skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing power consumption with more efficient computation can make a difference, but I think the real difference is creating software that enables more efficient resource allocation outside of just computation.

Uber, for all its faults, has reduced the market for car ownership. The car manufacturing process will consume less resources due to better utilization of each car. Self driving cars will take that even further, with cars being fully utilized without the human limitations of a driver.
Swift: Improving the UI of Generics
A better solution would be to take the total amount spent on that senior citizen property tax discount and instead give it to all seniors in the form of a general tax credit. You don't need a strange form of property tax to help out seniors. In fact it seems unlikely the property tax benefit is at all fair since it likely benefits those with large homes.

A general tax credit could be distributed more fairly and would allow seniors to choose to spend it on rent, but also allow the option of moving somewhere different/cheaper, or spend it on a greater want/need.

The land value tax is still important as it incentivizes development and density where it makes sense. Landlords cannot sit back and rent-seek. If developers around them are making the area nicer, they will soon be priced out unless they follow suit. Similarly, as demand & density increase, area tax revenues also increase allowing for the building of infrastructure to handle the higher density.
French Companies Open Source ODR Software in Algorithmic Transparency Drive
Support cross-build, but you need install mingw for linux, if you want to build win32 program on linux.

You can see https://xmake.io/#/home?id=cross-compilation
and https://xmake.io/#/home?id=mingw
The political problem is that people still trust humans a lot more than they trust machines. So passengers would be nervous about being flown by an AI, even if the AI was safer.

There's some weird psychology behind this: human pilots/drivers/etc are seen by passengers as a personal proxy, with agency over any situation.

If you take away the proxy you take away the illusion of agency. Humans really do not like being put into situations where they believe they have no agency at all.

As AI gets smarter, this will become more and more of a problem, until there some kind of cultural shift because AI is obviously safer it's not even a question any more.

This may or may not happen.
If you continue to commit a business zoning violation then your business is taken away or obstructed. As far as the government is concerned what follows is just normal beaurocracy
What does he mean 'no hope'. EU will issue laws and rules and regulations and will impose fines after fines. There would be structural funds, stimulations funds, and innovation funds, and government bodies and any-monopoly processings.

AI would be as much fun as anything for EU's overlords.
Yes, the 486 or 586 are far more powerful processors than what you would actually need for everything but the cockpit UI. You could probably get away with a Z80 or something similar. The flight control computers in our space probes frequently have a similar level of functionality simply because it's more than enough.

The only thing a more modern processor buys you is more memory, a faster tick rate for your RTOS, potentially an MMU if it doesn't cause substantial timing skew, and high-precision floating point. In the case of an avionics system I would imagine the requirements for fixed-point arithmetic are very well-understood at this point, so floating point doesn't buy you a whole lot and potentially creates new and exciting problems.

So I would say that 90's-era computers are plenty powerful for what they're used for.
I disagree, but I guess it depends on your definition of mathematics. Complexity theory and formal languages are far closer to my definition of mathematics than discrete math problems which I tend to classify more as arithmetic.
If you read the parent, it refers to Volt, and it was released.
I remember the ads! I so wanted one of these things :)

It was 1979? Wow. Given I was a '78 baby, I'm guessing they were either late to the UK, or on the market for a number of years.

Relaunched you say? Huh...
> Devs are historically Mac people

No, this is simply untrue. Once you step outside of the US SV and WebDev bubble, there are millions of developers writing code for on Windows and Linux for stuff that you never even heard of. Mostly because it's unsupported on Mac due to the locked down ecosystem. Obscure machine controllers and their drivers, planning software, banking software, regulatory mandated software for certifications, etc.
While I see the humor, I want universal public health care, which means I do want socialist benefits for everyone.
You seriously want a Hunky Bill's Perogie Maker. The only reason you don't know that you want one is because you didn't grow up in Winnipeg. But trust me. You want one. It's a shame that you will read this on HN and you will dismiss it as a stupid joke and you almost certainly won't go out and order a Hunky Bill's Perogie Maker -- all because you didn't watch 100's of hours of cartoons on Saturday mornings in Winnipeg (or probably you'd be good in Regina or even Calgary... I'm not sure).

Yeah, it's crazy, but there is something noble about letting people know that there is good stuff that can help them in ways that they can't imagine yet. It's doubly good if that helps you run a business that makes a truly useful product.

I don't know anything about Hunky Bill (I just noticed he lived in Vancouver! WTH... Can I really trust him?) But that perogie maker. Yep. Good as gold.
Transactions that indirectly depend on bitcoin also increase its price, and cause more energy to be burned on mining. If bitcoin starts to secure any notable fraction of business it will cost much more than the amount of army needed to keep a currency stable.
It seems you missed the point.

