skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consumers should have access to things like GPUs at a rate the manufacturer is happy to charge.

Okay, great, so you ban scalping bots. Now consumers can't buy GPUs because they're sold out, as opposed to because they're too expensive. (1)

The problem is that the supply of GPUs is constrained and there are more consumers who want GPUs than there are GPUs to sell them. Banning scalping bots is not going to solve that problem.

(1) Of course people can still resell for a profit on eBay, unless you decide to ban that too. Heck, why not just ban everything you don't like? Let's pass a law to ban poverty while we're at it.

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All that said, the act actually doesn't ban bots, it bans bots which circumvent protections that the seller put in place to block them. Which is fine by me, if a seller wants to put in a place a policy that says they will not sell to bots, I think it is fine for the government to help them enforce that policy.
Seems like the pre-Linux trend of nickel and diming for everything, especially tcp/ip network connectivity contributed heavily to the failure of the platform.
Very interesting project! This is one area where I always felt git was worse than mercurial. Latter has extremely useful tools like `hg hisedit` and `hg split`, for which git didn't have a counterpart.
For a long time I didn't realise that the Miele had fans. I usually run machines in 'set and forget' mode: I turn it on and then do other stuff.

I was walking past the Miele and felt some warm air. I stopped to investigate and found it was coming (extremely quietly) from a vent on the top left of the door. I had thought, prior to that, that it was just a passive vent.

(Just in case you reckon that I think that the Miele machines are perfect, my indicator lights for 'empty' rinse-aid and salt don't turn off. I'll get them fixed when I next need a serviceman. And the automatic anti-flood cut-out switch has had me thinking that the machine had died when it just needed some extra cleaning.)
So reading this article am I understanding correctly that multiple VMs are mounting the same EBS volumes, and some write while others read?

What's the underlying technology here? If EBS is implemented over iSCSI AFAIK this is not supported currently available to do in most distros.
"Zero evidence", "Wishful thinking". No Sir. Just common sense.

They 4 other CoV have been studied extensively and there are also theories about their origins. You are taking very different types of virii and compare them with a Corona Virus, which makes no sense at all.

The question you need to answer: Why should this CoV be so different than the 4 others we know?

Btw: Common colds can be very deadly if your immune system is weak or not familiar with them. Just go and ask some native Americans back in the 1640s.
Build app search without architectural complexity using MongoDB Atlas Search
I think the point was that the physical representation of the RHS looks like it's a golden ratio bigger than the LHS.
Glad to hear it. And deaths from the common cold?
If your life was a play it would have multiple acts.

Every 7 years or so you will have some major upheaval in your routine, so you aren't stuck with the choices you make right now.

For instance I went through a phase of playing video games heavily and now I've almost entirely quit. I had a time when I worked a lot on side projects, then I quit (except for work I've been doing on a committee.) Last year I started a series of art-related side projects and now my son and I laugh at Meta, Magic Leap and such because we make products that work with 3D glasses that get amazingly good image quality despite costing just 20 cents a pair.
Many companies are kind of communist when looking at their internal structure.
WHO advises at-risk groups to postpone travel due to Omicron variant
One option is to eat less of everything. This may sound dumb but in the current stone age understanding of nutrition and health, it is a reasonable option.

The only foods which are ‘definitely safe’ are leafy greens and cruciferous vegetables. Could probably add berries to that in moderation. Not saying that is all one should eat, what I mean is to eat less of everything else than baseline, to some caloric deficit. This excludes the few people who are underweight for whatever reason, and those with certain diseases.
Living in Germany and having only driven in Mexico (City) as far as the Americas go, I admit to not understand what yellow lines signify to US drivers, like at all ;) At my place, they're used for temporarily "overriding" regular white lines eg at construction sites, and only for that purpose.
> This could be extremely useful for security. Maybe even the death of VPNs.

You can already get this - if you think you need it, you should google 'Private APN'. It's been available for years, assuming you're a corporate user looking for a few hundred SIM cards.
I probably shouldn't have removed my tinfoil lining yet but yes, you're correct. Any information the US government has access to through these channels is also probably accessible by our surveillance/intelligence allies. It raises a lot of questions about how deep the rabbit hole goes, but I won't elucidate them here since I've been threatened with bans for doing so. I guess it's a do-your-own research situation, but always carry a healthy degree of skepticism when you read about anything government-adjacent.
Try: Hold "volume up" and "power" for 2 seconds

You'll feel a vibration, and biometric login will be disabled until you enter your passcode.
I use GitSavvy. It feels the safest to me because I use the same small set of actions frequently. I fuck things up on the command line much more readily and in ways that I find harder to fix.
Let's hope for none.
One-more-re-nightmare – A fast regex compiler in Common Lisp
This:

> Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop.

is functionally contradicted by this:

> It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals

And this:

> but it's not locked down in any way, and reverse engineering is solving the documentation problem already.

only improves things partially.

