skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that /lists requires discovery, and I also never noticed it until I read this Meta HN, so I’m glad I did!
> Why would they do this?

Raw logs are an input; it drives up the price for external industries dependent on lumber and drives them down for domestic industries, sacrificing raw material exports for more competitive intermediate and finished goods exports.

Since for the most part economic development depends on having exports as far toward the finished goods end of the raw material to finished goods spectrum, its not an insane strategy if you can deal with the short-term dislocations.

Shifting competitive advantage is harder than leaning in to your existing competitive advantage, but sometimes your existing competitive advantage is a long-term loser.
One guess I've heard, which I find aesthetically appealing but don't know if it's particularly true or not, is that there may be a number of circular dependencies in the global economy.

COVID hits, and everybody cuts orders by 75%, runs production stockpiles down to zero, and lay off staff. The economy comes back three months later, and everybody tries to return to normal flow.

But factory A depends on intermediates from factory B, which depends on feedstock from factory C, which needs a replacement machine from factory A... Meanwhile, the main customer for factory B won't actually be placing any new orders, because they pivoted entirely to making N95 masks. Now they have a warehouse full of product they can't sell, because the vaccines came along way ahead of schedule, and it's no longer the case that every person in the world needs to wear a respirator 8 hours a day. On top of this you can, if you're feeling malicious, sprinkle some critical parts sitting in containers in ships piled up at Long Beach, or in line behind Ever Given...
I wouldn’t hire any of these people if they left due to the policy change. How about you put your money where you mouth is and join a non-profit if you care so much about these issues. Instead, it’s a bunch of incredibly privileged individuals throwing a tantrum from their ivory towers without any skin the game. It’s pathetic.
> The middle ground is that most people are, in fact, professional.

You say that is the case. People affected by it say it isn't (and have examples). Who to believe ...
But cost optimization doesn't make a site more stable.(Remember the context here)

In fact, adding another component to optimize the cost is adding another point of failure.
> anyone young and trying to save

It says the first $250k is exempt. Not a lot of young savers pulling down $250k in cap gains annually.
It does stack up, but if the cost was too high, many businesses wouldn't work with the credit processors. Amex is an example of this. There's payment options that avoid this retailers could incentivize.

And Apple and Google charge 15 times that because there's no way around them.
This is confounded by the fact that they were also offered money to leave. I suspect the results would have been different if they paid 6 months of salary to the ones who stayed instead.
The thing is, it's not that Basecamp is apolitical. Politics is fine if it's the founders doing the politics.

DHH has been very vocal in the last few months in public tirades against Apple, government lobbying, etc. While he has every right to his views, he's also the public face of Basecamp. So it comes across as a teeny bit hypocritical to issue a no-politics diktat on his workforce.

The real problem with Basecamp isn't the no politics thing. The problem is that the company exists for the personal gratification of its two founders, and it's one rule for them and one rule for everyone else. If you're on board with that, fine, but maybe for some employees this was just the final straw.
I don't think anyone is saying that these sorts of companies have lots of money.

These business have a model that relies on poverty wages changing the minimum wage will disrupt these businesses greatly and I don't see a problem with that.

You can't keep a broken thing going because of the businesses that will have to change their model.

But sorry I also see your point there needs to be help to business to change their business.
> Lightweight: Adds only xxxx kb gzipped to your app

This suspense is killing me. How much does it add??
Then Apple can lower the cost and developers won't have to switch to save a dime. Then Apple can keep their platform value.

Alternatives means competition. Keeping the value of their platform up is no excuse for anti-competitive practices.
I don't know where you live, but you're the one that is out of touch. 2 tanks a week? 200 bucks a month for shit tier food? Ever heard of cooking? 1400 a month rent?

I've spent time in Houston, on minimum wage, and in the past decade. It was alright. I even had the money to go out drinking every weekend, by Rice university at that. Usually when you hear arguments like this and you get down to brass tacks, you start to hear the arguments that allude to the real culprit, things like "I should be able to have extra money for fun" which usually translates to "I blow my money on things I can't afford and then blame the world for being broke."
Fun fact: the function to do this is called 'nbsp' in arc.
The mustatils: cult and monumentality in Neolithic north-western Arabia
The trend was taking social media influencers that were hijacking social justice issues on Twitter, and other social media, who were already creating toxic environments there, hiring them, and thinking something other than creating a toxic environment at work was going to happen.

Tail end of an age. But yes, we are in a new age now.
> the state has trouble keeping power on

You're confusing CA with TX.
> Uhhhh, not a percentage ? Do you imagine AWS billing you a % of your revenue instead of a given price for a given service ?

> ...

