skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISA's are to hardware what API's are to software. They simply provide a spec to conform to. ISA's say little to nothing about the hardware implementation itself. That's the real value and something that every firm that has CPU IP guards.

And sadly China isn't lacking in stolen valuable CPU IP. The Chinese branch of ARM went rogue last year. I think its a safe assumption that any sensitive information they may have had is no in the hands of the CCP and will be used to its full potential.
They're probably going to set road tax really high for ICE cars in a decade or so... (although, that wouldn't help people who can't afford to buy an EV).

Nowadays old cars and buses get exported to less developed countries, e.g. in Africa. So, there'll be a lot of Africans driving Bentley instead.
I miss Adium

Trillian used to be like Pidgin and Adium on Windows but then they went and made its own IM service.
I dunno, if elon musk's next spacex project was called "death star", I might be a little concerned.

on a more serious note, people do choose the names for their companies/products. they could be totally meaningless, merely sound good, or convey something about the brand. it's not a rigorous argument, but nor is it ridiculous to wonder what they were going for here.
I don't buy the "you can't blame anyone except the person that pulls the trigger" argument.

That type of whataboutisim is at the heart of every major engineering effort of silicon valley and surveillance capitalisim that is used abusively on the masses.

We can say no. We -must- say no.

Making alcohol should be legal. Specifically selling it to a kid is not legal, because then you are specifically helping them commit a crime.

Likewise I don't blame steel mills for producing steel that is later used in guns wielded by dictators on their own people.

I sure do blame the people that sell the guns to said dictators with full knowledge of their likely use case though.

We as engineers have an ethical responsibility if we make a nuke with full knowledge the buyer probably intends to drop it on a city.

I once built a company that produced a very effective social data aggregator, classifier, and sentiment analysis engine with an easy search interface. It quickly identified sentiment trends across a dozen networks and could of been amazing for brand managers or stock traders. My investors decided they wanted to repurpose it for political propaganda and market it to a specific party. I could of said "well this is really cool tech, and I am making good money... Not my problem what they do with it". I thought that for a bit. I even helped build an MVP for political candidate tracking.

It felt wrong, so I quit. I didn't help them replace me. The company ended and all my years of work and research with it. So be it.

I don't always get it right, but looking back, -not- continuing that project remains one of the proudest choices of my life.
Only twitter and only partially. The app (iOS) works OK save for viewing individual timelines. It shows a "user does not exist" error. This resolves when I disable the VPN though. My personal feed works without issue including displaying all responses in threads.

Have not seen any issues on other sites.
There is some nuance.

Assume for the sake of argument that the United States has a legitimate interest in fighting the Taliban. Within such an exercise I hope we could agree that there is a distinction between lawful violence and unlawful violence. People of goodwill can disagree about where to draw that distinction. But 'rules of engagement' is not a mealy-mouthed weasel word. It's how we describe this distinction.

(It may be likely that you don't accept under any circumstance that the US has a legitimate interest in fighting the Taliban. That's fine but it's a different discussion.)
It’s a little different if the agreement is visibility and advertising revenue or your selling subscriptions.

If news websites where unhappy about the deal they are free to use robots.txt and search engines will ignore them. So, clearly they receive some benefit and are simply arguing they should receive more.
I respectfully disagree.

I can place a contrarian, a nitpicker, a bully, even an algo, as twitter's manager of content. Twitter Users submit CP complaints. Then 99.99% responses are:

"After careful review of the content, we have not found this material violets twitter policy of no CP on our sites"

Truth is the eye of the beholder.

