skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0-5 should be half the dial; You need increasingly less resolution past that. I assume that would greatly increase the electro/mechanical (?) complexity of the dial (increasing cost).
If Linux can beat Solaris/IRIX/HP-UX/AIX etc, so can Matrix beat Discord.
Part-time vegetarian?

Jesus Christ please stop it you’re embarrassing yourself.
There are no similar manufacturing processes, Apple has paid for time-limited exclusivity on 5nm.
Why would anybody even need releases anyway? Why not just clone and build the repo as it is? Most of the AUR repository packages seem to do just that.
> [...] but they also do their own modifications to the rankings, which is sometimes for better and sometimes for worse.

Could you maybe share a reference for this?
it used to be true for cisco in the telecom/ISP world aswell.
(atleast from early 90's to mid 2000's).

Sadly, Cisco decided the stop making proper networking equipment and ditch proper support via TAC.
OP here.

I agree with this: "just a percentage without context makes no sense. You reduced costs by 16%? Costs of what? What's the denominator? You increased engagement? What does that mean? Subscribers? Clicks? Time spent?"

And this: "Charitably, it's to show you care about business context."

But disagree that you should not do this if writing resumes for "numerate, technical types."

A great technical resume helps get you the interview. In an interview, especially a behavioral interview, you'll be asked deeper question about that 16% cost reduction. Exactly the question you've pointed out. And your resume is more likely to get selected for the reason you pointed out - it shows that you care about business context, or, more broadly, commercial technical achievement.

With technical, numerically literate types as interviewers, they are going to want to know something about how successful you were in being technically accomplished. And the plain, observed, fact is that professionals who demonstrate, with numbers, their accomplishments, get more interviews than professionals who paste their job description, or simply assert they achieved something good without quantifying it.

And a good Paul Graham citation is always welcome and relevant! :)
Reading about separate row and column addresses reminded me that the Apple II had its address lines arranged in such a way that the video circuitry would naturally read every row of memory, thus obviating the need for a separate refresh circuit.

(To RAM, the order of address lines doesn't matter)
I miss working in the seattle embedded scene.
East side (of mountains) sucks Nazi balls.

Man there was a lot of embedded funsies to be had there. Once intel told me that their firmware was encrypted for some embedded PoS system that i needed to get to. It was Rot13, lol.
The 'resource curse' might have the causality wrong though in many circumstances.

Maybe those countries would find themselves in a similarly bad state (or worse) without those resources. Maybe their bad state is due to historical reasons - being former colonies with very little power on the world stage - and resources just couldn't help much.
History in general has had (and has) that same problem; see the Great Man Theory. But the better classes of professional (and amateur) historians now regard that as poor analysis and try to produce and promote better things.

Ultimately, narrative history---and that includes a lot of good-guys-vs-bad-guys and rivet-counting---isn't going to go away. In fact, it can't, because that is some of the base data for critical history.
Those numbers sound too good to be true. I’d stay as far away as possible, smelling a con. I certainly wouldn’t invest money I can’t afford to lose.
I'd bet money Apple and Nvidia remain incompatible for the foreseeable future.
Is it really that hard? I recorded a video of doing it (including jitsi) from scratch in 20 minutes a few months ago: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-c....
> America is the world’s oldest [EDIT: large, old] extant democracy.

Nothing about our history guarantees our future as a democracy, this is hot hand fallacy at its finest. If there's one thing that's consistent across human history, civilizations always fail at some point.

> I wouldn’t lightly consider toying with something so basic as free speech. Several European and Asian democracies are already teetering towards authoritarianism, the first step of which is curtailing public debate.

Free speech existed prior to the internet, it's not like Tim Berners-Lee changes the world and all of a sudden free speech exists. Canada has much stricter free speech laws than the US and their political discourse seems to be just fine. Plus there are already plenty of restrictions baked into "free speech" online. You can't threaten to shoot up a school on social media without consequences, why can't the same principles be applied to people who make death threats towards individuals? Companies already have the ability to lock you out of your account for no reason whatsoever without any defined arbitration system. What about the internet is so truly sacrosanct that we permit such inconsistency from corporate governance while railing against legal protections mandated by governments? Free speech is already being messed with; it's being used to automate the virality of hate speech with ruthless efficiency.
Taking the article at face value, apparently bitcoin is not/no longer a solution for day to day transactions, but that it's true purpose is to facilitate international, inter-institutional, and inter-governmental transfers.

It seems to me that Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem.
Anything that has some significance to it, chances are that it has some kind of fan club behind it, it's probably turned into sport, art things are made for it, statuses are based on it. But it's an after effect of said thing, not a precursor to it.

If you ban for ex. cars from all those examples you gave, guess what - people will still drive them, because cars are not enabled by all those things you listed, it's the other way around.

