skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the point. The point of all society is to maximise human enjoyment, to satisfy the needs of humans. That's the point of an economy, it's the point of having states, it's the point of manufacture and it's the point of farming. The only "number go up" obsession that exists is making sure there is plenty in this world for humans to enjoy, and that includes keeping the Earth safe and clean.

Degrowth is nothing but a total betrayal of human values for some idea of cosmic justice for what is essentially a chaotic clockwork ball hurling through space. Not only that but it's misplaced betrayal, since while humans might hurt themselves through climate change, the Earth will certainly not be affected in the long term.

Climate change is fought for Earth, for humans. Fighting it through feudalism makes no sense, and is, at least in my view, less likely than humanity investing in long-term prosperity.

For degrowth to happen modern society has to damn near collapse. You'd have to scale back production massively, to the extent that most people wouldn't have jobs to do as there's nothing to produce without going over your production quota. You wouldn't get much enjoyment out of what you have as even a sort of upper lower class lifestyle in the west would go well over consumption goals. Life would essentially regress towards some pseudo-feudal system. Money would eventually lose all meaning as people would have to be provided for or mass starvation policies would have to be put into place. No reasonable species would accept this and giant revolts would inevitably break out.

What is far more likely is that states take increasing control of production in society and simply rationally design it to prevent excess, with markets being thrown out the window. The market system has shown itself to be fundamentally incapable of rationally planning for and preventing climate change and other excesses on a large scale.

Whether that means total abandonment of free markets or heavy regulation of corporations I do not know, but it's nevertheless far more likely than degrowth is.
Australia’s cane toads evolved as cannibals with frightening speed
It's funny, because no-ads is the default on the beginning of paid products life, but seems to disappear for no good reason after they are successful.
The difference is that nobody needs nor wants a floppy drive in their notebook whereas everybody needs a headphone jack on their phone.
> This species has amused itself to death

> NFTs are mostly used as a ponzi game. There's not enough physical art or exotic cars or other collectibles for the moneyed folks to trade, so now they have NFTs.

IMHO, it's more likely that the heart of the NFT economy is based on capital flight, money laundering and black money transfers, and outright fraud based on wash trading: fraud that's dressed up to look like a Ponzi scheme so that the buyer thinks they are in on the grift.
Probably not. B cells can return to germinal centers and undergo further affinity maturation.

Hoskins effect does not block this process, but may slow it down. If the original antibody is still effective, no problem.

Now, if the virus mutates to completely escape existing antibodies, we might have a different story. But in that story, the vaccinated are probably better off than the natural infection crowd.

The vaccine targets a highly conserved region of the RBD; it is largely essential to bind to ACE2. Mutation there is likely to reduce binding affinity and thus become less infectious / virulent.

Natural immunity however suffers from the problem that the body builds antibodies against other regions that are more prone to mutation. Some of those mutations have been shown to enhance infectiousness. So you could end up with a scenario where non RBD targeted antibodies enhance infectiousness while simultaneously you have slowed affinity maturation.
Man, is no one getting that this is self-deprecating, sarcastic humor? It's not meant to be serious. At all.

They got rid of the jack, after making fun of others getting rid of the jack, and now they're bringing it back. The only way to go about that is to laugh at yourself.

This is funny.
Why are you bringing up something else? Awaiting your commentary on the big 3 rebuttals of tired light, and the rebuttals of those rebuttals.
I think this actually a great idea and there is a ton of opportunity here.

Software salesmen over hype their software with fancy presentations, and lo and behold companies are stuck with their shitty software and locked in because the migration is extremely painful.

If you actually make migrations painless and super efficient I think it would be good for all parties and solve a ton of endless time humanity spends on pointless migrations.
>However perfect it might be, it’s been absent on the top-tier Pixels since the Pixel 2.

They are, in fact, literally mocking themselves.
Fair point. If you want to hack something together and don't care too much for the details, Rust will slow you down.

But if you care enough to be writing tests or put lots of thought into API and schema, then maybe you're in the disciplined camp that would get a ton of benefit from switching.

If you're using C++, you should switch for any greenfield project that doesn't need to use legacy libraries. (Writing wrappers for C libraries isn't hard at all.)
It's not either-or; I'm using the query builder to build _parametrized_ queries.

