skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In western countries (at least) nobody needs a watch to keep track of time. We have ultra precise time on out smartphones and devices. So wearing a watch today is more of a statement of appreciation for an item that sits in the middle of craftsmanship and art. Often those people would prefer a mechanical watch (manual winding or automatic of sort).
For someone else is a status symbol useful to signal wealth.
Then there are specific fields/occupations which require a precise watch on the wrist (military? aviation?) and they would probably use some sort of quartz chronograph.
Personally I wear a watch which my father gave me as a present for my wedding, but recently its value grow too much and I'm worried to wear it. So I bought an automatic vintage Seiko. Now I am in the position to have to pay a bank to safely store my watch without being able to wear it. I believe the most rational thing to do is just to sell it, but I don't have the heart to do it.
Wasn't Uber famous for shirking regulations until it had cornered markets?

And FBA appears to be borderline fraudulent for both producers and consumers as Amazon comingles inventory with no guarantees.

That said I can see the legal-based marketing pitch. Not sure how well companies who advertise that actually deliver. There's also the risk it becomes theater or regulatory capture
It helps to pause and think about the fundamentals in a simple way. For the first time since 1991, Germany is in a situation where the value of all goods and services imported exceeded the value of all goods and services exported.

Is this a bad thing? Depends. Germany is a manufacturing heavy economy where energy prices are obviously a major part of input costs. So there is certainly an argument that at some level, this is unsustainable.

In the long term, if the economic growth within Germany is able to offset the additional "expense" incurred , then it will not matter a lot. The US routinely runs a trade deficit, but the US economy is one that the world holds at envy for the reasons that it is able to do so. There is plenty of domestic consumption and growth that offsets the massive trade deficits and in a simplified way, the US imports deflationary prices from the rest of the world and exports technology (I said highly simplified)

For Germany, they don't have the luxuries that the US does. The question that is crucial now is how long can Germany sustain these deficits while their domestic economy re adjusts or is able to find deflationary forces from energy security etc. If they are unable to do so, then, by definition, they are fucked.
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Don’t buy them any toys. Two reasons for this:

1. Most of the time they prefer to play with boxes, plastic bottles, stones, sticks, cups… you get the idea.

2. Toys are so abundant in this day and age. Children will get plenty, mountains of toys even if you don’t buy them any. Relatives and friends will give them toys as a gift and also they give children small toys at restaurants or they come with candy or clothes or other products. Soon you will have a huge mountain of toys that came from nowhere.

Edit: ok, maybe buy some for birthdays and Christmas and special days but that’s it.
"competing to race to the bottom"

Looking at the US in the last 200 years, it has grown enormously rich, while many ossified systems in the world around it have collapsed. It seems that the competition you dislike does not turn individual Americans into paupers. An average American's living standard is so high that it is actually ecologically unsustainable.
Oakland, CA has more violent crime than Chicago - and never gets national news coverage. Why?
I read somewhere that europeans agreed to an open market and common currency that included Germany only if German's export surplus were contained. I dont know if they are part of the treaties of not.

The idea being, why would Italy, France and Greece agree to open their market and give up their currencies (ie ability to devalue) in the face of the German juggernaut? A joint market would destroy French and Italian industry and in-debt Greece - as happened.

<rant> The Euro zone was a mistake. Its premise was solid - the europeans no longer had the ability to have colonies to steal resources from, so they sought to create a large enough market to be relevant and muscle themselves into decent prices.

It failed because the US quickly made sure the euro never seriously challenged the USD. Also, a continent that makes < 1.5 children/woman is not a going concern so no one has ever taken them seriously. Finally, the rise of China and India sealed the EU's fate. </rant>
I am not an expert on disability insurance, so I recommend everyone do their own research and speak to a disability insurance independent broker to get tailored advice, but if you have a "true own occupation" and "partial disability" coverage, then I think you would be covered, e.g. if you are a programmer that can no longer code more than half time due to carpal tunnel, I would think you could collect 50% disability even if you could work full time as a waiter.

Of course, it's likely harder to prove such a claim, as the insurance companies look out for fraud. But if you have a clear and well-documented history, medical files, etc., I would think you should be eligible.

Note that your megacorp group insurance policy is likely more limited, e.g. it may not have any coverage for partial disability.

Happy to be corrected by those more knowledgeable.
I'm also bearish on crypto, but by that logic it will be at -10k three months from now.
Which e-waste from solar panels are you talking about? Be specific.
Nextdoor posts about crime almost always contain a reaction that normalizes it in one horrific way or another. Like if people complain about their car being broken into, someone always says that they should just leave their doors unlocked.

