skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Apple Cash is apparently not cash, nor a wallet, but a card that is stored inside wallet. 2.There is already Apple Wallet, Apple Pay, Apple Card.

Nobody in technology, at least in the USA, seems to be able to make the marketing for their "payment things" understandable. On the Google side, there is (or was) Google Wallet (OG), Android Pay, Google Pay, gPay, now Google Wallet (new). I don't know which one I should be using, or what each one deliberately can't do. Some handset makers have their own apps: Samsung Pay, for example. Then, there's the individual apps: Venmo, PayPal, Square Cash, Zelle, Xoom...

A web search shows there are probably a dozen more, all incompatible with each other. It's like VHS vs Betamax and HD-DVD vs. BluRay all over again, but instead with 20 different formats. How has this industry so royally fucked up something that should be pretty straightforward?
CHAdeMO is still dominance here in Japan and no sign CCS to be introduced.
I've currently got Soundiiz Premium - converted it to an Apple Music playlist (1810 tracks, https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/focus/pl.u-PJD9BskgpYKR ) and a Spotify playlist (1827 tracks, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OFXAFqVC5A5yJMp7gxDTs )
I first used it to dual boot windows (98 or NT4 I don't remember) and slackware.

I can't remember specifics, but I dd ed the first 512B to a file and pointed the windows OS loader to that file. The specifics I don't remember are why I wanted to use the windows loader instead of LILO.
Here’s the secret of typesetting vertical Japanese text: You turn all the characters anticlockwise 90°. It is now exactly the same process as typesetting any L-R text.

Regarding your epiphany, (a) Word doesn't turn on kerning by default, but it does indeed kern properly. I don't use Powerpoint, but I'm guessing there might be a similar setting on the second tab of the font modal for turning on kerning. I don't know where you get your claim that Adobe tools don't kern properly, but they very much do. And finally, kerning is just as important for sans-serif type as it is for serifed type. The only arena it doesn't come into play is monospace type. Which, perhaps surprisingly, Japanese type traditionally is.
Thanks folks for the input! Terraform or AWS CDK or Pulumi are good tools. Kind of feel this is a very diverse area, and different people have different favorite tools :)

Curious anyone from SaaS companies are using Terraform/Pulumi to build their SaaS platform to serve their customers?
I'd say it goes even beyond that into being able to separate the hypothetical future problems that will be a minor irritation from the ones that will wreck your whole month.

As you get to learn more failure modes for software, you start to realize you can't plug all the holes in the dyke, not if you had absolute control of every hand on your team. You can stop four problems or you can hedge against twenty. The problem is that hedging is way harder to explain to people. It's how we ended up with unsatisfying concepts like 'code smells'. It's not evil, it might not even be that bad, but... don't do it anyway.
I wonder to what degree generational culture plays a part. My father, for example (born pre-WWII), would never buy growth stocks. Not even when he was young. He bought only dividend yielding stocks, reinvested 100% of the dividends and never sold anything until his retirement. My generation (X) has a more balanced approach, with a mix of growth and value stocks dependent on risk tolerance, trending toward value stocks the older we get. Moreover, a lot of us learned some hard lessons from the first internet bubble.

Granted that they're still younger and should be in a more risk-tolerant phase of life, but what I see in Millennials, and Gen Z especially, is a culture of growth-only, with no interest in boring old investments that are intended to earn and build value over long timescales. I think at least some of this has to do with the gamification of investing; in my Dad's time, a normal person couldn't just sit at a brokerage and watch a stock ticker all day. Free trading has intensified it by removing the barriers to full-time gambling. Remember that Millennials are a much larger generation and we're just still early in the period when they're growing wealth; I wonder if what we're seeing isn't the beginning of what it will take to change the culture... or if we'll continue to see endless bubbles because the steady-as-she-goes, long term investment mentality is just disappearing in the face of permanent FOMO. Sure, it's not glamorous, it won't make you a millionaire overnight, but that's really not what investing your savings should be about.
What do you do if you need to unambiguously refer to cat-as-in-feline?
GP qualifies this as a price of _new_ cars. In the US, ~1/4 of car sales every year are new cars.

