skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly a $90 set of Sony MDR-7506 will last you 25 years if you replace the earpads every now and then. Probably the best sound out there for the price, and a decent portion of your music collection may have even been mixed and mastered with these cans so they are a great choice. Hear what the producer heard when they were laying the tracks.

Audio fidelity hit its stride decades ago. 40-50 year old stereos are still sought after, not because they look nice and are classic like a vintage car, but mostly because the sound quality is still excellent today.
How about IMDB then?
How does this compare to other "weird" distros like NixOS or GuixSD?
It's too bad that as soon as AT&T gets to commercialize the lab it ran it to the ground.

Previously, the lab was protected by an agreement between the US and AT&T where AT&T has a lawful monopoly but there were only so much it can earn and X% will always go to fundamental research, and that's why the lab was so successful.

That all changed when the federal government decided to break AT&T up in 1983. The for profit baby bells had no incentive to keep the lab and they proceeded to ruin it.
JK Rowling rewrote the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book something like twenty times. She has said that if you read all drafts of her first chapter you would know the entire plot.

The story supposedly came to her in a flash "fully formed," I think on a train trip. And then she worked -- for a long time -- at trying to figure out how to tell that story well in written form.

Before the Harry Potter books, writing for children's books hardly paid anything. The series was so good that it changed the industry.

One of the things about good writing is that it's something even a poor person can do.

JK Rowling was on welfare while writing the first Harry Potter book, living in some kind of government housing for poor people I think. She would take her small child for a walk in a stroller and when the kid fell asleep she would go to coffee shop or eatery owned by friends and sit and write and joke that "When I'm famous, your place will get famous as the place I wrote the book."

Telling stories via film tends to take money for equipment if nothing else. Not paying independent writers adequately is not only a means to undermine democracy, it's also a form of class warfare.
The last experience I had with Amazon customer service was so bad I decided to stop using them as much as is physically possible. If your situation does not fit in a simple bucket, they will force it into one even if its bad for them and you at the same time.
If you give Alphabet money directly, you’re just encouraging them.
The Inkwell puzzles (https://squares.io/p/inkwell) are generally fairly easy (usually around NYT Tuesday level). If you need easier than that, you might have to search for puzzle archives. I remember the old yahoo/crosssynergy puzzles were quite easy.

Also, ask a friend to help! Two beginners can solve harder puzzles than either can individually, since you get the union of your trivia knowledge and also two brains thinking of different sorts of wordplay or cluing angles.
I think cryptocurrency is more akin to personal computer. DeFi- the internet.
I responded to your comment because I follow Kasey's comments; I didn't notice your comment upthread suggesting that you believe the entire concept of debt needs to be eliminated. I apologize for replying to you, because I don't think there's any productive conversation we can have.
Robinhood Instant's model doesn't actually require a customer to have settled funds to make that $300 purchase, so Robinhood has to pay for the $300 until the customer's deposit clears.

Separately, when someone with Robinhood Gold buys shares on margin, that purchase is financed in part with Robinhood's funds. Look up "initial margin" and "maintenance margin" to understand why. This involves some risk for Robinhood, because assets can sometimes lose value faster than Robinhood can sell them to preserve its equity.

Finally, Robinhood is a clearing member and has to put up money as insurance to keep the clearinghouses capitalized in case some bad juju goes down in the markets and Robinhood hits the skids.
AWS is arguably worth more than Amazon.com - so it might be that AWS is going to spin out the website instead of the other way around.
I'm not particularly experienced at the enterprise level but I sometimes roleplay the conversations I expect they have in my head ;-)

I can just picture a department needing to do some CI on a Mac, having access to a certain (high) budget on AWS, and going with Amazon's offering rather than put together the business case to authorize the MacStadium spend. Or if it's under their approval amount, figuring out who's responsible for the thing when inevitably staff change around, etc. If the company doesn't bat an eyelid at another $800/mo on the AWS bill, I can see why many people would be tempted to click the button and get on with their work day :-)

I would appreciate people who live in this enterprisey world to fact check me on this as my experiences in this matter are rather limited..
> We pioneered customer reviews

Perhaps, but you didn't get them right (nobody did so far).

