skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government ownership/operation is rarely a problem by itself. With the right management structures and incentives, they can be as productive and efficient as privately run businesses. In some examples, they can actually out-preform privately run businesses.

Around the world, there are many (partially) publicly owned logistics companies (airlines, cargo shipping lines) that are good examples of this working well. They can easily be profitable for the government owning them during the good times, they can actually run leaner with smaller rainy-day funds and be competitive with the private companies they are competing with. They can also operate in markets where private companies might choose to not operate, and can even drive more business to a country. Then when the bad times come around (for example, covid19 shutdowns), they can rely on government subsidies to get though the harsh times reasonably unscathed, while private companies might end up needing to do extreme cuts, or even go bankrupt.

With your example of the USSR, we are talking about an economy where every single business is collectively owned. And then to make things worse, the entire supply chain is collectively owned, and centrally planned. You can hire a good manager for the local store, but they aren't going to be able to change a thing when the government doesn't allocated them enough product to sell. You can't have two local stores compete with each other, they are both collectively owned and supplied by the same centrally managed supply chain.

It wasn't the collective ownership of the store that failed the USSR. It was the central planning of the whole economy.

With this example of a small small town grocery store, there is plenty still competition. There is the local Dollar General with it's shitty product selection. There is another government owned supermarket a in a town 9 miles away, operated by a different government. There are privately owned supermarkets in at least three larger town within 30 miles, and a town large enough for Walmart 45 miles away. There are probably also grocery delivery services (or at least amazon) covering the areas.

It will be forced to be competitive, and all the numbers are public for the residents to see.
Mainstream design has taken a total nosedive, but there's still great UX research being done across multiple domains, one big driver being games.
Spent a week in Zwolle in Netherlands last week. They are close to banning cars in city centre. The place is amazing.
>and get access to the CAN or an abstraction over the CAN.

Automotive EE here, no, absolutely not.
The possibilities exist, here from the 0.002% of the world.
> it's simply shitty customer service

I split time between cities where I don't need a car, and a town where I do. The plan was to rent when in the latter. Hertz was so horrible I wound up buying the one Subaru on the lot (after an interregnal Turo). Going into a dealership blind was literally less painful than dealing with their B.S.
Possibly they meant “emulation”.
It is true, and I’d guess that most of those who put the economy front and center in their view of society have empathy, they just differ on the ways society should provide to its members. While socalism focuses on existing wealth and how best they can redistribute it, economic-minded folks are concerned about wealth creation and how not to be overburdened by bloated budgets, which is very risky.
Not really seeing why Hertz owes you a refund, you reserved the car for a full week.
> I wanna buy LED bulbs for the energy efficiency but it's so hard to find one that doesn't emit so much blue light

I have a similar hatred of cool-blue lighting, at least in the home - but you should know it's very straightforward to find LED bulbs that look good these days. Just pay attention to the "temperature" - it will look like "3000k" or "4000k" on the box. Lower is warmer - 2400k is pretty identical to incandescent, though I go for 3000k. Some makers will label them "soft white" vs "daylight" or "warm white" - as far as I know, there's not much of a standard on those terms, but I can assure you that anything "daylight" or "bright white" will be blueish. Hope this helps!
Fail big. Fail often.
They could read the onboarding steps you are forced to click through when you set up the phone. Or the “Tips” app that comes preinstalled. Or even the full and extensive manual on iOS.
Bangle.js 2 does have a GPS but is a no-go for music listening because it only has an 8MB flash memory. The ecosystem is also much much much less polished than an Android watch. However Bangle is very hackable and easy to write apps for, you can literally do it in one minute using the Web IDE:
https://www.espruino.com/ide/

(Top left connect icon > Emulator > Bangle JS 2)

Just don't expect the ecosystem to be very polished.
Nationwide, at least 60% of stolen vehicles are recovered. CA, which has a 90% overall recovery rate, breaks it down further that motorcycles have under a 60% recovery rate, commercial trucks have an 80% recovery rate, and everything else is over 94%.

