skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think there'd be a good time to draw a line? I can't really see the need for 25+ without a fee.
I think the internet is just different. Content creation has become something people do in pursuit of profit rather than something they do out of interest or just the lulz.

People don’t spend 9 days creating the perfect YTMND thing because they can spend that time on Instagram, YouTube or whatever in pursuit of enough fame to create a career out of it.

The only reason we still have so many memes and so many (less than an A4 page) blog posts is because of how little effort it requires with modern tech.

I think 4chan is actually one of the places that has changed the least. I mean, /b/ without talented users is just 100% shit instead of only being 99% shit, but /tg/ is exactly the way I left it a decade ago.
In case you're using paypal, it seems paypal takes 9% of that $5, see their costs spreadsheet posted elsewhere here. If you can, try donating bigger amounts less frequently. The fee goes down to 3% at ~$60.
Gosh, who's going to notify the feds in Portland of this?
I have been on 4chan since at least '05, according to my files. The way people write about it is just ... such a Rorschach blot. Just as an example, that "redeeming" word you used, I would have said "damning." I watched the spin machine rev up like a centrifuge before that really hit the press, I read the ZoePost early on and thought Depression Quest was just awful before I knew word one about who wrote it.

There's so many boards, each with its own culture, but people get out of it whatever bugbear they desire.
I backed this back in the fall for a winter ship date, so I'd take the June ship date with a grain of salt.

Not quite as long as my Mycroft kickstarter which shipped a full 2.5 years after expected shipping (but they DID ship so kudos to them) but yeah, hardware etc seems to always hit way more snags then expected
I hopped into a Jeep Cherokee that I thought was mine and drove it down the road for a minute before realizing I was not in my vehicle. Keys are funny like that.
There will be an option to view the top 50 across all categories once we start collecting updates.
Pedantic.software
I just saw it and truly appreciate it as a former farm kid who also got to "enjoy" 8 months working at John Deere here in Iowa, it gave me a hearty chuckle.
India Covid Crisis: Hospitals Buckle Under Record Surge
That describes Onyx Boox products to a tee. Full android devices with e-ink screens.
Texas likely to add record utility-scale solar capacity in the next two years
A lot of people seem to have learned economics 101 but not control theory, and seem to think that the economy will respond to signals instantly rather than having a finite frequency response.

The high level of uncertainty doesn't help; how sure are you that there won't be a pandemic related demand crash in six months?
Not that Wikipedia is the definitive source of knowledge, but it indicates capitalism forming around the 16th century[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_capitalism
A tad hyperbolic.
we wouldn't really know because none of the states are reporting accurately.
Big corps pay RSUs as part of your compensation package.

This helps them reduce compensation during hard times. Salaries are very sticky; it’s hard to cut salaries. So they offer RSU comp because it’s tied to stock price. When the company is doing poorly, they can pay less. But it also lets the pay high compensation and retain long term talent.
China starts large-scale testing of its internet of the future
> Apple have ever focused on processor like this before

Eh, I'm not sure that's true. They did with the original PPC, and also the G3 and G5.
Previously, yes. You'd leave your kids a library of books.
Horribly sad. Given the case rate, I would expect the daily death rates to be a bit higher. A few months ago the US had a few days > 4K:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
So what about games on the play store, apple store, and steam.
Complete Guide to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Ha! So instead the company just cancels the product anyway.
Isn't Malaria caused by parasites? So vaccine is not just for virus?
Yup. The GPs viewpoint could only have been discovered without firsthand knowledge of the situation.
I think your simplifications could change the logic here.

Chrysler does not directly buy from TSMC, they buy from i.e. TI, Renesas, Microchip, NXP, ...

