skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's remarkable how much cash Big Tech has and how little they do with it. They could start massive R&D centers that do fundamental research like Bell Labs. If they return cash to shareholders as stock buybacks, they'd self-indict they're no longer growing. Want innovation in USA? Big Corp needs to invest and employees need to pressure them because shareholders sure as hell wouldn't. Big Tech has little national interest, they're all global international corporations [1] – I really don't mean to start a national interst comment war, I am pointing out that they can invest if they so desire to. As of Nov, Apple has $190B, Alphabet $168B, Microsoft $137B and Amazon $86B in cash [2].

[1] This story got little coverage. $275 Billion. That's more than what Intel just announced yesterday to invest in Ohio. I consider 'The Information' best in class of SV reporting, yet not a peep from any major news source afaik: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...

[2] https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-compa...
Having used both languages for many years, it was unexpectedly irritating to pick up Java again after doing golang for a few years. So much unneeded complexity to do simple things.
I understand that people sometimes look at situations like this and say, "this is the reality of the world." And truthfully, you're correct that people have fewer safety nets to take advantage of their rights sometimes, and that is reality.

But I think the pushback comes from the response/followup to that statement. We're on a forum of relatively privileged tech people, and I think it's good for us to talk about the fact that others don't always get to take advantage of the rights they have on paper, and it's good for us to advocate that they should be able to.

There's pushback to these kinds of comments in the same exact way that there's pushback to comments that, for example, say that Google is tracking everything, and people just need to understand that. Okay, you've identified something about the current world that people don't like, but that is still happening. Now what?

The average privileged person in tech doesn't need to learn how to keep their head down, they need to learn how to get very angry when underprivileged people's rights are taken away, and they need to learn how to make a bigger, more public fuss about vindictive social policies towards people with criminal records. It's one thing to acknowledge that society is cruel towards people with a criminal record, but the followup should always be, "and that is unjust and we should change it".

There is some value in recognizing reality, but there is also value in being outraged over outrageous things even in situations where they are common.
You missed the point of his comment, which is that political context matters. Most european countries aren’t dealing with an authoritarian movement which is trying to subvert democracy itself[1].

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/timothy-snyder-fears-democra...
Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator
This isn't new, apparently. I found a tweet complaining about the same from October 2021.[0]

0. https://twitter.com/avillegasn/status/1450089053794230278
Another argentinian here, 37 years old and after years to fight with matambre.., man.., no more fighting when you knows how to cook it...

Im agree with fancy restaurants cooking meat without care about it.

anyway, i think 33% is meat quality, 33% knowladge and 33% experience. 1% is the fernet or wine you are drinking while cooking.
> Solar, Batteries and Wind and such are just not there yet. And may not ever be.

What is your definition of "there"? Because green energy is already cheaper than nuclear. There is zero need for nuclear. Wind, solar, hydro and geothermal with sufficient storage can meet all our needs. Stop pushing pro nuclear FUD.
I'd call it a value stock. I invested a while ago specifically after having realized how good the foundations of that company are. How happy the customers are, how happy are the employees and how great PR they have.

The most surprising is how Kirkland clothing had been picked-up by the street wear communities. From my observation, this only really happens to "good" companies that we, the older generation, would thought of boring.
At best you could take a helicopter offshore and launch from there but that cuts into the time saved by the rocket.
> Every time an E Ink article is posted the patent defeatism is inevitable

Here, we go again. I've only read that here (repeatedly!) on HN and blogs that then cited throwaway HN posts which never respond to my requests for at least some verifiable evidence. Have a look through my comment history.

> that wouldn’t fall within the scope of E Ink’s defensible moat, or, if their parents are simply so broad

what moat? please tell me, I keep asking. To me, it looks like all of the people making these claims have no clue about the display industry. It would be the equivalent of me coming on a search engine forum and then alleging Microsoft of using a patent moat to prevent progress in operating systems, is that true? I have no clue but it sure sounds good even though I have 0 evidence. I hope my point is clear.
Previous discussion (419 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729307
I generally read audiobooks at 1.5x because 1.0 seems terribly slow to me. This more or less matches my reading pace for printed books, so 16 hours seems right.
What stage are you in? What’s your background? It depends. There is not one book that covers everything you need to know.
I get the impression he understands that and is arguing that the wide variation in people's hands makes it useless even to tell the difference between rare and well done. I'm sure you could figure out doneness relative to your own flesh with enough trial and error, but cooking a nice steak is already stressful enough for a beginner cook (at least in my experience). just get the thermapen. it only takes four or five overcooked steaks to break even on $83.
More interesting to see how they didn't!
I've enjoyed salvaging through hole components from old/broken electronics. It won't nessecarily teach you any electronic theory, but you'll begin to pick up on certain patterns of circuit design, especially if you look up IC data sheets as you're doing it. Potentiometers, big electrolytic capacitors, inductor coils, switches, are all easily salvaged and reused. It's a low risk way to get more comfortable with a soldering iron too.
They mention the Monadnock Building, which has no steel skeleton. You can still rent an office in that [1].

