skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I fully understand, but with my assumptions in hand:

That's bit of an implementation detail, I think.

If my app is the most amazing file system indexer using PostgreSQL behind the scenes, I don't think the "port" distinction is relevant... oh, wait. You're thinking of ports as in INET vs. plain sockets?

That took me a long time to get. A very technical way to put it, but thank you.
I once calculated it and came to the conclusion it was easily doable for the medals to be pure gold.

Let's take the Rio 2016 medal as a reference. It has 494g of silver and 6g of gold. For a cost of $564 [1]. There were 307 gold medals awarded[2]. This comes to a total of 173148$ for the medals.

Let's take the worst possible conversion. i.e. you want a solid gold medal with the same volume as the original. Silver has a density of 10,49g per cubic centimeter and gold has a density of 19.32g per cubic centimeter. So to get the same volume we need 910g of gold to replace the silver. Price of gold per gram in 2016 was about 40$. So this 910g of gold would cost 36400$. For a total gold medal price of 53,329,584$. Let's ignore the silver you no longer need since it's not that significant.

For reference the entirety of the rio olympics cost 13.2 billion[3]. Having solid gold medals would be about 0.4% additional cost. Yes it's a lot of money but it doesn't seem unrealistic to me at all.

[1] https://somethingborrowedpdx.com/how-much-does-a-olympic-gol...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Olympics_medal_tab....

[3] https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1051553/cost-of-rio-...
Had the same thought. Making every access RW seems like a cure worse than the disease in a multithreaded situation.
> And yet when she shared her experience with other women at the conference, she found that she wasn’t alone—many others had received the same treatment from the Blizzard recruitment booth as well

I would doubt that a company would publicly post this due to liability otherwise
That is the heart of “Aggregation Theory” from the stratechary blog. That these companies amass their market power by making their product so easy to use, they aggregate demand and are able to squeeze suppliers. They hold monopolistic power, but it is hard to argue that they “harm consumers”. Unlike old school monopolies, consumers go to aggregators because they want to, not because they are forced to.
I have the same feelings. I'm really fine with Amazon -- but I'd be much more fine by seeing them reduced via antitrust actions, with the goal of seeing more competition.

First, I'd like to separate AWS from Amazon the Bazaar. It's just too much control over _both_ the Internet (including all other e-commerce) and retail merchandise commerce.

It's like they own the railroads, the ports, the trucks, and the stores -- we've seen the Robber Baron movie already.
It’s definitely not false. The entire purpose of money to exchange human ascribed value across space and time.

People try to buy love all the time, and if they could purchase the real thing they would likely pay a lot for it. Just because something isn’t for sale doesn’t mean it’s value can’t be compared relative to other things.

How much would you personally be willing to pay to limit the warming of the Earth to 1.5C?
It's bizarre. I'm not even american but Amazon is such a big part of my day to day life.

- At work we use AWS

- Amazon uses my company software

- My wife is a retailer and now sells on Amazon

- During work I use Twitch.TV as background noise (Amazon bought Twitch.TV)

- Last week, after work I was playing the new Amazon MMO game.

- After dinner I was watching The Office on Amazon Prime
Simulate lock screen when using native windows manager on OpenBSD with xlock and xidle.
What do Brits use to refer to British courts, Parliament and executive considered as a whole?
Simple Metasploit Examples
Sure, and if there were no records of it, and no compelling witness testimony, then the people conspiring would likely get away with it.

Fortunately, often people committing crimes slip up and use communication channels that leave a paper trail.
Amazon wasn't competing with B&N in 1994. B&N however (and Borders, and so many others) were.

Amazon in the 90s wasn't about "getting a book" but "getting a book via a computer, from a place with "all the books" and I don't have to drive".

B&N could have competed with that if they had understand what was happening, but I don't think they did.

bookshop.org appears to do so, but may be 20 years too late.
No, my account was not initially deleted, it was disabled a couple of days after creation, and it was reinstated only after the issue has received attention on HN.

Since then I have used Wit.ai services for 8 months without issues, then two weeks ago my Facebook account has suddenly disappeared. The account no longer exists when I try to log in, it is not limited or disabled, it's gone, without notice.

Wit.ai apps have a state, they host intents and the ML models are continuously trained based on your input. All of that data is now lost, and I haven't even received an email.
What happens if you discover an antibiotic/antimicrobial, your business succeeds in getting it used widely, and then the bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance?

Would that cause problems for the effectiveness of human milk in the general population?

