skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIUI the reason appliances in the UK used to be supplied with a bare cable is that it avoids the need for extra SKUs. If you sell a Washing Machine which can do anywhere from 100 to 250V AC input, you can make 5000 of them, and you don't care if 50 or 500 of those sell in England, it's all the same to you since it's the same SKU. If the English ones need BS1363 plugs (as they do today) then that's a separate SKU.

The reason it changed is that it turns out a ludicrous number of people can't safely and correctly wire a plug. On older circuits if you wire Earth where Neutral should go, the appliance will probably work, but now you've significantly increased the risk of faults becoming fatal. Also UK plugs are fused and left to their own devices almost everybody will put a 13A fuse in the plug (the maximum size commonly available and equivalent to the maximum ~3kW energy draw for 240V home mains) even though very few appliances need that. So now when there's a fault and your 5W bedside clock radio is drawing 2kW (plenty of energy to start a fire), the fuse doesn't blow and instead your house burns down. It's very easy to tell manufacturers "Put the right size fuse in" because they're ordering crates of fuses they can just order the correct one, but home owners know the 13A fuse will "work" so they're not going to buy a 5A fuse instead and risk finding they've got the wrong kind.

As a nerd kid I cared a lot about this, and I would maybe find about half of appliances I was allowed to examine were wrong in some way, most often over-size fuse but sometimes loose wiring or even just straight up wrongly wired. Today those appliances have a pre-installed plug which is almost certain to have the right size fuse and be correctly wired just because it was done as a production line task so somebody was actually trained and given the appropriate equipment.
> That means investors can't make a profit.

That's not quite true. It means investors can't plan to make a profit by selling future shares based on the price growth beating inflation.

But...investors can still make a profit from dividends. There are plenty of large companies that are much less growth focused, and much more dividend focused.
Apparently, intel acquired the DEC CPU design team, and wanted them to take drug tests. At the same time, AMD wined and dined them.

Long story short, they refused to pee in cups, went to AMD and the result was either the Athlon XP or AMD 64. Either way, it was one of the generations that blindsided Intel, and led to lots of anticompetitive behavior.

The story isnt about them smoking pot, or whatever. It's about treating employees with respect.

I suspect mandatory return to office will create a few dozen of these stories.
Yes, obviously. I really don’t see how one could possibly sympathize with this argument. Say I go to a bakery and I only “sort of” want a cookie. I’m not hungry enough to pay for it, so I just take it, and claim “I’m not actually stealing because I wasn’t going to pay for it anyway“.

You could claim it’s different with digital goods, but it’s not. Money still went into making that good (whether that’s software or a movie or even just a picture) and you’re still getting the benefits of owning that good without paying for it. Put another way, how does not caring enough about something entitle you to ownership?

So you are absolutely stealing whether you would “have paid for it“ or not.
You'll need an electrician to install them, but Shelly modules are what I use: https://shelly.cloud

They must be wired behind your existing wall switches so you don't lose any functionality - you can use the switch as normal.

There is no cloud; the modules themselves have a local web interface and some basic scheduling/timer features (as well as a rudimentary REST API), and are supported by Home Assistant if you need more advanced features.
Yeah but then your tagged by your host country for using Tor.
It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. If someone steals my car I no longer have my car. If someone copies my car my car loses values because there is now one extra copy of my car floating around.
I've recently had fun using VQGAN + CLIP, combined with slowly zooming in, for an art project on ecology: https://rybakov.com/project/metamorphosis/
Total land usage isn’t the only consideration, in fact it’s probably the most immaterial.

Cattle grazing on open grass lands is generally healthy for the land, the cattle and the end consumer. It’s actually a great trade off to destroying land with monocrop agriculture used to fatten up cattle which makes them sick and contributes to chronic conditions/metabolic diseases of the end consumers.
Maybe this is why I’ve received upwards of 500 requests to reset my Instagram password over the last year?
If you mean the x86 emulation, it's not supposed to be the default mode of operation.
> Maybe a glut of these will be on eBay soon.

They're already selling out. I sold a box of old devices for profit this week.

I had removed about 20 of them from my last home and never got around to installing them (in-wall) at my new home so I put them on eBay and already made back most of my investment.
Reminds me of when GitHub stopped using "master" for the default branch because it was somehow offensive.
The same logic that got rid of the master branch applies to motherboard.

And much of this logic ignores context.
For anyone with trouble remembering/conceptualizing this - it follows the opposite convention as bitwise operators in javascript, so it is counter-intuitive.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Most people will not pay anything for news that can also be consumed elsewhere, so it does play against the narrative of propaganda over profit.
Disclaimer: I work on Urbit full-time.

