jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
More like 2.3 miles for a 1MT airburst, that's just for a 15 PSI blast shelter. If you're building these for real, with concrete and so on in a real Civil Defense program, that's easy. It's pretty easy, if you have the time, to build an expedient blast shelter with wood and earth that'll handle 15 PSI.

And most warheads are less powerful (see my other comments); using my handy "RAND" nuclear effects calculator from the back of my copy of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 15 PSI for the following weapon air bursts (targeting cities, not ground bursts against ICBMs etc.):

500 Kt: 1.8 miles
300 Kt: 1.5 miles
100 Kt: a bit over 1 mile
50 Kt: 0.85 miles

So we're really talking a mile or two, depending on the standards to which the shelters are built. 1 MT 1 mile requires 45 PSI, call it 50 per the above. Don't know how intense a real shelter would have to be, then again that's an uncommon threat level.
Yeah I'm in complete agreement. A single "dock" dongle with all the ports you could possibly want are cheap, light, and have smooth designs that won't snag on anything.

I have one buried in my bag that I almost never use. It's surprisingly rare that I need an Ethernet or HDMI port but they're there if I need them. In the meantime, there's more room inside my laptop for battery.

Even an extra 5Wh of capacity is about an extra hour of use.
Paul Graham tweets agressively, but I doubt you will block him though, not everyone who tweets agressively is toxic.
This is a very hardware focused overview of technology. To summarise, Moore's Law is dead. Specialise processors takes over. And they will be owned by specific Companies.

That is all true as I have been posting pretty much exactly the same on HN for a few years. The real question is though, does it matter?

I am not convinced, at least not yet convinced what we are doing now on a computer is that much different to 20 years ago. Excel, Web Browsing, Media Consumption and Content Creation like Photoshop. The only real recent innovation is Machine Learning that greatly increase productivity in certain niche.

And it does not seems to me any of the above activity is going to fundamentally shift. There is nothing in terms of Hardware tech limitation that is holding up performance for further productivity increase, rather it is Software that is not getting much improvement if you consider the worst and best software could have performance different of 100x.

To give an example, I could bet with few billion dollar we could create a Hardware GPU that is 80% close to Nvidia GPU or AMD GPU. I am also willing to bet even with 10 Billion dollar funding we cant get a CUDA Compatible Library or Drivers that is 80% of what Nvidia is offering today.
If I’m moving my mentor conversations with startup founders from WhatsApp to Verbz, what is your value prop on privacy vs. WhatsApp privacy?
I don't know anything about Shadowstats, no opinion on that.

But the fact that prices have risen far faster than the official inflation numbers suggest is a trivially confirmable fact. Just look at what you paid for things years ago and now, compute percentage increase.
That’s great and all. S&P 500 is a great passive investment. Just keep buying every month whatever the price for long enough and you will most likely hit 10% a year on average.

The problem is that you could lose money for 10 years. 1970-80.

Mindless buying S&P 500 is great but you might want to do better. Most people will do worse if they try to beat the index but some people will do 20% a year for as long as they keep buying good businesses at good prices.
This sounds sort of like an exchange fund, which are typically used to people who are extremely concentrated in a single stock/position and want some diversification without selling.
Sounds interesting. Couldn't find an RSS feed on your site. Where can I subscribe?
...and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5760532
namespace fs = test::filesystem;
In the audio industry he's one of those legends. Even those who just consume music must've heard audio recorded by hardware based on his designs.

From a recording engineer perspective I've always enjoyed the 1073
What would the Democrats have done if they had "actually grown a fucking spine"? (serious question, didn't really follow it)
I wonder if this could be related to the high-pitched whine that AirPods Pro are somewhat known for after a while?
To make matters more complicated, there are reports of chronic tinnitus being reported after earwax (aka cerumen) removal: https://www.tinnitusjournal.com/articles/chronic-tinnitus-re...

It's a complicated topic, though, because many people first notice their tinnitus because they start paying attention to their ears for some reason, such as an earwax removal procedure, or using noise-cancelling headphones which lower the noise floor so much as to make tinnitus obvious over the reduced noise floor.
Can someone be class-action sued for this?
Kept at bay means were not given moderator and administration privileges, unlike say reddit where saying retarded gets you banned from dozen of subs.

