skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it's a joke that makes some people millionaires.

Where does that money come from? There isn’t a Doge Corporation backing this up that sells actual products and collects actual revenue.

The only way to become a millionaire through DogeCoin would be to invest $10,000 at the low and sell at the high. Who are you selling to? New entrants, hoping to get another 10X or 100X run-up, funded by even newer entrants, also hoping for their 10X and so on.

Everyone’s hoping to become a millionaire, but in reality they’re mostly just pumping money into a system to make the previous entrants millionaires.

With Doge specifically, a lot of people have lost money when they bought in at previous highs. Who did they buy from? Previous owners looking to exit before the music stops.

It’s not so much a joke as a game: Put money in, see how many other people you can trick into putting money in after you, and then sell them your coins before it all collapses.
Kicking the tires, here's a quick piece of product feedback:

It seems like the "Stacked Financial Breakdown" chart actually _adds_ your level of debt on as just another stacked layer, as if it were an asset.

I don't think that makes much sense - with this representation, if next year I take on $1M of debt to buy $1M in assets, then my financial breakdown curve jumps by $2M.

Ideally you'd subtract off debt so that you could easily read off net worth from the chart, but that's not easily compatible with a stacked-chart representation (I don't know how you'd visually represent "negative stacks").

I'd suggest instead you just take debt off that chart, which would make you at least able to read off "total assets under management" from it.
Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware
> They may even be able to compel friendly app stores to patch apps before they are distributed.

Google's apk signing changes comes to mind.
Linux's answer is io_uring with eventfd. I've noticed it has higher latency than WaitForMultipleObjects though. I've had a hard time getting the 99th percentile latency below 5usec.

It would be nice if io_uring polling had a futex-like feature that spinned in userspace rather than having to syscall io_uring_wait every time. I feel like that feature would be more universal than futex2.

Adding an atomic int somewhere in the userspace would add ~100ns in the kernel path but save many microseconds in the userspace-spin path during high contention so it seems like a win to me.
> Also I don't know how anyone can take BMI by itself seriously.

BMI is very useful if you're looking at large data sets. BMI for individuals is not very useful. I'm not sure of the efficacy of BMI for ~1200 data points.
I've always wondered why people take time to comment like this. Do you really think this multi billion dollar corporation is truly "good"? And why do you feel the need to shill for them? They have a PR department that spends millions and millions every quarter
It's currently 4:20pm on Ed Balls day for me, an incredible moment
A song by The Decemberists, "When the War Came"[1], covers this topic. One of my favorites!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHOiQ2uniU
> Modern versions of Access refuse to open databases that were created with old versions, so I dusted off an old copy of Office 97.

Goodness gracious, Microsoft - why?
This is not just a Maori problem. Many of the English dialects from the past 1000+ years have eroded and merged.
Once the recording industry matured the seeds were sown for language dictatorships to emerge. Once radio and then TV matured, we (in the UK) were immersed in BBC English. Almost all the old speakers of these variants are now gone. The BBC did archive them and it is a fascinating site https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices

That said, the native Maori need to work together with commercial interests to succeed in this to avoid this - if they can....
Currently just google analytics dashboards showing things like navigation within the app and where users are dropping off during the onboarding process.
Bochs was the go-to emulation platform when I tinkered with OS dev in the 00s.
> The only takeaway is that there is no obviously correct wording for google to make when wielding the banhammer.

This is true on kh because ‘correct’ is both a relative term and a black and white one, which doesn’t apply to the situation we are discussing. You have to decide what you value, and perfection is not an option, so there is indeed no ‘correct’ wording, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t better wordings, nor does it make the one they chose ok.

It seems to me that there are many ways Google could be more honest and less opaque.

It seems like quite a few people here (myself included) value those traits and would like to see Google adopt them.

That won’t immunize them from criticism or make everyone agree with their judgements, but it would still be better.
very cool app, appreciate that i could click through without making an account!

two features i'd like to see off the top of my head

* i know privacy is important for a lot of folks -- but it would be cool if graphs / plans were shareable. I'm interested what the rest of you are up to :)

* action items for how to steer your current plan to a "better" plan. The app is currently like a hand-held map that shows me the lay of the land, but I want google maps which recommends ideal routes.
as a kid I spent a lot of time customizing the house and sometimes playing the weird geography game in there. I think we had an irl one at school too.

