skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I meant is ofcourse de-carbonise economy, Singapore can't be energy independent in meaningful sense as it does not have fuel sources of any kind. And solar/wind do not count as there could totally be still nights.

I frankly dont understand how an energy source that can shift from 100% to 5% capacity on its own whim, independent of its user's needs could get so much attention and considered viable replacement for something predictable..

There was not a single economy decarbonized on solar\wind, even for those that tried really, really hard (see Germany). And we have example where it worked, in short 10 years.

There are countries still that can build nuclear on time and on budget - see South korea for example. Wonder why they don't get all the orders for urgent decarbonisation needs.
Not to anecdote too hard, but the practice of doing type signatures out-of-line that you are describing is my absolute least favorite part of OCaml, which is otherwise a very lovely language. As for C++, it has enough other stuff going on that I probably can't say the header files are my least favorite feature, but they certainly don't make life easy. I think it makes sense to challenge that decision from an ergonomics standpoint, even if it makes sense within the constraints the Ruby core team has decided upon.
You can totally have memory barriers in macros. It doesn't have much to do with the language at all
Keep doing what you love – The scholar who kept working while hiding from Nazis
What you propose exists. It's https://flattr.com/

It hasn't made enough impact over its long history. That's not necessarily because the model doesn't work. However, it does set up a zero-sum game. Each click to another project takes away from the ones you already support. Thus, it won't really change the overall economic situation much.

There are also foundations that sponsor multiple projects. E.g. Apache. There are meta-level projects like Ubuntu. In principle these larger downstream projects should do what's necessary to support their upstream dependencies. That doesn't always happen though.

Tidelift does funding that emphasizes awareness of upstream dependencies and supporting them.

## On microdonations and fees

This is a payment-processor issue. I believe that Stripe and some others have the capacity to process aggregate charges without all separate. So, if in a platform, you donate $10 to 15 different projects and so do many others, they could charge you the one charge of $10 and give the recipients their single payment from everyone. Each donor would get one processing fee, not one for every project they support.

This is key. And it cannot be solved at the platform level because holding funds in escrow is only feasible if you are a limited specific set of incorporated projects (that's what Open Collective helps support, they can do this approach with one donation fee for each Collective you donate to, even though the Collective could include a lot of projects. A specific Collective there could offer your system.

In other words: Open Collective could do what you're asking somewhat. You donate to a Collective. They don't just have the money for any of their members, the Collective offers a tool for you to vote on which of the members you want to support.

That's another way to see your proposal: An org that accepts donations and you get to vote on which projects they give grants to.

## On downstream vs upstream funding

Anyway, the bigger problem in free/libre/open funding is that it relies too much on proprietary end-user products that have paywalls or ad-driven business models. If a product is designed to reach all the way to downstream users, everyone can freeride. So, freerider problem, game-theory dilemmas.

You might be interested in the ideas at https://snowdrift.coop which is aiming to build downstream patronage via crowdmatching.

The wiki there also has reviews of the issues:

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/existing-mechanisms
https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/economics

and this is a thorough review of all the existing funding platforms: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...

There's a long history of failed efforts, some mentioned at https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/history/software

Cheers
Restaurants are absolutely cheaper in America than in most places.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings...

Food is labour intensive, labour is expensive in Europe.
Same. The article is well written, but I prefer to let the music stand alone, rather than try to draw a speculative connection to the artist's life just to fit a narrative.

Side note: A couple years ago I was flipping around the radio dial, and I ran across "Sweet Wanomie". I was instantly hooked, but I had no idea who the artist was. It turned out a local independent station put Just As I Am on a loop for six months, as a way of keeping the FCC happy when they had no other programming available. I became very familiar with that album.
Scientists Found an Ancient Graveyard of Anomalous Stars in Our Galaxy's Halo
While I agree with your sentiment, a big part of why the TI-84 is so ubiquitous is because they're required for standardized tests. I suppose their reasoning is that supporting assembly programs makes it trivial to break/fake the test mode on their calculators.

That said, they didn't even use test mode when I took the SAT, so I don't know.
Food is cheap in the US as compared to any modern nation, especially on a PPP basis - both groceries and restaurants. Particularly McDonalds.
Shareable Computing
I'll second this.

So few organisations have dedicated security people at the time they need it most! Since we're on HN, it is maybe worth looking at startups, and how few early stage ones build with security in mind at the time. In regulated sectors or ones where reputation is key, it seems a no-brainer to have a security minded joint CTO/CSO to ensure the house is in order from the start. I understand the pressure and focus on an MVP, but equally I've seen first hand the cost of undoing (avoidably) bad engineering and security ignorance that had real financial cost. After MVP is validated and there are paying customers, it's really time to get security right, in my view.

