skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, what are the effects of the “overdose”. Is there any adverse effects on sleep or just unnecessary? On some nights (mostly before I have to go in office) I’ll take 10mg melatonin and 25-50mg doxylamine to put me out ASAP.
As I understand it, sending one of those planes out costs tens of thousands of dollars each flight (any military personnel or military buffs that can corroborate or correct that number?). That might be insignificant from a military budget point of view, but as a taxpayer it does not exactly seem like a good use of money.
IBM T220/T221 LCD Monitors
You might say that "nearly" is used in a ... relative sense.

(boom tish)
I laughed at your phrase "even when diversified".
They promote all forms of diversity except diversity of thought. You'll get a far more interesting range of views from a small team of people delivering pizzas than you will from people working at Google.
A platform for amateur XNU kernel research was required, since the only other one besides the Mac is the Security Research iPhone (which is specifically not for amateurs). All of Apple’s documentation (of which there is little) and the boot loader design itself (what with the blessing process for a secondary drive being to install a tiny XNU partition with the bootloader app), point to the process being specifically designed for loading different versions of macOS. Any ability to install Linux (or Windows) is at this point coincidental.
The American patent office assumes that if there is no prior patent then the new patent describes something new and novel.

It's designed this way to encourage Americans to patent everything and anything, in order to dominate the intellectual property market.
> The LA Times is not a small paper. It has the fifth-largest circulation in the U.S.,

Unfortunately in 2002 it was the second largest, at just under a million subscribers, and is now down to 600K in 2019, and is $50 million in the red.

So whatever its former glories may have been, that does not mean its business model is working -- it's clearly not working, and its digital strategy has been one of the worst sources of dissapointment with only 250K digital subscribers in 2020[1]. So when someone criticizes the business model by pointing out that it's unlikely that people will pay for a digital subscription to the LA Times, and this is reflected in fantastically, embarassingly, shockingly[2] low digital subscription rates compared to what you believe the LA Times peers to be, then that suggests that either the LA times is not in the same peer group, or its digital offerings are uniquely unappealing, or both. In either case, throwing up a paywall doesn't seem to be working.

[1] https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/news-publishers-surpassed-100...

[2] See this hacker news thread about how dissapointing their digital numbers were: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20576544
I mean, you can also buy a holder from Hermes for $350.

The belkin one is only $13, and I'm sure there will be some from China on Amazon for $2-5 before long.
State of Electron frameworks – May 2021
If you only have a single core (common on battery powered devices) then you should only run a single thread. Excess parallelism doesn't make things go faster and uses more memory. The important thing is avoiding unnecessary waits on non-CPU resources like I/O.
This thread is a very good example of the bystander effect. There are currently 419 comments on this Hacker News thread, yet only 16 comments on regulations.gov.

It is possible to make anonymous comments on regulations.gov, which I think leaves no good reasons not to post your comments there if you want them to be heard.
In case anyone else doesn’t know the word cadastre:

> a register of property showing the extent, value, and ownership of land for taxation.
ARRAY[elem1, elem2, …] is a PostgreSQL array literal SQL expression.
Most performance concerns that I run into are related to advertisements that need to load.

The business model isn't right for performant experiences
It's all about the Benjamins. VC's don't care about society at large, just the money they can make.
Any "shitty" builders grade whirlpool will have a full schematic and repair manual with it. In fact, most have a place inside the bottom front panel where this manual is attached.

They also have diagnostic modes and test cycles. Though not that easy to use. Perhaps the miele is more user friendly when it comes to repairs.
I was thinking - maybe wikipedia will cure this...

then I thought... could this happen to knowledge repositories too? could knowledge degrade under "need source" for this and other administrative controversy?

What if we sort of devolve to https://simple.wikipedia.org over time?
Patents can be challenged. You would need to file a lawsuit though if the filing challenge dates are past. Prospective patents are announced in a government gazette
What's this "once"? This was a theory of future CPUs from maybe a decade ago that totally hasn't happened. We're instead getting increasingly smaller few-core CPUs in things like smartwatches. In laptops, M1 replaces a hyperthreading CPU with one that runs a single thread much faster.
I remain unconvinced that a company who outsources production does not add value or perform useful engineering and quality control. Sure, I wish the west had retained some of its manufacturing and design capabilities. But I don't think his examples make a very compelling point.

We're mostly SW folks here, I think, so we generally understand that interfacing components requires a well written contract and appropriate testing at the boundaries. Why is it not the same in manufacturing? If I'm outsourcing the manufacturing of my toaster to various parties, I still have a hand in specifying the pieces, assuring they meet my requirements, and verifying they are put together in a way that upholds my brand value and meets customer expectations. That very much requires engineering talent. It also benefits from comparative advantage and provides my company with more profit which could, theoretically(although seemingly rarely in practice) allow me to provide a superior product at a better price point.

