skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. They have finally managed to reach Pascal-level perf/watt... on 7nm, competing against 16nm NVIDIA chips. It's more or less a GTX 1080 competitor as far as performance and perf/watt is concerned. So, roughly 3 years and a node's worth of uarch disadvantage behind NVIDIA.

It's a repeat of Vega, where AMD finally managed to reach Maxwell-level perf/watt... on 14nm, competing against 28nm NVIDIA chips. Once again they are years late and too expensive to boot.

They've managed to close the gap to Turing a little bit (because NVIDIA is still on a 16+ node rather than 7nm) but it's going to be a bloodbath when NVIDIA ports down to 7nm next year.

Price is the great equalizer, but once again AMD is choosing to price head-to-head with NVIDIA. Racing onto 7nm was not a cheap move for them.
> I’m sure nowadays you don’t have to think hard on how to Ctrl/Cmd+C/P/Z?

Oh, I do it.

I'm so used to C-w/C-y, that if I'm not careful when cutting something and I forgot I'm outside Emacs I'll risk to close a window... ^__^;
The damages has been done. It could take hundreds of years and an order of magnitude's financial resources to clean it up land and underground water pollutions. But the air/ocean/atmosphere/carbon footprints are shared and affecting globally.
Great idea! I'll go print some QR stickers tonight
I don't think that is a factor the general consumer can even dream up. People rather 'consume' a laptop and then throw it away after a few years. It's why there are so many low-end models sold and why so many manufacturers make them (usually based on the same blueprint from the CPU manufacturer + laptop design from the likes of Compal or Foxconn, nobody wants to waste money on designing those internally).

At the same time, the use case where manual 'servicing' of a laptop was more relevant has mostly passed. This came about because of post-imaging-once lifecycle management in the business sectors (which isn't universal just yet...) combined with the cattle vs. pets approach when it comes to business laptops. A lot of personal use has moved to mobile devices and clouds, making the laptop less and less of a special thing to be preserved.

To me, this all is a bit sad and wasteful, if we were to make it easier to swap out modules while keeping the form factor, that would be a good thing. But that costs money, and unless the mass market sees a use in it, they are not going to pay for it.
Having used a tiling window manager like i3, I disagree.

The desktop metaphor isn't as productive as a tiling wm, and using one at work is so tedious compared to what I can do at home.
Same here. You're not alone
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Why do you keep writing Barbaria instead of Arabia? At first I thought it was a typo, but you keep using it. Is that how Arabia is spelled in your native language?
A metamaterial solves an integral equation
Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal
Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy - Warren Mosler

Available here in PDF: https://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has a convincing answer to the question: "What gives fiat currencies their purchasing power"

Mainstream economists simply say that purchasing power of money commes from "confidence", but they don't explain where the confidence comes from. It is a circular logic: one has confidence in a currency if one beleives that others have confidence in it, ... whoever whas the first the "have confidence" must have been duped, ... or more likely the theory is flawed...

MMTs explanation of purchasing power is simply that in an economy there are mandatory transactions: taxes, and taxes have to be paid in the currency mandated by the state.
Money is not a commodity, it does not arise out of barter, it is (and always has) been imposed by states that required taxes be payed with their currency.

This has many consequences:

1. Taxes serve to generate and maintain demand for the currency (reduce inflation, or produce deflation).

2. Currency has to be spent before it can be taxed (how else can currency enter the economy?)

3. The debt of a currency issuing state is equal to the net financial assets (sum of all monetary assets, minus sum of all monetary debt)

4. Markets are monetary in essence, they are a side effect on the enforcing of money on a population. In a market, participants all purchase money with goods and services.

MMT is primarily a descriptive theory, the mainstream academic orthodoxy doesn't like it so much because it debunks many of its claims, but MMTs predictive capacity on the macro economy makes it a valuable tool on Wall Street:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/economy/mmt-wall...
Yeah seconded, this really is an excellent list. Very pleasantly surprised to see "The Rise and Fall of American Growth" as first on the list, it should be required reading as a guide to what we're seeing playing out in American politics currently (after it is rewritten into a more coherent and concise/accessible book, in its current form it's clearly the work of multiple undergrads/grad students stitched together by Prof. Gordon) - but the ideas in it are really powerful.

Also really pleased to see The Road to Serfdom by Hayek on the list. Eager to check out the book on Climate vs. Capitalism as I haven't seen this topic given full treatment in a book yet beyond questioning the sustainability of growth economics and efficacy of carbon taxes in broad terms.

The Mankiw textbook is used in intro undergrad classes everywhere.

I would also love to read a book by a contemporary Chinese economists on their thoughts of the Chinese market, although something tells me a good academic/unbiased book on this topic is impossible to find.

