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I'm not too fond of the idea of having the firmware updatable in-place either, but given that the board picture shows it has an ISP header, you could probably disable the self-updating functionality and then you would need to do firmware modifications physically.
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Distributed system, n. Any computing structure that produces CAP-theoretic bickering when discussed.

See also: halting problem.
Sheesh. I can't believe all the comments here that say, more or less "It's an expansion of an existing fab".

It's most emphatically NOT that!

Directly from the article:

The plans for the new fab are called Project Silicon Silver (PSS), and it will be located adjacent to S2. It will not use any of the existing buildings of S2, but will be a completely new fab constructed from the ground up. It will have its own operations support, central utility building, industrial waste treatment, air separation plans, storage for inert gases, and other constructions.

The only currently-contemplated interconnections between the new facility and the surrounding existing property may be a pedestrian and/or material bridge or walkway constructed between the existing improvements on the site and the new construction

That couldn't be more clear as far as I'm concerned!!!
Tandy 80 in 1979 and IBM PC a couple years later already used the Intel 8042 controller in their keyboards.

Software for keyboards has a long history. Custom software for keyboards, not as much, but it's a pretty established niche. QMK firmware mentioned in the article is a few years old.
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On a Mac invisible files aren't important for even a "pro" user... except for occasional developer needs. It worth saying a feature like this doesn't come without cost.

Progressive disclosure and a bullet proof user environment are core user concepts on MacOS. In MacOS a user can rearrange nearly every file visable to them, and never break anything.

Windows and Linux clutter up the users environment with files that literally no one will ever care about (1000 library modules and asset files for a binary application?). And yet they are less flexible to user choice. Move application out of the Application folder... boom! Pathing all breaks. Do the same on MacOS no problem.
And bear in mind that this is s390, not s390x. s390 is a 31-bit architecture that was superseded in 2000 by the 64-bit Z series, and support in the Linux kernel was dropped in 2015.
Yep, especially when the downsides are next to nothing, why not.
Man. That is really a bonkers thing to say.
yes it is. (Again)

Can't even handle the load with Musk or Zuck on it, can't even do it without them on it.
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Except having to actually go to Target and the noisy offputting crowds and covid.
For all my years as a developer I've used a dark terminal and vim theme, until last weekend I just couldn't focus with it anymore. Happy with a light theme for the first time in my life
To change the function of the fn keys. The keyboard is not just a dumb input, when you hold fn the board sends different codes for the same keys. This means you can’t easily move where the volume function keys are for example.
> You said "It makes no sense to talk about how much electricity a Bitcoin transaction consumes, as if that meant anything".

Yes, but that's not saying that energy is free. I was saying that the energy used to create a Bitcoin transaction is negligible. It only takes a handful of ECDSA signing and cryptographic hash operations, as well as some serialization operations to produce a transaction. The act of validating a Bitcoin transaction only takes a handful of ECDSA verifying and cryptographic hash operations, as well as some deserialization operations (such as evaluating Bitcoin scripts). Loading HN takes more CPU cycles than this, but as I was saying here and elsewhere, it's quite often the case that people mistakenly believe that the high energy cost of producing a block must also mean that the act of producing and validating a Bitcoin transaction takes a lot of energy. This simply is not the case, per the above.

> my issue is simply with your proposition that it is only the source of the energy that matters and not the amount, when in fact it is both.

We're trying to control pollution, not energy output. They are linked, but we shouldn't penalize low-pollution high-yield power plants (like hydro-electric dams or wind farms).

My proposition considers how to effectively regulate miners (really, any high-energy industry) who can easily pack up operations and move between countries. To me, this means that it makes more sense to apply a universal carbon tax/tariff than it is to try and target individual industries. This is something we can actually get decent data for -- all we need to do is use satellites to monitor how much pollution gets emitted from each country or other political division, and apply a tax/tariff on its goods/services proportional to the pollution emitted per capita. Pollution data is something that already gets tracked; we just need to translate it into tax policy.

Life as we know it doesn't care about which industry creates which pollutant, nor does it care about how many gigawatt-hours we can create. Life as we know it only cares that the environment is not so polluted that it can't keep on living.
On the other hand: do enthusiast/toy systems really need the very latest security patches? It's not like they turn into bricks without this support, the old code will keep working
> it seems that environmental groups in Iceland are fighting the expansion of bitcoin because it is directly driving extra demand for electricity, not simply using the existing production

As someone who lives and works here I can assure you there is absolutely no environmental group fighting the expasion of btc mining here in Iceland, we are however viciously fighting the increasingly destruction tourism influx that has been happening since 2012. It does far more damage that the dams that were built here well before btc mining even existed.

