skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no need to bicker about this. A 13 inch display at 4K has about 340 pixels per inch along the diagonal. At 1080p it would have about 170 pixels per inch.

Perfect vision is usually understood to be the ability to discern details of about 1/60 of a degree, or 0.29 milliradians. By the arc length formula (s=rθ), we find that the distance needed to precisely align this angle with the level of detail provided by a 1080p screen is about 20 inches.

In other words, if you sit closer than 20 inches away from your screen (perhaps not that unlikely for a laptop), you might be able to discern details beyond the 1080p level. This would only be possible for extremely contrast sensitive small details, like text in a small font size at 1:1 (no DPI scaling).

So... it's a bit complicated, but I suspect 1080p would be good enough for nearly everyone at 13 inches, but move up to 15 inches and I could see many people preferring 1440p.
That's not the issue here. The issue is that "number of listens" is not correlated with "payouts from Spotify", even if we ignore the record labels taking their cut.
You're spot on, and that's something I think about daily. Satellite-based incumbents have an average revisit rate (assuming good weather) of roughly 2x/day, so hundreds or thousands of passes/day poses serious privacy and operational risk. We rely on guidance from EthicalGEO and other consumer privacy orgs when drafting standards, but the path to the type of hyper-revisit we're envisioning will need to be tread very cautiously.
Minecraft – A Game of Slavery and Torture
Here's what I did for each point:

Android: iPhone. I don't know if I trust Apple more than Google, but at least on the surface level our interests align better. Might try a Librem 5 or Google-less Android in the future.

Google search: DDG. Agreed with your points there, sometimes it's tempting to go back to Google.

Gmail: Hey.com commercial account, plus a custom domain and individual aliases for each service I give my email address to. That helps with portability somewhat, in the future at least.

Maps: Apple Maps has been pretty nice. Might give OpenStreetMap a try.

YouTube: Invidious.

Android Auto: Apple Car Play. I wish there were a better option that didn't depend on Apple.

Google Drive: OneDrive, but I'm looking for alternatives.
No, not a dev at SO. I am guessing what would be rather a standard use of CDN (hosting static assets, caching them geographically).

What you're saying is probably right.
Well, I can also find a dozen sheep within that radius, just the other way around! Dense country for sure, but I’m not living near the city center.

Urban planning does not equal trying to get everyone to live in packed apartments.
The problem with recognizing that a lot of phrasings are just the polite way to call someone stupid/tell someone to fuck off/etc is that you start seeing assholes whenever someone is just trying to be polite. :(
One other thing I'd like to add.

The scenario of AI mostly replacing people like doctors and lawyers involves bizarre paradoxes beyond whether deep learning "AI" works as advertised. Suppose you can train an "AI" to read legal papers or diagnose patients based on X-rays. That training is done from the data of real life lawyers and doctors actions. Suppose, best case scenario (very unrealistic imo btw), you have a complete "snapshot" of the behavior of lawyers and doctors in a given year. The problem is reality changes, you need new lawyering and doctoring behaviors after N years. Doctors need interpret new maladies, lawyers need to cite new decisions and both need to interpret new language forms that appear. But if you've actually removed the real lawyers and doctors, where would you get the new training data?

And this is just taking AI at it's word.
And yet, the police all claim that criminals are dumb, and wait for them to do something that gets them caught. That's one of the basic investigation tactics--wait for the criminal to screw up.
AI progress is not limited at all, it's the fastest moving research field in the world (5x improvement in efficiency / year for training a task to the same precision for the same cost if I recall correctly, far better than Moore's law).

OpenAI is opening the world to AI and helping people just like Google's doing ,,no evil'', Facebook is connecting people. At the point when an organization gets big enough to not keep its original values (being open for OpenAI), it's not better (less altruistic) in ,,making the world a better place'' than any other organization. Competition and having the power of AI distributed in more companies is good though (until they acquire each other).
> There are more than enough counterexamples around

Citation needed.
I don't know much about the Valley but to me this looks surprisingly good for London.

According to this article [1] SV attracted $35bn in 2020, that's around $8bn per quarter.

1 - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/14/silicon-valleys-share-of-ven...
In US you can sieze that many firearms raiding a random nightclub. :)
> Every utility-scale solar project in California has at some point been sued under CEQA by labor unions looking for more money.

Which union? IBEW (electrical, wireman not linesman) has solar project labor almost completely locked down, electricians assemble the racking and panels, run all the conduit, pull all the wire, and terminate everything. Site work/concrete/buildings are the only work that falls outside the IBEW scope.