Only two books I would add would be:

The Age of Diminished Expectations (Krugman)

Dune (Herbert)
This is exciting. Great job!
I've been using matrix for over a year now, and I've been extremely happy with it, as have the users of my homeserver.
Don't ask me, it's just an observation. I don't think Reddit employs imbeciles so the usual "oops, a bug there!" is unlikely. But given it's pretty easy to track a visitor across multiple social networks in real time, including their real identity, it's good to be aware of it and even being a bit paranoid about one's privacy while on Reddit.
It depends on the task and the UI. In some tools like CAD I need to switch tools a lot: add an element to sketch, constrain it, repeat. Switch back imto 3D, pick new construction plane, etc... most tools have pretty distinct names and could be called out faster than doing the mouse acrobatics.

We aren't used to talking to things instead of humans. But I think that voice input would be the next logical step beyond the search bars for progran features that have been showing up in the last few years. These search bars are halfway to freeform textual commands. Entering such commands by voice is then mostly bashing together existing technology to make something new.
I think they have some measure to block spam from Tor, perhaps they changed the setting. Try contacting the mods hn@ycombinator.com
Well if your primary concern is a local threat - which it absolutely is not for the vast majority of people - then you just have to be more careful with your keys. If you suspect someone might be actively trying to break in to your home, you wouldn’t leave your keys on your desk while you went to lunch.
> The Mac Pro gives you six DRAM channels instead of two, several times the IO bandwidth, supports several times as many CPU cores

That's not true. Threadripper has more cores, supports more memory, has 6-channel memory, more PCIe-lanes and so on.

Even the AM4 socket will soon have 16-core CPUs and PCIe4, so it will probably have more bandwidth than any Mac Pro, for a few hundred USD. The world is moving fast, that's for sure.
Seriously.

This issue could be solved over night if the USFG (NSF/NIH/DoD) stepped in and said "all publications supported by our grants must be published open access and we'll pay no more than $N/page in publishing fees."
It's got a lot extra proprietary components in it that make it attractive for those that want those capabilities, and it runs MacOS. Often MacOS is the extra $500 or so of any Apple machine you buy. If you don't care for MacOS or the security coprocessor or the extra Apple-specific expansion stuff, you can definitely build a cheaper PC that's more powerful.
As an iPhone user who has a Windows laptop at work, I would be more than happy to be able to use iMessage through the web.
Trump is trying to 'murder' Huawei when he can just ban it
I've heard that too (though not as part of any official education), but I'm not sure I really like it. As far as I know, men have always had the upper hand in the part of history that shaped most of our current society. When prompted about it, it's easy to go "oh no, I didn't mean it has to be a man, I meant it generally", while the word still obviously refers to a male. It almost certainly reinforces an expectation of male leadership. I sometimes use the 'wrong' gender on purpose ("she" when talking about male-dominated professions and vice versa), just to make the reader realize that's an option, hopefully getting used to the idea and not frowning when they hear of an actual case where an uncommonly gendered person is (studying for / a candidate for) $profession/$role.
West Midlands cyclist with helmet cam helped to prosecute 325 drivers in a year
Using it since last week. It's a long way for us to finish optimizations.
When "everything becomes easy and self organized", it's generally because there is an implicit leader that makes it so. You may not see the leader, as he or she may have no title or recognition. But it's the person that people go to when they have problems, it's the person people turn their head to during disagreements in meetings, it's the person that will go from party to party to discuss "off-the-record" and do the real negotiations, it's the person that show example, encourage efforts and discourage disruption.

You just think it's self organized because a good leader makes you feel you are part of a whole, not that you are working under someone.

I've yet to see a group a human, working together over time, that doesn't see one leader emerge from the group. We can't help it.

I've went to NGO stating they were a flat org, hippie events where they promote the team spirit, eco-villages with community driven systems. They all have unacknowledged leaders.
> Increased efficiency and free space is a better proposition than replicating the average user's mental model of free space in the volume.

I'm not sure if I agree.

In an ideal world, it makes sense that performance should be paramount. In reality, I think it's often more important that computers do what we expect them to, so we can predict when they'll break and know how to resolve the problem when they do. This is all the more important in consumer software.

"My hard drive is out of space" is a very basic computer problem that most users will run into at some point. The intuitive solution is to delete stuff. If that solution doesn't work, it could be a major problem.
When you are talking about complex dynamic systems like human group behavior you can always find counter examples to anything anyone points at.

Here's an example of from Niall Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower -
"Formally, the directors of the East India Company (EIC) in London controlled a substantial part of the trade between India and western Europe. In reality, as the records of over 4,500 voyages by Company traders show, ship’s captains often made illicit side trips, buying and selling on their own account. By the late eighteenth century the number of ports in the resulting trade network was more than a hundred, ranging from open emporia such as Madras to regulated markets such as Canton (Guangzhou). In effect, private trading provided the weak links that knitted together otherwise disconnected regional clusters. This network had a life of its own that the Company’s directors in London simply did not control. Indeed, that was one of the keys to the success of the EIC: it was more a network than a hierarchy. Significantly, its Dutch rival banned private trade by its employees. This may help explain why it ended up being superseded"

What works and what doesn't varies a lot from org to org.
Is ISRU refueling really ready for this? (Methane I assume, as hydrogen sounds much harder.)