There are some good write-ups on the technical decisions here:

https://urbit.org/blog/precepts
https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion

Funnily enough, most of the "mystique" isn't really intentional. It's that the inevitable "muh Curtis" arguments that always show up have discouraged many of the team from bothering to engage in explaining the project (here moreso than anywhere else) and instead focus on building the thing.

Summarization: Urbit is a reaction to Unix-driven software complexity that dominates modern software development. The thesis is that cascading complexity cannot be solved without a complete rewrite of the computing stack, and that goes all the way back to the operating system. Here's an even better summarization: https://twitter.com/pcmonk/status/1201298411011629063

Alternative summarization: the internet, being built on a hodgepodge stack of tooling that wasn't made for people to communicate the way that they actually do now, has major incidental flaws. Urbit is a completely rebuilt computing stack that better maps to what we want to do with networked computers. That involves things like, but not limited to baking a non-fungible, valuable identity into the networking layer.

This is another good summarization, although the sections after "Urbit ID" are out of date: https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit
> This, you can't understand it without being aware that the founder got #cancelled for his (unrelated to urbit) right-wing blogging, so most of the responses in this thread will be from people who really dislike that guy and dismiss urbit as a result.

I think you can, although I admit a lot of the discussion here is likely to focus on Yarvin himself. That is, there is a good argument that Urbit reflects Yarvin's politics in itself and as these politics are, clearly, broadly distasteful it's entirely reasonably that someone opposed to Right Libertarianism and ignorant of Yarvin would find Urbit undesirable on its own merits.
They raised prices.

They've reduced content.

They consider emplacing password locks for their users.

These things say to me "we no longer want your business and will blame our decline on what YOU'RE doing rather than our policies that aren't keeping up with the real world."
Why would "landlord" be considered a slur?
(inappropriate)
Not sure if the S-1 is a good example — IIRC it still had a 36-bit word and was mainly intended for pl1 and lisp (I only really saw it from the S-1 Lisp side). Was there evening a C for it? It would have been as bad as running C on a Cray YMP (which I mention above)
Companies looking for the best engineers are slowly going to realise that not offering fully remote is going to considerably limit the pool of available candidates. Obviously, money can sway that though.
I would guess it has something to do with your account seeming agenda-driven and crossing into personal attack with the first comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31105517). Neither of those things is what this site is for, as you'd see if you reviewed https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Lack of condition codes when the dominant paradigm (x86, ARM) is condition codes is weird. However, having 32 registers unlike x86_64's 16 makes up for some of it.

The base is too base and their bitfield extension is weird.
Youtube "The computer chronicles"

Fascinating show, mostly about micros but featuring early industry legend Gary Kildall.

The software reviews are hilarious. The predictions of the future of computing always wrong. The guests demoing stuff always cut off as soon as it gets interesting.

I started programming as a teenager in that era but never saw the show in period. For me its eye opening just how amateur the industry really was. The show is unintentionally funny now, but really gives a great idea of the time period.
> I think there's at least a very reasonable case to be made that they're not age appropriate for 7 year olds

What is the case? What is the bad outcome that happens to a 7 year old who watches a PG-13 movie? (Or more generally, a population of 7 year olds who watch PG-13 movies)

Like, what’s the bad “thing” that we should be able to see?
I think I get your point, but isn't his another, separate argument? I don't think this is something the blog post was aiming for. If you're relying on something new (because unfulfilling or even financially unstable), sure, do something about it and maybe do it within your hobby. But even among people who are somewhat set, you can find this sentiment that the article wants to contradict. Which is, if you're good at something and have fun doing it, make it a side hustle.
WFH is better in the long run for the environment and thus for everyone. Also, with fewer people commuting to large cities, smaller towns will grow. And wealth will redistribute to local neighbourhoods. Bedroom communities will have patrons with money (for a change) able to sustain businesses that were infeasible when everyone spent their entire day in the city. Youth might be less inclined to brain drain to the big city, and then support interesting local restaurants and bars. Parents will support local children's activities. Grand parents will live near their children. Bike paths, public transit, public parks will all have reasons to exist! Man, it sounds amazing all listed out here.
That is a very handy and unfortunately hidden feature. I just enabled it, and even knowing the feature exist I had to Google to know I need to tap that funky icon on mobile.

