skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, a GPU is an ASIC.

It really boils down to economy of scale. AMD can produce chips (and solutions) at much more scale (and thus far less expensive) than relatively small Innosilicon can. AMD has closer relationships to the fabs.

It also is other factors that go into this. Like the critical memory controller component. AMD owns the patents. AMD can also buy memory chips in larger bulk (and thus less expensive).

Also, the R&D on GPU's is an already amortized cost. They already exist. ASICs have to be engineered from the ground up and do what GPU's already do.

At the end of the day, this is also beneficial because GPU's can be repurposed, while sha256 ASICs are just e-waste every time a new round of smaller nm tech comes out.
> the government does not have any of "its own" money - all money it can possibly distribute is taken from taxpayer's pockets

This is absolutely not the case. The government owns and operates a mint, and we haven't been on the gold standard since Nixon. There is no zero-sum double-entry accounting when it comes to sovereign fiat currencies.

If you analyze the monetary policy of the federal government like it's a family balancing a checkbook, you are buying right into the rhetoric that keeps the peanut gallery shrieking "but the deficit!" and prevents us from actually investing in the public's health and needs.

Federal deficit is public surplus. It is the federal government investing in its citizens in the most literal way possible.

> Call me cynical, but people working in the service industry were the safest ones to let fail without causing domino effect - they are already poor so they don't have mortgages to default onto - they can't afford even in good times - and that avoids a major risk of repeating 2008.

That's not cynical, that's sociopathic.
That's a single benchmark. Before regex-redux was regex-dna, and Rust's regex engine was faster than PCRE2 on that benchmark. So how does that change your conclusion?

The regex crate has many more benchmarks: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/bench/log/07/... and https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/bench/log/07/... for example.

And then there are things like this which can impact the performance of real world use cases: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pcr...

Please don't draw sweeping conclusions about the comparative performance of regex engines from a single benchmark.
There's a world of difference between "used for" and "designed to facilitate."

For instance, if USD had features designed to make life easier for counterfeiters, money launderers, and other kinds of financial criminals we would probably say that it has been designed for fundamentally the wrong ends.
We had months and months to build temporary hospitals... Why didn't we?
For those like me who still couldn't find it: there's a small menu button on the top left.

Maybe it's because I'm on mobile, but it's a bit hard to see.
It's likely that the resolution/blurriness are not responsible for your headache, but rather the lenses and lens spacing, and your particular IPD. Quest 2 has low-granularity control over IPD settings, so you may just be a bad fit for the device. Check your IPD online using a webcam and credit card and see if its close to one of the three available settings on Quest 2.
No personal attacks on HN please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple has been around an eternity compared to facebook. Apple is looking past them, not willing to get sucked down with them. At the end of the day facebook is going to be a whimper and a snicker.
With today's car seats, it can be made to work but it's a challenge. Realistically 2 kids in car seats makes the middle seat of anything but the largest cars impractical. At which point you are going up an extra row of seats, 6 seat layouts are uncommon.
Is the road or the school itself over the legal level of NO2? It does dissipate quite quickly, so it's important.

Dust and particular matter scares are definitely overblown. I live in zone 1, first floor with windows overlooking a small road, and I hardly ever saw PM25 level going over 2ug/m3 in a year I've measured it. Compare that to the safe long term exposure level of 10ug/m3 set by the WHO.
But it is your position that he should have been fired, correct?
The FEDERAL government didn't do anything.

Sounds like you do understand the issue then after all.
I have, they literally just don't reply.

Although losing some of your Hz sucks, the one that's driving me insane is the bug when you have an external both vertical and scaled.

The cursor position seems to display relative to the next scaling option up (or two), so that means it's off by more the further it gets from the top left corner. It disappears altogether in the bottom or rightmost 10% of the screen.

It has basically rendered my vertical 4k monitor unusable, unless I try and read tiny text, or scale it so big it's equivalent to a very crisp 1080p monitor.

Same with the issue I have with notes, if you edit the same note from both iOS and MacOS, you'll find yourself with invisible lines pretty quick. Also no reply.
In electric cars particulates from braking are also hugely reduced, as most braking is done by engine / recuperation.
If I could predict the future, I'd be rich already! =)
I didn't go far with Lisp but I had fun with The Little Schemer as a first contact.
Maybe that's the case but you haven't really presented any convincing arguments.
Do you have a source for this assertion? I assuming the privacy policy or terms of use would have this spelled out fairly clearly.
>an expansion state of immigrants

Why is immigration bad?
The main cross platform open source offerings are GTK and QT.

