skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first use of proper capacitative touch screen on the iPad. It was an absolutely transformative device compared to all the insensitive resistive ones that you had to jab at. Multi-touch for zoom and auto-rotate weere also innovations that felt like magic at the time.
Are there places with multiple days+ worth of electrical storage capacity? Because that is basically the minimum needed for solar that doesn't end up with regular power outages. I have yet to hear of any such large energy storage projects outside of a handful of dams that aren't actively filled but are turned down during peak solar or wind.
It works in LibreOffice but it pops up a window asking you which sort of paste you want, which wastes more time.
I am from Europe and know that Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America are all at least government sponsored. While I have no idea whether the original article is true or not (haven't read it yet), parent is AFAIK correct in that these media have had a propaganda function, similarly to Deutsche Welle. It's not quite "table stakes" as mentioned by parent but it's not far off either.

The combative style of your comment however makes it a bit hard to take you seriously.
Because when your entire culture is based around the idea that making as much money as possible is a virtue greater than all others, there will be plenty of people breaking your systems in order to make as much money as possible.
See "do not track" for how that goes. Remember, people that do actively make the choice to design such a popup to trick you, they do not intend to use the solution that respects your interests best. And at the same time, it makes sense that legislation refrains from requiring specific technologies.
If we're entertaining writing elisp methods in a faster language to improve overall performance, then it's already been done and being done via writing methods in C.

I don't see the point of polluting Emacs with Javascript.
Traditional companies just don't know about building software. They often start an IT transformation initiative because a consultancy firm told them they have to do. But at best, still all the middle managers don't buy the idea and don't commit to it. Even when they do, they lack knowledge and expertise to be successful and company doesn't know how to train them. So they end up doing some stuff that may sound fancy on paper (Oh we are doing Serverless), but they are still building crappy integrations and they suffer from bad communication structure.

Banks are innovating in traditional banking. They make fancier branches and better ATM machines, but they fail to innovate in software space while their customers are increasingly using more digital interfaces. And that's how they can't compete with modern FinTech players when it comes to development pace. They are just suck at software and they are lots of middle managers that unintentionally make it even harder.
Haha we used to eat at that SAJJ almost every day for lunch when we were working out of Max's garage!
From the PDF:

> Labor: in New York, the productivity of construction labor seems unusually low and wages high.
The Hire Standard – Excellent companies, deserve superior talent
I feel all of those are underlined or caused by corruption. The left sees corruption of corporations, the right sees corruption of politicians. All of which leads to exactly the fracturing and ideological positioning that you describe. No nation can survive systemic corruption for very long, it is a cancer that eats away at everything.
Sounds like Disney. Disney World (? - the one in Florida, USA) had a gift shop at the exit to every ride last time I was there. The bean counters probably consider it a great addition, and I'm sure it pays dividends, but that sort of unadulterated cashing in puts me off.
You have a banking subscription?
> which was the intention

Neither me, _Understated_ or you know exactly why nvidia did what they did. What we do know, is that ultimately they answer to their shareholders and they have to show profit. Their motivations for why they do the things they do, can usually be boiled down to: "because it makes us more money".

Nvidia probably doesn't care where the graphic cards go, miners or gamers, as they still make the same amount of money.
Hmm. I fear that a World's Fair would be an extremely attractive venue for quackery and pseudoscience. How would we avoid that?
Hi. This looks interesting. Have you considered integrating with Kleros for dispute resolution? And if not, why not?
Don't know anything about American infrastructure but knows a bit about Canadian ones, or to be more precise, Quebec ones.

In short: Corruption.
"The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth: How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York" (2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies

It's mentioned in the NEPA discussion on page 9, and in the litigation discussion.
i signed up now I'm expecting moneys
+1000 to this. At my first startup after college (~2000-2002), I remember clearly our first "deployment" for a paid customer -- we had to order $thousands in Sun SPARC machines, rent a rack at a local data center, hire someone to set it all up, etc. etc. etc.

I don't think people appreciate what an absolute miracle the various cloud providers are. I'd say it was 100x - 1000x improvement, not just 10x.
Page 15 of the report:

"It is unclear to what extent union labor is a problem outside New York, but within New York it has contributed to rampant overstaffing and wages in the building trades that are well above market rates. Prevailing wage laws should be used to ensure local workers earn a fair and competitive wage, not to reward special interest groups and other political insiders."
5700 XT makes about 6-7 USD a day, depending on electricity cost. It hasn't really been a factor for a while now. You'd make profit even in Germany.
The only problem I had with Kazaa is how often people would rename files for reasons I'll never understand.

