skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the XPS is slightly preferable to me because the matte vs glossy finish outweighs the extra resolution at that size for me.

I have a ThinkPad, and this has been my experience. Sitting next to my Macbook Pro 13" retina, there is not much difference. 14" 16:9 1080p vs. 13" 16:10 1600p. The matte finish + slight diagonal increase closes the gap between the two. Unless you're in your 20s with perfect vision, I doubt the average person could tell a visual difference between the two.

I will also say that at 13", the difference between 16:9 and 16:10 is practically nonexistent. Especially 14" vs 13". I thought this would be a major issue for me. But it's not. On a 27" desktop monitor? Sure, that can make a difference.
So what's the end game here, is Dropbox going to keep building out an internal Kubernetes-like platform with Atlas, or do they plan to eventually just move to k8s? I noticed this line in particular:

"We evaluated using off-the-shelf solutions to run the platform. But in order to de-risk our migration and ensure low engineering costs, it made sense for us to continue hosting services on the same deployment orchestration platform used by the rest of Dropbox."

It sounds like they acknowledge they're reinventing a lot of stuff but for now are sticking to their internal platform. Perhaps Atlas is a half-step then to get teams used to owning and running their code as isolated services. But everything I read that they built in Atlas--isolated orchestrated services, gRPC load balancing, canary deployments, horizontal scaling, etc.--are bog standard features of Kubernetes today. I'd be very leery of maintaining a bespoke Kubernetes-like platform in 2021 and beyond--in some ways it seems like it's just shifting the monolith technical debt into an internal Atlas platform team's technical debt. What's the plan to get rid of that debt for good I wonder?

This hurdle shows there's already some cracks in the idea of long-term Atlas too:

"While splitting up Metaserver had wins in production, it was infeasible to spin up 200+ Python processes in our integration testing framework. We decided to merge the processes back into a monolith for local development and testing purposes. We also built heavy integration with our Bazel rules, so that the merging happens behind the scene and developers can reference Atlasservlets as regular services."

If I read that right does it really mean the first time a developer's code is run like it will run in production is when it goes out to canary deployment? I.e. integration tests are done in a local monolith instead of setting up a mini-prod cluster. That seems a bit nerve-racking as a dev to have no way to really test the service until bits are hitting user requests. In the k8s world a ton of work has been put into tooling and processes to make setting up local clusters easily. It's a shame to not have something similar for Atlas.
That's the point. There will be people who look down on your foster family for not being their idea of "traditional" and therefore inferior.

Increasingly, lots of different kinds of families are being recognized as good, and they're pushing back against people who insist that only one kind of family is acceptable.
Lots of people don't care.

It can be important to keep the trackpad close to centered on the keyboard for easily use of both, but the screen not aligning by a couple inches is purely aesthetic.
Beyond Expo2020, you can find information on the upcoming Expo2025 in Osaka on the Bureau International des Expositions website[1].

[1]: https://www.bie-paris.org/
Portability is key. Being able to run an Ubuntu container on macOS is a killer feature.
Over a long enough timeline, all languages converge on the Erlang feature set!
I don't think launching sports cars into orbit is inherently any more wasteful than say the development of the Deep Blue chess computer. It may have been a vanity project, but the ultimate goal was to test a proof of concept.
Any recommended readings on this?
The point is that they aren't balanced either

It doesnt fix the adage: if you dont watch the news you are uninformed, if you do watch the need you are misinformed

Comedy news is not fixing this by presenting everything as the controversy of the day. They are all still omitting lots and are just aiming to rile you up like the others. “But its funny and feels good and isnt Fox or OAN so it must be balanced!” is really what many of the viewers feel.
Nice!

I use GrafX2 and GIMP to make my game graphics, then when I want them munged into some exotic, export them to pnm or xpm and use some tool (often written in Guile) to do the munging of the source image.

There is also something to be said for in-engine asset generation. This especially works well for retro style games that run on powerful computers, it's probably less useful for actual retro games. For example, I'm developing a retro platformer mechanically based off of one you've all heard of (but with a new main character and premise). I thought it might be useful to have smooth rotations of character and other sprites for an advanced modern graphical effect... but a goal for me is to write the game as if it were the actual 90s, using C and Xlib, which doesn't offer a native image transform primitive. Then I realized... what if I were to precompute the rotated images on initialization, cache them in X pixmap atlases and use a simple XCopyArea to draw the rotated sprite when I need one, making it look like the engine is doing dynamic rotation (with enough precomputed rotations)? Ohohoho! Delightfully devilish, bitwize!

