skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think that was you, I just thought it was related and an example of how a similar patch could get approved.

I looked at your example, and I'm sorry that you thought I was doubting you but it looks like that everything was resolved satisfactorily based on what I read for you. I didn't get the impression they were saying no, just that there was other ways to do it.
Very interesting, kinda spooky.

Peer-to-peer threats from a world power perspective seem to be less bullets and more code. Any cyber warfare would just end in both parties destroying critical infrastructure until there's none left. War of attrition, skipping completely past the military and affecting the civilian population directly.
There's an OS for that :

http://collapseos.org/
"nobody was working on electric cars"?
For Go, Rust, Haskell, autoconf, CMake, you would invoke the meson and ninja commands as part of your build process. You can't use them in the same exact way as meson subprojects, but these are just shell commands. It's the standard way to build any project with an external build tool. Am I misunderstanding a requirement? For a static build deployed in a specialized situation, you would likely need a customized gtk build to begin with.

I think it would be worth asking if they could keep that libgtk_static around, for users who know what they are doing. Make it very obvious you are not creating extra burden on them for just your use case. The problem with an option to build and install is that it makes it so they have to support static linking in lots of other use cases, which it doesn't seem they want to do.

I'd be interested to hear if static linking GTK even has that many benefits. From what I have seen, the library may not play so well with LTO.
What happens the day Tesla or the platform that processes payments for them gets subpoenaed for accepting coins from a ransomware attack? I suspect they will quietly drop their coins and stop accepting new ones, especially since that's unlikely to be a common payment method.
It is going to come sooner than that, people keep talking about inflation "coming soon" I think those people are blind because it is already here.

Right now if we just get off with a little stagflation that would be a blessing, unfortunately I think it is going to far far worse. All those people depending on government checks are going to get hit hardest by the combination of inflation and the required austerity measures
Simulating virtual images in optical trap displays
This article does a good job of describing an approach which is useful if you have lots of willpower, limited time, and want to learn to play a complicated piece exactly as written.

I'm occasionally in that situation, in which case I use this approach, but at least for me this is a small portion of my practicing. Instead, I try to make sure I sit down at the piano at least once a day, and play whatever I want. The goal is to have fun, and let my fingers learn how to play by giving them a lot of time. If I have more willpower, I'll try harder things, occasionally stopping and slowly working through something that feels just a little bit too hard for me, but even when I just play I'm building familiarity and fluidity.

(This isn't specific to piano: it works with any instrument)
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away"

Instead of asking software vendors to make better apps, we ask hardware vendors to put more RAM.

Instead of asking an industry that can distribute the change in months, we ask the industry that will take years to change the entirety of the installed base.

Instead of asking for higher efficiency and better use of resources we already have, we accept bloat as a natural fact of life and accommodate to that.

Instead of maximizing the use of all the resources we have already mined and the energy we have already used, the devices that are functional but slow when used with bloated software, we encourage active obscolecence and further pollution of our environment, exploitation of resources in dubious onditions, more-than-grey working conditions, all in the name of "it is possible to do more, so we should do more".

Is this really the direction we want ?
Eh, no, that's not how it works in high-volume manufacturing. There are 70 million washing machines sold per year. Suppose your large conglomerate employer sells 0.7% of that total, or 700,000 units. It doesn't take much of a per-unit savings to pay for the salary of a FTE to optimize the design.
Just because it’s obviously false when it comes to Trump, doesn’t mean it’s false all of the time.

Also Elon’s behavior isn’t that serious (and he’s not POTUS).
Are you not able to vote?
All modern cars have amazing new features. Air bags, reverse cameras, steering by wire, ABS, direct fuel injection, massively boosted turbocharged engines (on econoboxes!) and traction control as standard. My 7 year old car has all of the above and can park itself, has adaptive cruise control, and for $400 I added a 12” touch screen stereo. Compared to my last car, my current car outputs up to 20psi of boost compared to the 6psi of four generations ago. My current car has part time AWD that is just as efficient as my old mechanical always on AWD car of yesterday. I bought my car for under $20k. The car is worth under $10k right now. That is massive value available to everyone right now.

