skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this actually surprised me, but I guess some people really don't mind (or just didn't think about) having to testify before Congress in order to justify their actions.
I've been driving around Africa for almost three years now, and every time I go into a city I can't help but think along the same lines as this article.

I see tens of thousands of vehicles belching huge clouds of black smoke, idling for hours at a time with nobody inside, or stuck in soul crushing traffic. Just the other day it took a hour to drive five miles with tens of thousands of vehicles packed in.

It's also really easy to see the direct environmental impact - any place that does oil changes or repairs tires is surrounded by a huge patch of jet black earth where the waste products are simply tossed on the ground. Used tires are piled high, and crashed or burnt out vehicles commonly litter the roadside. In the first world we hide all of that from sight, sometimes I think it's better to have it out in the open so we can be more aware of what is really going on.
This x100. Totally mirrors the sentiment in my sibling comment. Somewhere along the line they lost sight of creating an experience and each facebook product became focused on improving their metrics and notifications became the weapon of choice. They so obviously need to reign in all of these different teams, reduce clutter, and get back to basics - starting with a good user experience.
(I'm going to abuse the hell out of terminology to make this understandable)

I'm sure there are some utilities somewhere that will offer you that :)

480 volt at 500 amps is actually fairly reasonable in terms of cable requirements (it only requires 800 kcmil cable, which, while, i'd never want to buy a ton of it, is not completely bonkers). I would be a little surprised if they offer 500 amps though, because that's a lot more than you'd ever need.

Remember that a 3 phase amp carries a lot more kilowatts than a single phase amp.

In particular, 20 amp 240 single phase = 4800watts
But 20 amp 240 three phase is a factor of sqrt(3) more = 8313 watts

so 500 amp 480v 3 phase would carry 415692.19382 watts, while 500 amp 480v single phase (which nobody uses) would only carry 240000 watts.

So you'd be getting 415kw service out of that, not 240kw service. Which is a lot of power.

Usually i've seen them offer 250kw service (IE not in amps) and let you do the stepdown. This would step down to 300 amp 480v 3 phase.

240v 3 phase in residential areas is also more common (I can get it), but it's only 100-200 amp service at least here, and i pay for power factor, blah blah blah.
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I am frequently asked about that. This is what I tell: ARM feels free to do a complete ISA revision from ground up once or twice a decade, x86 on other hand is still bound to incremental improvement on a frail foundation laid in seventies. X86 only had three major revisions 16 bit to 32 bit and to 64 bit (the last one wasn't even done by Intel itself.)

x86 biggest weakness is its dependence on wintel that precludes them from the very needed major isa revisions.

If you look at atom dies, the overcomplicated decoder and other x86 vestiges take more area than the rest of the core.

A12x is remarkable in that it gets close to 15 watt Intel CPUs with LESS die area and lower power consumption. And if you remove the useless things like NPU, DRM stuff, security coprocessor, and other useless peripherals from calculation, the comparison will really begin to look dire for Intel.

Adding to that, even if we take into consideration that Intel is still on 14nm and A12x is a 7nm part, A12x still wins even if Intel will make a die shrink on 7nm. And you also have to consider that Intel has squeezed all and everything in terms of power efficiency from 14nm node after 5 years of active development on it, while Apple really went for the very first baseline revision of TSMC 7nm.

Moreover, what I hear from the scene here in Shenzhen is that in A12x Apple did not really put much into power saving: A12x has nothing comparable to Intel's complex runtime power management, power and clock gating, separate power domains, and on-package smart dc-dc converters. If Apple will commit itself to squeezing more power efficiency from their chips with equal zeal, I believe they add additional 25-35% to their power advantage.
I think this article does a disservice to the cause for reducing CO2 emissions. It’s unnecessarily hyperbolic and contains factual inaccuracies.
Or that their desktop web experience was the same as mobile experience.
I think calling it the "biggest reason" is wrong but not necessarily entirely wrong. There's a difference between Google's reasons and your benefit.

It could simply mean the interests aligned. I get my credentials encrypted and Google gets more [insert stuff here]. When the interests don't align the result is a bit different. You could be sending tracking/location data every few minutes, adblockers could be crippled, you could be forced to sign in to sync Chrome data, etc. Usually the very same stuff Google relies on for revenue.

