skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Figured it out later"

Hmmm. Multitouch, Apps (even if Apple only), Mobile Safari etc. Seems to me that the original iPhone arrived pretty much figured out from a product perspective and it was fast enough. Sure the silicon has got more powerful but that's not Apple's fault.
Not at all. The engineering at Tesla makes a civic / Prius look like a child’s toy.. I brought up the tax rebates because ‘cost of ownership’ was the metric discussed, and taxes are certainly involved with that for any EV since the gov incentivized ownership.

The max rebate was ~7k if you lived in California and were on the first wave of federal credits I think? And the difference between a model 3 and a civic / Prius is way more than 7k, although that is subjective. Cost of ownership is objective.
> It is mind boggling the lack of basic security principles some people have.

OpSec - it's not just a buzzword, it's the Way.
I want a laptop with 64 or 128 GiB of Chipkill ECC RAM. Any of this soldered-on, anti-R2R/-consumer Apple trend-copying is BS. This crap about "YAGNI" or "it costs too much" have no idea what they're talking about and don't understand the reasons or use-cases.

At home, I may have a 96 core EPYC with 512 GiB of Reg'd ECC RAM, but it doesn't have the locality or reachability of something that's with you. Network presence and low-latency aren't a given.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipkill

Edit: Resources:

https://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html

http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory

https://tedium.co/2021/01/06/error-correcting-code-memory-hi...

[PDF] https://defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/Schu...

DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (trivia: at the time of filming, I was excessively-hungover and laying across 6 seats in the middle of an empty area to the extreme right, from the podium's perspective. I did watch the presentation with sunglasses on indoors because my eyes weren't cooperating nicely with photons.)

https://youtu.be/aT7mnSstKGs

Edit follow-on:

And I don't want to lug-around a 17" Russian tank laptop that needs wheeled tracks to move. 13-15" max.
I’ve always included a proforma invoice and an ECCN when sending anything international (except letters).

Perhaps some software change happened internally that no longer defaults to something, or the clerk isn’t allowed to deduce the ECCN anymore.
A misconception about Hyenas is that they are primarily scavengers. They are not -- they are hunters, and pretty aggressive at that. I read more than once that the traditional relationship between lions and hyenas as popular culture has it is actually backwards: hyenas mostly hunt, and lions mostly steal their kills.

Also, a single lion (or two) facing a pack of hyenas is in dire peril. Hyenas are clever, strong and dangerous. There are YouTube videos about this.
This is because his initial promises are so completely unbelievable that even getting in the same ballpark is an amazing accomplishment.

Barring a couple of obvious outliers (looking at you, FSD) he's typically within an order of magnitude of his completely insane predictions. Line that performance up against anyone else and the difference is stark.
Yep, maybe. This is an endlessly circular discussion without falsifiable experiment.

Which is my whole point.

You have fun falling into the abyss. I’m gonna go see what reality is made of.
Ye well I agree. As sibling comment pointed out I rather have a chip then a motor driven timer switch with fancy grooves.

My point is that simple systems like coffee cookers don't benefit much from having microcontrollers and you introduce alot of complexity.

My 3yo Mocca Master just have a timing relay and a switch for the aux. heater.

If they added a IC to have eg. a 'smart heater' or what ever the complexity and risk for making design errors would explode. With two switches you can enumerate the states of the system. With code you can't just look at the coffee machine and figure out exactly how it works while reviewing the design for production.

No code, no bugs.
You're not wrong - but considering we failed to stop p2p file sharing how does anyone expect us to stop this?

The music industry railed against stuff like Napster and got literally nowhere in the grand scheme of things.

We are watching a repeat of history and apparently nobody learned a thing the first time.
We actually do have a persistent `stevedore` in Varnish Cache, but we have marked it "deprecated" because it did not live up to expectations, but we keep it around to keep the internal API's honest.

Redesigning that code has not bubbled up to the top of my TODO list yet, and shows now signs of doing so.

But if you need persistence, there is a commercial version of Varnish which has it, but I have not been involved in that.
I'm a guitar noob as well and I've been playing around with Rocksmith on PC. I don't think it replaces a real teacher at all but if you want something fun as an alternative and a way to learn popular pop/rock songs I suggest you check it out.

You can use it to practice like this post's article. You can repeat sections and slow the tempo down. I'm not a fan of how the game ramps up song difficulty (IMO I think it starts way too easy such that the practice is not useful), but you can tweak this really easily.
Well it could matter if someone has, say, a ‘tree nut’ allergy, and we are trying to determine whether a ‘nut’ from a plant that doesn’t seem tree-like visually could potentially trigger that allergy...
I'll be that guy and say for completeness that while local hidden variables are ruled out, global variables are not via something like Bohmian mechanics.
You are punishing people who want to eat apples and beef for the crime of being able to pay less for it.

