skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so the per capita numbers are just as good as the totals for conveying that point, and they are better for comparing to other countries.

No they're not, because India is in the middle of a case explosion right now. That's a completely different situation than a country with awful per-capita numbers but a low-slope linear growth (like france).

That's not saying france has handled this well (they have not, at all), but next week odds are France will still be seeing 40k cases / day, while India could be closing in on a million.
Dunno why it’s called the Senate Launch System when Senate Lunch System is right there.
What an inspiration! I’m doing more or less the same with c0d3.com

Been working on the learning community for about 5 years now.

I’ve saved up enough for a year, will be quitting In 2 weeks to go back to teaching and improving the experience and teach more students about good engineering practices.
Mapping cancer as it if were the universe
> There may well be a future where tidal provides better or more cost effective yields.

Based on what? With solar, we understood it was chemical science that would improve it. With wind, it was blade design, materials weight and durability, and generator technology. For tidal, what would improve that wouldn’t also improve wind? Improvements in durability, turbine, or generator tech would almost certainly also improve wind. Salt water will always be harder on equipment than air. Tidal forces are strong on large scales but on footprints similar to wind turbines, we aren’t talking about orders of magnitude more potential energy.
Yes. Add HIV to that list as well. Polio, which is almost gone now. It's a long list.
Don't forget the higher end monstrosity of a cybertruck.

Looks aside, something like that would interest me but I don't need the extras. I don't need extra motors and 4wd. Why not just offer the base version with the bigger battery?
> Should have mentioned earlier, data needs to be accessible at all time. It’s user generated data that is downloaded in the background to a mobile phone, so super low latency is not important, but less than 1000ms required.

> The data is all images and videos, and no queries need to be performed on the data.

Okay, this is a good start, but there are some other important factors.

For every PB of data, how much bandwidth is used in a month, and what percentage of the data is actually accessed?

Annoyingly, the services that have the best warm/"cold" storage offerings also tend to be the services that overcharge the most for bandwidth.
> * Blenders licensing is a deterrent. Very few people want to deal with GPL.

Why would a studio care about this? A tech firm would certainly care, but the entertainment industry? They probably don't know what GPL is and would probably just associate it with "free"
I meant within a single vehicle but that’s probably the best you’re going to get.

It wasn’t until I was an adult living on the coast that I understood this and why Midwestern auto shops were so resistant to foreign cars. This process was still in development, and so while one set of brake assembly might fit twenty Chevy and Ford vehicles over a five model year period, you were always having to special order parts for the “weird” cars because you couldn’t keep them in inventory, and so you had to deal with a hostile customer who didn’t understand why their wife’s car got brakes in one day and the Subaru was going to take a week. They storm off to another shop and get the same answer.
I'd be ok with a default deny, but it should be an option for those that want it.
I find it fascinating that this also works as a wealth map
Comparing the deaths side by side misses an important aspect: most malaria deaths are children, whereas Covid mostly affects older age groups.
Often it is much faster to learn things properly and get it right rather than trying to figure out why the stuff you copy pasted doesn't work together.
As an American reader, home equivalents speaks to the political impact of the project better than wattage. The latter requires the context of the average home's usage in the relevant geography to contextualise.
I don’t think chips for cars become obsolete so quickly.
Well, self driving hardware excluded, but the other stuff can probably run very well on 10+ year old designs.
Well, used car prices continue to increase.

Some one or two year old used vehicles sell for above their MSRP new prices now.
> More seriously, how about multiple sets of priorities? And a way to reconcile them

This is a really interesting idea. I'm thinking something like Trello where each list is different teams priorities. Teams assign weight to each priority, and you also weight the relationship between the different teams and what the business wants to focus on as a whole. Then when the planning stages are done, you can hit "Reconcile/Generate roadmap" or something, and get a somewhat balanced and shared view of what's to be done.
What are the ideals and concepts important to you?
Sure, if you want a forum that is only trolls then go ahead and leave it unmoderated. Just don't act surprised when suddenly Nazis show up.
It is indeed an excellent book, marrying theory with an eye for implementation and real world trade offs.
I wouldn't call those core content that needs to be maximum quality. They're normal content that needs to be non-ugly.

The examples given of core content were Flickr and Unsplash. In other words, photographic perfection.

Photographic perfection-quality on the web is definitely the exception, not the rule.
I agree with your points in general, the main reason I don't want a Tesla is that they all look the same to me, across models, years, features, they just have a similar look and it's boring. I wish they also offered a wide range of body modifications to add some flavor and individuality to the car.
Indeed, which is two things against "anyone could do it" - it took Apple 13+ years to achieve - "using ARM" isn't enough - and competitors haven't been taken by surprise, they've had 10+ years to mount a response and haven't.
South Korea and Taiwan had super strict lockdowns and quarantine? It was my understanding that they were in fact successful through high testing volume, excellent contact tracing, proper masking up, and targeted lockdowns/quarantine.
It's obviously very personal, but for me, electric alone is a big plus. I find it more enjoyable to drive: No transmission shifting, really smooth acceleration, quieter, and that instant-on torque is pretty nice, too.
What is the difference to bacteria? (or is it a bacterium?)
That too has consistently failed between 2007 and late 2020.