It was kinda fun, even though it wasn't really a game.
Actually in Erlang/elixir, your own crash is something you can plan for and handle. if you check the code you will see in init() that the author captures exits. then there is a function terminate () which is called when a process exits for some reason (including crashes)

So for example one possible implementation of state is that you catch your own crash, save some state and then restore it when you restart

You aren't supposed to ever crash, however the whole language it's based around designing a framework to handle what happens if you do crash

So you design a whole framework of supervisors, watching processes, that all have a defined startup and shutdown order. You build structures with rules such as: if my cache module fails, them restart this whole chunk of application over here.

it's very cool
I believe you can load vMac but you need a developer account: https://namedfork.net/minivmac/

The "browser emulators" might be able to be made to work with iPad Safari.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins has a podcast and one of the episodes is with the colour scientist he works with, Joachim Zell.

https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com/joachim-jz-zell-color-scienti...

Lots of good info in that episode regarding LUTs, ACES and colour in film & tv.
The article's focus is fiction. Writing a good novel (not pulp) can easily take years. Royalties on a few thousand copies sold are not reasonable or sustainable compensation for that kind of effort.
Are you referring to this one that says Apple is collecting more personal details, but is communicating less than Google?

"Android sends 20x more data.."?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/android-sends-20x-mo...

Take it with a huge grain of salt, but also note that Apple sends more personal data to themself than Google according to that article. Not in the amount of bytes, but in they amount of different data send, according to the article.

I think most people would agree that fewer personal details being shared is more important than the amount of data used to communicate. So in that regard Apple is worse.

All in all, I think this whole discussion is pointless. Both are collecting as much as they can get away with and both suck when it comes to privacy.
Has any research been done on the effects of wind farms on local wind/weather patterns? It seems like taking energy out of the wind in a relatively concentrated area would have downstream effects.

(I'm not anti-wind energy, I'm just curious).
The fonts can be found here (link near the end of page): http://aka.ms/officefonts

Caveat (from the page):

"Cloud fonts are only available to Microsoft 365 subscribers. Documents that have cloud fonts will render correctly in Office 2019."
Brain region to immune system: I am root.

Immune system: Yes you are, my bad.

or I'm going to call bullshit on that. Put your arms up and prepare for phagocytosis.
They have mold/bacterial growth problems (and use more electricity).

But both types have easy solutions to their respective problems:

- Use distilled water in the ultrasonic.

- Regularly clean/replace wick in your evaporative (or use a water stabilization agent).

Even the article at the top says they measured "0" particles when distilled water was used.

Until reading this thread I thought using distilled water in them was common knowledge. I believe that is what the manual with mine even said.
Amazing article ! Mind sharing the one on Salesforce? Cant find it on retool
I've had similar thoughts. We are the AI. Which implies that reproduction still produces the best computing available.
Apart from the article, I am pretty sure a lot of the arguments against the AppStore would disappear if Apple just paid more to the developers and reduced it's cut. I hope they find a good middle ground, we definitely need an App Store for the majority of the users out there, something that is relatively safe and allows for massive distribution but also keeps out a lot of malicious actors (its not perfect but its better than a lot of other options). It would be nice if developers also got paid a lot more.
There was a shortage because enough people were buying enough to last them years that it impacted the supply.
I'm currently the CTO of a "normal" company (i.e. not a startup) and I confess that, sometimes, I have the incentives for delegating responsibility for the outcome of non-strategic projects to third-parties, since my attention span is limited and I want to focus on strategic projects.

I guess that this behavior can become very toxic for the company if the executive starts delegating responsibility for strategic projects as well.
I was head of the Blimp team at Google and could tell you exactly what happened, although it’s probably not something I can discuss too much publicly. Great project, great team, turned out to be very hard and involved making major changes to Chrome to do what we wanted. And unlike Mighty we were not willing to charge users a ton of money to use it. Fast, cheap, high quality: pick two :-)
For what it's worth, there are many areas in the U.S. where the infrastructure would reasonably allow for this and it's more a question of whether the parents would allow it. Even where this isn't possible, it's very common for schools to offer buses from extremely near to their homes to the school, which is a process that as you have pointed out, parents do not necessarily need to be involved in.
Free webinar: how operating system written by Steve Wozniak works?
thats on the weekend, so its 5 days, on monday.
Team sports? Polarizing election cycles? Ignorance is a helluva drug.
Only someone who never tried to compile AOSP can write seriously that "Android is open source".
That the platforms are open source is a moot point too.
> Calibri has been the default font for all things Microsoft since 2007, when it stepped in to replace Times New Roman across Microsoft Office. It has served us all well, but we believe it’s time to evolve.

