skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to note...

Google is the big bad competitor who you're trying to out-compete.

You can't out-compete google without going below it in price. Everyone is desperately trying by charging FAR less.

I just want to note, it doesn't necessarily mean google is overcharging, but that nobody can enter a well established market by charging more and providing no other real value.
This and OPs question are not related.
What’s the connection here?? Person does “bad” thing in some niche so he has no legitimacy speaking on any other subject unrelated to that niche?
Same nonsense I was told when I put in bamboo flooring. In my case it was destroyed by the late night shenanigans of an 11 lb cat. I think hardwood comes with its own tragedy at no extra cost. What we need is a flooring material that acquires character as people walk on it and scratch it. Edit: And it turns out we have it.

https://www.sheogaflooring.com/flooring/textured-flooring/
Does hydrogen get added back into the fuel cell as the car breaks?
Phenol-formaldehyde thermoset breaks down into phenol and formaldehyde. It degrades a lot faster than polyolefins.
what's the alternative? there's a small risk that the bank screws me at some point, but if I don't make some kind of positive EV investment with my savings, it's a near guarantee that I'll never be able to retire.
This is why the first thing you should always do is invoke your right to a lawyer. Be polite but don't say anything without a lawyer present.
I love how #2 is, Linux will "Fight Toxic Waste" because presumably you don't have to buy a "new" computer. It's always hilarious to see individuals trying to make a stand against "bad" environment policies by acting as atomized parts of a whole.
I switched to Linux recently.

It isn't perfect, and had to be picky about what computer I'm using it with, but it doesn't suck as much as it used to. You have to have a bit of chaos tolerance but there's something interesting about being in a more collaborative relationship with software packages. I may go back to a Mac or Windows if they make something I really want.

For those considering a switch and just want to see workflows across OSes rather than the motivational essays or distro lists, I keep a humble spreadsheet on that here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/148zTJUwfVv9xfDcpSoH3... . I spent about a year sketching out this list before committing to switch to linux.
oh my god! this changes everything. If only the kids knew!

Also you're so very right.
The EFF from its inception has been a corporate-funded astroturfing project.

They're the originators of the business model Elon Musk employs for his own self-promotion
How does this work with physical things, like a safe locked with a passcode, or a closet locked with a key?
The fact is also the police in the USA are one of the least bullyish. The right to refuse to speak without a lawyer present isn't part of most of the first world's police code. It's one of the areas where the USA is absolutely the best at respecting people's rights and freedoms and I wish you all the luck in the world in pushing for even better Police Reform, since holding you guys as a symbol of how to do things right is extremely helpful in pushing for reform in other parts of the world.
The incentive should be that a competitive free market is better for prosperity in the long term. If anti-competitive practices are allowed, the losers are the consumers, whose interests the government are supposed to represent.

Obviously it doesn't work that way in practice.
Similar experience. Amazon warehouse guys I know shrug it off as 'just another warehouse job'. That doesn't mean warehouses are pleasant to work in, even in comparison to similarly paying positions. But Amazon isn't quite the great satan of employers. Just another megacorp.

If the employers can unionize and the union works well, then good on them - they deserve to claw as much of the surplus value they produce back from their employer as they can negotiate.
i took it as they are pointing out the irony of the title. whenever you have a large ecosystem of vendors, there are more points of possible failure. just like a company that is 50-100 is easier to manage than a company of 1,000.
> We live in a time where people who would be locked out of the publication process for "reasons" can now write books.

People could write unpublished books back then just as well, and people can be locked out of the publication process today. The difference is that "reasons" were given by a person and today you're locked out by an Algorithm that doesn't even tell you why.
What's unclear is you are making pretty wild accusations and saying trust me because I said so. That's as good as any other unfounded claim made on the internet and it doesn't contribute value to the conversation.
I think a lot of other grasses have similar growth stages, where they grow to a certain height and then start other growth processes.
I think some people are reading it as some kind of cheap political shot, since it got flagged. From the responses it seems they were trying to make a more nuanced point, so I've vouched it.

In general, it's not a good idea to try and make a nuanced political point with something short and pithy. People invariably project the worst interpretation onto it. You need to spell out what you mean.
Anyone whose even been handcuffed knows this is a fact. They make no effort to hide the fact that they are intentionally causing you pain because they can.
I also re-read Into Thin Air every so often. No idea why either.
> perhaps they are like the relational model in that you need to spend a certain amount of hands-on time with them before their value becomes readily apparent.

