skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was taking a peek what Dell as an example has currently in market. The most ridiculous configuration maybe is this "Precision 3560" in its baseline configuration, which includes latest generation Core i5 CPU paired with 4 GB of RAM, with almost $1200 pricetag. I feel sorry for anyone who buys that..

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/workstations-isv-certif...

There are other silly examples too, like this $1400 XPS 13 that has non-configurable 8 GB of RAM together with latest gen i7:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...

I would agree that this skimping on RAM is pretty ridiculous. I can understand if some <$500 laptops still would ship with 8 GB, nobody should expect any greatness from those, but for devices costing three times more the expectations are higher.

Heck, my main PC is i5 (so mid-range) from 2015 and even it has 16 GB of RAM.
China's progress in advanced semiconductor technology slows
I have been using the base model 8gb m1 Mac mini as my main work machine since it came out, the only time I have noticed a ram limitation was when I ran out of storage space and it couldn’t swap anymore. Pretty amazing since this computer cost $2000 less than my 2019 MacBook Pro and is noticeably faster (Clojure development and some hobby music production)

Maybe I’ll regret it in a few years if the ssd dies due to the extra load though… I do really wish the storage was easier to change
TVs are different as there is a large number of people who realize they don't need TVs anymore, they need gaming/computer monitors and can stream all the content they need. This increased substitutability with cheap, dumb monitors -- you no longer need a TV to watch TV -- means the pricing power of TV makers has fallen -- TV prices have plunged dramatically -- and they are desperately trying to find new business models and new value propositions, one of these is to subsidize the physical product and start monetizing attention.

I don't think washing machine makers have this option, nor is the internet a threat to replace washing machines. Of course business majors keep graduating and they will get bright ideas like selling information about what you wash to third parties, and they will have dreams of subscription revenue, but until they can provide a compelling value proposition, these are not going to get widely adopted. TVs are declining in price at 20% a year. Users are getting great value in exchange for putting up with the ads.
If you don’t want a monthly car payment pay a monthly car payment so later you can have a smaller monthly car payment?
After all the very important lies they have used their "prestige" to report and make the American public (and even the world) believe, I think it's detrimental to take them seriously.

The lie of Saddam Hussein's "ties" to Al Qaeda got the US into a 20 year quagmire costing trillions and earning nothing. The writer who pulled that off was promoted and lauded by all. The recent lies about the "ISIS fighter" who had never even been to Syria in their Caliphate podcast also serve a jingoistic narrative that's been again detrimental to the US and the world.

Those are the big ones. Their everyday political lies about the Jan. 6 riot, about Trump, about Russiagate, about all sorts of other stuff pales in comparison to the millions of casualties they have underwritten with their lies.
Ask HN: Who Is Looking for Investors?
A metropolis in medieval Cambodia: how many people lived in the Angkor Empire
The only thing I really care about for customs is bombs and human trafficking. I wish they would focus on those things and not just getting in the way of things. Maddening that my tax money is spent on preventing me doing stuff.
Super easy comment system in express Node.js
A super easy and compact comment system prototype made in NodeJS with express and MongoDB. A useful tool for web development.

Don't want to waste time and energy building it for yourself? - I've got you covered!

Just copy-paste and you're all set!
Read more at https://github.com/MeMasterMind/comment-system-mongodb
Chips in cars are decades old and are useful for things like managing fuel injection, increasing fuel efficiency.

"Dumb" cars have chips too.
You're totally right! Many good stock parsers already stream things (more or less).

Still, I'm just making a comment about the overhead... I would hedge a guess that you're going to have a hard time beating a regex with an HTML parser for speed, assuming what you want can be done with both.

This is all irrelevant, because as the OP mentions, the SO question at hand cannot be solved with standards compliant parsers because self-closing tags will not be distinguishable.
in a similar vein, i could drown in a bathtub, but it's not likely. more rationale is needed here around whether that risk is worth considering seriously.

the econ 101 idea that tariffs are always bad (something that invariably comes up in these kinds of discussions) is only true in perfectly spherical, frictionless worlds populated by instantaneously rational actors. tariffs actually can work in the real world (to develop a fledgling industry, for example), but it can't be a one-off holy-grail policy, but rather part of a holistic, coordinated program.
You can have more than one database open at a time.
Yes, we save a healthy portion of our income, but increasing that now just shifts the timing, not the pain, of when have to start a new car payment.
We were never talking about costs, we were talking about how visionary Elon Musk is. However, while it's great if money is saved, again: is it really the achievement of Elon Musk, or would any private company be able to hold down costs?
You know what would also increase production and increase labor force participation? Paying workers more.
I mean what other reason would there be a reason to bring up gnuplot, if not for it's assumed connection to GNU?