Here are two examples:

https://death.andgravity.com/query-builder-why#introspection
https://github.com/lemon24/reader/blob/10ccabb9186f531da04db...
sure... and wait 2 years for $2
Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
It comes down to how much you're spending. People are spending hundreds of dollars (some spend thousands) on Genshin and other gotcha games. If you're spending hundreds of dollars and you can get 30% more virtual currency for your money then you're much more likely to go out of your way to do it.
We only onboard users in Canada today. But we are finalizing integrations to launch in the US and UK. We support the Nigerian communities first with Kenya coming next.
is that convenience worth paying 30% more? (assuming apps are allowed to have different pricing outside the app store). I think it might for apps you're unsure about at first and want the ability to easily cancel, but for things you're paying for for years? You probably wouldn't mind going thru a stripe web flow for some savings.
These days? This is from 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
Sounds like a desperate change to postpone the inevitable anti-trust lawsuit.
I'm waiting for Apple's response to this add. Actually they may want to focus on privacy and tracking. It would be a nice war to watch.
Please do hardware keyboards next. Then start trending the overall size downward again.
FDX is an emerging standard. You can see the members of the group here: https://financialdataexchange.org/FDX/The%20Consortium/FDX/T...

Quite a few in Canada.
This is a perfect example of "you get what you measure."
Leica is a very unique camera company in that they can get away with removing features (screens, the ability to shoot in color) while charging more.
Seriously, do you think the quality of the sound is the only problem here?
> So he cut out Samsung and thinks he's somehow changed his privacy footprint?

You have to expand on this. Of course cutting Samsung out changes your privacy footprint. If you want to say that surveillance is infinite, everything about you is always known by everyone, and there's no way to change any of that, you can, but you shouldn't think that's the sane position.
Good point.

I don't know much about advertising. Why would they post the video in its current form on YT? It seems likely to be a turn-off to those who would otherwise be enthusiastic about the phone, and fodder for its detractors.
if you want to write one SQL query, you should not use a SQL builder and/or ORM.

if you want to write thousands of SQL queries that naturally derive from an object model of 30, 100, or 800 domain classes or so and would otherwise be thousands of lines of repetitive boilerplate if all typed out individually, then you use a query builder and/or ORM.

different tools for different jobs.
I tracked down the people selling my data, then stopped them
"Nothing tells that something is stuck in the past like focusing on one part that's no longer common on smartphones." Apple and some other companies summarily ditched a feature that is clearly desireable to many smartphone consumers. That is not an example of a friendly, "good" future.
In the comparison image M87's blackhole has an almost perfectly circular black spot, while in the simulated image the center is half a circle due to the disk. Is this caused by some missing effect in the calculations, the angle of the disk, or something else?
I was surprised by that quote too, but there are definitely some interesting hustles going on: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/nyregion/amazon-delivery-...
Like everybody couldn’t live without a floppy or dvd drive some years ago. Some people are just slow to adapt.
This is usually called the "shadow" of the black hole.

The press release we're discussing calls it that.
There's a simple solution to all this floating point madness: replace floating point arithmetic with fixed point arithmetic, which is associative, more energy efficient in hardware, and much easier to reason about.
> Interesting ad.

> I don’t have audio on

> I’m not the target customer if they’re after customers who really need a headphone jack.

Prototypical HN comment.
It's great way to launder money, transfer it across international borders or pay for shipments of illegal goods. In other words, the same thing all the other high ticket collectable markets are used for.

To be clear, nobody is being paid in NFTs: gangsters are 'buying' NFTs from the people they owe money to.
> one cast member, Tim Kazurinsky, took to interrupting skits as the prudish censor “Worthington Clotman.”

William G. Clotworthy already sounds like a name in an SNL skit, and I halfway thought I was going to read about an actor who had played a censor with that name.

He sounds like an interesting man.
They are probably trying to mock Apple. I'm not sure, I have ambivalent feelings about this. I appreciate their critique of the removal of a very useful feature, but the whole ad is a bit too long. They could have done it in 20 seconds and still make a point.
Plenty of ISP in Europe do CGNAT without DS-Lite. Literally modems only gets IPv4 from 100.x.x.x range and that's it.
When everyone was arguing about communism and capitalism, fascism secretly co-opted both sides.
If you are looking into learning Modern C++ through library development, I highly recommend the following:

https://pragprog.com/titles/lotdd/modern-c-programming-with-...

https://stroustrup.com/Tour.html
This resonated with me, but instead of investing a lot of time and effort into a losing battle where everything I come up with will ultimately be obsoleted by the incessant churn, I guess I'm going to let my skills rot and live without.

I've lived without a TV (and without a streaming service) for 10 years. My phone has the bare minimum things on it I need to get by. I turn everything off I can. I've railed about location tracking because I know how it works, but damn it, I am not going to mount an all-out war against all my devices and fill my house with an armory of tech. I don't really want to live like that. I want to live like it was the 1990s, maybe, when a PC was just a thing at my desk and it didn't watch me. I guess. That's not coming back now.