There are lightweight electron alternatives - HTML/CSS engines with a scripting DSL. Sciter is a paid option but I know there are free options depending on your language of choice

I’ve been working on a cross platform music player and went with GTK over QT because I preferred the Rust bindings, QT seemed to have a lot of non UI code I didn’t need, and I was skeptical of dealing with QT licenses (but a lot of people seem to work with it just fine - I just didn’t put the research in to see if it was right for me).

Compiling linux / mac was very easy for me. Cross compiling linux -> windows via mingw64 was also pretty easy. I had some trouble compiling mingw64 on windows, but that was due to SQLite / MSys issues that I never really figured out.
Confusingly written here ('must now use a token ... unaffected if you already use 2FA, as you're then required to use a token or SSH key' - so.. if I use 2FA and SSH key?) but per the linked original announcement, you can indeed carry on like nothing happened if you already use SSH, i.e. your remotes are git@github.com:blah/blah
As it happens, an article related to this came up just a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25246857
To be fair, I eventually got there (I think) but I don’t use Next.js and the banner of “building the next web” threw me off. It’s essentially web hosting, maybe on the PAAS end of the spectrum like Heroku. Seems like they turned up the collaboration dial, which gives them an entry point to team sales. That’s the best I could tell.
Gold doesn’t become more expensive to transport as the price goes up.
> Why can't we, as a society, react with the same effectiveness to air pollution?

In the UK at least, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is a powerful lobby group. Car sales are used as a key economic indicator. Cars have long been seen as aspirational and a measure of personal success. Cars support other sectors of the economy such as civil engineering (roads, bridges), petroleum sales and car accessories, parts and repairs..

Cycling and walking on the other hand? Not so much, despite the many benefits. Just recently, there has been a move in some areas to introduce low-traffic neighbourhoods and create more cycle-ways. The hoo-ha has been deafening. It causes congestion, it blocks emergency vehicles, it increases air pollution because cars are at a standstill. (According to critics.) Newspapers have been running stories about how evil and undemocratic this is, and dear old Nigel Farage seems to have re-invented himself as an anti-cycling campaigner.

I don't think there's an actual conspiracy - there usually isn't. But the status quo serves the interests of some powerful and wealthy groups, and it takes a strong-willed government to overrule them. They'd rather hand-wave about meeting 'green' targets by 2060, and meantime hope that electric vehicles arrive in sufficient numbers to eliminate or ameliorate the problem. The alternatives cause so much political friction that they seem impossible to implement, at least without more courage than our politicians are used to showing.
Malicious Domain in SolarWinds Hack Turned into ‘Killswitch’
Palantir has always been creepy and isolated, and Tesla is led by a super-villain who is moving to a state where he can legally force people into offices during a pandemic.

Plus his rockets are there, so that's a perk.
Pump and dump by some trillion dollar colluding whales. They're hoping people start going "huh- this might be my last chance to get in because there's probably NOT going to be a crash this time"

It's the largest vacuum cleaner in the world.
Big tech comp numbers that get thrown around--and that are often inflated and have been at least partly driven by stock market gains--lead a lot of people to set them as the bar. And to feel that's what they need to achieve even if they don't especially like the work given that they can't imagine doing something that "only" pays $100K or $150K or whatever.
> This puts a timeline for "safe tires" at 10-20 years from now!

No, it puts a maximum end date for 100% removal at 10-20 years. Incremental progress can happen much sooner. What you describe is basically the speed that most large-scale changes occur at. It's just how it goes.

> I hate to shout "doomsday", but the Salmon may not have that long. Salmon only live 2-3 years on average before spawning.

The salmon will bounce back. It is a real concern and problem that we need to fix, but we are not on the brink of extinction and don't need to panic.

> According to this article, 90% of them are dying due to this chemical during their trip up Puget Sound urban rivers to spawn.

90% in some streams. That's the worst case number, but there are many streams in Washington, many of which are not in urban areas.
The original story was wildly implausible. None of it holds up under a moment's thought. He might have a track record, but the burden of proof is still on him. And that is just as true after this article as before.

Given Twitter is a broadcast medium, it would have been incredibly simple for him to provide incontrovertible proof rather than screenshots and a claim that he posted a tweet that is indistinguishable from the average Trump tweet.
I find that this is a problem for nearly anything one might try to buy. I'm back to going to Consumer Reports for recommendations.
Lhunath's BashGuide
"Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux"

— Gregory Kurtzer, Founder
And color film doesn't solve anything that black and white film can't do. Besides, why watch film at all when you can look around the real world instead of looking at a moving picture on a screen.
Why avoid Ledger?
> FB is the least popular big tech company but I don't think it's any less ethical than Google or Amazon.

