skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Intel 7nm is estimated to deliver around 200 to 250 million transistors per square millimetre

> TSMC reckons its 3nm node will pack in somewhere north of 250 million transistors per square millimetre of silicon

Why is a 3nm process would yield the same transistor density as a 7nm one?
Is it an error in the article or there is something I do not understand?
Some elderly friends have asked why Britain is opting to use a brand new RNA/nanotechnololgy style vaccine (which has never been approved before) and is only ~94% effective, when there is a traditional inactivated vaccine that is 100% effective? I presume Pfizer simply have better lobying, but given the choice, I would rather go with old-fashioned sinovac https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
Is it possible to have Adblock on mobile? That site is literally unreadable do you the unbelievable amount of ads.
How Secure Is Your App: Wickr vs. Signal vs. Utopia
Saving $20k per month!? That's nice.
This isn't a fair comparison, or reasoned in good faith.

The UK government changed their mind about a second lockdown given new evidence. The virus got much worse and they responded. What new evidence is there that the UK government is going to start vaccination passports? Has something changed?
Really the relevant Supreme Court case was Wayfair which required sales tax collection (overturning Quill) for all businesses over a certain revenue(?) in 2018. [1] Sales tax collection was sort of an Amazon-specific patchwork by state previously. (And, yes, in general buyers were supposed to pay a usage tax on out-of-state orders but most individuals almost certainly did not.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.
Great idea, but seems broken to the point of uselessness with the current algorithm.

For example, a glance at the front page has a set of Henkels Knifes priced at $250, as $10.50 per month I.e. a little over 2 years of use, and a $130 Zojirushi Rice cooker at $17.10 per month - less than 1 year of usefulness.

These are products I own, and these values are wildly inaccurate in my experience. Therefore I cannot trust the site for products I do not own.
But would Apple be content with going from 5nm to 3nm nodes so "quickly"? Given that AMD has been able to squeeze out their Zen 2 and 3 IPC without the need to change nodes completely, it could make sense for Apple to do the same.
Worker at Fortune 200 company here having multiple datacenters and the operations staff to go with that. So far, every single application we've ported over to AWS has resulted in reduced costs. I'm not even talking about total costs, i.e. datacenter power costs, real estate taxes, staffing costs - I'm only talking about server costs, networking costs, storage costs and software licensing costs. So far AWS has beat on-premise every single time. Is it cheap? Compared to running on-premise Hell Yeah! Our average savings has been 60% (and like I said we're not even looking at total cost, so the actual average savings is even higher). It's ridiculous.
I'm pro banning SUV's:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55148518
Help Joe
"but Eat Just said it would ultimately be cheaper"

That would be amazing. Looking at the prices for vegetarian and vegan meat substitutes, I can't see it happening.
: They are more expensive than meat. It appears that we need a lot more competition in these markets.
This is what I do. All my staff is backed up onto hard drives. I also have offsite server which takes backups from those backups just in case.
The dirty secret is that you can't really make a transistor much smaller than about 30nm.

The contacted gate pitch (for all intents and purposes this is the 'size' of a transistor) actually only decreased 50% from 28nm to 7nm (from 117nm to 64nm).
How does HN know where in the page to bring you back to after you submit a comment?
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the controls, they are configured to keep the user to a certain area so that why you're seeing the swivel I think. As for the remaining 3 issues, these are all just design choices for this experiment, and can be configured in the library that powers this: https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/
From what I understand, it is usually the minimum size rather than any kind of average.
If you look at the actual measurements of their 3nm process they are not near 3nm. The smallest dimension is nearer to 10x that.
Venmo and Cash App Upended a Century-Old Charity Model
Is there any rationale at all for the name? Maybe it's about how precisely things like corners can be etched, even if the smallest features are much larger than that?
> Rather, it is “middle-skilled” jobs that are threatened, Wu found.