So what I'm saying is that it's not that outlandish to assume Google had more reasons than your benefit.
CloudFlare have unusual needs where ARM is very competitive, unlike desktop usage. From article:

“Every request that comes in to Cloudflare is independent of every other request, so what we really need is as many cores per Watt as we can possibly get,” Prince explained. “The only metric we spend time thinking about is cores per Watt and requests per Watt.” The ARM-based Qualcomm Centriq processors perform very well by that measure. “They've got very high core counts at very lower power utilization in Gen 1, and in Gen 2 they're just going to widen their lead.”
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It's expected that people from group age 20+ will be the last active user base. As far as I know, most teens use Discord, Instagram, they have 0 interest in Facebook.
Currently sitting at a border stop in Botswana with about 25 trucks standing around idling for hours. I am very inclined to agree with everything you've said.
Annoyingly, what's kept me on it is the fact that some super-niche private groups (that would otherwise be ideally suited to a forum or subreddit) have sprung up that have content that I simply can't get anywhere else.
I lived most of my life in capitals. I cannot but notice the pattern. Smog, asthma, bad skin, and other air-related maladies. Since to 'drop cars' is not just not feasible, the next best thing, which is already happening, is to switch to electric vehicles and continue phasing out fossil fuel(s) as soon as possible (which is NOT 'tomorrow').

Once electric vehicles technology and cost strike a good balance, then I believe most people would go for an elecric vehicle. Legislation/regulations also help speed things up.
Dated March 2018, mentions Qualcomm Centriq. December 2018: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/qualcomm-server-chip-exit-chi...
Tapering to mitigate discontinuation syndrome is standard practise in country of publication and has been for a long time, why is this news.

The suicidal ideation listed as a side-effect on packets of SSRI's is almost entirely due to people deciding to go "cold turkey".
What's Bible software?
I have a good job and most of my friends do now, the weather is nice, my family is here... There are many reasons to stay in my situation. In my opinion going to northern Europe sounds way more like avoiding the problem rather than taking any responsibility.
Exactly. I never understood why is there such a witch hunt against SSRIs and not only on HN. I have a strong suspicion alternative-medicine folks are just pushing it.
Ignorance is bliss! I'm glad for you.
Apple are more likely to choose "fat binaries" again. They're possibly the only company who could announce an architecture switch, OS revision bump, and corresponding changes to development tools all at once.
I arrived at the same conclusion.

The US is in panic, because not only is there a sense of crisis because the rest of the world is less and less willing to put up with the undemocratic behaviour of the US spying apperatus, this also hurts every US tech product abroad.

If I have to choose between potential future spying by china and actual in progress spying by the US, maybe I might go with china for now.
Microsoft just switched the rendering engine for Edge to Google's rendering engine, helping increase the monoculture.

Despite all Microsoft's posing and snuggling up to the Open Source world, they're just as bad as Google and Facebook if given the chance. (And they have been as bad in the past.)
Its The Guardian, what do you expect? Malthusian thinking abound...
The Bush and Obama Administrations were extraordinarily aggressive in expanding US espionage action domestically. Obama was infamously aggressive in targeting the press. The notion that they'd do all of that and not begin tracking journalists in a comprehensive fashion was an improbable scenario. The first leaks by Snowden should have prompted the press to assume it. It's why so many of the major media outlets have gone to increased lengths to establish more robust communication approaches for secrecy of contact. Surely they all knew the surveillence systems had been dramatically broadened and that they'd be a key observation point for domestic intel, leaks, sources. The only thing different since the Nixon era (it really goes even further back), is the scale and efficiency at which they can do the tracking through automation; nothing ever changed about the targeting.
> Why not? If they're paying people to build this software, ...

Even from people who Do Not Want their data collected for this purpose?
I always thought that it would be interesting if houses could be bought through more flexible financial arrangements like other financial instruments. Say for example I wanted to buy a house but I would be the majority shareholder with a 51% stake in it and I would like to sell the other 49% to investors that want exposure to the property market (which they would already have but in the sense that they would want to take a more active view in this shareholding) . You as the majority shareholder would get to live in it while only putting up 51% of the capital. Of course as someone stated below there would be many difficulties in this not least the explosion in property prices as demand goes up.
That would be worth a lot for cyberdefence also of their own soil. Sadly the US cyberoperations never thought much about defence.
Just get a x86 laptop if you care about energy efficiency that much. ARM desktops [0] that do what you want cost more than $1200.

[0] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/
Exhaust is a huge component of the pollution, but simply switching to electric vehicles isn't enough because you still have additional particulate matter generated by them - especially rubber particles from the tires.

We need to both switch to electric vehicles and significantly cut down on the number of vehicles on the road.
Kimchi - full of pro-biotics and good for your gut, apparently - is what makes my farts smell worst of all. Worst incident was a freshly-home-made batch, played bass in a show the after eating it at dinnertime and the smell actually made the drummer vomit :(
I only started at Ecosia in 2016, but I feel you.

Not sure if this is appreciated on HN (I only saw a guideline about posts, not comments), but if this piqued someone's interest, we have a bunch of open positions at the moment: https://ecosia.workable.com/
Floating point is not a totem animal of the computing world anymore. If you have a lot of FP math to do, a specialised accelerator will do that 100 times faster than CPU.

Integer math is on the other side is what the most of programs you use every day are made of. And their complex, branching rich code is near impossible to feed to any specialised DSP.