Edit: My employer does 8 figures worth of solar panel projects with union labor a year

Second edit: So CURE is a coalition of labor unions that sue to hold up solar projects while they try and force the developer to hire union labor. That’s pretty shady, there’s plenty of work to go around for everyone, no need to do shakedowns to get contracts IMO. There’s plenty of facilities that only hire union MEP contractors because the job will get done correctly, nearly all Class A office space, for example.
> globally poverty has been plummeting.

Yes, globally, if you take all countries and also average over all social classes. We indeed have more millionaires and billionaires and also more countries with millionaires and billionaires. If you take a look at different social classes, wealth inequality is rising.

> Standard of living has been rising faster than income because all consumed goods have been vastly improved over time.

The Rust belt, the obesity epidemic and the opioid crisis would like a word with you.
>"electronics have become more reliable"

Is that actually true? I have a 20 year old TV and a projector that still work, and I would be very surprised if my current one will last that long.
What?? It’s the exact opposite. Those people HAVE to work that hard precisely for the reason I mentioned: they won’t be paid otherwise. This is precisely the issue. If you paid people irrespective of how much they work, they won’t work.

Your example is evidence of my statement, not refutation.
devil is in the details. you would need highly skilled and experienced arbitrators here for each vertical.
No, it's definitely dutch diesease with our dollar exports too. See https://phenomenalworld.org/reviews/trade-wars
It was I believe in the late seventies, 1976-77 perhaps.
Android Auto was the biggest pain for me. I tried /e/OS, but for the life of me I couldn't get AA to work with MicroG.
I presume most users of such service are professionals in anything but cyber security and can be as misguided as an average Joe on the street.
He's saying he thinks that there would be 170k criminals forming a singular network seems like a high number.

To me, it sounds low. There are very niche interest websites with 750k accounts[1]. Further, 170k isn't the number of criminals, but the number of people who had interaction with Sky - Which may be basically anyone who had a shady friend.

The problem with our modern understanding of "innocent until proven guilty" is that unsubstantiated rumor can spark fire very quickly, while real damage can fly under the radar for a very long time. People who have been actually damaged often try to extricate themselves from the situation as quickly as possible, or end up trapped and pushing further into it. Without real numbers to back this up: If you marry an abusive spouse, Either you get a quick if painful divorce, or you normalize it and become embedded deeply in the relationship and cut off from your friends who tell you to get away, because their advice for setting boundaries only gets you hurt further.

I have no doubt that the niche interest of shady behavior can attract a few hundred thousand users, while staying unknown to anyone outside the niche.

[1] Furaffinity claims this number, as a standard internet oddity, but fimfiction.net boasts nearly 300k; Many other "weird" websites probably have numbers in the 50-500k range.
Opera was a paid option. It was doomed from the start.
That archive appears to be in the middle of a database migration, so it's possible that this deficiency is temporary.

Ah, I guess as of ~6 months ago the archive weighed in at 300 GB and 300 million posts, so hopefully temporary: https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/in6u06/free_usenet_...

as of last report

Where does one find the reports? Here are the creator's posts to Reddit, at least: https://www.reddit.com/user/emolinare/submitted/
This thinking leads to more poverty and less social mobility.

Factory workers in China get paid less than $5/hour, yet this so-called "exploitation" directly led to a large reduction in poverty[1]. If everyone had accepted your framing and refused to do manufacturing business with China on that basis, the consequence of that would be more poverty and human suffering.

If a person is being paid $4/hour and you come in and offer a $5/hour job, you are making their situation better and you are improving their life.

[1]https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/poverty-rate
Well, their selling point was that it was easier to develop on locally. We weren't even running Docker in production.
I think it's more that the lowest hanging fruit have already been picked. In other words, all the lives that could be saved for $200 have already been saved. If I'm right about that it would seem to be an unambiguously good thing.
Your back must hurt from moving that goalpost so often.
I wonder why various administrative approvals don't have a time-out built-in. I would suggest that an approval process may take, say 6 months, and unless during this time good grounds for disapproval are found, the approval is considered granted.

This will not work, of course. Bogus disapprovals will be issued at the last minute, then likely taken to court, which again can take arbitrarily long.
Definitely, there's no difference. Just look at the 1937 Paris Expo.
> One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies (that aren't even associated with reduced environmental impact!)

That wasn't missed. That's what NEPA is implicitly referring to. Environmental protection legislation is usually structured to first require the developer to create an environmental impact report (EIR). Thereafter almost everything revolves around the EIR, including the regulatory agency review as well as the lawsuits. Environmental lawsuits invariably challenge the accuracy of the EIR, or the application of regulatory agency rules to an EIR.

An EIR is to environmental regulation what construction blueprints are to the building code. You need the paperwork, otherwise you just have a bunch of people shouting and pointing fingers and making wild claims.

