skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that I made a mistake on the storage capacity comparison, I was walking and looking things up on my phone and got briefly confused.

The rest of your points I’ve already addressed. More thunderbolt ports is actually bad for most users if it comes at the expense of ports they can actually use without a dongle. The build quality is not really any better... I’ve owned both as well, and I’ve also had a work MacBook Pro 15 with the butterfly keyboard. Until recently, Mac keyboards were the worst in the industry, including reliability. Now they’re decent, but nothing to write home about. Definitely not an advantage. Trackpads are what you make of them... Apple certainly makes good ones, but it’s not 2010 anymore. Every mid-to-high end laptop I’ve used in the last 5 years has had a good trackpad, but I still reach for a mouse even on my Macs.

I already addressed the display as well. It’s a trade off. Apple doesn’t offer high refresh rate displays on their laptops, which matter to some people. If they didn’t matter, Apple wouldn’t put them on their iPad Pro.

System76 used to offer 4K displays (optionally matte) on the Oryx Pro, and mine was exceptionally good! And that’s higher resolution than Apple uses, in addition to the wonderful matte effect cutting down on glare. I’m just guessing the massive ongoing part shortage has affected which displays they can actually acquire for the moment.

So yes, I agree you get different things with a Mac, but those things are unlikely to be worth 50% more to most people, with the exception of macOS itself... and that’s only valuable to people who like macOS or are literally required to use macOS.

> in general, statements about the price inflation are overblown. It exists but it's not as bad as many people think.

I started this conversation by pointing out the price inflation I care about the most: storage, and it’s on the order of a 400% markup. It’s extremely awful.

If Apple would be environmentally friendly and allow people to repair and upgrade their computers, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion, because I’d have a 1TB SSD in my MacBook Air, and it would have cost me $100. If Apple would charge a healthy 100% profit margin, I would probably have paid them for the SSD... I’m just not willing to go to 400% markup.

Apple has basically always charged egregious upgrade prices, it didn’t start when they started soldering things down, so the small number of people like myself who would actually upgrade components should not be considered a threat to their profit margins... but even if most people did it, Apple should allow it because it’s the right thing to do long term, even if it impacts short term profits. Instead, they seem to be optimizing their products to eek out every last percentage point of profit. Which is understandable... it is a company, but it would be nice if they didn’t. They already have hundreds of billions of dollars of cash.
The Gmail web interface also (re)invented AJAX. The number of web applications that used XMLHttpRequest increased exponentially after the success of Gmail.
Great interview. He's right - who reads Techcrunch anymore?
I think focusing on cents per stream is a bit complicated. In the end, are artists making more or less money than before?

Because before people would record songs from the radio on tape and listen to those. They would buy used CDs, pirate. Radio would stream the song, but you didn't know exactly how many people were listening.

I used to spend $0 on music. Now I have spotify duo for me and my wife. I also started buying vinyl records, but my bet is that the artists makes way less money from my vinyl collection than from my Spotify account
https://krisp.ai/ is basically that, but I've found RTX voice running on the GPU (1660ti) doesn't slow down my laptop while Krisp does a bit.
When prices go down, we all welcome it, but isn't it just as informing as price rises, of collusive behaviour?

Functionally, its a duopoly. This is a duopoly of rent-seekers.
Pardon my English, but fuck Larry Ellison, the Russian oligarch, and the next guy.
Valid point and I understand the concern. However [at least in the USA] we are all scored in many different ways. This includes: credit scores, insurance scores, criminal scores, employer/employee scores, education scores, etc. Yes, these examples are private and only visible to certain people [unless hacked]. Whereas the SELLFF TRU Score is public and visible to everyone. We have been transparent about how the value is determined and what it means. It is an indicator of trust and reputation, not an absolute value.

For many of the reasons you stated, we chose a much larger range of values. So, instead of 1-10 or 1-100, we selected 100 - 1,000 with a starting value of 400.

