skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're perspective is skewed. Your knowledge only includes the local plants that we have created into our international rummaging choices. Bell Peppers are just one modern variety out from the ~30 species of chilies we've discovered. Same for carrots and potatoes and lettuce. I look at the variety of edible vegetation I can get at the grocery store and the only thing I really think of is it's a good day that I don't have to walk 20 miles to the fruit trees to pick the fruit before all the animals do.

Meat? tons of variety, there are like twenty different cat to dog sized animal species in my Montana wilderness before I even have to get to the large herbivores that have less variety. And meat is special anyways, the mink or weasel you can kill is chock-full of 2-5 years worth of collecting resources from various animal and vegetable sources.
> “Research” shows literally whatever you want it to show

[Citation needed showing this reflects most research]
Yes, packages in Nixpkgs (the official repository of Nix packages) have mandatory copyright or license information.
This can also be accessed programmatically, if you intend to scan all your dependencies:

$ nix-env -qaA nixpkgs.vim --json | jq '."nixpkgs.vim".meta.license'
{
"fullName": "Vim License",
"shortName": "vim",
"spdxId": "Vim",
"url": "https://spdx.org/licenses/Vim.html"
}

A large majority of the packages is built from source and so you can easily inspect it. For example, running `nix-build
'<nixpkgs>' -A vim.src` will fetch the source tarball and link it in the current directory.
Right to repair is not about making devices more repairable but about enabling us to buy parts and service from third parties outside the manufacturers.

Apple has begun serializing parts. You cannot take a camera from one iPhone 12 and put it into another iPhone 12 because Apple serialized the camera to the phone it shipped with. They are beyond reasonable with this kind of hostile approach to repair.
350–530 kg Al would be needed per apartment. One question left unanswered is - how many cycles does this system support before it becomes substantially inefficient?
There is also "A curious moon" with similar ideas for learning SQL.

https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/
User experience is usually the 10x differentiator.

An Uber and a regular Taxi will both get me to my location with similar time and cost. The difference was that I could get an Uber by pressing a couple buttons on my phone and monitor the entire process from an app. A taxi required (at the time) phone calls, waiting around for a taxi to arrive, trying to communicate location, and other hassles that disappeared when using Uber.

Same final product (car transportation between points) but the experience was 10x better.
The tree must be the same appearance, so this can take decades to grow and then you have to transport it without damaging its roots and then you have 50% chance it will not die. If it fails to grow you have to repeat it until it is brought to a state before cutting.
China Blocks Signal
Where's your evidence for that? The argument that it "treats users as dumb" and that doing so is "profitable" is oft trotted out, but I never see any substantiation for it. Plenty of companies do that. What's so special about Apple, then? I mean, it's gotta be something.

You gotta be careful about these arguments. They often have a slippery slope to a superiority complex (of "leet" NIX users over the unwashed "proles") hiding deep within.

Needlessly complex or powerful user interfaces aren't necessarily good. They were quite commonplace before Apple. Apple understood the value of minimalism, of cutting away interaction noise until there's nothing left to subtract. Aesthetically speaking, this is approach has a long, storied history with respect to mechanical design. It's successful because it works.

What Apple understood really acutely and mastered is human interface design. They perfected making human centric interfaces that look and feel like fluid prosthetic extensions of one's body, rather than computational interface where power is achieved by anchoring ones tasks around the machine for maximal efficiency. Briefly, they understood intuition. Are you arguing that intuition is somehow worse than mastering arcana, simple because you've done the latter?