Modern CPUs must be compared on integer math and logical operations performance, followed by their IO performance.

What an average user understands as performance today is really (integer perf + logic op perf) * effective I/O throughput.
One day my friends and I were walking in downtown Seattle. Looking up we saw a huge billboard that simply said, "MyLackey.com". What an asinine, tone-deaf, elitist, heartless yet honest name we thought[1].

Later we learned one of the founders was Brian McGarvey, someone we had worked with in a prior startup. His idea was to take Kozmo.com[2] up a notch. It exemplified the dot-com boom, and now Facebook, Uber, and much of Silicon Valley then and today: get rich quick, fuck humanity.

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[1] Much the same way Trump's election is America being honest with itself.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
Saving all of you a click: the article doesn't go into a concrete explanation of why they're not closing the last Blockbuster.

It has a theory, however:

>One possible explanation for the store’s long life: Bend is in a region that the city’s mayor, Sally Russell, describes as having “huge expanses with really small communities” that often do not have easy access to the high-speed internet necessary for content streaming.

>Many residents of outlying areas stop at Blockbuster during their weekly trips to town to run errands, drawn in part by the store’s seven-day rental policy, Ms. Russell said, adding that the store’s last-in-the-world status could even give it a lift.
It is a guardian op-ed piece, not an excerpt from a scientific journal with extensive testing.

Unrelated note: my NoScript blocks 11 'untrustued' (by me) websites' scripts.
Bad time to ask for browser extensions on mobile then?
Exact same thing for me ! I uninstalled both twitter and facebook app when I realized they were faking notifications for me to open their apps, since I guess they need that for their DAU bs. Since then, I check twitter once a week in a browser mode, and facebook once a day with the firefox container.
That just wrong. I know plenty people, that work on small-scale IT-infrastructure projects for municipal- and city-level administration. Cisco has become a liability as far as network equipment is considered.
C too (from B, which was a stripped down BCPL).
@coding-columbo and facorreia

Checking out keybase, it seems to be like an encrypted slack instead of a file sharing platform.

Is there a way to just access their secure platform sharing without getting inside the chatroom?
Oh snap! Haven't used Windows or Mac outside of occasional work use for >10 years - all BSD or Linux (mostly Debian since then)... I've heard good reports from people using foobar2000 under Wine, but on Linux there's many fine options depending on your preferences - Audacious or Deadbeef are more like foobar, or there's Quod Libet or Ex Falso if you prefer something "bigger". Personally I haven't used these GUI players for a while as I tend to have a terminal window always open and just point `mpv` to a directory, playlist or file. I use `ffmpeg` (compiled with recent codecs) for transcoding and for ripping there's `RubyRipper` or `abcde`.
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Amazon's last 10-K report specifically listed counterfeiting as a risk factor for investors. Quote:

"Under our seller programs, we may be unable to prevent sellers from collecting payments, fraudulently or otherwise, when buyers never receive the products they ordered or when the products received are materially different from the sellers’ descriptions. We also may be unable to prevent sellers in our stores or through other stores from selling unlawful, counterfeit, pirated, or stolen goods, selling goods in an unlawful or unethical manner, violating the proprietary rights of others, or otherwise violating our policies. Under our A2Z Guarantee, we reimburse buyers for payments up to certain limits in these situations, and as our third-party seller sales grow, the cost of this program will increase and could negatively affect our operating results. In addition, to the extent any of this occurs, it could harm our business or damage our reputation and we could face civil or criminal liability for unlawful activities by our sellers."

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html

Anecdotally, it's trivially easy to find obviously counterfeit products on Amazon. For example, the eighth result when I search for "yeezy" is this listing for an obviously fake pair of Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 v2 shoes. In many product categories, Amazon looks more like a seedy flea market than a multinational retailer. I have no idea what proportion of supposedly legitimate listings are for counterfeit products, but I have personally received counterfeit SD cards and USB chargers.

https://www.amazon.com/HEIMA-TRADE-Lightweight-Breathable-Ru...

https://www.flightclub.com/yeezy-boost-350-v2-white-cblack-r...
Not sure where you see inaccuracies. Unlike yourself it links and cites the claims made.

Doesn't seem especially hyperbolic either.
I sometimes wonder if the future of humanity sees the decline of the state, and people just live on corporate land (Sidewalk Labs as an early prototype of this idea) protected by corporate militaries (Blackwater)
That's unfortunate. I found a Snapdragon 850 CPU but it seems it's only intended for Windows laptops.
Don't give them ideas. ;)
Never happened before, and here we go again
[darkside]
Well put. Ending a PhD/Postdoc position prematurely raises red flags. Besides, accepting a new position often comes with relocations which might be pricey.
Out of interest - why the idling - to keep air-conditioning running?
>Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.