Unfortunately for Twitter I will keep using the browser plug-in which also hides their ads (maybe they get paid for the display, even if hidden)
Reducing colleteral damage is a stated goal of that round. Personally, I think it's just a nice side effect and nobody really cares.
This is a valid complaint. I would tell you that on the many streaming services available for free like youtube, vimeo, etc. There is probably a small filmmaker who is making the type of show you enjoy. Finding them, providing value by first clicks and shares and eventually with income as they grow will encourage more filmmakers to make things you like.
You aren't the only one. Steam is DRM with good PR. Much of the goodwill gamers have for Steam is based on misconceptions, rumors, or delusions, particularly: "If Valve ever goes out of business, they said they'll lift all the DRM for the games I've bought" I've heard that from so many gamers it isn't even funny, it's a widespread misconception and it's obvious horse shit. Maybe Valve has or once had that intention with their own in-house games, but they wouldn't even have the legal right to do something like that for 99.99% of the Steam catalogue.

Even for the in-house games, you have to be naive to trust any sort of promise from a commercial software product that isn't in a contract. Notch supposedly once promised that Minecraft would eventually become open source; well that plan evaporated when Microsoft waved a few billion dollars in front of him. Maybe he meant it at the time he said it, but that doesn't count for anything.
Do you know what a ”cheap” pure gold coin costs, if there are such coins?
Asked and answered:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31116640
The original question was if Genesis was in conflict with current science. This is clearly the case.
This is exactly right. At the risk of going super specific; Joaquin Phoenix's Joker's popularity just strikes me as the weirdest thing, if not harmful. You're tackling serious grown up things in a child's format. Give me that Leto Joker because he seems fun and cartoony.
Hookie Tardigrade: first moon concept motorcycle
He's pointing out that focusing on issues that don't have real impact is starving us of our ability to focus on broader, more serious issues. The shrinking of the middle class is a tangible problem. Words being insufficiently inclusive is not.
Landlord gets hit from multiple sides; those who don't like that it contains "lord" which is a male term, those who don't like that landlords exist, and those who don't like that the concept of owning land exists.
I'm waiting to have a need to use it, but XTDB is a nice fully open bitemporal 'lite' Datomic that I have been keeping an eye on.
and as we can see, large numbers of people- there are hundreds of us- think that the name of that channel to be highly offensive. Actually, no, wait, nobody actually finds it offensive.
It really doesn't matter how you rationalize it either, within the frame of capital everything is immoral
> Forced arb was supposed to make things better.

The purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act was not to make things better for end customers like you and I.

The law was passed because judges at the time (in 1926, for what it's worth) were reluctant to enforce decisions reached through arbitration in courts because judges saw arbitration as either a reduction of judicial authority or less fair and open than a judicial proceeding. Both views were held at the time, take your pick for which one you prefer.

Arbitration was originally supposed to be about two parties of roughly equal negotiation and information-acquisition power being able to work out arguments between themselves. Inherently, this meant business-to-business complaints with each other.

You and I are not on equal footing and with the overwhelming majority of entities with which we contract, nor can we easily negotiate the terms of those contracts, both of which were features of the entities who originally wanted to use binding arbitration. But over the years, businesses that provide services to individual customers figured out that getting sued was expensive and decades of "ambulance-chasing class action lawyers are unfair!" turned the tide against using courts as neutral forums. Supreme Court decisions relating to the arbitration act over the past thirty years or so have effectively slammed the door on using courts and some members of Congress don't seem motivated to change this.

(Note that I am biased against binding arbitration agreements. I think them unconscionable, and I laugh endlessly when "well-intentioned" companies that do a Show HN here have them in their terms.)
Removing the Stigma of a CVE
Pure software engineer, actually.
the income associated with IP very much does.
I don't live in London anymore, but I think you agree with me - people in central London don't own/use cars because it is inconvenient.
I was thinking about something similar recently: I was raised in a very christian household, and while I've lost faith in divinity, I still look back fondly at being raised that way and believe it did instill valuable life lessons that just don't require the existence of a god to be valuable. Having said all that, I've been finding myself a bit uncomfortable with religious books and stories and such which our families share with our own young children. The kids seem so impressionable and religious stuff seems like such overt brainwashing from my non-believing adult perspective. But these two instincts are in conflict! My children will inevitably be less influenced by this than I was (we aren't going to church and Sunday school every week...), and those years of constant exposure didn't keep me from developing my own views and opinions when I grew up. So my conclusion is that maybe I don't need to worry so much about my kids being impressionable now because they aren't going to get stuck, they're going to keep taking in and incorporating different influences for decades, maybe what I need to do instead is work hard at answering their questions in a way that keeps them curious and gives them room to grow.
On landlord I can’t think of a proper synonym. Property owner and proprietor are broader categories of what a landlord is. They don’t mean the person you’re paying rent to for your housing.
Cam girls use it as an upsell, sending dirty pics and sexting. It's great for that sort of flirty business because of the lack of persistence. No receipts.
Huh. My experience has been that AMD wins that unless your application is so small that it can fit into Intel's smaller cache. And the new 3D architecture from AMD I thought would make your developers drool, allowing them to actually inline everything instead of being scared of building apps that are too big to fit into cache
when you pirate a show, no longer get the contractually based income related to your viewing.
I don't think I ever heard such an appropriate turn of phrase as "woke clippy", bravo!
I don't mean this to be mean, but do people really believe these active user counts at face value?

