skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geekbench puts the Q6600 and existing A72 SoCs (that are clocked a bit higher than the Pi 4) directly on par at ~1500 single core score but it would certainly be interesting to see some detailed real world benchmarking between them.
Show HN: Frea – Federating the NPM package registry
lol no it assumes a US account. it's not even listed in the app stores here. people mostly use bank transfers for everything since it's free and fast
Minor soy allergy checking in. It's been diagnosed, but is minor enough I don't normally notice and and don't go out of my way to avoid it, other than not drinking soy milk or eating tofu or edamame. I likely wouldn't have made the association if I wasn't tested for all allergies when we were figuring out my much more severe peanut allergy. Perhaps there's a large population of undiagnosed people allergic to soy as well. Anecdotally, I think I've always heard more about soy allergies than gluten until the recent past, though I was kinda already in the allergy community.
Agreed. It doesn’t mean much, but I thought I would just point out the actual relevant bits even if they don’t hold much weight.
Seriously? They left out Cryptography Extensions from the RPi4 SoC? Any source / references?

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

Edit: Ouch if this turns out to be true... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=243410

Edit 2: Ah, also RPi3B and 3B+ didn't have those extensions. Oh well.

Edit 3: Just tested my bog standard RPi3B+ running Raspbian. It could do "openssl speed -elapsed aes-256-cbc" 43 MB/s AES-256-CBC. Tried also with "-multi 4" and it resulted 144 MB/s using all 4 cores. So perhaps RPi4 will be fast enough with CPU only crypto... would still love to have HW assist.

Edit 4: RPi4 running 32-bit OS can do about 65 MB/s per core aes-256-cbc. 85 MB/s per core for aes-128-cbc. So by using two CPU cores for encryption (+ heatsink + fan :-)) 1 Gbps ethernet can be saturated.
It's how you plan society as well. Singapore is dense and has great public transport.

America conciously builds sprawling suburbs that require private cars to get around.

We can choose to build a society that does not need as much car use.
k/v mem store is only supposed to be a read cache. it's not supposed to handle business logic, and it's not supposed to persist storage. if you need any of that, use an rdbms.
If you had been to the conference or watched it live-streamed or watched later on youtube; which talk/part is your favorite?
Does this mean they’ll stop suggesting I install Chrome when I navigate to their properties with a non Chrome browser?
I'm talking about real-world. If you actually go to the places on the map, half the time the place doesn't exist, or can't find it, or it's closed. That can't happen when you're down to your last 10 miles of battery range. Tesla's network is dependable and real, and there is accountability when something goes wrong. You know who to blame and who to call. If you're in a Jaguar I-pace or Audi E-tron, you're depending on third-party. There is no accountability. It doesn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling that you're not gonna be stranded in the middle of nowhere with your very expensive doorstop.

I'm sorry this is making me sound like a Tesla fan but I'm really not. It's just the current state of the world. Tesla showed these carmakers the way to go, and instead they decided to go the wrong way and put the burden on us the consumers. That stinks in my opinion and I'm just mad about it.
I think many / most people simply have a negative emotional reaction to ideas of suicide or euthanasia; death is fearsome. People have to reconcile their feelings with knowledge to avoid cognitive dissonance. Religion often provides that validation to people's existing emotional prejudice, and gives them a pass on accepting uncomfortable ideas.

Looking beyond religion, one can have reasons for opposing euthanasia, such as:

- acceptance of voluntary euthanasia may lead to accepting non-voluntary and involuntary euthanasia and mental illness-based suicide.

- consent may be fabricated for a variety of motivations.

- doctors may be obliged to kill patients, placing them in a moral dilemma.

- people may be coerced into euthanasia by inheritors.
>The plant now tracks each individual product, line, customer, contract in realtime with complete transparency to the parent company.

