skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stringer found the HomePod dissatisfying because Apple treated it as a hobby, depriving it of the cross-division focus it lavished on core products, such as the iPhone and iPad.

I mean...yeah? iPod, iPhone and iPad are Apple's whole 21st century legacy. And most recently, arguably Apple Watch and EarPods.

They all have the same thing in common - they're wearables that you see on the person on the street.

Apple is a trillion dollar company (and not a skeleton in a graveyard of companies crushed by Microsoft in the 1990's that it almost was) because of iPhone and iPad.

Every other Apple product is a "hobby" by comparison, and that includes iMacs, and Macbook Pros.

You have to have your eyes open about the product you work on, and where it sits in the company hierarchy. Not everything is a core product, but that doesn't mean it's not important.
"government spending causes inflation is a pretty mainstream ideological precept - the opposite opinion is fringe."

Hoo boy.

"the current Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, has dismissed claims that the Fed’s money-printing is fueling today’s price spiral, emphasizing instead the disruptions associated with reopening the economy. Like his most recent predecessors, dating to Alan Greenspan, Powell says that financial innovations mean there no longer is a link between the amount of money circulating in the economy and rising prices"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/06/federal-r...

You're right that the idea government money printing doesn't cause inflation is fringe absurdity. Unfortunately the fringe that believes in it are central bankers.
Bias warning here - I am pretty pro-meditation.

I do think meditating and becoming comfortable with "nothing" is important to enjoying activities. If you can enjoy not just eg hiking but also the car ride to the hiking and packing your bag, then hiking as a whole has become enjoyable.
There's a couple of things not mentioned here.

Due to the more or less deflationary economy, Japanese wages have not increased for the better part of three decades. (Deflating prices mean that even with stagnant wages, you're still able to buy more.) Job hopping is unlikely to actually result in increased wages. (Inflation is now coming to Japan due to the general global inflation from the war in Ukraine, so that will be an interesting scenario to watch.)

Japan is a heavily reputation based society. In the way that US uses credit score to determine a lot of things, Japan uses this sort of reputation as a proxy to determine eligibility for many things. As a general example, finding in apartment in Japan requires a guarantor (essentially a cosigner who agrees to act as a fallback option in case you can't pay) and landlords want a Japanese national person or entity to do it most of the time. https://blog.gaijinpot.com/what-is-a-rental-guarantor/
Bitcoin is here to stay. You're mixing up shitcoins and other ponzi-like schemes.

As with any new & emerging technology, blockchain ecosystem hosts various (intentional or unintentional) FUD and malicious coins that are backed by nothing and often run in a ponzi scheme manner. These coins will eventually crash and disappear.

Bitcoin's intrinsic values are similar to other asset classes, plus, its also decentralized and censorship resistant.
It’s plausibly the collapse of the largest ponzi the world has ever known, by lrders of magnitude. Madoff was $60 billion. Crypto was $2.6 trillion at its peak.

This article itself doesn’t add much but having the ones with analysis pop up frequently seems valid. Very interesting to watch this in real time, as in 2008.

Ponzi doesn’t quite fit and my hope is some day crypto will be known as a Nakamoto Scheme.
Nasdaq is more than just an exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq,_Inc.
My thinking on it is: It'd better work, they're just trying to catch up to the state of the art. The bigger news would be if Lennox CAN'T make a COP 2 at 5F heat pump. :-
Was there a link on the web page pointing to the author? I must have overlooked it somehow.
Whole host of his videos are on Youtube, many hours worth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnH7cw0ql1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v74p0djZ_zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-bFr9qjDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T00zEt1-3VA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am9e2Gq1jt4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPKvT52ZUi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rE5YIyoc0

