skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in some sense it feels like we want to live off the fat of the land so to speak.

And this totally doable, and I think a lot of people could live in leisure for quite a while.

At some point though unless we live much more nomadically and never storing up for the future, we will need to make sacrifices in life again for some higher goal, to those who come after us in order to once again have the fat of the land.

This is just the way of life though.
Thing is they have products that we use personally and all of those are linked to GCP. So if we do a chargeback on GCP billing that was by error, nobody to respond, they have the potential to impact ALL of our personal Google accounts.

Doesn't get more dystopian than this. Fuck Google.
Ask HN: What is your favorite retro game?
Paradroid
Clipping or culling? I expect it’s mostly the latter unless your camera ends up intersecting the geometry.
I'm not familiar with a definition of collective organizing that requires the conditions you describe, however I am fine with working with your definition.

My comment (rather sarcastically) alludes to the fact that Apple employees are coming together and making a demand. It surprises me how many people will immediately shill for the employer's position and act shocked that employees would collectively ask for something. "Can't they just go work somewhere else?"
They are at the '20% company tax' stage
Any videos of this in action?
"RTFM" - The manual
> They will come with a cellular modem built in, and you won't be able to block it.

Haha, joke's one them. I live in a nice apartment in the middle of a major US city, and in my last 3 apartments, cell signal reception was ranging between 1 bar and no signal reception at all. Good luck with a built-in cell modem here.

Thankfully, wifi calling is a thing working by default. So having almost no cell reception at home has exactly zero effect on my phone usage.
Actually telling things you like is a good thing. Why would it be a bad thing? Getting zero job offers is mostly, at least from my experience, a result of lacking the needed soft or hard skills (sadly errors can occure here - false negatives) or someone who doesnt meet organizational requirements (like the things we discussed here). In my process I tell in the first contact, that I am looking to fill a full time position in my team. If the candidate neither at the end of this call or in the organzation process for the second meeting says, that working full time is not an option, well sorry, thats just unfair. My opinion.
Their stock price is pegged at new customer acquisition. They signed up over 6k new customers last qtr. This is one of their top stats that they present to investors.
Only competition can enforce this. The article ideally demonstrates the problems with monopolies and vendor lock-in.
They’re arrested for being street-blocking twats, to the cheers of everyone with somewhere to be. Pooling donations to install insulation would have been fine. But no. No interest in that.
We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation
> It's not that the software might not be good, or might not help them, but "it should just be free".

The problem is not that the software is unfree (i.e. the software costs money), the problem is that the software is unfree (i.e. the license is proprietary).

Source-available software is usually not as flexible as free and open source software, because it has additional restrictions on how the code can be used or redistributed. When there are two software options with equivalent feature sets, and one is source-available while the other is FOSS, it makes sense in many cases to prefer the FOSS one for its more flexible licensing.

The main exception is if a developer is selling proprietary software and wants to incorporate copylefted FOSS in a way that would be incompatible with the license, in which case a custom licensing agreement (multi-licensing) could satisfy both parties.
State a fact about the Spanish Flu, get downvoted by an anti-vax moron. Classic!
And American uses for the tech are OK?
> Are you really suggesting that housing costs should average around £1400 per year

Relative to wages in the UK, absolutely. The working class is getting absolutely fleeced over there.

> I strongly disagree that nearly 20% of the median household income

Same thing here, there's two sides to every equation. The UK has to import almost all of it's energy, importing is expensive.

It seems to me, global energy demands are outstripping supply, and energy is going to become a permanently larger portion of everyone's budget. The way of life we've enjoyed the last 70+ years in the western world, that life is quickly changing.
Some people fumble things in their hands, it’s not carelessness. Just differences between people, hand eye coordination, etc.
Private persons have to pay income tax when they sell their shares for a profit. So there is no way to avoid the income tax and getmoney out of the company without taxes.
No worries, and no rush or anything. Was really just curious more than anything!
But Silicon Valley isn't even a fixed geographical location before. It used to refer only to the South Bay. But during this tech boom, it has spread to as far as San Francisco to the north, and to the East Bay. It's a very fluid entity with no fixed boundaries.

Facebook was started at Harvard, it only moved to Palo Alto later on. Does that make it truly a Silicon Valley company, or a johnny come lately? What about Amazon or Microsoft, the standard-bearers of the Seattle tech scene? Are they somehow not Silicon Valley even if their industry impact and business practices line up exactly with the rest of the Silicon Valley crowd? Perhaps it can be said that in some contexts, "Silicon Valley" can be synonymous with "the American tech industry in general."
Wait are you saying the BQ db engine is not following logical expectations? You do realize a "limit" clause doesn't prevent a full table scan in all cases, right?
> What exactly happens under the hood?