Can't argue there, but that's an incredibly low bar to set.
Welp...that didn't take long. I expected something like this would happen in light of the recent changes over at CentOS.
> good enough to replace large screens

The resolution is pretty good already and rapidly getting better.

What I'm excited about is hand tracking [i] so that I can use a real keyboard (and interact with real objects e.g. coffee cup) to type while I'm wearing a headset.

[i] https://youtu.be/XnG1l0qQW9k
It's what happens when you fixate on optimizing for only one variable (in this case total covid deaths or perhaps hospital ICU capacity). All other variables must be sacrificed to optimize the one variable, even if it means pushing millions into poverty, destroying industries, educationally handicapping multiple generations of students, etc.
This makes me wonder. What is the optimal size of the population for a given country/territory/planet?

That is, the size of the population at which the welfare/wealth of the median individual is maximized.

Given that, as you say, prime land, prime housing, prime infrastructure, prime tourist destinations don't easily scale, yet more people enable better technologies/more efficient production of other consumer goods and services.

Have too few people (in the extreme - a dozen), and you cannot have many nice things - not enough people to create nice art, build houses and cars and computers. Have too many (in the extreme - 100 billion), and there is too much competition for the same houses and tourist spots and what not.
Out of all internet users out there, how many would choose Firefox just because it's written in rust? An insignificant fraction.

That said. I've been using Firefox as my main browser for years. I only use chrome when a website needs it or works better in it.
Banks already sell that to advertisers and whoever is willing to pay.
Who were you planning to staff all of your temporary hospitals with?
An interesting comment, sadly I find that most people I know are passionate about money and not much else.
There's an individual on YouTube who does a great job reviewing carseat fits into various vehicles. The example below he fits 3 car seats in the back of a Ford Focus, which most people wouldn't consider to be a large car.

Alex on Autos
https://youtu.be/RTh06yWql_s?t=223

It can be done. There's also a great product called the MultiMac sold in the UK and I think the EU. Fits 4 in the back seat, worth checking out if available in your locale. It won't ship to the US for regulatory reasons.
https://youtu.be/zybM8cltCxU?t=179
Why do I need to trust and install a browser extension for this?

Why can't the same thing be achieved by using HTTP headers. E.g. like the do-not-track header was supposed to work?

Or by blocking dns lookups or an ip-range?
Jewelry is even more useless than ledgers.
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Have you never met any immigrants before? There's a very stark cutoff age before which learning a language results in no accent and after which the accent is almost impossible to eliminate.
Well Amazon is licensing data from ESRI, so I don't think they will be incredibly shocked by this announcement.
Do any friendly folks here have advice about shell choices in emacs on Windows 10? Using MSYS typically works well enough for me for simple commands, but I always have a separate Powershell window open for more detailed work and actually running my compiled binaries. Generally I have found the shell in emacs on Windows to be very finicky and difficult to use.

It has always been a minor pain point and I’ve had trouble finding reliable info. Ideally we could just use Powershell but I understand this is quite tricky. Powershell.el[1] didn’t actually work for me (beyond the editing mode) when I last tried it but I do see there’s a somewhat recent update.

[1] https://github.com/jschaf/powershell.el
Not directly in line with OP’s comment but interest rates are stupidly low right now. Wouldn’t surprise me if this enables a lot of people to buy homes. I know several people (late 20s, early 30s Boston area) who have bought homes recently and I myself am refinancing.
That's why. The sidebar is open by default on desktop.
Agreed. I've used and advocated for RHEL/CentOS at work since version 5 because it was stable and predictible. That's gone now, and many of my users would prefer Ubuntu anwyay because it's what they use on their personal machines. So I'm making plans to move all our compute resources to Ubuntu LTS.
> all money it can possibly distribute is taken from taxpayer's pockets.

This is the insanely reductive view of government spending that allows the Republican party to float austerity measures in the worst economic times since the Depression.

Taxes are not the only place that government money comes from. How would that even make sense? What do you think the Federal Reserve even does? Why do you think we have a national debt?

The government is absolutely able to create money out of essentially thin air when called for -- the question is whether we need to wring our hands about increasing the national debt of the largest economy on earth while people are starving in the streets.
The state isn't in any position to offer emergency loans / bailouts. The federal government needed to work with the states that were being hit hardest by Coronavirus, when they were being hit. Instead some got a random $1200 check and some PPP loans, when many didn't even need it yet.

