skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a green revolution will change much as far as software development. Most of the stuff you are mentioning already have companies that provide solutions/products, or at least have them in development. The main constraint is that energy revolution will really be driven by the hardware/physics. The software can help, but stuff like battery management or sun-tracking solar panels is existing software, and are really only useful if you have the hardware to work with it. People pay for hardware, the hardware providers will provide software options (look at Tesla). I would think you would not be able make a successful business around the software itself unless you have a novel idea that is built off of some undiscovered or untapped physics principle that greatly increases efficiency.
/rant I really hate YouTube now. Everyone wants to put every bit of information in a 10+ min long video b/c 10 min videos get better ad rates. So they spend the first 4 min w/ a long ass 'intro' sequence on all videos, then pleading you subscribe and 'hit the bell' then plugging patreon, then some long backstory, then the gem of info you came for that could have been a tweet. Oh and all this is broken up by ads at the beginning and middle of the videos, it's a cesspool I refuse to pay for. /rant
I'm the same as you regarding reduced viewing time recently... unless I'm extremely motivated, I kill the tab as soon as the ad starts.

It's the same with sites that require javascript to view: I'm sure the content might be good if I whitelisted it - but most the time it's my cue to realize I'm procrastinating and should get back to creating rather than consuming!
I wonder if this article was typed from a Cherry MX-compatible keyboard kitted with the Hagoromo themed GMK Obilvion keycaps: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=99174.0
We haven't run mv/list experiments on 100,000 and 1,000,000 files for the blog. However, We expect the gap in latency between HopsFS/S3 and EMRFS would increase even further with larger directories. In our original HopsFS paper, we showed that the latency for mv/rename for a directory with 1 million files was around 5.8 seconds.
I used to pay for YouTube premium. But I left and switched to adblocking after it kept getting worse (YouTube is one of the few sites that I use an adblocker on).

- YouTube Music is awful, not a halfway decent product to replace the good Play Music.

- Stopped sending emails for video uploads (I know, I'm weird)

- "Premier" videos started to be shown in the RSS feeds. So now I am notified of stuff I can't even watch yet.

- Half the time videos just play at 360p even though I have never had a second of buffering on my 500Mpbs connection.

I think there were a couple of other things that were bugging me. But when they dropped the email notifications and the RSS feeds were terrible it was the last straw for me.

I would gladly pay if I felt that they were providing a good service and it was getting better.
I saw some initial reports on twitter saying it was about the same speed as a 1080 Ti https://twitter.com/spurpura/status/1329168059647488000
Factbox: Key changes to Boeing's 737 Max after fatal crashes
Podcasts also often target advertisements geographically (based on IP address, I guess?). Being able to serve to each listener is part of their value proposition to advertisers.
Actually that's not the case. This post is misinformed (and 4 months old).

There was a breakdown from an official Apple page how to boot alternative systems on an M1.
Mathematical notation is terrible.

I don't mean this in the usual "we need to invent new symbols to make it clearer" way.

I mean it in the way that it has implicit typing that gets coerced constantly. Using Haskell types D :: (R -> R) -> (R -> R). Yet it gets used on things like D 2 = 0 which implies D :: (R -> R).

What you've actually done is an implicit conversion of 2 :: R to 2(x) = 2 :: R -> R and 0 is not 0::R it is 0(x) = 0 :: R -> R.

The Q_0 system described in [0] is a good start for a mathematical system that is both sane and as expressive as the one we have now. With term rewriting you can even keep the ridiculous notation we have today if you love it so much. Though I have grown incredibly fond of typing out extended typed lambda calculus using scheme notation in Emacs with a home grown automated theorem proving mode that was trivial to implement.

[0] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781402007637
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this! I'm sure my colleagues on the Cicero team are, though.
that seems like a ton of work, especially for problem sets
anybody know how vaccine effectiveness is measured?
The tool overhead of Tailwind is extremely small. I don't use SCSS anymore though, I thought it was too complicated for what it brought, and I didn't like the way it encourages nesting.

React etc. are extremely nice if you're making complex applications for the web. Of course it can be overused, but I'd say that some kind of SPA framework (and state management framework) is a requirement for the work that I do.
This is low key what makes frontend hard for those that claim fullstack proficiency. Just because you hooked up that UI once upon of time doesn’t mean you still remember or have the muscle memory to do so quickly again later. Or if we put you at a new company or team.
I'm not entirely sure I follow this. However, you might find it convenient to employ "common table expressions" (CTEs) in your queries:

WITH cte_a AS
(SELECT ... FROM something WHERE ...),
cte_b AS
(SELECT ... FROM something_else JOIN cte_a ON ... WHERE ...),
...
SELECT whatever
FROM cte_z
JOIN another_table ON ...
WHERE ...
In Indonesia (where the man who found the meteorite lives), “Capital gains are considered ordinary income and are taxed at the standard corporate income tax rate.“ according to https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Docume...
As has been pointed out in another post, that doesn't follow.

