skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An average citizen is not Apple's target market though, especially in poor countries where one excessively impoverished section brings down the whole population's average income. But these countries' marketable section of the population can be as formidable as that in any developed country. Hell, India's potential market is possibly bigger than that of several rich countries combined due to its sheer population size.
I switched from Android to iPhone around 5 years ago and the universal back button is the one thing I missed a lot but eventually found out that this wasn't a good design decision.
Patreon executive salary is $250k. You really think cutting that is going to make a drop in the bucket for 80 employees?
> ... how much a rocket cost....

The "rocket" example is as silly as the "Moore's Law applied to vehicles" arguments that used to crop up on Slashdot decades ago.

"If cars improved according to Moore's law, they'd get XXXX miles per gallon and go YYYY miles per hour". Yes, and they'd also be smaller than matchboxes while seating thousands of people.

Exceptional situations are exceptional. Good on Elon Musk for realising that there was a large latent demand for launch-to-orbit services. Well done, that chap. But you can't generalize from that to everything else. Or anything else, really.[1]

With respect to the rest of your argument, I understood that Amazon makes most of its profit from AWS, while stories about its ruthless exploitation of its warehouse staff are legion. Those factoids don't square with your argument that Amazon is making excess profits.

1. Take luxury yachts for example, which are about as expensive as rockets. The bill of materials would be a slightly larger fraction of the final cost than for rockets, but the same reasoning would seem to apply. Why has no-one "Musked" luxury yachts?
As someone who watched a company grow from 15 to 400 people in a rushed time, I found that distinguishing good manager from the bad ones is easy. Good manager cares and bad manager don't.

Bad manager asks questions, but then discard the part that is not important to them, even though the team needs the manager to understand it.

Good manager asks questions and understand (at least try to) if this is important for the team, for the project, and for the company. When they ask about deadlines and estimate, they ask why, and they try to deduct, and they remember. Good manager that works in the business selling technical product attempt to understand the technical part of the product instead of blindly "delegating" it and demanding things done.

Good manager tries to improve all aspect in the team. The process efficiency. The communication blockers.

I've seen first hand a manager, having no technical background, getting capable of reading C++ code over time to help the struggling team, and yet does not realize to have been so technical. Kind of having an impostor syndrome. Because they care so much.

I've also seen first hand a manager that only cares about deadlines and presenting good stuff upwards. They don't care about details unless asked by their superior. And once asked for details, they act like messenger owls and echo servers.
There's lots of science that can't be reproduced before publishing or where reproducing doesn't help:

* Theoretical work
* Computer simulations (re-run the simulation? Well that's not going to detect most issues. Re-create the program from scratch? expensive and hard to make a re-write meaningfully different systematically)
* Cosmological observations (can't re-run that supernova!)
* Medical case studies (can't just find a new patient)
* Large scale studies (build a second LHC? Do results based on the Framingham Study have to kick off another 30 years of data collection before they publish)

In fact it's only small and self contained experiments where this is really practical.
Look at the different stakeholders in the system. Who is the provider of what service? The fundamental separation and removal of custody and trust is precisely what makes something like Tornado Cash a completely different thing than a traditional tumbler / mixing service.
Conversely gesture support on Android is forever broken. You should expect side edge swipes to work as the back button. But most apps have panels displayed using the same gesture.
Yes, this is incredibly easy to use: https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
(This is a framework which was released in 2017.)
This is super interesting. Was not aware of this. Is there a proof that this is not provable?
Ninety Will Be the New 40 in 10 Years' Time
A hockey stick is the initial part of an S-curve. A point to consider is that all complex systems are functions of multiple variables and more often than not, non-linear. A complete view of the past and the present is not a guarantee of the future. At best, it can be a guide for having cautious behavior.
> Stop perpetuating shit you read on some gamer forum

Whoa brother, maybe cool your jets and don’t make hasty assumptions. I was a lead game dev for a decade. I didn’t work on Call of Duty, but I did work on some large titles, and I did put in two decades of work hours in one decade. The studio I worked at was always perpetually on the edge of closing, and that was used to push people to work harder.

I also worked another decade in VFX too, and saw the same things. In the mean time, both studios actually did suffer closures for the reasons I cited, and they were both replaced by other studios. If you have experience to share and not just logic, I’d love to hear more about it. Otherwise, I’d encourage being careful about making assumptions. The business world is already tricky and exploitative, tearing people down who point it out doesn’t solve much.
I always thought so too, but I think what's actually going on is that MDN is like an engineering professor, and w3schools is like a high school shop teacher. The former gives you information that is more correct and deeper but can linger too long on technical minutiae. The latter has a more superficial understanding of technicalities but a stronger grasp of practicalities and how to get things done. This characterization seems mostly fair from what I'm reading in this thread (beginners prefer w3schools, seasoned hackers prefer MDN), and it may well be that w3schools doesn't even need to do any advanced SEO hacking to overtake MDN because amateur web devs outnumber veteran professional web devs.
It goes the other way too - there were definitely a few CYOA-style books set in the Zork! universe. Although I will say the Zork ones did let you make arguably cruel decisions.
Impressive technically, with very smooth and intuitive movement.