Like...imagine downloading "The Matrix.avi", and you start playing it, and it turns out it was actually a copy of Fight Club.

WHY!?
but..the "provide all the necessary abstractions to create an isolated context" is the hard part. It trickles into every part of execution. How do you do isolated contexts without saying any process can be preempted at any moment? How do you isolate things when there's shared memory? To do this right you end up with something like Erlang which makes a lot of sacrifices in order to get there, though you have a fighting chance at dealing with concurrency. And if you bolt it on to the runtime without those pieces in place you end up with something like Akka which has tons of gotchas and ends up being way more confusing than just programming the way the JVM wants you to.

it seems like these fundamentals are in tension, and tradeoffs need to be made, which just means that there won't be a one size fits all paradigm. maybe someone will create something that is truly magic and does everything, but more likely they're trying to sell you something.
The economy is diverging on things vs. services because services require finicky human cooperation, understanding and knowledge, and "things" do not. Things can travel and stay on shelves, services can't.

And also, humans will tend to cheat when they can, and the longer lived a game is, the more specialized it becomes, and the harder it becomes to even recognize what is cheating and what is just "regular practice". You get something like "regulatory capture", but worse, because every element of the entire society captures another, forming a Gordian knot. Yet another path to Collapse, I'm afraid (probably a common one, I'd guess).
Steam Link (and lately nVidia Gamestream). It made my dream viable: having a server rack in my garage or basement, and stream my games to any room in my house. Wanna play in the living room TV? Sure! Want to play from your laptop in your room at full performance? No problem!

Later, I switched to Gamestream because the performance is vastly superior. Eventually, I'd like to enable multiple devices playing games from the same server... I might have to switch to a VM setup.
> It's not a miracle, this programmer was just smart enough to see something that nobody at Rockstar had seen. Or nobody in the engineering org cared to look.

Or more likely, no one had time to look. I keep see people acting like not fixing something is because the devs don't care. More often than not it's because we're being told to do something else instead.
The first result for DDG is the oath keepers article too, but they feature the astronaut's wikipedia page covering the full right column, including her picture.

I can't compare with Google results because I don't appreciate being spied on.
> Looking at their 2020 sales numbers and assuming they will be the same in 2021 is a very bad idea....

Look at that number how you want, they are selling more now than ever, and even if we assume that 2021 will be equal to their worst year, that's still 10M copies of the game. Do you really think that single improvement won't be responsible for an increase of sales of more than 0.0033%?

> Your own point, that it's making so much money despite the loading times, is the problem with that theory. If people were so upset by the loading times - why did people keep buying and playing the game so much?

You seem to be treating "people" as if we are talking about a single person. People are not a coherent set, some have better hardware and have a loading time of 1 minute, some just like the game so much that they are willing to deal with 7 minutes of loading time, and some are so annoyed by that they stopped playing or only bother launching the game if they have more than 1h to play.

The fact that the game is making a ton of money today does not mean it can't make more tommorrow, and it does mean than even incremental improvements are now worth a lot: any improvement that result in 1% more play time probably translate almost directly into 1% more microtransactions. For those people that had 7 minutes of loading time, even if we assume a generous average continuous play time of 2 hours that is already +6% playtime.

If it really wasn't worh anything like you are trying to picture, then they wouldn't have bothered rolling out a patch with that change.

Again, just go look on GTA's subreddit, there are tons of post of people complaining that they are giving up on this game because of the loading time, so despite what you say, those people exists, and it's not just 1 guy.

Big software companies routinely invest millions for incremental improvements that are less significant than this, for product that make less money that GTA Online. I think you severely underestimate what this changes mean over that amount of money and such a large potential player base.
Thanks for the feedback! That makes total sense. Today we're working with slightly larger companies, but in the future we intend to roll out a pricing model that meets the needs of most SaaS companies. Thanks for sharing Cypress' model - it's an interesting one we'll explore we continue to think through pricing!
From what I can tell, encryption services like this function more like an affinity scam. People believe any claim to make them feel safe.

(Not saying this service was a fraud, just that the users are not objective)
Full headline: "Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Messages, Arrested 48 People"

From the article: "Around the world, there are approximately 171,000 SKY ECC telephones in service [...] Each month, around 70,000 of these phones actively communicate on the SKY ECC network [...] More than 1.2 million euros, 15 prohibited weapons, including six firearms, eight luxury vehicles, three machines used to count money, police uniforms and GPS beacons were also seized today"

Doesn't sound like a great hit rate to me!

