skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2035 is fifteen years from now, and good EVs are competative with ICE vehicles right now. I don’t see how that’s unrealistic

Irrelevant. Fifteen years is almost a political generation. Punting pain ensures a punt. It gives cover for doing nothing during the timeline. And when expiry nears, what is the harm of another decade,

A slow phase-in spreads the heartburn to a palatable level. One slow-burn strategy is a creeping mileage requirement. Another is hybrids as a Trojan horse.

TL; DR I bet I could win an election in any blue-collar district running against implementing an ICE ban in 2035.
Isn't this essentially triggering another arms race? The US finding a way to way counteract MAD means that the nukes China, Russia, etc have are all useless in an attack against US meaning now there is an arms race to develop something that can fight against the "Brilliant Pebbles" which will the force the US to come up with something that fights against that and so on.

MAD has allowed for peace in our time. Yes, the world has problems but its significantly better now than before. Maybe its best to remain in this condition.
PS: Pro also means an extra GPU core.
My brother built a PC and bought a Windows 10 key for $10 online and it worked fine.
https://twitter.com/never_released/status/132702956844895846...
See I consider it a non-issue because I largely consider SpaceX to be a government company. All the grants, financing, and their largest contracts - all government. Without government, SpaceX would literally not exist.

So in my mind they're as "private" as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or Boeing; meaning sure, the government doesn't own the company shares, but they are de-facto extensions of the US government and would die if the government wanted them to cease to exist.

The truly amazing things for me with SpaceX are: Elon Musk is somehow allowed to have a role despite ties to China and a behavioural history that would make anyone else ineligible, and the fact that they are intentionally staying privately-owned in order to keep financials out of the public realm.
This is the one we have at home https://www.breville.com/au/en/products/tea/bke720.html, works great!
This doesn’t make sense to me at all, but perhaps only because I scored an incredible space in Oakland. You can’t count on not having to accept a downgrade when you come back. I’ve been in my current location for years and don’t plan to relocate until I buy a house. It took over a year to find a good spot in my neighborhood and that was when I already lived nearby and touring locations was easy.
This Dmitry guy is incredible. I saw a talk he did at the MTVRE meet up and it was great, and there's so much crazy stuff on his blog.
>What's the deal with these guys?

They did something clever, which is that they added support for their chips into the open stack, themselves.

This has automatically done wonders for their visibility. No, I hadn't heard about them either, until this happened.
Flink + TiDB: A Scale-Out Real-Time Data Warehouse for Second-Level Analytics
It might have been the Governor of Colorado who said if you laid a drape down over the state - and let it cover the mountains and valleys - and then stretched it out, it would be bigger than the state of Texas.[1]

So it got me thinking for a while what the "true size" of a country is if you were to stretch it out. A mountainous country or region would technically have a larger surface area.

I started thinking a bit about how you would go about calculating that. You would need some sort of topographical map and then run a bunch of surface area calculations (approximations) between topography lines. Sounds like a fun project but I never got around to look into it much..

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/02/615975703/not-my-job-colorado...
That in theory gives a programmer who does care about performance an edge: they can leverage the amazing performance of modern day chips in a way that the average product doesn’t, and it should mean a business advantage...

In practice it seems more complex than that — but I have experienced a softer version of that idea in practice with my own work. Performance does matter, but it isn’t the only factor.
Our eyes and brain doesn't see frames, they see changes in light intensity. There are cameras that try to mimic this behavior, they're called event cameras. I think they're going to see much more use in robotics in the future, but at the moment they're mainly (or only) used in research.

https://www.prophesee.ai/2019/07/28/event-based-vision-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sn9-M7qXLk
My reasons were that I had a better CLI and dev tools for the things I'm working on. I don't think I care about telemetry etc.

I still use Windows for games and stuff, but Windows terminal emulators mostly seem to suck and I spend a lot of time in there.

Either way the platform wars are over. Electron + WSL made them irrelevant. On Linux I have access to every modern app I want. This has been fantastic. All the guys who championed web standards and the web as an application platform should feel proud of being visionaries. Well done.
Huawei must be known!
One of the nicest normalization of the decade I think.
ARM Chromebooks have been a thing for almost a decade now. They ship with Chrome OS but it's usually fairly easy to install a more standard linux distro on them.

https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2019/08/all-chromebooks-wit...
Chicago has some of that too, northwest of downtown.
so so so much downvoting. I almost never downvoted things I disagree with. the radical right, they do. so much slightly left views, getting endlessly downvoted. this is what we expect now, that the conservatives will all built & push their overexacerbated overagonizing views & accept not any counterclaims. you shouldn't be downvoted you spoke true.
[1] gets cut off because the length. Not sure if it is worth notifying @dang about though. As long as people know "tra" -> "trail"