In anything we do, there is the starting point from which you determine if adjustments are needed. If the TRU Score is deemed to be in error or unfair or inaccurate, we will make the needed changes.

It is also worth noting that people who are selling services and trying to reach new customers are looking for new/better ways to connect. It is our belief that SELLFF can become an additional, valuable option for these providers. Instead of having a reliance on the mega platforms that might have already lost out trust.
I see. Establishment limousine liberal money. Okay:

Conclusions:

Our infrastructure is unmanageable because of cars and suburbs. We must adopt public transport and consolidate people into cities. That will make everything neat and tidy and reduce costs and save the climate. Plus, they will be far away from our enormous private estates which we intend to keep in all cases. Also, raise taxes.
Have an Atari 130XE, a C64, and two Apple IIs in my office still. Play my favorite old games, hack 6502 code, trace into ROM routines, mess with the latest accessories. (network adapters, solid state storage, accelerators, etc)... sometimes I even beat a game I couldn’t quite beat before. I rarely get time to actually do all this stuff, but when I do...
Republican voters aren't necessarily Republicans. He activated a different base than the McCains and the Romneys of the world. The Neoconservative block that helped build the current order and the populist block that brought about Trump's victory certainly intersect to an extent, but many also broke off in support of Biden. But then you might as well call DSA and Bernie bros Democrats because they settled for Biden, and call them out as hypocrites on account of their principals conflicting with the policies and values of the clinton administration.
I'm glad nzb is still around.
Yahoo Mail is a lot nicer than gmail to actually use (no silly tiny window for editing), and automatically saves drafts.
Was standard oil corrupt? from my understanding they reduced the cost of oil by a significant fraction. In fact, they out competed their less efficient rivals.

Rep. William Mason, arguing in favor of the Sherman Antitrust Act, said: "trusts have made products cheaper, have reduced prices; but if the price of oil, for instance, were reduced to one cent a barrel, it would not right the wrong done to people of this country by the trusts which have destroyed legitimate competition and driven honest men from legitimate business enterprise."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Legacy_and_critic...
My Civic does just fine in Michigan. The only time I got stuck was the one winter I didn't have snow tires.
cool tech.

I don't think a balsa wood floor is gonna handle more than one or two salsa dances, no more.

I suppose you'd have to put some kind of hard flooring material over it?
I said I wasn't saying, but since you seem to really want to know, it made the skin turn bright red and then peel for most of a week. Like the last stage of a bad sunburn, only without the itching, which at least was something of a mercy. Even so, it put me off the stuff in a way that's lasted ever since.
Right, but the point of the pain is to remind conscious me to pull my foot away. But fungi (afaik) aren’t conscious, nor can move, so what’s the evolutionary advantage to this signaling?
Mimecast says SolarWinds hackers breached its network
When you live in a coastal city everything outside the beltway is the midwest
Great - yet another misaligned incentive to throw into the often stressful mix of how lead authorship should be determined!
VS Code's Remote Development. I'm not sure how many folks rely on this, but its been amazing for me.
I don’t think scalpers can drive up prices long term. What’s the difference between all the scalpers having the cards and nvidia having the cards? Either way people are only going to pay what the card is worth to them. If cryptocurrency miners buy the cards, they’re not reselling them.
Actually they were slaughtered.

> Processing wild horses into chicken food in the 1930s reached its peak, when nearly 30 million pounds of horse flesh were canned.

http://netnebraska.org/basic-page/television/wild-horses-sla...
For me this boils down to "don't let perfect be the enemy of good".

No system -- no matter if it's crypto, status-quo finance, gold-backed currency, pure capitalist/socialist/whatever -- will ever satisfy someone's desire for "perfection", so alternates will always be proposed and created. Bike-shedding over which is better will continue forever until the sun explodes.

Everything is a set of trade-offs, and competition between these various systems is the best way to weed out the "not good enough" from the "good enough". That's all we can ever hope for.
Cosmic lens reveals faint radio galaxy
The answer to "Why are they investigating?" is simple and, in fact, driven in part by the pharmaceutical industry itself.

