skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple artificially decreased the performance (not lowered the battery), which is why they were fined.
>Why the comparison of orange to apples? (no pun intended)

They are almost the same internally, similar processors, similar batteries, similar GPU/memory, PCH, etc.

>My retina MacBook pro overheated and needed a paste replacement and fan cleaning

This should be rather trivial job - likely 25-30mins if you have the pentalobe screwdriver.
The ship is fairly small and compact, so I didn't mind the lack of teleport very much.
For start, nearly every software would benefit from running small scale UX test.

Take three people who never used given software, ask them to do the most basic tasks. And fix the most common problems.

Your software is much harder to use than you expect.

You do not need UI/UX people, massive scale testing to fix low hanging fruit.
Cool man! Thanks. :)
I am not arguing your point but offer an interesting cliche instead - we are the aliens, already so why does it seem so unlikely (a priori) that others are also the aliens?
I'm a iOS developer and don't mind Vala at all. The language directly encodes the GTK object model, and I'd rather pick up a boring C#-ish language on a weekend, than learn GTK and then understand how it is bridged into a language which already has its own conflicting object model.

JavaScript is way more popular than Rust, and I don't feel gjs projects are doing much better than elementary OS.
Can you give some highlights of what this tool does for you? It isn't really clicking for me.
blosc comes to mind.
Once you get past the cute intro it’s a really great history of audacity, interview with some of the creators, and an overview of the ui challenges the new head of ui/ux has to face (keep it simple, but make it powerful, etc.)
It doesn't seem very consistent to go out, canvas the opinion of all your celebrity mates and write an article and publish it about haters with the key take-away being "ignore the haters". I also think there are some pretty dumb assertions here - successful people aren't mean for example. I would say there are good examples of mean successful people that PG got to read this draft, they're just not mean to Paul, so it doesn't count, they're not mean in a disney villain sense of the word.

To me the far more interesting question isn't what to do about haters, it's how do you distinguish between haters and people who have a genuine point to make. Elon Musk attracts a lot of attention, he has a lot of haters, he also does a lot of things that are worthy of real criticism and he should listen to that criticism.

It's a question PG just completely fails to address, there's a certain kind of motivated reasoning here - I'm great and all the people who criticise me are just haters and they're bad and they're mean and they'll never amount to anything in life etc. My suspicion is that Paul doesn't actually know many haters, and he hasn't put much effort into getting to know what's actually going on, it comes across very much like this is just a nice way for him to think about the world - the nasty people are bad people and through some cosmic justice they're all unsuccessful.

In reality, the world is far more complex, and the framework of thinking about this that PG is putting forward probably doesn't do much to actually reflect that complexity.
Black hole accretion disks are more efficient for that:

https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/464790d2497de
If you want to ignore that there's an inherent bias towards companies being started more often by people of certain social or racial profiles, sure. But you'd be willingly be ignoring it, and that's why systemic problems are so insidious to fix, they require a more active analysis than "I'm not actively trying to discriminate someone".
Ha! This is coming from the second chance pool! I was there when I upvoted this article. Apparently, not many people go to the second chance pool, since today I didn't even know how to access it. IMO, it's at least as interesting as the actual front page.

Go to /lists to see all the options or /pool directly to see the pool.

Greetings from a fellow enthusiastic HN'er :)
We don't value your privacy
There's always the anecdote about USA not being able to rebuild some sixties nuclear bombs because some styrofoam manufacturer had gone out of business and nobody knew what the foam contained.

This is an interesting subject. If you're building something very critical, you need to track precisely where your components come from, where the material for those comes from, where the raw materials came from etc. This is also one of the reasons why nuclear power or medical technology are so expensive. We have gotten used to having extremely low cost hardware, but that is because it's produced by obscure long subcontractor chains spreading all over the world, intense competition, constant optimization and churn.
Surely you can understand that Linux kernel development might fall outside of "so much of the ecosystem", and in this case the statement still holds!
Show HN: Ask and answer questions (translated in every language*)
Evergreen. Good advice for keeping sane if you have any degree of persona on the internet.

This will only get worse in the next 5 (please not 10+!) years as haters truly and the Clash of Cultures go mainstream. But after the perspective is gained, we will have a more productive discourse online.

”Haters are just fanboys with the sign switched.”
*that google translates supports
Well, false positives result in fewer scandals than false negatives here.