I'm sure that's what the parent company thinks is happening. Whether that's what actually is happening at the plant level is another question. So is whether the improvement came with a hit to productivity or any other hidden cost. Obviously I know nothing specific about the company but speaking generally I've seen a lot of work arounds and inefficiencies in my day.
The fact that Clojure runs on JVM turns me off. I find that Elixir is very similar to Coljure, with a runtime that better supports immutability and concurrency.
He has tried twice to create GNE: Game Never-Ending. The first time he gave up, he turned the image-sharing part of the game into Flickr. The second time he gave up, he turned the chat part of the game into Slack.

Maybe he should try making GNE again.
Most American suburbs are not well served by public transportation.

Personally, I've lived in many cities, suburbs, and rural areas in the northeast US (population-dense, relatively friendly toward ecological initiatives) and tried to use public transit whenever possible. My experience is that public transport outside cities is practically nonexistent. In cities, there are only buses and they're annoying/slow/don't go where you need them.

Only now that I live in the immediate vicinity of Boston do I have useful public transit options, yet still, owning a car is a necessity to get to anything outside the city.
Expertise is falling out of favor
Rockstar Games
Vscodethemes.com
There's a collecting factor to it too.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823022 .
on Github: https://github.com/wasplang/wasp
>DDG and Qwant just pull Bing results.

It there a source for this? People keep saying that DDG is just Bing, but I can't find any indication of that actually being true. Sure, they may be using Bing results, but they're seem to be mixed with result from other sources.

The only post I ever found on the subject is Gabriel Weinberg saying that DDG is not just Bing.
That's an incredibly judgemental attitude. Being in college doesn't mean you have to be able to write to perfection.
What Is the Difference Between PBFT, Tendermint, SBFT and HotStuff?
Counterfeiting killed reliable brands. Try to find a good charger or surge protector: on amazon they all are fake and nobody else is selling them - it's impossible to compete with amazon's fakes.
Personally, what depresses me is that at 28 and in an excellent job making a little more than my train engineer (designing & fabricating train engines) father was in the late 90's and he had 3 kids, a house, two cars, and had no other sources of income or money. I can't ever see myself owning a home except somewhere extremely rural and requires a lot of costly basic remodeling, we've had changes & commodification of dating, loneliness, a planet becoming inhabitable with nobody really doing anything to address it. I did what I was told would lead to success, I've worked in multiple places with 5-7 years of experience in my IT field now, and I'm in the same spot I grew up with my grandparents in, barely making it with like an extra $40/mo for ramen & beer with a friend or two one night for entertainment. No debt. It's such a common story among my similarly aged friends too.

What do we really have to look forward to?
Will this be the first MacBook that will be thicker than its previous gen? I am hoping Apple has realised that they are at the limit of what the current MacBook Pro can do in terms of thermals. I want a laptop that doesn't have its fans spinning non-stop only because I use an external screen or Firefox instead of Safari.
It would be nice if Apple would move to @3x for this Retina screen, making it a tad above 4K. Yes I would pay the Apple tax for that. Also interested in what they're going to do with the 13" one. If it gets a smaller bezel screen will it get more screen or will they shrink the machine a bit further?

I'm not going to hope for changes in the keyboard or ports or the Touch Bar. So far I like the keyboard on the 2018 anyway, but connecting a camera was a bit of a hassle.
I'm not personally familiar with that one, but as an owner this is the ultimate source of authority for me when planning trips. Hopefully more illustrative: https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
Free $25 sign on bonus and free $10 just to click the link
> About half of all crude oil is turned into gasoline

That is honestly less than I expected.
Show HN: IngressOperator for OpenFaaS
California's governor warns Big Tech could be “steamrolled”
Seems perfectly reasonable for Microsoft of all companies to be on the Enterprise version.
> I carry 10Kg bag to school and has to do homework in 7 subjects, and get beaten by stick if I fail to do any of them separately by respective teachers, and has to spend time till 10pm after school (ends at 5 pm) at tuition to finish the homework.