I guess "GNU, but gnuplot is not GNU" could be one, but perhaps at that hectic moment RMS didn't consider that option!
Ah, of course. Because people using that literally deify Trump, believing he's a 3.5 kiloyear old being that exists because of a human merging with the larvae of a deified sand worm.
If I personally say “herbivores and omnivores” I find myself wanting to pronounce the h sound. But my Merriam Webster dictionary implies with parentheses that some Americans do not pronounce it:

ˈ(h)ər-bə-ˌvȯr
It took thousands of years to make them nine. The bones are from different periods.
Yes, there is much more besides the change away from the gold standard in '71. For example, starting '73 congress got electronic voting; since then, becoming more accountable to those who observe and influence them. With the 401k introduction in '78, retirement money was directed to the stock market, reshaping main street investment for decades. In '80, software became expressly copyrightable, opening the frontier of intellectual property. It's a history novel, not a single cause or effect. Our legal/business environment is under constant change, every year transforming the civil game that is our economy.
You’re going to have to cite that claim if you want it taken seriously. At this point it’s an old criticism with frequently used and valid counterpoints.

Given paying with crypto is as easy as a QR scan these days once someone is onboarded, the other claim that you use, convenience, is about to go out the window: see venmo, PayPal, CB integrations. You might not be following the industry much though?

The problem with your approach here is I hear that, and then I think of HSBC opening a branch for the Sinaloa Cartel, laundering absurds amount of money for them, and no one ever going to jail.

If the reason not to use crypto is not to support crime, have you or your friends used HSBC, and did you advocate for them to stop? There are several other banks on this roster as well. Two wrongs != right, but I’m not the one saying stop using fungible USD that has for certain touched crime.
> It's enchanting and wonderful. Sure, music theory can be annoying there are many weird and semi-arbitrary rules about how things are called and there's lots of historical baggage attached to everything

I'm in the same boat as you (almost identical, different FP though), but i'm actually fascinated by the music theory.

In the way that some games touch the "software engineer" side of my brain (Satisfactory, Factorio) but is tiring, music theory weirdly gives me similar vibes without being tiring. Maybe it will be when i know more, but currently music theory just feels like patterns and patterns and patterns. It's remarkable how much you can learn with a handful of patterns. While you're learning one thing you'll often noticed patterns for another.. it's really interesting to me.

I also am a novice guitarist and i find piano much more interesting from the music theory standpoint. The patterns on the guitar are dynamic (based on tuning) and it feels like the guitar makes music theory more difficult. I've enjoyed piano much more for this reason.

I agree, piano is good fun to learn at any age. I highly recommend it.
But I just explained how the fee being on the tax bill does not make it a tax, since the definition would be “part of the tax budget” not “money collected the same way as taxes”.

Which part of what I’m saying are you disagreeing with, and why?
The Librem costs a lot! BLU was more reasonably priced. Not sure if they're still putting out new products.

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-usa/

https://www.bluproducts.com/home/

Also relevant (since most iPhone manufacturing is not done in the US.)

https://fee.org/articles/a-made-in-america-iphone-would-cost...

Of course, that's a different goal from "making chips in the USA", which is done today, including the best-selling personal computer chips.
Bought the same machine for my daughter in a sort of emergency situation. I thought I’d be returning it and ordering a higher spec machine, but never did. She plays games, runs Discord, has browser tabs open, watches YouTube, edits her own videos, etc all without any issues. And the battery is crazy good. I’m actually a little dumbfounded. It seems Apple has found a good formula for entry level machines in the new MacBook Air.
Seriously, fuck Steve.
Remember 2006 ? You know, back when Twitter was a new thing :-)

Back then you couldn't buy machines with 1TB of RAM, most systems were 32bit and limited to about 3GB usable RAM.

Varnish was written with 64bit in mind from the start, but it also had to work on 32 bit systems, so we had to be able to use disk-backed VM to get past a couple of GB.
Or optionally on Cocoa and UWP, which are even more “native” on their respective platforms:

https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/

https://github.com/UnigramDev/Unigram

I’m a huge fan of Telegram’s model of releasing a cross-platform core for the community to build their own clients on top of. I wish all chat apps followed its lead.
e^(iπ)+1 = 0

This is a law of the universe. It doesn't know anything about degrees or sexagesimal number systems.

You can't give this to students straight away because they don't have the background to deal with it. Hence the diversions into triangles, imaginary numbers, and radians.
Describing a field in terms of particles seems circular if particles are excitations of a quantum field.
There’s actually quite a few one to many. They’re designed mostly for cross border distribution (Canada to US where they’ll truck pallets over the border then drop off at usps in bulk).

An example of one: https://www.goessa.com/packaging
Yeah it’s really good. Yes, he also exaggerates (or more accurately I think is too ambitious about timelines).

