skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "node" or lambda is not all that important. It is a multiplication factor - you get sizes of parts in integer scales of node size.

It allows for some parts of chip parts to be smaller. Most transistors stay about the same, because you cannot make them much smaller, otherwise they will leak or will not be as fast as needed.

If you look for transition of the same company from lambda1 to smaller lambda2 you will see that gate or transistor density rises not as theoretical square of lambda1/lambda2, but as about lambda1/lambda2 or less.

It is also quite possible to screw things at smaller lambdas. For example, NVidia get their process right for same lambda only after several years, they were fighting steady state leaks, power issues and the like. And NVidia, just like AMD and Apple, was using TSMC.

So if you are pissed about AMD lagging behind a node, don't be. Being at forefront of node size does not mean instant success, lagging a node size step behind does not mean you will get much inferior product.
Maybe this: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1307614248835731456.html
I worked remotely from Brazil, Thailand, and Belize from 2009-2017, so during that time I guess you could say I was traveling, but mostly just enjoying the local scenery. Lately my travel scratch has been itched, so for the last six months I've just been sitting around the house working on hobbies and watching youtube. :) If you don't have kids and/or a mortgage you definitely should take the opportunity to spend 6 months to a year living in a country with a favorable exchange rate, like central america or southeast asia. I believe that you can't really get a feel for a culture until you've been there for at least six months and made some friends. It will transform your entire perspective of yourself and the society you grew up in. If you wait too long you might not have the opportunity again.
Haven't used any chromium in years, hence the question. Is uMatrix not available on their addon store?
Yeah, weed really shouldnt be a priority, and should be legalized nationwide, but...

```Canna_Bars, on Hansa, advertised pounds of methamphetamine. In the description of the product, Porras had claimed the methamphetamine came “direct from Mexico.”```

So, defintely not legal anywhere, nor is mass distribution of meth really something that is of benefit to anybody but the cartels he bought it from.
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Of course as a SW engineer you think any kind of digitally embedded fingerprint first.
I've read horror stories about toxic careerism in science where real scientific progress is only ever a by-product.
I use a MacBook Pro 16” for work and have to have Sophos and Jamf installed. I’m operating at 60-80% of the performance I had before those became policy. Don’t underestimate what corporate IT can do to any machine.
Which one? My R7000 works perfectly fine, since years.
It is worth pointing out A13 had a die size of 100mm2, much larger than usual, especially on a Smartphone Leading Edge Node.

So the A14 is basically am A13 5nm Die Shrink with better GPU and Double the NPU. What I am interested in is the Die Size. Which I am expecting to be sub 80mm2.
People have been saying that for 10 years. It makes calls, it’s got location, internet, a camera. Done right?

Since then we’ve got on-device powered AI voice assistants, Face ID, neural engine powered photo enhancement, health monitoring, custom silicon enhanced environment mapping AR. Goodness knows what else is coming.

The advent of custom tuned accelerators such as neural engines in silicon is opening up a huge new field of applications and capabilities. That’s especially true when they are linked to these new arrays of environment and bio-sensors. The X series iPhones are doing a list of things simply impossible on previous devices.

You may not care about some or all of these things, that’s fine they’re not all for everyone, but each one of them is important to some people.
Maybe I am too European for this, but I'd be very wary if I received such emails. I'd shrug and throw it in the bin. You come across as a try hard that is more concerned with "chit chatting" than performing actual work.

My 2 cents for starting a new job: shut up and work. Contribute, show what you can do. Teams are often overworked. Start closing tickets, making small improvements. Don't step on anyone's toes. Observe and contribute first.
> Or you can use it in whitelist mode, but with all things like Cloudflare and ReCaptcha globally whitelisted.

those two specifically are always the first entries in my blacklist :D
This sounds like a solution I’d use. Embedded. Simplifies simple sites.
There's a whole lot of random people chiming in and guessing on Twitter (shocker) so it is worth pointing out that:

> The algorithm does not do face detection at all (it actually replaced a previous algorithm which did).

From https://twitter.com/ZehanWang/status/1307461285811032066?s=2...

Not to say there is or isn't a problem to be fixed, more work is needed to understand. Such as the analysis at https://twitter.com/vinayprabhu/status/1307460502017028096?s...
It's stupid in hindsight, but I just wanted to give him a chance to better prepare for me leaving, like start looking for new developer(s) or shift plans, etc.
Like this?

https://github.com/qntm/base1
Wait.. wasn't the a good chunk of the "webextension" transition to allow better interoperability?

After some time, it looks to me as if no real change has happened. The webextension model is still too weak in several areas to allow for some old extensions to function properly (keyboard handling is a major, major PITA), and at the same time a lot of work is still being spent to support cross-browser (and to a lesser extent, cross-version) functionality.