I also see little demand for "real" security engineers. Most security roles I see are pretty non-technical, often doing the whole "let's turn security into a generic risk so we can hand it off to a non-expert". I don't really see how you can lead or drive security when you can't pop your way into a typical business webapp yourself, yet most of the security people I know what to learn these skills (but they're too busy firefighting for me to get time to teach them some of the tricks).

I've seen little demand or appetite for bringing together what seems to me to be a real security engineer - experienced technical developer lead, deep and broad security knowledge across the full stack, and the ability to make strategic business decisions (exec skills). Is this a missed opportunity, as the value of it seems clear to me? Or is the demand really just not there for this?
Yeah, HK independence is certainly not something that would happen SOON. But for decades, nobody thought the British Empire would give up India. After decades of protest and resistance, and shifting political landscapes, they finally did. HK protesters are likely hoping for something similar. It's a long shot, but if they stick with the resistance for long enough (like, literally decades most likely), there may finally come a point when China decides they're just not worth holding onto anymore.
> Even outside of the ethics of it, anyone else that wants to can offer a competing product on Amazon even if Amazon doesn't (and this happens like a dozen times a day).

this is not the problem that people are grappling with, though! the problem is that amazon can see that your product is doing well by looking at "their own" platform data and then competing with you based on your own sales data. I would hope that anyone entering in to a market that Amazon, or any big player, is in would already be aware of their competition.

Amazon can choose at any time to peek at the data and simply flood a market that they know they can dominate on their own marketplace -- does that not seem unfair to people? It seems to me that as long as Amazon is able and willing to profit off of sellers' and services' data on their platforms, they will incentive their employees to take advantage of that in the name of ~Consumer Value~, all else be damned.
I get where the "rooting for the underdog" feeling comes from, but it still feels good that the relatively small and underfunded PHP team mostly beat Facebook here. I like to imagine there is some internal debate at FB on whether to just go back to mainline PHP and kill HHVM. Especially with a credible JIT coming.
The Keyser Söze level of retribution is a masterwork.
Co-mingling inventory does not inspire trust
Haha! No I don't work at Jango. Earlier this year I got tired of songs disappearing from Jango song search so I made my own search tool as a quarantine project. Like you say Jango is almost a secret these days and I've been looking for an appropriate forum to discuss it but there pretty much isn't any. I tried Show HN and nothing happened.

So are you actually a paying customer with a Radio Airplay account or are you a free Jango listener? I never had and never needed an account.

I don't know what kind of database Jango uses or what kind of work Jango people do but I sure hope they keep doing it.
As the Pandemic Forced Layoffs, C.E.O.s Gave Up Little
The desmos app is better than any graphing calculator I've ever used.
Just want to mention bitbar[1]. Write anything to stdout, it'll make it show up in the menu bar.

[1] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar
The article mentions Python on TI calculators and a quick web search reveals at least one Casio one ships with micro python (although as the page you linked says numworks was the first to offer it, so maybe there are other innovations that haven't spread).
OTOH, they seem to use the word "legacy" for lots of stuff, both from them and from competitors.

Which is in several cases the best solution and much better than their latest offering.
Most of the "modern" embedded stuff comes as a complete system-on-chip these days, i.e. all the peripherals and memory are integrated into the CPU on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. It's also rare for chips to offer an external parallel bus interface (the classic A0-A15 and D0-D7 pins), which means that any extra peripheral devices need to hang off an I2C/SPI port where the CPU core can't access them directly.

And the available chips (AVR, ESP32, LPC2xxx, etc.) are all proprietary designs with a single manufacturer. Even the ARM chips, which generally use some variant of a Cortex-M core, have wildly different peripherals. So migrating between families is difficult/impossible.

In contrast, "classic" chips like 8051, 6502, x86 and 680xx all have external parallel bus interfaces and are (or were) produced by multiple manufacturers (often as part of "second source" agreements).

So when building a system using these chips, the designer has a large degree of flexibility and freedom to design the system architecture. Whereas building something using modern embedded chips is mostly an exercise in parametric search trying to find an existing chip which offers exactly the right set of peripherals for the intended design. It reduces the system designer to a mere consumer of off-the-shelf SoCs instead of being a true builder/architect.
So to update and add to their old slogan: Think different... but we still keep our 30% cut

Tech in general has quite a few things about itself it needs to fix. Is it ethical for Apple to write the OS, run the store, sell its own wares AND compete with people it charges, eg 30%, to compete? Same question for other stores, eg Google? Both companies have analytics to determine which of the crop is successful and therefore needs to be harvested. Is this a level playing field? Do we expect such? Should we?