*Other videos*

- [Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney (Part 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA)
- [Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney (Part 2)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-a27xwcLfU)
- [Fred Dibnah How to climb a chimney overhang at 50+](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg)
- [Fred Dibnah How to erect a chimney scaffold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc)
- [Fred Dibnah Tribute (2004)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4_OSS5F7k)
Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (2017)
It doesn’t matter what it’s about though - if they were first at something then barring time travel they will always be the first, no matter how many more do it.
Most people who invested in a peak were "under water" a year later. That's what a peak means.
I'm in way over my head here, but in your painting example, the thief would steal the object, not the ownership proof. In the Ape case, the NFT is the owernship proof, so it's like the thief stole whatever document said you owned the painting. Since there's no 3rd party to verify that a legitimate transaction happened, the thief owns the Ape now.
It's a new paradigm. You just don't get it. You're too stupid to understand, and I'm sitting here with 1000% gains. This is the last chance to get on the train before $200000 BTC, and you're an idiot if you don't. This unlocks the true potential of mankind by freeing us from the evil fiat system. Stop being a wage slave, bitch. THAT'S the use of crypto. /s
>distinguish themselves from the low-status welfare recipients

That's literally the same concept as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Its all class warfare and the distinction you make is useless in the grand scheme
> They pointed to new products making specialized chargers obsolete (looking at you, 30-pin connector)…

And with that, I lost interest in this article.

For those interested, check out https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/30-pin_Connector: The 30-pin connector allowed both USB _and_ FireWire (which existed back then) charging & data, line-level audio output (better for sending into a stereo), and (for some models) video output. It also provided a serial interface for iPod querying and control. It allowed a car, for example, to query what was on the iPod, control it, and get audio back over line-level.

Calling out the 30-pin connector in this way is, in my opinion, a disservice to what needed to be supported at the time the 30-pin connector was introduced.
Agreed. Just electrify everything in the home, then while we still have natural gas then just use it for electricity generation. Natural gas's only benefit is that it is currently cheap, when that stops being true, then it is just worse than electricity across the board.

The great thing about electricity is that it scales REALLY well with new generation and distribution technologies.
You are probably a well paid engineer or similar. Your experience is valid, but not the most common one.
Ghost Giant.

Not many games have made me cry, but that one managed it.
I wonder how exactly Steve managed Ive, getting his best out of him without ... going full Ive ;)
You could have captured more of the inflation in fuel prices by saying "If Biden had not campaigned on stopping US oil production"...
My take is that only a civilization advanced enough to program their own genome at will would be truly moral. Natural genomes have grown out of a ruthless fight for resources, and we can't truly educate out our natural tendencies.

Maybe also any civilization that evolved in an environment where there wasn't competition for resources, but that would likely stall evolution because there is no genetic arms race. I doubt such environment exists anyway, reproduction means competition for resources.
I have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro and it's quite nice. Wish they could have squeezed a USB-A in there for travel but otherwise it's pretty perfect. And the recently announced MacBook Air I assume is nice if you want something a bit lighter--although the MacBook Pro is still a pretty light and svelte laptop by historical standards.
I think not really and outback Australia in my mind is not bad - you have to struggle some but you still might survive. Snakes, dingoes will be mostly afraid of people if you put up a fire in the night wild creatures will leave you be. There is heat during the day that does not care and can burn you badly, but if you stay in shade and take enough water it might be still quite ok.

