skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if VPNs become inaccessible or someone can't afford one?

I don't get the point of just punishing the citizens. All you're saying is "don't consume our info. Stick to your own." It's goofy. And really, it does a great job of helping Putin's "The world hates Russians and wants to punish us!" message. Because, frankly, this just punishes Russians and does absolutely nothing to the people in charge lol

Are people in Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, etc blocked as well?
This is why I prefer riding high speed rail over the half as expensive domestic flights. If they take that away, I want to buy a horse.
Which it got from CP/M, which borrowed the idiom from VMS.
Yeah I hide stuff all the time and I find myself using Single Window mode a lot too, especially on a smaller screen.
Oh I don't know about that. I just put a little adapter on the end of the cable of the crappy three-button Mouse I've used for years and it worked fine.

I also happen to really like the little crappy mouse that comes with the Raspberry Pi computer. That one works with the same adapter. I just leave it on the end of the cable.

Edit: I generally like little crappy lightweight mice with good Glides and good resolution. I don't care much past that and if it has three buttons and a wheel I'm good.

And I'll plug in mouse in when I really want a mouse. For a lot of tasks the trackpad on the Mac is fantastic. I really love using the thing.
"Annotated" means given `err error`, you return `fmt.Errorf("annotation: %w", err)` — nothing more or less.
Corruption at all levels is far more "endemic" to large organizations than small ones. It's also less visible, because size correlates with a lack of transparency.
very true, but I'm talking about the interviews that they used to do with different founders in a conversation type format. I really enjoyed Craig's detailed questions and thorough research.

I remember listening to the episode with the Voodoo co-founders [1], and it helped guide my research direction in college.

I also remember being exposed to an early flavour of RL through the episode with Greg Brockman and Sam Altman [1], where they spoke about the OpenAI DoTA bots. I regularly listen to episodes again and I always unearth some bits of wisdom that I overlooked in previous listens.

I think that series of interviews was largely due to PG and Sam's idealogy of structuring YC (and now OpenAI) as a college campus/research institute, rather than an incubator/VC fund.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x86QJQQy17s
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIPveR__jw
Regulatory capture doesn't seem like it applies to Walmart... How regulated is discount retail?
The naming conventions that require >38 characters come from a vast number of business entities that I have worked with through the years: Customer_Project_Subtask_Blaa
How does anyone in the real working world not have this issue?
So prosecute a few of them
> who could refuse

Anyone who has "played" with cats in unfamiliar circumstances, like a bathtub. I hope they wore their chainmail.
I was expecting to see something about TinyGo
The US airline industry is massively subsidized. Every country heavily subsidizes air travel.

The federal government spends $2BN/year on Amtrak and people lose their damn minds.

Meanwhile, at the FAA, nearly $12BN/year...and that doesn't account for all the local and state funds used to subsidize airports. Or Department of Transportation spending...
Under the electoral college system if California had the majority of the population they would pick the president. Wouldn't matter if it was 51-49 percent in California and 0-100 in every other state.

Under a popular vote California or NYC or DC wouldn't pick anything. States wouldn't vote, people would. One person, one vote no matter where you live.
I'm not trying to? Could you reread the question I'm asking up there? It's a very specific one. At no point am I trying to argue in favor of increased centralized federal power or whatever.

I'm pointing out an abuse of local power that doesn't seem to fit with the assertion that local power is less subject to abuse.

Personally I think neither centralization nor decentralization are themselves limits on power, and other constraints must be found and imposed.
> I'll use my Pixel 4 until it is no longer supported.

So about 6 months to go?

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
Yup, my thoughts exactly as well. You don't even need a host I think? I remeber Daniel Gross, Kat Menalac, Sam Altman, Geoff Ralston helping out with the interviews. I'm sure it would've evolved to become a great source of founder stories. Sigh.
can someone explain why teaching Pythagorean theorem is racist.

If we are talking about math and not “math history”, which mean i don’t care who was Euclid's how long ago he lived and what his race was.

But i am just teaching the formula and how to use it.

How is this white math or white privilege?

And how would you teach how to compute the length of the hypotenuse without being racist ?
Now I’ll just make that change in Jira…
From my understanding, they use a Mac the same way you would, and they forward the messages over by sheer force of will and also money.

It works fine for me so far, though there's no out-of-the-box solution for forwarding iMessages that go to your phone number. That requires extra hackery.
Not really.

J2EE has been around for a while. But it was RADICALLY different and was pretty much horrible. Then it copied many of the AOP aspects of Spring (inject etc) as it evolved. The current standard of Jakarta looks more like Spring than its original form. As such most of the implementations of the standard are much newer.

So yes, the standard origins are old but that's not a relevant metric.