The issue with EIRs is who gets to challenge the accuracy of an EIR. Imagine if any old interest group could challenge construction blueprints for accuracy in court. It'd be a nightmare. Well, in some jurisdictions, like California, pretty much anybody can challenge an EIR in court. By contrast, under the Federal NEPA and most state regulations, the parties with a right to challenge an EIR are few--e.g. usually just the government agency in charge of approving it and maybe any adjacent landowners potentially impacted.

I know somebody who is a low-income housing developer in California. According to her, the cost of compiling and getting approval of an EIR under NEPA is de minimis, with very low-risk if the reviewing contractor doesn't uncover any serious problems. By contrast, because almost anybody can challenge the EIR submitted under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and do so without any risk of punishment for frivolous or vexatious challenges, one of her biggest risks and costs is dealing with CEQA. (Because nobody wants low-income housing near them, any remotely nearby upper-income neighborhood will instinctively challenge her EIR, causing mult-year, even multi-decade delays. And this is even when zoning boards and every other government agency are 100% behind a project.)
This will be used as support when they come for signal by pressuring Apple and Google to ban it from the store. Facebrick will just remove whatsapp end to end encryption.

How should we react when it starts?
Having a pig farm setup shop next to your property reduces the market value significantly. Having a library does not, quite the opposite.

Property should be protected by law so that people are not deprived of it, but it does not follow that owning property gives you the right to be capricious.
No, people aren’t allowed to return to parts of Fukushima due to contamination. It’s ruined fishing industries because no one wants to buy food from the area.
I'd guess grenades are more likely to be categorized as explosive devices.
Americans love to through around "beauracracy", but the article states we have too weak and balkanized a civil service. This is a very different issue.
LTS doesn't exist within OpenJDK. LTS only exists if you're paying a specific provider for it.
Sure. There are also plenty of shops that don't accept bitcoin either, so if you need to use a service (private or government) you would convert it into something they would accept. The point is that there are no taxes associated with the conversion.

Therefore, you are not subject to government monetary policy (on your savings) because you would only convert what you needed to at the point when you have to pay for the services.
Retool [1]. Its been years since I've ran into a software product to support software teams which could so fundamentally change how you build things, and how you build the things you build. Retool can basically cut down the effort of making internal administrative dashboards by, like, a solid 70%. I still sometimes run into dashboards other engineers have made on Retool and say "holy shit you can do this?" or "how did we have the time to build this, is it really that easy?"

I believe its possible Retool will become the next Jira, in the sense that its a totally internal tool that's so valuable companies hire people whose entire job is to just live in it and develop it out.

[1] https://retool.com/
> A secure distributed ledger of financial transactions does not inherently need nearly this much computational power to maintain, as is evidenced by Ethereum's impending move to proof-of-stake.

You can claim that as evidence after Ethereum has actually moved to proof-of-stake and operated in that mode for a significant length of time without any notable vulnerabilities. Proof-of-stake has some known drawbacks compared to proof-of-work; in particular, at least in naïve implementations, there is nothing to prevent a malicious party from staking the same coins in multiple chains (forks) simultaneously, a flaw which proof-of-work systems are specifically designed to avoid by making the proof depend on each chain's history. One assumes that the Ethereum developers came up with some sort of mitigation for that issue, among others, but it has yet to see real-world testing with significant funds at risk should it fail.
NASA's Juno reveals dark origins of one of Jupiter's grand light shows
Proteopathy is a real thing. Prion dysfunctions can cause self-replication, not that the makeup is necessarily there for that in these vaccines. Interesting starting point for consideration nonetheless.
It sounds cool. They're probably going to have ML and AI for their reputation system too.
> There isn't enough coronavirus vaccine to go around.

That is mostly a question of regulations. The part that takes so much time is getting the vaccines approved; many researchers don't even try because they know they wouldn't have enough money to get their vaccine approved. Also, most governments negotiate hard to reduce the prices, despite the fact that economic damage from lockdowns is much greater.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfried_St%C3%B6cker
I'm always happy to receive knowledge!

That last sentence was meant as an exhortation to authors of similar static analysis tools: "Please implement this so I don't feel it’s a spurious addition". Many of those authors are like me – engineers who lack a post-grad education in program analysis, but are still interested in the subject. I hope some of them did read it, and can bring the same analysis to their own tools.

I was also really happy when I discovered Typed Racket had implemented it, mostly because it meant that the idea wasn't flawed for some theoretical reason I’m too ill-educated to understand...
Sometimes I like to middle click and move my house instead of using the wheel (nicer on my joints). Sometimes I like to even just move it a little and have it auto-scroll as I read. It's a fun game to try and match my pace and more engaging that way. So many websites break these too.
Mastermind behind Twitter cryptocurrency hack sentenced to three years
Did you just make the exact same kind of daft observation in response to that? Impressive lack of awareness.
People use US currency in some other countries now, independently of the US government. Nothing can stop them, and if the US as an entity went away, nothing would continue to not stop them, until the currency wore out, I suppose.