Another thing I've experimented and had great success with in another game of mine is something I call greeblization: procedurally generating interesting looking backgrounds from a few different tiles by having a few basic tile types that are the same mechanically but vary in appearance. A long narrow strip of "ground" tile types could become a bridge, for instance. So the level is a JSON file that describes blocks of a certain tile type, and the engine generates the tile map by filling in details with variants of the tile type for the block. I don't claim credit for this concept, however; the way ground tiles work when you place them in Super Mario Maker was an inspiration.
Yes.

You can’t stop Google doing geoip, but you can stop iOS providing GPS to Google.

Device id’s can indeed be switched off.
Canada. BC and Alberta, the north bits. Wet mountain snow. -40 prairie winters. Have tire chains in my trunk. Have used them multiple times. Only -13c this morning but was -46c a month ago. Ya. I have done the winter driving thing. I did a bit of it this morning.
Status is a big deal. A wealth differential allows one to order other people around, building up status. Those others then feel the need to get out from under the yoke, or at least to be in the position to order around other-other people. All of this requires continuous wealth accumulation to which there is no limit. You would have to redefine status to end this game.
Does this work inverted? Would showing only brown people drive away white users, or are white people a special, universal race that doesn't need to be coddled?

I'm not trying to troll or be obnoxious, I'm curious how people think about this. Does tokenism really make people feel included, or does it just give white people something to be moral and self-deprecatingly righteous about?

I'm Mexican and when americans do the 'latinx' thing is makes me want to vomit, but I'm a mennonite so I guess I'm not a 'normal' Mexican, I'm not the one who they're trying to include. This is so interesting to me
>You never know. Butterfly effect and all that. It adds up.

The butterfly effect affects most no physical systems, which contain incredible amounts of damping processes. The same thing happens with people - if a zillion of them want things that point in somewhat different directions, the net does not add up, it cancels.

Otherwise most physical systems would simply explode to infinities, but in practice they don't. They dissipate and become less useful.

Basically, the sum of noise is zero.
A large number of laptop users just use them on the desktop, tethered to a big screen, in clamshell mode. This includes almost every vlogger setup one can find...
From idea to a six-figure consulting side business in 4 months (Case study)
+1 ... rather than complaining about it, leverage the editing functionality provided in there to make the maps better for everyone.
How is steam a monopoly? If you don't like Steam, just use another distributor like GoG or self publish.
/golf clap
Slightly off topic regarding the 1.9T: Where did the rest go?
That's not whiteness, but culture fit. To get into important clubs in say China, one needs to look like them, speak like them, have common background. Same here.

The problem with blacks in America is that they don't want to change. Many in fact do the opposite, they fight the whites' culture, e.g. studying too much in school is "acting white". Some even try to bend the majority, I mean these attempts to shame whites, tell them to be "less white".
For me battery life means I can go outside somewhere to get some fresh air/inspiration (hobby computer music production). It doesn't frustrate me to have to take the power brick along, but it is nice when I can replace that weight in my bag with a small midi controller.
I beg to differ. The jump from learning Docker (and containers generally) to learning Kubernetes is not “hard”.

Unless you are at a scale that you can employ a full-time Kubernetes team, you probably don't need Kubernetes, and if you insist on using it for production anyway, you absolutely should use one of the many managed offerings (DO is probably cheapest, I have no affiliation with them), or shrinkwrapped product like Tanzu.

Bootstrapping from scratch on bare metal remains non-trivial and an in-place upgrade is an order of magnitude harder.
Phrasing things as an optimization problem can result in better, more efficient arrangements than how things are presently, but only within the limits that people are willing to accept. It also depends what we're optimizing for - if we naively set it for "maximum number of humans fed and cared for", we really are all going to be eating bugs and living in pods.
Sell us on it!
A ‘scrap your hybrid car for a diesel’ scheme might just happen
Cigarettes definitely did lose their cool factor.
Yes, that is my point. Not sure why you disagreed with me in your first comment that currently quoted prices for nuclear are with effectively no economies of scale.

Maybe you misunderstood and thought I was saying that you can't have economies of scale with nuclear? If so, that is pretty much the opposite of my intended meaning.
The real ripoff in getting glasses is the predatory market control of Luxottica - They are the one company behind almost any frame brand you care to name. The last glasses you take away from me are my $48 computer glasses from Marvel Optics. The worst quality-wise (lenses, not frames) are the ones I spent hundreds of dollars on. I'd like good frames and good lenses, but without literally paying more than I've paid for some (admittedly cheap) cars!
I miss Firebug. Simpler times...
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They push for whatever they feel is right. I was simply pointing out that Spotify's distribution model is not the only one. It also has nothing to do with "heavy users" vs "light users." A heavy user can listen to the same artist or same small handful of albums.
Procrastination Facts
There are lots of musicians who aren't producing a living-wage's worth of value to listeners.

