skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^^^

This affects servers, personal computers, and phones. That's pretty much it. <10 nm is only used for the applications most demanding of computer performance.

You know what the limiting factor on your phone and laptop's lifespans are? Because it's certainly not the CPU.

Even for the relatively narrow applications in which aging will have noticeable impacts, I doubt it will be a big deal. >90% of people will get a new laptop, phone, or PC long before they see clock reduction due to aging. There are plenty of people who are still on CPUs as old as sandy bridge, but even that is inflated due to the awkward phase where it seemed like parallel utilization would never improve. 15-20 years from now the number of devices using CPUs from the 2020s will be at least as small as the number of people currently using devices from 2010. Not that those devices aren't important, but "we're going to have very short-lived electronics" is just not true (or at minimum, it's already true).

On top of that aging in future processors will be a gradual reduction in performance and efficiency, not sudden failure, and it'll still take many years. Design issues are the real concern here; something like underspec'd AVX instructions that suddenly see massive increases in utilization. Aside from that CPUs will not be noticeably different, and the vast majority of consumer electronics and infrastructure will not even be on a relevant technology.
Yeah, here they report rain just in mm. They might say 3-7.3mm, or they might say 0-4mm. Now I don't care too much about 2.5mm or 6.1mm, but I definitely care about the chance of more than light rain. For others, people with a gardens etc, the amount of water might matter more.

Just last Thursday they reported zero precipitation for the entire day, not a hint of rain. Yet we got 3 hours of medium-heavy showers in the afternoon... not a very uncommon combination. If I had known there was a 30% chance of showers, I would have packed my rain jacket.
It is not smartness at all, but politics.
Breaking up big tech monopolies won't solve anything
A few quotes from it, that have stuck with me:

- It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

- Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
historically insurance companies have let you buy many types of insurance for anybody, naming yourself the beneficiary. Pretty tough to not be caught these days, but this do lead to the obvious insure => "terrible accident" => collect cycle. Even then they tended to get caught eventually. Herman Mudgett did this several times around the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
When one 737 Max crashed, some pointed the finger at the pilots.

When a second one crashed, the focus quickly shifted.

It is a common attitude in aviation that even pilot error is really a systems fault. Perhaps opposing buttons are too close together, or some control requires attention to be diverted at the wrong time, or pilots are allowed to fly too many hours without adequate rest, or plenty of other things that could contribute to predictable human failure.

It seems obvious that we can predict human failure in current policing. If two incidents with a 737 lead to an indefinite grounding, what's the right number for this situation?

In the case of the airplane, grounding does not create a public safety issue. And there are, of course, many alternatives that can keep the overall system up and running in the meantime. The solution to police brutality requires much more thought.
You may have missed GP's point. Microsoft is casts a very wide net, running on a huge array of hardware and trying to do everything from mobile to console gaming to datacenter servers. The dev experience is equally diverse: you don't even need a Windows box to develop for Windows.

Apple jettisoned all of that diversity to refine a few precious use cases to earn that "quality" aura.

I think this move to ARM is signaling a couple more use cases being tossed to the curb, like beefy workstations and PC gaming.
What is the value in going on Twitter and actively looking for information that confirms your bias? This is what most people, of all political inclinations, are doing.
I think we agree. Saying fake identifies = not cool. Gaming the system (without fake identities) may not be nice but probably not illegal (in most places).
There was a video, I think from LA, where some protesters on one side of the road yelled at rit police on the other side of the road. Usually, not a big deal. And then a couple of officers decided to pull out a guy from the group, who happened to be black, pull him to the ground, beat him with batons. Pepper spaying a woman next to him. All while being filmed. In June 2020.

Despite being disgusting, unwarranted, racist and unacceptable, the sheer amount of stupidity, ignorance and arrogance this shows is just mindboggling. And makes that totally inentional.
>You could watch 100 videos of disgusting malpractices in restaurant kitchens and begin to think you should never eat in a restaurant again.

What's the analogous conclusion from this to police brutality videos? You watch 100 and begin to think you should never talk to a cop again?

Sure you can post up a bad conclusion to draw and then attack it. I'm pretty sure there's a name for this sort of thing.
Lessons from Bhagavad Gita that stayed with me
I guess it depends on your definition of expensive. A brief look at eBay shows plain ol' gray N64s selling for around $50-75 several times a day, usually including cables and a controller. Some games are a bit pricier, but there are good flash carts available.
> Sure, but aren't those programs the whole point of having sophisticated terminal emulators?

What we currently have isn't sophisticated terminal emulators. It's a buggy superset of hundreds of kludges due to 60s years of legacy. I mean there's a lot I do love about the design but there's a lot to legitimately dislike as well.

