skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are settings in Postgres that allow for bulk loading.

By default you get a commit after each INSERT which slows things down by a lot.
Get. Out. of. china. Or be ruled by the authoritarianism of the CCP
Recall also progressive journalist Lee Fang, who endured a cancellation campaign from colleagues at The Intercept because he Tweeted an interview with a black man who expressed concern about black-on-black crime. Many progressive activists and the media also aren't especially keen on Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Razib Khan, or dozens of other outspoken people of color. There seems to be some strong compulsion in the media to suppress any indication that people of color (and blacks in particular) are as complex and intellectually or ideologically diverse as whites. I don't think that's quite the right characterization, but it's not far off.
And when you signed up, people likely just signed up to netflix and left it at that.

Looking at my local pricing, the lowest plan (€7.99) is $2 cheaper than the single plan that was available when I signed up (€9.99), and the equivalent plan to what was available then is (€12.99). So that's a 33% increase in 5 years, which is much less dramatic than the 100%-200% increase spotify would need for the suggested payouts.

There's a lot of account sharing or rotating streaming service or plain old fashioned piracy (the "dodgy box", formerly a pirate satellite receiver and now usually a kodi box with a frontend to some pirate stream provider, has been more common in Ireland the last few years than since digital TV was just coming in and competing with free to air broadcast TV).
Also in some places it's completely futile to keep adding salt(or it's simply too cold for salt to be effective) and grit is used instead. It's not an insurmountable problem. But yes, driver education is a huge part of it.
It's really not that different from walking on sand.
If only they were competitive.
> Driving in snow/ice without salt is absolutely possible, but requires better driver education.

Good luck with this. If the past year has taught us anything, it's that Americans will fight tooth and nail against even the slightest hint of being told what to do.
Isn't a bit of "exhaustion" worth to fight back terrible practices ?
A ‘single’ big box with multiple terabytes of RAM can probably outperform many ‘horizontally scaled’ solutions. It all depend on the workload, but I feel that sometimes it’s more about being ’hip’ than being practical.

https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
I don’t understand this point. YC lasts for 90 days. 3 months of rent in the Bay Area isn’t more than $15k more expensive than the counter factual, even ignoring ramen profitability ethos. Would you be indifferent between in person and remote YC if the remote version invested $110k at the same terms?
How do we increase access to VC?
The stuff they use for roads is not sharp.
The Intercept's Website Is Down
High Resolution Sound Cameras Reveal Why Hummingbirds Hum
I have official USPS "merch" adorned with that motto and the USPS mail trucks in a rural Colorado town I often visit have a portion of it written on the sides. It may not be their official policy or motto (likely for legal reasons) but it is officially associated with the service in some capacity.
The problem is that the employee would have to pay taxes on the value of the stack at the time it was issued. Given how high valuations can be and still never pan out, giving employees stock directly would cost them significant amounts of money in most cases.
That's a bizarre reading of the article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090624060334/http://article.nat...

You can argue that his claims about Iran's capabilities are exaggerated (Or that he was unaware of the then-secret war against Iran already going on), but the idea that Iran claims to be a sharia state and the laws of Iran are not something most Americans would want their granddaughters to have to live under is hard to dispute.
I wonder, whether this could be used to compile it for termux. (Android)

You can link musl statically. So, the problems with Glibc wouldn't be there. Maybe you would have to patch musl to make it work on android.
Exactly. Design is dead? Have they ever architected anything in code? That's design, you created a structure that meets some goal. Design is not visual art.
False. SMTP is not mandated by the standard.
I love the Java website. Strong early-2000s vibes. Still has an XHTML doctype!
It’s an issue of distribution.

LLVs are past their expiration date everywhere and likely need replaced all over the country. But, it doesn’t make sense to add charging capability ad hoc for a single parking space in a lot when a new vehicle is sent out - the marginal cost of each space is not linear — you’d retrofit an entire parking lot at one time.

If 10 locations have 10 existing vehicles each, and all of them need to replace one failing LLV, going 100% electric for new vehicles means you need 10 vehicles but a retrofit for 100 parking spaces. It does not make sense to tear up a parking lot every year for one new vehicle over the next 10 years.
Yes. Spotify makes very little from the ads. Spotify would like to cripple the payment free version as much as possible. It is only there to move you over to the paid version and possibly as a helpful network effects way.
I invite you to checkout this older Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18645269

There's a wealth of channels in the comments to explore.
With the state of advertising on youtube, patreon, ad reads and super chats are a more reliable way to monetize than copyrighting the video.