They do have a choice: they can get a better paying job if they don't like the amount they can earn from music. Society should not be responsible for funding someone's passion when there isn't demand.

And yes, the expectation that you can earn a good living just by being a recording artist is foolish. The vast majority of musicians throughout history have been unable to do so.
I think he's arguing that
$1200 into any kind of security is shittier than $1200 in improving oneself professionally and socially.
This, I believe, was the original driver for Richard Stallman to start the GNU project.

The story I heard him tell was about two printers at MIT.

An old one with source code available which they were able to upgrade with many new network features.

The other a modern one with better performance but closed source software.

Stallman actually found out that a colleague had been given access to the source code but told explicitly not to allow other MIT staff to see it.

That infuriated him enough to create the Free Software movement.
discussion a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441520
... if you're willing and able to update your entire app to a new JDK the month it comes out.

This is where I hope Java adopts the .NET support lifecycle. .NET also has (relatively) fast-paced releases now, once per year with LTS every other year, but the prior non-LTS is supported for 3 months after the next one comes out. That's still pretty aggressive, but it's very doable with a modern app to upgrade within 3 months.

With Java, JDK 15 support ends this month, the same month that JDK 16 comes out. Not just that, but we're halfway through the month already. So if you're on JDK 15, you now have only two weeks to upgrade and still be supported, according to their official schedule.

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roa...

Edit: I may have been too generous in my reading of their support roadmap. It seems like the previous non-LTS version is immediately out of support as soon as the new one "supersedes" it.
When I took driver's ed many years ago, the official state written material had it as fact that highway driving is "3 times easier" than city driving. It was actually on my written test. Multiple choice, and the other answers were different numbers to chose from... but no: "3 times" is the correct answer.
Considering how much this game made, 10k is nothing.

> Extensively marketed and widely anticipated, the game broke industry sales records and became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning $800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V
>and they're taking his open source code to create a proprietary commercial project.

I am not sure if that is the case. Netgate seems to have used their old crappy sponsored work for their Pfsense.

That is judging from the two pieces of information here. Jason doesn't need to be of consideration for Netgate. There could be other communication we dont know about. I can certainly understand why Scott is frustrated.
Doing a series H might make investors think harder about why they need 8 rounds of funding over 12 years or so and still didn't manage to turn a profit.
U.S. solar industry comes ‘roaring back,’ breaks multiple records in 2020
It's purely preference at this point and likely mainly for older people like me who grew up in the era where manuals were cheaper and more efficient. Neither is really true anymore, manuals have become an expensive option in most cases in the USA and the new automatics are more efficient. Complexity and cost to repair on the other hand...
> Prisma (and Prisma Migrate) can be self hosted, so no corporate boundaries needs to be crossed.

Just to clarify: Prisma is an open-source ORM [1] that's available via an npm package, so there really isn't a component that needs to be "hosted" here. (You might be referring to Prisma 1 which came with its own DB proxy server that was run via Docker, but Prisma 2 [2] doesn't have this Docker container any more and is "just" an npm library).

[1] https://github.com/prisma/prisma

[2] https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-2-n0v98rzc8br1
Yeah, the price goes up automatically when you buy. It's just like upvoting. They put a lot of work into making this fake interactive stock trading thing when it's really just imaginary internet points with no actual market dynamics.
I don't think it is a hit piece. A while ago I was surprised to hear Charles Murray supportd UBI and so I looked into it - and the author is basically right. There is a right wing case for UBI - you can swap out all these big expensive government programmes that provide for needs with a single check. That check may not even come close to covering all these costs it's proponents claim it should. This is most obvious in Murray's proposal. It's just a way of taking $Nk of government benefits and replacing it with a tenth of that along with a bunch of right wing talking points about those who can't cope must be wasting the money on frivolous things - such as being a parent or having cancer.

I'm not saying that that is as true for Yang's proposal, but the risk is that you're incentivizing people to forgoe entitlement to government benefits they don't currently receive to gain the $1000 - but should their circumstances change, that'll have a huge impact.

The truth is that if you need to make an argument for UBI, you need to content with the fact that those who are in need often may need more than the UBI, and often the actual argument being made around UBI is to provide less to those who are receiving needs-based benefits. For example, if I can give everyone $1000 but that doens't reflect that some people are going to pay $10,000 for health care (just as an exampe, not specifically in Yang's case).
Okay but that seems short sighted. If we don’t worry about the CO2 then we’ll have to start building for something much more extreme than just Greenland melting. Also implying it’s like a flood plain is not treating sea level rise seriously. Floods plains are under water in temporary events. If it’s going to be underwater for thousands of years that is not a flood plain.
> But non-whiteness excludes you from a lot of places, or gets you treated with suspicion when you're allowed to be there at all.