> 1-Click

Reminds me of the guy who invented "half-click" buying, i.e. you buy on the mousedown event.
I also have my dotfiles in portable repositories that must work on a variety of unices (so I don't use the popular-but-nix-specific home-manager package). My custom ISO has no user data, it just creates my immutable account with my public SSH key (in case I need to remote into the machine immediately) and has a global alias named "bootstrap" that fetches and installs my dotfiles. After that, I can pull any updates made on other machines, log in and out of the DM, etc. until I turn off the computer. I've gone weeks on the same session in RAM (waking from sleep works fine on most machines).
Platforms are however not accountable to what users upload (DMCA) and say (Section 230 CDA). This is also not technology issue but more specifically YouTube's approach to everything: do the absolute minimum and when it doesn't work blame it on others.
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Or it tells you about the people who compete for top jobs.
Retroactive Laws, at odds with reality, put into legislation by MEPs who are mostly even less able then their domestic parliament's party-colleagues and whose "consituency" usually doesn't even know who they are – Another example of the inherent flaws of the European Union.

Guess VPN-Serversi within the evil Brexit Kingdom are going to be in high demand.
Which also had the unified notification/message centre too.

The N9 was so far ahead of its time it’s not even funny. Easily my favourite phone of all time.
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That's the dream. It would be nice to have something better than anecdotal evidence. I hope we do.

I wonder why the evidence of lack of it isn't being publicised.
There is no connection between the stock market and reality
Completely off-topic, but why did they list only 5 items per page? I sometimes see websites do this and I don't get it, is it for clicks?
Ash HN: Does Apple buy the Cheapest ECC RAM, sell it for 4x markups?
> Stock shorters, as you point out, actively bet against a company or industry or economic structure in general, it's their benefit to see a company collapse or not do well.

Companies that have inefficiently deployed capital or have problems like a Theranos or Enron should collapse. People keep acting like shorts show up to a company like Apple and take it down. That's not at all what happens. Shorts are a lot like vultures. We may not like to see what they do, but they provide a service by cleaning up dead carcasses.

If you want to argue that shorters spread (dis)information in a company and should be more closely looked at, I might agree. My immediate counter though would be that I see way more positive information spread in general, and people rarely seem to check that until it so blatantly false things collapse.
> Google's (any big tech company really) lack of morals

Just because the company is amoral doesn't mean that political-moral entryists can't get their hands on the internal levers of power.
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legally platforms are often not accountable for what users upload (sec 230), but over the past several years journalists and politicians have been demanding that platforms remove content that said journo-politicians don't like, so in a sense the platforms are made to be accountable - do it or else regulation
Empty gestures like this do not hold any one accountable. The people responsible for whatever injustice occurred are long dead and there is nothing you can do to them. This is a waste of time and energy that could be better spent improving life for people who are alive today in some tangible way.

Is this going to feed someone who's hungry? Shelter someone who's homeless? Do anything that will make any actual difference in the life of any living person? No? Then why are we wasting time on it?
Gentoo still has their own init, some distributions still use sysvinit, and both can run GNOME. Upstart is a dead project AFAIK, and the developer dropped it and said it was strictly inferior to systemd. ALSA is just the kernel layer, there is a limit to what you can put there, so some of it has gone into another layer in userspace, that's by design in the kernel. I won't comment on the display system, everything that needs to be said there has already been said in the other 700 comments here. I also wish this stuff went faster but unfortunately it takes time to do real work.

I'm not sure what you mean by consensus, if there was consensus on everything then we wouldn't have so many Linux and BSD distributions. We'd probably have just one or two, and you'd probably be more annoyed about "wagging the dog" if that was the case.
My understanding was that it was also about the long tail. With millions of titles in print, and a minimum selection of thousands to make a decent bookstore, you can't print a decent catalog and mail it. Before Amazon, the biggest mail-order books business was the Book-of-the-Month Club. Perfect case for an online catalog.
> 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.

You end up paying for that increased flexibility in a number of ways: greater physical size, increased part count, increased manufacturing costs. I think even if the industry went with CP/M-86/S-100 instead of MS-DOS/ISA, sooner or later people would have put the CPU card and the backplane on the same PCB, and we would have ended up in more or less the same place – the cost advantages of doing so would have made that development inevitable.

> I think I might be interested in a modular, semi-disaggregated PC based on a PCI backplane.

You can buy those, they exist – there are passive PCI backplanes [0] into which you can plug a CPU card. They are used for industrial control applications. You are going to pay a premium for that though. As well as increased number of parts/etc, the lower volumes they are manufactured in adds to the cost.

[0] https://www.advantech.com/products/passive-backplanes/sub_1-...
It was poor planning to light engines so close to the ground. Doing it higher up might have enabled re-lighting the third (spare!) engine instead. That's another three expensive Raptor engines used up, maybe unnecessarily.