States had a choice, leave everything open and deal with the loss of life, and still suffer as people would be going out less. OR shut down to help prevent deaths and hope the federal government would help (which it should have).

Instead it became a political battle to give corporate immunity, and nobody got anything after March.
Is it that much better than Quest 1? The first Quest was already pretty great compared to everything else, Facebook or not.
The article and the people commenting seem to generalize this death to air pollution. But the article itself specifically quotes NO2 as the cause of death.

High concentrations of NO2 can be directly attributed to diesel engines which is a much easier problem to tackle than the general problem of decommissioning ICE vehicles.
CPI has become more of a tool for political posturing than an accurate measure of the cost of living. Real cost of living is growing significantly faster than CPI.
See this comment from this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25446153
Multidimensional arrays are first class in Julia. Just add Linear Algebra package and you’re all set.
Or they could do the original Episode 9 script instead

https://youtu.be/itdfe5yQ0Hg
Note that they said small businesses will suffer 60% losses of profit per dollar they spend with Facebook. They said the quiet part loud. They're not concerned for the small businesses, they're concerned small businesses will put their marketing budget elsewhere when it’s not profitable to just throw money at Facebook.
Yes it does. Security always comes at a cost.
> why should Floridians pay federal income taxes to subsidize closed businesses in California?

Because Florida benefits immensely from supporting a state which has, if it were a country, the 6th highest GDP in the world.

The economy in Florida would be heavily affected if California left the union.

Your question is basically like asking "why do federations exist?"
Thank you and your friend for the advice, we'll take a careful look at each of her recommendations.
This is one of my big issues with Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies. It's not a democratic system, it's controlled by whoever has the most investment in the currency (either through mining power, or amount of currency).

This means that the people who get the most decision making power are incentivized to only make changes that help their investment. Any change that would help a majority of users, but harm these top users, is basically a non-starter.
Pendant?
Debian's package policies can be challenging for rapidly updating packages: https://lwn.net/Articles/835599/
They're free to give the money back. I mean I wouldn't take money from a murderer, or some other bad person.
Started using lazygit a couple months ago and never looked back.
As a former Oracle employee I am assuredly biased. But here's my point of view: if Oracle tried to pull one of those moves, people would just jump ship to something else (just like they are doing here in response to Red Hat/IBM). And likely Oracle management knows this, and so they likely won't.

Oracle Linux is very different from other Oracle products (e.g. database, ERP systems) in that there are quite low levels of lock-in / switching costs. "Embrace and extinguish" works best for products with high switching costs, which isn't Linux.

If you are particularly worried about this, just avoid using any of the features Oracle added to RHEL, like DTrace or Btrfs. Just stick to the RHCK (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) instead of UEK (Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel).
It is my position that he should have resigned for the good of the Mozilla community (which he did, because what he did was hurtful and mean, and the consequences of his actions make him a poor leader), or justified his homophobic beliefs and kept his job (which I believe are unjustifiable, unless he has some new information that is news to me, which is why I think he should have spoken up instead of resigning if he had some special insight into why same sex marriage should be illegal, or simply admitted he was wrong and sincerely apologized, instead of clinging to an indefensible position).

Even anti-gay born-again Christian Gervase Markham certainly didn't hold back trying to defend his indefensible position against same sex marriage, and Mozilla never fired him or asked him to leave as he continued to speak out, until the day he died. And he too testified that Brendan wasn't asked to leave, either. Do you accuse him of being in on the conspiracy, too? How do you theorize they bought him off, a presumably morally upright born-again Christian?

http://blog.gerv.net/2014/04/your-ire-is-misdirected/

>Hi. My name is Gervase Markham. I’m a supporter of traditional marriage, and I work for Mozilla. In fact, as far as being on the record goes, I believe I’m now the only one.

>Many people who agree with me on this issue are very upset about what happened to Brendan Eich, our co-founder and, for two weeks, CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Brendan was appointed and then, after 10 days under the Internet’s lens of anger based on his donation in opposition to the redefinition of marriage, stepped down and stepped away from Mozilla – to our great loss.

>I am assured by sources I trust that Brendan decided to leave of his own accord – he was not forced out. My understanding is that the senior management of Mozilla (many of whom disagree with him on this issue) worked very hard to support him, even if I would not agree with all the actions they took in doing so. However, he eventually felt that it was impossible for him to focus on leading if he was spending all of his time dealing with the continued, relentless news and social media storm surrounding the donation he made. In other words, he wasn’t forced out from the inside – he was dragged out from the outside.
Not sure what browser you’re on, but this redirects me to the page that requires JS on Firefox android
America’s biggest companies are flourishing and putting thousands out of work