My first question is "why". That doesn't seem to be answered anywhere in this blog post. I don't see any limitation with the current fonts. Changing the default seems like a solution looking for a problem.
Managing Meetings Suck
i find this very light on the actual "diving deep" part promised in the title. theres a lot of self congratulatory chest thumping, not a lot of technical detail. Werner of course doesnt owe us any explanation whatsoever. i just dont find this particularly deep.
I will offer a counter-example to this. I was an alternate for my local county's grand jury for a year. I was selected through the same voir dire process used to place me on a petit jury for a criminal trial years later. It was wholly random. AFAIK, I didn't end up in the jury pool because I knew a prosecutor or cop. Were "I know a guy who knows a guy" the selection criteria, I would have never ended up on the grand jury, as my father was personal friends with a local defense attorney; the question posed to me wouldn't have been if I hate cops, but whether I knew or was associated with anyone sharing the same name as my father.
Better yet, since Wine is there to serve as a “smart” shim, it can offer a launch config parameter for the app, that will get Wine to point its futex symbols at its previous userland impl. (Sort of like the various Windows compatibility-mode flags.) So even Windows apps that do tons of requeues (and so presumably would be slowed down by unilaterally being made to do kernel futexes) would be able to be tuned back up to speed. And distros of Wine that provide pre-tuned installer scripts for various apps, like CrossOver, can add that flag to their scripts, so users don’t even have to know.
You couldn’t fire them for economic reasons before?
Complementing my answer to the parent, in my case, most of these pushes for consulting and hype stuff comes from other executives or stakeholders. I simply decide not to veto some initiatives, since they are not strategic.
Looks nice on the surface. One request for the promo site part of things:

One thing I _always_ look for in a SAAS is a "pricing" page, because prices are all over the map on these sorts of things and I want to know if I think the price is reasonable before I jump in.
And there’s a reason for that. You’re making the mistake of thinking Apple’s special sauce is the hardware. It’s not.

It’s the experience.
A Wave of Electric Trucks Could Create ‘Accidental Environmentalists’
Interesting!

> the landscape undergo a remarkable change. The greenery shifted from a variety of leafy trees and plants to barren grassy fields rimed with stunted oak and pine. The difference in vegetation reflected a change in the underlying geology, evincing rocks with excess magnesium and too little calcium for most plants to thrive. We had driven onto the mantle.
I obviously do not know the context, but as a manager, you have to be extremely cautious with the estimates provided to you by your team.

First because human are notoriously bad at estimating the workload, and then because you never know what can happen in the meantime : it can be literally everything : a bug in the frameworks you use, someone who get ill, an hardware or network failure, etc.

When you have the luxury to set the deadline, you always choose a safe one, that will guarantee you to be on track or ahead the schedule. As much as you can, never late.

And yes, you also have to be careful before communicating to the client an estimate. he may then think that each of his request takes "one hour", and, as he now know "how to estimate", he would make you waste your time negotiating something that he perceive to be easy to do while it's not.

Honestly, despite the fact that I do not think highly of Accenture, nothing shocking here regarding the management.

Of course the fact that he charged for a full week of work is just a scam.
You would like me to go test out what happens when a random person attempts to advance archeological theories by confronting park employees about them?
But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
Microsoft is notorious in the efforts they make to allow backward compatibility. But in this one case, they don't and are the villain? I can still run programs targeted at 16bit Microsoft Windows 3.x from 30 years ago.

Apple breaks background compatibility nearly every year on their products, yet they get a pass?
There's something weird going on with the mortgage calculation when configuring the house's value.

When I set it to 0, I'm paying the mortgage way faster than should be possible, when I set it to anything meaningful, I'm bankrupt in one year!
That's probably the most surprising bit - that sleeping an extra 52 minutes is equivalent to NOT sitting for an extra 56 minutes (in reducing your BMI by 7.4%)

So -- if you're sitting down, you are better off going all the way to sleep?? That is definitely not intuitive! Or is that only for extending the 'full night' of sleep?

I suppose if you are sitting and awake, you can still eat food, whereas when you're asleep you are probably not eating.
Eh, a social group isn't a business gathering nor is it a calculated construct. We're talking about people following their natural attraction.

People don't consciously 'organise' a group with some 'group manager' and a nice hierarchy, technology choice panels, and acquisition procedures. There isn't some grand evil plan where the 'group CEO' selects the technology that everyone now has to use. This is just users using an end-user service on their end-user device that doesn't cause them friction and makes them happy.

People don't think "I want to send an instant message to my group-colleagues on their mobile OS on their mobile hardware over their WWAN link to setup a meeting in our shared calendar for a ninety minute gathering for a consumption of nutrients". They generally think: "I could go for a bite, I'll let my friends know so we could go together". Everything that makes that harder just gets thrown out.
At some point the game should recognize what you're doing and just fire up Factorio for you.

Though realistically if you think about it Stardew Valley (and other Harvest Moon-type games) themselves are about min-maxing, where you do X to get used to how X is annoying so you can get Y so you don't have to do X anymore.
The right tail of Amazon shareholders' wealth is much longer than the right tail of Amazon employees' wealth, since it includes the richest (and 21st richest) person in the world. The best paid employee in the world probably doesn't work for Amazon, and they are also much less rich compared to the median employee than the richest person is compared to the median wealth holder.
What Counts for Rankings?
Show HN: Ray Tracing on BigQuery
This is how my experience was after about age 10. I was close enough to school that I could choose to ride my bike or take the bus. I would get myself out the door every morning and usually make it home before any parents.

