skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biological systems can be quite capable, but they can also be remarkably badly 'designed'. They are stuck in many local optima.

There's a nerve that goes up and down your neck (and the much longer neck of the giraffe), just because evolution hasn't found a way to remove its loop around your collarbone. Or: the nerves and blood vessels in your eyeball are in _front_ of the light sensors and obscure our vision. Doesn't make any sense, but there doesn't seem to be a gradual [0] way to fix that.

[0] Gradual in 'gene' space, that is.
More to the point, coffee grounds are terrible for drain pipes. Do not put them down your sink unless you enjoy paying plumbers more than you need to.
If Antwerp is anything like Brussels these days then the op is right. The people living in Brussels have little love for their city, sometimes it feels like they consider themselves guests awaiting their departure. Many Western European cities suffer from similar malaises. Singapore is utopian by comparison.
See for yourself: https://pro.coinbase.com/trade/SOL-USD

Again, there's hundreds of thousands in orders within a $0.25 spread - plenty of liquidity if you're not moving millions.
Saying “crime is down” without context is pretty much meaningless. Crime is a big ass category of varied things. Also it’s by definition not something that can be measured precisely and varies widely based on reporting and the willingness of those in charge to take reports. The story attempts to add some context.
came here and scrolled down only to find #3. Resonates with me so much
> Did I say that? Or did I specifically refer to slimeballs, loopholes, Paradise and Panama papers, bribing legislators etc.

With the exception of bribing legislators these are perfectly fine things to do. And in fact amount to having a smart accountant.

> I don't remember any normal people paying thugs to bust up strikes, or paying to print anti union propaganda and rig unionising votes.

I don't remember any billionaires doing that either. What I do remember is companies doing that might have a billionaire at the helm. And as far as I can see most companies helmed by a billionaire do not do that.

> You seem to be saying, might makes right; and that we'd do those things above if we were in their position. Even if that were true (it's not), that would be all the more reason to change the rules that allow such consolidation of wealth and abuse of power to exist.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying my default assumption is that the expected behavior of normal people and billionaires is the same. The billionaires outcome is simply different because they are billionaires, they have much more weight to throw around.

> Going back to your original claim - that it's not obvious (to you) that billionaires care less about the common good than common people - here is a poem that has survived the last 250+ years

Yes and we also used to believe putting blood sucking leeches on your skin to suck out blood would cure illnesses. It's always easy to blame someone in a better position then yourself. Something that exists in a poem doesn't mean anything.

What I'm asking of you is essentially do you have data/studies that shows very wealthy people have a fundamentally different psychological profile in regards to caring about society then non wealthy people. Because that is your claim.

There are also plenty of counter examples. Like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or Azim Premji. Or the entire billionaire philanthropist archetype.
I had some pain behind that ear beforehand, but it was numb. No pain or lightning for me. I think Bell's Palsy often comes with some kind of pain, but I'm not sure about your kind.
> Away from kids, when I watch adult riders, a high proportion (30%+) have the seat far too low, maybe 3-5 inches too low. If you can flat foot sit, add 2 inches.

That's still way too low. If you want good bio-mechanics, try putting your seat so high that you can comfortably reach the pedal with the balls of your feet.

Though if you want to get a good leg workout, having your seat way too low might be beneficial?
I think the true replacement fix for plastic is to truly factor in the cost of plastic production, disposal and damage on our environment and health. With out that plastic will always be cheaper to produce than any other replacement.

Right now plastic seems cheap but without factoring the externalities future generations will pay the true cost of cleaning up the damage it makes.
The "bitflipped" version expanded the theme from whistleblowers to "powerful people" — that's where I think it fell down.

In both cases there are broad generalizations being made, but in my version I was careful to circle back to the smaller theme. I try to do this consistently because avoiding "generic tangents" is in the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

In retrospect, rather than relying on context, I could have explicitly qualified the final sentence to clarify that I was speaking of the relative weight of individuals and organizations in US society specifically with regards to the outcome of whistleblowing. I'd like to think there's something I could have done to have earned a more generous reading from you so we don't end up in a rhetorical gotcha game.
With the first retina MacBook Pro, they split the displays between Samsung and LG, and the LG displays had some pretty nasty image retention issues, I had my display swapped due to them.
You should learn to read titles better or actually read the article a bit before making conclusions like this. I know it’s difficult, media will often use adjacency to imply something just as a form of click bate, but the reality is much less exciting. In this case, the deaths were not related to Amazon, just Amazon not closing down when deaths were occurring in the area.
This was me the first time I saw MacPaint as a child. Bill Atkinson did genius work.
> How would I even go about doing that? The only display devices I have are monitors.

