skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The canal was blocked for 6 days and revenue is $15 million per day, so that's $90 million. But many of the ships that were held up eventually transited anyway, so $90 million is an absolute upper bound. Then there is the cost of the operation to free the ship, which I don't know. But Egypt is asking for $1 billion, so the rescue operation would have had to cost at minimum $900 million for the price to be justified. And I know it didn't cost $900 million, because if split evenly over 6 days that would be $150 million per day, which would be > 50% of Egypt's entire government spending over the time period. So I can say with confidence that the rescue was at least an order of magnitude less than that, so another $90 million (and that's still a massive over estimate).

So absolute upper bound for losses is $180 million. If I were making odds I would guess that only 1/3 of the ships diverted around Africa, so $30 million, and that the rescue cost another $15 million, so over/under $45 million.

And that's without even bringing up that there was a canal pilot on the ship at the time who may share some portion of the responsibility for the accident. So, yeah, it's extortion.
Yes, I realize it's already happening and mentioned aluminum as another example. I don't know how that changes my point, which is that BTC mining is another incentive for the same problem.
The CPU microarchitecture is truly a quantum leap ahead of x86 processors. The fixed-width nature of arm instructions means there's way more front-end bandwidth for decode, which can then feed a much larger out-of-order engine. Having memory so close is also a huge win. TBH, I don't know what wizardry they have managed to get power consumption so low, but wow. 15W TDP and trouncing desktop processors pulling 12x that power!
Police search cryptocurrency trading firm after Turks say they were scammed
I find that mental health is built upon a foundation of spiritual health. Meditation/mindfulness just happens to be the most universal form of spiritual health.

Spiritual health doesn't mean being religious or anything, it means being comfortable with who you are and how the universe is. You shouldn't be angry and resentful at the world. You shouldn't be always striving to be the best. Push yourself too hard and you break, which is paradoxically, very unproductive.

You need to be accepting with whatever comes. You can be homeless. You could lose a limb, your career, loved ones. It will hurt. It will require a lot of humility. But you acknowledge that the pain and suffering is a part of life. C'est la vie.

If you want a fixed goal, I'd say everyone has to come to the acceptance that they and everything they love will be gone. You'll die, what next?
Compare that unfortunate workplace "culture" (until the person eventually leaves / gets fired), with this article about psychological safety:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860743

I wonder if the lawmakers having made it almost impossible to fire someone, then damages the psychological safety in the company, in that the managers have to start looking for mistakes someone did and using it against him/her. I'd guess this sends bad vibes to the whole team.

Makes me wonder if this holds countries like, was is France?, back, when it comes to startups and innovation, hmm
It doesn't need to be monitored. It needs to be deescalated. The left wants to believe its blameless, but there's a massive portion of America that, per their believe foundation, disagrees with the policies they are putting in place. We live in a Democracy; the only "right" way forward is the one we all agree with, and we can't agree on anything right now.

I don't know how to deescalate it, but its beginning to feel like the most sensible solution is transferring significantly more resources and power to the States (which is precisely how our country was founded). Many states do, internally, have division, but broadly speaking California would be happier to run itself more independently of Donald Trump, as much as Mississippi would be happier to run itself more independently of Joe Biden.

It doesn't feel like this is optional; some amount of fractionalization will happen, possibly in four years, possibly in fifty, but it is inevitable. The choice in front of us is to either, ease ourselves into it using the democratic framework we have in place by significantly reducing the power of the executive branch and transferring more tax-originating resources from the federal to state & country levels, or; some form of civil war.

And, I beg you, don't form this idea of "civil war" in your mind to resemble the first one; it won't. For all the ugliness of our first Civil War, our second will be far uglier. One possibility may take the form of a second Trump-like presidency destroying the Federal faith of left-leaning states, causing the west coast to secede. Another; domestic terrorism, cyber warfare, untraceable and unstoppable flash attacks on critical infrastructure such as electricity and water, splinter military groups.

As left-leaning as I may be, we can't come out of the Trump presidency and Biden election thinking all of this is over. We can't ban Parler from AWS then wash our hands clean and say its a job well done. This rage is real, its everywhere, and there are four hundred million guns owned by civilians in America [1]. Gun control? A fairy tale. Suppression of dissenting speech? Someone didn't read 1984, or the Constitution. The only solution is to fractionalize; if people feel anger at the President, the solution isn't to install a new President, it's to make the position of the President one that isn't worthy of Anger.

The scariest part about our future as a country lies in the reality that this will never happen. We are driving full speed toward a civil war, or worse, and the immutable system we've built won't allow us to do what is necessary to avoid it.

