skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because nobody yet built a good implementation of the idea.

There was Flattr, but they pivoted from their original idea because they couldn't make it work for some reason.

It can't be implemented on the level of individual sites - the solution needs to be universal, like Google adding a 'tip' button to Chrome + Play Store payment integration.
> My prediction is x86 is dead.

I don't see that. At least in corporate environment with bazillion legacy apps, x86 will be the king for the foreseeable future.

And frankly I don't really see the pull of ARM/M1 anyway. I mean, I can get a laptop with extremely competitive Ryzen for way cheaper than MacBook with M1. The only big advantage I see is the battery, but that's not very relevant for many use cases - most people are buying laptops don't actually spend that much time on the go needing battery power. It's also questionable how transferable this is to the rest of the market without Apple's tight vertical integration.

> I'd argue Apple's M1 machines are already at this level and they're version 0

Where is this myth coming from? Apple's chips are now on version 15 or so.
I think what they mean is that there are enough non-CPU differences that you can't make this an accurate comparison. That being said at the end of the day the ARM instances are cheaper and better performing—whatever the reason may be.
First of all, my comment was in response to a flippant comment "Oh Starlinks gonna win." In that context its more information than the original commenter gave along with their 1-bit opinion.

Oh yeah and I also interviewed with Loon.

Iridium solved the satellite interlink problem (but only wirelessly at 10 Mbps). They could have used laser crosslinks but they didn't know how to implement a search / sync up algorithm (fast sub-second search algorithms were available before iridium was built but they failed to take advantage of the MIT research.)

The basic problem is that Iridium / Globalstar / Loon / Starlink are all fill-in systems for terrestrial internet. And since we've been deploying terrestrial internet for 25Y, the number of places missing higher-speed internet is smaller and smaller each year. All the rich customers have all been reached by faster, cheaper wires. The poor customers ... well they are poor, they will not pay much for service. And there are fewer of them every year ...

No LEO system can actually penetrate a building with a data signal. It's a physics problem with sending a signal 400 mi wirelessly. Reusable rockets don't solve that physics / power problem. Iridium has a special +35dbm channel that can ring a phone inside a building, but you have to walk outside (in the rain, snow, whatever) to take the call. Same with starlink. Physics hasn't changed since the mid 1990s. It is not expected to change in the next billion years, either.

So its just not a smart thing to build satellite internet. period.
Ok, I still have questions.

To start... How would a city with tens of thousands of computers transition to ARM in the near future?

The apps that run 911 Dispatch systems and run critical infrastructure all over the world are all on x86 hardware. Millions if not Billions of dollars in investment, training, and configuration. These are bespoke systems. The military industrial complex basically custom chips and x86. The federal government runs on x86. you think they are just going to say, "Whelp, looks like Apple won, lets quadruple the cost to integrate Apple silicon for our water system and missile systems! They own the stack!"

Professional grade engineering apps and manufacturing apps are just going to suddenly rewrite for apple hardware, because M2 or M3 is sooooo fast? Price matters!!!! Choice Matters!!!

This is solely about consumer choice right now. The cost is prohibitive for most consumers as well, as evidence by the low market penetration of Apple computers to this day.
This is interesting, maybe the UI can allow testing of buggy queries, or setting up and teardown of test environments. But this seems more of an extension to some existing issue tracker rather than a separate product.
> It's a feature, not a bug

I'm not that familiar with React (although I have had the misfortune of working with Angular), but I've seen the horrific Spring "framework" defended that way: it doesn't actually include any functionality because it's designed to be open ended! What it turns out to be is the most useless thing that ever happened to programming: it's pure overhead, undocumented (surprising) behavior, unwanted defaults that you have to spend time working around without the benefit of actually simplifying anything. Not saying React is the same (like I said, haven't really spent much time looking at it), but it's adherents defend it the same way Spring's adherents defend it.
Totally. If my hobbies and fun activities are starting to feel more like a job rather than fun, I'm out.
Not true... US carbon emissions have been going down for over a decade, even as population increases.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...
I think CAN is the special case here, since it more or less requires hard real time feedback within a bit cell. Almost all of the other weird protocols don't do that, so you can have the simple scan in/out handling the phy like you said and are no longer dedicating a full core 80% of your time to bit twiddling.
> But to me, the obsession is what makes it rewarding. I guess my view is that anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

My father is like this. I've described him as a "serial obsessionist". I recognize in myself several unhealthy behaviors that likely developed due to his influence in this regard.
Has anyone here made the jump? I'm considering testing some components or our infrastructure on Gravitron processors but going all the way in with the database sounds risky but I don't really have a technical data point to justify my bias.
I also love the security write up.
The earlier comment implied that Bannon stole all the monies raised, when in fact, where talking about what - 10%? - diverted?
There's no question that 100% of the monies did not go to the construction of the wall. From a practical standpoint, a non-profit that manages to run with a 10% overhead is very unusual. Most non-profits spend most of their money (70%+) on marketing and administration.
Maybe on the long run, this might be X's very legacy: figuring out how to become good at achieving moonshots, by pursuing a lot of them and failing at the most.