Now, I'm not going to say that one is better than the other. I love my command line vim workflow dearly, and you'll have to pry my keyboard out of my cold dead hands. But there's definitely the idea of "right tool for the right job" that you might be sweeping by here. Remember, simplicity is as much a function of cherished *NIX tools you probably know and love. It's where they derive their power. Be careful of surface level dismissals (visual interfaces versus textual) that come from tasting it in a different flavor. You might miss the forest for the trees!
> HDR for no additional fee

The first thing I turn off when I get a new TV is motion smoothing. The second thing is HDR.
Neurosity Crown
Lots of shiny new toys to play with :) I like playing with new features and pushing to silly limits. Here's some fun things you can do now:

Compiletime checked state machines with Sealed Classes [preview feature] https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2020/10/03/sealed-java-state-m...

Autobuilders, Mixins, Conversions & more with Records https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2020/09/19/fun-with-java-recor...

Pattern Matching fun https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/03/14/java-16-pattern-mat...
Voting Machine Hashcode Testing: Unsurprisingly insecure – surprisingly insecure
CDN caches static assets. The request still goes to SO servers. Search goes to one of their massive Elastic Search servers.

I’m not saying we should all use SO’s architecture, I am trying to shed light on what’s possible.

YMMV obviously.
>Not commercialy viable.

Ambri is developing a battery based on the same principles.
My favorite part of conducting design interviews is when a candidate has pulled some complex distributed system out of their ass, and I ask them what the actual throughput/memory usage looks like.
HBO QAnon Docuseries ‘Q: Into the Storm’ Believes It Has Discovered Q’s Identity
Not just you, I've wasted a lot of time with founding teams that don't have access to venture capital due to lack of network, they so often also have a lack of awareness on what a good deal looks like, opting for completely arbitrary sweeteners that just make them look desparate and further uninvestible.

Hope the deal flow improves.
one click deployment to prod as opposed to a deployment ceremony
4x? 1x at best - saves my brain from memorizing a small thing very infrequently. Might be detrimental to my brain over the long run.:)
Here's one issue I see with American law... which is that the (US) government has, in the past, passed laws (such as the Sedition Laws) and it takes a long time for those cases to get to the Supreme Court, so if the government wants to curtail speech arbitrarily (albeit temporarily) they can.
Some parts of the Rust ecosystem belong to this category. For example the way Rustup and Cargo features with conditional compilation helps cross compiling code to new platforms.

Yes we also have cross compiling in C/C++ but the extra tooling that cargo/rustup provide make the 10x difference.
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Ah yes, the "Blue Ribbon Committee" organized by the same people who were responsible for managing the MNLARS project for the past decade. I'm glad there were able to put together this "independent" and completely bias-free review of this project so this can be put to bed.

Get real. I lived in MN most of my life and finally moved last year. I now reside in TX and keep much more of what I make. If you don't smell something fishy with this project and the way MN is managing tax revenue, they've got you fooled.

The politicians will hide behind very noble reasons to request more money from taxpayers. Perhaps there are some true believers, but they are only concerned with empire building, giving high-paying/do nothing jobs to cronies, and maximizing the amount of money flowing through their coffers.

People at all levels of government have few if any incentives to be results-oriented and efficient but are heavily incentivized to request more money, employees, etc. The unfortunate thing is that the people of MN have been easily manipulated via guilt, social justice, etc. into paying well more than their fair share. Maybe guilt is a cultural defect somewhat specific to MN, but it seems that the politicians have been quite good at exploiting it for gain.

> This is a great state to live in...

It _used_ to be a great state to live in. Below average wages, above average taxes. Keep buying into Minnesota exceptionalism and telling yourself that your quality of life is somehow better than other places in the US. It ain't.
Adobe Forces Takedown of Tweet Linking to 27-Year-Old Product
Interesting viewpoint by Oracle on how anti-competitive Google's plans are. Note on the other hand that Oracle is in the third-party data business as well so they aren't exactly a neutral bystander.

Curious to see what the regulators in EU / US / UK are going to do with this. It feels much worse than what Microsoft did in their antitrust case in the 90s.
There's the notion of BLM, of which only sociopaths would disagree, then there's BLM the organization which is exactly how you described it.