To me, getting that set of technologies to an operational level is one of the biggest reasons to go (back) to the Moon. It's cheaper to send demonstrators there, and easier to troubleshoot them.

Once we can do ISRU refueling reliably, the solar system will become dramatically more accessible (to robots, and eventually humans).
Dear Apple: please make an iMessage client for Windows/Linux/web users. I find it really inconvenient that, unlike other iCloud services, I can't get to my iMessages from my other devices.
Before I opened this page, I was thinking about Dune 2 and the book Dune (Atreides used ornithopters).
I can't speak for elsewhere, but here in America corporate news media has been spreading anti-Government propaganda for literally decades, backed up by the Republicans slowly gutting every Government program or system and making their provided services suffer. Once things get bad enough, they subcontract the service to a private company. The company does things just as poorly as the Government did, but they keep it consistently bad which is framed as an improvement as opposed to slow degradation.

A great example of this was when the American Healthcare Act was being passed, and Republican lawmakers spent a ton of time gutting the requirements for the insurers and cutting Government subsidies to those insurers to offset their costs, only so they could then complain about the onerous and overbearing requirements (the ones that remained, anyway) and blame the Government for not being willing to help offset the costs (the money which they refused to grant for such purpose).

Meanwhile we've spent trillions on a plane none of our armed forces asked for that hasn't flown a single mission. But no, the single mom buying food on EBT coupons is what's crippling us.
Interesting look inside PCBWay's Shenzhen assembly facility
If you want to give it a go then this is all you need to know to get started...

So your starting grid is on the table element - display: grid; grid-template-columns: (depends on your column data, start with '1fr auto auto auto...' with as many autos as you need for your data.

Then you need to add display:contents on thead, tbody and tr.

If you are using a caption then set that to grid-column: 1 / -1;

Your original grid-template-columns for the table can then be modified to suit your data, use 1fr to keep things the same width, 2fr if you want a double standard width column.

Then you will need to turn the grid-template-columns definition into a CSS variable, with your desktop layout in the fallback and the variable set by a media query for the responsive view.

Give it a go, once you have done it once you will wonder why you did it any other way.

There are other things you can do to make a sparse table with some cells taking up multiple rows or columns on an ad-hoc basis.

Really, once you have the display:contents trick working for you nicely there is nothing to write a codepen about!
Hearing about how snapshots work over the years during APFS sessions made me immediately think of 2007/2008 when they were describing the tech that eventually became Time Machine, but it wasn't a one click operation yet.

As a perverse experiment, do we know what happens if you take an APFS SSD and try to format it as a TM volume? Guessing it's still not pretty despite the fact that HDD's under APFS are PNG, but directory hardlinks are gone.

Does it work, but just fill up the disk - no deduping?
Who are you talking with?
Funny I went back to XFCE out of frustration of the more modern desktop experience on other DEs

Elementary's Pantheon is very nice until you have to consistently work for hours a day on something
Same goes for Gnome/KDE with KDE coming second just after XFCE for its ability to set the scale factor to decimals
Here is a link up thread with 'patio11's take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158079 .
> Mainly I just wanted to point out that democracy is also a flat system and has no kings.

Having no kings is not the same as being flat. Democracies have no kings, because any leaders are elected (instead of inheriting/being installed/etc.). But democracies can be anything but flat. Consider Germany, where you have three tiers of government (municipal, state, and federal), and each tier is further subdivided in its hierarchy of power (e.g. Member of Parliament, cabinet minister, chancellor).
When I scroll past the bottom of an article and then scroll back up, the page seamlessly redirects me to the main page mid-scroll... that's incredibly irritating!
Radicalization financing is nothing new from KSA and is not confined to madrassas of India. South East Asia, Europe and Americas have seen their fair share of this.

As far Iran sanctions and oil imports of India is concerned that is largely collateral damage.

USA and India have complicated relationship, at the surface level they should be allies but at the second level India's in-cohesive politics and financial reforms have added up such a way, US does not see a reliable partner in India and India's interests do not overlap with US given its neighborhood.

There are other parties to blame outside of Americans for the religiously charged climate in India.
> TechCrunch’s investigation from January revealed that Facebook had been quietly operating a research program codenamed Atlas that paid users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for root access to their phone so it could gather all their data for competitive analysis. That included everything the Study app grabs, but also their web browsing activity, and even encrypted information, as the app required users to install a VPN that routed all their data through Facebook. It even had the means to collect private messages and content shared — potentially including data owned by their friends.