Could you tell us about some of these places? I keep hearing there are such places but I never really get any concrete examples. Certainly no large business, nor any government entity, still qualifies for this. I want to know what White-exclusive operations there are that are still holding out.
Most likely because the bottleneck for loading was somewhere else when they tested it originally quite likely the slow HDD of the consoles of the time.

GTA V came out 8 years ago, it had to run on the base PS4/Xbox One not to mention the PS3 and 360 these were the systems it was first validated on.

It also had much much less content at the time.

As the game released on PC and the amount of content grew the loading times didn’t regress but they also didn’t improve.

So when your benchmark is a console that loads a game in 5-10 minutes no one probably spent any time investigating what the bounds on a modern PC with PCIe storage should be.
> We as a species gave up trying to solve difficult problems

We live in an era of constant fascinating biological and cosmological discoveries. In the past 3 years we have entered the era of gene therapy healthcare with several genetic treatments recieving approval by he FDA. We are on the cusp of break even if not effective fusion energy.

I cannot deny that the financialization of everything has diminished the moral imperative of some of these efforts but to act as if no one is attacking big problems is silly.
> In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice.

Bad medical or legal advice is completely possible. It exists now.

Giving good medical or legal advice requires, at a minimum, being able to carry out a full conversation to investigate the problem, including understanding things not directly related to the field. There's no sign of getting that any time soon.

Efficiency improvements in an area like the law may also result in people imposing new burdens, eroding the efficiency gains. Laws that once would have seemed too burdensome will no longer be seen as such.
Agree and working on correcting a bug which is only selecting the first three users of the service. At this point, I am not comfortable picking images of our members without permission. Once have the permissions in place, we will update profile images [links] on each page load. Thx for your comment.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone who protested over the summer that has had any contact with or knows anything about or even donated money to the BLM non-profit or even cares what they have on their website. It's a catchy phrase that captures the essence of what many people were protesting and not much more. Personally, I gave money to the naacp.
> which will tax you 100% of the value of your property

If it's a property tax, yes. If it's a land tax, no. Under land tax you tax the "ground rent" value of the land, not what's built on it. "Ground rent" is what it costs to rent out your land if it was an empty lot with nothing on it. Property tax and land tax are very different things with very different effects.
I don't see the issue with the wealth tax compounding, because the wealth also compounds.

That's exactly the "problem" with wealth (from the perspective of society's growing wealth inequality). Wealth compounds much, much faster than income grows. Someone who inherits $3 million (not much from the point of view of the wealthy) can live comfortably on the growth alone while still compounding their wealth further every year.

The only way a wealth tax would compound faster than the wealth itself is if it is larger than the growth rate of the wealth. And since that's averaged at ~8-10% over the past few decades, a 1% tax is not going to eat into a person's wealth over time. It's simply going to slightly slow that growth down.
yes, resonance can be significant, but that still doesn't necessarily mean that the energies here are significant, nor that the frequencies applied are the right frequencies, and resonant enough, for damage.

the underlying point is that unless we're capable of doing the relevant experiments ourselves, we need to trust that people in the field are cognizant enough to realize these obvious issues, test them, and report their findings. it's unlikely that lay people like us are going to find and gotcha the researchers in the field.

that's not to say that, in aggregate, we can't give researchers ideas about what to be researching. that, we can--and should--do, via conversations like this.
Reaper. Its simple, fast, and no licensing bull.

Steam. Just works, simple and easy to use. Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library.

ZoomIt by Sysinternals - excellent, excellent tool that has improved all my presentations/screen-share sessions.

Everything by David Carpenter - super fast system wide search for files that has bookmarks and other features like match using file name/file path/regex etc.

ShareX - Very useful screenshoting/screenrecording + more tool with automation capabilities like auto upload to imgur, etc.
He's seems open to the idea that it is just a transfer to a citizen's brokerage account which could be a service provided by the private market.
Java brought two things to the table compared to C++: garbage collection, and an enormous library.

I don't think that garbage collection, by itself, was a 10x change. For it to be so, programmers would have to be spending 90% of their effort on freeing memory. Don't get me wrong, garbage collection is a big win when you can use it, but I don't think it's quite that big of a win.

The library... that might almost be 10x, by itself, because of everything that you don't have to write. The combination of that plus garbage collection gave Java quite a kick compared to C++.
So (sadly) in a way all companies wear that as a badge of honor and a way to filter for "culture fit"!
...minutes except for very small gas plants. Potentially around half an hour or so for combined cycle plants.