skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am often surprised how different(better) many songs are on my 2020 Air. Would like to know if there's difference between Air and Pro in this regard.
> That's why code is not law. Intent is law.

What is a 'smart contract' in that universe and how is it different than a 'contract'?
And a computer that beeps with every keypress.
assuming you mean switching to ARM/SoC style none of your games would be any faster because they would have to be emulated unless someone recompiled them.
I prefer no account at all. If you still have an account you don't really own the device outright. You had to agree to some level of things by buying it at a store. Then you have to continually agree to a barrage of ever changing legal requirements.

I honestly don't know if I can ever buy a new car, I might have to stick with ICE. At some point even your car might show a screen that says, hey before driving to work, do you agree to the following terms? NO? Then you don't get to go to work.

I think we have too many "agreements" and a lot of it is parasitic because they want to sell data about you.
I think blind people would like a text adventure or a good assisted Dungeon Crawl than Far Cry.

There are really good IF stories out there. No, not Twine, that's just an enhanced gamebook. I meant the stories made against the Z-Machine (v5-8), and maybe the TADS ones.
Reminder that market capitalization is only: (number of shares)×(share price)

It's kinda crazy to think that Bill Gates would be a trillionaire if he never sold a share.
Even better with an animation of bills flying from one account to the other in the background and/or a laughing skull on the computer of the person being hacked
A lot of people's votes in the presidential election are meaningless.

However those whose votes are meaningful don't know it.

Let's say that if do you vote, you are 99.999% sure your vote is meaningless. If you don't vote, you'll be 100% sure. That .001% is a larger difference than it might seem.

What's stopping you?
Recourse, mostly.
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You can't ask for a raise at most companies, that's not a thing despite what internet articles and people in tech circles think. Most companies have clearly defined, set in stone, pay scales for a position and the only way to move up that scale is via a merit increase. Our merit increases are always at or less than inflation, this year's merit increase didn't even cover the inflation we saw that month.

As far as finding other employment, they don't pay all that much better and I have 15 years of experience doing a very specific thing (air freight customs clearance, just writing the entries) which doesn't really exist a whole lot of places.

Then there is the fact I have a GED (I'm in a degree program but that's still a couple of few years out) when places like Flexport (which isn't even in my state) wants a 4-year degree to even talk to you. Here's a response I got from them when applying to a job before I got married and would have considered moving to Chicago (at the time I had 12 years of actual experience having written over 100k entries):

"Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications.

Based on your background, there is no doubt that you will shine in your next career endeavor. In the meantime, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week!

All the best,

REDACTED"

And, from what I could tell, that job would have been a pay cut AND required me moving to a higher cost of living area.
Maybe this is a silly question: Why is the A/B choice between a row-major database and a column-major database, instead of between row-major tables and column-major tables within a flexible database?

What's stopping the other leading brands from implementing columnar storage, queries, and such with a COLUMN MAJOR table attribute?
Azure is still growing like crazy. I really hope Apple stays in their lane and doesn't start making forays into "enterprise" to spur growth.
Interesting. I've seen that sort of thing done in Turkey, but nowhere else.
i don't like to sleep in a room without windows. i like to see the night sky or signs of life outside my room, and most importantly i hate waking up in the dark. i would switch universities or sue if forced to accept a windowless room.
Probably not a good idea to burden application programmers

with having to annotate each message send with whether the

receiver is on the current computer or another one in a

Citadel.

Since Actors can move between computers in a Citadel, such

annotations are infeasible in practice.

Of course, modularity, security, and performance should not be

ignored.
Can you elaborate on what it fails? https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash claims:

> It cleanly passes every test in smhasher
You're really misrepresenting the information from the link. Munger is the top-rated residence in the area. https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c...
>> However, the (imperfect) experts say that the vaccines are way safer than contracting covid unvaccinated.

False. SOME (imperfect) experts say this.

SOME experts say taking an unknown vaccine for a healthy person in an age group that is not at risk of Covid is creating an unnecessary (unknown) vaccine risk for themselves especially considering the vaccines are made by profit driven companies that haven't been particularly human welfare focused in the past.

>>They started experimenting with the coronavirus vaccines back in 2003

Thalidomide is based off of benzodiazepens which had been developed over a hundred years before Thalidomide was invented.

Still made unexpected flipper babies.

Have you even made a tiny tweak in a code base and the whole thing broke?

Now apply this to a biochemical system which is infinitely more complex.
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Seems like nobody else cares about the inability to run Boot Camp on M1 Macs? There’s enough Windows-only software out there that I wouldn’t want to upgrade my older x86 MacBook Pro.
Users: Profit through deflationary design (demand higher than supply). Most currencies are inflationary by nature, while Bitcoin is designed to be the opposite (the first phase aimed for growth is inflationary, but this pressure decreases substantially every halving).