Forward-compatibility on the same browser seems to be the only good point, until you realize it's also how chrome can pull the plug on request filters and kill extensions on a whim anyway.

I didn't even know you needed mozilla's blessing for extensions on android. Not so different than Chrome here, Mozilla. Not at all. First, the useless signing requirement, then this? :(
It's a funny side-effect of the HN "rule" against engaging in politics. We still talk politics, but must mention He Who Must Not Be Named obliquely.

ETA: Oh no.. it didn't work. I'm being downvoted :)
Nowhere near as profound as many other comments listed here already, but here's a 2015 comment by haberman that stuck with me for some reason, on how modern operating systems have learnt that 'grand abstractions' don't belong in the OS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807777
The amount of resources that the US federal government will use to pursue ridiculously long sentences (that frequently involve torture[1]) against people who did not victimize a single person is absolutely insane to me.

The prohibition on the possession and sale of drugs must come to an end, and weapons charges should never, ever be brought against anyone who didn't use weapons to commit a crime or otherwise perpetrate violence/cause harm.

Literally no violence and no victim is claimed by the state here, and yet he's going to spend almost six years in prison, even after a plea deal. This is well over a half of a million dollars in tax money, just to house/feed/medicate him during that time (perhaps as much as twice that in the event of medical conditions), not counting the resources spent within the courts, the prosecution offices, the clerks, and the provision of public defenders (if any). It's probably closer to a million tax dollars, all told.

Had he not taken the plea? He could have received a much, much longer sentence: 20+ years. This would then be upwards of 4 or 5 million dollars spent by the state.

Is this justice? More importantly, is this a good use of the public's resources?

A million+ US tax dollars could instead be used to prevent violent crime, or to house the homeless, or any number of other purposes which very easily surpass the benefit or usefulness of the imprisonment of people who do not victimize or harm others.

[1]: in the form of exceptionally long periods of forced solitary confinement, which causes permanent physiological and psychological damage.
I can't remember the exact details but I remember a story at some point that they'd bought up basically all the world's manufacturing capacity of sapphires - I think for TouchID. Their manufacturing scale is just insane.
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Marine Isotope Stage 5 [1] was a high sea level interglacial:

> Thus, the present interglacial, the Holocene, is compared with MIS 5 or the interglacials of Marine Isotope Stage 11.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Isotope_Stage_5
That would be cool. Roku boxes actually come with a headphone jack in the remote so you can do just that (but not through bluetooth).
I strongly suspected that is what they did too. Got to wonder if they used the EXIF data to find him - linking photos of the pot and other social media/etc public shots, then used the fingerprints as parallel construction.
study backing me up: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/06/despit...
Speech recognition, image recognition, photo/video enhancement, face recognition, predictive text, etc. There aren't a huge number of applications, but there are enough to justify it, especially because it makes a big difference where it can be used.
There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here.

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed."

- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
You said that no non-apple PCs are reliable, so you're shifting the goal posts now.
In what ways is CF anti-privacy?
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For those who are wondering the difference between ublock origin and umatrix, a cursory quick search turned up this forum post[0]:

> uMatrix is a blocker(cookie,css,image,plugin,script,XHR,frame, and other) you can control what you block and what you want to allow(like uBlock Origin dynamic filtering but way more flexible and can be way more strict) uMatrix just blocks ads through the use of host files, uBlock Origin blocks them more deeper per se then uMatrix because of cosmetic and patteren-based filtering like adblock plus. I use both of them together just uncheck the malware domains in uBlock and peter Lowe's and the host files. Also you have more privacy and security when running uMatrix because of the switches(user agent spoofing and referrer spoofing, clearing blocked cookies, blocking hyperlink auditing attempts etc.) and also if you run uBlock it gets whatever ads uMatrix does not get from its blocking) Look at my sig to see how I run them. If you need help just PM me.:thumb::):cool:

I personally run ublock origin and have been super happy with it, never even think about it these days, if I was supposed to switch to uMatrix at some point (I know uBlock and uBlock origin are different now and origin is preferred) I must have missed it.

[0]: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ublock-vs-umatrix.37...
Vegetable protein was and still is less abundant than vegetable sugars, if I'm not mistaken? Agriculture eventually made that less of an issue but this was not the case until not that long ago (tens of thousands rather than hundreds of thousands of years). It's easier to eat a bug or any small prey than spend a morning gathering spinach and watercress. Humans also ate leftovers from predator kills, like the partially digested contents of herbivore stomachs that had been killed by let's say wolves.

Vegetable protein was part of our diet but not by any means the main source of protein. Humans did not eat pulses until quite recently (10-15 thousand years ago?)
