skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Removing social medias reclaimed lots of my life, the absolute peak of my happiness was when I stopped following any news at all.

There's some sort of stigma agaiinst people who don't follow the news but I ask, what positives doesfollowing the news brings to your lifes?

I realized none and there is a huge proven link between following news and anxiety/depression.

Sadly I felt back to watching news with the war in Ukraine.
Hong Kong had what one could call a starting position comparable to Singapore after WWII and managed to become prosperous with arguably more liberal policies -- until the handover to the PRC -- and came out prosperous, too.

Is Hong Kong now more prosperous, after it moved to authoritarian rule?

What are your criteria for "authoritarian", that you count Japan among authoritarian countries?

What is your evidence that the authoritarian policies were the deciding factor in generating prosperity for these countries?
It’s game theory and asymmetric information at its finest. Throw in a healthy dose of survivorship bias, a pinch of appeal to authority, and you get a perfect recipe for astronomical out of whack compensation packages.
They are ridiculous when the value of the home is large. A $2m home has $100,000 realtor fees but a $500,000 home has a $25,000 fee. Do you think the realtor for the $2m home really does anywhere near $100,000 worth of work?

Fees should instead be a fixed amount relative to the cost of marketing the home, holding open houses, and all the other legwork to sell a home.

No other job has this kind of royalty payment except publishing (books, music, etc).
>> they will pivot at least once more,

They most likely won't be a third time lucky. They had to pivot after their first 10nm delay but their monopoly in server CPU allowed them to keep pumping money despite manufacturing delays. Meanwhile, that gave AMD a chance to catch up which they not only did but outperformed them. One can claim that it's easy to say in hindsight, but that's the hallmark of great leadership which they haven't had since Grove's retirement.

Now Intel have lost that money making division so much so that all the fanfare of regaining manufacturing leadership has been defused with the announcement of reduction of 4bn in capex and still a focus on shareholder dividend. Intel will need some financial engineering and a split of manufacturing and design shouldn't be surprising. And this won't be some smart timely pivot, but a forced split.
Ok, changed from https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/08/closing-doo.... Thanks!
"Singapore is an authoritarian city"

"No we're not, your literature is now BANNED".
Correct. It is hard to make more land.
The true costs of layoffs: morale, commitment, readiness your future
U.S. SEC charges 11 individuals in $300M crypto pyramid scheme
Synthetic mouse embryos created from stem cells; without sperm, eggs, or uterus
Wow, I really love that experiment. Really explains a lot about frameworks to me, despite being an exercise in not using them. Thank you so much for making that.

When I look at what you've written under those restrictions, the biggest problem I flag as a general software engineer is how the events get created, defined, listened to, etc. This tells me that if I was building something "large" like that, the first third-party library I'd want to integrate is something for handling those event streams in a more rigorous and robust fashion.
Is there a mobile app in the works too? I usually plan from mobile and find doing it outside of a native app clunky
I meant relative to React Native, which isn't suitable for that either. There's plenty of areas where native makes the most sense on desktop.
I don't have that many tabs open right now or usually, but I'm wondering what Firefox users in the habit of messing with > 100 tabs are doing. Sooner rather than later Firefox won't allow you to open new tabs ("one thing to do") and forces a restart after updating in the background. I don't know if you can open another FF window/process in that situation but I think that behavior is very annoying and kindof needs fixing if FF wants to be a browser for power users.
Well if this was so widely know since 2003, it's odd how it took 17 years before any politician took objection to it, until that confirmation hearing, isn't it? That was the exact moment everyone got the memo?

Call it a "gotcha" video all you want, but it's clear to everyone else what it is - a plain as day demonstration of double standards.

Of course politicians being self-serving hypocrites isn't news, or limited to Democrats, as the Republicans demonstrated when they argued it isn't appropriate to make a Supreme Court appointment near the end of Obama's term, only to find it very appropriate when they got to appoint a judge.

What is news is that now dictionaries cooperate in their hypocrisy.
Good idea, we'll think about adding it to the landing. Thanks!
Snipers need good camo, but the people snipers snipe don't?
Who Uses Clojure
this must be sarcasm, lol
https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/mining/can-you-name-all-17...

Some of the elements that fisher might use like gypsum, not sure if any of it is safe either though. Soil needs more research, is what most people think but growing things is getting harder not sure if the opensoil project can cover enough of the problems yet.

A more safer alternative might be using transition metals and post transition metals in plant soil. Though using transition minerals usually results in having to be treated with something that can cover coding soil too.
Indeed, the fact that it even has to do so is the important bit, and reflects the attitude of such companies (and to a certain extent, the government) today.
Germany’s Collective Alternative to Private Housing
You can have a profit motive driving behavior without something being an investment vehicle.

