skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be the use case for this versus just having a Twitter account set to private? Personally I've never understood the appeal of private Twitter accounts since it seems to defeat the whole purpose of a fully-public platform, but it seems like this would largely do the same.
This was downvoted heavily but based on experience with my Viet family members and friends
Having known someone who owned and personally maintained a small apartment complex, you are wrong. My FIL is the hardest working person I know.
It's just an extension of how rural vs urban societies handle people doing weird stuff they don't like.

If someone's doing something dumb and weird in a well off rural area nobody cares as long as they aren't actively negatively affecting people. Like maybe people will talk behind your back and think you're an idiot but that's about it.

If someone's doing something dumb and weird somewhere densely populated and wealthy people pour over the bylaws, call whoever they can to harass you and generally try to force you to stop by making your life miserable.

If someone's doing something dumb and weird somewhere poor, regardless of urban vs rural, nobody gives a crap because people have bigger problems.
It's one of those technologies that "almost works", like Bluetooth or ring binders. It's not quite broken enough to the point where people can justify breaking compatibility and working on an alternative, but it is a major pain point to anyone who uses it.

Specifically, it introduces and entire class if new build/deploy issues, has a system that you need to actively fight against to get a UI that looks great, state synchronisation that feels like it was designed for UNIX terminals from 1985, and a whole host of corner case bugs and bizarre performance issues.
I actually wish it were more broken so that we could all finally move on to something good.
I used to work in residential construction, and have done pretty much everything from foundations to electrical to roofing. And so generally, if something needs to be done on my house, even relatively major stuff, I do it, or I could if I wanted to. But there is a world of people who have no idea how to do even the most basic things, and there is a whole industry set up to extract money from them.

So maybe not the best analogy but I see it the same way with computers, there has been a bifurcation between consumer tech that is designed to maximally extract money from the lay-public, and tech the way it is used by professionals, experts etc. The consumer world continues to drift away from the professional world, and I agree it's getting worse, but I think that's just a symptom of the tech becoming commercial. Open source has never been more active and widely used, I have more options to run more kinds of os/code on more kinds of hardware than I ever have before. So yeah, businesses have hollowed out the consumer version, same as if you hire a sears roofing crew to come do your roof, you are getting the minimum product for maximum cost. And that's a problem. But it's not necessarily an existential threat to our continuing to have computers we can use the way we want to.
Nice. I have a Red Hat Linux port for PS2, but haven't booted it in almost 20 years thanks to missing a sync-on-green monitor.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think macOS/Mac OS has added much in the way of UI enhancements for desktop usage since 10.6.

And by desktop usage, I mean, literally, using a computer on a desk with a mouse and keyboard.

They have absolutely made some nice enhancements when using a laptop with a trackpad. And obviously there’s many under-the-hood improvements. But in terms of old-school I-have-a-mouse grey-beard users like me? Meh.

This, of course, makes sense as a priority, given they sell so so many laptops.
This is an interesting post, because it squares with my personal small team experience with rebase which goes against what I perceive as the common opinion. We were having some serious merge conflict issues and I explored rebase as a tool to avoid them, and in the process we definitely had some lost history. Really once the branch reaches any appreciable level of complexity, I think it's best to leave it as is and start up a new branch if you really need to redirect the PR.
Can you elaborate? AFAIK, the ARM on the PI is real silicon and controlled by Broadcom firmware via the VideoCore GPU. Where is the MSFT part?
I’m not sure if the RAM can be defined as on chip but it’s on the same package.

A chip can contain multiple dies.

Usually chips were just discrete packages basically a die that is packaged for integration onto a PCB.

A die is just the bare silicon that has an IC etched into it.

With interposers and modern multi chip packages things are a bit more complicated.

Since the RAM dies are packages they themselves can be defined as chips too while the CPU needs to be integrated to the substrate first.

At this point it’s a question is the CPU+RAM combo can be defined as a chip on its own or is it a hybrid/compound package I would go with the latter.

If the memory and cpu dies / chips would’ve been stacked like say the raspberry pie one I would call it RAM on chip tho.
>So the charge is even more ridiculous that it first appears. Griddy is literally passing on the price set by the state government — and which they in turn were paying to suppliers.

On the other hand...