Now it just fails inconsistently (i.e. it sometimes works).
I'm not sure I agree. The title indirectly makes a comparison to other countries, so I agree with you that per capita might be better for that, but the actual article isn't really about how India is doing compared to other countries.

The article really talks about how India is doing in comparison to how it was doing a few months ago and then paints a picture of how dire the situation currently is. I think the raw numbers actually do a better point of getting both those points across.
Sadly, the vast majority of consumers totally expects to be ripped off in one way or another. So, yes indeed.
So is Bitcoin screwing over the rest of the economy now?
Techniques for Structuring Next.js Applications
I think we might have different ideas of the purpose of RFCs, but I don't expect end users to read them. What I'm saying is that RFC 8032 already defines a binary encoding for Ed25519 keys (the octet strings you've found). How to encode a binary string in text is IMHO orthogonal, and has nothing to do with Ed25519. Similarly, PKIX definex binary DER encodings, and PEM defines how to encode DER as text.

DER : PEM = Ed25519 binary encoding : Base64
I uninstalled Chrome and switched to an other Chromium alternative and never looked back. Never had a performance issue on my Mac since then …
It's incorrect to say it looks like sniffles in comparison. This is basically severity / priority in software. If we left sars-covid-19 without mitigation for a century, it would catch up rapidly. You compare things over relevant intervals.

There are far more influenza deaths over the last 3 decades than ebola, but ebola is far more severe and greater concern.
Similar but not the same. There is an insane variety of nearly identical MCUs, for example. For an otherwise identical part, you can often get it in half a dozen or more packages. (i.e. the chip has different physical form factors in terms of how it attaches to the PCB, pin type and spacing etc... but the actual die inside is the same) Then there are subtle variants for a given MCU (differing types/amounts/speeds of RAM/Flash/interfaces etc.) The matrix of variants quickly gets out of hand. It's probably easily 10-50x (depending on the part) the number of variants Intel/AMD come out with each year. The autos also typically use parts with an extended temperature range.
So somehow it being around longer makes the more lethal disease the sniffles? That doesn't make sense.
Except it takes weeks/months to prep a fab to start making these chips. If the car companies start getting their orders then switch back to JIT manufacturing, then the fabs won’t want to waste these months idle thrashing the manufacturing lines across products.

Raising prices only helps if you can get more supply at a higher price, and you can’t when it takes months to start.
MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet
10 hour battery life was achievable 15 years ago on Pentium M provided you under-volted, under-clocked, and had a high capacity battery.
> I don't think that matters. Someone would need to prove you stole it, which they can't do since you didn't.

Welcome to the civil law world, where they don't need to prove that at all, they just need to ask "on the balance of probabilities, is it more likely than not that a violation happened here?". Unfortunately, for many, juries, and even judges, the mere assertion thereof by a corporation, even if backed by scant or contradictory evidence, is enough for them to say, "that's reasonable".
Probably referring to total cost savings, not just fuel savings. As mentioned other places in this thread, electric motors have less/simpler maintenance needs than ICE engines and the TOTAL labor/parts/fuel savings is probably where the 1/5 or 1/10 claims come in.
Guideline 401k now charging an AUM Fee
We just received an email that Guideline (401k provider) is switching to a model that charges a % of AUM.

A lot of their marketing was focused around charging flat fees rather than a % of AUM. I'm sure that our company is not the only one that chose to use Guideline for this reason.

In my opinion this change is extremely predatory and I wonder if this was their plan from the beginning. Does anyone have any suggestions on other 401k providers for small teams?
This is targeting regional flights - a quick search tells me the average regional flight distance is exactly 495 miles.
Extended, strictly lockdowns do not work as you paralyzing the economy. It's easy to WFH in tech earning a big paycheck to call for lockdowns when you're not impacted by them.

Florida and Texas did not have extended lockdowns, and their numbers are not worse that the states that did, and in many cases better.
Also, Texas cases went down 3 weeks after mask mandate was lifted. Watch Bill Maher - New Rules from last Friday.
A Dozen Microcomputers
I have a dozen microcomputers, microcontrollers, FPGA boards, etc. If it is out there I've probably bought it.

I've been learning how to program each one.

One major source of frustration is that they all seem to have their own way of doing things. For example, I have the Arduino which likes the arduino IDE. I have a DE1 which requires Quartus. The DE10-nano requires a blaster cable. (Surprisingly in my "box of a thousand cables" I didn't have one).

