skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the .NET world, we have NuGet, which was basically useless until Microsoft finally turned on "restore packages on build" by default about 10 years ago, and now it's absolutely wonderful.
No, that is not interesting at all.
You may want to look at Bartender[1]. You most likely don’t actually use some or even many of those menu icons very often. You can hide the ones that are just clutter in a secondary menu/bar. I originally got it to keep the icons I do care about visible on a laptop screen, but I still use it even on my huge 4K@1x screen to hide distractions.

[1]: https://www.macbartender.com/
Getting to breakeven, and how we made it through the “VR winter”
Corporate mess. I know it, not Intel, but politics, who gets all the credits?, before the first step has been taken - been there.
The title of the post, and consequently the HN submission, should say "Software Architecture". If you omit it, most people would think you're talking about bricks and buildings.
The soul of the current internet is intrusive, tracking advertising. In Real Life we have fundamental structures such as identity that have not translated to the internet. In the world of advertising everything can be fake and there is no trust. We need a new soul. :-)
> There is something to be said for this approach, but personally I'm not sure that 19 years since initial release (according to wikipedia) and still not having something end users are expected to use is promising for the future.

I share both your enthusiasm and your scepticism! But I do wonder:

Why is it not possible for GNUnet to / why doesn't GNUnet offer a high-level API that could be consumed by every-day apps and that stays stable across releases? That way, chat apps & file sharing apps and the like wouldn't break right away when a new version of GNUnet comes around…
Charles Remsberg. From 1986. One of the leading minds who got us into this situation.

https://www.police1.com/columnists/charles-remsberg/page-12/
I wouldn't agree that people choose products based on what their friends are using. At least for me it doesn't work.

While the second part is true, I agree.

It's really hard to overcome existing players, on the other hand there are some advantages: existing players are kind of slow in terms of changing (adding new features) and in terms of support.

Among these 170 alternatives, more than half of them were built in 2010 I guess, and they do not evolve.

Regarding paid ads. This year I was watching how other guys do with their side projects and I literally haven't seen anyone who tried paid ads. They did SEO though, but not google ads or something like that. Because they are good at reaching the right audience in the right place, I guess.
Yes, I don't think GM would get very far saying that their batteries causing fires has nothing to do with battery technology.
In general mobile chip margins aren't great unless you are apple. That is why you don't see too many competitors in the mobile chip market. You have Qualcomm, but they have a Radio monopoly and their performance isn't that great. Intel architecture isn't even that bad.

Intel used to have a manufacturing advantage which they longer do. That is where they are trailing: Material science and manufacturing. This stuff cost a lot of money and requires and lot of Research. This is the Kind of stuff MBA types don't necessarily want to invest in.
Reminds me of DHH from Startup School 08. The idea of an Mom & Pop store on the internet:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Good luck with Pingr :)
I suspect there was some talent at apple that figured out some details which Qualcomm have not at this time. This guy seems to improve things at every place he has been. He left abruptly from Intel this year, which hopefully is not due to health reasons.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15846/jim-keller-resigns-from...
password managers are a thing. Takes literally 20 seconds to add a new one to a new account.
C3.ai files S-1 for IPO
I've been trying to execute on this approach, as I'm very interested in checking out of the tracking-by-default ecosystems.

We're using some Xiaomi devices we purchased, and I'm currently seething. I can't root without 'unlocking', which is a process that requires me to activate a Mi Account, which then requires my email and a SIM (?!), and 'find my device' (location) to even allow installation of apps via USB. To unlock the computers I bought, so I can use the root account, to install an alternate.

