skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to point out to the casual reader from elsewhere that the comments in this thread refer to a Britain of the past. A nation's sense of humour evolves rather quickly.
I think the problem is that the way English phrases things is often completely bizarre compared to virtually any other language, which is confusing, as a seemingly straightforward sentence may imply something completely unexpected.

I think it might be because of its lack of real grammatical topic, which is otherwise ubiquitous and often more important than the subject.
There Is No Financial Bubble, Hyperinflation Is Already Here
Cool but apple also restricts apps based on content and enforces their own morality standards on what content is acceptable so I really don't care about the security aspect.
Eero wifi setup
“The eccentric inventor is known for dabbling with electricity“

Wow
google.com/ncr doesn't work anymore. Both the interface and results are localized in Spanish when I try it.
Couldn't Epic, et. al still have an issue with this? I would see them argue that putting this behind a developer mode is still too restrictive and 'unfair.' Most user's wouldn't know what developer mode implies and Epic would have to have a list of instructions on their install page to show users how to enable it. That is not a small barrier to entry for many users. Not sure what my opinion is, just thinking out loud.
for me it works okay-ish.

I still have to occasionally grab my laptop to keep its fans from taking it airborne, it still crashes occasionally, requiring nuking .elixir_ls (and holding onto the laptop again), and while it hasn't happened recently, I've had situations where I'd get weird errors for code that should be fine, also requiring me to delete .elixir_ls to get rid of the warnings.

That said, I don't really mind, but then I perhaps don't care as much about IDE-ish features. I've also been doing more and more work inside LiveBooks, and those don't even have vim keybinding!
How many users spend more than a tenner on paid apps? Not many... but Epic made 300 000 000 a year on iOS alone selling in game items. What value is epic selling there?

Epic is targeting kids with Fortnite and its their money that they're after. Impulse- and vanity purchases, much more than anything else.

Whereas, when buying a paid app, one usually gets real value. At least as I see it. But maybe this means i'm old :D
Likewise with my HD58x. I also love small phones and want to switch to the 12 mini, but my SE 2020 works perfectly fine so it's hard to justify.
The other thing I'd say is that this isn't low-skill work. If you get thousands of people, train them for a couple days, pay poverty wages and tell them to make each decision in less than 30 seconds, you're not going to get good results.
Of course, the old adage "buy high, sell low" :)
I've known the word boatswain for decades at this point and never knew it was pronounced like that!

Speaking of military terms, lieutenant as "leftenant" always threw me. I had just assumed they were different words.
"The batteries alone weigh about 1,800 pounds, Ford officials told President Joe Biden during a tour of the Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, where the truck will be assembled."

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-ford-f-150-lightning-el...

The cargo capacity also happens to be 1800 lbs with the large battery and 2000 lbs with the smaller battery.

They mentioned using less cobalt so it may not be as energy dense as top of the line NMC cells. The lithium iron Tesla packs are 20% less dense than the cobalt ones.
Please don't apologize and please don't be annoyed. Like I told "sokoloff", I was you. I get it. "In this house we buy used cars for cash and drive them until the wheels come off." So of course I enjoy this topic.

Let's look at your numbers. Say you bought two new Civics around 2003 for $28K total. Your maintenance & repairs should not be any higher for a new Civic than for any used car I can imagine. Let's assume gas is the same, and neglect transaction costs, finance costs, etc for now. So you have a difference over eighteen years for two cars of $16800 or $933/year. Per car, you saved $467/year or $39/month. Note we are also not considering that you could have kept the new cars on the road a few years longer. Also the insurance savings is minimal - figure you save $500/year for the first five years and then it's about the same when you go to liability only. That's another $139/year over 18 years or $12/month. Yeah, that's not nothing, but it's not the TONS OF MONEY that always gets mentioned in these discussions.