Developers: Profit from being a user, as well as from the power to drive additional demand by improving the ecosystem (make it easier to use, more powerful or more efficient), and lastly by way of bounty/salary/donation based on how well they are achieving #2.

Miners: Arbitrage between cost of electricity and price of crypto, transaction fees mined, block reward, and finally from being a user.

The funny money some exchanges offer to make moving fiat easier or faster between other exchanges is pretty irrelevant. As long as tether is not committing massive fraud by minting billions to buy crypto on a fraudulent basis, it doesn’t matter what token people use to move their fiat. Tether could explode tomorrow or in decades from now, but I don’t see them bringing down crypto longterm, just like I don’t see an Elon tweet having the potential for long term impact.

I would certainly never touch Tether, and anyone who does is taking a not insignificant risk of getting burnt if there is no-one willing to buy their tether when they want to sell (Tethers are not and have not been redeemable for dollars from Tether corp for a long time).
Working Part Time, Failed First Time, the incorrect grade was a her retake. Likely Debt from Student Loan.
https://github.com/philipl/pifs

That is so cool.

And I beg pardon if I sounded dismissive of the OP; it's a great explanation and interesting exploration, thanks.
Milennial not Gen-Z here: I see where you are coming I think your life experiences may be biasing you.

For example:

I have a computer science degree and I am far from bad off but I am one serious medical illness away from having to blow my retirement fund on medical bills or lose my house. And I pay $14k a year for that shitty medical insurance.

Coding for 20 years, 12 since my college degree... still no Google job.

And for the privilege of being in the top 10% I get to work 70+ hours a week and haven't taken a vacation where I haven't been called by my boss... ever... not even my honey moon.

And I'm lucky, most of the people I know don't own a house or have a retirement fund or safety net.

My father is in his 70s, has millions in savings but medical bills for his cancer will eat through almost all of that before he passes.

I'm pretty sure the American dream was not to rent for the rest of your life, work 60+ hours a week, retire at 80, never take vacation, be called by your boss all hours of the day, and leave nothing to your kids because your entire life savings got wiped out in your last 5 years of life by medical expenses.

And that is the life of an upper middle class family! 75% of the country has it worse.

And that is buying a house 7 years ago. No way in hell could I do that today.. my house is now "worth" $750k... I paid half that 7 years ago but my pay is barely higher than it was then so no way in hell I could afford it now. When I bought $750k would have been a literal mansion.
It's crazy to think that Microsoft would be where it is today if Bill Gates never sold a share, because it wouldn't.
Not sure what the point was of you bringing this up.

Are you saying that you liked only having 2 toilets and 1 shower per 16 people? Are you saying that since your experience was that, others should have similar?

Just trying to understand the purpose of you bringing up your anecdotal experience.

edit: Also looking at the link it looks like two students get 1 private room with a window, and some even get balconies. There's outside courtyards as well. Not sure how this is similar to the design mentioned.
Isn’t Apple making considerable more money than Microsoft? Is it about potential or something?
as a permanent potato lover, i have to ask:what kind of recipes do "potato based diet" do communities around the world have? i live in a place where rice is the major food source and that is the base of all lunch and dinner. everything else is had "with rice".
i wonder how potato is consumed on a daily basis (i would love to) except the fast food stuff. errgh
No, they are all the same and you'll do best by splitting your investment equally among the ones you're considering.
I'm regularly working with people in "gen z" the past couple of years, that's never been my experience. I've also seen a bunch of people from any type of "generation" behave the same way that is described in the article.
North Carolina for me.
Bingo. I don't want my online persona to be tied to one account or company.

Big tech companies are pushing for a 360 approach where all you media, entertainment, work and even finance happens on their platform.

But what happens when one of their "AI" bots flags you for some arbitrary reason or they simply don't like you? Google is notorious for automatically banning accounts and it's virtually impossible to get a resolution. Bots ban you and bots "answer" you plea for resolution "We've looked into the issue and you're still banned. Bye."

So yeah, facebook bundling all their services under one account is not acceptable.
Build a replica Borg recharging alcove around the coffee machine
See it used to be normal to have less privacy but it was local. I grew up in a small community where most people knew each other and knew what happened, if u did something stupid everybody found out. This was the norm for a lot of yrs.