I don't think the people impacted are renting motorcycles or commercial trucks...
Emulatorjs: Self hosted web based retro emulation front end with ROM management
> The manual is also available as an 843-page ebook [2], and is accessible via the Tips app, which is preinstalled on the home screen.

I didn't know that. I thought Tips was an app that gave you a couple of dozens of tips, and nothing else.
Mentioned in TFA FWIW:

the ICANN [contact disclosure] requirement now does indeed conflict with modern privacy laws, such as the EU's GDPR, meaning all domains registered by European registries are in violation of either GDPR or ICANN's requirement.
> If you are unit testing you should not have to worry about tweaking a function and it breaking everywhere else.

"should" is a word loaded with authority.

Why?

If you believe a unit tests is for turning an impure function into a pure function (so you can just test what it's doing and no other effects), then in many cases tweaking will break existing unit tests. If the function exists, it's assumed it's used by more than the tests for it. Changing the signature or even the internal dependencies necessarily breaks the known contracts with other units.
Shameless plug. A desktop app: https://superintendent.app
> I still wonder why neither qemu nor any other (open-source) emulator ever tackled Itanium emulation.

There is actually some work on adding ia64 emulation support to qemu, see:

> https://github.com/XVilka/qemu-ia64
Ok, now imagine that everyone you're working with is on minimum wage, and there's often no manager on shift. Oh, and the technology is from the 90s, because a single technological uplift project will soak up a decade of their profits.
Don't forget infrastructure updates and vehicle to vehicle communications!
If you want to get good random read performance out of an SSD, you can't use mmap. A thread can only page fault on one address at a time, but full random IO performance requires giving the SSD many requests to work on in parallel.
The issue, if you live in "the west" and are going to "the east" on Qatar you will have to fly through Qatar.

I'll pay the extra and take the risk of slightly poorer service and slightly lower quality food.
You don't need a bunch - you need 1. I am an APL programmer, and I can tell you 100% for certain that anyone who knows any APL would find that easy to read. (Want to find more though? Go to one of these: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Chat_rooms_and_forums)

Knowing a language absolutely does mean 'dense' code is obvious (fwiw that APL code is not at all dense, you can do go a lot shorter). It's comparable to chinese characters or something like that. It only looks dense/unreadable to someone who doesn't know it.
Yes. Not because it is definitively the right answer (though it is my preference), but because a decision that's made and enforced allows the conversation to move on to other things.

And to enforce it? Try https://editorconfig.org/ which is supported natively by many editors (eg Visual Studio) and via plugins in others (eg VS Code).
All it needs is a .editorconfig file in your folder and you get a handful of helpful settings (trim trailing whitespace, end with a newline, tabs vs spaces, ASCII vs UTF8, etc) in a simple file of rules that cascade down your folder hierarchy. Usually just add it next to your .gitignore, README.md, etc.
A young man I work with has chronic myocarditis from the Moderna vaccine. He got the vaccine because our company made it a condition of employment, and he did not want to lose his job.

It's affecting his work, he may get fired because of his declining performance, and the company's response is "not my problem".

It's a Bay Area tech company.
Can't say the N word in Guix

I think Guix is more than ready for providing development environments, even for proprietary apps on open source technology stacks (but Nix will probably be easier to pitch). As an operating system much less so.
I bought a couple of Beyond Meat burgers at the supermarket recently and tried them. Big mistake. The texture was nothing like a real burger and they left an unpleasant pea protein aftertaste in my mouth for ages afterwards.
Does the non-linearity come from the diode or does it come from the resistor?
Update. Emerson Collins found my comment in his daily Google alert, created an account, and downvoted me. Devastating. My only consolation is that the master knows who I am.
> He speaks slowly and deliberately

It works better in a speech, but not in a conversation. While non-native speakers are ramping up, it’s clearly visible where they are with their speaking skills, but if you want to come close to native speaking proficiency then speed should not be ignored.
HN users think they would do better than the experts in any field.
It's funny... if an engineer fucks something up, s/he can be personally responsible for the fuckup.... doctors need personal malpractice insurance for their fuckups... professional drivers can easily go to jail if they fuck up...