It's a beautiful building. I seem to remember seeing window air-conditioners, because it's too old to install central air. Yet people still want to be there.

[1] http://www.monadnockbuilding.com/
If you train the model before you deploy it, why can’t you densely pack the nonzero weights? This is what any SparseMatrix class would do for you.
Its incredible how internet alphabet people cry.
I'd expect standard PPE to be purchased by the chemistry department for all labs (charged back to individual research grants or just part of the "overhead" percentage they take out of all grant funding).

Anything specialty is probably specified by the researcher, and ordered and paid for by the staff person handling grant administration.
most places could be dramatically more affordable even if they allowed 3 story buildings… single-family zoning is probably the worst thing to ever happen to urban planning
> For better of for worse

For worse.

> wordpress can at this point be considered critical infrastructure.

True, sadly, though I'm thankful that after yet another security incident the mid-size company I work for has decided to officially end WordPress use across all our domains. Hopefully, others will begin to do the same.
Artists Who Specialize in Optical Illusion
That reminds me of this sheep loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbNL0t31Tw
Open 3D Engine An open-source, real-time 3D development engine
The value of managed solutions for the every day person/company is almost priceless. Squarespace / hosted email / cloud storage etc should be standard vs Wordpress/self hosted email/ a shared drive on the local network.

Unless hosting the product is your core business model, let someone else do it, because then there will be one or more people dedicated to making sure it works perfect and is regularly updated.
I've always wondered about elevated walkways or little trains providing horizontal transport between skyscrapers and thus also addressing some of the elevator problem.

EDIT: Fixing "vertical transportation" to "horizontal transportation"
Sheriff and Feds partner to steal more than $1M from cannabis businesses
Not great. But apparently neither are their special unnamed therapeutics.
I like the e-ink, but the iPad almost certainly comes with a much better software experience (huge selection of note apps, comfortable web browsing, fluid scrolling, video consumption, colors ...) at a similar price.
What are the therapeutics to which you refer?
So, it looks like half of Europe is going to the war in a matter of hours.

But, theres' people wondering what's going on. I think there is some kind of bad communications going on there.

Apparently, they have there a population which is not fully aware about what's happening very close to home, and worst what's probably going to happen very soon.

I hope for the best for all you there people, really, but you have to tell your people what's going on, so they can be prepared.

Godspeed there.
If you’re an absolute beginner to hardware and electronics, I can wholeheartedly recommend Paul McWhorter’s series on YouTube. It’s built for someone that’s a complete newbie to both hardware and software, but I was able to pretty quickly and easily skip past the basic software stuff.
Not just the news. This is an interesting post where I learned more about the Lagrange points, and why the Ariane rocket deliberately under-boosted the JWST a bit. (If it had over-boosted, the JWST would have had to turn 180° for a retro burn and point its sensitive instruments toward the Sun!)
Windows 10 LTSC doesn't come with a built in photo viewer
Dupe of "I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house" (although it's an imperfect link) 276pts, 73 comments

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597
There are more ways to come up with firmer conclusions. They do exist.

They just have something of a tendency to not fall under the love that so many seem to have of treating people like lab rats.

Someone found that when men decide a female celebrity is hot, they google up nude photos. When women decide a male celebrity is hot, their first search is to determine "Is he currently married?"

So when someone wants to deal privately with their own feelings of attraction or sexual desire, men and women have different initial impetuses when no one is looking, when they have no expectation that anyone is judging them, etc.

This suggests a distinct gender difference.

Whether that's somehow socially influenced or biological, I don't know. But it seems significant.

And it's not the kind of thing you are likely to find in most so-called studies because people like to ask questions of people who volunteered for your study. So when they do studies that find that "everyone" is secretly having threesomes and orgies, that's probably selection bias. Because folks who actually value their privacy and don't casually sleep around probably aren't part of your pool of volunteers wanting to blab about their sex life to a total stranger. Duh.
I sort of understand the example about the book, but what about a video game? Certainly playing a video game doesn't count as 'paying for it' again. But in that light, the book example doesn't really make sense, at least for books that are enjoyable to read. Some books you read to get the nuggets of knowledge, perhaps for business purposes. But many books are actually enjoyable to read, at least ostensibly!
There’s your answer: “because it’s a meme”

A good answer
Its not that bullet proof. It still runs into issues with version control type conflicts made by multiple developers/branches. Something like FlywayDB can at least spot these problems but not prevent them.

