skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see anything wrong in measuring gallons per mile and measuring in yards and other non-metric systems when it's something local. Maybe it's convinient if you live somewhere where everybody accustomed to that.

It's when I see articles about space exploration with miles and pounds - it feels wrong.
> A lot of rural communities have no other viable options for some items as well.

I sometimes fantasize about what it would be like to live in a mild-to-moderately isolated community - moving to Hawaii, northern Alaska, some random island. It's fascinating reading blogs by people who live there, and many of them have a "So You Want to Move to _____" type of post. In virtually all of them, there is some comment along the lines of "It's really hard to find all the things you're used to buying out here, but at least Amazon delivers to us." One of those that I was reading about Hawaii said the big island only has a few big box stores but Amazon can deliver in two to three days.

Just thought that was an interesting tidbit.
Two introverts might keep to themselves, but an extrovert passing an introvert in the hallway may spark a conversation, or take a quick detour by their cubicle/office on the way to the break room. Introvert-Introvert adhoc might not be any different with WFH, but Introvert-Extrovert & Extrovert-Extrovert would definitely suffer for being harder to achieve organically & adhoc.
China is a threat to the world. They have North Korea in their back pocket, they put their own citizens into concentration camps and are rapidly on the move to expand their territory. We can also mention being the biggest threat to the environment, spying, Covid and a lot more. the bottom line is that something needs to be done.
"respect all of them"

Apple is disrespecting all of them
Build processes output a lot of useless junk messages all the time. First challenge is to make the relevant line stand out. Our build in a similar situation uses a cowsay ascii art where the cow tells you that your foobar is out of date. Stands out very clearly. Also makes it clear that this is not just some obscure system grumbling but that this is a very intentional message from your colleagues.

The other thing “how do i fix this?” might mean is that the person asking doesn’t know how to update their foobar. Our system state the exact command the developer has to run to get their foobar to the correct version. No guesswork needed. Saves a ton of time.
I would think twice about executing bash code from people's profiles. Sure, the prior probability of trolls is pretty low on HN, and I know that your specific snippet is safe, but it's easy to get fooled, even if you think you know what you are doing. See https://superuser.com/questions/996795/how-and-why-is-this-s....
Nothing, since I did the successful patents through my employer :-)
> Which is a perfectly reasonable decision

Why is that "reasonable"?

How does it ultimately benefit end-users when they can no-longer use userland software to control their monitor via DDC?
> Morally, it is fairly unambiguous. If the unmarried partner knew they were banging a married person, they are just as responsible.

Perhaps that's your moral view, but it does not represent everyone else's morals, so I don't know why you're claiming it to be "unambiguous". There's plenty of people who would say that the unmarried person in an affair shares less of the blame than the married person in the affair. For starters, the married person breaks a contract, whereas the unmarried person does not have a contract to break.
Walmart is starting to become more competitive again re #1
No. Like in many western nations, it came down to politics.

State governments and the Federal government hold different powers. In Australia the exercise of health care is a state-level responsibility, hence state-wide health orders leading to successful COVID management. The management of prescription medicines and their costs is borne by the Federal government.

The states that "beat" COVID are currently led by progressive parties, while the Federal government is conservative and, allegedly, incredibly corrupt.

The Federal government is to blame for the vaccination rate. The states that "beat" COVID have generally done so by going against the Federal government's advice to 'open up and live with it'.
Rewarding a select group of high performers is a great way to underpay overall. You sell the idea of a bonus, but bonuses get easily taken away, and only go to a few select individuals.

I don't think Amazon "underpays" per say - but the working conditions described seem quite poor.
Under what OS? I find Cascadia Code on macOS very thick, almost like a bold font.
Sucks to suck. If any industry is lacking for capital to face a pivot it certainly isn't real estate. The interest rate is ridiculously low and no one seems to believe it will change.
In a democracy, any laws preventing release of government secrets really should come with a public interest defence.
It's interesting to note that the hesitant adoption of "restrict" in C has affected rust's use of the LLVM implementation of that feature.

In rust, technically almost every pointer is non-aliasing, so you could enable "restrict" (or rather its equivalent down in the LLVM layer) by default for almost every pointer. However, this uncovered many unexercised corner cases where LLVM's restrict implementation appeared broken:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57259126/why-does-the-ru...

Scroll down to the answer to see how often noalias was enabled and disabled.
LOL.

eBay is even worse!

Zeroth, lots of eBay resellers drop-ship from or resell directly from Amazon. There are plenty of bots looking for arbitrage opportunities between Amazon, brick-and-mortar, and OEM.

First, there's absolutely zero guarantee that you'll get what you bought. The chances of you getting a box of rocks is significantly greater on eBay than on Amazon (unless you use Amazon Marketplace, in which the chances of this happening are _still_ lower).

