skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not USB4 so it can't connect to other computers. And it's already legacy, with limitations (no sharing mtiple streams on the channel, so no mixed DisplayPort). It's not Thunderbolt so it can't connect to thunderbolt pcie devices.

It's about more than the throughput. It's about usability. TB4 and USB4 both have some great usability leaps over USB3.
There are some good subreddits out there. r/experienceddevs springs to mind
Can the link/title be updated to the MacRumors article that got a confirmed statement that it’s being discontinued from Apple?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/06/apple-confirms-imac-pro...
I bought my own domain and use whatever-service@mydomain.com to avoid exactly this problem.
It's not about criticism of the movie, it's about where you make the judgement that the people who watch it are "idiots".
And if you're on desktop make sure to plug it in the right jack port. I spent 3 years wondering why all the mics I bought were garbage until I realized it was my front panel that was garbage and was messing up the signal.
I made a service to handle subscription cancellations
Wikipedia: Multiyear ranking of most viewed pages
i love to bookmark HN threads instead of articles sometimes. especially for technical stuff. the commments usually have a lot of good discussion and related links.
I 100% agree with some of the trends you mentioned

1) lightweight isolated computation - VMs, containers and the lot.

2) asynchronous io - user space green threads, epoll, event loops and the likes to have single OS process handle 1000s of connections

3) distributed - scale up compute + have it run close to user. Cloudflare workers, edge@lambda, fly.io. They’re all moving to this direction.

4) polyglot micro services - rather than one big thing written in a single language, many small things that talk to each other via HTTP & grpc. They can be independently changed and scaled up without having to restart the whole system.

Erlang + webassembly are a great fit for this paradigm.

Seeing the success of fly.io, Cloudflare workers and other cloud providers, this definitely has legs and I would love to try it out.
In a healthy company, I don't think you can outsource any work on the core product without making the end result worse. Even things like translations need lots of back and forth and the feedback loop needs to be really tight. It has to be clear to the user in the culture what you want to say and the things are very subtle at times, like the eye icon in the password field to show the password. In some cultures, that might be associated with something creepy or negative maybe, but you just don't know. Show or hide may be twice as long as in the languages you know which breaks your assumptions and makes the slick UI less slick or the error messages less clear in that particular setting.
I'm a neuroscience PhD candidate finishing up my degree and transitioning to gov/'industry' in ~ a month. I've had a great experience with great mentors, but there are MANY problems with the current system (at least in bioscience/medicine).

1. Academia is a feudal system.

To get in, you need a glowing letter from 'Someone Important We Know' from 'Big Name University'. Sure there are some admits with letters from less important people/schools, but if we are being honest, we know that is a big minority (I think this also accounts for the lack of diversity in science, but that is a different topic).
To advance in your career (get a postdoc/faculty job), guess what is also the most important thing? 'Glowing Letters From Important People We Know'.

The next most important thing is 'Big Paper From Journal We Know (Cell/Nature/Science (CNS))'. The dirty secret of biomedical science is that getting 'big' papers very often depends on who you work for. Anectdata, but I've seen many garbage papers in CNS, where I can't believe it is in this journal, only to see ohhh it is because 'Big Name Lab at Stanford/Harvard/JHU' with a track record submitted it... I see. Glam journals like glam authors, if you don't believe that you are unusually optimistic or uninformed.

2. There is little or no opportunity to get validate-able credit for any of your work.

The only way you get document-able credit for work is your (maybe 1 or 2) publications and any fellowship/small token grant you managed to get (there are very few). I mentioned this in a comment below, but I have spent months of my life creating data and figures for grant applications (that were won or not), and I practically get 0 credit or recognition for that work. My name is not on the grant, despite me doing virtually ALL of the work for it (ideas and experiments) because I am phd candidate and cannot actually receive the funding from an NIH R01.

The vast majority of my work will go completely un-credited (both inside and outside of academia) unless someone inside academia that I might want to work with happened to see my mentors talk where they gave me a shout-out on a slide.

If I leave academia, I have no 'proof of work' for anything outside my paper and thesis (no one will read it). I can't claim authorship on the very important $500K+ grants that I practically wrote and won myself. Those don't go on my CV/resume, and if they did then people looking could look up the grant and see I am not in fact listed as an author or contact.

So in the end, what is a student or post doc in a bad situation going to do? You can leave after 3/4 years as a PhD student with no savings, and very few marketable skills, and start over in another lab or try to find a non-academic job that values half a phd? It is worse for postdocs, who have 'invested' 10+ years and either have to suck it up to get that letter, or leave with nothing (also no savings).