[1] https://wamu.org/story/20/09/18/how-many-people-in-the-u-s-o...
I expect this will be the case with Linux on the M1 in a year or two, given the pace of marcan's work. Windows depends on Microsoft's willingness, of course.
It's also important to distinguish between 'knowing' and 'understanding'.

If someone tells me how to says Good morning in, let's say, Mongolian, I 'know' how to greet people, but dont 'understand' how it works (can't tell which part of the sound/symbol represents what, etc.)
> Meanwhile these kids are getting conscripted into being crooks

They're not crooks from their perspective. They're indoctrinated into hating the west, remember. As far as they're concerned they're likely to feel they're serving their nation and doing a good deed.
Nice summary, but I dislike the fact that education has made the default understanding of these categories to be about retaining information/knowledge rather that your ability to compute/reason/intuit.

Yes, familiarity with a field should improve skill, but I like to think that one can be smart, intelligent or wise in a situation that does not involve previous information about it.

Someone exposed to a brand new game or puzzle can be smart, intelligent or wise in solving it separately (to some degree) from having prior information.
I wish they were that innocent.

> iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
Noria looks cool but it requires Zookeeper which is a PITA.
I wish bogs were more popular too, because it might mean more adoption for bogbook, which seems like a cool project IMO.

https://sr.ht/~ev/bogbook/

an open source distributed social network of signed feeds replicated between pub servers
Is it really even marginally profitable (compared to the effort put in) to run crypto mining scripts on the tiny amount of CPU allocated to CI runs in shared pools?
> but costs more than 30x Storj on bandwidth alone ($90/TB for outside access, plus the cost of doing cross-region replication).

Yeah but if use AWS S3 for off site backups, those huge charges cost me exactly $0/TB.

I agree with others - Filecoin and Storj have no meaningful commercial use cases.

Who wants to understand how those things work, let alone use it for anything that involves commercial use cases?

AWS S3: put, get, delete, pay. Done.
> Capital gains generally are taxed at the same rate as income in this country

Maybe I'm missing something but the "Sales of Capital Assets Reported on Individual Tax" from 2012 shows 7.5x as many long term Capital Gains as short term. https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-sales-of-capita...

Doesn't this mean the majority of individual investment gains are not taxed as income?
and insured?
Can't they just stick a few dozen M1s in a box and call it a Mac Pro to scale up that way?
You are correct! Updates are a expressed as a retraction and an insert that happen within the same timestamp.

An example may not be necessary but it might also help clarify. Assuming you're using the psql client to run "TAIL WITH (PROGRESS)", the logical grouping for a single update will be a set of rows like the following:

...
1608081358001 f -1 ['Lockal', '4590']
1608081358001 f 1 ['Epidosis', '4595']
1608081358001 f -1 ['Matlin', '5220']
1608081358001 f 1 ['Matlin', '5221']
1608081359001 t \N ['\\N', '\\N']
...

All of these occur at the same timestamp, meaning that they should be applied atomically to maintain consistency of your dataset. In this case, my query is a top-10 query and Epidosis has now entered the top10 while Lockal has dropped out of the top10. Matlin remains in the top10 but their total has gone from 5220 to 5221. The final example record is produced when you run with PROGRESS enabled and serves as an indicator that 1608081359001 is now closed and no further updates will ever happen at timestamp 1608081359001.

I find that this stream of rows is very easy to convert to a data structure "{timestamp, inserts[], deletes[]}" and this, in turn, maps naturally onto reactive APIs, such as React or D3. My blog post, linked above, delves into this in more detail. Hope this explanation helps!
Right, ask Amazon workers about that.
> Apple differentiates the majority of their products by generation rather than binning.

This simplifies things for consumers, but how do you make chips without binning? Are they all just that reliable? Do they all have extra cores? Maybe Intel bins more because they can squeeze out a significantly better price for more core and cache, but Apple's margins are already so high they don't care?
> It's well known that Apple has about a 50% marketshare overall in the US. But what about among the youth? If my hypothesis is correct, then the green bubble bullying should mean that more teenagers own iPhones than the general population.

> And indeed they do!

