skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But China already bans tons of American services from Google to Twitter, no? And otherwise makes the regulatory burden so incredibly onerous it's very difficult to operate (e.g. LinkedIn) for some tech companies when they want to build up domestic champions
Traffic projections were “over-optimistic” is the anti-bridge argument that could have swayed me the most. I’ve always been struck by the contrast in population density north and south of the Golden Gate. Perhaps because Marin is more mountainous than the mildly hilly San Francisco?
Even if it was a link for a specific version, I'd still post it as arxiv's landing page isn't designed for those who need to jump to the content right away. It's extremely cluttered and hard to navigate. I couldn't care less if the PDF got some arbitrary fixes in an unknown future. That'd be arxiv's problem.
> why should we listen to their takes on things unrelated to their activities more than the average person?

Also applies to HN :-)
I always thought it was funny that Zilog kept adding zeroes to make new products. There's the Z80, the Z800, the Z8000, and the Z80000.
> My question is why hasn't anyone come along and fixed it?

There's been dozens of "replacements"/frontends/guis for git, off the top of my head: gitless, magit, tortoise git, gitkraken. Heres a whole mess of em: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,...

> My second question is, if the underlying model is so f*cking elegant, how did it lead to such a confusing interface?

I think this is 66% because the operations are on the tree/nodes themselves, and not like, on "versions", branches, or some other skeumorphic abstraction. It's very bare metal. If you know how the command operates on the tree, you know how to conduct the actual action desired. I think the rest is due to cruft/familiarity - once you build that mental model, it works extremely well. So it's vi-like with a steep learning curve and arcane interface, but once you "git good", it's phenomenally productive.
>We could have switched most of the planet to pure nuclear energy decades ago.

Fission isn't Fusion. You can't run the entire planet on nuclear power.
Why isn't it possible with spaces?

If an application is capable of rendering a tab as say N px of white space why can't it render 2 spaces as N px of white space?
Something I found out about moving to California from Texas where I had a ferret. You could still buy ferret food in California, even though they are banned. The ferret sadly passed away before I moved, or even planned to move.
It would bring global climate catastrophe that much closer.

And, the moment you stop, things get much worse much faster.
No, that’s really just picking out the bad apples in the face of undeniable statistics. I could do the same for the US now but then we’d end up with almost the whole apple tree

I’m also not saying that we don’t have problems in Europe either, but they are not structural and by default
Combined with a system like [0] on a head-mounted device with earbuds, it could make many card games accessible to blind and partially sighted people! No idea if this prototype was ever put into production though.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0biAdmuons
I really miss the -F series cores with integrated OmniPath. It was such a minor additional cost, a great option to have. Discontinued 2019[1], last seen on Skylake Xeons[2] from July 2017. I don't know how what % of deploys used optical, but being able to forgo dedicated nic seems so imminently sensible to me.

Hoping we see a return to this idea. Not just for networking either. With PCIe 7.0 and CXL on the horizon, I'd love for motherboards to shrink radically in size, stop being backplanes, & just expose some ports. Another commenter in a PCIe 7.0 thread noted that cables are often better signal integrity than motherboards, owing to their excellent shielding[3]. Having a core designed to expose fabric, rather than local signals, would be awesome.

If Intel really can pull off packaging the photonics too on a chiplet, that could absolutely change the game.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-omni-path-200-fabric...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Sk...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31917010
Show me a single project where the decision either way has made any difference to the outcome. Stop wasting time discussing it.
didn't they already liquidate weeks ago? Anyway, good luck recovering
Just pushed an update that limits width to 1000px, appreciate the suggestion. Took longer than it should have because my CSS is shitty :P
not to be confused with west new york, which confusingly enough, is in new jersey
Watch any UFC match, then extrapolate that to the death.
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” - General Óscar Benavides
It's amazing to me how quickly Tesla (especially Musk) has been able to burn its reputation to the ground.

I remember a few years ago, it was one of the most desirable cars and places to work. Now I talk to people who are trying to avoid sending any more money Musk's way or work for such an employee-hostile company.

The quality and customer service issues have also started to leak out into mainstream consciousness too, which I think is ultimately going to kill them when they have to compete with Japanese and some American car companies at every price point.
One of the main claimed benefits is that this is easily reversible, if it goes badly.
Point taken; I think that you are correct that things vary significantly based on the overall size and shape of the org.

Poor management can contribute significantly to OpEx. Compared to ICs, managers have a disproportionate ability to destroy value. Of course, even that is not unlimited. It is true that companies often succeed in spite of managerial issues, but it is only to a point. Once certain lines are crossed from the legal or HR side, the potential collateral damage compared to the average value add can be massive.