It sounds like only people and journalists who are covering "the caravan" are being tracked. Not that it makes it any better.

It also seems to have been started very recently, probably under the current administration.
Saw this at DO marketplace - bitwarden. Anyone else uses this?

Seems to be an alternative for LastPass and has a way to share encrypted files.
I think if China engages in military conflict with the US it will be in the style of death by a thousand pinpricks, each not warranting a heavy deployment.
>"People can't be watched all the time. They have a level of privacy and dignity and an ability to engage in free assembly or not. And the constitution protects that and creates that kind of country for us," he said.

I don't mean this as an affront but this is anthetical to one of their principal allies' views, in that the inability to be watched at all times is seen as a "direct threat" to security.

We need to conquer this on two fronts:

1. Whether governments need to have access to everything 24x7.

2. Whether businesses can subvert the desires of people whom don't expressly give consent for such monitoring for sales.

For point 2, take into consideration someone who wants to visit a person living in Quayside (pronounced: key-side, for our American friends). If they're not aware, they're caught in the dragnet surveillance of the area. Sure the people living there might consent to 24x7 monitoring but it shouldn't be an automatic assumption that everyone will. Consider those in the delivery services sector (e.g.: FedEx, UPS, the mail system, etc.) as a principal example of where compulsion might lead to undesired consequences.

For point 1, I haven't any clue as to what to do about it. I get the rationale behind why security services might deem it a "necessity" to see all the things, everywhere (especially, after being burned from 11 Sep) but, as has been demonstrable from the past, there is nothing preventing it from being abused. It's solely based on the "trust us" premise and that has never worked-out well for anyone, given enough time.
Those of us in the Midwest tend to laugh every time a variation of this story pops up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video
https://www.familyvideo.com/storelocator/

The relevant bit from Wikipedia, "Unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes Hollywood Video. And rather than depending on the revenue-sharing model used by others in the business, the chain buys and owns their movies, allowing them to keep all the rental profit"

So come on over to Fly-Over Country™ where video rental stores never went out of fashion :)
It's a search engine that makes money from advertising. That's essentially its core business model. I browse with uBlock Origin enabled so I don't see ads. A search on Ecosia shows me a large banner saying:

"Ads plant trees!
We’ve detected that you are using an ad blocker. We plant trees thanks to income earned from ads. Please disable your ad blocker for Ecosia so that we can keep on planting."

Beneath it is a large button: "DISABLE AD BLOCKER".

To me, a site that wants me to view ads I have no interest in, is promoting consumerism. I realise this applies to a lot of sites, but it's less excusable for a project that touts itself as focusing on the environment. If you don't see a link between advertising and consumerism and the state of our environment, then I guess we look at the world differently.

For my part, I try to encourage friends to install ad blockers, and will not encourage them to visit sites that tell them to disable their ad blockers. I even worked on a page to make detecting and installing an ad blocker as easy as possible: http://blockads.fivefilters.org
For me this aggression is good, it makes me avoid that site, spending maybe a minute every 2 months on that wasteland of salarymen and networkers.

I never installed the app but as your parent comment said, it's so spammy, I had that fear since they do a lot of mail spam. If they made their mobile website usable, they would've had more than a minute of my engagement...
You are absolutely correct, ignore the downvotes.

Also electric vehicles will still kill plenty of pedestrians and other drivers. Also they still need massive swaths of land to be concreted over to be used as actual roads and parking.
> The opportunity cost of starting a startup instead of continuing in your career can be significant (5+ years "lost")

Every year of your career, and life, is "lost" ... you can't save those years and you can't get them back.
Probably has a small-enough document distance to famous welsh names like: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll
Facebook will die of boredom before any privacy issues
Sure, they gave their pinky promise do not track those, who will set it.
Complete freedom means you have to provide the structure yourself. And that is something that is not taught at universities or schools. I know I struggled a lot with this. And even coming to this conclusion in the first place is something that took me several years.
I tried setting up email filters based on subject and keywords, I currently have around 15-20 but it's a futile attempt, they keep changing everything, they've even changed the language. It really feels like I'm harassed by a beggar at this point.
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Noise is also a contaminant. The tyre roar from Q7 and X5 at speed is painful in my ears as a pedestrian or cyclist. But the drivers neither know not care in their insulated metal boxes.

And how many years of life are lost due to inadequate sleep as a result of 24/7 road noise?

Perhaps we need a regulation that interior vehicle noise needs to match external noise measured at kerbside.
I would say it is more "craftsmanship" than "art": it is the proof of an ability, not something made to please.

Of course, this is just debatable. But the normal person will not be awed or simply pleased seeing the code. Only a good craftsman will appreciate it, which is its purpose.
So - and thank you for bearing with me on this - individual BTC don't have a unique identifier that allow one to trace its transaction history? I must admit, I always assumed that they were uniquely identifiable.