skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think plenty of people will skip it. Even ignoring the high cost, not everything scales as well with every new node. There're plenty of customers who will have no interest in this node right now and some that will have no interest in it ever. I've not seen anything that suggests capacity shortages at 5nm yet, especially for Apple who've already booked all of 3nm for next-gen.
I'm not affiliated with bogbook. It just seems like an interesting project to me. Others have told me the name is off-putting, hence my initial comment. I'm interested in whether or not that is the cause of the negative reaction here.
I wonder if we'd have gotten there without Jobs. It seems it happened in a moment of time when there was still a lot of piracy going on so there was a big push to make purchased digital music as good as/better than pirated music. Maybe today there would be a general feeling that DRM-free would be the only incentive for people to buy music given that streaming predominates, so why not, but I'm not sure.
> without a middleman to protect us from fraud and theft

The blockchain and smart contracts serve this purpose. Regardless, there's additional protocols and tools being created for decentralized insurance, escrow, custodians, etc.
Ask HN: Best way to transition into deep tech?
What would you advise someone wanting to work in deep tech companies? Go back to university and study engineering related stuff?

I would like to keep things general for other hackers, but my situation is - I am finishing studies in business major and I was planning to work at a traditional Internet startup. Probably creating CRUD apps. I saw this tweet [0] and got inspired to try to work at a deep tech startup instead. I am interested in biology of longevity and space industry

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1385338452544217095?s=20
Can't really speak to Scala and Haskell, but shell, HTML and SQL all are generally love/hate languages. All three are pretty simple to be productive with, and all three take a lot of time and knowledge to master (I'm including CSS in with HTML). All three are powerful, yet have pretty big limitations, too.
When I was in school, 95% of grading was blind and nothing outside of exams was handwritten.

And while it was possible to de-anonymise, the academics were all in support of blind grading so why would they?

The only exceptions were projects where everyone was assigned a different topic, and graded presentations.

Of course, this is simpler in STEM subjects - it's not like you can guess someone's race or gender from their switching power supply design. Subjects that prize in-class participation and lengthy essays would probably be harder to blind-grade effectively.
tldr; The purpose of humanity is to gain knowledge.

Finding elements of past life on Mars, has major consequences on understanding the ourselves and the universe.
The question is who audits it etc.

This will become more funny with We assembly. There review isnahrder and even if it is free software it will be ages to verify the code the server delivers matches the source.

There is a fundamental control issue where a license debate is irrelevant detour. (For me this is the biggest flaw in the FSF - they haven't grasped that yet, while smart ideas would be needed)
You can always check reviews published by ACCU.org:

K. N. King "C Programming":

https://accu.org/bookreviews/1999/graham_1260/

Ben Klemens "21st Century C":

https://accu.org/bookreviews/2016/demin_1882/

Robert C. Seacord "Effective C":

https://accu.org/bookreviews/2020/glassborow_1952/

https://accu.org/bookreviews/2021/bruntlett_1959/
That is a very tenuous argument. With DRM, one has to work against the grain of a software to implement it, whereas focusing on one native platform is almost the opposite - one has to go against the grain to make it cross platform. In that sense, DRM is an artificial limitation, whereas supporting just one platfrom isn't one.
This is insanity. We need legislators, lawyers and judges who are tech competent.
If it is the same foundry (and it is in this case) you can compare them and you can assume that 3mn is better than 4mn and better than 5mn. Across foundries, no so much.
Yeah I mean if your brand new software discovered that a retail shop was suddenly missing £50k/month in income, surely you'd do full inventory to confirm £50k worth of goods is actually missing. No idea how you would do that in a post office, but I guess take an inventory of stamps and any other services sold?
> because crypto is actively user hostile

The "marketing" of "everyone should keep their own wallet" is off, as it was initially only for the computer savvy. But that is also the main selling point. If you want to have it, you get full control.

The average user is better off keeping their coins in an online wallet/exchange. We wouldn't expect them to interact directly with bank/forex/stock back-end networks and not fuck something up. The main difference here is that they can if they want to.

> It's always the customer's fault, never the technology.

No, the field is still green and over-hyped, lots of gullible "investors" coming in, scammers follow. The regulations have not fully caught up.

Even with some regulations, I assure you, if you choose a shady bank or a broker for stocks you can lose your money just as easily. If you don't keep the coins yourself it becomes a question of who to trust. I really don't see what that has to do with "the technology".
Netlify Investigating Delayed Builds
Yeah, a lot of farmers are willing to try new things. The local farmers (ND outlaws corporate farming) bought a pretty expensive drone that has got to be about 5' ft across. Heck, combines are not exactly low tech these days.
> Not look too bad best to say.