These aren't trivial or straightforward issues. It will be interesting to see over the next 20 years how this plays out. It would be better with a shorter time frame but... nothing involving legalities is usually fast.
Do you have access to encrypted data? How does any company can guarantee your password is secure?
Supposedly, it was in response to this video going viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIPqcK3wwY

Although it features an outdated OS (up-to-date OSes weren't even vulnerable), TI made a move to protect the reputation of exam mode. :(
Emmanuel Farhi has died at the age of 41
Show HN: A useful canvas drawing tool – PenTool
> "Amazon took my idea and did the same thing at lower cost"

This isn't always the case, as many merchants have pointed it out. Sometimes (I'm sure not all the time), it's more "Amazon took my idea, and all the validation work I did in order to develop and prove it and build a market for it, and is selling it below cost in order to force everyone else out of the market"

I'm not passing judgement on whether that is okay or not; I'm pointing out that Amazon "winning marketshare" does not mean that they're doing it in a better way, or at a lower cost. Sometimes it just means that Amazon is able to spend/risk a whole lot more money than anyone else.
You can see what they've done and what they're working on here: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/projects/1
Apple doesn’t grant refunds willy nilly (anymore).
So your argument is that not security but cost is the reason that USB "won" the external device interface competition with FireWire?

Good to know that USB4 implementations are making the same mistake as FireWire implementors did in choosing performance over security . Unfortunately it looks like there will be no alternative except for maybe to use a USB3 hub (or an OS with fuzzed IOMMU and also controller firmwares)?

Could an NX bit for data coming from buses with and without DMA help at all?

Hot gluing external ports now seems a bit more rational and justified for systems where physical access is less controlled.
Yes, this is a killer feature. There are many instances of what are essentially application side caches that try (and often fail) to do this; its non-trivial to do right, and I am greatly looking forwards to it.

In particular, an event-sourced world becomes much easier to implement and maintain with the DB handling all the incremental magic.
Well, she could downsize to a mere 1% of her net worth and then spend the next 25 years spending 50K per day and still have over 100mil leftover for her old age and the kids inheritance.

And that's assuming zero further income.

So there comes a stage where I am not about to pat any billionaire on the back for "a big donation". It might just be good PR and likely will be some kind of tax benefit too.

That said, I'd rather see more of it than less because I don't think any single person is honestly so valuable to society to be worth that much. They honestly shouldn't have that kind of money. The system is broken.
One thing that Flattr and many others like them got wrong, in my view, was collecting too little and levying too little from it. Too many schemes were $5/month or $3/month, then collecting 10% or thereabouts. You cannot build a sustainable business with high risk exposure for less than a fraction of cup of coffee per customer per month. But people kept bloody trying.
I lost a few points but it was a genuine question. Does the PM just walk into a lab with a requisition and get blood work or does he have a private doctor and private lab do it. As the PM I would assume his medical results would be of interest to some people and as a Canadian genuinely have no idea how he manages his affairs. It would be interesting to learn more about how he keeps his affairs private.
And that if the attacker has admin and physical access to Windows they can just install GRUB from there, then exploit that to install a rootkit to persist their access.
>I think a shift toward identity as a service is underway for the market to solve this. Auth0 and the like are offering a solution.

How does auth0 solve this? This isn't about your email or passwords getting leaked. This is about your lab test results (eg. HIV, herpes, etc.) getting leaked.
You're right, and it all stems from impatience and a culture of do-it-later-ism.

Nearly every single project I've worked on directly or indirectly has had problems (involving security or otherwise) that could have been fixed by a more patient management.

The best thing to learn as an engineer at any level: "rushing makes messes."
Elon Musk says he's terrified of AI taking over the world
I think the main advantage here is less about tampering (if we assume neither of these bootloaders have bugs then a GRUB2 password should be as secure as its systemd-boot equivalent) but more about the fact that systemd-boot doesn't have decades of legacy cruft accumulated that's irrelevant for UEFI and thus is less prone to having disastrous bugs.
Areas of 50 miles are entire cities.

Assuming their assertion about housing is true, they're absolutely right that the issue should get way more attention. I just disagree that should come at the cost of reducing attention to tech monopolies.