Any decline in quality would be the result of (poor?) business decisions and not inherently a result of outsourcing.
I've made an NFT project closely related to What3words - I've been giving away a few to friends for free but exactly ZERO people have actually bought one so far!

https://solum.hormozimmen.com
In good listening conditions though. Not in listening conditions in which speech needs to be regularly understood. Rap God is nearly 10 syllables per second at some point and a few more recent songs go even a big higher, so that doesn't seem to be the limit either, only that people don't normally need to learn to talk faster than they do.
As someone who used to run a Skynet portal and no longer does because it was costing me too much money: no, it's not funded by subsidy from minted coins.

Right now portals pay for the hosting of the files as a charitable service to the community. In the future, portals will charge users directly for extra features (with U.S. dollars!)

Some portals may be operating less out of charity, and more out of a desire to build mindshare about their portal in hopes of translating that mindshare into future revenue via subscriptions.
Yeah this is still happening in Windows 10. I reinstalled Win 10 Pro recently and the only way to make a local account during initial setup was to unplug the ethernet cable on my desktop. As long as an internet connection is up, it isn't even a hidden option.
Prior military, didn't fly planes, but worked with pilots and asked lots of questions. Cost would likely be a few thousand just to take off and land, and cost of fuel and pilot pay while they're in the air. Keep in mind though, pilots NEED flight hours to maintain their wings, else they get grounded and have to go through additional simulation training and a bunch of other stuff. We'd often have pilots make up reasons to fly back and forth between other bases, just to get their hours in.
Every UI pattern used by Plaid, period.
> I disagree. Almost all software I use these days is absurdly slower than it should be and probably a massive drain on collective productivity.

This is absolutely true, but the problem is usually a lack of due care about performance at higher levels, rather than low level optimization. Things are usually slow because they do entirely too much of the wrong things, than because nobody optimized the things, or the wrong registers were used or what not.
It doesn't require this as long as the program has the same side effects - the contents of memory are not a side effect necessarily.

The problem is that there are lots of operations which imply the existence of part of an object, like passing around pointers or allocating single objects at a time, and that would disable these layout optimizations. An optimization that's easy to break isn't useful even if it would help a lot; you want them to be predictable more than anything.
I see this kind of thinking on HN a lot (though to be fair, it’s not limited to HN). If a court asks for data, you give them the data they ask for, or you straight-up sue them if the data is somehow privileged or the request is unconstitutional. There is no space for individual cleverness when dealing with legal stuff, and judges do not take kindly to “bUt i FoLlOwEd ThE InStRuCtIoNs!”-style defenses.
The term in "confusingly similar"

https://www.bitlaw.com/guidance/trademark/dealing-with-a-con...
Greece in the early 2000s had very many unfinished buildings as well, saw those as a tourist.

I've been wondering ever since what the Greek reason for that was - any ideas?
It happens, given enough time. Even today.
> *The Streisand Effect* strikes again!

Oh, those are the 3 words, apparently.
That's the same sort of thinking I go through when walking down the plumbing fittings aisle of home depot. Slip fit threaded mpt fpt barbed 1/2", 3/4", 1", garden hose, pex, ...

I think the permutations make it hard.
The name is a clear satire/parody, they would be fine at least under US law.
> How do you foresee that working?

The exact same way it works with open banking api's.
They are (through prediction, reordering, etc in the CPU), but manual approaches like hinting or VLIW have always turned out to fail, and the automatic approaches we're using now turn out to have security issues like Spectre.
The whatfreewords.org site, including the source code, is archived here: https://archive.is/e26a7

(Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has it manually excluded from their index, but this site is still fine.)
Houses in my city have gone up 10% since Jan. 1st. Rent is up in my complex about 10% since last year. And Procter & Gamble have already announced price hikes to come in the fall. Not to mention lumber up, what, 3x or something now?
Since beginning of the year, I have installed two Win10 two times. As I expected some dark patterns, I made sure that these machines were not physically connected to any network. Even this worked, it still managed to piss me of by forcing security questions for admin user. Seems that only way to avoid this "feature", is to modify register. Even on pro-version.

There might have been some obscure way of avoiding connecting via installer (perhaps a link inside EULA text). But as long the internet is not available for the machine I believe that this workaround should be possible to use, until MS decides that internet is required for installation.

Edit:
After doing the install without Internet, I do remember that they were trying to get me to create MS account. However I have not created one. It is possible that they give up after some time or maybe I found some way of disabling this.
@cybergibbons also discovered that whatever algorithm they use has the unfortunate property that points fairly close together only differ in whether one word is singular or plural.