Anyway, parent said obscure hardware, so hardly useful for most people. And it sounded more like a personal activity, it is not clear he/she did publishing or upstreaming or blogging about it.

By the way: actual drivers for complex hardware are nowadays mostly written or maintained by companies.
I think you mean CMake is supported by Conan (as is Meson), since Conan is the higher level abstraction.
> Bitcoin provides substantial utility and value to society

Do you have any proof of this dubious statement?
Xmake will be better, you can try it.
There is 2.5.6
> Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Health care can never be perfect unless you (personally or government) are willing to pay an indefinite amount of money towards it. The positive with an imperfect socialized system is that it's under democratic control. In other words society decides what to prioritize.
xmake also support conan, and vcpkg/brew
> Being able to grandfather in the whole transaction log after rolling out a new system runs counter to the principle.

Counter to what principle? I don't think that's right.

Bitcoin has changed the protocol multiple times, too.
Blackest black and whitest white used together will trigger my dyslexia and makes reading almost impossible. Even though I have very mild case of dyslexia! But like you said, slight tint makes wonders. Even in my case.
> Assuming the script is hosted on an https site, is a popular tool (like brew or rustup) from a trusted source, why would this be any more dangerous than downloading and installing from a a package manager?

Most package manager use an offline signature mechanism done at build time (rpm, dpkg, nix) and do not rely on HTTPS security for anything else than eyes-dropping reasons.

Relying purely on HTTPS is insecure. Nothing guarantee you that your source / script / package did not get hacked / modified between the time you uploaded it and the time your user downloaded it.

This is not hypothetical scenario, it already happened in the past with sites like sourceforge.
I do not agree Valve should be to blame if Apple decided that gaming wasn't important for them. I am the first one to say when they do amazing things but the reality is that gaming never was/is a priority for Apple. Take a look at the history of OpenGL on macOS and it will become obvious that the only reason Linux today has a better support for games than Apple is Apple's fault only.

I truly wish it was different.
I missed something in here that seems important: you don't handle VATMOSS? Or are you doing that with Moneybird?
CMake can generate:

* Borland Makefiles

* MSYS Makefiles

* MinGW Makefiles

* NMake Makefiles

* Unix Makefiles

* Watcom WMake

* Ninja

* Visual Studio projects

* Green Hills MULTI

* Xcode projects

And more: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-generators....
You mean like all of the companies who bypass the 30% cut now by not allowing in app purchases of subscriptions and media and they distributed their app free on the app store?

The only companies that are forced to pay the 30% cut are the game developers for loot boxes and magic diamonds.

So Android users knew they were making a choice to install privacy invading apps? Not to mention all of the spyware that you can install on someone else's phone?
The ones that have congressional appropriations funding them aren’t.
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Support is still bad. There's no easy way to fill columns left to right that works well on both short articles and very long ones.
The current administration is running a trillion dollar annual deficit. How much more should the public sector be spending?
No you don't lol. I created a brand new reddit account and posted my OSS project on /r/linux and it was on the top for a while with almost 2k votes. I didn't spend any time marketing or finding influences I just dumped a link and it was shared all over the place because people thought it was cool.
We sent people to the moon in 1969. We can definitely live with 90s computing power when it's enough.
Apple has been in existence for over 40 years. They've always had a model where you give them money and they give you stuff.

Google was about tracking and ads as their business model once they found one. As was Facebook.
That doesn't sound right. It sounds like it might be correct on an Airbus, but not a Boeing. On a 737, yoke movement mechanically controls the elevator and the trim system mechanically (and with a motor to help) controls the stabilizer. There is no connection between the yoke and the stabilizer on a Boeing. Does that make sense?

It's not just that the trim wheels don't work when the yoke (not yolk) is pulled, but that it can require too much torque to move them -- it's a purely mechanical connection with the motor off -- when the elevator is deflected in opposition to the stabilizer.
>Like, why does such a critical system like MCAS take only a single AoA sensor as input, when there are two sensors available? Specially considering that the inputs from both are hardware-available to MCAS (the new software version is going to take data from both).

Are you saying the answer in the article didn't give enough information?

"Airbus addressed this potential problem on some of its planes by installing three or more such sensors. Former Max engineers, including one who worked on the sensors, said adding a third sensor to the Max was a nonstarter. Previous 737s, they said, had used two and managers wanted to limit changes.