Your wife's repair and maintenance costs look more in line with average than yours. Does she put a lot more miles on her car than you put on yours? I do agree that if you put a lot fewer miles per year on a car than average, a used car starts looking like a much better deal (see below).
Perhaps this is a naive way of looking at it, but from someone who just barely grasps Bitcoin, it seems like a place for rich people to park money.
The statement is a bit confusing but I think he's basically saying that: In spite of the fact that the Mac isn't a particular malware target (presumably because of some combination of its market share/security model), it still gets more malware than iOS does--so applying the MacOS security model to iOS wouldn't work."
> This is something that works for companies with a clear ownership structure

The ownership structure is clear, it is just unpopular within the community. There seems to be this sense of entitlement among Freenode developers and volunteers. You never had equity, but you thought you did. Whether or not that is the result of being misled is irrelevant. You have no stake. That's what "volunteers" are. Non stakeholding contributors. You contribute so long as the direction of the business is compatible with your morals. Nobody owes you a community.

Why is anyone surprised that this napkin diplomacy failed?
poll() is even easier to use, imo.
lol that is what they, you, and I pay taxes for.
Imagine having John Carmack randomly contribute a patch to your project, pretty awesome stuff.
> The compiler also needed to watch the instructions it outputted, as not putting out the right combination of instructions in order would leave CPU hardware underutilized. Instructions were very wide, causing more frequent cache misses as the cache was full of instructions that were shorter in other architectures. Furthermore, the compiler needed to emit certain hints for the branch predictor and other speculative execution units to function well.

I think that's the kind of issue they're talking about. If it had been easier for nerds in bedrooms to run Itanium, we'd've seen much better support for it in GCC etc. much sooner.
Bootstrapping a Swag Empire to Millions in Monthly Revenue
In my experience it's a self full-filling prophecy. If you don't come off as driven then companies that want and reward driven individuals won't hire you. That also extend to networking where previous co-workers won't recommend you for companies that look for and reward driven individuals. Moreover you won't know how to filter for companies that do want and reward driven individuals.
Must be fun being related to John Carmack.
Never used it and now never have to! Happy me!
DJI Mavic mini.
Forces me to visit all sorts of places, fun to drive and amazing videos as memories.
Conversely, I lived for a while with a Glaswegian who had moved to the South of England, having lived his whole life in Glasgow. It was interesting watching him realise that he had to moderate his speech, otherwise so much of what he said was lost. Over time, he stopped using some of the specifically regional stuff that nobody understood.
Eth as a whole has already gotten an impressive bump (in price) this year so far. They seem to be in a good place with a lot of adoption in their PoS infrastructure. At 93kUSD (as of today) of eth staking to run your own staking node, I think it's cost prohibitive for most to do it without joining a pool.
Why just rich people?
I agree wholeheartedly. I would add that the real problem is that the current UK political class is too spineless to take on the responsibility of running a rail network without going broke. So they will continue to maintain some degree of chicanery to provide for plausible deniability when the trains don't run or the system goes bankrupt.
Off the top of my head was it the Citibank Revlon issue? I seem to remember there being a break down in communication between Indian Staff and the US staff.
Google Cloud Infrastructure Components Incident
- the brain immediately as you turn in for the night
But that is not the system we've set up. That also sets up a very scary system of indentured servanthood.
My first Goban.

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/EKPVOJLYCbMpRvtHBFTepA__imagepa...
I think that Mozilla has a project for decoupling the browser components but I'm not sure if it will result in further projects. The name was something like project Stylus, but I can't find it now and I might be wrong about the name.
Tesla is the de facto standard. It has the largest charging network. This will not change because vertical integration is the best way to deliver a smooth experience at the best price to the customer, especially when technology is evolving rapidly, as is the case here.
Didn't Macbook-as-developer-machine only really take off after the switch to Intel?
There is no real problem.

The freenode "staffers" just don't like the fact that someone was able to win the irc game (i.e., gaining more power) without following their invented arbitrary bureaucracy and dedicating their life to idling in the right set of channels.