I think a lot of it boils down to the feudal system of letters+publications = value

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That feels like a personal attack, which is disallowed. In any case, I think you didn't read the article above:

"“EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” a spokeswoman for the company said in an email. New copies of the six books were no longer for sale online at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble on Thursday afternoon, which put eBay among the most prominent platforms for the books to be sold."
FusionAuth also has advanced registration forms and we are working on a lot of really awesome improvements around sign-in and sign-up workflows.

Stay tuned for some major updates in the coming weeks! ;)
FreeData?

Liberdata / Liberitadata?
I agree with others, especially graeme's idea of HN as "a slot machine with positive expected value". I get ton of new ideas and ways to approach things by reading through the comments after getting my own view of an article. Just that is enough for me to think I get more value from HN than the time I spend on it.

One concrete thing I've managed to do is earn a lot of money on reading and understanding the sentiment of users who know more than me. The concrete scenario is around AMD as a stock, which I invested in late September 2019, only based on reading and trying to understand users and why users here prefer AMD rather than Intel for most common tasks.
A few years ago (~2017) I built an app that uses a hybrid backend. As a user you can choose if you want to use a WebDAV server of your own or simply the builtin AWS backend. That way, people who care about their data can use their own server (e.g. a Nextcloud) as a backend and everyone else doesn't have to bother.

Sadly the code quality is prototypical at best and while I still use the app multiple times per week, I never released it and have quite a few leanings which I want to implement (like rewriting the sync logic in a separate library, changing the server side data model to improve performance, completely reorganize the user interface and add more features to the app), but aren't coming to due to other priorities.

However, what I also learnt is that it is possible to build something like it, even if your use-case includes advanced topics like offline collaboration. My hope is that one day we will have a library that make these things for developers as easy as firebase and every app will have it out of the box.
Last I heard, KFs are still essential for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) applications.
>They’re not dropping configuration and listing “while supplies last” on any of their other Intel products.

That's because they have plenty of supplies to their other Intel products, and continue to build them even because they are crucial to tens of millions of customers, whereas the iMac Pro is a limited units higher-end product -- whose stock has dwindled and whose any replacement will come after 2021 and more pressing ARM releases (the standard iMac, the 16" Macbook Pro, the Mac Pro, and so on).

They have stopped selling items that became available again in new versions/designs many times in the past, with similar "while supplies last" fashion.

Remember how the Mac Pro wasn't renewed for 5+ years and there were similar cries, and then a new model came out, with an updated "recycle bin" design, that Apple has been working on for the best part of those years?
Out of curiosity, instead of killing products, why don't they raise the price so the production of fewer of them is profitable?

There's probably a gap in demand for them up to say a +50% price increase, but there may be a market for fewer of them at double or more the price.
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Stanford refuses to give student with cerebral palsy a scribe
Maybe they just don't want to? Maybe some employees really abhor the idea of having any part in it?

Personally, I wouldn't necessarily care too much. But these people's opinions are just as valid as the other two participants' to that transaction.
I think it's important to be a bit careful in "ranking" entertainment activities in the absolute, rather than purely by personal enjoyment. The knowledge/information retention rate from most light reading (i.e. without taking notes, researching context, re-reading, etc.) is surprisingly low, really, and it's better not to drink one's own kool-aid in that regard - no, the quantity of books read in a year doesn't neatly equate to understanding, just to, presumably, a lot of good fun.

"I spend my time doing better things than you do" risks coming across as arrogant, rather dissuades others from reading more, and also closes one's own mind to considering the strengths and depth of other types of media.

That said, I enjoy reading as much as you do. I am extremely grateful to my parents for encouraging the habit - I think reading books taught me as a young child to empathize with others around me, by letting me into the internal thought-worlds of their characters and getting me used to inhabiting other viewpoints. In that sense I think reading can also be very formative for comm skills during a certain time of life.
Most point estimates I’ve been a part of have not been anonymous. Have you had a different experience?
Imaginary rights.
And this kind of cherry-picked reply-replies is why I'm happy that some people hate HN. Let them find a different place to misunderstand comments and focus on something irrelevant :) Then the rest of us can assume the best of the people we discuss with.
The American Dream Is Alive on Mars
So imagine your annoyingly successful neighbour suddenly loses everything in a stock market crash because he was margin leveraged to the eyeballs.
The direction of the timeline can be discussed here: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/issues/157
> This stuff is so complex and interwoven it's almost like we need a specialised profession to help clarify the legal aspects.

