skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ionice works only on some elevators, and worked on fewer a decade ago.

As well, ionice doesn't help with this degree of load.
Electric truck maker Rivian raises almost $12bn from share sale
> Should Apple leave China?

No. The solution is very simple.

Apple should simply allow users to install apps at will, sidestepping the AppStore. China tells to remove Signal from the AppStore? Whatever, Apple complies and users download it directly from Signal, sidestepping the great firewall via VPN or something.

This problem in its entirety was created by Apple's malicious desire to control what users can run on their devices. Consequently, this gives bad actors big leverage over Apple, which is forced to serve not only its greedy needs, but also the needs of those bad actors.
Agreed, so far this looks like it's a bull-whip effect in many many supply chains.

For example, lumber is still priced fairly high, but far far down from its peak level. And if this podcast is to be believed (and I think it is), mere lack of metal trusses for home building is holding back a lot of builders from continuing with their projects, meaning a ton of lumber is being held in places that it's not usually held, which will lead to further bull whip price swings:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-08/stinson-d...
Indeed. In France the nuclear sector (plants, fuel, research...) has about 220000 jobs.
No, >> is just doing appending, cf. https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/redirection#appending_r...
I'd like some intuition --- is that very low frequency? Is that very high power? Can I have some context for how I should think about 82 hz and multi megawatt? (For example, I know that few bits a minute = well, that's a couple ASCII characters a minute)
I've found that nearly 100% of companies that say their take home technicals only take "2 hours" actually take much longer. For anything to only take 2 hours you are going to need some prior knowledge and for no roadblocks to come up. Debugging something simple can be a 30 minute detour.
And it's probably going to only get worse looking at Fed
Firefox has "Open previous windows and tabs" as a startup option. Is that something that Safari doesn't do?
Yes, but my point is that more and more cars are scheduled to have this as default. So going forward it will be harder and harder to escape the total and complete domination of Google Maps everywhere. That's why I said regulators will have to get involved at some point.
I don't see how a random person claiming something was shared with them in a phone call with another person, who probably has neither respect nor desire to talk to them is a geniune information. On top of that the person in question does not appear that trustworthy in my eyes. There is a serious possibility that he might be correct, but I would certainly not take it as established.

On top of that, they have their methodology described on their website[1] and the charts match that.

Here is another random quote from Wikipedia[2]:

"Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia. Because it can be edited by anyone at any time, any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or just plain wrong"

1. http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_r...
Hm interesting, it's hard to find references to Wall working at JPL, but here's a very non-authoritative one:

https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/5lj9ms/did_larry_wall...

Wikipedia doesn't mention it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Early_versions

That does sound right, since I vaguely recall an interview with Wall talking about JPL.

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I think there's still a difference because Python was literally funded as a research project by CNRI, a government research institution. It wasn't created there, and it was funded by different entities afterward, but I think that's the period when contributors with a scientific background like Travis Oliphant, Jim Huginin, and David Beazley started working on Python's libraries and infrastructure.

At best it seems like Wall worked at JPL for a short time and started Perl there. It also matters what kind of research it was. Perl is aimed much more at text processing and not linear algebra, while Python is more general purpose in this respect.

Also, if my memory is right, by early 2000's JPL had jobs in Python, and python.org said JPL was a user. I could be wrong but I don't think Perl ever caught on as much as Python did at JPL.

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Yes good point about Lua's metatable mechanism.
Recommended courses to learn web development and course giveaway
Browsers these days routinely persist the contents of the current session to disk, exactly to defend against a crash (computer or the application itself).

Of course, bugs and disk corruption happen, but you need more than a computer crash to lose all your tabs.
License on disk, and if the license clones (i.e. it's pirated), you blacklist it. All of these problems have been solved for a long time, the solutions just suck for consumers :)
They are insourcing to places like Louisiana
Yes, and what? Did anyone suffer because of it?
Well, DoorDash has always a) instantly replied to me and b) fully refunded me for any order that doesn't arrive. In fact, they have an automatic flow to get refunds that takes a few seconds to complete.
It is both one of Ruby's greatest strengths and weakness. I found that metaprogramming was overused in Ruby with an obsession for clean syntax. This then made many projects very hard to debug, and many runtime errors that have traces like "in method_missing at line 68". Like you can't even grep where the code is being called or what was being called.
A few thoughts:

- Maybe!

- Don't accidentally get caught in the fallacy of "how I experience existence must be how everyone does

- Is it possibly just a semantic distinction at that point? If you are completely consciously unaware of an internal voice that speaks your language, does it matter if it's there or not?
This is very very cool and interesting.
I don't see where to vote on issues on that page.
Yes because I already have Terraform that will spin up a secure prod k8s cluster in any of the big 3 cloud providers.

All that’s left is compiling a deps list of react components.

