skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pricing section seems incredibly naive. Why should streams be valued at a penny? Why not a tenth of a penny? I don't care how many streams it takes to buy a cup of coffee. What is the argument that 786 streams per cup of coffee is unfair? (I don't think it is)

Being a full time professional musician has only been a means to wealth for a handful of people through history. Most professional musicians, even successful ones, are unable to earn their lifetime expenses from their profession: they make some good money if they have a hit and then fade away and have to get another job. Or they have capitalize on their brand externally to the music market. Has there been any time period in the past several centuries when the average musician earned a living wage?

The goal of a million full-time professional musicians seems arbitrary and I'm not sure why it is necessarily desirable.

Music is a passion, so people are willing to spend time making music below market labor rates. With modern digital reproduction and ease of recording, demand will never exceed supply. I believe the cost of music can and should asymptotically approach zero over time as an ever-growing public domain becomes good enough for most uses.
Indeed, LG's 32wh battery laptop rated at 23 hours instantly comes to mind.

For Intel based laptops built in the last 10 years basically the only thing making a difference in battery life for laptops with same CPU is screen, and battery.

Everything else is almost the same everywhere. NVME SSD + WiFi will uniformly eat 2W. Power conversion will also eat at to 500-800mW. All other peripherals combined will unlikely to eat more than 1 watt, with exception of 1GB ethernet if working full speed.
I’m paying for a walled garden. I own the hardware, and with it bought software which I want to aggressively maintain it.

If you don’t like the product, don’t buy it. Don’t compel them to satisfy your whim via police power of the state.
Because gas is like the cost of the paper. I wouldn't want my bank selling a fancier cheque just to charge more, but I do expect to cover the costs of the necessary anti-fraud features, etc. Similar to the cost of the code to verify the transaction.

But yes, it should be lower where possible. Both by code optimization and blockchain/architecture choices.
As with so much Silicon Valley stuff, I think the latest evangelizing for AI is probably just laundering military and counterinsurgency tech as some kind of utopian consumer godsend. Obviously AGI will remain a pipe dream, but what we will get is autonomous robotic soldiers with no conscience (that can be counted on to put down unrest without questioning their orders), or listening software that can monitor everyone's communications to identify targets in real time.
>over a hundred years later, Chicago is still making money from the economic, social, and infrastructure benefits of its fairs.

Because of the way the economy works, this can be said of absolutely any expenditure anywhere anytime for any reason. If even one project laborer buys a cup of coffee on the job, at least $4 of value then gets sent out into circulation in a way that has been plausibly colored by the construction of the Big Money Pit of 1849.
More info on AFSS.

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-centers/ccafs/autom...
I suspect that if someone asked the same questions a decade ago, or two, they'd have gotten similar explanations of why "this time is different".

AGI within the next 50 years? I don't think we have any idea, really. We don't even know what "intelligence" means.
That's nice, but we need to just regulate the oligopoly of stores held by Google-Apple on mobile phones, Google-Mozilla for browsers, Steam for games, etc. much more strongly. The fees are atrocious, their support of developers is terrible, and their arbitrary and capricious bans of content they disagree with is unacceptable from a free speech perspective.

Ultimately what we need is freer hardware and freer fundamental software (OS, browsers, etc) that does not have controlling interests from these entities no one elected.
> who's us in that sentence?

Everyone in this thread.

> it is perfectly acceptable for a member of that community to express a little disdain.

Okay. I never inferred otherwise. If venting is the total of your goal here are you okay we blow that off or is there something else you're hoping for?

To be clear, I've no animosity toward your posts. My 'hidden' agenda is this: Because hostility takes a toll on the recipients (us), I'm curious if what you're getting in return is worth it.

