skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for long. Tramiel developed a very bad reputation for screwing over retailers, and his management style led to longer term problems once his family took over Atari Corp. And the terms "platforms" and "compatibility" meant nothing to Commodore in that era. Each machine they built was incompatible with the next, and the C64 was the only truly successful one.

The Pokey had/has its own charm. The SID is nice, but that's hardly what was selling C64s.

Anyways, you're right, pricing. My cousin had an 800XL and I had a VIC-20 and my neighbour a C64. Given a choice, I would have taken the 800XL; its specs were so much better in so many ways and damn that case design was nice. But that product line was always more expensive. If the original 400/800 had been cheaper, Atari would have owned the industry and something like the C64 never would have succeeded. From many points of view it is a superior platform (apart, from as you say, the SID).

According to Wikipedia:

"After losing $563 million in the first nine months of the year, Atari that month announced that prices would rise in January, stating that it "has no intention of participating in these suicidal price wars".[48] The 600XL and 800XL's prices in early 1984 were $50 higher than for the Commodore VIC-20 and 64,[49] and a rumor stated that the company planned to discontinue hardware and only sell software."

Warner Bros axed things and Tramiel picked up the corpse after he was pushed out of Commodore.

I own them all now :-)
But is not improved by shooting Palestinians who approach the prison fences in Gaza.
Easy to justify it as such with robots.
Yes, it seems like the gun issue in the U.S. is cultural. You couldn't make the same arguments for gun ownership in the U.K. or Japan, because gun ownership was not as strong a part of the culture the whole period since their founding. It took two mass shootings in the span of a decade for the U.K. to ban almost all gun ownership.

I would prefer if nobody had guns (as an unrealistic utopian ideal), and if people were disincentized to obtain them illegally. But repealing the Second Amendment is both a lost cause and would do more harm than good. There is no undoing centuries of cultural propagation and convincing tens of millions of people who have already accepted the idea to cooperate.

If I wanted to minimize my chances of encountering gun violence as much as possible, I'd have to move overseas.
>If you have gone through years of moving everything to China to make it cheaper to manufacture, improved technology to make processes more efficient, etc. and I'm still paying the same amount for all of the stuff in my life, then again, maybe all these things are cheaper, but I'm also buying them with currency that's less valuable.

On top of that, there is talk, political rhetoric perhaps but still talk, of moving manufacturing back in house.

The US wants to do it with chip manufacturing on nat security grounds. Trump and Bernie popularity was partially on anti NAFTA grounds. There's increasing hostility between China and US (witness the MS hack last week). Nothing stays the same, and we might be in for some surprises.
Playing devils advocate here: arguably our hesitation for war has contributed to horrible atrocities, such as the Rwandan genocide.
Colourised footage of SAN FRAN 4 days before the catastrophic 1906 earthquake
I'm going to hesitate to say this article is very short sighted... it talks about "nuclear is expensive, renewables are cheap and we don't know how to store nuclear waste".

Nabla's comment is a good start on the conversation (good frame but no real apples to apples comparisons).

Personally, with the talk about "what about all that nuclear waste"...

where's the talk about the recyclable waste? Batteries, solar panels, wind mills are all very hard to recycle and add "after the fact" costs like nuclear does that's being unaccounted for - and is happening at a MUCH larger scale currently.

Where's the talk about all the "rare earth minerals" that's going to have to be strip mined around the world to keep up with "clean energy"?

I think this article has some valid points wrapped up in talking points to strengthen its argument while ignoring massive talking points that go unmentioned (True comparisons of costs, storage/recycling of materials and the massive increase in "plundering" Earth goes unmentioned... to name a few).

Edit: Not saying I'm "pro nuclear" or "anti renewable"... I'm more of a balanced approach person - I think the future will include Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Solar, hydro and various mixes there-of and we need to work on making all of them better because none of them are going anywhere any time soon - and they ALL have strengths and weaknesses.

https://fee.org/articles/the-environmental-costs-of-renewabl...

> Far from it. The transition to renewables is going to require a dramatic increase in the extraction of metals and rare-earth minerals, with real ecological and social costs.

https://www.futurity.org/nuclear-waste-recycling-2355402-2/

New, better ways of recycling Nuclear "waste" is being researched constantly

> A new simple, proliferation-resistant approach offers a way to reduce nuclear waste, researchers say.

https://fortune.com/2020/02/05/wind-turbine-fiberglass-landf...

> Tens of thousands of aging blades are coming down from steel towers around the world and most have nowhere to go but landfills. In the U.S. alone, about 8,000 will be removed in each of the next four years. Europe, which has been dealing with the problem longer, has about 3,800 coming down annually through at least 2022, according to BloombergNEF. It’s going to get worse: Most were built more than a decade ago, when installations were less than a fifth of what they are now.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23...

