skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$1,000 to you is (probably) not a lot. For someone in a third world shithole it's several years to a life time of earnings. Perspective matters when determining if something is "a lot" or not.
They also took about 20 years to go from the lab to the electronic store shelf, and another 20 years still before they were first put into EVs.

Revolutions do happen, of course. But incremental improvement is both necessary and often overlooked.
4 was a slog. 5 picked back up.
> When presented with more effective, new practices

Yeah but... how can you judge the actual effectiveness of some practice if it's new? There's no long-term empirical evidence to judge it by.
The oldest images here are from September 1992:

https://jim.rees.org/apollo-archive/rogues-gallery/index.htm...

They were originally on an ftp server and became available on the web in 1993 at:

http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/
The oldest image I could find on w3.org dates back to 19 Nov 1994: https://www.w3.org/Icons/32x32/warning

The W3 consortium itself was only a month old at the time.
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The issue isn't bandwidth; Netflix can stream HD video over a 5Mbps connection, and Stadia should require about the same bandwidth as video streaming because that's essentially what it's doing (and sending input signals back the other direction, but those should be negligible)

What's much harder is latency. Who cares if your interactions with Netflix have a 500ms delay? For a video game, even 50ms is a problem. And you can't improve latency just by adding bigger pipes: there are unshakeable physical limits around how long it takes an electrical signal to go to and from a data center X miles away, and on top of that there's the rat's nest of routing that the signal has to go through along the way. The former can't be solved except by building out more datacenters so that more people are closer to them. The latter can be solved, at great effort, but I don't see ISPs having much motivation to do so. This is why individual experiences with Stadia are so hit-or-miss: it mostly comes down to luck, in terms of a) how physically close you are to a datacenter and b) how streamlined the network infrastructure around you happens to be. And I don't see a clear path for Google to significantly improve this over time.
The Washington Post had an article yesterday about someone who was apparently $400k down on GME (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/gamesto...):

> The Reddit poster Volkswagens1, who declined to give his name but said he lives in the Pacific Northwest, showed The Washington Post an image indicating roughly $400,000 in potential GameStop losses from the day but insisted he would not sell.

> He said he’s poured most of his saving and checking accounts into the stocks and spent the last week “doing as much research as possible,” including sacrificing sleep and calling in sick to work, to make sure he was staying on top of the market’s moves.

(There's also a quote about him doing this because he's been poor for too long, but my take is that if you have enough assets to face a $400k loss, you weren't poor before you entered that position, even if you may now be).
Linus is also not making $10 million a year in speaking fees from industries that he vastly enriched while operating as an elected public servant.
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Also, the "wisdom of the Ancients" in JS was to never intentionally set a value to `undefined`. While a lot of the quirks have been paved over by TC39, `undefined` was originally considered an implementation detail of the JS engine and had different semantics in different engines, especially when trying to set something to `undefined` (`myobject.field = undefined` might be equivalent to `delete myobject.field` in one engine, equivalent to setting to `null` in another engine, and its own explicit primitive value in a third, while a fourth threw an error when setting anything explicitly to undefined because it was not a value at all). Even with paved over semantics and a general convergence among JS engines (and a near monopoly of V8 in practical usage), I still find it worrisome seeing codebases that treat undefined and null as very distinct values instead of shades of gray of the same concept, because `undefined` certainly wasn't meant to be a value originally.
Depending on how you think the fund should be divided for wealth purposes, if we assume an equal division, the fund alone puts many Ontario teachers into the top 1%. Never mind what other wealth they may have.

They are the 1% you are talking about. I expect what you're really saying is that the political opposition opposes strangers who are perceived as being different, whereas the top 1% comprised of teachers are relatable and maybe even your close friends so you can be happy for their success.
To be fair, I think setting up a raspberry pi or an AWS instance isn't 'mom friendly' either. Still more friction than Facebook, which this is positioning itself against.
we keep looking for ways to recreate the fun atmosphere of an office hangout or party. this looks interesting.

and i agree with another comment - you should add more context to the website about how the games will look/play like in slack.
If anyone in here has played the game Children of a Dead Earth, it may make you appreciate The Expanse even more (if that’s possible!). The game is a true-to-physics representation of how space battles would actually happen, and the scenes in The Expanse replicate them wonderfully, albeit they look much more pretty. Hats off to the developers of this show, they really did their homework.

PS Season 5 is great.
A lot of people want GameStop to succeed and join the ranks of Netflix and Amazon. Retail investors that bought a few shares now have a tremendous amount of goodwill and loyalty towards the company.
Fun experiment.

