skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your first link:

> Only half of the original [million] Indian applicants are expected to receive an actual green card.

Whoever wrote that understands this. You do not. There is no 150 year wait time. Either you will die or the people in front of you will die. Somebody is still getting a green card and if you average those wait times it won't be 150 years.

The Newsweek article puts "150 years" in the title without ever substantiating it. Neither does the next one.

The truth here is bad enough. A million Indian nationals in queue. ~10,000 applications approved per year (from the last link). Using hyperbole ("Indian nationals must wait 150 years for green card") undermines the very real and justifiable complaints about the current system.

This is an argument that needs to be fought and won in the court of public opinion in a country that quite famously does not care about immigration at all (other than doing all it can to prevent it). There is enough of an uphill battle to get people to care. "150 years" turns a slim chance into none.
>If you run an app like gmail for example, you can store most everything in cache, >and local storage (browser), including logos, button graphics etc. Resulting to >an app that loads almost instantly most of the time as it's coming from disk >(relatively speaking, many would argue that disk access is extremely slow).

Does this extend to other thick client apps like SAP or even ftp just for thinking's sake?

>This information stored should obviously not be time sensitive. But if you're >running a client for social networks or such, it's perfectly a good idea to cache >the last 10 posts seen for example, so that when the user loads the page, he >instantly has something to look at while the browser is fetching the fresh >content.

Correct but now this is why I say an API because each app can have its own way of caching the last few items (http objects, files, posts whatever might be tagged)

>One key consideration is security: do not cache things on the browser that may be >private or sensitive information, unless encrypted, but even then the argument >could be made to not do it at all. That said, storing your application graphics >and most of the UI bits in local storage can certainly improve the user >experience greatly.

Is it because of the browser? Say I remove it out of the browser and place it somewhere else, encrypt it store it and wont display until I verify the end user with SSO etc, would that take away this concerns. Depends on the user(most UI bits I agree need be cached and harmless either way) for what bits might be cacheable
The orange with the straw was pretty good branding, pretty unique while being straight to the point.

They also had that ad in the 90's.

https://youtu.be/wUVp3zyqo3s
Thought the article points out Berkshire Hathaway owns 5.6% of Apple, Apple represents almost a 50% of Berkshire's holdings. If you ask me, quite a concentrated portfolio risk for a fund that is perceived to be stable.

But anyways - in regards to products & inflation...

"...our research shows that Apple have risen iPhone prices 26% higher than local inflation rates. "

https://www.self.inc/info/iphone-price-index/
I agree with this entirely. Until more is known about the gut microbiome and how to properly seed and replace it the most effective home thing to do is prebiotic fiber and medium chain triglyceride oils. These have both been shown to sustain known healthy bacteria of the gut and reduce known unhealthy bacteria.

The best sources to get these from is not supplements either it's from a natural foods that they come from.
This is always used as an excuse but it ignores that rebrands like this rarely come from in-house designers. Execs will contact an outside design firm and ask for a rebrand, spend obscene amounts of money (relative to the size of the company) and then hand the design to the in-house designers to execute on it and turn the mock ups into actual usable assets.
Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro. If Ubuntu requires workarounds to get audio working, then Linux requires workarounds to get audio working. No whatabouts, no "it just needs one quick thing", if it doesn't just work then it doesn't just work.
You are. (Weird that is).

I find OEMs that bundle operating systems to be weird. Dictating choice is something a dictatorship would do. I used to argue the reasoning until the obscurities hit.
Total Eclipse of the Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
Having a centralized clock as verification authority is definitely ideal, but since the document creation could happen offline, even a hypothetical perfect clock could not verify when it actually happened.
No, it doesn't. The Church Turing hypothesis is much stronger - it states that all real-world computation can be done by lambda calculus or Turing machines.

That's why it's a hypothesis and not a theorem - it's pretty easy to prove that lambda calculus and Turing machines are equivalent if you have the mindset of a programmer.

Put in other words, the Church Turing hypothesis is that there is no computing model higher in hierarchy than the TM and lambda-calculus.

> It doesn’t actually tell us anything about reality

Well, of course it doesn't tell is anything about reality. That's because no one managed to prove it, and I suspect no one ever will.
I don't mean to dismiss your ADHD (and I'm not), but all of the items you listed impact just about everyone and pretty much in the same way. It's the difference between greenfield and something someone else wrote. Keeping track of all of the details in a large system is hard, and most of it is boring. And just about anyone who has a real interest in the field would like to work on something interesting; when the interest isn't there, or the role doesn't align, it's easy to get distracted. And then one has to work twice as hard to keep up. Its basic human nature.
Anyone remember this "Demo" that Creative Labs made to promote Sound Blaster 16?

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLb9QDf51o

I guess people didn't realize that they were secretly in the demoscene ha ha!