Many of those companies do still have fabs, and even if not, they are not competing with Nvidia. They are producing on the old, old fabs, at 40, even 80nm. We would need better numbers on where these microcontrollers are fabbed to be able to tell how this interferes with i.e. Nvidia and Apple on TSMC 5nm.
Show HN: I built a tool that can write like human
An AI generated tool that can write creative copies for seo, marketing that actually sells.
Because this can be done in a background batch job during off-peak hours, there's no harm in throwing 10K queries at the database - you should be able to run a 100x that with commodity cloud hardware without noticeably impacting performance, provided you take care to not just throw queries at the db at the max rate it can handle.

The simple approach is best here IMHO.
"Toxic," that wound up over a Bulgarian dog-spinning board. Whew.
Safari Mobile doesn't implement a lot of features that would make web-apps more powerful. The conspiracy (which I believe) is that this is so that there is no suitable alternative to the app store.

The feature list is quite long but one of the most notable ones is the lack of push notification support. There are a large variety of apps (such as messaging apps) that are largely handicapped without notifications.
This is kind of depressing. I'm looking for a piece of land where I can get away from light pollution, and this is telling me that there is no such place anywhere near me, even out in the "countryside."
Why is it an app instead of a website?

How do you make money? Your privacy policy mentions serving ads but your website doesn't show ads in any of the screenshots.
Ask HN: How do you improve gender diversity in recruiting?
My startup is struggling to source engineering candidates that aren't men. How have you gone about improving the representation of women and non-binary folks in your candidate sourcing?
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You're certainly correct for, say, highly-controlled benchmarks but don't discount subjective user experience. I've heard _far_ more M1 users talk about the subjective feel compared to even the previous generation MacBook hardware whereas it's been a long time since I've heard that about an Intel to Intel upgrade (basically since the Core -> Core Duo period) other than people with GPU-heavy needs and that seems like an interesting data-point to me.
Switching to Distroless Images Saved Me from 544 Vulnerabilities
Note how this is built in the "stacked" method, i.e. old school Lego. Even with technical parts, this was uniquely accessible. My proudest achievement was a smooth running, jamproof pump for elevating marbles; you can see it from about 0:27 in this old camcorder video:

https://youtu.be/Mw3dUbRfMSw?t=24

These Legos encouraged engineering thinking all the way and were the defining toy of my childhood.

Modern Legos are stunning. Look, for example, for the Rubik's cube solve machine that can twist a (lubricated) cube to completion in a few seconds. However they're no longer stacked from bottom to top; they're built "inside out" and the best tool to come up with a design for them is probably a CAD program. Stunning results for those who have put in the time, but not so encouraging for tinkerers just starting out. So it's nice to still see "old school" stuff being built.
Welcome to /pol/ you will never leave.
You are right that blacklisting is too strong of a word. It would be enough to just look at early leaving like a resume gap. It won't stop you, but you will be asked about it. Have enough to show a pattern and you are essentially out.
Alternatively you could just download everything you wanted to listen to for the last 30 years.
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I think one of the main issues for Big studios is the whole pipeline is based around Maya / Houdini and it is easy to get artists who know these tools. It's hard to switch and takes time (see how many studios are still using Python 2.x as a switch to 3 will break so much). I know a lot of people are beginning to look at blender (mainly due to cost and the new licensing models from Autodesk). It is really expensive for studios to use now.
It really pains me that I feel rms has to go. He's just too much of whatever he is in real life.

It pains me because he's just so utterly correct on the things he writes and wrote about.
Higher prices in the secondary market.
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The model your are using is to simple. Since there is a shortage of new vehicles it pushes up the price of used ones. Then any supply of new vehicles that hasn’t been sold yet goes up. People will keep cars longer since the price of new vehicles has gone up. The drives higher repair rate of vehicles and parts prices will start to rise. Since there is a chip shortages you may not even been able to get certain parts new so it drives up the price of used parts containing the chips.