[2] That is an interesting solution but I don't think solves the problem. How does the voter know that their receipt matches the one in the bottom compartment? I can's speak Hindi so maybe they verbally addressed this issue but it wasn't apparent from the visuals alone.
Think about all the people behind on their rent and/or need to break their lease (an additional month rent) to move otherwise they risk a court ordered eviction, a debt judgement, and being on the “do not rent” list for all landlords everywhere forever no matter if the monthly rent is 1/10th the amount that caused the problem during a global pandemic.

A $10k cash infusion solves all or a lot of that in most cases.

Many of these people had already considered leaving or walking away.

The bay area is a very transient place of economic migrants, abruptly leaving isn't a major decision for a large population there, just as marginally inconvenient as any move.

Also we are talking about less than 500 applications so far. (1000 applicants, half from california, “many from bay area), bay area is 8 million people.

Hope that provides perspective.
That clip may be max 1080. Whats crazy is that while the film was released in 4k, the content sourced from 70mm film has a way higher (8k? more?) potential resolution. Combined with something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25105713 and we may still have really cool things to see from the 60s.
People in Washington State and Oregon have been complaining about Californians for the dawn of time.

One aspect of California migration largely ignored, is that the wealthy and educated are moving in and the low and middle class are moving out.

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/01/not-the-gol...
Thanks. It is slowly getting better. My wrists and right index finger still hurt after using the computer but much less than before and I'm using voice input a lot less these days.

Sites that require a lot of clicking are still painful, though.
No they won't indeed. And that's a common misunderstanding within the "makers" community that Regulatory bodies approve or authorize a "Design". They approve a design and its supply chain, in the context of a specific market, intended use and indication for use.
Is there a truly rationale basis here (other than “magnetic north” which is equally arbitrary and has rotated)? I’d argue since the vast majority of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere, it generally makes sense to put that at the top, all else being equal.
We definitely lost both of our internet uplinks at our California farm when the wildfires filled the air with smoke this summer. One uplink is satellite and for weeks it had no signal as the farm is only a few kilometers from one of the largest fires.

The other uplink was a solar powered 4G connection and despite several deep cycle batteries and a few 200 watt panels, the station did not get enough light to stay powered over those weeks.

We finally found a hilltop wireless ISP that can serve us. We’ll try to get Starlink too but I don’t expect that to work well during fire season. It’s tough to be offline for weeks at a time.
The current trajectory of temperature increase is at least 4~5°C (rather optimistic) in 2100, which would mean that a pretty wide area surrounding the equator will, year-round or for significant parts of the year, have a wet-bulb temperature at or above 35°C. It is the limit at which human life (and mammal life in general) is entirely impossible, due to over-heating.

That unlivable area will include most of India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, etc. Hong-Kong and Taiwan, whether you consider them as part of China or not, will anyway not be livable anymore by then. What do you think will happen when India, a country of 1.3B armed with nuclear weapons, realize it literally has to move somewhere else for survival? Do you think all these people will agree to die in silence, peacefully so as to not inconvenience you?

On top of that grim outlook, agriculture has only been possible relatively recently in human history. Until about 10,000 years ago the climate was not stable enough to reliably grow crops, year after year. That stability is probably already gone. Note that the issue for agriculture (and forests, etc.) is less the actual temperature and more the rain/weather patterns (and evaporation, that links back to temperature).

There is absolutely no guarantee that we will be able to adapt our crops fast enough for agriculture to keep up, especially if there is too much instability around the globe. Without stable crops the number of people that can survive on Earth is not very large. China has recently launched a 'Clean Plate' campaign against food waste. As you can imagine it's not because food is plentiful... but because of excess rain, causing crop failures.

Radioactivity is scary and dangerous in high enough dose. Chernobyl and Fukushima are horrible disasters that should have been avoided, but sadly weren't. But compared to the threat of global warming, risks from nuclear power plants are small, known and manageable. To say it differently, rice from Fukushima may be dangerous, but it's still safer than certain death from lack of rice.

I'm not saying we should be building nuclear power plants everywhere, at all. In any case there's not enough U235 at hand to fill the energy needs of mankind. But I would much prefer we spend fewer resources on closing existing nuclear power plants, and more resources on tackling global warming (looking at my home country, France, and our lignite addicted neighbor, Germany).