Which is hilarious since automod doesn't check if it was used as a verb or adjective.
> The United States Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Donald J. Trump in his second impeachment trial

This is really bad writing. They should have said “57-43 in favor of conviction, below the 67 votes needed” or something similar.
Probably closer to coal than gasoline. Plus You have to factor in the fact that coal plants are designed to be most efficient with the kind of coal they are built to burn and with burning plastic waste it's usually some kind of a mix, so there's a good chance the CO2 emissions from burning plastic waste would be even higher per watt than with coal, which is already super bad.
Per lb of fuel? Yes. But the idea is that this would offset other oil consumption. It’s marginally better to turn plastic products into energy than it is to throw plastic away and burn more oil for power.
Chrome has different SSL validation on each operating system - on Linux it uses it's own NSS instance, on OS X and Windows it uses the OS level certificate validation routines. Not sure how HSTS plays into that.
This should have not been down voted for non professional jobs there are a lot of "Spanish" practices around OT and Bonus's

the posties used to put some of the post posted on Friday to make sure that there was OT avable on Saturday.

And even in professional jobs I have seen some sketchy practices ie DBA's being on call 4 in 4 and getting called maybe twice a year BTW the rate was $600+ per week plus toil at OT rates
This sounds really interesting!
I disagree. It looks like the future of the web. Have you seen Web Components?
It's weird, and it's not quite the same situation as you're talking about, but I've found that working with overly limited languages and systems can be rewarding, too. Especially when they're so limited that you have to be creative just to find any solution.

One of my earliest programming experiences was for a very primitive language. You had something like 26 variables total, all globals, and no flow control except GOTO. I ended up reinventing quite a lot of things to get even trivial programs working. I remember teaching myself loops, bitmasks and more, before I even knew what those things were.

Or that time I remember having to use VBScript. Someone had made an OCX marked 'safe for scripting' that would write out some assembly and execute it, allowing one to call any C functions that left the stack clean (e.g. Windows APIs). I remember finding some crazy ways to abuse that. I also remember turning a testing tool into a music player when I was bored.

That said, I understand not wanting to program like that 40-hours a week. I know it can be grating after a while. But sometimes, you can have a bit of fun by finding clever ways to expand the capabilities of very limited systems.
But it's different. There was a time when anyone could start a newspaper. There was a time when people had FM transmitters in their backyard. It became more expensive and the FCC started slicing up FM spectrum so everyone wouldn't trample over each other.

Media was once free and then collapse to be owned by ABC, NBC, CBS and a few dozen newspapers.

This was originally about network neutrality, but it applies to what we're seeing right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
Ah okay in that case that makes much more sense to me for the threaded version, I was meaning fake threaded in the sense only one thread is ever ran at a time but of course they are scheduled onto different OS threads like you say which means they will run across my logical cores.

But for the single threaded version I still seen spikes across all cores is this some CPU magic and if so what techniques are involved? Or am I just misreading my CPU usage like a doughnut?

> There's synchronisation. Many VM services are global.

What do you mean by this?

And I just realized I'm talking to Chris Seaton thank you for your work on TruffleRuby super awesome project.
You can still download the apk though?
Support for decoding MS Paint images, see https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Image-Formats
> - You need an extra click on another window before you can interact with it

I don't have this issue, I can interact with a window just by hovering over it with the mouse pointer

> - If you're running multiple displays macos for some reason always picks the most awkward display to open new windows in

You can set the default display in the settings (under arrangement, drag the white bar to the display you want to make the default)

Agree about the other issues though.
Everyone is praising how well written this is, but I personally am confused: what do you actually GAIN by running a docker container without docker? Is it faster, or more secure? Why?
After watching macro trends in U.S. politics and tech for a while, I've held (but not articulated much) a sense that power is shifting from federal government to private interests. Previously that would have meant corporate boards, but I think increasingly it's a small number of individuals (due to realpolitik).

The good thing about messy, human models of transactions and interaction is that it can take a long time and many different voices can be heard, allowing disuptes to occur and be resolved.

Many of these successful tech corporates work to eliminate the human discussion element, and replace it with digitized (and frequently proprietary, or at least gatekept) rules.

I think I've dealt with a few difficult dominant personality types in the past, and it would not surprise me at all to see them consider humans-as-pets as a desirable future. Match that with digitized 'asset ownership' and other non-repudiable mechanisms and there could be a very dystopian and authoritarian future in the mind of some of these people.

Now I'll make sure to sound like a complete nutter (as if I hadn't already) and mention that some of these individuals and companies are now so essential to the U.S., both domestically and internationally, that they are becoming untouchable.

Meanwhile our own tech industry is busy debating and trying to determine what the future of libre software will look like. It's a pivotal moment and I'm optimistic we'll figure it out to everyone's benefit, but there is a lot at stake.
The British/Irish ISO layouts are reasonable. They are very close to the US layout, but gain the additional key.
And if you already are a .net shop, adding some F# code in a dependence is really smooth.
It seems that Intel new CEO is bringing his connections with ycombinator troll farms.
You have it - either obliteration or (as an optimistic scenario) total control enacted with the justification of preventing splinter groups from achieving said obliteration.

