skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no expert but surely fast chips still matter in stuff like AI? Although, one could argue that modern AI hasn't had a huge impact yet.

Anyway, my point is that having faster and more energy efficient chips would make the training of stuff like GPT-3 cheaper.
>the difference is that Linux developers are not the court

The difference is that they cannot afford to leave every Nvidia GPU owner out.
She could file a small claims case, which would get the matter resolved in two months or so. At the very least she would get a refund for all the books she purchased. There is probably an arbitration clause somewhere in the shrinkwrap which would be to her benefit because it would be easier to handle everything by mail and she doesn't need a lawyer. I am sure there are loads of attorneys in Seattle who would be happy to take a small claims case for $500.
If they can’t afford to, they don’t. Welcome to America. Most working people here simply don’t have this kind of flexibility.
"those flood zones that were recently built on"

Most of the Houston MSA is a flood zone. The areas that were worst hit were not "recently" built on. The areas recently built on will have much better drainage because the codes have changed.

I suggest doing more reading of primary sources and perhaps studying the hydrology and history before speaking further on this subject.
What? I didn't say I don't recognize the reality. I said I don't accept it as normal, meaning I work trying to change it.
At > 100 million chips per quarter.
;)

These are insane numbers.
Yes companies definitely get more inefficient as they grow, for all the reasons you cite and more. I've experienced it first-hand.

Adding an engineer to a team slows down the whole team a little. There comes a point where adding head count actually results in less productivity overall. This is typically countered by splitting up work into various teams with minimal interaction between them. Like Amazon's famous two-pizza team strategy. This is the main attraction of microservices, each team can own their own piece of the code and change it and deploy it without (ideally) having to consult with anyone else.
> Now we are just falling behind Taiwan, south korea, and maybe china.

A career path in microelectronics is suicide for US citizens. It's going the way of nuclear engineering.
> Just curious, what would you have liked to see the U.S. do about Hong Kong?

I have no idea. There's a reason I make my living as an engineer rather than as a politician or a diplomat.
As long as a complex system has the complexity abstracted away it can still be simple for users.

The modern (non-Urbit) tech stack is extremely complex, but a lot of that (though not enough) is hidden from the end user.

In a lot of important ways the Urbit stack is a lot less complex than the existing modern tech stack, but it’s still early on and the abstraction for regular users is still in progress. Being less complex than the modern tech stack (by designing from the feet up by first principles) is one of the main reasons the project exists.

It’s just rarely done anymore in modern computing. It happened more in the 60s-70s when people would experiment.

I understand the skepticism - I think it’s a cool project, but there’s still work to do before it’ll win over average users.

Luckily the project is invested in long-term planning and design (with solid short term execution and feature shipping/iteration) so it’s improving quickly.
So how does choice prevent you from doing that?

Mac apps do just fine with other install options while most still choose the App Store for ease and security.
There's no obvious indication what the standard C function

void (*signal(int sig, void (*func)(int)))(int)

means; if you don't know C it's plain gibberish, impossible to fully understand.

Everything in computers (and I may say, more in general in life) is based on assumptions made on knowledge we implicitly have. After a while, writing eq or == becomes natural and you stop mixing them up. These kinds of errors are frequent when you don't use something daily; for instance, after more than a decade I still keep forgetting Powershell's syntax because I don't use it often and when I do, I tend to do basic things.
In Texas alone, Rita, Ike and Harvey were all devastating.

I’m not sure what relation you’re referring to in “relatively.”
Clay Johnson, author of "The Information Diet," wrote about this 10 years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120205012403/http://www.inform...

It really made me much more conscious about seeking out and reading original sources, rather than relying on interpretations and summaries from journalists, bloggers, etc.
Domain Squatting has a specific legal definition, so I think very little can be done about that. "using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else". Essentially, this is only something you can enforce if you trademark something and someone takes a domain name after you trademarked it.

I think we need a new term for what is going on - "Domain Scalping", wherein speculators buy up countless domains hoping to resell them for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Scalping is a better term because that's exactly what they're doing - buying an address and preventing anyone else from using it unless you pay them.
Malicious Chinese SDK in 1,200 iOS Apps with Billions of Installs
OCaml Scientific Computing Book
That strikes me as a perfectly valid point of view. To me, a niche note-taking app is worth a lot, and I'm happy to pay a lot for it. In fact, I try to avoid apps that don't seem to have a sustainable business plan, as my assumption is they'll either go out of business or get themselves acquired and shelved. Luckily, it seems like there are plenty of options for both of us.
> The GemRB team announces the availability of GemRB 0.8.7, a new minor release to kick off a week of celebrations of the project’s founding anniversary.

Congrats on 20 years! Can we release a 1.0.0 version now? I know it's a nitpick and version numbers are largely arbitrary, but I hesitate to use software that is <1.0.0 because semver implies it is unstable. I know not everybody uses semver, but I wish they would ;-)
Very interesting read!