Cars are an example of that. Even when scarcity has driven the cost of cars up (such as during the recent pandemic), everyone recognized that more could, and would, be produced, and so no one viewed them as an investment vehicle, that adding time in somehow increased the value over the initial purchase price.

Housing is viewed that way. Part of that is due to location; there is innately a level of scarcity (not everyone can live in (insert city)), but there is also massive artifical scarcity. Even where there's room, there is NIMPYism and zoning regulations and etc that keeps enough housing from being built in areas people are able to live (i.e., close enough to civilization to be able to buy groceries without an hour long drive each way, for instance), forcing pricing up, in a positive reinforcement loop (scarcity = pricing goes up = people buying for the 'investment' rather than a place to live = more scarcity)
Don't get me wrong, I like Formula E but "fastest ever electric racer" isn't saying much at this point. These things are still pretty slow compared to F1 which is why I think they rarely show exhibitions of them up against each other.
It's still in planning at the moment
In all honesty, there isnt much room to improve the actions of modern assault rifles. There are dozens of post-stoner improvements that have bern tried. Millions have been spent on them. They have all been shelved as to complex or cumbersome. The gas-operated rotating bolt is so elegant, so reliable, that fundimental improvements are hard to imagine.

Adding water to the equation? Rust, mud, weight, boiling ... you would need some radical improvements to justify such added complexity.
"... Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Elizabeth Holmes..." LOL wut?

Go home professor, you are drunk :D
The safety aspect is quite similar in Japan from what I experienced in 2001- 2002 in Tokyo.

At least the areas I have been in. (Which would be 1% of Japan maybe)
I could not believe they had vending machines that sold
laptops and other highly expensive items.

That thing would be robbed hours after it was mounted where I come from.

I have been told a couple of times, that if you commit violent crime against someone in Tokyo you need to be more worried about reprisals from organized crime than from the police.

I presume it is an urban myth but coming from the US it is hard to imagine how Japan is able to keep the streets as safe as they do.
"Compromise"? "Legitimate"?
These are some of the best videos on the internet. Keep on Keeping on JB
bello bello!
I didn't like that Google is the only option to sign up. And didn't like the 7 day free trial on providing credit card process. And the price is steep.
We really should have thought twice in Europe when MH17 was shot down and Russia took Crimea.

Instead we nodded slightly in disappointment and happily continued making ourselves dependent on Russian gas.
Unless you network like it's 1999.
> 2. There's no good objective way to measure C-level performance.

> On top of that, the best person for a given CXO job often just so happens to be a golfing buddy and/or have outside business dealings with half the board.

> C-level hiring market [isn't] some sort of efficient meritocracy

Those 3 things aren't contradictory, they each follow from the other. In absence of an objective way to measure performance, the best thing is "I have experience with this person, and can vouch that they're good." And so it totally makes sense that this sort of network-based hiring is what we see instead of a meritocracy.
How much savings do you have? I bet you can afford something. Usually when people say this, in my experience, it means they have some set of arbitrary requirements that aren't being fulfilled. That's fair enough, but you can afford something.
Well, given the amount of interest in mobile apps here, we'll think about prioritising it higher on our list.
It's not Japan's model driving housing costs low. It's the population growth rate.
Well, the problem with these sweeping statements is that there zero objectivity. There is no way to discuss or learn anything about it. There is no way to falsify it.

I could make the most easiest case that Singapore has better food than Dubai. Just because I said so.

I find them silly and not very useful.

Similarly, "I had the best ramen at this place" or "For authentic X food, you have to visit X" or "City X has the worst drivers" (Literally everyone says that about their city).
Discussed (a bit) here:

AsahiLinux's Introduction to Apple Silicon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699794 - March 2022 (5 comments)

Edit: I think it makes sense for us to change the URL from https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Apple-Silicon-Subsys... to this.

Lists of other pages tend not to make good HN submissions—as HN itself is already a list of pages, it's too much indirection. It's better to submit the most interesting element of the list. If there's a more interesting page than the overview one, we can change the above URL again.
... or when an ill-advised and insufficiently tested change to the internals of glibc suddenly causes threaded applications to misbehave ... great that it was fixed quickly, but for the "regular users" who suddenly found a variety of applications malfunctioning (but they each typically only used one, and hence blamed the application they used), a strong argument against rolling releases.
Every government is authoritarian to some extent. The question is how much liberty are you willing to give up in exchange for long-term stability and comfort?

To me, absolute liberty seems to be just as wrong of an answer as absolute authoritarianism.
https://m.facebook.com/TheStig/videos/drag-race-formula-e-vs...