But maybe the point was just to put some fear-of-god into SN10: "See what happens when you don't cooperate? It would be a shame if that happened to you."
SpaceX Starship prototype rocket explodes on landing after test launch
Is that the real reason? Being bundled with the OS as the default browser for 95% of all computers seems like a bigger driver!
Imagine letting companies like Nikola and Valeant Pharma continue to rip off investors.
Many studies have shown therapy and medication work better together.
Three died in that accident. The third lingered for a couple years before passing.
I'd guess that Bezos's genes are pretty well baked into the company.

With Jobs, it sounded like there was a singular personality role that was a chaotic influence in the company. That wasn't the only thing that made Apple great, but were people throughout the company inspired to be more like Jobs?
It mentions "symbolic execution" of code. Does that work fine with kernel code, being that the tool itself isn't in the right ring, etc?
I guess I'm stuck on the phrase "just society". Your position, which is perfectly reasonable, is that a stable society that achieves economic, scientific, and cultural prosperity is a good society. Some people value having an equal voice in their government above all of those things. It is not just posturing, it is a genuine belief sincerely held by many people. They would consider the Islamic Golden Age to be an unjust society. Other people sincerely believe that the current system in America is working, by their metrics. They don't want anything to change. Some people would rather die than live in a society where they can't practice their religion, some people think any religion is incompatible with a just society, some people think society can't be considered just until everyone follows their religion. Since there is no such thing as objective justice, there is no way to "prove" that any of these positions work. They work if you think they work.
Update: it was Advent Of Code 2020, where he reported the exact same issue. The AWS auto scaling framework rocked a pooper when the site exploded on release day.
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Wouldn't be surprised, as it seems he was friends with Van Gogh. Coincidentally, just watched a film version of his life - dramatized in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge_(1952_film)
A big con of course is you now have another device to routinely charge and a battery to replace.
Many will disagree, correctly, because the DMCA exists.
I'm a huge guy (6'5", big frame), with big thumbs, and my Key2 is the fastest, most productive phone I've ever owned (including various Androids and a couple iPhones). I don't mean fast in terms of raw processing power, I mean in terms of getting things done.

You get used to the keyboard fast. It's soooooo accurate, I can touch-type on it (I haven't had to look at the keyboard once whilst typing this comment), and there are loads of shortcuts, like hitting "w" to open WhatsApp or hitting "t" to get to the top of a list of messages in the BlackBerry email app (called "Hub").

Not only that, but it's an Android phone with a touch screen, so I can use any of the apps anyone else uses too.
> To me this shows the need for public platforms with open systems for distribution and moderation.

That's either self-contradictory, or a very interesting idea.

If you want public platforms with moderation, then it's self-contradictory. Once it's moderated, it's not public (for at least some definitions of public).

If you meant "open" to apply to moderation, though... that could be really interesting. Here's a platform, and it's public, that is, anyone can say anything on it. And it's got open moderation. You don't like Google's moderation? Create your own. Those that like yours better than Google's, use yours rather than Google's. Those that like Google's use Google's. Those that like the CCP's moderation use it.
Jeff said

> I don’t know of another company

He didn't say contemporary company.
My buddies do PCRs every day, some of them for decades. Non of them work on human tissues, but they all have done PhDs and postdocs in prestigious labs, and some of them are already tenured and considered rising stars. So, yes, they are a reliable source.

Thank you for the medrxiv pointer, I will read it later today when I have the time.

The conclusions mins you, which one should never trust without actually reading the paper (and I admit I have not, especially not pg 25 you pointed to) are: “ Conclusions Community SARS-CoV-2 infections show marked variation in viral load. Ct values could be a useful epidemiological early-warning indicator.”

At face value, this reads “Ct value should be published”. But I will only adopt this interpretation (or disown it) after reading the entire paper.
If investors believe shares of these companies are a ripoff, they can sell any holdings and / or abstain from buying. Just like they can do in nearly every other type of market.

If a used car salesman is trying to rip me off, I walk away from the deal. I don't need to be able to short his inventory! And the supply / demand dynamics of the used car market will trend toward equilibrium without any such shorting.
You’re going to have to try harder than this.

Money is a form of power, it is not equivalent to power.

Amazon is valued at $1.6T and this is a calculation that directly correlates to how much individual shares of Amazon. Shares can be sold for money, but this decreases the share of power the shareholder has by the exact amount of shares they sold to the buyer, which increases their shares and power over the company. The act of buying and selling shares affects the stock price which can increase or decrease the market valuation of Amazon.