Thus, if the beholder is responsible for the decision and it is wrong, should they not be held accountable in the court of law? Even if it means lots of lawsuits?
While I understand where you're coming from, we can't just switch every project to Rust.
Elastic Cloud offers VPC endpoint connections if your deployment is in AWS. You don't end up paying the usual NAT gateway egress costs.
It is available on Linux. Apparently not when using GTK on Windows.
They survived the same way that any other species survives: by finding an ecological niche in which they are better adapted than their competitors. That niche doesn't have to be very big, it just has to be big enough. During the ice age, the niche for this flower was in the tropics somewhere.
From the devboard datasheet:

> The RP2040 ADC does not have an on-board reference and therefore uses its own power supply as a reference. On Pico the ADC_AVDD pin (the ADC supply) is generated from the SMPS 3.3V by using an R-C filter (201 ohms into 2.2μF)

Which doesn't sound promising and I don't see a DAC in the RP2040 datasheet.
> I suspect that gas stations will start swapping pumps for chargers, and that will motivate people to switch too.

This may happen some places, but I expect the charging infrastructure to ultimately look very different from the refueling one we have today. Today's fueling infrastructure is the way it is largely due to the difficulties of storing and pumping fuel safely (physically and environmentally speaking). There's no reason that an electric car shouldn't be able to 'refuel' at a restaurant, grocery store, or at work (ie, where we see most charging places pop up).

Having four-corners real estate and employees dedicated for electric charging all over even city is just inefficient.
ClickHouse Is Apache 2.0
Years ago I setup a doctors office to use Pidgin with the Bonjour protocol for local IMs that wouldn't go over the internet. Worked well. Free too.
Could this be used to build a compiler? That's what I really want, a compiler that updates the binary as I type.
I had a stick shift Honda del Sol until about a year ago. One of the last times I had it in at the dealer, the service rep had to get one of the techs to bring the car around to me after I settled up because she couldn't drive it.
Europe has a big advantage that distances are closer and cars are smaller and newer. USA still will be a long long time. My apt building has 500 cars and zero electrical outlets.
Disclaimer that I left in 2014, but at that time they didn’t lean into their reputation at all. With that said, <speculation>I’d guess that they’re leaning into it and capitalizing on it because any press is good press. </speculation>

They were actually incredibly open with what they did technically, and a lot of who they worked with it’s just that nobody seemed to care at the time. They had tech talks showing the full system architecture on YouTube that didn’t get more than 10k or so views. A quick search indicates that a lot of those are gone now (maybe just outdated) and the channel is more marketing heavy now, but just as low trafficed.

They also open source a lot of their core technologies. The main database they used was “AtlasDB”, a relational layer on top of Cassandra. It’s open sourced and actively developed, and again, nobody seems to care, with it at a measly 700ish stars - https://github.com/palantir/atlasdb

People just like a good boogie man story, and after 2 decades of being labeled as such eventually you just stop trying to fight it I guess.
That sounds like a Beaglebone Black. It has "programmable realtime units" built in, which are basically microcontrollers. They are well-integrated with the host computer; there is a mailbox passing messages between the host machine and the PRUs. No need to invent a serial protocol for communicating -- just put your c struct in there.
How did you reach the conclusion that he wasn't born in poverty? According to your own quote, his father was a clerk in a shop in India.
I agree with your comments 100%, I too read and enjoyed the book and found it very complementary to The Idea Factory
I haven’t met any right NIMBYs that are against roads or for rent control.

I’ve met many people on the left (homeowners or not) that think we should have fewer roads and more rent control.
I used Miranda - seems likes its getting developed
> A lot of the Seattle area only has street parking on residential streets. I'm curious how these folks are ever going to go full EV.

It is funny how people in the US expect exactly nothing from their government/city. Does nobody think they could provide shared charging infrastructure for people who live there?
> Are people wearing jeans when working from home?

Yes. All of my jeans are part elastane and are very comfy.
The trouble with a few hundred customers is the customer service side of operations. Indie hackers are lean machines and having to support a large customer base requires more tasks. Managing churn is also another problem area as you grow which generally requires product development. You quickly lose the indie hacker feels once you get to 50 customers I would say.
Yep, I've had the XC60 T8 for a year now and I love it. Either I'm not burning any petrol whatsoever or averaging 100-150mpg in my daily driving. I fill up once every 3-4 months so far. And I did a 1500 mile trip around Europe last summer too, like in any normal car. Absolutely fantastic.
I don't get where you think that I am claiming these operating systems lack accessibility features. That's an invention of yours.