I think this would be a better headline. If "middle-skilled" refers to manually moving information across an organization using people, systems, and spreadsheets, then yeah, those jobs are very much the bottom of the iceberg as far as automation goes.

So I guess from that perspective, an employer with many managers who manually manage scheduling/time tracking/etc. could consider deploying an ERM/ERP product and consolidating the org structure an efficiency.

Manager as leader though is harder to consolidate, both during growth ("we're adding resources to your team, you should be happy") and through adding offshore teams without a project manager, cutting down on the bandwidth of the onshore manager.
Are you saying that its unfair that money is being taken from you(r state) and being spent on people you don't believe deserve it?
Sure, but the problem with this is often overblown. If I was going to send mass mail, I might prefer to use an outside service like Sendgrid or Constant Contact to avoid that risk, but for general email, it isn't a big deal to operate your own on-premise server.
Employers are far more worried by unionisation than by guns.
Well, I'm not the GP so I can't tell for sure. But "lose competitiveness" without any further said normally refers to a company as a seller, on its products markets.

When referring to the company as a buyer, like in the labor market, people usually qualify it.
Does this country can do even one thing right?
This is so much oversimplification that it hurts.

1) BioNTech/Pfizer haven't "just" tested for safety (I'm implying that's what you meant with your "trying to lift the ban" hyperbole), they have also used the clinical trials to single out one particular candidate out of at least four initial candidates for best expected efficacy. And they have used the trials to evaluate the best dosage. Medical trials are about much more than just the safety aspect.

2) It's easy to say "we could simply have broadly distributed this vaccine back in March" now in hindsight. However, in March, there were serious doubts about whether it would even work, considering the entire technology hadn't ever yielded a fully approved commercial vaccine.

3) I don't want to highlight this once more, but COVID-19 wouldn't be so deadly if the US hadn't fucked up its response in every possible way, and some that were thought to be impossible. A good part of those "over a thousand people dying per day" are self-inflicted and have nothing to do with any vaccine tests or vaccine approval timelines.
We become what we are told we are
The Anatomy of Package.json
great concept, the UX problems make this not fun

hope you get this ironed out

I think there are a lot of best practices that can be rehearsed in this format

Recently I had been thinking about how interesting it would be to have a movie or tv show where a protagonist is trying to guess someone's password and they encounter a password manager and give up, or the character tells them they use a password manager as if it was the most obvious thing to do. That would make more sense than sticky notes or seeing some hint in the room that reveals the password.
It just old and sick people dying, don't worry about it!
There is the same dilemma for many other animals too. What harm does it do to a chicken if you simply snatch the eggs it was already laying on your property, or shear a sheep that already had locks of wool?

Unfortunately the first harm was done by breeding species that ovulate daily or produce so much fur that it would die without human intervention.
Can be enabled within Samsung Internet on Android
REMOTE & CONTRACT - 5 hrs/week, with the potential for more
$40/hr on a contract basis

Innovative arts non-profit the Live Music Project seeks a full-stack engineer to lead technical development. We are a team of 10 volunteer developers working with a seasoned product manager who is embedded in Seattle’s classical music community. We meet twice per month (currently on Google Meet), supplemented by asynchronous communication. After 4 years of all-volunteer development, we’re now hiring a part-time Tech Lead to build technological expertise into our organizational leadership, support our growing engineering team, and help drive technology decisions throughout the product life cycle.

Read the whole job description: https://livemusicproject.org/hiring-tech-lead/

Apply by emailing: dev@livemusicproject.org
It's one thing to make buggy whips obsolete. Another to make human labour in general obsolete.
Was there a point lets say at 130nm when the name of the process was meaningful and if so what component of the gate was at X nm for it to be called a X nm process?
same problem for me (brave V1.17.73) on windows 10
Where Can You Travel To? Find Your Next Destination in 3 Taps
Please could you explain a little how you did this for people not familiar with such things as 3D and maps? What would someone have to do, to create this for another part of the world? What is NASADEM and LINZ?
> only ~94% effective

Lol.
Apple has not really "bought up all the capacity" it was just PR spin. they had simply booked three months worth while TSMC is still ramping up the 5nm process.

