skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone likes to claim that private equity firms strip their acquisitions down to the bone and ruin them. That is not an entirely unfair criticism. However, Fry's likely could have been saved by a smart, private equity-led operator, or, at least extended its life. Instead, it was family-run, in an increasingly challenging retail environment, all the executives last names are still "Fry." And now everybody loses: the owners, the employees, the customers, the landlords, the suppliers...
Ask HN: Do nice guys get penalized at work?
I’m wondering if men who are caring and supportive in the workplace stall in their careers, compared to aggressive ones.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned H-E-B, living in Austin I quickly grew to love the grocery store and they had some of the best generic items, often times better than the name brand competitor. After moving out west for a couple of years I miss that store.
I believe the point is smart contracts became incontrovertibly useful in the summer of 2020.
> The cellular stack is a shitshow though!

IOMMUs are a valid response to this concern that I once also held.

That, and no verified boot means if you were hit with a persistent worm through one of a bazillion Linux kernel exploits on the Pinephone, you wouldn't be notified.

Check out GrapheneOS.org for what's possibly the most cutting edge applied information on this topic. It's pretty comprehensive.

Also: we shouldn't throw the devices out! Just don't put them on a network that has any other valuable equipment.
I came across a forum post asking about this. As it says you need to remove the polariser layers which is fairly easy (last time I replaced a laptop LCD it fell apart on disassembly and I was presented with many layers of plastic), but OP couldn't find a transreflector layer that was suitable. Without that it's too bright in sunlight, but maybe for indoor use it's good enough. I wonder if something like window tinting films would work (as they are partially reflective depending on the tint level).

https://www.instructables.com/community/How-can-I-convert-a-...
I found this to be surprisingly interesting and novel - usually I expect to see really low quality content when it's a post about microservices, whether for or against the idea. This boils it down to isolation, which I myself have written about in a similar vein[0].

> at this point security people simply don't believe that any of the following (each one the very best technology available at the time) is totally safe

To be fair, we don't think anything is totally safe :) that's the point. Actually a lot of those things listed are why Chrome is so secure. I think this is a bit pessimistic about process isolation, which is actually quite powerful, but I get the point - there's no gap like an air gap.

I prefer to think of monoliths and microservices as being completely unrelated ideas - they aren't on a spectrum of "big to small", they're just two totally different ways of approaching software development. I might put "monoliths" closer to SOA, in that they both describe a very basic approach to a problem, whereas Microservices is not "small services" it's about bounded contexts, patterns, organizations, etc.

Anyways, I appreciated this post.

[0] https://www.graplsecurity.com/post/architecting-for-performa...
It's irrelevant to the parent post and discussion.
nice thing about LoRa is that it's fairly easy to setup coverage for your own facilities if you need it, so existing network coverage is less important.
Hydrogen could achieve something like 84.8 PWh: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/16/hydrogen-storage-in-s...

While it's unlikely to reach this value, it's such a high figure that actually can solve the energy storage problem altogether.
Just when I thought Firefox was going to emerge as the most pro-consumer browser...

Why can't there be a browser that is just... a browser?
Yeah, he also gave lots of attention to that obscure writer Chaucer. That guy owes Dan Simons big time.
We are building one too https://www.producthunt.com/posts/contra-3
not a single whole seller ever let me get something out of their stock. I must learn your secrets. but yeah it was a shit show
At least in some countries.

There are still a few better runs left.
The post alleges that this this is due to "aggressive swap". I suspect that the MacOS developers at Apple know their target hardware, so I'm wondering (if this is the situation) whether the developers realized it, but the product was shipped anyway.

FWIW, even as a developer who mostly stays out of the kernel, swap has long been on my mind for Linux laptops (e.g., keeping pre-SSD spinning-rust hard drives sleeping), and I pretty much always disable swap, even on desktops. Part of the rationale is, if I can't fit all the processes in (now) several gigabytes of RAM, something probably needs an OOM-euthanizing.
Tesco, in the UK, did this too but only recently. They used to have a 'basics' range with labelling that said nothing but 'cheap'!

Instead, they now have these wholesome-sounding brands such as Redmere Farms, Nightingale Farms, etc which imply you're buying from some twee family business instead.
It's because you have an ad blocker.
Random dislike of pets in public spaces puts a smile on my face as regular folk get a little taste of what it's like to live with social anxiety
"One example is that you still see loading icons everywhere. You can leave the phone for 6 hours and it will still say loading."