I wonder if it was some overly excited intern developer that whipped this up in his/her spare time? Creative Labs didn't seem like the kind of company that would allow time spent to develop stuff like this but I guess thats just speculation, I was in elementary school when this was released.

I remember when my late father came home with a Sound Blaster 16 and installed it because I had been doing alright in school. I then spent a few days not doing my second grade homework but instead trying to figure out how to set up the SET BLASTER requirements for this card and figuring out how to get games to work with it. There was no internet, and I had no idea how I ever learned anything at all back then. The moment when Epic Pinball started playing music was so shocking that it is still imprinted in my head to this day!
Not too dissimilar to Feeder Cattle commodity futures: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/gf
Yeah, honestly, I think there are several brands I buy in grocery stores for which I don't know, or at least don't remember, the brand name. I just recognize the packaging and think "oh yeah, that's the one I like".
I was thinking the "smartest people on the planet" bit was at least misleading if not entirely wrong.

Of any significantly large site there will be a distribution of people for whatever reasons.

Who is to say who is "the smartest" ?
i'd imagine the download would have to finish first, before the piping into bash finishes and then bash interprets the finished script.

I find it hard to believe you could interpret a partial script on the fly as more comes in via stdin.
The cool thing about that also is the hash power can be accumulated secretly and dumped on the network all at once
Exactly, PFOF does not involve selling data. The spread available on the stock market reflects the potential toxicity of random orders to market makers; it is risky to market make large volumes of a security to an unknown counterparty (who might know more than the MM). The spread pays for this risk.

It is not as risky to market make securities for retail investors; they probably don't have insider knowledge and are low-volume. So, PFOF routes retail orders to the market makers, where it likely executes at a better price/spread than the public market and also gives the brokerage a tiny commission in the process. And is still regulated by NBBO...
My blog. Specifically, I was blogging solutions to the first N Euler problems.
Speakers are a personal choice and ATCs aren’t forgiving of poor rooms, but I have SCM50ASLs and like them very much. I also have smaller ATCs for surround and the sound is quite consistent between models.
Have you looked at any more recent thinkpads?
How the 'Big Short DAO' Bet Against the Crypto Market and Won
Well, they did. It’s just that the test cost $30 million!
I was referring to the DOS version which is what the majority of 1-2-3 users ever experienced. While the Windows version existed, it took far too long[1] to be released and was quite buggy. By the time Lotus had even a remotely viable Windows product, they were in 3rd place and had mostly bled out their users.

[1] Windows 3.0 came out in mid-1990 and 1-2-3 for Windows came out at the end of 1991. The options to run 1-2-3 for DOS under Windows until then were comically non-viable. When 1-2-3 for Windows came out, it was practically unusable for those who waited and no longer mattered for those who had already switched away.
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It's true that your body doesn't digest all the available calories in food, and the energy extracted from the food is going to vary by food source, along with the digestion profile, or glycemic index.

So, it is true that:

> You can lose weight in a caloric surplus diet

But I don't see how it's possible to:

> gain weight in a caloric deficit diet

There are many sources of digestible and energetic food, even outside the primary 3 macronutrients. There's alcohol, for instances, in addition to the basic fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Sand I don't understand to be calorically rich at all. Quartz isn't even an organic compound.
I'm relieved this is the second-to-the-top parent comment.

They literally did an eye gaze study showing that just about no one saw the logo (and even fewer read it), yet their conclusion is some emotional fugazi.
I hate these shoes. I have a medium cushion running shoe and it's already too much, like running around on a sponge. Flat and thin is still the best and I'm looking forward to these shoes dying so I can go back to it.
Damn, even after having 2 out of 3 break on me, I found their receivers great to use and configure. Going to miss this brand.
A big problem is a lot of companies make changes for changes' sake instead of a real business reason. It might be due to internal incentives too: it's easier for designers and managers to justify their existence by launching new designs than by saying "all looks good, no need to change."
Yeah. Although, as you mention modifying the source might take a long time, similarly implementing multiple browsers would take a long time. I don't know what the solution is.
Also mentioned is the removal of PayPal Key, a feature where PayPal issued users a debit card that would then charge a credit card for any purchases. This feature certainly cost PayPal a ton of interchange fees that it will never recoup, and it is amazing it was ever launched.

Was widely abused to churn spending that needed a debit card into credit card spending (and thus CC rewards).
Not weird but money-loving; sweet exclusive deals with Microsoft to have Windows preinstalled for less, as long as all machines have it preinstalled. (It was less sweet and more forcing their hand in 1990s.)
Unless you live in the bay area, which is where a huge number of software engineers live. My commute was over an hour and I still couldn't afford to buy anything.
Show HN: I built a minimal website for Los Angeles
I built https://veryla.io - a minimal website for Los Angeles.