...but if a government worker, paid by the taxpayers, fucks up... the worst that can happen is, the taxpayers have to pay for eventual lawsuit cost and damages to the people who got fucked by that worker.

For something like this, atleast a few people should end up in jail for a long time.
Thanks for explaining - I had no idea there were audio in pins, and was searching the page for how they managed to route audio to the SID without any modification.
The part with the compressor in it costs $12000-$15000 minimum just for the device, nevermind installation and the rest, and that's for an equivalent to 3-6 ton systems commonly installed.

My mini-split system worked fine down to about 10F, then it was defrosting for 10 minutes after every 8 minutes of use or so. I just turned on crypto miners on a few computers to supplement. Laptop crypto mining is useful if you want to keep your hands and wrists warm, hats, blankets, sweaters, and some old 100+ watt light bulbs will also help.

All this is to say "you can just get a -30 degree capable system" is out of reach for most people in the world. A large swath of people geographically close to my house still use window or wall HVAC units, rather than ducted systems. I was the only split ductless system my HVAC installer had ever installed - they had to come fix their install 4 times (four!) and eventually i contacted the asurion purchase protection people and got refunded for the cost of the HVAC system.

it works fine now, i told the HVAC installer to cut the threaded connectors off everything and sweat all the copper lines together, and it hasn't had an issue since.

it was always breaking in the late fall and early spring, where it had to heat at night but cool during the day, it would always break around 11AM. The pressure differentials must have been an afterthought in the design, i guess.
Here's how to think about airships using numbers.

You need about 1000 liters of helium or hydrogen to lift 1kg of cargo (the difference is only about 10%, despite the fact that H2 is twice as light as He they are both so much lighter than air, that you can almost think they are weightless, so all that matters is the mass of air displaced).

Let's say you want to lift 1 ton. You need a cube of balloon that's 10m x 10m x 10m. Let's put 4 of those next to each other, so you can lift 4 tons with a box-shaped balloon that's 40m x 10m x 10m. Let's make it a cylinder instead, and make the Soviet assumption that pi=3, we end up with a cylindrical balloon that's 40m long and 10m tall and can lift 3 tons. Since the ends of an actual dirigible are not quite flat, let's say you need a 50m long and 10m tall dirigible to lift about 3 tons. The ratio of lengt/height of Hindenburg was 7:1 and of Graff Zeppelin was 6:1. Current Goodyear blimps have a ratio of about 4:1.

So our intuition building block is a dirigible that's 50m long and 10m tall and can lift 3 tons.

Multiply that by 10 in all dimensions and you get a 500m long by 100m tall giant that can lift a whopping 3000 tons of cargo.

Multiply by only 5 in all dimensions and you get a 250m long by 50m tall dirigible that can lift 375 tons of cargo. That is a large dirigible, but not impossibly large. That was roughly the size of Hindenburg: 41 m tall and 245 m long.

Hindenburg was build 100 years ago. We can probably build one like that nowadays for much less. How about one that's double in size in all dimensions? I find that conceivable. And such a dirigible would have 3000 tons of lift. Can you imagine that? For comparison, the cargo capacity of the famous Liberty ships was about 4300 tons. You could get airlift capacity that's only available nowadays as sealift.
Your comment can only be truly appreciated by plumbing the bizarre depths of "high-end audio" where nitwits (errr... customers) will pay $700 for a 6' Kapton-insulated power cord for their stereo. You know, to plug into the wall where it connects to 100 ft of Romex that cost $0.20/ft...

Looks like my favorite example has disappeared, but there are always these: http://www.audio-consulting.ch/?Parts:Woodlenses
Huh, I always assumed it’s a double tap, and I’ve been using iPhones sines 4, but just checked and it’s a single tap.

