skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend worked on a blender. The wattage number was derived from the inrush current when first turned on.
The built-in speakers are the weak point of the hardware config. They are at most of mediocre quality. Maybe they are replaceable with little effort? You could send an email to System76, they have excellent customer support.
I know this goes contrary to “best practice” but I am very much in favor of this approach.

You want to focus on implementing good soft and hard rate limiting on all your endpoints.

You can obfuscate the login function to return an unhelpful error message, but unless you harden every possible public API against user enumeration — and most sites do not - you are just hurting the UX for no actual security gain.

This would include constant timing for returning results when there is or isn’t a user, so for example, running your hash function even when you don’t have a password to compare it to.

Years ago there was a big push to return unhelpful error messages, but then the signup or password reset functions would act as a user exists oracle anyway. Login got harder for zero actual gain in security.
Thanks for sharing this article! Even though I know more people are thinking about/struggling with stress, its good to read others assessment on it.

When covid came around and I started working from home I realized how much stress I had at the office. For at least the last 2 to 3 years I would get these huge headaches which would completely disable me and completely drain my energy. I was convinced that it was purely physical for the longest time. I did yoga, worked out, when to chiropractor, ... nothing really helped. I ended up at a physiotherapist with a lot of experience, who was able to look beyond the physical. After having yet another huge headache during my work week I discussed this with her, we were looking for the what could have stressed me. It was an email.

I was working on one project that I needed to finish to continue the work of my team when an email came in about another project I had been pushing away for a while. This email reminding me of that project stressed me so much that it completely disabled me.

I still regularly have these headaches, but now I can start thinking to myself, what stresses me here? And I can focus on fixing those issues. Most of these issues aren't just an easy fix, especially now, but its helping me. I'm helping me, I'm listening to my body.

Also related to the topic of stress and its consequences is When The Body Says No by Dr. Gabor Mate [1]. He did a few talks on the subject, you can find them on Youtube [2].

1. https://drgabormate.com/book/when-the-body-says-no/

2. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=when+the+body+s...
Wow, thank you for clarifying this. I was actually wondering about this yesterday and just figured they could be used interchangeably but I also knew that in certain cases writing it a certain way just made more sense but I never knew the noun/verb rule behind it. I feel stupid now lol.
The Eth2 Upgrades
Baffling that this wasn't a day one feature. Doubly baffling that it now launches on Enterprise only with no guidance on if or when it will be generally available. Never an explanation why this couldn't have been there all along. You have it with the repos already. It almost seems like you would have to go out of your way not to have this baked in from day one. I'm a long term fan, but c'mon github, you're better than this.
No, the bias is assuming that is true and acting on it without sufficient evidence.
"the entire ML ecosystem has been reinvented in the last 5 years"

Fifteen years, maybe, but because of new technology. Actual physical machines that did not exist earlier.

The churn in JS frame works is because because because, no better reason.
Not sure what you're getting at here. I wasn't supporting Parler's lawsuit. I'm simply responding to the parent comment that was claiming that Parler has good moderation.
> Whole swathes of humanity were ordered indoors! It was achieved at untold cost

Climate change has untold cost too, so what you’re saying doesn’t have much weight.
This is how the right has been feeling for a while. This is nothing new behaviour-wise for Facebook, the only difference is this gets more favourable media attention.
That's "mega-transistors" per mm^2?

Perhaps it would be better to go with "6502s per square millimeter" or something like that that would probably be a closer approximation of real-world density, since it accounts for wire routing and so forth.

SRAM density is sometimes used I think.
I'm sure it has. Perhaps a more recent "revolutionary event" in the USA has prompted a change in automated filtering. Just a hunch though.
It was by Intel, see this reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25872393
This is a false dichotomy, we have to get away from thinking of charging stations like gas pumps. Charging stations can be everywhere: grocery stores, retail stores, office buildings, malls, just about any parking lot or parking garage, hotels, airport parking and on and on. Gas pumps have to have huge underground tanks, and they have to be regularly refilled by large tanker trucks, by their very nature they will be less common and so they'd better be able to service more cars per hour. Charging stations are much smaller and can tie into the grid just about anywhere, there should be a lot more of them and thus they won't need to handle as many cars as a gas station does.
Is there admin overhead that gets in the way? For example, someone disputing 400 different 1 cent charges
Very few homes have anywhere to charge anything in London as an example. I don’t think the model works without knocking cities down and starting again.

The two people I know with Teslas have to charge at the local supercharger or park it a quarter of a mile away at the nearest slow charger which becomes a chore.
>They'll probably increase as gas motor cars are phased out before the process ever sink too low.

Why?
How to Improvise and Create on the fly like MacGyver
There's no publicly released pricing AFAIK, since the board is still in preproduction. I think the dev board is more expensive -- and targeted to be $8. $8 for a board with WiFi is pretty good.
> This really isn't available yet either. Who's going to pay for this? Really?