Please just say what you think and not "..."
America is much more informed by evangelical Protestantism, rather than Quakerism and other non-conformists, and deeply influenced by "sola scriptura" (which directly conflicts with Anglican and Methodist theologies). In the US evangelical and non-denominational Christian theologies generally posit that accepting Christ as your personal Savior (and the sole source of salvation) is all that is necessary to be saved (and Christian). Individual affirmation of a series of propositional statements is necessary and sufficient to fulfill your duties as a Christian. (This contrasts quite a bit with Quakerism, which is primarily experiential and focuses on discerning God's will and turning it into action in community). Orthodoxy is the primary measure of Christianity in the US. Any action can be forgiven as long as you say the right words.
Not really a buyers market rn. Maybe this ideological position will specifically attract people who feel alienated by SV culture, maybe not. But there's no way that losing a large fraction of your engineering team is anything but a disaster.
It seems like the term neoracist has been promoted by John McWhorter more than any other public intellectual and you can hardly call him right wing unless your vision of the political spectrum is severely warped.
All points you make are very true. In addition, aluminum tends to crack as it ages and you'll find aluminum wiring is usually a culprit in electrical fires. In the world of mobile electronics, it's usually looked down upon as the cheapest alternative when compared to real copper conductor used in higher quality automotive wiring.
Placating "activists" in the work place may initially seem like the new norm in corporate responsibility, but it is actually a self-destructive spiral, as there are ever-changing foci for woke outrage. The risk of these same employees turning on the company is extremely high in the long term.

A big problem in 2021, going back some years, is that the internet makes it easy for anyone to put out their slate and call themselves an "activist." Years ago people used to say that politics was the last refuge of a scoundrel. This is what activists engage in: politics.

Outrage is one of the emotions that's easiest to garner virality. Many "activists" are not conversant in ethics and philosophy. Many of them aren't good people. Many of them seem to be quite bitter and hateful while they talk about justice.

Many of the loudest voices in this arena are engaging in outrage mongering.

They limit legal liabilities by removing easily-disgruntled employees.

"Easily disgruntled" is a signpost. Activism in 2021 needs better filters, because far too many people who should be in counseling and therapy are proselytizing to the masses and young people, with public results that corroborate this. At least in the 60's and 70's, one had to be capable of organization.
I used howtoforge.com some back in the mid to late 2000's and it appears to still be getting fresh content.
Very interesting & thank you for all the sweat and tears you are putting into hn!

I was always curious what makes the difference between what goes into the second chance pool directly vs what gets invited to the second chance pool if you can elaborate on that?

edit: thank you for making the lists public, I will browse them in the future!
Hydrogen works fine in ICEs with modest modifications.

Hydrogen can be created with nearly any energy source: renewable, natural gas, etc.

There is a large infrastructure for moving fuels.
This is definitely one sided propaganda on Google's part and reads as a juvenile rant. YouTube is dysfunctional as hell. Roku holds the cards, Google didn't want to play, they bluffed, Roku shrugged. Youtube has an implied duty to their customer to make their service accessible from Roku, a very widely used and preferred streaming aggregator.

People are going to keep using thier Roku without a second thought but they might be pissed at Youtube "because it doesn't work on my Roku."
DHH has a history complaining about censoring at HN [0] while this fuckup lands him a front page hit.

[0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1368957511118843908
According to MDN it does[1]:

> The equality operator (==) checks whether its two operands are equal, returning a Boolean result.

Additionally, the ECMAScript spec calls it the "equality operator" (although admittedly it spells out a 14 step list[2] of how to do this).

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

2: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-abstract-equality-comparison
> Oh, I'm aware, as you seem more than willing to throw out anachronistic arguments (like using the Chinese Firewall as an excuse before it was in place), and then immediately try to change the subject when it's clear you're out of your depth.

You were correct, and you seem to know much more about history than I do. All I can do is learn, but again, we aren't here to talk about the timeline of the HK protests. You may have a valid point bringing it up with Apple's pull on the world, but that's not the whole picture. That's all I was trying to say.

> I'm not sure how you can know it's emotional when you've admitted to not having read it

I read a lot of it but after the third time seeing you mention a detail I'd already told you wasn't relevant, yeah, I stopped trying so hard.

Hopefully you trust me when I say I've read everything else you've written, not sure how you think I could keep replying to your quotes otherwise.

> Some would argue that blanket describing an entire post that someone invested time in writing as "emotional" to the point of not needing to be read is a fairly bold and "sanctimonious" value-judgement

Not the same thing as what you were trying to do at all. You tried to pigeonhole me into some class of person in order to undercut my arguments. I merely pointed out that you were letting your emotions run away with your arguments... indeed, you did talk by my point, multiple times.
The difference is, if you don't like it you can leave the restaurant and choose any other. You have no lock in. Once you've bought an iOS device, you can't buy apps anywhere else.