This has been an andorid universal on Pixels, Motorola, Xiaomi with carriers in 4 countries, I'm not optimistic it is anything BUT a fundamental bug in the OS?
You missed the fact where you were able to work on houses because construction uses common open standards / which would not be possible with vertically integrated houses that only work with a specific brand of furniture
The Art of the Desk Setup
Sorry, I guess I mean something like AR that lets you see through the pillars. I was thinking a hologram because if it is just a straight projection that other people can see, they might constantly think you're going to run over a pedestrian that has already safely passed from the drivers point of view.
But other screen technologies have actually _better_ contrast than eInk in direct sunlight (e.g. reflective LCD, mirror-backed). State-of-the-art eInk technology these days has actually WORSE contrast than in the early days! -- https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2021/01/20/contrast-on-e-i... (proving how much people care about it)

eInk's primary advantages are power (and only if your idle period is long enough; if you have to update it with any frequence you're going to lose pretty soon to a memory LCD); and angles/polarity (specially compared to LCD), which some people also claim produces less headaches.
Berlin's revolutionary rent cap – success or flop?
> Brought to you by the smartphone ecosystem. Smartphones are the most successful computers ever, but could a computer manufacturer pull off arbitrary update schedule, locked boot-loader and among other nonsense a decade ago? Now this has seeped into personal computers.

For sure, the PC were the exception.

If you wanted any updates on 8 and 16 bit home computers, you would buy a new computer.

OEMs have learned that the PC was a mistake (from their point of view) and except for the surviving desktops, we are back into the 80's.
The android loading issue has annoyed me to death on Pixels, Motorola, Xiaomi with carriers in 4 countries...I don't have any reason to believe it has something to do with anyone but Google, let alone xiaomi :)
There was one sample where the code written by gpt-3 had nonsensical grammar in the comments and another where it had an overloaded > operator with 3 parameters (is that even valid c++?)
The disaster of Etcd using go module
How about not avoiding contentious terms, but rather avoiding people who feel they can not only identify a person by a term used, but then also guess and imply everything they have to say ... those people know everything already, why talk to them in the first place.
M1 MBA 8GB/256GB, mostly safari with ~20 tabs avg and youtube, no spotify

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 25,160,936 [12.8 TB]
Data Units Written: 23,041,292 [11.7 TB]
Host Read Commands: 207,408,853
Host Write Commands: 98,285,538
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 173
Power On Hours: 101
> I'm glad to hear that some are intended to be EVs.

Sure, it's good for the planet, but what spaceship sounding craft will I have the pleasure of hearing every afternoon as it blasts full throttle every 30 yards between suburban mailboxes?
I hope microcenter doesn't go the same route as fry's. they need to keep the knowledgeable staff, I think they need to up their game in staff to be honest. also they need to update their fing stock more often and more accurately. also as much as it pains me to have to travel 40 mins to get to one, a limited number of locations is key, it helps reduce costs down.
Swap is most useful, when you (almost) never look at the swapped out data again.

That might sound stupid, but it occurs often enough in practice: eg code or data structures that were only used when starting off the program in question.

An optimally coded program wouldn't benefit from this. But real world programs often do.
You don't really need to err on the side of caution, you can just try some of the examples. The first example, https://i2160.csb.app/ runs well on my $120 3 year old Android phone. My instanced ducks example, https://os16k.csb.app/ only gets about 15fps but its doing more than most games or sites need albeit in a trivial way.

react-three-fiber isn't a magic bullet that will make all web 3D things fast. You still have to be sensible. It does make it much easier to prototype things though, and a lot of the time performance is great. And if it isn't then most of the code is quite straightforward to move to pure WebGL.
> upwork only has tops 25/hour jobs in usa

Honest question, but for IT stuff, why would it have stuff over $25/hour? It's going to be remote work, anyway, so there will be someone, somewhere, in a country with a lower cost of living, that will work for that money or even less. It's only normal that Americans won't be able to compete, over time :-)
I assume there would still be a side show to keep us distracted from the important things. And if current politics is good at one thing, it’s keeping people distracted with unimportant outrage.
They have a page for benchmarks. For both read and write, RaSCSI is faster than original hard disk Apple Macintosh (intended user) shipped with.
If you haven't been, Green Apple Books on Clement street is also great.
Many Vietnamese people move back to Vietnam when they get old, because the savings that'll have you struggling to get by in the US might well afford you a luxurious retirement in a beach village in VN.

Also in the 80s, many Vietnamese people had strong feelings about the US involvement in the Vietnam war ;) and moved as the result.

So I guess the best way to search would be to ask in /r/Vietnam
Your comment is the only one without a reply from the creator. Wonder why, makes me a bit suspicious.
In fact I do like my phone. And I tried cleaning, worked like a charm!

Considering the fast charging, like 20 minutes for 50% when charging through the laptop, I can even live with shorter-than-ideal battery life! Thanks!
> "oj" here is that it takes existing document, with any format

No. It takes JSON only. Which is one format out of 10,000 (though a popular one).