What does this mean?
Someone who is assaulted or robbed might also benefit from the sense of closure they would receive knowing that the perpetrator had died. Similarly someone who found their partner cheating on them with a rival might find it easier to move on from that if their rival was then killed.

In general I don't think that society is best served by legitimising and implementing the irrational desires we have for killing people who have emotionally hurt us.

I think it would instead make sense to try to improve the support given to people who have suffered from crimes. If this means years of expensive therapy, paid for by the near-slavery of the perpetrator carrying out their life sentence, then we could have an outcome that is slightly more humane.
Isn't it 35W for the 5980hs vs. 26.8W for the M1, so up to 1.3x? https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
A general approach to content type negotiation and transcoding would be nice too.
You certainly could argue, but that doesn't mean it would be a good argument. How far can you take this? Are cars that only take premium fuel also DRM? What about a conduction stove that doesn't work with all pans?
"Sensible choice due to the ecosystem and tools" and "loving the language for its features" are two very different things.
Yea, it was also first I had heard of it. I think it's telling that there aren't any HN posts about them before. The pitch was good at getting investment. I think they actually use the browser extension to replace page ads with their own ads from advertisers they have a relationship with, but I'm not totally sure.

I read around too, as I agree it was super light on details, and found this post [1] and it seems you don't actually accumulate funds on your account, but points. Then you have to refer the browser extension to other people before you can access a marketplace - red flag. Then you get into a marketplace where they regularly put up rewards that you can redeem, but the rewards are limited in number and go fast. Also one user mentioned they got a Google Nest but Google pretty much hand those out with everything. I also saw a comment from the Gener8 team saying they are funding the payouts with investor money, so clearly they aren't making enough from advertisers to pay out and have to supplement it.

I wish they had asked how much had been paid out to-date and how much they had received from advertisers. Personally, I'd never install a browser extension that is explicitly to gather data for advertisers, even if I'm paid for it. A browser extension can view everything on every page you visit... It's much worse than a tracking cookie.

It didn't seem like the den knew enough to ask the right questions. Honestly, it opened my eyes to how tech companies are able to woo investors with very little substance. Then you see the more traditional companies get torn apart as the dragons can understand them.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoneyuk/comments/lkhk1b/are_the...
> 8GB of M1 RAM is very different than 32GB of standard DIMM-like RAM.

Go on... What’s the nature of this great difference?
Not sure I'd take action based on what someone who makes fancy dress/theatrical clothes suggests tbh.
It seems like they are long past the days of a CEO being able to say “Make this stuff work together.”

I’m still impressed with their renewal as a company. Rare for a stagnant tech firm to come back.
Not the OP, but I have the right to control what code is delivered to (downloaded) and run on my computer.

That doesn't mean I have the right to use a website that decides they aren't good with me doing so without the ads or other portions I may block.

I don't believe I have any moral obligation to make that choice myself. Simply put, I have the right to block ads, and the website has the right to block usage to me if I don't load said ads, trackers, etc.
Oh yes california, my home state. So impressed they had time to regulate the internet with homelessness surging out of control.

The state government has no intention of fixing California's real issues, they just like to liberally posture. Leave now!
I think we're blessed to live in a time where we have such a plethora of scientific knowledge that shows how deeply connected we are to the natural world and each other. It's a shame we choose to focus on our subtle differences to intentionally divide ourselves.
Yeah, except when it doesn't follow the pattern: for example, there is no foo_destroy(), you're supposed to "just" call free() when you're done with it. Used to be very common (not sure how it is now), and very frustrating when you link against non-standard allocators.
I have been looking for a book title to express my discontent at the state of freedom and privacy in our rapidly all digital society today and what we can do about it.

There are several more cases of books being remotely disabled and I see this being used for censorship before long.

...Noted
Windows or 150 other apps that run on Windows?
I do this but I feel like Im keeping them from living life to the fullest. They’ll live more but at what cost?
Software is in the walls. At some point legislators are going to come and ask the question how we stop things like this happening and if the Fujitsu's of the world don't have an answer then we can expect regulation that will likely embed practices that don't help.

I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things. This culture ruined these peoples lives. Things must change. This isn't a unique issue to Fujitsu it is something most of the software industry is doing, this story could be about just about any piece of software.
Not just their brand and cult. It's because they control search, they count page speed as a ranking factor, their benchmarks tell you to prefer webp for better performance.
Do red haired people feel more pain? I heard that too.