Maybe you could upgrade your car now for much less than you think, or maybe you only want the latest shiny parts. Either way you need to be honest with yourself, cars have evolved and stayed modern over the past 2 decades compared to any time in automobile history
I always knew bells theorem would instill extreme amounts of butthurt in a certain group of people if they actually knew what it meant.

Everytime I listen to somebody raffle off about determinism or the law of identity I remind them that bells theorem (there's real actual randomness) and it's corresponding no-cloning theorems proved objectively that the universe has real randomness, and that truly "cloning" an object (e.g. A=A) is literally impossible.

Sorry that reality doesn't work the way that you want homie. Bells theorem is my favorite theorem because of this level of butthurt that it instills...
This comes partly from the cloud-centric approach of "just scale up" instead of trying to optimise code. Lots of developers just want to throw more CPU/RAM at their inefficient code because "it's cheaper than the developer time to fix it" which is sort of true up to a point, until you have to hire a contractor to come in and reduce your AWS/GCP bill so you don't go out of business.
Yeah, bit of a misleading title.
>> Since 14% of renters are behind on rent and evictions begin June 30, aren’t vehicle repossessions going to kick in July / August?

Americans will pay their car loan before their rent.
But once you start letting people build houses in fire country, they pressure the local and state government to suppress those natural fires, and thus, instead of frequent manageable ones, we get less-frequent infernos.
1. Better to pay a $200 markup than a $400 markup right?

2. the markup is often warranted. There's a vast difference between "business" laptops and "consumer" laptops. I can't speak for dell's precision line, but lenovo's thinkpads are leagues better (build quality, support, etc) than the consumer crap you get at best buy.
That’s the Netherlands if I’m not mistaken. The stairs have a well for bike wheels on either side, so people went out of their way to make a new path that wasn’t as steep.
> Is that possible? I haven't crunched the numbers and I don't have enough information or context to do so accurately. But my gut says that it might depend on how many billionaires you're on good terms with.

130nm is quite ancient, but there are digital parts from early nineties still on the market. They are way bigger than 130nm.

Right now I have an ongoing project with a company making aircons. Their kit supplier uses a really, really ancient, and rare Hitachi MCU made on 600nm, and they are paying few dollars for it — more than some modern ARM SoCs.

They really want to change their kit supplier, or compel the chip supplier to cut cost, but the kit supplier itself can't migrate from Hitachi MCU because they don't have firmware sources as they themselves only copypasted the firmware as a binary for decades..
Also an outage in itself can be a major issue. A health care provider with no working computers is kind of dead in the water these days, and fixing all of this can take days or weeks.
Good point, but the OP was using the term "team," while diagramming what is clearly a project lifecycle.

I think that the article is a bit of a "mashup." You can't really have a team "falling behind," but a team can certainly be "innovating."
> This article is a bit strange and conflates disk storage with swap and RAM.

The author is pointing out that many programs duplicate OS virtual memory functionality by paging temporary data to persistent storage and loading it when needed. This duplicates the operating system's built in virtual memory capability and has negative effects on the system. The whole idea of virtual memory is to allow a system to handle loads where memory allocated exceeds the size of RAM.

> Modern systems don't necessarily even have swap (looking at you, k8s)

Modern linux does have swap, and it is quite useful. Proper support for swap is coming in k8s (looks like 1.23). Quite a few workloads need swap to run safely, so adding this to k8s will be an improvement.

> This is also written terribly.

Bad joke was bad.
From the HN guidelines:

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. *That includes more than hacking and startups.* If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And thank you random citizen, for offering the DNA of yours and your family + decedents to all insurance companies out there.
I remember this concept in a paper from university of texas maybe 14 years ago or more, it was pretty exciting but i did not have enough application to my current projects to explore the idea more. It's exciting to see how fast this reached a tinkerer marked and home labs. There is also the microbiology analogue where instead of big droplets you can move single cells or beads with activated surfaces in a fluid with dielectrophoresis.

