skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US largely accomplishes its elections through corrupt primaries, gerrymandering, and voter suppression. Not all of this is relevant for every race - you can't gerrymander your way into the federal senate, for instance - but you can use it to get a 60% red legislature in a 52% blue state.

It looks better when the police uses violence to prevent problem people from voting, than to manufacture votes out of thin air.
All European preserved meats are categorically terrible for you. It doesn’t matter where the nitrates come from — celery or otherwise. We’re talking a 20% jump in cardiovascular issues so it’s not marginal.
Oh, I just re-read the comment and I get it now ("it must be..."). Thanks, and sorry.
What if upgrades were done over the air, so you didn’t have to go to a dealership. And the base cost of the vehicle comes down, now that there’s a recurring revenue component?

Would that change your mind?
A currency crash raises local prices...
I've seen exactly the opposite although you certainly can't ignore memory speed.
As others mentioned, they already have huge financial services. Plus their mountain of cash is probably not just in some bank account, surely it's invested and put to work growing too.

Apple clearly has healthcare ambitions by the Apple Watch. They're building stupidly popular medical monitoring devices, and a health data research platform. Seems like they could tip-toe their way towards medical records management software too.

I am surprised they don't offer more cloud services for app developers, but i'm guessing its hard for them to compete with the major clouds.

Apple does not have the manufacturing or sales chops to sell whole cars. While Apple Geniuses are great at fixing an iphone, they're ill equipped to service cars.
"for most people"
I guess that’s cool.

The issue here seems to be that Google doesn’t allocate enough resources for that particular integration.

Meaning you shouldn’t use a Google technology if you don’t have hard proof that it's prioritized by Google on just the same level as it is by you. Which is not unlike the usual “Google tech tax”.

The funny corollary is that Google gets to hold a lot of hot potatoes. They wanted a browser monopoly, now they have to support the most widely used browser core. Everyone else may contribute. Or not.
Another accident comes to mind - sub-specced metal used for steam pipes on the nuclear cruiser Peter the Great. The pipe ruptured, 5 killed. After years of delays during the last years of USSR and the economic collapse of the beginning of 199x, the cruiser was rushed to get launched for the 300 years of the Russian Navy celebration deadline.
I will speculate. The initial rumors of Apple wanted to build a car themselves were not true. It is typical of Apple in their path finding to have expertise and knowledge of how it is built, and how to automate the whole thing along with industry experts. Once they figure this out they start partnering. This is vastly different to most other brands where the whole process is outsourced.

Then the next part is simply Apple thinking their core value has to be experience and AV. Since AV is still years if not decades away. They are only thing left will be in car experience. But is experience really enough to sell cars?

Part of the advantage Apple has with AV is that it requires lots of custom silicons. It is literally a giant iPhone with lots more sensors running on battery around the cities. And Apple has the expertise and scale over pretty much all other players.

But I still dont believe AV will be a thing any time soon. It could be done now if we could get rid of human drivers on the road in some cities. But adding human into the equation is just putting an infinitely variable into it.
Personal carbon allowances revisited in light of Covid-19 'policy window'
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To me, clearly is a play on mentats making first, second, and third-order predictions of the future, so yes.
https://www.opraplan.com/datafeeds
The fact that the messaging was there to begin with is the issue. People assume tech companies are immune from the law based on make believe claims that their ideals allow them to circumvent it.
I checked the man for resize2fs and the copyright notice is from 1998, so I guess that even back in the day was possible to grow ext2 filesystems. Shrinking them I don't know, it's still a feature that not all filesystems supports to this day.

If you think about it extending a filesystem is pretty easy: you just have to write in the filesystem control structures that you have more blocks available to store data than what originally planed. The problem of course is shrinking, since you have to relocate the blocks that goes beyond the new partition size.
An ad can take down your computer... sigh. Microsoft you have learned nothing... :(
Well, that's kind of what I'm driving at with things like the win32 api being a bit too high level and still kind of sucking. An example would be the GDI (the way you draw simple graphics). Like, it's in the worst of both worlds in that it's both slow and annoying to use. Or you can use DirectX and draw things fast, but you need to know a lot more. I think my point is mainly that OS's might be better off just giving you things like DirectX (and mmap and ioctl, etc.) and leaving off things like the GDI.

I know right now Microsoft keeps making like 50000 new UI frameworks and part of me is like, just knock it the fuck off, give me some style guidelines and some super-efficient very low level no-frills API's and let me just build apps off a library like Qt that abstracts it.
I'm hosting my static blog site on a physical Raspberry Pi 3B+ powered by Solar [1].

That blog post got hugged by HN but it didn't even raise the CPU above 10% on a single core.