As people put off buying new cars when cars start becoming more widely available the prices stay higher until the shortage worked out and then prices of used and new car drops. Manufacturers are likely to overshoot the number of new vehicles since the models they are using assume the increased demand. This means once it is worked out a significant drop in prices and you can get vehicles really cheap. See 2008 cash for clunkers where it caused a spike in used cars price temporarily. It also had the effect that leases where cheaper since manufacturers believe they would be able to sale them used at a higher price which was only temporary causing them to lose money.

You do get increased prices for new stock that don’t have existing contracts. If you screw up your estimate of what you need and your suppliers don’t have the capacity to make your parts, now you have a shortage. Now you have to shutdown because you can’t get parts but a manufacturer who did a better job of estimating will be able to charge a higher price. In this case it would be Toyota which didn’t cut their chip orders when the crisis hit. Of course they are also likely to have some shortage of certain vehicles since there will be a shift in demand for their vechiles. So if you own work trucks the value of them will skyrocket right now since most of them in the US are made by the big 3 which don’t have the chips to manufacture them.
From my perspective in the software side of a semiconductor company, it's very much a problem of the last year.

The AKM fab fire in November 2020 also made the situation worse.
"to move away from the perception of peatlands as “wastelands,” “spaces of nothingness,” and into a new understanding of their value."

People who are unfamiliar with wilderness do the same with deserts. I hear people refer to them as places where there is nothing. People unfamiliar with wilderness tend to think of nature as trees and animals, and park-like areas.

It's the areas that are inhospitable to humans that especially need protecting, as they are generally seen as useless.
I think it's common knowledge that malaria primarily affects Africa, but you're right that it's particularly devastating to a couple dozen mostly very poor countries.
The same could have been said of wind and solar years ago. The same is said of any innovation. Aren't we on HN?
Nvidia is not really doing that either. I wonder why so many companies are reluctant to increase prices until they meet demand.
I can’t speak for semiconductors but it seems like supply chains everywhere are hurting. I work in bio and it used to be you could order something and it would arrive in 2 days. Now literally every product I order is backordered 2 weeks to 2 months. Even innocuous things like centrifuge tubes or common chemicals!
Dinosaur warning.

In 1995/1996 when the internet for me was just a source for entertainment and intrigue - we had a Microsoft employee come visit our school after they installed curriculum and computers under some kind of grant program.

One of the most important points he emphasized was that by the time we grow up, the most important skill we will have is the ability to find and vet the source of information online using search engines. At the time dog pile and altavista were the tools of choice - Google did not yet exist.

He said something else similar to "You won't need to rote memory, you'll just be able to reference anything and everything online". It felt like this man knew Wikipedia was coming.

Using these guiding principles I definitely became the developer I am today.
Others disagree: https://mcla.ug/blog/cpp-is-not-a-superset-of-c.html
I disagree so much, but your candidness deserves an upvote!
Fabs also have to be manufactured.
> For example on the M1, certain very common operations for macOS apps, like freeing Objective C pointers, which happens millions of time per second, are optimized at the hardware level

I mean, this is _kind_ of true, but it's not unique to Objective C, the M1, or even particularly intentional. The _ARM_ memory model is more conducive to reference counting in general than the x86 one. Nothing special about Apple's chip in that respect, tho.
It's better to raise the net price by raising the price and then offer incentives from a sales perspective than to leave the price alone and remove incentives. People feel good when they get "discounts" or "deals".
For a vector alternative, I find this one easy to read and use :

https://github.com/tezc/sc/tree/master/array

It is just an array of your type, e.g int *numbers, so you have type info in debugger as well.
Right on! Try and fail and you'll still be farther ahead then when you started. There's really no way to lose this particular challenge.
The ratio of qualified students to good uni seats has always been overloaded. In the context of 'culture wars', the 'number of seats added' is not really a culture war issue. Also, there are tons of great universities in the US.

