skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

Ok - there is a spectrum of reliability - lets say that NASA produces the most reliable code anywhere, and that it has a very high cost to produce code like that. At the other end of the spectrum is some guy slinging php code out without any testing, hoping that it will turn into the next unicorn.

If we asked both ends of the spectrum to write code to solve the same business (Pet food delivery app) then the guy slinging PHP will get woken up at 2am regularly because the server is always crashing. The NASA guy will never get woken up, but also the app probably will be out on the market a year after the first one.

So the business has to choose a trade off - sling code and get lots of 2 am wake up calls or wait and possibly lose market share to a competitor.

Now there was a famous example of a Reddit co-founder who slept next to his laptop and just rebooted the server every two hours till they discovered Python Supervisor. Now that seems ok - the business (co-founder) was making the trade off and exploiting the worker (same co-founder). The worker was happy to take the job because they were likely to get paid if it all worked out (and it did)

The issue comes when the worker on call is not making the business judgement. How much should they demand in payment?

If they have a healthy equity payment in a growth company, that might work just like the above founder. Otherwise the payment needs to come out of the money not spent.

SO I guess my argument is that there is a fixed cost to reliable software to the business - it should either pay for highly reliable software, or it should pay the saved cash to the code clinger for each time the server goes down.

This will change the trade off mathematics.
>Turns out redditors blew unbelievably small things out of proportion

Just redditors? All established media...
I thought this was very interesting, thanks for contributing!
Ask HN: Is the WFH revolution going to change how we valuate work?
Background: I have a friend who works in Google. He told me they were having (hopefully tongue-in-cheek) discussions about being able to work for Google and Facebook at the same time, now that everyone's WFH anyway.

Which got me thinking, why should an employer care as long as the worker is providing more value than what you're paying them? And if the employer can't tell if that's the case, surely that's a problem in any case? What's the difference if the extra time is spent on another job or watching Netflix?

I'm not saying the two are equivalent. But what I am saying is that employers measuring what's worth it to them by hours/exclusivity doesn't make much sense. Either it's worth it or it isn't.

So, does anyone think that the WFH revolution is going to lead to a change in how employers value work? And that if the results are ok, there's nothing wrong with working at Google and Facebook at the same time?
Does it compile to WASM inside the browser, without communicating with any server?
Hm, show me one constitution which declares "happiness" as right?
> Capitalism structurally enforces inequality which inevitably leads to these things

That's of course nonsense. It's human nature that enforces inequality, which doesn't necessarily lead to crime and violence either because again - human nature does.

Every social animal displays hierarchical structures, that's just biology. I don't know why so many people hold the belief that humans are special somehow and above biology.

Every economical, political, and social system will result in some form of inequality, if only because education, training, and skill need to be rewarded unless of course, you are willing to trade fairness for equality.

Finally, crime and violence aren't the result of (economical) inequality. They are correlated, sure, but crime isn't limited to property crimes and most of the other crimes don't need inequality.

A crime after all is nothing more than an action, which is defined as being against the law. You can in principle get rid of all crime by abolishing the law...

A similar story applies to violence.
I think your comment presupposes that the solution that the state would dictate would be better or, at least, more useful than the alternatives. That's likely incorrect.

Electricity standardized largely without government intervention, and it worked out mostly okay.

As another commenter pointed out, no harm is being done during this short period where the standards shake out, and most people still use plain ol' mechanical light switches.

Please don't be so quick to reach for the regulation hammer. It's not the solution you seem to think it is.
There may need to be more than one shade of a colour, but having a large number of shades suggests to me that the design has too many subtle contrasts in brightness.

Regarding colour generally, I think it's a useful tool and it is nice that it's used more in certain respects than in the 90's, but I'm not convinced in general that “modern” design makes the best use of it. For example, use of more than one colour within UI icons has become uncool because it's less pretty, despite it making them harder to read and distinguish. Function has taken a backseat to æsthetics.
>What an incomprehensibly huge achievement on both counts!

He is an amazing dev, don't get me wrong. BUT he had lots of luck starting from not choosing the name Freax, choosing the same license as his compiler (GPL), and a professor that did no understood free-software (Tannenbaum and his minix), the legal battle of the BSD's...and maybe a too expensive and ~slow solaris, and a really good but proprietary VCS (Bitkeeper) as a idea-blueprint for git.
You as an individual don't matter. On average people will sell to a certain amount of companies, that's what will be factored in. Perhaps you can get a slightly better deal selling to twice as many companies, though of course this gives you extra hassle as well (which has a cost). The benefits you will receive are in any case marginal, of necessity. I do not deny they can be bigger than the company's benefits in individual cases.
At least in the US, it seems so:

> Currently, OWS is working with 11 drug manufacturing companies to produce 800 million doses of six different COVID-19 vaccines, five of which are in Phase III clinical trials. By prepurchasing and premanufacturing these vaccines prior to approval, the vaccine distribution plan can be activated and supplies delivered within 24 hours of any of the vaccines receiving FDA approval.

https://college.acaai.org/updates-on-covid-19-vaccine-distri...
Why do nuclear plants cost so much?
>His lies? Have you ever had a person lie to so many people constantly?