And a Raspberry Pi 3B+ is dog slow. And severely limited by bandwidth, unlike the Raspberry Pi 4B+. (But it uses less power so that's why I use a 3B+).

However I have another point to make. Professional rack-mount servers from HP and Dell can be had second hand for dirt cheap and you get a ton of CPU (20+ cores) and an ocean of RAM for next to nothing.

For many applications, an old Gen8 or similar Dell server will perform more than adequately. Even more so if you have a little bit more to spend on Gen9.

They are so cheap that you can like buy four to eight, sprinkle them across two different datacenters and even if one breaks, you won't be in any hurry.

[1]: https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...
When you have a standardized problem setting like the implicit loop in awk, n alternative to a whole new programming language is a simple < 100 lines of code program generator [1].

This design lets you retain easy access to large sets of pre-existing libraries as well as have a "compiled/statically typed" situation, if you want. It also leverages familiarity with your existing programming languages. I adapted a similar small program like this to emit a C program, but anything else is obviously pretty easy. Easy is good. Familiar is good.

Interactivity-wise, with a TinyC/tcc fast running compiler backend my `rp` programs run sub-second from ENTER to completion on small data. Even with not optimizing tcc, they they still run faster than byte-compiled/VM interpreted mawk/gawk on a per input-byte basis. If you take the time to do an optimized build with gcc -O3/etc., they can run much faster.

And I leave the source code around if you want to just use the program generator as a way to save keystrokes/get a fast start on a row processing program.

Anyway, I'm not trying to start a language holy war, but just exhibit how if you rotate the problem (or your head looking at the problem) ever so slightly another answer exists in this space and is quite easy. :-)

[1] https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/examples/rp.ni...
The alternative is that you nitpick, and toss out all the ones that don't tick the right boxes.

This means you either get people who have good attention to detail, or people who have had plenty of failed iterations to polish their approach.
What is 9 boxing?
>If they ignored the issue, it's likely they'll ignore the pull request to fix it as well.

There is in fact a way to automate the ignoring of issues and pull requests : just add stalebot.
I know arrows theorem says something about spoiler candidates and irrelevant identical alternatives, but I didn't think it manifested quite like this.
There is enough battery capacity to build plenty of Ford Mach-E's. But Ford can't afford to spend $100,000 to manufacture a $50K car, nor can they use recycled laptop batteries that make the car 1000lbs heavier. The problem here is sourcing batteries that are weight- and cost-efficient, and Tesla has been investing heavily in the production of such batteries.
It just keeps getting worse and worse.
It takes days for a credit card transaction to settle, and the buyer could file a chargeback and erase not only your profits but your cost basis. That (many cryptos) is a hell of a lot faster and more secure for a merchant.
unrelated but 4x increase isn't really a spike
It’s time to create another ethnicity: American
Hello Gimpei. Spice.ai currently supports two algorithms, Vanilla Policy Gradient and Deep Q-Learning. It provides an interface to plug in your own algorithms, though. We're looking to add more to it as we go along.

You can find more info at https://docs.spiceai.org/deep-learning-ai/
I find Netflix to be extraordinarily frustrating and annoying, because of their insistence on auto-playing video constantly based on whatever I momentarily hover over or pause on.

I have to dash through shit way too fast to try to get somewhere that they won’t auto-blast me with whatever high volume video shit they want to force down my ocular neural pathways.
Not to mention this is extremely rare.
Some Googling turned up this protocol descriptor:

https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ba40927ac854d8c97bc92d7/5bf...

If you're optimizing for latency JSON is pretty terrible, but most people who use it are optimizing for interoperability and ease of development. It works just fine for that, and you can recover decent bandwidth just by compressing it.
Consumers relied upon ProtonMail's prominent and concise marketing claim. Consumers who signed up for the service are now in jeopardy, perhaps facing real [legal] injury based on reasonable expectation of not having their IP logged.

The privacy-centric nature of this abuse is unlikely to result in a class-action-type of response, but Caveat Emptor abuses can be dealt with by the marketplace, too.
The Matrix dynamic time teaser
Wait till they see what’s going to happen in the northern hemisphere in the coming weeks!
No offense but I think you've missed the point.
> Not all opposition parties are prohibited.

De-facto they are all prohibited, as rigged elections means their vote in the parliament has no bearing.

> it's not really outlawed still, but yes, we are very close to it

They just did exactly that by making Navalny's org "terrorist" thereby outlawing all individual supporters. And before that by banning underspecified forms of critique in the Internet.

> they are not very systemic

Mandatory religious education (with barely accessible opt-out). Outlawing specific groups from advocating their political views (like "gay propaganda"). This is a very "systemic" pushing of certain values by authoritarian means. If you do not consider it "systemic", please, define "systemic".