Second, returns and disputes are generally settled C2C (consumer-to-consumer). Which means you're completely at the mercy of the seller (or the buyer, if you're selling). PayPal acts as a mediator, but they are really easy to game.

Ever heard of the US Postal Investigations Service? Or the FBI IC3? Well, you'll get to know those departments _real_ well once you start using eBay enough.

Third, PayPal has a Buyer Protection guarantee, but it only applies in a handful of specific situations and is, again, very easy to game. Hard contrast to Amazon's return policy, which is, basically, "if you still have it, and it's in the return window, you can return it, unless you abuse it."
Home Depot and Lowe’s already offer service in the market segment. They advertise fixed prices but their affiliates don’t take on projects with unusual conditions. And sometimes never provide a quote because they are busy.

There is always an unmet demand for below market rate services. Always a demand for work with infeasible economics.

The construction market is highly efficient. Competitive bidding is normative.
There have actually been leaked Amazon documents that explicitly state this: https://www.newswars.com/leaked-amazon-whole-foods-docs-work...
It would be funny if everyone thinks they used this sophisticated technology or supercomputer when in reality it was just someone with an excel workbook at ton of vba code

/s
It's one thing if you have a source of revenue so justify your S3 costs. My interpretation of the parent commentator's concern is that this person has opened up a multi gigabyte S3 file publicly and sent lots of traffic its way (via hacker news) for what appears to be a passion project.
Tcl is so useful, I wish it would have taken off more than it did. I do a little 'chef kiss' every time I talk about how useful Tcl/Tk is/was in its day...

Then we settled for PHP somehow :/

Followed by the drupal era.
> So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?

Lobby your congressperson to break up Amazon and all the other big tech companies. Prevent them from bundling, vertically integrating, and using loss leading products to make all competitors not competitive.

Make their delivery network its own company who takes orders from other suppliers. Make their storefront and warehouses its own entity. Make their media organization stand on its own. People smarter than me can figure this out.

Make policy that punishes national and international companies and favors local businesses, and keeps the taxbase local rather than in Delaware.

Ultimately there's little that one can do with this hyper concentrated economy other than push for and join the political wave against concentration.
Not enough of a threat for the western world to cut them off. Until everyone stops trading with them, they'll keep getting richer and developing themselves.
Interview with Noam Chomsky: Capitalism and Free Speech
Many online conferences I've attended this past year have both a Zoom meeting for registered participants and a YouTube "simulcast" for people who don't care about asking questions. I haven't run one and don't know if the logistics are complicated; maybe the organizers just didn't think of doing it. Anyway, these days most conferences seem to be pretty quick at putting videos out, though of course our attention will be elsewhere next week...
Don't be shy. What is it that you think needs to be done?
Bingo, Daring Fireball on fullscreen shows my burn-in in the full glory.
Employee demand will matter to the extent that there's some level of employer supply in the market. If most employers hold the line, there isn't much for employees to choose from, unless they're one of the very fortunate few who have the luxury of deciding not to work until the appropriate opportunity comes along. If large numbers of employees can't afford to hold out for better WFH policies, then plenty of companies won't need to offer them.
In this context it sounds like supercomputer would more analogous to mainframe.
He is a high level career politicians and therefore has friends in the right places so the procedural things that need to happen for him to be impeached will simply not happen unless there's a reason.

The party will depose him eventually because they don't want people known to have those skeletons in their closet but it will either happen quietly later (i.e. he won't seek further political office and will get a cushy board job somewhere), or if in the near future the party needs to look like it's tough on incompetence or tough on sexual misconduct he'll be the sacrificial lamb.

Welcome to single party state politics.
Personally, I am convinced that all of the harms of social media can be traced back to the Garden of Eden.

People just decide to be bad sometimes. The perfect feed algorithm doesn't exist.
I heard this report on the radio version of The Morning Edition, and it was roughly the same as this article... but then Chris Boyd's (sp?) Think came on after, with a follow up about MTV during the same period, and it was almost entirely white flagellation. For every subject brought up about MTV's history and decision making process, there were two or more references to race as an unsubstantiated, assumed reason for what MTV did. I am so very, very tired of this near constant race baiting from NPR and affiliates, but I don't know how to make a difference. And yes, I do know all the arguments assuming that I'm only feeling uncomfortable because of my own privilege or whiteness or whatever, and all I can say without laughing too hard is that these arguments are extremely wrong.
> the UK has accused China of flouting the terms of its handover agreement, but China denies this.

The UK invaded China to push heroin and opium on the Chinese, and now thinks it has the right to demand how a Chinese city is run. The height of western imperial arrogance, it's hilarious to see all the white professionals here, working from home in their segregated neighborhoods talking about pushing for the return of western domain over Chinese cities for "humanitarian reasons".
If artificial intelligence were at all smart it would be a partner & be able to communicate with us. But instead we have these ridiculous black box machines, which purport to replace not participate in intelligence.
Get outta there
Why is that bad? This is a startup forum at the end of the day.
Many CDNs cannot cache 43GB files.