The more pedestrian 5950X or the now bargain 3950X are great for anyone doing a lot of compiling. With the right motherboard they even have ECC RAM support. Game changer for workstations in the $1000–$2000 range.

The more expensive Threadripper parts really shine when memory bandwidth becomes a bottleneck. In my experience, compiling code hasn’t been very memory bandwidth limited. However, some of my simulation tools don’t benefit much going from 8 to 16 cores with regular Ryzen CPUs because they’re memory constrained. Threadripper has much higher memory bandwidth.
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I assume there’s a risk reward calculation being made where all they care about are their yearly returns.

I know a guy who is quite rich off of Bitcoin (bought thousands when it was $2 and has held most of it). Refuses to pay taxes unless the IRS actually comes after him. So maybe these billionaires are similar. They’ll only pay if the IRS makes them and they’ll drag their feet in whatever way they can.
there's something much easier to bring 64 cores to its knees - chromium takes a loooong time to compile.
This is a good article, written in 2000. I think it was my introduction to the term "cargo cult" way back when.

> We call the imposter organizations sweatshops because they emphasize working hard rather than working smart

I wrote on a whiteboard at an office, early in my career, "Company motto: Work harder, not smarter" out of frustration following a meeting with a manager where that phrase was nearly stated verbatim. I had thrown in a ton of OT getting things working (I was young), including a nearly 36-hour run (7am Monday to 6pm Tuesday, with a few hours off for lunches, dinner on Monday, and a trip home to shower and change Tuesday morning). The OT was worth it, I fixed the thing that was blocking us and I set it up so that we wouldn't have that issue in the future. I identified various areas where procedural improvements would reduce our error rate in cases where we had repeatedly run into the same issue (or similar issues with a common root cause), and it was discarded by this manager with something like the above motto and "We don't do that here". This meant that I was going to get lots more OT (yay money!) but I just wanted to sleep at night again.
In the theoretical sense what you care about is whether you can safely assume those hashes will always be unique.

In the practical sense what matters is whether you can safely assume the hash for a particular user in a particular system will ever be unique.

E.g., if I had a snapshot of a database mapping identities to password hashes and a log of all the hashes that had been computed by the auth server, I could make very reasonable guesses about who logged in at what time.

With that said, I am not a lawyer and I have no idea what the legal significance of all that might be.
There is a similar phenomenon when Bitcoin is discussed on HN.
Nope. In particular, they should be very careful with watching for follow on apps that duplicate all or part of the name of a successful app.

They wouldn't let me submit an app: "Faceboook", they similarly shouldn't allow scammers do the same for anyone.
Pump and dump? Were they the ones who removed the ability to sell stocks? I guess it's important to spread that misinformation around.
A court case where he is judged guilty of a crime. Anything else is literally just an unproven accusation.
Larger capacitors tend to have much higher output resistance. They can dump their power quickly, but not nearly as fast as a tiny capacitor.
I've never had an issue knowing my blinker was on or not. Honestly, the action just feels better to my hand, like the difference in typing on a mechanical keyboard vs a membrane keyboard. There's also the practical benefit that the stalk is always in the same position, so you don't have to fumble around to toggle high beams while the blinker is on or vice versa.
Imaging and distortion directly affect quality.
In local laws over here only the current state of deed book matters.

Whatever gets there, input by trusted and certified notary, IS the current legal standard of law. No exceptions.

If legal proceeding happens that wants to restore ownership, a new state is written into that book - it does not return to the previous state.

if fraud happens you can clearly see who, when did it, and can do another change restoring it to proper current state.

While also recording who fixed that mistake.
The old MIT leglab website is still live and hosted by csail. Wayback machine has oldest capture back in 1996. I checked a few of the images of the older robots and wayback machine shows the links were unchanged since96. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/leglab/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210126053221/http://www.ai.mit...
wait til you really think about the covid bubble for more than 2 minutes. at a population level, you'll see a broad range of misperceptions everywhere. you'll see people missing the forest for the trees (private gatherings vs masks), focusing on trivialities (restaurants, fomites, masks again) and simply ignoring how much low-level emotion (fear, impotence) and instinct (othering strangers) drive our beliefs (have to protect ourselves from those selfish others, rather than the friends and family who present the highest risk).
do we even know conclusively when they were actually built?
It's partially a transient problem: mRNA vaccines is new technology that has never seen commercial use, so it's expected that initially you'll have production capacity problems. (Not to say that countries should not prepare for future pandemics.)
I feel this article is gas-lighting the audience. Buried midway through the article is the important tidbit that as part of the DPA, Smith has agreed to pay $139 million USD. And, over the years, he has given away more money to charity than owed in taxes, making him very sympathetic to a jury.