> This sentence is like "democracy is when political power is held by democrats"

It does not matter what it is like. We are doing a "totalitarianism" test and this checks.

> check for every country in the world

No, it is not. Most of Russian mass-media is owned directly or indirectly by the government. The ones that are not owned are heavily censored. In the rest of the world many governments do not own or censor media. For instance, US government owns just a handful of media companies, which are not that popular in the US.
Never heard of a crypto exchange that charges for data feeds, the norm is free and fast. One of the positive of the industry compared to old school finance.

They're rent seeking in other ways though, no worries.
Hulu is only of interest to me if it is truly ad-free, a feature that I willingly pay for.

If I pay for ad-free and then they serve me incessant ads anyway, I get really pissed off.

So, I don’t watch Hulu. If something is only available on Hulu, then I just don’t watch it. I’ll happily watch Disney+, though.
I’m split between two causes myself.

1) The utter lack of support from monied interests.

2) The fact that leftists love nothing more than fighting slightly different types of other leftists.
There are probably unified services that let you do it - I was kinda competing in this area but didn't want to deal with enterprise sales, and it's a bit of a hard sell anyway.

If you do it individually, there are public developer docs for each exchange that explain how their API works. It's generally free as long as you're not making a large number of active trades.
It was occasional, I don't have stamina for part time regular job along with day job. Sometimes few days in a row for 1-2 hours a day. And yes, the person I was doing it for was in some corp in US.
Yes, you can monitor a lot of things, but whether everyone does is a different question.
What do you suggest they do to rectify the situation?
It'd most likely happen the other way around— i.e., saying that this produce was grown without the use of ... Wait, which ones should be avoided?
Be the change you want in this world. Why don't you go to El Salvador yourself and "fix" these criminals. I can't wait to see the results.
On a tangent, is diaspora any good? I have it but haven’t started reading it.
You’re not wrong, but leftists also tend to spend an inordinate amount of energy and resources fighting internecine battles rather than trying to convert others. This does make it rather hard to do things like run self-reinforcing YT campaigns, assuming YT would tolerate them.
> Maybe we all have something to learn from Doomsday preppers.

A little, but really just implementing the Toyota Production System properly. You'll never be perfectly prepared for everything, but a lot of the mess over the past 18 months of supply chain problems could have been avoided. In my personal life, I am NOT a prepper, but the way I stock my house, I had no issues with toilet paper, meat, or other weird shortages. I look at what I have no, what I'll need adn when, and how things are going. I didn't look for TP when I was out, I looked for it a week or two ahead of time.
> Doesn’t California have a similar pay transparency law?

California’s is “on applicant request” not “in advertisements”. Though the California Equal Pay Act has had annual amendments for the last several years so I wouldn't be surprised to see it picking up a Colorado-style disclosure rule soon.
> Conversely, keeping clueless people around is demoralizing and insulting to the people actually doing the work.

I think this is only true in the most egregious of cases. A somewhat counter-intuitive thing I've learned is that highly productive programmers like working with less productive programmers. They've spent a lot of time with this person, maybe got to like them on a personal level. But beyond that, they don't have to butt heads all the time, it's one more person to stamp your diff without excessive nitpicking, someone to bounce ideas off of, someone to handle the more mundane coding work, someone to share blame with. Almost like an assistant programmer. A backfill will have to trained and knowledge-transferred again from zero.

This isn't to say the organization is best served by keeping low-performers around at full salary to keep their high performers happy. That depends on higher level organizational goals. My point is to support GP's quoted statement in your post, that firing is dangerous and can demoralize teams.
Pay damages.
TBH the interior quality of Tesla has never impressed me. It has always had a more “Kia” (haven’t been in one from the last 10 years) or Chevy vibe than a premium brand.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28291768

You can also just disable the battery performance optimization setting, but you could occasionally experience sudden loss of power with an old battery.
Even WordPress would work fine if we use a plugin like WP Super Cache (no idea why they don't cache things by default). It wouldn't beat a simple static page, but WordPress + Cache plugin + cheap VPS can easily handle #1 on HN.
The chip companies also know that they will definitely buy electricity in the future, yet they are not buying power plants.

In a sense, buying the future substrate production is just a future substrate contract.

Do you know how building a power plant is financed today? Basically someone buys 10 years of gas futures, sells 10 years of equivalent electricity futures, and uses the profit (since electricity is more expensive than gas) to build the power plant that will turn the bought gas into the sold electricity.
And this is why I ditched Windows when the preview edition installed v11, and moved to Fedora.
Take the number of users in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate encountering this issue, B, multiply by the average time wasted working around the issue, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the time to make a fix, we don't do one*.

(not speaking officially for any oss I may contribute to, just found the Fight Club resemblance fun)
It's always great, as long as it's someone else paying the price.

