skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Users, given the choice between native and Electron, would overwhelmingly choose the former.

I think tech people tend to assume this way too much without having any kind of evidence.

I actually prefer electron apps. They usually have a nice looking, modern design and are more consistent with web where I spend most of the time anyway. I doubt I am alone in this.
It takes around a decade to build a new school. You also need space for it, but they can usually bring in a bunch of trailers in the meantime.
> It works really, really well for libraries

It scales extremely poorly. It works very well for situations where there are customers/sponsors are willing to spend lots of money for quality, because then the cost scaling doesn't matter as much; research libraries, Lexis/Nexus Westlaw, etc. all do this, but it's not cheap, and the cost scaling with the size of the corpus sucks compared to algorithmic search.

It is among the approaches to internet search that lost to more purely algorithmic search, because it scales poorly in cost.
> I care that it doesn't use unnecessary resources.

I have never heard a non nerd say anything like that.
Median time to death from onset of symptoms ~18.5 days: https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/covid-19-symptoms-prog...

Median time for first symptoms is ~4.5 days: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida...

Within a week, we should start to have a decent picture WRT severity. Obviously, as time goes by, that picture will only get clearer.
So the breach involved their portal. I HATE those portals. I wish healthcare providers would just send an email, rather than "you have a new message on our portal". I think (hope?) my email is more secure than these portals..
Having run through the exercise of replacing every instance of "Blockchain" with "a very slow database", I did not find any of his examples convincing. Just more grasping at straws.
For sure there are alot of things missing like you mention.

Another I find personally frustrating is so many libraries assume you are using the Material stack.

RE: JSON--I have used json_serializable in the past: https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable. For my current project, I am using a data format I created call Traindown (https://traindown.com) and it's all local so I haven't hit JSON or SSH/SFTP issues personally.

Sorry I don't have a silver bullet suggestion for ya! I'm sure they don't hate you personally. Maybe all of us as collective "users" but not YOU! haha
There are many negative top-level comments here. I wonder what a good survey of developers would say about their feelings on the different bullet points from the article.
X-rays _are_ electromagnetic radiation.
I mean, if you are able to prevent apartment complex on someone else's property that is not even next you your house, then you have too much control.
I believe that LM is closer to Germany on this; I don't think the lunches are paid, so you're potentially at the office for ~11 hours a day.
Prices do not increase by the same amount in all price bands, for several reasons, but a major one being the cap on federally backed jumbo loans. Secondly, some states like CA tax properties on the purchase price, so the more expensive the property, the higher the tax bill will be, which again is factored into the financing along with interest rates etc.

At least in CA, home prices for typical working class folks have risen much faster than homes that were already expensive. This makes it possible to jump into the next price band once enough equity has been built up on a "starter" home.
Where I live, precautions are specifically targeting hospital capacity. So I would expect that once hospitals are no longer under threat of being overwhelmed, requirements will be removed.
> We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation.

The article's thesis is so obvious that it's amazing it needs to be argued in this particular way.

Two thoughts here:

1) It's often problematic when people take absolutist views on things, i.e. "government regulation is ALWAYS bad." The optimal amount is never zero.

2) After following some "dark enlightenment" people on Twitter and libertarians with a subset of very far right viewpoints, it's becoming clear that lots of these people claim to want "freedom," but what they really want is freedom from the existing power hierarchies, and to create new ones in which they are on top again.
Microsoft was never good at being consistent. It's an organization defined by corporate politics and infighting. Just because the Edge or the Windows UI department are user hostile doesn't mean that this is a wider trend in the company. Conversely, the vscode or the Azure departments doing good things doesn't mean the rest of the company behaves that way.
they’ve been continuously building schools in LA because of the luxurious funding. at least 3 new schools within walking distance have gone up in my neighborhood over the past decade. schools just aren’t a problem for densification here.
We get all that and we're saying that it comes with massive tradeoffs. The cost is massive resource footprints, inflexibility, sluggish performance, harder to reason about from a security or performance point of view because of the tower of software and abstraction you're building on top of. Many reasons.

I'm not saying it's not useful but I'm not falling over myself to argue we should all be using this stuff.
In probably any “open” ISA, vendors/manufacturers are likely to “fork it” and show up with their own extensions anyway. By embracing extensions as a first-class concept, it would seem RISC-V is trying to embrace variance rather than to repeat the mistakes of architectures like amd64 (which has multiple “microarchitecture levels” and only the lowest level is truly portable).
I would say that there is an indirect consequence to wasteful resource usage: e-waste. I have a pile of old laptops and cell phones that are still perfectly functional hardware-wise but are basically useless because of the bloat of modern software. Sure, one electron app using hundreds of MB of RAM doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but when you run 6 of them and your machine only has 2 GB of RAM, now more than half your RAM is gone. And for what? A "beautiful" software experience? I'd take a functional and fast program over a "beautiful" one any day, no question.
Good IT and engineering staff is a lot more expensive than even a fine for 10% of your annual revenue. Hiring a single good security engineer might cost 400k or more.