This whole thing is really off topic and should be taken to ##wrongplanet .
True :D

But my machines were never rendered unusable, and of course I'm keeping the usual security mechanisms switched on (Windows SmartScreen, UAC and Defender).

I'm also not keeping anything really important on my computers though, the simple rule is "if this computer stops working now, I won't loose anything of value") - because this has actually happened a few times to me over the years, but always because of failing hardware.
The physicists knew all along what the potential mass range was. They hope they can find it at the lower range, because that's what's cheaper, as well as feasible with the engineering capability.

Arguably, the biggest problem with the Higgs boson is that it was found exactly where they were expecting it. They'd ruled out other ranges; anything bigger would no longer be a Higgs boson. So all it did was tell them what they already knew. Failing to find it would actually have been more interesting -- though finding something different would have been even more interesting.

So they don't really say "we're sure to find it". They're hoping to find it -- and hoping not to.

They'll always need a bigger collider. That's where new results will always be. They're hoping for results they can't predict, and that makes it really hard to write a justification for the expense.

(I personally would just as soon spend much less on Big Science like that, but you'll find a ton of people willing to defend it. Fundamental physics has a history of producing results that are unexpected but economically immense, from lasers to the Web, as well as driving human intellectual curiosity.)
Re: Mac vs. iOS: Personal iOS devices are used to access all sorts of critical business infrastructure, but are rarely locked down and monitored to the same extent as corporate-issued laptops.

I can access Slack, 2FA codes, corporate email, ... on both devices. But my corporate laptop is super locked down and uses a special app store, whereas on my personal device I can install whatever the hell I want (and not just in practice -- I'm not aware of any corporate policy at my employer that prohibits installing arbitrary 3rd party apps on the same device that has access to your corporate slack account... seems like a huge oversight)
When you start Nyxt there will be a button labeled “common settings” if you click it it will set up Vi mode or Emacs mode for you :-)
Same here, Skydio 2 (before the recent price hike).

I always liked photography and video but flying photography and video also unlock photogrammetry of large spaces and 3d scanning.
He sold pia to an adware company and didn't bother to inform customers.
https://httpie.io/ is pretty nice.
> What's frustrating is people who think that they can radically simplify something without knowing anything about it.

I run into this problem with my manager a lot, who knows just enough to get himself in trouble. There's probably a term for it, but I call it the "complexity trap". He sees a problem, thinks he has an "aha!" moment, and tells me about a simple solution, and asks me to implement it. This solution, of course, disregards most of the complexity inherent in the problem.

Complex problems require equally complex solutions, and if the solution is simple, it disregards the complexity of the problem, either shoveling down the ladder of abstraction, or hoping for some future state where it's not as complex.
It's interesting that both sides of this debate are trying to claim the same argument: skepticism of human judgement and foresight:

> Munger, in contrast, is expressing contrasting beliefs about human nature and about the nature of politics and markets. Namely, that our inevitable flaws, including our lack of perfect foresight, require guardrails to reduce the risk of unintended consequences, like, for example, speculation in “low-risk” mortgages that drove a global financial crisis. Without borders, languages, culture and, yes, fiat currency, our civilization can be easily placed at risk.

The pro-bitcoin crowd is making a similar argument. Their position is that, since we lack perfect foresight, the government can't be trusted to implement monetary policy. Eventually, they say, the government will screw things up and undo all the good that monetary policy has done over the past few decades.

Who's right? It depends what happens.

One point that never seems to come up in these debates: bitcoin can (and does) coexist alongside fiat currencies. It is clear that fiat isn't going anywhere, it is clear that bitcoin is not a totally suitable currency for reasons listed in the essay, but I don't see bitcoin's existence as a bad thing and I expect various cryptocurrencies will continue to exist alongside fiat currencies.
‘Please help,’ beg those who lost $2M to fake Elon Musks
I don't know if this is quite the same phenomenon, but when I attended the 2008 Lua workshop (in Washington, DC), my roommate was Brazilian, and when he needed to refer to the blanket on my bed, the word he found was "mantle".
>Interesting that you see rail as a method to earn a wage.