It is painfully time consuming to get the BLINK program (the "hello world" of hardware) running on each one.

It is bad enough having to learn how to set the dozen random registers just to generate a quadrature waveform. But that's due to hardware design tradeoffs. It would be much better if there were open source VERILOG submodules that were considered "standard".

The software IDE layer ought to provide a common API (e.g. timers, AD/DA conversion, I2C, USB programmability, etc.)

Learning all of this takes time and I'm willing to crawl over the intellectual broken glass to do it but I think it is really holding back the industry.

Perhaps it is time for some industry standards applied at the IDE level.
A rule of thumb for performance is every 10-100X involves changing up your fundamentals

It's a bit different nowadays that a lot of scaling tech is commoditized, but still means things like negotiating new contracts, finding & fixing the odd pieces that weren't stressed before, etc.

(congrats on hitting the new usage levels + good luck! we're at a much smaller scale, but trying to figure out some similar questions for stuff like web-scale publishing of data journalism without dying on egress $, so it's an interesting thread...)
It's a huge cost and weight penalty that makes no sense 99% of the time.

You seem to be stuck in a 2010 mindset - battery swapping in particular is a hilarious failure of an idea. Watch out for the world overtaking you.
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling the Hangover
I assume you're already making use of most of S3s auto-archive features?[0] Really it seems like this comes down to how quickly any of your data /needs/ to be loaded. I'd probably investigate after how much time a file is only ~1-10% likely to be accessed in the next 30 days, then auto-archive files in S3 to Glacier after that threshold. If you want to be a bit 'smarter' about it, here's an article by Dropbox[1] on how they saved $1.7M/year by determining which file previews actually need to be generated, and their strategy seems like it could be applied to your use case. That said, it seems like you are more likely to save money by going colo than by staying in the cloud.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/archive-s3-to-glacier/
[1] https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/cannes--how-ml-saves-u...
Based on how fragmentation is handled (generally poorly, often because there's little choice), I would have preferred truncation with an in-band signal. For TCP, truncation is a clear win; you get some of the packet, and can signal back to the other end that things are missing, and hopefully the other end adapts to stop sending packets that get truncated. (Of course, when a middle box uses large receive offload to combine the packets and then complains that they're too big to forward, it's hard to fix as an endpoint).

For UDP, it's not so simple; IP fragmentation does allow for large data, all or nothing processing, without needing application level handling, but the cost of fragmentation is high.

The out of band signalling when sending packets that are too large is too easy to break, and too many systems are still not setup to probe for path mtu blackholes (the biggest one for me is Android), and the workarounds are meh, too.

Another option would be for IP fragments to have the protocol level header, so fragments could be grouped by the full 5-tuple (protocol, source ip, dest ip, source port, dest port) and kept if useful or dropped if not, without having to wait for all the fragments to appear.
Yes, but over the course of history, there's no comparison. Which was my point.

Covid-19 is hopefully going to be short-lived thanks to the vaccines, but even if it weren't for that it would likely become more virulent but less deadly over time like the other Coronaviruses that are endemic in humans.

There is a also a big difference in lives lost at the end of life versus at the beginning.
Because getting one disease doesn't mean you get to condemn the rest of the public to misery? Look at what makes people vulnerable to Covid and you'll understand.
The first two results for "bootstrap AROUND(6) cpu" are about bootstrap though.

"bootstrap cpu" gives far higher quality results.
> Yes but in the 1880's punching someone wasn't that big of a deal. They could have gone to the bar later and got drunk together and made legislation the next day.

Bollocks. Charles Sumner gettin whupped with a cane WAS a big deal and made national and international headlines.

It was a direct response to Sumner criticizing slavery, and helped cement opinions in the South that they'd need to take drastic action to preserve that institution.
I wonder if Match would have caused it to silently re-upload your missing files then supply them back.

It's the (supposed, it's very confusing) difference between Match as a standalone service and the Apple Music streaming service when it comes to your own library--Match will serve back your own music files to you if not already on the service. OTOH, I have no idea what it does if it thinks it matched on the service when first scanned, but the track isn't there anymore.
In a way, it's more equitable if everyone has a slur.
I guess Google+'s "circles" concept would be helpful in maintaining different facets, but ultimately all social media is public so that's kind of a silly thing to even try to do.

If you don't want your wild Fursona to be associated with the same account that you use for your highly conservative church groups then putting them on the same account is not a good idea.
Now, after 25 years or so, I finally know how it's called! I remember, as a kid, I found out that if I repeat a word often enough, it stops being registered
as a word, suddenly it's just a bunch of unrelated sounds. It amused me but I never shared it with anyone, and, turns out, there's even a term for it (and a lot of research). It's one of those things that happen to many people but rarely talked about; post-nasal drip and blue field entoptic phenomenon also come to mind.
It's sad seeing the price inelasticity causing a decreasing productivity in this way. I hope this is a lesson for all future considerations combining JIT with price inelastic goods
I somehow had never seen/heard the word protist before (biology is obviously not my specialization). Thank you for that.
>I wonder how much the actual battery contributes to the production costs. It can't be trivial, right?

