skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More transistors per unit area, but also more efficient please! There should be demand for more efficient chips (semiconductors,) that are fully-utilized while depreciating on your ma's electricity bill (which is not yet (?) really determined by a market-based economy with intraday speculation to smooth over differences in supply and demand in the US). Oversupply of the electrical grid results in damage costs; which is why the price sometimes falls so low where there are intraday prices and supply has been over-subsidized pending the additional load from developing economies and EVs: Electric Vehicles.

New grid renewables (#CleanEnergy) are now less expensive than existing baseload; which makes renewables long term environment-rational and short term price-rational.

"Thermodynamics of Computation Wiki" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146854

> No, all space heaters are equally efficient. They all have perfect 100% efficiency, because they turn electrical power into heat. When your work product is heat and the waste product is also heat, then there really is no waste.

This heat must be distributed throughout the room somehow (i.e. a batteryless woodstove fan or a sterling engine that does work with the difference in entropy when there is a difference in entropy)

> Technically in the case of cryptocurrency mining, some of the electrical power is turned into information rather than heat. In principle this reduces the amount of heat that you get, but in practice this isn’t even measurable. Most of the information is erased (discarded as useless), which turns it back into heat.

See "Thermodynamics of Computation Wiki" re: a possible way to delete known observer-entangled bits while reducing heat/entropy (thus bypassing Landauer's limit for classical computation?)?

> Only a few hundred bits of information will be kept after successfully mining a block of transactions, and the amount of heat that costs you is fantastically small. Far smaller than you can measure.

Each n-symbol sequence in the hash function output does appear to have nearly equal frequency/probability of occurrence. Indeed, is Proof-of-Work worth the heat if you're not reusing the waste heat?
LG promises better Android updates with three-year pledge and they mean it
The problem "containers" solve does not exist in nix land.

If all you've got is a hammer...

Edit: removed "clouds"
Deceptive Warranty Claims Persist Three Years After FTC Warnings
“The Martian” + Starship – Casey Handmer's Blog
Yes! Exactly like the Chipotle outbreaks!

If you buy tacos from Chipotle and they sell you a tainted taco on accident. You get sick. Hopefully you survive. In any case you will want Chipotle to do a thorough investigation to prevent it from happening again.
Anyone knows above where it could happen? I see that it's almost 800km above earth, but what about nearest lat/lon?
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In summary, a rocket body and an old weather satellite want to have a nice big hug. At high speed. Producing a cloud of 4 million fragments. 400 of which will bigger than 20cm.

Except that they'll probably miss (by about 10m). Probably.

Really interesting how much of this is statistical probabilities, and how much we can model about this. Right down to particle sizes.

And yet, I still have so many questions. Mostly involving the maths from https://what-if.xkcd.com/13/ and whether we could push either of them out of the way...
> China being incentivized to act in that situation, doesn't affect how likely or unlikely that situation was.

China being incentivized to find evidence supporting the CCP's desired image absolutely does affect how likely it would be for such evidence to surface if it exists.

We see virtually no such evidence; we can assume that's not because China's lack of trying to find it; which should adjust our prior against such evidence existing at all. Yes?
Technically "fair", yes. When you lost by over 40 points, it is also pointless.
> The problem is evidence. What is the evidence?

I'd wager our intelligence services have it. That's why many who has seen classified information is sticking with the lab theory.

Forget the politics for a minute with regards to people like Trump, Pompeo, Redfield (CDC) ... they have seen information we don't have access to. How can we say they're wrong on this without seeing the same classified information?
Doing so could cause Facebook to face legal action in several countries
You'd be surprised how well a nixos system works. Every other distro looks like a meme in comparison, for development work at least.
you could probably do:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/<URL>

like https://web.archive.org/*/20210409153520/https://twitter.com...
The point most are missing is that, $600/annum maynot be a big deal for a company, but it is a huge deal for an individual designer.

How is that relevant?

Unlike hardcore workplace software - someone below gave example of a $10K PCB layout software - Adobe products are used for personal and hobby projects by designers at home or at schools. When these designers stop using the Adobe software at home and schools and use alternatives, they would insist the same switch at workplace as well. The employers would be more than happy to accommodate that request (who does not like free money).

I'm still rocking 2013 Adobe suite - the last perpetual license - for 'just incase' scenarios. But since last many years have totally switched to the likes of Figma at home computer, and at workplace there was enmass transition to Sketch till couple of years back, and now to Figma.

(Hopefully) Adobe would go the way of Corel Draw, which you only find in old printing shops, where they insist that they convert your Adobe (.psd) files to Corel Draw one before they can send it to printing machines.
I assume the fear of this sort of thing is the potential for causing Kessler Syndrome.
It was manual labor. I’m not sure it was nicer than these workers but I was able to negotiate my pay by “working harder” and producing more than other workers.