For electric cars to take over, all it takes is a battery that can be charged as fast and as reliably as a gas tank. Nothing else. It will take over like a hurricane.
I've been keeping an eye on this for a while now. Is the battery user replaceable?
Just curious...why use a microwave for hot water instead of an electric kettle?
the Austrian green party is fishing for right-wing voters who are disgruntled by the FPÖ many scandals. their policies are strange since they seem to want to appeal to the right according to their conservative policy a lot more than to the left. This is counter the tradition of what is "normal" for a Green party in other countries. their ultra conservative approach gobbles up previous FPÖ voters that are disillusioned with the Ibiza scandal and the crowd that screams "ban burkas" or are obsessed with foreigners not "integrating themselves properly" especially brown people (it's ok to live there as a native English speaker you will never feel any of it).

Austria is the most West of all the Eastern EU countries so a lot of things that are not normal in Western Europe are so in Austria. The right is cosying up to Putin (who often gets invited to private events like weddings by Austrian politicians) and as close to Russia as Poland is to the US. Many Austrian high-end properties from skiing resorts to Vienna is in the hands of Russians, ... there is a good reason Austrian secret service was dropped as an ally to share information with from other FVEY-allied countries: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-security-idUSKCN1...
I meant to say that it is not more federated than email: sure I can write to anybody using any service but my @gmail is forever bound to googles service.

In my mind a true federated service would allow me to move my stuff from one place to any other place, kinda the way I can move my domain to a new host.
Is the electric car driving at 50km/h too?
Dummy cell is the term used in the paper "Storage Array and Sense/Refresh Circuit for Single-Transistor Memory Cells" that introduced the idea. It's also the term used on the MK4116 datasheet and elsewhere.

The capacitors in modern DRAMs are deep trenches, rather than a simple polysilicon plate. The trenches are 3.6 micrometers deep while the feature size is 45 nanometers, so they are remarkably deep. See the photos here: https://chipworksrealchips.blogspot.com/2014/02/intels-e-dra...
You're ignoring cases (the majority I'd estimate based on 911 calls I've listened in) where others are affected.

Domestic abuse/violence, threatening behavior towards third parties or behavior that's so unpredictably out of line that you can't confidently sit back and not deal with it because you'd be wondering if others would be placed in danger by your non-action.

I'd say that most of the comments in this thread are very out of touch with reality and firmly in the realm of wishful thinking.
Does China Pose a Threat to Global Rare Earth Supply Chains?
> It's clear that much of the Western world have had much stricter free speech laws than the US does for decades, but somehow they don't devolve into the Orwellian nightmare that we always fear when we talk about limiting free speech.

They are though. You must not have been paying attention.

In the UK we are locking up 7 people a day over "hate speech". The most egergious example is the Chelsea Russell case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

These laws were sold to us under the guise of "Locking up Islamic Extremists". Now we are putting ankle braclets on 17 year old girls for posting gangsta rap lyrics.

We also have the "Non Crime Hate Incident". Where you can be put on a naughty list for saying the wrong thing on twitter. These can stop you from finding employment as you will show up on a background check. You have broken no law but you are treated as if you have.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-51501202

He won in court. But they wouldn't actually review the legislation which is the real problem.

Comedians have been investigated for making jokes about Turkish politicians.

https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-asks-germany-to-prosecute-comed...

You are foolish if these laws won't be used against the population at large. Look up the term "Anarcho Tyranny".
The workshop is happening again early December

https://www.vlsisystemdesign.com/riscv-based-myth/

Github is here https://github.com/kuby1412/RISC-V-MYTH-Workshop
This seems true, but I guess I also have more empathy for decision-makers: to me it seems like it is far from obvious who should take on which projects. Pretty much by definition, the organization is structured so that its current projects have sensible homes, but when a totally new project comes up, it is unlikely to fit perfectly anywhere in that structure. If it did, it wouldn't be totally new!

None of the options for dealing with this seem great. I've seen "internal incubator" type things which are designed to come up with new ideas, but honestly I'm not a fan of these. The structure incentivizes prototyping new "left field" ideas, but those ideas are likely not to gain any traction, and if they do, it is likely to be a mess to transition them into real projects within the more normal operations of the organization. And it does nothing for projects that are clearly important from inception, even if new; the "left field" incubator is not the right place to put something that isn't a crazy idea being tested but something known to be important.
I'd also be interested to see the rates of claiming unemployment benefits across that spectrum.
But you can use compiler option skipLibCheck, right?
First instance of microevolution in early human relative discovered
You seem very convinced that everyone shares the same moral framework you do. Just because you find your company’s work unobjectionable doesn’t mean everyone else does. I mean, there are Unabomber types out there who think all tech is inherently bad, how do you know the person you are hiring isn’t or won’t turn into one of those people?
I'm definitely not a power user, but I see and understand the issues.

