skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The visualizations help a lot and allude to some kind of automated refactoring capability.
This is hands down the worst startup idea in the history of the world. I would flat out leave at a company who introduced this or not start there in the first place.
It seems insane to me, too. I guess I'm old-fashioned, but I don't think people should be getting fired for a political position they expressed outside of work.

If Person A can't work with Person B because they don't like their political opinions and Person B keeps their opinions to themselves while on the job, I'd be much more likely to get rid of Person A. I would see them as the person that is causing strife in the workplace, not the other way around.
They are behind, but that is mischaracterizing it a good deal.
Intel's 10nm is more equivalent to TSMC's 7nm.
My brother is also in the "I wanna go back to the office" camp. He misses his co-workers, and it's hard for him to get stuff done with a few young kids at home. I can understand it. Hopefully we just get to the point where people can pick. Seems like the easiest solution.
> They also dont capture the huge initial jump in price.

I don't understand why this is allowed. Why don't they structure IPOs as an auction, such that the initial sale is at the market price.
> If you create something you decide what happens with it. That seems reasonable to me.

Yeah, with the original physical thing you created with your own two hands. Not with a copy of some text or image in a file.
What terrifies me even more is when the same tribalism leads people on either side to start reflexively defending their entire "side" - thus the right-wing fondness for Pinochet or Franco, or the left-wing fondness for Castro or Maduro (just to cherry-pick some examples). Sooner or later you just end up delegitimizing liberal democracy altogether (which I'm sure is the entire point, for some).
love it! you could probably charge more for commercial, you could probably go up to 1k and people would not blink for the amount of time you save.
I agree! Also no one else here seems to like who they work with...? I generally like going to work not just because of what I do but who I do it with and who I chat with at lunch and get coffee with. I also like having work from home flexibility when I want/need it. Anyways, pro flex!
Agree, appalling idea
Yep, this seems to match my point. Thanks! :)
It’s not implying it, rather it’s the explicit central premise. It’s just dressing it up in other language to appear like a reasonable social norm.

If you come right out and say you’re using “avoid chaos” to steamroll reasonable dissent, your control will be undermined, because people can’t be seem aligning with an overt tyrant.

But if you say “avoid chaos” doesn’t steamroll reasonable dissent (even though it does), now people can argue, debate, obfuscate, whatever and rationalize they aren’t doing anything wrong by aligning with you, at least not publicly.
Revenue growth is great but enterprise tech companies can grow revenue long after they are as dead as a doornail. Lotus Notes (!) posted revenue growth in 2008 (!). Intel in some serious shit and the revenue numbers don’t change that.
On a related subject, most of the images in an IKEA catalogue are now entirely digitally generated. One reason this is so is to allow for slightly different content to be delivered country to country (change of wall colour, different wall furniture etc). Some details here: https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/see-how-ikea-3d...

What remains to be considered is human judgement. But it won't be long. There has been some research on automating the aesthetic placement of the camera within the scene... automatic composition. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9112197

As a painter, I certainly know there are rules, albeit very 'floppy' ones.
The whole article is a string of loosely connected ideas that flow like that from point to point, ending with her, but is much much more than where it ends.
Political change does not happen overnight, or everything would already be perfect. I would much rather someone "implicitly support Jim Crow" while remaining open to change when the tide finally shifts, than for them to be forced to pick a side and dig in their heels as an explicit supporter.
I think this subscription pricepoint would be a big turnoff for 'home use', especially when you are competing with free facetime that fills the gap well enough.
These day did you want to know how people are going to vote, you have to ask them how their neighbor is going to vote.
I hope this leads to drastically lower rents in the NYC area. A lot of companies like mine still need some space, but even needing a little bit means we have to head way out of the city before we can find anything affordable. That makes commutes longer and we cant rely on public transit. Less giants eating up huge amounts of space hopefully means more smaller space needing businesses getting a better shot at profitability and sustainability
"If you have a factory capable putting out 350M tests/day (let's not even get in to logistics or the next steps), please hang out your shingle."

From the above mentioned TWiV podcast[1]:

"Take every manufacturing company that knows how to print paper, adapt their tools to print monoclonal antibodies on to those sheets and just start slicing it up and shipping it out. It's as easy as that, I mean, you know, I'm simplifying it a bit, but..."

And, as the host of TWiV said in an earlier podcast[2]:

"It's not undoable. If this were World War 2, you would figure out a way to do it! This is war. This is World War C19. I don't accept excuses. I got a letter from a laboratory person who said 'You have no idea what it takes to develop and execute a test, how many people, how much this and how much that..' and I said 'You're missing the point. You gotta try. You can't say why you can't do it. This is war. Let's do it!"