At least that's what Astro Teller is talking about a lot: Work on the approach, don't pursue single lucky punches.

Sad that loom didn't work out. If X fails eventually, I think the idea of radical corporate innovation from scratch is dead.

Then Elon seems to be the only one left with the most promising 10x or even 100x playbook: hardcore dedication to insane goals in terms of resources, work ethics and throughput.
I'm not following this one. Wouldn't something that's high reward and low risk also be low stress?

I'm trying to envision something that's high reward and high risk, and isn't stressful.
The pricing model is amazing. Either free up to 100 users or a modest under $100 USD per year for unlimited. Perfection.
How many situations don't let you use _ and -? URLs certainly do.
The advantage of state borders is that they are static and precede many years of polity shift and demographic migration.

Districts, on the other hand, are drawn to serve the drawer.
Yes, and as a 3rd party service would be great too. I can login with Facebook, Google, etc. It would be great if I can just pay 1/2 cent to read 1 article vs signing up for monthly or yearly subscriptions. And I can choose pay with service a, service b or service c. They should all adhere to a single standard so any new service can just plug into it. Why should I have to choose only between ads or some big monthly/yearly subscription?
That's annoying. As far as I can tell this is a free feature in GitLab, and it's one of the ones I miss after moving back to Github.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/pages_access_c...
So much this. M1 mini here. I am absolutely chuffed with it. It’s insanely good.

I’m going to be the first person in the queue to grab their iMac offering.
The comments about node dependencies exploding and build times creeping up over time was painfully familiar. I now work at a large company that addresses this with strong library discipline and huge investment in build infrastructure, but when I worked on teams at small- and medium-sized companies we were always plagued by these kind of problems.
I suggest a pull-based approach, instead of gitlab/github's push based thing. Have a regular job pick the latest master branch, tag it correctly (watch out to order your releases), build, package, ship, deploy. I would keep it synchronous. Doesn't make sense to build the latest commit when deployment takes hours. Just wait for the last deployment to finish before starting again.

Also a pull based approach allows you to integrate multiple repos. I have never seen anyone from the CD camp talk about how a company should manage CD with n interdependent git repositories with the usual push based approach.
That sounds like a good way to get a major city nuked.

We already have enough conventional weapons to bomb NK back into the Stone Age, should it be necessary. I'm not sure which other countries you're referring to that are not trustworthy diplomatically, but, IIRC, there are only a handful who have nuclear capability (China, Russia, Israel?, Iran?), and those can be dealt with using existing satellite monitoring capabilities to detect nuclear buildup, and treaty monitoring.

I would much rather reduce arsenals to zero or near zero levels than risk having Jericho happen in my backyard.
I'd rather not know, because I have no reasonable alternative here. Stress management 101.
No doubt they will then use it as an excuse to fence the land off and prevent free roaming across it.
The reason is that WY would never become part of a federation where its partial sovereignty means nothing. Look up the Great Compromise.
A lot of people are obsessed on things are interested at the time. So is my younger self. Now I can mostly control myself by learning it’s time to let it go and being selective on what I should be obsessed about.
It's a pretty open-ended question, so it's difficult to give a precise answer. It's a larger company these days, so I'm sure you'll find different answers. I've been at the company for some time and I personally enjoy it a lot. High degree of autonomy to solve problems, good company culture, great teammates etc. If I were to find an area of improvement, it's around finding the balance of alignment and getting stuff done across org boundaries.

Feel free to reach out if you have more specific areas you want to know more of.
Yeah. For example, thats why people like all-inclusive hotels. The reason is that you dont have to think about the prices all the time. You just go through the package only and thats it.

The less tranactions, the better. At least for the majority of us. It is very rare to prefer doing many small transactions over one big.
"JSX is supported by quite a lot of frameworks, so you aren't locked into React"

Just not the browser natively....

Most backend frameworks don't need numerous layers of transpilation because they're on an actual OS and arent trying to work around an insane environment like the browser that's full of warts and incompatibilities.

What's the churn on Pandas? It's been around over a decade. And it can probably be reliably counted on to be around a decade more.

It will be surprising if React is around in 5 more years and hasn't been replaced by something else.

Is EmberJS still around? How much longer will webpack be around?

Stability in the browser ecosystem starts with stability in the browser.

I think instead of investing all this energy into browser frameworks we need to be devoting energy into making the browser do what we want it to do natively.