Even if you forget the sunk cost you just have two providers to choose from.
When you’re under constant attack since the beginning of time by homophobic straight people, particularly in the political realm, your existence is political. If a liberal Supreme Court didn’t luckily strike down bans in many states in 2003, it would still be illegal today to be gay in Texas. Bans were struck down because they were enforced. Educate yourself on Gay life. You owe it.
We can do this, but it has a price the market is not willing to pay, except in rare cases.
> Sign up for campaign updates or reserve today to save over $100 when we launch.

Wait, this is going to cost significantly more than $100?
Surprised at how much focus there is on backups as the solution. You'll never fully recover from those backups. Backups won't help you avoid fines, lawsuits, lost customers, and lost time.

I run an open data set on data breaches. The vast majority of ransomware incidents start with a phishing email, to beach head, to find domain admin, to game over.

The root problem is domain admin population size. Reduce it to zero with privileged access management to avoid ransomware.

https://ericalexander.org/SecurityBreach/#/
I love my 2015 Shield. I do with that Nvidia would release a new Shield with a better SoC though. Even the 2019 model has essentially the same chip. The chip is still fine for all streaming, I'd just like more horsepower for emulation.
A "point" would be a value type and you wouldn't use reference equality or inheritance for a value type.

But if this were a game you might have a "BigBoss" instance than inherits from "Enemy". If you had one boss, you'd only have one instance of it, and you would use reference equality. If you round-tripped and ended up with 2 instances of the same boss then you're already in trouble.
People have lives outside of work that sometimes intrude into work. Part of running a workplace is making the appropriate amount of space for those intrusions. How "political" your life is comes mostly from factors that you can't control: your race or ethnicity, your religious beliefs, your citizenship, your sexuality or gender. Saying "we don't talk politics" has massively different implications for different people.

I get that workplaces can become distracted. I think we've all experienced it. I just think that banning "politics" is no replacement for engaged leadership and discernment while navigating a company through the world.
I don't want to discourage marginal trips. I want them to happen because that marginal value is worth it. Sure you can discourage them for congestion reasons, but that means something useful can't happen.
> Why would Apple agree to this?

Because they're looking down the barrel of antitrust suits.

> Is it not morally important that they consent?

Is it morally important that they consent to following the law? No, it isn't. Antitrust laws are very clear, and if a company violates them, then they'll face penalties and prosecution.
i just got a driveshaft balanced for my 240z, it was 2/3oz out on the front and 1/3oz out on the tail. I was thinking how much force would that generate at speed.

Hopefully the vibration problem is gone.
New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre defenses
If it's that finely balanced and the government imposed by the 50.001% is really that terrible, the situation should fix itself by the next election cycle, right?
I see this in new construction in my area and have wondered about having a electrically conductive frame. Any danger there? Also how do you mount anything if you don't have wood studs?
People often open restaurants as a hobby project. They like the idea of running a restaurant, maybe because they like the idea of being sociable or cooking for other people.

But they literally have no idea how to run a profitable restaurant. Often they know next to nothing about business in general, and have no idea how to estimate costs/profits.

Plenty of other business types operate on a similar semi-amateur basis, including book shops, record stores, independent garages, hairdressers and beauty parlors, craft and art shops, realtors, and others.

Sometimes they get lucky, or they're started by people who have actual business talent and can deal with challenges creatively.

But often they don't, which is why they fail.

Many also pay very poorly. Both super-professional and super-unprofessional owners can nickel-and-dime their employees, but for different reasons.

Failure is bad because these kinds of small businesses often add life to a community. But there's little or no support or training for them. It wouldn't take much to help them avoid the more obvious mistakes, give them more stability, and turn them into more of a local and national resource.
When I can, I try to point out “hey, we need to caption this” or “hey, I’m not sure this is accessible to visually impaired users” or “uh, these gender options suck”. Probably wouldn’t bring up my personal identity unless it was somehow relevant, which it rarely is in these kinds of discussions. I think it would be inappropriate to have a discussion about broader politics (“hey, what do you guys think of the bathroom bill?”) in this context — the thing that personally drives me up the wall is water-cooler conversation about politics like it’s a sport, when it’s unrelated to the product or the company.
Isn't this the idea behind MIPMAPS in computer graphics?

In the tracing world, I believe the opensource pulseview/sigrok does this. It makes the UI very responsive even with gigabytes of data. I just wish it also integrated data compression of some kind so I could fit more trace than I have RAM (it can't be all that hard to intelligently compress a super repetitive signal in a way which still allows this fast zooming and scrolling - replacing some tree nodes with LZ77 style backreferences ought to do the trick)
>Not saying you're one of those, but if you can't recognize your point in history and are quitting your job over "BLM fanfare", then you also know the answer to the question of what you would have done during the civil rights movements of past. Nothing.