I would prefer to see a key legend that I have to close. "Figure shit out yourself" when I've got a hundred keys to choose from is... not good.

Gameplay was frustrating. I kept taking damage from stupid things like spikes but never found energy pickups. After I made my fourth or fifth movement mistake and took significant penalties for it each time (bones scatter when dying but upon my return they were not there to pick up), I did not want to continue playing.
> If you trust github then you can use them as a key broker like the "User SSH Keys from GitHub" section suggests, if all of your committers are github users.

Additionally you can enable "Vigilant Mode" to make it obvious when commits are untrusted.

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-04-28-flag-unsigned-commi...
> But wouldn't the message be quite clear—if you want a job here, or if you want to keep your job (especially if you're untenured), or if you want a promotion, you'd be wisest to express pro-war positions, or at least keep your anti-war positions to yourselves? And is that consistent with the First Amendment and academic freedom principles?

Yes, the message is quite clear. Universities want people who appreciate diversity. I'm not sure the war analogy is the amazing argument the author thinks it is. Like the author is saying, "wouldn't it be wrong if universities asked a leading question about war? Then why is ok to ask for DEI statements?" But what the author misses is that, if being pro-war aligned with the university's goals, then yes, the university would be right to ask a leading, pro-war question. I'm sure departments ask plenty of leading questions on more mundane, less contentious topics. There's a reason why individual universities gain reputations for having specific "schools of thought." There is always an element of self-selection.
Ah, right, and the port is right at the bottom (whereas the the HP laptop's port is mounted a bit higher, and with the slight bevel has room to open).
The machine shop I work at still runs machines that use 5 hole paper tape.

In fact there is a fixture in the shop we just finished on one of those machines that is for an aerospace customer of ours.

It’s very interesting to me and something I hadn’t seen before working at this shop.

It’s amazing what is still out there running.
Always an enjoyable one

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/
I have formed a lot of relationships online. But that is because I am good at doing so. Even then it took months to form real bonds. It would not have taken months if I knew what common ground to have conversations on from the start.
And who is the arbiter of language that decides which usage is silly and clunky?

Usage is usage. What is clunky and silly is complaining against language that is perfectly clear and understandable, whatever words it uses.
Hindsight is 20/20. Now we do have empirical knowledge (from Brazil, but also Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Myanmar) that moving the capital away doesn't solve any problem. Not protests, and definitely not a population concentration and disparity. We gotta find better solutions to those problems.
I worked for 3 months in a building projected by Oscar Niemeyer. It was an horrible experience.

The building is on this foto [1], the Jetsons-like structure in the front didn't exist back then. It was just the long white slab on the back, without windows. Behind there is a preserved rainforest. The place is very humid and, for aesthetic reasons, the building had no windows and horrible ventilation. It was cold and very moldy and respiratory diseases were very common among the staff.

As some people say in Brazil, as an architect, Niemeyer was a very good sculptor.

However, some brazilian disciples of him (e.g: Ruy Ohtake) are actually careful about the comfort and well being within their projects.

[1] https://curitibaspace.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Muse...
I’d take balut over chicken feet any day - this has been controversial in the past
They all either have friction (email) or lack critical mass in my communities (telegram, Whatsapp, signal, etc.)
Should we trust ScoMo's $170bn submarine deal?
Why Railroad Workers Like Me Are Planning to Strike This Friday
> sliding them into the drive and hearing the motor whirr

... and praying that there is no read error.

That was my experience in this part of the world where the computer environments were not dust-free enough for floppies to be reliable. But yes, the nostalgia is still strong.
Good for minimal stuff that’s fire and forget. Their official GitHub Repo is not in sync with the latest release on their website. CSS classes often contain !important rules which makes it harder to customize. No use of css variables so good luck with darkmode. They don’t make use of flexbox or css grid.
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I have been loving your comments. I very strongly agree with your other comment about how to do you get two introverts to talk? of course people will offer up info to the managers.

If you don't mind, please check out what we are doing here: https://www.getparallel.io/

We are big fan of WFH and want it to stay. We just wrapped up our MVP and talking to accelerators.
I always questioned his openness to share his handle considering his association with cDc. But I guess there is enough plausible deniability, or his utility is so great, that people will look past it.