The angle of attack sensor, bottom, on a Boeing 737 Max 8.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
“They wanted to A, save money and B, to minimize the certification and flight-test costs,” said Mike Renzelmann, an engineer who worked on the Max’s flight controls. “Any changes are going to require recertification.” Mr. Renzelmann was not involved in discussions about the sensors."
Aluminum is infinitely more useful than bitcoin.
I think you have an incorrect understanding of pork barrel spending. Of that $10,000 that you put into the government. $6000 go to social security/medicare. $2,000 to military+veterans. Then another $600 to debt. And the remaining $1,400 goes to education/food+ agro/education/transportation/housing/science/energy/internal affairs. I don't know how much of that is pork barrel spending but I doubt it's more than a couple of hundred.
Fill us in on your thoughts for not believing you will get sued by craigslist after multiple comments in the thread.
And, related, Volkswagen also had its own insignificant but apparently funny for the readers "Ketchupgate":

https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/ketchupgate-vw-...
in the long run I believe cryptos that doesn't require mining this way will be more popular, such as EOS and maybe Ethereum soon. But mining will probably never go away completely
I feel like anybody who quibbles about scraping has their head up there. It's like, are you on the internet or not? Yes? Then you are on the internet.
What fraction of SF salary did they ask you to take out of interest? I knew a googler who said London was 0.7*Mountain View total comp as an engineer
"Ok guys, enough with this money launderying, the party should be over now."
How Infrrd is automating Invoice extraction processes
What drug cartel runs on Bitcoin? I thought it was US Dollar.
Another theory is that it was possible, but requires both pilots to turn their cranks together -- not possible if one is pulling back on their yoke and unable to let go without that being deadly.
>A paper manual is always there for you.

Then have the paper manual as a choice and/or backup.

If the programmers working on aircraft are so incompetent that they can't get a the digital manual correct, than they have no business programming any of the other multitude of systems that are critical to fly-by-wire systems.
Both CMake and Make are tools for building binaries just on different levels of abstraction. You wouldn’t say someone didn’t make you coffee if they use a coffee maker!
Big Macs?
When you compare Cloud Run vCPU pricing with preemtible VMs it becomes nearly 13x the price.

Most use cases could trade startup delay for reduced costs by running GKE with preemtible nodes and Cloud Run on top of it. Otherwise "normal" Cloud Run and Cloud Run on GKE could be combined into a system where on the first request an instance on serverless Cloud Run is started and simultaneously an GKE Cloud Run instance of the same container is ramped up to take over.
product life cycle?
Show HN: Festival Hunt – Discover, filter and sort music festivals
Why would you agree to live in a democracy? Either the majority agree with you, in which case it doesn't matter, or they disagree with you, in which case it would be better for you to be the dictator.
I learned English through video games. When I played Golden Eye on the N64, I was using a dictionary!

I remember being so confused with the term rendezvous with 006, ha!

I played a lot of Warcraft 3. It sets you up for strategic thinking, understanding the difference between micro and macro management, creating training schedules to become better.

Like most hobbies: meta skills are transferable.

As for the specifics: games made me realize that computers are amazing machines and gave me good hand eye coordination. When I program something easy, I program like a gamer playing Warcraft 3 because typing and mouse speed are the biggest bottlenecks.

It wasn’t the best use of my time but I can think of worse things.
Three with a disagree algorithm is definitely what I’d expect out of such a critical system, but two with signal averaging would still be much better than just one.
The consensus on prior mentions conveys a lot about the crowd

Low consensus wouldnt be met with explicit responses
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It would be reasonable position if we were talking about a free market, and not a market captured by last mile ISPs operating a cartel on bandwidth supported and enabled by their regulators.

The near future involves last-mile ISPs openly selling $40/mo bundles for Facebook, Amazon, and Google. In that environment, flat fees for sometimes potentially lower latency seems exploitative (albeit no doubt wildly profitable).

If NN objects to their service being used to further entrench that future, then being opposed to working with customers who want to do flat-rate passthrough pricing seems defensible and consistent.

(Regarding your comment on the status quo, I completely agree.)
> Will you ever make that money back? No.

They almost certainly would make it back over a long enough time period. Broadband is going to get more important over time. Even if just a few people sign up now, future residents may prioritize it higher.
Comparing raw $ makes little sense.

I think you would need to compare median nurse/doctor salaries against median salaries for that country...
Your reply is to a post that is talking about taxes generally, not income taxes specifically. Texas has no income tax, but has sales[0] and property[1] taxes that are above the national average, as well as tolls on many public[2] roads. Texans are heavily taxed, but in ways which are based on overall footprint/usage rather than the ham-fisted distribution of income taxes that other states prefer. I agree with your assertion that life is better because of that.

0: https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-20...

1: https://www.thebalance.com/best-and-worst-states-for-propert...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_toll_roads_in_Texas#Op...
Online Announcement in Delta Sales App
Marketing is never about finding what customer wants, it’s about making customer want a thing marketer wants to sell.
You're saying that IAS disagree and unreliable airspeed ought to have caused them to throttle down? That seems counter-intuitive. If you don't know how fast you're going, how are you supposed to avoid stalling?