But space in my mind is H. P. Lovecraft horror - it is empty but there are these unknown unknowns that don't care about what you are - they will just kill you without even noticing you were alive. Micro meteors, Van Allen radiation belts, random radiation like cosmic rays without atmosphere protection, exposure to the sun without atmosphere protection. It is not just some equipment, people can stay at ISS because there is loads of tech deployed to keep them safe.
Fair. I use it as an example of uncontroversially bad design, and his most infamous mistake being ages ago does count in his favour (even if the dead cockroach charging mechanism of the modern mouse is also his), even though I chose that example in part because people argue both ways about his more recent design choices. Myself, I do not like any design choice I’ve heard attributed to him, but that’s not enough by itself either.
Always wondered if Elixir loses anything by doing binary strings by default. Is there any problem-domain where it benefits you to have charlists over binary strings? (Lexing, maybe? I know leex expects its input to be a charlist, but I'm not sure whether that's just legacy of being developed before Erlang R5 when binaries were introduced.)
That for me explains the Fermi Paradox. Yes there a gazillion of stars and planets out there, but there’s also a lot of things that could go pop and sterilize everything tens or even hundreds of light years away.
This completely neglects the supply side of money and only views the demand side. There are two levers in a central bank, in reality there should be 0.
I must be dreaming then, using my M1 Mac with two external 4K displays and the internal display.
Fyi you need a fully blank line to separate text into a new paragraph.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
So you're saying crypto is not good for anonymity, privacy, decentralization?
Kind of a shame, ducted heating has a lot of issues, but is the best for retrofit I guess.
Any article on inflation that leaves off consumer expectations of inflation as a source of it isn't really serious about the topic.
Yes, if you dehumanize human creativity to "just a series of associative, impulsive reactions to stimuli", then computers can think and GPT-3 is sentient.

> …it's not anthropomorphism to say robots walk just because humans also walk.

But it is to say that robots "do improv". Could GPT-3 mimic something that looks like improv by remixing an enormous corpus of human-created improv? Certainly not well, as we've all seen in non-cherry-picked GPT-3 output.
Nothing wrong with Bitcoin itself but the rampant speculation is what draws the proponents and critics alike.

If Bitcoin just worked like a peer-to-peer neutral currency and had no speculative element, most people would have no issue with it.

The annoying element is when it is used as a get-rich quick pyramid scheme.
Maybe you are an elite misinterpreting public opinion. The article is just about it.
Exactly. It's cut as a verb (to reduce) versus cut as a noun (the share of the total). In this case, I think the sentence structure has it as a noun, even if the author was thinking of the verb sense of the word.
No.

Recession for me period, when gdp grow is less than measurement error.

Usually macro-statistics measurement error considered ~3-5% (more probability of 3%, less of 5%), so if measured gdp grow 2.9% it could be really 0% or even minus 0.1%, this is definitely recession.

Sure if gdp grow measured as negative, like -20% in some countries in 2020, that is, undoubtedly.

Inflation is in reality, postponed alignment of offer and proposal.

Usually happen AFTER market changes, because, on really free market, impossible to increase prices immediately, as customers will avoid buy with new prices.

Second reason, that most commodities sell with long term agreements, which prohibited immediately price changes, (accepted for example once per year change price, but before must give some serious reasons), and typically exists long chain of such agreements (tens of), so real price grow always postponed.

Only in events of really big catastrophes, like war or pandemic, chain of supply become broken, and new prices appear immediately.

If you looking for reliable indirect signs, good are consumption of gas (or natural fuels) and electricity, usually they measured very accurate and for known technology level, exists constants for exact calculation.
If your data is represented as sparse vectors, that sparse representation is already compressed. You wouldn’t want to decompress it to a dense representation just to apply a different, less effective, lossy compression algorithm. That would be like taking a screenshot of a paragraph of text so you can post a JPEG of it to Twitter.

Oh, wait.
> he’s just on the other side of the culture war divide now (I.e the Republican side) so he’s now considered shameful in many parts.

That's a defensive projection from both Musk and Republicans to incite his "new side" to arms and protect him implicitly from any criticism whether it's about labour rights or sexual harassment.

Maybe it's 4D chess to get the Cybertruck to be popular with the right wing.

But for most of us who are progressive and environmental, we have been pushing back against his ego and authoritarianism for years - worried that he is sabotaging his stated cause more than he is helping it.

For me the last straw was The Boring Company. I was still All In on Musk as a real-life Tony Stark who would make humanity interplanetary and solve the computer-brain barrier all the way up to Neuralink. Even Hyperloop seemed compelling if he could execute on it and seemed like it might be a clever hack to work around American resistance to high-speed rail.