Good luck getting your insurance company that pays $100k to senior engineers to do that.
Could you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? You've unfortunately done it a lot and we're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
what is the link though?
Wait until the free money stops. Then you’ll have real problems on your hands. If folks are whining now in an economy with a rate of inflation higher than most long term debt, and the biggest market rally since the 90s, wait until the party stops. Then you’re actually going to have something to cry about.

Incredible how people in developed countries have no idea or appreciation for the freedoms and opportunities they’re surrounded by.
So do what Power does: most instructions that update the condition flags can do so optionally (except for instructions like stdcx. or cmpd where they're meaningless without it, and corner oddballs like andi.). For that matter, Power treats things like overflow and carry as separate from the condition register (they go in a special purpose register), so you can issue an instruction like addco. or just a regular add with no flags, and the condition register actually is divided into eight, so you can operate on separate fields without dependencies.
Having health care tied to employment is a corporate interest. Corporations need workers and everyone needs health care, so by making health care come chained to employment it keeps workers stuck in their jobs.
Everything I can find on the LG 27UK500-B says it's 16:9

https://www.google.com/search?q=LG+27UK500-B+aspect+ratio&oq...
How can someone end up with $300k in liquid assets to invest with a $50K/year job after only 3 years?
He must have blown through his family's money, or he is not telling us everything.
This is wrong, evil and authoritarian.

One would think Germany would have learned some lessons about that kind of thing.

Evidently not.
Yes, but SPECint includes all such effects. As long as SPECint benchmarks (such as GCC) are representative of your workload, it works fine.
No, by central authorities.

Unregulated markets lead to exploitative and destructive outcomes 100% of the time. This isn't even a controversial statement, it's just a pithy summary of all relevant history.
If this really is an issue, I imagine risc-v could easily get an extension for adding/subtracting/etc simd vectors together in a way that would expand to the capabilities of underlying processor without requiring hardcoding.
Author of that piece—was great chatting with Jon von Tetzchner. FWIW, I daily drive it on an M1 MacBook Air now that there’s a native Apple Silicon version and I don’t really see the slowdown issues.

Also, his recommendation in the piece of creating a minimal profile is one that I think a lot of people might find valuable when using Vivaldi.
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Is there any more info about the scope of the breach? from the PDF metadata I'm wondering if it only affected people on Medi-Cal in certain counties
I feel for your "gut". Often, if I'm learning a new math concept, my head says, "Yeah, I can do that manipulation just fine," but my gut says, "Something's not right here. Nope. Uh huh. Don't like it." And it's very hard to shake gut reactions be they true or false.

Here's a rhetorical question: When I read a Kindle-format book from Amazon on the Kindle Cloud Reading app on my laptop, what did I just read? Was it an eBook or not? If not, was it a book in any sense? If someone asks, "Did you read the book, The Cuckoo's Egg?" I'd answer yes, even though I read it electronically -- which is, I presume what the e in eBook stands for. Or do I answer, "No," because it was just digital data on a computer -- absent a standalone eBook device?

I have an eBook reader that came as part of the Calibre package, at least they call it an eBook reader -- it's just a program to read epubs. Is it is, or is it ain't an eBook reader?
The Scaleway offering has 8GB versus the AWS 16GB. Not that it changes the math that much, but it's worth noting.
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"targeted with anti-trust legislation"

Um, this is America. Every market is basically a trust, cartel, or monopoly.

And I don't know if you can hear that, but there is literally laughter in the halls of power. All the show hearings by congress on social media and tech companies only has to do with two things:

1) one political party thinking the other is getting an advantage by them

2) shaking them down for more lobbying and campaign donations

No one in the halls of power give two shits about competition. Larger companies mean larger campaign donations, and more powerful people to hobnob with if/when you leave or lose your political office.

Of course I think that breaking up the cartels in every major sector would lead to massive improvements: more companies is more employment, more domestic employment, more people trying to innovate in management and product development, more product choice, lower prices, more competition, more redundancy/tolerance to supply chain disruption, less corruption in government and possibly better regulation.

Every large company brazenly does market abuse up and to the point of one and only one limiter: the "bad PR" line. So I guess we have that.
Unfortunately, many Americans are under the spell of American Exceptionalism, and they believe in their heart of hearts that no other country on the planet can possibly do anything better than 'Merkuh does it.
When you rezone low density residential into high density residential the apartments wouldn't appear by repurposing existing structures either.