After growing tired of the chaotic, fast paced, attention-economy focused state of the web, I decided to build something simple and quiet. A site with no "real" database (just a json file I update by hand), no email signups, no ads, no pop ups, no data collection (besides google analytics), and no comment section filled with highly polarized politics. A site updated only 1-2 times per week.

It's just unique information in a simple and accessible format. The goal is for people to not check veryLA every day. I don't want people hitting refresh for emotionally charged SEO packed news to react to. My goal is for people to check out veryLA 1-2 per week and then go into the real world and have fun with the information they found.

Hope you enjoy if you live in Los Angeles or are planning to visit!
I find that most of the tech companies don't actually have that last one.
The best thing to do is just use the browser's own cache but because of the cache partitioning mentioned in the article, host 3rd party libs on your own site instead of using traditional shared CDN URLs. By hosting yourself you can make sure each resource is at a version specific URL can you can crank the cache durations way up for all your CSS and JS files so you don't even need to do cache validation often. You can even have a cache seeding page the loads every resource if you want. For HTML files make sure that your HTTP servers support last modified or etags so that If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since can be used.

Use a CDN accelerator like Cloudflare to improve load time since server side caching and client to server distance can impact performance.

Caching is solved fairly well by browsers, its usually server misconfiguration or lack of that is the problem.

I think http://www.squid-cache.org/ has options to ignore some of the browsers cache headers and return cached content anyway. But HTTPS caching requires that you let the traffic be intercepted and install custom CA certs so the proxy can be a MITM caching proxy.
Still not acceptable. It would be hard for me to buy a ThinkPad (I have bought many in the past).

Obviously Lenovo has zero integrity and will spy on us or cheat us in some other way if they think they can do it without getting caught.

Sad that nobody else makes laptops with the little nub for pointing the mouse.
Yup. The redesign looks like any number of grocery store "house" brands, which are typically awful.
The chennai pricing in incredibly steep. It's weird that bandwidth prices for end-users in India is among the cheapest (if not the cheapest) in the world but enterprise customers are paying so much.
Remembering Buildtool
This. Now that smart plugs are common, adding fans is something anyone can do effectively.
to someone with a redditor's level of understanding the geopolitics, sure
Unfortunately core developer communications have moved off of publicly logged channels, so if another event like this would occur, we wouldn’t have a log of the discussion that happens in response :(

> Many Bitcoin users are not aware of the centralized ability in Bitcoin for a few developers to send out alert messages

This capability does not exist anymore.
This is how things already work. Companies like Google and Facebook are not shy at all about cutting your pay significantly if you move to some location they think doesn't merit the same level of comp as the bay area and nyc.
I’ve tried writing code on a 486dx, which I believe is a contemporary CPU for that era. It’s not necessarily that nobody could come up with anything like this, it’s more impressive to me that it was basically already there for a lot of these things, in an environment that is, well, to be honest, quite difficult to eek good performance out of.

(And of course, heavily limited in memory. With toolchains and development environments that are constrained similarly.)
Actual reason for failure: juice name in rebrand is vertical making it unreadable on shelf.
iPhone Users Got Alerts About Strangers’ AirTags. The Trackers Were Never Found
I wish it was too.

Aside from Psycho Pinball that was my favourite PC pinball game...
Ah yes. Fair enough. I confused the thesis with the hypothesis. This comes back to the begging the question I initially objected to.

Also, the notion of highest computing model is itself begging the question in the sense that the framing assumes a computational model.

So much for undergraduate philosophy. What’s your opinion? Are uncomputable functions just fanciful irrelevancies or are there processes in reality that can’t be described by computable functions? If so or if not can you propose how we might know?
That would require involving themselves in the less fun aspects of raising a child, and people exhibiting this degree of self-centered entitlement—which, and I’m using the term clinically, sounds downright sociopathic to me—have no interest in that sort of responsibility.

The guy is suing his son for not having a child, just because he wants something cute to play with on the weekends. I wouldn’t trust those people with a puppy, let alone a child.
This is fabricating a huge number of brand new handcuffs for social interaction. And there's not a single iota of justification or reasoning presented. It's purely say so.

It totally ignores that anyone but the individual has rights. It admits to no clash, acknowledges that no one else has rights. If the entire world except you votes unanimously that your posting is just the lowest grade most toxic trash that no one would ever go near & has no value, this asserts that since you shared it with >1 person, no syst nor person nor networlay get in the way with you sharing it with the whole world. We all have to listen.

This is a farcical & unserious position. The agenda here is just malice, a bunch of people seeming to use the law to interject themselves as they please in a way no one can reject, utterly secure in their bloviation/unchallengeable.

Recent events have shown the shouting class os obnoxious & toxic & most spcial networks are fed up with these problematic overimposing loud few. That these few take suchkdern umbrage with the most minimal & gentle of private curbings & immediately resort to trying to get thr goverent to force them to be unignorable, unavoidable shows what real moral standing they have.
It now dawns on me that we can stimulate massive investment and efficiency gains in any domain we want, if only we create a crypto on that domain.