Ergo there’s no chance of prosecution, he’s given more than he owes to charity, and has still agreed to pay back most of what he owes. It’s not perfect, but the system is working.
If you participate in a business that can impact your decisions as a regulator or policy maker, that's a conflict of interest. The problem isn't the price of the speeches. It's the fact that she got paid that money by someone who has a huge interest in a financial system that she's charged to oversee.

> delivering a speech that she may have delivered in other venues does not strike me as necessarily of conflict

This argument totally ignores the fact that the conflict of interest arises from the transaction, not from the content of her speech.
Thank you! Please do let me know if I can make it more useful in anyway.
According to the moderators of HN astroturfing is not a thing on this site! You are just mad that stories disagree with your world view. Lol.
I've worked through Beautiful Racket before, though it's been awhile. I think my main issues are

1. You need to install the Beautiful Racket package, which makes the starting point for creating the languages easier, but is not representative of how it's used in the Racket Docs (not that I'm saying the Racket docs have a better intro)

2. Uses Brain Fuck. It feels like there has to be a language that fits in between unintelligible but easy to parse, and extremely verbose and complex. (It's probably scheme but that's taken in this context)

And sometimes I just need to see the same problem from a few different angles before it will stick. That's why Greg's Fear of Macros wasn't able to take me all the way to a comfortable place with macros.

I think BR is a great book, and I definitely learned a lot from it, I'll probably go back to it at some point to see if I can get it to click. I've been on a Racket kick recently so I've got a decent amount of hours into the language.

Also I'm always struck with a feeling when I'm coding in Racket where I go "Would a dsl be good here?" I know Racket makes it easy but I don't even know about what makes a good dsl, or how certain dsls might be harder than other based on the way Racket does L.O.P. Again this might just be from inexperience.

Lastly I would also like to see some examples of typed languages being created using typed Racket. I know there is the Turnstile library, but from my understanding it makes it easier to created typed languages, but that the possibility was there before. I'd rather learn the hard unabstracted way first before moving to using a library.
Great work! I see that you're using Yahoo Finance data. Yahoo deprecated its API so your data could stop flowing at any time. You can try free services like Alpha Vantage [0] or Google Finance formulas in Google Sheets exposed as an CSV / JSON. Another way is to hook up a freemium service like IEX [1] and ask your users to BYOK - bring your own key. I use IEX for my stock watching browser extension [2] and eat the costs for my users. It's not too bad.

[0] https://www.alphavantage.co/

[1] https://iexcloud.io/

[2] https://finance.shan.io/stock-inspector-discover-new-compani...
Also encountered a few QAnon believers here back in the day which completely surprised me.
I suspect the stories will emerge once the GME price truly tanks. No, I don't think it'll be millions of people, but reading the level of delusion in that sub I don't think it's going to be tens of people either.
This actually makes the world a better place. Every serious Java project is capable of meeting Maven Central‘s few requirements and publish artifacts there. Bintray is just a place to put stuff on the internet. Which serious project would use artifacts from such a place?
The real service is their hosting:

"If running it yourself is too daunting, we can host it for you on your own dedicated virtual server for as little as $5 per month."
The vast majority of people without P.Eng do not advertise themselves as engineers as deception, as it's their employers which have given this title. If that is still against the law, I suppose I am witness to many thousands of companies breaking the law by employing many more thousands of people that they have labelled as engineer, yet without P.Eng.

LinkedIn would be a simple search on this. Can you say why there are no fines or action being taken? I work with hundreds who have been given the engineer title, yet many more of us do not have P.Eng designation than those that do. How on Earth have the thousands upon thousands of us not been contacted even once in our decade(s) of employment, over multiple companies? We are openly breaking the law, after all, correct?

I believe the employees personally would be exempt, correct? As they are have been given these titles by their employing body and not self proclaiming a different title given upon them.
Neither approach is wrong when used correctly! What a wonderfully written article.

I feel like 98% of articles and opinions in popular media could learn a lesson from this articles template. So often folks are busy arguing the obvious extremes that they completely miss the point of what actually matters.
Hahaha, fuck me, CPUs are fast. That's wicked. 15 mins. A billion lines of C. Insane. Wonder if there's some IO speed to be gained from ramdisking the inputs.
I don't know in early 2000 but this time everybody's calling it by its name, a bubble.
I you are in an apartment get with your neighbors and perhaps set up some cameras. If its an inside job, you'll have to deal with this neighbor. Its not super likely the Police are going to get greatly involved.

When I had a situation where I had trouble getting packages I got a mailbox-etc mailbox where the package were dropped off at the store and I could pick them up (now the UPS Store).