> There is clearly the table-like structure

It is a directed acyclic graph structure.

I won't disagree that perhaps in certain older tools oj may be better in certain situations. But Tree Notation (or more generally 2D/3D languages where positioning is the only thing used for syntax) are the future. The key thing to keep in mind is that without the colors in the last 2 examples OJ is not very useful or pretty. So to make oj nice you need to start adding parsers which are necessary for secondary notations. Then once you start adding secondary notations, 2D/3D langs make that orders of magnitude easier.
They are not replacement for each other. Canned ones taste completely differently. You cook different foods from them.

Less important point is that you dont need to soak them 24 hours in advance, that is excessively long. A day before is primary convenient time when to do it for people who soak them for that long.
Basically yes, though `{` and `}` also start and end expression blocks in JavaScript. So the JS formatter needs to be aware that it is working with a JSON object and not a complete expression.

Valid JSON:

{
"key1": "hello",
"key2": "world"
}

You could "trick" a JS formatter to format it by wrapping with a fake function, etc. Some minimum valid JS:

json({
key1: "hello",
key2: "world",
});

MongoDB has some JS libraries that use similar tricks to use JS parsers for their shell query format (which is similar to JSON). For example, around line 597: https://unpkg.com/browse/ejson-shell-parser@1.1.1/dist/ejson...
Oshkosh has been making trucks since 1917... and they make commercial vehicles too. For example, Jerr-Dan is one of their brands.
The OEMs gained all the money that they did not spend into R&D an OS.

Free beer rulez!

Even better, all the free beer OSes competing for a spot on IoT are BSD/MIT/Apache, expect zero contributions to upstream and OEMs to move away from Linux for such scenarios.
> I'm not fine with making an API use HATEOAS

And that's perfectly fine, but don't call what you're doing REST because it really isn't.
> The real problem here is that the M1 macbooks do not have a replaceable SSD. Even without this issue, SSDs do die sometimes and on every non Apple laptop you just buy a new m.2 sdd and everything is all good.

In the past, when the SSD dies on these older Macbooks, you just replace the SSD with a new one. Very important for long term use when it eventually goes out of warranty, since there would be no need to go to the Apple Store to get it replaced for a fee.

On the M1 Macbooks, thats it. It's bricked and your data is lost and no way to recover it. (If you didn't backup in advance) You might as well buy another one.

In my case, I will continue to use my old Macbook and wait until Apple fixes the excessive writes or swapping issues in a newer version of macOS. By then I would be getting a Macbook with a newer M1X or M2 processor that doesn't have the excessive swapping issues and the software ecosystem for Apple Silicon would already have caught up with it and will be optimised for the processor.

I said it before with Apple products [0] [1] [2] [3], I always ignore the first generation unless you want to be a bleeding edge beta tester trying to get work done or you're after collector editions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25066248

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638202

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852633

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300515
> "web of trust."

"Web of trust" is a pretty specific term that doesn't apply to TLS/SSL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Did you mean to say "public key infrastructure" (PKI)?
China court orders man to pay wife for housework in landmark case
having done IoT over 2G, 3G now LTE.... have a look at https://www.iotforall.com/cellular-iot-explained-nb-iot-vs-l... for an "explanation" IoT on the newer networks :)
I'd love to see what they think of the Aldi knockoffs of popular products. For example their cereal section has something like "Green Wizard with Marshmallows", "Fruit Rounds", and "Crispy Rices". Their inhouse brand name is something blatant like "Colonel Mills"
Fiverr - best turnaround times and least hassle, you can see all the gigs, pricing, and expertise up front. But have to do hard filtering.

Upwork - Biggest range. Can get a lot of crap, but the volume means a few diamonds. Better for open ended or larger engagements than Fiverr.

Individual freelancers - great if you find the right one that delivers. The downside, is without the middleman platform, there's more risk to the buyer of them disappearing or delivering late with now. BUT once you find indie freelancer they are gold.

Agencies - more expensive, but if the owner is in growth mode, they may end up being cheap for what they deliver. If already established, you get a risk-free transaction but more cost. Go to an agency if you have a big problem you want solved and handed off.

Manage collective of freelancers - if you're a killer project manager that can assemble and manage, go for it. Fiverr has a new Fiverr Business that seems to add a layer on this to help manage. Haven't tried.