The naming of this organization was actually a stroke of genius. Only the crazy edge cases would refute it's name but served as a Trojan horse for an ideology that is inherently un-American. If you disagree with them the immediate reaction has been "you don't think black lives matter?" This is a brilliant move.
> Using code or data structure to generate code is recent (or resurrection ) phenomenon of function programming.

I'm not entirely sure how you came to that conclusion. Lookup tables and format strings have been around for... well, I'd guess almost a century.
BTW you should finish your project. You built the parser already!
Cool. I love Alpine, it’s incredibly fast and lean. It’s annoying how much software is incompatible with it, so this should help with that.
Google & stackoverflow

Prior to this everything was based out of tech manuals, now I can find good information fast, and memorize pointless trivia far less.
Google Releases Spectre PoC Exploit for Chrome
If we're just going to make up loosely related metaphors, here's another one: it's like posting a car review composed of nothing but accelerating the car on a highway.

You consider these videos fantasy, for others they may be instructional. That everyone watches popular videos with exactly the same perspective seems pretty unlikely.
Git + Github
This is your idea of maintainable? Yikes. Tell me, how many places in the referenced snippet would need to be changed to, say, allow commas to be present in numbers?
are you under the impression that engineers at spotify are currently going hungry and working minimum wages? As developers we are already ridiculously overpaid compared to artists. We are the ones who benefit from the shit salaries that musicians make, which is of course why people on this website don't want to hear anything about creators bargaining. It's the people here who benefit from the status quo.
How does your second statement have bearing on the article?

A quick search reveals no mention of CO2 Poisoning for hydrogen fuel-cells, but a majority mention of carbon monoxide poisoning. An additional search reveals catalysts that rectify this issue as early as 2005.
doctors aren't just stubborn.

they're well compensated by pharmaceutical companies.
How about a 10x reduction?

Thinking of when "Paste with style" became the default. :P
What is air lock? [video]
Yeah, trying to avoid buying things with any components or work, or even most of the components from China is basically impossible.

Still, it is sometimes possible to find alternatives that put proportionally more work and production into products outside China. I try to buy these things when I can, even when inevitably the materials or components come from China. Better than all the dollars going there, I figure...
Not sure why purism is implied in the answer here. If anything, sentiments like these are akin to "reducing your carbon footprint" by taking more "environmentally conscious measures". Same language, same sentiment. While no one can reduce their carbon footprint to 0 for an extended period of time, the act of _trying_ to can prove real results when performed en masse.
Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
That's according to "I know China evil" or is this based on anything? We know that China was playing catch-up when Snowden leaked his stuff so they might have caught up. Can you link the corresponding leaks? I'd love to read some of the Chinese ones because the most recent big things I could find were Snowden leaks.
I think millions of man hours went in JVM development will count for lot of subsidy.
>brow-beat a doctor into running the absurdly simple blood test

I feel like I see this story all the time: "a simple test found the issue that they denied I had".

What we should be examining are the incentives for the doctor to resist running tests. Are they too invasive? Some can be, but blood tests certainly aren't. Are they too expensive? Ah, there's the ticket. The doctors are either losing money on tests that find nothing, or they are getting berated by the managers for wasting money on tests that find nothing, or the insurance company is saying no when they ask to run tests.

We have the technology to have proactive medicine. We could be catching cancers in early stages all the time with some standard sets of annual tests. But the economic incentives are all out of whack, and we're waiting until the last minute to do these tests.
Home Assistant has been a revelation in terms of a platform against which to create sensor networks. Their MQTT discovery isn’t ideal but it’s damn good.

Related to this, Tasmota as a platform that I can run on ESP8266 devices to keep my IoT local to my network.

A document scanner connected to Wi-Fi (wish it had the ability to send directly to my laptop instead of having the laptop pull from it, but still 10x better than connecting a USB cable or emailing attachments).

Last night I discovered Tabula, a GUI for extracting tables from PDFs. Saved me more than 10x the time than copy pasting by hand. Fuck banks that only let you download the last 60 days of transactions as a CSV.