English is far more verbose than machine languages. It can easily make a problem seem like there’s a lot more to consider than there is if you’ve already got a corpus of syntax to leverage.
As I’d guess most people spend most of their time in Chromium browsers and electron apps probably a case to make that ‘native’ in the sense you imply is Chromium!
Ask HN: How do you maintain your lawn or garden with climate change in mind?
Recently, we bought a reel mower. I hoped it would suffice for our half acre, but it doesn't seem sustainable, i.e. doesn't do well with taller grass, prone to rusting/squeaking.

We also have some clover, which supposedly keeps weeds at bay, but it isn't working.

How can we maintain our lawn and gardens without using gasoline powered equipment or environment damaging chemicals?
Oh man that is a truly fantastic timeline. Thanks so much for sharing it. It really clarified for me why I can’t ever seem to get the take-home assignment done. I care too much!

I’ve withdrawn my application the last few times I’ve gotten task home assignments: I’d get to the 2 or 3 hour mark, realize I’m still working on clarifying my documentation (because I want to communicate that I consider this essential to a minimal product) and haven’t finished the feature(s) yet, call myself a shitty developer who is apparently an imposter, and then call it quits.
Funny thing is I received an invitation from Sony to purchase one directly from them. I’m guessing I signed up for at some time in the past. I’m basically using it as a 4K Blu-ray Player at this point. I bought the PS3 originally for the Blu-ray player on it.
I've been pretty excited about the possibility of using Flutter in the future potentially, once it gets good, that issue got my hopes down a lot. You know a project is not in good hands when they say spending 6~10% of the CPU for rendering a blinking cursor is justified.
I imagine the solution would be to have every individual disc to have a unique serial number that is already approved on Sony's auth servers. A pirate couldn't fake their way inside the online system without guessing a correct serial number which also hasn't been activated on another console.
My hypothesis would be yes.

You need to establish the initial feedback loop somehow and imagining writing is a good way to do it. But once you have it I’d suspect you could get faster doing what you’re describing.
I guess moving all your logic to the server means you can waste cycles in the CSSOM? /s

I’m curious if more explicit selectors would’ve fixed this, since the * exposes you to anything weird about your layout.
> they would also be lost if the computer crashed wouldn't they?

In 2000, maybe, yes. But nowadays all browsers write important parts of their state to disk and will recover that on crash. If you do a `sudo reboot now` in a terminal, you'll find firefox opens all tabs when rebooting.

A lot of the content in those pages will be gone; e.g. sessions, SPA/JS-in-memory-state or this comment in a textbox before submitting. But the tabs, their URLs and even the placement of tabs is restored.
Laws of Logic Lead to New Restrictions on the Big Bang
As someone who grew up in a very traditional fundamentalist church (preacher's kid), I think the religious extremism mindset is the problem - the "We're the right ones, and they other people are evil" mindset. Both sides have virtues and flaws. And as long as both sides are demonizing each other, the amplitude will continue to increase.
I think the status quo was far better when everything was left up, yes even propaganda (you are still subject to that too anyway). The new approach to ban anything controversial is ridiculously bad. Not a facebook user, but I would like that for the platforms I visit. Tiktok hides ugly people, Facebook hides ugly opinions. There is an argument that the former is less worse.
Thoughts on a possible upcoming hyper-inflation?
No by investing in walls I meant that in Finland typically it has been quite common that after successful exit the profits (mainly) go into property development. You start buying different kinds of real estate.
Counter point:

Inflation due to large monetary stimulus may appear through a bullwhip affect as demand eventually stresses fixed-capacity capital intensive industries. Once these industries are strained higher costs may radiate outwards.
I don't know how you can avoid discrimination. By nature of credit you have to discriminate the creditworthy form those who aren't credit worthy. On the other hand, sure, we don't need to know if someone voted for Biden or voted for Trump, is for vaccines or isn't for vaccines. You're still not providing a way for a creditor to make a judgement on someone's creditworthiness. A creditor, lacking that information may have to require advances or "security" payments which is more burdensome for the poor.

Looks at the how Japan handles apartment credit. It's a different system but in my estimation its a worse answer than Credit Bureaus are.
International Cricket Council selling NFTs of historic cricket moments/footage
How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation
This article breathlessly describes modern capitalist society as if it only exists within San Fransisco. I lack the life experience to adequately frame how incredibly sad this is.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me about it's value, maybe I'm missing some deep sociological insight it's trying to impart on me.
I truly believe this can be quite different between people. Personally I don't have "a" inner voice, but a quorum of three, all of which together form "my" thoughts
Hi Richard,

Please feel free to respond to as many questions as you have time for.