Not sure if any of the migration tooling can handle multiple branches or unordered changes.
Let me try my question again: if Switzerland really makes it as easy to get an ID card as you claim they do, then why don't they have a rampant identity theft problem, even for things unrelated to voting?
That's not much of a sin; there isn't much flavor in a filet to cover up. It's more a textural experience.

But also just this idea that a steak is a pure thing meant to be enjoyed without a powerful sauce --- some of the best sauces in cooking were invented for steaks. Deglaze a steak pan, cook down some shallots, hit it with some cream and maybe a shot of whiskey, and break up some Roquefort in it while the sauce reduces. It's an overwhelmingly flavorful sauce --- invented for steaks. Steaks are delicious. Sauces are delicious. Steaks and sauces are synergistically delicious.

Don't apologize for saucing a steak.
> I know for a fact that the razor blade will spill almost no juice, and the butter knife will spill a lot, by pressing the steak.

> The question is now: Do most people have dull knives?

I would say the question is: Does cutting a steak with a dull knife cause enough juice loss that it's actually going to be noticeable in the finished steak?

Even the author admits that you lose just by cutting it open. But he says that it isn't enough for anyone to notice. So the question isn't whether or not the dull knife causes more juice loss, it whether it's even perceptible. And you're going to have a hard time convincing me that you actually know the answer to that question off hand.
The safest bet was to use external serial modems. Which usually meant Zyxel or USR, hence $$$. I remember having to settle on 28.8k USR Sportster (as opposed to the then already-common 33.6k - USR wouldn't fit the budget then).
I encourage everyone to go read the original study cited and judge for yourselves.

The evidence is not only low quality, but the so-called impairments are close to nothing (on non-heavy smokers).
Or pollution in producing the thing. Particularly greenhouse gases.
> We need more buildings of up to six stories. We don't need more skyscrapers.

¿Por qué no los dos? Skyscrapers for the highly productive business downtown where they can actually bring increased density compared to mid-rise buildings, and mid-rises for the rest of the city. You're right that skyscrapers are not "the best human environment" in any general sense; they're an adaptive response to very special conditions, that are generally not found outside the places where skyscrapers are common.
Sorry to say that’s not a reputable organization.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_Veritas
I’m doing tensorflow on an nvidia jetson. Indeed, slowly. Thanks for sharing those details on your project!
I find Skeema pretty compelling, but I couldn't figure out one aspect:

Say I'm adding a gender column to my employees table. I see how Skeema would be an alternative to running DDL in a migration. But I would end up still needing a migration to backfill the data.

So I could use Skeema, but I still need migrations (we also occasionally fix data due to bugs, etc). At that point, we were less motivated to add an additional process.

Is that what Skeema users do, or is there some other approach, or maybe this isn't what I should be doing in the first place?
It would be if Hewlett and Packard were common English words.
I'm well out of my realm of expertise here, but I had a gut reaction to:

> Libreboot, being FSF-recommended, also has this policy of disallowing firmware blobs in the source tree, despite it being a source of nothing but problems.

Later the author points out how there isn't any contemporary libre hardware that would satisfy users (vaguely but reasonably described), and so "free" solutions utilize loopholes in the legal language that defines the FSF's "libre."

What I'm reading is that capable libre hardware does not exist, or at least has not existed for many years.

Why accuse the FSF of hypocrisy?

Later,

> At this point, total blob-free computing is a fool’s errand, so there are a lot of AMD Ryzen-based machines that will give you decent performance and GPU acceleration without the need for proprietary drivers.

Indeed, I don't use truly libre hardware either. I buy whatever The Man makes available. Libre hardware is still a worthy goal. There is no harm here on account of the FSF.
After building some sites with Wordpress recently, I think another problem is the business model of most plug-in vendors.

They all seem to charge $90 for a year of updates. Gets steep quickly- theme, backups, layout builder etc. Fine for the first year but probably don’t get renewed and then the plug-ins don’t get updated.

I’d love to see a list of fully featured open source plug-ins.
I don't think anyone hates C++, they hate how it makes them feel when they have to work in it.

Also, I think it's a bit ludicrous to say "just use a subset" because there's no definitive guide to "sane" or safe subset.

Also, regarding boost: I'm extremely conflicted about it... On one hand, it's made my life easier, but on the other it feels like once you add it to the codebase it metastases everywhere; it's not a C++ codebase anymote, but a boost codebase. Also, it ill-composes with most things that aren't boost (and sometimes even within other parts of boost, because boost is an amalgamation of libraries)
search Locos x el asado on youtube. Or read Francis Mallman books, or look for Christian Petersen videos.