Because that is the reality for the majority of rail travel. Off-peak is an afterthought.
I've already given a reason in a sibling comment why I thought the phrase "ignoring context" was bad—it's a straw man: it acts like it's refuting a particular argument, but it's actually refuting something else.

> Advice always depends on the context

It's not clear to me whether that's true, or what it means exactly. It seems to mix at least two senses together, one (A) where it's self-evidently true, one (B) where it's not true. (I believe that's called equivocation, and it's a very common way of going astray, in philosophy, informal arguments etc)

(A) Yes, when someone tells you something, you should take into consideration who is telling you, like when you assess the credibility/reliability of what an unfamiliar website says. Not doing that would be very foolish.

(B) The sense of the original "quality of advice" quote: You can read a quote somewhere, not knowing where it came from, or it's some author you know nothing about, or anonymous etc, and think it's good advice, and follow it. Where it came from doesn't really matter, i.e. the quality of the advice is separate from its source. Good advice can come from a "bad" source, or bad from a "good" source.
If someone without context had walked into the room and heard him say “spoon me”, they’d likely think something very different were going on.

“Spoon” as a verb usually means something like “cuddle me” - as in “let’s be like spoons and fit all our curves really close together”.

It seems like the “o” in “olyžicujte ma” clarified that you’re talking about equipping.

I haven’t seen the show, but that double entendre on “spoon” might have been one layer of the joke.
I really like the way Nyxt generates keyboard combos for clickable links (like this image [0]). Does anyone know if there's a program that creates something similar for Windows? Where every clickable element in the focused programs would have one of these tags generated for it.

[0] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/static/image/article/visual-mode...
Garry Kasparov is a class act
Nintendo Gives Us Another Look at Game Builder Garage for Switch
If you're going to argue "most users don't spend more than ten bucks", how do you explain Apple earning 20 billion USD per year off the app store? 20 billion USD divided by 10 dollars is 2 billion customers. But Apple only pockets 3 dollars of that 10, so it's actually 20 billion divided by 3 dollars - around 6.6 billion customers.

Do the math.
It doesnt help that many casual computer users will still say something like, "Mac's cant get viruses"
> Auction houses such as Christie's take up to 25% for a similar service (connecting sellers with affluent buyers), although one that's probably far easier to replicate.

When you want to place an item up for auction, there are more auction houses to use than only Christie's. That might be why their price fixing scandal was discovered in 2000.
$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.

Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.

The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.
> Braun BC02BW

I love this one, have been using it for a long time. I hope they never discontinue making them.
Bold claim considering it's for Front end work exclusively. I don't need to tell anyone here backend is all Linux, data is MS or Linux, embedded is never Mac, and (Physical) Engineering is MS.

Still front end FAANG is a tiny sliver of the population.
Does anyone know if TDE has any chance of making it in to Postgres 14? My team needs to encrypt values in the database to satisfy some enterprise security requirements...

Barring native TDE, does anyone have experience with Cossack Labs' Acra proxy? It seems to encrypt/ decrypt data coming in and out at a field level, which sounds slick, but I'm also concerned about maintenance and performance
I got the ender 5 kit. It took about two hours to put together. Just bolting the pieces together really. Not too technical.

I’ve heard the cheaper ender 3 is basically just as good plus there are more resources online for any issues.
I use cloud GPUs sometimes when I need a lot of GPUs for a short period of time, and found it quite tricky to compare prices and features across them.

So I just created this page which shows a summary of all the main ones I know about: https://mlcontests.com/cloud-gpu.

It's a small add-on to a project I was already running which aggregates ML competitions from across multiple platforms.