E.g. Food. Create a new proof-of-food based crypto. Poof! Literally solved world hunger right there.
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The article is about how bitcoin mining companies may go down mostly because there is too much competition in that space and because bitcoin’s price isn’t going up so fast anymore.

That sounds plausible. It doesn’t herald the end of bitcoin, just that at some point there’ll be less people mining it. Which sounds like a good thing.
Yes - if I'm interpreting that rapidly-changing GIF correctly, where previously people were drawn to the brand name now their eyes focused on "100% Orange" ... which completely commoditizes the contents.

"I couldn't find the stuff we normally get, so I bought this one because it was cheaper".
What?
I crafted a long, well reasoned response that I’m sure you wouldn’t be able to hear.
Then I considered questioning your intelligence.

But ultimately I’ll just say, you’re misinformed and mistaken. You should see about correcting that.
.eu is not a ccTLD, because the European Union is not a country.
Framework's hardware is nice because it takes advantage of CPUs, ports, RAM, screens etc that are more recent than 2008

I know for some old ThinkPads (edit: The IBM branded T60 from 2006) you can get a custom motherboard that works with modern CPUs, but the price for the mobo alone is more than a Framework laptop
I thought I was crazy for suspecting that. I stopped buying the calcium version but spouse didn’t believe me.
https://archive.ph/UfqFe
I think I saw that in a movie..
Have had the chance of working 18 month with NeXT computer - best (spirit) of machine ever... Improv was outstanding, but too much so... people couldn't easily adapt their spreadsheet work to the new tools (and on NeXT, in a time when green screen PCs here trying to adopt Windows 3.11 ;-) ) - seen quite a few applications never used to their potential benefits (and just wither away, replaced by less capable partial imitations)
To sort of riff off what you're saying; there might be some serious social, "whys" driving the more material, "why" of lackluster brand re-designs in the last 20 years. It seems like as companies are bought up by private equity groups (PAI Partners in Tropicana's case) quality and brand identity suffer. You really see this all over the place and another bad recession could reshuffle the board enough to let private wealth groups buy up what's left of the United States' viable domestic cultural export.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAI_Partners
> the only thing that's different is the brand tax

They have different flavor bombs.

Same as branded gas that all comes from the same regional depot with vendor specific additives dumped in the trailer before delivery.
You might also find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30412654#30416737
While transforming the plan into vectors is interesting, I wish they'd gone into more detail about how the ML model prunes and filters the best plan. It is also not clear what attributes of a plan the corresponding vector encodes.
I do not know much about Databloom, but it looks like this "Learning-Based Query Optimizer" is built for specific use-cases in a Data engineering/analytics setting(like K-means as cited in the article). It might not be a replacement for optimizers in traditional Databases.
Some business laptops from Lenovo, Dell, and HP rank among the most repairable laptops. But Framework goes even further by making their parts store and repair guides accessible to everyone:

- https://frame.work/marketplace

- https://guides.frame.work/c/Framework_Laptop

The prices of the parts are very reasonable, and each part is labeled with a QR code that can be scanned to access repair instructions.
Hacker news commentations are usually more interesting and insightful than you're average article on the internet that garners enough SEO to be posted here. So, let's not pretend otherwise. Many of us, just read the comments here and only read the article if it has earned our attention.
Calling Gracemont (the E cores) “Atom technology” is a bit weak. They support out of order execution and AVX2.

Gracemont is faster, clock-for-clock than Broadwell and nearly as fast as Skylake running ChaChaPoly-1305, as used in WireGuard, largely due to avx2.

Intel’s benchmarking shows 80% performance peak vs peak of 4C of Gracemont vs 2C4T of Skylake.
The thing about Sound bars is that they're dead easy.

The sit physically near the TV and either plug directly into the TV or are Bluetooth. They don't need a receiver or any complicated wiring or configuration.

You open the box, set it up in 5 minutes, and have sound way better than the built-in TV speakers. No weird mounts, no wires in the walls, no three remotes. Super easy and sound pretty decent.
I also have a 2008 and a 2009 Thinkpad. I've looked at some recent ones and we've lost so much since then.
Right? It's hilarious that the leadership of the people working on e.g. Google Apps thinks it's not good enough to run their business on.

It's even more hilarious that they think being in the office is much different. I used to have video calls with people on other floors of the building because we couldn't be bothered to walk up the stairs.
Everybody seems to willfully ignore every kind of methane leakage on the fossil fuels production chain.

But this one study is about projected growth, so old wells are really not the point.
Any plans for fly.io to support Java soon? It is a blocker for me at my company.
Setting all that up also requires way too much home-theater-specific knowledge.

If you're not interested in all that crap and just want decent sound, you're not doing it that way.