skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the startx command starts the X11 client and server maintained more or less straight from the X.org project, and the sway command does not start any code that came from the Wayland project, I'd say that counts as "switching to Sway".

Wayland is the implementation detail in Sway to have a display protocol your Gtk, Qt and XWayland apps use to draw themselves, really no need to draw more attention to it than necessary. It's the Sway implementation that does all the magic.
The process of abstracting away people into units of productivity is common approach to Software Engineering management.

It has failed every time.

When the latest management fad fails to live up to expectations, new terminology are created to hide the failed management fad. New terminology simply replaces the old terminology and they can now sell new and improved management concepts again and again.

Software Engineering is extremely difficult. That's why successful Software Engineering companies are highly valued as unicorns. The companies have temporarily captured the right type of people tackling right type of problems and delivered right type of Software Engineering solutions. The process can not be replicated. That's why it's so valuable and worth Trillions of dollars.

There's no other Microsoft. There's no other Apple. There's no other Google.

These are unique companies with unique products that provide value to customers. It took years and decades of Software Engineering man hours to iterate until they delivered the valuable software solutions.

Lot of these Software Engineering management fads are trying to capture something that does not exist.

Productive Software Engineers are exceptional. Sooner Software Engineers understand that paradigm, the better they will be able to value themselves and be more effective.
I have one simple policy in 2021. I ignore people who use the term "gaslighting". It's a proxy sign that the person doesn't like the idea, but doesn't have a good complaint and instead just uses modern progressive buzzwords.
Wireless has theoretical advantages for all kinds of playback if you don't care about latency.

- independent of quality of your player's DAC

- amp is designed to match the headphone

- sound can't be transmitted through the cable (microphonic effects, etc)

- you can walk around without keeping the player in your pocket

It'd help if the audio codecs used were lossless of course.
Slower settlement gives the exchange and clearinghouse time to process the trade, it gives firms time to borrow cash overnight in the repo market to pay for trades made by the front office, it gives short-sellers time to borrow and deliver shares, and so forth.

T+1 means overnight (options settle this way), so T+2 gives everyone in the world (sometimes you trade from one region for a legal entity in another) a little more than a full business day to tie everything out.

I see delayed settlement as part of the reason why we are able to trade instantaneously; execute first and address the details later.

EDIT: Also, the way equity trades presently clear is based on a net short and a net long, rather than breaking out individual trades as would be necessary for instantaneous execution.
Not because.

You could have sugar evaluated once, sugar evaluated each time, not-sugar evaluated once, or not-sugar evaluated each time.
I wanted to read this, I really did, but the Time Indicator stated that it was a 2 min read. I'm sorry, that is too long. I ended up not reading; I simply do not have the time. Perhaps Jeff Bezos can get to the point a little bit quicker, the next time he steps down from a key management position in the future. A 1 min read would be acceptable. Thanks to Amazon for including a reading time indicator, I might have wasted my time otherwise.
Sounds like a quick hack from developers. I'm guessing here maybe some fluid, generalized mobile design for a vertical layout. When developing for front-end I like to simply see how my layout may look generally with a horizontal / vertical view but with a responsive layout in mind and not necessarily mobile resolution.

I could see how someone might put in a quick, unideal hack and do a scaled to fit. I'm curious how often people are seeing this as I don't have a vertical monitor setup anymore.
One benefit of learning old technology from youth... I've got tons of cruft in my head, and this "old technology" has been continually rebuilt the entire time I've been using it. Kids these days aren't gonna, I dunno, fry their hard drives because the IDE cable doesn't have a notch. One guy I learned Linux from was proud that he still shut down his computer with `sync;sync;halt` because of some nasty race condition or something that bit him once in the 80s. And despite using Linux since the last millenium, I'm still a total noob! So bring on that fresh knowledge!
For me it's a bit of a Catch-22. I don't watch much YouTube content anyways, but I've reduced my consumption over the years because of the ads. From what I can tell, there's nothing I want to watch anymore because I no longer know what's there (and of value to me). So the prospect of paying is absurd for me as I'd be buying something with no real value except to remove an annoyance on the few occasions each month I bother to watch something on YouTube. If I had a clearer reason to increase my YouTube consumption, I'd entertain paying.