In 'culture wars' we have to have some way of allocating sets to 'the top schools', and it could be just 'SAT', family connections, entrance exam, race, class, etc.. Some groups feel slots should be allocated base on race, some feel otherwise. That one is actually a little bit complicated because although SATs do provide some basis of objective rigour, it's probably the most easily 'gamed' thing and to the extent it's 'gamed' it has little meaning. Do we really want to limit top uni entrance to the 0.1% of HS students spend all of their time preparing for 'A Big Test'? That might be a little bit counterproductive ... but then that 'test' was also one of the more objective metrics.

So it's complicated and a ripe area for 'culture war'.
Ron Amadeo is a talented reporter but his transparent smarminess towards anything Google-related has become exhausting in recent years.

A lot of the time it may be warranted. But just as often, like in this article, it definitely is not.
Sigh. I'm typing this on an Apple "prior" product which has a two year old microarchitecture and is built on Intel 10nm (roughly the same as TSMC 7nm) - it's absolutely a modern x86 processor and a valid comparison - and it's left in the dust by the M1.
Anecdotal. I write client software for bioinformatics workflows. Usually web apps or clis. Right now with my mock db, Emacs, browser, and tooling I’m using ~5G of ram. At most I’ll use ~8GB by the end of the day.

I also shut down at the end of the day and make judicious use of browser history and bookmarks. If I were compiling binaries regularly I guess I could see the use in having more ram but as far as I’m concerned 8 is enough and so far people find what I put out perform at.
The eastern end of Prince Edward Island (Canada) comes pretty darn close to this darkness. Even though it’s sparsely populated, it’s a place that doesn’t feel isolated because of social capital.
One problem is the car companies have such razor thin margins that investing for them specifically is pretty bad. They are literally shaving pennies here and there on the backs of their suppliers, which reminds me of the (physical) toy and game business.

It’s no wonder there was inadequate response from their supply chain.
It doesn't take much cpu for me. Chromes 19 processes combined sits there are 1% cpu and about 1gb ram for me. Probably the sites you are visitings fault.

Edit: Looking through that thread seems like some plugins caused the issue.
We proposed – as a counter-point to the many “light-festivals” – a festival of darkness: all the lights of the city would be off for one night. It didn’t get trough, unfortunately.
At best the mime type in the file attributes would also be a hint (since there are many situations where it could be lost or not specified at all).

So, what makes it a better hint than file extensions? If you see an extension you don't recognize, why is that any worse of a signal than a mime type you don't recognize?
Damn, that's a shame. Leverage deserves much better treatment than that. It's an amazing concept. "To use" has some interesting points to it as well, but eh...
Many finance incentives are usually restricted to current dealer inventory and previous model years. They also get people in the door, since often times, people don't truly qualify for the advertised rates (if we are talking about financing terms). Jaguar is still suffering from depressed sales (though it has been getting better), so they may feel the demand isn't there to get those vehicles off their lots and increasing prices/reducing financing incentives would potentially make that worse.

Of course, it might just be that they are slow to react and changes will be reflected in the coming weeks.
Sometimes you have to read the docs

“But the docs are poorly written” you say

“But the docs aren’t maintained well” you say

Read the docs. Sometimes it isn’t supposed to be easy. Or fun. Or fit together well. But that’s the job.

RTFM is the best technical advice I’ve been given and can give.
> I don’t understand how a demographic as technically intelligent as HN could make the flawed assumption that GBs of RAM in isolation of the entire system is all that matters

I didn't claim it was all that matters, and I haven't seen anyone else do that either.

I do take the point of the rest of your comment though, and it may well be the case that Apple does some clever stuff. But realistically there is only so far that optimisations can take it - DDR4 is DDR4, and it's the workload that makes the most difference.

> I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple used telemetry to make an intelligent bet around the amount of RAM they’d need.

Your average Apple user is likely not a developer though (as others are very often pointing out on HN, whenever they make non-dev-friendly hardware choices). Furthermore, I would think such telemetry would be a self-fulfilling prophecy; if you have a pitiful 8GB of RAM, you're not going to punish yourself by trying to run workloads you know it wouldn't support.
How can you say Marketing is not being commented.