But for someone like me, if I take all this advice, there is still the aspect of trusting the domain registrar, maintaining a personal email server, hosting, CloudFlare, etc. etc. I have just shifted some risk of offending Google to some other risks of 3x more companies that I have to remember how to deal with now.

So what difference does it mean to me, average user, that I just stick with Google and don't misbehave, versus open myself up to having to deal with 3 other manual processes and companies to remember? It's turtles all the way down.

You see the dilemma for the average user.
I am not going to stop coding in Forth!
The manufacturing process is TSMC's, so probably not.

To me the innovation is using phone-type SoC technology.

A lot of the power (and die area) demand in modern chips is in the interface circuitry to drive the few centimetres of PCB trace between ICs.

Put the RAM in the same package as the CPU and you eliminate that interface. That gives you die space and power budget for big buffers and lots of parallel execution.

Interface transistors (and wires) are many times larger than the core compute logic transistors (and wires), so there is much more than a one-for-one gain.
The only feature I miss in Elm is do-notation. Idris does a great job of introducing do-notation without requiring inclusion in monad and simply being sugar for the bind operator.
What types of applications is HATEOAS appropriate for? A CMS perhaps?
Instruction Set Architecture – Computer Architecture
OP here.

Thanks for the great comment and sharing your story. In the context of your background - "Having worked on building up a lot of infrastructure stuff from the ground up," it's important that you chose numbers that are level appropriate for someone of your capabilities. if the feedback was " how accurately can "decreased load time by 75%" actually capture the scope of your work if it's a 5 minute change", then that indicates that you may have been showing numbers that weren't truly indicative of your skills and talents.

And I don't agree that picking up tasks that are low impact IRL will help. Ultimately, hiring managers aren't easy to fool, and low-impact metrics make a small impact on resume readers.
At some level, all signals are analog. Lovely clever tricks every step of the way are necessary to make the nice abstract digital levels we try to think about. How might such tricks discriminate more states? can we have 3, 8, more state "bits"?
I mean, it's doom.
You can literally do it in javascript on the browser.
I don't know how much more the larger packages cost, but it was enough that Intel really really didn't want to move off 16-pin packages, which caused problems for the 4004 and 8008 processors. In addition, the larger packages took up more space on the circuit board which was a serious disadvantage, especially when you had a board full of memory chips.
I mean, it's perfectly pleasant. Delicious, even.

Also, freezing and then microwaving is literally indistinguishable from steaming fresh over hot water in a pot.

The whole point of freezing is that no flavor or nutrients are lost, only texture because cell walls burst -- but then you lose the crunchy texture because cell walls burst equivalently when steaming anyways, which is why freezing+microwaving works so well. Nothing is lost at all.
OP here. This is a fair critique of the simple example shared in the article. Many thanks!
hi @bookofjoe I see you have submitted many stories like this.

In the future could you post your own analysis along with the story?

What was your breakdown of this story? What issues do you see with the study? What are it's strong points?

Looking forward to your analysis in this and future submissions.
I think they meant 'tax rates'
You're saying the PinePhone is a daily driver before you've tried it?

I just got mine and it is significantly buggier, crashier, and slower than expected. The USB C port is also of low quality. It is overall worse quality than expected.
Most UK civilians do not have guns either.

The UK has ~5 guns (legal and illegal) per 100 civilians.

The US has 120 per 100 civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
This reminds me of a funny story.

I am using a service called Invoicely for recurring invoices in my small business. One day I randomly googled for some of its features and found a post of a guy who claimed (and I believe him) that Invoicely is a blatant screen-by-screen clone of their own SaaS.

I felt really bad for that guy, and after some time I thought that it's a good idea to switch to them. The problem: their website name is so difficult to remember, I never got around to actually opening an account there.

Some shifty guys literally copied an existing service up to their Javascript and CSS, and improved it dramatically just by giving it a name I can remember.
Yes, thanks for the reply. I was giving the author the benefit of the doubt, but their arguments just have no solid grounds. And like you said, this is about market control, not security, the latter just being a distraction.

Another thing in line with what you mentioned is the ability for the company to squash competition. Not only do they have the last word to veto programs from running, they also get a global view of what everyone is running that nobody else has. This kind of information has been abused by Amazon to drive out competition in favour of their own "Amazon essentials" products, for example.
I assumed GP meant for your own results only, not indeed have to power to influence everyone else's results.

Edit: checked again, indeed that was the idea:

> these preferences/filters for me,
I think they are doing it wrong then. You do the cheap parts independently. Then you pair down to fewer choices and transfer resources to fewer groups.