>Unlike many state price gouging statutes, [Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act] does not contain an exception for increased costs

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/don-t-mess-texas-price-...
Snow Leopard was incredible. At this point apple needs 2 or 3 consecutive bug fix releases for each platform. Every time a new os comes out I now dread upgrading to it for fear of what will stop “just working”.
I remember how on Snow Leopard opening the lid of my laptop instantly showed the password prompt. What are more recent versions doing that it takes two or three seconds to show a text box?
1. People connected their bank and credit card accounts directly to Griddy

2. It appears that Griddy bills pretty frequently so people could watch their accounts drop in real time

3. The numbers are REALLY dramatic. Even if people get their money back, losing $17,000 makes a huge impact
For me SL was one of greatest release of OS X.

It's so easy and sleek that i miss good old times!
Yeah. I think suing here is dumb and premature, given that the state gov is likely going to make the customers whole anyway. But even if you have to sue right now, this seems like a bad approach.
I wonder how much money she saved on an average bill - 10k is a lot of money, but if she's been getting advantageous rates for years and years this might not even put her into the red overall.
unfortunately in the US you can't go knock on the car's window because you are likely to be shot since there is no gun control.
This model uses ARM. There's only one alternative to the default ChromeOS on the Flip: Arch, which has an extensive writeup about this model on their wiki. Pity it's not Intel, or I'd have a wide variety of options.

Cloudready is great though. I've tried it on multiple machines and had great results every time. Still hoping for a Cloudready Pi port now that Google owns Cloudready.
Yes, and that person did not blindly consign themselves to their fate as a "restaurant employee". They acted and are also a landlord, because people are not one-dimensional characters that fill in the background in your worldview. They are people in their own right with their own ambitions and plans and are capable of directing their own lives. They don't have to live within whatever narrow conception you happen to have about their current employment.
I remember reading some story way back with some ... Sony exec? Someone saying that there were people writing engine code in Excel to be able to track the co processors and get the timing right.

Does anyone know of the truthiness of such a story? I'm learning FPGA design and even there, when timing is pretty controlled, people end up recommending design patterns where you gate stuff similar to how you would do it in general software design (expecting one branch to go faster than the other, etc)
This thread is oddly critical of people being upset that they were charged 5 figure amounts during a recession for something critical to survival
If there’s no data available about 256GB models, then there’s no way to assess whether their speculations are valid. I look forward to more data.

My 1TB NVMe drive in my Intel mac desktop is at 1% after 18 months, and shows some 46TB of writes by their data collection method. At least 600GB of the data is music albums that haven’t changed since I first copied it over, and I’m mildly curious whether it’s truly writing 32GB/day for 18 months (since I never run out of RAM and I don’t do large I/O activities).

But they’re all focused on M1 so I’m staying out of it and letting them do so.
I also have a feeling that having any sort of reach on these platforms inherently invites toxic behavior, but I think it is important to consider that certain groups often face more toxic behavior than others. And with that in mind, I think it is admirable to try and make these internet services less toxic for those groups.

For better or for worse social media can provide a lot of social capital and real capital.
From the sounds of it, the same reading they are using to suggest the M1 will only last 1-2 years has been observed on older Macs. So this whole thing seems overblown.
Well, your statement was quite general :)

My point is that free speech without impact is vastly better than no free speech at all, which is why I don’t see how it even makes sense to ask that question.

I think the key point is that free speech is the basic mechanism the public has to make societal or political changes. If speaking or protesting against the government is a crime, it means the public is lacking the basic mechanism to even propose such changes, let alone make them.
I have a Chinese coworker -- fairly young. He's an awesome guy, we hit it off very quickly and ended up sharing a lot of interests. One of the things that we settled on early was that, if nothing else, the people of the world can agree on at least one thing: a dislike and distrust of politicians/elite leaders. He wasn't foaming-at-the-mouth angry or anything, but he also wasn't fawning. Fawning over China as a cultural entity, yes, but we were able to have a good number of fairly frank discussions.

Of course, there are still topics that felt totally taboo in such half-personal/half-professional relationships; Hong Kong was a sticking point that we avoided, for instance, and I never would have dreamed of bringing up Tiananmen.
It's probably macOS doing something differently when run on an M1.
I find bitcoin to be the greatest innovation in finance in the 21st century, a watershed moment in economic development. For the first time any person can own a financial asset completely decoupled from any government. That’s the value proposition for me. It’s not nihilism - it’s optimism in the individual to succeed over the corrupt state.
"Griddy passes wholesale electricity rates directly to customers, who in turn pay the company $10 a month. This differs from fixed-rate electricity plans which offer a consistent rate regardless of market conditions."