1. I'm a huge fan of your ML work while you were at Stanford. If I may steal a minute or two from you, I'd like to ask, why do you think recursive neural networks have lost out to other architectures (basically transformers) when it comes to NLP, where intuition would suggest the composionality of language would favor recursive NNs? Do you think recursive NNs will make a come-back sometime?

2. Also, you say on HN that you.com is "the world's first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for you". Do you mean this in the sense of summarization in the NLP sense, or some other interpretation? I did a couple of searches on you.com, and I didn't notice anything that "summarized" (in the NLP sense).

3. From the business side, what's to stop Google from straight up copying your features if you gain traction? They can certainly afford to pay for talent, and are not known to be sloths when it comes to new tech.
Size of Libgen, March 2021: 121.2 TB
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Always remember, inflation is the goverment printing (inflating) currency to the market in order fund it's agenda by stealing your savings. Basicaly inflation is just another process how government steals your money. Inflation is NOT rising prices, they are trying hard to derail the definition.
> global sales, marketing, product management, UX, etc. shortage

FAANG have already spent years building up these capacities in Europe. Sales in particular is incredibly local (as one might expect).
I’m curious about this too. I definitely experience my endless inner monologue as “compulsive thinking.” Even when I have nothing interesting to think about my mind keeps chattering on endlessly and I find my thoughts in that state tend to be more anxious in nature.
This is nice talk, but have you really not bought groceries, electronics, filled up your tank or paid an electrcity/natgas bill in the past 6 months?
Technologies that enable distribution-center robotics
This is a great point. But a counterpoint is that housing is not included in consumer price index. Real estate prices have rocketed to outer space for the past year and housing constitutes the biggest monthly expense for most people.

Not predicting disaster, but what's going on is very unusual and no one can predict how or when it will shake out.
Maybe you could even do supervised by force-feeding known stimuli a la Clockwork Orange.
if YOU don't want multiple app stores, DO NOT use them. Why should OTHER people who WANT multiple app stores NOT have them? For your convenience?

Once and again, you project your needs (or lack of them) on other people.

Your reasoning is exactly this: "I don't like gay people. Gay sex should not be allowed".
Thank you for the citation. But your citation (on purpose or not) basically says the opposite of the parent comment. It seems even “serious” crime stats are manipulated by police: “ A common thread running through many of the incidents of police officials' alteration of crime statistics is that police commanders responded to pressure from politicians, the media, and the public to lower crime rates by downgrading felonies by intentionally mislabeling felonies, such as aggravated assault and burglary, as misdemeanors. Such a practice deflates rates of serious crimes and inflates rates of nonserious crimes.”
Bandwidth, literally the width of the band. Don’t think of it as transmitting at one frequency but a range between two, a band.

Information rate depends on the width of the band. For example wifi uses 20, 40, or 80 MHz bands. Easy when your signal is around 2.4 or 5 GHz.

But you can’t do that at 100 Hz or 100 kHz or 100 MHz because… well the numbers aren’t big enough. You could have a funny radio that transmitted from 1 to 80 MHz, but you wouldn’t say your signal was “at” 100kHz.

That make sense?
I got so fed up with having the info I care about spread hither and yon that I started building my own Personal Knowledge Management (tm) app. It's basically a searchable bucket of JSON-LD docs, plus binary attachments, in a PouchDB database. I put info in via command line, PWA and browser extension them search it more or less the same way.

I'm gonna do a Show HN on it one day because it seems like a lot of people have the same problem as me.
> The last thing the administration will tolerate is a recession and asset price collapse at this point.

It really doesn't matter what they will "tolerate." They do not have the power to stop it if it's coming, just like they don't have the power to stop the surge in inflation. The current economic situation was set in motion by policy decisions made months and over a year ago (as far back as April 2020), as well as the worst of the pandemic, that we are still feeling the effects of.
Ethair Market has released its ‘Early Preview’ of the marketplace
We seem to be talking past one another. What Id like to see banned is non-ascii in identifiers, variables-names and nothing else.

While you respond as if I want to banish anything non-ASCII from all parts of all code-files except from HTML-templates. That’s certainly not what I’m advocating.

The following is IMO perfectly fine:

var greeting = “Hello (cowboy emoji)”;

The following is IMO not:

var (emoji) = “Let’s party!”; // note identifier contains non-ascii

Do you still disagree? If so, can you outline why?
As they say, there is no accounting for taste.
Yes, you have to manually type "javascript:" then paste the code. Or copy everything but the leading 'j' and hand type that after pasting. Or put it in a bookmark. Also, alert() truncates the text, but makes for a nice short demo. You could append a <pre> element to the page, or similar.
It's a beautiful story but it's just the beginning. When he expands his enterprise by buying more and more trucks and hiring more people he then squashes all competition with price dumping, lobbying or just buys competing companies/individuals.