Seems the prison walls are just set far enough away that we don't notice.

tl;dr, in order to get some privacy, I'm being asked to associate my IMEI, my IMSI, my email, and my location.
Even if they had seen two process shrinks more, the relative efficiency benefit of that wouldn’t have topped 30%, which still wouldn’t make intel chips competitive with the m1. What intel needs is both a better fab process and a new core architecture. Apple might have waited one more year or maybe two at the most to get the same performance delta, but they would have switched regardless.
Indeed, for we computer geeks are known for our lack of ego...
Well you can buy an Xperia 10 which whilst isn’t a super high end phone is still pretty decent and it runs SailFishOS... but then again you can probably count the number of people that did that on your fingers.

The issue is that whilst people want it there is never a good enough “reason” for that other than I want it, Maemo doesn’t give you more freedom than what AOSP does already at least not on the software level, you can degoogle and Android phone completely and do w/e you want with it. However people don’t seem to be doing that, and those who do often do that for academic purposes rather than to have their own personalized daily driver.

Even more so often the wishes of many people when it comes to customization doesn’t even require a rooted phone and a customized AOSP ROM, if you look at what people customize on their desktop which is often limited to their desktop environment and their workflow can be done on stock Android using alternative launchers and other apps.

Wanting for an Android competitor for the sake of having competition is fine, but it won’t look much different or it won’t be much of a competitor.
You can use local ones like KeePassX.
Exchanging a larger number of deaths of civilians for a smaller number of civil worker deaths is a good trade. Dead civil workers mean less people willing to do that work, which means less help available to people overall.
Don't make customers think about whether they should pay you
Ask HN: Will there be a Trump News Network in 2021?
After I ended last night with podcast overload and catching up with stuff that’s been brewing while I had been farming pre-covid, I had several thoughts:

1. Will current social media platforms change?

2. If Trump doesn’t get a second term and he is censored at Twitter, will be leave Twitter?

3. When he does and if he starts his own social media platform, would it gain traction?

4. Will it be the social media equivalent Fox News Gen.2.0 to fill the void left by a weaker Ailes-less FNN as counter balance?

5. Will Trump create the next social media platform of podcast(no more news channels)/YouTube/FB/Twitter/Insta combo.

6. Or would it be a partnership network? By creating a platform of existing outlets or maybe buy them out?
I’m pretty amazed it’s still there at all. I think it’s probably some greybeard’s pet project, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s still mostly the same Classic/Carbon code adapted to newer APIs.
The problem with the argument given is that it basically gives up to Apple because it thinks that the situation that Apple provides is the best default experience for the majority of users. It probably is, but the problem is that 1. Apple doesn’t really explain any of this stuff anywhere so a technical user may read about it and make an informed decision nor 2. do they really provide a way to alter the process to use someone who isn’t Apple: just because they are a good default shouldn’t mean they should be the only provider that your computer will ever trust. And I think 3. is anger that a system Apple put in place failed in an entirely foreseeable fashion and essentially knocked a bunch of people’s livelihoods offline without warning or explanation and people are sick and tired of their things breaking for opaque “security” reasons.
Qualcomm is a virtual monopoly in the space it serves (mid to high end non-Apple non-Chinese phone chips); arguably it doesn't have that much incentive to do anything much.
But whatever real innovation underlay Xeon Phi/KNx was performed two decades ago. Current Intel is only capable of SKUsmanship - minutely partitioning function for projected max margins.

Edit: Also too, remember that KNx was really an attempt to salvage Intel's failed Larrabee GPU effort.
Anyone who has programmed or developed anything....knows that the end user can never be trusted.
Besides the privacy implications, 99.9% means per definition that it does not work for 8.77 hours per year. This is way too much. It is my computer and it should just work how it is meant to be without any external dependencies.
> This kind of design has been validated on enumerable sites and app.

Has it been validated? It's certainly been adopted by innumerable sites and apps, but I seriously wonder how much A/B testing has shown that it increases or maintains usage of the features.
Having a DNS-like system that resolved an individual's email address to an OpenID provider (or more than one?) might've been a good idea.
Never heard about mom-and-pop store, but now I get what you mean.