> The problem of solar panel disposal “will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment” because it “is a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.”
Except that in this case the bits are literally identical.
Good question, I would say neither, this responsibility is for the browser and native apps you use which display web content (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Facebook, etc). Not apple or the web app developer. At most OP should include https://www.npmjs.com/package/webrtc-adapter as part of their polyfills to aid cross-browser support/cater for WebRTC nuances.

WebRTC has been in iOS Safari for quite a while. However, all other apps and browsers were limited to what was in offer within WKWebView. From iOS 14.3 beta 1 onwards WKWebView gained getUserMedia/WebRTC features. It is now up to the browser and apps you use to make sure they have implemented their web views correctly and allow the correct permissions for WebRTC to work.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48775154/notreadableerro...
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208667
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=752458
Hey, security guy here that has worked on something like this for about 2 years. This is cool but has some vulnerabilities upon a brief 10min code review. I'll see if I can circle back in about 2 weeks and make a list of what vulnerabilities EBPFSnitch has.
Yeah, and SpaceX has gone through extraordinary lengths to reduce the visibility of Starlink satellites. However, the astronomy community overall hates it and it’s kind of a meme now.
Oracle's yet-to-be-revealed autonomous database technologies
We truly are in the era of more money than sense. I get that people want put their money into something other than virtually-worthless low-interest savings accounts, but where will we all be once the musical chairs stops?
You're looking for www.daistats.com, 3B$+ worth of collateral locked and debt issued. And because the blockchain is public, you can actually inspect every vault, every action they took, how much debt they have, etc.

This is one such example of an 8-figure credit line using 4.5k worth of Bitcoin: https://defiexplore.com/cdp/9167.

In case it wasn't clear, DAI is a stablecoin, 1DAI=1$.
Quoting fatality numbers does nothing to disprove the statement. How many armies fire warning shots to let people vacate the area before airstrikes?

Regarding who hold the keys to peace, and who has their finger on the trigger, I think the
government glorifying and paying people who sneak into towns and slaughter sleeping families with knives is a pretty big impediment to peace.
When we let regular people buy computers. Only enthusiasts want computers they tinker around with, the vast majority of consumers just want it to work. They won't be installing alternative operating systems, they want to push a button and get to work/play/etc.
Fortran didn't originally have pointers, and pointer based code is relatively rare in fortran, so making requirements about pointer aliasing doesn't have same potential to completely break your code that it does in c. The reason c can't actually restrict the restrict keywoard, is that the standard would break code!
> Even with that, everywhere I’ve lived with hydro power had backup fossil fuel generation, which was periodically used, though rarely.

> Arguments for all other forms of renewables at scale right now seem to depend on having/maintaining fossil fuel power generation just to satisfy daily demand reliably, so you end up with two sets of power generation infrastructure designed to meet peak capacity (so effectively double capacity of what’s needed), which is extraordinarily expensive.

I'm by no means an expert on this but I've been trying to learn more about it recently. From what I gather the end-state can be 100% renewables in different ways:

1) Have enough hydro that can be turned into pumped storage that a complete grid mix can be done with just hydro+solar+wind with very little overbuild. Portugal has very good conditions for this and back of the envelope calculations tell me it's possible with just 15% overbuild. All of the extra is solar which is very cheap[1]. With a better interconnected European grid it may be possible to do that across the whole continent.

2) Overbuild solar and wind by a large amount since they're so cheap, supplement that with some expensive batteries, and allow energy prices to go to zero and even negative at times to see if anyone has a use for the excess energy. We're talking something like 3-5x overbuild and then having so much excess energy that you start disrupting other fossil fuel usage[2].

If you have a seasonal storage breakthrough you're back at 1) with just another technology in place of hydro. Financing hydrogen generation seems to me like picking winners within 2). Both scenarios can be supplemented if shaping demand can be made at scale. Things like heating buildings and charging EVs can be shifted a few hours during the day without much inconvenience and possibly allow shaving off some important peaks.

Most of this discussion would be avoided if we just put a steadily increasing price on carbon, remove all other subsidies, and let the market shake things out.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UTUjhrBF04MP38b4WlQx...

[2] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bb...
Yes, official policies seem a fairly poor proxy for how people have actually acted.

This is an interesting site with respect to mobility (in the US). https://covid19.gleamproject.org/mobility I played around with it a bit and you can certainly pick and choose cases where less mobility seemed to correspond to better outcomes. But you can also find other cases where less or more mobility didn't seem to lead to especially different outcomes.
When I watch the Star Wars movies, I mostly think of them as pure fantasy. Except for the killer drone in "Attack of the Clones" -- that was the one time I thought "That's definitely going to happen. They're going to make that."
Thanks, I feel so too. There is still a hope work to do. I hope that I can also bridge the gap regarding utility and documentation.
I'd say more countries will choose a nuclear route over being droned to death at near zero cost to attacker.