But since consolidation and market power abuse are the same problems whether in tech or real-estate or media, there's no reason scrutiny to it in tech should detract from scrutiny in other areas. In fact, it should increase scrutiny - once we notice the problem in one area, we'll notice it everywhere.
Downvote if you are from Portland :P
He is caustic but not wrong. If anything, this story should be taken down. It’s factually incorrect and even the tweet in the link has been deleted.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AMA
Sure, but acknowledging the reality for many people that they are limited by a number of interests to stay geographically local, the local news and housing monopolies at 50-mile radius level are more restrictive than digital monopolies. Not that I like either.
I think it's a logical fallacy to assume you can "observe all events" in any non-trivial system, particularly where there are humans on the edges.
Learn about chain rule. Then learn how to multiply two matrices. Look up the definition of a vector norm. This will cover almost everything you need to know.
Since that video is in French and the screen is too small for me to seen what he’s doing on the calculator (I’m watching on a phone), could you TL;DR summarize?
New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices more viable
It is, but it's a single particular ASIN. And given the majority of the time issues/changes arise due the particular characteristics of a particular item (is it pantry? is it prime? is it a garment? is it a toiletry? etc. etc.) using any one particular ASIN isn't going to be viable for most developers.
I've followed North since they were Thalmic Labs manufacturing the Myo armband. They seemed to have good ideas but no real way to create the ecosystem a new device needs to actually be useful. The myo was super fun and I dreamt about what I could do with it...but never got around to making anything. It seems the rest of the ecosystem didn't either. So, now Myo and North glasses go down the drain...

At least I can still play with my Myo's whenever the mood takes me.
As someone who is pretty much an app sec engineer, I feel like this rings true.

Furthermore, part of me suspects that the tangible business risk of application security flaws isn't felt until after a breach, when its far too late to change things. Even then, sometimes the cost of a breach does not justify the expense of building a robust secure software development life-cycle.
Alphabet’s Loon balloons now providing commercial internet service in Kenya
I can't really confirm/deny whether what he was saying was true, but I heard this from him around 2009.
In aircrafts it's common to use navigation instruments based on gyroscopes. See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope
* https://www.experimentalaircraft.info/articles/aircraft-gyro...
Ask HN: Talk radio shows from your reigon?
Hey HNers, What are the good talkback / talk radio shows where you're from? I am looking to broaden my understanding of life and current events for people and places unfamiliar to me. I find talk radio, or interview shows with listener feedback is a good direct way to hear what people care about. Any suggestions? Very local stuff welcome too.
TikTok is opening up its algorithm and challenging competitors to do the same
Neat idea. Issues might need to be a little more freeform than most bug templates.

"Acceptance Criteria" would be a difficult field to fill out.
Oh, I thought you said generating new riddles. Most of them were crap, but this is the best it came up with.

I have no face, but I have hands and feet. I have no mouth, but I have hair. What am I?
A shadow

Edit: got a few more good ones:

What can I eat but can’t swallow?
Air
What is it that no one can see?
Light
What is it that you can’t see unless you close your eyes?
Darkness

Obligatory: these might already exist, I've just never heard them before
Thanks but I'm confused, how is that relevant to the article?
Hsu's research doesn't hold up under review. You're just doubling down on the exact same flawed reasoning.

It's pretty clear where you're at and what argument you actually wanna make so I'm out.
this seems amazing. someone do that thing where they point out how a new technology isn't actually world changing in the top comment
Normally, yes, but the people employed as unix admins literally didn't understand what most basic shell commands did, to the point that copying prod data to a remote server would have been completely trivial.
Of course, they get paid to reduce the number of shares circulating and raise the value of the stock. Stock market is still unrealistically high, so why would a CEO accept a pay cut? No, they just cut everyone else and the stock market fucking loves that.
You imply that physicists are afraid of extending their knowledge, but this is literally the physicist's goal in life. If you've discovered a mechanism that violates an established law of physics, a Nobel Prize is probably in your future.

On the other hand, every time I turn around there's a new crackpot trying to crowdfund research into perpetual motion machines and the like. It's possible that the VCs you've approached are doing a poor job of explaining your product to the physicists they've consulted, who then dismiss it out of hand.

If you have working physical prototypes, and not merely an idea that you believe will work, and you're willing to let people 'get hands-on' to test them, and they're not prohibitively expensive for the performance increases they lead to, the tech community should be very interested indeed. Perhaps focusing on finding credentialed people to independently confirm that your process works first rather than approaching VCs would be something to try.
> I mean, it's not a commodity. Another SoC means it's not a switch anymore as the software is incredibly tied to the specifics of that SoC.

It seems that most of the actual OS layer of the switch is designed to be hardware independent. I mean they managed to run Skyrim on ARM so it's not a stretch to say it wouldn't take much effort to move to a different SoC. Maybe using a different SoC would be difficult with Linux, but it doesn't seem the case with the OS they're using.

> eSOL, a leading developer of real-time embedded software solutions, today announced that its µITRON 4.0-compliant real-time operating system (RTOS) and exFAT file system have been adopted in the Nintendo Switch™ game console developed by Nintendo Co., Ltd

https://www.esol.com/news/news_57.html

> Supported CPUs are numerous. ARM, MIPS, x86, FR-V and many others including CPUs supported by open source RTOS eCos and RTEMS, both of which include the support for µITRON compatible APIs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRON_project

> Also, Samsung isn't a Japanese company,

This thread started because of a statement on "Asian companies"