In fact, I believe he's actually understating the point. This disease has the potential to kill more Americans than died in all of the wars its ever been in combined, if it hasn't already. The stakes are enormous.

Let's get it done.

[1] - from about 32 minutes in to podcast 640 - https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/

[2] - from about 1 hour, 47 minutes in to podcast 638 - https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-638/
Langcraft: The LLVM target for Minecraft you've never wanted
heads up - you need to offer a free way to try your product or it will be delisted from Show HN. trust me it happened to me.
Is there a good resource where you can look up the transistor size, transistors / mm2 or something similar, for each popular process?
I have mixed feelings about working from home.

In one hand, it's great to be able to get up late/avoid bad weather/go shopping in the middle. On the other hand, I don't have adequate space for a proper office, and I surely miss the great food/coffee/printer/extra screen/etc. services the office provides. Plus, as a BA, communication with Teams is always less efficient. There is also a huge risk of getting more friction with family members as well.

Overall I prefer to work in a proper office environment, best if I have my own office. Damn I need to be a VP to have my own office, meh, that's way beyond my pay grade.
Yep or zooming them, or microsoft teaming them.

IBM released a very popular set of working from home guidelines - one of the absolute most important rules is that you never ask an employee to turn on their cameras - it's an invasion of privacy.
This is true, but those are all cases in which putative competitors collude to essentially form a cartel. Which is a distinct category of antitrust offenses from anti-competitive behavior.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932082 , which is also on the front page at the moment.
The article is muddled, and I suspect that's on purpose, unfortunately.

Lending out one digital copy for each physical is what they usually do. During the Emergency, they removed those limits (euphemistically called "suspending the waitlists").
Agreed - but that has also not been smooth. I'd be curious to know the 10nm volumes at TSMC vs intel. The world has really changed.
I've been out of this world for awhile so it's super interesting to see that JS was paying more than Rails. It was the opposite back in my day :)
If you're testing every day, the false positives and false negatives will wash out after another test or two. The more you test, the more confidence you can have in multiple consistent test results.
I do suspect it's more the cheap part than it is the artist part, so it may well be correlation rather than causation. That said, given the same low rent in two locations, wouldn't the savvy coffee roaster pick the one with the artists? So, maybe there is a causal argument.
Internal Google Program Taps Data on Rival Android Apps
This assumes that people are purely self-interested. But people generally do care about the well-being of others, and are much more inclined to do so when they understand that persons perspective.
Another approach to securing web apps (against a malicious server) is to let the browser enforce that each web app's code matches a pre-approved hash. The technique for doing this was described in a comment thread on Hacker News a couple of years ago[0], and involves using SRI and a bookmarklet.

The limitations are that the web app's domain doesn't appear in the browser's address bar, and of course you need some way of deciding out-of-band which hash corresponds to a safe version of a web app.

Once you trust a specific set of code to do the encryption for you on the client side, there should be no problem in having it send the encrypted data to the server for storage. Decryption would be done on the client using a key derived from a passphrase which the user chooses, and which is never sent back to the server.

An example of some encrypted data that could be sent to the server is a string defining which version of the web app the user wants to run. This requires an initial bootstrapping phase of the web app which checks this user setting before pulling in a particular version of the rest of its code. Again, the user would have to use some out-of-band mechanism to decide whether a new version of the web app really is safe or whether it has been backdoored.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456
$70/mo for 1Gps symmetric fiber on AT&T in NC and they just threw in HBO Max for no additional fee.

Ting sells 5 Mbps symmetric for $19/mo.
https://www.bd.com/documents/brochures/microbiology-solution...

The low %positive agreement generates false negatives, though, not false positives. False positives, for this context, would be fine.
I looked up the exposure times for transient searches and went with that. It matched what astronomer friends had told me. I am not an astrophysicist.

I think astronomers have a right to be perturbed about Starlink et al. SpaceX seeming to not care about the effect Starlink satellites would have on astronomy is ridiculous. At the same time stupid mis/disinformation like this tweet is also ridiculous.
> the racists and white supremacists take over because the only thing anyone is allowed to do to stop them is to politely and civilly debate them.

There are 300,000,000 million Americans each with his or her own free will and ability to determine right from wrong. So you're saying they are just sheep and do things blindly?