If Amazon were a lone behemoth sitting on top of the stock market and second place wasn’t even close, I think you would have a stronger case.

Checking literally thirty seconds ago, Amazon isn’t sitting up there all by its lonesome, it is the bronze medal with Apple and Microsoft sitting above it, Apple up above the $2T barrier, and Google lagging pretty closely behind at 1.3T.

Now these market valuations will be a bit different tomorrow, or next week, or next month, but none of this is literal money in the bank. Money in the bank comes from the products and services these companies sell.

They are also both cooperators and competitors with each other and companies like Facebook ($761B), Walmart ($395B I think it was) and Adobe ($232B).

The power they can leverage from these assets is immense, but it is in competition with other motivated actors who are throwing more actual cash around.

If we do nothing, it is likely there will be more trillion dollar companies this decade than the ones we are discussing now, some of those will be in different market sectors altogether, and some of those will be competitors, and some of those will be semi-competitors.

Companies with far less cash than this already lobby for their interests in places like the Capitol, and the amount of money they’re using to successfully (and unsuccessfully) lobby is measured in the low millions, not the billions, and certainly not the trillions.

So what exactly is the problem that reducing the size of these companies valuation and theoretical power supposed to solve? How does this benefit society? Is society being harmed by Amazon at $1.7T or Apple at $2.2B? Is the problem their size or their practices?

Break this down. It’s easy to say “no company should be this size”, it’s a lot harder to say why, and I am not convinced yet. There’s plenty of people in the PRC with billions, and that hasn’t stopped the PRC from soliciting them for “voluntary” contributions, so maybe lots of money < lots of guns and a big Army in the overall economy of power.
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This is the difference between RSUs, NSOs, and ISOs. ISOs don't make you pay taxes until you exercise it (a qualifying event), which means you actually took this piece of paper and converted it into tangible value. I'm not sure how they could have exercised it and not had it turn into cash (perhaps their company got acquired and they got options of another non-IPO'd company?).
Taschen is a publisher that has somehow pulled this off in what you'd think would be a highly commoditized space: books.

They sell normal sized versions of most of their books for $20-$80, some slightly premium ones for up to a few hundred dollars, but then have these large coffee table sized books in limited editions selling for $10k+: https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/0...
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We may not find out this news cycle, but my guess would be they wanted collateral for pending trades, and they eventually agreed on future trades only. The amount RH eventually raised, $3.4 billion, is in line with that.
> I don't quite agree on that one. If you already have a 2000$ gaming PC with a huge Steam catalog, Stadia is most definitely not targeting you. Nvidia is.

I don't think so. If you have the hardware, there's little reason not to run it locally. They're both going after the same market, but with different sales models.

There's probably never going to be a subscription that gives you access to all the latest titles.
The comparisons between GCP and AWS are sobering. AWS booked $13.5 billion operating income on $45.4 billion revenue and is growing at 30% YoY.

GCP lost $5.6 billion on $13 billion in revenue. It’s growing a bit faster but not much considering the small base. The “we’re losing a ton of money because we’re growing” argument smells like the sort of thing unprofitable startups without a viable business model say. It looks really off when you’re competition is also growing super fast and is very profitable.
Perl will never die at Amazon. So much build and deploy tooling is still glued together by Perl.
> it's basically impossible to do so.

Well, not true. I built whole company that does exactly this. It's disappointing that YouTube is used as the standard of what technology can do and how these systems can work.

We built system with the creator as a first class citizen. This means they are able to claim exceptions (as defined by law) before any action is taken. They are also able to utilize outside arbiters (WIPO, ...) free of charge to make independent decisions when there is an issue.

This are just few highlights. But the reality is that just because YouTube built shitty system doesn't mean the whole Internet has to copy it.
Early search engines were pretty dumb and heavily weighted on keywords, which a generic domain name helped with as well.

Again, less of an issue now with more intelligent search engines. (Although strong brands still tend to a get a lot of traffic via searches on their name...)
You can certainly list files in packages in other distros, but the beauty of the GoboLinux approach is that it dispenses with loads of complexity. You don't need much of a package database at all.

Reducing complexity is good in and of itself and is always a win as long as you don't lose important functionality.

The notion of packages or installers vomiting files all over the place on systems really needs to die. Mobile OSes mostly got this right, and MacOS has been moving in this direction. Windows and older Linux distributions are the only things left that treat the system like a stir fry of random shit. Of the two this is probably easier to fix on Linux, since Windows is hamstrung by a ton of legacy requirements that are much harder to work around.