It makes him miss sometimes, but it also is the reason SpaceX is where it is and they can turn around a rocket insanely quickly.

He sets crazy goals and even their “failures” are still 10x better than the rest of the market.

His plan for the company’s future is clear. The roadster -> S -> 3 worked, building out the charger network worked, the other vehicles and best-in-class software were really a bonus.

During all of this the competition and the press ranged from ignoring them to directly hostile.

People complained about why charging was less viable than gas for years, Tesla built out the charging network and fixed it.

Dealerships in the US fought for their rent seeking protections and local power - tesla fought them and won.

I think when nearly everyone is driving an EV within the next 20 years, people will look back on that NYT story where they intentionally killed the battery so they could have a cover story of a model S on a tow truck and will recognize it for what it was.
A few walked away. They did not agree with the move. But the company was really in the need for a radical change since development was stuck in complexity and maintainance.
I'd completely forgotten about Eloise Ristad and "A Soprano On Her Head." Fanstasic book. Thanks for the reminder. I poked around looking for Bold Beginnings and didn't find it but I did find this page that might be interesting. https://www.modernmusicology.com/elosie-ristad-bold-music-te...
Actually bitcoin is terrible for illegal transactions. Everything is traced and logged for all time

> The beauty of Bitcoin, from a detective’s point of view, is that the blockchain records all. “If you catch a dealer with drugs and cash on the street, you’ve caught them committing one crime,” Meiklejohn says. “But if you catch people using something like Silk Road, you’ve uncovered their whole criminal history,” she says. “It’s like discovering their books.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/why-criminals-cant-h...
I installed Discord recently on a new laptop and first thing I did was turn off that behavior. I already have the option to minimize it
So you're right that (low-energy) gravitational physics is understood because you know how to write down the action. The question is whether the sum over paths in the path integral should also include a sum over metrics. That sum over metrics is equivalent to saying that gravitons exist (in the same way that the sum over electromagnetic potentials is equivalent to saying that photons exist).

Now if you want to include gravitational effects and do it in a consistent way, you have to sum over metrics, meaning you have to have gravitons. That's because trying to treat gravity like it's classical but treating everything else like it's quantum mechanical is inconsistent. For example, classical gravity could tell you which slit an individual electron passed through in a double slit experiment, if you measured the gravitational field accurately enough--you could say definitively that it came through one slit or the other by measuring which way the gravitational field that it generated is pointing. This would destroy the interference pattern and you wouldn't be able to conduct the double-slit experiment at all.
It really depends on the context. Focusing only on the price a costumer pays as your main metric ignores a lot of potentially negative externalities.

One recent example in the US: a lot of small local business were suffering because the Chinese government was heavily subsidizing shipments to the US. So much so that it was cheaper in some places to get a product mailed from China than from across the street. The US started pushing back with tariffs while appealing too the universal postal union postal union. That kept the US businesses from going under while the UPU slowly went through the process of forcing china to follow their rules.

And that's ignoring pollution, all the negatives that happen for the whole population when an industry and/or small businesses collapse within a country, and other negative externalities
The difference is more pronounced (pun intended) when an indefinite article is attached: "an herb" versus "a herb".
I realize many people don't care about credit cards spying on them, but I do value cryptocurrencies offering alternatives. From what I understand the Apple Credit Card was somewhat of a similar attempt (Goldman Sachs isn't allowed to sell the information). I'm not saying that the benefits outweigh the costs, but it does seem that they allow for more than money laundering, and speculation.
Singapore has introduced digital driving licences [1] and national identity cards [2], but retrieving the information requires internet access and cannot be cached in-app due to government security policies [3].

[1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/motorists-can-still-r...

[2] https://www.singpass.gov.sg/singpass/common/shownric

[3] As told to me by someone working on the project
What do you consider "meaningful new features"? What about new cars "sucks"? They are more reliable, safer, quieter, more powerful, more fuel efficient and more full featured than ever.
When the software is no longer supported you have an expensive security vulnerability hanging on your wall.
But lifetime support doesn’t help if the parts for your machine aren’t available anymore. If your 20 year old machine breaks and there aren’t parts available to fix it, you might get offered an equivalent replacement. If your old chip masks are incompatible with the replacement machine, you’re not immediately able to make what you need. So for some companies, having lifetime support might not help with the manufacturing slowdown when an old machine breaks.
I'd like to get a bit of investment for one of my games, but I honestly don't imagine this would happen.

And from what I can see, most video game publishers will give you a relatively small amount of money but then expect you to do tons of work to get games up to their standards.

A part of me just wants to upload it up on Itch IO and let a handful of friends play it. Another part of me once the somehow connect with an angel publisher which would give me $500,000 or so to finish the project to my vision.
> If you read the whole article

That would be lovely, but I don't subscribe to The Economist.
Ask HN: What some good sites to learn the science behind cooking?
I have just started learning cooking and the working of Pressure cooker got me intrigued towards the science behind it. I have already found a few sites and will appreciate any recommendations from HN.

