skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low end PC's were getting pretty affordable by then. This 1988 ad has an 8088
machine which was about $650 inclusive of a disk drive and a monochrome monitor.

https://archive.org/details/byte-1988-07_202104/page/n379/mo...

The entry-level price of a C128 was much less but if you add a disk drive and a monitor so you can use the 80 column mode you're not saving that much money. The 286 machine is a lot more computer at $1100, the 386 is twice that.

I had a hard time finding any 8088 machines advertised in Byte in 1990. To be fair Byte was aimed at the high end of the market, yet, Byte had plenty of coverage of the early 8-bitters, but I think the C-64 didn't get covered in Byte proportional to its popularity because it was late enough to the party that the IBM PC was getting mindshare.

Byte had an odd mismatch between what was getting advertised (you'd have thought Cromeco was really something, other vendors of S-100 bus machines that supported CP/M were big) and was getting written about (low-end 8-bitters got a lot more press than CP/M ever did)
The Little Schemer and the Seasoned Schemer
It's still censorship, whether or not you agree with it.
Dark mode extension adjusts colors. Which... is a bit not great on a website that ranks colors.
I don't really understand.

We all know about the click farms with humans creating and re-authenticating accounts via VPNs. Not to mention the very probably existing modified with AI blink|geeko/webkit which are trained by those very humans.

"click metrics" and accounts you can create online have literaly ZERO value.

If a company which sells "stuff" wants to assess the "performance" of its internet exposure, well it has only one and sole option: correlate the actual sales of this "stuff" to its internet exposure by itself.
It would be great if Google allowed that everywhere. Does anyone know if it's on the roadmap?
It's perfectly meaningful, as the meaning is clear to the reader.
> This is stating the obvious, the HN community generally leans against blockchain.

I wouldn't describe it as a lean against crypto: the unfortunate thing is that some people have a viewpoint about crypto more akin to a fiery hate. There's an intensity to this emotion for some reason. I'm not sure if it's resentment by some for missing an opportunity to make money, but some people here can't talk objectively about crypto for some reason.

For what its worth, I think it's just fine to like or dislike crypto and weigh its merits reasonably, but there's too much emotion here to have good conversations about the possibilities.
The non-joke use case could be memorizing / communicating bunch of colors. Those human readable names are lot easier to remember than hex values.
US sanctions are designed to act like a virus: they spread, so that eventually nobody in the world is allowed to do business with the target country, unless they want to completely cut themselves off from all economic interactions outside the target country.

A European company can't do business with Iran, because it does business with a European bank, which does business with another European bank, which does business in the US. A Chinese chip foundry can't do business with Huawei, because the foundry buys equipment from a Japanese company, which uses a piece of software written by an American company somewhere in its pipeline.

The global economy is tightly interconnected, and the US takes advantage of this fact to cut companies or even entire countries off from the global economy. As far as I'm aware, no other country uses secondary sanctions anywhere near as aggressively as the US does.
Musk's downfall in manner from a technological revolutionary to a petulant child has been nothing short of saddening.
What is your comment referring to?
This really doesn't feel like an important enough area to demand fresh government regulation. Consumer protection laws are meant to be a last resort when a broad chunk of the population are being actively screwed over by monopolies or entire industries. If losing access to a game originally released a decade ago fits that bill the consumer protection agency is going to be very busy.

Think of it this way - if you learn you don't like a company's practices and chose not to buy their next video game release, does that really derail your life? If not, or if a big chunk of the population wouldn't say yes, we really don't want Uncle Sam rolling in with even more reach than he already has.
Thanks for this article, it’s refreshing to read an article that is pragmatic about the topic.
Was the gambling website accepting US customers? Otherwise on what basis is a crime committed?
Of course you'd build the app, why would you make the user install Flutter as a development environment? A built Flutter desktop app can be had in ~100 MB, as well as being able to be on Windows, macOS and Linux with minimal effort. For example, https://www.superlist.com/
As someone who had this book as mandatory reading in high school, along with many other books I would call dense, I would say the secret ingredient is to go fast. With regular books, I take breaks to ponder the ideas multiple times per chapter. If I know I have to go through 800+ pages, I decide to read 100 pages a day, and just brute force it through. After you've gone through the whole thing, there's plenty of time to go back and revisit the themes you found more interesting, I know other students also made heavy use of notes and sticky notes to grok the thing.
Yeah probably not, because those people would realize they'll make more money for less work, being in sales.

I'm aware of at least one company a friend works at in the marketing department, and works directly with salespeople, and at that company a single salesperson brings in 40% of the entire company's revenue, makes 7-figures, and non-execs in the company complain they can't get him to do anything else in the job, like provide data for presentations and the like (personally I'm of the opinion that if they're generating that much revenue for the company, the salesperson has already done their job, and C-suite seems to think so too, but I digress).