> If plain streams of text was all we cared about for CLI applications, it would indeed make things a lot easier. So much easier, in fact, that we can dump our current terminal emulators in favour of a more simple alternative without ever having to complicate the shell.

The shell isn't the complication here. The shell is just a program launcher. The real issues with terminals is:

- Formatting is inlined with the data stream.

- There isn't any type information in pipes (it is just a raw byte stream) so applications can't easily do context sensitive processing.

- ASCII isn't just a text format but also a data format (there's ASCII characters for tables and records) and flow control (EOF) and job control (^c, ^z).

- It's that responsibility for all of this is divvied up between the TTY driver (in Linux's case, the kernel), the terminal emulator, and any user space applications reading and writing to their respective file descriptors.

- Terminals were never built to be API driven and while there are some interactive ANSI escape sequences they're not widely supported by terminal emulators. So from a shell or tty perspective, the terminal is a black box

- Plus since file descriptors are literally files and TTYs are literally files, it means actually any other process can write to the TTY even if they're not part of the shell's process group (hence why tools like `wall` can exist). So even if the shell could keep track of what was in STDOUT of the processes it spawned, it can't possibly know if anyone else has written to that same TTY.

There some ingenious design in Linux terminals but there are soooo many rough patches thrown in too.

> But since people do care about terminal UIs, this isn't a realistic solution.

Right, but I was never suggesting people don't care about terminal UIs nor that shells don't offer a valuable function. In fact the opposite is true: I've written my own shell because I thought I could create a better UI/UX than Bash.
I've seen a fair number of naked lightbulbs in the last few years in hipster restaurants, coffee shops, etc. If done right, it can actually be a pleasing aesthetic.

I think your general point is right though, it's not terribly practical.
Probably not that hard to fix, there are a few potential issues that come to mind but all have simple solutions, if you know where to look (and if you don't, as in Freenode#haiku.)
I think it's a case of several bad departments/cities/states. The response from the San Francisco PD (for example) was very different from Seattle. Policing is very different from state to state, and police cultures are very different across departments. Treating all police in the US as a single entity doesn't make much sense.
Why would people want power local and limited? Noting the sordid history of local, "States Rights", Jim Crow style policies that exist at the local level. Especially when the issue concerns US policing which is the ideological descendant of slave patrols.
As a non American I am not getting this at all. In many US cities/towns sheriff is elected. In all other cases city mayor is elected. How it happens that all those mayors and sheriffs are still in the office if police brutality is such a big issue?

Does this mean that people just do not care, or there is only some minority who thinks that the police is too violent and the rest is ok with that?
Side note: WebRTC is disable on TorBrowser[0], but you can use a browser with WebRTC enabled (Vanilla Firefox and others) on the Tor network inside Tails OS[1].

[0] https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/876/does-tor-work-wi...

[1] https://tails.boum.org/
> So we're worried that too many cows are breathing?

No, farting.

> And there it is. It's a hit piece.

You’re not objecting to any of the facts of the article. Nor, presumably, to the general idea of climate change. So I’m having trouble seeing your viscous reaction to the article as anything but anger at being shown facts that paint your lifestyle in a bad light.

FWIW I also consume dairy and meat, and don’t plan on stopping, either. And yet I can’t fathom the anger this seems to invoke in you. Pointing out the relative costs to society of certain activities isn’t necessarily intended to get people to stop doing them. Here, for example, I believe putting pressure on the industry to mitigate that pesky methane problem is the far more promising route.
This is kink shaming.
Remote Teaching Experiment with Experts. Summary Webinar
Speaking Out Against Racism in Tech: All Chinese/Indian Teams
Working at several big tech companies in the bay area over the years, I've noticed an alarming trend where certain teams are dominated by one ethnicity, typically Chinese or Indian. I almost never see this with any other nationality except those two. I've never seen an all-white American team, nor an all-Nigerian, all-Brazilian, or any other type of nationality in san Francisco bay area.

Whenever I am included in interview loops for these teams, the interview pipeline is consistently primarily made up of that one ethnicity. Now what's worst is these teams are incredibly insular. At my last company, the team was 90% Chinese, where most of the tech decisions were made at lunch... where you guessed it they all spoke mandarin. It was impossible to break in and as a result I left for a team that is much more diverse and welcoming.

I think if tech companies want to get serious about diversity, they need to start cracking down on these teams that are setup to exclude others who don't match their cultural background.

I am reaching a point where I wonder if I should start reporting this to HR... But then I realize it will be a fruitless battle since HR is there to protect management.

