skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That holds true when you need proxies for the thing you really care about. You can't just tell VPs, departments, etc to just make more money, which of course is what most KPIs are going to seek to do in one way or another. So we construct measurements that should reasonably result in increased profits for the company. And these then become gamed whereby the measurement goes up, but the profits do not.

Carbon is actually interesting because we don't actually need proxies. Put a global cap on emissions and enforce it like the existential threat it is, and then let the market trade around it. Auction off the allowances to fund/subsidize other things.
Yeah, I wonder why they didn't prioritize lowering the cost to make it more accessible to people? This project can only take of if lots of people start using the phone. I doubt a few hundreds of folks, mostly in first world countries, with a decently high income, would be a large enough crowd for this project's long time success, I hope they become successful. The laptop in the other hand, is decently priced, for what it offers.
* Escaping inflationary fiat currencies
* Avoiding capital controls
* Avoiding financial censorship
* Not growing poor slowly
I agree. It'd be nice to see the karma threshold for downvote powers vary based on the thread.

It's a lot harder to get a bunch of accounts to 5,000 karma than it is 500. There's enough HN users in that range to still take out the trash, but it'd create major problems for disinformation rings trying to sway the discussion.
Kahan summation[1] may be better than just doing a sorted sum & doesn't require you have all the numbers up-front to sort (i.e. running sum). Although I think even it benefits from doing it in sorted order if you do have the full history available & the wikipedia article lists a parallelization technique you can leverage in that case. Klein sum might be better but I haven't investigated.

EDIT: Apparently there's a nice Rust crate for doing this stuff: https://crates.io/crates/accurate

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahan_summation_algorithm#Alte...
So we can't make anything better because eventually it might get worse. Got it.

This is like telling someone not to treat a broken arm because everyone dies eventually.

What it should be looked at is like jump-starting a dodgy engine. You give it some fuel and some spark and it spits and sputters and dies. You tinker with it and do it again.

If we tinker with the engine of truthfulness long enough, giving it enough fuel and enough spark, eventually we could work out the kinks and get it running. Sure, there will be a lot of false starts and backfires, but it can be made to work.

That is worthwhile, and that's what I'll keep advocating for. Too bad you and others like you refuse to be on my side, it would make it a lot easier.
This happens all the time.

Open a race track in the middle of nowhere.
20 years later you have a group of neighbors asking you to cease your activity because it’s too loud.

Same with airports.
The USA is a superpower. Superpowers have units dedicated to information warfare. Some of these units deal with controlling discourse and sentiment. HN is a fairly prominent public forum within the tech industry. The USA wants global influence, particular in the technology sector.

It's reasonable to assume they probably have some fairly clever downvote rings here that are well hidden.
>Pinephone requires two binary blobs for the WiFi/Bluetooth [...]

One binary blob for the WiFi/Bluetooth. The other binary blob is for the modem, for which an alternative OSS firmware has been in development for some time. There's also a third blob for the camera autofocus firmware.

>[...] in Linux kernel, [...]

All three blobs are firmware, not drivers. There are no blobs in the kernel. It's identical to the Librem 5 in this regard; the Librem 5 also has firmware blobs for WiFi/Bluetooth, modem, and some others, but no blob drivers.

>[...] and cannot run FSF-endorsed distros without adding those blobs.

You can disable the WiFi/Bluetooth, modem, and camera with hardware switches. Given that, and that the RYF criteria allows firmware blobs for auxiliary chips, I'm not sure why it would apply differently to the Librem 5 vs the PinePhone.
Actually nimby zoning is more so what prevents this in Seattle. Without such small groups of home owners could potentially drastically increase their profit on their homes by selling together to a developer building an apartment building.
Obxkcd: https://i.redd.it/z8xovfqjwqj71.png

(Via: https://teddit.net/r/xkcd/comments/pc5gl9/ive_checked_out_an...)
Currently supported data sources are:

Blogger, Dailymotion, Youtube, Stackoverflow, Apex Legends, Division 2, CSGO, OSRS, Twitch, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Steam, osu!.