Other salespeople at that company pull in a lot less but are still difficult to get them to do other work (except attend meetings here and there), just slightly less so. They're still making good money. And that seems to be the norm at all the companies my friend has worked at.

I imagine sales is more of a grind when you're starting from the bottom, and/or for companies where the margins are much smaller, but Corp2corp salepeople in particular seem to have a pretty sweet gig.
It's the same for me, and that's when things go well. Sometimes, when thinking alone, anxious thoughts take place and I begin a spiral of bad thoughts about the past, things I should or shouldn't have done... In these cases I think it'd had been better to have listened to a podcast.
Even "team" is inaccurate, if they include execs on that team. Execs aren't on the same team as you - if we keep the sports analogy, they're the owners. You shouldn't expect comraderie or putting your team above yourself from the people managing you - if it's cheaper and more effective for you not to be on the team, or for your team to move to a different city, that's what's going to happen.
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If there’s a way to justify piracy it’s this.
Show HN: I Created a GDPR-Compliant Live Chat That Works with Slack
FTA:

> By the end of May [2022] pupils in 13 countries were still enduring some restrictions on face-to-face learning—among them China, Iraq and Russia.

Your suggested approaches aren't reflective of current circumstances. We have vaccines; yet, lockdowns affecting early education are still in effect.
This is kind of an odd take because POSIX is purposed to make application development across Linux and Unix easier by providing reliable behavior. Saying, "my OS is better than the high level standard because it does more" makes me go, "Okay".

Also, I'm not sure the author has ever actually read POSIX?
That’s because old people aren’t very effective at war compared to fighting age people.

He’s talking about during famines, during emergencies, etc.

I think if we’d asked most of the parents who skip meals to feed their kids if we should harm their kids’ future to protect elderly and disabled people, they’d have said no.

That’s nature: the weak and elderly die — and destroying the whole herd to protect them is stupid.
> Or it would have, if the nine MPs across three parties who were scheduled to attend actually showed up. Only one did.

Everything else aside, if MPs don't show up for a scheduled meeting they should just be sacked.

How many of us can just blow off meetings like that with no consequence?
>"Here in DC"

There are many populated places that are not "Here in DC" but still have lot of highways and are further north of DC.
Uber Files: Leak details how Uber 'lobbied leaders and duped police'
We must disengage Russia from the International Space Station partnership
Macs and iPhones have been doing selectable text for a while now. Especially if you use Safari instead of Chrome. All images have selectable text since Monterey and iOS 15. It existed to a lesser extent in previous years.

Some of the features Naptha aims to do are not part of it though, like translating, removing the text from the image, and some other right click behavior. On the other hand, Apple is using this without any connection, which Napha says it is availble but with degraded quality and slower speed. Apple probably uses their optimized ML silicon, so I would imagine is is more battery efficient for using on the go.
We also spend 10:1 on old vs young. See Medicare and SS while kids eat two breadsticks for lunch.
Yes they were flouting US gaming laws.
You might try to switch your respirator. The Aura series (3M 9210+ being the best Aura, IME) and VFlex (3M 9105) seem to be very comfortable and easy to breathe for me & others who I've shared them with. In general, a larger surface area makes it easier to breathe.

Another option is to look for a respirator with an exhalation valve. You give up a level of source control but any exhortations to "protect others!" is pretty silly when they come from people who aren't wearing anything to protect themselves. The Aura has a vented model (9211+) which I've not tried but have heard excellent things about.

You could also consider a half-face elastomeric respirator. You wouldn't expect it, but I've found the ones made with a quality silicone material (3m 75xx / Honeywell North 7700) to be far more comfortable than disposable N95s. They have far more breathable area, which is a major plus. When adjusted properly, they also do not "dig into your face" the same way disposable respirators do - you can keep the straps surprisingly loose & still maintain a seal. And they have a much lower TCO because the respirator media lasts for a long time. Muffled speech is the biggest problem, but speech diaphragms go a ways towards fixing that.

In general though, as you move up the ladder of protection you end up using tools that are both more effective & more comfortable. Pre-pandemic I had a crawlspace under my house spray foam insulated. A team of three guys crawled around under my house in mid-August while wearing full face respirators. They told me they were actually more comfortable than the old half-mask / goggles combination they used to use.
>"boycott all that is Russian"

Is that a thing? I mean, besides a few extremists. I'm French and I haven't heard anything recommending to boycott Russian cultural goods.

