skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the idea of independent discovery is so easily explained away in modern history.

The recipe calls for fish + salt left for a period of time. This could have been done by someone simply trying to preserve fish, not necessarily make a sauce.
Containment energy is proportional to surface area, while power produced is proportional to volume. Thus, scaling up should make it easier to generate energy.
What part of a wind turbine 'greatly poisons iur planet"?

Its an electric generator on a mast. How is it more poisonos than any other industrial object or consumer device?
Can you clarify whether or not you have a background in medicine and/or deep understanding of physiology?
Wow. I've noticed this my entire life but just thought it was chronic allergies.
> significant life events can help one take a step back and see bigger pictures in life.

I still get anxious some days. But nothing close to before a family member was diagnosed with cancer. Of course, everyone has their own response to these things, but for me the response was to realize how unimportant work is to me in the bigger picture.

Trying to meet project deadlines while going through that time in my life is something I don't ever want to deal with again. I almost lost it, and ended up emerging stronger than before.
Intel had undeniably better microarchitecture between the launch of Conroe up to at least the launch of Zen2 (and arguably still has better microarchitecture for some tasks, just not across the board like they used to).

Not just process - Bulldozer first-gen was a 32nm chip and couldn't keep up with Nehalem (45nm) let alone Sandy Bridge (32nm). AMD was significantly worse microarchitecturally for pretty much a decade.

They were ahead with Athlon 64, starting to fall back to equal with X2, Phenom they were moderately behind, bulldozer was a dumpster fire, Zen1 was a dumpster fire, Zen+ was moderately behind, Zen2 back to on par in general performance and better in core count/server chips.
Man I used to burn so many cds back in the day. I remember when I was kid and the first cd-recorders came out, they cost something like 2000 dollars and burnt cds at 1x speed. It would take hours to burn a cd and sometimes they would turn out as duds. The blank discs only held 650 MB (which was quite a bit back then) and were also expensive.

There was also a special type of blank disc, the re-writable blank disc which was something like 10 bucks a pop at future shop.

I had a enterprising career in school at one point burning shared music mp3s that I pulled from Napster and selling them to friends.
Anecdotal reports basically, obviously 10x is just a round number I picked. I've seen a company that switched citing up to 40x hardware reduction going from Ruby on rails to Go.

10x cost savings is hardly unheard of.
While it's only for enterprise customers, AWS has a weekly email containing upcoming launches which are under NDA. It also has what amounts to recaps of recent launches, blog posts etc. Only the launches section is not publically available.

The upcoming launches section is literally just an HTML table with two columns: service name on the left and a brief summary on the right like "Add support for X Y.Y". It's almost funny how so much effort goes into fancy blog design when the "real" news is just distributed through a basic plain text email :)

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To a certain extent, roadmaps become redundant for enterprise customers too in that you start to influence feature request priorities via your dedicated account manager(s)

Vendors may often prioritise a feature requested by medium enterprise to keep them content since if they don't address their features in a timely manager, they may go elsewhere when their contract comes up for renew.

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I suppose that's why UserVoice type of forums are always a wasteland because the big players can get all the attention?

It's also behind the scenes so perhaps naturally, the result you're left with is acres of "9999 votes for feature X, submitted 14 years ago" and a Product Owner saying "Sorry, no news to report on this just yet"
This is nothing compared to Hinduism's varna system(caste system), where the entire society is split in to 4 groups and learning to read and write is banned to the bottom 3 groups. Even the skills of one group is prohibited to be learned by the other.
I would like to see some models on how solar power could work in northern cities, or honestly any city. The NYC metro area has over 23 million residents and there is essentially zero space for a solar farm. In the winter it's cloudy almost all day and there are only 9 hours of sunlight.

Rooftop solar is an option but the models I have seen show a theoretical max around 1,200 MW which is about 1/30th of the NYC metro area electricity requirements.

I just don't see how solar is even close to being viable for anything outside of small cities with access to massive swathes of empty land.
Here's a non-paywalled article about this: https://gothamist.com/news/revel-suspends-operations-after-d...
There would never be a plan. The system did not plan on getting where it is, and it would not get out.

The best thing the government could do is provided visibility into the policies i.e. 'we're going to require $X min wage on this date, and $Y on this date, and after 20XX we're going to be checking on businesses, starting with fines in the first 6 months, and then more serious.

The system would have to adapt - and it absolutely could.

There is some possibility it would happen in that the notion of providing a 'living wage' to everyone would be popular, and it could by virtue of a Supreme Court ruling for example be extended to everyone. It would be then up to the government to theoretically enforce wages and standards for non-citizens, it comes down to the political will - plus - there will be millions pushing for it, thinking about their own personal gain, not necessarily piecing together the likelihood of keeping their jobs. I bet most undocumented workers, once they find out they are legally entitled to a bunch of things, and would have the protection of the justice system ... would push for their ostensible rights.