Your reasoning is flawless...
I've been programming for 15 years and worked at firms of all sizes and payscale, I see a direct correlation between the two
Not sure if this is a known issue but I tried to load the site 3x in Firefox. Caused the tab to stop responding with a "Script is slowing down Firefox" error. Each time I had to close the tab. Opened the site in Chrome with no issue.
Yeah, its a bit disingenuous: it's highlighting a single conclusion noted in passing that's not part of the main thrust of the post.
Please make your substantive points without putting down your fellow user. Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: the sentence I was reacting to was "You do not have a good understanding of King's work." Since it has been edited out now, I'm going to mark this subthread off topic and collapse it.
No, not really. Quite a few successful coups have been essentially bloodless and relied on a combination of surprise and bluff. Napoleon's actual seizure of power was disorganized to put it mildly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_of_18_Brumaire

Also, there are charges pending against people who had a stash of firearms in a hotel in Virginia, just across the Potomac, and planned to bring them over at a later stage. Firearms are largely banned in DC so the idea was to take over the Congress first and then establish a defensive perimeter.

Now, I didn't say it was a good plan.
Same for me on Firefox, borked the tab got a popup to kill it.
If you mean specifically an Apple Silicon game console, that's the Apple TV.
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Royalty-free blanket patent licensing is compatible with Free Software and should be considered the same as being unpatented. Even if it's conditioned on a grant of reciprocality. It's only when patent holders start demanding money (or worse, withholding licenses altogether) that it becomes a problem for us.
Thanks! The answer is: sort of, but not really. The maker page[1] has an "export data" button that writes out the vertex data (as a big series of RGB/XYZ values), which you could easily convert to whatever format.

But if you rendered the data somewhere else, you wouldn't get the right effect unless you replicated the perspective/FOV that I used (which are completely ad-hoc because I had no idea what I was doing).

So currently there's no super-easy way to take the data somewhere else and do something useful with it.

[1] https://andyhall.github.io/glsl-projectron/index.html
Because it doesn't actually help and creates false sense of security.
In Go you can use GraphJin an automatic GraphQL to SQL compiler that supports GraphQL subscriptions (aka Live Queries). GraphJin works either as a standalone service or as a library in your own code. It uses a very efficient mechanism to manage subscriptions keeping db load low while subscribing to an SQL query using polling.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/dosco/graphjin@v0.16.44/core#e...

https://github.com/dosco/graphjin
I don’t know - did every Soviet mathematician buy into their propaganda?
They have missles pointed at South Korea, and the USA.

The dictator teaches his people Americans are evil, and must be destroyed. The dictatorship is actively teaching citizens hacking skills--aimed at ruining American lives.

So no---don't give them anything other than food, and medicine.
>No bureaucrats, taxation or red tape to see here.

Exactly.

The first Earth Day was declared by word of mouth among teenagers in the 1970's.

On short notice without the existence of cell phones or internet.

Viral they would say now.

Interesting what a teenager can do sometimes.
But at what confidence level was your assumption?
Unless you really value the company, people, execs, and mission there I’d keep your head down and start interviewing elsewhere.

If you do really like it, I think there is a risk when bringing it up but you should be able to find a compromise with them somehow (more $$$ within X amount of time if the company is in a better spot).
Please don't post political flamewar boilerplate to HN. Threads here are supposed to be curious conversations. This is not that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish people will stop using headless in all kind of contexts. It does not help understanding how the project works.

What is headless? Who come in this case CSS is a "head"? I would say HTML is the head.
Spend some time in small-town Japan and Seattle will feel like a beach party town in that sense ;)

Loads of hospitality and warmth once you break through the ice, but the first steps are hard
> Why not go after the datacenter

For certain applications, the migration will be challenging. It's also a slowly dying market. Amazon has an ARM instance, already. I'm sure they're already tearing the M1 apart to see what they can use. It's also no Apple's core competency; enterprise sales is a different beast.

Edit: I wasn't quite clear: it's dying because businesses are migrating to the cloud, and cloud providers are already working on/support ARM CPUs. Google might be willing to buy M1 chips. Not servers or boards because everything is probably custom by now, just the chips.
>Is it normal for companies to change their compensation package after starting?

Yes, if you are a productive worker for a generous employer they will handsomely reward you for your particular contributions, as well as give across-the-board increases in pay and perks, and it will exceed everyone's expectations.
> "The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage ... iMessage amounts to serious lock-in,” was how one unnamed former Apple employee put it in an email in 2016, prompting Schiller to respond that, “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us, this email illustrates why.”