Atomic weapons are forties technology, and even nations as locked down, and downtrodden like North Korea, or Israel (as it was in sixties) can not only make one, but seemingly genuinely capable of keeping it hidden against modern spy, and nuclear detection tech.
Hyper-Realistic Color Pencil Drawings Perfectly Recreate Lustrous Blobs of Paint
> But common sense doesn't seem to play a role anymore.

If it were just a common sense problem the damage could be reverted in it's due time. It is about hierarchy, if you put weak people in power they'll game the system and push whatever the mob wants, it won't stop with random tech lingo.
Kind of amazed at all the suprised pikachu faces here when videogames have been giving us experience dealing with autonomously-operated turrets for decades

Also the joystick control is kind of LOL. Give her a mouse and keyboard!
If we must have a struggle-session on this and rename to appease the performative gods, why not just call the default branch, you know, "default"?
In fact I think requiring an expiry date is a huge negative of the spec and will likely hinder adoption.

An expiry date brings along with it yet another maintenance burden for questionable benefit.
I'm happy that somewhere out there there are scientists studying such really important problems.
Figure out what you're good at and get a job doing that.

It doesn't sound like SWE is the right career for you. There are tons of opportunities for people who are tech-savvy but not hardcore developers. It's a lot more likely that one of those jobs will make you a lot happier and fulfilled.

Maybe you're good at communicating or have domain expertise. You can work in tech sales, product management, tech marketing, etc.
the fact that stay at home does not explain differences in death rates does not exclude that reduction of contacts (at work, social life etc.) doesn't explain it either. In other words, it may be enough to just "avoid people" a bit more than usual to bring down infections, instead of self-isolating at home.
Genuine question: do you feel like the changes are also condescending?
> Should I be able to sue google for including chrome os on chromebooks? Apple for preinstalling osx? Android? Ios? What about the os for my cars' display, or my smart tv?

All of those examples have the hardware manufacturer bundling their own software, as opposed to tying a third-party software product that to the sale of the hardware. And none of those companies have quite the history that Microsoft does with illegal tying. So there's plenty of room to draw a line that allows Chrome OS and iOS but requires Lenovo to make Windows optional. (I'm not saying that's the most sensible place to draw the line, just that there are clear distinctions to be made here.)
That’s really cool - essentially mission accomplished for reusability. Clearly they’re not degrading fast so with optimisation more will be possible
Is art a philosophy?
> a few years from now, when tempers have cooled. The initial analysis of any complex system is virtually certain to be riddled with errors

Society does not seem to be on a good course at the moment. The new Authoritarian chic may delay rational dialogue by several centuries until the Dark Age has passed.
It diminishes you, it's tacky.
They get “Jack Maa’d”
Lots of New Zealand's neighbors are orders of magnitude less than Europe and the Americas, also, so it's not clear what to make of that. However, I think the rationale for using only countries with > 100 deaths would be that it's not looking at how to prevent things from starting, but rather what strategies are effective once they've already gotten seriously going (which was already the situation for many countries a year ago).
It does not back up keys. In case of a key loss, a new one is generated and all your contacts get a warning that your key changed.
Hyperloglog is part of a class of algorithms known as “sketches”, which use precomputed probabilistic data structures to perform fast but approximate computations on very large data sets.

Supported computations include count distinct, frequency, sampling, and quantiles and histograms.

There’s a project called Apache Datasketches (developed at Yahoo) that implements production versions of these algorithms. They are useful in the implementations of search engines, discussion forum software, etc. that are designed for scale.

https://datasketches.apache.org/docs/Background/TheChallenge...

Another sketch is the well-known Bloom filter, which can quickly test if an element is part of a set without ever returning a false negative (useful for quickly checking a large database for whether a particular username is still available).
Gods Unchanied and CryptoKitties decided to mutually acknowledge each other's NFTs so that they can each sell more NFTs, since they are both NFT sellers first and game developers second. There's no incentives for any game publisher to unilaterally accept NFTs created by other game publishers. And this collaboration only works on a 1:1 basis - there's no good way to generically support all NFTs that come from a collective marketplace in a useful way and no incentives to do so without having your own NFTs acknowledged by others.
>The Armenians just lost a lot of territory in Nagorno Karabakh they considered their own - to an enemy who had suicide drones.

IMHO while it's true their enemy had 'suicide drones' (which are actually loitering munitions, but 'suicide' makes it sound so much more evil) that wasn't a deciding factor - they also had Turkish drones that didn't require self detonation to work.

Azerbaijan put a lot of videos on youtube showing them bombing and pursuing groups of Armenian soldiers with those drones, not the suicide drones. The suicide drones were anti material weapons against mobile air defense and other harder targets.

The azeris even used old (trash) AN-2's turned into drones to get a response from Armenian air defense systems so that loitering munitions like the herop could identity air defense systems with minimal danger.