(Also aside: perhaps fix the spelling mistake in the submission title!)
Albahaca is my latest favorite.
Turns out journalists check their sources, lest they get sued for libel
> their weight would differ a bit but be in the same ball park

Apparently gold is nearly twice as dense as silver: https://www.edrsilver.com/English/ceo-corner/ceo-corner-deta...
The specific issue tends to be "I just installed a new package and now I get esoteric import errors." Blow away node_modules and it's magically fixed.
Well I agree with you. And I also suspected those numbers, to be honest. A sudden increase to 80% of total production? 80% from what? Since when? But I did not do a lot of research: I tried to find sources as the article is not only vague on context but also on references, but the numbers I found were not clear either. They only showed that around 90% of the global production was from silicon crystal based panels already back in 2013, way before the patent expiration. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics citing https://www.webcitation.org/6SFRTUaBS and https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J...). I found no breakdowns to compare boron vs. gallium doping over time. I do not know anything about foundries. Maybe replacing boron with gallium is not a trivial change in process. Maybe the patent and planned obsolescence are not the issues here and I was being pretty cynic on my comment without fact checking it anyway. But way too often they are. If that figure, 80%, is true, and the shift from boron to gallium happened over the last year like the article claims, it is very likely that 2 main factors, if not the main ones, were those.
Start with the user experience and work backwards to the technology – Steve Jobs
Worse than that, Australia’s population post-infection immunity is likely the worst in the world too.

It’s like a forest that has never done a controlled burn, never had a forest fire and it hasn’t rained in a very long time.
The t-shirt she chose to wear to a career event showing a [sexual] double-entendre is not asking for abuse obviously, but demanding some kind of attention. The entire video game business has a [lack of] culture problem. That the Blizzard boys went so far in embarrassing themselves is theirs to own.

Edit: Flagged? I'm sorry. If you read the article, the inappropriate jokes were targeted to her t-shirt reading "Penetration Expert". This is stupid on top of stupid.
> it implicitly denies that women

Nonsense on stilts. You might as well claim that anti-smoking activists are wrong because nonsmokers sometimes get lung cancer.

I'd highly suggest some reading on the topic if you want to address it; this isn't even a basic misunderstanding.
It's a good book, but while some elements are good sf it's not all hard sf. They're looking for a new planet and didn't even send a probe 50 years ago?
> The time crystal is a new category of phases of matter, expanding the definition of what a phase is. All other known phases, like water or ice, are in thermal equilibrium: Their constituent atoms have settled into the state with the lowest energy permitted by the ambient temperature, and their properties don’t change with time. The time crystal is the first “out-of-equilibrium” phase: It has order and perfect stability despite being in an excited and evolving state.

So to recap, there are now 8 known states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, bose-einstein condensate, time crystal, and apparently water and ice.
The parent comment is talking about what would happen if, for example, you typed this in bash to try to download a video:

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&pp=sAQA

In this case, bash would interpret it as "run youtube-dl in the background with the parameter 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ', then execute the command 'pp=sAQA' to set the 'pp' variable".

The comment is joking that if YouTube decided to replace "pp=sAWA" with "reboot", they could get a lot of people to accidentally reboot their machines instead because they didn't quote the URL.
I mean, some don't. But that quote was apparently from a publicly posted (on the company Twitter), redacted letter to Blizzard from the person's employer after Blizzard tried to become a customer.
Tactical ideas to try out at your next team meeting
You forget that at the height of the browser wars Netscape was vying with Microsoft to add new features and they didn't particularly need to be compatible; remember Javascript wasn't (initially) available on Internet Explorer, it was Netscape only for at least a year or two. I wonder that Netscape didn't add a few more languages to the party as a fire and motion exercise against the competition.

The moment "does it run on IE?" became uppermost in developers minds was (as I see it) the moment the original browser wars ended and the long cold war began. But there was a cambrian explosion of often-incompatible features before that.

Edit: I definitely buy that as the reason that IE didn't adopt any other languages, though, and maybe there just wasn't time for Netscape to bolt another one on? Or maybe their great rewrite got in the way (I'm hazy about the timeline for that).
The joys of a conservative government.
Apple's supreme UX and mobile hardware aside, no one in their right mind, who's serious about privacy, would ever use android. The amount of hoops you need to jump through to degoogle an android device (with continuous degoogled upgrades) is insane.

Android is perfect for the burner phones though, the ones that you trash after a call or 2 (still, expect that every sensor possible will be reporting it's data back to "a manufacturing party" the moment you activate it)
I live in Vancouver, and houses here cost $2 million if you want something approaching decent. The median income here is under $100k. Are you going to tell me this is fine?
History of the Washing Machine
I was under the impression that Amazon's web hosting drove it's profitability.
An interesting fact is that JavaScript really has nothing to do with Java. They paid Sun $5 million to license the word "Java", because it was an extremely popular language at the time.
Before this devolves, please put yourself in the shoes of a woman wanting to work in the industry and knowing a bunch of drunk men not only think hitting on you is appropriate, but also they’re the people that hold the keys to your hiring role and future promotions. You’d stay the fuck away.
Get a protonvpn account and protonmail address. Make a linux desktop VM without credentials and keep that safe. When you wan to search for something make a copy, and nuke it afterwards. Obviously a live cd would work too.