The Boring Company revealed to me the self-aggrandizing fraud that he is.
I've been toying with the idea of setting aside some time to learn Nim. I'm really excited about the goals and philosophy of Nim, but I'll have to spend some time getting my hand dirty to even know enough to have an opinion on it. This looks like a fun project to play with once I get the basics down.
Oh, I certainly agree with this.

I guess what I meant to express is that, I think most people are roughly aware of these things as explaining the spec-cost gap. I thought there might have been something more? (My own experience is lacking-- I haven't used Apple laptops for more than a few weeks at a time, and I haven't used any of the recent M1 laptops.)
If nothing else, everything is diamagnetic if the field is strong enough. The effect is usually just too weak to worry about.

Though I don't think this is exactly why, might be related.
"Old alien yells at galaxy".
No they don't. Just because you don't pay for an input (outside air/the ground/a body of water) doesn't mean it isn't an input.
In the case of HN, it’s explicitly against submission guidelines and frowned upon.
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America
It was a response to a comment, not the OP.

There is nothing "bad" about submodules. They do what they were intended to do very well. They are often misused because people don't take the time to understand how things work (event at a conceptual level) before diving into it.

I've found submodules most useful when I'm tracking an external dependency that doesn't change often -and- I don't have a dependency management system to lean on.

For example, I have a repository of 100+ various bash utility scripts. One of the scripts depends on another repository with 500MB of data. I don't use it often so I don't need that large repo cloned alongside my bash scripts every time. In this case:

1) The dependency doesn't change often and I like being deliberate when using a new version of that dependency.

2) The dependency is optional and can simply be ignored when using Git's default clone behavior for my repo.

3) Since it's just a bunch of bash scripts, I don't have a package management system to lean on. I use these scripts on multiple *nix distributions.

Could I make it work without Git submodules? Yes. I would have added the dependency to .gitignore and wrote a script to `git clone` the dependency and set it to a specific revision. Submodules just makes that process a lot easier.
You do not have to remove the battery to disconnect it - the battery plugs in to the motherboard, and can be unplugged with a gentle tug. The battery itself can remain in-situ.
THis sounds and looks impressive, but this part struck me:

"If you ... and can tolerate lossy compression"

What does this mean? I wouldn't have thought that matrix operations can be lossy. Does anybody know to what extend they are lossy and where this would be acceptable?
Its evidenced by many comments here. People are well off and the system has worked for them so we see the attitude of "it's working for me, fuck everyone else who didn't work the way I did or wasn't born into the right circumstances"
I’d rather cook on a gas hob than an electric one at the moment
Ah, interesting. I just did a cursory Google search for the author of the quote and it said Mark Twain. Guess someone should file a bug for their knowledge graph team.
Energy input in the form of compressor work. It's not even remotely similar to Maxwell's Demon.
Which is closer to how it should be taught.

The factorial example is trivial and too familiar. It's easy for students to think "Oh, I know that" when in fact they don't get it at all.

Recursive operations on data structures are more likely to be unfamiliar. And you need something unfamiliar to demonstrate the point and also illustrate how it's likely to be used in practice.
Design Systems Repo - A frequently updated collection of Design System examples, articles, tools and talks

https://designsystemsrepo.com/

Awesome Design Systems

https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems
> Flandro calculated that the repeated gravity assists, as they are called, would cut the flight time between Earth and Neptune from 30 years to 12. There was just one catch: the alignment happened only once every 176 years. To reach the planets while the lineup lasted, a spacecraft would have to be launched by the mid-1970s.

How many of such startling discoveries get noticed by bureaucracy/administration nowadays? Back then, it seems ideas percolated to execution stage pretty fast. I wonder if a part-time working grad student's serendipitous finds will be taken seriously to action in today's environment.
I wonder why ducted systems were part of the requirements, is it because it's just aimed at the USA and then mostly at adoptability for existing systems (which seems to be ducted mostly)? I only have anecdotal experience and no numbers to back that up, but it's the only reason I can come up with that would put such a restriction in place.