I wouldn’t say it was a good job and I certainly don’t do it any more. But I just tried to explain my thinking.
If anything they’ve reopened too fast. News this morning that Michigan is closing them back down. Almost like there’s still a pandemic.
Now I'm in a middle-class area it's not something I worry about much anymore either, but I urge people to try living in these majority areas for a bit if they believe mass-non-western-immigration into Europe is no problem.

I also grew up in Britain and I grew up on a road where there were only 2 or 3 white families and there was a Mosque. I went to a primary school were the majority of kids were non-white. Your description of immigration does not match my experience.

Presumably they don't live in a flat where most people no longer celebrate Christmas, don't speak your language, and don't work.

This is an inaccurate racist stereotype. My muslim neighbours bought me a Christmas present, spoke English and worked.
No, there's not a risk of space debris.
Adobe is one of a long line of companies who appear to sell products as their bread and butter, but actually get a large portion of revenue through ad analytics and data offerings.
IE6 also brought us AJAX, so there is something to be said for browser vendors implementing experimental features on their own.

The difference between nice and awful, of course, is when developers and vendors treat such features as a given without providing graceful degradation (or progressive enhancement, if you prefer) for users of other browsers.
I had a mz-n707. It had functionality to record, but as far as I could tell, there was no way to read the audio data back over the USB interface.
>I absolutely do not understand why you would vote against your own collective interest

It's because unions in America cannot guarantee the existence of the job. Yes, unions can force negotiations but they have no power to force the corporation to keep the factory open. (E.g. workers of Bakers union go on strike and in response, Hostess closes the factory.)

That's the tradeoff of possible negative consequences that many armchair observers totally leave out when they only emphasize benefits of unions such as "higher pay, better work conditions, etc".

I'd contend that observers who are confused why workers would "vote against their self-interest" and being "illogical" -- do not truly empathize with the poor workers' plight. (Or the observers are from Europe where unions work differently than America.)

So the workers (Volkswagen workers in TN, Nissan in TN, Boeing in SC) that voted to reject union representation weighed the game theory tradeoffs of:

(a) jobs continue to exist with better pay and conditions

... or ...

(b) jobs are eliminated leading to layoffs and pay of $0

The possible outcome of (b) becomes even more perverse in that the workers pay dues to have their jobs eliminated!

Yes, but if workers don't form a union -- "it's a race to the bottom!". Well, repeating memes is the currency of pundits rather than real cash that puts food on the table. Workers, understandably, make local decisions because they want a paycheck rather than worry about some global abstraction of "race to the bottom".

Other fields such as NFL, NBA, superstars have leverage in union negotiations. Faceless workers have much less leverage. E.g. baseball umpires (faceless and less leverage) strike but the MLB just accepts their resignations and hires replacements. The unskilled line workers in factories have even less leverage.
Exactly. The SaaS model largely lacks a gameplan for long term sustainability.
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Same feelings, I started to think about dropping current ordinary app dev job and humbly get back to science. In 20 years world is going to be a completely different place.
We warned about this lab.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-state-depart...

Note part 6.
Yes, I completely agree.

Now would you want McDonalds to research Chipotle or stop outbreaks in their own stores? Seems pretty obvious to me. Perhaps I'm missing something?

Ultimately Chipotle is already incentivized to figure it out themselves, unless the argument is Chipotle is intentionally infecting their own customers?

Going back to the original point - what the USA should do for its own citizens won't change regardless of whether COVID was an accident, from wild game, etc.
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Your logic doesn't make any sense. You can sue for absolutely anything, but that doesn't mean a judge is willing to hear your case or that it is grounded upon any law.
This is orders of magnitude more useful than the official docs.
In my opinion that's something the website owner should handle and it's a tractable problem. It shouldn't be pushed to the browser other than as you mentioned through capabilities like SOP and cookies. The way it is is fine.
In the most capitalist country on Earth, the problem is that even the poor people are getting too fat.

In Zimbabwe, the only country I know of that has recently implemented Marxist ideas about farming, the problem is that people are starving.

And Zimbabwe is ridiculously fertile by the way.
In general unsafe should be viral: you can't call unsafe without yourself being unsafe. But it hits the same "snag", then nothing works anymore.
Well, yes. But enough people have to vote "yes" for the union to do so. And fear of high dues could be a reason why many are voting no. Even though voting yes doesn't require them to do so.
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> take what you need

Considering how bad many people are at managing their finances(USA credit card debt, I'm looking at you), it's no wonder people buy groceries that end up in the waste bin.
> That's why everyone who has seen classified information is sticking with the lab theory.

That’s false.

> Trump, Pompeo, Redfield (CDC) ... forget the politics, but they have seen information we don't have access to.