Youtube content creators are a good example of people monetizing art without the need for copyright. Donations and voluntary funding are key parts of the content creator world already. Copyright is not particularly important unless they are getting strikes from a copyright troll.
Nearly all of the response to the pandemic from the Johnson Govenment has been shambolic, except for the vaccine roll-out, which is the NHS at it's best.
so what will you do instead?
so streaming music has eaten several different cakes - it has eaten the cake of radio in which I doubt the artist got 1p per play, it has eaten home taping in https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/21/arts/issue-and-debate-roy... in which there was some money paid out for the purchase of home taping equipment but which I think would not at all reach 1p per listen, it has eaten into the album which often cost enough that people bought them intermittently as a few albums could represent a significant part of disposable income, and it has eaten into the singles market (a small record with a b-track on the opposite side - already quite killed by cassettes and CDs)

The people fighting for 1p per stream want to focus on the killing of the album because in that way they look like poor mistreated artists who are just asking for crumbs considering what was taken from them.

And spotify etc. want to argue they are the ones who killed the radio, and thus it should cost them hardly anything and they are already paying way too much.

But at any rate 1p per stream is actually quite a significant increase in price considering what the user gets.

With an album one got album art etc.
Lyrics / liner notes.
And a number of songs - let us say 16 songs.

Nowadays you have to do your own work for the album art and lyrics, and could conceivably be asked to pay separately for them.

This is all a long time ago but I would think it was $10 dollars per average CD during the heyday. (somebody here surely knows the actual number)

So 62.5 pennies per song if 16 songs.

Perhaps it should be 1p per stream, max cost 63p per song per user?

that of course still means spotify eats the part of the market that buys more than one version per year, as someone with ADHD I have had to buy London Calling about 20+ times in my life. At some point I think I should get it for free.

so 1p per song streamed, max 63p per person per song every two years. If they asked for that I would think that is maybe a bit more than its worth, but also approaching fairness.

But they aren't asking for that, even though they should be able to think these things through easier and quicker than I can - so until they start asking for something resembling an actual fair deal I say screw them.
Making housing 3-4x as expensive to build, to include things you don’t need, to qualify for 20:1 leverage is a new phenomenon.
This definition of level of risk is relevant only when you have a von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function though.
See also: Pentti Linkola:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Linkola

And Lasse Nordlund (I think he was called "optimistic Linkola" or "positive Linkola" somewhere :):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Nordlund
Neat tidbit I pulled out of there about GDB:

> GDB was selected as the remote debugger for this project despite the heavy investment in the LLVM toolchain. In practice, GDB proved to be more reliable than the LLVM equivalent for remote debugging the OpenBSD kernel via the QEMU GDB stub.
To my knowledge you cannot own national park land in Canada. I should have said "minimal environmental impact", but yes it's probably something you should look into to make sure you aren't close to water courses or disturbing some kind of nesting area. By and large though, building a small cabin with no services in the woods is going to by definition have minimal environmental footprint if you follow common sense and do a little research.
Thanks for explaining energy density to me! Now explain why AC matters when the new contract is for ICE vehicles. You and the original commenter I was responding to seem to be worried about nothing.
Actually. I hope war is not inevitable. I would like all the way to stop. Just stop already. I see no value in any of the fighting.
Bertrand Russell was British.

This is the difference between British law and American law. People often get confused with the definition of free speech since in America it refers to the 1st amendment which only applies to censorship by the government. Britain actually does allow the government to censor speech.

The article does give insight into the Brit's definition of free speech. In America private companies can moderate their own platform since they are also liable for that platform. It is a thin line between the two.

I am not sure which I prefer but I notice I get spooked when government gets involved in free speech.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
DuckDuckGo Calls Out Google Search for 'Spying' on Users
I think there's a difference between "open investing for equity", and "open investing for a thing that one day may turn in to equity given a certain set of events".

The majority of people will assume that "start up investing" or "equity crowdfunding" (or whatever you want to call it) is like the stock market, but on a smaller scale. You invest money, and you get shares in the company.

I don't think the concern is around folks making ill informed choices (Robinhood has shown us that that can happen in the public markets as well), but more around start-up companies taking advantage of the lack of sophistication by the every-day investor in order to push horrendous terms.
Most still have the large extended parking lots that are a bit further away. Those are always large outdoor lots, even at a place like SFO. These are more geared towards the longer term parking scenario the parent post referred to.
Say you're starting a new project, how would you keep the complexity down? It's a hard subject and I'll admit I'm prone to follow the interesting tech.
The alliance of necessity between social liberals and racial justice advocates creates this problem. There is not anything inherent about “people of color should be treated equally” that also requires buying into “we should disrupt the nuclear family.” That’s just how the political alliances have worked out. The latter ideology in practice works to undercut the former ideology. The contribution to racial inequality is stark: the poverty rate for Black, Latino, and Asian children in two parent households is 1/4 to 1/2 the poverty rate for white children in single mother households.