Other video services have clearer value to me in the content they provide so I pay for them. I suspect I'm not alone in this.
Has the government filed an antitrust suit against Amazon? It could take half a decade to go from filing to a (potential) final appeal at the Supreme Court.
Decentralized API Imaging Jetpack
Now he can make it redirect to blueorigin.com - or not. IDK.
There is 18 U.S. Code § 831,832, but it doesn't outright forbid owning a nuclear weapon. There is also the interesting issue of nonproliferation treaties to consider. Could the US signing an arms agreement impact your second amendment rights - because those treaties would be enforceable against you? If you followed in the footsteps of David Hahn and ilk and avoid the environmental problems that got him in trouble, and built it yourself, you might be able to create and possess one legally. Theres probably some regulations in the CFR to look through too. Some law or regulation has to exist to regulate existing nuclear weapon production in the US.
It was a leap month, for the same function as leap days and seconds.
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Is it known what the effect is on so-called "long covid" and other pretty serious long-term covid affects that might be suffered by people who don't get it badly enough to go to hospital?
I feel that the importance of optimizing brand name is over-hyped. A lot of it is retrospective reasoning, arguing why such name is good for popularity after the brand becomes popular.
Best post I’ve read today and nice to see so many positive comments here.

Nothing like building something useful to learn a new tool or technology.
IIRC amazon bought-out diapers.com; it was certainly some diaper startup that they are accused of using predatory pricing against.
Look, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that a 720px wide device is a phone. As a webdev I completely zoned out when he started talking about DPI and such. Nobody is going to completely change their methodology around breakpoints because of like a .01% edgecase, when the current one works great the remaining 99.99% of the time.

The reason I consider this a true edgecase is that he combines a vertical orientation of the monitor with scaling. That is just bound to cause problems. Had the width been 1080px most websites would at least have given him the tablet layout, which would be more usable on a desktop monitor.
> Bluetooth audio profile has gone unchanged for 20 years.

Thankfully this isn't true, they've gotten a lot better! But I guess you mean it's still backwards compatible.
Congrats, but maybe work on the humbleness...
Operating margin 28% and climbing.

Net income $40B for the year through 12/31/2020.

The growth in revenue at 20% is impressive given these players are already so massive.

One big takeaway, AWS is CRUSHING GCP on the financial side. There is basically a 50%?? delta here? Ie, AWS is +28% margin, GCP -30% margin? Still GCP is growing briskly though much smaller.

In short, AWS could do a lot more to compete on price if they wanted.
So Cadabra came from Abra-Ca-Dabra is it?
An example of where the distinction is quite important - default parameters for functions only work when the argument is undefined.
Thanks. Does the server really send the info to construct all possible page configurations for all possible devices? And if so, why are the websites still rendering with touch-interface objects when we doesn't have touch, as reported by OP? (The lack of touch screen ability seems like it should trump things like screen resolution.)
yeah that's my sense too, but it's a hard thing to reckon with given that my vested stake is so large already, and the company is well beyond MVP as well.
How early do you mean by early? I remember Amazon at campus recruiting (Cornell, 2000) describing something akin to AWS and LoudCloud came up. I asked what business a bookstore had to do with outsourced computing and recall a fair bit of vision even at the time.

In light of what we now know, I’m the only one who didn’t have sufficient vision...for not pursuing that job opportunity more seriously.
Normally when I shop around for other cloud providers, I see AWS’s “pay us more but everything’s under one roof” strategy in action: Other cloud/infra providers may beat them on price, but IME it’s often like 10-20% at most. Maybe 2x in some cases.

It could be that there are companies for whom a contract with MacStadium is too much to handle, but for anyone who isn’t a supergiant enterprise, I just can’t see how an 8x markup over the competition makes any sense.

I’m sure at this point some enterprise customers are just hard-wired to reach for the AWS solution on everything. But I also wonder if this way of thinking has an actual hard limit somewhere.
I'm certainly no expert on what makes a phone a smartphone, but it seems like Blackberries with their email and small web functionality really kicked off the movement of phones being able to do more than calls and texts.
NZXT Recalls H1 Cases for Fire Hazard with PCI-E Riser
Like you, I don't think those meetings were particularly brutal but merely kept plain and honest, and more importantly, were of great learning value besides being a fantastic demonstration of leadership by cbell.
If you look at ~6:37 or so at the video of the engines it looks like they have a low pressure fire/leak lapping at the outside of the engine. Presumably that is not a good idea since they are running sensors/electronics there?