I'm expanding it with more data sources, and as you mentioned a Custom JSON Data Source. (You'll be able to enter your own URL, and rasterizer will pull a json from the URL)
I didn't see a "concise critique", just internet snark and name-calling. Those things are tedious and degrade discussion, which is why the site guidelines ask commenters here to avoid them.

You even used quotes to make it look like you were quoting someone when you weren't, which is a trope of degraded discussion in its own right.

Thoughtful critique is welcome on HN. That requires substantive engagement with something somebody actually said. It also requires some meaningful relationship to the topic. I didn't see that here, nor any actual information.

By 'fulminating' I suppose I mean the high-indignation-low-information style of internet commenting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

One thing you might find helpful for understanding what's good vs. bad to post to HN—at least I have found it helpful—is the distinction between reflexive and reflective posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... Your GP comment struck me as reflexive. It basically seems to hop along a chain of reflexes like this: rich person -> rage -> other rich person -> rage.

Another point I orient by is that HN threads get less interesting and valuable as they get more generic (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), and especially as they get more generic+indignant. To me your GP comment seemed like a sharp move in those directions, which is always a move towards threads getting worse and more predictable. Keep in mind that the issue is not just the value of a comment individually but the expected value of the subthread it is likely to lead to: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

I hope that helps explain things a bit and isn't too much of a downer. I appreciate the question and your intention to understand. I also agree that there are reasonable critiques to be made about "billionaire donates to soup kitchen" stories (if that's what this was). But not by fulminating, and especially not on classic flamewar topics.
Kidnap their future leaders and replace with CCP appointee?

(This actually happened in Tibet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Panchen_Lama_controversy)
In eastern germany, there were many anti-government meetings and plans, and sometimes, literally all of people there were different stasi members reporting on other stasi members.
Thanks. I'm on Ubuntu, though.
If I had to guess, it would depend on how those historical figures relate to contemporary partisan politics.
What was done to Vietnamese, Syrians, Libyans, Afghans, Iraqis, Somalis, Serbians, etc is also wrong.
From a manager's perspective, I see this a lot, people who overcommit to their work, thinking that they are responsible for everything. I appreciate their efforts but that's never expected (and anyone who does is abusing you).

What I expect are sustainable and realistic expectations. Losing someone because they couldn't sustain 80+ hour work weeks is about as useful as someone who works 20 hour weeks.
> "As a conservative..."

you had a good comment going until you tribalized yourself (with a false dichotomy, to boot). the pull of the tribe will always subvert independent thinking.

that's not to say we can exist devoid of identities, but that we should always be cognizant of the bias they introduce, and actively reduce the attack surface of that bias by not adopting identifying ideologies needlessly. you can for example be amenable to many "conservative" ideas without considering yourself a conservative, and especially without joining an ideological party (like the republicans).

the goals you mention are not ideological, so why bring ideology into the conversation?
Based on your tone, it seems like you are critical of the article, but your critique is actually what the article is addressing. Specifically, "Effect 2" demonstrates a unique property of "induced demand" that doesn't fit into traditional discussions of supply and demand.
Carpeted kitchens.
Yeah, the other one cost 900. Not necessarily cheap.

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
In my experience way more Python devs know and are comfortable with attrs than dataclasses simply because its been around much longer.

Devs moving off of attrs generally go to pydantic in my experience.

Direct usage of dataclasses is literally zero across several python companies and many python codebases I have worked with.
If you build your culture on an ethic of competitive individualism, this is what you get.

Hardly anyone is really happy. Not even those with huge piles of money.

They're comfortable and (largely) immune to everyday threats. But the system as a whole continues to be made of traps and sharp edges. And a lot of people fall through them, never to be seen again.