Good quality meat, be with friends, more time cooking and NO fire (please, no fire). Use hard wood to burn ember and cook with it. Try not to use charcoal, do not use a fork with the meat NEVER, use kitchen clamps... just let the meat to rest on the grill.., use salmuera sometimes (water, salt, pepper and bay leaves..) to not let the meat dry..., and be with friends.

that is all.
Movies would suck less if they stopped hiring anyone that has ever self diagnosed themself with a mental illness.

Furthermore people who actually have ADHD Would probably appreciate it even more.
They burn it.

Generally speaking, the quality of beef in Argentina is very good, the price (subject to the economy which is always a factor) has historically been low and the culture is very carnivorous - these are the things that give Argentina its fame for beef along with a strong export industry. Nobody really rates the Argentines as cooks, though, and the parrilla is just a basic adjustable-height open flame grill.
Well advocates of an optimal systems of patents (not what we have) would say the returns to society as a result of granting exclusivity are far greater than the cost. So there wouldn't be an amortized net cost to society.
Yeah, I agree that there's too much focus on highrises as a fix our housing supply. The units you get by replacing a block of detached homes with mid-rise apartments add up fast.

Side-note: Learning about one-plus-fives was one of those "learning to see the lines of code in the Matrix" moments. They're everywhere. In my experience, for all their shine and gloss, most of them kind of suck. But kinda crappy housing is better than no housing.
Elevator problems can be worked around with "sky lobbies" where an elevator only covers a portion of the available floors, then you have a lobby at points in the building where you can stack another elevator on top of the last one. So if you are on the bottom section you can get to any floor in one trip, otherwise its a maximum of two trips.

This image shows it off pretty well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_lobby#/media/File:World_Tr...
I'll reply with a question: why would they? What does having an ID card (that notably isn't a passport so doesn't allow you to travel) get you? People don't commit crimes for fun, they usually have some goal in mind. How does someone profit from having a national ID with someone else's name on it?

Like, jumping back to the US for a moment, if I handed you my driver's license and we changed the photo and description on it so that it matched my own, what could you do with that? You don't have, and can't get my SSID with that, so you can't cause financial harm to me. You could buy alcohol I guess if you were underage, but there's just not a whole lot you can do.

The same applies to the crime of voter impersonation in general. If, like, we decriminalized it entirely, I don't really expect the rate would be that high, because there's just...really no value to voting two or three times. It's not going to change anything unless lots of people do it, in which case you'd need to assume that all the people doing it are voting in the same way which is unlikely. Right like you can barely convince people that their one vote matters. Do you really think going through more than 2x the effort to vote again is going to appeal to many people?
Social situations in which you're NOT bullied are critical to learning social skills.
It's like, your opinion, bro. I for one, love architecture, and find his a very warm, clean space. You may simply not like modernist minimalistic style, but this is where good architecture shines: it's hard to design something good with very little. Designs like this are timeless. Just lookup the mid-century modern California (LA, Palm Springs) houses or even the 1920 revolutionary concepts of Bauhaus or Le Corbusier et al.

On the opposite of spectrum lies what I personally call "every 'luxurious' NYC condo": the cacophony of styles, overloaded with art, heavy, without personal touches, mostly designed to show the wealth of the owners, but not designed by themselves. Those interiors are ridiculously tacky, and each of them will become outdated within next 5-10 years.

Just like de Saint-Exupery said himself: 'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'
That’s a bit in line with Pirsig’s concept of Social Patterns (part of Static Quality Patterns here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_Metaphysics_of_Qu...)
It's too bad the Brazilians got the picanha, and will thus always be the South American champions of beef cookery. :P
My impression of the article is just that the author is a fan of green threads (goroutines). Green threads don’t really make sense without an integration into some kind of IO runtime, so calling out how Go does do this seems moot. Other languages with green threads also with this way (Julia comes to mind).
For all the Hugo and Jekyll and other static site generators mentioned, you can run Wordpress locally and have it generate static output. Granted, it would be with a plug-in, but presumably not accessible from the outside world.
Skyscrapers are actually counterproductive for things like energy efficiency. I've already said that.

That's why not both in my opinion as someone actively trying to support healthy development of smaller towns that have often been left behind in the US in recent decades. There has been longstanding trend of people moving to big cities because that's where the jobs are, so we emphasize creating better infrastructure in big cities and further densifying big cities, make for a vicious cycle.

If we had more mid-rise density in smaller towns, we could have more thriving small towns and we wouldn't have to choose between overpriced, overly dense big cities or safe, small cheap and boring small towns that lack jobs, lack amenities etc.

We could have decent quality of life for more people generally.
In sum, yes.