We can discuss this but it's probably negligible so let's not make this an "issue" until it is.
I'm the opposite right now. I wish I would be less serious all the time. I find moderation really hard. I hope you find that balance.
This is not really correct. Art and a lot of jobs that don't pay well go to children of rich people because they don't need the money, their parents are usually already in the network of influence and patrons. The current state of art is at the mercy of them anyway to keep up the illusion - the rich donate and get their benefits/private events and tax write offs. And since they're rich they end up becoming public figures themselves and bring even more attention to their institute.
No published paper, yet they decided to publicise it in a social media post? Bizarre.
In the case of, say, the GDPR, security requirements aren't prescriptive. You can read Article 32 yourself, but it comes down to being able to "ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk". Whether a company has met that standard is decided by data protection authorities and ultimately the courts.

Article 32, GPDR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/
Interesting, lived in Germany for 30 years (although decades ago), but had never heard about them.

Just wanted to say if the Transrapid consortium with the biggest German industry players and decades of public investment backing could not make it, I would not try again. This is not the SW business where any can start with some resources rented in the cloud. Of course sometimes it's just too early to be right, but wouldn't count on it.

On the anecdotal side my first presentation in school around 1972 was about the German Maglev train project. It did not go as predicted, they sold one minor line to Shanghai decades later.
But once your 'general consumer' is e.g. Gazprom, aren't you liable? And it's virtually impossible to guarantee otherwise.
I wish they would sell standard systems. If it is just concrete we need more competition bringing costs down.

Standard not only means you won't get an orphan system, but it also means you as a city can order from anyone. If the company you normally order from is busy with other orders you can buy from someone else when you have need.

Standard means as a manufacture you can afford to invest in more jigs. Jigs are very expensive to make, but they decrease the cost of each whatever built with them. As such the more customers of the same thing the more jigs are worth investing in. Every change the jigs cannot handle is additional cost. (some jigs are adjustable, so within limits you could do things like non-standard wheel gauges - you still shouldn't but you could)
That is not what I replied to and that is not what I am calling for.

The "one side of the argument" that I replied to, was the accusation that only people with private offices want to work from there rather then from home.
Sometimes when I play a retro game, I'm completely in awe of programmers of that vintage.

Games took a year or two to make, on massively constrained hardware, in assembly language, with no engines, all original artwork and music, and no bug fix updates after it was complete.

People like to pretend the future is always better and everything is advancing, but surely they had more talent than we do.
If you didn't enjoy it, first try with a different translation or read something else, life is short and there are plenty of good books. Personally I really liked Anna Karenina and read it twice. War and Peace on the other hand, I had to force myself to finish it.
I only read 60-80 books a year, maybe 40-60 on a Kindle. I guess I need to take up some sport to live long enough to reach your numbers (and to stop deleting things).

Even including an occasional article, 'thousands' is very impressive.
Google's First Server (1999)
HDR/SDR Tone mapping has long been the bane of hardware transcoding for Plex. Even when it "kinda works" which is Nvidia on Linux only it kills my GTX 1650 in RAM and compute required. Normally NVENC can handle 3 4k Streams or many many 1080p streams, only constrained by RAM.
> (Historically, they were the "POSIX.2" standard, and the libc/syscall library functions were in the "POSIX.1" standard, but since 1998 when POSIX became the ratification of Single Unix Specification version 2-and-later, they're all just in "POSIX".)

Ohhh, that's how Windows could be POSIX-compliant back in the 90s while not appearing like it at all. Thanks.
Does it integrate on any website ?
IMO, electric cars are still too expensive for broad adoption. There really needs to be a strong used market for them before broad adoption is realistic. The charging story (overnight plug-in) is also too expensive for most folks, too (most dense housing has no garages for the installation of a charger).

I’m in the north, where 110v plugs are somewhat common for block heaters, but “common” still only means about 30% coverage. There’s also not enough room for anything but a standard power cable.

Side note, can you imagine how bad thefts of copper rich, exotic connectors would be?
This is the price to replace the entire battery pack for these cars?

These seem _dramatically_ cheaper than I expected. In my mind, I was thinking more like 3-5x this, though that was incl VAT/tax
In theory he probably would be in transit area, so outside of USA.
We all know how good is USA respecting international treaties and human rights when it doesn't suit their economic interests.
It sounds gross. But:

i) if we all drove cars, the result would also be bad

ii) I wonder if there are benefits from this (stronger herd immunity)
McKinsey is a global management consulting company. Some don't trust places like that as they "tend to hire mbas or others out of college and have them tell your CEO what to do (to justify what the CEO wants already)".

I have no experience with McKinsey personally other than them not directing me to the other entrance to their building for another business.
I feel the exact opposite. I only get profound ideas when I'm alone. Spending time with others is leisure but does nothing for my creativity. So definitely not bullshit for me.
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There's no moral ambiguity here. Billionaires should not exist. We got rid of absolute monarchy for a reason, but oligarchs like Gates, Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Koch, Bezos, etc are the closest thing we have today to absolute monarchs. Nobody elected them, they are accountable to nobody, and they wield entirely too much power over the rest of us.