No judgment. We all do this.
Yes! Success for most Fairs depends on the timeline you're looking at. Even the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans (which I know I call out in the essay), was considered a failure at the time. Now 30+ years later, New Orleans has a thriving waterfront district that wouldn't have been developed without the Fair.
There are several people in the conversation. Personally, I meant what Izkata said, and I don't think anything will completely kill COVID.
I can't help but feel the opposite, as if Swift is a dog chasing cars. Function builders are a really awkward unnecessary feature that was implemented so that SwiftUI could have a decent looking DSL. Some types showed that the whole protocol oriented programming model breaks down in some serious ways. And now they are looking at doing actors as a whole new built-in functionality rather than just a concurrency library. It looks like the Swift language is just too rigid and unable to evolve in useful ways without the blessing of the language developers themselves.
I would assume a big difference is its easy to redesign assembly lines to be easy for computers. We cant do the same for our bodies.
Well the Wireguard app exists both for macOS and iOS so I guess is not that big deal to support VPN on these systems.

Also services like this one to circumvent the Apple policy couldn't just give you a Wireguard configuration file and say to you "just install the Wireguard app and import the config"? It would work and of course Apple couldn't do anything (beside removing the whole Wireguard app from the store).
Well, my current laptop, a Dell XPS 13 has a resolution of 3840x2400 and its great! Yes, my normal use, I have things scaled/zoomed but for watching videos, its fantastic.

For normal use, 1440p is fine, but 1080p is too low for me. 4K is probably not necessary if its only used to watch videos. I probably should have flipped it and said: "give me 1440p, or even 4K"

Although one area where I find higher resolution is beneficial code editors, if I have enough pixels that I can have 3 vertical splits and have the text still look crisp, that really helps my development workflow.

On a 15" and above though, I wouldn't go lower than 4K personally.
How is this different from the meme about designer not getting paid but instead being rewarded "with exposure"?

What he did can, maybe, potentially, eventually, net him a lot of money if he does this and that. Sure, but maybe he doesn't want to start a company and spend his time looking for customers? Or maybe he has an actual need for real money right now and not hypothetical money in the future?

What he did was worth a fuck ton of money to rockstar, so yes 10k is very low, and the fact that he might maybe make up for it in the future if he lives like you want him to does not change that.

In my opinion the only argument that can be made for that 10k, is simply that rockstar never asked for any help and never had any bounty open, so anything they want is fair.
What is the advantage of an NFT versus a record in Valve's database?
Definitely got me interested, and I know I ought to just use Postgres, but I'm really keen to use openCypher. Would it be possible to hook prisma up to graph dbs?

(bion)-[:loves]->(graphs)
Technology has reduced costs of goods and services by orders of magnitude more than any public policy.

But yes I do agree iterating to improve public policy is important too.

Hence the organization of Sam's essay to reflect this.
Capitalism is about using capital to produce something. Capital and the means of production are privately owned. This is the opposite of communism, which lets people own things but not the production system (actual implementations might vary.)

It's in the spirit of capitalism to be competitive so don't be surprised if those companies want all those things from us.
Well, sure. if you have a pile of totally unrelated things that never need to change in lock-step, then you don't need a "monorepo." But on the other hand if you're building an entire software system such as a collection of API services, a database schema, embedded device firmware, and a website, and all of these things are interdependent and incompatible across versions then please for the love of god use a monorepo.

At my job our cloud team uses multiple separate repositories which makes sense, but it also moves the burden of versioning to run-time. This is because they have to interface with multiple different versions of the device firmware. So they deploy different run-time versions of the APIs to support legacy and current production firmware versions. But our firmware repository is a monorepo in that the sources and build system builds the artifacts for multiple devices from the same source tree.

So it's not so cut and dried as "never use a monorepo" or "always use a monorepo." It involves engineering tradeoffs and decisions that are made in a context, and you can't extract your advice from the context in which it exists. What works for our cloud team would be a terrible mess on the embedded side simply because of how the software is deployed and managed.
And to think, Java was a tough sell to companies at one time. I had to sneak it in (same way we snuck Linux in) by building some invisible infrastructure thing with it, having it run without fail for months, and then saying, "Oh hey, did you know thing X is actually Java/Linux?"
That's fair. I can notice the difference between 1080p and 1440p on my desktop monitors which are 27" (or between the 1080p monitor and the 1080p laptop).