>while currently not paying much of anything to the local government[2] and hiring next to no people, like most tech industries.

This is also untrue, construction and remote hands as well as grid infrastructures resulted from them, the companies that run the facilities also incorporate here and pay corp and employee tax here.

>And it is not my place to have productive ideas for how a country could use its natural resources. My claim was that bitcoin mining should be stopped as soon as possible, as it is driving an overall increase in power needs for the entire world, at a time we should be looking for every possible means to reduce our energy consumption.

If you followed your own citations you'd see one of them linked to https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption which shows est electric consumption going back as far as 2018. Notice the graph has not really changed since 2018 (since the last halving).

>You came and brought up the extremely singular case of Iceland, as if it disproved anything. In the end Iceland is irrelevant in the discussion of Bitcoin's impact on the world.

Again your OWN source has Iceland listed as one of the top mining locations in the world of course it's relevant. I've even read estimates that 40% of bitcoin mining is coming from renewable sources, most during off peak season where that electricity would be wasted otherwise.

You want to solve the energy efficiency problems of the world?
Good, begin by linking the disparate energy grids amongst the world to eliminate peak usage and off peak waste, you'll save far more electricity just by that way.

Not by knee-jerk "I see no value in this so it must have no value" vague emotional appeals on the internet. All I see is you vaguely groping for why it should be treated differently than any other form of industry or innovation while insisting all the rest are somehow necessary and this not. You're not even consistent in your reasons from reply to reply.
> Ruby has concurrency problems [...] standard libraries don't default to evented IO, and the GIL messes up threading, both of which can be footguns for anyone trying to build a resilient and scalable service.

Yes, but this article is about speed, not concurrency, because speed is a thing 3.0 didn't do a major improvement to from the last 2.x release.

There's no need for a “Why didn't Ruby 3 improve concurrency/parallelism” article, because it did.

Fiber#scheduler addresses your IO issue, and Ractors (while still experimental) are aimed at the parallelism issue.
You should be able to lock that down to “only while the messaging app is in the foreground”, which limits the exposure time further, but certainly not to zero.

Hopefully, if you care about this, you use and app which can be configured to have its own passphrase/pin which hopefully is used to access properly secured keys from the Secure Enclave only when that’s entered. (Signals interface works like this. I’m only assuming/hoping it’s working that way underneath).
Leo nailed it! Stuck in the car with mom and they have nothing for him. He delivered his sentiments with candor and punch.

Lolol, "Newsey Things Considered."

Indeed.

Well done Leo! Nice!
I will take the free government money thank you very much. Maybe even hire another person to help make these physical site visits. If we don't take the government's money, they'll just spend it on weapons.
There is something seriously wrong with your number (struggling to serve 20 people).

I do not have experience with Ruby, but I think it's similar to Python (in performance) and even if it's let's say 5 times slower (which I don't think it is), a webservice on a simple machine (workstation) in Ruby can easily serve north to 1k (or more) requests per seconds (behind nginx or apache or whatever), and in no way would 20 users be a problem.

It doesn't matter if that's async or not (note, not being async does not rule out concurrency or parallelism), but there was something seriously wrong with your application (if you have to serve long-running tasks, you have to make a msg queue anyway and shouldn't do that in your HTTP response directly). You may gain from async if you are IO bound, but with 20 users you are not IO bound, believe me.
But it's not unique to this example. It's common; if you don't start out concerned about concurrency in Ruby, and just do the naive thing, you are going to fall over at -extremely- low numbers compared with most other modern languages.
While on GCP, you can self-host cert-manager and its certificates can be used at Load Balancers and VMs.
>DNA cuts in nerve cells that the DNA repair mechanism cannot repair

If I read the article correctly the "cuts" are made to the DNA of the virus, not the nerve cell itself. [1]

[1]
The hidden herpes viruses are disabled by an injection that tracks down infected nerve cells and induces them to make special gene-cutting enzymes, which work like a molecular scissors, to slash viral genes in specific places. Much of the team’s meticulous work of the past five years has involved finding better ways to target infected clusters of nerve cells and to thwart the virus’s ability to quickly repair the cuts to its genes.
...Unsupported legacy apps like these are usually full of security holes and other nasty surprises...

(This is a likely comment if this was to go on for 6 months).

Given I have an ipad and don't see these messages about these apps, eg gmail, I'm not sure what to make of this article.

Is this a region based thing?

Automated expiry notice because they (rightly) deliberately release often?
This is a good thing. But what does it have to do with whether you use curses or gtk-based programs? In both cases you can use either the mouse (eww) or the keyboard.
How is this different from MakeHuman?
Phone apps are more complex.