New cars are primarily bought by comparatively wealthier people or fleet sales. Less well off people might occasionally buy newer cars, but it’s more common to buy them second hand after 5-10 years of careful ownership. The $40k truck has historically depreciated by around 40% during that 5 year period, by which point it’s worth about $24k. Better examples may be worth more, worse examples less (although perhaps a poorer buy). Large examples of this come through age - in the US, the median new car buyer is in their 50s, whereas the median American is in their 30s.

Put simply, yes, the average new car is unaffordable for the average American, but how much of a problem is that?

Out of buyers in the market for a new car, this is clearly close to the affordable side of the range, no matter how ridiculous that might sound.
Language-specific drivers for datasources (like JDBC) being replaced with Arrow FlightSQL (gRPC by default, but transport agnostic)

Substrait as a standard for communicating query operations between systems

Data of the future will be exposing your datasource over FlightSQL endpoint so every language can use it, and consuming/producing Substrait IR for query plans

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-f...

https://substrait.io/

Apache Arrow and Facebook's experimental query engine Velox are already doing this
What sort of processes might bring that about?
All You Need to Know About the Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem (2010)
correlation does not equal causation. Economy, pop culture, social safety nets, offline-social networks, and so many other things are factors in all this.

the 90's were not the same at 2009 and not the same as 2021 by many means.

I just searched : https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=Pittsburgh+2008+w... - and even the left wing news is saying that gun rights folks are accurate in that most gun crime is committed by non-legal-firearms owners, like 8 out of 10.

It's a weird stat to consider anyhow. In my experiences, many crimes are not officially reported, and many are not reported completely - so all that is screwed anyhow. There is no way to know how many crimes are committed in each city with illegal gun possessors.
I think the peak hype of ruby was just the peak hype of rails. I don't ever think it was that popular outside of it.

That having been said - it's still the most practical scripting language IMHO. Expressive, nice sized std library, like 10x faster implementations that it used to have an its heyday. And rake is an amazing tool for doing stuff you might use make for, but actually works in the modern world (filenames can have spaces in them).
why not ssh-copy-id?
There is circumstantial evidence that in pre-industrial Europe, many autistic people were sent to become monks or nuns. It's impossible to prove now, but some of them probably would have fit in fairly well with those communities.
I don't know what state you're in, but many states have senior citizen exemptions, or low income exemptions.
Tropospheric R-134a has grown faster than the S&P 500. (It's a early-stage startup pollutant, which IPO'd relatively recently, after the Montreal Protocol).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane
USD money supply
I'm with you, but how do we measure those other things without corporations gaming the measures? ESG is already turning out to be a farce.
Lisp trivial gamekit for 2d game development
Anyone who tries thinking about how to actually implement any of these scifi-horror scenarios will soon realize their infeasibility. The fetters of implementation details are cast aside; clearly, the author's real intent is not to inform but to persuade: self-empowerment bad, big government good.

Stirring up FUD in apologetics for a global panopticon frankly strikes me as a little sickening.
I find that very unlikely. I know far too many people who went into medicine. They were all doing it because their fathers were doctors (sorry, consultants, maybe a lowly surgeon or two), and they too wanted the nine bedroom country manor and six cars.

People enter medicine for the money, maybe a little for the prestige. This is nowhere more self-evident that in their billing practices - and the fact that most medics seem to be always operating at the absolute edge of their competence and have nothing but unbridled contempt for patients. Not exactly symptomatic of “I care” so much as “I charge”.

Same with lawyers and bankers. Unimaginative, lucrative, “follow in thy father’s footsteps” professions full of avaricious dullards.
> Maybe that is what a lower core count, higher mhz, thread-ripper socket was really for.