Seems like this is just what the customer agreed to, if there isn't some price cap in their contract. Which isn't to say that the situation isn't awful or that I wouldn't investigate legal options if I were given a bill like that.
As funny as this is, I think it highlights a common problem with computers.

Very important details about privacy and security are hidden or hard to comprehend. In the real world it’s very easy to know the context of your conversation and how private it is. Online these mistakes are trivial.
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Look at Griddy's marketing from last year:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201201084406/https://www.gridd...

The "Price spike occurrence" section says that prices exceed $1/kWh 0.1% of the time, but it's really not clear what level of financial risk you're signing up for. Maybe even Griddy wasn't aware of the risks.

In hindsight, nobody should have signed up for this service unless they had a backup generator and a system to automatically disconnect based on price.
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Why was there not an upper limit on the price that customers are willing to pay?

This seems to fall in the same category of AWS customers accidentally having bills enough to bankruptcy.
I strongly recommend setting up and using virtual credit cards, you can use them to enforce spending limits and spend maximums. There are several services that allow this, for example my CC company supports them directly or there are several services that let you set them up backed by a debit card. That way, if your hosting provider overcharges you it'll just bounce.
> Another significant new feature in NumPy 1.20 is the type annotations.

Fantastic! I look forward not just to stronger typing, but also the opportunities to optimize based on stronger type information through a numpy heavy workflow.

Also the stride tools are nice.
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I guess the logical conclusion is to also sue the wholesale energy producers for charging the state-mandated inflated price.
This is an excellent advice. And as you do more advanced graphing you learn more about SVG, which opens even more doors for even more advanced or customized graphing.

With SVG as your canvas and a good framework for DOM manipulation (in my case it is mostly vue), and the shapes and scales available from D3, it really starts to feel like you have as much freedom as you would with a pen and paper.
She won’t see it this way and neither will the pitchfork equipped public.

Even if it puts her in the red, I hope the courts don’t succumb to the populism.
In the context of me live blogging my life and looking at everyone else live blogging their life, absolutely not. In the context of "I have friends and I want to talk to them with cute stickers", absolutely.

I just wish said friends would leave Facebook so I could leave Facebook.
There's a Linux emulator available in the App Store. This seems like a pretty explicit endorsement.
No. Forced arbitration is still a feature of the code.
I'm not an expert on electric power, but it seems like a pretty elastic good in the short term. Would bumping the price up so dramatically actually have an impact on supply?
If nobody can own anything, why did the indigenous people have any more right to it than the European settlers?
And the actual article says "Solid State Drive" - could be posted differently here to dodge the character count limit.
It's at least a little different: The Chinese tech companies are echoing and enforcing the party line, aiding and abetting government censorship.

US tech firms were positioning themselves as adversaries of the previous president. We'll see how things play out with the new administration.
My first thought when reading about this is that logging gone awry is a very likely cause. Could be the OS itself or apps doing it, but in either case a fix should be pretty reasonable.
> a financial asset completely decoupled from any government

is gold not one of these?
Maybe they transitioned from an earlier MacBook and feel like they are running the same apps? Though, of course, new architecture means that's a bad assumption.
Couldn't you do that with gold or even earlier, seashells?
I cannot believe you're blaming someone for not reading the million pages of fine print and not completely understanding the ramifications of a situation where your power is shut off for days with freezing temperatures, no water, no heat, sometimes no gas, and risking thousands of dollars of damage to your home with freezing pipes.

Please have compassion. I need to take a break from this site, these comments make me sick sometimes
Finland does it, at least on speeding tickets with a maximum multipler of 120 as of this [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
Oh wow no kidding. Was not aware of that. This article [1] seems to be the primary source for that. Also kind of funny that the ThreadX wikipedia page [2] randomly links to Intel Management Engine.

[1] https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-rasp...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX
It's much easier to earn $80k by not paying rent though. If we assume that the Chinese landlords had a well paying job they still had to spend years saving up money. A tenant can just decide to stop paying at any time if he knows he is immune from the court.

One reason why the housing market is such a shitshow is that there is antagonism between both sides. Tenants hate landlords, landlords hate tenants. Nobody will ever consider doing favors because the other side betrayed them.
All your metric says is that YC has had some very large successes. It says nothing about how likely a given startup is to succeed. Just because YC can get their hands on some good deals, it doesn't mean that most YC startups aren't crap that flame out. You have cause and effect reversed.