What I could imagine being a problem is rules applying to e.g. the land of an abandoned mall not allowing sufficient elevation. Because "high above" is what you'd want to offer potential residents in exchange for a not so nice ground environment. Perhaps even skip a few floors (between parking and living), empty space earmarked for possible future light commercial development. The elevators won't mind.
Right, the Soviets successfully caused the US to spend time and resources on a full fledged research program based on rumors about Soviet psychic spies.
That is a premium price if you're using it 40hr/week. Although, asumming they're available for custom AMI, maybe the value-add use case for this is to be able to have multiple custom AMIs for different dev environments and scenarios to rapidly spin up what you need.

Specifically for testing with multiple versions of MacOS: you could develop the code and then test on a custom AMI to make sure it ran in the version of MacOS, no need to have multiple systems setup. (Although I don't know much about Mac dev-- does Apple provide tools to do such testing already without running multiple OS versions?)

Otherwise, I guess it's all just about convenience.
The rules on abortion have been around for decades.

Conservatives seemed pretty dead-set on changing them.

Pretty sure it goes deeper than that.
Monthly Caltrain passes cost (last I used them) cost ~ $200/month. Tech companies usually give such passes away, or heavily subsidize them.
December 2021: 9 Consecutive Days Of Palindromes
Funnily enough programmers care about resource usage yes. Why would the user care, it's not their job? You're glad that the person who engineers your car cares about resource usage I'm sure!
Can you please describe such decent setup and your workflow with it? Anything I tried was too uncomfortable, and I noted that a combination of software, “desktop tools”, and actively used windows may play a big role in it. Pros and cons, tradeoffs and balances.
Plus there is a newsletter subscription popup box with no close button, but you have to somehow figure out that you need to click in the grey area outside to close.
Matt Blaze is a treasure.
The FBI seemed to consider the right wingers to be the good guys; the common adversary was the anti-fascists.
Construct an self-reinforcing reality aimed at dismantling the current enabling structures. That's exactly as hard or as easy as it sounds.
If someone could offer this as a service, I would pay for it. I get a lot of social pressure from family and certain friend groups due to being one of the few non-iPhone users.
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It's very well possible if we let it rip the fatality rate could have been even lower. Isolate older population let everyone run about get it and we're done. Then let older/obese people back out after vaccinations.
Considering Thunderbolt is just PCI-Express, I'd expect it to be standard Nitro hardware (whatever that is) plus an inexpensive PCIe to Thunderbolt board/adapter.
And you must ask: who is really driving the public debate to throw out centralized banks?

I saw a Winklevoss on Twitter saying something along the lines of "cash is trash; crypto is the future." Makes sense that he wants to pump up crypto, because he has a large financial stake in it.

There's always going to be someone on top of society making the rules. The question is this: who do we want it to be? How can we make sure it's well designed, and accountable to the people?
So a few decades ago.. I knew a guy who was one of the chief designers of RISC procs at MIPs

Yeah - he was addicted to prostitutes...

This guy was doing amazing engineering work and we talked at length about designing a system for basically what became rack-mount trays

But he was so distracted by his addiction to prostitutes...
There are whole calculators for that based on the number of items per minute you want or the number of factories you want to feed. This link is for 1 of each of the non military sciences per second for example. You can even include modules and beacons.

https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#zip=dcyxCoAwDATQv3G...
Rocket Lab’s next booster is stubby, reusable, and has a Bond-movie fairing
I feel like the crab gets a bad rap :(
> We provide the service for free and plan to turn freemium next year. We monetize by creating custom stickers for brands like Coca-Cola.

Seems reasonable.

But I wonder if there is a way to slide some kind of shady user tracking into this system. Maybe Stipop will figure out how to track end users, and sell that data as an extra revenue stream.
I'm pretty happy to see this. I just inherited a bunch of projects that all have entire tf stacks inside them, and I'm itching to just replace it all with some actual code.

Terraform was great, once, but over time as general cloud complexity got above a handful of some ec2 machines and some networking rules, it becomes a real burden to manage. Now all our devs are struggling to manage kenesis or ecs/fargate stuff with terraform. HCL is so close yet so far from an actual language that it's infuriating to use as a developer.

I think I'll bite the bullet and go all in on this, since the rest of our codebase is all ts anyway. Pulumi would be the other option, but at this point we're so sucked in to aws anyway, the only reason to use that over this (not locked to aws) is moot for us.
True. I also get a chuckle, when people say housing, medicine, healthcare, daycare college is too expensive. Imagine if these good things simply did not exist. It would be much worse.

So whiner need to shut up already and buy a new computer annually where electron run normally.
Hey, when my customers ask they are free to have a lifetime supply of our product! It’s free to anyone!
So was the basic understanding before this article was published that insects didn't have consciousness?
I've got a simpler, though stupider, analysis.

The variants of concern (as defined by WHO) thus-far are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and now Omicron. (The others were "variants of interest", but never graduated to a higher status than that).

