law: trademarks.
You are linking to OSI's trademark guidelines, of which "Open Source" is not one, per the page you linked.