skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Density" only matters insofar as it affects cost. And wind and PV come out much cheaper than nuclear, so density is clearly not very important. One could have figured this out by looking at the cost of land vs. the cost of wind/solar equipment put on that land.

As for constancy... this is actually a negative for nuclear, since the business case for nuclear assumes it can sell its output at a high average price, 24/7. And increasingly that market isn't there.
For those who are ignorant, what was the brand's value prop before?
Relevant post from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998948
I think Linus will retire.
Isn’t that just trading a democracy for an oligarchy?
I'm old enough to remember Bill Gates appearing as a borg on Slashdot and the infamous mutating linux ads MS ran when Win2K came out (https://images.app.goo.gl/Tqj5xPmgueJotQuN7) but I agree with Linus. The landscape has changed and the money today is in SaaS and Cloud.

MS missed the mobile revolution but they appear intent on ensuring their slice of the "cloud" pie through Azure. Making sure they support the linux ecosystem is a no brainer (and I think they're far too late to embrace and extend).

Having already lost browser, mobile and search; they'd be dead if they fucked up cloud too.
Here's a great podcast by the creator of Javascript Jabber, Ruby Rogues (and ton of other popular ones) on the Future of Podcasting:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPmW2O5o1c (video version)

Or audio version:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcasting-adventures-...
The word for people who eat meat from time to time is ‘omnivorous’. Throw an ‘ethical’ or whatever in there if you really feel that they deserve back-pats for ‘preferring’ a vegetarian diet despite ignoring that preference when actually choosing which foods to eat.
Indeed the ENTIRE basis of the EULA is that the user copies the software by executing it, whereupon a copy exists both on-disk and in-memory. This is long settled jurisprudence. I’m sure that if Microsoft downloads and runs an AGPL-licensed work they expose themselves to pretty severe problems.
Skylake is the first CPU with hardware HEVC encoding.
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no youre looking at it backwards. if the only black person on the team kept saying I want you to call me "your majesty" and i ignored them then its not cause theyre black but because theyre unreasonable and demanding from everyone else

guess what, easier to dump the unreasonable person. but of course if you cant see people for more than their skin color then youll think its discrimination. i cant help you with that.

and heres a bonus story for the day about how this gender neutral stuff is hurting people and kids: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7542005/Girls-skipp...
Some features that Windows did better than Linux/Unix:

* IOCP is loads better than epoll

* SEH is a better model for synchronous processor instructions than Unix signals

* Windows allows some better/easier ways to introspect or modify other processes than Linux does. You can't change another processes memory map on Linux, whereas you can on Windows. And /proc is a pretty poor interface for getting process data, IMHO.
The "equation with a bunch of constant parameters" generated by an ML model can be huge, with thousands of inputs or more. Evaluating that equation for a specific observation can require a huge number of computations, which is why there's a boom in ML inference hardware right now.
Running unknown executables in a sandbox and watching what they do is pretty common in advanced malware prevention software, and I expect that there's something in the TOS for Defender that grants them the permission to do this.
Personally I'd prefer to order it in terms of sentience & intelligence as well, which still leaves us with chicken for dinner..
I don't think it'll help with anything except perpetuating the artificial scarcity.

The most basic proof of ownership is the fact of having that something, and there being no party claiming that you took it from them. Copying bits is so cheap everyone can get a copy from someone else who volunteered their copy and there's no point in even metering that. There's arguably little sense to have a market for digital data, yet we persist at trying. What you're seeking with blockchain is proof of compliance with a complex and somewhat arbitrary set of regulations.
again with the bullshit... capitalisem caused climate change..
ok if that so then climate change can also be fixed by capitalisem...
as simple as that...
carbon capture,
thorium/general nuclear reactors,
eothermal,
fusion (only 35 years away...)
other solutions.... all can be brought to you by private buisnesses

that's of course without the extensive regulations that stoped thorium for so many years...
(no to say that there aren't any issues but mostly it's beurocracy that stops thorium...)

