skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true too. More and more hipster electron apps these days wallowing in RAM on our constrained systems. And we don't have a choice. I can't choose not to use MS Teams at work. And the web version can't do audio/video meetings on Mac.
It’s fantastic to see the impact Wikipedia still has. Jimmy Wales and his team can be proud of what they have achieved.
And what actions do you propose? Making less efficient code is a result of faster shipping, less experienced developers, suboptimal tooling/languages and many more other reasons. And the current situation is the real one, the one in which we actually ended in after all the acters did what they did. To change it, a lot of money or developer open source good will has to happend over a longer period of time. I don't like posts like yours because they picture the situation as if someone specifically wanted this situation instead of no one wanting to spend even more of their own resources to make just a small improvement in the ecosystem.
> I suspect a part of the left dislike is also around the progressive anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment, it makes Elon an easy “enemy”.

He IS an easy enemy in this regard, not only to the left. All his (mis)behaviour, naming his child like that, manipulating currency rates through tweets, that's not exactly what average people could afford. If he didn't fit this stereotype of billionaire, I'm sure he would be liked more.
Apple’s wall garden somewhat curates a high quality set of apps
if you are interested in wireless and the bleeding edge of hardware, Software Defined Radio is a C++ discipline https://github.com/collections/software-defined-radio
> I wish the problem was stated more clearly to say, the host has to choose the door with goat.

Yes, that one point would make many people instantly realize the probability changed. Nevertheless, you'd think mathematicians and statisticians sending her offensive letters should've known better.
Not being able to track means the ads will be less relevant on average, which will decrease the app developer's ad revenue. There is a tipping point that, if reached, will force most developers to double-dip on the freemium strategy instead of ads. Ultimately users are the ones paying the price here.
https://twitter.com/Toph_MaGoph/status/1094416691092688896/p...

Definitely 40K fans who made it :).
> It's not just Russia but anywhere that is outside the reach of US court orders and extradition treaties.

Extradition is not a requirement. France, like Russia, will not extradite its own citizens, but you don't see so many criminal gangs operating out of France.
If not for the gravitational force, the normal force would have nothing to exert. So I guess you feel the magnitude of the force from gravity via the normal force.
I have a review of Rocksmith on my blog actually: https://cresten.pizza/blog/2020-01-03-rocksmith-review/

It is nice to play along with songs but the exercises are not great.

It has so much potential though! I hope they're planning another one.
If you're looking for a specific type of salmon my understanding is that wild Alaskan salmon has very low levels of mercury and the fisheries are healthy. I'm not sure where you are but it's widely available in the United States.
> If you purchased a model 3 with both state and federal rebates a year or two ago, in a number of states the short range RWD model was the sticker price of a nice civic. And Biden has frequently floated massive tax breaks for EV purchases to come….

I am referring to today. There are no federal tax incentives right now for Tesla.

> The maintenance is extremely infrequent and cost of travel per mile is cheap for electric, like an order of magnitude cheaper than a typical consumer car, not sure about a Prius.

Maintenance is infrequent for a reliable gas vehicle as well. Things like new tires, AC repairs are common for both. As for fueling costs, the difference in essentially any state between a hybrid vehicle (Camry hybrid) and an electric one (Tesla model 3) doesn't exceed 5 cents per mile - I used WA as an extreme point with respect to the gas/electricity differential for this calculation. Thus over 60000 miles the fueling cost is only $3000 in favor of the electric vehicle. In most states it will be significantly lower. This number will also reduce if one uses the supercharger network frequently.

> Depreciation is definitely in teslas favor- the cars hold their value incredibly well compared to most every other vehicle…

Nope. I used https://caredge.com/tesla/model-3/depreciation and https://caredge.com/toyota/camry/depreciation . Depreciation rates are virtually identical.

Adding things up, the difference of $3000 isn't even close to being offset by the higher sticker price for the Tesla.
Study places new constraints on the time variation of gravitational constant G
To me it is interesting that I did not hear a single story about China launching the core part of their new space station.

I did not know they had domestically designed and produced heavy lift rockets either.

I believe if the US launched a major part of a new space station with SpaceX rockets it would be well covered in the media.

When a component of the rocket Chinese rocket fails then it is an international story.

I do follow almost exclusively Eurocentric or US centric news sources so I can blame myself to one degree or another.

It does seem like a good achievement.

I will try to find some useful information about the design and size of the news space station.

I do not think we have had any of them for a while.
> He further states to think about how a human would drive a car, does a human need LiDAR to drive a car?