Buy a $15 DTV tuner and antenna and hook them up to a monitor. You're being blasted with free HDTV over the air.
>Charity is not "giving money to somebody else so they can do charity on your behalf" nor is it "paying taxes to fund social programs". Charity is you, directly, investing your resources in your community, with no expectation of return.

Can you give some concrete examples? Because I can't tell what distinction you are trying to define, at all.

In which bucket would you put:

1) Giving money to a local hospital
2) Volunteering with a non-profit organization
3) Giving cash to a wandering schizophrenic
4) Buying lunch for someone who's been holding up a cardboard sign at an off-ramp
5) Giving money to the United Way through paycheck deductions.
6) Giving money to an organization that funds research into a disease
7) Giving money to a local organization that gives grants and loans to disadvantaged people to start small businesses.
8) *Lending* money to a local non-profit that gives loans to disadvantaged people to start small businesses.
9) Giving money to a local food bank.
10) Donating blood to the Red Cross
11) Giving money to the Red Cross
Wonder why they didn’t do it in Lean?
Caltech in the 70's was notable for the average IQ of the football players being higher than their average weight. A season was considered triumphant if the team did better than 100% losses.

I never went to a game, none of my friends did, and had no idea who the players were or when the games were. It was kinda nice not being at a football collage.
My favorite PDP-11 / LSI-11 instruction was 014747 octal: mov -(pc), -(pc). It would fill all of memory with copies of itself.

I actually had a use for that, to get a board that had core memory to a known state.
Football making lots of money is a myth because there are many hidden costs. A big one is the cost of the stadium and this comes out of a different budget (sometimes student fees).

Not saying that there aren't some schools coming out ahead, just saying that modeling this out is a lot more complicated and often when this is done carefully by academics doing studies most programs that people think of as succesful are losing money. Similar with pro sports, often the cost of the hundred million dollar stadium, etc is not necessarily recouped.
A Man Who Predicted Climate Change
You've had like 10 sentences to provide examples of how superficially tracking my web activity is LITERALLY HARMING me, and instead you vaguely gesture at "books" and "videos" and resort to logical fallacies... Thinking emoji.
Who the heck schedules tornados in December ? What a disaster.
Walter you (with your credentials) do realize you would never go through the "standard" interview loop like the rest of us nobodies would go through right? We are lucky to be forgiven for only solving 2 LC hard problems instead of 3+ in an hour whiteboard coding interview!
I'd rather get a PCP Air riffle... something like this one in .50 cal: https://www.airgundepot.com/airforce-texan-air-rifle-carbon-...
What stops a company from forking and paying 200,000 a year for someone to maintain vs paying 20,000 back? Money.. cheaper to support than fork.
Yield and reticle size!

You can have more chiplets in your processor, but the manufacturing process won't let you make one really big monolith.

You can have something like Cerebras' wafer-scale chip. It's a whole wafer!

But with that approach you still really have a network of identical processor subunits, not one big processor.
Pretty sure he does. The offices in “The Hustle” looks exactly like an Amazon building.
It's amazing that life gets anything done at all, given that everything that happens has to be initiated by the right two molecules bumping into one another, in the right configuration, at random, inside a tiny wet bag.
Category theory, type theory, and HoTT are all a joy! Worth checking out, especially if you didn't enjoy math in school.
Quentin plays the Mac and has Jade (played by Arianna Grande if available. if not, Uma Thurman) operate it with her feet.

Steve Buscemi plays Mick Jagger, Adam Driver plays both Bill A and Steve J. If Adam refuses to wear the turtleneck, hire Patrick Stewart to play Steve.
>But OLED displays are such complex things! Surely there must be some noticeable/functional difference between a "Samsung-display iPhone" and a "BOE-display iPhone" ?

So? People get the base compatibility. What are they gonna do, compare micro-differences with another guy's device and complain?
Go has a single runtime, Rust supports multiple async runtimes. Rust needs to support multiple runtimes because in low level space there is no one size fits all solution.

For example, Go runtime imposes unavoidable overhead in memory usage, because each goroutine must have its own allocated stack (Rust futures, on the other hand, are stackless). Rust runs on low memory platforms where Go isn't really suitable.
Why do you think ASML can't sell EUV machines to China? It's because before ASML signed on they were started through a US Govt DoE, US Govt DARPA, and US Megacompany consortium: https://www.photonicsonline.com/doc/asml-joins-euv-llc-team-...

China probably sees things as leveling the playing field too. To find high tech industry that emerges through pure Ayn Rand search through Mogadishu, various favelas, etc., not developed or rapidly developing places.
Oh noes! Disabling JavaScript made the button do nothing?! Who could have predicted it?
Maven, Gradle and the like always download dependencies as part of the build, and if a server is down (or flaky like jitpack) good lord is it annoying.