I do make the verifiable claim that they lack the configurability of Windows 3 as regards font and color choices throughout the UI, and further that this is in fact an accessibility feature in itself.

Windows 10, for instance, only allows you to change the "accent color" and select either "light mode" or "dark mode". While it does allow a change in font size, if there's a place in its settings dialogs to change the default font itself I couldn't find it, although I did find a place to change it in the registry.
>All you need to run a 'personal git server' is sshd

To expand on this slightly: making your "personal" git server accessible to collaborators (without needing to manage user accounts user accounts) is also very simple. You can statically serve your repository using any web server.

Collaboration is then based on each contributor pushing (ssh) to their personal server from which everyone else may pull (http).
What chat protocol do you use it with?
Cogging is only really a problem if you either have a particular motor design or not very sophisticated control. EVs are not generally going to suffer from it.
This is complicated. At low current there is no photon generation because all you get is leakage. Then the generation increases with current, while a lot of photons are lost to reflection and recombination and the leakage increases with thermal recombination. As the current increases, the carrier population densities become inverted and then most of the generation is through stimulated emission, which is much more efficient, and the reflections actually help drop the critical current to get to this point. The dream structure would be a very small junction region with high optical and electrical confinement, low defects, and high thermal conductivity. I would expect this to be a SiC wire with a thin strained CVD GaN crystal layer in a Bragg reflector outer shell. Just to be clear I know nothing of the last 15 years of progress.
Can world leaders stop using Twitter to say shit? How did we even get here?
Ask HN: What back end language should I learn in 2021?
Hey,

I mostly work with Javascript/Typescript.
Now I'm thinking what backend Language/Framework should I learn in 2021 to have better position when getting jobs as a full-stack Dev?

PHP? Java? .NET? Go? Rust?
Any thought on that?
Especially if EVs continue down the "smart car" route with locked down firmwares, dealer-only maintenance, etc.
Leafs are problematic because they lacked battery thermal management.
Google Talk*

There was no product named Google Chat until recently.
This is about right. A lot of comparisons are slightly off because they use the energy numbers from the car itself which leave out charger inefficiency --- which can be rather bad on Tesla --- but it doesn't change the big picture.

On the other hand, you need to consider the amortized cost of the vehicle itself; both a higher vehicle cost and the likelihood of a somewhat lower vehicle lifetime. Maybe increased performance counteracts some of this for you?

Further complicating things is maintenance. Oil changes are avoided. Brake pad changes are reduced. But tire wear is usually increased...

And after all this, there's the convenience differences (both ways). You never need to go to a gas station for a normal drive. But road trips suck a lot more.
You can already get lightly-used Bentleys for $30k -- https://bringatrailer.com/bentley/continental-gt/
It'll bifurcate as a market. Nice, collectible, lesser used ICE vehicles will go up in value, for collectors that can still afford to operate and own them. It'll be a wealthier person's hobby. For everyone else they'll have very little value and most of the market will become far more burden than it's worth (because there will be increasing environmental costs associated with operating them, selling/buying them, registering them, and disposing of them).
How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout
Intel Has Resolved Its 7nm Chip Woes, 12th Gen Alder Lake on Track for 2021 Ramp
You can buy a 2011 Leaf for about 3 grand. Sure, the battery is probably toast, but replace it for 5 grand, you're still well under 10, and now you have 100 miles of range and a car with the only wearable item brand new.
> The Tilbrook, Pike, Redelmeier QED for Unix was based on the ed source code.

I thought spiritually, QED begat ed, but are you saying for this specific implementation the lineage went QED ~> ed -> T/P/R QED ?
Yes yes, we get it. Social media platforms where users can’t be tracked or censored easily are a threat to the status quo.