Yes. Any other president. But they did it with more panache, and were less garish, so that was OK for the mainstream liberal media.
> So what happened witch the itch, where is it. What was it all about?

Sometimes the itch is "I like the challenge of finding/building a solution for X" not "I need a solution for X".

Different from home automation, but sometimes I find myself carried away researching "the best photo printer", "the nicest hybrid smart watch", "the best value tiny PC I can mount on a monitor" or some other gadget. I browse around the reviews, youtube videos, shopping sites, and find the best product for the best price. And then ... I move on because, realistically, I don't need the thing.
It does double the residue, but modulo 19. 2 * 18 = 36 = 17 (mod 19) and 2 * 10 = 20 = 1 (mod 19). The reason is that the method consists essentially of two steps. (1) Subtract a suitable multiple of 19 to make the number a multiple of 10. (2) Divide by 10. And dividing by 10 is the same as multiplying by 2, since 2 * 10 = 20 = 1 (mod 19).
> Lexi is another option, but apparently the brand name is not derived from the Latin term, so some lean towards Lexuses[2].

For what it's worth, Lexus as the plural form would even be consistent with Latin's fourth declension[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension#Fourth_declen...
Microsoft's x86 emulation on ARM is nothing like this, which is what is so surprising.
I'll bet they add a way to pay to remove ads from a video soon. You know, for enterprise customers.
Always one guy who shouts about control and submission. Don't like it don't buy it?
Did a similar thing over a decade ago - I don't even own a television anymore.

What I spend most of my days, weeks and months on is largely unrelated to what's happening in the world (and the news' bias towards the negative subset of that). Not following the news thus removes a lot of the sensationalist and negative stream, and saves a lot of time (including possibly worrying on what I just saw/read). If it's really important, I'll hear it anyway.

Recently, I did start a subscription on a national newspaper though, but it allows me to a) select what I read, b) skip over things I'm not interested in (even throwing away the whole paper if I don't want to read it that day). I happen to like some columnists and the variation of daily puzzles.
With Intel there at least was AMD as an option:

* https://amd-osx.com

* https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-hackintosh-syste...
You can't cut out news completely, obviously you're going to hear stuff from other people or through other means. But I think cutting out almost all news media is a good choice to make.

My reasoning is this: most of the stuff in the general news is something you can do absolutely nothing about, at most it may influence your choices at election time or best case inform you about a scandal involving some company, letting you avoid doing business with them in the future.

Everything else is just noise that creates anxiety.
>A VCS is much more general and git certainly won't be the last version control system for things that aren't source code.

Truer words have never been spoken!!
Are they restructuring? Are they just bad at business? Some guitar manufacturers are doing really well [1] so it's weird that this is happening.

[1]] https://www.guitarworld.com/news/fender-has-sold-more-guitar...
Note: It's not emulation but ahead-of-time cross-compilation. This has some limitations, most notably x86 VMs are not possible.

From my POV, the future of business laptops could be such powerful ARM macs around 1000-1300$ (i.e. quite low priced) coupled with cloud based Windows 10 instances to get all software running. This would then create some pressure on software developers to port over their software at least to Windows-on-ARM which could feasibly run in a local VM.
Intel Claims 32-Core Ice Lake-SP Xeon Faster Than 64-Core EPYC in some workloads
With weapons, it costs money to kill someone; with medicine, it costs money to save them.
Greenhouse gas levels at new high, despite Covid-19 measures
Fascinating ...

> .. the gov pays for these things not the citizens ..
You do know that the only money governments have, is the money they got from its citizens, right? That is, aside from what they may have earned (though plundered or extorted might be more fitting) from other nations.

> .. the expensive vaccine is only $40, that's within the means of most poor people ..
You may want to reevaluate your knowledge about the rest of the world. That is, outside the USA and some the more affluent parts of Europe. Also, that vaccine probably won't cost "just" $40 equally for everyone.

However, believe whatever you want. Time will no doubt teach us all a lessen. Personally, I hope it will teach me that I was wrong with my skepticism.
Is there a reason we can't say “penis” in HN titles?
I would be much more concerned about much more likely threats like pollution and resource depletion, which instead require that we slow down...
It was a masterclass in duping really.