Everything is open source - the file that drives it all is here: https://github.com/mlcontests/mlcontests.github.io/blob/mast....

If you spot any inaccuracies, feel free to send me PM/tweet ml_contests/submit a pull request.

I'd love to hear your feedback/suggestions!
A massage gun.

I got something called the LifePro Sonic Pro X or something like that, but it looks like the same gun is sold under different brands.

I have back issues (muscular, not skeletal thank god) and combined with a sitting-heavy job I can get really tight and wound up in a way that fucks up my posture, my walking gait, and my ability to get a good workout in at the end of the day.

The massage gun reallly lets you loosen up and focus on areas that are tough to stretch, and it’s a lot gentler and less stressful than stretching. It has made a huge difference for me, all over my body.

I massage gun while docker builds or CI tests are running, when my mic and camera are off during a meeting, etc. Great stuff.
BMW K1200S, it's absurd you can buy something that fast with so little money
To your point there's nothing developed on OSX (and specific to OSX) that runs "in the cloud". There is some niche Swift offering but they are niche.
Tech: Dell U3219Q -- 4k 32" display, USB C power delivery, builtin KVM switch to go between HDMI/USB3 and USB C, running it at a 1x resolution for a 3800x2000 logical display. It's pricey, but I can do one monitor on this and be happy.

Not Tech: Rene Herse Rat Trap Pass/Nachez Pass super supple wide tires for my tandem. Boosted the average speed by ~1+mph (~16mph to 17+ mph) (with the same stoker) over 2-3 hr rides, and more comfortable, especially for the stoker.
Yesterday Bitcoin demonstrated that it is a poor parking space. You could wake up and find 30% of your car missing.
Bingo. Currency and free markets are the best implementation of distributed democracy we’ve seen yet. Everyone can vote on everything as many times as they want constrained only by their participation in the system. I still believe we need a level playing ground though, anti trust and a strong legal system to prevent abuse. We should be careful about safety nets though, preventing failure and saving people from disaster are different things with different consequences.
I'll add one more, the problem with compliance jobs is that it only really becomes important (to the bigwigs) when it goes wrong.

Most of the time you are just a cost-center, a necessary nuisance. It's a lot harder to extract money / get promoted when your good work isn't immediately noticeable.
DIY Low-Cost Fluorescence Microscope
> I think you mean PoS (proof of stake), and yes it will be several months before eth2 w/ PoS is a thing

Thanks, fixed the typo. If ETH2 is really months away I would be jumping for joy but it has been a "few years away" for a few years in a row now. I hope they are finishing up (and I don't mean to imply it should be faster or that they should rush)
I still hate Thatcher.
> One can write a lot of things in 100 lines if it doesn't have to meet higher standards than a basic chat app tutorial in the "getting started" section of a programming language.

I'd argue that even a basic chat app is massively complex, only that all the really complex parts have already been solved. I once tried to write one on the LOWEST level I could. Realized after a month that there were not enough hours left in my life to finish it.
The dual origin story of the English language is quite fascinating!

There's a Wikipedia page dedicated to a list of just what you described, synonymous words with Romance vs Germanic origins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_d...
This drill. Got it at Christmas, used it lots and still haven't charged the battery.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/milwaukee-m18-cblpd-402c-18v-4-0a...
> Other languages have built in cultural connotations that pretty much only matter within their specific culture that doesn't really make sense outside of it.

I once was trying to contact an engineer that had worked on a project before me. Their last name in git was just "R". After some searching and asking another colleague I found out that this is a special last name that is abbreviated that way.
Pretty much all (90+%) equities. Not a whole lot of alternatives.
Personally, my employer locks down desktop PCs far more than phones, in part because desktop PCs have access to secrets like encryption keys and source code. Phones are just used for 2FA codes, email and video calls (all of which you can also do on your PC).

This is not compatible with an argument that phones are more important to secure.