If you need to secure files use the proton drive beta for example.

The proton suite of tools is actually quite good and better then DIY or several cheap as dirt providers.
> If you're only going out to lunch with other peons, it's probably not going to help you much.

You'd be surprised. Today's peons are often tomorrow's movers and shakers. But yes, going to lunch with diverse people in your organization helps.

This is also a huge problem with WFH. WFH doesn't build valuable social/work connections. It's easy to overlook the contributions of WFH people. It's easy to forget their names. They're often the first to get laid off in a downturn, and last to get promoted. Meeting your customers face-to-face is far more likely to end in a sale, than with zoom.
> There were 307 gold medals awarded

Does that account for team sports, or Paralympics?
Playdate pre-sells 20K devices in 17 minutes
I suspect that the business model (advertising) is a more fundamental cause.
I have never experiences any problems with that setup
Behavior like this is extremely common in the security community, and not even just towards women. Unfortunately many people in the industry are essentially socially maligned outcasts and fail to see how inappropriate it is to use this same behavior towards strangers, especially women, at a conference. It’s not a hacker IRC channel with people you’ve known for a decade who appreciate low effort dark humor, it’s sexual harassment.
Put another way, the problem boils down to companies that only optimize for one variable (shareholder value) relying on algorithms that only optimize for one variable (engagement).

Taken together, it results in a lot of negative externalities that get ignored at every level.
Most People Don't Understand How Bad Climate Change Already Is
I have an ethic issue with these kind of challenges and rewards. When a company spends millions of dollars, probably tens of millions on a project… $3,500 reward for, in a way, successfully contributing to that project feels off.

Don’t get me wrong, the subject and goals of the work are definitely good but not entirely philanthropic. I feed like helping to find and fix broken parts of a billion dollars for profit industry should generate significantly more wealth than few grands
I haven't used Stadia, but I always thought the promise of doing automatic live optimizations for games as players play is a cool idea. Here they're doing it by pre-computing and caching Vulkan pipelines, some of which may never have been encountered before, so as soon as they're cached they improve the experience for all subsequent players.
> WTH is going on down there?

Apparently the Morrison government completely bungled the vaccine rollout. My elderly parents can’t even get a shot and it’s not for lack of trying.
#2 is interesting...can you give an example solving circular dependencies?
Even if you had an interface, wouldn't you still have the implementations still causing a circular dependency?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as "communist" countries are in fact, Marxist-Leninist, or as I've recently taken to calling them, "state capitalist"
> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors.

[citation needed]

Having lived through that period of time, I do not recall Java applets and JavaScript ever being considered to be in the same category / trying to solve similar problems.
Unsolicited advice:

Bridge the entire community to Matrix.

Matrix allows rooms and communities from other services to be bridged in so that discussion can continue with people still tied to proprietary platforms. The Pine64 community has done this very well and I regularly use their chats via Matrix while others use IRC, Discord, or Telegram.
Apple exists too. That's why I criticize both in due measure.
Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived.

Long-lived here meaning 10^-10 seconds, instead of 10^-20 seconds. A whole tenth of a nanosecond!
Flying toasters!
tiff is a universal format
To take it one step further I'm convinced at this point that the social conundrum presented by Twitter and other social media platforms has extended far beyond the algorithm and the platforms themselves, and into how people interact in general.

The reductionist, reactionary mode of thinking now rears its head in my real-world interactions. I wouldn't care as much if people kept that stuff on these social platforms that I spend next to zero time on, but I can't help but roll my eyes when my friends speak in "hot takes" as if I'm handing out certificates for internet points.
The single decision from the Yarn team to not offer a reasonable transition path from v1 to v2 was a total blocker for my teams.

After trying it on seldected projects, we collectively decided that it was not worth it to follow a project that did not take its users' time seriously, since the migration was so hard.

So, yarn@v1 then npm@v7+ for us.
Neils degrasse Tyson has a really good video presentation he made at some UAE conference that's on YouTube somewhere. I normally don't listen too much to the science popularizers (Bill Nye, Tyson, Kaku...etc) that get consulted to talk about subjects outside their specialty (Example: talk to a geologist or whatever and not a string theorist when discussing plate tectonics). However, this one got my attention.

NDT says that people do big expensive projects for 3 reasons:
1.) War (people will do anything not to die like build a great wall or an atom bomb), 2.) For religious reasons or to satisfy a monarchy(pyramids, Notre Dame cathedral), or 3.) For economics.

