skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero Covid makes sense as an objective prior to the recent Delta outbreak. Delta's R0 is too high for zero covid to be a realistic objective. The experiences of other places that have tried to go for elimination and failed is evidence of this. That's why it's an ideological pipe dream and it's why I may sound negative about it. It's a fantasy. New Zealand will never be Covid zero from this point. Even if they get to Covid zero (which they won't), the only way to maintain that is to permanently ban international travel, which would be a move that has no public health justification once high vaccination rates are reached.

Managing covid to reduce the burden on healthcare and buying time for vaccinations is not the same thing as going for an impossible covid zero.
My guess is someone that serious is ready to be off the hobby tier.
So the threat is they get taxed on an unearned windfall? Spooky. It’s one thing to be afraid of a crypto exchange, quite another to be afraid of Johnny law.

And as far as getting doxed, well, more than one can play at that game. Not to mention that making that threat is not exactly earning them sympathy points.

At some point crypto holders and organizations will have to decide whether they want the law involved or not. Is it a new decentralized form of money that doesn’t need the government, or not?
Not all of them, but the ones that don't (GXF, memory compression, etc.) are opt-in.
It's always regulation to blame to some folks. If only we could have more 'free market' somehow companies would no longer spy on their customers.
If it's vendor locked, then it'll be vendor-scoped monopoly rather than global-scoped monopoly. If Microsoft start manufacturing their own CPU and locking the OS for their model only, it can be said that Microsoft monopolize the windows hardware market.
Definitely a fun article.

This was the key takeaway for me.

SubtransControlLock indicates that the query is waiting for PostgreSQL to load subtransaction data from disk into shared memory.

I felt the article fell down for two reasons:
(1) It didn't really articulate the need for transactions in the first place (database integrity). Nor did it discuss the implications on integrity with this change.

(2) It didn't articulate the possibilities of other architectures (pushing to a read cache other than PostgresSQL like Cassandra).

I got the feeling they were really pushing PostgresSQL to its limits in their cluster with their load - and it was time to consider another design.
Not directly related to the farmer, but I was reminded of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CCFObSEAU

The guest, as a child in 1865, witnessed Lincoln being shot in Ford's Theatre, and was on a TV show in 1956.
It’s true that Android has had some competitive devices but you’re usually getting one good feature and a bunch of sub-Apple features: great camera but a slow CPU or years shorter software support, etc.

The problem is that Apple is the hardware vendor getting recurring revenue from usage. Qualcomm needs you to buy a new phone to see anything more, only Google gets a cut of you buying stuff on the Google Play store, etc. That gives Apple both much larger revenues per customer and an incentive to keep your old phone working as long as you’re buying stuff with it. Google trying to get into that model seems healthy from the perspective of getting better competition but worrisome for the level of resources needed to compete.
To rest?

Look at the thread.

This publicity stunt is working well already.
25% of your list is owned by FB.
Hardware isn't the problem, spectrum licences are the issue
Let's say they have a financial incentive. In order to increase their revenues through affiliate links, they'll need to please their clickers. Because then the clickers will come back and click on more links, and recommend the site to their friends.

I.e. a financial incentive increases the incentive for the owner to create good links. No incentive means why should they care?
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Sheets and gmail were painful for me with FF. Moved to Brave, sadly
>If you're purchasing a game right before playing it, a 50GB install and a 20GB patch is probably easier than getting your hands on a mega drive game.

To be fair, one half of my house is a literal online retro games store, so perhaps my experience circa 2020 is not the norm.

But also to be fair, back in the day you could simply walk down to the nearby shops, buy the cartridge and play it as soon as you got home.

I'm not necessarily making an argument as to why everyone should own a Mega Drive in 2021 (although if you enjoy collecting physical media, there are some fantastic hidden gems on that machine - my personal favourites are Rocket Knight Adventures, Alisia Dragoon and Shadow Dancer!), but modern console gaming has become a lot less streamlined than it used to be.

With the PS5 and Xbox Series X emphasising their ultra-fast SSDs, I can only see this becoming worse.
Not entirely a farce.

The PCM (engine controller) that a university audit got access to had 12,000 global variables. Their conclusion was it was not possible to prove either way.

There was a definitely real issue with floor mats getting the pedal stuck. I don’t know enough background on it past the audit that was done.
It seems like a good marketing ploy to me. The default behaviour for an apple owner is to buy a new one when it's not running as well as theyd like
Moreover, housing problem is not at all about construction costs. Looking at costs of construction 100 years ago, inflation-adjusted it's lower today, if it was about that, there wouldn't be any housing problem.