It is. Historically the HEDT sockets have often overlapped with the consumer socket in terms of core count - this was true of X58, X79, and sTR4, and X99 was so cheap that de facto it did overlap anyway (5820K basically cost the same as a 4790K, and motherboard costs were in-line with what we saw from X570 boards until the B550 line settled prices down a bit).

That’s fine because HEDT is not about core count, it’s about memory and PCIe lanes. The current offerings leave a void for "I want a big platform but I don't need >24 cores and I'm still somewhat price-sensitive", the classic "workstation/prosumer" tier that used to be serviced by things like the 5820K/3930K/1900X/1920X.

Potentially you could get to a similar place with a bunch of PCIe 5.0 slots attached to PCIe switch chips - this style of board used to be called “supercarrier” by one brand. Unfortunately it pretty much died out in the wake of SLI and crossfire becoming niche and then extinct. And the current crop of Intel and AMD boards only offer PCIe 5 on the first slot anyway so that isn’t quite as possible as you’d think at first glance.

It’s really a shame the way AMD hollowed out the HEDT segment and cranked prices. A 3960X is four 3600s on a HEDT package with a single bigger IO die instead of four little ones, it’s a very cheap chip to produce, it should really go for more in the $700-800 price range than $1600+.

(And the HEDT boards are also quite expensive for what they are - the ROMED8-2T gets you 7x slots of PCIe 4.0x16 full-capacity, with power delivery for 280W TDP CPUs, dual 10gbe, and BMC, for $600. Look at what a $1000 sTRX40 board buys you and just laugh, "gamer" boards are ripping you off.)

Again, the precedent is the 5820K and the TR1900 series where these savings were passed on to the consumer - it is historically abnormal for HEDT to be such a huge reach compared to desktop chips, but AMD isn’t interested in pursuing low-end (actually they aren’t even interested in releasing Zen3 HEDT chips at all outside WRX80) and Intel has abandoned the segment entirely for now. Maybe Alder Lake-X will change the situation and force AMD to pay a little more attention, just as it has forced some of the ridiculous 5000 series price increases to be backed down.

Right now it is actually worth a strong look at Epyc server boards like ROMED8-2T and chips like the 7402P because if you don’t need the absolute clock rate of Threadripper the Epyc chips are often cheaper per-core while offering a better PCIe and memory capability. That’s completely opposite from how HEDT has always worked but AMD is pushing hard in the server segment and sandbagging in the HEDT segment and that flips the math in a lot of homelab or workstation situations.
Oh yeah, I've heard this so many times - JVM can optimize all that dynamism out. Except in cases when it can't or just won't.

The reality is, it is very far from free. Most Java developers are simply not aware of the real cost. Then they are surprised how the code gets 5x speedup and needs 20x less memory after rewriting it to Rust or C++.
The article is incorrect about the obsolescence of lighthouses. GPS is an adjunct to navaids and charting, particularly when near shore. Some small boats won't have a chart plotter. You don't want electrical problem to become a navigational issue also.
OT, but thanks for summarizing the article in one sentence. How I yearn back to the days where it was considered good form to use headlines as a summary instead of an invitation to click.
Also it’s not even Apple that takes it back. A third party does the trade in.
Or just `pv file > disk` ... and then pv will give you a progress bar automatically
Which are (a) not unique to serifed faces (the original Avant-Garde famously was full of discretionary ligatures) and not necessarily ideal for serifed faces. Many typefaces designed for Linotype hot metal look decidedly worse with ligatures than without because the f could not have any overhang so if you had something like fifty, the two fs looked bizarre in conjunction.

My go-to type for demonstrating this problem was Trump Mediaeval but sometime in the transition from Type 1 to Opentype, the type gnomes at Linotype saw the obvious issue here and replaced the ugly fi ligature with a logotype with fi without the ligature (the logotype existing more for the sake of documents which might have manually specified ﬁ rather than fi (I’m curious to see whether the difference is visible when this gets translated into its presentation form)).
Ah, I loved poolsuite but then they got the NFT brainworms. Most disappointing.
Vegetation tends to do pretty well at handling CO2.