I hate this argument. It doesn't hold for several reasons:

- A human driver has blind spots (which btw Tesla avoids by having cameras surrounding the car)

- Human reactions times are very poor at even moderate speeds

- Human vision is affected by glare

- Humans are terrible at driving in low light conditions

- Humans are terrible at driving in inclement weather - snow storms or heavy rainfall

LIDAR doesn't solve many of these problems but to claim that self driving is solvable by vision alone is a bad take. Multiple sensors add redundancies and reduce errors. Teslas are already equipped with ultrasound sensors and radar so it's not technically solving a Computer Vision only problem.
The best reviews to read are the 1 or 2 star reviews. If the reviews are of the “I bought this RS232 adapter and it won’t plug into my graphics card!!! Total junk!!!!!” and “delivery guy didn’t ring the doorbell when he dropped it off!” and there is a good number of reviews then the product is usually good.

However when the problems with the product are spelled out in detail with attached pictures showing the defect I have to reconsider.
By contrast, GLP-1 is known to improve glucose uptake in skeletal muscle, among other benefits. Not an OTC drug or supplement however.

Web Abstract: https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/51/suppl_3/S43...

PDF: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.48...
"New technology enables the unwashed masses to engage in financial crime at an industrial scale. That's supposed to be reserved only for oligarchs and politicians."

This new technology also enables a degree of financial privacy that's a fundamental threat to civilization. It's... uhh... significantly less private than cash and (depending on the cryptocurrency used) often less private than bank wire. Never mind.

FTFY

Financial crime is one of those things that becomes less criminal as the scale gets larger or as one approaches influential political circles. Launder a hundred grand for a street drug dealer? Go directly to prison. Launder billions for drug cartels through major banks? You might get a fine and have to apologize.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/hsbc-mon...

Yes this last part is part whataboutism, but not without reason. 2008 proved that meaningful financial reform is virtually impossible. A riot is the last resort of the powerless.
I guess you'd call this "de-factoring?"
Whether it is pedantic depends on your goals and perspective, but if you are interested in a history and philosophical development of Force that culminates in the observation that gravitational forces are fictitious, I can heartily recommend "Concepts of Force" by Max Jammer.
I was in library school around this time (a couple years later, actually), and I remember that Wikipedia was a hot topic: can it be trusted, and why is the answer "no"?

Bucking that trend somewhat, I was in the cautiously optimistic camp. By that time it was already more useful to me than the Encyclopedia Britannica, and getting better all the time. The trajectory was clear.

It seems like, of all the exciting things from the early web, Wikipedia has been one of the only things that actually panned out the way it was intended. It didn't get commercialized, but it didn't go broke either. It didn't become a cesspool, or try to consume all of my attention. It just does the thing it's supposed to do. If there was a fire on the internet, and I could only save one website, it would be you Wikipedia.
> "In case you just said gnuplot is part of GNU,” in front of it is not too long

No longer than, say, adding GNU/to the front of GNU/Linux.
A savings account is just a way to burn money at the moment. Not recommended.
The industry has largely forgotten how to make stuff without chips.

That's why I am telling people that a global chip shortage, if something happens to Taiwan, would bring the industry not back into fifties, but into the iron age.

The further the tech ladder you go, the harder you fall if somebody takes out your engineering bay.
Or are modern pickup-pedestrian accidents more deadly than other classes of cars?
Wrong universe ... no sandworms :).
The bones in canned sardines are actually very good for you, that's where all the calcium is.
Instagram is still a monolith. They started breaking out some high-load things for sure, but only once it makes data-driven sense.

https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...
And so do individuals. There's plenty of tragic or difficult moments that come unexpected in one's life, and it's easy to make them cover for unrelated issues, because questioning the explanation would be greatly untactful. A somewhat stereotypical example - a student that excuses their lack of homework and unpreparedness by mentioning their aunt died, even though they weren't really close with their aunt and they learned about the death an hour before the class started - it's an easy way out that nobody will dare question.
Yeah but that’s because Jobs was famously a minimalist and limited his own attachment to worldly possessions. (His biography goes into it in detail.)
What does ‘second class
citizen’ mean?

It makes little sense to invest in releasing an app on both platforms simultaneously until you have proven fit.

In most cases that means iOS first.
Yep you summed that up better than I did.
> Can you give examples of model years and decisions to back up your claim?

Actually, I think the burden of proof is on the GP who made the original claim that there are plenty of small trucks for those who want them. Additionally, it's easier for them —or you— to provide a single example of a common small truck than for the parent to provide a comprehensive breakdown of the sizes of all trucks over decades of model years. Plus, they have already pointed out the Tacoma, at least, as having grown.

> Last I checked this (common) misconception is patently false.