This fellow reminds me of Barry Seal [0], recently dramatized in the movie "American Made."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal
Do you have a good experience with tools for building (drag&drop) Web user interfaces? Do you use such in your day to day work?
Yes, but compare their combined market capitalization (of course, excepting Apple/Google) to any one or two of FAAMNG :-)
> programming is not for everybody

I guess we (although I am not the person you replied to) have a fundamental disagreement here. I think absolutely, everyone is able to code, a little. Not to be a career programmer, mind you, and I have no expectation that they should be able to produce readable or maintainable code. I have a weakly-held opinion that people shouldn't have to code if they choose not to. However, I think a little coding knowledge is essential for digital autonomy, which is more and more synonymous with regular autonomy, and that everyone ought to have that.
The historical context is that Linux had a proper community support at the time when everyone was looking for Unix on x86, to migrate off RISC workstations, and BSDs at the time were either a bunch of jerks, or had unclear status due to ATT vs UCB lawsuit. You could try to argue that licensing had played a role at this, but experience with other projects suggests otherwise.
Ant Group’s Giant Valuation: One Billion Alipay Users and Big Profit Margins
Yes, of course, I do know that. It's not what I meant.

Suppose we expand that first example.
I would write: 3(x + 5) = 3x + 3⋅5
The notation I'm talking about writes: 3(x + 5) = 3x + 3(5)

It's that 3(5) instead of 3⋅5 I'm talking about.
Yeah this is really funny to me. Articles like this fantasize about being able to apply some engineering solution to a problem as if just having any good idea is sufficient to force some third party to implement it. They complete ignore the incentive system the thing lives in so as to make their analysis a total waste of time.
> Reed, a fit 29-year-old who was as careful with his clean-cut brown hair and clean-shaven face as he was with his deposition-ready phrasing

Is there a tl;dr that would allow me to skip the bulk of this creative writing essay?
It's not that surprising that the cause of the Soviet Union's collapse tries to pass the blame elsewhere.

Without Chernobyl, but with Gorbachev's reforms, the Soviet Union would still have collapsed.

Without Gorbachev's reforms, but with Chernobyl, the Soviet Union would still exist, just as PRC did not collapse from Tiananmen Square and DPRK did not collapse from 1990s famine.
fellow paki, which uni is this?
It's assumed that these results are of Apple A14 or A14X chips.
For all intents and purposes "but" is a negation, which goes backwards.

"He is a nice guy, but..." ~= "He is not a nice guy, because..."

One interesting things is that when you look at sentiment of words in reviews, the word "but" glows (in red).
Genetic data show how a single superspreading event sent virus across the nation
>To me 'TFA' means The Featured Article.

Fair enough, I wasn’t aware/didn’t think of that. My mind went straight to ”the fucking article”, which is why it appeared hostile to me.
Follow-up, account restored (2012) (https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amazon-linn-nygaard-deleted...)
I went to great trouble to be in the path of totality in a completely isolated area with no other people probably within ten miles. Yes, the animals did behave strangely. The various calls seemed, and I'm searching for the right word, somewhere between hesitant and curious. Tentative, perhaps. The tone of the remaining light is ... odd. It wasn't quite twilight light, and I think that part right there is a little confusing for animals.
I'll keep it in mind :-)

My context with using english in general (like here on HN) is communicating as a non-native with both native speakers and non-native speakers. For some of those, just reading english is a challenge.

Since I also know I can easily write nonsensical sentences, I thought this article was a good reminder on how to safely stay in the "I make sense" area in this context, and as so disagreed with person I replied to ^^

I would definitely have higher ambitions regarding "tone" in my mother tongue though, but for english writing, I'll be happy if I can be clear !
>I (personally) consider that opportunity is a rarer commodity than innovativeness

I agree. I think to create world-changing things, 3 things are needed:

1. Innovativeness or creativity.

2. Lack of neccessity to work to put a roof over your head, which frees the imagination.

3. Enough money to make it actually happen. This is the opportunity.

Many of us have #1, some also have #2. But 1 or 2 are not enough. You need all 3. Billionaires can have all 3.
I second that, I have older Paper Kindle with only wifi.
And I never connect to wifi, Calibre is excellent for managing kindle archive without amazon's breathing down my neck.

Highly recommend.
Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
I'm glad to see this still kicking, for awhile I was afraid it might get derailed when the enhanced editions were released along with Linux support.

I noticed that they only support a couple of chapters of Icewind Dale 2. Seems like IWD2 never gets any love, but honestly, I thought the adventure was garbage when it came out and still have never finished it. Ironically enough, I was inspired this past weekend to fire IWD2 up again but failed to get it to run in Wine (yet).
I'm not a fan of squatters, but it's a complex problem. I'm not sure we can ban 'squatting' or 'scalping' per se.