* https://www.compoundchem.com/category/food-chemistry/

* https://www.exploratorium.edu/food/pressure-cooking

* https://www.scienceofcooking.com/

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
Another plus is that you can pretend that sardines are regular-sized fish and that you are a giant who is eating them whole.
Do you feel a force from gravity? I thought you feel the electromagnetic force (normal force) of your chair pushing you away from the Earth and stopping your free fall.
When I reluctantly had to buy a laptop due to covid I opted for a Dell Precision 7750. I bought the minimum 8GB from Dell and put 128GB in it myself with cheaper after-market RAM,and changed the thermal paste. It's a beast. Unfortunately Dell weren't offering any Ryzen CPUs
How would that help in any way?
Doesn't HTTPS Everywhere solve this problem?
I bought a 16GB M1 Air to try it out and I’ve barely touched my 32GB MacBook Pro since. It’s usually at 11-12GB, even with plenty of multitasking (including 3 browsers and Adobe PS/ID/AI). You get spoiled fast by the responsiveness/performance/silence. I can absolutely see the 8GB model being fine for the bulk of users, especially if they’re running mostly Apple Silicon-native software like MS Office.
What do you mean "think"? We have two real-world data points right here showing cases where government regulation forced manufacturers to improve the quality of their products, and where if left to their own devices their own conflicts of interest would have gotten in the way of doing so. Namely, the inefficiency of dishwashers being a fully externalized cost, and planned obsolescence of light-bulbs ensuring that customers come back.

Do you have any concrete arguments for why these two cases of successful government intervention do not hold up? Do you have any argument to suggest that the situations they describe are exceptional instead of common and all over the marketplace?
Your website background made me think my phone was dirty! I wiped the screen off but then realized it was the graphics. Funny.
I'll tell you what... Steve would have never stood for the complete degradation of UX across the iOS ecosystem. Nothing seems to "just work" in the ways that I had come to expect of the old-new Apple.

It's still much better than my Linux phone and I imagine it competes with Android but that's a shitty excuse frankly. Just because you're the best doesn't make you good.
I took classical cello lessons as a kid. Today, I'm a jazz bassist and I perform regularly but it's not my career. I would not be able to function on the bandstand without that background. Both of my kids took classical lessons, both are quite accomplished and enjoy playing.

I believe it's comes down to all families, and kids, being different. My own view is that parents should be perceptive to their kids preferences, and whether they are really enjoying something or not. But some kids need to be "forced" to experience new things, and some need to be "forced" to keep working on something, even when it's something that they genuinely enjoy. Whether it can be done in a beneficial or harmful way depends on the way that each family functions.

I kept up with music lessons through high school, but my other activity was figure skating, which I didn't enjoy. My mom let me drop out of figure skating, so it's clear that the "forcing" had its limits, and was only occurring within reason.

Do you like classical music? And, do you know what it's like to be a musician? Because if your kids study classical music, you'll be hearing a lot of it. If you have visceral "yuck" response to classical music, it might not be right for your family.

And of course there are infinitely many ways to approach music, that are not classical music. For instance, the instruments of popular music tend to be easier to learn by older kids and adults, and can be learned with or without lessons.

There is something about the neuroplasticity of children that lends itself to some kinds of learning, but I think we're discovering that there aren't even any hard rules about that.
I am not worried. I was simply explaining the argument as I understood it.
Again, you can’t make an experiment without an underlying theory.

I understand some concepts are so ingrained, that they are perceived as theories but as reality itself (Newtonian physics before the end of XIX century) but physics is not constrained by our intuition (what we are familiar with).
To me the best explanation of the Monty Hall problem is to imagine there are 1000 doors. You pick a door and the host opens 998 other doors. Since you almost certainly did not choose the correct door, the host has almost certainly identify the correct door, so you should change your guess.

Then apply the same logic for 100 doors, then 10 doors, then 3 doors.
Yep both parties get reimbursed and sellers get protection from negative feedback resulting from it. Funny enough Pitney Bowes (the ones actually running GSP) just action off these items.
I had an old Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera. When my brother and I were teens, we experimented with trick movie photography - making each other disappear and reappear, stop motion and various other amusements. It taught both of us a lot about filmmaking. Hacking still photography is definitely in this spirit.
The unbearable suffering of being a first worlder with material comfort kings of old could never imagine.

What a narcissistic culture we’ve built if such a reality brings “pain”.
Yeah, don't blame you or anyone else for clicking the link, seeing the paywall, and immediately closing the tab. It's what I did, as well.

Some commenters posted non-paywalled links below. Not sure of the legality, but I wish HN would/could automatically replace paywalled article links.