And while someone should think about these things I do admit that something else might work better to win mind share for the FSF.
I guess Canadian First Nations have a similar cultural memory of invading Europeans ;)
Fuck 'em.

Product looks great. Would love more specific service regions that "bay area" -- would love to see who will actually cover my town.

I suspect the market for this is way bigger than people realize. Especially if you include non-chefs. I will be checking back.
it's a headline, not a business plan.

don't take everything you read too seriously.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Stallman is who he is. His time has passed. Oh well, move on. Life is to short to spend it giving advice to someone who clearly couldn't give a damn.
I've been using mine for longer than I haven't. I came up with in 1994.
How about John Sculley?
Sorry to do the pedantic-nerd thing, but why should he take the time and effort to "engage with it?"
In general, I don't agree with Stallman's hyperbole and think that many of his beliefs are extreme.

However, in this case, I respect the fact that he chose to reply to the OP. Many arrogant people might prefer to ignore criticism. It appears that Stallman reviewed the OP's letter and took the time to reply to him (tersely, but honestly)
Absolutely, this is how most markets work. Take women's fashion, for example.
+1. As a developer it's easy to take the old "not invented here" attitude, but you don't even know if people will be interested in your idea. Get it out there as quickly as possible with off-the-shelf software first. If it's something people want/need, your users will flock to it for the content. They truly don't care about the tech going on behind the scenes, especially as you're beta testing it.
Note that Google provides newer versions of Flash player for Linux with alongside Chrome. That version works on any browser that supports the Pepper plug-in interface (currently Chrome/Chromium (+forks)/Opera/? – and not Firefox).
sandstorm.io
I think it's more complicated than this Locksmith example. I think we are so used to being ripped off by "experts", many
with a lot of spinach behind their names; We start to think
everyone is trying to make the most amount of money they can
out of a situation(usually a bad situation). I have no problem paying someone for a job well done--if they do it
quick all the better. The problem I have encountered is the
expert did the job, but it was a half ass job and their mistake didn't show up until later. I'm now kind of jaded.
One other thing about experience. I have found experience
doesn't matter quite as much as I thought it did in a lot
of professions--especially the professions that are a mix
of science, and art--like medicine, and yes Programming. A little experience, but
still double checks their work, and is staying current--Gold mine! The pillar of their profession, with an ego to match--I run! (I noticed someone brought up the mechanic and the hammer story. A stuck pinion on a starter sometimes responds to
a hammer blow. I used to position a long dowel(broom handle)
on the stuck starter through the engine bay and whack the dowel with a hammer.) Oh yea, I have found that people who
don't overcharge(whatever that even means anymore) are well
liked amoung their peers, and customers.
An atheist.

I was born in catholic family and was baptized and sent to church as a kid. I very soon found it to be rather boring and brain washing and proclaimed myself an atheist before I was of full age. I simply did not need the god hypothesis to explain the world around me.
businesses already face significant incentives to let people WFH when possible. they just need to be convinced it won't be a severe hit to productivity. after the current crisis runs its course, I bet we'll see a lot of companies realize they are wasting a lot of money on their office lease.
People's "Downloads" folder being full of New folder", "New folder (1)", all of them being full of similarly named documents.

Also anyone not using proper version control (business folks, designers, scientists, students) usually has a bunch of files all over the place with every kind of inconsistent names for a bunch of versions.
Google has very large applications, but also they are using static linking: imagine that you statically link all the possible dependencies in a single binary for each application.
300MB is not considered a large binary at Google actually, I don't know what is public but you may look at Table 2 in this publication for instance: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314105281_ThinLTO_S...

I repro here some data, there is a bit more in the paper:

Clang 1.9k Files, 217MB (-g0), 3554MB (-g)
Chromium 17.8k Files 706MB (-g0), 7544MB (-g)
Ad Delivery 13.8k Files 1073MB (-g0), 7469MB (-g)

(this is the number of object file that are participating in the link).
Or they see a mask and think: Ok, cool, I can come close, I'm protected by the mask the person is wearing. Don't forget, people ate tide-pods.
i would buy this argument, because i have seen this happen with WPF/XAML (person deletes the markup and code-behind, but accidentally leaves the viewmodel), except that in the webcomponents world i would imagine you'd have all three files living alone in a folder named after the component.
If you want to make the argument it was an unjustified shooting, go ahead.

I'll be ready to link some videos that say otherwise.
There are videos showing cops waving people in, cops taking selfies with people inside the Capitol, cops gingerly walking hand in hand with insurrectionists.

Underestimating the police necessary is a form of allowing this to happen.

Yeah, maybe there were individuals holding the line, but the police definitely, irrefutably allowed this to happen.
It was indeed plaid, Capital One was doing some kind of BS blocking that was preventing any app that uses Plaid from being able to sync data from there.
> An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO.