What we could do, however, is limit the maximum price a domain can be bought and sold for (say, $100). This would eliminate most incentives.

The meta solution, of course, would be to eliminate the necessity of TLDs altogether.
Genetic data show how a single superspreading event sent coronavirus across ...
I don't mean to sound sarcastic or rude - we just don't care. I like messing around with undervolting/fan control scripts on my laptop, but my iPhone is just a tool like a thermostat or toaster oven. There's no benefit to my gaining control.
There’s a plastic bag over the product saying don’t open it if you don’t agree with the terms of service and that it’s required to use the device.

Also, plenty of people just leave the kindle in airplane mode and use third party software like Calibre to manage their libraries.
We’re going to see a lot of mathematically correct but potentially misleading headlines as things start to tick back up during the recovery.

If you tell the average person “X dropped by 50%.” And then next month “X surged by 50%” they’d think it dropped and is back to where it started, not that in reality “X surged by 50% actually means it’s still down by 25% from where it was.”

A lot of this going on at the moment giving either intentional or unintentional impressions of what’s actually happening.
>> However it is utterly inconceivable that anyone would “go back” to using some old social media platform.

I haven’t reacted my compuserve account, but I’m fine using email, IRC, phpBB, mailing lists...
Every Small Claims court I am aware of forbids attorneys, the entire purpose of a Small Claims court is to not need one, and if a large company shows up with one you the person are disadvantaged, so even Amazon would need to send a Representative of the company not a lawyer
I also got a partial and was surprised at how cold it got quickly (this was August in Utah, normally blazing hot).

If you can't make it to totality (it was my first day at a new job, definitely couldn't make it), do experience the partial because it's cool. I'll be journeying next time tho to experience totality.
> Obviously there are other consequences, such as job migration

This is an interesting issue. The existence of national borders and the restriction on the free movement of people reduces the efficiencies achieved with specialization. Imagine how more efficient it'd be if Taiwan had easy access to US semiconductor talent. Similarly, it'd be more efficient if the seasonal migrations that help agriculture didn't happen and those people actually lived near the crops they help maintain.
TSMC is like Taiwan's Aramco in that it's economic entanglements are the country's primary protection/leverage against regional neighbors. Profit is important but it's also about stability and survival.
Per [1], the comment appears to be partially correct. The data prior to 1950 does not agree with [1], but hurricanes were not tracked in the same way prior to 1950. The author may just using a different source for those estimates.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurric...
Here on hn, I read several stories where smart TVs did exactly that: they tried all available wifi networks to see if one of them worked.

It doesn't seem so far-fetched that the Kindle might, too.
> Eschew flamebait. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.
The opt out is don't buy a Kindle.
Quite the natural evolution since TrueNAS has traditionally been a BSD box and they've invested a lot of time in ZFS. Happy that this will carry over to FreeBSD.

Now, only if Windows would also have some sort of support ;)
No, but the point is if the buildup goes for too long, what the controlled fires were trying to prevent becomes reality: a firestorm strong enough to burn to the tops of the trees.
> There's only two choices, which means the market is monopalized.

Literally not what monopolized means.
I only regret that I have but one upvote to give to this answer.

Use

old.reddit.com
Jack Ma’s Ant Group Files for IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai
Do you believe legal loopholes and tax avoidance is not an issue?
And this is why I immediately strip the DRM protections of any kindle book I buy from the site, and can then use them on any device or app that handles the format (or an epub conversion). There's no good reason whatsoever to buy a digital good and leave it beholden to the sometimes shitty whims of whoever sold it to you. That's not a purchase or ownership at all. It's just a long term lease but without a defined expiration date.
Citing the potential number of free domains isn't fair because random gibberish as a URL is in no way useful. There's a reason why these scalpers aren't buying up GUIDs as domain names - they're buying up permutations and combinations of words because they know those are the 'good' domains people actually want.
Ah ha, sorry. I misinterpreted your comment :-)
A lot of attempts at "simplifying k8s" seem to be writing some type of "coffee-script" that generate the underlying yaml. What I (think I) want is just some good UI built for essential workflows.
I use Reddit is Fun on android.
Never had problems I am using paid version so not sure about quality of free version.
Well if you ask a smart person to rationalize their relationship with a drug, their smart phone, they will say something logical and positivist, in a world where your opinion about how a giant corporation screws another doesn't really matter.

So it's not really comparable to partisan politics in the US. You could be right that people are conditioned to talk about things a certain way due to partisanship, but I really doubt that's why there's so many people out their taking Apple's side in a contract spat.

Nonetheless some people have this drug relationship with Fox News. But while very few people on HN may even use Android phones, 100% of congress probably uses an iPhone. They probably use their iPhone ~4 hours a day. 0% use Fortnite (the average congressman probably plays less than 1 minute of Fortnite on average a day).