All of reality is now infested with tech watching us. Let that sink in. Cameras, smartphones, surveillance drones, location tracking, even microphones, traffic cameras, facial recognition, smart TVs, smart appliances, cars, everything has got its eyes on us.

I'm just so tired of it. I don't want to fight.
> You can send money to Nigeria, Ghana & Kenya

Do you have a plan for which countries you'll support next? And any you think will never be supported?
I am guessing this is misstated because so often lack of survival is the reason there is less reproduction. But yes, it comes down to who passes their genetic material to the most offspring.
I have a very cool ring made of tungsten carbide and carbon fiber. But I stopped wearing it precisely because of hearing stories like this.
I used to think i needed a headphone jack. Then I got bluetooth headsets and I honestly wouldn't go back.
> The company says that, in the future, it will also introduce a new model number when making any hardware changes to its products that impact performance.

So they'll keep selling products called "Western Digital SN550" running at half the speed, but you'll now be able to tell them apart by seeing the model number update from "WDBA3V0010BNC-WRSN" to e.g. "WDBA3V0011BNC-WRSN"?

This is very scummy.
That point misses (or rather ignores) the larger point. Ignoring special relativity because you think Einstein was "lost in the notation" is an extraordinary claim for which no extraordinary proof exists.
If you don't have the audio on then you probably missed that this is seething is sarcasm.
The main problem is that it's not easy to drill down into a metric in most BI tools because the connection between the dashboard and the source data is usually missing. Looker is one of the first companies that target this specific issue; you transform, model the data, define your metrics before creating your first dashboard. It takes too much effort (also money) to create a (basic?) dashboard because it's not just a "dashboard".

Instead, as data analysts, we usually want to write a bunch of SQL queries, create charts from them and expose the data to our business stakeholders. While they can see the underlying SQL queries of the metrics, it's not easy for them to modify these SQL queries, so they often get lost.

The dashboards have a long tail. For me, you need to get these four steps done beforehand:

1. Move all the company data into a data warehouse and use it as the single source of truth.

2. Model the data with a transformation tool such as dbt and Airflow.

3. Define metrics in one place on top of your data models in a collaborative way. (This layer is new, and we're tapping it at https://metriql.com)

4. Use an interactive BI tool that lets you create dashboards on top of these metrics with drill-down capability.
I really dislike the whole "freemium" or "free-to-play" category of games and I refuse to touch that garbage.

Software should have a fair upfront price. It's not complicated.
Peloton drops the price of its original Bike by $400 amid poor earnings results
Police:

in exploiter states, a system of special bodies of supervision and coercion, as well as domestic punitive troops that protect the existing social system by means of direct and overt suppression. [...] As one of the chief instruments of the state, the police in an exploiter society is always separated from and inimical to the people. [...] In modern capitalist states the police are used primarily in the struggle against the revolutionary and working-class movement — against democratic progressive forces.

- The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979)

Hmmm, I think I've read things about the US police — especially in the second part of 2020 — that were eerily close to this definition.
I like Breath of the Wild, but trying Genshin Impact was like having a root canal done on my brain. After around 30 minutes of playing it I had to put it down, grinding a game for the promise of being able to buy microtransactions is not a effective way for me to spend my time. Maybe it's just because I'm not an MMO fan, but Genshin feels like a regression in the genre of JRPGs.
Ask HN: Why is the Amazon purchase experience so hilariously bad sometimes?
On Tuesday I bought a book. Amazon was selling it with two-day shipping for Prime members. Cut to today, it's not projected to arrive until Monday. More than slightly late for something that should have only taken two days. Oh well - lots of Prime members have similar experiences. But this next one takes the cake for me.

On Wednesday, I buy an electric toothbrush. I place the order at 11:00 am. At checkout, they tell me they can get it to me same day, between 2:00 - 6:00 pm. Err, seems slightly ambitious, but it's free, so why not?

Predictably, the toothbrush doesn't arrive same day. Nor the following day. And now when I click Track Package, they tell me that it's likely lost, and maybe I want to request a refund. So I request a refund and they tell me that it will take 3 - 5 days to process, and also that I'm obligated to return the package if it arrives in the interim. So now I'm stuck trying to decide whether to re-order through Amazon or to go with a different website, plus I need to find time to go to the Amazon store due to their screw-up.

And further, there seems to be no way to complain to Amazon about this. It used to be that if they missed their delivery targets they would credit you with a free month of Prime. That no longer seems to be the case, as far as I can tell.

The part that is so frustrating though is that in the back of my mind I knew that there was almost zero chance that the package would be delivered same day and that I would be better off doing a different shipping method. I don't understand why they would go out of their way to set users up for such a bad experience.
The ad is parody, so you’re missing out not listening.
I wish they had put mercury into the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. At least you could use a vial for more than a few hours if they did that. Currently you have to throw away doses because bacteria may have started growing in them. The type of mercury they use in vaccines kills bacteria very well.
They could use AOL keywords, too, but they still advertised and used Web URLs.
Me neither, but they are certainly something I can use.