... except they cannot possibly be like the relational model in that way, because the relational model isn't like that. The value of relational databases becomes readily apparent when you spend five minutes fiddling with a appropropiate small-but-nontrivial relational database; you do not need to spend a [nontrivial] amount of hands-on time with them before their value becomes readily apparent.
For me it's the "it just works" factor. Just tons of tiny issues I have on Linux:

- I have to disable the compositor to get 144 Hz in programs
- With the compositor disabled, animations become very drawn out and pixelated
- Konsole's layout breaks on a new version so I have to keep downgrading it manually
- Audacity takes like 10 seconds to load
- I have to run modprobe every time I want to use my webcam
- The cursor is different in login screen and main desktop
- Spectacle (screenshotting tool) needs to be invoked twice to actually do a screenshot
- I can't print double sided pages on my network printer
- Dolphin can't connect to our household's Windows file share server (or maybe the fault lies in samba?)
- VLC hard freezes every once in a while and needs to be killed with -9 flag

At one point I maintained a txt of these issues but I don't have access to that right now
I think someday the regulation of this (i.e. government forcing Google's fees to be no larger than X%) will be Google's downfall ;)
Yeah it is wrong. 68W ideal, assuming pure conversion to potential energy with no loss:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7kg*1m*%289.8m%2Fs%5E2...
Ask HN: How does used car pricing work?
My wife and I are in the market for a used car and I’d like to get some understanding of how used cars are priced so I (hopefully) pay a fair price instead of getting fleeced.

Edit1 - not in the US but in a country with a relatively mature used car market where the ratio of used cars sold to new cars is 1.5:1. In comparison, the US has a ratio of 4:1.
A highball guess: A 1kw generator would cost around $70, so the generators and power components would cost around $2000. Throw in another $1500 for the structure, and $500 in setup labor.

$4000 usd, and assume 10% of peak potential output per day, so (24hx25kw)/10 = 60kwh/day

14 cents per kwh x 60 x 365 = $3066 worth of power per year. Not bad.
12-Layer Parallel Networks Achieve Performance Competitive with Deep Networks
The connection is billionaires criticising each others' wacky dystopian dreams. I have no problem with the criticism, I just think it lacks self awareness and that most people would put Dorsey and Zuckerberg in the same category.
Amazon was a real player for awhile, but they stopped treating developers well and their app store started to lag behind.

Back when the Amazon app store first started, they gave away a high quality free app every week. Great for user acquisition, then IIRC they stopped paying the app developers whose apps they were giving away, and the quality of the store overall started to drop off soon after.

If Amazon had made a play of taking a much smaller % of payment fees, sales and subs, they could have continued building momentum and been a serious competitor.

I presume they decided not to for some good reason, but the potential was there.
What exactly are you doing to maintain the Linux system? Configuring it? I haven't done much of any Linux maintenance over the past decade, and I'm nearing two decades of full time use.

The only issue I could sink time into is the lack of deep (S3) and that's completely an issue caused by Microsoft's capture of most laptop manufacturers (they have forced new hybrid sleep states that don't even work on windows machines).
There’s a lot of study being done on facebooks psychological harm to people and society, but not nearly enough on Twitter. I’m quite sure that Twitter is deeply responsible for the deaths of quite a few people by allowing/encouraging cyber bullying and witch hunts.
Linux desktop already came for me personally a long while back. I've been single-booting Linux and gaming for an incredibly long time.

CodeWeavers[1] has done amazingly for the Linux gaming scene via

- Steam's Proton (Steam pays CodeWeavers for development, and I happily throw my money at Valve for that) and

- their own CrossOver product which I use for non-Stream games. (I paid for their lifetime subscription[2] because I wanted to support them so much.)

Stream's Proton works well for many games that don't officially support it (one can check others' reports in protodb). Examples of games I've played recently that don't officially support Proton include Iron Danger and Horizon Zero Dawn. The latter runs surprisingly smoothly given what I'd heard about its PC performance issues from when it first came out. Granted, I'm playing both of these 1 year after their PC release, but I've already got a long Steam backlog of games to play, so that's not bothered me.

For reference, I run PopOS on a System76 Thelio with an 8-core AMD processor and Radeon RX 580.

[1]: https://www.codeweavers.com/

[2]: https://www.codeweavers.com/store
Yeah, I didn't play a ton of SV, but I will buy this on day one for two reasons:

1. It will be wonderful to explore alongside a big culture of people without everyone being beta testers.

2. I like to support small, high quality games. As the new mantra goes "i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding" (https://twitter.com/jordan_mallory/status/127748375624544256...)
Show HN: CubeDesk – A Community for Speedcubing
Classic EFF, having gone completely downhill and capitulated after Snowden, writes another idiotic article about police "noooo ... can't do that!" in spite of overwhelming evidence they can and do. But it's cool because EFF wrote an article saying they can't! They're the good guys!
Sure! The work week and similar working legislation is a form of negotiating for one’s own contracts. It’s just that people got together and negotiated for their contracts in a group, and then wrote down that rule so that we don’t have to go on strike like they did.