Anyone guess whats going on?
There are many things possible that no one has written software to do yet. I think it mostly comes down to money, market, and difficulty.
...And then we would need arbitrageurs to keep the fast NBBO in line with the slow NBBO, so that people in the two pools can trade with each another.
A/B tests are easy on Netlify
Why zoom though? I just have a phone call with screenshare, much less taxing.
This runs somewhat counter to my practical experience. On Windows, most programs come with an installer and end up launchable with a shortcut from the start menu. On Linux, on the other hand, unless you're pulling from the package manager, then you've probably got a .tar.gz archive to manually extract somewhere. I see things have been changing only recently with the advent of Snap/Flatpak/AppImage.
Overall pretty well written. But mostly the name, "Curious Observer's guide" is great. It describes so much of what I am looking for - something between an expert and novice. Something that does not insult my intelligence but does not require years of study.
For those who don’t know, Tom Holman is the TH in THX. He was also involved with the inception of Audyssey Labs and their room calibration technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson_Holman
Hermeneutical Injustice, Not Gaslighting
I don’t think it makes an enormous difference, but not all of those US citizens flew in US rockets (nor did all Russian ones)

Also, quite a few of those did multiple flights. Looking at that list, I think that moves the needle in favor of US rocket safety.
There’s no tpm needed for iMessage.
Not to be difficult, but how many of those were invented in the past 27 years? Bell Labs is (barely even) a shadow of its former self.

If you want to read a great book about when Bell Labs was really Bell Labs:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GSZIWG/
I like the convention in C# where you prepend generic type names with a T, clearly signifying that it's a generic while being more descriptive. E.g.:

public delegate TResult Func<in T,out TResult>(T arg);
Stock market seems happy about this. They are up 1% after hours.
Sure regulatory capture can entrench interests, but there's no reason to believe that in the absence of regulation one big company wouldn't aggregate every major market and just destroy all competition.
Considering how much Munro has obsessed over panel gaps, the topic was amazingly brief in this interview. Could’ve done without listening to Sandy discuss lines of code, MBAs, and comfortable seats. Would have much preferred more discussion about build quality, and hard engineering.
Georgia Tech, Facebook Achieves 112x Size Reduction in DL Recommendation Models
A new study by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Facebook AI introduces TT-Rec (Tensor-Train for DLRM), a method designed to drastically compress the size of memory-intensive Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM) and make them easier to deploy at scale. The proposed method’s key innovation is the replacement of DLRMs’ large embedding tables with a sequence of matrix products using tensor train decomposition.
This was a smart move to avoid being caught up in the inevitable anti-trust suit
> Without a government to enforce monopoly rules, it'll just aggregate all its competition into one big blob, and you won't have any choice.

Thats not really true. There are tons of industries out there that are highly competitive, and are not aggravating into a monopoly, and those industries are highly competitive without much action from the government.

Sure, there are some industries that have huge network effects, such as telecom, that have a tendency towards monopolies.

But such industries are not the rule. There are instead many industries where monopolies are not forming, competition is working on its own, without the government doing much to enforce that competition.
A large list of handpicked color names
Not saying optimal, but possible, given humans do it. One note, we do use sound as an aid, I'm surprised more auto companies don't use audio.
> Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active Devices.

Don't forget to subtract the ones in China.
It's interesting to imagine an alternate world of CP/M-86/S-100 vs. MS-DOS/ISA for x86 PCs.

The brilliant bit to me is how modular S-100 seems to be with everything on a swappable card. This seems to enable a more granular upgrade and system build approach compared to what we have with modern PCs where most core components are stuck on a single motherboard.

I think I might be interested in a modular, semi-disaggregated PC based on a PCI backplane.
In other words, the current rules means that you should try to screw your workers maximally but surreptitiously, because the only penalty for being caught is having to give the money back like it's no big deal.
Sad watching someone con themselves for others gain.
I like that Jeff has the funds to dump into important projects like Blue Origin, and General Fusion, etc. Projects that have zero chance to be profitable at a small scale, but significant benefits to humanity once things start working.

Elon is probabally the prime example of a crazy billionaire who dumps his wealth into wildly unprofitable ventures to get things done for the betterment of humanity.

Of course most billionaires end up like Larry Ellison, whose only drive seems to be increasing the size of his boat collection. He has every right to be doing his own thing, but it would be nice if there was a way to incentivize incredibly risky projects with a potential for significant public good.
> Capitalism is predicated on the ability to loan out money.

If that's true, then it's fundamentally broken (assuming interest bearing loans of course). You will never have a sustainable economic system that is based on interest bearing loans, we see it all the time with people waiting for the next crash to happen.

> No debt means no credit for new businesses

Not true. There are moral alternatives. If you want to start a business, pitch your idea to investors who are willing to put in money in exchange for a portion of the company. If it works out, everyone profits, otherwise, everyone takes risk equally and the holder of the idea is not left with crippling debt. This is just and fair.

> No mortgages.