I still lack something that will tell me where a variable is sourced from.
In other news, ISIS Nail Salon is very upset that ISIS is back in the spotlight.
One interesting option: isn’t venison significantly less resource intensive to raise than beef?
Keep them curious, answer their questions with demonstrations. Link different parts of the physical world together. Like if one asks where the water goes down the drain, show them the pipes under the sink and show them the pipes in the basement. When you next go on a walk, point out the manholes and sewer grates. Encourage media that will expose them to the nature of things. Mix in some Planet Earth with the other tv. Add "The Log Hotel" or "The Salamander Room" to the bedtime reading. Try to get them to catagorize pine needle trees vs leafy trees. Maybe in a few years draw them some different triangles and point out how the corners look different to introduce the idea of angles. Give a 5 year old a ruler and a protractor and show them they can measure anything they like. If you show this around the time you're buying furniture or moving house they'll likely see you measuring stuff too. They wanna be like you.

Everyone likes to talk about games and curriculums. Obviously kids who do more arithmatic get better at it so playing cribbage can be an advantage at the elementary school level. Playing liars dice can be super enticing for 10 year olds to learn probability (they also learn how to watch people playing games). But ultimately if they grow up and choose their undergrad but dont have a genuine curiosity for "how the world works" it doesnt really matter what specific skills they've acquired.
We're looking down on M87* from one of its poles. The image from the paper is viewed close to the equator.
The difference is you have to go to the web and sign up for Netflix. That’s how they get your email.

Previously an app wasn’t allowed to ask for your contact information, and then use that to email you about buying things outside the App Store.

If your app just presents a sign in page like Netflix does then they didn’t have that issue.

In theory this would allow someone to register for a free trial etc. in the app with an explicit opt-in to communications, and then the developer is no longer restricted email them about alternate payment methods.
I enjoy that the ad seems to be self-aware and deliberately ironic.
Everything about this is hilarious, and anyone who doesn't think so needs to go in for a sardonicism recalibration.

(And anyone who takes this seriously needs to go in for a reality calibration. Their distortion field may be misaligned)
Cognitive AI Meet IoT: A Match Made in Heaven
Postmortem Lessons – A Survey
This principle applies as much to the work we schedule for ourselves (or our teams) as it does to our servers.

As teams get pushed to efficiently utilize scarce and expensive developer resources to their max they can also end up with huge latency issues for unanticipated requests. Not always easy to justify why planned work is way under a team's capacity though even if it leads to better overall outcomes at the end of the day.
"enough" is bearing a lot of weight here.

If "enough" people are willing to pay "enough," the ads will magically reappear and you will find that now you're paying less than "enough."
Arm China Has Gone Rogue
My perception, I came to the game late, is it's SOOOO much cheaper to hire right out of school. Experience is expensive. I graduated in 2000 and there were 250,000 open entry-level positions promptly filled byu 250,000 H1B visas.
I agree that getting rid of the jack sucks, and the solution of "just buy new (expensive) bluetooth audio equipment" is bullshit.

... however, having switched to BT for audio devices myself (receiver, headphones, and of course even cheap cars have had it for years now), I need USB-A on my MacBook a whole lot more than I need a headphone jack on anything, now.
> For greater transparency going forward, if we make a change to an existing internal SSD, we commit to introducing a new model number whenever any related published specifications are impacted.

I’ll believe that when it happens. IMO it’s fraud and after the SMR debacle everyone at Western Digital should know it’s not ok, but they still tried to sneak it by everyone.
Thanks. Any references on how this works?
They might not be paying enough. It’d be reasonable to go to these small cohorts and say “our data shows these features are not broadly used, we are considering deprecating them, would you pay more to keep them?”

This is mutually beneficial for both parties.
it's obvious that is over the top and the intent is to mock apple presentations

however they are mocking themselves because their "serious" presentations are worse than apples
No Continuous Delivery? Then Walk Out
You’re either immature or brainwashed by the propaganda, because in the last decade the forceful advancement of diversity, social “justice” and cancel culture (to mention only a few things that are part of the same, larger, thing) have been more than clear - it’s become nauseating and tiresome.

To pretend that we don’t promote women for the sake of promoting women is like saying we don’t hire asians, blacks, and jews because they’re asians, blacks, and jews. Of course we do.
Yup it's free. Additional pro features allow you to merge multiple data sources into one image, and view analytical data such as number of views / where your image is being viewed from. But, if you find all that you want is already available, then there's no need to get pro.