What do you reckon the 9 non-firearm prohibited weapons are, trebuchets? Medieval flails? Clubs with nails in them?
Anecdotally, I was writing some side-project code to help learn about new housing to support where I live, and I found this project. In the middle of a new piece of the university campus they're building, they want to use a 35 foot flag pole, instead of a 25 foot flag pole. Look at all the paperwork that generated:

https://cityview.ci.bend.or.us/Portal/Planning/StatusReferen...

Notices were put up, letters mailed, comments sought (I wrote in, in favor!).

All of that for a flagpole with a US flag right in the middle of the property.
Trump is not an intellectual, to be sure. But have you listened to his Black Hills speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXD4zPY4Ai0

Start at 24:53

I can't agree that he doesn't understand the value of family, markets, and liberty. He does - and these things are not complicated. The great majority of citizens in these United States have believed in them for hundreds of years.

But some people these days want us to stop believing in those values, and they are very vocal. We need more public intellectuals in the mold of Thomas Sowell, and politicians that would listen to their council.
Smart approach, imho.
I think as you grow older you build a large web of knowledge where you can connect disparate pieces of information into a coherent framework. This should make one easier to learn new material (eg reading your first scientific paper can take a very long time, but by the time you have read your 1000th, you will have built models to help digest information).

However it may be that this developed framework can hinder new learning if new skills are fundamentally incompatible with existing framework. There old habits can slow down incorporation or new skills. For example, learning Japanese as an anglophone may be harder than learning Japanese as a Korean speaker. The anglophone would need to actively ignore learned habits to learn Japanese.
How about the top down governing approach that works in some situations and is a disaster in others? Currently favorable but times change.

Second, we should not hope that an opponent does worse than us to make us look better but we should simply better ourselves in the first place. Currently I'm seeing only decline and disunity in the western civilization, very short term thinking and lack of vision, but I'm aware that's just a phase that is possible to flip anytime.
Ready for SQL Murder Mystery?
Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in the container
>If the state could just say "okay we're transplanting all of the people that live here out of the way so that we can put up a hyperloop, and these are the people who are going to do it, and we'll pay them this much..."

That is particular is definitely a tradeoff. The US did do it with things like the Interstate Highway System but I'm actually OK with Eminent Domain being difficult to exercise today.
> because "society" decides they are no longer productive.

You have to consider the benchmark. Do people deserve to live in a castle if they aren't productive enough?

Living in a single family home in the middle of NYC requires a whole lot of productivity because you are literally displacing dozens of other people. You have to be as productive as all those people combined to be worthy of replacing them.
It blows my mind that an environmental impact study for a single light rail system can take 8 years, when multiple coronavirus vaccines were created, safely reviewed, then safely administered to hundreds of millions of people in record time.

Edit: yes, I get the different level of scale/need between them. My point is: big things can be done safely & responsibly without criminally wasting massive amounts of time.
With graal vm java apps compiled to native have amost 0 startup time
Yes, some people will get screwed end up like those out-of-work horses because of AI or automation. Other people will benefit greatly. On average, most people will benefit a little bit. This is how every technological advance has worked for the last few hundred years. The promise of higher efficiency == higher standard of living is a general promise for society as a whole, not for any particular individual.
In the last weeks I had seen a phone repeating the entered password in a clear voice (after a "security update" none less), and other showing in google maps the exact point where a home video has been recorded while playing the video.
Firebug came out AFTER IEDevToolbar, and IEDevToolbar was superior to Firebug for years for debugging JavaScript.

So not a very good example at all, in fact quite the opposite, it just happened to ride the back of the anti-M$ wave and wasn't at all innovative, copying its features from already existing products.

Conversely, though it was free, IEDevToolbar was only really advertised to MSDN subscribers, so never got much penetration, especially as by then everyone hated IE6 and a lot of Devs worked in Firefox first.

But my company only supported IE6, and when we finally started supporting Firefox, firebug was an annoyingly sub-par experience when debugging js.

Even Chrome's early Dev tools had some sorely missed features when it first came out, as far as I can remember it took them years to support being able to just hold your mouse over a variable and see its value. And because it was a web-page about a web-page you got all these weird bugs. And the CSS editor was (and still is) super annoying with its attempts to cut up your text.

On top of that visual studio also had a JavaScript debugger, I'm sure there were plenty more paid tools you simply didn't know about.
Only if network access can access revocation
They went to Samsung instead to get more capacity this gen.
Years ago, when MS Flight Simulator X came to Steam, I bought it even though I had MSFSX on DVD.