My concern is less apple banning things and far more when apple and google operate in lockstep.

there is a fundamental misunderstanding in the app store review world, it was highlighted when google banned element(??) the matrix client. will apple ban IRC clients because they can connect to bad servers with universally objectionable content? will they ban SSH clients because they can be used to hack?

With the last big ban controversy (fortnight) I was firmly in the pro walled garden camp, but, now i’m no longer seeing where the big duopoly draws the line and i don’t like it.
do you have specific examples? honestly I was against the walrus operator but having played with it for just two seconds I think it's really great and that people are making a bigger deal than needed about this
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I was a die hard android user from its release until last year, my pixel 2 had simply become unusable due to battery life and performance issues that I'm 90% certain were related to ad tracking on android apps.

It's 2021, servers are a fraction of the pice and vastly easier to deploy than they were in '08 when Apple needed google for these apps.

I'm not convinced we use the G-suite of products for any particularly good reason other than they have a G and they are free. For the margins and scale of ios Apple could easily provide equivalent apps in-house if customers need them to be free or let the market set the price for non-ad supported versions.

Since switching I've only used gmail and maps/waze from g-suite. I'm 90% certain I can replace maps/waze in the near future.
It’s older than that originally. I remember playing with it over MSN Messenger on a Dell desktop in ~2005.
tariffs don't work like a tax to the producer they are an extra tax on the end customer.

A widget made in china that has a tariff on it doesn't cost the company in china anymore - it does increase the cost for the person buying here though.... but unless there is a competitor that can sell a competive product cheaper than that the only downside is to the customer.
This is what you want. Same concept, open firmware, but split.

https://www.gboards.ca/products
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Just to be clear, here - system76 launched a keyboard using previously existing, widely used open source keyboard firmware.
You may think customers are not smart enough to judge different powertrain options, but they are smart enough to know their preferences and that's why PHEV makes sense in this moment.

If you're a one-car household it's not necessarily enticing to go fully electric on your next car, especially if the charging infrastructure isn't very fleshed out in your area or you have occasional power outages that last longer than a couple of days. It's not a question of total cost of ownership, and it's not a question of battery cost either. It's about owner lifestyle.

I am happy to jump headlong into technologies that I love, and I presume many others on HN do as well, but not every consumer has the same preferences as people on HN. Look around you next time you're driving.
Almost all kids love dinosaurs. I don’t know why but I have a theory:

They’re not allowed violent content of any kind. No horror, no blood, no gore.

But they’re allowed to watch these prehistoric monsters devour others from limb to limb. It’s actually ultra violent but the kids can watch it because it’s real, therefore natural, therefore science.

This is the same reason kids love big cats, sharks and other predators.

Anyway, if you want your future kids to like dinosaurs, just don’t let them watch other forms of violence. (Again, just a theory)
So.... it's just another QMK based board, no? What's the catch?
Don't they? Then what does? I just don't see what the benefit of conducting such an attack would be.

Coinholders would practically not be impacted: they could just take their existing keys and bring them into the hard-forked software and continue like normal. Mining might be disrupted for a short time, but is that so harmful to the enemy to be worth spending millions in electricity?
> and presumably created infrastructure jobs

Yeah. Sounds a lot like the dig-up-all-the-carbon-burn-then-bury-it-again civilizational project going on the past 100, and next 100 years.

What exactly was the purpose to "re-arranging small bits of matter near the surface of the earth" again? [1]

Basically I wanted to make a comment about greedy exploitation-exploration trade-off strategies here but will stop short
at this kind of eliptical passing remark.

[1] paraphrasing Russell in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Othe...
it is appropriate given current moment
That's fantastic! If it's successfully trialed in humans maybe they can go after HPV next. Yes, there's a vaccine but there are many more variants than even in the latest vaccine.
How do you fit 168 hard drives into a single computer?
I still can't understand why people hate JavaScript?
>Oh, and accusing me of spewing inane generalities when the real value of art and entertainment has been called into question and vindicated throughout all of economic theory is quite rich.

This is completely circular login, if you're valuing those things as purely economic goods then you're ascribing a monetary value to them, which you could just as easily to bitcoin mining, startups and associated industries.

>and all that truly matters is the happiness of people.

This is the laziest argument I've seen on how to measure relevant value, I mean if I'm a murdered them murdering people is going to make me happy, so what does this argument even mean?
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You're right, as long as the hardware switch is really hardware and not fake-hardware-implemented-in-software like many vendors.
I am baffled why you are being downvoted. While this research is very promising, it's also not hard for me to imagine a scenario where these targeted molecular "DNA scissors" do something unexpected. And while the risks of gene editing seems worth it for fatal or debilitating diseases, I don't think I'd want to be on a trial for this for a disease that is primarily an annoyance.