My family literally has one, mom-and-pop store of radio receivers :)

Thank you!
I get that. But I also don't all my services to depend on Google at all, even if it's just a login.
I'm currently using LineageOS and I'm not going to use it in the future. The issue I have is that unlocking my phone creates a security trade off that doesn't seem better than the privacy gains. I'm more afraid of losing my phone and someone replaces the bootloader than I am of telemetry.

I really have enjoyed the LineageOS and it's been great to have a phone that isn't as dumb as a flip phone but doesn't have all the bloatware and spying of other devices. The security around the bootloader is my biggest concern.
Samsung chip division doesn't have guaranteed "buyer" or option to build SoC specifically for given product (even if usually you can bet on next generation Galaxy device as your target, you still have to design as if you were selling to open market - and that means less option to, for example, throw a lot of memory/cache resources that have been the main differentiator of Apple chips - which started from the same design as Exynos!)
Take my opinion with a pinch of salt but any projects that use Discord as their platform for anything (chat, support, whatever) are not worth a dime, or should not worth a dime.

I am pretty sure we all know Discord. Read the Privacy Policy, read the Terms of Service. See their business model. I mean, it is against everything I, as a FOSS developer stand for. Plus, one might say Discord is generic by now, but it still revolves around gaming quite a lot.
One question that's been top of mind lately for me is how optimistic you should be in your investing strategy.

IBK currently allows retail investors to trade on margin with an annual interest rate of only 1% (yes, really). You can borrow up to 2x your principle at this rate.

If you were extremely optimistic, you would borrow 2x your principal and expect to 3x your annual return.

If you were optimistic but wanted to avoid risk of ruin, you would borrow between 0-1x of your principal.

Curious if anyone here has considered this or has a strong opinion on it.

Side-note: I'm assuming my "principle" in the above scenarios is the remaining cash I have on hand after my rainy day fund (i.e. the saving like a pessimist part).
> nonfree ways to communicate

Does that include Hacker News?
I have programmed and developed things. I am also a user.

I want to run the apps I want to run, thank you very much. No one else should have any say in that. It's my computer.
I agree in general. But what if I did want to know if vaccines are dangerous, so I search "are vaccines dangerous". If I want to find an anti-vaccine site, I should be able to do so, but the search term "are vaccines dangerous" should be viewed neutrally, in which case I would find links from cdc or .gov sites to be more useful that anti-vaccines sites
Can this site maybe consider specifying a better contrasting font colour between the text and the background?

On my firefox browser both on the desktop and mobile it looks like a rather light grey on white background. That is just plain difficult to read and is just terrible UX.
A collection of links, tutorials and philosophical thoughts on generative art
Yes, the act of testing i.e. "recall" consolidates memory. Recall may take place many times - obviously, later when the mouse returns to the scene. At that point, the memory might be strongly burnt in if the environmental cues are highly salient e.g. food is found, or a predator strikes.

Recall consolidation also takes place more mildly in the normal course of resting and sleeping. It is a default system idle process in animals. So, if the mouse visits a new maze, and then later on takes a break to just chill and snooze a bit, or do nothing in the corner of her cage, her system idle process will replay the sense data from the maze experience, consolidating the memories mildly.

The article is reporting that the ultra small scale technology required to image where the memories are physically being consolidated in the chromosomes has advanced to a promising point.

What is the physical data structure of memory? In computers, it is the silicone, organised into physical bytes. In mammals?

The last para of the article is indicative of what the researchers are exploring:

“We are currently ignoring 95% of the genome,” Marco said. He was taught to call it junk DNA. But like the enhancers that drive this aspect of memory encoding, the rest of these genes may take on crucial roles as well. “Although we mapped the genome, we still don’t understand most of it,” he said.