It’s all part of the history of people getting together to negotiate for their own contracts, worth reading about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_labor_law_in_the_...
Creal lightfields made me see the most realistic AR and VR I have ever tried
Politically expedient as well.
> Did you expect a new country wise economic model to be purposed in this article?

Coming from a publication like theanarchistlibrary.org, purporting a new system is implicit. And the following quote: "to create an “economy” that lets us actually take care of the people who are taking care of us. " - with economy in quotes removes ambiguity on that question.
"I am so smart but I can't get anything done around here because everyone's an idiot."

It's a thing. It's demoralizing to work with people who often make more than you do and are terrible at the craft and don't even look to improve. That along with obsessing about making me train "backups" in case I leave. I'm on my 4th backup now. They all left after I trained them.
You might have to reload the tab you’re on to start the plugin after a fresh install.
Once you learn to avoid NVIDIA, your life gets way easier. I've bought an RX 580 4 years ago and it's been a pleasant plug'n'play experience ever since.
This has been tossed around as a theoretical for a long time, and it looks fantastic. Hopefully we can optimize this and move towards full biological integration. Amputees shouldn't have to deal with clumsy prosthetics.

Edit: I am curious about what tech would be needed to bring this up to near par with a human arm.
The problem with expecting accountability is that system will fail you at the next step: the courts. You have to survive that process too, where the judge and prosecutor will believe the cop nine times out of ten. As a sitting federal judge once said, “truth and justice have no relevance; it is a court of law.” The law will take the side of the system.
The lack of self awareness is staggering. I struggle to think of a single website that has done more damage to western civilization than Twitter.

Facebook is a disgusting mess, but a bunch of out of touch old people sharing propaganda pales in comparison to journalists, celebrities, and politicians actively coordinating witch hunts.

I've said it before, but it's quite telling that the current political drumbeat is set on destroying Facebook, but never mentions Twitter.
Reminds me of the term cyberspace which was user quite a lot in the bigining or World Wide Web which has just become the web. Maybe metaverse will become something else as well? META or Verse or maybe MV?
Ohhh. "Magit" like "magic". I've been pronouncing it "maggot" this whole time.
I run Linux desktop with no issue, been doing it for years. The year of the Linux desktop has been here for a while, you just haven’t looked.
If we are talking about who to be afraid of, numbers would be a better guide.

Can superficially nice, patient, respectable people do horrible things with no warning? Sure. But how often does that happen? Is it enough to be afraid? Or is it just a more exciting story (in fiction or the news)?

I'm inclined to think our normal cues for fear of people are at least somewhat tuned to reality. That people about to do something bad give away their intentions (or their volatility/impulsiveness) in many ways before they do something bad.
I worked retail in xp/vista days the regular customers had no idea about linux existing, few knew about MacOS it has changed but no way these people would ever touch linux, laptops needs to come with it even then it would be a hard Sell..
I like "Maggot" better.
Yeah; one of my favorites in recent history was the Windows 11 developer preview. I installed it ahead of time to test an application my company distributes. Eventually, Windows 11 is released, and I think: Well, I'd like to get this machine off of the "dev channel" and on to stable, so I can (1) run what my users are running, and (2) not deal with instability.

You can't. Their official recommendation, in the Windows 11 Settings app, is to reinstall Windows 11. There's no way to migrate "backwards" on update channels, you can only go "more unstable".
Have you ever tried to teach people how to use a computer or is that paper talk ? because in theory everything is well designed, but very few things are.

Of course "in theory" good tools are solid and simple.. in reality bro how insane the world is. Every update, every fix, changes the poor ground of habits users tried to build. Just yesterday I had to help a neighbor because she couldn't grasp a word document embedding a invisible table as layout forbidding the caret to move right as she used too. I think you're very much misunderstanding the vastness of psychologies, of tooling variations, of hidden variables and parameters and the immense layering of software.

People are confused by the slightest change in computer interaction. How do you want to make them understand when to click, double click, right click, drag, press. What's an URL, what happens when they click save, why errors or not ? people don't even know what saving a file is. Really, go in any office you can pick 30% of users totally clueless about folders and files.

Every attempt at hiding information causes trouble, it taps into shallow understanding and rote memory. People become mere users and it sucks. History is interesting, details are interesting, your brain loves it, if it's tied to a tangible concept and use for the people. It's not about making VBA6 classes or a talk about Linus Torvalds acrobatics for the sake of geek pleasure. It's to situate what are the reasons (as in reasoning) for why things are the way they are. Even your keyboard has a long history.
Not satisfied. In the US, most banks are shitty (at least in terms of Online experience). I want a bank that has in person branches but also offer great API, UI where I can categorize transactions (why do I need Mint separately), Online transfer to other banks a breeze (some are catching up on this finally), better security (stop using SMS based 2 factor please. This is 2021) etc etc.
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> Afterall, how do you stop 'You work, I'll be at home collecting UBI and watching TV.'