Yes, one would need to forget the politics in order to overlook how selective a misrepresentation this is of “everyone who has seen classified information”, so its clear why you ask us to do that.
Surely building an alternative pipeline is more economical than launching an invasion. They already built a road and rail bridge across the kerch strait.
And the halting theorem says there is nothing to be done about it!
If the virus was a product of gain of function research, the primary purpose of which is to reduce the risk of pandemics, then the research becomes much more difficult to justify. The argument I guess becomes then, yeah, periodically we’ll cause a pandemic, and millions of people will die, but we’ll be so much better at dealing with diseases that arise naturally, as SARS and MERS did, that on balance it will be worth the extra pandemics...

Whatever you think about this, it seems unbelievably foolish to locate these labs in the middle of metropolises.
...and, to build on this: the fact that this is Apple's fault means that it's not the fault of the GUI paradigm - just Apple's implementation of it.
You seriously want google to be defining what the internet is given their current and past activities and abuses? There is no way that could ever be a good thing. If they ever do expect a 50% carve out for targeted ad technologies.
On the contrary, I am convinced that the solutions produced by large successful companies are complex because of the size and wealth of the employer.
HyperCard broke all the UI conventions of the Mac. You couldn’t use it to create native look and feel Mac apps.
Especially with all the fucking detractors, inside and outside of our direct circles.
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Hey HN, I'm Edo, one of the co-founders of Refinery (https://www.refinery.so/). We founded Refinery to make it simple to change your React frontend without needing to write code.

Refinery is a chrome extension that lets you edit your React app in-browser and then generates the corresponding code changes automatically. To do so, we are using metaprogramming techniques and a healthy dose of human review . We’ve also started to experiment with using GPT-3 to generate code changes as well and it looks promising!

After building a Shopify app in React, there were so many times when we wanted to quickly change some copy here and there, but didn’t want to have to start our dev environment, open our text editor, make the change, create a branch, create a PR, … you get it. Luckily our team is 3 software engineers, but it got us thinking around how would our first marketing or sales hire make these changes?

The current version of Refinery essentially turns your existing Git repo into a CMS. Right now you can use Refinery to tweak copy, but more functionality is coming soon. Specifically, we’re working on adding the ability to tweak CSS, add links & tooltips to copy, and run A/B tests on different possible tweaks… all which can be done in-browser.

We’ve on-boarded a few companies in the past week where Refinery is typically being used by non-engineers (founders, PMs, & marketers) who don’t want to bother engineers with small copy tweaks. The engineers at these companies have also been happy because they can work on the cool product stuff and rubber stamp the PR’s that Refinery puts out.

Installation is really easy. Install our chrome extension (invite only at the moment), link your team’s github, and you’re good to go. We plan on supporting more browsers in the future, working our way down the most popular.

We’d love to hear what the HN community thinks! We’ll be in the comments all day. If you’re really keen on trying it, email me at edoardo.conti@gmail.com and mention hacker news and we’ll bump you to the top of the waitlist.
However, judging recent history by contemporary politics absolutely makes sense
I would identify what tasks i want to get done. Than split them into pomodoro chunks.

Then I would, and this is the most interesting part, record my pomodoro session using OBS studio.

I love to pretend that i have thousands of viewers that are rooting for me to get the the task done in as little pomodoro chunks that I can.

I set my pomodoro intervals to 50mins focus/ 15 min break, and I would change it depending on current tasks at hand.
Lots and lots of logging, I would wager.
Good, I'm glad we agree that investigation matters :)
Same reason they're struggling with security.

Intel doesn't need it to sell chips.
Hyperbole isnt helping anything
Leolabs is tracking as well. Their data suggests a slightly lower but >2% chance of collision

https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1380549507390259203
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You don't need to find a bunker, but there's a risk that we'll soon have a lot more 'space debris' in orbit. If a collision happens, it'll basically turn the colliding satellites into scattershot, leading to a higher likelyhood of other smaller collisions with other satellites (less spectacular but could still disable even more satellite). Not sure how likely the latter scenario is, but it could get very costly if it did happen.
"Safe" in security is always relative. Safe from a military hacking attack? Probably never. Safe from random scriptkiddies? Yeah, probably even if you don't run Zoom with a separate user, as long as you got the rest of your shit together. Safe from people buying/using 0days? Seems so, since this issue was never actually disclosed (yet) so it's not really a 0day, so it'll be harder to for people to exploit.