Not a few were convinced it couldn't possibly happen to them, until it did.
"Imagine being called a minority in a place you are the majority and have lived for centuries before occupation.
"

Errrrr like White people in near future US?

And there goes my karma..

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/12/census-da...
Hydrogen Is Big Oil's Last Grand Scam
I held a neptunium (20.45 g/cc) sphere once. It was about the size of a baseball and I hard the hardest time lifting it. It was like lifting a full gallon jug of milk when you think it's empty - you apply a force and it doesn't budge. I had to lift it as if I was lifting a stack of books to get it off the pedestal.
I was expecting to read "I love my precious tungsten cube... my precious" in the conclussion
Or about the situation regarding censorship in the USA, which makes this a rather blatant political propaganda piece by itself.

For those who feel like censorship in the USA is less problematic, because it's not state controlled (that is, if it actually isn't) .. consider this: If business can introduce arbitrary censorship, regardless of justification, on platforms that are widely used by many, is this not far more dangerous than any state controlled censorship?

While any governments can of course ignore their supposed accountability for their behavior, business have far less of that accountability to begin with. Although, if the USA was true state of law (not a powerful banana republic pretending), it should hold those companies accountable for limiting the freedoms of citizens regarding what should be allowed according and protected by law. But heck, almost all (emerging) fascistic systems have started (and flourished) on a collusion between corrupt business and an equally criminal government, with a shared interests in each expanding their own powers and influence.

Almost funny to see articles like these coming from the USA these day, knowing in which direction the country is currently moving. Somehow "the emperor has no clothes" comes to mind.
> I struggled a lot with deciding to buy a cube. It felt wrong to spend so much money on a featureless hunk of metal.

When I bought my cube, I used it as an exercise to fight back against my frugality.

But it wasn't meant to be: it was delivered to the wrong address and I received a full refund.

Then my neighbor delivered it to me.
Good. If they keep making huge profits then others will invest in factories to get in on the action.
Since trump, most of the subreddits have been taken over, and the rest quarantined or removed.
k, I probably should have said "newer" (than 850 model) rather than "new". The 870 model though, is pretty new. :)
On the Impending Cryptography Monoculture
yea exactly thing is most people don't want that to happen today.. in Canada.. and the government also.. nor do we want it to happen in west Taiwan... i don't get these peoples arguments that because other people did evil crap west Taiwan should be allowed to do it as well? is that what your trying to say?
Organized crime have international business operation bigger than us. They don’t care about you. It’s just a movie stereotype.

If you go to Sicily you should more worry about you how much good food you will eat rather than organized crime :)
Seems a bit silly to worry about the water supply when both sides have nukes.
Being a minority is a description of political power as much as sheer demographic statistics. There are cases where minorities are the majority, too. Women make up 51% of the US population, but in virtually every other sense they are a minority. In South Africa during apartheid, the black population could be described as a minority in spite of their actual demographic proportions (over 75%).
I'm surprised the EMTs did not know how to remove the ring. Squeeze it with locking pliers and it will break into pieces.
Thanks for posting!
Is metriql entirely open source, or just the CLI?
How do you plan to make revenue?
NewPipe isn't using YouTube-DL. There's a GUI for desktop platforms, and DVD on Android. They know about it plenty. It's still not going anywhere until and unless they add DRM to YouTube. Which I could see happening in a few years.
This is good info, but I don't fully understand why pinning makes self-references safe. I thought the problem with self-references was that they interfere with single-ownership, which is required for automatic deallocation?

I guess maybe if direct self-referencing is a distinct case from indirect self-referencing then it might not be problematic for single-ownership?
I highly doubt the chip shortage a la increased chip demand from a company perspective has to do with gaming/mining GPU demand.

Much of the supply demand can be traced to increased car chip demand (Toyota cutting production by 40%) as well as general device chip demand across many sectors.
> Not even the US - which famously has guns all over - would have any kind of chance against their own military

That is correct, if the objective is to glass the entire place. The US military is the mightiest force in the world when it comes to that.