First: The rate of thrombosis in AZ recipients is the less than it is in the general population -- Gen pop, ~.1% [1], AZ ~ 0.001% [2]. There is no evidence that the vaccine causes substantially higher risk. Also, the populations being prioritized for vaccination are a higher risk population for DVT to begin with.[1]

AZ, along with effectively every pharma company out there of note, takes the reporting of adverse drug responses (ADRs) very, very seriously. Both FDA and EMA require ALL companies that produce a labeled product (aka a drug you can "buy" and isn't only available in a trial setting) to investigate and report on every instance of a reported potential ADR. Companies want to investigate because they want to be able to keep selling their drugs. Regulators want to investigate because they want to limit ADRs as much as possible.

From the therapeutic point of view, it is bad if the treatment causes ADRs but also some may be unavoidable because of how the treatment works -- think chemo and cancer. The safety window for a drug is determined by balancing the therapeutic gain of treatment (usually, shorter time to recovery, increased QOL, or, in the case of cancers, increased life span/PFS) with the number and severity of known adverse effects. You might hear about cancer patients "cycling" their treatments, this is to allow time for the body to recover from known/expected ADRs.

Any way, this was a long winded way of saying every entity involved -- drug manufacturer, regulators, doctors, patients -- wants reports of ADRs investigated.

[1] https://www.ajmc.com/view/overview-of-venous-thromboembolism "The overall incidence of VTE is 1 to 2 per 1000 person-years in the general population, which rises to 8 per 1000 person-years in people older than 85 years"

[2] https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene... 30/5,000,000
From reading the article, I get the sense that the piezoelectric effect in the wood itself is what is generating the electricity. So I think the role of the fungi is just to weaken the wood so that it's soft enough to compress more easily.
That works both ways.

There are a lot of strong opinions out there based on ignorance.

It behooves one to take things, even so called engineering info you read on a marketing website, with a grain of salt.

BTW even universities do marketing, since you are apparently unaware.

I didn’t see anyone shouting. I hope you can see what is going on here.
I expected to pay almost double
List of features and explanations with no BS on what's new in Java 16 : https://metebalci.com/blog/what-is-new-in-java-16/
And conversely we read about what anyone in the Midwest would consider to be a minor snowstorm and it causes a catastrophe in the South. See for example this article about 3 inches of snow in Atlanta, Georgia.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlanta-other-parts-of-south-pa...
Thank you for your comments. We have similar thoughts it seems and both see the larger opportunity to provide value to professionals. Are you interested to discuss offline? Thx.
Sounds like dumping alien bodies into the sea :-)
> You're just sending messages, so you can send a message over the wire and it would be as simple to the developer as sending it locally

If you are expecting a reply, or some side-effect in another system, as a result of the message you sent (and usually you would expect that, otherwise you wouldn't send the message in the first place) then it's not that simple.
If the actor is in the same OS process on the same machine, then message delivery is reliable, and you know you'll either get a reply OR a signal that the other actor died. If, on the other hand, the actor is on another machine across the network then the semantics are different. You cannot always differentiate between the remote actor dying and an intermittent network connection error. So you need to take that into account in your protocol design - for example by making operations idempotent.

I've many times seen Erlang code where the developers didn't make this distinction - because the message passing operation looks the same, remote or not - and as a result the system is not resilient to network failures.
Can't sign up. Broken. No error, just spins and quits spinning.
> The amount of electricity generated is still very small, just 0.85 volts

That's numberwang! We like those decimals, NewScientist.
But is it serious compared to cold situation? Cooling 40C to 25C is just -15C difference, but warming -10C to 20C is 30C.
A Possible Movie Pass Resurrection
New attempt to build a successful movie pass ?
Also quick note

This is actually the exact feedback I needed to help me hone focus beyond this

Thank you
Sounds like something to store in not-git.
I've used Emacs for... 10 years now? I didn't customize it for an embarrassing long amount of time, but by now I'm comfortable writing elisp code. It is a game changer.