My body has a thrust to weight ratio of 1, sitting in this chair. A helicopter has a thrust to weight ratio above 1. But neither is capable of supersonic flight. The key is the reaction mass velocity - you can give something a high thrust to weight ratio using very little power by using a large reaction mass and pushing it slowly. For instance, my body is using the whole earth as its reaction mass, and is using zero energy pushing it downwards at zero speed. A jet is much more impressive because it gets that high thrust to weight ratio while using a small reaction mass ejected at a high speed. That is what is required to push an aircraft up to supersonic speeds. A racing drone is closer to a helicopter than a jet aircraft.

However, if the numbers do work out, then I am wondering if it might be possible to fly supersonic much higher than jets, because there is no reduction in engine power. I don't know how high you have to go before your sonic boom no longer reaches the surface, but might there be a possibility of boom-less supersonic flight?
Everyone says that 'banks never use floating point to represent money'... but when you talk to people actually working in banks and other financial institutions and actually look at their code turns out they're using floating point all over the place.
> This is NOT ending AMP, and I don't know where anyone's getting that idea.

Where the idea might come from would be that many (particularly large) websites would have implemented AMP reluctantly, and currently incur extra maintenance cost for AMP as part of a deliberative ongoing cost-benefit analysis. This removes one of the major obvious benefits in that analysis (AMP pages may still benefit but it's harder to qualify), so there may be a stronger technical argument within companies to drop support.

> It will continue to rank by "page experience signals", and presumably AMP pages will continue to be the standard to beat.

This is a tricky prospect. A concrete "we will treat your AMP page preferentially" is a lot easier for tech managers to grok than "AMP stands a good chance of scoring well on metrics we prioritise, so may be preferred, if you believe you can't achieve these metrics without AMP".

On the flip side, it's completely conceivable that Google could continue to treat AMP pages preferentially while claiming it's due to proxy metrics, since their algorithms are not public.
Michigan and the Meaning of Trump’s Post-Election Gambit
It is 100x easier to support your own software. If the default browser breaks for some reason, it often just feels like the OS broke to the end user!

Microsoft would love to remove the option to choose a system default browser entirely, but they can't, so tactics like these are the next best thing. That's just how big the difference is in supporting foreign software vs. a first-class package you can hook into.
> a Hetzner storage box

I think the better comparison would be an SX-line dedicated server from Hetzner [0] and this server isn't too far off that.

This service: $10 for 8TB, or $1.25/TB.

Hetzner SX62: 64€ for 40TB, or €1.6/TB ($1.9 USD).

> rsync.net

Rsync.net is ridiculously overpriced. Even at their cheapest tier, 1TBmonth costs $15, for which you can buy 7.9TB at Hetzner. Even if you created 3 redundant copies at Hetzner, you'd be paying only half what rsync.net would charge.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/de/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx?co...
In my anecdata my 2013 MBP does a lot less than 2 hours depending on usage.
It seems to be dynamic.

CPU pinning means the pinned process always runs on the specified cores. If you instead group processes into trust domains, workloads can still be scheduled on arbitrary cores, but the scheduler can use the grouping information to arrange things such that it can skip the side-channel mitigations.
That's business? Items of value are bought for a quarter at yard sales and flea markets all the time. The largest uncut Emerald in the world was bought out of a junk rock box at a rock show.
>real engineering,

<fire emoji>. Some schools have tried to make Software Engineering actual engineering

eg: https://www.apega.ca/apply/membership/exams/technical/softwa...
But the reals that they can represent are represented exactly. 0.5 + 0.5 = 1.
At a friends house, my laptop will join my private VPN mesh and my DNS lookups will still use my servers. This does assume they allow outbound connectivity to more than 80/443. I have found places that do not allow this. I could run tinc [1] on 443, but if UDP is blocked, the VPN will be slower.

That said, in fairness, not everyone sets up their own VPN mesh. Some people use commercial VPN providers. So in that case, it would assume my friend does not block access to that VPN provider.

[1] - http://tinc-vpn.org/
Had this yesterday - watching a "Tangerine Dream LIVE" video and about 3 minutes into the first track got some advert for what I think was some kind of UK grime / street band. The contrast was jarring enough that YouTube got closed.
I wish I could say the same thing. In my younger years, I was pretty hardcore about hacking devices and having complete control of them. But SO MUCH TIME was spent debugging issues and staying ahead of the "bad guys." And I couldn't count the literally years of time I've spent fixing broken devices.