It would be a pragmatic solution to the 'gaping hole' in the economy, civility, lawlessness and solve a lot of problems at once.

Instead of ICE kicking out illegals, they turn on their head and start enforcing labour laws ... which paradoxically has a much more powerful effect on the border.

But yeah, very unlikely.
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/07/safely-reviving-shared-mem... explains how SharedArrayBuffer is being reenabled in a way that prevents it being used for Spectre attacks.
https://archive.is/Cm90Y
Great to see a roadmap so we have an idea what's coming.

A little OT, but what I'd love to see on the roadmap is rolling back the recent UI changes! Rounding every corner in sight just looks wrong; it doesn't "suit" GitHub. The accompanying layout changes also don't help.

I reacted the same way during preview, and after living with it for a few weeks I still feel the same - the recent UI changes still look and feel odd, like it was little more than busywork.
Students don't precisely control the ability to vote with their feet and drive market pricing for a college degree though, right? Virtually all institutions cluster around some specific yearly price, especially those schools that are competitive to enter. Additionally, since students (buyers) can obtain large loans to attend school, they are able to make relatively irrational market decisions such as paying $30,000 per year for tuition.

The thing you said about paying for what a thing is worth ($30,000) instead of what it costs to produce that thing ($20,000) is correct. If I buy a car like that, theoretically I'm able to walk away from the deal if I don't feel like it's worth $30,000, and the seller might eventually lower his price to $20,000 if he never finds a buyer at his desired price.

But I think with colleges, the presence of loans and zeitgeist irrationally motivate people to buy something for $30,000, and then if they do happen to pay off their loans they assume that they got $30,000 of worth out of it... But I think that isn't true, since most employers aren't treating a bachelor's degree very seriously these days.
I'm happy to see founders raising large amounts of money. But for some founders, the mean investment seems to be around $1000. I was wondering if there was a way to see the different portions that make up the total money raised. Also, is there a set amount people typically invest? I find this might be important to understand if the platform is truly building “a network of everyday folks” or just have some experienced investors experimenting with a new platform.
I'm not sure how to interpret this comment... it seems to me people on the "wrong side" of a constructed power imbalance are often the first to question the validity of the construct.

Can you elaborate?
Hydro can actually be worse than coal in terms of ghgs. All depends on what they flood. If it's forest, it's bad.
This is very good and interesting to see.

Also, now that it's public, it's interesting to see as a non-enterprise user, that many new planned features are going enterprise first

For example, private GitHub pages:
https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/77

A long requested feature for private repos is going enterprise first. Not sure why, I don't know if this is purely business decision or if it has a technical reason
It's not just about electronic waste, many low power embedded platforms are still ARM 32 bit.
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"... their only obligation is to their shareholders."

That'd be an improvement.

Page & Brin retain controlling interest, despite their minority stake.
Good point. It’s usually me trying to convince dad to update software, not the other way around.
Coal subsidies …
The article addresses this. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when commenting? Note these:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

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Some parts of the DNA are not transcribed, for example the "Promoters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter_(genetics) They are important so some proteins are build only when the they are needed. For a more concrete example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_operon
I'm unable to understand from your documentation how your "roaming client" works, or if it is applicable to desktop systems for example. Are you replacing the stub resolver?
So far. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though Android's marketshare today is extremely similar to Windows compared to macOS early in the period for which Microsoft is criticized. Similarly, Safari and Firefox combined have low enough marketshare (currently estimated around 21%) versus Chrome estimated 65% (and growing) to make real, very concerned comparisons to the early parts of the IE6 era, if not its peak (yet).

The difference is that it is still early and Google hasn't killed their competitors yet. I can't tell you whether or not they are "trying" to, just that I agree with the above poster that Google has the potential to be worse, and possibly history repeating itself on some of the exact same product lines.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23972183
I don't think DDG is quite as simple as a wrapper on Bing, just open both in private windows. Same search => different results.

The reason to use DDG isn't that its results are superior to Google/Bing (although imo this is true in many cases), the reason to use DDG is that its so clean. Google and Bing just feel spammy/garish in comparison
I wouldn’t know how to test for it (maybe by checking for a bimodal distribution in answers, with a fairly narrow ‘hump’ near the correct number?), but I think that more shows many people are awfully bad at this kind of math, in particular probabilities.
Unless you're scrolling a lagging Twitter view and can't tell if you're momentarily frozen or already at the top.
I have to run npm scripts in Windows land because they launch electron apps that require Windows.
Use Python or Go. Better thought out languages, comparable or better tooling, libraries, and performance. A while back I would add ruby to that list, but Python seems to have won the market over it.