Outside of consumerist/fanboy forums (here is the later) it is the only thing being talked about.

M1 is apple doing a mattress-store on the CPU market. It is 90% marketing.

Would people be talking about apple if either of these were true:

- they announced the cpu architecture and metioned a integrated GPU with a few cuda cores

- they used numbers in the axis of their promo graphs :)
> those points are all iffy.

for tractors generally, maybe, but have read many things specifically about john deere being very DRM/anti repair, and a quick google seems to highlight that there are court battles being fought over exactly this right now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-03-05/farmers-f...
>That's an ongoing pandemic that makes covid-19 look like a case of the sniffles

How? There are literally 3 times more deaths in the last year than peak Malaria, and that's only deaths that were actually counted.
I wish I had the time to learn everything I copy from SO/SE.

Sometimes when you need to get something done and you find something that works as is, it is easier to test it and move on to something more important.

We don't have infinite time.
Edit: succumbed to the perils of unnecessary abbreviations
The 'inaccessible cult.' is about the structure of the board.

First time you go there is a Chaotic mess that feels you went back to 90's.

Then in shock you start to see the subs like /pol/ then you click and bam More chaos.

Threads and threads you are more lost.

Then you click catalog and set order Reply-by-count.

Then it does start to make sense. You read people talking in two ways. On the text and on the image attached.

It is full-duplex com.

In the 90's I used to read my Mainstream media + Pravda (the other side) jornal.

Now I read the local MSM and 4chan (the other side ) jornal.
Where's the BG copypasta quote about why soldiers shouldn't be police
There are so many devs who can‘t properly Google, but there are equally many devs who can‘t get a couple of books about a subject (that alone is a skill not many devs have mastered), dive into it and take the time to understand. Either they never learned how to properly read or they don‘t have the patience, and thus look for a shortcut.

It‘s okay if you are familiar with a tech to look up how this or that can be solved idiomatically / differently / at all, but never taking the time to learn the basics (of Regexes, of Python, Ruby, Javascript and whatnot) will give you superficial knowledge where you can‘t assess a situation, go two steps on your own before you constantly consult stackoverflow.
This is the territory where police departments and agencies get themselves into trouble - investigating crimes that aren't really their job to investigate. They technically have jurisdiction over a specific location or process, and that gives them an excuse.

The most obvious parallel is pretext stops - state cops, sometimes local, coming up with an excuse to pull someone over on a highway, in order to check them for warrants or in hopes of discovering contraband they have no reason to suspect exists.

A less obvious example is immigration enforcement fishing for excuses to deport someone.
And then there's also the vibration issue. I don't think most medical devices need to stand up to continuous vibrations like you'd have in an auto engine. If they are not soldered well, eventually things can loosen up and fall off, or minimally just break contact. I think the car industry is closer to the aero/space industry than medical industry.
I used to play WoW on a G4 PowerBook! To be honest, it was decent, but the resolution was not great. I remember vividly having to look at the ground and zoom in all the way just to be able to go from the bank to the AH at IF. Hopefully whatever Intel GPU you have in your Mini is better than the Radeon 9700 in my old laptop.
I've been buying some DVDs off Amazon lately because the movies I want to watch, some of which aren't even that old, haven't been on any streaming service at any price.

Pretty inconvenient.

If we live in a world without physical media, some things will simply disappear forever.
Denmark Deporting Syrian Refugees
I am not sure if this is right stuff to post on HN but i wonder what views are on that forum members :)
> It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

Isn't that hackernews
Ah ok, we'll change the URL to that from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/4chan-founder-chris-.... Thanks!

Actually we should already have changed it - that's standard practice when one article cribs from another. But I missed it in this case.
Feel I should add https://libro.fm/ for audiobooks, since missing from that list.