A row oriented DB puts data in storage by putting for each row all columns after another, and then rows after rows in memory. A column oriented DB splits storage by columns instead, putting everything thats in a column next to each other.

Given columns A, B, C:

row-oriented:
A1,B1,C1,A2,B2,C2,A3,B3,C3, ...

column oriented:
A1,A2,A3 ... B1,B2,B3, ... C1,C2,C3, ...

Accessing data that's next to each other is faster than accessing data that's split apart, and reading more data takes longer than reading less data - hence the difference in access speeds. (The details are of course more complicated, but this is what the fundamental idea boils down to)
Are you sure the desire not to be imprisoned or killed isn't aesthetic?
> You can provide a better quality of life than any child had 100 years ago, for very little money. So why exactly would money be the limiting factor?

Because no one is setting their expectations (including child welfare agencies) on “what was practical 100 years ago”.
I don't know how old your kids are, but mine are 3 & 5 and they can seat and buckle on their own, so that extra time doesn't last for too long at least (seats are mostly annoying when I need to transfer the seats to another car and then back to mine)
Generally the point of underwriting is to look at the specific individual and write a policy that accounts for their own particulars. Otherwise nobody would take any policy in any case where they would come out behind, so the insurance pool would be 100% 'adverse selection'. Insurance companies need to come out ahead on every policy, on average, that's how they're written.

A practical example of this, my insurance company told me to cut down a tree they thought was too close to my house for example (and I agree, it was a pine which tend to blow down, and it was too close), or else it would have affected my rates, and if you have particular high-risk breeds of dogs (dog attacks are covered by insurance) you will pay more as well.

In this case - if you keep making claims against your homeowner's for accidental damage to contents, even via a separate high-value-property rider, that is going to be accounted for the next time your renewals come around. And the next underwriter will be able to see those claims as well, those claims data are shared.

I had a high-value-property policy on a laptop (through USAA) and made a claim, they actually tried to come through to my parent's homeowners' insurance as well (which my parents didn't like and they backed them down lol). USAA is great in general, great about paying up when the bill comes due but, insurance is insurance.

So if you want to be nitpicky - no, they do come out ahead on any specific policy, on average - that is the point of diligence in underwriting, to account for those individual-specific factors. Even if you are "riskier than average", they will eventually account for that too. What is true that once written, they either win or they don't - and some policies they will lose. But the expected net value is biased to the house, on every single policy, given the best information they have.

In economic terms: perhaps there is some alpha that you as an individual can extract with your precise knowledge vs an unaware underwriter - but over time as you exploit that, the alpha will decrease to zero, because it will show up in your claim data. Just like any other market, alpha decreases to zero.

The house always wins in insurance, on average. You're not special, you aren't going to beat the house in the long term. Insurance is a "smoothing" tool, it lets you break a $5k lump expense out into $50/mo payments, it's not free money.
So I agree with you, they can.

But a lot of them aren’t 24 years old with no obligations who can throw away their stock comp on a whim, so it makes sense for them to complain.

With that said, they’re all going to end up hybrid at best; it just makes no sense for Apple/Google to have it any other way.
But not the only laptop vendor to choose from.

There’s a free market to sell laptops in. What terms are attached are up to the consumer to consider.

Many people are happy with Apples terms. That some technologists are not is not evidence of a conspiracy.

Contemporary problem solving does not have to contort itself to the philosophy and nostalgia of some computer nerds. Same as we don’t have to kowtow to a Bible; it’s not about the what but who; present/future meat bags don’t owe past meat bags. No one asked to be born.
Oh God! I love this already!

My personal website homepage was looking too dull and boring. I was thinking of throwing everything out the window and starting from scratch without using any external libraries and such, making it retro style with retro looks

this is going to help a lot.
Even if all your employees worked 4-days week doesn't mean your business opens only 4-days week. You simply ensure the amount of workers who are off on Monday is the same as the number of workers that are off on Friday. You only need to increase headcount by 20% if you make all your employees 4-days week. Which is a lot but not a "massive increase", especially you will be paying them 20% less each.
Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M
I wonder if Biden's proposal to tax based on reported income to shareholders instead of taxable income, will change that for public companies: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-bidens-minimum-b...
Clickhouse is incredible software. It only feels a little foreign when coming from Postgres (e.g. some CamelCase terms).
> you're just going to have to implement support shader variants

I admittedly have zero experience with Mesa, but it seems like shader variants is something that should be common infrastructure? Though of course the reason that a variant is needed would be architecture specific.
I often analyze tools as reduction from the space of problems × resources to the space of outcomes.

Let's consider Snowflake in this paradigm

- Problems: analytics on data that is not laid out in a way that's directly accessible for analysts.