The real changes, the ones that lasted generations, the things that made America truly great, were done because free speech convinced people to change their minds.
the problem with censorship is that it only capable of censoring unpopular ideas and unpopular ideas are generally not a problem. the problem ideas are the popular memeplexes that propagate the meme that all opposing ideas should be censored.
Nobody can flip their whole fleet suddenly -- the TCO-positive lifespan of a datacenter computer is way longer than most people assume -- but at least some of the hyperscalers operate a "machine of the day" process, where 100% of new machines are identical. In that sense, whoever gets the design win gets all of the orders.
Datasette
Sorry but we're not missing anything. Not wanting to have micro managing overlords in your own home is perfectly natural. If you have this and your boss pings you - then the power imbalance puts pressure on you to accept. Any company implementing this is basically saying - we don't trust our employees. Ok, well I won't work for you then.

All those things come with an ipad or a second monitor and you have a lot more control.
This is rather common in France. We use centiliters quite often when speaking.
For web and mobile app stuff this type of competitive intelligence is very available (builtwith, datanyze, etc). Also, startups never shut up about who their clients are, social proof to land more deals.

*typo
I agree with you.
My frustrations centre around wait times after starting an app.

Am I waiting for CPU? No.
Storage? No.

I am waiting for some friggin call-home/update-check/irrelevant network request.

Edit:brevity, removal of profane words.
Yeah this was my thought too: if turbolinks needed to be recreated for Hey, have they been selling a bill of goods with the arguments that you don't need these newfangled front end frameworks because turbolinks is already plenty good enough?
That’s fine, and the mark of a well-functioning society is the ability to have those discussions calmly and rationally.
> Mass incarceration is a symptom, abolishing it is not a cure.

"Let's not let the cure be worse than the disease".

The issue is not nearly as cut and dry as you express. Not all prisoners are violent criminals. Even violent criminals get released at the end of their sentence.

Mass incarceration is an efficient stick when the better solution is an effective carrot.
And by virtue of being one or two of the richest people in the world, they have the right to do what they want in the atmosphere, pay no-one for it, and profit.

I think Jesse Pinkman said it best, "dolla dolla bills yo"

EDIT: It's not whether the technology is useful or not, it's about whether you are be ok with a handful people using natural resources in the pursuit of more wealth and influence, with no regard for the consequences. If you can't see any parallels in history, then :shrug:
> I suspect you could generate a model-image that would "work" with a kind of clothing (since both clothing and image can be trained). But generating a model-image that suits a given demographic, that expresses "what's becoming hip right now" and so-forth would be extremely hard.

I mean, when I picture the problem, I imagine taking a single panorama-like photo capture with a smartphone, circling repeatedly around a human being whose likeness you want to use; and the phone using its barrage of sensors and ML cores to spit out a pre-rigged and textured high-poly 3D model of that person, that you can then drop into Blender and throw your clothing designs onto (i.e. the very same digitally-simulated designs that your designers prototyped with before getting the design made for real — presuming there was any amount of industrial design going into the object, which there certainly is for anything as complex as e.g. glasses frames, or a handbag.)

The pre-rigged 3D model output from such a body-scanning app would have a standardized rigging, such that 1. you'd know how your digital clothing items would interact with it before attaining the body-scan itself; and 2. allowing you to throw some posing "behaviour" scripts on it (that target said standardized rigging.) So this could all be parallelized.

Last step: pick a 3D-recreated environment, set the viewpoint camera and lighting, and snap screenshots at will. (This part doesn't need to be a science; you can just put a trained photographer in VR goggles, and have them circle around the digital model taking digital pictures with their field-of-view at time of trigger-press being the composed shot.)

The important part of this, from a cost perspective, is that you can then reuse this model for a combinatoric number of "shots", without ever paying the original body-scanned person again, or taking time to organize a new physical shoot with them. You can "re-shoot" them in localized advertisements for every target market you're launching the product in, all without needing to leave the room, let alone paying them to come back in. If you launch accessory products months later, you don't need to retain their talent; you have them "on file." Likewise if you need to dredge them up 10 years later for an anniversary "shoot."
I see a lot more housing options ahead.
I doubt if I spend $5/day eating lunch at home.

And it's really not the norm for companies to pay for meals or commuting.

But, yes, if you want to continue living in an expensive urban area, the cost of an extra room is significant. I do consider myself fortunate that I live in a semi-rural area and have a dedicated office. I know a number of people who are fleeing city apartments to more rural areas.
I feel like GitLab is one of the few places where this would happen. They have a salary calculator that's basically just band * CoL * performance in band[0].

0: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
It seems like you are trying to make a point here, but I cannot figure out what the point is.
Fall Semester plans embrace pandemic precedent: outdoor classrooms
Agreed. Getting managers to agree to WFH (and keep allowing WFH) has always been a struggle. Management hates it, because they can't see with their own eyeballs that everyone is "working" (with "sitting at their desk" as a somewhat-useful heuristic proxy for "working"). Lots of companies have tried full-remote, and very few stick with it long-term. I think that once the risk is low enough, we'll all be back to the exact same long packed commutes and open-plan offices.
It's interesting that this seems a propaganda piece for Space Force.