Apple market share is simply not large enough to do that. Yes their numbers are huge, but there are lot more people who cannot or will not buy laptops priced $ 1,000+ than there are ones who are ready to pay that globally.
It's pretty nice! I just wish there was a button to zoom out, this got me confused at first and I refreshed the browser thinking it was a glitch. The desk has a + button to zoom, surely you could leave it there at all time and add a - button next to it.

Otherwise, great job!
You think those guys use Internet/social media? My grandfather had to give a presentation to army brass (maybe it was FWO) once and they could barely handle PowerPoint.
Ethical compared to what? Coyotes eating a cow alive while she laid down in a field to calve, starting with her hind quarters? A killer whale slowly nibbling another whale's calf to death over hours? So how do we measure the ethicality of a cow that has spent most of its life pampered, fed and protected, and in the end goes to a feedlot? How do we score that? What metrics do we use to compare? Because it certainly had a better life than a wolf casually stumbling upon it as a newborn.
Location: Los Angeles, CA / Remote

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to offers

Technologies:

* Expertise: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, HTML, (S)CSS
* Recently used: Next.js, Redux, p5.js, GraphQL, Express, Bulma, Ant Design, Material-UI, + more

Résumé/CV: You can find it on my website, which also has my LinkedIn

Website: andrewkowalczyk.com

Email: andrewrkowalczyk {at} gmail {dot} com

---

Hi there, I'm Andrew Kowalczyk and I'm a freelance software engineer focused on web development. I have 5 and a half years of start-up and freelance experience developing performant full stack applications using the technologies mentioned above. If you need a freelancer's help getting your project/MVP/feature finished, chances are I can help. Feel free to reach out!

Would have normally posted on the freelancer thread, but it didn't seem to be posted.
Don’t know where you are, but in the UK and the US, old and/or obese is nothing like a tiny minority.
I recently finished The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. It was a fascinating look at old school hacking and the internet in the 1980s. Well worth a read.
I wonder how this compares to Bedrock (https://bedrockdb.com/).
>Interesting that Facebook and everyone else has been knowing that these rules have been coming for years, they still haven't been ready.

There's being ready, but I think there's also some wariness that the penalties for non-compliance are so severe that it's not worth taking the risk.

When GDPR was first being proposed, I was at a startup in the messaging space, and we were in the midst of expanding into European markets. The level of effort to ensure compliance wasn't that high, but without established case law and a history of enforcement actions, it was deemed too much of a risk so we pulled back.
I did, using the word 'formalism' to perhaps inaccurately describe all the formalisms just discussed (proofs etc). Then it went off into the weeds on that word, which was not helpful.
Wow, so they're not actually banning VPNs and Tor?
Isn't it essentially the same human instinct that drives the desire to increase representation in media for underrepresented groups of people? We relate to people who are "like us" in some dimension. Sure, it doesn't make sense in a sterile intellectual sort of way, but why does that matter? It's still real.
The Procedural GL (https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/) library on which this is built works worldwide. I made this (National Parks) app in an afternoon, and it could easily be modified for any set of locations in the world, just update the https://github.com/felixpalmer/new-zealand-3d/blob/main/park... file

See also Bergwelten.com, for Austria in particular. They have hikes with a 3D view.
China's Chang'e-5 Moon mission returns colour pictures
You should read about EUV tech and what ASML does if you are interested on this topic.
Saving vs Preserving: These important historical scientific devices might be fun to view later. It is interesting to think about these MASSIVE aerospace museums with hundreds of planes, like one out in Tucson, AZ. Just hangars and hangars of historical planes, with a few historically interested visitors. How much preservation is the right amount?
The full data was just released like last week? There hasn’t been time to fully review it which may be the point.