Housing problem is about livelihoods of too many people, most of them approaching retirement so no longer capable of changing much in their fate, being dependent on value of their homes, so in a democratic nation, they would fight tooth and nail to prevent construction of more of them, limiting supply. It is an entirely man-made problem and the one with no obvious "evil" culprit to blame for... Entirely unsolvable.

Solving it would require taking measures to ensure that homes will never be good investments again - turning them into just a durable good like say, a car, which deprecates as soon as you buy it, until it's worthless. Then no one will be against new construction - because new construction means more workers and more consumers in the area -> good for business - and housing problem will be quickly resolved.

Irony is - this is not what young people want. They don't want to own homes, to live in them. They want to own homes to make money on their appreciation. This, is simply not going to happen.
This comes from Chinese, where 青 can be both green or blue. Modern Chinese uses 绿 and 蓝 instead to distinguish the two, but Japan continues to use 青 ambiguously: eg aoshingō "blue traffic light" for what we would call a green light.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92
75% success rate for one trader is suspiciously high. Generally most active traders under-perform the market they're trading in, even a bull one.
That doesn't explain why the Romani needed an entire subclass. What was the bias there, when it was "History of Gypsies"? Was there really that much published about them at the time? As much about them alone as all of Asia, or all of Africa, or even about all of Central Europe?
So then they what? Sold a used computer as new?
What's wrong with bsdtar? It works for all my use cases.
There is no sentience. It’s a trillion monkeys banging at a trillion typewriters.

If anything treating cancer is more akin to antibiotic resistance. One therapy usually just selects for the cancer that is resistant, so you relapse.

And cancer cells have notoriously fragile genomes. I remember reading a paper that sequence 1,000 breast cancer samples. There were about 800 different mutations that led to the cancer. Very little similarity between patients.
Very interesting channel. Invokes a bit of emotions. Thanks for the link.
Qualcomm used its modem patents and licensing terms to strongarm companies into purchasing modems and CPUs together (since buying just a modem or just a CPU ended up costing nearly as much). That kind of behavior pushes companies to find alternatives and reduces choice in the market.
I'm not here to take the wind out of his sails, but SATA and SCSI are mostly interchangable these days. He's probably referring to a software solution that he deployed with a Raspberry Pi as the deployment platform. Still impressive, but relatively common sysops knowledge at a certain level.
I had some stories from my grandfather (born in 1910) usually around Christmas time, where he'd ... I guess it was complaining - complain we were too spoiled as kids. "When I was your age, I got an orange for Christmas, and I was happy with it!". It really put a damper on things, and... I can't help it that I'm growing up 60+ years later in an era and world where we get oranges cheap at a grocery store. It's just 'normal' - not my fault if he didn't have that 60 years earlier. And yeah, we do have it great in many ways today (and... not so great in others).
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what is the main product line of PalmPilot?
Strong agreement. Diversity is integral to resilience. And often required to avoid slightly-less-dangerous but still not good stagnation.

This article seems to focus on software. But this applies to the entire globalizing economy. Consolidation has been the name of the game: bigger and bigger companies eating more and more upstarts, fewer and fewer bigger and bigger players. We are ossifying into place, the mechanisms of capital are settling into a psuedo-stable alignment that has very few capabilities to adapt, change, try again, explore, outside what the massive players are willing to try.
It's not a platform, but tilengine kinda fits the bill

http://www.tilengine.org/
Google dropped this approach a long time ago precisely because of this problem: their employees were zoning out
> You keep posting the same comment.

No, I made two distinctively different comments, but used the same quote from Tesla in them, which is the same quote you've just quoted yourself.

> That is a specific marketing video from five years ago. The current system has basically nothing in common with what is shown there, hardware or software wise.

So it got worse over the last 5 years? Because Tesla said the car was driving itself, but now you're saying that's not true, and there's nothing in common with them.
Presumably the father went West after the Civil War so maybe 1870s/1880s. So the woman was probably born around that time. (Young kids did travel out West on wagon trains though so could have been earlier.) Jet travel probably indicates at least 1960s but I'm guessing "elderly" means quite elderly so probably some time later.
I suggest you keep trying the same thing you've been trying to see if you can get some different results.
Sorry for the delay, what I meant is that the concept of NFT has no protection under law whatsoever. It means literally nothing. It's a bearer instrument for nothing.

As you say, a deed is not a bearer instrument but the concept of home ownership which it symbolizes has legal protection.
> It's just not physically possible to make a machine that combines high end power hungry hardware, adequate cooling for that hardware, and a compact form factor.