Mortgages artificially increase property prices, continuing the cycle. There are alternatives that don't involve interest. You see it all the time in the auto industry where they have 0% loans. Do the same with houses. We already did that historically in Muslim nations.

> Governments can't issue bonds to raise capital.

Raise capital in an ethical way. The government can invest in its society and businesses for example. Obviously there are other solutions but that's for the specialists.

> Society would literally collapse if we "do away with interest bearing and yielding assets."

Except it didn't when people followed the teachings of their religion (specifically Islam). Great empires were built without interest. It's possible, it's just that it isn't as easy or perhaps convenient to those who stand to benefit the most from interest.
By all means, use long or short or whatever consistent naming convention you'd like, even with the study I provided, the difference is not going to make or break any project.

All I'm saying is that as professionals, there is a mismatch between how strongly we believe things to be true and how much time and effort we invest in validating those beliefs. People here will argue very strongly about long vs. short variable names and this discussion could go on and on and on, but no one here will actually try to find existing research or conduct any research of their own.

My position is until you, or me, or anyone wishes to hold a strong belief about what is truly beneficial in terms of productivity, human psychology, etc.. we should hold off on making claims about objective engineering facts and instead simply accept that our claims are stylistic in nature and used out of consistency and convention, rather than because we have evidence that it's superior.

Finally, it really is worth noting that it was literally unbelievable to Aristotle that heavy objects fall at the same speed as light objects, so much so that no one bothered to test that assumption for thousands of years.

If you, or anyone, is so convinced that some coding convention is more than just stylistic but actually objectively superior, why not put in some degree of effort to conduct a scientifically reliable test to validate your belief? If the answer is that it's too hard to put in the work to objectively validate your opinion, then you should also accept that it's too hard to accept your opinion as an objective fact.

If we as professionals are not willing to validate our beliefs in a rigorous manner, then we as professionals should not feel so compelled to proclaim those beliefs as being objectively true instead of simply a matter of preference.
The U.S. Spent $2.2M on Security System That Wasn’t Implemented
I've also been a Linux user for cough quite a long time and I love your approach. You are also a good communicator - you clearly understand that a blog posting for general consumption should be short, pithy, focussed and short. The internets have a very short attention span ... oh look squirrel.

Good skills Sir. At your age I couldn't find my arse with both hands 8)
To that end, it's worth reading up on the history of sex.com. The domain historically (and currently?) generates tonnes of revenue through advertising, and has been hijacked more than once.
If you have a good pair of wired headphones it's actually quite a nice compromise, because it lets you use them at home without being stuck in your chair. I'm using a Bluetooth headphone amp right now, it's very light and fits in my pocket, which is more than I can say about my laptop.
Makes sense! Thanks for the feedback.

And yeah OpenTelemetry is where lots of the industry is going and so are we. You can already do cool things with us and the collector but we plan on automating a lot and expand on that.

A little bit about that in this commment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25995424
> As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues. Two high-impact examples: our $15 minimum wage and the Climate Pledge. In both cases, we staked out leadership positions and then asked others to come along with us. In both cases, it’s working. Other large companies are coming our way. I hope you’re proud of that as well.

This, son, is the market at play. Without regulations to raise the minimum wage for everyone, companies are supposed to raise it to compete. Amazon has chosen to raise it for publicity, to compete, or by pure generosity. In the mean time, most American workers are paid well below minimum wage, and the situation is not getting better, I should even say: the situation is getting worse. Amazon has given ammunition for people to claim that see, companies are doing the right thing, all is well.
The article comments that the FTC doesn't have the authority to issue fines in cases like these; all they can do is require the workers to be paid back what they owe, with no punitive measures at all.
I think we do a lot of things in our society for their symbolic value to formalize moral values and to demonstrate that we recognize past wrongs. In that regard I don't see anything wrong with this undertaking.
Court Cases Against the Covid-19 Measures
> the only advantage that the paper offers is that Checked C seems to have a higher degree of backwards compatibility.

In fairness, that's a big deal, especially when trying to port a large existing code base.
They had no choice but to restrict buys. They're subject to clearing collateral requirements based in large part on stock volatility. People keep saying RH should have just left it all alone, but if they had, they'd have been insolvent.
Ah, yes. Because owning a news organization, one filled with people who can do investigations, presents numerous opportunities to avoid paying taxes.
This was a very eye opening response that even made me think about things in a new light. Thank you for sharing your story.
Totally fair. It's a fine line we have to walk.
Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder
I think the title is quite self explanatory. How did you meet your cofounder of your company? Was it a long time friend? Someone you met at a conference or event? Maybe just online? I surely believe that some people have surprising answers and it would be great to hear them. Also how did it go?