America Really Does Have a Space Force. We Went Inside to See What It Does
https://time.com/5869987/spaceforce/
The rest of us have to work, and now pretty people will have to work too.
Likely Retired.
Unlike non-mechanicals, a mech registers the key press before you hit the bottom.
> The problem with in-office socialization is that you have to socialize with people you might not particularly like

This is actually a problem with remote companies.

It's really easy for teams to silo themselves away in private chat channels and form exclusionary cliques. It's fun for those in the inner circle, but it's miserable for newcomers and anyone else trying to get work done without being part of the in-group for a particular project.

Obviously the same dynamics can play out in a real office, too, but it happens much more frequently when it only takes a few clicks to make it happen. People are much more likely to be mean to each other when it's just a screen name on your computer rather than the real person you have to see every day.
Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?
I've been learning music since March (when quarantine started in my country and I bought a keyboard to pass the time) and it's been by far the hardest subject I've ever attempted to learn (including pure math, programming, sports like boxing that were super out of my comfort zone, etc).

The vastness of genres and styles; The cross between mathematical patterns and raid and a completely subjective experience; the brutal amount of conventions and ideas that are simply centuries of accumulated historical baggage where it's not clear what's relevant and what's just used because changing the standards would be impossible...

It's at the same time super frustrating to learn, and an absolute blast.
Still are with USAA and Simple, if I remember right.
Ask HN: Is it realistic for a developer to move to a differemt IT field?
I remember reading a comment on an HN thread a while back where a commenters noted they initially wanted to be a developer, but ended up becoming a network engineer because they found it worked better with how their mind worked. This resonated with me to an extent and made me curious. How realistically could someone who's already a developer move to a field like that?

I know the potentially salary cap is much lower, but it still pays relatively well, particularly if you aren't living in a tech bubble. My main concern is starting at the bottom. My understanding is that most IT fields have you start out as helpdesk, which from my observations normally pays terribly. While a pay-cut would be inevitable moving from a developer to a low paid help desk position would be too extreme.
There seems to be consensus about their 10nm failures: they were trying every trick in the book except switching to EUV lithography, betting that they could get ahead and stay ahead while EUV power levels creeped upward toward what's needed for volume manufacturing. But Intel bit off more than they could chew and ended up with a process that simply didn't work (cf. the disabled iGPU on Cannonlake). So Intel scaled back their ambitions and spent more time working out the kinks, and they're apparently still a year away from having a 10nm desktop CPU.

I'm not sure if we have any good clues as to what's going wrong with Intel's 7nm efforts, but it seems reasonable to guess that they weren't putting as much effort as their competitors into getting ready for EUV.

And given how long Intel's had these issues at this point, it seems pretty clear that they have some broader management issues.
The most interesting stuff is generally:

-Remotely mounting images (ISO/FS/IMG/etc) on the host for bare-metal installs or any other purpose

-Hard power options for unresponsive servers or emergencies

-Heavily integrated diagnostics (fan RPMs, thermals, RAID status, etc etc) with eg. snmp output
The 7nm may well likely snowball into a much bigger issue and put the company in jeopardy. E.g. allow competitors to surpass and erode the brand value/perception.

This year is already proving to be a watershed one for Intel, largely due to AMD's continued resurgence and taking the performance crown in mobile (Renoir) and expected in desktop (Zen3). Apple announced their move away from Intel silicon and even AWS making strides in their own ARM server chips (Graviton).

By itself and without further delays, 7nm will already be a hail mary of sorts due to the TSMC's pace and roadmap. But remember that 10nm yields have not been good so will it be able to handle producing server and desktop chips.

If there's another delay (e.g. 7nm in 2023), would Intel need to sell of their fabs?
> [intel's] first 7nm server CPUs (Granite Rapids) will arrive in 2023, a delay from earlier roadmaps that projected a launch in 2022

Only a one year delay; less than the title implies.

> Swan also said "we have root-caused the [7nm] issue and believe there are no fundamental roadblocks"

Heard that one before. Would like to believe it's true this time, but—who knows.
Lex's comment toward the end that lawyers are the substrate of reality won me over. That's hilarious. Was distracted by his mien, but funny justifies all.
> Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from "off-world vehicles not made on this earth."

> Mr. Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.

I'm not well rehearsed on the recent history of the subject but this sounds like confirmation of crashed extra-terrestrial vehicles from a reliable/not crazy source quoted by the New York Times? I'm surprised that this isn't bigger news...
I knew a gynecologist named Dr. Hole. To be fair there are at least three ironic specialties he could have gone into.