skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't an indictment of the project or idea, but as a note of caution for potential investors: it looks like the company's CEO[1] may have been a defendant in a (dismissed) securities fraud[2] case in the past.

Woz's reputation is likely a factor in the traction this post (and perhaps business) is gaining, and I hope that it's a credible operation for his sake. He's taking an engineer and founder role, and there is a separate CTO (who has experience founding a Square-reader-like[3] company in Italy).

[1] - https://efforce.io/WP_ENG_V1.pdf#page=40

[2] - http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-case.html?id=101308

[3] - https://jusp.com/ (NB before you click: TLS certificate is expired at the time of writing, since 2020-02-13)
It's not like Intel is stellar in terms of privacy. If you want to actually be secure, you'll need something where everything is de-blobbed and open, such as the POWER9 workstations from Raptor.
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Here is the hypothesis and assumption about the product:

Covid-19 forced many companies to embrace the WFH/remote work. Now office space will transform into a collaborating place. Will it be a no-office world? My answer is NO. Will WHF/remote work become a permanent HR policy. My answer is YES. Now in this situation office space is not optimally utilised and companies are forced to let go off their office lease and manage with reduced capacity. This gives a rise to new set of problems related to managing who sud be in the office on a particular day. Seatflux built to solve this problem of managing seating capacity.
Here is an hint, Android is not UNIX.

If instead ranting on twitter, he actually bothered to learned, it would have found out that virtual machine is long gone and now a mix of JIT/AOT compilers are used.

Also not allowing full blow applications in C or C++ is exactly the kind of stuff we need to move the security of our devices forward into the future.

While Android development has several issues, these random rants aren't it.
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I think there's plenty examples on the entire spectrum. Though I'd also say the ones that are seen as "too positive" like Jack Ryan, get criticism from the media even when they try to please both sides by talking of "fixing it from the inside"). Anyway, other examples of negative depictions:

In "2 guns" Bill Paxton played a psychopathic CIA agent who ran a contra-stye operation by squeezing drug lords for a cut. Awesome performance by the way.

In the recent version of "Dirk Gently" TV series, the CIA operation kidnaps psychics to experiment on them, and eliminates people who know too much or get in the way. Whenever the leader of the operation has a change of heart, he gets replaced with a new one with less scruples. "Mr. Priest" (another awesome character) is the CIA's psychopathic fixer brought in "for protocol violations".
I would say the FSF certainly has. It's just a far smaller group. Probably smaller than the group that finds them rather off-putting. And, of course, far smaller still than the group that doesn't care if, in fact, they've heard of the organization at all.
That’s what proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are about. I’m saying that the problem has been solved and would need to just be applied to this use case.
Back-of-the-envelope calculation: https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2015/back-of-the-envelope...

The TCR needs some explanation, but can be estimated from the Stefan-Boltzmann law; the temperature differential to produce a radiative output of 3.7 W/sq m is 3.7 / (4 * sigma * T0^3) which at a T0 of 287 K is 0.69 K. Clearly the Earth is not a perfect black-body so this lower bounds the TCR.

This also allows us to lower bound the anthrogenic climate contribution due to GHG radiative forcing 1850-2020 at 0.48 K.
Faster isn't just convenience. It's also lower power consumption for the same compute, which means a smaller/lighter battery, or longer runtime at the same weight.

This is not a privacy-vs-convenience battle, sadly; this is a very carefully planned circumstance where you can maintain privacy, or you can be effective in life. It's already impossible to use most mobiles in a private fashion, and within a few years, effective desktop computing will be exactly the same way. You're going to have to provide ID to do anything with a "normal" phone or computer.

Recently I learned that Apple will only give out NetworkExtension API entitlements for apps (that are required for VPN apps to work on macOS) to apps distributed via the Mac App Store. Aside from the obvious antitrust issues here (you can't self-distribute VPN apps, or run a competing app store that can distribute apps with the same functionality as Apple's), this means that you can't get access to e.g. the WireGuard app on macOS without IDing yourself to Apple to get an Apple ID and installing it via the Mac App Store.

Want privacy via a VPN? You're going to have to show ID first.
I’m far more excited about the efforts to build federation into Gitea and GitLab to allow individual servers to connect for discoverablity and collaboration. The working group on this is ForgeFed. https://forgefed.peers.community/
Because technology alone won't solve the problem. There is no green alternative to flying across the Atlantic and there probably won't ever be.

Applying the same thinking that got us into this situation won't get us out of it.

then look down on other people who don't

That's in your mind, not mine.
> Wow, we treat homeless people like crap!

Do we? I thought the issue was homeless people are given total autonomy, even if it leads to a destructive lifestyle?

