skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, these markets in Shenzhen seem to offer different stories. Youtube is full of those, you can replace/upgrade displays, memory, storage of your phone or even assemble your own.

And in my country you have these little shops as well, where you pay a premium, but you dont have to buy a new phone.

So, unless you really want to fix something very integrated, i am rather positive about the situation.

And from my own history, mainboard was never really a problem, it was always something attached or plugged or solded onto it.
What solar/wind displaces varies a lot by location. Coal is used much more than gas. According to https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by... the top 3 are coal, gas, hydro.

For places with hydro it's effectively energy storage for wind/solar.
No practical ones, not by a long stretch. It’s not clear at all if and when there will be ones achieving any measure of quantum supremacy.
We put our kid into daycare around 7 months old. Obviously every kid is different, but we're happy we chose that time. Around 7 months, our child had developed an understanding that we leave and come back, but was still young enough that separation anxiety wasn't a problem. The kids who start daycare at 1 or 2 seem to really struggle. She does get sick all the time, but it's becoming less frequent over time. It's annoying at the time, but her immune system is getting stronger and that is a good thing in the long term.
> human extinction and the mere collapse of our civilization

How do you imagine human extinction being an outcome? It seems to me that the worst case scenario is large loss of population which would decrease greenhouse gas output. There would still be some increase in temperature even once we stop emitting, but wouldn't people in colder climates still survive?
The gym, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this Smith machine is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has ventured here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple...
Wouldn’t you say that “understanding what your doing” applies a little more to C/C++ than many other languages/tools/etc? Both Microsoft[0] and Google[1] have established that ~70% of the defects they encounter in their flagship products and systems are memory-related, and generally attributed to the “dangers” of the underlying language: C++

It seems significant that, given that the individuals working on these projects are professionals, experts by some definition, they too are encountering issues related to the sharp edges of these languages. Issues that have wide ranging implications.

In light of that, doesn’t saying that “understanding what you’re doing” is all it takes to productively and safely use a language like C/C++ seem simplistic? Even the experts are getting it wrong.

I took a couple C++ classes in college. I’ve worked on both desktop and backend C++ systems in both C++98 and ‘11. It can be a difficult language, it has more than its share of footguns, it definitely helped me appreciate other languages that don’t have similar issues.

[0] https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
COVID has proved to be quite low on the list of things that kill kids

The leading causes of child mortality are accidents, homicide, suicide, cancer and congenital diseases. Children are not supposed to die, we are trying to control these factors, they won't let you take your newborn home from the hospital unless you show them car seat. There is law enforcement, counseling for parents and children, genetic counseling and all that.

But when it comes to COVID we are told not to worry, the risk is low. It doesn't make sense.
I won't get it at all. I don't leave my house. It's bullshit like this that is keeping me from leaving my house. I'm vaccinated and boosted but ffs stop normalizing this attitude of we're all going to get it.
https://xkcd.com/2557/
I mean, you're both assuming you know the local education systems of the author, and Microsoft is still very much taught in plenty of schools, and also... Chrome/Docs has the same problems, but even worse.
Not a professional here - by my own standart at least - however I also program in C++ for a living (among other languages).

Definitely Stockholm-Syndrom in my case. Was the first language in which I was forced to work on some larger codebase. Since then I can't take the complexity of any other object-oriented language serious. All of them are basically a subset of C++.
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I can counter you anecdote with one of my own. I go the gym a lot. I rarely get sick. I kept going to the gym when the state allowed it to be open during the pandemic and still never got sick. Telling people to skip the gym to prevent contracting the flu might be some of the worst health advice there is given heart disease is the number one cause of death. Severe covid correlates strongly with obesity too. There was a substantial jump in obesity rates during the pandemic from people sitting around inside. Personally I think gym's are overrated in spreading disease. Almost nobody goes to the gym when they are still feeling sick.
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This is putting a lot of blame on the user, who likely has no clue how emacs i/o behaves.

> if you're experiencing I/O hangs, it's either misconfiguration or bad code in a package that you loaded

I mean...yes. That's the issue. The issue is that it's possible to have i/o hangs caused by misconfiguration or elisp packages.

The solution isn't to tell the user to do something different, it's to make it so that elisp execution can't cause i/o hangs.

edit: to a be a bit more precise with language: "i/o hang" should be interpreted as "making the UI unresponsive or preventing other tasks from completing".
I agree with you re: why slides are a terrible way to convey information, but in this case each slide has a page-long summary with their talking points. If you care to read, it's almost like being in the room with them.
I take you point in part (justice is the stronger version) but fairness as you describe only occurs in social animals which actually do have a more complex definition of fairness than simple equality. Chimp ‘morals’ would include the notion that high status individuals “deserve more” - which I think is simple moralising which goes beyond equality
Hum... TFA looks quite well researched to me.