So guilty until proven innocent seems like a perfectly reasonable, if very annoying, stance.
> Not bogus. Aditya's analyzer did in fact find plenty of bugs

But the commit in question was bogus, and it looks like Aditya did not properly check the output of his tool. Maybe he did not send bogus patches on purpose, but the fact that he used the Linux kernel as a playground for testing his experimental static analysis tool (without disclosing it in the commits) is still problematic and he should be called out for that.
You should contact your provider. My ISP has always provided at least as much bandwidth as advertised.
You're talking about some hypothetically fully featured WASM that has all kinds of attack surface it simply doesn't have today. It doesn't even have threads; nor accurate timers, nor shared memory; and those choices aren't by coincidence, they're by design to keep things safe (see e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/8).

If indeed webassembly adds features that add attack surface, I sure hope (and fully expect) them to take things like spectre into consideration.

As to SELinux: the issue with securing existing programs is that those use all kinds of existing features; it's quite hard to take away functionality that programs depend on. SELinux simply has a much harder and trickier task than WASM, which never supported almost everything SELinux seeks to control in the first place. It may well be that it's possible to have SELinux enforce WASM-or-greater restrictions and that it would then be "safer" due to other features, but that's a pretty hypothetical scenario - what software would even run in those circumstances?

The comparison seems moot to me; apples to oranges. One is trying to KISS and be safe by simply not having complex features; the other is trying to deal with real, existing programs by restricting stuff they could access but don't need. Those are different use cases.
I find the UI of recent versions of GIMP to be very nice for the simple image editing / processing that I do.
Not to mention if you could get total conversion of mass to energy going, you could just scare all the stars into inert hydrogen icebergs and use the hydrogen to fuel your total conversion reactors. Much more efficient than fusion.
I was in a YC-funded startup many years ago (which didn't make it big), so some of those people have been investors/mentors, some are personal acquaintances/friends, and the others have stories that are well-known to anyone in YC.
Not saying they are doing this, but the copyright owner can fork the GPL work and create a closed source version if they want to. The GPL doesn't restrict the copyright owner in any way.
> Well then, why don't you go ahead and help yourself with some billions in Bitcoin from Musk's personal holdings?

Give me a rubber hose and $5 wrench and I'll start working on it:

* https://xkcd.com/538/

Once it's transferred what recourse does he have to revert it?

> Here's a detailed analysis by a law professor from a reputable law school

Ah yes, the William & Mary Law School. The same law school that birthed the idea that the US Second Amendment was an individual right…
I guess you need to make it a parody to be in the clear?
http://web.archive.org/web/20201016112929if_/https://github....:

> This public repository contains the Java source code for the algorithms and clients in the textbook Algorithms, 4th Edition by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. This is the official version—it is actively maintained and updated by the authors. [...]
If using "signal of vector": how does an update is propagated to a process that is sensitive only to some particular bits? So, any update to that signal (whatever the bit) causes all sensitive processes to be evaluted (regardless if that would be a misfire?). How then you got such interesting performance numbers, that "signal of vector" is better?
Do you scrape the data? If yes, is it within their TOS?
An ambitious plan to tackle ransomware faces long odds
Then you get sued instead of youtube.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/flow-the-psychology-of-optimal...
It's a problem of scale. It's perfectly possibile to manage a few hundred disputes on a daily basis, but with >5000 uploads per minute, it becomes impossible to do manually.

The worst part is the asymmetry between claimants and creators. But that's the fucked up nature of civil law - the burden of proof is reversed.
Google raised Maps API prices by more than 1400% (2018)
Household internet speed are the maximum possible if at 2am nobody is downloading anything in whole building for example. Company pay for guaranteed bandwidth, and premium level troubleshooting from provider. The prices are astronomical.

My employer with 400 onsite employees (in noncovid situation) has provably worse transfer speed & latency than my household with our consumer 1 Gbps connection. I expect them to pay at least 100x more for it. But its a bank, they can't do differently - they never had connection issue in last 10 years I work there. If they ever had, the team of experts would have fixing it as their top priority.
The question here is whether drug prohibition is a victimless crime. And it's clearly not.

Besides, many _users_ of heroin are medicinal users who do not have victims (elderly patients on the NHS for example). You are conflating drug use with problematic drug use and concluding that problematic drug use is problematic, which is a tautology.
This caught him off guard because the progressive camp has since split into two groups: one that favored Hillary in 2016 and accuses the other of being class reductionists and the other that favored Bernie and accuses the first group of being identity reductionists. DHH is more aligned with the latter and is now discovering that he clashes with the former.
Technically if you wanted to maximize energy production you would split every star apart into dwarf stars that lived 100s of billions of years. You don't want them burning at all. Then you would take their matter and dump it in a black hole and capture that energy.
Maybe that is because they value something more than Free Healthcare. Maybe they are not willing to trade this liberty for the safety of government services.....
Thanks! https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/cef08d47b652bd98...
> If you want to ignore that there's an inherent bias towards companies being started more often by people of certain social or racial profiles, sure.