Also, I believe I've read that the US does not declare old money invalid like a lot of countries do. It might be a collector's item worth more than face value but in theory you can still spend it.
"they're wrong" is not very convincing. It's not the same person writing the articles, and I'm not the same person you've been responding to over and over.
Yeah, the wireguard guys can maintain their app. Why can’t a company like librem?
An interactive data visualization tool that helps users discover new music
My point is every cloud vendor needs to break up revenue by IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. Each one looks strong and bad across segments and hence such a breakup will never happen. But saying AWS or MSFT is #1 misses the dominant segment where they are leading, hides where they are struggling, and gives an incorrect impression.
Is the NIMBYism that is so destructive or the fact that the terms of the agreement between were not upheld. As much as I don't see an issue with a library, I assure you after I learned of that story, I watch moves by my local city hall a lot more carefully since I know I cannot take them at their word.

Trust is everything.
Or maybe not everything is marketing and a cursory search shows you the project is an engineering project backed by multiple universities?

No, it must be fake, because it doesn’t fit my own agenda, and I don’t have the time to actually read any of the engineering info. I’ll just use my well-honed common sense to dismiss this totally impractical and stupid idea by physics and engineering grads. Do they think I’m dumb? I’ll show them by shouting even louder, and don’t you dare disagree or censor me!

(this is sadly the state of rational thinking today)
I don't see how you think that's what the parent commenter is believing. For starters, the modder didn't make "GTA V 70% faster", he made one small (but noticeable) part 70% better.

And yes, there are many code bases where performance isn't prioritized in all areas, and one totally can expect a skilled engineer coming in to look at performance to find nice speed increases here and there. Not because they are magically better than everyone else, but because a) they are given the freedom to spend time on it where nobody else has been and b) because they are possibly more familiar with approaches and tooling than a dev that hasn't had the opportunity to prioritize performance. All your examples likely do have such people available, and thus bringing someone in is less likely to find something really juicy, unless they have some blindspot. Large game projects for sure have performance experts, but maybe they primarily spend their time on in-game performance and initial resource loading was a blind spot. Maybe that's a common blind spot. And outside games that's commonly waaay worse - performance isn't prioritized, and to be fair the fact that slower-than-necessary software usually sells just as well makes that understandable economically for a long time. But also makes it difficult if it gets to the point where it should/must matter.
Seconding that. Although Firebug was wonderful, cross-platform development was not (IE and FireFox). Example of "quirks mode" nonesense:

1. The "hidden" element at the root of the IE DOM tree, only accessible with "*" via CSS

2. inline-block was broken on IE6 (but fixable with hacks), and no transparent PNG support.

3. The outline CS property was implemented the same as background in IE

Best of all was the dog slow IE 6 JavaScript interpreter, which was like 50x slower than Firefox and IE 7+.
It is not great.

I think this is all pretty much over now, right? FreeBSD is pulling back from a kernel WireGuard I think everyone agrees wasn't ready for prime time in mainline FreeBSD, and everyone's working getting it ready for a future release.

I don't really understand what pfSense had to gain from a post like this, but, it's their blog.
> they could have taken a trolley bus, put train wheels on it, and we would have had a faster and cheaper streetcar

I don't think this'd work quite as easily as you'd imagine. If you'd literally take a bus, take out its steering and replace its wheels with train wheels, the resulting contraption would have diabolical cornering abilities with regards to the tight curves typically encountered on streetcar networks.

Two-axle streetcars typically don't have a wheelbase much above 10 or 11 feet at most (and that's already pushing it – there's a reason why everybody moved on to vehicles with bogies or otherwise steerable axles), whereas modern buses have a wheelbase closer to 20 ft or so.
We changed the URL from https://www.niskanencenter.org/report-so-you-want-to-do-an-i... to the actual report.

We also changed the submitted title ('Why is American infrastructure so expensive?') to the actual title. Note the site guideline: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's silly about prohibiting knuckledusters?

They have one and only one use, are easily consealed, and very effective.

I operate a laser cutter and am not infrequently asked to cut knuckles and always politely refuse with a brief explanation why.
This is basically just rich people propaganda, and it's straight up not true.

The majority of the top 400 richest inherited at least 1 million.

And of the ones who did not inherit that much, often they were given that kind of money as seed money from family.

Straight up 20% of the top 400 richest were literally born in the top 400.

Knock it off with this self-made malarkey. It's just not true.