I personally see these numbers and assume half are bots or controlled marketing accounts to boost viewers or spam comments. Just going off personal experience using these sort of apps.
Airbnb did a similar thing, var/schema name whitelabel was excised. Weirdly black label remained. It caused a frontend bug temporarily
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
> A transcribed interview of neo-Nazi and former Klan leader David Duke—in which he uses the N-word and talks about hunting Black people—gets no notes. Radical feminist Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto gets more edits than Duke’s tirade; she should use “police officers” instead of “policemen,”

The intentions of these features aside which will no doubt be the topic of conversation, to me the biggest takeaway about this is just how entirely stupid AI still is. Failing to recognize context, wordplay, even names (suggesting alternatives to Motherboard), and so forth. Trying to adjust something as complex as 'inclusivity' by flipping words is like trying to change the tone of a poem by flipping individual letters. Entirely wrong level of abstraction.
> there's a fine line between this and being privileged to be able to afford to skip news because those suffering aren't your family.

Hence why I said most. I definitely agree that being exposed to outside events can be important for sympathizing with those affected (and possible helping them), but at the same time, one does not need to be aware of everything going on in the world.
Rainbow parentheses are such a great invention I can't understand why it isn't standard nearly everywhere.
What I don't understand is, where is this perceived demand coming from? I think it is an extremely small minority that happens to be extremely loud on social media and in corporate circles, so the perception of how important this issue is has become grossly exaggerated. I don't think this is purposeful malice on anyone's part, I think it is just a product of social media amplification and the elites desire to constantly virtue signal to each other that has led to this absurd loop in our culture.
You're copying the check but stealing the money. The money and the check are not the same thing.

If I copy your car key and use it to steal your car. I've copied the key but stolen your car.
The VM and language for it are designed in an intentionally obscure ways so that "normies wouldn't get in", apparently :) https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502278405391331332
Sorry. It was tongue in cheek and not appropriate. Deleted.
I unfortunately have a mortgage and can't live with the stress of the fear of being fired for some esoteric internet community I've joined. I've heard through the grapevines of people starting slack mob witch hunts over people who've used terms like "Fren" because of its very slight relationship with 4chan.

I like the security of not working with unchecked witch hunts . I don't want to be Damore'd because of words I use outside of work.
Please, explain your thinking in more detail.
when you steal a viewing of a show, the income related to your consumption is directly stolen from me.
> How would you feel if you have a business, I steal from you, and then go give random people your content? This especially when it starts to drive into your revenues.

I would consider that if I am selling a product that has absolutely no scarcity, such as digital files, I have a few approaches.

- Introduce artificial scarcity with something like DRM

- Create a business model focused on the service of providing the product, rather than the product itself

I would not try to accuse my potential consumers of a crime in order to fix the flaws in my business model.
The art of artificial intelligence: a recent copyright law development
Just leave. Most companies in high cost and high income areas are just doing this as a way to do layoffs, imo. My company recently announced that the three day work week, with hundreds of people asking how they were going to address the fact that our office is in Mountain View and that Staff+ engineers are having to get room mates so they can live less than an hour from the office. Our HR head basically said not my problem and then went on a lengthy discussion about the culture they wanted.

This is people's callousness reaching heights as people who were able to secure things like houses that are now worth millions and big cashouts in tech are coming to the height of their careers.
I agree with you there. PWAs are nice because they do both things well.
Make "cool things" overly priced, especially in a fucked up inflationary market manipulated by corruption and influence, where for the last several years everything costs more which is tangible and required to survive, (food, shelter, transport, employment)

Then the ephemeral luxuries, such as entertainment, begin to take a more relaxed position on our moral compass when one compares paying for entertainment services, vs, using funds for food.
I live in a country that’s unsupported by Stripe and most other global merchant processors.

I’d love to be able to use Stripe for web credit card payments if I could. Hopefully this is a step towards that.
I can't imagine most employees agree with this. Why aren't they pushing back?
A variety of ways. However the counting itself is usually done in the open which means that people can observe that (1) the counting is done correctly and (2) is then transmitted and reported correctly.