This is merely an assertion with no more evidence than the parent. To flip your question: Can you provide examples of small truck models to back up your claim?
That's a very convenient way to exercise civil disobedience.
I bought a perfectly ordinary second hand vehicle for £3k in 2003 (it had been built in 1999) which had ABS, air bags everywhere, direct fuel injection, turbo-charged engine & traction control. Modern cars are pretty amazing things: a lot of these features have been standard for twenty years at this point! (The vehicle I bought was much favoured by UK taxi drivers at the time, which shows you how very boring & practical it was.)
The timer has a mind of its own (i.e. it displays an estimate of when it thinks it's going to be finished), and the option to automatically start drying after finishing the wash cycle is either not present or extremely well obfuscated (The model that shows up on Google definitely has the option on the rotary encoder, the one I have has no such option).
Service oriented architecture isn’t a silver bullet though. In at least one of the big tech companies I worked at, team A would need to make changes or add features to some service owned by team B.

Team B had other priorities, didn’t want Team A touching their code, didn’t want to think about who would support the changes, didn’t want to perform the code review when a developer from Team A sent in the pull request. Team B also didn’t want to implement the features themselves.

Now imagine this occurs at scale, and you literally have entire organizations whose developers work in services owned by other teams, who cannot deliver on time because of these issues out of their control, and they’d just quit and work somewhere else.

As far as I know, that company still hasn’t found a way to solve this problem.

One solution may have been to rearchitect the services and use some kind of federated model to decouple each teams needs - so they can share what they need and have physical/logical separation in the areas where they diverge.

But directors and management are under the gun to deliver things. Investments in rearchitecting? GTFO.
What this person is suggesting is that the everyone should have to spend another $100 and get worse battery life because the author has an irrational preference for inefficient software. My Pixelbook Go has never once exhibited symptoms of memory pressure, cost $800, runs all day, and I prefer it that way.
> everything was resolved satisfactorily

What part of "our fix was not accepted" do you deem as "resolved satisfactory". I provided you with a broad context and a reference to the original discussion that clearly shows there was opposition against a practical solution and a lack of promised fix on the hw-side, and you still have the audacity to say it was "resolved". The patch was not accepted into the mainline, so please explain what you mean when you say the problem was resolved? Resolved how?

This is exactly what drives practitioners like myself away from contributing to the kernel.
Calculating Dependently-Typed Compilers [pdf]
This argument is flawed. By this logic we should see other companies using the same funds to achieve the same results.

Yet all we see is boeing and others gobbling up the same funds with no/bad results. No point in discussing EVs since there companies were actively against it.
Shecession – What Covid-19 has meant for women and work
I mean in a lot of cases the pro, as in professional, version of something baselines with 8gb of ram but I can’t remember the last time I’ve worked with a dataset or problem that neatly fit within that. Maybe it’s not the way to go for consumer products but I find it unacceptable in a professional’s machine for a lot of modern computing problems.
it’s more like 1.5-2% typically
Alright, I have ~120 browser tabs open in FF but most are hibernated. Sometimes I open a lot of tabs in another browser for... ehm... other reasons... Never a problem. And no loading of huge projects in vim. MBP 16"

At least we can agree that 8 isn't enough :D
Better headline: 96% of US users didn't opt in to app tracking in iOS 14.5, analytics find. It comes off by default.
The first is a statement of the third law of thermodynamics. The second clause is just obviously true. Go call up Fujitsu and try to order more of a chip they made for you in 1.5um in 1988.
Sounds like someone missed the cryptoboom... Hfsp
The same reason any business takes on investment/debt.
a reasonable definition for alive is that they carry their own energy production mechanism to reproduce. They can intake materials, produce energy, and reproduce.

If we created robots that could harvest their own raw materials to produce energy and reproduce, then they would be alive too.
I agree: it won’t have been Google (and the email came to a non-Google email address), but some data aggregator somewhere who is cross referencing login emails with stored cookies.
We had a 2020 Corolla as a rental over Christmas/New Years 2019/20, and it was amazing. What we drive at home: a 2008 Ford Fiesta that my husband bought in 2013.

My only worry is that something will go wrong enough with it in the next year or so that we’d be compelled to get another car in this rather tight market, but otherwise, knowing that your car's current resale (and repurchase) value is approximately the secondary wage earner’s monthly after-tax income is liberating.
I have only ever heard it pronounced as "S-Q-L". When I had a customer on the phone going on about their "sequel" years ago I genuinely had no idea what they were on about, only only when they said (after a few minutes) "Microsoft sequel" did it finally click it was SQL.

I mostly have a background in Linux/Unix-y stuff, and I've hardly ever heard someone say "sequel" since, so this seems about right.

Not that I care either way, pronounce things however you like, but it sure can be confusing!
I would have have given a kidney to see that.
Isn't there a "not interested" button on YouTube? That might fix your issue.
0% loan on the sticker price. The goal of coming in with cash is to get as far as possible below the sticker price.
Am I the only one that thinks this entire situation is a bad sign for our future?
To be technical, by "character" I mean "user-perceived character" or (in Unicode speak) "extended grapheme cluster". This is the thing a user will think of as one character when looking at it on their screen.