You'd need to understand who/what are your threats to understand if you're "safe" or not.
Check out our framework for bitemporlity:
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We use it in production for 5 years. I am ready to answer any performance/indexing and other questions
Isn't it standard practice not to disclose a vulnerability at all (not just hiding the "technical details") until it's been patched? Why is this being made public?
Fun fact: when I started contributing to Apache httpd in the 1990s, it was hosted on CVS; when you delete a file in CVS, its revision history ,v file in the repository is moved into a subdirectory called Attic. You can see Attic directories in NetBSD’s cvsweb, eg. http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/ (but not in OpenBSD’s repository for some reason?)
With hydroponics, aquaponics, lab-grown meat (the real factory farming), and nuclear energy, we can fit a hell of a lot more people on this planet.
very nice blog post!!
Isn't that what PyInstaller already does? It bundles your Python app with a runtime. I've seen a few apps distributed like this, even GUI ones.
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It’s 500 per year not per month

Edit to add source
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/early-vote-counts-sho...
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I think that you sacrifice something when you learn a new skill. The brain have a finite capacity and it just forget not used facts or skills, and the reason it's forgetting is because it's always learning.

For instance, I'm learning German and I can feel how is messing with my English, specially with the spelling (English is not my first language).
Speaking as someone who lives adjacent to Bessemer but who does not work at Amazon, you need to understand that Bessemer is a dying city, a slum. These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives, it is no wonder that a majority of them decided not to bite the hand that was feeding them.
I changed "every" to "many", I wasn't intending to paint that with a broad brush. But they are making public statements with access to information that we don't have. So who's to say they are wrong?

Personally I am no fan of Trump but on this particular subject I can't say he's right or wrong, and he has more information than I do on it.
What part of Powershell is broken? Are you referring to module compatibility or other issues?

For my shop, the AD module was an obstacle until v7. Many Azure-related modules still seem to be 5.1 only.
That's an infrastructure problem. Sure you can solve it with domains, but you can also easily use other current technologies for it with no issues as well and never change the domain name at all.
You've completely misunderstood my point. My point is that we're McDonalds - not Chipotle. Should McDonalds be investigating Chipotle's problems or their own? It's really that simple...

If you believe McDonalds in this analogy should be investigating the origins of Chipotle's problems as opposed to resolving their ongoing issue then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Map is essentially map of population density and an opportunity to try to sell bike insurance. Out of here.
Any thoughts on gVisor (kernel reimplementation in Go) vs Firecracker?
Reading the replies here I’m pretty shocked by the lack of good arguments against unionisation. Its sad.
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It's a licensing/regulatory issue[1]. SpaceX is working on expanding their licensing[2]:

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday for approval to deploy end-user stations it calls “Earth Stations in Motion,” or ESIMs. The mobile terminals would be mounted on land vehicles, ships, and airplanes, SpaceX said in the filing.

The mobile stations are “electrically identical” to the $499 terminals already authorized by the FCC for fixed consumers. The federal regulator previously issued a license for SpaceX to field up to a million end-user Earth stations designed for homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, and other types of customers.

The Starlink terminals designed for mobility have “mountings that allow them to be installed on vehicles, vessels, and aircraft,” SpaceX wrote in the filing with the FCC. The terminals will communicate with Starlink satellites visible above an elevation of 25 degrees in the sky.

Ref:

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-66A1.pdf "Facilitating the Communications of Earth Stations in Motion with Non-Geostationary Orbit Space Stations"

[2] https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/03/08/spacex-eyes-mobile-con... "SpaceX eyes mobile connectivity market..."
Useful _to you_
You got me there :D
Sounds like docker swarm is 80% of what you want.

Other than that, I think there's a reason why things like lxd, k8s (maybe joyent/smartos belong in this list) - generally have one layer for the actual hw, and a higher level abstraction on top.

Otoh, I suppose something like canonical metal-as-a-service might be able to do more with a little help. In fact I think maas+lxd is probably pretty close to being able to work with a compose-like tool and docker containers.
People in general aren't very good at two things:

Distinguishing needs from wants

and

Estimating how much of something is necessary to fulfill a need.
> avoid names that are offensive in other languages, EVERYBODY does when choosing international brand names.

This is simply not true. There's plenty of commonly used English names that are offensive in other languages.
The source of whatever falls under the GPL must be made available (included with the product, download link, "write us a mail and we send you a CD", doesn't matter). Which parts of a product fall under the GPL depends on how exactly it "contains a GPL part".

E.g. When you use a patched version of Linux in your router, then you'd need to make those patches / the patched code available, but you would not need to make the code of your web GUI available.

If you are using libviralgpl.dll in your ProprietarySecrets.dll though, your entire application becomes a subject of the GPL.
Well, I did not mean a sequential one and only involving the database, but, let's say, you have forks (i.e. parallel executions) and merges (waiting to sme dependent tasks to complete), etc. What if execution halts in the middle of a step and you don't really have transaction support outside of the DB? I typically would use a workflow engine, but rollback is not something workflow engines support either.