skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The App Store for music exists many times over and users (including myself) prefer a lower cost streaming model.
There is simply too much cheap or free music out there now for me to value it at iTunes singles prices.
How is this ad not banned on the spot?
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub
This has to be bait and switch, right? Does this run afoul any current consumer regulations? If not, we should probably write some new ones.
Have you tried GitHub packages?
I believe this is the correct answer: https://twitter.com/DamascenoPF/status/1371861649011843073
It is very strange that you're chinese and can't recognize the behavior of your own country.

Of course a chinese billionaire will want their children to be doctors. Every chinese person wants that. But not every chinese person can be a billionaire let alone a doctor.

So what do these people do when they can't be rich like you? They cheat. They hustle. You ever heard of the lost generation? It's a generation of cheaters.

I'm chinese as well and I can tell you, it's pretty sad that I have to educate a chinese person about chinese culture.

The united States, like china, has many issues. But unlike china its citizens face these issues head on. Is there racism in the US? Yes. How does the US deal with racists? By protesting and criticizing them and demanding change. Are there economic issues in the US? Yes. And citizens deal with the issue by talking openly about it and discussing ways to move forward.

How does a chinese person deal with rampant cheating in their culture? By denying its existence. Not only do you deny its existence, but your government makes damn sure that you better deny it or face the consequences.
> Our OMS is made entirely in low latency Java (no GC, lots of perf test, few C++ binding when really we must)

Any resources on how to do this?
The trick is to do the modulus before the exponentiation. It gives the same result.

n^4 % x = m
== (n % x)^4 % x = m

By way of demonstration:

n = 18, x = 15
18^4 = 104976 = 6 (mod 15)
----
18 % 15 = 3
3^4 = 81 = 6 (mod 15)

A very handy result to remember for cases where you don't want to use or don't have easy access to arbitrary precision integers.
I'm on the same boat as you: my ideal laptop would be an x220/x230 on the outside with a 1440p display and a modern CPU on the inside.

I can't understand why Thinkpads are moving away from this absolutely perfect design in the name of... slickness?

Why are laptops with a minimal (or non-existing) touchpad so difficult to find? Once you start using the trackpoint your wrists feel incredibly relaxed at all times.

Why do so few vendors offer RJ45 ports? When in the lab, I find my self needing one almost daily.

Why this trend of including keyboards with shorter and shorter travel distance?

There was a campaign to bring attention to all these details a few years ago which (surprisingly!) resulted in Lenovo releasing the "Thinkpad 25 anniversary edition" [1] which ticked most (but not all) of my boxes and which is unfortunately no longer available.

Do people really prefer the new design trends? Am I out of touch with reality?

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/outletus/laptops/thinkpad/think...
That sounds like an extremely boring way to live
A tax is recuring no? So effectively it would continue to fuel itself from YoY riches being made.

You have to grow the pie AND make sure people get a more proportionally fair share of it.

I think both these things are possible together. Though I recon the argument that it could be the appeal to have a giant slice of it that maybe motivates some to take the risks needed to double the size of the pie in the first place. I think maybe we've just gotten a bit out of hand with the range between min and max slice sizes of the pie.

When some workers get a share of the pie too small to feed their hunger, and they're getting skinnier by the day, maybe something isn't working right. Especially when you also have some getting a slice so big that they can't even eat it all.

So in theory, you tax the pie itself, and then everyone takes their proportional share of what's left, but if that leaves some with barely any, you have a problem. And the quickest fix is to have those taking bigger slices take slightly smaller ones to compensate.

The alternative is to make an even bigger pie, but that takes a lot longer, and it doesn't mean people will be owed a bigger slice from it either.
Services that require a cloud connection without a compelling reason are rent-seekers. There's absolutely no reason why the client software can't do the calculations that the server is doing to "optimize" cutting, other than for the purpose of turning something into a subscription that most assuredly should not be as such.
"Own." This has been going on for a long time. A hacker space I belonged to in early 2011 had a Cricut and were using third party software for it (Make The Cut?). There was a big warning on the machine to not upgrade the software because Cricut had forced the publisher to drop support in a subsequent version. (ETA: details are hazy, but this is broadly correct as I understood the situation as a non-user)

Nowadays, it looks like you can use MTC with "your" Cricut, but you have to pay Cricut for the privilege.

I say fuck 'em. This isn't new, and it's not going to stop if people keep buying the machines.
Right, if you haven't seen it it must not exist. Are you from Missouri? If that level of radical skepticism works for you, good on ya. Personally, I don't conflate things that I don't know with things that can't be known.