So you get articles like this talking about the horrors of an extremist ideology and loosely connecting it to a platform that isn’t been brought under heel yet like Telegram.

All part of the next push for censorship and removal of rights now that a sympathetic ear is in the White House (at least I think he can still hear).

Can I guess the next headline? “Extremist far right activists share gun schematics via encryption. Should we pass laws outlawing encryption and guns? I mean, for the Nazis only at first!”
I've always found the change management tooling backwards. Force the developer to aggregate the data so that auditors have an easier life when they check a single change once a year. Why doesn't the tooling just hook into the existing data sources that already provide the data for auditors. like PRs, testing data, JIRA tickets, etc...
Range anxiety?
>> Don’t blame those that build the software they use. To me that makes every open source project a potential ethical minefield since they could all be getting used to do immoral acts without even knowing about it.

This is a slippery argument.

There is a difference in building a car that people can drive and one that is specifically to be used as a weapon.
I haven't found anything else to be as helpful than Redbull (with actual sugar) for inflammatory brain fog. More on the sugar, but the B6 and Niacin help to bypass whatever it is wrong with brain energetics when inflamed.

It doesn't have to be Redbull, but where else are you going to get 30g of sugar and a few helpful vitamins out in the wild.
I agree that once EVs break the $30k price barrier + time for market adoption, we will indeed see disincentives for owning an ICE car...but there will be enough time to get some years out of driving an ICE car bought at a bargain from some high-earner who can't handle the negative signal it sends to peers.
I used to love using Pidgin to aggregate all of my chat clients into one UX. These days with most of the platforms I use running on proprietary protocols I'm too worried about getting my accounts banned for using questionable clients built by reverse-engineering these protocols. I've heard enough Google Account horror stories that it doesn't seem worth the risk.
While I really like Pidgin, I really wish their developer reference for plugins were a bit easier to work with/understand.

The only thing I find is here: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/CHowTo (Their new website https://pidgin.im/development/ has nothing on making plugins)

But it does not explain things like How to create new chats/IMs, how to create new buddies, what the Buddy List is (Which I found out, the buddy list https://docs.pidgin.im/pidgin/2.x.y/blist_8h.html is NOT a list of buddies that you have, but is a list of things like all of your chats, a list of buddies, and some other things I have yet to figure out, and this is needed for libpurple to understand what chats you do and don't have).

They explain what their APIs do, but I have been typically finding it much easier to look though Matrix's libpurple plugin (or some of the more established plugins) to figure out how they do things like make a new chat room, add buddies, etc.

Perhaps it is also because I have only been looking through others code, but I feel like the APIs are a bit on the limited side (Like trying to add two pictures and text in a single chat, for example. Do I send two files then make text? do I add one picture at a time?).

I hate to say, it makes it really hard to try to make/support/extend plugins.

(For those curious, I have been working to add MMS support to libpurple: https://source.puri.sm/kop316/purple-mm-sms , so that the Pinephone can have MMS support).
Amazing name choice ;-)

It means "Don't you dare" in German
Few takeaways from the article
1. The decline in share of Bay Area companies is almost exclusively driven by rise in New York based companies. This is not driven by any new and emerging tech hub as media would have you believe

2. The post pandemic world is actually going to impact non Bay Area tech hubs even worse. Why would a company need to be based in Miami or Austin if they are fully distributed. This will actually stunt the growth is those tech hubs more than Bay Area, where large FAANG office based employment will continue to bring in developers
> As long as all UIs use the system theme

That's the root problem, though, isn't it? It's a business/people problem. You won't have consistent UIs as long as software vendors consider look&feel as something to exploit for branding or competitive advantage. Since user feedback is rarely sought and routinely ignored in computing, you'd need the OS vendor to either disallow UIs not conforming to system theme, or make them impossible (by taking away the API for per-pixel drawing). Neither of those options is likely to happen.
You're absolutely right, but if the technology you sell is not even truly required by an unethical client like those mentioned, then there is even less reason to engage with them.