For sure, it's badly written, and lazily formatted. It does extrapolate quite a bit from the data it gathers, and has no undisputable evidence. But then, it's way too much to expect some small private group to do elaborate reports and gather evidence suitable for a criminal court.

If you catch them being wrong, that would be enough of an issue to discredit them. But none of the above is.
No opinion on the quality of Scorpion Capital's research but of course they would short before they publish their negative research. Why wouldn't they?
I feel like this article didn't age so well.

It was written at the end of a decade long hype cycle when a lot of old ideas got replaced by new ones. A bunch of these new ideas (eg mongodb) went out of vogue, but a whole bunch simply got better and established.

At the same time, a lot of previously boring technology caught up, so we now got to the point where formerly non-boring technology got more stable and established, and boring technology got, eh, less boring.

Eg Java severely un-sucked itself as a language. And if you still don't like it, you can use Kotlin and still get a fantastic ecosystem, tooling, etc etc skipping all the reasons to choose boring tech. Postgres got all kinds of fancy new features, including indexable jsonb which lets it compete with lots of NoSQL DBs. And so on, and so forth.

On the non-boring side, Go, Elixir, Rust, Redis all became stable, dependable technology choices that really aren't at all as risky as they used to be in 2015. Is Java more boring than Elixir? Sure, but is the Elixir ecosystem so tiny that picking it is a major risk? Definitely not.

The gap between what used to be boring and not narrowed a lot. Of course there's still new non-boring tech, but somehow it all feels a bit less paradigm changing to me. Eg React turned front-end dev upside down. Vue and Svelte just iterate on its ideas a bit.

Sure there's still some good ideas here. Maybe think twice before building a web app in 100% Rust, wasm-compiled on the frontend to a webgl based custom UI. But I don't think that's the kind of way-out-there stuff the authors of this article had in mind.
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Correct. The creator describes it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31555374
> Photoshop. Illustrator. Why are these the first applications used for image editing and creation?

Because they're bloody good (well, Photoshop is). And Gimp isn't.

> Coding IDE (optional) ===> vim

That's not out of touch, that's beyond the pale.
I was in the same spot when I met this brilliant hardware hacker at this hackerspace who had no formal EE degree but could design circuits in his sleep.

"How do you do it?"

"I read data sheets and a lot of wikipedia".

I already spend tons of time on wiki, so I started reading data sheets. And he was absolutely right, datasheets for components are often chock full of information on how to use them, often with recipe books for circuits that use them.

It's kinda bland and tedious but highly informative.

I think there is a bit more that goes into that (in particular a willingness to fry stuff, that's unavoidable in hardware, and MOUNTAINS of patience), but like software, it's pretty easy in today's day and age to teach yourself hardware stuff.
Declining mediums are great for adding niche features because the people still buying them are enthusiasts who will tolerate higher prices, thus you can add features like this to increase the appeal.
True; but those other useful applications of quantum computers are much messier to define and qualify, so factoring is still the ideal application for setting a milestone to be achieved.
> James, the Co-Founder and CTO of Heroku, coined the term 12 factor app

That would be Adam Wiggins, not James Lindenbaum, who published the 12 Factor App :) I know this because I was there when it happened, but also if you check the bottom of the 12 Factor website it’s quite clear:

> Written by Adam Wiggins

Also, this is not at all accurate:

> GitHub (formerly hosted on Heroku)

GitHub used Heroku for some stuff back then (like their original status site) but they absolutely never ran the core of GitHub on Heroku.
It’s nice to submit to call of civilizational collapse every once in a while, but it’s not a realistic view. Yes, climate change is going to affect billions of people, but from what I can tell, things are moving in the right direction and we’re on track to avoid the worst even with barely any political action.

If it was suddenly 2050 and none of our technology had improved, we’d be fucked. But it’s not a useful perspective to assume that technological progression will stop. Solar panels have dropped in price by literal orders of magnitude. It seems like nuclear is coming back into vogue. Space-based power seems like it might be economically viable in a few decades, even.
In the US this may be true. It’s certainly not in Europe. 80%+ of tax take is spent on health and social benefits here which are broadly approved of by the population…
Given the extremely suspect numbers here, your friend should assume they are receiving $0 in equity.
This. I wish more polls had an importance/salience correction factor applied. It would significantly tilt most polls.
> Aren't every compiler or interpreter self-hosted, because they run on your own machine?