Given enough time I can make Emacs do pretty much anything. I just don't have that much free time (anymore).
I don't have any evidence to back up my opinion, but my impression is that many of the countries the paper recommends emulating suffer similar corruption issues. My friends who've worked in China make it sound like bribery is a fundamental part of the process. This isn't to say that it's ok or cheap, just that I'm not sure it's a confounding factor when comparing the US to peers.
Uber to pay UK drivers minimum wage, holiday pay and pension
The problem is that those 8" floppies are not manufactured anymore. And floppies are not meant to be durable and reliable in the long term.
Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community
Does anyone know how much the Wikimedia Enterprise API costs?
The word "location" is nowhere in your link.
I made a basic CRUD app that 10xed the productivity of a group I was working with.

The big differences between my app and other solutions that they had used were:

1. I talked to users not only to get the work flow right, but also to refine it. This also helped with buy in once the app started being used.

2. I made it easy to use for the user base (most were not very tech-savvy).

3. Related to 2, I made it hard for a user to fail.
good question. Maybe ask the mods to block your ip?
I'm working on a discussion tool with different modes (real-time, async, docs). Started out as an internal tool for remote writing culture, but now serving small communities — https://demo.gardens.to
I use small text. Readability absolutely improves around the 8-10px ranges.

Especially with Chinese/Japanese characters, these can sometimes become unreadable on smaller fonts on 1080p.

I have two 14” Thinkpads I switch between which have almost identical setups, but one is 1080p and one is 1440. I’m not buying another 1080p if I can avoid it. And yes I have been tweaking fonts and X11 quite a bit already.
Saleae Logic. Their USB3 “pro” analyzers are fantastic and the software is clean, fast and user-friendly. Using host RAM for capture buffer is great and completely changed my workflow. I can capture hour or days of trace and sift through after a fault occurs.

We have the usual other test equipment from the usual big names, stuff that costs 40x as much. For many jobs, I’d rather have the Saleae.
I sometimes ponder... they won't allow my sex chat app in the store - yet I find many apps are rated mature over 17 or something.. and a few of the top 20 search results for 'sex chat' I believe have an app in the store..

then you see this poly site kicked..

and I wonder if tinder and grindr are handing over a large enough chunk of change where the sex rules do not apply.

I mean a sex chat app is mostly about chatting when little chance of a real world meet up. However tinder and grinder are basically 'let's have real world sex tonight' apps right?

Someone from big G please tell me how to get an app in the store where people can talk about sex. Need a funny name? Need to be able to hand over a ton of money and location data?

I sometimes jest that it's a kind of conspiracy. Especially if being in the store is a ranking signal for any search results.

Of course I don't know, I just ponder these things. I've made a few bookmarks and screenshots with some research a while back, but no time to share today.

Tried to see if it's back in - but from their site that is linked from vice, the link to the play store shows:

The site at https://twitter.com/hashtagopen/status/1369022572671733769?s... has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired.

Is twitter going further down the block / ban route now?

I also ponder if twitter really does ban everyone that has ever talked about violence how many others will be booted in the weeks ahead. Then where will people go to vote up their favorite songs.

Just some occasional pondering.

edited to add some ' ' - and fix a mispelled word.
Techcrunch's value was in being a filter for whats interesting.

For a while now (i'd say since the AOL acquisition) it has just been a very traditional tech news mill.
Ed Schouten presented "Running CloudABI applications on a FreeBSD based Kubernetes cluster" at EuroBSDCon 2017. Some really cool ideas, it's unfortunate that it didn't go further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLa9L5O0NY
I came here to write this comment

Nvidia gets to blame the "super tech savvy crypto hackers" while printing revenue through the roof
I love my waterproof (brand) dry suit. I recently bought a waterproof wet suit too that’s awesome.
Friendster was an amazing product for the first year or so. No dark patterns, just sign up, find or invite your friends, and explore their friends in a process that felt quite revolutionary and seriously fun at the time.
We optimize EC2 costs at Intercom
> affiliate links

Sounds well-intentioned, but it would be immediately gamed by every unscrupulous entity and ruin Wikipedia.
I'm shocked he can't.