So, again if it's what your team knows best, it's fine. Otherwise it's a mistake.
I will challenge your assertion that energy storage is some kind of “deterministic barrier” that needs to be crossed before decarbonizing our grid.

Solar is still negligible in terms of penetration in many places in the world (even though it and wind are the cheapest new build primary energy today, so expect this to rapidly change). As well, you can add quite a bit of solar to a grid before curtailments become necessary.

Add that solar and wind pair together (when it’s not sunny, it’s often windy and visa versa). Many grids today (Uk, Denmark, Germany, etc) can have decent penetration of renewables with 0 energy storage.

Add in large scale grid interconnectivity (sunny in Nevada, windy in Idaho, Hydro in pacific north west) it will always be sunny and windy somewhere.
I'm not dealing with WFH that great. I miss the social interactions.

If it were me, I would, for the time being, chalk this up to the pandemic and look for ways to safely get my social needs better met.

I would not quit or do anything drastic. I would go into crisis management mode, which means take care of essential physical stuff, distract myself with games and videos when I'm too overwhelmed and assume things will improve when the pandemic is over.
I've been looking more and more at liveviews as a better option maybe?

Laravel livewire/phoenix liveview.

Anyone know how these compare w/ nextjs/nuxtjs in terms of performance?
> Systems programmers are high priests of a low cult

Ouch :p

Part of the issue is that "systems" are no longer designed holistically [1], and instead follow Conway's Law [2], which leads subcomponents to be designed in isolation and then combined as best as possible.

Systems programmers build the foundation of a software platform, without a clear vision of the end goal. They focus on the intricate details of the platform, but pay little attention to how this fits in the final product.

[1] maybe only at Apple, inheritors of Kay's approach?

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Is there a good single compendium of ongoing fusion projects?
In summertime many people can go to their vacation homes with gardens far from the cities, and work remotely, so it's much harder to keep distance in the cold winter.

I expect the winter being worse for the countries that weren't hit that hard in the summer.
https://archive.is/rhxLi
red boat fish sauce is a relatively accessible brand in America, made in phu quoc (https://redboatfishsauce.com/pages/about)
Nothing is going to be perfect but if you have those concerns you can just opt out.

So many people seem to forget that you’re not being forced to use any of the options available to you. You can choose not to enable that. But right now you can’t choose the opposite.

What you’re describing is called “implementation details” and they don’t negate the utility of the feature overall.
Are you even serious?

https://www.google.com/search?q=three+gorges+dam&newwindow=1...
treat your job like job. at quitting time go_the_f*ck_home and don't even think about work. i know it's hard to do, but this is where all the anxiety is coming from, you are bringing your work home with you.

also... another reason i've experienced that caused anxiety is financial uncertainty. if you're making "several hundred thousand a year", how much are you investing, not saving? do you have a bunch of stocks and property? or is everything spent the second you get it? putting together a financial future for yourself through investments with diminish the anxiety entirely.
I agree with the sentiment around I/O which is the last remaining pain point.

I only use it for Dropbox since my org files live there but I ended up installing the Dropbox CLI instead.

It kinda sucks though since WSL 2 doesn't have a proper init setup meaning I have to manually start Dropbox's daemon anytime I restart
If a Covid-19 finding grabs your attention, wait to see if it gets contradicted
I often think of this when people say something along the line of "the first person to ever eat that must have been brave", or "how did they even know ..." . If you spend a lot of time outdoors in a preindustrial world, wouldn't a lot of this stuff would just be second nature? Life in contemporary cities and that of most of human history is so different people can't empathise very well.
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My main concern might be a secondary effect. But at least in Mexico, people who were staying at home were reporting more domestic violence. Is there a way that along with new changes, Google and other corporations might look for ways to mitigate the effects of staying at home?
You posted 16 flamewar comments in this thread. That's outrageous and we ban accounts that do this. Please don't do anything like this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23973025.
Agreed. I would add that the other way around is harder (from defense to other tech industries). There is bias in US tech circles against working in defense and you can't talk openly about what you did depending on the project.
> The people who manage that money, assuming they are responsible, or remotely-qualified, have only one option; which, is going to be investing primarily in securities/assets backed by US dollars.

That may be a strategy of single person with a little money trying to not lose it long term. But it would be foolish for the really big investors. They don't do that. Wealthy people diversify in different asset classes, not just in US stocks/bonds.