and carbon capture is on the way.. right now things seems good potencially very profitable...
again... private buisness to save the planet...
capitalisem works!

who'd imagined anyhing but central planing actually works amazing...

lol this people amaze me with their bullshit
capitalisem works as simple as that.....
(not perfect... not at all but better then goverment/...!)
Microsoft wants to compete with Amazon and Google, and god bless them if they've been humbled by their recent failures and want to play fair now. I'd be more concerned about IBM, which through its acquisition of Red Hat now controls or funds most of the software in the "traditional" Linux environment.
If I were to pick an 8-bit processor for a post-apocalyptic future, it'd be the single chip version of the Fairchild F8, not a Z80.

It was designed to be extremely simple and reduced in scope to the minimum of what a processor needed. It went into space. Radiation hardened versions were made.

The original version had its functionality broken up into multiple chips. That could allow for easier repairs.

I don't know how many transistors were in it, but I doubt it's more than the Z80 or 6502.

The RCA 1802 is another one I'd consider. In fact, it will likely outlive the human race entirely, as it's in the Voyager spacecrafts.
Yeah but people readily accept almond milk and rice milk, etc... and say, “language changes.” And vegetarian “sausages”.
There was an article I read a while back about a guy in Europe who raises cows until they are like 20-years of age (the end of their life). When they are getting near the end of their natural lifespan, they are then slaughtered and and sold. He denied they are his "pets", but you can tell that caring for a life-form for 10-20 years definitely will cause a bond to develop.

It made me think that cows really are just big dogs. But big dogs that we have taken to eating, unfortunately.

I'm not sure I want to keep eating pork and beef. I do eat a lot of chicken these days in lieu of that anyways.
Cheating on a hypothesis test... that's terrible.
USA total full time employees: 128.5 million. Total USA government employees (federal, state and local) 20~ million.*

I've seen stats from several countries and they varied from 15-40%. So 20% is not only relatively normal, it's on par with the USA's 17-18%.

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-ti...
* https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/21955...
That illustrates the problem though... It’s not a new framework, but the documentation is still poor, and important limitations of it on OS X are not documented at all, years later. (I picked this example specifically because it was a subject of traffic on the CoreAudio mailing list last month.)

Apple expects developers to adopt new technologies, but often never gets around to documenting them well enough to drive adoption. It’s been a real issue for low level audio work on the platform.
>And some of our biggest shows, with the largest audiences, still weren't making money because we couldn't sell ads on them.

Maybe I'm just thinking about this whole thing in too simplistic a fashion, but if the content is such that you can't make money on a podcast, why exactly are you spending money on producing it?
SDOT is trying to build it, did the recent injunction a few weeks ago get cleared?
It's not if you're buying a new Mac from today.
Have a look at vuescan. It's 64bit clean and supports scanners back to the late 1990's.

I use it myself and ignore the manufacturers software altogether. Which form my scanner only supported PowerPC.

https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/supported-scanners.html
That in itself is not a counter-claim to his arguments.

That being said, many companies fail to establish a foot-hold in certain international markets, including Yelp, Uber (which ceded southeast Asia to Grab, and China to Didi). Even Amazon does poorly internationally, and that's headed by the richest man on earth (which by your logic implies that it's impossible for Amazon not be able to dominate)[1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/955796/global-amazon-e-c...
Because you can dump the company on Spotify for $200m before running out of runway.
Talk is cheap, show me your weapon.
I think by "the converse" GP means that apparently, thanks to recent Australian laws, all Australian software companies are legally required to facilitate government surveillance.
Normally, when choosing components for a software stack, infra engineers are pretty good about choosing the components with the fewest features that fit the semantics that the software's design demands. You wouldn't choose Postgres where sqlite would do; you wouldn't choose Kubernetes where a single machine running Docker would do; etc. Components with simpler semantics are not only lower-maintenance, but usually can be more highly optimized due to having fewer "gotcha" requirements going into building them.