Cloudflare's limit is 10GB, 20GB for Cloudfront, 150GB for Akamai and Azure.
It's satirical to hammer home the point to tread carefully with advise from random people on the internet.
Is it actually I2C over the Thunderbolt cable? I had assumed it was I2C just between the CPU and video hardware on the motherboard.
They can. This entire article is about how they implemented it on M1 macs. Did you read it?
Didn't know you could pump 43GB of data into a browser.
A $300K salary in the context of $5 million-dollar houses makes much less sense if you can be happy and less stressed with an $80K salary with $150K houses.
One of the main reason I slowly started removing american media (movies, music, series, books, games etc) from my life a decade ago or so
He wrote those comments in 2003. The instruction decode logic takes up less space with each new chip and process shrink. These days I don't think it really matters much.
Comparing S3 and EBS performance for our hosted database
Safari can do what it wants, but telling every iphone user they can only have a low-feature, web-lite, period, is batshit insanity.

This is absolutely a colossal anti-trust violation, doing colossal harm to society at large, keeping the web from being viable again and again, with it taking years to support WebRTC, years to supoprt ServiceWorkers, years to support every single thing, and the gap seemingly growing. This is a huge abuse of colossal market position, restricting the internet itself from competing with a closed platform, purely because it benefits Apple not to allow the situation to be fixed.

Their warchest is huge, they could participate in calls to implement, could ship features, but they dont. Even if they did, I would still prefer users not to be locked in to a monoculture, to have to use a specific browser.

This rhetoric that the standards bodies have been usurped is insanity, is bedlam. Show some evidence, make a case. No one does. This age keeps being swept by cheap, lying, low-grade dismissive politicians & schucksters selling popularist rage, and this post is some low quality grade-A unsupported zeal-filled techie-politics rage. It's not true. Standards bodies are alive and well. TAG is still elected, of good healthy techie stock, who review each of the various efforts & emphasize the better critiques & raise their own.

The only selling out that's happened is that the ad-industry keeps Google from doing good things, and sells to sow dissent that someone is trying to ratchet up privacy, which Google has been slowly doing (yes to the benefit of their search engine, but first party traffic ought to have privileges over third party traffic).

Standards work is hard as heck. There is not enough participation, there are not enough players funding standards work. But I don't see people being blocked, people being cut out from the work. I see Apple standing aside usually & silently refusing the calls to implement. I see not enough people participating. But chalking this up to conspiracy & the web being sold out? Please. These techies care. They want a better web, genuinely. They are trying, really hard. Everything happens in the open, in documented meetings. Trying to ascribe conspiracy & great machinations to this is sickening, is revolting disinformation. Do not market yourself on selling distrust & doubt in the world; do ally yourself with those who do foment & tear down & sow doubts (especially so out of hand, so very lacking a case).
This sort of thing has worked in specific Usenet newsgroups. If you're posting to comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.shell, everyone there understands what it is, and that it's safe.

Then in the next newsgroup over, like comp.lang.lisp, you have the Lisp version of it, and so on.

Not so sure about HN. Sure it's "Hacker" News, but the audience is a bit broader than just native speakers of Unixese. You never know who might go looking for you through your HN profile.
Google’s quantum computer supposedly just made a time crystal
All these sites you are posting are causing multiple pop up windows to happen. There is something very dodgy about these sites.
I'd like to recommend having a personal site (not simply a professional portfolio) as well. I read through people's accounts on forums often, and it's nice to have an external place to go where they have a stronger stake of ownership and more autonomy to model themselves.

Also, HMU, yo.
I think the idea of independence is still fairly contentious within Taiwanese politics, though they're currently governed by a pro-independence party so maybe that doesn't really matter. It is true, though, that the current cross-Strait consensus would be upset by Taiwan NOT claiming to govern the Mainland, making the "West Taiwan" jokes not make any kind of sense.
Nobody wants to be around communist USA tyrants any more.
Correct, downloading this 40GB file could easily leads to huge s3 bills due to traffic. That's 1$ for a full download.
It's also right there in your own comment that he "plays up to it", which is pretty much the definition of an act. Many people manage to be related to life peers and even attend Eton without appearing to be auditioning for a role in a costume drama about eighteenth century aristocrats.
If unionization takes hold for tech / software engineering type jobs, I’m curious what this will do to the ability of companies to effectively compete and attract talent. The best people I know are aware of their value and typically want to work with like minded motivated people. How many pro-union people here have actually put in time at union shops in more traditional industries to understand the perverse incentive structure unions can have on individual productivity.
Well, depending on just exactly where you are, if you have access to any way of using credit card to pay for what you need, or a way to turn a credit card balance into cash, you should be fine with one of several card style options from Binance or Crypto.com (is swipe SXP(?) one?) and USDC (the singular most unbreakable 1:1 physically backed USD equivalent in crypto) in your balance.