He is speculating that the data structure for memory storage is the junk DNA which comprises 97% of the human genome. Perhaps proteins surrounding the DNA in the chromosome packaging act as pointers. Perhaps the non-coding DNA can represent data structures such as a body map, or an environmental location map, or a timeline, or a dictionary. The technology will help scientists to identify what the pointers are pointing at. Over time, they hope to make sense of this, in the same way that cryptographers developed Reverse Encryption Algorithms through Shannon's principle of confusion and diffusion.
> And after 30+ years of this, I also don' think there's anything new or revolutionary in silicon fabrication on the horizon.

Why so? Few more material, and device generations are on the way. Litho has went through more generation changes in the last 1 decade, than in any previous one.

Whole new device classes are on the way: optics on silicon, new memory, logic in the backend, and logic on package.

Semiconductor engineering is still a career suicide though, that haven't changed in the last few decades.
You probably shouldn't inject Ketamine into someone who has suffered cardiac arrest or brain death after being forcibly restrained. I am not sure how Ketamine is at all a hero here, or helped provide an alternative to save Elijah McClain from excessive force by the police. If anything it may have complicated his chances of resuscitation, or possibly further contributed to his death.

Forcible injection is up there with taser and pepper spray. I don't think anyone wants to be forcibly injected with an unknown substance.

When Elijah said he's different, perhaps they could have asked how he's different? Is he autistic, does he suffer from anxiety and panic attacks? Instead you suggest the only plausible alternatives to forced Ketamine injection is him getting his bones broken or 9mm bullet in his body. That mindset is exactly the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsFAIn-csU
It's time to end the tyranny of coupledom
True, but so far we just get the bad things (corporatocracy and the the gradual hollowing out of individual liberties) and none of the good things (gene-hacking, neural uplinks, and matrix-avatars) that cyberpunk promised. I demand a refund!
Programming Machine Learning Algorithms in Hardware with Haskell and Rust
I’m in the “fewer cars camp.” But I entirely disagree with your dismissal of car culture. Cars aren’t just necessary in American culture due to our car centric infrastructure, we have car clubs, car enthusiasts, and hobbiest. People race them for fun. There are art cars, and cars used as status symbols. Cars take lead rolls in our films, art, and music. Car culture is alive, well, obvious, and huge. If you want cleaner electric cars, you gotta build them with respect to the culture. Tesla is doing a good job of that. Just look at the Cyber truck. It’s a big ass overpowered truck, just how truck owners like their trucks.

*Added: I can imagine a conversation in my old home town of a Cyber truck owner saying, “yeah my truck is quite, but the glass is bulletproof!”
(I think I did some writing fixup on my comment after posting, sorry about that! I certainly didn’t mean to snub you and I think your comment slots in fine!)
I use Excel pretty intensively, learnt all the shortcuts from my past finance days. I don't think the web version allows for those back-of-the-hand shortcuts.
The question is whether you can make a competitive cloud infrastructure service without x86. Imagine that would be a nonstarter for a lot of the market, at least now.
> M1 apparently has much lower power consumption.

Even compared to similar manufacturing processes ?
From what I understand of ketamine, it would take several grams to kill a man while Elijah was given half a gram (which was evidently more than he should have been given, but should still have been well short of lethal.) It seems to me he was killed by the chokehold. If somebody fed you a pot brownie then kicked you in the face, would you say weed broke your nose?
From a purchaser’s perspective, I really do welcome more choices most of the time.

Reasons:

- more likely I’ll find the product that fits my budget and needs

- ability to switch out of an unfavourable technology stack that no longer works for me

- competition helps encourage the vendors to improve their products and fix bugs
I'm currently using an Fxtec Pro1 [1], which has a respectable Snapdragon 835 and 6GB of ram. It was released last year with an older processor but compare the Geekbench scores to the "High end" new Pixel 5 [2]. It unofficially supports quite a few distributions of Linux including Ubports Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, and LineageOS. Official support for Ubuntu Touch and LineageOS is coming next month. It's a niche device for sure but it exists, is being manufactured, and is available for purchase.