If someone complains about their political signs being stolen it results in someone condemning the content of their stolen sign or complaints like, "yeah but signs on (opposite side of issue) get stolen all the time and you don't see us complaining about it!" So even on the local level it turns into neighbor versus neighbor easily despite careful moderation.
The century of adtech, which the US doesn't bother to regulate.
lots of hugs
Just ARM is known to have much better per watt performance than intel. Folks are desperate that there be a single reason, but that is rarely the case.

The reality is that multiple factors are working in Apple’s favor. Process, architecture, design, investment, focus, OS… firing on all cylinders as they say.
What specific harm is being done here though? Krugman has a tendency to take a lot of underlying assumptions for granted without actually enumerating them. I’m looking to understand why Germany should have to manage its economy based on the aims of the rest of the EU and not their own, which seems to be what’s implied here.
I didn't hate Unity, but it had a bug (for me, and clearly a bunch of others based on the launchpad bug traffic for the bug I filed) that persisted for the entire time Canonical owned it, that meant I couldn't use it.

I could repeat it very easily, just start the application using alt+f2 and use the keyboard to launch it (terminal, chrome, whatever). When triggered a window wouldn't be accessible over alt-tab. Was running, couldn't alt-tab to it. As someone that uses the keyboard a lot for navigation, it was a show-stopper. I have to be able to alt-tab between windows.

Eventually filed in 2012, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/951929 "Fix Released" but you know, still people reporting it later on in 16.04

In fact, even now, the number of "confirmed" bugs with long life on them on Launchpad is particularly disturbing, considering how many of them are fairly fundamentally impacting.

Like, say, https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1126221. Filed 2013 by an at-the-time Canonical employee, confirmed in 14.xx and then 16.xx. If you had multiple displays, put a window on one and then disabled it, windows on the other screen get essentially stuck, can't be alt+tab'd to or anything.

Or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1619563, hey I know, let's have two actions be on alt+tab. Switch windows, and close window! What could go wrong...

or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/49579, reported 2006, still reported 16 years later. If you have menus like the Application open, the timed screen lock won't kick in.

Over and over and over, what could have been a really good desktop experience was crippled by stubbornly ignoring the bugs filed against it (at least, I assume ignoring because the number of times engineers would actually comment on the tickets seemed to be few and far between). Canonical repeatedly shot themselves in the foot by not nailing the basics: the environment has to work.
I think the point above is that many of the women who get called TERF are scarcely feminists at all, let alone feminists who believe in a radical reordering of society. Many people accused of being TERFs are actually conservative women who believe in traditional sex roles and don't believe that gender is independent of biological sex. It's an insult levied against all transphobic women.
I'm happy with my $7k MRR. I'm like a micro-micro founder.
not op, but here's a bunch of bootstrapper podcasts:

* Startups for the rest of us

* Art of product

* Out of Beta

* Indiehackers

* Software Social

* Build your SaaS

The guy doing Startups for the rest of us, Rob Walling, also runs a bootstrapper conference called Microcof that I recommend checking out.
The stable release of Unity 7.6
So install TikTok and sit together on your phones doom scrolling and see what happens.

Good faith means living with answers you don’t want to hear.

I mean if you ask and then say “I don’t want to do that” to her answer, what do you expect when you ask how about a hike instead?

You can choose which routes are available for a child to express their personhood, but you can’t prevent its expression.

Holding their expression of autonomy in contempt has consequences that you probably don’t want.

Learning from your child, on the other hand, will probably pay off for the rest of your lives.

TikTok is more interesting than most people.
Maybe after 10k it just halves every month.
The X2 cores in 8cx gen3 get similar performance to Zen 2 U-series chips while using 7-10w instead of 15-50w.

How many more ARM chips have to get equivalent performance at a tiny fraction of the power before people will finally start considering that either AMD and Intel hire the most incompetent people out there or that ISA actually matters?
It's an interesting exercise to try to strip down Ubuntu or Fedora. You quickly find out that your WM probably relies on X11, which relies on Mesa, which relies on both libgcc and libllvm (because you might want to compile OpenGL shaders, duh!)... yeah there's two gigs right there.
> coverup attempt around this killing might have contributed.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery

Did a quick search through the article, can't find a mention of any attempt to cover up the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, can you elaborate? Is there an ongoing investigation into this and is there some way we can help? It is insane that in 2022 the authorities in America are still complicit in lynchings and that nobody does anything, it disgusts me. How long will this indiscriminate murder of BIPOC continue, why can't America do better? What is it about Americans that drive them to murder BIPOC?
Sure, but what about medium sized communities?

The Bay Area has lots of local news outlets and even more local "boots on the ground" community blogs run by volunteers. I don't know if that's true around the rest of the country though.
Yes, and thus at some level, is unsustainable. ie, There is a point at which they could be running all the surplus they could wish for against the rest of the EU, but the cost of those surpluses offsets any gains to economic growth.
If you already have a job and you don't want a new job neither on the short-term or long-term, you could:

- choose Go because:
- it is easy to learn
- it is fun
- it is productive
- it has good performance
- it has good maintainability

Or you can:

- choose Rust if:
- you have the time to learn the ins and outs
- you have time to keep up with the never ending new features
- you have interest in write software that is usually written in C or C++

What you need to have in mind is that both languages have benefits and trade-offs.