A trained Marxist is an activist, it's really that simple. The point is not to interpret the world but to change it yada yada yada. A Leninist is a Marxist who believes the proletariat is too economically comfortable to bring about the revolution and therefore an intellectual vanguard of "trained" revolutionaries (marxist activists) are required to lead the way. Time to hit the books!
Very interesting! I'll be curious to see if the focus on privacy for something like this ends up being a differentiator. Lots of folks care about privacy, though sometimes it becomes a challenge due to some of the limitations you end up with as a result. The trade-off people are making is obvious to some, but not to others.

Congrats! Launching a product is super hard, this is an impressive accomplishment. I'd imagine you would put this site on your profiles. :D
That's fair enough. I would personally not risk nerve damage even if "frequency and severity are rather low" (1.5% reported in pubmed) unless necessary because the mechanism of action is still there and I don't have any information about why that happens sometimes. It would be great if our medication review could extend past trials and allow people to independently analyze the data in population studies so some causation could be investigated in those rare events when things go wrong.
If they did, they would rename it as Microcubes.
It's very likely a smart business decision, but I wish Steam had a re-sell market. Even just having only a single possible sale, I think would help sort the crap from the gold.

There'd be one more opportunity for profit AND people could buy games for cheap. Sure, there's an opportunity to copy games before you sell them, but I think there's ways to fix that. Sell for steam-credit only maybe? and there's plenty of opportunity for a transparent DRM. Even the threat of perma-ban for cheating. Dunno.
It does. This text picks it apart concisely. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/03/01/the-success-...
> Deicing salt works by absorbing moisture as it lands, before it can form a sheet of ice.

That's...false? Salt gets spread on existing ice to melt it all the time. Where does the absorbed water go in this model? This assertion is so confusing.

As someone who grew up in a cold climate, the way I recall it is that the salt lowers the freezing point of water by forming a brine, allowing it to run off the road and/or be evaporated by the sun.
They mention "user-centric model" three times without explaining it at all :(
Thanks for sharing this, it looks outright incredible. I love my x201, but it's starting to feel a little long in the tooth these days... I may end up getting one of these. What's the battery life like?
I'll have to take a look at freebsd, does anyone have a good reference to the differences in a bsd versus Linux?
Loads of ways to increase Average Order Value
Java is used a LOT on the back-end still.

Yes, golang is shiny new thing, but there is TONS of boring back-end done in Java.

Whole Alibaba runs on Java, for example. I know of some companies (won't share names but fill in the blanks) that used to be Go shops, that were eaten by Alibaba and they migrated from Go to Java.
Indeed. I'm quite furious that my government (Finland) ordered such a "mask assessment" from a retired professor, in order to reduce the political pressure caused by PPE shortages.

Now anti-maskers and other covid deniers are citing that report: "don't do anything, even the government research says it is useless".
It is all set up and chosen to work out of the box. I have a limited number of hours in my life, and figuring out the right combination of hardware to run a Linux box correctly is not something I'm going to bother spending them on.
Why not use a Firefox fork like Waterfox? That fixes a number of the complaints people have with Firefox while not pushing us towards a browser engine monopoly - which you do by using a Chromium based browser.

Besides, the Basic Attention Token crap in Brave is kinda shady.
I think this might fall over pretty quickly in the presence of first-class functions. In that case, you can’t determine the control graph statically. You’ll need Control-Flow Analysis for that.

Also, not surprised Racket already has occurrence typing. It’s got basically everything else.
>While they're about it, they should also add immutable/copying data structures.

They will start with records[1], but I think all value classes (Valhalla) should have this functionality eventually.

You will be able to write:

record Point(int x, int y){}
Point pp = p with { x = 3; }

[1]https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...
Russian standards of propriety are very similar to American. Russian government's ones are not, but that's a different story.
> where you need to break rules and move fast

Dude, we tried this. Now people in the US can't have reasonable arguments in public without wanting to kill one another. People somehow gets "cancelled" now, because some 20s-something wanted to "move fast" without thinking of the consequences.

Maybe it's time we try "slow and steady" and see if the world actually ends up more equal and diverse, instead of the opposite, which is the direction we're heading now.

And for the record, if unions hadn't existed, you'd still be slaving away 6 days a week (minimum), 10 hours a day, your children would be working instead of going to school and everything labor related would certainly have been worse. Worth considering since you seem to hold the opinion that "all unions are bad" just because the US is shitty at creating and maintaining unions.
If living is debt then you can charge it to my parents' account. I didn't make the sale.
Auto discover product feature needs: ex SUV
Yes! Although the feature is pre-beta right now, we're excited to release it to our customers in 2 weeks. Our current customers have requested it to personalize demos for individual prospects / customer segments, or to update old dummy data in their account.
I don't understand why Location (and other data) is 5 times for the Google app for example. Can somebody explain the differences?
> Video Ports HDMI(w/HDCP)

Would be really nice to use a proper modern DP instead of antiquated HDMI for this.