And
F1 compared to McMurtry Spéirling EV at GoodWood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Q7a0hfp-A
There are various card puncher emulators in the web. I recently stumbled upon https://masswerk.at/keypunch/ which is very nice. In the old days, when X11 was cool, we had https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#x026
I have to assume it's partly because they never update Electron -- I've not been able to run it under Wayland for a few months now
> How can they have such prosperity with such a low tax rate and no natural resources?

Cheap foreign labour, long work hours, and a strategically important location.
Did you start the interview process without asking what it entails? Usually in the first call I find out how many rounds, what technical test etc. - it's a very natural thing to ask about. Then later on it's obvious if they're changing things halfway through or they just happen to have a tedious process.
I've definitely seen CEOs with enormous amounts of success (in the companies they led previously) bring in dogshit teams to their current company. I've also seen dogshit CEOs bring in amazing people.
Maybe Nazi Germany had a right to the Sudetenland? You can't just make these assertions as though we're talking hypothetically. Maybe in 2019 you could pass this bs but now that Russia went and invaded and is indiscriminately killing and kidnapping civilians it's beyond question that Russia is an unequivocal bad guy and Ukraine missed a chance to better protect themselves because Europe was too timid.
Yeah but they don't provide the documentation to reliably run said OS, so good luck with that.
love the idea! great for inspiration and it's nice to see in one picture what you can get for a set amount of $$.
About the security content of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6
Racecars are only really slowed down by two things.. budget and rules. Every year the cars get faster as teams budgets optimize the rule sets more and more. Often rules are created to slow the cars down, and to limit spending. If you let people spend unlimited money and have totally open rules, very quickly you'd have cars so fast they are completely unsafe on the tracks they are designated to race on.

MotogGP for example has tightened rules basically every few years to lower the gap between the top tier teams and the low budget teams, and to slow the bikes down. Even with that, the bikes top speeds are still rising and talk of unsafe speeds at certain corners grows every year.

If you just allowed 20% larger engine sizes and custom traction control, and variable aero, bike speeds would rise so high people would die every few races instead of every few years.
ICEs are lighter than electric ones, formula 1 will always be faster than anything.

I really have a hard time liking formula e, the lack of engine sound takes away lots of excitement.
Saudi Arabia has a history of vanity megaprojects which fail, several of which were cities like this one (albeit not with the line concept).
I am convinced that we need to move companies from effective hierarchical dictatorships to more democratic institutions. A CxO should be like an elected politician - representing some manifesto that is a coherent (!) package of measures and gets appointed maybe by an election amount employees / shareholders.

As such they need to persuade a majority of people who will supply the (human / financial) capital that their manifesto is the best option. They essential earn their way into the office.

Edit: I am also semi convinced that the hierarchical thing is half the problem. Having a single person make "the hard decisions" is usually a way to have the wrong decision made about 50% of the time. Somehow humanity has found science as good means of improving those odds. But for the sort of decisions we make in business (very little hard science) then I suspect democratic consensus might be a much better way to get a good decision.

(no this is not about decision by committee.)
Playing devil's advocate here.

Maybe being a golfing buddy does qualify for being a good CXO. To be a "golfing buddy", you need money and connections. Connections are important for that job, and wealth correlates with success and good finances, again important. Some of them are just born in wealthy families, but this is a positive, not a negative: wealthy family often give their kids good education, have lots of connections, and are used to being leaders. Golfing buddies also need to make good conversation, including on business topics, otherwise they won't stay buddies for long, again a valuable skill.

Being a golfing buddy certainly isn't an objective criteria, but it is not completely worthless, and it is easier to detect fakers when you spend a lot of time with them, or at least, it requires more effort from the faker. Objective criteria typically include past work, and CXOs usually have that too.
Having worked with IBM in the past, I can't fully trust their press releases...
>> The big part of rising housing prices or "scarce housing" or "demand exceeding supply" is really about desirable geographic locations.

Only to a point. Many desirable geographic locations have a lot of local factors that prevent additional housing from being built with the intent of housing more people (think homeowners defending their "property values", zoning laws, etc). Similarly, homes being "investments" means there's a self-perpetuating cycle; builders build luxury homes instead of multi-tenant buildings, because they know that's what companies want to buy (being flipped the easiest with the highest rate of return), so even when there is new land being developed, market forces push it to being an "investment" rather than housing people. Income inequality furthers this; why use the land and sell a modest home to a worker, when you could use the home and sell a luxury home at a much larger markup to the rich?
This is actually something I almost touch on in the article. Sideberry have a feature to store snapshots. So if I restart the browser, I just restore from there. I also have it set to save every 2 hours so that I can always recover from crashes.
With 32GB of RAM, I can have roughly around 3000 tabs open in firefox and 3000 in Chromium at the same time before things go unrecoverable wonky.
News is as much about breadth as depth. There's relevant news on topics I'm never going to read a book about. And a lot of news is very much written by experts and a lot books written by biased cranks.
I mostly disagree with your comment. Google sign-up is fine as a starting point for a product, I find the price is probably quite reasonable.