That sounds more like pain, not stress. If you (or the you at the time, which is an important difference) can easily externalize your problem—i.e. blame the school for being stupidly strict, rather than blame yourself for not living up to its standard—then as much as it might be an ordeal to go through, it won’t really affect your psyche.

The concern here isn’t that school is harder; the concern is that school (and the way parents talk to children about school) is being treated with more seriousness than it deserves, and so the potential of failure at school is being seen—at least on average—as more of a personal, moral failing, an automatic source of shame.

Of course, children always treated some school environments this way—mostly high-cost private schools, intensely-competitive academic schools, and military academies. But this attitude seems to be spreading to all schools, and that’s a bit concerning.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation Unveils the Raspberry Pi 4
Well, photons do have kinetic energy as well ... but very little, so yes, the idea is to heat up the explosive enough.
Sub-urban America is not 'no car' America, lacking public transport, the downright scale of American cities, and a car-focused traffic/zoning design makes bikes, walking, and bussing simply just not practical.
Harry Potter Wizards Unite Reaches 200K Downloads in First 24 Hours
I'm not sure it is so much the luxury/economy car as the weight that you need to look at. Weight, often even more than drag, will be a primary driver determinant of fuel inefficiency.

While luxury cars are often heavier, and perhaps built without as much presumption that the owners will be concerned about fuel mileage/costs, there are many anomalies where apparently smallish cars are surprisingly heavy. And even 'economy' cars have become quite portly. Just look at the Honda civic hatch, from 1990-now going from 2165 Lbs to 2763 Lbs -- that extra 600Lbs is over 27% heavier -- a lot more mass to accelerate. Or, check out the Nissan Maxima sedan at 3676 Lbs! That's most of the way to my old BMW X5's 4100Lbs. Meanwhile a friend's C6 Corvette weighed in at ~3140 Lbs and got over 32mpg on the highway between the low CD and lighter weight. Look beyond the luxury to the design & build.
Not only energy production is an issue. Electric cars also have a larg ecological debt at start. Nobody has anything on battery refurbishment and recycling.

One one hand you are lying to yourself if you think your new electric car is more environmental friendly, on the other hand you have to start somewhere perhaps.
Did you read the link you just posted? The duty of care is owed to the corporation by its directors—"a duty to exercise good business judgment and to use ordinary care and prudence in the operation of the business ... in the best interest of the corporation [not the shareholders]...".

You either are missing the distinction here and conflating the corporation and its shareholders into a single entity, or you're inadvertently moving the goal posts. There is no obligation or responsibility for a corporation—or its directors—to operate in the best interest of shareholders. Which is what you originally stated. Corporations—and their directors—have no such legal or chartered responsibility. Again, it sounds like you've perhaps unwittingly transformed the myth of maximizing shareholder value—a fiction created in the 1970s that has zero legal or chartered basis—into this even looser, but far more extreme, version of a corporate responsibility to act in the best interest of shareholders.
I recommend reading the entire article, the conclusion is particularly scary:

>ACT and Comptia have been infiltrating every workgroup, even the one on Open Source (WG 7). They are doing the best they can to drown any initiative that would not only promote OSS in Europe but also that could help Europe create a sucessful European software sector

My thought is that outside of high-risk areas like ICANN, they're not having much success. The OSS community in Europe is far stronger than that in America.
The CEO Stewart Butterfield has already said he doesn't intend to sell, based on his bad experience of selling Flickr to Yahoo.
I have wanted to get into an EV and it is the long distance travel issue (for that 1% of the time) that has been keeping me (and I imagine a lot of people) from making the switch. Tesla is the only model to have come close to solving that issue.