Again, I think the research and techniques are really cool, but your comment seems quite valid to me.
I don’t feel like purism is a viable alternative. it’s very expensive for what you’re getting and in all respects that i’ve heard the software is not up to par and the ecosystem is effectively non-existent.

I have yet to try one personally and might soon in spite of the price tag, i would love to be wrong but i don’t think i am.
> How is the astronomical price a promotion?

Because people are expecting it to get to $100k, which means it's a hot commodity in a speculative bubble. Not everyone who buys into a bubble believes that the underlying fundamentals justify the price in the long run- they just believe that there's room to grow, and that there are greater fools to sell to.

> These have little and nothing to do with the cause of the high price.

Just like the ease and lack of fees of Robinhood spur more stock-buying, Coinbase makes trading crypto easy and facilitates more bandwagoners who further pump up the price.

> That explains why Musk would buy it. That does not explain why anyone else would buy it.

I brought up that reason with Musk in mind. And Tesla buying it has direct second order effects- it popularizes and legitimizes BTC and cause more to buy into it, whether they're familiar with the underlying intentions of BTC or not.

> Obviously, if there weren’t fundamentals, now would be a good time to sell.

People buying in now believe there's still room for the price to rise. An asset with solid fundamentals (Tesla stock, GameStop call options) can also be wildly overvalued. I'm sure similar conversations were happening in 2018.

> Animal spirits are an unnecessary hypothesis for this event.

Look at the market. Look at the economy. Everything is animal spirits now in search of yield.

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It's more than just a lack of salary. There simply isn't enough technical work to keep highly skilled engineers busy at your typical industrial or infrastructure sites.

Even if you had the funds to employ highly trained engineers, most sites couldn't give them enough work to keep their skills sharp.
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Does going mouseless reduce risk of RSI?
I mostly know him as the Haskell expert, so good to know.
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Slightly OT, but what's a good flight search tool now that hipmunk has shut down? I was super bummed when that happened because they just presented so much useful information on a single screen.
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I rebind Caps Lock on every machine I use to make it control and basically never use the control key anymore. I find it makes common left-hand key combination much more ergonomic.
They say they can be the same, which is technically correct I suppose. I don't think anyone is suggesting that PHEV is functionally equivalent to BEV, nor that the environmental impact is always the same.

The GHG impact depends on where you live, how you use the car, and how you get your energy.

I don't expect a global automaker to make decisions about imminent models based on 10yr+ transition forecasts for US energy infrastructure.
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. Haven’t they always been able to remotely gather telemetry data and control devices? How was this achieved with network access?
Fantastic. Added it to the design toolkit. It’s rare something new gets in there. This is a new category for me.
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Your notion that people who disagree with you are just ignorant is tedious as well as wrong.

Bitcoin is also a speculative bubble. It has no use value. It is not in any way living up to its original goal as electronic cash. (Contrast transaction volume and adoption with MPesa, for example.) Its main practical uses are speculation and some financial crime.

Well, I left one out. It's also great for market manipulation. The recent runup has been driven by "the largest fraud since Madoff": https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/

Eventually, like all frauds, you run out of dumb new money and accounting chicanery. That day will come: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/12/13/tether-is-to...
If someone is diving down this rabbit hole, they most likely have some level of tech savvy going in. Given that, they likely can decide if the book is for them by doing some very light research on Linux distributions. With a cursory set of results in hand (which will tell me that Ubuntu is easy and Arch is a bit more advanced but not quite as advanced as Gentoo or LFS), I can decide if a very practical book that says it focuses on Arch is a book that is right for me or not.

For me: I'd LOVE this book. I've been around the block, but don't know everything I know I could. Your criticism doesn't seem to have much merit when clearly there is a market for this book and clearly the potential buyer should be trusted to decide whether this book is right or not.
Another loser protecting a faceless corporation that they owe nothing to. In fact the corporation owes them for the pointless waste of the authors time. This is why the world sucks because of spineless twerps like this author that refuse to name names.
Imagine the criticism they'd have faced if they'd used anything other than QMK. Their use and presumed future support is a good thing.
> Users should not stay "logged in".

Is this the reason why so many websites log you out on their own? Like, you go to do something on a website that requires an account but you see a login form instead. No one wants that. Everyone hates that. IMO if you're using the concept of time in your session management code, you're doing it wrong.
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