A code point is the atomic unit of the abstract Unicode encoding. By "abstract" I mean it is not an actual text encoding you can write to a file.

A code unit is the atomic unit of an actual text encoding, such as UTF-8, UTF-16LE or UTF-32LE (and their BE equivalents).

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So to put it together a "user-perceived character" is made up of one or more "code points". When implemented in an application, each "code point" is encoded using one or more "code units".
> Most new cars still suck / Do not offer meaningful new features.

In terms of bells and whistles? Yeah, not that much. But in terms of safety tech, there has been a huge progress in last 10 years and it’s not slowing down. New cars are not only getting harder to crash, but in case of crash they’re getting better and better at protecting you.

Safety is main reason why I update my cars every few years, even tho it’s pretty costly. But so is having my family seriously injured or killed.
The child name thing seemed more likely Grimes than Elon?

Even so I just don’t think these things are a big deal? I also don’t agree with the anti-billionaire/anti-capitalist sentiment though.

It’s just odd to me given how much he’s done to aid the transition to EVs and renewable energy. I guess it’s not a huge surprise, people are wildly inconsistent around tribal issues.
away teams at amazon?
Quite. When he said on SNL "I re-invented electric cars", I thought yes, you and 1000s of very smart engineers at Tesla did, not you alone.

The leaders at the top of these companies get way too much credit for "having the vision". The vision too mostly likely came from many individuals who are not in the limelight and don't have the connections nor the cash.

Musk otherwise comes across as vulgar and insecure.
Both developers and Aunt Ethel's of the world have been able to install anything they wanted on all three PC platforms since their inception, yet the world keeps spinning.

Locking people out of choices to protect some supposed interest is paternalistic, especially considering Apple already has a horse in the race (its fat %30 cut) and has almost no incentive to consider what is right for the consumer. If you don't want the government have a say on content you consume (like, Apple and porn/erotica), decisions you make and products you buy, why would you let Apple do those things?

Either way, simple act of allowing users to unlock their devices does not immediately mean Aunt Ethel would care to do that. In another topic here it was recently discussed that a large potion of users likely don't even open Settings app, and even the most enthusiastic aunts will likely be happy with a few trustworthy stores like, say Steam and Kindle, and that'd be all.

btw,

> ignore warnings about an unsigned app and install it anyway

that sounds like a policy/enforcement failure to me.
Totally agreed on electronic listening music. I spend a lot of time listening to IDM in an armchair not dancing!
A force is considered an interaction mediated by a carrier.

When we learn, a force will be described in a way that adheres to the new/modified framework.
I haven't read it in years, but last time I did Phoronix was doing this implicitly by running every new kernel against the Phoronix Test Suite.
Congress is finally investigating the lab accident Covid-19 origin theory
This isn’t about bourgeoise vs proletariat. It’s about a completely asinine allegory that elides tons of real world context in order to push the ridiculous narrative that the simple country folk know something the rest don’t.
I feel like I've seen this before. A man is a relentless and masterful self-promoter, encourages a very public cult of personality, and puts out what are broadly considered superior products from his companies. He's also an egotistical prick.

It's the Steve Jobs approach.
The issue is that getting a competent workforce to maintain your systems is not always easy, especially if you're not in an industry with a connection to tech.

Ransomware also targets individuals, which typically don't have the knowhow to sanitize their computers. Since our industry is kind of not caring about security wrt consumer goods, they're left to fend for themselves.
Software, aka Chrome, is at least partially to blame.
GNU cares.
It's weird that you can buy chips on Chinese sites in their thousands and western usual suppliers have no stock and the lead times are more than a year on some parts.
Unfortunately you cannot just buy these Chinese parts and use in the products as they will likely have no certification or may even be fake. At least can be useful for prototyping although risky as well.
I know many projects are on hold because of that.
.. and lo, countless hours were lost going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
Envoy is not a web server.
Ask HN: Why Closure isn't as widely used as Scala?
My personal opinion ( happy to accept that I'm the odd one out) is that Scala is much harder to learn to use idiomatically.

Some seem to think Scala owns it's success to Spark jobs and Clojure was late to that party.
Same here: KDE and Arch, using 1.7GB (I don't have much "real" stuff open yet). Fresh login is just under 1GB.

I also use Windows (desktop gaming machine), and the main problem with it is the amount of crapware that Microsoft is starting to bundle. It was once the claim that Windows had a bad name because of all the junk that OEMs pre-installed. Well, Microsoft themselves are doing it now.
My wish list for a reasonably priced laptop: 16GB of RAM, a GPU that can at least play a game or too, and a decent (> 1080p) LCD panel. Seems like the line is at about $1,200 for this..
The problem is that free or cheap subsidized goods sent to developing countries to help them along ruin prices on the local market and remove local suppliers. There are many examples of well-meant, but badly thought out aid making things worse.