Discord is 10x better than most other chat platforms (Slack being the workplace competitor). Mainly this is because of how easy the signup process is.

Django is 10x better than PHP I left.

Pelican is better than WordPress for my needs.

Waze’s ability to search for things along my route (gas, food, coffee, etc.) instead of in my current area.

Reddit. Reddit to me is a community in a box for any new interest. If I pick up knitting, there is already an established knitting community that will have lots of info and helpful people to answer my questions. Same with motorcycles, home improvement, bargain hunting, rug weaving, whatever.

Instagram. It’s 10x better than most social networker for interacting with people. Still sucks, but everything else sucks more.

AirBnB experiences. Had some great tours through them when I visited Italy a couple of years ago and was way easier than the individual scammy-looking tour company sites.
svn to git/github was a 10x for sure
>That's what Go has been built for, but if you trust a newbie writting low level stuff, bad shit will happen either sooner or later.
Walmart and Target have improved their web experience a lot, but you still need to avoid the 3rd party sellers there. If you know the brand and the product, ordering direct also works. I also kind of enjoy shopping irl more since it gets me out of the house and basically everything else is closed due to the Rona. I've heard costco has a great 2 hour delivery experience but I don't have a membership.

The effect of Amazon is that at least for now, there's never been a better time to order things online in general. Every website competes with amazon now. Most places ship fast and cheap/free. Sometimes with a minimum order, but same with amazon's add on items. There are exceptions for sure, and I do occasionally still need to buy a thing on Amazon.

Unless you're really into the prime video selection, I suggest everyone cancel their prime and try life without it. I think I got a prorated refund, and you can always reactivate.
Wonder what database they are using.
> Maybe someday we'll have a language that is efficient and also allows creating efficient and usable DSLs. C++ ain't it.

C++ constraints change the game here. Esoteric template errors will be a thing of the past
> A comedian can say things that nobody else would dare to say.

More to the point, some report on important topics that news orgs don't find sexy enough to cover (eg: Investor-state dispute settlements [corporate sovereignty]).
Probably by keeping the crowdfunding part, but with reglation around the terms that have to be offered, and actions you're allowed to take after equity crowdfunding. But it's a pretty complex problem.
Britain must boost cyber-attack capacity, PM Johnson says
Yes, understood, but I guess Nathan Barry's point would be why treat your company co-creators differently than your customer-creators.
This makes me mad every time. And every single thing has a different shortcut for "Paste without style", if they even have one.
I see these type of comments all the time "Oh this totally won't work". And I wonder, why is this random person on the internet right, and the authors of this paper wrong (or vice versa)? I say this somewhat tongue in cheek, but are people on the internet just proper bullshitters, or is there something fundamentally wrong with academia that people publish papers that have no merit.
NFTs are basically immutable certificates for ownership of land on Pluto.
We use java 100, called kotlin
Yeah, this was phenomenal the first time I experienced it. I wish it also came with a "don't use SMS for 2-factor authentication" warning though. ;)
Please explain, with science - why first and second generation black immigrants from the caribbean and africa do better economically than black families who have been in american for generations?

I mean according to racial identity they should have the same end results right?

I'll wait. For the science...
okay, I can see that. yeah its quite rhetorical and open ended, and the sale is already closed.
Definitely not possible in Germany just like that, there was / is a person who tried it (Marc Freuke, he was on TV quite often so I feel comfortable sharing his name) and got sued by the municipality. Building code here is already vicious, development plans are just as bad. You are not at all allowed to built on basically everything that is deemed "outside"/outskirts, there are some exceptions but a Jurte or Tipi or cabin is usually out of the way. Even if you own the land. Of course, it is a bit more complicated than that but that is the gist of it.

In essence, you will have a hard time trying to do this.
Ha yes, my point was just that it is hard to quantify most of these and that 10x ends up meaning so awesome you buy it, which is almost a tautology.