EDIT: make baseless allegation -> upvotes, challenge pessimistic moralising narrative -> downvotes.
Stalin had a much better idea: ship the mental defectives off to gulags in Siberia.

It's important to consider the criteria used when we select individuals for internment.

One should also well consider the quantity of dog-whistles one embeds in a neutral-appearing comment. Using 'liberal' as an epithet, using the term 'ordinary citizens' to distinguish from those who need to be deprived of rights, bringing the idea of those who pay taxes as being especially worthy of government protection... these are all talk radio jingo.

A governing institution that interns individuals based on being different, or not morially aligned, of not thinking the correct thoughts has been tried often in the past and indeed there are many regimes around the world who still do so today. If society feels the need to institutionalize people for their thoughts it should at least formalize the crime in law and open the process to justice instead of relying on the fiat of those who hold the reigns of power.
Apple reportedly working on a 32-core processor for high-end Macs
These FAANG salaries mystify me. Here I am, in the mid-west, working for a manufacturing company, as a programmer/sysadmin/devop in an engineering department, with 25 years of experience, making almost the top end of what's possible for a non-managerial role, and my salary is NOTHING like that. I just worked with 2 of the world's leading experts in my field -- they literally wrote and created systems to implement the government spec which governs most of our work -- and learned that their salaries -- while staggering in this industry -- weren't even half of this. Sometimes I look at this disparity, and want to take a crack at switching industries, but, frankly, it's intimidating. I guess it's 25 years of conditioning. In old-school manufacturing companies, $400K is VP-level pay. There's probably only a couple dozen people making that at my 30K-employee company. And here you are telling me that it's just a "standard rate" for a devop with 10 years of experience. The difference in worlds is hard to wrap my head around.
Intel releases bench scores for Loihi neuromorphic computing chip
Yeah but can I play Cyberpunk 2077 on it?
What you are espousing is known as “defensive programming” which is very much a bad thing (tm).
We cut our season off early due to the number of mature trees available. We're rebuilding and playing catchup. It was more important, particularly this year, that we were open rather than how many days. We get families that have been coming here for 30 years. If we miss a year being open, we risk losing them from coming back in the next few years. Our second metric was number of trees sold per day. We did meet or exceed both measurements.
If you participate in politics without being minimally informed about it, people will demonize you for not being up to date with policies and current affairs. If you do not participate in politics, people will demonize you for taking no sides and expressing no interest in the future of the country. If you have some academic training, try to stay informed about current affairs and participate in politics, people will demonize you for engaging in “political hobbyism”.

And this seems to be an issue specific to U.S. politics. Maybe it’s time to collectively agree that American democracy is about excluding people from politics, in detriment to the interests of the economic elites.

EDIT: while I generally agree that what the author calls "political hobbyist" can be harmful to specific causes and can even perpetuate the status quo/political inequalities, it is within their own right to engage in politics however they see fit. We have to keep in mind that not everyone can be actively engaged in political debates in the city hall, or organizing a group of like-minded people to fight for a specific cause. Excluding "political hobbyists" from the political debate just because they are not engaging in "real politics" (author's words) is straight up anti-democratic -- after all, who can define what "real politics" is.
I surely hope that this is one of the outcomes of Apple and Amazon's ARM push. Perhaps Intel will realize that's it is better to have competition on its own architecture than complete ecosystems moving to foreign architectures.

One could well argue that ARM/RISC is more elegant. But x86_64 besides backwards compatibility has the large benefit that it is an open platform when it comes to operating systems. Moving to ARM will be an excuse for many vendors to lock bootloaders to their blessed software (such as the iOS/Android ecosystems).
Using blockchain for energy efficiency is like using a machine gun for suicide watch.
Indeed. The real parent company appears to be AitherCO2 SpA, and many of the staff listed are Italian. So there's a reason for not doing this as a SpA. On the other hand there appears to be a somewhat-genuine energy efficiency business under there. This reminds me of "Kodak gets into blockchain" or the Long Island Iced Tea fiasco (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr... )
I missed this arch. It looks awesome!
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>>the heavy discrimination towards the homeless

There was heavier discrimination towards the homeless in the past, with vagrancy laws for instance. The situation has gotten much worse as society has become more tolerant of homelessness/drug-use while providing far more services to those in that lifestyle.

Housing costs are indeed a problem however. The largest cities in Canada, as in the US, have seen rental rates increase as a share of average income. One study looking at the US blames this on rising restrictions on land-use since the 1960s, which has prevented housing supply from expanding to the meet the growth in housing demand:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201117212350/https://eml.berke...
It's so sad that all technological innovation seems to be concentrated into the few products of a single company.