Which is to say, if someone is looking for a "faster Redis", it's probably because they originally went with Redis as the "least software they can get away with" for their particular design needs.

Any, therefore, any software that has more narrow semantics than Redis itself is not, in fact, a viable "faster Redis", for anyone but those who had no reason to be running Redis in the first place.
A car is often cheaper than other alternatives when you consider time or convenience.
I love that in Amsterdam, they don't have motorcycle gangs, but they have scooter gangs.
The selling of labor applies more to the greater bourgeois revolution (or humanity in general aspiring to it) than capitalism specifically (which is what the bourgeois revolution evolved to). This is why "people selling their labor" appears true for Adam Smith prior the state (and capitalism in general, in spite of what so many people think about Smith's time) being really formed; for Marx and Engels, capitalism truly was there into existence with the rise of the state - (Lenin identifies it thus as "special bodies of armed men"), and this is why the repurposement and eventual "withering away" of the state becomes so important to Marxist theory. LTV leads to capital, but then it became distorted by capital. Capitalism became "locked in" once you had a new public entity to arise and preside over the growing clash between the classes (which were newly formed).

Lenin gives a detailed analysis of Marx & Engels on this point in the first chapter of State & Revolution.
The Persistent Myth of Repressed Memories
Does South Korea also use an obfuscated coordinate system?
Whether Microsoft will stay like this just depends largely on their current strategic positioning and how their organization is set up to make money now, rather than how they acted in the past.

If the incentives are aligned, they'll be well behaved. If not, then they'll do whatever they can.
It's got tryCatch, and the browser function works wonders.
If you wanted both Photoshop and Lightroom, yes. For those of us that just used Lightroom, and could use GIMP for any light editing, it's a significant increase. I'm still using my perpetually licensed copy of Lightroom 6, and I see no reason to upgrade any time soon. (I'll probably use the Adobe DNG converter as a free translator if I ever get a new body)
Isn't this the same as an outer join that filters the ones that do not match? In pandas:

outer_join = df1.merge(df2, left_on='id_col1', right_on='id_col2', indicator=True, how='outer')
outer_join[outer_join['_merge'] == 'right_only']
Audio software is very hard to get right and it's a relatively low margin business. Asking them to track new OS releases on day one is just not realistic, especially when Apple has a pretty bad track record on stability and maturity of x.0 releases of macOS.
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Children dying is always a tragedy, or any civilians really.

Here's a question for you: If the US were to collapse into anarchy, and there was suddenly a void in the world where the US military used to exist, do you think would there be more or fewer civilian/child deaths (in total, from other forces) and why?
As far as iOS is concerned, Apple got rid of 32 bit support in the processor itself allowing it to improve the processor.

Keeping around old code increases the security vulnerability surface. For instance, there are at least a half dozen ways of representing a string in Windows. One of the earliest widespread vulnerabilities in Windows was caused by improper handling of string encoding where anyone could run DOS commands on a web server running IIS just by encoding the commands in the browser.

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/threats/unicod...
>It's got to be more complicated than that.

It's not. I've run macOS under a hypervisor with GPU passthrough and it's essentially as fast as on metal (I think you can see a single digit percentage difference in benchmarks). I don't think anyone has a soft 3D driver though for macOS guests. Parallels and VMware have both put a lot of work into getting some level of soft VM based 3D acceleration working for Windows guests, presumably because that's where the demand is. At the same time macOS has been built heavily around GPU for everything for a very long time now, initially as a way to improve even basic interface smoothness in Aqua back in the day. So it's a dog in pure software on a VM. It really needs a GPU.

FWIW, in the past VMware did officially have Mac Pros on the hardware compatibility list for ESXi (up to 5.5 I think? maybe the trashcan lasted longer). And that in turn would be legit for running a Mac guest. I've read you can sort of get it to work on other Macs like the Mini, though secure boot must be disabled and the T2 causes other issues. Otherwise you need to patch it, or go with KVM or some other alternative.
The difference is other governments can't enforce things like the US can.