- Resources: SQL analysts, few or no competent data engineers, spare cash

- Outcomes: run analytics at an industrial scale without requiring competent engineers or DevOps.

Since Snowflake's optimal client gets very easily locked in, it follows up that saving said client's money is not something even the client would care about
Use the noreply email address that GitHub provides for your commits. You certainly shouldn't have to but this feature exists because you have to:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
If anyone out there is in a similar situation, building a new computer, especially if you have a lot of parts from an old computer to cannibalize, is actually quite easy and much less expensive than buying a new pre-built PC.

Don't be intimidated! If you can turn a screwdriver, you can build a PC.

(For an upgrade, you can often buy just the motherboard with CPU already attached, potentially also upgrading the power supply and RAM. Or upgrade the drive if you're running out of space. Or upgrade the graphics card if you want to play games. Everything else is pretty static and just plugs in.)
Maybe it's just me, but I have an almost visceral negative reaction to being cold emailed by a company or salesperson, even if it's something I might find useful or solves a problem for me. This doesn't happen with individuals (I like receiving emails from new people!); but I any amount of "business" context (i.e., sensing profit as an ulterior motive) makes me not want to engage at all.
Anytime your cloud spend with a single vendor starts to get out of hand, you just call and negotiate. If you make a multi-year commitment, they'll apply a substantial discount. Also, $100k/yr is still cheap compared to the cost of developers. Not just in terms of actual price tag, but risk management because a SaaS won't quit for a better offer.
I picked one example of information that was not anecdotal.
Do you use BigInt in your Node codebase or do you use number?
Both. You almost always need both.

Clipping deals with geometry that is partially inside the camera. Culling (either for backfaces or entire instances) is a preliminary performance optimization that can be performed in a variety of ways.
It's a valid option, but an alternative is to stay in the country and try to lobby and advocate for change within the country.

There is a certain point where lobbying and advocacy can be futile, and emigration is a stronger option. For example, in Venezuela's recent history, it went from a prosperous country to an economically devastated one, and the population fell in the 2010s as a result [0].

However, Belgium is in a much better place in terms of political stability. It's far more likely that advocacy can be effective. However, it takes a lot of time, and you can give up a lot of potential earnings by staying and trying to advocate. If one has an attachment to a country, especially as a citizen, one can find a lot of value in trying to introduce reforms instead of emigrating.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=Venezuela+population+over+ti...
Graphene as 'the philosopher's stone': Turning waste into gold
What's so special about Facebook? Before Facebook there was MySpace and before that there were others. During Facebook there were many competitors, some big, some small, but Facebook managed to hold out the longest.

Years before Facebook introduced DMs people were chatting on MSN and video calling over Skype. MSN and Skype were everywhere before Facebook took over, and if they weren't, alternatives like AIM were.

There's nothing technologically or ideologically superior to Facebook. Most new and interesting features have been a result of acquisition rather than internal drive for advancement. Facebook rolled out calling in 2013, three years after Skype did. Skype translator came out in 2014, Facebook added their version in 2018. Google Chat introduced a translation bot all the way back in 2012.

Their current quest for innovation centers around the Metaverse, something nobody but Facebook seems to want to be a thing. Even that is just the unholy amalgamation of Second Life and VRChat. The big difference there is that people actually use Second Life and VRChat.

Facebook made the best business model out of scraping the stuff people somehow fed freely into their system. It's one of the few remaining social media companies, that's it. None of the inventions you quoted were done by Facebook, they just copied features others thought out and merged them into a single place to become the bloated tech giant it is today.
36 is the largest number of exposures available on a roll of film (in US the brands most commonly available were FUJI or Kodak). Normally 12, 24, or 36. So the split frame would allow you to take a maximum of 72 exposures. The format is still 35MM. (ok so this was based on memory)

But I did notice that the number 40 was red on the counter implying significance. I quick google search revealed the same question and answer plus additional manuafacturer: AGFA

https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/20-exposure-35mm-film-...

"Got an offer to buy several hundred rolls of packaged Agfa APX 400 speed film. It is all in 20 exposure
cassettes. Where have I been that I don't recall "20 exposure" rolls? Were they a special run for point-of-
purchase at some kind of strange outfit like (insert schlock discount store here) or a serious product?...."

"They used to make 20 expsure rolls before they switched over to 24 per roll. That change happened in the 70s I believe, so the film is probably pretty old if it has got only 20 exposures per roll. While thats my best guess, you could be right, and it could have been special order."

The camera is from 1961 so would have reference to 20 exposure rolls.
These are extremely thin. I'm not trying to get into a political debate since we could go on forever, but here goes:

>Withdrawal from Syria.

He withdrew from Syria, and also started the withdrawal process from Afghanistan because he was vocally against engaging the US in forever wars. GOOD. That's hardly a position that supports Russia.