Self-hosting in this context means that the compiler is its own toolchain, it doesn't rely on another compiler to create its executable.

That said, nearly all compilers need some other compiler to bootstrap to self-hosting status, though there are projects that aim to minimize that chicken-and-egg issue. More pointers here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)
But isn't in the HN investor types that push startups to do things exactly like this to monetize quicker so they can get their ROI sooner?

Startup: We have a product/service that we can offer that will make money.

Investor: If you collect/sell data, sell ads, etc, you can make more money.

Startup: We don't want to go down that path.

Investor: I want my money NOW!
The article seems to be using an inaccurate visualisation of a model (RCP8.5) which is now 'no longer plausible'[0].

RCP8.5 was considered the 'worst-case' scenario and projected 3.3 to 5.7 in 2100, not 2050 as the graphic shows.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51281986
if they want to care for an child, they can adopt one.
> Chrome/Docs has the same problems, but even worse

Well exactly - if you want to tackle this ‘problem’ then first you have to understand why LibreOffice isn’t a replacement (because you need to replace Google Docs not Word.)
I managed my dotfiles across many distros using a bare multi-branch Git repo. But eventually it became a chore to share snippets among them. Chezmoi is little thin utility wrapper over Git that handles this usecase beautifully. I switched to Chezmoi over the weekend and just shudder to the thought of how much time I could have saved had I found it earlier.
Apologies on the easy to misinterpret post. The "they" at the end was the parents, not the kids.
> Efforts aimed at reviving U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and strengthening technology supply chains advanced this week with the introduction of a catch-all bill that funds “surge production” of U.S.-made chips while investing in broad-based technology R&D.

There's a ton of Superfund[0] sites in Silicon Valley[1]. What's the current situation re. semiconductor manufacturing and toxic waste?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

[1] "The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...
>It is not just expensive, in fact it is not that expensive for a full startup kit, thank you China.

It is amazing how much more accessible it is these days. An oscilloscope or signal generator (even a used one) in the 80's and 90's, was a lot of money. There's also a lot of multi-purpose test equipment now.
Thank you, I didn't know about this. I'll have a read but at first sight I wonder if this Event Recorder couldn't just work offline like an airplane's black box; would that just be super expensive?

My car recording what happens for accidents doesn't sound awful. It could even record my last 30 minutes of locations, all you would need to analyze a crash.

It recording my locations long-term, and specially sending them somewhere, sucks.
This is the problem with "analysis" on stablecoins. He dreams up a 'potential stablecoin', inherently designs it with flaws and says all algorithmic stablecoins will fail without contiinuous funding.

The sky is the limit with Algorithmic stablecoins and you can't throw the baby out with the bath water. All this is simply not true in every case.

Imagine a stablecoin over-collateralized with interest bearing crypto (basket of POS coins) and certified tokenized REITS, synthetic S&P, commodity futures, etc.
As far as I know most industries other than the software industry uses Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator etc and not any of these open source ones.

> IT departments could opt to use any one of the lightweight Linux distros available.

Which one? That is the problem and don't get me started on tech support.

This screams completely out of touch.
The drake equation handle nothing, because all parameters are pure speculation
Part of the problem is that all of our depth in political support gets black-holed into advertising for simple polarizing issues like abortion, guns, and high vs. low taxes. This gets largely negated by the other side advertising for the opposite position, so in the end very little gets done.
And that's an entirely reasonable stance that as far as I can tell is the consensus among climate researchers. But it logically implies that the narrative of climate apocalypse is not true - that nature is capable of self-balancing within the parameters industrial civilization throws at it, and that our current climate trajectory is mild enough that it's not worth pursuing some potential solutions if their side effects look too serious.
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They read the financial prospectus, the website and scientific papers, news articles, and watched some videos, and interviewed some ex-employees.

It's a lot more due diligence than most investors. (e.g. consider r/wallstreetbets)
'Amazon Fresh' in the UK have no scanning. They use cameras and AI to see what you pick up and you just walk out. You still have to scan your app when you walk in - face recognition would complete the experience.
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Supporting your point: I sometimes upvote submissions because I want to see more discussion on them, for my own educational benefit.

Really, a rational upvoter will upvote for the purpose of giving the submission higher visibility, to either promote awareness of the topic or of the existing discussion, or to engender more discussion. Neither reason necessarily correlates with agreement or understanding of the topic.
The author doesn't even bother making a case for what these "problems" might be.
Repairability is great but it does often come at the cost of efficiency. I found this to be the case with my washer. You can end up spending so much extra on electricity that you could have replaced the washer anyway.