Go for example is easy to learn because is a small language but because of that you will need to write more code. Modern developers are usually averse to write lots of code. But write the amount of code that Go requires you to write will make you think better about what you are writing and at the end this will make you a better developer.

Rust takes time to learn and features keep bubbling up from time to time and some times development with Rust can be slow compared to other languages, but it is an excellent replacement for C or C++ if you are writing software for a supported architecture, because you will have the C/C++ performance without lots of bugs related to manual memory management.

Another thing to keep in mind is not to use Go or Rust when you should not use them. For example, you will see a lot of people using Rust for the sake of using Rust just because Rust is "memory safe", but Go is "memory safe" too; the difference is Go is garbage collected and Rust is not.

If you can afford a garbage collector in the software you are writing, don't waste your time with Rust if the software domain is one that Go excels, like networking programming.

But don't use Go for the sake of using Go as many people do, for example, trying to replace C or C++ with Go, because Go is not a replacement for C and C++.
It feels incredibly anticompetitive they were able to bundle Prime Video with Prime Delivery. Amazon have significant market power in online commerce, and for them to use that muscle into online video is ridiculous.
This is how I experienced most Japan-only games of the old-school era as well. And I was so happy to find those ROMs, like a dream come true.

The general emulator/modding scene has always been a major edgy-in-a-good-way place to be, IMHO, in the gaming space (especially on PC of course).
Not to pry into OP's personal details, but I'd try some "moonshot" lifestyle changes if you haven't done so already, to see if anything helps fix your health issues. Keto diet is one everyone raves about, but it absolutely does have risks. (ex: one HN'er wrote about a relative going on keto and later having a triple bypass and chronic back inflammation, possibly due to way too many omega-6 fats)
Seems like another example of Moravec's paradox[1]. The higher order decisions involved in driving seem hard because we're conscious of them. But our visual system is assumed to be "just two cameras" because we have no conscious awareness of what's going on when we create an internal representation of our surroundings using our eyes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
> The most recent example that comes to mind is switching to Android because of Apple's file scanning controversy.

Nice job switching to Google over something Google has been doing for years, in a worse way (https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...)
Aurora, alloydb, spanner
Yes, I've been considering that since the beginning. Website (backend in C++, frontend in Svelte) takes priority, because this solution is good enough so far, and I'd really like to have access to my ZK on my phone. Probably not a website meant for the open internet: I have a server at home + use Wireguard VPN, so my phone can connect to local services/sites at all times.
I think it's because if unbundled it would collectively cost a lot more, and nobody actually uses everything (or even more than one, maybe two) much anyway, so it's sort of a costless value-add to bundle them. 'Huh yeah maybe I'll use that occasionally.'

I'm sure they'll have run focus groups or whatever with proposed unbundled pricing to see which services people would pay for and how it stacks up.
>> one problem {i.e. "insufficiency of arsenal" in your lingo}

> Erm, no [..needless snark, insinuates I'm confused.. proceeds to largely restate Smith's article and himself, though a little better this time; Good job! but does not solve the problem if a user wants even "most" of the N answers..]

I suppose I could have instead said "exist in this one replacement idea[..]could cost more than you save either in other constructs or in mitigations" or something similarly guarded/defensive. Seems you probably would have picked
yet another strawman or willfully obtuse reading to attack rather than argue in good faith.

If you do not have positive "arsenal addition" suggestions to solve the essence of the problem I mentioned -- which I am pretty sure many care about -- whatever gripe you might have with how I describe it then I don't think we have anything more to say to each other here.
> Can you do Z (or figure out how)? Will you do Z?

You've replaced one problem with one just as hard! Predicting how people will behave is no easy feat.
Hogfather by Sir Terry Pratchett.

I read it a couple of days before Christmas every year without fail and have since it came out.

I absolutely adore the discworld (Pratchett's books shaped me as a child - I wouldn't be the person I am now nor have had the career I do without him).

> “The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door.

> There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to stay shut. Dozens of nails secured it to the door frame. Planks had been nailed right across. And finally it had, up until this morning, been hidden by a bookcase that had been put in front of it.

> 'And there's the sign, Ridcully,' said the Dean. 'You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says "Do not, under any circumstances, open this door"?'

> 'Of course I've read it,' said Ridcully. 'Why d'yer think I want it opened?'

> 'Er ... why?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.

> 'To see why they wanted it shut, of course.'

> This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.”
People who say "don't worry, it gets better" to new parents don't know what they are talking about.