One thing I have been waiting to see is a push to have gas stations adopt EV charging on a large scale. Gas stations, particularly ones along interstate routes, often double as rest stops and usually have large parking areas with small marts, and a couple of fast food options. If companies partnered with a major gas pump operator like chevron, shell or mobile to offer even a small number of charging stations with each gas station (even just 2 to 4 at each site in the 50-100kw range.. though the wiring would most likely need to be upgraded to support this) things would shift rapidly I think. I know charge times remain an issue, but if you are taking a rest stop anyway.. the 30-40 minutes of charge is not as big of an issue.

A government subsidy could also be introduced to help offset some of the cost of upgrading these gas stations. An increased tax on Gasoline could go towards paying for such a subsidy. Also I think we need to take another look at nuclear power to help charge those EVs, but that is another conversation.
I'm switching to Linux as well. It's that "just works" has become "it doesn't work anymore, and we don't sell anything you want." I'd happily give them money, but they don't seem to care about what I want as a customer.

I'm typing this on a mid-2010 iMac with Linux installed because it's no longer supported by Mac OS. My 2012 MBP died earlier this year. I replaced it with a Dell XPS 15 running Linux. I don't like it as much as my MBP, but I don't hate it like the current Apple offerings.

I don't mind paying for power. I've got a ridiculously overpowered "cheese grater" Mac Pro. But the OS is dated, and I can't replace it without a total wipe and reinstall because I used a RAID. After being left in the lurch on the (admittedly dated, but perfectly functional) iMac, not knowing if I'll ever like another MBP offering, and having to wipe the system anyway, I'm not sure I'm not just going to put linux on that as well.

I might even switch over to Android for my phone. While setting up a VPN, I had a very difficult time, because even though all Apple's configurator does is create XML profiles, I couldn't run it because none of my hardware had a recent enough version of Mac OS on it. It seems totally arbitrary; especially since I can duplicate the profile by hand, email it to myself, and install it on the phone.
Probably not.

Page 21 - https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/self-directed-vio...

There are a huge number of drug-related deaths in the US, so if these were counted we'd expect to see huge rises in all ages.
Tell me some useless (or useful) software trivia
Regardless of ulterior motives, objectively when even the billionaires are saying the level of inequality is getting out of hand, something wrong is happening...
How is it bait and switch?

8.8.8.8 was never marketed as a "ping me to see if the Internet is up" service, as far as I know. Just as a fast, public DNS server.
Performance-enhancing bacteria found in the microbiomes of elite athletes
How to effortlessly optimize your Jupyter Notebook (tips, hacks, and magic)
Can we fix social media?
Honestly, what's the diff re: sustainability? There's not a huge difference in how long either type lasts at that price point afaik.
DDG use a combination of Bing, Oath (previously Yahoo), and their own crawler [1], although I believe their own crawler is only used for “instant answers” and knowledge cards.

Qwant has their own crawler and use Bing to help build their results, at least for now [2].

[1]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
[2]: https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-th...
That’s excellent for routine use but doesn’t help much for long trips.
Boeing unveils rendering of hypersonic jet
this is not new, i think it is just that these researchers are naming it
The Electrify America network looks very similar to the Tesla one. Let's see how well it works after they spend the $2B they got from the Volkswagen settlement.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/05/inside-electrify-americ...
Yes, living does irreparable damage to everyone. The best you can hope for is to not put your family and friends through the unnecessary hell of coping with your death, dwelling on what they could have done/didn't do to prevent it. You can come back from how you feel now - that's the nature of being alive
The biggest problem with learning on an "as-needed" basis: You only learn what's needed to accomplish your immediate goals. An inefficient, injectable query will certainly get data showing up on your web page.

Most people are not going to "learn databases" over the weekend. A boss or company that has employees capable of this type of independent learning and routinely expects it will soon lose the former. That costs more than 2 cents.
Cool. More power for the dollar on throw away projects. It's a minor nit but I'd still like to see them add a real time clock.
How hot does it get when in idle and how hot after about 10 min full cpu load? What are the prospects on overclocking?
Investors demand more access to alternative investments
Here's a revolutionary idea in case Sir Jony is reading:

Make it lighter and thicker.