Yes, we can have power-efficient phones and laptops, but what about other product categories? I think the market should be more modular so that any company can build cool stuff with top of the line CPUs, not just Apple.

As a hacker, I think with Apple's dominance computing is becoming less interesting. It's like opening a LEGO box, and all pieces are already fused together.
You are right, but social media has a tendency of amplifying the voices of its most dysfunctional members.
Give the smart meter a private key protected in hardware, give the chain its public key, and you can now verify things.
> Poof of Work

Best cryptocurrency typo since hodl.
Nope: those only apply to elements on the blockchain, not elements in the real world. You'd need proof-of-not-work for a real energy efficiency business.
Thanks! I work with an illustrator named Loraine Yow, who's fantastic.[0] I wrote a blog post a few years ago explaining how I found her and the process we use to create the illustrations together.[1]

[0] https://www.lolo-ology.com/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/how-to-hire-a-cartoonist/
this only works when the company actually cares and allocates time to improve code quality. Not workable in companies where you are expected to add 2-3 features daily.
How many containers were on board in total? Cannot seem to find that in article or in comments here on HN?

After reading this title I was more suspected to think the whole boat sunk.
Emma-Sleep GmbH is hiring!

https://team.emma-sleep.com/team/it-software-development/
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You'll learn more, then you think!
It's not like Intel is stellar in terms of privacy.

I think the grandparent means that using an M1 implies using macOS, which had its share of potential privacy issues recently (regularly phoning home on launching apps, having Apple service circumvent VPNs and application firewalls).
I think a better approach is to return a bool or something like that, rather than crashing. But I agree that silently handling this case is the worst of the options.
The memory that the M1 uses is quite fast for LPDDR4X, but there's nothing _that_ special about it. Moving it off-package shouldn't have a significant impact.
> people criticising Apple because it refuses to instruct it's employees to criminalise themselves.

That's not what they criticize.

They criticize Apple because Apple positioned itself to be the sole actor capable of enforcing such a bad laws. That they do it, surprised nobody.

In this case, if they were not capable of destroying Telegram on iOS platform, their request would have no teeth and even the governments would not ask Apple to do it in the first place.
Indeed this is the crucial part.

Usually a company will not generate its own energy. Depending on the country, the infrastructure is sometimes publicly owned and managed.

Maybe the physical -> digital touchpoint here could be outside the boundaries of the company. The energy grid should report those numbers as references, to subscribers agreed upon by the company for example. There it could be certified by the government.

Or something like that?

Edit: Well of course now there would be an incentive to burn petrol to run turbines and generate locally, then turn them off to capitalize on a high in the energy efficiency security market...
So a huge step backwards (it doesn't even have NFC) for principles I guess.
Hey, meta comment since I found this post first through your meta post / tweets about trying to get this to the front page of HN.

It's great content, and exactly the kind of things I want to read here, but wondered if you had thoughts about how to solve the Goodhart's law[0] effect. e.g. in an ideal world for me (and I guess for you too), the best posts would more naturally rise to the top of places like HN that ostensibly act as quality filters.

I really like your posting advice in general as most of it is about 'how to improve quality', but some of it (choosing what time to post at etc) falls into 'how to improve my chances at this gambling like system'.

I have mixed feelings about this. Having a higher barrier to entry does lead to higher quality posts (and in one possible future, only people who have read the 'how to get to front page of HN' guide can get to the front page of HN). On the other hand, I've seen the problem of 'should we invest this dollar into producing a better quality Widget or into telling people more effectively that our Widgets are the best?' kill entire organizations when the see-saw tilts too much to the latter.

Maybe I'm relating some things too broadly and it's actually nothing more than 'hey I post high quality content and do things to help it succeed', but wondering if you've thought about this tradeoff at all / if you're worried about getting deeper into the metrics rabbit hole that you've discussed in some of your other posts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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Yup, it was an experiment. There is a follow up, called cobalt: https://github.com/poef/cobalt/

But its not meant as production ready code, instead I'm exploring the concept and what it means for editing, rendering, etc.
I imagine it would be time bound, like "before October 1, 2021". But given the limited availability of the vaccine and tiered status groups to whom it's made available, it seems like an unnecessary complication to reduce the award for some.

IMO legislation for incentives that consider all the adults in the US should be very simple and broad in order to be effective. All kinds of edge cases to worry about, no reason to be stingy with this program. It could pay for itself.
https://container-news.com/one-apus-may-have-lost-a-quarter-...
Dude you're responding to someone in Belarus. Americans voting for nonsocialist candidates is not the issue there.
It's not an issue on our farm. We have eyes on most of the property most of the time. We also don't stock any precuts, so a thief has to come on the property and do some amount of work to steal a single tree.
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cough Intel Management Engine cough
Apple wants to be the next SGI and from the M1 is it clear where they want to make profit -- memory and storage upgrades.