I said, cross pollination. E.g. just recently the Spring Native example is totally an example of Spring copying a great idea from the Quarkus et al.
Purely on monitors, I've had the opposite experience - Windows has been dramatically buggier and worse-behaving. Particularly if they're different DPIs - Mac DPI support is just so far ahead of Windows that it's absurd.

I've had slightly better luck getting monitors to work at all on Windows... by a single monitor. I mean more around system behavior when I plug in a monitor. OSX acts... normal? Stuff moves where I last moved it in that setup, or stays wherever it is. Everything stays about the same physical size. Display-rearranging is easy and perfectly reliable. On Windows, literally anything is possible, often including windows completely disappearing or going completely out of the bounds of any screen.

That said, I have no idea why monitor support is so buggy anywhere. It seems nuts. Is it actually that hard? I get that there are some scenarios where there are no perfect choices (e.g. what do you do with desktop icons / window positions when changing sizes? they've gotta go somewhere)... but the amount of times Windows has shoved windows completely off-screen and made them inaccessible is totally inexcusable. It even does that when going from a small screen to a large one, or just adding a second monitor. What kind of code leads to that??
The speed "only" really matters for practical reasons, but they're pretty big reasons. In principle, anything you do on a GPU can be done on a CPU or even with pencil and paper--it's just arithmetic, after all.

However, the speedup is so big that it's almost impossible to ignore. One way to measure compute speed is in terms of Floating Point Operations per Second, or FLOPS. A recent-ish CPU is probably ~500 gigaflops, while a single A100 GPU is ~150 teraflops[0]. OpenAI reportedly has a cluster with 10,000 V100 GPUs (the A100's predecessor, but still...). GTP-3 still supposedly took about a month to train on that cluster, so it would never—for all intents and purposes—finish on a MacBook. Few groups operate at that scale, but using even one decent GPU is still such a huge speedup that I doubt many people start with less.

It's also worth noting that "training" the model from examples is often a lot more compute-intensive than using it to do "inference." For example, image recognition models are often trained on large clusters, but can be deployed to something much smaller (a phone or laptop). There's a whole subfield of "distillation", which takes large models and finds ways to simplify them for deployment.

[0] There's some marketing involved in these numbers, different precisions, and the GPU does work in parallel, so you're not getting one operation every 1/150e12 second.
Presumably in the idealized scenario ( where individuals purchased health plans themselves and not through their employer) the individual would get a tax break for the cost of their health insurance.
Hahaha that's very true! My bias against the front-ends of those services is showing. That still doesn't mean they don't need regulation though.

To elaborate, there is a world of difference between some smaller forum/board/chat network/webserver run by some random guy/girl in a community, and a multi-billion dollar public corporate entity hellbent on extracting every bit of value from every facet of your life that they possibly can. Either the fact that these companies can wield such enormous powers over the population, or the manner in which they do so, needs to see the light and society must decide on how they will restrain these actors.

I know that some people (ugh, yes... most people...) favor these media today as their means of communication, marketing, discourse, etc, but these corporations have gone way too far, and restricting the actual good things the internet brings like anonymity while ignoring the far more pressing evils of these unchecked capitalists is silly.
I didn't have sex education until middle school.
We self-host C & J for just shy of 3,000 users and haven't exceeded that.
I mean, I can't speak for any other long-time Mac users, but...

> I regularly have to deal with 50+ character naming conventions where the first 38 characters are the same among many files.

...that's arguably a kind of unusual situation.

I don't think you're necessarily wrong, to be fair! It's just that in over two decades of owning Macs and at least a decade before that of using them off-and-on, I've never been in a situation where I thought, "man, the text field for entering a file name is just way too short."
> Why is health insurance legal?

Why have health insurance at all? It's just a middle-man for profit scheme between patient and health care.

Just have mandated health CARE for all and do away with health insurance altogether. Lots of companies would lose billions, but average people on the street would be the ones not spending that money.
Uh, maybe it had something to do with West Pakistan robbing East Pakistan blind of foreign exchange too?
Testing and Comparing Low Cost Hygrometers (2018)
> Under the electoral college system if California had the majority of the population they would pick the president.

Not true. California would have the majority of the House, but only two Senators. So they would not have the majority of the electoral votes.
It is a bit odd that it doesn't appear in the right-click context menu, but yes - I love the menubar consistency in OSX. That plus the search field in the "help" menu is amazing, every OS would benefit from mimicking it.
Apple is not doing too bad. It has a $2.8 trillion market cap, and is the most valuable company in the world. Started in a garage.
Good point about the relative speed of the earth. That could probably explain why the other objects turn out to be more ordinary.

As for the idea that this 2014 object originated in our solar system: I don't think that's possible. They were able to project it's incoming trajectory and there were no significant masses that could have directed it path from anywhere other than interstellar space. This is pretty clear from the paper.
So i actually use these shortcuts all the time! I think im more struggling with some edge case of my multi screen setup, im not sure. I just find myself having to do the full expand of all windows and then find the one i want to get things working again.
Something OP didn't mention, but miffs me about macOS is the way it handles full screen apps.

macOS takes the entire app full screen in a separate desktop and doesn't allow other windows to overlap.

Cmd + Tab during full screen triggers a 1 sec animation as it switches workspaces... so if someone texts you on your iPhone during a video, you can't just peek at the Messages app with the video in the background :'(
Very fine, you took my stupid comment and made it something good.
I see several comments along the lines of "who is this even for", which may be classic HN negativity or maybe the docs don't make it clear enough. I've actually played with this library (and many others), and I'm super psyched to see it ship!

To me this is the equivalent of React native for audio: describe your audio declaratively, and let the platform handle the rest. The benefits are:

- Write once, deploy everywhere (building DAW plugins sucks, and most web audio is not performant)

- Lower barrier to learning DSP (yes, DSP engineers already know low level languages that can do this, AND now more people can build audio software)

- Modern dev environment and faster feedback loop. I can now build a React app (or React native) with a high performance audio engine built right in.

I'm pretty skeptical of people defending the status quo approach here... Like, where's the Figma for DAWs? Why don't more more people to write their own VST plugins? And why is audio software so UGLY?

Audio software design has been stuck in the 90's for too long and I'm psyched to see it open up and become more accessible!
You do not grok what is happening here. You are approaching the threat with a completely inadequate paradigm.

I do not believe HN moderation would permit me to explain further.
How dare you argue against the "electrification is too expensive to do in the US!" crowd with facts like "most of the rest of the world does it"!

In the US, the east coast line is electrified from Boston to DC (possibly further? Can't remember.)
> I wish employers did not provide health insurance, even though I have a chronic medical condition.

I've had multiple open heart surgeries. My medical events are relatively rare (every couple years) and I recently went completely septic for 4 days (started to have multiple organ failure ~3 days from no-return) due to a cascade of underlying issues. I know my medical coverage and it's been critical to my survival for my entire life.

I have NEVER used employer health insurance and anyone with major medical conditions would be foolish to depend on employer coverage in most cases. The offered plans are basically a big deductible with some minor coverage for non-catastrophic, no surgical coverage, nothing chronic. More expensive plans cover more dependents. Gee thx. It's all but useless and I have simply declined it everywhere for the last 25 years to keep the ~25$/mo, as I have paid my own (car payment-sized) platinum level health insurance plan everywhere I've gone (and my wife's). The type of company - Finance, Medical, Marketing, Retail, Consulting (ironically the best I've found), doesn't make much of a difference. Every now and then you find some employer that will "cover your healthcare 100%" which is inevitably code for "cover the plans we choose, which aren't different than anyone else".
I'd be happy if something could be offered as an olive branch as long as it fits within the normal sentencing leniency (i.e. suspended sentences, community service etc) other than for violent offenders.
> The biggest quality it had IMO was battery life due to eInk.

Pebble didn't use eInk. It used a Sharp transflective display.
Also with productivity gains, the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage of half a century ago is the same as it was in 2018, and it has popped slightly up and down since the . All gains have been sucked up by the heirs, the aristocracy.
Wanting a powerful federal government to take on Walmart and Amazon seems like burning your house down because it has mice in it. Yeah, you might have some work to do to get the mice under control, but you don’t need to give up your house to do it.
...folders?
"It's hard to ... design a heuristic for an acceptable amount of negative dentries: it won't scale from small to large systems well"

Has an AIMD algorithms[1] been considered to dynamically adjust the limit?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_increase/multiplicati...
Ideally there should be two reviews:

- The product is as advertised, built well, shipped on time and with appropriate packaging, and all these other objective things.

- My personal opinion of the product.

AirBnB kind of does that, although it still aggregates in a single score at the end.
"*But our main issue was that I did a terrible job at defining our long-term vision*...

My personal vision was that Pebble would become a brain-computer interface company, with the smartwatch as the first always-on, always-worn gateway between computers and our bodies. But I rarely discussed this with the team, or even the exec team...

I never invested time in building out a structured plan to actually make the brain-computer interface our company’s vision." [emphasis was in article]

So he thinks somehow Pebble would have been better off if they focused on brain-interface technology? No one has done anything with that.
Your real problem is this:

> In the US, your health insurance is tied to your job.

Why on earth is it that it doesn't matter which party gets elected, you can't seem to get universal health care? Pick California for example, it's a rich state with a massive homelessness problem. What do the homeless mostly suffer from? Addiction and mental health.

Living in Europe and not having to worry about any kind of random health issue is great. If you have some problem, you get it seen to as soon as possible and not worry about whatever it may cost. As an employer things are simpler too, and in the long run, likely cheaper.

It just seems incredibly backwards and I'm not sure it really actually serves anybody. If you're big Pharma, you want your patients to live longer, as they'll get older and have more issues that you can sell products for. If they lose their job, that's lost income.
Every place I worked, Java build pipeline has always been cumbersome, it's one thing that one guy knows and you're afraid to change it because it's complicated.
Mac is not an acronym, it's short for Macintosh.

MAC stands for Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control (as in ethernet hwaddr).
To save on the ingress charges I use 0.0.0.0
you mean comments like yours that break the site guidelines?
>Bitcoin is a digital hard asset that deserves mention for investing with a speculative amount of money due to additional risks.

Watching how BTC matches the Bond market in a downward trajectory... I dont think its the same sort of asset as gold.

it has no intrinsic strength.
A forest however can permanently endure...

Here in California we had two million acre burn last year, including, I believe, some "carbon sequestering" forests.

A lot of forest in the US actually have an excessive amount of growth due to suppression policies.

You can't expect to "plant" a forest in some random location and expect it to simply endure. Ecosystems have a more or less natural level of vegetation and getting more to grow is asking for it to burn away later (accelerating global warming, later). And that's not talking about the greater propensity for fire due to global warming itself.
> looking back of course I see what would have been a more successful (but smaller) path.

Thanks for the valuable retrospective!

Could you expand a bit on the pros and cons of going smaller -vs- going bigger in that situation, and what motivated you to choose the way you did?

Also, do you feel the ambient culture/advice on that decision tried to push you in either direction?
I lease a 2020 Subaru. My medical coverage is greater than that payment, as healthcare has risen very quickly in the last 10 years.
A valuable piece of pedantry, since I hadn't heard of either name and interpreted the GP to be referring to a product now named Clubhouse.
The "Edifice Complex" has been taken to be a bad portent for a company.

Obviously not universal, but if upper management has decided to spend a lot of time focusing on a marque building they're not focusing on the business itself.
> I don't think most end users are plugging in four monitors, cut and pasting folders, or playing 25 year old games.

Most users are not cut and pasting folders? What?

When I first used a Mac, that was one of the first major difficulties I encountered. Cut and paste was quite unnatural - you had to Copy the source item, and then press COMMAND+OPTION+V to move/paste an item rather than to copy it. It was quite unintuitive.
Same boat, I wish they had announced it earlier, I would have gladly waited and paid for it.

I couldn't be happier with my SE 2020 though, I've had it for 2 years now and I plan to keep it for 2 more, and recommend it to anyone who will listen!
I've seen the first argument made before and IMO it's not a workable refutation because it ignores those protected classes for characteristics one is not born with intrinsically, namely religion/creed, which can change, e.g. people leaving cults, conversions between faiths, and those who become agnostic/atheist, and gender identity, given proponents of that concept believe it to be fluid (as best I understand it). Unless you are denying those classes should be protected classes, then there is significant precedent for protecting changeable aspects of one's identity.

Regarding the second point, actually we do (or did; the Trump administration rolled it back and the Biden administration is trying to re-instate it) "force people to repeat the speech of others"; one of the points of the FCC's net neutrality definition was "No blocking: This includes a right to send and receive lawful traffic, prohibits the blocking of lawful content, apps, services and the connection of non-harmful devices to the network" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_S...) and even deplorable speech is still lawful.

Regarding the third point, lots of online services died before the dominant incumbents of today came to power, e.g. AltaVista, Lycos, etc. Various conservative media outlets, like Fox News, are still around and thriving; you can bet they are watching and learning from these failures. Whose to say that one of them doesn't dislodge the incumbents and it becomes your viewpoint that needs protection? Public opinion is fickle.

(As an aside, sorry if my original post was confusing; I need to get better at writing.)
It seems like you should be able to buy offsets that do something like building solar panels in South America rather than just slowing things down.
I imagined the second part modified the claim as well. Oculus wasn’t gutted and repurposed - Meta is building itself around it. Oculus was a successful company - selling hella units. Being bought didn’t result in a shutdown or anything. I would call it a huge success.

Then again Apple is the canonical consumer hardware startup and that’s the problem with these things. A successful startup just becomes a big company. No one would call Dyson a startup but it was one.
Linear seems optimized for teams that just build one product at a time. We tried it and while the app was elegant, the concepts just didn't map to our mode of multiple repos and across many different clients (some product, some consulting, etc). I don't know if that changed, but that stopped us from adopting Linear.
weren't previous 10 yrs the stupidest to massacre millions of people in the middle east based on some phony and stupid wmd claims.
> Except scientists themselves do not espouse such belief.

Every religion has members who know what they know.

> there is no place for "belief" in scientific research.

There is a belief that the scientific method is optimal for discovering truth. How well it works, is not relevant to the fact that it's a practice. This isn't complicated or doublespeak.