Seriously, until it's as light as a phone I don't mind if they keep shaving weight off. But there's very little to be gained by going thinner:

1. I doubt ergonomics get much better as it approaches typing on a sheet of paper

2. the risk of bending increases

3. if it's not as thin they can fit more stuff in there more cheaply: better heat management, longer lasting batteries, faster processors/more memory, stronger antennas, etc.
It sounds like individual buyers could use a service that purchases homes in cash for them and then handles financing. I also wonder if a wholesale buying club would be viable in these markets.
>DuckDuckgo is a minor player, but microsoft's Bing isn't.

Bing has 5% market share of search.

You also don’t see Microsoft leveraging the 5% market share to create competing businesses and then self bidding on search engine keywords to bid up the costs to existing customers.

The problem is google has a dominate market share and unfairly leverage its dominate market position to the determinate of other businesses and consumers. Say I’m an airline and use google ad words and pay $2 pay per click for the term “x”, google knows I can afford to pay more, so they create a spin off company and they bid up “x” to force me to pay google more for the same AdWord or lose out to Google’s new flight aggregate business. Either way this drives up costs to consumers and is unfair to a competitive business landscape.
If life extension is technological, it's pretty hard to imagine how it wouldn't extend to the people around you. Technologies almost always get much, much cheaper and available to the masses after an initial period.

In such a scenario, you're going to see some people you knew and love die, but usually because of things like accidents, not old age, so it'll be entirely random, unlike now where elderly people have to watch all their friends die off around them, something they didn't experience that much in their younger years.
True and Singapore's government has been very systematic about broadening public transport access - not just for energy reasons but also for economic participation & health reasons (people walk a lot more).

But Singapore also air conditions everything which is a fairly heavy energy use in tropical climate much like how heating is a massive energy use in northern climates and spends a lot of effort/energy on keeping sidewalks, grounds and pavements manicured, watered & in good repair.

As the founder of Singapore argued, the lifestyle gain - though at the cost of consuming more energy is a massive competitive advantage in productivity and in attracting, developing & retaining talent. https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
The definition of what a suburban area is in North America vs. Europe are so different they really need different words.

A typical suburb in the US will have no public transportation, and be so sprawled out that bicycling or walking between places would be impossible for a working adult.
Have you had the chance to drive one yet, just out of curiosity? It's worth the effort if there is a store nearby you and you have any interest in manifestation of the product itself!
"Maybe it's a personality flaw"

I'm sure it's a 'flaw' that most of us have.

I also like getting grand plans for a (hardware) project, ordering the parts from Ali express, then losing interest before the parts have arrived, so they still end up in 'the drawer'.
Maybe. It has a lot of CPU power relative to IO bandwidth, it should do ok in pure software.

Hmm, anyone know if the VideoCore VI would be any good for crypto?
Everything on the Beltline is gold.

Atlanta is very car-centric, but the Beltline corridor that surrounds the city is a pedestrian / cyclist heaven. Atlanta is already one of the greenest cities in the world - there are so many trees you'd be hard pressed to find a comparison. The Beltline exemplifies this - there's a park every single mile you walk. Businesses, restaurants, bars, and residences have sprung up along the entire track. Each bend has a bit of the flavor of its neighborhood. Entire weekends can be spent on the Beltline.

They're expanding trails out and into the suburbs. The Palasades, a hilly oasis by the Chattahoochee river. The Silver Comet bike trail even goes all the way to Alabama.

The Beltline has reinvigorated the entire city of Atlanta and captivated the minds of urban planners around the world.

If I had the capital, I would be buying so many homes here.
I'm working at ScyllaDB we have observed that long time ago and even blogged about it back in 2017 https://www.scylladb.com/2017/07/31/database-caches-not-good...
https://music-electronics-forum.com
I'll make sure to put it in my note that there's nothing they couldve done to change it.