Red hair, ultra fair skin does seem to be on the opposite side of dark skinned people. It does appear to be a continuum of melanin.

Is this whole continuum relationship to pain just a myth?
A number of comments refer to the “supernatural” while others raise the notions of entropy, suggesting that the thought experiment is about getting something for nothing.

Even from the very early days, both notions were laughable, and both missed the point. The question has to do more with what sort of entity/agent/machine the demon would be, what its physical characteristics would be.

Since Bennett’s work of 1982, building on Landauer’s work of 1961 (both mentioned in the article), we know that the demon is an information processing machine, observing and recording state, occasionally acting, and occasionally erasing its state records.

The question is how efficient can we make the machine, how passive or active it needs to be.

Potential applications include more efficient cooling systems and advances in the theory and mathematics of information processing.
Depending on the requirements of your job—-just a single VS instance with chrome, postman and slack open takes around 5GB. Teams adds another GB or so. The rest probably another 2GB (SSMS and the like).

On my particular team we also run a dockerfile that includes elastic search, sql server, rabbitmq and consul—-I had to upgrade my work laptop from 16GB to 24GB to make it livable.
The author uses VSCode: https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/04/my-programming-setup/
What is randomness in true sense?
Why would these changes result in any less children in STEM careers? The material presented in Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, etc. isn't being eliminated. The material is just being presented throughout a multi-year curriculum instead of being dumped into a single dedicated classes.
File extensions are flawed. The .spc file extension is used for both cryptographic certificates and SPC700 audio files. Every time I setup a Windows machine and want to play .spc music, I have to reassociate .spc with a music player. Every time I setup a Linux KDE machine and want to play .spc music, I associate .spc to a new MIME type in my KDE settings, and file picks up this new file type, but xdg-open and KDE insists on treating it as application/pkcs7-mime.

MIME types are flawed in a world that only stores file extensions. On Android, you can only register apps as handling specific file MIME types, not file extensions. And for a non-mainstream file extension like .spc, every file browser app synthesizes a different MIME type (which may be blank in some cases).
In my country there is an official government warning to not click on links in fake package delivery SMS that are going around and are impersonating DHL to get you to download an app. People click them regardless and supply the spammers with more and more phone numbers linked to real names.

Will be fun when all the people clicking on these links lose all their currency.
Like how just 30 years ago wind power was to be found at the hobby level in hippy farms but now has gradually matured, improved efficiency and is more stable, what's to stop tidal power gradually maturing and becoming more stable and efficient over a similar time frame?

To me, this seems more like a pioneer project and one where we will learn lessons from.
I'm probably not the person to ask, I only use the touchpad as a last resort.

(Honestly I never even noticed that the apple touchpad was better than any other touchpad, but I understand that touchpad users will notice things I didn't.)
Finance was invented out of necessity. People in ancient Egypt needed finance to feed people. It's not some esoteric concept. Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it holds no value.
Announcement of Decarbonisation Hackathon
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Please find the most relevant info about the event below:

What is Hack from Home? Hack from Home is a global, remote hackathon organised by Dataswift, a DeepTech startup providing a decentralised infrastructure for personal data.
When will it take place? May 15-16, 2021.
Where will it be? It is a remote hackathon, so you can join us from anywhere in the world!
What is it about? We will be exploring how energy data placed into decentralised, user-owned and cloud-based 'Personal Data Accounts' can enable new green applications and systems, and would love to have you along.
Why should I join? We are working with four universities and several leading utilities and EnergyTech organisations. Our participants can register for free and will be able to work with an interesting personal data architecture and be eligible to prizes to the value of £5,000.
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The only reason I built a home media server was because I was sick of the splintering of streaming services. Now we buy, rip, and store physical media. Honestly, I think that it's something that, if people understood how easy it was today, more people would do.
> What would you use instead, then?

Julia, for example.
I can't find a lot of detail, but to answer a couple of your questions.

> how power is transmitted back to shore,

Article says there is a static sea-bed cable that that is connected via a "dynamic" cable to the turbine.

> how it's anchored in place.
> whether it's bi-directional

Very high level overview of the platform here: https://orbitalmarine.com/o2/

It shows an forward and aft mooring points, so my assumption would be is that at anchors are put in the ocean bed and that the whole structure is held in place by cables.