(Thiel actually quantifies it in the examples he offers in the original text, if I remember correctly)
There is an nginx in front of it. What was wrong with Apache?
The parent spoke of "winner take all procurement", which is a very different concept than "single buyer".
Eye color genetics not so simple, study finds
Massive deindustrialization is a huge part of it in the US. There aren't many decent blue collar jobs anymore.
Ancient Giants Existed the Reality Behind Giants Hindi
These are Giants. Giants are known for their immense strength - Huge Gigantic human like creatures
Waterproof phones can have replaceable parts. IIRC the "rugged" type phones on the market tend to use gaskets.
Security and Privacy of Apple's Crowd-Sourced Bluetooth Location Tracking System
People with mind-blindness not so easily spooked
In the 1970s the US was encouraging Iran to become a nuclear power (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Shah_of_Iran_... ). The US was also still supporting the mullahs, as it had since the 1950s, against the secular left and anti imperial nationalists like Mossadegh.
The Next Generation of Tailwind CSS
Love the state machine example :)
APM software (application performance monitoring). It was super expensive, pain in the ass to maintain, required a lot of training. But when someone skilled sat down with it - just wow. You could investigate particular users problem, and see that when she typed "s" in search form it triggered a few proxies, sql query which had proper execution plan, but it seems that connections pools are handled poorly.

It could visualize what is the actual architecture (not what we think it is) and show which connections are laggy, or more used, when it should be round robin.

It discovered undocumented connections and could show us laggy requests even if remote system was not monitored by APM - purely based on data from one side.

I could report to developers a particular line of code that is problematic from performance perspective (like "this takes 40% of time of the request, even though it's the simplest task in the process) without knowing much about that program or even coding in general (I'm more of an admin).
- Revolut (vs. traditional banks and traders)

- Wolt (vs. Lieferando, Germany)

- Hey (vs. Gmail, Fastmail)
> or seeing your emails bounce when people had full inboxes.

For those who don't remember: That was around the time when Yahoo offered 6MB, some others only 2MB.
Server-side Rendering with Fastify and Preact – 100 Lighthouse score
period correct? mysql 5.1
>VC want you to spend money. Grow. Raise more. Exit. Or die ASAP

FTFY ;) Too many unprofitable / "pre-profit" companies have five figure monthly office rents for this to be untrue.

Maybe I am biased but having heard and seen horror stories of founders losing their companies because of _having_ to raise money: no thanks.

Bootstrap and if it doesn't hit ramen profitable, no biggie. If it does, go raise at favorable terms because you don't need their money.
> Why bother investing in the languages with a much smaller market share when the big boys adopt good bits and pieces from them constantly?

This won't always apply, but sometimes (many times?) there's a software endeavor that permanently feels on the margins of a programming language's capabilities, whatever that means. You may forego market share in order to be 5 or 10 years ahead of current practice. In other words, the mainstream isn't converging to a stable F# / Scala / whatever. It's lagging behind. It's not the last time that a mainstream language adopts a feature that has been available for years in a more fringe ecosystem.

In practice, I'm sure the most important thing is humans and their skill, so mainstreamness matters. But if you can somehow be less sensitive to that, you may reap a lot of benefit from using Foo before it was cool.
Now we’re getting into the simulacrum. If a work is entirely digital, what is the difference between the original and the copy?
You seem to have some simplistic view of how global economy works if you think all around the globe people should be payed the same for the same profession. Unless you work as freelancer in which case most of the time you have to pay your own taxes(which in most countries will amount to a big percent of your paycheck), you will get salaries according to the local market price standards regardless of what your peers in another country get. There are at least a few reasons for that one of which is that the market would not allow for huge disparities in salaries compared to other professions and to the same profession with local funding. You can try to negotiate good bonuses and/or equity but that is not mandatory and it is as much as you can get.