This doesn't protect businesses who want to sell apple and beef based products for less money using foreign raw inputs.

And what retaliation are you getting in exchange for raising these tariffs?
Asking him to move because of this is pure fascism ideology. You should reconsider that.

There are many reasons why someone might want to live in a place, despite the state there.

The state and the country/state/city/whatever are different things.
Ah I thought this was going to be about SciHub

LibGen is also great.
I was lurking for years here and i just registered to ask you where do i find the ungoogled chrome that allows extensions on android? The official ungoogled version does not support extensions. Do you mean Kiwi?
The article isn't wrong though. The main uses of cryptocurrencies, other than as speculative assets, are online drug dealing and ransomware payments.

For almost every other application, real money is more useable, convenient and reliable.
Depends what you using it for I regularly get thrashing on my works 16gb dell and that's without any vms running and not using the full office suite.

If your a journalist tapping out a column and only using one application at a time yes 8gb will work for you.
With the amount of horrible infotainment systems in the wild i honestly doubt they’re using overpowered chips. I’m sure any consumer grade APU (ie. CPU with an iGPU) from the past 5 years would do better than the chips currently in cars.
only if there is positive price elasticity, and that depends on market dynamics (price is a function of both supply and demand).

for instance, if there is a local alternative that's 10% more expensive, you might have that 10% leeway available to you to increase prices, but not if demand drops sharply (negative price elasticity) because substitutes exist or the good isn't as essential as it seemed.
A Preview of Fortuna Silver Mines's Earnings
This sums it up [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRr1kaXKBsU
For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway
Classically that’s true, but if we want consistency with quantum mechanics, the only starting point we know is to quantize the force carrying fields (gravitons, just like photos and gluons), but then it turns out we can’t get far from the starting point.

Why do we want to quantize gravity? Imagine you are doing a scattering experiment. To predict the full results consistently (in principle), you would need to include the gravitational forces between the scattering particles. This would be particularly important in early universe cosmology where you might have lots of heavy stuff zipping around at high speed! The classical GR picture is not too helpful in these situations.
I don't think so. I can't work out how the washing machine isn't obviously just an example.

Also, the thing that's more annoying is actually that the machine's alarm is extremely quiet and the timer very inconsistent (e.g. I made a Pizza oven that sends me an email, and it wasn't hard to do at all).
That’s probably because the storage is fast enough you can’t really tell when it swaps.
Its pre loading.

And just outlook teams and slack does have quite an over head.
Thanks!

Yeah, keysend would be perfect for this. Last time I checked there wasn't quite enough support across the more popular lightning wallets, but I'm definitely keen to switch over once the feature gains more traction.
If people do not want a screen on the fridge, then the sales numbers will tell manufacturers not to make that model. So much of product is experimentation, and often times the research and experiments ends up being wrong. So many products and companies fail when they go to market and find out nobody wants it. The other side of the coin are the products that are unexpected hits... There are so many things that have to go right... and it takes so few to go wrong.
Not in the US, but back home I clearly remember moving countless fridges of friends to new apartment.

But true that appliance seems to be attach to the houses here. And correct, smart things are private things because of the nature of their work.

I have a fridge that my grand father used. And I’m not specially young. I love that fridge, simple and frugal in energy.

I suspect the smart fridge and the like will come with incentive from large comglomerate that also sell food.

The « two day delivery » of the smart fridge. I guess a coupon.

Oh well.
Have you ever used Windows...
It needs to be verifiable to be protected from spoofing, and encrypted to be protected from listening. You can't verify arbitrary network traffic because servers aren't stateless, but you can encrypt some traffic (https). Sadly, the encrypted traffic still has some metadata, such as server ip, sometimes hostname, request size.

Either way, it can't be protected in the way filecoin/gridcoin are protected.
https://fennosys.fi/
Not who you responded to but newly released consoles are tons of chips, having to stay home meant more people buyer gaming PCs as well, everyone who started working from home required tons of new hardware while their desktops at work go unused, and money flowed from governments like water so everyone has money to buy all these things at once. Then on the supply side you had basically everyone stop working for at least a couple months some longer not only out of restrictions on the ability to work but restrictions that make a lot of processes much less efficient plus fear of going to work on top, then you had no one willing to return to many jobs because unemployment benefits have lasted for over a year (rather than normally a few months) and unemployment pays higher than your typical minimum wage job anyways with even the current the extra $300 per week, which was an extra $600 per week for a long time as well. This also means people that used to spend their time on higher wage and producing jobs end up spending a lot of their time doing things they would normally delegate off because no one wants to work those jobs. If you look at chips they are just one of many industries all with shortages for similar reasons, chips are just the worst shortage of all, mainly from all the work from home needs. In 2020 last year my computers power supply died.. there wasn’t one available with 100 miles. I drove to every store within about 20 miles to try to get back online same day. Even online Newegg and Amazon were all sold out, I had to spend about triple normal to by a power supply that was way too much for what I needed and pay extra for shipping it quickly. Not the same as chips but it was a similar need and far fewer people are needing power supplies versus chips.
Isn't that a lousy move? Doesn't it make the entire theory a tautology that cannot be attacked?
I think a lot of folks underestimate how fabulously complicated it is to fab a chip. Yes, you can diy it in your garage, here's a wonderful implementation. http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/

But take a look at the specialized tools they used. Heck, think about proper handling of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid and this is just a simple amp. imagine trying to make something with lots of gates?

Making a single chip is _hard_. And that's just for a one off. doing that at scale requires an amazing amount of process control. And that diy chip is, according to the author "5µm (1975 tech. level)"

Anyway, yes, you could make a chip in your garage, but it'd take a lot of time to ramp up, and you'd only have 1.
Amazon removes reviews that call this out, so they do care — just in the other direction.
The issue is that supply is greatly exceeding demand. It also isn't constrained to Vehicles. Apple's Q2 guidance has said that iPads and Macs supplies have been constrained. [1]. Also, if you get reposessed cars that doesn't mean you will be able to resell them. Sure the automakers made a mistake in their orders for chips but since everyone is now trying to get foundries making chips and we are still having logistic problems with Air and Ocean freight no one really knows the answer to your question. [2]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-29/apple-fin...

[2] https://unctad.org/news/shipping-during-covid-19-why-contain...
Walk into a GW store. Where in the store can you see the satire?
Darknet diaries gets a lot of love from the infosec crowd.

Also, have you considered asking will.i.am? ;)
Why Even the Studios Behind Bestselling Games Shut Down
That would be a start (the alarm sounds like a chain smoking mouse)
What good is it to live in a wealthy nation, if being a citizen means you have to operate at cut throat efficiency in order to keep up? Creating slack for the average man to enjoy is also a valuable national economic goal.
A freight forwarding service like MyUS.com could be of help here.

First, the customer/recipient can use a freight forwarding service to get the stuff shipped to them without the seller having to consider export procedure at all; The customer just has the seller ship to their US freight forwarding address and then the service handles export and reshipment. Freight forwarding services are a natural accumulator of export protocol know-how. It’s their specialization.

Secondly, the freight forwarder might be able to advise on best practices. It might be in their interest to raise attention to themselves and accumulate good will, as well as to demonstrate what particular suffering it is that they alleviate.

There’s also a free business idea here: Freight forwarding services that handle from-one -to-many shipping. (Most of those that I am familiar are from-many-to-one. From many shippers to my personal account.)
Well, a lot of people would buy yachts if they were only $1000.... since the price will never get there, they will never get their yacht that they want.

Does that mean there is a yacht shortage?

If chip costs stay high, that just means that is how expensive chips are.
He can be an impressive engineer and entrepreneur while also being a jerk. I think it's ok to condemn his behaviors when they're out of line while also admiring the progress him and his companies have made in the industries they've targeted.
For Monero, yes, that's by far the predominant use. For a time, that was the predominant use for Bitcoin, but I'm pretty sure it isn't anymore as of like ~7 years ago, probably. (The article mentions Bitcoin - probably because ransomware operators know ransomware victims can more easily acquire Bitcoin than Monero - but for other kinds of serious black market activity it's almost always Monero.)

For others, I think it's totally untrue even from the start. It's actually usually a lot easier to launder USD than it is to launder something like Bitcoin or Ethereum, given every transaction is completely public and traceable.
Disgust Can Be Morally Valuable
Most new cars still suck / Do not offer meaningful new features

That really depends on how old your car is. I generally buy instead of lease, and run the car until it starts having regular problems. As a result, my car is 12 years old, and any new one from the last few years is a significant upgrade in terms of features. I don't really want a monthly car payment again, but I'm almost looking forward to when my current car starts having enough problems to make the upgrade worth it.
What made Katie Cotton a genius?
Abstractions do have costs, no doubt. I just don't see the connection between "Go heavily uses interfaces which force heap allocation in the current implementation" and "1975 programming". How would one go from 1975 to current year? By stopping using abstractions? Isn't that exactly what 1975 programming was to begin with?
Meh, looks nice and UX is OK, but not really useful IMO.

Often, growth means that operating cost also grow, e.g., due to higher infrastructure cost, more worker salaries, expansion into more economic markets with more/new regulations to tackle, ....

That could be at some fixed percentage in a simple model, and is a quite relevant factor which this tool completely misses.

So go for that spreadsheet, it can start really simple, with minimal parameters like this has - but being able to adapt and expand it over time as ones business growths and changes allows for much better and more efficient planning.
This is an apples to oranges comparison.

While both products use the term RPG, one is a group ad libbed storytelling activity, while the other is a solo activity where you experience someone else's narrative.

To claim that one is superior to the other is to assume one is a substitute for the other, and that's simply wrong.

And that's ignoring the subtle gatekeeping...
Don't underestimate the ability of lazy, incompetent, or (most likely) rushed developers to fill the headspace given to them by overpowered hardware.
I think there were DRAM futures contracts at some point, but looks like the idea never panned out (probably for the reasons you mentioned)
That’s a strange interpretation of Hume. Hume was a radical, he doubted causality itself. He only defends modern political institutions to the extent that they provide some utility in pursuance of “liberty, order and peace”. If they don’t he welcomed revolution.

For instance he disavowed the contemporary practice of British Mercantilism. In general, his radical political thought inspired America through Smith and thereby Payne.

Hume is against wealth inequality he’s just merely against perfect symmetry of possessions preventing barter and thereby preventing cooperation—-as stated in Political Discourses.

His views on marriage are cherry-picked, he’s pro-divorce. Again, his point is simply that in a marriage with children, one can expect the original passion to have been loss, so that passion alone cannot sustain a marriage. However if that marriage bears children, for the sake of the children, he recommends to abstain from the divorce for the development of the children.
If you read the whole article, I don't actually see any complaints about cryptocurrency or that it's the source of the problem. I think they're just stating the situation as it is and aren't casting any value judgment.

I like cryptocurrencies, and I also work in information security and malware analysis. I acknowledge ransomware is a massive problem and that ransomware would be stupid to not use cryptocurrency. Technology isn't inherently good or bad; it just is what it is.

I think one of the main sources of the problem here is international law enforcement. The Russian government and security/law enforcement services have a pretty open agreement with cybercriminals: don't target Russian citizens and we won't impact your business. A lot of these organizations are now complementing the ransoms with harassment and blackmail, too, like threatening to release sensitive documents, directly harassing CEOs, etc. And some directly target health care facilities, knowing there'll be more urgency to pay up.

So if you're a Russian citizen, you have carte blanche to steal millions from people around the world, in an organizational structure that mostly resembles a kind of standard office job, with almost no anxiety that it'll ever come back to bite you (as long as you never travel outside of the country).

It reminds me a little of old-school naval piracy and privateering in many ways.

If you're in the US or UK or France or many other places and want to start a lucrative ransomware operation, there's a high chance you'll eventually get caught, so the risk of long-term imprisonment is enough to deter you even if easy millions may tempt you. If you have no moral qualms, great incentives, and nothing to deter you, the possibilities are limitless.

I'm not saying that all countries should extradite - just that they should at least make a good faith effort to cooperate with other countries' law enforcement and stop serious cybercrime like ransomware. Though I can understand why an "underdog" nation-state may want to have good relations with some talented criminals within their borders who they may be able to recruit or order around as needed.
On Android I’ve seen even Google apps ask for camera permissions, I’m making a choice about whether I want this specific app to have access to my camera, whether it comes from Apple or any other developer doesn’t matter. I should be able to disable the camera access for any app including the built-in camera app.
This is old rhetoric. Sidestepping the government no longer has anything to do with Bitcoin appeal. At this point, it's purely speculation and money laundering, all subversiveness potential has been evacuated for good.
Are you able to drop in your own local MP3 files to Playlist? I miss having an offline audio player not connected to a streaming service. Anyone have any Android recommendations?
> What’s actually using all that? Background processes from first and third-party software and from Windows 10 itself. When you click the cross to close Discord, for example, it doesn’t actually close. It operates in the background and doing so requires using system resources.

I think Discord, Skype, Telegram and co are made with electron thus the memory issues. Great for iterating, horrible for cheap laptops.

The article itself isn't really interesting though, because not really technical as to what the issue is exactly.
Thought it was going to be an open source implementation of AirDrop.
If you don't want a monthly car payment, start your “monthly car payment” into a savings account now. You'll end up paying less for your next car if you can maximise the up-front payment.
Actually, ASML provides lifetime support for their machines. I don't know for the rest.
About the same for me... 8 gb was often too little even 10 years ago but for what I do these days 16 is always more than enough.
They generally tax their own populace at a relatively standard rate (20-40%+) while taxing the offshore corps based there at 0% (or more). Hong Kong, for example. In a sense it's economic subterfuge/sabotage.

This is a response to one possible reading of your comment.
Whoops, corrected, thanks.
Chile, step away from the koolaid please.