I've recently read that the erosion of free-roaming children has increased exponentially in the years that I've since graduated highschool.
They aren't being punished by not using credit cards, they're just choosing not to avail themselves of the benefits of using credit cards.

If you pay your bill every month, then a credit card is like a debit card plus benefits like up to 20% of the purchase value in points, not to mention benefiting from the time value of money.
> it's extremely standard to use phrasing like "can't do that" and "unable to do that"

It’s standard corporate doublespeak. Just because a lot of corporations do something by habit, doesn’t make it disingenuous to critique.

Google in particular tried to be a different and less evil kind of company.

We know that ship has sailed, but it doesn’t mean the values that it spoke to are any less important.
It came pre-installed on my family's shiny new Gateway computer. As a kid I loved customizing my house and adding custom icons for things like games in my 'bedroom.'

It never replaced the actual desktop, but it was fun to go into my own 'house' on the family computer customized to my liking in the days before profiles and separate logins.
It also resembles custard apples/sugar apples. Though they also don’t have leaves at the top either. And, like the pineapple are native to the Americas.
That is incorrect, Corellium does not ship Apple code.
Touchbar Pets
Nobody thinks it is. Curve25519 being invincible is not the premise behind the shift away from "agility".
That's mostly correct but your body doesn't metabolize oxygen based on the partial pressure. The actual rate of oxygen metabolism depends mostly on activity level regardless of depth or PPO2.

Your body can function pretty well at PPO2 levels less than 0.17 bar. People go to an altitude of 10000 ft / 3000 m all the time where PPO2 is only 0.14 bar.
Let me suggest this then. Post your initial reply to a forum with a lot of women and ask if they find it misogynistic.

Adults can "read between the lines". Putting all your statements together draws a perfectly clear misogynistic narrative. No amount of deflection by trying to rebrand each point individually will make that go anyway.
Yeah, bring it on. Hold me accountable for my crime of being pro vaccine.
Dysfunction is manna for consultants.

In one of my first jobs out of school clients at the large shipping company we were consulting to would regularly ask us for information other employees at that company had provided us. It struck me as odd, so I asked my manager about it. He explained that our work involved two departments at the company whose directors hated each other and wouldn't let their teams work together. Their employees used us as intermediaries to share info critical to doing their jobs without getting in trouble for it.

Later in my career I was brought in by tech teams to recommend solutions that they'd already thoroughly researched and settled on, but didn't have the internal clout to get approved. Once the external expert OK'd it they'd get the budget and headcount they'd been asking for.
The moment legal protection is withheld on disagreeable terms is the moment that copyrights become a less popular vehicle for defending a holder's rights. Despite what you might you might think, that's not a good thing. Copyrights are positive incentives for disclosure (but not necessarily for continued availability) of information. It is in the interest of a government for one to publicly disclose information on the sciences and the useful arts. Preemptively neutering a holder's defense to his copyright doesn't disincentives DRM. On the contrary, it encourages stronger, broader trade secret protections as well as non-disclosure and exclusion agreements with regards to both the content and DRM. That would be a blow to libraries just as much as it would archival sites.
Right but it echoes the recent scandal at Intel, the details are different obviously but companies aren’t exactly known for their careful and thoughtful consideration of heavy-handed policies

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Intel-CEO-resig...
> FBI indictment that accused Ramos of racketeering activity involving gambling, money laundering, and drug trafficking.

Is this all from selling encryption devices, or was he doing crime on the side?
Can someone elaborate on this Witness system OP talks about?

I'm picturing a replicated, in-memory KV store where the value is some sort of version or timestamp representing the last time the object was modified. Cached reads can verify they are fresh by checking against this version/timestamp, which is acceptable because it's a network+RAM read. Is this somewhat accurate?
Bugsnag Joins the SmartBear Family
Deloitte.
I understand the authors think there is a difference.

However, I don't see a significant difference between 'traditional' healthcare and preventative healthcare (e.g. a gym membership and healthy food).
Is Explainability the New Uncertainty?
Dinosay is a nice command line tool, which serves to make a smile
i have a theory that this is a result of the civil war. the north was run by bankers and lawyers, the south was farmers.

The domination of the north led to domination of services/finance over labor.

Had the south broken off, they would have preserved a labor centric economy.

Even back to the founding fathers, you have Adams (Mass., Lawyer) and Hamilton (NY, Banker) from the north and in the south you had Washington (Virginia, Career Military Leader), Jefferson (Virginia, Farmer), etc...
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices