skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> first they become the dominant acme provider

The traditional way a big tech company becomes the dominant provider is to embrace an open interoperable protocol to minimize the friction of switching from another provider. Later, when they have captured enough of the market, they extend the protocol to gradually reduce the de facto interoperability with other providers to increase the friction of switching to any other provider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...
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As with a lot of this "Innovation" it only works if you're the first to do it and you've grown to a point where you can afford to stop once you're caught.
The problem with cap and trade is that governments hand out free certificates to favorite industries which completely undermines the program. They are also reluctant to reduce the amount of certificates fast enough to actually bite. Then there is the problem of all the exempt sectors.
> In FP, everything is func. 1 is func; + is a combinator.

In Clojure we use RP notation, so + can be a n-ary function: (+ 1 1 1 1)
I've heard of people using their line of credit based on equity holdings and the interest rate can be pretty close to prime, but obviously isn't fixed.
Another hint: coercion is not necessarily direct violence.

Capitalism is almost completely coercive and controlling, but direct violence is mostly reserved for minorities and for war adventures in distant countries.

At home it's coercive through financial violence (especially income restriction and forced debt), extreme economic apartheid, and overt and covert behaviour modification narratives in the various media.

"The crowd" is very much not in charge of any of this, but is persuaded that it is.

Arguably all of this is better than a more overtly dictatorial system where any form of dissent attracts direct violence. But it's not necessarily less coercive - just less obvious. And more efficient.

You can scale that back and have collective systems which rely on a tradition of consensus. It's not even all that unusual on a smaller scale. Teams/groups make decisions, some people disagree, but when consensus is reached everyone works towards the same goals even if they have misgivings.

This works if you allow feedback, goal monitoring, and resets so the system is responsive and self-correcting. But it also requires all participants to be rational, reasonably intelligent, non-sociopathic, and capable of adult decision making.

Which is why it doesn't work at scale. Only about half the population - at best - has those abilities, and as soon as your group includes at least one sociopath they will destroy that dynamic and replace it with a toxic one which relies more on coercion than consensus.
Take me to another useless website
O RLY?

https://www.uniper.energy/de/datteln-4

> Bahnstromleistung 413MW 16.7Hz
Here is an Orlan-30 for reference, https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1512489626367557633

The engine seems to be a Saito FG-61TS. Fuel tank, not much better.

Now, the communication-electronics would be interesting.
I’m quite familiar with both Germany and Switzerland trains, an interesting difference is that in Switzerland the default is a flexible ticket, you buy it for the day and can use it an any time, and using any train you want that goes in the correct direction. And since a few years SBB/CFF let’s you get a reduction if you get instead a non-flexible tickets (so with a strict time and train, called “dégriffé” in French).

In Germany the default is a non-flexible ticket, and you can pay for a more expensive flexible one.

As a result the default train experience in Switzerland feels more expensive but with a way to get a discount, while Germany is the opposite. And people in Germany plan their train trips waaaaaay earlier in advance to be sure they have the cheapest prices (the earlier you book the cheaper it is) and flexible tickets are mostly used for business trips.
> In the overall multi-core scores, the Apple M1 is extremely impressive. On integer workloads, it still seems that AMD’s more recent Renoir-based designs beat the M1 in performance, but only in the integer workloads and at a notably higher TDP and power consumption.

Apple’s lead against Intel’s Tiger Lake SoC at 28W here is indisputable, and shows the reason as to why Apple chose to abandon their long-term silicon partner of 15 years. The M1 not only beats the best Intel has to offer in this market-segment, but does so at less power.

I also included multi-threaded scores of the M1 when ignoring the 4 efficiency cores of the system. Here although it’s an “8-core” design, the heterogeneous nature of the CPUs means that performance is lop-sided towards the big cores. That doesn’t mean that the efficiency cores are absolutely weak: Using them still increases total throughput by 20-33%, depending on the workload, favouring compute-heavy tasks.

Overall, Apple doesn’t just deliver a viable silicon alternative to AMD and Intel, but actually something that’s well outperforms them both in absolute performance as well as power efficiency. Naturally, in higher power-level, higher-core count systems, the M1 can’t keep up to AMD and Intel designs, but that’s something Apple likely will want to address with subsequent designs in that category over the next 2 years.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Also answered: He paid himself out a salary that was a small fraction of those figures (but most of which was self-employment income):

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1513683918058262528

There was also a tweet saying how much of the last year was investment income, but I can't find that and Twitter actively makes that hard to search for.
Pebble was a different market segment too. Pebble was a low cost, long battery life device. There still isn't anything remotely like the Pebble Time on the market right now. I literally went 2 years looking for a similar device after my old Pebble died and couldn't find anything before giving up and buying an Apple Watch. I do like my Apple watch but honestly, I'd rather have had a new Pebble Time.
It helps to separate DDD strategical parts from DDD tactical patterns. The first is really intuitive and broadly applicable, while on the second you get bombarded with a flood of information, opinionated approaches and OOP-y design complexity.
Legowelt and Ceephax Acid Crew have come to dominate my listening over the past decade. Favourite Legowelt release ever (in the guise of The Psychic Stewardess) is Spiritual Foundation: https://shop.hott.mx/album/strange-life-records-slr037-spiri.... I'll never forget how much I was already loving the album on first listen, then Shinobi Theme started playing: my absolute favorite game in the late 80s.
Cost of new house construction in the Bay Area is on the order of a million dollars. Still need a mortgage.
1.33% using interactive brokers, that’s variable but you could swap it to a fixed rate by using eurodollar futures.
I'm in the same boat, albeit in the Sony camp, sitting on an embarrassing array of now pretty much unused kit. Like you, I'll still lug it along when "taking photographs" is an explicit part of the agenda, but in practise.. it hardly makes it out of the bag any more. The iPhone is just good enough, and it's there.

I honestly don't know what to do with the DSLR now. Maybe I'll point it out the window and live-stream the view.
No, this is not the reason.

HTML also can contain Javascript, CSS and load external content.
I bought a short domain name. What should I do with it?
In the spirit of 'Tiny Projects' by Ben Stokes, I'd like to start a small little side project. A while back I registered https://hb.sbs, but soon realized that I had no idea what project I wanted to make. I have a few ideas, but would love to hear if y'all have any cool project ideas.

I plan to document my process in selecting, building, and releasing the project. I'll release the project (whatever it becomes) to the public under a permissive license.

What are your thoughts? Thanks!
I don't know how relevant it still is, but did you ever look at the old Google Caja project?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project

It was trying to implement capabilities in JavaScript, but failed because JS was too dynamic at the time. It might be that newer language versions have made it possible but it'd be worth researching why they gave up on it.

Caja was designed by Google research scientist Mark S. Miller in 2008[3][4] as a JavaScript implementation for "virtual iframes" based on the principles of object-capabilities. It would take JavaScript (technically, ECMAScript 5 strict mode code), HTML, and CSS input and rewrite it into a safe subset of HTML and CSS, plus a single JavaScript function with no free variables. That means the only way such a function could modify an object, was if it was given a reference to the object by the host page. Instead of giving direct references to DOM objects, the host page typically gives references to wrappers that sanitize HTML, proxy URLs, and prevent redirecting the page; this allowed Caja to prevent certain phishing and cross-site scripting attacks, and prevent downloading malware. Also, since all rewritten programs ran in the same frame, the host page could allow one program to export an object reference to another program; then inter-frame communication was simply method invocation.
Gamedev encompass many different sub fields (design, animation, audio), and developers themselves are at different stages of their careers (just starting out, seasoned indie with 3 titles, 20 year AAA veteran), so I doubt a central forum exists where they all talk together.

Personally, I'm learning mostly about marketing and market research at this stage of my career, so I'm currently on:

- https://gamediscover.co/ (paid membership)

- https://howtomarketagame.com/

In addition to the above, I subscribe to a bunch of newsletters too, like Derek Lieu, SuperJoost, ICO Steam, etc.

I use Godot, so I'm also on the Godot Discord, and I would post on there once every 2 weeks or so when I'm stuck on something in the engine, but not for much else.

I also use Twitter for gamedev-only (thank goodness), and there are some good discussions happening there too every now and then (e.g. this last night: https://twitter.com/ConorMODonovan/status/151362942886108774...)

You can also join IGDA and seek out a SIG (e.g. I'm on the climate SIG) where you talk about the overlap of gamedev with your special interest.
Ideally, you don't start building any software until you have a validation. "Soft" validation would mean having people that want to try it, "hard" validation would be preorders. A middle ground might be what Buffer did [1], where they added a fake preorder screen just to see whether people will click on it.

Beware that any kind of "soft" validation may evaporate once you'll try to charge money, so start charging sooner.

[1] https://blog.tally.so/how-to-validate-your-idea-with-tally
My subjective view is that punctuality and comfort have improved in recent years (especially the new rolling stock on the London-Bristol and London-Cornwall and London-Edinburgh lines is excellent), but the food is as bad as ever, and the prices are getting worse. If you want food on the UK railways then buy it at a station not on the train if you can!
You can read about it on Wikipedia:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Орлан-10

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ЕСУ_ТЗ

Yes, it can. I think the system is not nearly as sophisticated as whatever NATO uses for coordination of the military, but I assume it sort-of works, and judging by the cost of these you can allow yourself to lose a few of them.
you have the venu sq, that looks nice, not the best battery however, but 5-6 days it's not bad.
I’m going to propose something much simpler:

Modern life has been on a trajectory for this tribalist bubble warfare since we outgrew small village life. The car and mobility for employment put the icing on the cake.

If we want social cohesion, design for it, in real life.
I considered those, but they have variable rates (which are likely to be much higher than 2.x% over the 30 year term) and risk being margin-called during a crash.
No, for a number of reasons:

1) Even if we would order a new plant now, it would only be ready in 10-15 years. Building the equivalent amount in wind, solar and battery for storage would be ready faster and cheaper overall.

2) We don't have a permanent, safe place to dump the waste - the "old" reactors might be grandfathered in, but I can't imagine the BVerfG to let anything new pass that would expose future generations to the liability of dealing with the waste.

3) We don't have the cooling capacity - even back when we had more nuclear plants, they had to be regularly limited in power output in the summer because the rivers would get too hot otherwise.
...That's what I have said? The only thing that could be unclear about my comment is that I have meant distance traveled per passenger, not per vehicle.
Yeah come on, the global hidden variables are completely unnecessary.
> The Australian Government Design System has been decommissioned and will be taken down on 30th Sep 2021.

Much like everything else that came out of that agency, it was released and then promptly abandoned.

The goal at various points was something gov.uk-like, but I think we failed pretty miserably on all counts.
Thanks for the link, keep sharing this type of info https://www.gomedicare.onl/
Despite 200 years of institutions intended to prevent it, the U.S. was barely able to eject an authoritarian-curious demagogue, only succeeding thanks to a global pandemic changing just enough voters’ minds, and the courage of Capitol police.

I’m more sympathetic to Russians being unable to rid themselves of a tyrant than I would have been 10 years ago, although not at all sympathetic to their active support of him and his genocidal war, constant drumbeat of propaganda or no.
In Australia we have an account number and a BSB - Bank State Branch number which, unsurprisingly, represents the bank, state, and branch.

These are almost universally displayed as two groups of three digits, that's seven characters, count them... separated by a hyphen and almost universally have to be entered in to a six character field, non-numeric characters not accepted.

Definitely one or my favourite minor annoyances.
I wanted to see what it could do, so I ran the demo. I still want to see what it can do.
Hydrogen also requires quite a bit of infrastructure that hasn't been built out, whereas railways generally have an electrical supply already. I suspect that will make batteries a lot more competitive in the short term. Hydrogen could make sense if it can overcome those hurdles. But with improvements in battery technology (solid state lithium batteries seem to be coming soon) I wonder if it will ever be better enough to gain adoption.
I'm not sure where you got that spin from the article, as it seemed fairly balanced to me in pointing out the issues both on the right and on the left.
It's true that they started offering health insurance during WWII, but it wasn't specifically to entice women into the workforce, rather it was to be competitive when Roosevelt created the Office of Economic Stabilization, which froze wages. Offering health insurance was a way to get around this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
you make a good point to keep things simple, "solve the problem you actually have not the one you wished you had". But, many of these ideas can have advantages even in small scale contexts. In some contexts they're not wins (e.g. extreme performance requirements might be prioritised over cost of future change) but in most situations where the cost of abstraction is negligible they're not a bad idea.

e.g. i've seen a gigantic technical mess created in a small company with less than a dozen staff -- that required a year of engineering effort to remediate -- because the application code of the company's product was not written to decouple the product's internal domain model from the external format controlled (and changed) by the first customer.
All EU high-speed rail (except Finland and Russia) uses standard gauge (1435mm)
Denmark to Austria definitely is all standard gauge.
Understanding Anonymity vs. Privacy (2021)
> I am often irritated at the reporting around climate change, but the actual IPCC reports are generally much less inflammatory. The scientists aren't saying the world is on track to be "unlivable".

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1513741667177832450
And I appreciate that, especially in the broader context of the article we're commenting on! I agree with your broader point that there are topics in our society where one might be ostracized for expressing or even exploring a view outside a certain consensus, even if it might be one held by many people. And obviously that does make good faith communication difficult. Of course some might say that certain views are so vile they shouldn't be given any consideration. Something like expressing overt racial slurs for instance. And I can see the argument that it's beneficial for society to shun those who express such things. But it can certainly be taken too far, and often is. And the effect is even more pronounced I think within a political coalition than across the spectrum, because there's even more pressure to conform to the consensus view.

I realize the gender transition thing was beside your main point; you just seemed like a reasonable person with a differing view who might be open to my perspective there. I wouldn't expect you to change your mind based on an anecdote from a random stranger, but I hope you'll keep it in mind. FWIW I'm more sympathetic to your other example: trans athletes are a difficult issue IMO. In general I wouldn't want transgender people to be deprived of any of the rights anyone else of the same gender would have. I think bathroom bans are ridiculous and cruel for instance. But in the context of sport, there is also a legitimate concern regarding fairness for other athletes. I honestly don't know what the best outcome is there, but I do think it's something reasonable people should be able to discuss without being vilified.
> Have you evaluated webrtc-rs yet?

Vincent here, fellow dev at Daily, working on daily-core and Daily for iOS. :)

We did evaluate webrtc-rs, but we found that it simply isn't yet were it would need to be in order to be a realistic replacement for libwebrtc.a today. As a matter of fact I am a member of the webrtc-rs org (https://github.com/orgs/webrtc-rs/people), having contributed the audio-buffer and constraint-algorithm implementations so far (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31000261).

I personally have high hopes for being able to make the jump at some point. Just alone being able to toss the monstrous `build.rs` that currently ties ninja/gn (libwebrtc), cmake (libmediasoupclient), clang (our own bridging code) and bindgen (for header imports) together and makes things work across multiple platforms would almost be worth it for me. With Rust implementations of mediasoupclient and webrtc none of this hassle would be necessary. In pure Rust stuff just works.
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It is very possible that people who get paid less than you have a better job than you do. They just get paid less.
Yeah, that's pretty similar to what I want. The other feature I'd love is the ability to add "Formatting rows" which are rich text and are marked as not being part of the data. They're merely decorative. I find such formatting is often considered essential for client-facing spreadsheets (somewhat understandably so they know what's going on), but it makes it quite messy to extract data from the sheet.
I still have my beloved Pebble Time Round sitting in a drawer, somewhere. I blame the Apple Watch for the downfall/unpopularity of smartwatches like Pebble.

People for some reason would rather have a $500 or more watch packed with over the top features and one day's battery life.
I had to use a Mac for my last job and it was awful. Coming from a customized tiling window-manager setup on Linux that I've slowly tinkered with over the years, everything UX-wise was such a slog for me.

I'm not recommending linux for everyone. Far from it. But if you want the best experience and don't mind tinkering, I think it's the best you can get currently.
American rail is apparently heavily biased towards moving freight. This may even be a good thing, but it'll throw out the numbers if you compare train to car or plane and don't include it.
I don't like it, so I support unions. Much appreciated follow-up.
Well done Datto! Thanks for supporting the Internet.
In my experience, at least neighboring countries tend to be pretty good at selling you international tickets, and most people aren't interested in 17 hours journeys that could be replaced by a 2 hour flight.

bahn.de will sell me (through an international website to which they redirect) a ticket from Frankfurt to London via Paris, an 8h40m trip costing 182 EUR one way for a date ~2 weeks out.

The real issue is that I'm very unlikely to choose this option, no matter how convenient the booking, when I can get a round trip plane ticket for the same date for 156 EUR including luggage that will take 4-5 hours (including transit to/from the airport, security, boarding, waiting etc.) and gets advertised as 1h45m, 133 EUR.
Yeah, so he should be going to a specialist broker/lender, not a random bank.
Lovely project and great use of WebGL!
My theory as to what's going on: raging capitalism and corporatism that is worshipped and embraced, social media, rising inequality, and declining education. We slave everything in society, including primary, secondary, and university educations to the drumbeat of capitalism. It is corporatism and capitalism that abuses the right and the evangelical towards their whims. Social media, inequality, and declining education are an amplification feedback loop to all these issues. In addition, technocratic society is also out of control.
>Not really surprising,

Depends on what your model is. If your model is, "banks want easy money, and will lend to low-credit risk people" then it is surprising, because the same risk should get the same rate. Finding out that the market is dominated by an entity with artificial constraints on its lending standards, and which doesn't care about long-term interest rate risk, is then a surprise.

>Others can help you,

Not really. The other alternatives get a loan, but not at the Fannie-subsidized sub-3% rate.
The best way to do this in C++ is using std::bit_cast, which unfortunately only became available in C++20. Before that, you have to memcpy. That works just fine, but the syntax is a bit clunky and it doesn’t work in constexpr contexts, which is why std::bit_cast was introduced.

Compilers will optimize all of this to the same machine code.
That's why any colors that have been preserved looks so great. Whether it's the temple of Medinet Habu in Egypt or the tombs of the builders, it blows your mind when you realize all those decorations in the temples were not only carved, but painted too.