Right, so it's not that the rule is biased, it's just that there's general bias because of other things and this rule isn't compensating for it, which are two very different things.

Equality of result is, by definition, a way to bias things towards a different group, and as a proponent of equality of opportunity, I think that's not a good way to build a just society. That's why I'm against trying to "fix" rules that aren't biased in the first place (ie rules which people who support equality of result consider "not biased enough the other way").
Given that I know some of these people personally (having been in a YC-funded startup) I can assert that the "if you have not specifically worked on your ego" part and the "still very succeptible to arrogance / ego trips" is specifically untrue of at least some of them.
Android Studio. I wish it was faster. On a machine with SSD and 8 GB RAM, it can take 5 min to compile. It sucks up most RAM while it does this, so I can't even browse the internet or play Spotify in the background anymore.
Why would you want to keep animals alive in conditions that most animals live in to meet global meat demand?
thanks - I appreciate that.
I had to work recently 15 months on a MacBook, and for me Win + WSL was definitely better even if not quite on the level of Linux.

My lousy Mac experience was probably because I have external display and keyboard, so I don't benefit at all from the good hardware. For me it was just an underpowered laptop (compared to my desktop).
> Today X tweeted -

You can stop right there - taking people on Twitter seriously is a bad idea.
And as it happens, Reviewable also deals with this perfectly fine. In fact, it appears that most any code review tool save GitHub is perfectly all right with amend/force-push...
Disagreeing is more than fine, but accusing people of being bots or lacking a brain doesn't add to the discussion.

(The parent comment wasn't the best comment, ever, I agree.)
Rectangle (open source) and Hookshot (closed source from the same author) are the best and most reliable window managers I’ve found on Mac OS, although they are both still imperfect when it comes to custom window positions with mouse-based snapping.
Why don’t people upload the video from one account, and then claim copyright infringement from another account, and then intentionally drag out the appeals process as a form of defense against baseless claims?
So the objection is that rules that don't attempt to fix biases are inherently "biased by default", even though the rule doesn't actually contain bias itself?
Most people don’t consider discrimination inside European / Asian / African groups as racism - rather, discrimination between those groups.
The difference isn’t that it’s using fancy technology, it’s that the product is standardized and fully proven via real world clinical trials.
So, what does "based" means ?
Common sense seems to be a rare quality these days. Obviously if it's necessary to do the job then you talk about politics.
But as GP mentioned, the project has 126 contributors on GitHub who each own part of the copyright. So Muse Group doesn't own the full copyright of Audacity now.
Yes. Because music is both composed and performed, it has three primary copyright scenarios.

1. Print rights protect sheet music etc. from being copied.

2. Performance rights control whether your composed music can be performed.

3. Mechanical rights control whether your performance can be copied (onto mp3 say). Also related to these are "synchronization" issues and licenses.
Also don't wait for the government to fix the link, which is broken.
My guess is that for a lot of processes, crematoria included, capacity is not some fixed number below which everything is fine and above which the backlog piles up.

It's like my parents' restaurant, you can get busier and busier without there being a wall. When you "hit capacity" you find you're doing many things that you weren't normally doing, like being open a lot longer, asking for longer shifts from staff, rationing things that you wouldn't normally ration.
That is moving the goal posts, the comment I was responding to was "15 USD is still less than if you had adjusted the original minimum wage for inflation, so come on. "

Given the context this would be the standard model upon which dollars are adjusted for inflation over time, tools like usinflationcalculator.com make this easy to factor in what that would be

If you want to shift the debate to "what is inflation" that is fine, but that is not the debate I am having in this comment thread
Maybe "Wicca Moonlight" has previously been flagged as a scammer/troll and are now on their tenth account they've been doing this with? It could be whack-a-mole on all ends. It's not particularly hard to spin up another LLC, register, and start filing claims.
They might have such a system, but the scale is so big, that we are still seeing the false negatives?
You don’t think that ideas being more considered means they’re more likely to be worthy of having?

> I cannot believe the kind of childish simplistic thinking going on in this thread

Yes.
You call it religious zealotry, I call it "having principles" and I do find it useful.
In a hot, cramped train it could also be a panic attack. Go see a doctor in any case.
And "lower capacity" isn't even that low any more, just in comparison with top-of-the line. Think a raspberry pi or basically any cellphone's main logic board. My motorola g7, that I got for something like $150 new, has Snapdragon 632 processor with 1.8 GHz octa-core CPU and Adreno 506 GPU, 4 GB of ram, and 64 GB internal storage. A pi4, for under $100 has a Quad core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz and up to 8GB or ram. Those specs far outclass most budget VMs and are more than adequate for the vast majority of workloads. All that either is missing is a proper storage port (i.e. not an sd card but something like sata or m3), but otherwise how many raspberry pis could fit in a 1u enclosure? Even being generous and giving half of the volume to disks, dual power, and cooling it's still quite a few.