My 16” Intel MBP has this issue. My 13” M1 MBP does not.
There is absolutely no excuse for using that video to market Autopilot/FSD (it's still the main feature on tesla.com/autopilot). The driver is clearly not just there for legal reasons. Given that the video is a few years old and FSD beta is still screwing up every couple minutes in the most recent Youtube videos, that driver probably bailed it out in many bad takes before they got this one.
Aren’t all/most of the congresspeople millionaires?

We’re ruled over by the rich.
> it would at least acquaint them with the actual data and categorization systems in use in a very visceral way.

These days, especially with people leading tech, I'd fear that exposing them in that way would only lead them to disdain it and complain that it's "ripe for disruption" and decide that two guys with an ML model and VC funding could and should replace it.

Even in this forum, look at the comments suggesting GPT-3 could replace the whole shebang. What those suggestions miss is that it would me that instead of needing to know the ins-and-outs of a formal, if flawed, ontology, we'd have to be guessing at what the algorithm applied, and forgetting that it was trained on existing metadata models and has its own metadata.
It would normally be sold as “open box”.
nah no numbers, just r/cscareers
Also a lot of shorts exist because if you are long X $1 and short Y $1 your total investment is $0.
how to downvote in Hacker news? There is no down vote button right?
Have you tried using 'powermetrics'?

sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "GPU die temperature"

sudo powermetrics --samplers smc |grep -i "CPU die temperature"

It's proactive, but at least it is a useful tool.
Where did you read this? I'd love to know more.

Do you know if this fix also applies to the 5300m?
This is super cool. Congrats on the launch!
I suspect there's another related reason for high kernel_task % CPU: your battery is very low and your charger is underpowered. It seems to throttle your CPU usage to avoid exhausting the battery while charging, and this throttling shows up in the same way as thermal throttling.

I discovered this by accident when I plugged my MBP into my phone charger instead of my laptop charger. I need to mark the cables somehow, or replace the phone charger with a laptop charger just in case...
> If you really want to see slack waste CPU and battery, leave a channel open that somebody has pasted a high FPS animated GIF into

This is basically an attack especially if you post a couple of them. My god.
Later, that was developed in 1984; CT's use collimated fan beams
As opposed to the premise that people be paid based on who they know and how much money their family accumulated before they were born?
Next War. I guess we will never stop until someone destroys us. Or we destroy the world.
Right, whether or not 75% is suspicious depends entirely on the price action of the stock. If it has been trending up, there will be relatively fewer 3-month periods where the stock is down than if it is flat or trending down. SFBS is up from 13.25 to 79.61 and CNBKA is up from 32.95 to 115.22 since 2014.

If the price movement was completely random with no bias up or down, and you entered trades at completely random times, then you would expect 50% of trades to be profitable 3 months later. So 50% is our baseline. Then consider that these stocks have been going up. THEN consider that you don't have to enter trades at completely random times; if you buy during a dip, the price merely needs to return to the mean for you to be up.
Nice take, I infer them the same.
1) It’s an article talking about optimizing transactions, I think it’s fair to assume prior knowledge about what a transaction is. The author is not responsible for rebuilding the world.

2) They have a very specific, narrow band problem which they solved two ways. What you’re suggesting is several orders of magnitude more work and would likely take years.
> Perhaps if archive.org offered a "safe mode" of some kind that can be activated at a network level (as Google/Bing/YouTube and others do)

Nobody should be making it easier to perform censorship. I wish Google/Bing/YouTube would all drop that "feature".
I don't think there was sufficient room in the article to cover the value of sub-transactions, let alone transactions as a whole. In this case I think it's fair for it to be assumed knowledge given the contents of the article.

They are definitely not pushing the limits of PostgreSQL as a whole, they just hit an edge case with a not heavily used feature. Sub-transactions aren't overly common in most PostgreSQL workloads I have encountered, especially not coupled with long-running transactions.

Great write-up though! I do hope patches to make the sub-transaction cache configurable land, while it's not something I have ran into it would be a great lever to have if I do.
Charging infrastructure, battery longevity, experience....shall I continue?
No, I think they're referring to the pre-installed ads on the start menu. Oh wait, that's Microsoft. Or maybe it is the utter failure of a control panel (Bluetooth, ACPI, Audio) that is still a crash-fest with Focal Fossa.