> (Also Qualcomm Snapdragon is a far more cursed platform internally.)

The TL;DR would be more that ARM in practice and SoCs for sure, suck. They're functionally their own little islands, compared to the PC.
I remember that too. One could infer some useful information from those dates alone. Similarly, it just dawned upon me how useful the dislike counter from youtube was to me, I was drawing some metrics from it that I no longer can. The like counter really has no value without the dislike one IMO.
I would claim that thinking those conditions to be ridiculous and considering them necessary are not mutually exclusive.
Title should be: Backend Developers Are Not Needed... to win most 'Hackathons'

I can agree with this, as much as I dislike the trend as the 'hack'ing isn't on the system being prototyped, but rather the system of judging the event.
First off, don't envy anyone. On the outside you see someone with a great career and a great relationship. Reality, they just got laid off, they've been separated for about 6 months.

Be grateful for what you have, and don't compare yourself to anyone else. You don't know what they actually have
I’d love to take a stab at it. I think there are ways to monetize it that don’t involve advertising (at least enough to cover salaries and infrastructure). The only reason I haven’t is I don’t have access to the initial capital.
Well, I am not saying you are, but it's not really that hard to imagine that someone would pay a "troll farm" to write facially reasonable concerns that cast doubt on what are actually true allegations of misconduct. It's no less plausible than a competitors paying a troll farm to post false allegations.
Cars will still kill 1 million people every year directly. Many more injured.
> Where are Google and Azure with ARM instances?

I think they are bound by long term supply agreements with Intel. They will just bargain for better prices with Intel.

Not an easy task it will be, given that Intel is capacity jammed.
Ok, so how is something being misused "almost schizophrenic"?
I haven't used that one, but the experience you describe is similar to GitSavvy in Sublime. Which is the only reason I install sublime these days.
I would have loved for the first question to be worded more MelBrookish, e.g.:

You’re publishing your autobiography at the age of ninety-five. Why the rush?
I understand Stripe is basically the default, but I wanted to know if anybody out there is using something else that they prefer.

Thanks in advance :)
IBM had computer architectures before there were computer architectures, so it's not exactly a fair comparison :-p
I like this because "reach" scales with "moral hazard" and so adding default network decay would help dampen the outragememes. But if you pay to take the dampening off you can be accurately judged for paying to propagate helpful or harmful things.
> Come on, FB ran whatsapp for many years with zero revenue.

And Walmart undercut prices to the point of losing revenue to establish their position. Your lack of profitability does not somehow undo your monopolizing.

> When they enabled end-to-end encryption for billions of people?

Whatsapp still does not have global E2E [1].

> Or launched encrypted backups?

Yet the FBI still puts pen registers on the service [2] which makes backups moot.

> Whatsapp would not be what it is today without FB.

I think WhatsApp would be a much better product in someone elses hands. [3] [4]

[1] - https://nypressnews.com/news/technology/meta-confirms-messen...

[2] - https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...

[3] - https://m.dw.com/en/whatsapp-in-india-scourge-of-violence-in...

[4] - https://techhq.com/2021/11/after-record-gdpr-fine-whatsapp-f...
"Lockdowns have worked".

Depends on how you define "have worked". If you optimize for just variable (COVID infections), then yes, they have worked. Until now.

If you look at the entire system, they have failed miserably.
You could definitely do DOS TCP/IP stuff, I had a 286 in my dorm room I could telnet with, but it was pretty cranky to set up.
> I've read the comment an the context. It says "that person is wrong, only my opinion on what Apple does its right"

Where does it say that? I'll repeat the context right here:

"> Right now, in this very thread I see no such discussion."

The context is that I was pointing out that there is a discussion about what you claimed there was no discussion about. Nowhere did I say that I'm right and they're wrong (though it remains the case that none of my points have been refuted).

> applications which have location tracking disabled can use location tracking information from another Google application

Google does this on iOS as well. In respect to what information applications can share on the server, there is no difference between iOS and Android. The privacy differences that do exist between the platforms are the ones I listed, where iOS does a lot of data collection that cannot be disabled, while Android has no such problem.

> HN poster: see, they are the same.

A user who cares about security only cares about which device provides usable security. None of the Apple devices do. All the Pixels that are receiving security updates do. The choice for a user who cares about security isn't between some five year old iOS devices that provide limited security and other five year old Android devices that provide limited security (worse system updates but better application updates) but between any iOS device (including recent ones) that provide limited security and recent Pixel devices that provide superior security. How long they continue to receive system updates (or application updates) beyond replacement time is meaningless.