We are already in this race. Everyone is, even if they won't acknowledge it. Without anti air/anti drone technology no ground force is safe. This isn't new or unique to drones - it's the truth of every war where air dominance occurs.

In the Six Day War Israel destroyed most of Egypt's air force on the ground in its opening strike, and when Egypt tried to retreat from the Sinai they used their air force to bomb the retreating units with impunity. The remnants of Egypt's air force couldn't fight against an intact air force so they flew support sorties but were overall ineffective. No drones required. It's just gotten cheaper to do.
A 4.5% infection rate of their 10,000 employees is actually much lower than the infection rate of California's entire population[0] (3.6M / 40M = 9%)

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
No, it's not. They'd also have loved modern cryptography and reconnaissance satellites.
> Truly viable

When you ignore the glaring problems with renewables? Sure... but why pay attention to rare earth minerals needed, massive problems creating massive amounts of PV panels, recycling issues, etc

We can't afford to let the burgeoning "savior" of our world continue on it's destructive path because the Religion of Renewables won't admit to the fact that it's Priests are doing bad things with children...

To many aspects and conversations turn into religious debates. PC? SJWs? Climate Change? Anti-Nuclear/Pro-Renewable? (or vice versa on all of them) all turn into religious debates with people who refuse to look at both sides of very complex issues.
What a beautiful world we would be in if RFCs were required to include some sort of test suites wherever possible.
Introduction to Parmenides
Are you qualified to evaluate this persons anecdote from a diagnostic perspective?

I’m curious, since you’re a pedant about diagnostic criteria, I’m surprised that a qualified individual would make such a determination from a brief HN post.
The site's struggling for some; here's the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210314163530/https://ezcontent...

Edit: and the mentioned service manual: https://archive.org/details/Atari800XLServiceManual
It is difficult to measure something like this based on policies alone, when attitudes towards policies and therefore compliance varies significantly, as do things like population density and more.

If you want to see the impact that stay-at-home has had on COVID, a good place to start is looking at the prevalence of the Flu, for which was have years of baseline #s to compare to 2020, and Winter 2020 has seen the Flu practically disappear. This is of course not conclusive evidence, but it definitely shows that stay-at-home can be massively effective at preventing disease transmission.
Scan the whole internet while drinking coffee
It's really only a matter of time where we will see the mods that we put into War Zone controllers actually exist in real life.
The best advice I have ever received on all three subjects is free from people who have experience. Paying people is usually when I get screwed in billables.
Economic truths are remarkably robust to reality or logic.
> For those who will say "wages catch up". They don't catch up for people on fixed income (welfare, retirement),

In the UK the state pension is pegged to increase by at least CPI or wages, there's no economic reason not to peg welfare or retirement to CPI, just a political one.
"Further, lower-income people often have debts, which is reduced (relatively) by inflation."

It is, indeed, true that inflation can "melt away" existing debts by devaluing both the principal and the interest payments. There is historical precedent of large, debt fueled investments being inflated away:

"Anyone with debt benefitted as debts were inflated away to nothing under hyperinflation. For example a Pomeranian landowner took out a loan to purchase a property in February 1922 and repaid it in the autumn from the sale of less than half the crop of a potato field."[1]

However, this only occurs with fixed rate loans. Lower income people (US mortgage debt notwithstanding) do not have the opportunity to borrow at fixed terms and it would be very difficult and expensive to incur large debts, for any purpose, at fixed rates.

The floating rates that lower income people would, undoubtedly, borrow at would not protect them from inflation.

[1] https://www.stewartinvestors.com/all/insights/stap/hyperinfl...
>Very few current NFTs exist on-chain.

Are you saying the underlying asset isn't stored in the blockchain? Or that the "title" isn't stored in the blockchain?

How is the title associated with the asset? Presumably the title is something like a sha256 hash associated with a wallet. How do you know that hash means "beeple artwork"?
Agree.

It is also telling that Egypt allows no traffic over the border while Israel typically allow tens of semi trailers a day of food an humanitarian aid as long as they can ensure weapons aren't smuggled in.
This was the most interesting part to me:

The way it’s supposed to work is if you’re salaried/exempt, you’re getting paid to do a job, not for a specific number of hours. So if you work 45 hours one week and 36 hours the next, that’s supposed to be okay.

And some places work like that, and when they do it’s mostly fine. When you have that kind of trade-off, that flexibility is a benefit.

But at a lot of places, that flexibility is much more one-way. You’re expected to work the company’s standard business hours at a minimum, plus any additional time it takes to get your job done. If you have to work 45 hours one week, that’s just what’s expected of salaried workers. But if you work 36 hours the next week, you’re going to be charged four hours of PTO (or you’re going to get weird looks and questions about why you left at 1 pm on Friday).