[1]: https://fxtec.com/

[2]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4573446?baselin...
That, in part, comes from x86 vs arm. x86, with its variable length instructions, means your logic gets increasingly complex as you widen. Meanwhile with arm, you have constant instruction size (other than thumb, but that’s more straightforward than variable size), that lets Apple do things like an 8-bit wide decode block (vs. 4-bit for Intel) and a humongous 630 OOB (almost double Intel’s deepest cores).
I was really torn on whether to up or downvote here...

On the one hand, no. Probably, statistically, apple will know better.

On the other hand, despite the above, if you want to call apple devices "owned" (vs "leased") then yes, the user must be the ultimate decision maker. They might want to delegate these things to apple (or someone else for that matter) most of the time. But they must have the possibility to simply run what they want.

I think we're seeing the "HN crowd" be so frustrated about this because it is a pretty transparently anti freedom thing to do, and HN folks do love themselves some freedom.
Yep, they've already worked through any number of issues to achieve their level of performance. In fact they may have already worked through something similar to this particular issue: Those nerfed batteries in your link were nerfed by the same ~10% loss that GM has had to place on Bolts, implying it was the high charge causing both issues. Most telling, Teslas's issue was with batteries they stopped using 4 years ago. I don't know if that signifies a 4-year lead on GM, but they're certainly ahead.
Sure, the legal issue can be related to a real life ham. It is, I think, trivial on the whole. It's especially trivial of you consider the way these things are generally "righted."

(1) Google will clarify and establish their right to do whatever it is they're doing. Rarely will the result be google changing. (2) The do-whatever-then-ask-forgiveness mo may actually be reenforced. Google actually lost their EU antitrust case. It was about adwords, the google moneymaker. If Google had known in advance they would be found guilty and fined $1.4bn, they would have certainly done it anyway. (3) Whatever harm is acknowledged here will not be acknowledged as what it is, a part of the larger issue of google's abuse of power. Sipping data is the least of it.
It does, currently waiting to be either invited to lobsters or for the registrations to open again.
> Now, do you not think that we have any relevant prevailing biases, created by our education, media, history, culture, economic system, and government? [1] Ones that are so deeply ingrained in our society, that we don't even notice them?

The difference is the key though. In the West we know that we are brainwashed at some level, because we can observe it happening around us with people who share different viewpoints or cultures.

However, in a country where there's only one discourse that is accepted, you can mistake your own brainwashing for the actual truth because nothing is out there to make you think otherwise.
How Apple made its new M1 chip (interview with Joz, Federighi and Ternus)
I didn't enjoy Libre Office, largely due to the functionality being too low. I work with Excel spreadsheets with lots of macros and formulae, which doesn't port well over to Libre Office.
That's a very hot take. But I'm inclined to appreciate it.
What can I do to protect myself in case Google randomly bans my accounts?
I feel like my whole life is somewhat dependant on all things Google.

- Personal email

- Work email

- Side projects

- Admob, Adsense, Play store console, Google analytics, drive, calendar, firebase etc.

- Android phone

- Authorizations to I don't even know how many services via Google sign-in.

- Countless apps and SaaS products

Losing access to all of these would be so devastating, it would be akin to restarting your life, it could take months to recover, except I won't ever be able to get back/rebuild everything just because of how much there is.

I think I can no longer rely on Google services anymore. The risk is too much.

How do I de-google my life? Ideally, without having to rely on anything that could be taken away by the whims of a bot.
Hydrofoils cannot deal with rough weather/strong winds, what shipping routes is this practical for (where it is far enough to compete with air, but short enough to not have weather conditions)?

Plus that video seemed very disingenuous, given the lack of hard data/facts and instead just vagueness on top of vagueness and a shiny demo. I wouldn't touch that company.
There are multiple 4g, and 5g radio vendors, just most people never heard of them so obscure they are.
If empathy is painful to you then you have unhealed/unprocessed trauma that's been suppressed-repressed, and then being triggered.