skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell for sure because I don't know the platform enough, but from what I've seen on the leaked screenshots there are some layout changes that apparently couldn't be done without modifying the code.
> one has to wonder what we do today that will be seen as barbaric in 100 years

It's probably easy to come up with a list of dozens of common practices which cruelly mistreat the vulnerable, take away freedom, squander human potential, damage the environment (or the whole planet), and/or increase suffering while destroying things that are beautiful and beneficial.

Hopefully a more humane future will have long abandoned them as barbaric vestiges of the past.
Reading around the web, there are also a lot of complaints how buggy Mac OS is nowadays. Kinda obnoxious how the 2 companies are worth billions (or trillions?) but can't deliver polished software.
My understanding is that the RAM per tab metric drops as you have more tabs. Firefox is more willing to cache stuff when you have only 4 tabs open, so that's not a great metric. Plus you have to consider the base RAM use of the browser itself. 1.3 GB isn't all that much on a modern system with 8 GB available, for example; the problem is more that Firefox doesn't handle 20+ tabs very well especially when you've got Twitter, Google Docs, Slack, etc open.
> Rather than working through their problems, people think it seems easier to just split up.

For some problems, this is indeed the absolutely correct decision - but it simply wasn't culturally acceptable in the past.
Tyler Cowen: Why Big Tech Is Underrated [video]
Do they have this feature that if you have catch-all enabled and you had just used a random email on some website random-email-addr-smjgg@your-domain.tld and you receive email sent to that address and when you reply it automatically starts the reply from random-email-addr-smjgg@ and not from some preset-alias@?

Because on Mail.app (iOS/Mac) if you want to reply from that random-email-addr-smjgg@ you have to first add that in "Email Address" for that account in Settings. I am trying to find an app that does it (my mail provider is not fastmail, it's mailbox).
>Erm, then pay some truckers to haul empty containers to some space in the middle of Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Idaho, Iowa, etc.?

Would that just cause a container shortage at the other end of the supply chain?
Bingo - record vinyl onto a CD and then do a double blind test to see which is better and you wont be able to tell.

Its the mastering not the medium.
This. ARM instructions are much more regular and easier to decode (meaning a smaller decoder) than x86 instructions, allowing for more instruction decoders in the M1.
It's not. Unfortunately. Might be up for seconds and then down again for minutes.
Very annoying. I am not going to complain though. They've offered stable service for years.
I just ordered a turntable and some records recently, I caved. Not gonna lie, I love the ritual and physicality of it. I'm just going to go bankrupt because I can't help myself :)
Maybe little was meant to be 'petty'
“ I noticed something unusual when my email was suddenly flooded by spams from hundreds of websites (maybe so I don't realize something was up, luckily the effect is quite the contrary).”

I’ve been running a small deal aggregation and notification website for 15 years. Almost no new users these days. A few months ago I was excited to see dozens of new accounts created each day but no one ever clicked the verification link that was sent to their email. That’s when I first learned that creating unused accounts is a technique used by hackers to flood people’s inboxes to hide fraudulent purchases or other nefarious activity like publishing a hijacked npm package. A simple what is x + y? captcha solved the issue.
Bingo.

A, B, and C should all just leave at a regular, reasonable time. And sometimes each of them has reason to leave early, and doesn't need to justify it.
S/N for a cassette is variously given as 50dB, 58dB or 67dB [1,2]. Bandwidth is given as 12kHz (standard), 16kH (medium Fi), 19kHz (HiFi) for different quality cassette systems [3]. Let's simplify by assuming the frequency cutoff is a brick wall and the S/N is constant across the band.

The maximum channel capacity for a cassette can be calculated using Shannon's Theorem [4]: C = B*log2(S/N+1)

Cheap and cheerful (S/N=50dB, B=12kHz): C= 199kbit/s

Mid range (S/N=58dB, B=16kHz): C= 297kbit/s

Hi Fi (S/N=67dB, B=19kHz): C= 422kbit/s

Modern coding (LPDC) can achieve within a fraction of a dB of the Shannon Bound, so those numbers will be close to what a state-of-the-art encoding could do with a cassette. (A new hobby for someone?)

[1] http://www.tapeheads.net/showthread.php?t=35390

[2] http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/choosing-a-cassette-tape/1...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=848978

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...

Edit: Here's a dose of reality from another forum:

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/70700/why-can-so-lit...

My guess is the the Shannon based predictions are realistic, as they are lower than the same rates as achieved by specialised data recording systems. They are also a bit better than what a narrow band radio system can achieve, and a cassette will be a better channel than a typical radio channel.
That is fantastic. You made my day. Funny it was based in Illinois too!
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I do a lot of driving and still I have only had to use public chargers a handful of times over 2 years. Even if not staying at home I can usually at least plug into a 110v outlet somewhere or I stay at a hotel that has an EV charger.
No, you're missing the point. People who want that can buy a PS4, which has always been cheaper, has more interesting exclusives, and as a result has had its copy protection broken since nearly launch.