With that said, I don't disagree with you that in large enough companies, managers have to do a lot to compromise the success of a company. In practice, there is often enough vertical pressure from and sideways pressures from competing fiefdoms to prevent a single rogue manager from going hog wild. And from the other end, so long as managers are adding (or able to sell the perception of adding) just enough efficiency to the overall organization to support their paycheck, it is true that the only loss is of sanity to ICs, who necessarily must become fungible to a company of that size.
>the American company is not able to operate in or make money from the Chinese market, while the Chinese company is currently has free reign to make money in the American one

I think this is our disconnect. I don't care if some random American company can't make money in China. Nor do I care if a legitimate application that happened to be developed in China is able to make money in America. Why should I care?

And assuming I use that application or website, why should I be the one to be punished? Just so some other company can gain some market segment? The context here isn't war or something else severe like that, my point is and has been only in the strict context of legitimate websites and applications (i.e. they aren't breaking American laws, they aren't siphoning American data, etc.).

But hey, maybe this is why I'm not a foreign policy expert and instead I'm just some guy on the internet, enjoying what people all over the world have developed and hoping that my government doesn't ban them because of spite.
10-15 % change in radiation over 10k years is pretty common for earth.
Well, trust the science. If it doesn't work, we shouldn't mandate it.
That’s not an answer though.

The parent to your comment is asking what caused CTCL to give more to Democratically aligned counties. Everyone agrees it happened - I am just unconvinced it has a strictly partisan explanation. They are asking for proof it’s malicious. Just stating there is a difference in funding isn’t proof the CTCL acted with partisanship.

There are many latent variables besides GOP/Dem, Urban/Rural that could cause the difference. For example when examining barriers to voting, time spent in line or number of polling places/capita are easy KPIs. Urban areas tend to score poorly on these metrics. If the funding was allocated by these metrics urban areas will win more funding.

There are many reasons a totally non partisan group would prioritize grants to urban areas. Chief among them might be that partisans have deliberately underfunded urban locations and sometimes been caught saying the reason was for their partisan gain.

Or the simplest explanation: a party that discourages voter turnout is in charge or rural areas. Officials in those counties are less likely to ask for funding that makes voting easier.
I was reading through George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh last night and had a very similar thought. Their model of embodied cognition is necessarily decentralized in a really interesting way.
No, it is strictly disastrous. There is no possible desirable outcome.

Unless you really like the idea of ocean ecosystem collapse.
If that helped you, or at least gave you some enjoyment in a fun story to tell, good for you. But you should know that the therapist that did this was an absolute quack.

Please, don't seek help from quacks.
> I'd like to see a source on this.

Get real. It's a worldview, not a scientific fact.

You can agree or disagree, but finding one source that supports or opposes that worldview is not going to make any difference.
Customers don't ask for you to use a handsaw or a circular saw. They ask for a house at the highest quality for the lowest price. The companies that use the most productive technologies will be the ones that win. I personally suspect when all the pieces are together autonomous decentralized services will out compete corporations to deliver value to customers.
Your assumption is that the mice must die.

Given that its the case, you then wonder about the most effective means of killing them.

But, pushing back on your assumption, what value can there possibly be in killing baby mice?
BuildTheRobots 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Vinyl records are now outselling CDs

It sounds silly, but I find it extremely comforting to know I can play back my vinyl using entirely mechanical components.
I don't expect the world to forget how to decode mp3s, or even loose the ability to generate electric to power my computers/storage to retrieve it. But, in the event all technology collapsing I've got a vibration trapped in a piece of vinyl, and I can play back by scraping a nail over it. There's something quite beautifully "pure" or simple about this. As much as analogue audio tape is doing similar, vinyl is a physical waveform.

Sure, in any world where this could happen there's going to be far more important things to worry about than playing back Paul Simon, but it seems easier to believe I could build a gramophone from first principals than a CD player. Comforting.

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Vinyl is one of those things that is at the limit of human scale but still accessible - without any power you can spin a record and “hear” it by putting your ear near the needle.
Both cassettes and CDs go out of human scale and into technology
If the bubbles can be coated, then the filtered spectrum can be influenced. Eg if 20-300Thz is filtered out, then we only lose heat that’s probably not really useful to plants.
My Ethereum is missing. I don’t understand
> the modern version of folks offended that the GUI version broke keyboard shortcuts are people convinced that because they managed to find things in the cluttered confusing menus, the ribbon must be awful

To be fair, the real "competition" that the Ribbon displaced wasn't just menus, it was toolbars. Yes, the toolbar sections were arbitrary, but so were ribbon sections. Massive amounts of cheese moved, causing lots of confusion, and it also took way more screen real-estate. In Office, it was a net loss IMO.

In the File Explorer, the ribbon was a disaster, in practice if not necessarily in theory.