Well, if there's no money (because it's not necessary), there wouldn't be a UBI anyway? Communism is supposed to come after socialism and before anarchy, in theory. First you build an egalitarian society with a mindset of peaceful cooperation, then you get them to all work together for the greater good, and finally you dissolve the 'taskmaster' of the state, as society is perfect and no longer needs it.
Anarchist Think Tank Locked Out of PayPal
Wind and solar are condition dependent, nuclear runs all the time, consistently.
The fact that Mark Zuckerberg is targeted by the media and the activists while Jack Dorsey is not, I don't think it is because Facebook is worse than Twitter. Rather, it is because Mark Zuckerberg tries to make Facebook political neutral while Jack Dorsey donated $10million to the "Antiracist" center and openly makes Twitter left leaning.

The only way for Mark Zuckerberg to be left loose, is do something similar to Jack Dorsey.
Do you know how many babies used to die before they were a year old?

It sounds like you saw real poverty and it woke you up to your immense wealth and comfortable existence, so kudos on that. You took the wrong leap though and decided that your life is the default state, when in fact it is in an incredible aberration of history. For millions of years every person was poor, then a few were rich, then more were rich, and now you're one of them.
> You can look at numbers on reports, or you can go and actually look at some of these run-down areas.

You're advocating for ignoring research and data in favor of anecdotes. You're not even trying to argue in good faith.
Oh, yes, enterprise windows cuts out most of the ads. The personal additions fill the start menu with ads for various windows products (and paid placements, iirc? I can't remember, since them I disabled them all a long time ago).
Recursive SQL for querying hierarchical data
There are rival ad networks?
Bravo. For anyone not following the very serious joke about the dangers of doing what is detailed in the parent comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution?wprov=sfla1
Apparently chromebooks have broken 10% of sales, which are sort of Linuxey. https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...
I don't think it's anachronistic, maybe arcane. Its a formal logic symbol which was also used by standardized test writers like the SAT. The SAT removed those questions because they were ineffective at assessment, not because the notation was out of favor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)#Mathematic...
Well, at least personally, it was easy to make and maintain friendships in school where I was seeing the same people over and over again, naturally and spontaneously. It was a function of time, but that time came effortlessly and automatically.
The argument for general cognitive ability is because the correlation is observed among all the various measures related to cognitive ability that we have. If you test people on the ability to play the piano, organ, and harpsichord, and assert that this is a reflection of general cognitive ability, then this is prediction is testable by later correlating this ability with other measures, and gets falsified by observing the metrics with which it does not correlate. So far, the concept of "G" survives because it actually does succeed in various tests of alternative metrics of cognitive ability - e.g. "emotional intelligence" metrics, biological metrics such as reaction speed, and various 'outcomes' e.g. job performance and future income controlled for socioeconomic background.

In essence, the answer to "why positive correlation between any particular set of tests leads to the conclusion that this is truly a general cognitive ability" is that many respectable people have tried to find measures of aspects of cognitive ability that are separate and uncorrelated, however, as far as I know, all such attempts have failed so far and their experiments on alternative metrics did correlate with everything else and just became more data supporting the concept.
Smart people are also very lazy. I've always been an underachiever and am just as happy writing emacs lisp to do cool things as I am to reengineering some mess at work. Still get paid the same amount. I do good work but I don't overextend myself. This is how i've avoided burning out after 30 years.
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Even a trivial due dill on cerezyme which is the gaucher's disease enzyme that blue turtle was proposing would have revealed that approved formulation is encapsulated in a membrane, has a membrane anchor (which bacteria cannot natively produce), has glycosylated protein (which bacteria cannot natively produce), not to mention "how the hell do you deliver a protein through the intestinal barrier" and "how do you target probiotic to the intestine", "how do you keep intestinal probiotics there", "what is the plan to measure uptake variations in the population" etc. etc.

Like seriously, i was able to look this up on wikipedia in the timespan of their demo pitch.
As a person who has been using Linux as my main desktop OS since 2003, unfortunately there are almost as
many impediments to the average user switching to Linux now as there was back then.

1. Although game support has gotten better, most AAA titles still don't work on Linux, even with proton.

2. There are still a lot of devices that either don't talk to Linux at all or require the kind of tinkering
that the average user is not capable/willing to do to set up: iPhones, any VR headseat that isn't the Index,
etc.

3. There are still a lot of highly popular industrial-strength applications that don't work on Linux,
even with WINE. The entire Adobe suite, AutoCAD, etc.

For these reasons (and other smaller ones), I have always needed to have a Windows dual-boot setup, and I don't
see that changing any time soon.