As far as quelling armed rebellions among the citizenry goes, I think just pointing to this months' news should suffice in lieu of an argument?
Regarding the credit scores study, this may not have to do with forgetting payments as a precursor to dementia, it may have to do with costly medical issues that was the precursor to dementia which caused the financial stress
You can comfortably live in Latvia on that budget, internet infrastructure is very good & cheap. I got by for years only speaking English.
> Apple's P/E ratio is roughly 29. So, if you assume that the $15bn is pretty much all profit (for simplicity here remember), then the value of that for AAPL is roughly $35bn in market cap.

Not sure where you get $35B from. 15B * 29 = $435B
> It's an appealing story to say that the O&G economy is the villain and all the people participating in it are innocent, but the truth is, we know how to live in bronze age societies. This 'evil system' doesn't stick around because it holds us prisoner, it sticks around because most of us prefer the lifestyle. And a story that absolves us of responsibility for participating seems like just another defence mechanism the system has built up.

Normal people have much less choice than you imagine.

Even in the rich western world, only the very affluent can buy electric car instead of gas one. Only the very affluent can afford apartments in city centers so they can walk instead of driving. Nobody can change where their electricity comes from, whether is it coal or renewables. Nobody can pick between grocery store that gets its supply in diesel trucks and second grocery store that gets its supply on electric trucks and trains powered by renewable electricity. There's no "planet non-destroying iphone" next to "planet destroying iphone" in the shop for you to decide between.
Sure, if you constrain “average user” to America. If you go to other places like India, where people don’t have $500 lying around to drop on the latest notebook, you’ll find a lot of repurposed laptops that have several-year-old specs still finding active use. Machines with 2 GB RAM and 250 GB spinning rust are not as uncommon as you might think.

And sure, if you just run one app and that’s it, you might get away with acceptable performance. But now try to install it over slow or metered Internet. Try to run it alongside Chrome/Discord/Eclipse/Spotify/Android Studio. Try to install all those apps without chewing up your disk space. These aren’t hypothetical scenarios, these are very real usability concerns.
I believe if you read far enough in the thread you’ll see Swift’s “Structured Concurrency” proposal does the same thing. In Go you must `go ...` to invoke concurrency. In Swift that would be `async let = ...` under the proposal (which has already been implemented) on main. `async` just says this function returns a “future” and `await` just desugars the future. I prefer Rust’s approach where the future is an actual type, but there’s a nice element to swift’s where it is prt of the syntax, as is similar with swift’s optionals.
I want to buy one but looking at the Amazon Canada listing, it's gonna rack up to $250 + tax
I believe the system started when there were double digit interest rates (in the 80's?).

Now interest rates are much lower, but Koreans got used to paying $0 rent and anything above that feels like they are being ripped off.

One reason landlords like the system is because they can daisy-chain the purchase of multiple properties. They take the first cheonsae deposit and use it to purchase another property, then use the cheonsae deposit from the 2nd property to purchase a 3rd property, and so on...

Even if landlords don't receive monthly rent, they expect to earn money on the increased value of the property. Cheonsae contracts are normally 2 years, then they can ask for more deposit or sell the property for a profit.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonse
I remember articles from 10 years ago alledging China forcefully sterilized Tibetans.
I benchmarked an Alpine's musl doing strstr with a 200-byte "haystack" with a 10-byte "needle" and it's 8x slower than Debian 10's glibc.
Multilevel encryption. It's like you keep valuable stuff in one room, a key for that room is kept in another room, that room not only needs a key, but also a 4-digit pin code, finally that key is kept in a safe that can be opened only with three other keys and so on.
What you just described is exactly how communist China killed millions of people in famines. Among other things, they made industrial production of steel a national goal (trying to beat the UK), and because it didn't work out as expected (lack of industry and mining at the time), small owners of tools like farmers were forced to melt their iron, effectively destroying their necessary tools and wasting their labour time.
That’s not against the law. What are you talking about?