I wasn't offended by the switch, but it definitely felt like an unforced error.
I'm also pro-life, but I have enough trouble being the captain of my own soul without aspiring to the admiralty of others'. Since I don't approve of abortion, I won't have one. Since I don't even have a uterus, it's not really a big deal for me, but since I still low-key resent having been circumcised as an infant because it should have been my decision for my body, I can see why women wouldn't want to be told whether or not they should have abortions. It's their bodies and their lives, and it ought to be their decision alone.

Furthermore, Christianity is not the only religion. Nor does it have a monopoly on truth. Judaism, for example, seems to prioritize the mother's life over that of the unborn child; is that wrong?

> I know this can have horrible consequences (uneven application of the law leading to grounds for persecution), but it feels like the right trade-off for me.

Really? You think that being arrested, being indicted, and having to stand trial for an (admittedly distasteful) medical procedure that had previously been legal across the USA for almost fifty years is a good trade-off? You think it's OK to criminalize women for having had miscarriages, too? The stigma of having been accused of a crime doesn't go away, even if the charges are thrown out before trial or you go to trial and are acquitted. Why do you think some people call a certain SCOTUS judge "Brock" Kavanaugh instead of "Brett"? Do you honestly think it's acceptable to put any woman through that kind of ordeal?

> by that point everyone has given it serious thought -- a woman, a prosecutor, twelve jurors

The only people who should be giving this serious thought are the woman and her physician. The prosecutor should have more pressing concerns, like murder, rape, and wage theft -- and as somebody eligible for jury duty because I was stupid enough to register to vote I would resent being called upon to judge a woman accused of getting a medical procedure that had been legal across the USA for most of my life.

> I feel like the previous standard on abortions made them frivolous and was paving the way to widespread late-term abortion, which is horrific (I spent time in the NICU and saw many second-trimester babies fighting for their lives)

I was a second-trimester baby. I turned out mostly OK, but nobody should have go to through that kind of struggle. Don't use me or people like me to justify your moral stance. Other people don't exist for your sake.
I was a moderator on a bunch of forums about 20 years. There was a whole network of them, about 10 or so. All the guys who ran the various ones were friendly with each other and helped out moderating each others boards. Every single one of them shut down as Facebook took over. I made a Facebook group to preserve some of the membership of the finial one that shut down. We had spoken via that forum nearly every day for over a decade. Facebook just wasn't the same. There were rarely any posts and it basically died out completely. Some of it could have been due to age and people just having other priorities in their lives, but I don't know how much a role that really played. I know people through there who I saw meet their now wife, have kids, and now the kids are driving. It's weird.

I much preferred those forums to what we have now with social media and places like Reddit. With the forum I knew all the main posters, while now everyone is basically a stranger good for one short conversation.
> Seems to me it's able to copy almost anything it wants out of the phone.

On Android? Probably.

On iPhone? That's not how iPhones work
I hate to use this phrase, but I think this is what the kids are calling "dripping with privilege" these days.
A lot of tools exist to autoformat code to a standard, or the language has one. Use the tools. In C++ we have clang-format, set it up and leave the decision to that. It just saves so much hasle and takes emphasis off of something that doesn’t matter by making it not matter.
Elon Musk Got Twitter’s Data Dump, Next Comes the Hard Part
Yes. I wasn't aware of that, so thank you. The Uncanny Valley is still there — right now. That won't last forever though.
Someone needs to teach Dems some basics of economics. In WSB terms: "Money printer goes brrrr"
Do you have plans to support Cloudformation (and cdk)?
Thanks for the feedback!

If you click the "i" button in the bottom-left during a game, you'll see the original text with required terms highlighted. Lots of people seem to miss that so I need to figure out a way to make it more clear.

In early testing, people seemed to enjoy the challenge the timer provides. But yeah to be honest, I personally don't like it...I'm a slow writer and hate to be rushed. Paid users can disable the timer.
Mobile phone offers noplace to edit the original text. What am I doing wrong?
I wonder if my pihole is blocking them
The author mentions the 30-odd page Git From the Bottom Up in his talk and I think it's a solid starting point--

https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Because if someone sends me 8 space code and I'm normally 2 space code rendered as 4 spaces...
Plan A + Plan B is strictly worse than Plan A, however much success Plan A has. Anything with Plan B in means certain catastrophe.

But promoting Plan B demonstrably generates enough sick fascination to distract from determination to make Plan A work.
There were only 8 mice in that cube when the experiment started. Seems like that would be more than enough space for them. That the mice overfilled their living space through reproduction is not a limitation of the experiment, but an outcome.
I though "whataboutism" was when the USSR points out that you're an apartheid state when you criticize them about their economic system, not when your own citizens wonder out loud why you're criticizing another country for doing something that you also do.
I love that an article that can basically be summarized as: “tabs or spaces? - tabs” is on the front page of hacker news
Multiple things were done unanimously. In 2020, several nominations along with H.R. 748. Some senators did abstain from voting, but every senator who voted did vote yes.
This looks no fun at all. If people had to vote on every single button press on a Pokémon game you wouldn't get far past your starter Pokémon.
Is it? This assumes the the vast majority of plant growth is limited by sunlight, not nutrients, water, or anything else.
The tool captures screenshots in addition to text.
GCBD is nationalized iCloud. It was founded by the Guizhou government and is wholly state owned and operated.