However in do keep in mind, especially when running from bad things (like a dictatorship) - absolutely nothing some cold hard money on hand for fares/bribes of whatever kind.

That said, if you were going to go with a exchanges physical card option, you would want to order that... like, now.

Also, if you are a singular person without a family... I would be looking to get on a smuggler/refugee boat towards Italy or something. If you're stuck in the country for family or whatever other reasons, I wish you the best, try to have some supplies in backpacks to run into the jungles/slums if shit starts to hit the fan.
Ah, yes, that's true: If the companies are paying leases to properties owned by their investors, that changes things a bit. (For the investors though, not the companies)
I see. I was assuming we were thrusting with nothing but gamma radiation, which is the speed of light, unbeatable, but I see with such small black holes, we may end up with some matter evaporating from it. I suppose that's one more benefit to larger, colder black holes: more likely to have lightspeed radiation than massive particles.

We could go for something closer to the temperature of the sun / wavelength of green light, about 10^19kg, easy to reflect, but that's about 0.1% the mass of the moon and would only output about 3.5 microwatts. Could try to balance between an amazingly reflective mirror to EUV or shorter wavelengths, which is more physically realistic than reflecting gamma rays, and usable power output, but that's simply out of reach at the moment. I wonder if we had an atomically smooth mirror, the smallest wavelength we could reflect with efficiency, and thus the highest power black hole we could use. Maybe it makes more sense for the black hole to have much higher mass than the spaceship, but 1g acceleration will be difficult.

Looks like most atoms are about 0.1nm, so 10^18kg black hole, for 350 microwatts. Like turning on a laser pointer attached to the moon and expecting usable thrust. Still far too large and not powerful enough to be a useful power source like a a 10^8kg black hole for around a petawatt. Either we figure out how to reflect deep gamma rays or it won't happen.
The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting
Be cool. Don't try so hard to be liked. Don't think. Give
fewer f's what other people think because YCPEATT.
Guy from Twin Peaks, girl from Commando, and Ron Perlman! Definitely worth checking out!
for me yarn 2 was a clusterfuck. I thought dependency resolution, would be better but nah. then it also polluted my workspace with dozens of json files. and issue of packages not being found, when using esm via node.
Nikola's ex-CEO Trevor Milton arrested on fraud charges
Funny, I just started playing with DDC a few days ago. I've got a work (Mac) and a personal laptop (Dell XPS with Linux) that I like switching between. I had a thunderbolt hub, but was getting tired of moving the cable back and forth, and it was also unreliable on the Mac, causing it to heat up and slow down on occasion.

I ended up just buying a pure USB hub with a switch, and running a persistent polling bash script on the Mac and the Linux machines that calls the appropriate DDC commands to switch the monitor input based on which machine the USB hub is switched to. It's fast and works great.
I think the statement you're replying to is more talking about staple items, not long-tail items. Things like toilet paper, toothpaste, shoes, etc. should be widely-available from local stores (both online and brick-and-mortar), and yet people still go to the aggregators for them, because it's easier and gives them predictable pricing, delivery, and quality.
These likely aren’t the same people in this stat. Once you’re rooted, you’re rooted, but these people aren’t rooted. You’re also supporting the lower costs solutions exist aspect of my argument. Sure they require a commute but they exist.
It doesn’t feel like a startup forum anymore. When is the last time you’ve seen a post about improving a landing page?
It’s more of a general tech forum now.
Doesn't sound like a great plan really. If I were you I'd work harder with the domain owner to get control. It sounds like he's just hard to reach, not obstructive as such.

A name change is a huge thing and you're diluting your userbase. I also think most of your userbase will consider such name changes a bad thing as rebranding is a major marketing tool of big business which a lot of us would be sceptical of.

I think you do good work but your name is already perfect.
It's not about privacy really.

They can stop you using a piece of hardware you purchased. With no warning. With no repercussions. And essentially no way to appeal.

Would I be okay if Sony could remote disable my PlayStation? Obviously not. So why is it acceptable with VR hardware?

It's not 'good value' if you can be blocked from using it.
I'm not a frequent Walmart delivery customer, but my impression was they didn't take buy-online/ship-to-home or buy-online/ship-to-store seriously until the Jet acquisition. Which Walmart bought in 2016?
https://xkcd.com/705/#extreme-sysadmin-diehard-gag
Turn it off. Don't listen, don't fund it. It might not make a difference, but it'll make it no longer your problem.