Step 1. Design the enclosure/thermals for a much lower TDP ARM chip, causing the Intel chips to thermal throttle and run hot as possible burning your lap and roasting your palms for years

Step 2. Introduce the new powerful ARM chip which now runs much cooler and faster in the same enclosure

Step 3. Profit!

Worked on me, I just ordered mine
If you look at the website mentioned before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25157722, where are the ads? How long can the guy keep putting out high quality stuff without pay do you think.

And what about OSS devs who have their stuff used by you but you won't pay?

> There is no indication that throwing money at companies decreases ads

Pocket change isn't "throwing money". But the converse is true, you don't pay, ads appear. If not, where - be specific - does the money to run the site come from?

Also as someone pointed out before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25179379 "You can pay for YouTube premium and get rid of ads" so it seems paying does indeed decrease ads. There's the evidence.
Oh I already use vim mode in PyCharm. I'd use PyCharm everywhere if I could, really - it's just that I'd like some semblance of an IDE when I ssh into a server.

Also, using PyCharm's ssh feature doesn't cut it - I don't want every little script I write to be part of a project.
Ha! You think big pharma likes spending that kind of money on trials? I’ve been a part of those negotiations with the FDA. It costs that much because the company says “we believe a 6 month trial is sufficient to prove both safety and efficacy” and the FDA says “if you want it approved, you need to collect 2 years of data”.

Now, $10-15k per patient-year is for a typical therapeutic. And that is an average across global trial sites, not just the US. It’s not much money. You go a 15 min doctors appointment and your insurance is billed $150. Now imagine going 1 per week and having multiple tests run each time. Or having to stay in the hospital for a day when the drug is administered. You can burn through $1,000 per month pretty damn quickly.
They may be referring to this GitHub repository[0] and this page[1]?

- [0]: https://github.com/biosistemika/scinote-web

- [1]: https://www.scinote.net/open-source-code/
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Downvoters: do you disagree with the 'we cant know', please explain then how you can know.
> data on the shedding of infectious virus in asymptomatic individuals are too scarce to quantify their transmission potential in order to inform policy on quarantine duration in the absence of testing.

This has long been a key question: how much of community transmission is due to truly asymptotic individuals? Michael Mina style Lick-a-Stick daily tests could answer this question and remove the potential errors surrounding symptom self-assessment.
While the point of Apple Silicon is undoubtedly for Apple to have more control over their ecosystem, this article doesn't make that point very well. For example:

> However, there’s a clear nudge for developers to publish their recompiled apps to Apple’s store.

That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from? The article doesn't make any argument for how that works, given that you can share universal binaries outside the App store. Apple Silicon isn't changing anything that would "not so gently nudge" developers into the App Store.

Similarly, old apps only compiled for x86 being compatible in the future is... not really about control. PowerPC apps aren't compatible with intel Macbooks; that's just an inevitable outcome of switching the ISA. There's nothing about platform control in that.
There's a common processing step in PCB manufacturing that occurs right after SMT (reflow soldering of components that have been placed on the PCB by a pick-and-place machine). It is known as AOI (automated optical inspection).

What happens during AOI is that a camera images every part of the PCB and then uses old school machine vision to identify problems like missing/misplaced/misoriented components, wrong parts, solder mishaps, and contamination/foreign-objects. In practice, it's not perfect, but it can detect gross problems and is valuable in high-volume or high-cost pcb's. The images are usually not stored, but processed "on the fly" by machine vision applications.

It's good to hear that Alitheon is taking this to the next level. As a MFG engineer, I've long felt that AOI has been under-utilized. There are multiple reasons to more fully analyze these images besides security concerns and given the low cost of storage, I think it's becoming not unreasonable to store entire imagesets of individual high-cost PCB's for the life-span of the product.

As for the big-picture of security, however, it really begins earlier in the supply chain before the components even arrive at the factory in reels. By the time that something gets to a factory, one can't do much more than read-out things like id's and perform functional screens. That's why manufacturers have, sometimes, long qualification processes before they even consider a new component or its vendor.
What the thoughts behind it are doesn't matter. What the reality is does. The reality is terrible, so it should not be supported.
So, people who disagree with you, can never calmly explain their position? You also expect this state of affairs to never change.