Is it using Coreboot by the way?
All Futurama Opening Quotes
Ekioh is making a new browser designed for parallel processing
Zero‐ Based Transportation Policy: Recommendations for 2021 Reauthorization
well the 10-year treasuries along with other t-bills are rising in yields now ...
The downside with this is extra effort to keep them in sync. Depending on what you do, syncing can be easy (or even trivial if you do everything remote anyway) or more annoying.
You correctly doubted that any scientists were "stunned" to discover plants, so you interpreted it as they found living plants, the one thing that might stun them.
Tea parties?
Aren't the current rumors/expectations that they are dropping the touch bar?
People definitely do this already, there's several forums dedicated to people who stuff their van or RV with batteries and cover the roof with solar panels so they can live off grid or go on extended boondocking trips.

If Starlink does remove the location restriction, I'll spend more time in the wilderness than I do at home.
What's wrong with Chromium? I don't think Google's tracking specifically has anything to do with Chromium. Chromium !== Chrome
I wonder if it has something to do with how tech companies are relatively unaffected by the big sick.
Curious why you asked re: LASIK? Are the antibiotics given for that similar to what could cause the loss of myelin?
As I recall, the Klout [and CRED] score was based on an aggregation of your off-platform social activities. This included, for example, your Twitter activity.

The SELLFF TRU Score is based on your on-platform activities and is determined only by members of the SELLFF community.
Master Japanese in Three Years
I believe in the US you can usually build small sheds (<100 sqft) in your backyard without a permit but IANAL.
Credential sharing only works between apps registered to the same developer. So no, this does not allow an tracking ID usable by all apps.

And remember, any trick abused to create tracking IDs stands the risk of being detected and blocked by Apple in the next iOS update. It has been announced, it has happened, it will keep happening.
Like 1/1000 companies actually needs that.
Controversial opinion:

Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up:

- Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS)
- Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use".

Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.
For any business running at scale, this is a math problem. if the cost of human labor rises, more investment will be made to remove humans from the process and replace them with technology. Amazon was one of the great employers through Coronavirus. Perhaps people should think one step ahead.
looks like the aura 15 from tuxedo computers / schenker but a little bit more expensive? https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
Subtitles said it's birch bark.
But it's fine, we don't really care about language adoption if the best most supported most tested most hiring languages swallow their features, right ?

What matters is what we do with the language, more than the name of it no?
I tried not to judge him, I think building a cabin to show the world how it's done is as valid cause as any. But I realize that maybe I did secretly judge him because I have had some great moments with my grandfather building things around a cabin deep in the Swedish woods long before smart phones were a thing. But I didn't appreciate those moments when they happened, because young and restless, and if I could have made a YouTube channel out of that I absolutely would have because that would have been more fun. But I think that by doing so I would have missed out on the experiences that I now cherish since grandpa is long gone. Don't know where I'm going with this, I think it's cool that op is out in the woods building shit no matter what his experience is and I don't even think I can fully understand how it is to be young now and have youtube/social media as a natural part of life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Eliminate HOAs and you've destroyed the basic mechanism that makes common maintenance practical for high-density non-rental housing.
> ... start a union to parasitize earnings.

Yes, those pesky employees should just STFU and be thankful for the scraps.
How exactly did that improve your life by 10x ?
Chromium is open source, but almost nobody uses it. Almost everyone uses either of the proprietary forks, Chrome and Edge.
What's wrong with Firefox?
Can you sell science? With NFTs, yes
Indeed, it would be much more interesting. Deezer might be on track to implement it in France (not sure when?) but a recent study (in french) gives a lot of information on its potential impact:

https://cnm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/CNM_UCPS_SyntheseF...
The model should be like Medium.

Allocate peoples monthly membership in accordance to their listens.

If one month I listen to 100 streams of Bob Dylan and thats it, then he should get my entire $7.00 instead of just a few cents for my small amount of streams.

https://qz.com/1660465/the-way-spotify-and-apple-music-pays-...
Rsyncing home directory worked for me for 15 years.
>I think cryptocurrencies are fundamentally flawed due to their environmental impact, and should be banned on that merit alone

A GPU is a GPU, why is it's environmental impact fine if it's 31 million people pretending to be a cowboy in RDR2 but bad if it's being used for financial transactions.
Musk is building cars for a mainly american style market - long drives and private parking.

topping up 5 miles a day means that a full battery will last me and the 1.8 million UK cars that do under 2000 miles a year, months between having to plug in and recharge.
Especially as a corporate site (that is, not a click-farm that relies on tracking ads) this is unacceptable

"Trust arc" I'd trust the site more if it had a sensible cookie policy
> There's plenty of money to be made in those countries too.

Russia GDP: ~1.7 trillion

Iran GDP: ~0.45 trillion

North Korea GDP: ~0.028 trillion

Meanwhile,
China GDP: ~14.34 trillion
Link to relevant announcement email:
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/00649...