All you have to do is look at the bell curve for IQ and see where this all leads, and its nowhere pretty.

A person with an 85 IQ or below is too dumb to even be in the Army, even doing the most basic of tasks. Turns out, a military force with advanced computerized weaponry requires smart people. Now here's the kicker... 85 and below is something like 16% of the population.

That's 1,250,000,000 people that will, in the coming years / decades, be totally unable to function in the economy in any worthwhile way. And I'm sorry, I just do not trust the "benevolence" of the human race to fix this problem when our technology advances to the point that people of 100 IQ and below aren't useful. There is no way that 50% of the people with 101 IQs and above are going to spend money to keep the other 50% of the human race alive.

I doubt there'll be "mass exterminations" like we've seen of ethnic groups throughout history, but more likely the unemployable will be left to their own devices; after all, out of sight, out of mind.

As higher and higher IQ individuals are keeping the same company more and more and self-segregating, I suspect we're going to see the development of an overclass of individuals that will eventually grow resentful of spending X percent of their income, whatever number "X" ends up being, for keeping those who aren't able to provide for themselves alive. That's a pretty common human emotion. The tribe works fine when every tribe member is even minimally capable. When half the tribe members are literally dead weight? Nothing good, I'm afraid.
Mercurial didn't exactly "care" either, they were just more open to outside contributions along these lines
See now here's the thing. I don't care who is "along side". No really. I don't. It's not that interesting. There will always be a total bastard who agrees with you. So what?

I don't like prejudice. I don't like hatred of people and all the names it goes by but this makes zero difference to me.

I recommend acting on principle and then not caring at all about who agrees. I really admire and respect the mostly Jewish ACLU lawyers who defended American Nazis' rights. Actual swastika wearing Nazis! Defended by Jewish lawyers. Because Nazis rights are your rights and my rights. I know nowadays the catch cry would most likely be "You're literally sticking up for nazis!" No. No! They stuck up for /your/ rights to criticize nazis and march about it.

A bunch of Jewish lawyers with close family ties to the holocaust trauma in a very personal way /still/ did that on principle. I find it inspiring courage and unwavering commitment to doing the right thing. That kind of heroism is worth considering every now and then. And for the record, no, I do not like nazis at all, in any way, either.

Various other hideous groups take the place of the Nazis at times. Westboro Baptist Church, "terrorists", drug-pushers, serial-killers etc etc. You should still have your principles and see their rights as yours when your rights are weakened because "they" are completely unlovable.
Right? That’s exactly what a driver is lol.
Ask HN: How do you perform market research for your product?(SaaS/Software/etc)
When building or launching a product what are some ways to do market research regarding your product.

I would love to know from HN community what has worked for you when doing market research for the product
I have nothing to lose other than the fact that I am allowing my language to be policed by individuals who are arbitrarily pattern matching words so that they can pat themselves on the back for being "good".

The unconscious bias you speak of does not exist I believe. I think that the "everything is political" rhetoric has simply amplified the inane pattern matching of individuals who are obsessed with pushing this agenda. They think they see patterns that don't exist and try to justify their intent with vague arguments about unconscious bias.
Sorry. Should have been fab lab
It's butterfly knives, nunchucks and other medieval weapons that I find to be extremely silly. They're usually more of a risk to the user than their intended, and generally limit history buffs and martial artists more than prevent crime.

I was born and raised in a place where getting a gun was as simple as putting together $100 or so and walking down to the corner. Not the corner store, mind you. In that context, any ban on melee weapons feels silly to me. But yeah, knuckledusters can really ruin your evening/face.
please, I was here on Hackernews writing challenge accepted and prepared to buy as many of the non-mining cards on credit cards just waiting for the limitation to be removed
Yup. Good catch!
Would this not apply to industries with lots of competition like restaurants or hotels?