But it wasn't everywhere, people could leave and go to some other small community if they wanted and be a "new person" or whatever. Not any more, you have One Name that is you everywhere, on your id, on the internet. If yall think there's a problem with ppl getting cancelled for old stupid stuff now just wait until we get a first generation where everybody is recorded from birth.
They couldn't cover them in something translucent?
Of the three, I find Apple the easiest to understand - they actually build physical stuff and that's the core of their business. Apple could operate in a vacuum and still be profitable. Their business model is neat and simple.
But it kind of is, if the code is so ancient, crufty, and confusing that people don't want to maintain it, which is the case with the X code and a big reason for Wayland in the first place: Wayland was started by X maintainers for the purpose of not having to maintain X. Which they still have to do with Xwayland, but even that will stop as Xwayland was only ever supposed to be a stopgap for legacy applications.
If you are concerned, you should get a screen reader and find out for yourself.
Subtitles can be trivially TTS'ed since the 80's. Literally.
So what's stopping you from researching it?
"Eh", there are other things than the USB-C sockets you can trade with to get volume for USB-A sockets. Also, your "just use a dongle" argument is a nonstarter.
We just survived the worst crisis of century. Perhaps it makes sense to put this plan on hold for couple of years. Or find something a bit more cost effective.
They would probably like the performance boost for tasks other than gaming. I presume they would prefer only having one system for everything.
Agree with the other reply to you: I'd love to hear more about the nuts and bolts of this if you have a few spare minutes!
and some 90s techno blasting at background
In case anyone here is actually interested in trying to understand the situation, here is the full option from the RICO case in 2014.

https://www.theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/Chevron-Ecu...
On the flip side is the question of whether private citizens ought to be able to record each other in public; or even record police encounters, protests, crimes, etc. Rights must begin and end at the boundary of another person.

So, to what degree should one be private when "exposed" to the public? And how might we secure such a private boundary?
Just curious - what's a popular non-RPG MMO?
This has nothing to do with the hedonic treadmill. The market already priced in a higher guess for iPhone sales growth, and is adjusting downwards to fit the actual numbers.

If you want to fit it into the frame of hedonic expectations, the hedonic equivalent would be ordering and paying for a filet mignon and getting an In N' Out Double-Double. Still delicious, but not what you paid for/expected. The hedonic treadmill has no relation to this concept.
It is kind of a weird half-generation- it seemed people my age were always running into the after-effect of the kids 5 years older. Things like 'the campus is dry now, but it wasn't 4 years ago' or 'there used to be this awesome event but it ended 2 years ago when a girl was drugged and raped'. They got sex drugs and rock 'n' roll, we got AIDS, 'no means no', 'Say no to drugs', MADD, and Rick Astley.
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I always thought that Apple in the server or cloud business has a lot of potential. Imagine a data center version of the m1 chip.
in many places in the world houses are designed to allow windows in every room. it's not that hard.
Sure, if your thesis is that all the worlds corporate server computing is migrating away from company owned and operated data centers and into cloud computing providers over the next decade, then you would invest in Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Azure).

If you made that investment decision 5 years ago you would have tripled your money already.
Appreciate that you took the time to reply. I would absolutely apply again to Flexport and other logistics firms if they have any remote roles you could even be adjacent to with your current skill set and the fact that most people can grow and adapt into similar roles. The market has improved, clearly, and corporations are absolutely desperate for talent. Rejection sucks, but asking is free.
Daycare workers clean up the shit of children not their own. There's nothing degrading about cleaning up shit and piss; The degradation comes when you're doing it for minimum wage as a second job.
"Americans need to reduce emissions. Coal is now 20% of electricity."

Currently each American produces twice the emission each Chinese or French does
The three companies you have listed have radically different businesses. They just happen to all be in what we call "tech".

Alphabet revenue are 98% based on ads. How do you see the future of ads in the current landscape? If you are bullish then invest away. If not, then does Alphabet has a viable alternative they are investing in for the long term?

Microsoft revenue is a mix of a ton of different things, the biggest of which are cloud, productivity (Office and such), and direct consumer products (Xbox, Windows etc).
They are basically selling shovels in the tech-age gold rush. They have just so many different billion dollar revenue streams that they could lose any one of their 3 big businesses and still be ok. But by far their biggest growth driver is Azure for now, how do you feel about that versus the competition?

Apple is all about consumer hardware, as long as they continue delivering best in class product they will be making tons of cash. They are also looking to enter the electric car industry one way or the other, which is potentially a gold mine, do you think they can succeed?
Well, this is never going to happen. I mean the majority of society doesn’t want this. Western societies are strongholds of privacy and civil liberties.

I mean in our countries, the government can not just come up with some „emergency“ in order to scare the masses into willfully abandoning their liberties, like "domestic-terrorism" or a blown out of proportions "health emergency"…

Oh, uh, Never mind…
Dang! Thanks for widening my horizons!
I'll just email with a title "2nd-chance nomination: story-ID title"

And include the link in the post.

The story-ID is the numeric part of the post URL.

For this thread, where the post URL is

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024032

The story-ID is 29024032

(Moderators can use the story-ID via browser extensions / bookmarklets, I just learned yesterday.)