Apple "chose" to agree to this deal with a gun to their head, the only other "option" being that they would be banned from the Chinese market. This isn't just because they have a data sovereignty requirement, but also because they have requirements regarding the sovereignty of a company's corporate governance structure.

>TikTok/Bytedance was one Trump EO away from being force sold to US companies (actual nationalization)

I'm not defending that idea, but a forced sale is categorically not nationalization. The whole impetus for the idea was that Trump's "eye for an eye" approach regarding what he saw as unfair practices against other US companies that tried to operate there. And in the end, Bytedance challenged it, and it never came to fruition.
Different anecdote, but similar vibe....

In ~2010, I was benchmarking Solarflare (Xilinx/AMD now) cards and their OpenOnload kernel-bypass network stack. The results showed that two well-tuned systems could communicate faster (lower latency) than two CPU sockets within the same server that had to wait for the kernel to get involved (standard network stack). It was really illuminating and I started re-architecting based on that result.

Backing out some of that history... in ~2008, we started using FPGAs to handle specific network loads (US equity market data). It was exotic and a lot of work, but it significantly benefited that use case, both because of DMA to user-land and its filtering capabilities.

At that time our network was all 1 Gigabit. Soon thereafter, exchanges started offering 10G handoffs, so we upgraded our entire infrastructure to 10G cut-through switches (Arista) and 10G NICs (Myricom). This performed much better than the 1G FPGA and dramatically improved our entire infrastructure.

We then ported our market data feed handler's to Myricom's user-space network stack, because loads were continually increasing and the trading world was continually more competitive... and again we had a narrow solution (this time in software) to a challenging problem.

Then about a year later, Solarflare and it's kernel-compatible OpenOnload arrived and we could then apply the power of kernel bypass to our entire infrastructure.

After that, the industry returned to FPGAs again with 10G PHY and tons of space to put whole strategies... although I was never involved with that next generation of trading tech.

I personally stayed with OpenOnload for all sorts of workloads, growing to use it with containerization and web stacks (Redis, Nginx). Nowadays you can use OpenOnload with XDP; again a narrow technology grows to fit broad applicability.
More importantly, some people can only see maybe a dozen characters at a time due to vision impairment.

To me, "can someone without good vision work with this code" was all the argument needed. Preferences, sure, accessibility though? Why not just make it simple?

Rust also disappointed me on this, I just have never heard an argument for spaces that comes close to functional rather than just aesthetic. I don't honestly know why this is such a controversial topic.
Unstoppable domains solve this problem by making domain purchases permanent and stored on a decentralized blockchain - although that brings some problems of it's own - and IPFS solves that by not requiring that a central server stays online to serve that content, although this does require that _someone_ be insterested in serving the website at all.
Senior engineers are paid to get stuff done on time while following good practices, and be proactive and communicative (and not end up on Twitter for the entire day because they couldn't figure out one project requirement by themselves, as many juniors do).

Compared to a junior engineer, they have to get thrice more things right at the same time.

Knowing a tool inside out can help with this, but it's not a requirement at all. It's just one of the, a-hem, tools in their box with which they can achieve efficiency.

I am like many others in this thread. I don't care about GIT's "beautiful data model" one bit. I learned with time which commands are dangerous and I do due diligence to make triple sure I don't trip on them. With 2 exceptions for the last 10+ years (each took me half a day to fix) this has worked perfectly.

It's quite OK to stick to what you know is safe and works well (and what pre-conditions have to be met so it works well).

At this point if a customer comes around and asks me to use advanced GIT features I'll just bill them triple while telling them exactly why.

I deliver, and at least 80% of the time I deliver on time, and 95% of the time with good practices and due diligence attached. How I use GIT is my business. I've been contacted by the next contractors no small amount of times and have eaten praise for how easy to track my project's change / commit history has been, too.
Brendan Carr is also notably anti Net Neutrality. Reading the screeds of the supposed cypherpunks of hacker news begging the federal government to BAN access to an app by private individuals is hilarious.
The true answer is "Whatever comes out the other side of your `format' command."

And if you don't much care for what format outputs, configure your IDE to display it however you want it to.
>So to answer your question, it doesn't /do/ anything that other apps don't.

I was under the impression it did quite a lot of spyware behavior that is rivaled by few if any apps on the store.