For support to be sent to the wrong location in an emergency situation just because "fields" was misheard as "field" or vice versa is unconscionable.

https://twitter.com/cybergibbons/status/1388844414450155521

The company simply denied that the analysis was correct.
Interesting idea. Dividing England into 3m^2 blocks requires about 34 bits of address space. But, then again, given the propensity of surveillance, just say "hey, this is <your name here> coming home from work" -- should be enough clues to let Big Brother figure it out. CCTV is your friend.
Thank you for understanding where I'm coming from. I consider myself an environmentalist. I was, in fact, in the biology and ecology field until I realized I couldn't afford to bounce from temp job to temp job for the 10 years before finding something permanent. That seems to be the average from speaking to my peers all over the country and I don't suck dick well enough to speed that up.

I hope when I get life together enough to buy a new car, that EVs have gotten to a point where I can reasonably own one. But as of now, I'm going to keep my truck and my husband's little jerk of a Honda going and reduce my impact in other ways.
"I launched a telecommunications company called PowerDNS."

Is writing an authoritative and recursive nameserver with flex and bison and licensing the software to some telecoms in Europe the the same as "launching a telecommunications company".

Would he say that the companies that some European telecoms are outsourcing to have "launched telecommunications companies".

Why not call it what it is. A software company. That now provides SaaS.

A company that is taking on outsurcing work from telecoms that are internet providers. It is itself an illustration of the problem he purports to identify in the presentation.
I felt that way until I experienced a super fresh flour tortilla the first time.
IoT is the worst. It's only convenient if you turn over your email address, all your device ids, your SSN, and your 1040 AGI. Otherwise you'll need to dismiss 20 nag popups before you can do anything.
You're surprised no one has bought something that is imaginary and has zero value?
I'm patenting the Mercator projection this afternoon
Taproot is far less controversial.
A Bitcoin full node only takes 5GB of disk space to run, and 256MB of memory.

[0]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/Bitcoin.org/pull/3624/fil...

[1]: https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
To me this just proves the point. Am I really going to subscribe to the top 5 news papers? Where do you draw the line?

I'm probably not going to subscribe to more than one general paper, because they probably have 90% overlap in coverage meaning even the second subscription is drastically less valuable than the first. There is no way I'm making it to 5.

Realistically I can get 85% percent of that news without subscribing to any meaning even one subscription is a stretch and there is no way I'm doing more than that. In the event that there is one article every three months that is LAT specific that I just cannot go without reading, I'll find some way to breach the paywall in that instance.

For the record, I'm not claiming NYT or WAPO are better papers than the times. In fact I hate the NYT and have more or less no opinion of the LAT.
What3Words has always confused me. It has a bunch of misleading encodings, it claims to be somehow innovative when there's prior art, and they are very heavy handed on the legal side of things.

And it isn't even like it's difficult to come up with. Here's my 5-minute implementation of something similar from a couple years ago: [0][1]

Which encodes to 10cm, and not just a few meters.

[0] https://j6map.netlify.app/

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/j6
The increased cost is swamped by lower gas costs. Gas is two to three times the price plus takes time out of the week to fill up.
I don't disagree with your point, but what the hell - "lecherous, creepy, misogynist purposes"?? Zuckerberg built Facebook to propagate his goal of harming women? What?
I don't think death of the individual is something to be dreaded. I suggest meditating on your own death until the thought no longer causes anxiety.

Death of the individual is a completely natural part of the cycle of life and should not be dreaded beyond the fact that it hurts like hell when it happens to someone you love.
Change for the better. Definitely not stupid.
Yep, even though pretty much everyone agrees taproot is a positive change, the most controversial part so far was on agreeing how to activate it, this activation process is actually pretty conservative and gives enough time/participation. Hopefully, it lands nicely and future improvements will be more smooth as well.
You started with "only observant jews understand intricacies of jewish law" and graduated with "only people that dedicate their life to it understand technicalities". pick one.
in case it's former, it's not much different from me saying that me eating a hamburger makes me expert in cattle ranching and meat processing. in case it's the later, there is so many different interpretation of everything in Judaism, that it really doesn't matter. kudos to your brother learning it in depth, but in yeshiva next door students may have very different beliefs about "maalit shabat" based on very same technicalities.

>>Which is most of the time pointless, because unless person learns it they just follow whatever "rabbi of the year/synagogue/etc" says them to do without actually understanding "technicalities" of it.

>That's not really how it works.

This is literally how it works for majority of observant people of any given religion.

>>What you are doing here, it's just a classic orthodox gatekeeping of Judaism which causes many people completely turn off away from it.

>No, what I'm doing is differentiating between different levels of knowledge. People who are jewish are jewish. This has nothing to do with that. There are jewish law experts at the vatican who can probably do a lot better job many orthodox jews. It's a question of knowledge and time spent acquiring knowledge. Knowing the limits of your knowledge and not claiming expertise when you have none is a pretty fundamental character trait to me.