That's not true. Being harassed to virtue-signal and not wanting to deal with those people has nothing to do with how likely you are to have your own beliefs and act upon them.

>But if you have the luxury to quit jobs (PLURAL!) over being asked to take a stand, then you're not apolitical.

No that just means that he has enough choice not to want to bother with people requiring you to take their stand. I deplore people who do not have that luxury and have to deal with people radical enough to require others to mirror them.
With a bread machine, you typically put the liquid on the bottom, flour/other dry stuff on top, and then the very finely granulated yeast on top of that. So the yeast stays dry and nothing starts rising until the machine starts its cycle and mixes everything. Leaving it, say, 8-10h before starting a timed operation works just fine.
If a business can't pay a living wage, the workers will die off and the problem will be solved.
What's a 'neo racist'? Where are these odd labels coming from?

Is it racist subculture or something? It just sounds absurd compared to saying 'racist'.
It's funny you mention the RX-8, since I'm in the (slow) process of converting one to electric. That weird cat blower was one of the many parts I removed while thinking "I'm glad I don't have to understand or care about why this car needed something like that in the first place".
1. I’ve seen great, failed, and dysfunctional companies and teams up-close and personal; companies that went from zero to $100B, from $50B to near-zero, and are stuck somewhere in zombie-land. In every case, the passionate employees defined a lot of what made things work, and were the canaries in the coal mines. When it comes to knowledge work, people who are “alpha” are passionate about every little detail in their lives — so, silencing them is a nice way of embracing complete, utter mediocrity.

2. If Apple had teams circulating customer data internally and laughing about it, DHH would be asking for a Congressional investigation.
That would pretty much require standardization of cpu socket between vendors to allow one to drop a compatible generation of intel or amd processor into a slot. This sounds onerous but I doubt it would require increasing the unit cost by 20 times.
> My (albeit limited) understanding is that Visa and Mastercard ensure that the debit/credit transactions are securely and quickly occur,

Now in the EU, if online transactions are over a certain amount or flag up as suspicious, we must use 2FA. So I have to stick my card in my card reader and generate an OTP. Works quite well tbh. My other bank sends me a push notification where I approve the payment.
Which could have been gained by.... hosting on AWS.

Which ends up being back to - purely cost optimization of the initial cost optimization.

It seems like the whole product is focusing on cost optimization. I suspect that the OP would be better off making money by doing cost optimizations for third parties.
NASA Puts SpaceX HLS Contract on Hold
I'm getting a 401 when searching for Croatian recipes.

I think it knows I'm actually Serbian
Does PS4 support any streaming game services?
> It's destroyed [...] a lot of team cohesion at many companies.

I have trouble imaging how a response to an apparent social cohesion issue that results in 1/3 of the office immediately walking can be considered a good outcome.

It sounds more like a corporate schism to me.
We'll have to agree to disagree here. I don't think whatever arbitrary legal structure there is around a group of people somehow makes the organization not human.

For example, I think it's perfectly normalized to say "that Detroit Lions team suffered a crushing defeat", even though the Detroit Lions are a profit-making enterprise.
I think that activists at the workplace are disastrous for productivity. When they band in groups, they act as a multiplier for each other, stopping all positive work. So I heartily support disbanding committees.

I'm more or less OK with discussing any topic at non-work time, during lunch or whatever, but only until every participant in a discussion is willing to accept the views he/she personally disagrees with.
>> AKA mostly white, males programming in potentially biased features.

Compared to the US population, white people are significantly underrepresented [0] in US software development jobs and overrepresented by Asians. "Most" is technically true at > 50% but it is hardly reflective of US racial demographics.

sources:

https://www.zippia.com/software-engineer-jobs/demographics/

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219

[0]: as are black and hispanic people
https://academictimes.com/economic-news-reporting-suffers-fr...

No. News sources are focusing on business instead of labor's issues, because news statistically favors business interests, not labor's.

If your hypothetical business owner is unable to start a business without paying a reasonable wage, then that business should not exist. And your hypothetical business owner should invest in Apple, Facebook, or otherwise.

If this causes less business entrepreneurship, then so be it. A business that cannot pay employees is not a business that adds value to society, and nothing of value is lost. This is a fundamental tenet of capitalism, the same way we say that businesses that cannot sell their product also deserve to fail.
> I've noticed an overlap between activist personalities and attention seeking personalities

I've noticed an overlap between attention seeking personalities and people who get noticed for...well, anything.

But that’s kind of the nature of “attention seeking”.