Let's face it, everything with a GUI now sucks. Hard.
I don’t understand it, is it a humble brag? Great you helped develop Java
We don't really have it good though, simply because the universe doesn't work like that. There's no such thing as a free lunch and you're paying a price for all this "goodness".
Hello my name is John and I am a Factorio addict. I have so far managed to go two days without playing Factorio. But I fear that my resolve is slipping away. I dream of belts and factory layouts in my sleep. Of killing biters with long range artillery while laughing like a crazy person. Of witnessing yet again the launch of a mighty rocket as it race to the heavens. My name is John and I am a Factorio addict.
Friends of yours have died because the word "hacking" has multiple meanings? That's a pretty bold claim. Care to share any details about these deaths?
There's some truth to this but I don't think it was necessarily intentional. It must have been an "all hands on deck" situation getting M1/Rosetta ready.

I'm PO'ed either way. My 2019 16" has been plagued with this issue.
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Yeah. I haven't seen the movie, but I recoiled just reading the sentence. It was a very graphically violent term to use here.
Rent-a-ship: Costco hires vessels for urgent deliveries
I bought a bunch of 45W+ USB-C chargers and put one in every room of the house. They're only about $20 each on Amazon. All of the family computers and phones can be charged on any of them. It's nice not to think about it.
Additionally, what is “immoral” is relative. I think an individual choosing to consume illegal drugs is perfectly moral, but lots of people disagree about that.
> Generally most active traders under-perform the market they're trading in, even a bull one.

But if the market has been going up, even underperforming it means you can still make a profit (unless you significantly underperform). The quoted text in the gp is just talking about profit, not comparing to the market.
> So you are saying that politics is inherently corrupt and that is you take away the appeal of corruption then no one will participate?

I've heard rumors that quite a bit before I was born, politics was as boring and stuffy as being an actuary. One can only dream that politics gets boring like that soon.
This was the case for my parents as well, and despite growing up in an age of abundance, there was still an orange in my stocking every Christmas morning. It's a nice tradition I think.
It could do with some screenshots and tell me what the features are.
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How can you NOT insider trade once you're a C-level or politician? Your decisions literally change the market.

Unless they pass a law that monitors every single transaction of every person of interest, and even then, I'm sure my RIA would love to know if I had a juicy tidbit and could trivially hide it, I just don't see how you ever stop it.

That world isn't made for the people on HN.
PSA, if you're doing investigations like this: there's two important parts to "proving" your hypothesis. One is you look at the experimental results and then ensure that matches your hypothesis, which is what this answer does here. The second is that you remove confounding variables and actually figure out what the real cause is. For an analysis like this, I find it quite disappointing that nobody actually went back to find the actual code that was the culprit and ensure that it was indeed what was causing the issue. Until then, you can show all the fancy graphs you want implying correlation, but you're really no better than "deleting Chrome makes my computer faster"–possibly correct, but you really haven't proved what you set out to.
What is your point? If the car is actually self driving, then there is no need for human interaction. The issue is this is not, therefore the driver still needs to be engaged enough to respond
The coreaudiod issue might have to do with apps that use the mic "priming" it by keeping it active even when there's no call. Some chat apps do this to avoid the 1-2s delay associated with turning on the mic, so audio starts streaming as soon as the call starts.
I don't think plants can feel pain. To me, pain is tied to learning and agency. Theres little to nothing a plant can learn from/ change upon being eaten, so why would they be able to feel it?

I bet plants get some version of depression though.
Or a well-audited public ledger overseen by democratic institutions. Bonus if it doesn’t consume the electricity of an average nation to operate.
What mainly catches my attention in this article is how it ends seemingly only implicating government for getting too large and not corporations. I like the argument that orgs can get too big and therefore not manage things well, and I feel confused why that would only apply to government and not to other orgs that control many aspects of our lives—e.g., Facebook has more users than any government in the world and access to human communication than most governments.
No, because people hate and fear hackers, because they are confused; the derogatory usage of the term "hacker" propagates that confusion and fear, but it is not the only cause of it. Here's the clearest-cut case of a friend of mine who died for that reason: https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaro...

There are a couple of other cases, but they are less clear-cut. Nobody made documentaries about them. Many more are likely on the way.
Giving one person a megaphone gives them large advantage over everyone else.
Giving everyone access to megaphones leaves everyone as well off as before- save for their hearing.

Giving everyone access to megaphones save one person is a good way to silence that person. I a world of megaphones, who can listen to a mere voice?
Was the expectation that highschools would be teaching another, newer language in 2021?
Wow. And I thought my 800+ hours was a lot :)
even as i nod along about the many ills of consolidation, i found the narrative not well-formed. it starts with a principle-agent type problem, and glides into a coordination type problem and lands somewhere around locus of control. these are all well-known/studied issues in management (and taught in mba programs). a little more structure and explicit elucidation of these issues would have made it better.

i do heartily agree with the concluding paragraph that the general public seems largely unaware of these issues, to our collective detriment.