I can somewhat agree with requiring a credit card on sign-up, but it does give an idea of if people are REALLY willing to pay, or just kicking the can.
If the data centre status page is to believed there are no data-centre level incidents: http://status.equinix.com/ then again i don't know if they hooked in the fire detectors.

That and Linode state they are fixing it:

> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Aug 1, 22:28 UTC
The library customers can install app called "Google Authenticator" provided they own a smartphone. It works without network connectivity.

Just use the app to scan QR code when creating a Gmail account. Or do it anytime later. Then never use network connectivity to generate the 6-digit 2FA code.
It's not even clear to me that they lied. If someone claims the "true market value" of an asset is $X, and the owner accepts an offer of $X, then the market value of the asset is indeed $X, no?
Much discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32262856
A lot of anger in the comments here. Not exactly sure who it's directed at: the existence of connected people? The founder who makes the bad hiring decision? The fact that their compensation is so high? All of the above?

Unless you're advocating for capped compensation or removing autonomy in who a founder is allowed to hire, if you're angry, it's probably a form of jealousy. It's somewhat natural to feel jealous at people who don't "work hard enough" (by your standards) and yet reap larger rewards than you. Or who have seemingly casual lives (by your standards), yet get more opportunities. It's also easy to pretend that jealousy is actually selfless outrage and claim offense against everyone else (for whom your outrage represents).

But the same could likely be said about you, if you talked to the right people. Where I used to live, "Go home, tech bro" was common graffiti to see. I knew a woman in the beauty industry whose partner was in the tech industry. She resented how much money that he made because, her words, "she worked harder than he did." As if her idea of work was how value should be calculated.
On the contrary, I think it's really amazing to have silent racing cars!
> On a technical level, you can't install third party OSs without accepting the EULA first.

You absolutely can (no EULA when booting into recovery partition), and I’m also fairly sure that acceptance would be legally void, as it only applies to the software. The hardware you own, it’s not licensed to you.

And thanks to the first sale doctrine, there’s nothing stopping someone from starting to sell M1/M2 MacBooks running Asahi commercially.
Possibly leased.
"On a technical level..."

Sorry, what? Does buying a device from Apple contractually oblige me to turn on the phone and agree to the EULA on "first run"? What about second hand markets?

What if I was smart / tooled up enough to replace the Iphone flash storage with my own OS (without running "first run")?

At what "technical level" would what your saying make any sense? Because it seems far more like a "contractual condition of purchase" (I appear to have made that term up) issue vs a "technical" issue to me.
But I don't think the criticism was ever about economic development, or hell, even general happiness in Singapore.

Gibson even said "Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable... weirdness."

It was a commentary on culture and human behavior, an orthogonal topic.

He wasn't suggesting Singapore sacrifice economics for culture, or as far as I can tell, making any suggestion at all.

It is weird that so many people conflate the topics, as if art, history, and as Gibson would put it "weirdness" are inherently in conflict with material prosperity.
Sorry, this crass and trivially rebutted generalisation wasn't quite sweeping or divisive enough. Would you mind turning up the gratuitous dogma next time? Parochial culture warriors of all creeds will feed gratefully on the hyperbole.
No it’s just years of watching some average guy make millions for literally nothing
Apparently it's a power issue

https://twitter.com/linode/status/1554237287029940224
The GPL has a clause that mentions internal use.
What is the cost of this capability in terms of a browser's memory footprint, performance and security? In other words, if the browser could omit this capability would it be significantly smaller, faster and more secure?

If that were true, then perhaps there should be a "pro" or "enterprise" version of the browser at a different price point. Most users can easily limit themselves to about 10 tabs.
Maybe I am misunderstanding this comment, but is it a common occurrence for realtors to sell properties they don’t own?
Marketing tech app -- https://datacx.ai/ It's still early days but after being away from the marketing space for a few years, I'm so surprised at how little has changed. I want to help promote a better way to collaborate on analytics, starting with ecommerce and moving to broader CDPs.
Right, that's a major point. So why is it that we're ok with land prices rocketing? After all the immutable properties of land are not going to change from us pouring more money into it. You don't get more central London land from raising its price.

It's like a sink that eats up economic gains.