Nowadays I just don't have that time. And the bad guys have evolved from mischievous to felonious (and I have a lot more to lose. I still harp on privacy and security, but now I do it behind a couple of walled gardens. I love that my devices "just work."

I know it's a trade off, and I'm certainly fighting for more regulations of FAANG. And I am supporting the FOSS/open device movement, and look forward to the next phase where those "just work".
>As to the one person in the forums who claims to have received it, and the other on reddit who claims to have a tracking number, we've seen that before as well.

Judging by the timeline, I presume you are specifically talking about me? I DID get a Birch device last year, and I posted about it. I also cancelled the AMA because I got demands for all sorts of things, on a holiday weekend! People got angry because I didn't reply to their demands right away and thought I was some sort of undercover employee. No, I put away my electronics when I spend time with family!

I frankly don't blame people for not wanting to post about it, after the crap that I went through and seeing atitudes like this.
What Netflix and other the streaming service demonstrate is that the problem seems to be at the mainstream producer end. The earliest started out the most pro-consumer and then over time got more demanding and even started their own streaming platforms to try to get in on thr action and made the user experience worse for consumers with things like paid and ad subcription tiers. If a company launches their own storefront and promotes it and claims it is to reduce costs and pass on savings they are lying to you. Breaking into a new market is expensive and risky. Initial sales are essentially a use of their marketing budget. The true reason is that their demands are rejected by the existing storefronts which usually means they are too aggressive in demands for margin or control.

They have the legal right to do this of course but we don't have to like it and the impact on the market and can choose against them if you believe that their content is not worth commercials and rising prices.
Isn't that the point, though? I'm more than happy for Google to use loading speed as a signal in their search rankings. The issue was that sites were penalized for not using AMP even if they had equivalent or better performance.

If AMP becomes a lower bound for performance and non-AMP sites slim down their pages to compete, great. If sites that don't compete on performance die off as their search ranking decreases… also great!
yes but a two engines with 10 TWR is worse than two engines with 20 TWR all other things being equal.
I reckon it's worth waiting a few months for longer term testing, and probably a little bit longer for software support to catch up. There's also a decent chance that M2 chips are somewhere on the horizon and those might help answer the question of whether these SOCs can scale to enthusiast/professional desktops.

It's probably not fair for me to say I'm not convinced yet anyway, as I'm still developing on a Linux desktop and got rid of my laptop during lockdowns as there wasn't a need for it. If that need comes back though, these laptops look like they could be some really nice options (which would be a first for ARM laptops).
> I guess it has also taken a while to disentangle use, require, import and alias. I still wouldn’t take bets on my understanding of require ;)

Aren't we all ...
Just the other day, I saw almost everything I searched on Google being AMP, and sharing was broken. I had to find and click the little share icon by scrolling up and having it appear. Terrible for most users who won't discover it!
Outside of sources paid by Kremlin there is no serious confirmation that NATO was somehow involved in toppling Ukraine's govt. There is plainly no united fruit scenario, only a general distaste of russian government, same as elsewhere in eastern europe.

Of course, the US government supports affiliated NGOs as it does elsewhere in the world (and as everyone does), but "power play" means something else.
The benchmark that's blown me away most so far: Marco Arment on Accidental Tech Podcast says the new Macbook Air is significantly faster to compile Overcast (a pretty big iOS app) than his 10 core $6000+ iMac Pro with 64GB RAM and a 160W CPU. https://overcast.fm/+R7DWXqqm0/1:08:11
Russ Cox's experimental new refactoring tool for Go
Edit: I just talked to YouTube support directly and yep it's exactly what I anticipated below. It only affects channels not yet in the YPP. Larger channels who are in the YPP but explicitly choose not to monetize videos will not get these new ads placed into their videos. At least not with this TOS change.

Original comment:

The wording of this isn't 100% crystal clear but I have a feeling this article might be making this out to be way worse than it is.

I have 10k subs on YouTube and made a decision not to run ads on my channel from the beginning because I care more about the viewing experience than profiting.

Technically I'm in the YouTube Partner Program and I choose not to turn on monetization for my videos. Monetization is basically a checkbox you can turn on and off for each video and then if you enable it, you choose some information about how the ads are shown.

Going by the TOS update's wording, it sounds like if you're in the YPP then your videos will have not have these new ads placed in them if you choose to disable monetization for a video.