Has anyone else noticed this trend? If so, what have you done about it?
There's a lot of sheet music that's absolutely in the public domain, though. Most of what's on IMSLP falls under that. (IMSLP only provides raw scans however. There is an Open Scores project that's supposed to work on making machine-readable versions of those in Musescore, but I don't know if their output is freely accessible outside their cloud platform.)
Big companies definitely care a lot more about these things than universities or "small-time researchers". I've been in long meetings with corporate lawyers at multiple big companies, and they are a lot more careful than you imply (because they have more to lose). It's always a risk vs reward thing. Things like "copyright doesn't apply here at all. You can use whatever training data you want as long as your model is sufficiently transformative." are not certain until they have been tested in courts, and will be different for each case (it's a lot easier to argue that a simple classifier is transformative than a GAN that might reproduce one of its training inputs, for example). An additional complication is that if you're a company that's operating globally, you have to pay attention to a lot more laws.

Where I work now we work a lot with synthetic training data, because dealing with "real" data is complicated.
Technically, the Model F introduced the switch type. The Model M did, however, introduce the standard 101 key layout.
I don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make. I don’t find it helpful to apply “racist” unthinkingly as a blanket term that encompasses anything and everything race-related, and I cannot agree with you that my post in any way supports racist policies.
I would say people want to get rid off developers. The way it usually works is that somebody has an idea useful for humans, but they don't speak code. They then need somebody who knows bits and bytes, but unfortunately probably does not understand the actual idea or its purpose. So what ensues is the developer trying to make a stupid machine do something that somebody else envisioned, as a sort of idea to code compiler. This is not always true -- especially for startups -- but it is I think for the no code part. Now if the developer could concentrate on giving the tools where his expertise is relevant to the people with ideas everything would be amazing. If it can work.
Very cool video, but it sounds like that space-that-isn't-a-space would also apply to a runic interpunct as well as to the Latin interpunct he mentions.
Premium Web Tools and Services That Online Entrepreneurs Use Daily
Yes, I agree. So they used existing components/manufacturing so they inherited most of the time durability. Now imagine a chip that can consume itself, a infinite loop bug or some logging going wrong or maybe intentional sabotage can destroy your stuff with an update.
Nice, thanks for sharing.
Am I the only one that finds the way this entire topic is discussed/reported incredibly one-sided lately?

Whatever you say you could be labeled racist (the fear is real) + there seems to be very little critical journalism left in the world. Most of it is just recycling.

For example:
* there is a large amount of looting/fires/violence going on - but you can't be critical towards that "because you just don't understand or you're privileged"
* according to the online media, you'd think that its only police committing the violence
* burning or destroying statues I personally don't understand or removing old movies - in worse case scenario shouldn't that be there to learn from (like for example all the Nazi movies)
* seen a huge amount of articles comparing the numbers behind police shootings in the US with countries like New Zealand, UK and Germany - however not one of them talked about the general "gun control issues in the US" (which is THE major difference between all of these countries) - it was always a "police issue"
* a lot of articles seem to find racism in the fact that the ratio of black people getting shot/killed is 3x larger than their population size would suggest - however, looking at the numbers - in the US people of color also seem to be incarcerated 3x as much as well. So statistically speaking is it surprising that a population group that does 3x as much criminal offenses gets shot 3x as much?

You could just yell - racist! Or you could think about why that is - in average, a black person earns a lot less in the US than for example white. However a person of asian origin earns more - and is statistically even less likely to commit crime. In Germany ethnicity and crime so leaning towards people of arab/east-european descent, precisely for the same reason. Poverty.

Paradoxically I think yelling racism is even more damaging - because its deflecting from the real issues. Poverty. Economic inequality. In US is more pronounced than in EU and harder to climb out of - you get the social net to catch you if you're out of work, insurance, free/cheap education.

Poverty.
Thanks for some summaries. Any idea of how many of these cases involved people acting illegally? (e.g., refusing to leave an area after being ordered to)
It doesn't matter about the law, it matters that traffic stops aren't particularly dangerous. So the gun serves as elephant repellent in Manhattan.
The difference is that Integromat is less fungible than, say, GitHub. If GitHub were to shut down, I could move to GitLab or my own Gitea instance, and it would be a fairly easy adjustment (mostly just changing the domain name everywhere). If Integromat shuts down, you have to completely rebuild your workflow on a competitor's platform because they're not based on a common protocol.
Copyright only gets you editorial usage. For any commercial usage, you must also have a model release or property release.
If she lived in a western democracy and had a limitless legal team she would unlikely be in any sor tof trouble as well. The tax system does a terrible job going after the Apples but a very good job getting it's way with small business owners.