The world runs on oil, oil is priced in USD. USD are controlled by the USA. Aside from the USA controlling much of the internet and much of the worlds seas.
-ISIS. At their peak they had a sizeable chunk of land, a flag, a capital, civic functions like a court system, an oil industry, handed out passports, were fighting a conventional land war using conventional (not terrorist/guerilla) tactics, had a uniformed army, and the word "state" was right there in the name. But don't you dare call them a state lest someone mistake you for a terrorist sympathizer.

That's playing a bit fast and loose with the facts there. ISIS conducted public executions, crucifixions, desecration of cultural sites and enslaved people for a labor force. That's textbook asymmetric warfare/terrorism.
I'm not sure what ignorance you think I hold... both of them are "... of China". China being the entity disputed. It's not as if Delta is being made to make it say "Taipei, People's Republic of China".
Or it's because those with money to build property are inherently exploitative of those living there.
There is also the issue that MS would have been given the copy by someone who did not have rights to distribute it, so the infringement is with the user.
If we're going to use arbitrary points in time, at its peak Ancient Rome had over 1M inhabitants, and Chang'an had almost 2M, all before the IX century.

A more apt comparison might be London right before the car became common place, though.
> no great loss

You instantly lost all credibility by saying such an obvious Linux fanboy statement, ignoring reality and business constraints.

The value of the NT kernel is absolutely enormous, probably on the order of a trillion dollars.

Remind me: Which year was the year of the Linux desktop?
At least you would like to see such companies publicly admit they did wrong in the past if they expect any kind of forgiveness.
For whatever reason, Canadians seem to be more open to multifamily high-rise living. As a child in the 1970s it always seemed off to me when we'd visit relatives in smallish towns in Canada which had midrise buildings while in the southern US where we lived much larger cities had few recent buildings of similar heights. This is simply my recollection of things but it seemed like even a small town of 20,000 in Ontario had good odds of having a residential building at least ten stories tall. Perhaps it was a difference in government policy in how it built social housing?
Couldn't Adobe take this to court? I thought executive orders were subject to the same judicial process as legislation. It's seems to me the smart move would be to exhaust legal avenues before shafting legitimate customers.
I did like their term of "netcast" because podcasts grew way beyond the iPod. But like with many terms nowadays it seems Podcast was the one to catch on as the generic term. Leo Laporte even mentioned that they gave up on "netcast" because it was obvious it would never happen and it was causing a lot of confusion with new listeners.
Freezing stock to prevent insider trading is one thing... Freezing it to prevent a stock price crash and buy the company a few more days at the expense of employees is another.
How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine
> When it came to western social media bans post 2007, Chinese companies were hiring tens of thousands of content moderators with understanding of Chinese filtering rules for compliance. Western companies simply gave up and didn't learn how to scale content moderation until the last few years when social media had to deal with the same violent extremism that China did during the Tibetan and XinJiang riots that lead to FB/Twitter ban.

I will gladly agree that Chinese companies have a competitive advantage over Western companies in terms of enforcing state-mandated censorship. I hope Western companies never get comfortable with that particular competency.
Almost.

Whether Microsoft will stay like this depends on how they respond to the changing landscape moving forward.
In Austin, TX, I rarely have found that I truly need to take a shower, even when it's over 100 F. When I was less experienced this was more of a problem but now I reduce my speed, take a shorter route if possible, and change to a wet t-shirt and shorts that are different from what I normally wear. I used to also wear a wet skull cap but I've been meaning to buy a new one.

It helps that my commute is only about 5 to 10 minutes each way, but I'd keep cycling without taking a shower even if it was longer.