Sun Microsystems had this. Didn't work too well for them.

It's not at all as simple as this.
How do you algorithmically code like this? In my software engineering career, I am a plumber at best. Would fail hard at anyone who would ask me to code anything more than fizz buzz under time pressure. That said, I've built some incredible production worthy and robust systems that move mountains as a plumber. I am damn good at that.
Actually we had something similar happen last year in our third world country, when a group of soldiers and supporters led by the president occupied our congress.

Those actions were publicized using our government's verified social media profiles, that have kept attacking every other institution since taking power: Media outlets, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Universities, Electoral System.

Sounds familiar?

Unfortunately we have not had those "fact checking alerts" or limitations on inaccurate posts of their profiles.

Any chance someone from FB, YT or TW reading this? Could you escalate it internally. Country name: El Salvador.
What about mu plus mu4e

Thunderbird plus global search

Recoll + client of choice

https://www.monperrus.net/martin/recoll-maildir-thunderbird
>Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy

This is an interesting point, but I don't get the cause and effect scenario here.

What bothers me is the ideological trap that fossil fuels are the only resources that can be exploited to bring people out of poverty.

Are we so lacking in innovation that we cannot come up with sustainable development models?
Jetbrains says they had not been contacted by law enforcement.

On yesterday's thread it said that Team city was only used, in the intended fashion, as the delivery mechanism for the malicious payload. Kinda like blaming ftp when a hacker uses it to upload a payload.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2021/01/statement-on-the...
You are tearing this apart based on current technology, but this was developed ten years ago, that is quite a few generations of technologies ago.

FTA: Included in the auction A CD filled with backup materials during several years of the company (the most valuable part of this auction obviously).
The desktop is no longer the battle that matters (more mobile devices are in use today than desktops and laptops, and the gap is widening). Linux has won the mobile market...and I guess one could argue it did so with one frickin' user interface (Android, though that's somewhat fragmented by the often-horrible, always-stupid, vendor customizations, like HTC Sense).

We will, I guess, get to see what happens when Firefox OS comes along. Then, again it's so very different from Android (and Android is so far from a traditional Linux distro), that I don't know if the OFUI theory will really be tested in that case, since there are so many other variables.

Generally, the "OFUI" idea is good as long as it's the OFUI that I like. I happen to really like Gnome 3, so I'm fine with it being the One True UI of my preferred Linux distro (Fedora). If I hated Gnome 3 (and I understand why people do...it had a rough and very buggy and very restrictive breaking in period that lasted a lot longer than it should have), I'd be pissed off at the suggestion that KDE (or LXDE or XFCE or whatever) should be removed completely.

Anyway, I don't find myself agonizing over how Linux (or any open system, as that's what I really care about; it wouldn't need to be Linux for me to be happy, as long as it's Open Source) can win the desktop anymore. Partly because open is winning on mobile (at least, in terms of the OS, though there are many dangerously proprietary parts of the mobile industry, including on Android devices), and that's an even bigger market. But, also partly because many of the reasons I needed Linux to win was because I wanted to use Linux for everything, and there needed to be a critical mass of users for hardware, software, etc. to be good on Linux. These days I rarely think about hardware, as it Just Works. And, I rarely worry about software, as there's tons of amazing stuff to choose from. Even games are pretty good on Linux, which is a relatively new change.

So, I want more Linux more of the time. But, I don't know if it has to "win" for all of us Linux users to win.
I think he means that office365 absolutely dominates.
Arduiono LLC is Apple. Arduino SRL is Foxconn. Which one owns the iPhone?
For a view on what this looks like from a legal standpoint check out the MtGox collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
Absolutely true! We actually have waived a bit on if we call ourself meditation or not. Ultimately we are currently using it since it helps "context set" for people - but would love to hear any other idea if you have them!
It's usable but not polished yet. Lots of GNU extensions and an integrated assembler were added. You can read about them here: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/third_party... I have automated tests which do a two-stage build and test on every platform each time I run make, so it's going to stay stable. The two other things I want are an integrated linker and VLA parameters. Rui is helping me implement those. So I anticipate we can start distributing a APE build of complete chibicc toolchain very soon that you can use to build APE binaries on any platform.

Keep in mind this compiler doesn't optimize. So if you're OK taking a 2x performance hit, you're going to find that your code compiles significantly faster than GCC or Clang and you're going to have the convenience of the fact that the whole toolchain will be a single .com file that you can just scp on any server for a fully deterministic reproducible build experience. It's also the most readable and hackable compiler codebase I've ever seen, so if you've ever wanted to pull out the dragon book at try your hand at optimizing, you'll find that chibicc is fertile ground to do it.