> I mean, your approach to argument is "I'm right just because I say is right",

I provided reasons why the battery excuse doesn't make sense. Why do you keep pretending I haven't given any reasons?
Ah thanks. Is the GIF tooltip somehow better than a plain HTML table with a header over each column saying what it is? Video, ugh ;).
It depends; if we started hearing from long-active community members I would be inclined to think the allegations are pretty strong.
NSO can't send you an WhatsApp message if you don't have WhatsApp on your iPhone.
Agreed, google search became a PoS for tech users. I can't find anymore things I know exists - that means I won't ever be able to find new stuff there.
Wikidata is the way to go. If you manage to get a machine readable form of Wikipedia knowledge which is not yet present in Wikidata, please consider contributing to Wikidata.
Quarterdeck really had some dope stuff those days, they were great. Sorry your investment didnt pan out!
Exactly this. Even more: Auto-deleting messages are also that the sender doesn't have to delete them manually. Most people do not understand this. I even had a discussion with an open source chat app implementer who insisted on not implementing disappearing messages because they couldn't be really enforced.
+1 on Hornblower the TV series. Had no idea it was based on a book!
Thank you, great to hear that you like it!

mp3 files not loading was an embarrassing bug, I just fixed it, should work now. (only remaining issue I just realised is that the volume panel doesn't show up when the track is first selected, I'll look into that later)
I came here to say this. either the author was confused by the features or they chose to reverse it to make it easier to understand.
Thank You !

Going to install this tonight, does it work well with LFS?
This looks boring. 3D laser scanning for virtual home tours and drones like this are far more exciting. https://youtu.be/rzOrle_Dq_E

Want to use an iPhone 12/13 to make models? https://youtu.be/0F3uFeqFOOw
I refer to this specific situation.
Chip manufacturers can't increase capacity any faster due to supply chain constraints. Raising prices wouldn't allow them to expand any faster. And most of their prices are locked in by long term production contracts anyway.
So they stopped verifying racists? Sounds fine to me.
For this kind of thing, I would rather something like the HTML details element where you click the title and it expands the details. You have the chevron to indicate it's expandable, it works on mobile and desktop, and is universally recognized without being obnoxious. I hate sites that make me play the game of "where can I put my mouse where it won't trigger something annoying"
The GP comment was aggressive and name-calling on an inflammatory topic. That's way over the line, not "the slightest".

Of course people have strong emotions about these things. That's natural, and the site guidelines are also very clear. For example: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Vaccines make me doubtful as we don't yet have sterilising solution. And long term effectiveness is still questioned. What we now have with our inter-connected globalized world make it really hard to get rid off...
Both are the current amount they would pay based on the late fee systems. So no?
Ah, so the mythical beast of future Amazon 5G use cases can be anything I want then, right?
How about unicorns?

I see what you’re saying, but just because a similar statement was made about another service, does not mean the outcome will be the same in this instance with vastly different dynamics at play.
A Thousand Brains: A new theory of intelligence
I think you are missing the risk. The supplier could raise prices but there comes a point when demand slows and now the retailer is stuck with inventory. If every one else is selling below MSRP and you are selling for double, you won't get business until everyone else is sold out. Most retailers and wholesalers want a certain amount of basis points. They simply want to sell everything for X% more than they paid. They don't want to be in the speculation game. Graphics cards is mostly a function of re-purposing the supply for something it wasn't really intended for. Look back at beanie babies when they were a craze. As a retailer, you wouldn't want to get stuck with inventory you couldn't even move at a loss. I do agree that they could be a little more aggressive with selling at MSRP if demand is high and drop back to "sale" prices if demand slows. I think there are probably some legal things for some products that you can't sell for over MSVP or for less than some minimum advertised price. Additionally, some of these products can be seen as "loss leaders" in the sense that they become a trusted source for "good deals".
> handicapped because they didn't want to take resources away from the Mac.

They had resources. The IIgs had a ROM Toolbox, a lot of hardware and was, overall, a very complicated machine that took multiple iterations to be developed. Apple was trying to make a 16-bit Apple II since before the Mac.

That they didn't want it to take sales from the Mac, makes sense. The IIgs was an evolutionary dead-end. There was no successor for the 65816.

No matter what they did with the 65816, it'd still have segmented memory, few registers (somewhat aleviated by the single-byte address trick) and no way forward - no MMU, no FPU. WDC still makes them, and never made a 65832 or 65864. The ST and Amiga were excellent opportunities thrown away. Commodore could have the 3000 be the entry-level Unix workstation Sun would sell and, with that, gain a foothold of the technical and financial desktop market. Commodore had the professional video market thanks to the Video Toaster, but made machines where the Toaster wouldn't fit. Atari, OTOH, made a couple decent workstations, but never invested much in anything beyond gaming machines with tiny monitors. It found a niche in the Music segment thanks to its MIDI interfaces, the same way the Mac survived because if was at the right place to take hold in low-end publishing.
Both connections would show different emojis on both sides then. So you would need to somehow deep fake the voice of the one telling their emojis to the other one.
> And without scale ( AWS is bigger than GCP and Azure combined )

Azure cloud is bigger than AWS

https://cloudwars.co/microsoft/microsoft-q2-cloud-revenue-st...