I doubt anyone would be shocked a hacker was involved in "legally shady" things. If they want dirt they're probably going to be looking for other things of a more personal nature.
it's a good thing Marissa Mayer came in to buy Tumblr as a strategic acquisition for Yahoo! for 1 Billion dollars (after Tumblr imploded).
Very Star Trek, I don’t know much about architecture but I do find curves and circles much more pleasant, if less efficient, than 90 degree angles everywhere.
Redhat acquisition of Makara (Aug 2021) probably enabled a sweeter price point for CxO to buy and virtual host themselves.
Ferrari Purosangue SUV Revealed
LaTeX and git work really well and you can push to somewhere remote as a backup (and will usually retain the ability to pick through the ref-logs if something goes wrong). LaTeX is super super popular in the academic world and it wouldn't be surprising for a thesis to be required to be submitted in LaTeX anyway.

Github has a word-by-word visual diff thing that would be really nice since usually you don't want to consider whitespace to be semantically significant in the context of a diff, eg word wrapping.

The business world likes to fret over every detail and I get it but a lot of powerpoint presentations/etc could really be done pretty simply with a latex template, and git checkin/merging/etc is sooo nice. Let alone chapter material or stuff that needs equations/figures, a bibliography manager, table of contents, etc. Super super nice for cross referencing, kind of like a generalized form of javadocs, and it does layout pretty well with some help, and it doesn't randomly spazz out and break borders etc.

Etckeeper is really nice for change tracking for your /etc folder too... love being able to look back and see if there's been any changes that might have broken stuff, get a log of package updates etc.
You don't even have the beginnings of any meaningful predictive curve with just a few data points. It's just selective function fitting if there's not a rich data set. For example, you can draw many curves through 2 data points, but you can also draw a straight line. The Our World in Data "Primary vs. planted forest" data that he cites for the "Old Growth Forest Cover" chart has just 2 data points (1990 and 2019).
Been through all of them.

Saw the writing on the wall for each of those and left before I was the one laid off.
For those who don't know the difference between COGS and BOM:

- BOM includes only the materials.

- COGS includes not only BOM, but also the variable costs to combine those materials into the final product (e.g. cost of manufacturing labor).
Ask HN: Good resource to learn about audio streaming?
I have a remote browser app that needs to stream audio and after wrestling with this for many years I finally got the latency down for the audio to around 1 second. The main way to that I reduced like 5 seconds of lag was basically renicing the MP3 encoding process. but no matter what priority or what kind of different processes in the pipeline reniced I couldn't get the leg beyond 2 seconds. I discovered that most of the lag was due to actually encoding using lame on the server into MP3 and that if I used wave format even though it's a lot more bandwidth that brought the latency down to under 1 second.

The problem then is the wave format is a lot of bandwidth so when your bandwidth drops, the audio can become delayed or gappy. I tried downsampling it to 20KHz but that introduced comparable lag to MP3 encoding.

My idea now is that somehow I can air quotes break the audio stream into little pieces and stream it over webRTC to the browser but I don't understand anything about how audio is streamed in a way that is able to respond to changing bandwidth conditions.

My plan is to use pulseaudio RTP source to send it over the network and I want to pick it up with webrtc in the browser but maybe that's not possible, or wouldn't give me the low latency streaming that I want.

Anyway I know I simply do not understand enough about this and I couldn't really find any good resources where I can learn about it so I'm just asking here if anyone can point me in the right direction or give me some advice about this that would be awesome.
The back button reminds me of clearing cache. It is easy, but "when" is hard. With the back button, easy, but where!? [back to the app you opened? or back to the email that triggered it? or the notification that pop'ed up? or trigger the browser back?]
Use of hydrogen on a train is a bit stupid though - trains are the the one mobile power use where there's no real benefit to being able to dump the ash into the environment. You may as well just supply good primary battery reactants, such as zinc, or sodium and sulfur, which can be efficiently be recharged somewhere away from the train.
Yep. Egypt is trying to do it now. Vox had a great video on that recently.
> (by today's standards)

I think this is the crux of it: if "today's standards" means every leaf on a tree is an individual element that moves under its own logic in a forest of infinitely visible trees, or straight photorealistic graphics, the Switch won't be there.

But most games don't need to go these lengths, the latest Splatoon 3 has way simpler graphics than that, but visually there's nothing that feels odd or hurts the eye. It looks "good".
Same.

We broke it at least once but now it’s fixed.
I think pages 2-8 of his whistleblower report (the executive summary) are pretty clear and precise. If anyone commenting on this thread hasn't read his report already—the actual report, not just stories about it in the press—I would strongly encourage them to do so.