In Europe some retailers have this, sure, for 2 or 3 parking spots.

If the demand is there, I'm pretty sure they'll expand it, even as a paid/loyality bonus. I don't expect them to offer superchaging but 50-60 km/h charge would be more than enough.
Android 10 on RISC-V architecture
I find your comment somewhat amusing in the context of this discussion. Was it intentional?

> This "weak man," tactic is taught in undergrad, the idea is to destabilize an opposing view to neutralize the person holding it. [emphasis added]

Where is this taught?

> when half the middle class is educated to act like the seediest of prosecutors [emphasis added]

So you're bringing in economic class now, and for some reason explicitly assigning this behavior to prosecutors.
There are two low power modes. Technically either should be able to let the PIO continue to run. I'll explain all three power modes.

NORMAL: You get to select what is clocked here, except for the CPU. CPU will turn off clocking of some of its components if you are running a sleep instruction like WFE/WFI.

SLEEP: If both processors are in a sleep state, and no active DMA requests are running it automatically switches to this mode. You can once again configure what components are clocked here. So you could leave say just RTC and PIO powered up. This is less of a true low power mode, and more of just a way to automatically switch to a different set of clocked components if the bus is idle, so as to further reduce power consumption.

DORMANT: Ring and crystal oscillators stopped, zero dynamic power used in default configurations. Only a pin or RTC interrupt can wake the system from this state. Note that any externally supplied clocks will continue to be routed, and PLLs will run if not powered down. Thus technically this mode can be used to fully stop the CPUs while letting other accessories run from an external clock. The nominal intended usage is to continue to let the real time clock run, but the PIO could be run too/instead.
Be that as it may, the ancient world definitely went through a lot of trees, when they were the principle source of energy.

To put that in some perspective, a Roman legion (roughly 5,000 men) in the Late Republic might have carried into battle around 44,000kg (c. 48.5 tons) of iron – not counting pots, fittings, picks, shovels and other tools we know they used. That iron equipment in turn might represent the mining of around 541,200kg (c. 600 tons) of ore, smelted with 642,400kg (c. 710 tons) of charcoal, made from 4,620,000kg (c. 5,100 tons) of wood. Cutting the wood and making the charcoal alone, from our figures above, might represent something like (I am assuming our charcoal-burners are working in teams) 80,000 man-days of labor. For one legion. https://acoup.blog/2020/09/25/collections-iron-how-did-they-...
I always liked his analogy for object oriented programming as "software ICs" -- just as in hardware development, you don't have to worry about what goes on in a chip (just what it takes as input and gives as output), so too a well designed object works.
> Context, Provider, and hooks

Which is the biggest foot gun I've seen in my life.

There is a surprisingly high number of developer that still don't get it and will make those beautiful applications where, thanks to a naive usage of this, will create applications that rerender the entire application on every keystroke.
The superweapon post: https://web.archive.org/web/20121007160623/http://squid314.l...

because it is now behind an authwall.
Exactly what is happening in Norway
Sears didn't start that way. Their appliances and tools were top of the line, for instance.

Their own decline was a whoo-corporate example of the described phenomenon, accelerated if not triggered by the execrable Eddie Lampert.
>Maybe it was the long bicycle rides where I can peacefully wonder about what I want to focus on today, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, I have recently picked up the habit of walking daily for 30 - 60 minutes, but at the end of the day. It's quite refreshing and helpful, not to mention the physical exercise aspect. It feels good to think on the day's decisions / what happened, and think if what I am doing is what I really want or not.

>[...] by now I've seen firsthand how little practical relevance most school and university lectures had.

Yeah, I have heard this a lot. My problem lies in GPAs being used as filters, both for job applications and scholarships. It just hurts to think of the possibility that I could be passed over, not because of my actual skillset or level, but due to exam performance.
To be in the 'in' group you could always invest the time and learn how to use computers. We're actually a pretty welcoming bunch :)
Was 9 years really needed to come to the conclusion that

> But in the end, it was just a fundamentally flawed idea. Satellites don't pop and fall out of the sky. Balloons do, frequently.
I use https://iriun.com on an old Android phone to get an "overhead projector" setup (to show hand written notes).

(using USB connection not wifi; there is a bit of lag but works OK)
> I get Intel doesn't own the stack/vertical integration, but Intel could have devoted 1% of its revenue to a kickass Linux OS to keep Microsoft honest a long time ago and demonstrate its full hardware.

Moblin, MeeGo.
I honestly no longer recall. My cofounder gives a short talk here that will give you an idea, though: https://vimeo.com/24749599
That’s exactly what I am thinking as well.