Congress needs to put Zuck in the hot seat again and directly question him about the inception, creation, and execution of this program. It's pretty disgusting.
NASA has been working on it, more or less, for at least a decade. I think the latest (and IMO much less risky) proposal doesn't involve any in situ fuel creation.
I could see Uber and Lyft being still around, with one or both of them having gone through a bankruptcy. Alternately, with one or both having their stock price crater.
Fdroid looks to be heading in the general direction of verifiable builds where possible. Failing that it’s really not that hard to build yourself. But in the end you have to be trusting trust somewhere...
We want to send a spaceship to the moon but we haven't even made a decent car yet.

There is not a single good desktop operating system. Am I the only one that has noticed this? I hope not.

Windows sucks, Linux distros suck, MacOS sucks, but each one sucks in a different way. Our whole civilization depends on desktop computers, and they run crappy software. I wonder how haven't we all died because of the unreliability of our software stack.

I don't care about weird mobile things that are always connected to my watch running javascript. I want a computer --a regular, personal computer-- that works well, looks decently good, with a nice user interface and that doesn't spy on me. Is that too much to ask?
Note that as much as people complain about proprietary file formats, this guy can open a word file from 1990 on a modern machine.
Another good resource

https://ideas.redpepper.land/asking-great-questions-15eb31e6...

Which includes a link to Humble Inquiry, the best book on the topic.

Required reading for consultants.
Most sites let you set up both the Yubikey and a Google auth style TOTP. I always set up both, with TOTP codes saved in KeePassXC and SFTP'd to a backup server.
That's interesting. I've had the almost exact opposite experience. In my case, leadership by consensus seemed to be a way to defer decisions (sometimes indefinitely in the case of hard/unpopular decisions) and diffuse accountability. I wonder if the method works better in some cultures but not others.
The only thing that I had doubts on was the 'Video Watching Daily Minutes' portion Page 49. ISPs like Comcast game their cable numbers. How? They provide incentives to customers where it's actually cheaper to have a basic cable plan bundled with internet vs just internet. Guess what plan customers are going to pick regardless of whether or not they really watch cable TV? Assuming seniors aren't disproportionately consuming video vs everyone else, it's probably closer to 40 / 60 - television vs digital respectively. Unless Comcast and other operators with similar practices provide their DAU, television watching statistics will be inaccurate.
Excellent, I like that both platforms are working together doing the right thing for consumers.

A little off topic, but I also wish that GCP, Azure, and AWS would cooperate by having a few data centers collocated with very low bandwidth costs to make multi-cloud easier and cheaper. That would really put the consumer first.

And as long as I am wishing for things that probably won’t happen: I wish Apple would support custom email domains for a low cost (perhaps a few dollars a month).
gr8. Sony and Fuji have a fight and they'll both lose since people committed to LTO tape will move on. Gotta love those patent lawyers.
The reason it's titled "best" is for SEO purposes, nothing more. The author wants this page to rank for people's searches, and unfortunately people use terms like "best", "ultimate", "fastest", etc.

I mostly avoid clicking on links like this because these pages exist to make money, not inform the user or deliver a unique point of view. That much was obvious with the "free ebook" interstitial that came up the second the page loaded, and the smattering of Amazon affiliate links for every book listed.
WhatsApp is finally going after outside firms that are abusing its platform
Isn't there a running joke about iMessage users talking trash about messaging people with green text?
Please don't move the goal posts with CO2 output versus plastics pollution. They are two distinct issues. If you can apply pressure on CO2 and methane emitters to push down their emissions, I strongly encourage you to do so. First world countries have astoundingly good waste management systems though.

Whether the third world outlaws single use light weight plastic bags doesn't impact their poor waste management infrastructure. People will still throw garbage (plastic bottles, bottle caps, straws, plastic containers, plastic cutlery) in their rivers. Stop people from throwing garbage in rivers, regardless of composition. You're not going to be able to outlaw everything thrown into the rivers.

"Last year, a third of the 1.67 million tons of domestic waste disposed in Singapore consisted of packaging waste, primarily plastic bags and food packaging. The amount is enough to fill more than 1,000 Olympic-size swimming pools, according to a Channel News Asia report."

“Six million tons of non-durable plastics -- basically cutlery -- gets discarded every year. It is estimated that by the year 2050, plastic in the ocean will outweigh fish," he adds.

If you're going to outlaw single use plastic, outlaw all of it and mandate paper bags or other fiber products; you're still going to need to implement waste management, landfilling, etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahleung/2018/04/21/five-asi... (Five Asian Countries Dump More Plastic Into Oceans Than Anyone Else Combined)
I apologise for this being completely off topic. I just wanted to suggest that you don't use Google's smart lock on your welcome / splash screen. For me, seeing all my Google accounts listed on some random website is extremely off-putting.