There's no point in doing it with the Xbox, because the Xbox has no exclusives anyone cares about and is more expensive than a device that sold tremendously better and is cheaper.

This is the same reason people develop private servers for MMOs, and the exact same reason they don't bother doing so for consoles if there's a better edition on another platform.

The niche of "cheap piracy box" has been filled, and the only way for people to have an incentive to hack on the Xbox while firmware updates are still going on is if it suddenly starts getting big exclusives now that it's EOLing.
Been using them for nearly two years now. I’m on the 2,50€ plan, which I think is now legacy and was upped to 3€, because that’s the cheapest plan which supports own domains.

They offer a bunch of extra stuff like cloud, video conferencing, calendar etc. but I’ve never touched it.

In my opinion the interface is terrible and the settings are not so user friendly, in the settings menu is a kinda sub-settings menu which seems to be embedded from a subsystem…? But if you’ve got everything setup and provided you’re using your own email client, the service is top notch.

Never had a problem, maintenance and stuff like this was always communicated clearly and early. They split the parent company behind mailbox.org into its own one and even this one was very nice communicated.

I’d love to try providers like Purelymail because I think 30€ per year for my few mails is a bit overkill but the money is well spent on people knowing what they are doing and most important, the servers are all hosted in Germany.

YMMV but I’m happy with them and would definitely recommend them!
No, don’t.

The security posture of a dumb phone is even worse than a smartphone.

These devices were designed when security wasn’t even an afterthought, let alone a design decision, and they haven’t improved since then.
The easiest way to remove carbon from the air is not to emit it in the first place.

The easiest way to do that is to live like a poor person.

The easiest way to do that is to be poor.
You perfectly illustrated his point, pedant.
> Erm, then pay some truckers to haul empty containers to some space in the middle of Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Idaho, Iowa, etc.?

The empty containers don't need to be trucked to Arizona, they need to be shipped back to China so that they can be filled with more goods and shipped back to LA. There are fewer goods flowing from the US to China though, so they are piling up in LA. Either the price of shipping from US to China has to fall so much that it becomes profitable to ship all these containers back completely empty, or the government has to subsidize the shipping cost - but then which government should even be responsible for paying for this?
What's your viewpoint on thehackernews.com?
They might be, but they also might be someone who has been through the "justice" system in the past. You pick up so much. Seeing the gallows is a great way to focus a man's mind. I guarantee I know more about the criminal law in Illinois than a majority of defense attorneys or prosecutors.
The word "happiness" refers both to the temporary emotion and a long-term state of being satisfied with your life. Nowadays the long term state is often called "life satisfaction" in research.

Someone in a gulag would have low life satisfaction.

The original lottery winners vs accident victim study attempted to measure the long term state: https://www.talenteck.com/academic/Brickman-Coates-Janoff-19...

That study isn't the final word though. Other studies have found that winning the lottery increases life satisfaction, while still others have found that they don't.
Take steel and write it on steel tablets, and plan well in advance.
Oh, I see where could be the problem. I just realized that I wrote 2021 when I wanted to write (obviously) 1021. My bad.
I also hate them, I thought I was the only one. It's good to see someone with some reason left in them.
"Revenue will shrink from $77.7B to ~$74B and gross margins will fall all the way to 51% to 53% for the next few years"

A far cry from betting the farm, really.
That’s an article describing Huawei paying a documented fee to a registered lobbyist to plead their case to the White House.

In the United States, speech is free as in speech. And you can also charge a blacklisted Chinese tech company $500,000 for it too, provided you follow some terms and conditions.

The alternative is unregistered influence, undisclosed payments, and even freer speech unless politicians are isolated & insulated, and that’s just generally not a great move.
As you're well aware, our job isn't to be loved. Our job is to set a good example, and not cave when the going gets tough. I certainly don't need to be loved by petulant non-parents.
IMO they—NPM especially—should also prevent publishing arbitrary packages where the source is accessible. In such cases, `npm publish` should be an authorization check and run your publish lifecycle to produce the package.

It’s absolutely bonkers that an ecosystem where the vast majority of packages are permissively licensed allows those packages to be published with basically whatever the heck you want, completely independent of whatever you would find inspecting and building it yourself.
My professor in school years ago was working on probabilistic hardware and showing pretty good thermal benefits. It’s a drastically different way to build software so I don’t know how commercially viable it’ll become until someone shows it has a drastically better power per watt ratio (like 1000x or 10000x, maybe higher to account for the cost of transitioning existing software)
And some ancient civilization will entertain themselves by bidding against each other to win the rights to the contents of the archive.
> I would credit Moore's law for that instead. Really, if one can do e.g. affordable, real-time machine vision stuff today, it has more to do with CPUs and GPUs gaining power every year, than software getting better.