Using C++ in moderation, without getting too crazy with classes, multiple inheritance, lambdas and other such things, works very well if you want to port a legacy C code base.

For a new project, there are many choices: rust, go etc.
Thanks for the notes mrkwse. I try to show copy like the following when trademarks show up:

> Naturally, trademarks apply to any brand icons or logos above. That means that you can use them in practice (for example, linking to the respective service), but that the company likely has limitations on how else they can be used.

I need to do some work to communicate that better :)
Well if we're nitpicking, that was the payload, not the Saturn V booster...

But unfortunate though that was, it didn't represent a fundamental uncertainty in the achievability of the goal - simply a fatal engineering mistake, which was immediately rectified.
The Craft of Experimental Physics (2015)
RIP. Objective-C was my first language and I enjoyed it even with manual memory management!
This was my biggest take away from this article too.

When you have a big project, you have to keep a consistent architecture. You need to keep using the same tools and patterns so that you have cohesion in your code base.

The worst thing about new architects on long lived projects is you typically get 2-4 ways of doing the same thing. If you're going to do that it needs to be so good that you don't mix and match.

If you are going to mix and match, you need to have a solid approach to splitting your dependencies, one way I'd have looked at doing this is by splitting this into multiple sub SPA applications and each mini project would be able to conform to it's own standard as long as it could interface with the glue application, this is by no means foolproof, but it gets you a lot closer to a maintainable situation from my experience.

Why I like this approach is that I saw a comment from someone saying they'd hate to be on a team with a uniform style. I completely get that, innovation is super important, but you have to build boundary layers between the different styles so you don't end up building such a hodgepodge of dependencies that you can't get things to work anymore. It also keeps your build times down and reduces time to get started working on your module.

Again same comment you made, I've made mistakes, trying to learn from them, maybe my current approach is bad too and there's a better way.
I found this enlightening, and disheartening at the same time. Is there any further discussion on how we can evolve past this, as individuals and as a society?
More than that, the IM conversation in the screenshot mentions downloading Flash 29, a version you can still download from adobe.com (granted, finding the link is a fun bit of searching).

Odd story.
(if anyone wants to read the article but can't, feel free to comment and I'll reply with a new link)
Linux Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough
> If they didn't want their content to be indexed by search results, they could ask Google to remove it

No, they can't. The first answer to the Google issue from the French press was sensible. Individualy they know their content is worth money but individualy they are weak so they try to form a syndicate to negociate with Google in a pay-or-nothing position. But Google argued the French equivalent of fair use allowed them to scrap titles for free.

The French competition regulator had to intervene to force Google to go negociate. You can't negociate in good faith with a monopoly like Google. As the USA has apparently decided it won't apply its antitrust law in order to protect the international competitiveness of its abusive companies, obviously Europe will have to rein them in.
I'm not aware of a strong functional benefit of electric versus combustion. But digital cameras had strong benefits over digital, so I don't think it's a good analogy.

In general, I don't think analogies are for making arguments, because people focus on the difference between the analogy and what it's being applied to, like I just did. In education, to teach a new principle, I think they are great.
Here's that original story as seen from Fox: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/internet-evangelist-says-...

Something about it stuck with their audience, it seems, since here's them covering a new iteration in 2019... https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/starbucks-risks-more-war-...

> Whether an aversion to using the word “Christmas” extends beyond Starbucks is difficult to measure. But in 2017, President Trump tweeted on Christmas Eve that Americans were “proud to be saying Merry Christmas again,” since he took office.

It's nice that your conservative Christian friends aren't so easily triggered, but that Trump quote points to the views of a sizable set of their peers.
On newer Android versions there's a setting called "Private DNS", I usually set it to Cloudflare IPv6 DNS.

There is 100% some funky shit going on in Android though; I was working on a project the other night and my phone absolutely refused to connect to the service on my PC. My phone and tablet both on Android simply gave me "no route to host" or timeouts even with data disabled and WiFi only set; this is connecting directly to IPs no hosts/DNS. Of course I assumed the firewall was up until I confirmed every other computing device I can access was able to hit it.

Why is my phone messing with my networking on my private network?
I assume this is a mistake, although I think they're mad I don't think the SWP are malicious a la some political sects
> In fact, I think we often would rather push ourselves in an all out burst of max effort exhaustion, than put dedication and consistency behind a goal.

I keep reading all these words about patience, consistency, how it compounds over time. I believe in all of that. But my own reality is this: I seem to have a very high activation threshold around most of things. For some, this means I'm unable to maintain steady, casual pace. By the time I work up enough energy to move past the potential barrier, the scheduled time is up and I should go do something else. In these cases, I naturally fall back to the pattern of working up the energy and then going non-stop. It tends to make the activation barrier even higher, but over time it seems to integrate to more actual progress.

(On that note, being a husband and a father, forcing me to keep a semblance of regular schedule, made this difficult for me.)