It also shows a "Two-bladed pitching hub allows bidirectional operation", so I take that to mean the blades are rotated in the hub depending on which way the tide is flowing.
This is a much better title than the other Guardian story, which misrepresented the story in the byline, I guess to get the click-friendly "sustainability" word in the title.

See the earlier story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912209
This is a wonderful book if you want to understand how the OSI model of internet works, clearly illustrated network apis. Man this book was amazing.
After Covid, Your Health May Depend on Living with Germs
Whether you call it a fact or feature, it does attract people who have a distrust of institutions. Many of these people don’t understand how modern banking systems actually work or how protections like FDIC insurance are extremely valuable protections.

Every Bitcoin thread on HN attracts crypto proponents who try to compare cryptocurrency to storing cash under your mattress or keeping gold bars in your basement, when that comparison is useless for 99% of people who wisely choose to use modern banking systems and all of the protections they afford.

Cryptocurrency also attracts people who like the complexity and rituals of managing it all. Playing with crypto wallets and blockchains and different ways of moving numbers around is fun to a lot of people, and they don’t understand why the things they enjoy are actually a hassle to everyone else.

Finally, crypto enthusiasts love the scarcity of their crypto, so seeing other people lose crypto makes their own holdings more valuable. It financially benefits them each time coins are lost forever, because the market cap stays high but those lost coins will never be sold, removing them from downward price pressure.
I think it’s reasonable to assume that OP was talking about user space applications, not kernel disk cache.
That isn't a problem for individual depositors. Even if my bank is mismanaged, my personal accounts are safely insured.
Coming up next: Excel Lambda back-end experimental support on LLVM. (Just a joke)
Excel is a very useful tool for many non-programmers employees. With LAMBDA they can have a more expressive system without the need to touch VBA, JS, PQ M language, nor jump to Python.
Are we able to generate side-effects with it? Like poking the value of a cell?
> I would also like to meet this guy, buy him a beer/coffee and thank him for the value he has created:).

I had the chance to met him a few years back during a conference in France[1]. He is very friendly indeed.

1: https://mixitconf.org/en/2015/thibault-duplessis-lichess-org...
Genuine question, since I don't and have never lived in the US.

> "[This policy] has resulted in the world’s fastest, most extensive wired and wireless networks;"

I was under the impression (for instance, from anedoctal evidence on HN), that, generally speaking, in the US Internet infrastructure was quite poor, prices quite steep and service not so good when compared to other industrialised countries?
A few years ago I had some Monero and went through software hell getting it to work properly with a Ledger. Eventually being that my entire crypto portfolio wasn't in the millions, I moved what was compatible (eth, ltc, a few others) back to Coinbase and sold what was then incompatible.

Lost my time and automated cost basis calculations. No thanks, digital wallets. Time > paranoia.
Thank you whoever chose to downvote. Nothing like punishing genuine curiosity, ay!
How to Set Up Veracode in a Large Azure Project
Schemes such as this have been proposed, see the Swansea Tidal Lagoon [0]. The bottom line is that they are crazy expensive for the power they deliver and just don't compete against other renewables.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Lagoon_Swansea_Bay
This always makes me think someday we’ll be able to store energy with information. Not sure how exactly but I feel like we’ll see that in a few hundred years.

Imagine an sd card holding a few KWH.
I'm an electrical engineer and an academic. A key part of communication is _knowing your audience_, and communicating what is appropriate for them. Your average reader doesn't need to know how many W this generates. While, yes, HN may appreciate knowing the expected power output, that's basically irrelevant for the average reader.

This is from the BBC, not a scientific journal. While your average reader may know that their microwave is 800W, telling them "This turbine will generate <x> kW" doesn't mean anything. They _do_ have a home. If they don't _need_ to know/use Watts on a day to day basis, then the number is just going to be forgotten. However, they _might_ remember "a tidal turbine that can power thousands of homes".

It would be lovely if everyone was scientifically literate, but people have other shit going on in their lives. On a pragmatic level, I'd rather society remember the abstract idea of 'how many homes' than _forget_ the precise '<x> megawatts'.
The 2400G is a relatively low end part that is four generations old. In the past AMD did not release high end desktop APUs, preferring customers to buy CPUs + GPUs. This is already announced to change with a 5700G being produced. https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-5700g - On paper this is a 5800H in a desktop form factor with a higher max TDP and higher clock speeds.

The 5800H gets 2.5x on cpu benchmark's rating vs the 2400G. This is composed of a 50% single core and 300% multi-core improvement.

2400G: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+2400G&i...

5800H: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+2400G&i...