The wheels of justice move slowly. Wall Street may be betting on the FTC being slow to take action, or not taking action due to political pressure, limited resources, etc. I don't think just looking at Twitter's stock price is a fair way to evaluate the truthfulness of Mudge's claims.
A bit old but there’s this writeup on bypassing BattlEye: https://secret.club/2020/07/06/bottleye.html
While in some places Communism has definitely been responsible for atrocities, in many countries (especially Western Europe, Asia and South America) Communist parties have been on the frontline of liberation movements, indigenous rights, human rights, workers’ conditions, etc.
That’s why for many Communism != atrocities.
> Regardless, a retractable "XJACK"[0] from the PCMCIA days might have been a better choice for this

Ah thanks for finding the name, I tried to describe it in an older comment [1], on the same topic of Framework laptop expansions.

Agree with you, I hope such a version exists one day!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609464
You might be off by an additional order or perhaps two!
(It's a day ending in y, so here I go again...)

It depends on the sign of the exponent. Negative exponential growth, as we see in wild animal populations, is not guaranteed to turn into an S-curve. As the passenger pigeon would attest, were any of them left.

Meanwhile, to consider a positive exponent case, there's a real question of what will actually cause the bend in the curve of human population. Will it be getting our collective shit together and slowing down? Or will it be a massive die-off after we've destroyed the ecosystems we depend on for things like air to breathe and water to grow our crops?
Why do you think that not one of the capitals of any of the 50 states is in the largest city? And why the national capital city is Washington DC rather than New York City? Same reason.
I swear I see a new bit of insanity every day.

But for starters how about the idea that a trans-man doesn’t just identify as a man, but is a man. In other words, embracing delusion and denying biology.

Or how about girls feeling uncomfortable in their own bathrooms and locker rooms because a biological male is allowed in their safe space?

Or how about the stuff that’s just plain silly. Like this recent Men’s Health article where a straight man is told that his preference for a real vagina is actually a vulva fetish and that he’s actually bisexual since “technically” a woman and a trans-man can both have vulvas.

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a41018711/sexplain-it-v...

I could honestly go on and on and on.
I think the main difference between built in jacks on laptops and this expansion card is that this needs to have all the circuitry to be a USB ethernet adapter on top of the actual jack. I imagine it's a challenge to fit that in alongside the jack itself, although hopefully people will keep iterating on the design - maybe we'll see a better third party one if the Framework laptop is successful enough.
His accusations include “Twitter was dismissive when informed about foreign nation spies in their ranks”. That’s not comparable to “any business that uses computers”.
You're right that having security report to engineering is not unusual. It's also not a great idea due to conflicts of interest, but not unusual.
Sad they didn’t mention Rayuela (Hopscotch) by Julio Cortázar when talking about multiple-paths literature.
It's going to get worse. Hard to have lived through it when it's not over yet though.
Interesting, it does seem plausible that the cause is the VMWare price hike; as they specifically stated aiming at large enterprises because they’re slow to move, I wonder whether they may be overplaying their hand.

On the other hand, it’s hard to imagine these enterprises moving have a million of VMs before the end of the year, so they probably do have a point. But it just seems like short-sighted short-term thinking here, giving up enterprise market share in exchange for some additional $ now.
I bet Elon has never heard it called that before. He has 11 children after all!
Profit isn’t controversial either way

It doesnt need to be rationalized

To consumers, anyway
> The machine shop I work at still runs machines that use 5 hole paper tape.

Where do you get blank tape? I know Teletype collectors who need a supplier.

I've never seen 5-hole tape CNC gear. Most is 8-hole.
OP here. I assumed that many people needed to quit for a company to implode.

turns out I was wrong!
> So we’ve been hearing “This will be the year of the Linux desktop” every year for at least a decade

This has been a meme for longer than it was taken seriously.
In experimental fields, when submitting to Nature / Science / Cell, it's likely that your work ends up getting reviewed by someone who sees you as a competitor (this mentality drives me mad).

Hence, they will sometimes try to make sure you don't publish or at least get downgraded to sister journals, such as Nature Communications.

Another problem are editorial decisions. Great work is often desk rejected because it's judged not to be significant or interersting enough (usually the author comes from a less prominent university).

For example, the original CRISPR article was desk rejected by most journals and the fact that the author's affiliation was a no-name research centre in Alicante (Spain) surely played a role. This delayed CRISPR getting widely known by a few years...
I love modernist architecture. Not so much the exterior of Niemeyer's buildings but the interior of this one reminds me of a building I commuted along every day, the Czech embassy in Berlin. https://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/16269951
Why is it that seemingly every space designed by an avowed communist looks completely uncomfortable to spend literally any amount of time in it?
Fantasy fiction of a sysadmin that uses anonymity on the internet to craft themselves into someone more important than they are in real life.