Are you looking at a specific QRH entry? What does it say?
I think it's not just theory: there is in fact a strong correlation between the turnout and competitiveness in a state in US presidential elections.
The Cmake migration tools are not very good.

Meson has no glob support.

Meson does not support any form of remote caching.
Alienware Area-51m as Portable Desktop Replacement
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Would google actually lose money on most of these services if they had to use non-tracking ads?
Yes, all electric ones. The pilots have a purely mechanical method for moving the stabilizer but it seems like it wasn't possible in this particular situation, perhaps for aerodynamic reasons.
An example... Soil releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as temperatures rise, creating a self-intensifying loop.
I wonder how many people would Patreon/sponsor developers to do a Linux OS properly?

I am happy to throw money towards it - I think it would have to be built on ostree, flatpack, Gnome 3 and Systemd to get anywhere close to a modern development desktop.

Anyone else interested in putting money where their mouth is?
The Norwegians are using clean energy to produce oil. Wind, hydro, etc. are being used to power the pumps. Simlarly, Texas has huge investments in wind and solar and likewise the middle east is using solar installations to pump oil and gas. The economics for that are already such that that is cheaper. So, these costs are actually dropping: clean energy is being used to make dirty energy cheaper.

Climate change is very real on the North Pole and as a consequence, the US, Norway, Denmark/Greenland, and Russia are gaining access to new oil and gas fields that used to be inaccessible and are now being exploited. Particularly Russia is pumping out a lot of gas in that region and I'm sure Alaska is also doing well. So, there is indeed plenty of oil. But it matters whether you can sell it at 30$ or 100$ a barrel.

Another thing worth highlighting is that synthesizing carbo hydrates (aka. oil) from air is a feasible but energy intensive process. I.e. once clean energy prices drop far enough, that might actually become more lucrative than getting real oil/gas from the ground. Also a great way to store excess energy and you can do it anywhere. Like e.g. next to the refineries or pumps, thus cutting out transport as a cost factor.
Thanks for sharing! How do people write such crawlers? Do they specifically point them at Github repos?
Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over poor dev practices
Thanks so much; I just found the article on HN a few moments ago!
This is a misleading statement. First, I personally do test Developer ID signed apps locally all the time. Notarization still doesn't come into play because there's no quarantine xattr to trigger Gatekeeper, not because they're signed/unsigned.
No.

There is an actual limit on how big the combination of data and libraries can be.
Two things:

1. You're putting a lot of very different things in the same bag. Marketing is not advertising, and all advertising is not unethical.

2. I don't know where you work, but I'm willing to bet you're making a living because advertisers are pushing a product or service you build/direct.

If you're going to make this kind of blanket statement, you should at least follow its implications all the way to the endpoint.
Yup, and that's about what you pay for a single person health insurance in the US that isn't very high deductible. I think my employer pays about $6K/yr for me and another $6K/yr for my partner, (I know this 'cause I've gotta pay taxes on hers, as we're not married) but it's a reasonably good plan. Same provider, but more expensive/better coverage when I was buying through my own company. When I see the doctor, they charge me a symbolic fee, but it's usually around what the ride share to get there costs me. (the parking there, ugh.)

Personally, I avoid the very high deductible plans, mostly because I have the option, but also because I don't want to deal with hospital billing. I've got an HMO (kaiser) and they charge me almost nothing at point of service, and I get to consume all the medical care my doctor thinks I need.

Unfortunately, my employer has a really juicy high deductible plan that a lot of my co-workers use. Like they actually give you money to put in your HSA that covers most of your high deductible. It's a good plan. But I don't like it because it means my co-workers get to keep extra money for not going to the doctor when they are sick, and instead they come into the open plan office and cough all over the place.

I mean, I do okay, and I'd be happy to kick in a little extra money if it meant my co-workers were more likely to go to the doctor when they are sick rather than sharing the love with the office.
When the restricties was first introduced I duck duck go-ed for a few second and came across the right-click-open solution straight away.
I'm not quite sure how different that is from before. I used to have this Pokemon-themed Tamagotchi ripoff [1] which featured a literal slot machine. I don't think I turned out any worse for it. (Disclaimer: I've never heard of Roblox.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Pikachu
Hong Kong 'Umbrella' protesters found guilty of public nuisance
Does Cloud Run have accurate NTP time across edge servers and througu Cloud Run? I know Google runs their own version which stretches time on leap years, but I'm wondering if there's any effort to make sure that these edge servers are properly synchronized. That way things such as sub-second video stream synchronization can be done across the globe.