As a south Asian person, I find the aggressive push to move Asian Americans to the left quite troubling. The intense social norms in south and East Asian culture in favor of two parent households is an incredible advantage we should not give up lightly. But it’s almost taboo in socially progressive circles to say that family structure matters (even though this is obvious to Asians).
Just in case people are reading something nefarious into Sowell's comment about Obama and Sharia law, he wasn't implying that Obama was a secret Muslim or the like, rather he was criticizing Obama's posture toward Iran, which Sowell considered soft and also feckless, in the sense that he believed the policy would lead to Iran joining the nuclear power club.
Record Builder – Builder and Withers for Java 16 Records
Its not really. This person obviously takes great pride in making their websites uber compatible.

It takes great skill and effort to do this. Sure its a little batshit, but I applaud the level of perseverance that goes into it. I might have a different view if I was trying to ship something to a specific market segment in a hurry. However I'm not, and it pleases me immensely to see people do such silly[1] (and I mean this with the greatest of respect) things.

[1] For reference, adding chamfers and geneva stripes under things like the main barrel, is utterly silly. However, should I be paying >£50k for a watch, I full expect that _every_ inch of that watch is going to be a masterpiece of finishing (reference: https://www.crownwatchblog.com/how-it-works/finishing-school...)
I've been using uMatrix but it's discontinued, anyone have any alternatives with that fine grained of a blocking ability?

I block JS because the web is so much faster without it, especially text articles.
Driving in snow/ice without salt is absolutely possible, but requires better driver education.

Can you elaborate on what the education would cover? My experience driving in the midwest for 30 years has been that if at any given moment, physics decides you, even as an abundantly cautious driver are going for a slip and slide, you're going for a slip and slide.
> The Kodi performance on it is unacceptably bad

Under Raspbian? It seemed to need a lot of fiddling to be usable so I went with the OpenElec image. Later switched to OSMC, still working great on a 1gb RPi 2.
They would also need to provide infrastructure for charging the fleet, possibly multiple times a day depending on what the routes look like, which is a significant cost if they want to do more than one battery worth of a route in a day, even if they did have short enough routes that they could do overnight charging for everything that's still a lot of power draw and would need expensive electrical upgrades. Sticking with gas there's no further infrastructure investment required.
India will reportedly introduce bill to make owning cryptocurrency illegal
I have found this to be a helpful resource when it comes to scaling in general.

https://alexpareto.com/scalability/systems/2020/02/03/scalin...
The most important thing in design is honesty. Between honesty and function we have a newborn child of the Greed - dark patterns. Look around - it's everywhere.
Thats why Design is dead. It is not dead as an idea. Idea of design will never die.
Engineers don't care about design en masse. Thats why we have products with lack of uniqueness and the argument is that this is good for the user - it reduces cognitive overload. This is argument made by engineers for engineers.
Using low quality "decorators" in production creates another argument - there is no designers that can create long term quality. No. We exist. But when you spend your entire life to become the best in your craft you cannot sell expertise for peanuts. :)
Some of us are long in this game, an we have real production knowledge.
Some of us can code enough to know when engineers are "over their heads"
and follow self-serving decision models.
> my question is: to whom did all that money go?

(The link you provide outlines where the money went.)
That’s pretty righteously fine to me. The amount of people who pay for the content then pirate it has to be a tiny fraction though.
> Adobe holds a near monopoly in the creative world.

I remember that being a real problem, but as I learned when I left the Adobe ecosystem last year, there's now a healthy ecosystem of competitive creative tools from ISVs like Affinity, Gravit, Figma, Procreate, Blackmagic Design, etc. The irony is that Adobe helped jump-start this ecosystem when they went subscription-only.
Thanks for the feedback. I understand that Twitter supports hashtags better, so that will be my preferred place to post things like #AbolishImaginaryProperty #EndPatents #BringBackNapster #LiberateIdeas
Spending money on pets promotes happiness
Unions are like governments. I am pro big-government (generally), but it is effectively a coordinated power structure. That power structure, like any, can be corrupt/etc.

So i like unions (and have been a member of one), generally, in the same way i like governments. However they need clarity, visibility, and structures to answer to its members. A god-king union is no better than a god-king government.

Imo, they're work. They require care to exist properly, just like governments. But when done right, they're the only source of citizen power in the workforce. Especially in the modern day of mega corporations.
I see, thats strange, do we know who the investors were? I didn't look at Crunchbase or anything yet

Just an odd thing to agree to, if the IP had value and there were no creditors but the prospects were bad then this was improper.