Also, destroying the landscape to "save the climate" still ends with destroying the environment. Wind and solar aren't energy dense enough to justify the damage they cause.
Achieving a high level in this game requires thousands of hours of study. I did reach far in the ladder and could have gotten the actual pro title, albeit honorary like most westerners historically. Its just a time-sink with infinite competition.

I dont want to teach it to my daughter.
I think they’ll keep introducing new services and products. It’s actually in Apple’s best interest to venture into as many different services, products, and new revenue streams as humanly possible, so that Apple can continue growing. Stagnation will lead to unhappy shareholders…
Perhaps the productivity per capita is being mis-measured.
That's not always the case, and is a choice to still allow private hospitals or not and in what capacity.

In Quebec for example all hospitals are public and you can't have a private hospital.

In the rest of Canada, hospitals are required to be not-for-profit, though they are still private, you can't have a for-profit private hospital.
Agreed, the US healthcare system is a joke.

I’m a US citizen living abroad and my biggest fear is getting sick when I go home to visit family.
Did Thompson's draft ever see the light of day? Would love to read it.
There are breaking changes in the C api occasionally, so that can be a good reason to not upgrade. Sometimes an extension needs to use the unstable API.
A contradistinction: Traditional Queensland houses are built raised on stumps, first, because of floods and cooling airflow under (sub tropical)

When you can afford Air Conditioning, or have too many babies you build under.

So our pattern is build high first, fill in later. The one here is "build basement first, digging under the ground with a house on it, is a pain"

(also raised because termites: gumtree hard stumps treated with CCA can survive them, siding and framing wood less so. Modern build tends to be either a slab of concrete and single storey, or a mcMansion, or units)
If they don't spend time maintaining the infrastructure, then how do they know where they should be innovating?
> you turn a profit by borrowing money and buying a basket of assets, since their price will rise alongside inflation

That explanation doesnt make sense when the basket of assets has a expiration date and/or significant storage or maintenance costs.
It genuinely feels as if we are now beginning to watch the end of the world as we know it. In the coming years massive swaths of the world population will live in areas consistently above wet-bulb temperature. I predict in the next 10 years we will see heat waves resulting in deaths not in the hundreds but in the tens of thousands.
That would not test PHP installed correctly at all, just the webserver unless you run it from the console. The whole point was to test that the language is working correctly.
Solar won't work in Norway in the winter. Wind is too intermittent. So you need an alternative. I don't know if burning stuff and capturing CO2 is a good alternative.
For those not familiar, there is a "useless use of cat" (https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award) which I have a feeling this title is referring to
also, of you're problem is embarrassingly parallel, you can probably run it on a GPU and it's will be faster.
Civilization at scale is very difficult. It seems to have something in common with software. Naive ideological purity produces folksy, approachable solutions that fail to address just enough edge cases as to not function past a certain point.

The more I encounter scale, the more terrified I am of it. We don't seem to have any great answers. I spent my youth frustrated that the suits were going to complicate my elegant simplicity, that some series of meetings would pile on needless complexity, but the miserable truth is they aren't exactly wrong.

Sentences that begin with "Why don't we just-" are usually fatally shortsighted. Startups that appear to have finally cut through the burdensom red tape of the crusty establishment are doomed to become their parents: at scale, they start to do what they were fighting in the first place. Google looks like Google for a reason.

We love a fresh start, because we see in it the promise of a new take, someone applying the simplicity to a problem we intuitively feel is there, but sooner or later they must face the meat grinder of scale.

I hope it isn't true that processes must trend toward the absurd, that patently outlandish medical billing is the fate that awaits us all.
Easy to restore with two lines of CSS:

blink { animation: blink 1s steps(1, start) infinite; }
@keyframes blink { 50% { opacity: 0; }}
It starts with 2.1, so it misses quite a few changes.

If I recall correctly, 1.6 was when it started to get attention on mainstream with Zope and co.