Similarly, include the story-ID for other issues (e.g., editorialised or clickbait title, suggesting a canonical URL, vouching flagged stories, spam).
Isn't Microsoft also very easy to understand? We need datacenters. Microsoft runs them. We need all kinds of business software. Microsofts offers it. We want to play games. Micosoft offers that too.

And Google ... we need someone to organize all that publicly available data on earth, right? Well, Google does that.
While it appears at first glance to be terrible, it is a tradeoff that is possibly worth making.

My first year of undergrad was spent living in a "forced triple" (3 people in a dorm room meant for 2). I would have much preferred a single room even if it meant no windows. Certainly would have led to more productivity and sanity.
I don't think this is a major problem. Metal and ARM are.
> One thing that is glossed over is how Linux won to OpenBSD.

Isn’t https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In.... the answer?

Linux was completely safe, BSDs were a risk, the choice was easy.

USL / AT&T basically kneecapped the bsds.
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Solar is cheaper than coal only when sun shines brightest in the noon, while the peak demand is generally around sunset. Solar energy generation is anywhere from 30-50% of nameplate capacity depending on location. This necessitates, additional solar equivalent capacity installation of peaker plants, or base load plants to cater to sunlight unavailable hours.

Newer storage tech is needed to address the situation like batteries, hydro or concentrated solar etc. Almost all of them are costlier than straight up burning coal or gas now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
> atm the build quality of index is atrocious.

I've dropped mine, walked in to objects several times. Had the light house trackers fall from a distance and ripped the DP plug out of its port. I've had no issue with the quality; actually been quite impressed.

What source of claims are you using here?
Spaces are preferred to tabs in PEP 8
Zuckery.
Balmer doesn't get enough credit but he was exactly what was needed during that pretty long timeframe. But nadella taking it from there was an equally good decision

I think balmer got to be the fall guy for a lot of things and that was why he was put in as CEO
Is it a fallacy?

They seem to be saying "you want private companies to pay this cost? Ok, would you pay it yourself?"

Which seems entirely a fair comparison, especially for smaller/family owned restaurants
I think the kind of "noise" discussed in the study here is different from something like the hubbub in a coffeeshop:

> Recently, we demonstrated that aircraft noise exposure during nighttime can induce endothelial dysfunction in healthy subjects and is even more pronounced in coronary artery disease patients.

Obviously, no one enjoys being woken up at night by passing airplanes.
> Was there something about X that was incompatible with 4k monitors?

The window scaling situation in X is shitty, and basically unsolvable in the framework of X. Wayland solves this problem.
Much of Microsoft's growth is Azure, but I wonder how long it can keep up.

I imagine at some point in the future (perhaps by 2030) there will be some sort of self-managing set of systems that you can just put on your premises.

There's just too much money to be made for that not to be the case.

Infrastructure is hard, but operations are becoming more and more streamlined.
> The problem with X11 drawing commands is that there are a lot of round-trips over the network.

This is not a problem with drawing commands or the fact that the X11 wire protocol supposedly inefficient (it is actually very efficient). It is a problem of GTK and Qt that introduce unnecessary round trips. Both tooklits (which are mainly the reason the Linux never took off because they are pure garbage) never cared in the least about remote applications.

As comparison libXt based toolkits like motif run perfectly fine over the network and are very responsive.
At least here you can snap out the BMC and replace it with one fresh out of the box. It'd not be so easy with one integrated into the motherboard.
Frank the Tank[0] as role model?

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVi91fo8gw4
I’m wondering if the 24c GPU splits the difference in battery life. Might go with that to get the 64gb of RAM and still get 13-14 hours?

Battery life, fan noise, and performance are my main reasons for upgrading.
This is mildly confusing to me.

Performance of what metric, or for what software, is lacking with the hardware you run Windows on?

Or are you talking more about efficiency and portability/battery life?
Yes that's right it's the previous command from history. That way you run ls and see if it's the expected output, then rm to delete.
Yeah, I would say I’m surprised to see this on HN… but not these days.
Electric bikes are under-hyped. It can still be stressful mixing with traffic, but they can get you door-to-door very fast without breaking a sweat.
The war on drugs is a failure by any measurable standard other than who made the most money off the backs of the prosecution of our citizens.
I often use my MBP with different monitors. Sometimes even hotel room TVs, after moving some desk around to place it in front of the TV.
>doesn't start making forays into "enterprise" to spur growth

Apple can make one enterprise foray. Apple can design an "m1" chip for datacenter/server. AWS already doing it for their own servers. Apple shown us they are capable of design a good chip based on ARM. Apple can take their chip design to the enterprise market.
The co-creator of NFTs (a precursor) joins the creator of Godwin's Law in having to explain how twisted people got about their creations. I was surprised to see Anil Dash's name in the byline. I had no idea he had a part in creating a precursor to NFTs.