There is a youtube series were someone leaves fake packages with fart spray and multiple cell phones to track the packages. They're using cell phones gps to track down the packages.

These people can be dangerous (one package seems to be destroyed by gun shots...) so I'm not sure confronting them on your own is a great idea. https://www.youtube.com/embed/h4T_LlK1VE4?start=968
>> Osso is an open source microservice...

It's not. At the bottom of the README you then state:

"While not technically an open source license..."

It's flat out not an open source license. And I think its disingenuous to have "open source" right in the first paragraph of the README.

I think you should change any mention of Open Source to "Source Available", to avoid this confusion.

The fact that the acronym OSS is in the company name is probably not helping.

EDIT: I went ahead and created a PR :)

https://github.com/enterprise-oss/osso/pull/706
That was my immediate reaction as well. Even on a cycle per day that is ~27 years for Grid usage while still retaining 90% of capacity.

Consider weight and volume isn't a concern for Grid Scale Energy Storage I assume this is a good fit?

Not to mention for something like AirPod....... no more throwing them away due to absurd Battery degradation, at the expense or lower connection time.
1 billion dollars to someone who has 2 billion dollars is not a lot.

1 billion dollars to someone who has 0 dollars is a lot.
Alternately, try any of these names + any of "keynote"/"summit"/"presentation".

Here's Dan Schulman at Goldman Sachs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_jVu5T80g

Or at a conference that runs $2300-$7000/head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_jVu5T80g

This is admittedly a little bit murky, since some of these appearances might be part of the person's "day job": Helmut Panke talked at a bunch of auto shows about BWM and its new products. The ones I linked above, however, seem like they're probably not.
If someone is going to ruin their life or retirement based proximately to posts in a Reddit forum, it’s very hard for me to assign root cause to the Reddit forum.

At most that’s the first or second “Why?” but there is surely a deeper issue.
They've tried to pivot once into toys/merch which was less than successful.

The idea that they can pivot into tabletop hubs has been raised a few times, but I just don't see it - if you've ever talked to a tabletop game store owner, you'd realise that the "FLGS" model doesn't support that many businesses in a given area - even at 1/10th the density of gamestops, most are kept afloat by high margin items like magic the gathering cards or warhammer minis/paints. The tabletop/board game community stuff is treated either as a marketing expense or owner hobby. I don't see it sustaining a chain of Gamestop's size without serious downsizing.

Gamer bars obviously have licensing requirements like any other bar. Don't know how loose it is in the US, but good luck getting a bar approved in the middle of a shopping center in my country. Also, most gamestops just aren't that big.
Right. It's so easy to work to become a billionaire and it's not like most of them are born into generational wealth (They didn't have to work for it).

It turns out maybe we can work to make change while not also becoming billionaires. Most people don't need to be billionaires. But everybody needs Food/Housing/Healthcare.

`There is no law`. Well, there are laws. And they do require them to be taxed. And historically their taxes were much higher. But Reagan sold the Trickle Down economics story to the nation, and now they pay dramatically less.
There are streaming gaming services that don't deal with latency issues?

(Not being sarcastic. To my knowledge, no one has cracked this yet.)

My overall point in comparing to YouTube is that the internet WILL get faster. More and more people will have the kind of broadband needed to make this a good experience. I'm sure it sucks today. But what about 10 years from now?

Streaming video used to suck. Now it doesn't.

Streaming games currently sucks. Tomorrow it won't, and for the same reason: The infrastructure will catch up.
CG fundamentals was my favourite course in college. Going from drawing lines with the Bresenham algorithm to drawing polygons, filling polygons with Scanline, implementing ZBuffer, texture mapping and so on. Was a lot of fun even though I never ended up working with CG except for some hobby projects.
Thank you for your post, adding the reference:

[1] https://github.com/mop-tracker/mop
Agreed. Also, "seeking a waiver" from lawyers who work for you isn't exactly a high bar to clear.
But won't the billionaire be highly unlikely to have any hand in doing their own taxes? I'd imagine that you'd have someone doing that for you and have no idea of the details.

I'm significantly poorer than the billionaires, but the only thing I know about taxes is what forms I need to gather and mail to my tax guy.
Maybe what app stores should do is give apps a 3-star "implicit" review by default, when the user downloads and installs the app. This could possibly also be deleted when the user uninstalls the app.
This way, users who don't feel strongly enough about the app either way to give an "explicit" review are still represented in the app's overall rating, and the impact of early good/bad reviews is diminished.

On the other hand, this would probably cause app ratings to tend much more strongly towards the median, which could make them less effective signals of quality.