How can you say that seriously when, for the vast majority of people, a computer vision project consists of `import cv2`?
"I'm sorry to ask a basic question here..."

Sure...but I think that an insight that I've gained is that this is an example of a formula which doesn't really communicate or explain all the things you mention. You aren't sorry, you don't know that your question is basic, and you don't think you're wasting peoples' time.

In effect, it's a "pointer" to a bunch of things, so it only works with people that are conditioned to such things and have them in their memory. One of the things you mention, "not trying to school them" sounds to me like deference, and I don't think deference can be quickly established without a formula. Like a salute, you have to do something arbitrary in a mutually understood way.
Sometimes you can find a good CD version of an album by consulting: https://dr.loudness-war.info/
Scanners are overrated. They only do basic heuristics like checksumming and pattern matching. It's like antivirus for your code and we all know how useless that is.
Of course, if you don't have that or a steam capable oven, just pop the kettle on and put a tray of boiled water in the bottom of the oven and you'll get the same effect.
Also sincere and thoughtful people are often complex, nuanced, and contradictory; as messy as the world they live in.

Cancelling people for not being a true Scotsman acts as a filter to either ideological doctrinaires oriented towards a narrow philosophy or more likely image conscious mountebanks selling a theatrical persona to the world.

It reminds me of the tech interview practice of brain teasers. Out of the pool of people that service you a correct answer, some already know the answer and fraudulently misrepresent their problem solving skills while others are truly gifted geniuses.

Because the number of scammers greatly outnumbers the number of geniuses in society writ large, this process creates a pool of say, 95% fraudsters and 5% prodigies. Therefore, without additional information, it's a statistically sound decision to give someone a hard pass that seems to miraculously come up with the answer.

What more, the obvious next step of investigating by interview to find out if they're a phony or not likely gives you no additional information. The genius who had just seen the problem for the first time a few minutes prior would likely be far less able to quickly give articulate responses than the liar who likely came prepared with the common follow-up questions. Or you could be dealing with a truly extraordinarily competent person who really is that good. So now the stakes are higher and you know even less. Great

(This is why I don't do this practice and the companies that do seem to have quite a few fast talking phonies)
I think they're funny, but somehow I don't believe that the people installing those want others to think "what a silly looking house!"

Why not, instead of slapping two slabs of flimsy plastic next to your window as an afterthought, have ornamentation that looks good?
You can be anti-natalist and still adopt or foster.
And what happens when you need to update those dependencies?

Software is a living beast, you can't keep it alive on 4yr-old dependencies. In fact, you've cursed it with unpatched bugs and security issues.

Yes, keep a separate repo, but also keep it updated. The best approach is to maintain a lag between your packages and upstream so issues like these are hopefully detected & corrected before you update.
exactly… a new GUI lib, is this what you mean? (there is also a group working on Qt5 bindings, they say to have a working prototype and they're ironing things out since some time)
Thanks for the reply! In my opinion you're overstating this. I can give you dozens, maybe hundreds by now, of examples complaining that HN is overrun by socialists, the mods are SJW, you name it. People just find it irresistible to leap from a few data points to dramatic overgeneralization. In my observation, quite consistently, the main variable driving this is the intensity of someone's passions on a topic. The more intense the passion, the more convinced they are that HN is dominated by the enemy side. It works that way about everything. The most passionate Linux fans feel like HN is overrun by Microsoft shills (though that example's a little dated now).

Your argument about capital, tech, etc. seems to me to be a just-so story (I don't mean that as a swipe, I just can't think of a better term right now). People with a different starting position can come up with other stories that sound just as convincing. Here's one I just made up: HN's politics slant left/liberal because the main predictor of political leaning these days is education, and the audience here has a relatively high education level.

If you're looking at this from a left-revolutionary point of view, then sure you're in a small minority, but that just confirms the point, because that view is a small minority in society too. That doesn't mean HN is biased towards capital, wealth, and racism (except in the sense that, to a left revolutionary, almost everybody is). It just means that most of HN sits not-that-far from the middle of the bell curve, just like most people in general.

As a person who spends a lot of time trying to get people to truly listen to each other on HN, I don't think it's very nice to say "claimed interest in open dialogue". If you really think that's fake, I'd like to see links to the places where we're shutting down "open dialogue" as opposed to moderating commenters for breaking the site guidelines. If you think the site guidelines are poorly designed for "open dialogue", I'd like to see a better set.
Does this mean the chip is more "secure" like against those attack vectors (Sepcetre?) that affect some x86?
This - unless its causing a production outage just say no.