Talk about action discoverability.
Well, that exactly. The first half of TFA was perfect, and then it went rapidly downhill. After the intro, Poe was barely in the movie he was supposed to be one of the three leading characters in.
It's ok. Minimal overhead - basically just a remote scheduling and job metadata tool. Their v2 upgrade is nice but not quite stable yet. I just wanted something better than a cron job, and heard bad things about running your own Airflow (and Astronomer is too expensive for this project)
If you were applying a first pass of compression to integer data and then applying gzip, would adding BWT in the middle still be beneficial?
I remember that top swipe situation being the same on my Nexus 7 (2012)
React can be and is written in function-only style, although hooks are grossly impure.
Hence the "for worse" option
Usually the state delegates that responsibility to a professional organization.
DSLs have their place. arguably we have too few of them. we always use a general language. which is good, because it's general, sometimes great at a few things, but usually very awkwardly at most of the things.

Alan Kay (and his teammates during the STEPS project at VPRI) spent years and years thinking/experimenting with this, here's the final report from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325

"The big breakthrough is making it easy to create new DSLs for any situation."
I got a Meerkat mini desktop 6 months ago, and I love it.

They do make their own desktops and minis now. I think they use Clevo for laptops, and those do get more complaints here on HN than the desktops (but I think the consensus is they are getting better). They have more laptop models, so making their own would be a huge task.
This is incorrect.

When you move the wah pedal, you're moving the cutoff of the filter, not the Q. The Q is fixed.

You're also incorrect about the name. Just 'wah' is perfectly acceptable.
There was a book series called “The Missing Manual – The book that should have been in the box®”:

https://www.oreilly.com/search/?query=missing+manual&formats...
Agreed. It's a sad state of affairs. And unfortunately Wayland is the only way to get mixed-DPI with proper scaling.
It’s about saying to their insurance that they followed protocol less that they expects the cops to do anything about it
> Wayland asked for explicit permission to allow OBS to record the game window, something that X would not do.

Was that "permission for OBS to record" or "permission for OBS to record that specific window" ? Coz I can see the second one being pretty annoying...

> While playing full-screen if I pressed the "super" key on my keyboard the game window would instantly shrink and tile with the rest while still rendering the game in real time.

That worked with composing on X like 10 years ago. Well, aside from the fact that there was no Steam/Proton on Linux back then

> But I was playing on a System76 desktop, so it was built from the beginning to work well with Linux.

Huh, my colleague had to do a bit of fuckery to get it working, altho a lot of that was due to 3rd party dock being... weird.

It still randomly makes jet noises when idle... probably user error tho
Is it possible to do read replicas with this? Would that be a FoundationDB level concern?
Good point, in a hot climate with air conditioning, everything works in reverse in summer. My perspective is Northern Europe; consult a local expert.
They are created in a factory that itself is powered by automation and robotics, that enables teams of hundreds to do the work that would formerly take tens of thousands.

As far as energy goes, software also helps to optimize oil exploration, and software is clearly involved in optimizing solar efficiency and production of solar cells. It's also involved in nuclear facilities, power distribution networks, charging stations, grid management systems, etc.

The limits of software haven't even begun to be tapped yet.
In my lifetime one of the biggest freedoms we have lost is private banking. Prior to 9/11 banking was relatively private. What you had was your own, and secret. You could even have a private bank account in Switzerland. Now, if you are American foreign banks won't even bother dealing with you.

Obviously the paranoid state, won't like the idea of a private safety deposit box company.

I think the next leg to fall is cash itself. We will move to CBDC and social credit.
Probably one of the extensions was the culprit. But clearly it's not about the number of rules and crippling that functionality would not bring performance benefit. Ublock origin is pretty lightweight even with 500,000 rules applied.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220924184005/https://www.newyo...
Do you think solar panels are infinite? Have you looked at the price of lithium lately? It's been exploding and the only reason solar panels are economically viable is due to heavy gov't subsidization.