>The G7 invite.

Again trying to prevent global conflicts. He talked extensively about Russia as a threat to Europe. This is in alignment with his work on things like the Abraham accords (middle east peace) and the work he did on Korean peace deals (which he made massive progress on).

>Pulling out of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.

I don't know anything about this, but pulling the US out of a treaty hardly seems like a legitimate concern unless you want to say the same thing about Obama literally just ignoring the agreement we had with Ukraine that would have obligated us to support them when Russia invaded in 2014.

Obama definitely wasn't a "Russian asset" for not starting a war over Ukraine.

>Attempting to blackmail Ukraine for his own political gains.

This is an absurd overstatement of what happened. Aid was never withheld from Ukraine (unlike the previous administration, which was also not run by Russian assets). Also: anti corruption efforts are hardly "his own political gains" unless you want to frame "anti corruption" as a strictly Trump-aligned idea.

>You might also recall he called for the US to withdraw from NATO.

Hardly. He said that if European countries weren't going to pay their legally obligated contributions to NATO, then the US wouldn't either. Obviously this is a bargaining technique to get them to uphold their obligations. I fail to see how negotiating to get European countries to increase their defense budgets explicitly to defend against Russia is aligned with Russian interests.

>When he still denied Russian activities relating to the election, despite the Mueller report and Senate investigation confirming it

Again I think you've been bitten by fake news here, and this highlights, again, the problem: what do you think "Russian activities relating to the election" were? Some memes on 4chan? A few thousand dollars worth of facebook ads?

>MH17

MH17 was shot down by Russia during Obama's term, and Obama did nothing. He also continued doing nothing while Russia invaded Ukraine, refusing to even send them weapons. Obama wasn't a Russian asset either.

Again: the entire idea of Trump as having anything to do with Russia came from a hoax. That was fake news, and it is still interfering with people's ability to make informed decisions about the US government. It's extremely frustrating.
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So, what are unix/linux sysadmin supposed to do ? Move everything to WSL and learn Powershell ? Wasn't there a Powershell for linux project at some point ?
So I quite like trains and multi modal transport generally.

But if trucks are electric then it's not totally obvious to me that trains would win on cost or environmental factors despite the obvious advantage of tracks and direct electrification. They're already trialing overhead wires on some highways for electric trucks.

Luckily we don't need to choose between them anyway.
The big 3 laptop vendors (Dell, HP and Lenovo) all offer a next business day warranty, usually worldwide. To have an engineer show up at my home and business and repair the computer in a matter of hours is a much better experience than having to trek to an Apple store, make an appointment and be told that the entire unit has to be replaced.
Exactly. For enterprise customers in particular, replacing a SaaS tool that's deeply intertwined with many internal systems is about as easy and convenient as it is for a homeowner to rip out his/her home's existing HVAC system to replace it with a newer, more efficient one. No one ever wants to do that -- unless there's absolutely no other choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia
> It is clear this 'Self Service Repair' model is designed to prevent independent repair shops from making money, therefore eliminating them. In what way is this good for the consumer?

The quality can be highly questionable. One shop first put an old battery in my MacBook, and after I complained they put in a new one from a bad manufacturer which ended up breaking touchpad and keyboard.
On my iMac a different store installed the wrong screen (from the previous model that had ghosting issues and wasn’t as bright) - I ended up changing it myself for around EUR250 instead of 700 the store charged or 1100 Apple wanted. Also the screws were loose on the MacBook and the camera and microphone weren’t aligned on the iMac. I obviously went to different stores and checked the reviews before, but it didn’t help.

Ideally it should be simple enough to make these repairs- on the same MacBook I replaced a broken fan which worked perfectly fine for four years. You really don’t know what happens in the store.

That being said, I don’t think apple is seriously interested in helping users with this, it starts with the design of products. My old MacBook Pro retina was so much more robust than the new m1 pro I had to replace it with. The iMac screen is just silly with the easily breaking glass front that makes you replace the whole thing and also with the inaccessible drives.
Estonia is a lot closer to the Russia missiles and planes, though.
Not much for you but a lot for others. This type of arrogance really doesn't belong in this space. Maybe you spend $25,000? $250,000? peanuts to large companies so its okay that Google cloud drops the ball on you?
Hi, author here, AMA!
It's also related to the idea that personal freedom trumps many/most other interests. That's probably good, however it does mean that people may choose to live outside of mainstream society and in our metaphorical faces. What can we do about that without curtailing all of our freedoms?
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No. It doesn’t. That’s where the travel router came in. It presents itself as one MAC address using one of its radios and exposes another interface for your devices. I was staying in an extended stay and we had computers and a WiFi printer set up. We were waiting for our house to be built.

I was just informed that Apple added support for captive networks in March.