> “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones,” was Federighi’s concern according to the Epic filing. Although workarounds to using iMessage on Android have emerged over the years, none have been particularly convenient or reliable.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
Where can I purchase this? you have an ebay or amazon link or something?
The economy of North Korea is an enigma, but despite decades of very poor planning, they do have industry. I'm sure they have jobs that need basic computer literacy.
Please read the site guidelines (all the way to the end, since the second-last one is relevant here) and please stick to the rules when posting to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's the thing, reverse engineered drivers are not the solution and I don't see Apple providing drivers or any documentation of M1 SoC for other operating system. We need M1 equivalent from vendors that are NOT into "vertical integration" like Apple.
I was just found a tab on my phone with this CNN article:

CNN Exclusive: WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019 - https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/14/health/who-mission-china-intl...

The investigators found evidence of 13 virus strains in Wuhan in December 2019:

> As a result, they were able to gather for the first time 13 different genetic sequences of the SARS-COV-2 virus from December 2019. The sequences, if examined with wider patient data in China across 2019, could provide valuable clues about the geography and timing of the outbreak before December.

> ...

> Prof. Edward Holmes, a virologist at the University of Sydney, in Australia, said: "As there was already genetic diversity in SARS-CoV-2 sequences sampled from Wuhan in December 2019, it is likely that the virus was circulating for a while longer than that month alone."

The point I'm trying to make here is that there's certainly a lot of facets of the pandemic that haven't been properly explained.
Unless they make it work on Android it won't matter. A messaging system that doesn't cover your entire friend group is, in effect, pointless.
Intel and AMD aren't standing still in this.
It blew my mind the other day when work gave us one of Apple's hdmi/usb/charge multiport adapters, that it could power 4k60 and a USB3 port without using thunderbolt under the hood. It was my understanding its either 4k60 with no usb, or 4k30 with usb. I'm assuming its using this newfangled HBR3 under the hood, or perhaps it actually is using thunderbolt secretly.
Running CI on their repo doesn't work when you use self-hosted runners.

Same for when you have secrets defined in the workflow that are necessary for a build.

There are more cases to cover than the ones visible during a knee-jerk reaction.
Apple's Rosetta 2 that allows x86 code to run on M1 is a different beast than QEmu though. It translates x86 machine code to ARM code. That's why it is much faster than VM solutions.
Yes, the US does handle this a bit differently. However, this is handled stricter in countries with a stronger tradition in Roman law. (E.g., "by breaking this seal you consent to the EULA found inside the box" is invalid in Europe, since there isn't really any object, which a consensus could be formed on, at the given time.) – And, of course, you would have do provide proof for having been in error, or the error has to be obvious beyond reasonable doubt. (In this very case, raising the minimum price for similar offerings immediately after the error was detected, may hint at not having intentionally offered this at an unreasonably low price at fractions of the market value.)
It might be coming; WebKit supports it now: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207750
I lived in Gulf countries for 12 years; I'm well aware of the shitty and life-threatening work conditions for migrant labourers.

I've also lived in the US for 9 years; I'm also well aware of the mistreatment of workers here, such as workers who are undocumented migrants, workers who are prisoners, workers who work gig companies, Amazon workers, and many others.
I mean this is like saying coll-rolling incentivizes renewable energy or pouring lead into the river incentivizes the local water agency to up their game. Technically correct, but in this case the worst kind of correct
In what way is the datacenter market dying? Are Googles and Facebooks and Cloudfares and Microsofts and Amazons suddenly decommissioning huge racks of computers while their cloud businesses take off? What is that cloud made of?
>What would it take to fashion a proper basketball pyramid here in the States?

You're going to need to out bid the current NBA for players. Get some TV contracts. Some owners / investors who probably don't like the idea of the system you propose.

Pretty big tasks.
The claim seems factually accurate and supported. We wouldn't consider an expert saying "you don't understand transformer ML models" with quotes supporting that claim, as being putting down the user, no?

I often read technical conversations on HN in which one user tells another they don't have an accurate understanding of some topic. Just because it's a historical or cultural matter doesn't mean it's ad hominem to state plainly and dispassionately that someone lacks understanding.
I had a computer for 12 years before my first Internet connection. Actually didn't have a modem at all.

It was hugely influential in my development. I drew things, animated things, made music, wrote school papers and a neighborhood newsletter, made videos with wipes and title cards, wrote my first resume (at 15, hah), and of course played some games.

I give a tremendous amount of credit to having that in the home for my current computer literacy and career path.
It does seem like they should centralize this stuff though... virtually every nationwide-jurisdiction agency will want to monitor social media posts so you would think they would centralize it in one department rather than duplicating effort. Also the argument can be made that spending too much time enforcing other agencies' laws is not spending the budget the way Congress intended.
That is interesting, and in my mind, insane. Here in Europe it seem to be about 50% as well, but we use either Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp, exactly because what is the point of using iMessage if you only have at most half your friends on it?