Enjoy the time when the baby stays put wherever you lay him or her down. and isn't climbing the furniture or throwing things.
Good question. If there isn't, one should definitely be created.
We switched to vite not for what it is but because what it isn't.

We get react and scss compilation/bundling with 4 lines of config (it basically just says "react()").

production builds take under a minute. npm install takes 6 seconds tops. it starts dev mode in a second with hot reloading enabled.

you can tell me how awesome its tech is under the hood for hours, but i dont care. it STAYS OUT OF THE WAY and thats wha i want.

just as it should.
A giant tent and sand blasting. It’s going to have to happen eventually… the delay just makes things worse
Uber dumped their bags on your 401k years ago. The ride is complete.
How would "sometimes bad things happen" be relevant in the least? Missouri is a large state and the two communities aren't close. Besides, you should read the link you posted rather than relying on memory. That story is of a small community defending itself from the predations of a sociopath whom law enforcement could not control. Maybe it's a critique of law enforcement, but it isn't a "counterpoint" to "small town people help out in emergency".
The issue is that because there was never an early community consensus on a package management system, I come across github projects that don't declare dependencies at all, and I have to look through the code to figure out what to install. This never happens with, say, javascript projects.

And people know this is an issue in python, which is why we have Poetry now. So at least in terms of dependency management, I would say Python is less stable than Javascript
And no explanation of fixed points.
Good for you, and good for her. What you guys have done is the most inspiring thing I've read today!
Missouri never joined it, but it was admitted to the Confederacy in 1861. It and Kentucky share this "admitted but never joined" status -- had the war gone the other way, the Missourian government-in-exile would have been legitimized (and in fact, the elected Governor of Missouri was pro-Confederate; the only reason there was a Union-sympathizing Governor was because a Union general chased all the rebels out of the capital).

"Missouri was never a member of the Confederacy" is a technicality rather than an honest assessment of sympathies and prevailing politics in the state.
Compared to the size of the site, and the features? Yeah, most of them involve some amount of JS. Besides, HN is all dynamic user generated content, that's the crux of web 2.0.
I realize I’m alone in this question, but I’m asking anyway: how the hell are reddit pages organized? The layout makes no sense to me… no matter how many times I land on one of those pages through a search or something, I’ve never been able to follow the conversation thread. Apparently there’s a lot of good information on that site, but I can’t make heads or tails of it.
To reach 87% of the perf of a 12900K at a max clock of 3.2 GHz versus the 12900K‘s monstrous 5.2 GHz, the M1 has something like a 75% IPC advantage.

Are you seriously claiming that you expect a single node shrink from Intel 10nm (roughly equivalent to TSMC 7nm) to Intel 7nm (equivalent TSMC 5nm, the M1’s node) to give Intel an enormous 75% increase in IPC such that they’d be able to compete on performance per watt by not having to clock so stratospherically high (with the attendant voltage penalties) to compensate for their low IPC?

That would be an unprecedented outcome for several node shrinks, let alone a single one. It’s Apple’s super-wide design that’s the primary factor in the IPC here. To pin it all on a single node shrink is magical thinking.
That's an easy thing to say if you reduce "values" to lowest common denominator ethical abstractions that are pretty much shared among all human beings.

If you include e.g. "not wearing shoes in the house", "treating animals well", "Buddhist supremacy", or "proper lawn care" as values, however, things diverge quickly.
Another subscription-based app. I'd get it if I could buy it, even if I needed to pay more.
Can you help me understand the costs? Because as far as I can tell it is:

1) "We should consider using Allowlist" "ok, but let's be careful with externally facing APIs, in exactly the same way we change all our externally facing APIs?" "Sure!"

2) "I was editing this file, find/replaced a couple cases of whitelist while I was in there" "LGTM"

3) "Oh, hey, noticed we had nearly finished opportunistically replacing whitelist. Does anyone mind if I just finish up?" "Sure, timebox it?"

Like, it's extremely low cost? What costs are you imagining?
We flooded a forest – the result blew our minds
Sorry if it was confusing I kind of jumped between the issues I had with various approaches. I did manage to get gnatprove through alire through just that command, it was the apt gnat that didnt have gnatprove. What I wasn't sure how to correctly do with the alire install was

cd ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ada-mode-i.j.k
./build.sh
./install.sh

Actually I didn't get that working with any of the options I tried I guess.
How growth designers at Webflow validate, then build
I had the same question a couple of months ago and got recommended the Orange Pi line of devices. For my usage it is virtually identical to a similar specd Rasberry Pi. Most of the models can run Armbian[0] which provides some peace of mind regarding long term support. The brand seems to sell mostly on Aliexpress, which is where I got mine from.

[0] https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
I think you grossly misunderstand who's paying for the Qt library.