Both laptops are 15".
Java saved me from having a C++ career. And that was the 90s C++, not the C++ of today. I dodged a bullet there.
Not if you’re building a shack in the woods.

“Where’s the R40 insulation?” “This is a 3-season cabin unoccupied 75% of the time. Or the insulation is weak, but the structure and windows are small, so it’s actually far more efficient than an R40 mansion”

“Where’s the septic field?”
“The toilet is for guests (100flushes/yr) into a holding tank, pumped out yearly. I use the outhouse”

“Where’s the 20A circuits in the kitchen?” “I have 1 socket for 1 appliance, everything else is gas”

“Why aren’t there sockets every 10 feet?” “The whole point is to NOT have dozens of gizmos here”

“Your shower doesn’t drain into an approved gray-water system” “I can wash my car/shower outside but can’t shower with a bucket indoors?”

“This doesn’t meet min sqft requirements” “I built all the sqft I need, I’ll spend a half my time here hiking and fishing”

Crap like that.
That is at the higher-end of revenue and scale! I think you'd typically see Shopify as the integrated solution for <$5-10M companies, big enterprise solutions (Adobe, SAP, Oracle) for $100M+ scale, and solutions like Fabric trying to find a middle spot in that range.

Vendors like Toshiba[1] are starting to offer some forkable microservices/APIs that let you control your destiny on development while also giving you an architectural headstart so you don't rediscover the e-commerce domain from first principles. (But it does usually mean you're committing to spending money on POS hardware - may be an assumed cost in some omnichannel use cases.)

At a certain point, you need to ask yourself how much digital is a competitive differentiator for your business. It's increasingly tablestakes in B2C with B2B not far behind, and the SaaS/platform solutions will indefinitely saddle you with sales-driven SIs and upgrade cycles if you don't bring those capabilities in-house. It's pretty difficult to do rapid, customer-centric iteration with Adobe Experience Manager or similar low-code front-end platforms.

For teams that are trying to bring more in-house, you can do a custom build or cobble together solutions but hopefully your e-commerce org has product and technology leaders who know the domain from previous experience or you're in for a long learning curve!

[1] https://commerce.toshiba.com/wps/portal/marketing/?urile=wcm...
Ubuntu 20.04 lts?
Hard to say it's still "exponential"...what do you think the current constant doubling period is now?

Here's the single thread raw data from that repo. If you take into account clock speed increase (which, as you agree, have plateaued) we're looking at maybe a 2x increase in instructions per clock for conventional int (not vectorized) workloads.

Is there even another 2x IPC increase possible? At any time scale?

https://github.com/karlrupp/microprocessor-trend-data/blob/m...
Yes. If you hire someone for an excessively cheap rate, it is likely that they might not perform well. For example, assume the salary of a graduate salary in bay area is $100K. You can usually hire an equally skilled graduate in India at like 1/5th price. But if you instead hire ones that are OK with 1/10 or less, you are just asking for trouble. India has a surplus of engineering graduates, even people who have no business studying engineering get an engineering degree (because let's face it, not everyone is interested in STEM) - so they perform badly as expected. But that shouldn't discount the good ones (even if 10% are good, in absolute terms that's still a big number because of the population).
After Big Sur deprecated network kexts, I switched over to Viscosity-- which is another OpenVPN client, and supports both tun and tap VPNs without an extension (using only built-in macOS capabilities).