I met a former nuclear physicist in Oakland, who had moved to working in water treatment who told me 'flocculation, way more complex, far more interesting than nuclear chemistry' he seemed happy too.
Because a child is a less serious responsibility or … ?
Looks like user error. The domain matching needs to be set if you don’t want it to work on sub domains. The fact Bitwarden does this by default is a wonderful feature. So I don’t consider it leaking. Besides if you don’t trust a sub domain you shouldn’t trust the root domain.
Reminds me of this recent comment on Chuck Moore, of Forth fame, building his own technology stack right down the hardware and squeezing it for performance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469625
I have seen--and agree with--the opposite argument: that C++ already has a lot of similar patterns and solves enough of C's safety issues that the remaining limitations become a tradeoff against the things where Rust is still far behind C++ (such as in value templates, to name just one of a million things), that the move for C developers feels a lot more motivated than for C++ developers (and the Rust people seem to de facto agree, whether they say it explicitly or not... when I have pressed them on things that make Rust really unappealing to me the defense ends up as "we were courting embedded systems developers", which is the only set of people I imagine still really feeling a need to code in C... though I frankly also can't imagine the ones I know of moving to Rust).
In my experience uMatrix and uBO work better in Firefox compared to Chromium. You don't have to completely reload the whole page to see what's blocked or hidden. They can also block the sneakiest trackers that hide behind other domains. Not possible in Chromium.

Chromium mobile doesnt even have addons because they are shit scared of adblockers.
Webots robot simulator went open-source
May be this one : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916434
For normal laptops it won’t be so much difference in performance, as LUKS by default uses AES-XT as the encryption type, and most modern CPUs have AES accelerators in them.

For rPi though? Not sure they have an AES accelerator, and if they don’t then it’s going to be a huge cost to performance.

Not only because USB is using a CPU core to operate (because USB uses CPU not dedicated hardware like FireWire) but also because it has to transparently translate and encrypt every access.

It seems like the raspberry actually has zero crypto extensions anyway: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=207888
Seems like the photo was taken at a lower altitude. What the summit actually looks like can be seen in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUDXs8Z31A
As Mozilla always says: Default Settings Matter. And here it is even, that Bitwarden ignores my own settings. Bitwarden ignores that Auto-Fill is switched off.
He also had a prior felony, sold meth, sold Xanax, and had an Uzi. Not someone you’d want to date your daughter.
It would interesting to study these phenomena quantitatively.
“These creatures you call mice you see are not quite as they appear, they are merely the protrusions into our dimension of vast, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.”
~ Slartibartfast, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What people put into their bodies is their own business.
Ask HN: Have you turned down a job offer from a FAANG? Why?
i never talk when someone records me. there is never a positive outcome of such call. if they want some kind of proof, they can send me an email. when they record you you often agree to things you would normally not or changed your mind later on, since you have no time to think about it. they know what they are doing. so never, ever, be part of such calls. use email, think before replying and you're good.
And the Hawai'ian word for chicken is the Māori word for a bunch of birds that grew up to 2m tall and was probably terrifying to run into in dense scrub. :)
Man, I absolutely love uMatrix. Now I feel bad for not contributing back to it, maybe that would have helped the author keep going with it.
Well, researchers have learned to play the game and with enough creativity you can make up potential applications for grant writing purposes.
There is considerable information back from the 80s to suggest that the US war on drugs was actually a system to enable racial discrimination.

Then some years later, the ear on drugs became associated with the growth of the private prison industry and it's lobbyists.

Indeed I provide no references here because it is quite an involved topic and difficult to prove given the publicly available information.
So you say. I’m not obliged to agree with what you think should be legal or illegal.
Transitioning to a new node can be tricky, so in the past they have been very conservative in their changes to the design when doing so. Better to do the transition with as few new potential surprises as possible.

This is also true for Qualcomm so I’d expect to see similar, mainly process node driven changes in their new chips as well.
yep, i have noticed it yesterday. i say fucke em, fuck entire facebook and companies that have only fb pages.... but if you have a direct link to a post, it will show up.
I can partially understand that point of view for marijuana (though I think it’s important for a functional society to obey laws, and get them changed if they aren’t working instead of just breaking them based on personal preference). But the guy had been selling methamphetamine too, which is life destroying poison. Our government provides costly services for people who are incapable of taking care of themselves, and that drug creates a bigger burden on those programs. Unless you also advocate for the removal of social safety nets I don’t see how you can justify thinking that the government shouldn’t try to limit drug use.
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I wasn't venting at all. I told him on purpose, so I could say that I trusted him enough. Obviously that trust was misplaced and we also didn't have a 1-on-1 again, I simply refused. What can they do? Fire me? Then didn't, but I left anyway in about 3 months' time.