In terms of physical servers. I believe Chinese cloud providers, and their monster CNDs (China has terribly slow Internet, and superlocal CDNs are the only way out there) overtook AWS quite a few years ago.
To err on the side of caution, it's best to make all your passcodes themselves an admission to a crime.
Coffee and exercise have been shown to have protective effect (not sure how robust those studies are) which seems consistent with liver health/fat metabolism action…
Ask HN: Why did plain text never catch on?
I've been using tools like Ledger, Org-mode, Groff and TeX for many years and feel like they're much more efficient and provide an overall better experience than popular WYSIWYG software. The only case WYSIWYG feels better to me is in the initial minutes or hours of usage/learning, afterwards it's so much more flexible and easier to get the exact output I want.

But there are professions in which these tools play a much bigger role than mine, and I see these people using Microsoft Office everywhere, often barely able to open plaintext files. I really want to understand why. Am I missing some advanced Office features? Is it just lack of experience on my part? Does my experience with programming languages or Emacs play a large role? Is Microsoft's influence and lock-in too strong?
Sure. You get a call from the car insurance company about your car insurance. But you don't get a call from the car insurance company that tells you that you haven't bought tires in a while (and that is paid for by Goodyear).
Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Big Sur
Scalping is usually a short-term monopoly based in a temporary shortage, and it has the same problems (arrogation of consumer surplus and deadweight loss).

> Nintendo should be able to sell the NES Classic for 13k

That’s a somewhat different issue, it’s what happens as the result of a legally sanctioned monopoly (copyright) that has been exploited far beyond any reasonable term. It’s still a monopoly and it’s still bad.
yes there are bots just for this. brands like Nike and Supreme have big problems with this. Some arent even bots they are just people with a browser open, hoping to buying to resell/flip.

its made easier by the fact that so many websites use the same ecommerce platforms which makes one bot work across thousands of sites.
You have to encode it in multiple formats because many systems do not support proprietary codecs.
Partly agree with you. My issue is just that nothing good was ever achieved by creating mass panic in uninformed public. And, we have had more than a few cases like that with far too many unintended consequences. In this case you may know what is good and here propaganda is perhaps justified as you know a lot about this topic, and the rest of the world is not taking it as seriously as it should. Would that hold true in cases where you dont have a deep understanding and instead of giving you information, experts are hell bent on creating mass panic?

It's a weird reinforcing loop. Institutions like WHO and others would publish a study with good research but also doomsday scenarios w low probabilities. Journalists and publications (institutions of trust #2) pick it up, and in order to simplify and get attention, focus more on doomsday scenarios. The other institutions (eg: govt. or non profits and advocacy groups) and fact checkers pick up same story believing the doomsday scenario to be the most likely one. They publish more opinions, studies, articles, reports etc. and end up creating a situation where no one can get a good understanding of the topic outside of her field. There is so much information that it is hard to gain a handle on that, and here is where I think even 20% propaganda may not be justified.
There are many liberal republics and socialist republics doing fine all over the world. This is just trendy neo-feudalist rhetoric. The US is dissolving due to inadequate democracy where people feel they have no control over their government or life's destiny.
Same! Before switching from DesqView to OS/2. Those were the days! :-)
> they rammed through standards bodies.

They have not been declared standards by any standards body.
Unfortunately, moving from ICE to EV isn't a silver bullet. Look up non-exhaust emissions (NEE). When car tires and brakes wear down, they spit out particulate matter pollution. The OECD estimates NEE will constitute the majority of road emissions by 2035 [1], and it already constitutes the majority of particulate matter emissions on the road today [2]. EVs even make the problem a bit harder to solve, by being heavier than similar sized ICE vehicles.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/environment/non-exhaust-particulate-emi...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...
Yeah. incorporating unknown materials into million dollar projects is a really good way to lose millions of dollars. New materials can get added, but especially for big projects there is a long delay between tech invention and widespread use (think decades).
Most linux distros do not support it by default. I would encode in both h264 and vp9 which would cover everything and the browser should be able to pick the file it supports.
Many of the US big box sites where bots are a problem don't ship to China... or even Canada.
This still sounds nuts. It lets the web client (controlled by the user, which in this context is pronounced "attacker") do any db queries/updates that the backend application in a normal app stack could. Who wants to write their whole app in browser JS anyway? Even if you do want to do that, do you end up having to write the sensitive parts it as psql stored procedures to stop the client from pwning the database?