I'd say rip the ducts out and just use split systems but I imagine other people have thought about that and figured it's not the best way to go. (or at last not in the US)
I can see these types of fractals when I wake up early in the dark and turn on a bright light followed by pressure to the eye.

It’s essentially some type of coordinate system built into us for understanding physical aspects of the world around us (depth, size, etc.)
Though at that point a network attack becomes very feasible. There will be a lot of asics for sale….
At this point of history I doubt anyone would think humanity would be benevolent in a first contact. Humans are bastards and the only things that contains us are other bastards. We have both angels and demons inside.
The TV series The Good Place had a really good take on this, by the final season. Worth a watch for the philosophy lessons.
pop up frequently seems valid

It's not HN-valid on a daily, never mind hourly basis which is where we're at. That's just how the site functions and maintains its own interestingness, irrespective of the interestingness of any individual topic or article.
I think the main effect was that the industry was assured that no matter how big the talk was, or how elaborate the ritual was, antitrust would never be seriously applied to software.
“~14-17%. This is too high for a platform essentially only acting as a middle manager for supporting recurring payments.”

Patreon is not just asking this fee, because it’s middle men for recurring payments. If that was the case, you could use Stripe for your payment. You could easily cut these fees by providing donors a stripe link.

I guess the writer wouldn’t do that, because there is value in the donation platform.

Argumentation is not grounded.

If we compare the case with Between Epic games and Apple, where Apple was forcing high % for literally payments which could be done much cheaper at any other payment provider.
I really appreciate the advice. I'll check it out.
I think his presidency is stained by the impossible geopolitical and economic environment of his era.
This is such a useful comment, especially about ages.

I would bet a higher percentage of people under 21 today are still in school, vs 100 years ago. School is not leisure time, but comes with leisure time.

And on the old end, Social Security and Medicare are probably allowing a higher percentage of people over 65 to enjoy a full retirement, vs 100 years ago.
That's the entirety of git. Extremely fast. Bummer UI. It's status quo and no changing. Despite using git for 10+ years, I frequently have to look up commands and then I end up scratching my head as to why the CLI UI is like that.
"Later the woman said, that Assange's action has not been a crime for her and that she has "long forgiven" Assange."

And also from [2] below:

"...one of the two women, who was simply accompanied by the other, was horrified when the police before her eyes began to draw up a rape report from her statements. She, as she pointed out on several occasions, had sexual relations with Assange on a totally consensual basis, and only contacted the authorities to find out whether it would be possible to force him to take an AIDS test. As soon as she realized that the police were starting to do something completely different, she interrupted the interrogation in a state of shock and left the room. However, only a few hours later, the headline appeared in large letters in the Swedish tabloid press: Julian Assange was accused of double rape..."

[2] "How Swedish authorities invented the rape charge against Julian Assange": https://www.pressenza.com/2020/03/how-swedish-authorities-in...
> There's got to be a flaw in this idea

The flaw is that we need to stop using fossil fuels now in order to meet Paris targets.

Natural gas in particular is an issue because demand is increasing globally whilst large suppliers i.e. Russia, Australia for many reasons are not able to meet it. Which is pushing up prices and increasing unreliability over the short, medium and long term.

Now is the best time to bite the bullet and transition to a decarbonised world.
Any suggestions for good lower cost pens?
It is different, it’s bitcoin’s first recession. The “ultrahard” currency has always depended on cheap money to grow, especially from Tether
From what I can tell, this is a machine learning based approximation to matrix multiplication by a particular matrix (which it was trained on). It trades accuracy for speed. If you need to multiply many (many!) vectors by a static matrix and you have loose enough error tolerance, this can provide up to 100x speedup.