The US set a meeting date of 12/10 to decide on EUA so scientists had time to review the data.
You are right, it's far from perfect and I guess no one else has done this before.
As mentioned in my blog, I have to take some more data into account to make it a truly meaningful metric, but we will eventually get there :)
How one interacts with the game? I see the drawn room but clicking anything there (folder, basket, cup, etc.) does nothing at all...
Record year for wind parts helps salvage port season in Duluth
if you click the calendar it zooms in....sometimes

The UI is really bugged, try clicking all over the calendar, it should eventually zoom in
What do you think? Does The Great Firewall “learn, filter and block” with deep packet inspection or is it a myth?

I'm very curious to hear your experience.
20% points seems to be the drop as the rapid approval process became a victim hyper-partisanship in the US. The push for a rapid approval has been viewed, by the left, as a political ploy by the right instead of a well-planned & scientifically supported approval process. Early polls about taking a vaccine showed much higher support for it before it was politicized. [0]

Support dropped by 20%. Surprisingly, it dropped by about the same amount for both the political right & left, although support on the left started at a higher level. This may indicate that even people on the right were influenced by the perception of a too-rapid approval process.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/09/17/u-s-public-no...
Microsoft Teams gets an overhauled calling interface, CarPlay support, and more
> But let's say you're a technically savvy person that is actually interested in cookie privacy; I'm really surprised you're not using "cookie autodelete"-style plugins already.

I feel this is like saying "we don't need safety legislations at work because businesses take a hit trying to stay compliant, if you don't want to be hurt at work, I'm surprised you're not wearing a helmet already."

Thing is, I wouldn't need "cookie autodelete" style plugins in the first place if companies cared about data privacy.
OpenBSD [0] is OSS, practices full disclosure, and is considered highly secure by... everyone.

Wordpress is a mess, but being OSS does not inherently make something less secure.

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/security.html
That is not true. They were asking for payment from him all through 2019 and 2020. The problem was they were set to go to trial, and there was no way they were going to do all that trial prep for no money. Plus the relationship was damaged by his continual stringing them along.
Tried it on YouTube and it doesn't work and can't play videos.

Is there a similar service to this where I can access these services like Netflix or Uber without being spied on?
> If they didn't give all participants a Covid antibody test before starting, it is very likely that several participants were previously infected.

Doesn't comparing to a control group account for that?
"Not to decide." Yet, "[the manager is to decide if] 'the right people make good decisions in alignment with their values.'"
I imagine for well-plied, fixed routes (interstates between two warehouses) there could be training runs (with a driver)
to check edge cases along routes before going to prod. There could also be periodic retraining with drivers, as well as offline model retraining with the data that the trucks will be collecting continuously. This simplifies the problem significantly (even though it doesn't solve it completely -- there's always the 1% off case).

I don't think one would just plop a general system on any route without human-supervised customization -- at least we're not there yet.
Is it a good idea to use BNF for documentation? This form of document doesn't seem to be very useful for people who want to use the language.

Both WASM and javascript docs do this, and it is also the same here https://c9x.me/compile/doc/il.html

I think LLVM's IR document is not easy to read, this one is not better.

I don't want to reimplement a compiler for the IR language, I want to know how to use it, how to generate code using it. I need to see examples, i.e. how to implement threading, coroutine, weakly typed variables, reflection ... not the BNF.
Try Blokada : https://blokada.org/
Exactly. He is paying all of his other lawyers but not his defense team. No idea what the plan is.
Slight water damage.
Didn't an agency store data and loss data due to using an old format of excel file
I'm pulling my hair out because people are using eventual consistency to mean "eventual consistency with a noticeable lag before the consistency is achieved", which bothers the pedant in me.

I mean, technically, strong consistency implies eventual consistency (with lag = 0). But everyone's equating eventual consistency with the noticeable lag itself, implying that EC per se is a bad thing.