So about 50% of the variants of concern (Alpha and Delta) became dominant in their time. The other 50% were concerning with their respective "superpowers", but were outcompeted by the others.

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So I give 50/50 odds that Omicron becomes dominant.

Maybe a bad analysis, but hey, everything is bad analysis right now until we get better data.

Note: there are many, many variants, including "Delta Plus" variants (offspring of Delta), Lambda, and other variants who grabbed the headlines. Gamma in particular took over South America (graduating into a Variant of Concern), but never managed to spread further than that.

Lambda also spread rapidly in South America, but also was vanquished by Delta.

So very high spread in a local area does not necessarily mean it will spread rapidly in other settings (especially since Delta seems so good at outcompeting all these variants).
Thinking back to the VMware service provider licensing I saw, Apple probably charges a subscription model that would make your eyes bleed. I was shocked anyone could afford to sell a public cloud offering that used VMware technology after seeing their pricing.
What if we don't? Instead we zone more and more suburbs farther and farther out.

We still need to build ways for all the new people in those new suburbs to get to the rest of the city. Building to dense neighborhoods is a lot cheaper than father out ones (because we need a lot more distance to get them) As a bonus transit works better as you become dense.
Thank you for continuing to do such an excellent job.
>"[...] we totally hollowed out our health care"

Weird move for one of the richest countries in the world, no?
I thought we already knew that two shots give you 6 months of immunity, assuming people with boosters are the 39.5%, wouldn't the 60.5% be just as susceptible
Clean all old Git branches in one command
This is a silly article. Humans will be around until the next comet strike, the question is in what kind of conditions we'll be living until then. The degradation of the biosphere and our declining quality of life is real so it's better to focus on those issues instead of worrying about extinction. Global warming and increasing automation are much more clear and pertinent threats than our eventual extinction.
It can be memory safe. It's up to you to choose memory safety or not. That's a piece of what I was getting at. Unless I misunderstand something. I've only dabbled with Zig.
Here's hoping I get a good faraday box from Amazon!
Oh right: Apple isn't constrained by their own license terms, so there's no reason they couldn't run Mac OS virtual machines at any scale on any hardware they wanted. Up to and including things that you would otherwise probably call "perfect Hackintosh" builds, since they can build actual Mac OS images with the hardware checks disabled, paravirtualization drivers, whatever.
It’s good natured ribbing usually exchanged over QSL cards. I didn’t know he was the son! Ulrich never misses a QSL card for me. Cool dude!
Death rate dropped because everyone started listening to ventilation whistleblowers as well. If we listened to them earlier on we could have saved thousands of people in the US
So why not get a more basic phone and not a smart phone?
Is it possible to de-capitalize heathcare? Not in this economy.
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I wonder how much more capable they are than the cheap crap I can afford.
Beeper does offer this service, but you can self host it for much less.
I'm just checking a claim I thought was implausible and also easily verifiable.

It'd be weird for Google to bury bad think only for non-American IP addresses but allow it for Americans if it was on some woke crusade for the benefit of the US government. Now, I'm not sure why it's removed from your results, but my point is that what you cited as a piece of evidence for malign intent on Google's part isn't actually supporting evidence.
> Are there even any examples of deflation ruining things, apart from Krugman's babysitting exchange? I don't think we should hinge the faith of nations on that one story, which may as well have many other explanations besides the deflation theory.

Ever heard of The Great Depression???? Go read up on it and tell me if deflation made things better or worse.

> Bitcoin exists and hasn't left millions in abject poverty yet.

Bitcoin is not the official currency of a country! The closest cases we have to that are failing economies where BTC is used as a life raft and its taken * 10 million percent * inflation to finally make BTC an attractive alternative!

>You don't even know if BTC would increase by 10000% in 5 years, if the nation would run on it.

The only way it wouldn't have is if it was highly regulated... sounds like a great match for BTC right?

Like you realize we ran this experiment before right? Do you know what the gold standard was? And why we moved away from it? Hint: Go look up deflation and it's role in the Great Depression again.

Leaving the gold standard gave the government tools like interest rates that didn't have to compete with a commodity. Let alone a commodity increasing in value 10,000% in 5 years

> Economists have lots of different opinions, you can not simply appeal to "economists say x".

This is like stabbing your thigh with an icepick then saying "Doctors have a lot of different opinions, you can not simply appeal to "doctors say x" when someone points out that doctors would not like people to stab their thighs with icepicks.

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Your comment as a whole just tells me this is not even worth the effort I've put in to get to this point. I'm not even trying to be rude, you don't have the basics to even make conversing about this productive for either of us, so let's end it here.
I'm already strong enough to do everything I want to do - and that is without exercise. I'm more interested in things that promote general health than some arbitrary strength goal.