The parent post from a former employee suggests that Palantir is in a similar position:

> They build a federated search engine with a simple UI to make it accessible to a non-technical audience. That’s it.

That's not a value proposition that is beyond the realms of possibility for other companies to develop. So why does Palantir appear to engage with more unethical projects that other companies if it's not by having a low ethical standard? (Obviously I can only comment on what is public knowledge.)
If a rich person shorts Intuit stock, spend $5-10 million developing a really slick tax program, and releases it for free, could they break even?

They could make it a charity, and the $5-10 million would be tax deductible on top of it.

At that point, maybe Intuit wouldn't have the motivation to keep the tax code complicated. Then we could move to a simplified system at the speed of congress.
Equal but not identical...
I live in a similar place to Seattle, and I see people laying charge cords across the sidewalk all the time. With nothing covering them, making them a tripping hazard. Just blows me away. This is ripe for insurance scams, but it is a genuine problem, for pushing strollers, wheelchairs, and pedestrians!
I like Go as it has fast compile times and many libraries. And it's fast too.
I don't believe Iran has really stopped calling "Death to America" for the last 20 years. (Woah, I just looked up the history: its closer to 40 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America) So this really is just a continuation of the status quo.

If not on Twitter, they'd send the message out through different means. Twitter is cheap and easy, so why not?
You might be right for the high end (the Bentley example), but the middle/lower end of luxury isn't that interesting as a collectible, cars like a 5 series BMW, or Lexus LS, and could really drop in value.
It's not super uncommon for people who've been on HN for years to create alts, new accounts, throwaways, finally decided to stop lurking, etc. ahem :)
One is Dropbox and the other is Box.
“These steps are mentioned in a portrait of Duesmann, who has been at the helm of the VW subsidiary in Ingolstadt for three quarters of a year, in the German publication Manager Magazin. Specifically, it says that new versions of the A4 and A6 will be launched again from 2023 and electric variants will follow a little later, but that Audi does not even want to offer the mid-range models as internal combustion engines until the end of their life. Ergo, the end will be before 2030.”

Um. That is not exactly an announcement.

That’s an attempt to read between the lines of an article in a magazine that says Audi would like to start phasing things out, maybe, if the market and regulatory conditions are right. That is a far cry from an announcement.
The image in the article is cropped, here is the full version: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsSCa10XEAQxm5i?format=jpg&name=...

The text roughly says: "Those who ordered the murder of General Soleimani as well as those who carried this out should be punished"
If there aren’t any such projects, now might be a great time to start.

Prior to reading ProPublica’s exemplary reporting, I had no idea how truly duplicitous some of the market leaders can be.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
They're going to be cheap, but/because you're not going to want one.

The type of depreciation you're describing would happen in response to an extremely sudden change in circumstances, which I'm not expecting.

ICEs are dying predictably enough for that Bentley to never have been bought at its original price.
Because you want to customize it, leave stuff in it, hop in it right now, etc. Most of the cost associated with owning a car--especially outside of the snow belt--is in the mileage so having a car that spends a lot of time idle isn't really all that economically inefficient.
For some vehicles, yes.

Such as:

* Toyota Tacoma - yes
* Subaru WRX STI - yes

But getting into the honda accord, toyota camry, these are the ICE vehicles that are going to be crazy cheap.
An IC engine is 20-30% efficient depending on the technology (the rest is waste heat). An electric engine is 80-90%.

Even if you imagine the electricity comes from a gasoline power plant, the efficiency at the plant will be higher than a regular car ICE because of scale benefits + use of a cold sink (ocean/river).
I still don't understand why the magnetization or the energy of the Ising model should be "unnecessary internal implementation functions" when they are the actual outputs of the model.

Thinking more about it, the example is (almost) a value object class. I don't think this is well-chosen for making a point about bloated classes.