It does not require the Network Extension framework, is not App Store distributed, and does not have any entitlements. (It is Developer ID signed and notarized, but that's just for user convenience; it'd work just fine unsigned if the user wanted to click through macOS's warnings to get there.)
It could be worth finding good performers from other sites and subsidizing them on the new platform to provide the initial pool.
Isn’t the sensible option then to allow third party app stores? If you want a tightly regulated environment only stick to the official channels. Apple can continue to charge their premium for that.
Is there a place on Earth where that wouldn't be the case?
China is also the place where most of Apple products are produced, this matters a lot as well...
You are assuming that the EULA does not fully cover everything done here.
https://16colo.rs/ is another cool ASCII/ANSI art source from the IRC days
Fewer kids are going to college because they say it costs too much
It's different because Rock Star was doing fine without this guy and they didn't ask him to do anything.
you expect someone to pay for a windows license just so they can run itunes just to reactivate a device they own?

seems a bit much
I'm going to archive this thread and sell it as an NFT
Arcs of 'lightning' on the moon could be the future of lunar mining
For me, that’s a stronger point. Nicely said.
And stimulating local economies is a problem... why?
They don't have any predators, huh? What if we engineered one?

Yeah, I know, but hypothetically speaking... what if we could?
Graal is a separate project and jaotc did use that. I believe the reason for the “separation” is that the two projects have different priorities and didn’t develop at the same pace. I believe graal is still only at version 11.

But since Java, the language is highly backward compatible, one can trivially use Graal as is (without the preview features though)
That's fascinating.. so human lives are worth more, or there's more friction to intervention these days? Hoping it's the former. But curious what you think the explanation is for this. Just a reflection in standard of living, and so the cost to save has a higher standard?
For better or worse, the future itself is to a large extent developed by large government committees - or at least the funding allocation for the cutting-edge research projects that show up at World Fairs are.
Teen Hacker Who Hacked Several Twitter Accounts Agrees to 3 Years In Prison
As far as I can tell, it's not different. Unless you could consistently generate the 2.5% property value to pay the tax each year (in a world where AI has sent incomes to zero!), then you'll eventually lose your property.
Exactly. Sam isn't a politician or policymaker. He is trying to contribute ideas for others to improve and implement.
I've submitted multiple corrections to Google Maps and all of them eventually were fixed. I even got a same day response one time, with the longest taking about 3 weeks. I haven't made any corrections recently. Have you attempted to submit feedback on the Maps site?
No need to pay, you can run Windows 10 without activation. I think it was either 90 or 180 days, so should be plenty of time to recover the device.
You’d have $10K now if you’d invested April’s stimulus in Bitcoin — and more with ETH

https://cointelegraph.com/news/you-d-have-10k-now-if-you-d-i...

edit: Yikes people really hate crypto around here. It's too bad HN doesn't like allowing people to talk to each other, I'm not allowed to respond for a few hours due to their rate limiting policies. Oh well. Wish I could delete my account in protest, but HN is so shit I can't even do that...
Because then maybe he'd be out of a job:

"...a New York City-based financial advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. I help people invest and manage portfolios for them."
One other thing about Java is it had great libraries. C++ didn't have things like collections so you couldn't write a library that used a 3rd party linked list because your user might not have a roguewave license etc. STL became popular soon after Java which helped.
Yes, but this is GTA V we're talking about. Games like this aren't simply games, they're virtualized social platforms. There are many people who have spent thousands of dollars on that game to upgrade their in-game cars, apartments, businesses, clothing, and weapons. It's also one of the reasons that it is increasingly difficult to come up with an MMO (and GTA V is basically just an MMO with cars and guns instead of horses and sword) with any sort of staying power: your competition is not only much better funded than you likely will ever be, but they have years of content that new players can play through. The long-term players are heavily invested in both time and money and the new players aren't going to run out of content any time soon.