For an analogy, it would be like if people were talking about how rectangular cakes suck, because <problems of unequal width vs length>, and thus they use square cakes, but ... square cakes are rectangular too.

(What's going on is that people use <larger set> to mean <larger set, excluding members that qualify for smaller set>. <larger set> = eventual consistency, rectangle; <smaller set> = strong consistency, square.)

Obviously, it's not a problem for communication because everyone implicitly understands what's going on and uses the words the same way, but I wish people spoke in terms of "has anyone actually seen a consistency lag?" rather than "has anyone actually seen eventual consistency?", since the latter is not the right way to frame it, and is actually a good thing to have, which happened both before and after this development.
It used to be based on a feature size of logic based transistors, but as node shrinks happened the design of transistors changed, so the number didn’t make sense any more.

Different companies measure different things, and it is a marketing designation now. Intel has tried to be more scientific about their naming, but see where that got them.
I love reading this, because PHP is a templating language first, that can do more complex things separately.
There is nothing wrong of using <?php> tags in your HTML, and put your logics in .php files.
Perhaps it could be provided by a vDSO, that would then decide if and when to call into the kernel proper.
Good catch! I'll try to fix this one
Typically flu vaccine is 67% effective, which is similar to the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.
How to build Cost Optimized serverless infras on AWS
> ...I don't see the problem with letting everyone else make their own decision.

Pandemics have, since time immemorial, been an exception to the "I can do what I want" rule.

Much like allowing parents to fall into conspiracy theory traps and refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated against measles, resulting in that disease suddenly becoming a threat again, if we're going to get back to normalcy we can't let half the population ignore the vaccine.

But, since we are going to let half the population ignore the vaccine, prepare for a long, drawn-out period of time during which the disease will flare up, lockdowns will be imposed, more people will needlessly die, and conspiracy theories will continue to make a mockery of civilization.
It's very rare to have direct proof of the effect of an economic/regulatory intervention, but luckily, in this case, we do. We've had a decade a survey data that indicates exactly what the effect the ACA had on employer provided healthcare was.

See here for one such example:
https://pnhp.org/news/impact-of-aca-on-employers-and-their-e...

Some relevant highlights:
* More than one-third of organizations now have increased out-of-pocket limits, in-network deductibles and/or participants’ share of premium costs in response to ACA. More than one in five organizations have increased copayments or coinsurance for primary care, increased participants’ share of prescription drug costs and/or increased the employee proportion of dependent coverage cost.
* The excise tax on high-cost group health plans (a.k.a. Cadillac tax) is considered the top ACA cost driver beyond 2015. Since 2011, a steadily increasing percentage of organizations has taken action to avoid triggering the excise tax — a trend likely to continue. More than one in ten organizations already have adopted changes to prevent them from triggering the tax, 21% are working on changes and 28% plan to act sometime prior to 2018. Only one-quarter said changes were not necessary either because they have no high-cost plans (23%) or because they plan to pay the tax (2%).

That being said, the year following the passage of the ACA saw a large anomalous spike in employer healthcare costs that wasn't present in Medicaid/Medicare. It's almost undeniable that this was due to the ACA.
The ISI is one of the most capable (HUMINT wise) and ruthless Secret Services worldwide.
Upload my data to be anonymized? Nooooooooope
One of the simplest interpreters that also has a compiler built-in is Forth. It is somewhat heretical to conventional computer science but it can be fully understood top to bottom by normal humans due to it features or lack thereof. :)

A quick search found this repository of JonesForth which is a literate programming version of a Forth system that describes the code as it goes along. There appears to be source for various targets.

https://github.com/phf/forth

It is a very interesting exercise that shows you a kind of bare minimum requirement way to make a language and provides insights for what is missing to build more conventional languages.
If the technology works and is safe, it would be a good point to gently start boiling the frog with taxes. Cattle farming is not good for the environment.