I can’t deliver public performances. But I can certainly play songs for private settings. Usually explicitly, and if not, under fair use.
In the case of cryptocurrency, there is a clear better alternative that is Proof of Stake. It's caused by techological, economical and educational inertia. Cryptocurrency is driven by community consensus, and that's what we're doing here... discussing an outdated consensus (PoW supremacy) in the hope of changing it.
Appreciate the encouragement! I'm planning to pipe all feedback and expectations to System76 directly. I know what I bought likely isn't as good as my Mac from a look and feel standpoint. The Linux community seems incredible, and I'm looking for opportunities to pay money to do my part to push it.
Osmium is not good for you.

If tungsten isn't dense-enough for you, consider platinum or rhenium.
The old workaround was to turn off support for NCQ (queued) trim, instead just using standard trim.

It doesn't seem to have any real downsides. :)
Couple of months ago when Pfizer & Moderna were talking about developing variant specific boosters, wasn't the discourse about how the variant boosters wouldn't need full trials again?
I'm got surprised.
Not by the logic that's been applied up to now. "Better immunity is worth the personal risk of vaccination" is the mantra that's been repeated over and over to those who already had covid.

All of a sudden risk-benefit analysis is debatable? Why is breakthrough infection not a risk worth taking, but vaccine side effects are?

Especially vaccine risk vs the limited marginal benefit for those with natural immunity?
I work sometimes in a metal shop where Tungsten alloys abound. This might be the stupidest hn post I've ever read.

You bought a piece of metal at vastly inflated prices for a very narrow range of performance over a specific set of conditions. Nothing more. Being the hardest isn't being the best. Tungsten is extraordinarily brittle. A hard drop on concrete could crack it.

I'd also argue without a MA (metal analysis or labsheet) you probably bought some tungsten. Lead, slag, tin and other undesirable byproducts also weigh a lot. Your cube, without proper inspection, may also be slightly radioactive as its likely sourced from scrap. This could be good or bad, but the cube most definitely isn't a meaningful purchase.
>Superpowers have units dedicated to information warfare.

My original comment already said as much, no need to mirror of my original comment in condescending fashion with minor changes, as if it's somehow profound.

The key difference is how the capabilities are used. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's fair to assume the U.S. military isn't going around suppressing speech that criticizes say, the United States' woefully broken system of incarceration.
> finding devs (or any other role) that understand security is very, very difficult.

At what level? Are we talking like knowing the different ways to mitigate XSS and other basic OWASP top-10 style things, or having the ability to find the next Spectre or Meltdown?
It's not as severe as advertised.
> I’m also not sure why we need to create a false dichotomy between roads and bike lanes.

Because there is finite width for existing roads between existing buildings, and so quite literally, adding a bike lane often requires removing a car lane. It's not a false dichotomy at all, it's literally measured in meters.

> Have cities considered elevated bike lane networks on pillars...

Do you have any idea how astronomically expensive that kind of stuff would be? It's just not even on the table, realistically speaking, for 99.9% of places.
Same here.

I fight it by doing something - anything - that will help me when I'm ready to start. I'll clean my workspace, gather the tools, start the IDE, write down the phone number, etc. I often end up tackling the whole task this way.

In the long run, it also pays to make projects easy to pick up again. It's harder to cook when the kitchen is dirty, to read when you lost your page, or to code when starting the project involves 20 different commands.
Consider supporting them with a preorder if you can. They have a hard time currently AFAIK.
And yet, (correct me if I'm wrong), a good security person does not need to understand cryptography. He should have some basic understanding of how to apply it, but the knowledge of it's internals and the math behind it is pretty much useless.
The answer has always been investment, but of course what is far more important is eking out that last 20 points for Bradyn's SAT score.