Source (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgy0rW0oaFI
I suppose a wheel with spokes, when turning at the right speed would not work due to aliasing (the wheel would appear to be not moving both in the original and the interpolated video).
once it's a mistake, twice it's a pattern
Sorry, but you're just showing your own ignorance. Rather than accept, or be open to the fact that they are poor and discriminated against, you are just passing judgement on their entire culture.

To be fair, modern Greek culture is nothing but a shadow of its ancient past.
What amazes me is that this is their first shot. Can’t wait to see what happens when they have an M chip for the Mac Pro (the tower, not the laptop). This architecture is a beast.
>Wrong: https://smelle.xyz/lynx/catalog.html

Well, you've got usability problems. I actually tried to find the catalog, and could not.

Now, I was able to see it's a link on the top right corner, for some reason. Very unlike what I'd expect, being used to browsing 4chan.

>Every page is available in plain HTML and it even works without client-side JavaScript.

I scrolled the overboard, and stuff suddently appeared while scrolling. I'll have to assume that the page was still loading, slower than I'd expect due to HN hug of death.
Throw some solar panels and batteries on there and you can have portable self-contained 4g base station that you can drop off anywhere covered by starlink and sunlight.
Author here.

> every change to your database will break your client unless they are updated simultaneously every time (impossible for mobile apps)

You can just put up a UI forcing the user to update. Which is perfectly fine since you won't be making backward-incompatible changes to your database every month. Adding a new column doesn't break existing clients.

> or your client is aware of every backend change (very complex)

You can just put in a build date in your frontend and compare it against the date a breaking change was made. If it's <, refresh.
If you go to Parler I suggest you post something Democratic, Liberal or Progressive and see how long your account lasts.
> Microsoft doesn't really enforce Windows activation anymore

Except an unactivated Windows, once past its trial window, will shut down after an hour of use, without warning. That's very annoying.

MS absolutely does enforce activation. They likely won't come after you for using cracks (unless you have hundreds of corporate machines using them), but they will make your life awkward remotely, as they are entitled to by the EULA.
I'm upvoting comments that mention the feet because that is the impressive aspect of this walking building. (Obviously, buildings have been moved or raised before.)
This is contradictory. If you tell Twitter what its platform can/can't support you are violating its freedom of speech. The 1st amendment applies to the government restricting speech - not private corporations.

In the 1800s not everyone had a newspaper to spread their ideas. That is not a violation of freedom of speech for the ones who can't afford a newspaper. They aren't entitled to a platform - they're entitled to the government not restricting their platform.

What about a property on a busy road - a sign there has more impact than a sign at a house off the beaten path. You're essentially arguing that because that property has more visibility, it is unfair to the other who doesn't have that same location. This just isn't how the constitution works.
> I like that some random guy on the internet is telling a guy who was in charge of the satellite internet on a military base that he doesn't know anything about satellite internet.

Only on HN
Intel Ice/Tiger Lake Platform has still advantages for idle or light use (not heavy computing) power consumption on mobile thanks to their continuous improvement.
A Community as a Service API
"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?"
the beta test period will probably have a higher ratio of uplink to user bandwidth than any time in the future.

these satellites are radically undersubscribed right now, serving a handful of users tops. that's not going to model what happens if this works & grows.
Nothing incompetent about making a fat profit. We'd like to imagine that companies should always innovate as hard as possible, but it's not always the winning strategy.
Which of his problems are you referring to that would work on ReactOS? The last build of ReactOS I tested could barely run the built-in explorer without screen artifacts and weirdness.

It is POSSIBLE to do a lot of things on Linux that you can do in Windows? Yes. The question is: how much time will it take you to make it work?
Interesting. They appear to be much cheaper (under $15k for the 4100 for the radio). Very cool very cool. Funny how in my head I've been judging a modern Monkeybrains installation by my 20 year old experience.
Well you're not getting a $10k infusion. It'll be paid out over a year. And the one application criteria (must already have a stable job which allows working fully remotely) filters out pretty much everyone you mentioned above who has been adversely affected by the pandemic.
It’s actually still surprisingly relevant in terms of performance [1], and I see it as a precursor to the gigantic caches we are seeing in the latest chips.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16195/a-broadwell-retrospecti...
The first thing that stands out to me is the choice of the word "gypsy". While many Roma are perfectly fine with it and even use it themselves, there are also many who find the word offensive and it has historically been used as a racial slur. Why not drop the word alltogether and fall back to the (at least to my understanding) neutral "roma"?
I agree that it would be impossible to prove anything. However, it would have been nice to express skepticism.
Reducing the cost of putting things into orbit also changes the economics of direct kinetic weapons in space.