Put it another way - the positions that this law are impacting around positions that lack a competitive market for people. This isn't affecting people who want to know if McDonald's or Taco Bell pays more. It's affecting people who are looking for high paying software development and management roles.

There is a constant pattern of the last decade of different institutions running special bills in Colorado before rolling it out on the west cost. This is just another example.

This bill might have made sense when everyone is going into offices. It makes no sense now.
> What topics specifically are you interested in?

Well, for example, what's the old-school alternative to mangadex's solution?

> And where do all the people like you hang out?

We are here on HN.
Thanks for pointing that out - great to see someone is working on this.
The ultimate ode to the index would be Nabokov's "Pale Fire", in which the rereader is encouraged to have three books open, one for the index, one for the place where you are, and another for your lookups.
Maybe Pewdiepie, but quite a few channels in the millions have hinted that getting through to a human was impossible without a Twitter campaign.
Yeah, I think the device makes a huge difference. Amazon Prime on AppleTV is not horrible. It’s not the best UI out there, but it’s loads better than Hulu, and I like it much better than Netflix because it doesn’t try to constantly scream at me while I’m trying to find something to watch.
I made a mistake, I meant to write Latin script.
The scenes shown and the voice over is time/clock dependent.
I would like to try this out on Android but the link goes to Google Play and I don't link my phone to a Google account.

Any chance of an APK download?
> And because men need the support. I suspect that a lot fewer men needed support in, say, 1950.
> Why do more men need support than did in 1950?

My answer is that when men were the vast majority consumers of higher education the system was built to support them.

This accords with what the social justice people would say, and I think they are right about that.

What they are wrong about is that men today should be denied support that other groups have today because men in the 1950s had support that other groups in the 1950s did not have.
Two of their servers have 1.5 TB of RAM each. Just one of those nodes is probably as powerful and expensive as 100 nodes in a thousand node setup.

They aren't magically more efficient than other sites. They just chose to scale vertically instead of horizontally.
Volkswagen has a system like this in production already with CarNet with subscription pricing for things like better voice control, tracking, and maps.

https://carnet.vw.com/#/plan-pricing
So I think you can have it either “bitcoin is irrelevant, and thus wild value swings don’t matter” or “bitcoin is a proper thing which is appropriate for a country to adopt as legal tender”, but you can’t really have it both ways. The El Salvador thing makes the volatility important.

A 10% daily drop in value for a national currency is usually a sign that that currency isn’t long for this world.
How this 'mileage maniac' earned 40M frequent flier miles
Too bad most of the people who want horse dewormer were the same people who wanted the "pharmacist conscience" laws that allow pharmacists to deny their veterinary prescriptions. Who would have thought that such a law would come back to bite them.
No way, you can find all sorts of types of each of those things if you look past the mainstream.
I’m also curious on this. My stack currently is a SQLite file -> ORM -> .net core on Linux on a single box
One of my proudest moment in my career is when I lowered our app processing time from ~8hrs to 17 minutes. When I deployed my first update, it reduced it to 2 hours. The sysadmin immediately contacted me that there was something unusual. I confirmed the results but he was skeptical.

Then with my second update, he told me that the app must be broken or that the script must be dying. There is no way it could complete this fast.

What was the issue? We processed terabytes of data. Each and every single line processed created a new connection to the database and left it hanging. A try catch was added when the connections failed and restarted the process. Removing the connection from the for loop and properly handling it reduced the time drastically.

And... why would you loop through millions of records when you can use batches? Also this was a phperlbashton* script. I turned it into a single PHP script and called it a day.

As a consequence, backup time was reduced to 2 hours as opposed to 12 hours (no one was allowed on the website until the back up was done).

Modern machines are incredibly fast.

* PHP/Perl/Bash/Python
I’m not sure what you have against union pipefitters, they’re probably one of the highest skill building trades. They’re generally at the top of prevailing wage scale, they do clean looking work, and pipefitting is still pretty much exclusively union labor.

I’m on the commercial side, so maybe industrial is different?
I’m not trying to “read between the lines”, I’m saying that the author of a piece of software gets to decide what they consider to be the point and success criteria for their work, not you. If they don’t want their work being used commercially and that means you can’t use it, that’s a you problem and not a them problem.
If you want to go down the Literate Programming rabbit hole with me, I have a lot of ideas around that. Your system could be applied to parsing source code and coming up with conversational descriptions, or even more exciting, going from conversation, descriptive text into source code. You are in the process of building a corpus that can used in both directions.

As for the text layout, just something a little prettier with improved spacing between descriptive blocks, bullet point and links that reference to the parsed source code. It should be just as pleasant to look at as any well-designed piece of online prose. I realize that design is subjective.