Haha, Agreeed.
See also: Vitrified forts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrified_fort
I’m not a psycologist so I wouldn’t know, but doesn’t that ignore the fact that some of these bands, books, movies and series specifically target young girls and exploit this sense of community building and turn the emotions and expect reaction up to 11?
Thank you for that (and the exaggerated-for-explanation example was helpful rather than being strawman).

I now see where my use of “guide” could have been read to be passive (like your bathroom vanity mirror or a gutter-blocker in bowling) where I intended for it to be periodically actively influential (while still being absent hour-to-hour of the work). Your last sentence of your GGP comment was much closer to my intended meaning.
I'm no expert but it could place you in a situation where you are faced with divulging a legal* medical prescription as a condition of keeping your job.
That's just planning poker.
I scan Reddit wide but this sub I didn't know
I have yet to encounter this.
Except graduates students are not youth / children.
Show HN: Lensflare – The Next Unsplash
Hey guys, I made an image sharing website somewhat like Unsplash. I would like to hear your thoughts on it please.
https://lensflare.cf/
I would not have expected an AVISynth reference in 2021. VFW for the win!
I'm not a bit surprised they're doing it. I literally have an iMac Pro, 18 core Xeon with 64 gigs RAM, and a newer M1 Macbook Pro with 16 gigs RAM that was a quarter the price.

The M1 laptop at a quarter the price is faster than the maxed-out Intel-based iMac Pro. Not for everything… I do streaming using software x264 encoding and can set the quality levels way higher on the iMac Pro as it's native and 18 cores (the laptop's running OBS in Rosetta and has 8 cores, four of which are efficiency cores). But for some things the laptop's already a bit faster, consistently, right now. At a quarter of the price.

I'm guessing their experiments with scaling up what's in the initial M1-based Macs to more power vs. just maximum efficiency (for instance, a desktop that doesn't need to get 20 hour battery life and can actively cool itself) are turning out so shocking that they know they've got to kill the current product line, immediately.

I bought my iMac Pro in June 2020. That's a little over half a year ago, and I'm still frustrated that they took my money knowing they've got this in development. It's a good thing it has such a nice screen and still has plenty of use, but it's going to be absolutely decimated by what comes out next. It's pretty well decimated now by my little laptop if you count how much energy is wasted, and how for certain tasks the giant 'Pro' monster absolutely cannot keep up with the introductory M1 models running native code, at a quarter or an eighth of the cost.

There is no WAY they can keep selling their current line. Right now they shouldn't be selling anything that isn't an M1 or some other Apple Silicon.
I have the opposite problem: I wish I could manage to watch more than one film a day! Although I am not watching inane and streamed content, but rather classic auteur cinema that I torrent Blu-ray images of and maintain my own collection. I do appreciate literature and I read a lot – and even more when I am traveling and away from my home cinema – but I have always been jealous of people like Richard Linklater or Toru Takemitsu who managed at times to watch 500 films a year and thus gained a vast knowledge of the art form.
I tried the Hey trial a few weeks ago and fell in love. I’d switch everything tomorrow if they had a web calendar.
Besides anything else I don't expect they want the transition away from Intel to last any longer than necessary.
The main benefit I get from HN is some level of knowledge about newer technologies and what people are thinking about them. My day job is not very innovative so it’s really easy to fall way behind in knowledge. From reading HN comments i can see what other people are thinking about things and see what’s fashionable right now.

This helps me at my day job to take a lead in getting our systems more up to date
Spend enough time in front of a specific computer (or little time in front of a lot of different computers) and you'll eventually come across the same thing. In my (around) 20 years in the industry I've had (mostly laptops) die for various of reasons, most often the motherboard and screen giving out, but also the CPU and harddrives. Happened a few time with desktop computers that been 24/7 under stress as well.
I’m not sure about academia. I only have a bachelors. But I can tell you right now the primary reason I started my own company was to avoid working under some overpaid product manager type sociopath. If you can find a job without having this type of person control what you do it’s easily worth a 50% pay cut, if not more.
Why Real Time Analytics Are More Than Just Faster Business Intelligence
I suppose anyone can say "Your argument is coming from your bubble" without saying much else. It's not a great argument. But I think I'd like to hear why you think your read on the situation is better than mine.

Here's why I think I've got a good read on this: I'm in my 40s and I have friends, family and acquaintances from all walks of life. I specifically live my life so that I don't have a bubble or a lot of dependencies. I just hang out a lot online and I'm reporting what I see.