That must be frustrating.
> The AstraZeneca vaccine also has 90 percent efficacy when used twice

No it doesn't. Both dosings use two shots, and the "90%" number from the smaller dosing is from an unreliably small sample set of 33 infections -- it could easily be 70-80% by next month when more data comes in.
That would hold water if people only compared it to intel Macs. Last I saw, most decent reviews compared it also to other mobile intel processors, so who exactly is in the group that's duping you?
True, although when you compare for example to people behind large brands with frequently huge acclaim, and then glimpse inside their (frequently) empty shell that is a marketing PR machine where all the real innovation, manufacturer and logistics is all bought, I think it's ok to give acclaim to somebody lucky, with prior art and inspiration from people who's shoulders they stand on, simply for the outcome that emerged.
It doesn't matter if the court says it's okay - it can still be a crime internationally (which it quite obviously is in this case).
> People don't take you as seriously

Some people may not take you as seriously, but it doesn't follow that this is true for all people, or even a significant number of people.
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As if. Intel clearly failed to deliver what they claimed. That’s the reason why we had to deal with such overheating issues not only with MacBooks
Talking about platform control on a website that hijacks browser history. Give me a break.
In one of the older threads someone asked whether you'd eventually be able to run Linux on this, and someone responded that this would be annoying to do, since there aren't any docs. Is that actually true? The Apple A SoCs don't boot random kernels, so I would think the Apple M SoC does not, either, and requires bootloader/kernel to be signed by Apple, just like iPhone firmware.
> I must admit it sounds like the stuff of paranoid fantasy.

For a country with a documented history of disrespect for bodily autonomy it seems entirely in line with expected behaviour to me.
Goggle is probably you best bet if you care, there are a lot of details to use them. Essentially they are what your computer uses to turn a key press into sound.

There are stand alone hardware synthesizers of varying sound quality, and keyboards with built in synthesizers, and varying quality. In both cases the best is great sound. I personally prefer to use a computer, but that is preference, nothing is wrong with other choices.
> That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from?

I had the impression that the person that wrote the article believes that Universal Binaries are an AppStore-only feature.
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Does the right to bear arms mean that someone should give you a gun for free?

Whether it's a right has nothing to do with whether you have to pay for it.
What specifically made you wish for ARM? Is there something specific with ARM which is not possible in X86?

I personally looking for factors like: low Power, high Performance, snappiness and 4k display support.

I have no real wish for ARM because it doesn't matter what architecture i use if it is compatible to what i need.

If Apple would have brought out M1 x86, it would also have helped the market.
>On the other hand, it is generally thought that vaccines can trigger immune reactions that are often much stronger and longer lasting than just being infected, so you would expect there to be a benefit to getting vaccinated even if you already had it.

Interestingly the opposite is true for influenza: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870374/
They're shouting at you not to buy it!
Is that even a serious criticism? Users had about ten years of warning before 32-bit went away. The real impact of that on real users is minimal.
Evolution doesn’t work the way you think it does
> I call such things "Ancient Wonders"

Read this story, "Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling" [0] - once upon a time, a petrochemical factory was built. Decades later, the plant is still operating and being maintained. But at this point, nobody knows how the whole factory worked, why it was built that way, which processes it ran or how it was constructed...

[0] https://lemming-articlestash.blogspot.com/2011/12/institutio...
> At some point in the not too distant future, old x86 applications will cease to run on Macs, as emulation support won’t run forever

One thing I can credit Android some, and Windows a lot (even 10 with all its manifold privacy and user-hostility problems) with is that they are backwards compatible.

exceptions to every rule, etc., but I can run all old versions of Android apps on an Android 11 phone, same for Windows programs going back to 1996 or so with few tweaks, and can squeeze that back to 1993 if I fuss and cuss and so on.

yes, this is arch to arch emulation, but the idea od taking that feature away in ~4 years vs Android's best effort continued compatibility or Microsoft's compatibility layers is a cost/benefit that I apparently disagree with Apple decision makers on.
I'm not aware of any risks.

There are definitely benefits to vaccine diversity. The Oxford ChAdOx1 virus involves putting a modified chimp adenovirus into people. People don't have immunity to chimp adenovirus, so it infects them and delivers the spike protein, which elicits immunity. But that might also elicit immunity to the chimp adenovirus! If that happens, then a later does of the vaccine - say, for a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 in a year or two - might not be as effective, because immunity to the chimp adenovirus will stop the vaccine delivering the spike. In that case, having a different way to deliver a vaccine will be a life-saver.
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They mention a couple of lines before that you can "share or submit [them] to the Mac App Store", so they seem to be aware that you can share Universal Binaries.
I was curious and found the package install scripts nicely organized by name here--

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...
I also think the marketing was genius.
NOT labeling that graph they showed did exactly what they wanted. It was impressing the non tech people and the tech people ALL kept talking and talking about it - because it wasn't labeled.

Apple's marketing is brilliant. It really gets the kind of people who think they are too smart to be marketed to AND the normies, all in one message.