Free Advice: if you run afoul of the tax system, pay first and challenge later. You're likley to lose and the punative penalties can bury you.
Possible, though Atom had it's share of non-aging related problems, too. Ugly race conditions, etc., though I believe the older Atoms were immune to Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities.
Request your OS developer to support the modern graphics API that the rest of the industry already does, instead of lodging their heads firmly up their own asses to justify re-inventing this wheel.
Then one shouldn't leap to conclusions in either direction until more context can be found. Like for example the ample less ambiguous evidence.
I can only think of 2 daws that lack notation : abelton live and Mackie tracktion (now waveform)
Let's Encrypt issues wildcard certificates, so Heroku could easily pay $0 for one. I don't think they are negotiating anything.
> At least in that case you wouldn't have people arguing that the kids deserved it.

Damn. Well that's the best rebuttle I'm going to see this week.

> This isn't porn, this is filming reality as it happens. I know we're all a bit numbed, but this reminds me of the decisions by the Allied forces to document Auschwitz as well as possible when it was overrun, or how the BBC footage of the Ethiopian famine sparked Live Aid. The act of filming has a habit of cutting through all the pseudo-intellectual bullshit from those arguing in favour of the brutality.

To add to this sentiment; this is literally what's going on in the USA right now. Obviously it isn't every cop in every city, or protesters would be exercising their 2nd amendment rights en masse. But these actions documented here are inarguably immoral, and IF they are legal, the law needs to be changed immediately. It's absolutely disgusting, and if seeing these videos of police brutality doesn't invoke that feeling in you, take some time to imagine it's you or your loved one getting beaten, maced, tear gassed. These forms of crowd control are immensely painful, pain that a lot of us have never felt, and they leave lasting damage.
Measuring discrepancies in Airbnb acceptance rates using anonymized data [pdf]
LED lights and fluorescent lights are vulnerable too per the Wired article at https://www.wired.com/story/lamphone-light-bulb-vibration-sp... , just with different degrees of sensitivity
Secure boot, when working correctly, prevents the survival of rootkits. This alone is not sufficient, but it is necessary in order to allow a user of a system where a rootkit was installed to know this. Without secure boot, it is basically impossible to detect the existence of a well written rootkit, since it can control the OS tmand hide itself from any OS API, whether internal or external.
Which they probably knew and ignored early on because "move fast and break things"
Neither of those stats means anything without context. Not surprisingly, criminals get killed a lot.
> a mechanical difference

Insurance and gambling have very different legal regulations in almost every jurisdiction.
That's the point of view of the silent majority, but the mob makes the rules at the moment.
> Yes, my belief is that 1) nations outsource violence to the superpower 2) the superpower’s military prowess comes at the cost of a warlike culture at home.

But that only works for super powers? Why is there no trend visible for countries like Switzerland who are traditionally neutral and never fight wars with neighboring countries like France who or Germany who have a larger active military, do engage in NATO wars etc? Why aren't the Chinese shooting each other on a similar scale? Why weren't the Germans during the early 20th century when they were very militaristic? Why were the US already at similar levels in the first half of the 20th century, before becoming a global super power that others may have "outsourced" their wars to?

> What sort of “evidence” would you reasonably concede to?

Minimum requirements: has some sort of rule that allows predictions that can be falsified other than "it's only true in this super specific narrow case of the USA in last 5 decades of human history, but not in any other place or during any other time".

It feels like looking for super complicated reasons that require American Exceptionalism (as in "does not apply to any other country") to explain something that is explained by well-studied phenomena that do not require US citizens to function fundamentally different than other humans in other places or other times.
The article provokes these replies by prominently making this absurdly stupid statement:

This technology could be retrofitted to coal fired power plants.

No, it can't! The power plant is run precisely when you don't have excess power to store. Conversely, you don't have concentrated CO2 when the power is available. It might work for a cement kiln, but not for a power plant.

I'm sure you know that. But the idiot who put a picture of cooling towers into the article clearly doesn't. He probably doesn't know the first law of thermodynamics, either.
Sounds like you aren’t sure that this represents a problem, and want a peer reviewed study to prove that to you. Is that correct?
Several discussions here in the past few days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093 (138 points/224 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518123 (127 points/206 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23519813 (44 points/84 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23522859 (15 points/5 comments)
Music, TV, and App Store are “native”. (Yes, they suck.)
Ask HN: I Don't Like Whiteboards
I have a problem with remote whiteboards, and I'm curious if anyone else does. I wrote a little code, took a short video, and put the idea on a website. What do you think?

http://www.whiteboardremote.com/
No, kids dont learn work related bits of technical skills by themselves. They wont learn about file structure, basic maintenance, how to write documents nor how to copy them.

With no guidance and at least hints about what is possible, they are basically how old people used to be - clueless and helpless. They then tend to see themselves as "non-technical" as opposed to "technical" and don't try.