Eliminating the need for the discs as well as removing the silly DRM in favor of Steam's far more sane DRM was worth the $10.
Your example here is C style though.

struct S { int x; };

is perfectly valid C++
Farming circuit accounts may amount to a small fortune after 2021.

> A Letter to the Cricut Community, From Ashish Arora CEO

> We will continue to allow an unlimited number of personal image and pattern uploads for members with a Cricut account registered and activated with a cutting machine before December 31, 2021. This benefit will continue for the lifetime of your use of these machines.
> 1" thick or more is not too much.

I think it depends a lot on an individual's needs. Like in my case, a recent laptop purchasing decision revolved around qualities that make a laptop particularly good at being a laptop — that is, high portability, low/no noise, little/no heat. Power and ports were a cherry on top because I already have another machine that fills those needs.

In that situation, 1" isn't necessarily too thick, but it is negatively impacting its functionality as a laptop, if only because added thickness implies added weight (especially for sizes larger than 13").

With that said, ultraportables shouldn't exist at the cost of models more oriented toward power and flexibility… they should be an option alongside more traditional laptops.
I remember when people used to use snow tires and it wasn't an issue. All-season tires provide relatively poor traction in snow and ice compared to snow tires. The compounds in all-season tires start getting hard below 40F whereas snow tires stay soft/rubbery.
"Even more power will shift from labor to capital."

You can say the same thing for machines replacing workers at farms, but hardly anyone would rather ban tractors for taking people's jobs

You can say the exact same thing for bank tellers replaced by ATM's but no one wants to wait in long lines to withdraw money and pay expensive service fees

The list goes on and on

Google maps (how often people need physical maps anymore?)

Gmail (goodbye to a lot of physical mailing service)

Excel (1 accountant can do the work of tens of more accountants of the past)

Forklifts take away many body breaking jobs

Jobs do disappear, but very few people would rather go back
I think it opens many file pointers and keeps them open. Trying to run chrome with anything that has io operations on an older machine and you can see how chrome hogs resources.
There are lots of dumb reasons but there are also things like we require Fire Extinguishers in our data centers to get a certificate of occupancy.
It’s the post-scarcity trap. We spend more on services merely because we can.
> At most, it blocks your ISP from seeing what you're doing.

In fairness, that is a nontrivial privacy win for a decent number of people.
> and it's similarly obvious that the defensive measures have prevented that outcome most places.

I'm saying that looking at aggregate outcomes and comparing locations that took these precautions to ones that didn't, this isn't obvious at all. It looks to me more like these defensive measures didn't work, and I kinda want to know why, if they're as effective as the percentages you gave.
And is there anything as enduring and resistant as the thinkpads?

I accidentally spilled a glass of water on my old thinkpad w, and all I had to do was to replace the keyboard (happened twice). It also helped that I could find spare part easily online. Would it be possible with lesser-know brands? It also fell several time on the ground but never broke anything.
I'm honestly very interested to know if there are laptops as durable as thinkpads.
> All the money ultimately comes from the users.

All the money comes from some of the users. Sure Google is collecting everyone's data, but in the end the vast majority of it is worthless. I'd be surprised if even 1% of users are profitable for the ecosystem. The tiny minority clicking on ads and buying products is subsidizing everyone else.
Based on this story, for all we know most criminals are smart. It's just the dumb ones use Sky and get caught.
You can still carry it in your bag and plug it in at home/work.
What geographic feature is pictured in the hero shot of this blogpost? At first I thought it was the Golden Throne in Capitol Reef but I now think it's something else. I'm 90% sure it's either in Capitol Reef or Grand Staircase.
This paper addresses bureaucracy and its effects on expense, but it sort of makes the assumption that lowering the price is the goal. It seems to me that high cost is convenient to artificially "create jobs" and bureaucracy, hence it's a feature, not a bug.

An example from my local city: our small city (33k pop) won a $10mil grant for downtown revitalization. The money is supposed to help stimulate small business growth in the downtown. The administration spends $1.1 mil tearing down a parking garage, another $600k building a parking lot on the same piece of land of the garage, and they've got their fingers crossed they can get a developer to build an apartment complex there, which means they'll have to tear up the parking lot. The cherry on top is knowing we also commissioned a report to study downtown parking trends, and know that even on the busiest day up to 80% of parking spaces are unused. But the administration celebrated the 10-12 construction jobs they created.

Anyone who has taken a basic economics course would recognize this as the Broken Window Fallacy, but our officials either don't know or don't care (my guess is the latter). Spend lots of money - create useless jobs - that's how a productive economy is supposed to work, right?
How does the automated jury work?