What happens when a solar panel dies out after ~25 years? We're already in an e-waste crisis. Less than 10% of panels in the US get "recycled" (and by that ofc we mean shipping them to 3rd world countries so we don't have to deal with it). There's only one facility in the whole world currently that has the capability to fully recycle a PV panel (Veolia in France). Every other place just takes the easy parts out and dumps the rest because the economics and risks to health aren't worth it

Not to mention rapidly ramping up production of stuff like EVs is going to have devastating immediate impacts on the climate. EVs are only more carbon-efficient than ICEs after a few years. The reason for that is because of the initial production of EVs produces almost twice as many GHG emissions as the production of an ICE. That's significant since initial production can be as much as half of a vehicle's lifetime GHG emissions
You can't game the cncf k8s certs. It's also an interesting indicator to see what date it was awarded. As in yesterday or 3 years ago.
Sure software is not generally essential. But on the other hand, do we really need more stuff?
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/systemd/systemd.time.7....
Housing and land as a store of value needs to be done away with.

While Japan don't get everything right, I think this is one area in which their attitudes/policies are more aligned with the wellbeing of the masses. There, houses are more like cars in that they start deprecating the moment they're moved into and if anything are seen as a value subtract past a certain age, because it's expected that when you buy a plot of land the house on it will be demolished and a new one will be built in its place. Houses are more tied to families that live in them than they are the land they're built on.

This might seem wasteful, but it's kept living costs in the residential outskirts of Japan's urban areas a lot more affordable than they would've been otherwise and also means that housing on average is more up to code, and it drives costs of building down since building is routine instead of something unusual.

I would love to see this come to the US, and I say this despite standing to gain from the present system.
To be fair, “normal people” do not run Linux on their laptops…
> - seeing notifications requires swiping down specifically from the top left

Not really, swiping from anywhere on the top (except top-right) works. This is consistent with the other gestures: swipe up from the lock screen to unlock it (just like you would open a roller shutter); swipe down to lock it again -- and see the notifications. You can also simply hit the side button.

> - turning on the flashlight requires swiping down specifically from the top right

You can turn it on from the lock screen, as others have pointed out.

> - turning the phone off requires holding two unrelated buttons

Yes, so that you don’t turn it off by mistake. Smartphones are not devices you turn on and off; outside of OS updates they stay on forever.

> It makes me wonder if they intentionally design their products to be exclusively usable by tech-savvy people.

I would say the opposite. When I think of tech-savy people, I think about mouse and keyboard; when I think of non-tech-savy ones, I think about tactile displays and gestures (and voice).

My 92-yo grandfather barely knows how to make his printer work but has no trouble remembering the most common swipe gestures: it’s hard to forget about pinch to zoom or swipe down to 'close' the phone and swipe up to 'open' it again.
duty cycle, i think.
Well, author threw a dice and won.

Work Sony Vaio also worked perfectly. But seen quite a few people with other that had problems.
This was 10+ years ago and was a smaller internal project for two older machines so we didn't care they were $20 or $30 each.

And the isolated digital trick is used in the new industrial isolators. The neat part is since there's a micro in them they add in scaling and conditioning options which is nice.
Not to mention the ridiculous cost of the onerous permit needed from some non-self-sufficient government agency, notably in a state that is highly hostile toward new housings.
YouTube will just monetize the video for whoever holds the performance rights for the music instead of taking it down.
True. LDRs (photoresistors) are however still very easy to find on the usual online suppliers (Ebay, Aliexpress etc.) although they're banned in some areas for containing cadmium. I've used them successfully in LED+LDR arrangements to emulate Vactrols in vintage-style audio compressor circuits. To replicate the vintage compressor slow attack, in theory one should use a filament lamp+LDR pair so that the lamp slower attack and very slow decay, compared to a LED, would give that particular curve. However this is something that can be easily replicated using a RC network within the circuit that drives the LED.