It's managements job to maintain expectations for delivery dates, not your job to work extra hours.
Not feedback just curious- How did you make the marketing site? Did you use a theme/template or created it yourself?
You need these as well: https://highend-electronics.com/products/shun-mook-mpingo-di...
Why isn't the solution to put empty containers back on unloaded ships to be sent away?

BTW for fun reading on operations logistics and identifying and attacking bottlenecks see "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_%28novel%29
"free software ensures users always have access to a software and can modify it if they disagree with the author."

IMO this is a really terrible reason to use free software/open source, and not a positive point in its favor. Forking is a really costly process and leads to fragmentation and most of the time is unnecessary. To me the main benefit of open source is that it leads to a global collaboration and cooperation, and it gives new avenues for people to be able to agree with each other. From what I've seen, projects where the maintainers are just disagreeable all the time usually don't even tend to get off the ground at all.
TL,DR: phasing out of ICE cars will disrupt the industries that supply ICE parts.

This title probably fits the definition of clickbait, it doesn't say anything and you have to go through the article to find out what the disruption is.
What about a temporary, emergency suspension of the Jones Act for select flagged vessels?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
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I agree to an extent. The criticism was more like, "that seems physically impossible," like many of us might react if a story claiming someone had invented warp drive got to the top of HN.

However, most of the knowledge about such things is "siloed" inside the lab science community itself, without much awareness from the outside.

That being said, I think so few Valley VCs got duped because they actually did the due diligence and determined this was in the "not physically possible" realm.
Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option.

I don't think you're necessarily right this is temporary. But companies always have the option of just not producing. If no one has blue paint, for most uses, the consumer just buys another color and grumbles.

And the things that are most likely to have a shortage would be those things that are cheapest produce a large scale in just one part of the world, so they're things that would be hardest to replace.
That is actually partly the point, interdependent economies have stronger incentives to get along and not go to war with each other. It's one of the reasons the EU exists, for example: https://eeas.europa.eu/archives/delegations/iceland/evropust...
> Blink monoculture

As long it's open source - I'm fine with it. World doesn't need multiple HTML parsers, that's where all the developer pain begins with.

linux is monoculture in backend world and no one bats an eye
Redirects are fine as long as no container-type things are in play (since those don't necessarily carry the origin's cookies across the boundary), it's embedded cross-domain auth forms in an iframe that can cause a dialog.
Intel is in manufacturing. Nvidia isn't.
Already done for the next 1000 years.

https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
So I assume you are a medical worker already?
Kiwi here, I work for a large US company, full time remote, nearly all of my team is in Europe - UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Czechia, but I often collaborate with staff in Australia and their NZ sales teams also.

I'm employed by their NZ subsidiary so tax and employment law is all straightforward.

My initial salary offering was above local market, but definitely not SV levels.

In terms of timezone alignment, most communication is async, but there are some evening video calls, but 1 - 2 a week at most.

If you've got a way I can contact you - a reddit account would be fine, can see if my company might be up your alley.
A day with the squirrel hawkers of East Texas
I wish they had an app or an app that would make catch-all feature more usable. Ability to reply from any random email I had used as long as it's on my domain.

For basics they are fine. Their cheapest plan is not the old cheapest. They added some new plans and now on cheapest plan there's literally no support (not even email or ticket) and many features simply cut off - no personal domain either.

IMHO one must not consider a paid email provider if it doesn't support custom domain, no matter how cheap that plan is.

UX is pathetic and there's no sign of that being fixed.
the part about the spec of that office97 format is more or less taken care of by the libreoffice project
So, they are batting 50% either being first with a dead end (6502, PowerPC) or being late (68000, Intel). Not exactly a stellar record of innovation in CPU adoption.

If the pattern holds the M1 is due to be a dead end.
I don't understand this line of thinking like a teenager in some drama series - its business and you have contract to get paid for a set number of hours a day.

Either the company compensates you for working overtime and you want to do extra hours, or you say no and they can hire more staff or descope features.

There's no need to be scheduling events for excuses, just say no, its none of their business why you say no and you will get more respect by having boundaries.

From my experience management see people who go above and beyond as compliant suckers and will lowball them on compensation and bonuses.
Did you mean to say “should not”?
Are you saying that the "a year from now" estimate from the commenter is correct merely due to "prior estimates were wrong is no reason to distrust new estimates"? FWIW, I am under the impression that, officially, there aren't even estimates anymore... it will end when it ends and, frankly, if the issue are the people who aren't getting vaccinated, do you think that is changing soon? If anything, aren't we learning that the immunity--even and maybe even particularly the "natural immunity" from having contracted the virus directly--is temporary?
Exactly. The average JavaScript programmer is much worse than the average Lisp programmer not because of any inherent features of either language, but because JavaScript is the first thing beginners learn in bootcamps. It's the same problem PHP used to have.
Mozilla is too busy inserting ads and removing useful features from Firefox.
Worse, the past tense of "begot" is "begat."