And as web assembly matures that's where I think this is headed.
There's no "single base62 that works everywhere" either. So while there's valid criticism to be had of base64, I still don't see how this choice is better.
True of vanilla redux, but people using redux-thunk or redux-saga tend to bake it deep into their business logic.
> This is more speculation though right?

No. It does make it legal to do so.

> Can i say "hey Jackie your netflix won't be throttled anymore now that Ajit is gone" ?

You can't. It hadn't been throttled yet. You can tell her that it will be legally impossible for her ISP to do so.
I don't think your first sentence necessarily holds true - at least it doesn't lately. We just don't see powerful "blue dog democrats" and moderate republicans holding the keys any more.

While moderate candidates have more independent appeal - it's voter turnout that wins elections, even in competitve districts. Appealing to emotions, especially appealing to fear has been extremely successful at getting turnout for particular voters (ie, anti-abortion voters for example). Maybe that will calm down or moderates will turn out more and end this trend (as they did with Biden) - but even competitive races can turn out extreme candidates.

Another possibility to consider, is that what we call "competitive districts" are really just "moderate districts" to begin with. Places the population isn't particularly threatened by or well-served by either party. In that case, it makes sense that they would be both more competitive, and more moderate.
> I don't know if that's because matter moves as a wave at the atomic level or if that's just an artifact from the camera.

Artifact of the imaging, note the time scale of the movie, it's much longer than any quantum oscillation. Each individual image of the movie is taken eons apart from the perspective of the crystal.
Because payments are a for-profit industry. If we had some kind of digital money that could be transferred without any fees (because, say, the infrastructure was operated by the government, under the assumption that a medium of exchange that doesn’t take a few percent off every transaction is a Public Good we should have) then it would be much easier to see if micropayments are actually a thing that anyone is willing to do.
A magical thing about high school / college that people fail to appreciate is how few actual responsibilities you have at that age.

It's why kids are able to devote so many hours to video games and other time waster stuff.

Only difference is this person managed due to luck / skill / timing to end up on a more productive path.

Time commitment is the big impediment for most open-source projects. Late adolescence / young adulthood is one of the few periods of life where you both are competent enough to do useful things and have enough free time to actually commit to that work.
Even evolution within the same process node can bring noticeable performance improvements. Launch day AMD Zen 2 (TSMC 7FF) chips could barely clock to 4.2GHz, ones manufactured months later can often do 4.4.
Privacy complaint targets European parliament’s Covid-19 test-booking site
Hey all, as it was mentioned in the article, a significant remaining issue is being able to protect your initramfs and your cmdline options during boot while still keeping the convenience of auto-unlock. Current distribution implementations DO NOT, EVEN WITH SECUREBOOT ON, verify the integrity of the initramfs, which can be repacked to include malicious code that will execute during boot, potentially intercepting your LUKS key.

There have been a number of attempts to solve this problem, but the most complete appear to be Mortar (a project I head) and safeboot.dev

I highly recommend taking a look at either of these projects if you want be able to improve both your convenience through auto unlocking, and security through broadened scope of audit.

https://github.com/noahbliss/mortar

https://safeboot.dev
I still can't see why google can't just remove Australian news sites from the index? It should be a very small list for Australia. They already do this for copyright claims.
> But to address your point, you're locked into JSX a lot more than someone writing in native browser code that doesn't need transpilation and can be ported between other frameworks at the end of the day

Not really, because at the end of the day you still have to write the HTML and CSS and everything to render anything in a browser, the JSX really just gives you a new way to compose it.
Now if you're using other styling frameworks that provide their own components, you might not have access to that HTML but that's not a JSX problem that's a "you are too reliant on outside dependency" problem.

Also, transforming code into a runnable form has been a part of programming since we first invented compiled languages. Your comments about transpilation seem really bizarre with that in mind.
>"On january 13th Honda, a Japanese carmaker, said it had to shut its factory in Swindon, a town in southern England, for a while. Not because of Brexit, or workers sick with covid-19. The reason was a shortage of microchips. Other car firms are suffering, too. Volkswagen, which produces more vehicles than any other firm, has said it will make 100,000 fewer this quarter as a result. Like just about everything else these days—from banks to combine harvesters—cars cannot run without computers."

https://www.auto123.com/en/news/the-devastating-effects-of-a...

>"While car enthusiasts the world over are worried about assembly plant closures following the earthquake that ravaged Japan, many are still unaware of the significant role played by companies working at the start of the colossal logistical chain that results in the production of a vehicle.

Did you know that a single vehicle uses from 30 to over 100 chips

to control things like the parking brake, stereo, power steering and safety systems such as stability control? Development of these components is extremely complex, and only a handful of companies are able to meet the demands of the world’s automotive giants."