I would think it's a good portion, at say $200 per kWh of battery a 50kWh pack is $10k.
Ah, so fuck depressed people as long as they didn't die?

Also, I said "regardless of suicide statistics." Did you miss that part?
They talk about this in the article.

> Confirmed deaths from the coronavirus also broke an Indian record Thursday, with 2,104 fatalities recorded in the previous 24 hours. But deaths too may be drastically undercounted, because many of the people dying outside hospitals never got tested.
Because old people are worth less than children?
Except there is tablet epoxied to the dashboard, almost.
Short to medium term very true.
Long term if people (think) prices will remain high, more factories will be built.
But you can see that explosive growth equally well in the per capita numbers. The total number is just the per capita rate multiplied by a different number in every country, so there are very few occasions where it is useful to choose it over the per capita rate.
Same. I would like to move to somewhere with low light pollution but isn't far from good medical care. Impossible, at least in the US.
Not just European; practically everyone who made diesel cars was at it.
I think what you're actually describing is the largely fan activist/toy (Yes, Tesla Autopilot is a toy) attitude that's common to a certain kind of Tesla owners. This is embarassing and needs to go so that responsible adults can buy EVs too.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V ISA [pdf]
For typical dimms it's about 2-3 watts per stick. Doesn't sound like much until you max out a SuperMicro (or other server grade) motherboard with 24 dimm sockets. :)
https://archive.is/accYU
>An (IMO) Interesting question is how to reduce the risks of things like this happening.

Corroborating evidence. In this case, where was the evidence that this money was ever in their possession? Was it ever sitting in their bank account? Was it buried in the back yard? Did they buy fancy sports cars or houses? The prospect of thousands of people stealing money without a trace of the cash is fantastical.

In general, I'd say electronic evidence should need to be corroborated with physical or other types of evidence to achieve a conviction. It's too easy for electronic records to be falsified, either through software bugs or outright malicious intent.
Despite what you think about what Libertarians think, the term that is relevant here is opportunity cost. Not zero sum games.
But the products you're listing are streaming services. You never buy anything, you subscribe per month.

So not really sure why you're conflating this story with those? Or why you think files for a subscription service shouldn't be DRM'ed? I mean, if you keep the files after your subscription ends, that's obviously not a subscription anymore.
Not only that, but the used car market is going to explode. I knew my yard full of old crappy cars would be worth something some day!
Please don't take HN threads further into political or nationalistic flamewar. They're tedious, usually nasty, and not what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910467.
Sorry if I came at you a little aggressively there. I'm still getting used to the fact that this isn't reddit and just assumed you were one of those guys who thinks that women are handed everything in life and men are the real victims here.

What I'd like to see is both men and women being encouraged to show "feminine" traits. What's wrong with demonstrating emotion? Why does it seem like the only emotion men are allowed to have is anger? Why does a man have to be stoic and avoid asking for help when he's in pain? It's not advantageous for anyone.

On the flip side, why are women not allowed to stand their ground without being called bitchy? I've had problems a number of times in previous jobs where I'm right about the way something should be done, know I'm right, but no matter how carefully I tried to word my disagreement with what was going on, the men I worked with would shut down and become cold to me. A man making the same suggestion, however, was a leader with good ideas. Thankfully I've found a job where I'm expected to be a little pushy and opinionated and life has been so much easier since.

I see where you're coming from and agree that we should be encouraging both masculinity and femininity because both have their value. Being a bit of a "masculine" chick myself though, I don't feel that these traits should be strictly assigned to their traditional genders. There's a lot of value in women who have good ideas defending them rather than trying to keep the peace and there's a lot of value in a man who has high emotional intelligence entering a caretaker role or even just using that sensitivity to keep a team cohesive. I think society has definitely done itself a disservice by expecting women to be more like men and expecting men to be almost a caricature of masculinity.
What about storing the older things in some slower backup service that's slow to access but cheap? If the user eventually accesses those some day you would kick of some background job to get them fresh again. Not super UX friendly of course, but could reduce costs. Or is this already the standard thing to do?
For perspective, my parents both grew up on farms and I spent my summers on them. You are right but "farming" used to be a family with 3 acres and an ox and a plow. These small farms you lament are just as much a whole new world to the ox and plow as a 16/20 row combine that can process 150 acres a day is to your childhood. Efficiency comes from specialization which creates incentives for economies of scale. Software will continue to eat the world.