Nobody's going to come out against their drug.
What a joke. American tech companies are parasites.
Interesting. I clearly need to dial back on my enthusiasm for it, then!
Climate change is real, but climate change includes both changing temperatures and rain patterns AND change to the local climate of the forest.

When we prevent small fires from happening that burn out all of the small bushes and trees on the forest floor, we dramatically change the climate of the forest. When we build houses in the middle of the forest and then fight the fires that threaten them, we just build up more fuel that will eventually result in giant fires like the ones we are seeing now.

Of course temperature changes and changes in rain make this all worse as well.

But if we're going to be honest about climate change, then we need to be honest about climate change. We have entire government agencies whose sole purpose is to fight against the natural ecology of the forest.

Something big that we can do to both allow for houses and towns to exist in the forest, and live harmoniously with the environment: allow logging companies to come in and tend to the forest. Just regulate them.
Hrm, based on this: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/orgs/#add-a-member-to-a-t...

I see that Docker doesn't actually offer an AWS-style enterprise account that one can use to hand authorization to developers without requiring those developers to make individual accounts.

It feels pretty sassy of docker to give everyone 2 months to shove credentials everywhere when docker themselves haven't done the minimum to make enterprise accounts realistic. Instead, they're adopting the github model of "oh, just ask everyone to make personal accounts and then include their personal accounts in the org team". That has problems.

Firstly, it puts employers in the unpleasant position of attempting to compel employees to make legal agreements with third parties (docker, in this case). The correct way to do this is AWS-style, where the org itself makes /one/ agreement and then delegates that agreement via access keys. This is the minimum I expect from enterprise account systems, hard fail for docker.

Secondly, it's a clusterfuck to manage. You end up with an org filled with random-arse account names that you can't really audit, and you don't know who has access to what. If employees leave the org, it's hard to ensure that their access is revoked because the access takes place entirely outside the standard account domains.

Github has recently improved this a shade by adding ADFS authorization to org accounts, but that involves asking employees to tie their personal (and all github and docker accounts /are/ personal) account to their work ADFS account, which is a shitty half-solution.

All things considered, docker made this problem for themselves. They've spent /years/ working hard to get everyone to make docker accounts and push everything to docker hub instead of fostering an ecosystem of registries by different orgs for different purposes. All of a sudden it's now "too expensive" and they're dropping the hammer on everyone to sign up and push credentials everywhere with very little warning, whilst not doing their half of the work by making a proper delegated authority account system.

Doesn't fill me with confidence for their future as a stable platform on which to base a business.
As a user commented, this is a very old event and she did get her collection back.

It is an important point that you do not own the actual book file, but the right to read it, which is fragile.

I don't feel like investing my money without extracting the book files.
Did you have a look at this article?

"Here we show that metabolic alterations that occur with age can produce a systemic environment that favours the progression and aggressiveness of tumours."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2630-0
The Notre-Dame cathedral fire deposited 1 ton of lead into Paris neighborhoods
Damn. You gots some sharp interns.

Good show!
The biggest issue with the Greater Houston Area isn’t just the lack of green spaces for natural absorption but the compaction of the ground from over pumping ground water decades ago.

Many of the municipalities that are not Houston proper run their own MUD(Municipal Utility District)and continue to make the same mistakes that COH did decades prior.

The other big issue is lack of zoning and coordination of development. Many people buy homes with information about the flood plains in mind, but later on are in the path of another developers flood plan.
From ProductHunt- "If you sign up (for Gretel.ai beta) this week, you’ll get a credit for 25,000 data labeling API calls per month for 6 months after our free beta" https://www.producthunt.com/posts/gretel.
Disturbing. Sounds like legal enforcement is once again required to spank these companies.
Are data structures copyrightable? The headers are not, and macros can be easily avoided.

And in any case, there's an easy way to prove something does not constitute a derived work: just show that it can work outside of the codebase it's allegedly a derived work of. The reason NVidia is safe is that they provide the same driver for FreeBSD.
> And in the process get a law book.

If you've read the law, you'll note that you are not required to have a monopoly to fall afoul of the antitrust laws. The usual proviso is along the lines of "X is prohibited where the effect of X is to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce." (see, e.g., 15 USC §13).
One thing not mentioned that I'd like to add is avoid using pronouns when you can. Like he, she, it, them, this, that. As soon as you have multiple nouns in when explaining something, you can get screwed. I find myself typing pronouns a lot and when I read back what I wrote, I can see how people get confused. Clarity is so important, and pronouns hurt that.
Let me know if I'm wrong, but it seems like Jane Street is going contrary to the HN common belief that a lot of things should be "buy" instead of "build" and yet they are quite successful