At the latest when he has a monopoly the company's services will deteriorate and the prices will rise. The customers won't be happy anymore. Also he will scatter so much salt on the roads that the ground water gets polluted. You see where I am going?

Of course it doesn't need to go this way but usually it does.
Is it that much different from aphantasia? My sister cannot "see" anything in her mind at all, whereas for me mental images are so strong that I sometimes stop seeing the world in front of my eyes in favor of the one in my head. That's a pretty radical difference in a "base level" feature.
I’m with you on 2, but it doesn’t seem like just me - it seems like vast majority except the occasional person claiming it’s different for them.

It’s not a semantic distinction to me, since the mechanism underlying it would then be the same and it’d just be their recognition of it that varied which is way less surprising.
I think you're making too big of a deal out of this. You can reply to her comment telling your story. One bad review shouldn't impact you in the long term. I understand why Airbnb is not willing to help you here. They have millions of hosts and need to prioritize their time and efforts towards major issues.
I don't know why we keep building (= paying for) carriers the way that we do. A tanker hull conversion is about as strategically useful and would be a fraction of the cost. Survivability is a moot point when you can swarm a big radar target with hundreds of missiles. Not fancy hypersonic ballistic missiles but just regular old missiles too. When you accept all of that, there's no way you'd commit your CIC and "brains" to the big fat floating target.

No, carriers should be floating airstrips and if a shooting war breaks out with China, they need to leave. And now that you've saved $100 billion a year in operating costs, you can build properly stealthy destroyer class ships, that can launch and recover smaller CAP drones, to do all the real work for a fraction of the operating costs.
Were people in Russia hoping that Apple would pull out entirely, or that they should have the power to contend with Russia?

If Apple pulled out entirely, people in Russia still wouldn't have their smart voting app. If Apple resisted the Russian government, they would've been banned. And you still wouldn't have your smart voting app. Do people imagine a world where Apple has the power to forcefully ask the Russian government to yield on their domestic affairs?
> Apple-1 was the start of the personal computer industry
> Prior to that, there were other computers. They were kits. They mostly didn't work when you got them

no, it was not, the Olivetti Programma 101 was sold in thousands already in the 60s and was a pretty finite product
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#...
Free speech and democracy was on it's deathbed when free speech became less about the cultural phenomena of respecting ideas opposite to yours, and more about wether or not the FBI is going after you or not for your ideas.

That was a while ago, and since things have not been getting better, things keep polarizing. The only way to reverse it would be to once again invigorate the idea of radically free speech. But neither side wants that anymore.

Maybe it is for the better. Sometimes society needs to heat up in order to improve.
Plenty of electric lawn-mowers available. Newest models are battery powered. In general, I don't think that using a gasoline-powered lawn mower is a big deal for climate change, though.

Personally, I think that keeping my gasoline-powered lawn mower than must consume a grand total of 5L per year (I'm in the UK so the grass basically stops growing from about now until March, and although I have a large garden for local standards it's not half an acre...) makes me emit less than throwing it away and replacing it with a new battery-powered electric one. Mileage may vary, of course.

It is said that for nature the best thing to do is actually to get rid of lawns, as least some of them, and to replace them with richer ecosystems. So perhaps one option, since you seem to have space, would be to reduce the size of the lawn (which obviously makes mowing it easier) and to plant a meadow and whatever other plants.
I think you just hit on something there, though.

There isn't an easy way to flex your status online, unless you're a celebrity, or put in the work to become an influencer.

For people with money, there isn't a simple way to come to places like HN and just be important because you have money. There isn't a way to show people how wealthy and powerful you are without contributing.

But NFT's allow you to show people how much disposable income you have, and therefore how much better you are than the unwashed masses, without needing to really do anything of substance.

Or maybe that's just my own personal bias and confusion about NFT's in general showing?
Plan to port this to Linux as well! Haven't look a lot about the available UI design option, but this could be useful: https://pub.dev/packages/yaru
> I don't want multiple app stores.

Why does you not wanting multiple app stores matter? Many Android users don't set foot outside the Play store and you could do the same. Apple supporting "sideloading" or even just supporting the PWA spec would only increase the options for using your phone, without forcing you to change your current usage at all.

> It's the developers who are mostly hostile TBH.

Now you're being deliberately disingenuous. Apple has a long track record of developer-hostile behavior.
> I’m pretty skeptical of people that make this claim.

Your essential point for justifying this skepticism is that you cannot imagine people are this different. In my experience people are always a little bit more different than you can imagine. After all, there are people that tirelessly work to charitable ends on one end and people that run death camps on the other.

> people making this claim are lacking introspection to such an extreme extent

It's perfectly acceptable to you to imagine that you are (essentially) fundamentally better or more complete than them, but not that perhaps they are your equals and merely experience life differently. I think it could be valuable to figure out why one is easy to you while the other is hard.