You repeat this multiple times depending on your resources. When things get really expensive, you should be down to one idea.
I'm not sure why a shell script called push.sh is included in the repo, but I suspect it is because the author is not aware of .gitignore.

find . -type f -name "*.DS_Store*" -exec rm -f {} \;

Allow me to help; https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
Maemo was great, and so was WebOS in the Pre days.

App distribution was also better on both platforms. Maemo used apt under the hood, and Preware[1] was phenomenal. These days the two vendors that own 99.4% of the mobile OS market[2] don't want to let you install apps unless they can get a 30% cut.

[1] https://webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
> Every respectable service allows you to create accounts using your email address, so please use that method to create your accounts.

Although using e-mail sign-up actually provides a number of privacy-related benefits over using the Google account way, it still doesn't solve the main problem - because the e-mail usually is GMail anyway (and when it's not - you can get blocked by Microsoft, Yahoo or anything else too, and you can also loose your own domain).

"Every respectable service" should let and recommend (but not require) you set a secondary e-mail and/or another way to contact you but they usually don't.
This sounds true if you only optimize for (hedge against) one risk only - stock market crash.

To me, an emergency fund is a hedge against various different risks like these (I am guilty of not being prepared for all of them):

1. A pandemic. For this I was ready even before we thought it's indeed possible - I have funds in several different banks (debit cards) that allow me to not have to visit a bank physically for several years (even if some of the cards expire in the meantime, or one bank suddenly goes bust)

2. AI glitch, identity theft, a bank holiday (this happened to me actually some years ago) that blocks you from accessing banks (and investment brokers if you have nowhere to withdraw your funds) for several weeks/months - for that you hold paper cash, physical gold and cryptocurrencies stashed at different physical locations.

3. Natural disasters - again some combination of diversified physical and virtual funds

4. Legal trouble - yes, even if you are not guilty you could get your funds blocked.

I presume you are from the US, hence the purple goggles ;) (I hope I'm not offending you)
Yep, like when Apple got an exclusivity deal with Toshiba on its tiny-sized harddrives for use in music players.
The admin APIs are at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/develop/docs/admi... and are fairly comprehensive. Agreed it's a screw-up that we don't provide an official web UI for it (but https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin is pretty good).

I have no idea why you think it'd be acceptable for your server to randomly delete old messages from under you by default - I'd go nuts if my IMAP server or filesystem decided to spontaneously expire old data by default.

However, it's easy enough to flip the bit in the config to do so: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/ca2db5dd0c9fc430a.... If this is something that makes you hateful, I'm not sure it's Matrix's problem.

In terms of Element: yes, software has bugs, and we're working through them. weechat-matrix is very usable too, as is FluffyChat and a bunch of others.
another thing is I can't see how refactoring with react can increase any user engagement, either the previous version is so slow that it's unusable or the product also gone through some UI/UX redesign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1JXhSYfLNE

I'm only half joking.

In all of the recent cases that have blown up in the US though, this was never the issue. The issue was the situation escalated way beyond where it should have. George Floyd was being arrested for using a supposedly counterfeit $20 bill. Maybe they could have just let him run. I'm sure the US economy won't be ruined by there being an extra $20 in circulation.

In the EMT case, I think we have to think about the alternative outcomes. If the EMTs can't help because the person is irrationally violent due to drugs, and the EMTs can't restrain them, I don't really see why calling the cops would make the situation any better. All they're doing is providing more hands, which could be done by simply having more EMTs. If they have a gun, then call the police. If they don't, they're unrestrainable, and you can clear out members of the the public, just let them be. The only other options simply make the situation worse for the person. Even using a taser in that situation can cause a heart attack.
>If this unacceptable mess is "doing it well", perhaps the whole idea is doomed and should not be attempting to do it at all.

Well, "unacceptable mess" are your words. It's totally acceptable to me that there could be issues on a feature / launch that need to be ironed out, unless we're talking about aviation software or pacemakers.

If we deemed "unacceptable" any misstep or early issue, we wouldn't even have fire, a relatively tried and tested technology, that still has its issues...

>No. I mean really very obviously no.

The question is not an absolut one.

You should read it "do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests OVER any random app you might install or website you visit?".

Not to mention they don't even do the kind of tracking the original "sky is falling" post assumed they do: https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

As this post says, "Now that you know the actual facts, if you think your privacy is put at risk by this feature more than having potential undetected malware running on your system, go ahead [and disable the checking via /etc/hosts]".

>It's great that the author loves to exist within the limits and restrictions imposed by Apple, but don't expect me to go along with your Stockholm Syndrome and belittle me for differing.

The author is a security specialist, not some random dude. And he made his point with technical arguments, not hand waving.