What I don't understand is why dependency download isn't a separate task you do before compilation. FIRST you download all the dependencies to stabilize that, then you build the code. The reproducibility is the big one.

IT drives me nuts that the dependencies are hidden away in maven and gradle. I have to lookup obscure "download dependencies to a lib" task configuration. Still the obsession with massive jars/wars/whatever when all you should have to update in a deploy is the difference in the libs and the main code jar.

The reason for this obscurement is pretty much "uh, it saves disk space?" which is a laughable consideration given the bloat in war files, docker images, and the like.

I agree with the poster.
If you want endless unmaintained security apocalyse -ware at all levels of your organization, just keep using FOSS dependencies while explaining to yourself you don't have to contribute anything back.

"Look around and notice how the world actually works"...
I'm the creator (often with others) and maintainer of some very popular Perl distributions that are used either by many other libraries, many applications, or both. The most notable are probably DateTime (https://metacpan.org/dist/DateTime), Log-Dispatch (https://metacpan.org/dist/Log-Dispatch), and Exception-Class (https://metacpan.org/dist/Exception-Class), among many others.

The first release of DateTime was in 2003. In 2008, I added a "DONATIONS" section to the docs, and around that time I started adding it to everything I released. It was basically just a link to web page with a PayPal button it, so not very professional.

Over the years since I started doing this, I'd estimate I've gotten somewhere between $1,000 and $5,000 (PayPal doesn't offer historical data far enough back to know for sure). On the one hand, that's a lot of "free" money. OTOH, this is software that has been used by absolutely massive companies, including Amazon (which I know for a fact used a lot of Perl in the early days, including things I worked on). So even $5,000 is an incredibly small fraction of the value this software generated.

Almost all of these donations were $100 or less and seemed to come from individuals. I can only recall one instance where someone asked for an invoice first, after which their company donated $500 (or maybe 500 euros), which was nice.

So this is just another data point.

And then I realized that this link has been broken since some time in 2018. Doh!

I'm fixing it and adding a "email me for an invoice" bit as well. It can't hurt.
These head football coaches are also just as easily fired if they lose a few games, so it’s not like their salaries are easy money. They have to perform, and are just as likely not to get lucky with a good team (they have to make their own luck). It seems a bit too much pressure for me, much easier and profitable to work your way up at a big tech, or get that MD and become head of the medical school or cancer institute (the other highest paid public employees).
A) Her sentence.

B) Only after she'd served most of it, AFAICR.
What you suggest works, but it's also somewhat of a false dilemma.

For eg math you don't have to pick between historical development or axiomatic approaches, you can make up a new order of presentation from scratch.

Take category theory. The historical approach requires lots of advanced maths [0], and the purely axiomatic approach is basically way to abstract for anyone to get any intuition of why this is useful.

By comparison, it's relatively easy to teach someone some basic programming, and then go more abstract from there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_category_theory_an...
You've had like ten years to read a book or watch a video for yourself, yet claim that mass data aggregation is harmless and superficial. Not sure you ought to be allowed a thinking emoji tbh.
I would go the other way around - it's entirely Oracle's fault for trying to be too compatible with unfortunate mistakes made in the past. Java Serialization is the root of all these things, and should have been deprecated and more safeguards should have been added. Perhaps even an equivalent of --add-opens for which classes are safe to serialize!

This would certainly have broken a large number of software, but it's the right way to go. Whichever way you define the "compatibility promise", I think security overrides that.

At least it looks like Oracle is going this way[1], I just wish that it would have been sooner.

[1] https://inside.java/2019/11/07/whywehateserialization/
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My first computer job was programming a PDP-11 which ran a Casio emulator. Our PDP-11 was mounted very low beneath a floppy drive cabinet, and each morning the elderly programmer would lie on the dusty floor to toggle in the boot sequence which then loaded from paper tape. When that became my job, I somehow figured that if the toggles were left at the first address, then hitting the start key would allow the core memory to take over. Everyone was convinced that I was a computer genius.
Yeah, I'm pretty receptive to this POV. "Manipulative" is carrying a lot of work in this discussion though.

I'll just add one memorable example of where ads actually worked for me. I was frustrated by how thick wallets were and so I happened to Google "thin wallets," and got an ad for the "Allet", which was exactly what I was looking for, and I did end up buying it, and I still use Allets to this day. That said, I tried the same search just now and Allet didn't come up in the first page of results, so I'm not sure what to make of that, ha.
First, size matters. Google and Facebook probably do not have a "family" feeling because they're huge. Growing a company to that size almost always means losing that feeling, as well as adding a host of inefficiencies.