Still, add the standard library changes as well, and there is plenty of inspiration for pub quizzes.
Sheckler has done bigger and many kids do more than 17ft drops for fun. When it comes to falling in street skating there is a certain pattern to falling and knowing how to “fall correctly” almost like stuntman do without helmets in movies all the time. Stuntman do sometimes wear padding, but not always.

Bombing a hill is very different from skating a stair set. The speed at which you do tricks is manageable to be able to tumble your body correctly if you fall (and you’re ready for that fall usually) but bombing a hill is an enormous amount of speed and you can’t prepare yourself for an unknown rock that throws you off.

That’s another somewhat important difference too with street skating, for big tricks you triple check the area and often sweep it because of those tiny rocks.

So context does matter. I’m not advocating against helmets but these are incredibly different things.

Edit: and fwiw I’ve hurt myself far more bombing hills than I have skating something like the big four in ATL. Notice how they fall: https://youtu.be/Ban0D24Aip4

(And the reason they aren’t making this trick is ironically they are not going quite fast enough)

Edit 2: and because I’m reminiscing a bit, the big four is hard because the run up is pretty short. You need good bearings and small wheels to gather the speed required. The only time I’ve ever seriously hurt myself in 15+ years of skating was doing a dumb trick in a standing position. Helmets are important for things like vert for sure where it’s lots of speed and lots of height, and if my kids and I go out and skate we wear helmets (they’re small and I want to set a good example). But most of street skating can be treated as though you’re a trained stuntman (because you basically are)
I think "don't make everything plugin-able" doesn't mean "Let's hard glue everything". And if change a single file can break half of unit tests. I think your test is bad at best. (Or there is only integration tests because you already hot glued them?)
Quote, emphasis mine: "Something similar to AliPay"
Yea. So maybe the french say Fray-nel but I have yet to meet an anglo who didn't say Fres-nell
lovingly referred to as "disk destroyer"
Once an EV battery's remaining capacity is too low to be practical (eg 30% of original), it can be removed (replaced) and used as an on-site / stationary battery. ...Its remaining capacity would likely still be a lot higher than a new battery intended for stationary residential use.
Hey there! I tried to google this but just found another one of your comments from a few months ago haha, any chance you could share some examples?
Honestly I probably would, but it would probably cost $100-$250 at minimum to prototype, and it seems rather difficult to find a company that would be interested in the design.

I assume gaming PCs are where you'd start?

I've never actually had a gaming desktop or anything similar, so I'm not sure what that market is like or if anyone would pay several hundred dollars for one, or if any of those companies would ever hire someone for that without a background in this stuff.

I'm mostly in embedded controls and prop building, and have lots of incidental experience with water handling and compressed air, but I've never done anything related to data centers or anything significant with desktops.
> Japan is the common counterexample.

That only provides a counter example to investing all your money into a single country. Unless you think every stock market in the world is going to do poorly, that's a reason to buy a globally diversified index fund (like VT), so even if American economic hegemony ends, you can pick up on growth of other countries.
Money, I would guess.
Your current link says "Credit card balances declined by $15 billion"
Not sure about this deal happening, but in the same space I feel like Nutanix is ripe for an acquisition— maybe even by Microsoft (or IBM who had a HW partnership with them at one point).

Hyper-V doesn’t really get used too much outside of the small enterprise, and Nutanix might give them the opportunity to branch out and really compete with VMware or even Cisco UCS with hyper-converged infrastructure etc.

Or VMware acquiring Nutanix I could also see.
This is basically the parable of "Grandma's Ham"

https://www.executiveforum.com/cutting-off-the-ends-of-the-h...

tl;dr nobody in 2 generations knows why they cut the ends off the ham before cooking it, until they talked to grandma, who said her pan was too small

A Unix thing that's been posted to HN for a decade, that's almost literally the same story:

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952

tl;dr /usr/bin is separate from /bin because someone had a small hard disk once