PDS: The world's automobile manufacturers, that is,

the world's carmakers --

would, or should have, a collective interest in IC/Chip fabrication -- especially in light of the most recent shortage...
The biggest takeaway here for me is that we collectively achieved something previously considered impossible: by making different behavioral choices, as a species, we achieved the largest cut in CO2 emissions in 75 years.

It's tragic that only the threat of a deadly disease could compel such a change, but perhaps we may find other levers to help us achieve such widespread beneficial changes in the future?
Of course Amazon will not contribute to the new fork
I use , they are cheap and work well. The performance it's not great but the ratio price/perfomance it's ok
Cost is a key factor. It should be trx/$. That really makes clear the ARM advantage here.

Additionally the ARM version only had one disk vs two for x86.

I also feel like there is more headroom for optimization now that ARM is more visible as a server class target in the non-postgresql toolchains.
this is sincerely ingenious. so simple and yet so meaningful.

for a long time I've dabbled on "low risk + low stress" and the new me is trying to go to the 'high reward' mode but yeah, something is got to give.

I basically went from a government worker to an entrepreneur so basically from one side of the low risk of the spectrum to the other. needless to say ,things have been stressful :)
Look at Tesla structural battery for this. Basically they will be using a honeycomb structure and stick the batteries directly into it, weld the connection on top and then put thin cover over and under it.

The front and back part of the car, Tesla creates them in a single peace casting, is directly connected to the battery.

The finished product:

https://i2.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/202...

With batteries:

https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16008149...

Here is the first leaked picture of what it will look like inside:

https://preview.redd.it/99vbj85b0jc61.png?width=664&format=p...
Absolutely. Think about iOS or Android (native) development. Sure, the ecosystem is quite big, however you do not have the level of flexibility that the web has. You are limited not only in terms of languages, but also certain architectural decisions are bounded by the limits imposed by Framework (the Android or iOS SDK), so there are many decisions that _are already taken_, and for better or worse you have to live with it.

That is probably what I hate the most of front-end development compared with back-end or Mobile. There are too many options, and that certainly does not promote consistency within the project.
A low-stakes job at a startup where the bulk of your compensation is equity maybe? Though that situation probably wouldn't stay low-stress for long, as you'll want to do everything you can to make those stocks valuable...
A 40-hour a week job jumped to mind for me when I read this. Steady salary without too much risk (if you have decent job security), but half your waking hours during the week and stress that comes with that.
Progress indication and scrollability indication. I'd actually like to see scrollbars enhanced rather than diminished. So for example I would love to see indicators of headings or breaks or page bookmarks. The latter could even be clickable.
There is if both California and Wyoming are sovereign states within the federal system of the United States. The alternative is the abject subjugation of vast regions to the will of the more populous regions. Should Canada be subject to the will of the American people because the American people outnumber the Canadian people 10 to 1?
Judging by the article, this project likely started before Blazor was released, however, I have to agree that .NET should have been the obvious choice. Maybe the author wasn't able to decide this, but I wouldn't consider an SPA for an enterprise app unless there was a very good reason. Stick to boring stuff that works. Leave the bleeding edge stuff for side-projects and startups.
It really says something. Roads have long served as our public space but we've managed to convert it into the private.

I don't mean materially private, I know we're fishbowls on wheels, but culturally private, as in people often refer to it as such.

It's one of the only times most people are disconnected from internet/work-tech because there is substantial risk of life and limb if they engaged (I know people have made this work regardless, I'm talking about cultures, not outliers)

Also this human need for privacy, if that's the reason to commute, is coming at the cost of literally destroying the planet.

There has to be a healthier way to satisfy these baseline psychological needs. Climate collapsing death machines may be how humans have transported themselves for a while but it shouldn't be the main go-to for how they are alone with their thoughts
One advantage of a system like this can be the static nature of the objective function. If you set the rules up clearly beforehand (perhaps in a Constitutional amendment), then after a while the ebb and flow of two-party politics will balance out in the new reality (see Duverger's Law) and you no longer have to deal with gerrymandering.
How much range do you lose when it's 15 degrees and you have to park outside? And you need to heat the interior?
Various Ultrasounds, cat scans.
I basically don’t sweat. Tears are very rare. I cried for first child born, I didn’t for second, even though I felt the same. Was an early symptom. But felt bad for years.

In case of pancreases, I got pancreatitis. Turned out that was an early sign of Sjogrens. At that point ultrasound was clean. Years later, Now it shows damage.
I could see truth in the sentiment that if you're receiving high reward, stress and risk are inversely correlated. e.g. if you're working at FAANG, and not working hard enough to be stressed, you're at risk of being fired. Or you're working hard enough to be stressed and therefor have low risk.