Every billionaire is both a policy failure and a market failure. Neither wealth nor political power should be permitted to accrete into the hands of a few individuals.
> I know a lot of people

> The vast majority of the projects everyone

How many people are we talking about? 100? 1000?

If there is on average 20 people involved with each project who received funding, that would be 340,000 people in total. If you know 1000 people who are doing this scam, then you know 0.2% of the people involved in these projects.

To extrapolate that all the projects are similar scams to what your acquaintances are doing, seems a bit irrational.

But even so, that you know 1000 people, 100 people or even 10 people performing identical scams of government funds, seems unlikely, but even so, that you would know so many who are scammers, seems to say more about you than anything about the Horizon 2020 programme.
I have done this with both T-SQL and PL/SQL. The stored code is all available in system views and easily extracted with a script. If you set up the script to run automatically at a given time, you know that the version in git is at most n hours out of date. If you leave the control up to the scheduled job, then your commit messages may not be what you want. But there's nothing keeping you from running your extraction script off schedule and then writing a good commit message.
Yea, just need to copy and paste the 1 line javascript file.
This interview clip of him pushing back against that narrative would seem to suggest your own case here is not so clear cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Ue45dJxy0
For those who are serious all that time. Your attitude is a gift.

While it is annoying, it is important to have these type of people within a group . If every single one in the group were serious we will all burn out easily.

So dont try to change, but do try to read the situation a bit better, and use it to smooth the "atmosphere" in the room.
The thing that will be interesting to see as well is how they approach a market where delivery has been increasingly important over bulk availability. Thinking about prices of services like MatHem and picsmart etc and if they can shake it up
Great app for discovery of interesting places nearby, especially while walking/hiking/riding a bike. But search is quite bad. Also maps are often loading slowly, it happens that you zoom in just a little bit and entire map is gone and you need to keep waiting for it to appear
While React's declarative style and composability are great, and its ecosystem reigns supreme, I really dislike all the tiny issues that one has to learn to deal with(referential equality for hook dependencies, the side-effects of batching setState calls, figuring out when a specific useEffect call is called, the fact that useMemo and useCallback don't provide semantic guarantees that one can rely on to avoid rerenders, ...etc).

I've been meaning to try out some "truly reactive", vDOM-less libraries like Svelte, SolidJS, and Sycamore-rs [1] for a while now. Today, I ran into a library that ports all of SolidJS's API to React, so that one can still use React, but in a truly reactive way, and it's written by the author of SolidJS himself! I haven't tried it out but I was so excited that I had to share :)

The advantage that I'm hoping this library realizes is that one can use the humungous React ecosystem, while coding in a truly reactive way.

[1] https://github.com/sycamore-rs/sycamore
Maybe try audio. I really like the version narrated by David Horovich.
No recipe for pellicle?
Isn't being able to evade sanctions one of the few tangible benefits of crypto?
The US has no such desire or even capacity to supply Europe with liquid natural gas. Nor does Europe have capacity to receive it. The goal was, always has been, and still is for the EU to have energy independence.

That can only be accomplished by the EU pumping their own gas and oil, building their own nuclear power plants, etc.

There is no lack of natural resources in Europe. Just a lack of planning, and an excess of unrealistic green ideology.
Well, most of the press is desperate to find a new big bad to generate clicks… and the in the case of the Washington Post to make us forget that they were the ones that gave a column to Amber Heard
Part of the hacks from https://ikeahackers.net/.
Western people did not exactly read arab poets while ISIS was expanding their territory either. Also, people in west were never too quick to read Ukrainian, Polish, Czech or whatever literature.

My point here is: if art of other countries is so important for nations being together, why is the Russian one being constantly treated as more important then everyone else? Why not urging us to read Finnish, French, German, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian? Or literature from Belarus for that matter?

Seriously, why did emphasis on Russian art went UP after the latest invasion?
marketing, like most gadgetbahns. There is a reason transit enthusiasts in general look down on this. Anyone who knows something about how to run trains knows this at best done nothing to solve the real problems facing transit, and most likely if they get even one sale it makes things worse for everyone.
Wegmans is just another overpriced grocery store with a huge wine selection going for it. Literally here in NC I'd rather go to Harris Teeter or Whole Foods than Wegmans. Some HT's have a bar to hang out at which I occasionally do before I do my shopping. I just don't see the appeal of Wegmans except the transplant northerners who are reminiscencing.
It is worth noting that this doesn't just look at things in the 90's, but goes all the way out to 2011
Yes. Cost-per-watt is king.

And solar panels are already very cheap.

(The only exceptions are space/weight constrained applications like satellites.)