This was also the case with my subcompact car. It needed a $400 repair but the entire powertrain is integrated so you have to spend $4000 in labor disassembling and reassembling it.
If you believe they are taking positions in their research, and you believe they're as accurate as a stuck clock, how is it you explain that they're still in business?

I see comments like this in any discussion involving short sellers, and I've not been given any reason to believe it is more than sour grapes. But my mind is open to it.
Thanks :) Sorry about the mixup there.
> if the chance of being rewarded with a "cushy" job after leaving office is so compelling then why are so few people interested in becoming politicians?

Becoming a politician is a bit like becoming a musician: Spend the best years of your life 'putting your time in' with a 98% chance you'll never make it big. Only the 2% that made it big get offered those $500k/year sinecures.

If you're already in the powerful 2% you've probably already compromised on your principles many times to get there, so the $500k/year for compromising them a little more is practically free money.

If you're entering politics, though? As you've only got a 2% chance of making the $500k, the expected value is only $10k. Not much of a motivation.
Yep. For anyone curious to learn more, here’s a good summary of this energy technology transition: https://www.tsungxu.com/clean-energy-transition-guide/
I tend to agree, I don't think we have a good grasp on what life will be like in 50 years let alone 1000 or 10,000. My personal guesses are that we will continue to make improvements in efficiency and so will produce very little leakage of communications or even heat making us nearly invisible over vast distances. Sociologically, I think we'll be very different; population growth may approach 0 while lifespan increases dramatically so we'll continue to explore the universe but will do so remotely since we just won't have the numbers to physically colonize other star systems. Even the timescale on which we live may change drastically, perception of time isn't even fixed when it comes to biology there are other species that have much faster or slower perception of time and once we being to modify our biology and augment it by integrating with digital systems we'll be able to control that sense. Who can predict what other technological advances are on the horizon, for all we know alien probes or other technology could be as small as bacteria and might just be distributed through space as vast networks of dust clouds that harvest ambient chemical and solar energy and have transmission ranges measured in micrometers. How would we even detect such technology without physically going there and examining it up close?
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> The majority of those immigrants are likely from other European countries with similar cultures and backgrounds.

Nope. Please stop guessing. Only 35.4% were born in Europe. It's no wonder you come to your terrible conclusions if you just make things up and don't bother to look up trivial facts.

> If you take in too many immigrants you'll just destabilize Switzerland

This is just racism.

> Switzerland

Why should anyone listen to your racism when you're confounding Sweden and Switzerland when it's written right in front of your face?
> Apparently such things have value to some people, mostly businesses.

It was more valuable when we didn't have smartphones or couldn't just look up any number online at any time. There was an advantage in having an easy to remember number that didn't require people to look in the yellow pages.

Yes, I was there 3000 years ago.
>I didn't suggest that angular velocity is the same as linear velocity, I asked how you were interpreting the area and velocity, and parenthetically observed that the angular velocity was constant.

If you make tangential observations the conversation may move tangentially.

>You say that the area is impactful - what do you understand it as meaning?

It's a visualisation, i.e. the visuals are meant to contain the meaning, and said visuals are important and need to be carefully considered. Areas of 2D shapes tend to represent some kind of quantity, where the area is proportional to the quantity (and if the area was quadratically related to the quantity that would be misleading or inaccurate).

>Surely you can agree that if the largest anomaly shown was 0.01 C then the graph would have far less impact, and if it was 100 C then the graph would have far more impact?

The point is about the meaning of the choice of visualisation and the choice of data and context provided. That's why I compare with 0.01C, because to the layman 2C and 0.01C are both not significant, but the actual environmental impact of the 2C could be very much more significant with more context. You don't need to be very informed to know 100C is significant.
Stop taking SSRI's? https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-evidence-for-an...

Start carrying weapons more generally. https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-police-shooting...
OP clearly means they raised around a $100b valuation.
Leerob, why hasn't vercel shipped postgresql db's with connection pooling built in?

I know you have the marketplace and I could connect to PlanetScale... but I don't really want to. Why should I have to switch to MySQL from PostgreSQL?

Or even a better question: why can't I use a single host provider for my whole app?
This is dreadfully out of touch and only serves the interests of FOSS advocates, not the students. Give kids the tools that will make them successful in their educational and professional careers. Nobody is using GIMP in the graphic design world.
> Maybe they make new recipes on a regular basis, so they're doing it once per recipe but still fairly often.

Then memorize the conversions. It’s not that hard. Or you know, plan ahead and convert before cooking. Or simply just own up to the fact that the only reason an Alexa is a “insane QOL improvement” for this use case is SOLELY because you’ve rationalized it as such. This horse is now more than sufficiently beaten, so I’m backing away.