Rockstar makes about $600M annually off of Red Dead Redemption and GTA V. They basically gave him 9 minutes of their net revenue.
I just saw a massive sounder in Cali the other day. They are a boar / feral hog hybrid apparently, and there must've been 2 dozen of them. I would not have wanted to come across that group on foot, I felt glad to be in my car.
A couple i havent seen listed:

Tivo - pretty cool when it came out - you didn't have to run to the bathroom/kitchen during commercial breaks and hope you made it back in time. Of course it's obsolete now but a significant improvement over the standard at the time

Streaming music services - i spent an embarrassing amount of time as a kid/early teenager collecting cds and ripping them to my hard drive - if only I could have all that time back

The selfie camera on smartphones - pretty self explanatory

MagSafe connector - why they ever removed this is beyond me. I don't know if it made my life 10x better but if extended the life of a laptop a year or two it's worth it's weight in gold
Same, I and my family have all our routine shots, although we're not all that consistent about the flu.
Page 12, Figure 9. Ex-factory gate prices (spot prices) for U.S. and global multicrystalline-silicon modules from GTM/SEIA (2018) data

$0.30/W global multicrystalline-silicon spot price.
> Anyways, I hope Docker find some viable business model, it would be sad to see them fail commercially after arguably succeeding in changing the (devops) world.

It if had a sustainable business model it would be deploying it now.
One time we had a big launch of an important feature (for one noisy customer), we ended up with like 4 feature flags that we needed to flip once it was time to go live.

Anyway the big day comes, we turn it on, everything looks good, everyone is happy.

A few weeks later I noticed we forgot to turn one of the flags on. So I asked a teammate what he thought. He shrugged, we figured it would be slightly better to turn it on.
Totally agree with you. I use my MBP mostly on native resolution if my screen gets really crowded and on the other hand it's nice when you're doing creative work and can switch to a downscaled image with so much more "smoothness" and details. I like the specs of this Pangolin notebook, but as soon as i saw 1080p i was gone.
Google Maps was amazing. Back when I showed it to my dad for the first time, he expected it to be a live satellite view of his house.
Its from the perspective that most users are bad at choosing passwords. We've been trying to get the average user to use distinct high entropy passwords for decades and it hasn't worked.

Imo, if people used passwords correctly, all common 2fa solutions other than yubikeys would be useless.
Got you, thanks. (Side-note, I wish it were easier to transmit simple models like this as part of discourse).

The 0.0015 risk of death seems high. Where are you getting that from?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german... gives "The EMA has said that as of March 10, a total of 30 cases of blood clotting had been reported among close to 5 million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca shot in the European Economic Area, which links 30 European countries."

But if you want to take the German numbers, 3 deaths out of 1.6m vaccines:

3/1,600,000 = 0.000001875 (In percent, 0.0001875%) which is 0.125 of your figure.

And the OP gives a base rate of "two to five cases per 1 million individuals per year" for context; we need to subtract out the base rate from the observed deaths too (because obviously the base rate of this condition occurs regardless of whether you take the vaccine).

[edit: percent conversion typo]
“Should we buy YouTube for $15m?”
You do need to get that pupil distance correct. I mis-measured PD and the experience was extremely disturbing. It was as though my eyes would drift to weird angles to look through the correct part of the lens, but as soon as I moved my head they'd shift and try to regain the focus. Which they'd get and lose again. It was a bit like looking at the world with a low frame rate.

I went to the store and ordered glasses from them. While measuring I told this story, and she felt sorry for me and told me the number. (Apparently they have to give it to you if you ask, but company policy is to withhold it since that's their only advantage over cheaper online services. Besides, I had just spent a bunch of money on glasses, and wouldn't need new ones for some time.)
I'll say I personally can't use numpads, and they're total wasted space for me, so I try to avoid them on my keyboards and laptops, especially because they put the keyboard off-center on said laptops.

However, I think there are use cases and people who prefer using them. Some software is really geared around the full cluster being there. I've got a full size, numpad-ed keyboard (some old stock DEC thing that went to a mid 90s alphastation I believe, I got it for dirt cheap) attached to my "windows gaming machine", and I use the numpad on a few shortcut-heavy games.

Otherwise, though, I just don't have any muscle memory for it. I have to look and hunt/peck for keys on a numpad. I'm mostly using bash and vim for work, though...