That said I think people overestimate how much the US and Russia actually strive to destroy each other militarily.

And in general arms races aren’t a good thing, you build a missile shield your enemy builds a better missile.
A communist nation that realized that the communist way of state ownership and central planning doesn't work and implemented private ownership and a market-based, capitalistic approach to their economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Shared filesystem performance on WSL2 is anything but amazing and pretty much everything I want it for depends heavily on the filesystem.

Native I/O performance is good but without shared files, WSL2 doesn't have any benefits over a VM.
Why aren't programs distributed by the Mac App Store pre-translated once and the translation downloaded to the Mac?

They'd still have to be run under rosetta2 (because programs can write code and branch to it) but a lot of computation could be done once rather than every time.
Author here.

> Fast forward almost a decade

If your system lasted a decade, that's a success, and any startup that just started would love to be in your shoes.

> management still doesn't understand the concept of "overwhelming technical debt".

That's a problem with your company, not with the suggestion in my post of adding in layers of abstraction when needed rather than ahead of time.
AstroPaint: A Python package for painting the sky
How something functions is more important that how it is implemented.

I'll take a stateful app that doesn't break history over a stateless app that does any day of the week.
every increasing tiering of pricing for different service models is 100% how I expect this story to go.

I think it might remain a pretty ok option for some, but this is definitely going to become a way to pay hella beans for your preferred non-neutral network providing.
Twelve people is not a large sample size.
If those numbers make a difference then it may be a sign that the business is severely undercapitalized. An under capitalized business might last longer in Tulsa. Whether that’s a feature or a bug depends on how one values failing fast. A zombie is still a zombie.
The Soviet–Afghan war is proof of that. We went in, got the Soviets out, then high tailed out of there and we know what happened 20 years later.
Wont use Chrome because of the Google services. But given Edge is Chromium, they're benefiting from that development.
Nobody said it is anything malicious in there
This is also is in line with the Russian objection to the the US wanting to convert some of their SSBNs to fire conventional warheads, to paraphrase their response “we won’t be wasting time trying to figure out what was launched and where is it heading”.
The first and last time I installed iTunes was probably 15 years ago. It started importing my files. "Fine", I thought, "it's creating some internal database of my files. Oh neat it's downloading meta-data." Then I realized, to my horror, it was also renaming/retagging files and directories in it's own format. All of my music was in a consistently named and categorized file structure of my own devising, having been mostly ripped from CDs I owned and then tagged and filed by hand. Down the details of track filenames and ID3 titles having consistent casing. All of that was trashed by iTunes. The hate I feel, to this day, for that software has no equal in decades of computer experience.
Linux as a server/headless OS has been fantastic for me. I have a home NAS running Linux that hasn't been rebooted in over a year and that was due to swapping out hard drives.

Linux as my desktop OS, not so much. I have to reboot my Linux laptop every few days for various reasons, including complete unresponsiveness to any keyboard input.
Are you talking about China or America?

Because I could’ve sworn that America was engaging in QE-infinity for the last 12 years. The money printing machines have been running on overtime.

There is no price discovery in the American stock market anymore, because the Fed has distorted everything.
I think we’ve always been in an arms race. Sometimes it’s money and not lives or power but we’re always struggling to one up everyone else.
I've been using Windows for the past couple years for work after mostly using Ubuntu for several years. I felt the same way about Bluetooth but I've found all the Bluetooth problems I thought were "Linux" are just as bad on Windows. But Windows is just a lot more unstable. Every other week there's some new thing that breaks in a confusing way, and it's all closed source shovelware so I can't even figure out what is causing the problem.
> If they can afford to buy back a hundred million dollars' worth of stock every year

billion* is what I meant to write.
It’s not clear whether you dislike DI in general or specifically DI containers.

I think it’s an important point to clarify because DI on its own absolutely does not live outside of the real language and while it may be much more common to use classes than functions it’s not necessary.

I agree with your feelings in relation to DI containers however.
one of the most beautiful books ever written, and now by this news very prescient.
I honestly think this is a great model for other greenfield technologies, that further humanity but wouldn't be profitable enough at the start for the capitalistic system to move into it.

I truly believe this is how we will have to solve the anthropological climate change problem. It will have to be the government that grants, finances, and provides contracts for the private sector to build various carbon sequestering tech. Why I think the government should provide contracts to the private sector is because it seems like that allows for the private sector to maintain its efficiency and ensure the bureaucracy doesn't sink the whole thing.