We spent $$$$ on the space program as it was a key part of showing off our might in the cold war (#1). NDT speculates that Mars will not happen unless there is a military or economic reason to go there since #2 isn't big anymore.
How exactly it was quasi-suicidal? Did it affect anything for him, except some criticism that was very much drowned out by the cheering crowd?
Nowhere did I say or imply that homeless people are "inherently" anything, and I never said or implied that a problem "cannot be solved". Quite the opposite, I'll assert that housing-first plus treatment is in fact a permanent solution for many indigent people, and I wholeheartedly support it.

In your apparent lack of experience, you're strawmanning any argument that doesn't align with your opinions.

And you also apparently forgot to read the study you cited, because it supports exactly what I've been saying: fourteen percent of their participants could not be kept in their intensive housing+treatment program. Fourteen percent is a hell of a lot better than the usual two-thirds, but that's still a whole lot of people that we don't know how to help, no matter how many resources we throw at them. I know people just like that, even if you refuse to acknowledge their existence, and I don't pretend to have the answers. It's a hard, hard problem.

How about this: since you seem to have this figured out, write up your proposal for a permanent, humane solution for that fourteen percent. I'm sure the folks who've spent careers trying to figure it out would love to know what you think they're doing wrong. Go get em tiger!
He probably should. Studies show protease inhibitors are effective treatment: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpt.13356 But don't say this here, because HN downvotes science. Their religion is against it.
Don’t forget that Amazon still needs almost $200 billion more in revenue to beat Walmart. They have $550 billion in revenue and don’t have something like AWS.

Amazon has only recently pioneered last mile logistics. It still isnt that great. I’m in a large metro area and 25-50% of my packages do not meet the prime delivery dates. I’d argue Walmart is still the king of logistics, for now.
That sounds very Stephen Wolfram to me.
an aside: i really wish hn had a redaction-style, click-to-reveal spoiler system. not that i don’t appreciate the spoiler warning here — it’s quite kind that people mark their comments as-such — but even when i’ve seen “spoiler warnings” for other content that i’d rather not be spoiled on, it’s very hard to not skim the next few proceeding lines out of habit (especially on mobile). i can’t imagine i’m the only one who does this.
New Coke is a great example of design biases. Pepsi in the 80s was beating Coke year after year in 80s double blind taste tests of 2oz or so sample pours. Pepsi was hugely proud of this and it was a big part of their advertising.

Coke wanted to beat those tests, so they designed a soda that people loved much more than Pepsi under those same double blind studies. In an 2oz or so sample people adored New Coke over Pepsi.

In a 2oz pour (shot) the sweetness is a big differentiator, the one that stands out is pretty much always going to be the sweetest. (Like the Loudness Wars in music, there's a dumb human psychological bias in small samples for sweeter in taste or louder in volume as "better", despite both being awful for your health in quantity.) What Pepsi and Coke both seemed to forget in the 80s that focusing on these 2oz "micro-benchmark" test studies was that most people don't drink just 2oz at a time, the unit is generally closer to the 12oz can or more. When drinking more than say 2oz overly-sweet becomes a problem in how it lingers and you want a more balanced palette, which Coke Classic always delivered better than Pepsi.

The failure of New Coke will always be a great illustrated story of make sure you are designing for the right benchmarks (and sometimes micro-benchmarks especially are a trap).

I believe that deeper extension of this metaphor likely also applies to Itanium, they designed it for 2oz pour benchmarks where it sometimes got fantastic numbers, but most compilers got awful numbers in realistic real world workflows.
This reminds of the time at Twitter when all Japanese users were (accidentally) inferred to be female after a model changed.
>you're being downvoter and I don't understand why.

Probably because Amazon historically hasn't done vertical integration. Amazon Basics items aren't manufactured in Amazon factories. Heck, half the time they're not even branded. I bought an AB air conditioner last month and there wasn't a single Amazon logo on the box.

A maximal Amazon would eat all retail, but I don't seem them running hotels or hospitals. They could still cause plenty of problem if 1 in 4 people worked there, though.
https://github.com/RustAudio

They list their official Dicourse/Discord chat there. I believe this is a set of Free Software projects of a sort.
Just forwarded this news to my executive team who held up my attempts at getting us GDPR and CCPA compliant for 8 months last year. They said the laws were 'toothless'. Happy to be proven correct!
The consequences of this is not neutral because false positives were treated for Covid. No one knows what the consequences of that medical misapplication of treatment was.
> True for what it is, but this is handled in the books. They literally don’t want our planet, they want our star.

That's... an odd reason. There are plenty of stars out there, unless the aliens started out right next door (like in Alpha Centauri) there's not much reason to go after our star.

I haven't read the books...