Those Jewish laws that have experts in vatican and that is studied day and night in yeshivas been hundreds of years of years old and written in different realities. It's frequently proclaimed that Judaism is adaptive to realities of the world. But when it tries to adapt to modern life ( Reform Judaism for example), orthodox jews claim that reforms are not jews enough (or not jews at all) and that what they practice is wrong. Gatekeeping 101. At same time, they are unable to figure out common kashrut "standard"
Even if there was, I can't imagine your everyday static host ever supporting it.
Perhaps that's true. From what I read it shipped in a non-working state (manuals were there, but not some utilities were not), and I recall Apple engineers came out on Twitter saying it was being worked on and included it post-launch in macOS betas, even incorporating feedback. I believe Apple did tease at least Windows, maybe Linux in marketing, but I could be mistaken..

Either way, going after OS developers would be an extremely bad look for Apple, especially when they could just as easily disable the feature, or not have bothered finishing the implementation (or done it completely differently) after news of the Linux porting efforts started to spread (especially the Corellium public demo running Ubuntu).
I'm a little surprised the locations aren't something like Poäng Ektorp Fintorp.
It’s tempting to think that being “right” - in principle, objectively, or even legally - gives superpowers over legal proceedings. It doesn’t. Even a brief brush against targeted litigation will clear up this confusion quickly and painfully. You’ll be broke, and therefore defeated by default, long before you’ll be vindicated.
(Nearly) All Sikhs are Punjabi but not all Punjabis are Sikh.
> Remember that everything is relative and perspective is key.

This has always bothered me a bit, everything being relative. You can validly say that we're the ones moving at near light speed and those stars we're talking about are actually the stationary objects; there's literally no way to tell the difference.

Couldn't you say the same thing about the earth and the sun? Why do we insist that we are moving around the sun, and not the other way around if everything is relative? Well I understand the reason actually, and it seems that there is good reason to believe one interpretation of relative motion is the correct one, conforming to physics.. and the other view of relative motion isn't actually what's happening in reality.
Until about 2013, I didn't use a case on any of my (Android) smart phones, and never broke the glass screen. I know I dropped them several times. The worst that would happen was the battery door would fly off. I started using a case when I got a phone that was thinner, and had a glued-in battery. I think having a removable battery actually makes phones tougher in a sense, because I the case of a drop there's an place for the force of impact to go without causing permanent damage.
In hindsight, I think most would agree it was a good idea to force the smarter scaling solutions rather than brute-force blocksize scaling (which sooner or later would have hit a ceiling anyways).
There's some real crazy quotes in that piece

>"According to the newspaper, Zhang was fired for “spending too much time focused on uprooting civic fake engagement and not enough time on the priorities outlined by management.”"[...]

>"Facebook’s products enabled corrupt governments to create fake followers and fake “likes,” which then triggered Facebook’s algorithms to boost their propaganda and legitimacy. According to the Guardian, when Zhang alerted >higher-ups about how this was being used by the government of Honduras, an executive told her, “I don’t think Honduras is big on people’s minds here.”

Just ponder that attitude for a second and ask yourself if it can truly be said that Facebook is still in any way shape or form aligned with human flourishing.

And more importantly small countries should take note. Their communication infrastructure is controlled by people who treat them like pocket change.
> Battery technology has not advanced significantly in the past decade.

ok buddy.
It’s nice to imagine that we drive around by using the energy we captured from the sun “for free” (vs taxing the planet) - I think that’s the more important aspect of cost, than currency per se.
Yes, me. I did it, but I enjoyed the EV and will very likely buy another.

I bought a used gen 1 Leaf (2 model years old) in 2013 and traded it in for an ICE VW in 2019 after I was faced with the decision to either buy a new gem 1 Leaf battery pack at full price (it was out of warranty so 0% pro-rated) or get another car. The car I wanted at the time was a VW and I didn’t think the e-Golf was a mature enough platform. I can’t explain why I didn’t go with another brand EV except that I like to buy used with very low miles and only 2-3 years old (my preferred sweet spot of value).

As mentioned elsewhere, the gen 1 Leaf had inferior battery management which likely contributed to the shorter battery life and lower battery value. I was also a little peeved that gen 2 and 3 battery packs were not available for the gen 1 body/drivetrain so it felt like an inferior investment to put 50% of the original purchase price into a new battery pack and still have to deal with the same old car body. It was also getting a little tiresome to have to remember to charge it _every_ day. A gen 3 would have avoided this issue and charging stations at my work place would have alleviated some of the anxiety of forgetting to plug it in (only happened 2 times, but both impacted my ability to commute).
If you only used profanity, celebrity names, only had locations in North Korea, or something absurd, I'd agree. If you're marketing an equivalent product, nope.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I'm guessing this is basically the economic justification.

I'm also skeptical that this is a sustainable business model although I hope I am wrong.