If you can get into YC then you can raise from any number of firms on equal footing.
Agreed. I've seen thousands of mac minis in CI farms writing 1+ TB / day (all day, every day) and they're slowly starting to die 4 years in. It's hard to write flash to death with that kind of write load. I wouldn't worry about that.
How big of a drive is it? So far, most of the 3%+ used ones have 2TB drives, which is the opposite of what you would naively expect.
> For example, I am not a car guy, so I just want my car to get me where I want to. I much prefer an engine I can't access that fits my needs over an engine that I can access but requires maintenance on my part. And I understand that people feel the same with computers.

Ironically your car is a bigger spy device than your phone.

Getting more and more locked down each year
Are there any numbers with precision below one digit? If not, 1% could mean a lot of things and muddle any takeaways to nil.
Url changed from https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/m1-mac-users-poor-ssd-hea..., which points to this.
Yeah you are right. You shouldn’t get any. Complete scam. I’ve sold all mine.
Contracting with an electric wholesaler is precisely what free-marketers do to try and save a buck and cut out that meddlesome utility middleman. You're giving up the stability of a pooled service in favor of shaving a bit off the price - this normally works in your favor except when it doesn't, and in this case it really doesn't.

I wouldn't say I'm critical of those people, I'm critical of the extremist laissez faire policies in Texas that led to this disaster in general and electricity wholesalers in particular. I am, however, critical of folks who would bemoan medicaid and disaster relief funds until it hits them - in this particular case I don't know enough about the individuals to judge - but asking for 1 billion in damages is pretty extreme if they lost 9k and were one of just 29k customers.
> using a different account to reply to questions than the toplevel post

> her comments were downvoted into oblivion

Haven't investigated this specific AMA, but in general, any reply to a AMA, by a account other than the one that posted the AMA, pretending to be the account that posted the AMA, should in fact be downvoted into oblivion.
Griddy's take according to the article is that the per-kilowatt-hour price was set arbitrarily by a political appointee. If the price were set by real-time auctions, that would be one thing, but if someone arbitrarily sets the price at $9 per kilowatt hour, it's not unreasonable that some people are going to be very angry about it.
You mean inelastic? Most consumers in texas are paying fixed rates, so they're not going to change their buying habits.
Actually there is quite a ton of self hosted cloud storage project but very little those that provide the other services Google has the biggest lock-in on - calendar, contacts, notes, galleries, bookmarks, collaborative editing, etc.

So personally I very glad they are not just trying to be yet another cloud storage tool but also working on these IMHO more important cloud services.
This is probably a good place to point out that regulation has its purposes. There is no way there should be a retail pricing regime in place where someone can end up with a bill like this for critical lifesaving infrastructure -- and that means regulated caps on prices.
> you need traction

Let's compare the experience of YC vs non-YC.

YC: you submit an application with about 30 inputs. One of them has to deal with traction, and it's clearly a very important one. If that's not looking good, you have 29 ways to make up for it. It's not easy, but every batch has startups that had 0 traction when they were admitted, so clearly it's possible. At the end of the day, you're guaranteed that a group of people will read your application and will discuss it internally.

Non-YC: to make an apples-to-apples comparison, I'll assume you have no prior relationship with the VC you're trying to reach. So you'll need an intro, which is nothing else but someone else taking on the burden of vouching for you. So someone at some point needs to believe that you're onto something. But if you don't know anyone, how do you get to that point, especially if you have no traction? Good luck with cold emails in that case!

> If you don’t already ... know a bunch of VCs, you won’t be raising money.

True for VCs, not true for YC. Just look at all the startups from India and Africa that got into YC and are killing it. You think they were super well-connected with the YC network when they applied?
This is fantastic and I'm one of those amateur "tribologists" you mention in one of your replies.

Have you looked into contracting with the US government, particularly the military? You might think of partnering with a company that's established in that space.
Yes? Freedom is speech is not equivalent to complete political equity. Those are separate ideas. You can be in a free, open society and still feel or even be powerless. You can be in a free society and be destitute.
How is it critical to say people should honor their commitments? Recession or not, we are a nation of laws.

There are plenty of fixed rate providers. She opted to take this risk to save a few cents/kwh the rest of the time. This is the trade off.
I neglected to explain it in my original post but bitcoin has all of the good properties of gold and none of the bad - primarily in terms of how easy it is to settle (especially over long distances) and the guaranteed fixed supply and emission rate.