Anyhow, perhaps not all cyclists agree about the the necessity of showers. My point was that this is an issue where one's opinions may change.
32 bit softwares run on 64 bit hardware. Period. It doesn't require maintenace on any platform, neither BSD, Linux or Windows.

Depreciating 32 bit software is just an Apple trick to force financial turnover.

It's the same reason why the deactivated sidecar for macbook older than 2016.
The UN was founded in 1945. I have reason to believe that countries existed long before that.
I heard this joke when I was young and never really got it until I was older.
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A TV reporter became lost on the back roads and stopped at a farm to get directions. As he was talking to the farmer he noticed a pig with a wooden leg. “This could be a great story for the Six O’Clock News. How did that pig lose his leg?” he asked the farmer. “Well”, said the farmer, “that’s a very special pig. One night not too long ago we had a fire start in the barn, and that pig squealed so loud and long that he woke everyone, and by the time we got there he had herded all the other animals out of the barn. Saved them all.”

“And that was when he hurt his leg?” asked the journalist anxious for a story. “Nope, he pulled through that just fine.” said the farmer. “Though a while later, I was back in the woods when a bear attacked me. Well, sir, that pig was nearby and he came running and rammed that bear from behind and then chased him off. He saved me for sure.”

“Wow! So the bear injured his leg then?” questioned the reporter. “No. He came away without a scratch. Though a few days later, my tractor turned over in a ditch and I was knocked unconscious. Well, that pig dove into the ditch and pulled me out before I got cut up in the machinery.” “Ahh! So his leg got caught under the tactor?” asked the journalist. “Noooo. We both walked away from that one.” says the farmer.

“So how did he get the wooden leg?” asked the journalist. “Well”, the farmer replied, “A pig like that, you don't eat all at once”!
Meanwhile, on the world of facts and data, we see that car commuting is a privilege of the wealthier classes.

http://cityobservatory.org/why-do-poor-school-kids-have-to-c...

Land near metro got expensive (very recently! U St used to be (ugh) "ghetto") because it's GREAT and wealth inequality means rich people can bid up its price. The answer is to build MORE of this great thing so there is enough for poor people too.
I didn't watch the video, and was just responding to the idea that going into the "car lane" is bad.
You're definitely right that sarcasm isn't an HN thing. However I still get seriously worried about the personalities of the programmers here who seem unable to recognise sarcasm.
Trey and Matt manage to stay relevant in ways that other shows can't. I appreciate their work.
Again I agree, but that is the NCoC way.
> That's playing a bit fast and loose with the facts there. ISIS conducted public executions, crucifixions, desecration of cultural sites and enslaved people for a labor force. That's textbook asymmetric warfare/terrorism.

To me that just sounds like textbook nationhood. The defining feature of the state is having the monopoly on violence within its borders.
Counterpoint: BareBones software has continuously updated BBEdit as Apple transitioned from:

- 68K Classic MacOS

- PPC Classic MacOS

- PPC OS X

- x86 MacOS
Easy to divest when, right now, all of them look like pretty bad investments.
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Does Seattle not have TIF bonds? The primary purpose of them is to pay for infrastructure upgrades needed for new development and then use the rise in property tax revenues on the new development to pay off the bonds.
How does one actually notarize an app without paying? I believe it requires Developer ID, which does actually cost $99/year I’m unclear on this.
I don't think Linus is currently working because he desperately needs money.

I suppose that Linus might continue working to further a case he cares about.
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Nomacs. Not quite there, but feels comparably lightweight. https://nomacs.org/
Looks like the US Trade Policy is driving the car that carries the flag.
Redis is single threaded because it heavily relies on non-blocking IO like libuv.

The multithreaded option is also based on non-blocking IO. You can think of it as one Event Loop per CPU core, rather than only one Event Loop per computer.
Money... they want the Chinese to consume NBA content, merchandise and possibly extend the league.
Probably today I would use a bloom filter to avoid duplicate plays. You could even produce a transition matrix between albums with similar code and memory complexity.