It seems this needs a twitter account to see? Maybe someone can post a screenshot?
Show HN: Get source of any page, with o worrying about proxy, captcha+
You'd be surprised. Some really enjoy the status game and the power dynamics.
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> There's no victim. Literally nobody was harmed here.

The IRS doesn't agree.
I don't know if you have seen this one:
https://bellus3d.com/solutions/facemask.html

*I have no affiliation to the site or map, just remembered a colleague showed me
Exceptions are merely a syntax for a monad that can be trivially implemented as simply automatic syntax sugar for the bloated error result code stuff Rust is not only forcing at runtime (having every single function call return a successful error code result is _not free_) but requiring the user to explicitly type out while coding; if you are willing to swallow the former (which to me is silly, but Rust is already doing this) you can at least handle the latter, and you don't need "runtime support" to make it happen: it is a code generation issue and nothing more.
Please think twice before choosing an embeddable database for hostable software. I see so many open-source projects that get hampered own the line because they chose sqlite and there's now a SPoF that would require a significant rewrite to eliminate - especially as sqlite depending on configuration either corrupts or becomes extremely slow when stored on distributed/network file systems. I assume this goes for duckdb as well.

Embeddable databases absolutely have legit use-cases, but I see them being used for projects where it'd have saved so much trouble to use a proper ORM (perhaps with sqlite support!) from the beginning.
Is there any reason for them to compare the A14 to the A12 instead of the A13? Other than making the numbers look more impressive, of course.
very good, neither of them is going anywhere any time soon...or ever. but it is mostly about what yo uwant to do and learning the language to get you there. c and c++ are the low-level languages so you will be doing low-level stuff. it might be fun or not, depends on you.
I want to agree with this, but I've seen firsthand how meth heads bring down everyone around them.
> "[...] atop the very summit of Llullaillaco, at 22,110 feet" -> 6739 meters

That's exactly the elevation listed in the Wikipedia article too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llullaillaco
No. We live in a society. If I'm expected to help pick up the pieces when you self-destruct, it's absolutely my business.
It doesn't push down salaries but does increase the signal to noise ratio when it comes to hiring and therefore the cost of talent acquisition.

In influx of bootcamps in my area caused something similar with Software Engineers. We didn't want to automatically exclude people from these institutions but we ended up having to.
I think reading the title on HN made me think it was the computer peripheal and not the animal...
This has nothing to do with an abstract notion of morality.

In our society, we look out for each other, if somebody is in distress, e.g. hurt on the side of the road, we help him, call an ambulance, he gets medical help.

The fact that society makes huge efforts to save and cure people requiring medical attention, is at the root of the taboo on substances (or behaviors) that are unhealthy. Otherwise that would be a pure waste of resources for the society.

At least that was the theory. In practice, you are free to drink booze until you pass out...
If they went out of their way to make base65536, I'd be surprised if they didn't evaluate at least a few compression schemes. It's mentioned in the readme that they are using RLE so it seems reasonable to assume that their data tends to have long runs that compress well with RLE.
Okay, so, what do we think about TarSnap? Dude was obviously a genius, and spent his time on backups instead of solving millennium problems. I say that with the greatest respect. Is this entrepreneurship thing a trap?
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Having three Chihuahua's I'll agree whole heartedly.. Don't leave a dog alone at any time... they need companions.

Also, socialize your dogs as often as possible. let them meet and play with lots and lots of other "strange" dogs.
It'll help them interact with the outside world better.
While the US spends the incredible quantities of tax money it does[1] waging neverending imperialistic war, there is a strong argument to be made that not giving the IRS money is the "least harm" option among the set of ("pay the IRS", "don't pay the IRS").

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

(Spoiler alert: the US spends more on its military, per capita, than any country in the world except Israel, and more than 2x as much as the next free, industrialized, developed country (Norway), and many multiples more than all other developed free countries.)
nah, no need. but it is always good to have ToS so you have something to point users to. but when you write it, write it in inclusive manner, not exclusive. most people burn themselvs with it. in other words, by default, you guarantee nothing that is not specifically listed. that way you know excatly what your responsibilities are and what penalties, if any, you are liable for. same goes for users and their responsibilities and penalties. but be careful with agreements and changes made to it later on and getting NEW consent from users. again, if it is free, it is waste of time, but it "might" be handy.

ps: even if it is free, be careful if you are handling user data. if the service onyl provides your own data and does not receive or store any user input, then there not much to worry about...although you might damage user data even if they were not submitted into your system so...think about your needs and ymmv.
Yes, this is the most ridiculous and absurd statement of a blog post that contains many.