Real world assets such as gold, stocks, art, land, buildings, private companies etc. are not in general "backed by US dollars". They can have value largely decoupled from the value of US dollar or its status as top world currency. Which is why those clever managers invest also in those assets.
I guess it came from Antarctica
Important distinction here: nobody actually cares or wants power that is baseload. In some cases it can actually be a bad thing.

The property you really want is “dispatchable”. There when you want it. Not when you don’t.
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Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anxiety runs rampant among knowledge workers. It appears a good half of all programmers are affected, most of them do not know it. Pretty much 100% of grad students have severe anxiety problems. You're not alone in this.

I recommend against changing careers - you have gotten into it for a reason that mattered to you, don't get out until you can articulate a good reason for changing it. And it pays the bills rather well. Shifting jobs to lower responsibility will probably give you immediate relief and is worth considering, but it might just get you worried less about your work and more about yourself/covid/politics/etc. Reducing responsibility only works well as a method of making room for better things.

The best thing you can do right now is regular exercise. I know, I used to roll my eyes and quietly hate on people who suggested that because as god is my witness I have tried. The trick is twofold - it must be the right kind (strength building does not work), and something that you will enjoy. Personally I find mountain biking to be an euphoric miracle - a difficult trail profile provides the HIIT aspect and the change in terrain and scenery keeps attention firmly planted outside my head (on pain of bruises and scraped knees). Consider dancing/martial arts (well, not with covid I suppose?), rock climbing, mountain biking, windsurfing, yoga, running(eh...). Rumors have it that any sort of HIIT works miracles. For some people the social aspect of sports matters a lot - e.g. running with a mate is a good motivator and for you a social experience you seem to be missing.

Last but not least you will need to see two specialist - a psychiatrist and a therapist. If you have any serious psychosomatic effects (e.g. a serious sleep disruption, panic attacks, etc) the psychiatrist can put you on the level keel for a few weeks - just enough to get started with the therapy. Ask trusted friends for a referral and failing that just go by geographical proximity.
I would guess that was in part driven by Intel announcing the delay of 7nm products to 2023.
It is two clicks to remove that entire "Highlights" section.
You don't know a single thing about my organization. Why are you telling me what my responsibilities are?
> "I bet a concerted roll-out of nuclear + solar could cut US emissions due to electricity generation by at least 30% over the next 20 years."

30% over 20 years in unambitious. The UK has cut grid carbon emissions by 60% in the past 10 years. (2010 average: 467g/kWh. 2019 average: 189g/kWh). Emissions continue to decline every year.

This was largely achieved by closing coal power plants, and building a lot of wind (both on and off-shore), solar, biomass, and new interconnections with continental Europe. No new nuclear was built in this time. Wind is now the second largest source of electricity in the UK, after natural gas. (But natural gas usage is also declining!)
Noit was Kroger.
Or not, because that's just FUD.

`dom.workers.serialized-sab-access` is the flag they've put in so that way they can disable concurrent execution of JS threads that share memory in case a novel cross-process attack shows up. Spectre is purely an in-process attack and the whole article that comment is attached to is about the work they did to enable shared memory while defending against Spectre. `dom.workers.serialized-sab-access` does not affect Spectre. It appears to be intended for preventing a novel cross-process attack from leveraging shared memory in other processes into becoming a high-resolution timer.

Also note that threads that have access to shared memory in Firefox 79 also have access to the full high-resolution performance.now(), and flipping dom.workers.serialized-sab-access doesn't affect that.
I wonder, have they intentionally "spoiled" the indexing of car number plates to make it less creepy?
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It does seem like it may be a case of culinary convergent evolution: I'd wager that anything involving fermentation/brewing/pickling/salt preservation is likely to be discovered multiple times by its nature.
Such a fascinating story
Just as there are bagpipes in Scotland and Arabia doesn't mean they did or did not have cultural exchange. It might only mean they both had goats, curiosity, lots of time on their hands, and a semi-musical inclination.
I don't know when the last time I refreshed a website on mobile was. It's entirely possible that it could be coded in such a way that I wouldn't notice or accidentally refresh when I'm simply trying to scroll to the top of a page, but I think it's more likely that I wouldn't intentionally use it ever, but I would trigger it accidentally on occasion
Counters are something I've become more familiar when logging from GPU drivers.
Rust had bitcode support since 2018: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/48896
They had more data in January as well, it didn't stop WHO from lying.
It's not very similar. The fish in Worcestershire sauce is mild enough that you might not notice it if you didn't know it was there. It's vinegar + molasses + tamarind + salt + sugar + spices, with the fish just there for added umami taste. Thai fish sauce is only fish + salt + sugar, and it's unmistakably made from fish.
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This is one of the things described in the article.