TopTal - trying for the first time. Uncertain if worth it. They are good at sales, the floor seems much higher than Upwork. But if you're really good at filtering and interviewing, then you maybe should find your own as TopTal overcharges for the quality you get. Perhaps, still TBD.
Avoiding controversy is an act that supports the status quo.
* Microsoft are building a gig marketplace under their LinkedIn brand, taking on UpWork and Fiverr
Because it quite literally takes hundreds of millions of dollars to make a browser. So, you can either:

* Eat the costs because you're so wealthy you don't care (Apple, Google)

* Use the work of those who ate the costs (Waterfox, Icecat, Edge, Firefox-Fork-Of-The-Month-Whose-Only-Purpose-Is-To-Shit-On-Firefox-Lol-Palemoon)

* Find a way to actually make money (Firefox, Brave)

Needless to say, you entire lifeline being depending on Google when you're Firefox is horribly bad.
> If of course Oracle allows such comparisons in their terms and conditions...

Gold, Jerry. Gold!
Fedex buys trucks from companies like "Spartan Motors", that build in custom/specialized vehicles.

From wikipedia, Oshkosh seems be a company doing custom/specialized vehicles for all kinds of purposes, including military designs. Why does that seem like a "crazy" choice suddenly?
Nim despite having Python like syntax inherits much from Pascal. It was even originally written in FreePascal [1]!

I've come to appreciate `var` and `let` blocks in Nim that I believe come from Pascal syntax:

let
mnist = load_mnist(cache = true)
# Training data is 60k 28x28 greyscale images from 0-255
# Change shape from [N, H, W] to [N, C, H, W], with C = 1 (unsqueeze). Convolution expect 4d tensors
X_train = ctx.variable x_train.unsqueeze(1)
...

However unlike Pascal syntaxes (and Ada), Nim remains less verbose and feels less "straight jacketed" for it. It's odd but while it encourages safer code than C its doesn't feel quite as stifling. You can do most any pointer manipulations you might need, but using builtin functions (i.e. `addr` or `unsafeAddr`) rather than symbol operators.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25242926
2: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/blob/master/examples/...
>Half the store was produce and such -- milk, eggs, lettuce, etc, and the other half was rows of TTL parts, memory chips, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. It blew my mind. I bought a 68000 CPU, 128KB of DRAM chips (64Kx1 density back then), a perf board, wirewrap wire and a wrapping tool, EPROMs,

This would have been an absolutely amazing store to have locally in 2020.
It's interesting to see people treat other people's comments as propaganda just because they are expressing a different view.
It would be nice, at least we would have again a mobile OS with first party support for .NET, but I doubt they will bother.

Then there is the whole issue with the code quality from Enlightenment.
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I love D3 and am always shocked by Mike Bostock’s willingness to help. Ten years of D3, yes, but ten years also of Mike answering questions in great detail across GitHub, SO, Twitter, etc. And that’s on top of maintenance + running a startup. Some people just have unbelievable drive.

In other news, I’ve enjoyed using D3 over the years, and always jump on visualization projects as a result. Here’s my favorite thing I’ve made while I was learning D3: https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
I'd say always using proper grammar in your comments would be a dead giveaway :)
Has Apple responded? This is not a small issue..
They kind of still do the split home brands, the “Essentials” brand is the super budget stuff and their “Woolworths” brand is the better-packaging stuff. There’s definitely products I’ve noticed that have both versions too.

Then they have heaps of other brands that are owned by them but have “proper” sounding brand names to give more illusion of choice.
Leave it to ecologists and other biodiversity experts? Not everything warrants an opinion from economists.
Because developers need to be paid for their time and there isn’t enough charity in the world to pay them without advertising, nor is the general public willing to pay $10 for an ad-free Firefox. I probably prefer this compared to Mozilla’s deal with Google to be the default search engine- sponsored tiles can go to a variety of sites, but the search engine deal pushed even more market share to a single player.
Most of the traditional car manufacturers are also defense contractors (although some like Ford have spun of their businesses).
Arc takes ~15-30%, they just take it from the client's side instead of the freelancer; but your rate isn't the one the client is paying.

I do like them a lot though and have gotten clients through them (and codementor; though that last one is, too, getting polluted with very-low-level coders just randomly accepting jobs they do not have the skills for; having used it as a client recently, I've been less impressed)
> It’s more profitable for Apple when users replacing entire computers than just RAM + SSD.

Are there any hard cold data on how often a mac user gets a new laptop vs a pc user? It would also be interesting to see how common it is for pc users to add ram/disk during their pc:s lifetime.
Yikes, sorry. There only seems to be a vague notion of supposed “limited market use” for e-ink which means that volume is low and therefore R&D investment is low and so on. Patents are a convenient scapegoat, for lack of something more convincing. I admit my opinion was shaped by the HN peanut gallery.

It seems kind of obvious to me that if it was cheaper people would reach for it more often and find cool uses for it. There’s some more circular logic for you.