My 10 year old niece loves anime and video games. I have some friends in their 20s and 30s who love anime and video games. I hang out on Twitch, Reddit or 9gag and almost exclusively peruse these sites using the "popular" firehose - I always see lots and lots of references to anime, video games and comic-book movies. Actual comics/comic-books do not come up quite as often - but cos-play does.

I don't really like anime. I enjoyed some classics when I younger - titles such as Akira, Ninja Scroll and uhhh Blood: The Last Vampire. I play one video game: Rocket League. Other than that, I'm not what you'd call a "gamer".

On Twitch though, I definitely see high school kids with tons of viewers playing all sorts of games and talking about anime.

What's your experience?
> In order to keep the EV/time positive, I have become more disciplined around which articles I decide to read the comments on.

Can you expand on your methods here? I still get value from HN but want to dial things back a bit.
You just tried to label someone. You must be an X.

His/her concerns are valid. We should never have to resort to name shaming people as “morons”. That doesn’t make people feel included.

You can be both a competent human being, and an empathetic one.
> lightweight isolated computation

Sounds good, as long as we can have structural sharing between processes on the same CPU, for performance.
> Almost always by year 4+ most PhD students are fatigued and starting to get very weary

Currently experiencing this weariness and my output isn't great. Covid restrictions + WFH are making it worse I feel but ultimately it's my responsibility to do well. Any tips for not looking like a hopeless case to your supervisor at this stage?
> The M1 laptop at a quarter the price is faster than the maxed-out Intel-based iMac Pro.

Even with the "not for everything" guard, this is still some seriously heavy BS.

iMac Pro wasn't used by people who ran Geekbench, but by people who benefitted with bespoke accelerator card, multiple display outputs (which M1 significantly restricted) and support for large amount of memory

Seriously, let's avoid this type of hyperbole and silly comparisons.
I found my current job on here. It was on a Who's Hiring post awhile ago. One of the better things to happen to me and my family in years.
Agree, PHPStorm for me is a productivity monster
I'm not sure what you mean. I can certainly point to examples of actors, directors, and journalists who've said that comic book movies are dumb and everyone needs to grow up. It's not the socially dominant view nowadays, but I don't think Twilight hatred is dominant either.
you can expand the ram, though, right? for some workloads, that's still going to be key. but yeah, I hear the frustration. I've been on the fence about getting a refurb 27" iMac. have been mostly laptop based for years, but the pandemic made me reconsider a desktop system again. Then... M1 news came out and... it's all up in the air.
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Almost all of those images are from large Chinese cities.
If you add "farm" to your simple google search:

1930 images china farm

You get images that look a lot more like the illustrations.
With so many gotchas, it irks me when they still teach C for the undergraduates.
Mobile Development Frameworks 2021: Benefits, App Examples
I feel sad when they chop off the main root and reduce what would be a majestic, huge tree to the size of a small bottle. Same feeling when breeders make super tiny dogs, just because they look cute (these dogs have tons of health issues).

Feels perverse to me
Yeah you could hardly have devised a better system for disempowering a researcher's assistants.
Looks like 27" are still customizable, but not 21.5" (US)
> I moved away from them because of their lack of support for standard tooling like eslint and pep8.

Sounds like something went wrong. These both get auto configured for me. I even get correct completion suggestions to disable the rules inline or at the file level for both eslint and pep8. The only thing I’ve had difficulty with is Prettier but that was improved recently. Email is in the bio if you need any help :)
Study Reveals Extent of Privacy Vulnerabilities with Amazon’s Alexa
Remember in the early days of COVID, Marc Andreessen published his It's Time to Build essay? How America needs to start solving housing, education, transportation, manufacturing?

I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree with you.

Our nation and our civilization were built on production, on building. Our forefathers and foremothers built roads and trains, farms and factories, then the computer, the microchip, the smartphone, and uncounted thousands of other things that we now take for granted, that are all around us, that define our lives and provide for our well-being. There is only one way to honor their legacy and to create the future we want for our own children and grandchildren, and that’s to build.

https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

Well, it's been less than a year, and it looks like a16z is now big on NFTs.

https://a16z.com/2021/02/27/nfts-and-a-thousand-true-fans/
Hostage? You can export all of your Google Photos collection (I did that myself a month ago, to migrate to my NAS). It’s little annoying, and had some bugs with metadata, but possible.
Why is Solid architected such that your data resides on a computer that you don’t own, when people own computers and phones that are plenty capable of storing data and communicating via the Internet?