Yes, there are definitely workloads that will benefit from better hardware, e.g. video transcoding or pure number crunching, but i would contend that most websites, databasing, ci, &c could be done on something like a pi replacing a vm or 3 (of the same customer).
> But at the same time, they believe in human rights, which can be justified only by the very God they don’t believe in.

Why?
> per say

Small note: it’s “per se”.
That was my experience as well in London and very similar here in Helsinki, Finland.
That is more like a corollary to the rule. If society is biased, and you don’t adjust for said bias, then you will get biased results.
There are more in this industry that align with the OP than you apparently believe.
Thanks! Though he's a bit too quick to play with magnetrons for my liking...
FWIW, I don't see a down arrow; it's a minus sign. (Or a hyphen, but the minus makes more sense to me in this context.)
What if they left because the company was imploding and 1/3 of their colleagues were leaving?
That's interesting, thank you! I'll research a bit more, it sounds like a nifty device.
> It's a problem of scale. It's perfectly possibile to manage a few hundred disputes on a daily basis, but with >5000 uploads per minute, it becomes impossible to do manually.

Nonsense. Assuming the revenue to Google increases linearly with uploads, so does their ability to hire content moderators.
Yes, because "cliché" is a noun and "clichéd" the adjective. It's like saying "that's so age" instead of "that's so old" — it just sounds really jarring and unprofessional.
Good leadership doesn’t result in you losing 1/3rd of the company’s workforce.

Or, since I know that the common retort here is “they’re better off without the troublemakers”; good leaders don’t build organizations where 1/3rd of the organization is troublemakers; that’s a failure of hiring.

There really is no way to spin this in a way that makes them look good. The PR hit is really just the cherry on top of losing so many people, and paying 6 months of salary for the privilege to boot.
> There is no chance for Google to automate away any of this.

I'm not quite so pessimistic. There is a chance, machine learning is pretty good these days.

But: the chance is pretty low and I assume other priorities are taking up most of their time, and this would be a risky project from a legal point of view.
Re your melatonin comment: just to check that you tried a dose of around 0.3mg/day rather than the enormous overdoses it's much easier to obtain?
> You should presumably also be able to reduce the performance hit if you reduce the frequency of context switches, which should get easier the more cores you have, if I'm not mistaken.

Context switches don't happen that often due to preemption unless your CPU is oversubscribed. Most context switches are due to syscalls, especially the ones used to wait for contended locks. Reducing those takes a lot more optimization work.
I think there are standard ways of selecting the language for example based on language of the browser? I am not too familiar with internationalization through.
That's fair, and I wasn't aware of DHH's published response when I posted that. My "aggressive" impression was based on a third party account that mentioned employee reactions [1]:

> Hansson’s response to this employee took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated in a discussion about a customer with a funny-sounding name. Hansson posted the message — visible to the entire company — and dismissed the substance of the employee’s complaint.

[1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...
It seems like the claimers have little invested into the persuit compared to the people making videos and could relatively easily make a new scam account. It certainly wouldn't hurt to add a little more friction to someone making frivolous claims as it would likely kill off a number of them that are low effort.
> raise prices and hope that customers won't just go down the street

I always found the idea that restaurants need to compete on price strange. A typic Mexican restaurant is always going to lose to Taco Bell on that, so raising the price of your enchiladas or margaritas probably won’t have much impact on traffic.

We read a lot here about founders not setting prices high enough (see patio11 for tons of discussion). Or comment on backblaze being very hesitant to raise prices [0], but then buy into this idea that restaurants have set their prices optimally and that business will plummet if the $15 dish is suddenly $17. The truth is very few decisions on where to eat are driven by price (except at the high end) and instead are driven by experience and location.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20996555
You know that Google's behaviour here is a reaction to regulation?

It's tempting to answer failures in regulation with cries for more regulation..
Right, but that uses some sleight of hand to make the claim that you can/should adjust for bias everywhere instead of at the source, which isn't something everyone finds fair.
As I said on the condolences page, John Tiller had a profound impact on my life. As a high school student I participated in a summer study program at a local college where John was an instructor. He provided a whirlwind review of programming languages and gave us assignments in each. I can only say that the lightbulb came on - the notion that there could be so many languages, with so many different affordances,so many ways of expressing problems, fascinated me then and continues to this day. I spent years afterwards trying to track down John until a chance posting on HN led me to John Tiller Software, and an opportunity to thank him. My wife asked me this morning how was it that he had such an impact in so short a time, and I can only say that he taught me what It was that I wanted to learn and set me on a path of discovery.