If there were creditors, what happened to them?
I'm not aware if such software exists. I write custom software that collects information from the internet and watches for updates. Let me know, if this is relevant.
Scandinavia also has decent public transport and bicycling infrastructure available for those who fail driving tests and/or can't afford a course. And I imagine such a life is still pretty bad.
> Driving in snow/ice, even snow/ice that is at the melting point and therefore extremely slippery due to the water, is absolutely possible without salt, but it requires your 'average Joe' to understand that they need to slow down, to leave 10* the space from the car in front, etc.

Which means the highway has 20 times less carrying capacity because everyone is driving half as fast with ten times as much space between each vehicle, and your one hour commute becomes 20 hours. This is equivalent to the roads being unusable.
cppreference.com is by far the best resource for the language and the standard library. It is also well organized and easy to navigate. "errors creep in" is a well-taken complaint about life in general, not cppreference.
Dropbox Passwords coming soon for all users
Yup. They've got calcium chloride & magnesium chloride.
Gravity is only part of the complex puzzle of our amazing cradle. There is also the microbiome, which we need to thrive long-term, small amounts of sunlight we can't do without, massive amounts of cosmic radiation, which will kill a human rather quick without a shield like the Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere, the magnetic field itself, and probably other variables we haven't even discovered yet.

With space and robots we're very much in the situation "parents sending off their children to explore the world but unable to leave the village themselves."
I champion people who produce things, be that artists, software developers, woodworkers or anyone else who builds stuff. Spotify and labels are both distributors and middlemen who profit from the work of others, it's consumers and large platforms that squeeze creators with their greedy mindset of 'as much as possible, for as little money as possible'.

It's long overdue that we move away from this sleazy consumer mindset and start valuing creators.
Chinese Scientists Unveil Fish-Like Robot for Deep-Sea Exploration
Because of the structure of labor market, for highly competitive jobs luck is also very important:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LopI4YeC4I

It does not meant that merit do not play role, simply there is so many highly skilled, and good candidates, that only small percent of them will get the dream job.
Probably the reason D never got much attention is that D seems too much like C++, similarly to the way that C# is much like Java. (C# has the full weight of MS behind it, which D never had; yet, C# has not displaced Java.)

D works for basically the same set of problems as C++, in much the same way. D, not bound by history ("mistakes", you could say) could be simpler than C++, and able to do some things more neatly, but not enough so to match C++'s momentum—also a product of history. Since D came out, C++ has evolved in ways hard to keep up with. Some make it more like D, but those don't help D.

Rust is different enough from C++ to have some hope of carving out its own space, while trying to address the same sort of problems C++ does. Rust also abandons history, with consequences like D. However, Rust is developing its own complexities. In the end, if it survives, Rust and Rust code will be fully as complex as C++ and C++ code, just off in a slightly different direction.

But it is too early to know whether Rust too will, in the end, fail to find a mainstream place. Ada and Pascal both once had far wider use than Rust, and faded. Ultimately, C++ can do anything Rust can, has capabilities Rust is not expected ever to match, and is still evolving fast. So, for anything that might need to be maintained by somebody else someday, it is easier to believe that a C++ programmer could be found to do it.

In the end, the only true determiner of whether a language succeeds is if a miracle occurs. C got one, C++ got one, Java got one, Javascript got one. Python probably got one. I don't know of any others newer than Fortran. Julia and Rust still have a chance.
And you think a star trek borg reference wasn't?
Road salt isn’t a complex delivery of services. It’s a pure commodity.

Large complex procurement fails or needs change orders frequently because they are large and complex. Buyers don’t understand what they want and sellers understand what they are told. More bidders often drive prices up.

Commodities are different. It’s driven by volume and competitive process. If 30 salt miners bid, you’re getting a good price. If 2 bid, your only path to better pricing is to go vertical to control demand. State governments are able to do that for this type of commodity. Supermarkets do the same thing with produce, although that was illegal until recently.
This may be worthwhile comment but it could easily be improved by removing the phrase "very stupid." The meaning would remain essentially unchanged and your readers will be far more inclined to internalize the point you're making.
on the CPU level (I'm talking Intel here, but it applies to most other chips) DIV/IDIV instructions (returning division result and remainder a.k.a. modulo) are the ones using up the most CPU cycles. The reason for this is that they can't be completely parallelised because of having to check conditions.
Lots of places have bike shops where you pay a membership fee to use their tools. There's not a lot of hammering in bikes, but you do have the ability to subscribe to chain breakers, pedal wrenches, and bearing cup presses. Tools you may not need every day, but need intermittent access to.

A software package is more analogous to a tool set than to a single hammer. It always does a lot of things. So the price is higher than buying one small tool. It's much more like paying to access a workshop... which does happen.