There's also Jason's reply to apparently not-nice feedback of someone from NetGate:
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2021-March/00649...
My wife and I are so irritated about this. She bought a Cricut Maker last year to make masks for friends and family. Custom images were cut for every person she made a mask for. Now, nine months after we bought the machine, we will have to start paying $10/mo for the same privileges we enjoyed when we first got it.
> still

It's a very popular backend language. Ironically, "run anywhere" isn't much of a requirement for backend development.

> C++ is more portable because it doesn't require the JVM to run.

For backend development, this isn't much of an issue either way. These days, the main advantages C++ has to Java is startup time and no GC pauses.

It's also not as portable as you'd think. Take a look at cross-platform C/C++ projects and you'll see a lot of special cases for particular platforms.

Java's popularity mostly boils down to it's mature, has a large ecosystem, and is adequate for a lot of things. Unless you're writing an iPhone app or system-level code, it's unlikely to be a bad choice.
I always liked the idea of nonlinear revenue, eg paying proportionally to the cube root of the number of streams. It would allow smaller artists to get a greater proportion of the proceeds.
It would be better if they were required to put the content back up within 24 hours of receiving the counter-notice
This is a really cool concept.

I'm not a fan of Tailwind's approach if I'm being honest, and while at first glance they look similar, from a practical standpoint Turbo is something I can actually see myself using to create landing pages and design systems without having to conform to Tailwind's insane naming scheme. The conditional styling also looks very intuitive.

To that end I appreciate the Turbo vs Tailwind page, and I'll definitely take this for a spin at some point (not having to explicitly exclude Sass or remove unused styles seems like a refreshing way to handle performance).

The in-browser compiler is also something I've never seen before, and from what I'm understanding that makes it extremely portable; no package manager necessary.
Yes that was said at the time about why flat front vehicles were safe in the sixties. rule of thumb is the heavier/bigger the vehicle the more front end protection you have. These look pretty flimsy like the Grummans.

Hopefully they have designed bracing into the frame to protect occupants.It's the high speed impacts by other vehicles that are the worry. Multi stop delivery is a major risk on busy roads. At least the design has the driver's feet just behind the front axle, would be interested to see the impact crumple one design.

http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/postal-worker-injured-af...

Separately it is going to be very hot in that cab with all that glass
Considering how entrenched Docker has been in global tech infrastructure for so many years, I automatically assumed that the company was worth billions already, but guess not. I wonder why they haven't been bought out by Microsoft or Google, if nothing else then just for the talent.
> It's actually very cheap.

Which is a huge problem for the competition. I know that I can get just get a cheap Mac and it will still be fast, it will still have a great screen and the build quality will be higher than the majority of PC laptops.

I happen to like macOS, so it's not a huge issue, but if I want to get a laptop for Linux, then I need to go to a store to see the models. Otherwise I can't be sure if I'll like the screen, keyboard or overall look an feel. The minor price difference for an Apple product is acceptable, given that I know what I'll getting a usable laptop regardless of which model I pick.
very poor messaging here.

this is like 99designs or toptal or any marketplace for providers. not like linkedin. ad-free is a lie as the entire platform is advertising. (syndicated ad-free more like it.)

because the platform depends on the TRU score, this form the social network between providers, and customers I suppose. This in and of itself is a privacy violation. The major problem with linkedin (from privacy perspective) is the information they have on you, which they monetise. They are the privacy problem, not syndicated ads, and you are not fixing that.

outside of the bubble, no one cares about the privacy angle, not in a real way. (they complain, a lot, but have no problem continuing to use privacy invasive services.) your pronouncement of being privacy focused, while not actually being so, is pretty bad.

i think you may have something here, you just need to pivot your messaging.

FWIW I think the TRU score is a) not innovative, and b) should be abandoned in favor of familiar 5 star scale. (like amazon or ebay: #stars plus #ratings)

If you really want to be "trustworthy", you will publish statistical data on ratings. Of course, everyone will have >4 star rating, so you can't do that. I don't think that's a hindrance to marketing "trustworthiness" though, even if it's baloney.
This assumes that anything can be perfect and it precludes anyone from having the humility to grow up. It's unhealthy.

I suggest you realize that "facts" (behaviors) are contextual and like people, companies change.
I’ve said before that I’d give up Netflix before Spotify, so yeah maybe. But something would have to give out of principle. I think the better solution in this musician/label/distributor mess is the label takes less. That has costs and would change how discovery works, but frankly maybe for the better.
Docker has Donnie Berkholz running product as of recently. I met him when he was at Redmonk and I was incredibly impressed by how sharp he is. Given they now have him as VP of Products, this cash injection is certainly more interesting as I'd expect him to do something useful with it.