> The only exception to this might be short little events, like sure if you have an exam, a bit of stress and a last all out effort can help. If you're competing in some athletic event similarly. But for most other life goals, I'm not so sure.

I wish I knew how to reach that state, instead of having this natural tendency of turning things into "short little events".
Fast RC Airplane
The issue is that some developers have configured the registry field in their .npmrc file incorrectly. Ideally, sending out a memo telling everyone to fix it should do it. If not, one way to fix it is to commit the .npmrc with the correct configuration (assuming it doesn't include secrets). If all else fails, an ugly hack is to make a preinstall hook that fixes the .npmrc file.
Sounds like http://iram.cs.berkeley.edu/ and the meanwhile flopped Micron Automata Processor (Micron AP).
Interestingly, there is one dimension that still tracks the node number fairly closely.

In fact, the node number has never referred to transistor dimension, but the length of the gate electrode. A transistor would typically be about 4 times larger than that.

The reason to refer to the length of the gate electrode is because that was always the smallest feature printed on the chip. And that is what defined the required resolution of the lithography process.

So, a lithography process with a resolution of 32nm would be able to print chips with 32nm gate lengths.

Much has changed, and now transistors are no longer planar, they are 3-dimensional fin structures (FinFETs). The gate length scaling has slowed down, and now is not the smallest feature on the chip anymore.

The smallest feature in a modern FinFET process is actually the with of those 'fi s' that form the transistor channels.

And as if by magic, they correspond pretty well to the node names, i.e. a 5nm process will have a fin width of about 5nm.

You will likely not find that mentioned anywhere, it's just a fun fact that I noticed as a VLSI technologist.
This is very perceptive. Attempts at honest discussion often seem to be derailed in exactly this way. Discussion of the actual issue is avoided by loud assertions that take a lot of time to refute. Which "side" derails it does seem to depend on who the "weak man" would hurt.

Is there any way to avoid this?
Someone was expecting to push local disorder in Russia same as it was done in Belarus.

Every country has own local order and dont say that US or North Korea or Japan or some Timbuku or some Regimenanistan is Disneyland.
He would definitely dig that. Curiously, I was drawn to this thread because I was just listening to him today, talking about crystals and the nature of reality. He would go thru so many topics in such detail and clarity, it's incredible.
In this case, "in and out of focus" is actually variations in the amplitude of the probability function for the electron density projected onto a single plane (to a first approximation). Sometimes the wave functions of all the electrons interfere constructively, so you see a bright spot, and sometimes deconstructively, so you see dark. Depending on the orientation of things, this results in the images of "atoms" that you see in the picture. As the crystal changes shape and size, the interference patterns change, which partially explains why it disappears and reappears a few times. There's a bit more going on than that, but the physics of what's happening in a TEM image is really neat.
At any given moment? Yes.

Across the course of a lifespan, the number of people who have pushed themselves that hard is much higher. Some get disillusioned by the process, others get full-on burnout.

That said, the people who have it in their future are not reading persuasive writing about it, and haven't discovered hackernews. Possibly never will. Some of the people who are currently living it are within the HN demographic, but only a fraction, in either sense. So practically speaking this is more of a nostalgia piece for much of HN instead of persuasive writing.
Merchant fees
Fair enough, thanks for those details. Out of curiosity, do you know roughly what the target dimensions usually are now a days? I'm curious how much the efficiency gains are.

It's interesting that lumber kind of looks like shrinkflation (what the comment I was originally responding to suggested), but it's more that technical improvements have allowed producing the same finished product with less input material. But we still label the stuff by the amount of input material it used to take for historical reasons, which at a glance looks like shrinkflation.
> we don't all need to be a mechanic, a chemist, a doctor and an ITC pro.

We don't need to, true, but we can... and it can be fun too... why choose less, turning into mindless content consumers?
Actually in the US, the term "Watts RMS" specifies that the measurement is done according to the FTC Amplifier Rule. Now that rule has its own pro's and con's of course, but at least it's pretty definite. With all of these things, there's a corresponding European rule as well.

Whether the measurement method is appropriate to your use of an amplifier is of course anybody's guess.
Got it. Thank you for mentioning it here. Comments are getting a bit unwieldy to stay on top of.
Physical commonalities are easily gameable. You could divide a city into east-bank/west-bank, or upstream/downstream, or even near-bank/far-bank. Give me enough factors and write me a large enough check, and I can give you whatever kind of partisan results you want.

I do find watershed democracy (legislative district boundaries defined by watershed) kind of an interesting thought experiment. At the very least it'd help to solve water politics.
I'm sure the N-1 would have worked as well, if the project had been funded (in both time and money) properly. The Soviet failure to reach the moon was a project management failure, rather than the failure of a blind risk to pay off.