I expect these monsters to have oodles of HBM, and the Mac Pro with a TB or more could approach house-levels of pricing, like SGI workstations of the past.
Can confirm this. The concept is not as weird as it sounds once you consider that the ship's captain is a naval officer who has duties and a social role roughly similar to that of a doctor. For any task related to navigating/operating the vessel (emergency or not), the captain's word is final and there are penalties for negligent behavior that are determined completely outside of the "corporate" chain of command. Decisions of whether or not to ditch a block of unstable containers are made with 0 interference from commercial interests.

The captain is also the one responsible for upholding the laws of whatever flag the vessel flies under.
> the perpetuation of open source software needing to be free is regrettable.

You think it would be better if we gated access to a valuable technology behind something that excludes people without money to spend?
Once reason it was initially locked away was that it contained heresies, e.g. he denied the Christian Trinity. After that people forgot about it, it's hard to go through so many papers...
Oh, so Apache will handle user management. Fair enough. I was serious, didn't realise you'd go as far as to move away from the stateless state of HTTP.
Oh my god, I fixed it lol
Well I don't live in a blessed country so not

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9338852?hl=en
My special snowflake OS is embedded in millions of devices all over the world in safety-critical applications. It's not broken, it's the third-party software that incorrectly assumes time_t is a general integer arithmetic type that's broken.

The ISO C11 standard only says that time_t is a real type that holds values >= 0. The minute you start performing arithmetic on that type and checking if the result is less than zero you're entering undefined behaviour territory. For example, does the following program halt?

int main() {
for (unsigned i = 1; i >= 0); --i)
;
}

The answer is "maybe". The C standard defines an infinite loop like this as undefined behaviour ISO 9899:2011 [6.8.5/6].
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> What does the EFF think about the big, thick block letters "EFF" at the start of this company's logo?

To be honest, I really hate the new "big, thick block letters" EFF logo. The flat design trend destroyed the good original EFF logo and turned it into three featureless and boring letters. The fact that "EFFORCE" can create a logo that looks like the EFF using nothing but three capital letters is the proof of how featureless the logo is.
Sorry, not going to happen. Why would Intel add more competitors into a market where it has a duopoly?
Faster isn't just convenience. It's also lower power consumption for the same compute, which means a smaller/lighter battery, or longer runtime at the same weight.

As has been discussed in various threads the last few weeks, the difference in power efficiency is not that large compared to recent AMD Ryzen APUs, accounting for a move from 7nm to 5nm node.
I agree this article is sloppily written, Gurman has a strong track record of having the inside scoop on Apple's plans.

Essentially all this article is really saying is "Expect Apple to release a half-size mac pro in 2022 as the last, most powerful new product". That's it. There's no clue about discrete graphics, NUMA, power budgets etc. It could be that that new mac pro is heading back towards the non-expandable trash-can style design. All they really know is that there's going to be something in the mac pro space in 2022 and that's the last direct replacement to Intel Macs Apple are making.
Not spending as much time in the target optimizer could explain some of it.
Yeah, my mistake - have fixed. Thanks for the feedback!
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That sounds about right. Sure there are exceptions but most Apple "fans" have just bought into the Apple ecosystem, generally like their stuff better than the alternatives for most purposes, upgrade now and then, and often buy new types of devices, even though they acknowledge that Apple whiffs now and then. I'd mostly even put Gruber in this category.

They mostly don't openly ridicule people who run Android, Linux, or Windows. Whereas, as you suggest, there's a definite subset of people who think and are happy to say they think anyone who buys Apple products has more money than sense and has clearly been brainwashed.
On the user side without question, but ion the developer side this enormous convenience for the user is worth much more than 30 percent. This is not Marketing this 50% of your sales funnel.
How about nvidia geforce now? Cyberpunk is coming to that apparently https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/gfn-announcement...
Seems like a calculator is a good example of a program which we would write even though it is entirely unsurprising; even if we needed nothing else on a computer we might invent it still?

It seems to me that we create computer programs not to surprise us but typically to do things very quickly or conveniently. Even a complex beast like Photoshop is reasonably unsurprising.
This is nice in theory but a bad idea in practice (as a blanket statement, I am all for checking preconditions in general). An easy example is binary search, which I think is a reasonable "piece" of code by your definition. One should never check its preconditions _inside_ the binary search function (that the list of elements being searched is partitioned by the search predicate). Checking the precondition is O(n) while the algorithm is O(lg n).