It sounds like it's only going to affect channels who have a handful of subs and views, in which case you were making $0 guaranteed anyways because you couldn't turn monetization on due to not being in the YPP. The only difference now is YouTube will make some money off your views which seems reasonable since they are hosting it for free, and realistically it'll be pennies at best if you have a small channel with 15 views per video.
Depends on what the buyer said. At a flea market, both parties understand the transaction.
This is exactly how it should be. Let sites use normal web standards to create great, fast experiences and rank them on their merit.
> that seems like a perfect role for automation to slip in.

I have no faith in AI to handle nuance like this: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/gpt3_medical_chatbot_...
Because it's an alpha product and they do not want those types of users right now.

They're literally trying to filter out uninformed users.

Customer discrimination is a perfectly valid tactic in certain scenarios. Do you dispute this?
Thats sounds a lot like extorsion.
That's literally not true.
We need to know.
To me AMP was just Google trying to turn the web itself in its own walled garden (after many failed social media attempts).

And, as I read in the article, it looks like behind this move there is some current "Antitrust Pressure" plus publishers quite pissed off about losing both control and revenue themselves (as much as 39% less conversions, they says.).

Clearly AMP was way more in Google master plans than a poor web performance palliative.

[Edit]

This was the article linked to this story when I commented (now changed to some Google Dev docs):

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/19/as-antitru...
I feel like YouTube as we knew it before is probably going to come to an end soon. Between youtube ads, ad reads, sponsors, patreon plugs and merch ads, it is either going to wind up looking like cable tv or it is going to die and make way for some paid service.

And would that really be a bad thing?

Social media sites and content hosting services like YouTube have become like the old book publishers and record labels. They provide a largely fungible middleman service to the creators who generate the real value by creating new material, yet somehow for a long time they've wound up keeping the lion's share of the financial benefits.

It's natural that creators will push back, whether through things like sponsored placements or through other revenue schemes like Patreon. But even if it's just providing storage, distribution and possibly discoverability to the creators, the host service still has bills to pay and needs to make enough revenue somewhere to be a viable business.

The ideal outcome, IMHO, would be to separate the hosting/distribution from the discoverability, have hosting services that charge real money for providing a real service and effectively compete for the best content creators, and have the equivalent of search engines or recommendation systems to help people find the content, whoever is hosting it. The latter could still operate on some sort of ad-based scheme, without interfering with delivery of the main content itself. In short, I'd like to see a return to a more decentralised system, where the content creators are the driving force, and the intermediaries have to provide their fungible services in a competitive market without becoming the de facto controlling entities for the whole system. See also: self-published writing, music, etc.
Extra fine Japanese fountain pens are the solution to all your problems.
Yes I understand that and I guess I’m a bit salty. But part of my point is that you can make really great hardware and software of great quality, but one or two unfortunate choices can soil the whole thing for someone.

And Apple especially can sometimes be too stubborn to acknowledge people’s personal differences or an established industry standard.
They did that. You're not their target market.
Accused Ringleader of FIN7 Hacking Group Pleads Guilty
Sure money gets spread around. But I was talking about income. Remote hiring still often asks about 'where are you going to live' so they can claim its ok to pay you less there. That's the issue.
Thanks for the emmet mention! I use emmet a lot and it is very helpful to the normal workflow.

The tool I have in my head is more visual. Almost a bridge between what you see in something like Wordpress theme editors, and emmet.
Well... The answer isn't to force Walmart to provide a service to them.
> Cerebras has built the world’s largest chip. It is 72 square inches (462 cm2) and the largest square that can be cut from a 300 mm wafer.

Normally, chips are measured in mm^2.

So that would be 462000000 mm^2 die area, if I did my math right.
Sorry I certainly cannot actually defend a position. I have no expertise in tax law. Hopefully someone with the appropriate knowledge can enlighten us
Well, that was fast. Only a few days ago it was on the front page of HN.
- ui to configure options. currently it is editing json

- back then i was missing, pane zoom (only recently got added).

- looking at the docs, i think cycling through zoomed / unzoomed panes is stil not yet there. i might be wrong.

- configuring how the split lines looks of the terminal.

- moving panes to other tabs

found the ticket around panes: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1000

there is quite some todo left.
After President tweets Defcon hacking video, voting security experts call BS
AFM isn't really used in biology.
So, don't you think it would be more hospitable to just allow privacy technologies to be used on your network without forcing your guests to buy a VPN?
Star Wars author appeals to Disney in fight over royalties
What a service mesh is, main features&deciding whether it's right for you
Conclusion:
The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.

If there's those more qualified I'd be interested to know if these results are only being done on the receiving end, or if surgical masks still protect others to some extent.
Commercially and at a reasonable cost? Probably at least 8-10 years from now.