Second, society has this strange idea that unions are for blue collar jobs. People think that, if you have a university degree, you don't need a union to represent you. White collar salaries have remained stagnant as a result, and white collar employees may lack avenues to address abuses, such as what occurred at Blizzard, that blue collar workers represented by a union may have.

It seems as though people are abandoning this prejudice. Perhaps, once a company is big enough and has a track record of not treating employees well, unionization should be the natural course for its workers, no matter what colour their collars may be.

Unions do have a bad reputation for inefficiency, but with remuneration falling behind the pace of inflation while productivity soars ever upwards, is it surprising that workers are starting to feel unions are worth embracing?

If Blizzard's employees unionize, you're going to see serious push back against some of the basic facts of game developer life. e.g. Crunch-time. I don't blame Blizzard's execs for being scared right now. They screwed up bad and now they're facing epic consequences.
Not just not adhering to the license, but rejecting the entire philosophy of OSS and changing the culture of the entire software developer community such that the philosophy is disappearing and developers no longer appreciate copyleft.
According to that website, Intel has received $6B in government subsidies from 1993/2000, variously, to present. Here are Intel's profits for the past 5 full years:

2020: $20.9B [0]

2019: $21B [0]

2018: $21.1B [1]

2017: $9.6B [1]

2016: $10.3B [2]

$6B is a low single digit percentage of their profit going back 28 years. BOE has been subsidized on a whole other level and they're still not consistently profitable.

[0] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/...

[1] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1092/...

[2] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1102/...
I'd venture a guess that's due to better radar and better spotting intelligence. When you can't physically see tornadoes when they're rain-wrapped, but have high confidence that they're there, you're putting lives at risk by not activating the sirens.
Note the other child comments of this; NPM has failed to make the lockfile reliable across systems and versions. Here's an example from March that isn't fixed: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2846

The fact that you have so many people believing "nuke node_modules and delete package-lock.json" is a reasonable step in diagnosing an error is damning to NPM.

We don't check in our node_modules, but "use the lockfile" is not a valid counter to this article's points.
The Linux kernel, take a look at the LWN stats about who develops it; mostly large corporations.
For sure. And this was a richly predictable fire. Not this specific problem, of course. But there have been enough fires like this in the past that it makes no sense for companies to act like it won't happen again and again.
I really hope Apple makes a tv show like Halt and Catch Fire with the stories from folklore.org.
Researcher Andrew Hill’s conflict: A $40 grant vs. a half million human lives
The prisoners don't necessarily outnumber the locals outside, so I don't think it is a foregone conclusion that they will be able to.

But another way to look at it, is that by being counted as part of the population in the vicinity of the prison, it provides an incentive to have prisons and to incarcerate people, and it also reduces the representation of the places prisoners come from.
UW football, at least in the past, makes a ton of money. I assume all the other sports lose money. I attended UW in the Don James era so its been awhile.
Not surprised. Sometimes give a tip for good service. If you want people/companies to pay $ then you are not working on OSS.
There's people who do this as a job/hobby. I don't mean following some random people. We live in SoCal and follow VCScanner, he has up to date info about fires, and is the whole reason we were already leaving our city when the firefighters were driving in to let people know to evacuate.
Even if it could save your life?
Well, many consider Delphi 7 to be the last good Delphi :-P (and FWIW Delphi 2006 to be the worst one - which, incidentally, was also used as the basis for the short lived "Turbo Delphi" that most likely didn't do it any favors)
<button> with <a> tag disagrees!
There really aren't many buttons, we've just stopped seeing.
I have heard that philosophers today have a culture of high toleration for very heated discussions that would be considered beyond appropriate in other contexts.
I hope they correct the Steam regional pricing for Forspoken... $70 is ZAR1,118.53 (R15.98:$1) yet the Steam SA pricing is R1,429 (±R20:$1, or effectively a $90 game). Definitely not going to buy something so ludicrously priced.
Almost all computer hardware is sold within a range of specs, not absolute specs. The silicon lottery is a thing, and what you get could be exactly on the spec or above it to some level.

As long as all the providers meet a given spec, if some of them are better that isn't inherently a problem. This applies to having different suppliers as well as variance within a manufacturing process.

Now, of course if all reviewers happen to get the better version this could be an issue, as seen with lots of SSDs recently with components getting swapped out after-the-fact.

Of note, Samsung use different chips in different markets. The US version of the Galaxy S20 uses a Snapdragon chip which is generally considered better than the EU version's Exynos chip, particularly when it comes to power efficiency. That caused some anger.

I would say that as long as a manufacturer handles it correctly with reviewers so consumers see the minimum they could get, not a best-case, it's fine. Otherwise, it should probably be sold under a different name.