These lab on a chip devices seemed so logical and i imagined we would soon be able to do complex blood analysis and do completely automated experiments with minimal manual work and completely driven by software. The reality was disappointing enough for me to go back to pure software. There were too limited real world applications and also the development cycle for complete products were just too long for me (i estimated 15 years for the kind of products i would have wanted to work on).
A Guide for Making Difference
Making difference sounds like a good idea and maybe even feels like the right thing to do. Problem is, no one gives you ideas on how it’s done.
I wrote Difference Looks Like This to be a change-makers guide to using their voice to make something better. Not perfect, but better. Whether your starting a new business or growing within a company, whether you’re trying to become a better manager or a more empathic creative. This book is for you.
I introduce the idea of becoming a maker. A person who uses their vision to create projects that change us, brands that support us, services that shift the way we see the world and each other. A maker is someone who makes difference that matters, someone like you.
The key to making difference is finding a vision that supports the impact you want to create, you do this with practice.
What’s your story?
In other words, what do you believe to be true? What are the hindering beliefs that cripple you from starting? Is it criticism, fear of failure, a deep longing to be noticed? Your story (each of ours) we’re created out of a need for acceptance, a need to survive and play it safe. We understood from the beginning how creating stories and setting boundaries was the only way someone couldn’t pick us out from the crowd.
Question is, what has your story cost you? Your freedom.
On some level hasn't time and language demonstrated on how different we are from animals. Those traits that you find similar in animals, eg. the elephants returning to the site of the dead, basic tool making, etc, never evolve past those developments. Why ?

The assumption might be that it takes time to develop, but those species never move beyond simplistic uses of language and tools despite their ancient ancestry.

Whatever your thoughts are on the evolution and biology of life, something is happening in the prefrontal cortex of humans that is fundamentally different.
Why did the timestamps require syscalls / do they still do now? (I know CPU counters were a mess back then, but was there any other factor about that?)
Appicances with cheap membrane control panels are the worst. Mechanical dials lasted forever and when they broke you could at least still work them with some vise grips
TechRadar is a shitty kind of site. First, their site takes 100% of CPU whenever possible, along with 1/2 a gig of memory if you leave it open for more than a few minutes, as if to prove the point of the article.

They talk about technical things incorrectly, and I'm sure they'd say, "Well, we just want to appeal to regular people" instead of admitting they're not trying.

Their statement that that laptop makers will get more of a discount buying in bulk isn't false, but it's not really the issue. If laptop base models came with 16 gigs, the associated memory markup will still be there, yet they suggest otherwise as if the market somehow would rather help people than make money.

As far as the article goes, they discuss the symptoms of the larger problem, but not the problem itself - our apps, particularly browsers, use too much memory, and nobody is talking about ways to punish app makers and web sites that abuse this.
Yes buts he’s code switching in order to fool an automated panopticon that’s integrated with our most advanced communications technology. That’s a bit unique.
I agree that there are places like this in Europe, but generally in Europe, they allow four-to-six-story multifamily housing in their cities. What part of Spain looks like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_District,_San_Francisco...
Could recycled smartphones be used as a source for chips?
See, that makes sense. I've heard it said before that gravity is not a force, and my thoughts were just that it obviously is a force. And of course here we are, cutting through the pedantry to learn that they were in fact not communicating anything actually meaningful with the phrase. You could simply say that potential energy and kinetic energy are different and it would be just as meaningful as what people mean when they say gravity is not a force. It's misleading. A single particle creates a gravitational potential that exerts nothing on its own. Okay. I say this as someone with a BS in Physics.

Thank you for your explanation.
Bankruptcy was highly likely. But bankruptcy does not ruin someone in Musk's position.
I'm in germany so i always get asinine videos recommended about what americans think about germany and what germans think about what americans think about germany
Charlie Wood is no Natalie Wolchover. The article is depressingly simplistic - it's something I'd expect from Science Alert, not Quanta.

I looked for a better entry into the subject and found this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08183

And a longer review article:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12528
Things that you have to know to become a master of Python
In most OS's, all available RAM is automatically used as a file cache, and is not considered "used" in system load stats. Available RAM is absolutely not "wasted", and tasks which use more RAM actually make the system slower since memory bandwidth is the likeliest bottleneck in modern systems.
The Model for Fixing the DOJ
I don't think anyone wants to go to war over something like this. I definitely don't. There aren't a lot of options, though. You definitely can't do "extraordinary rendition" / kidnapping, for example.

One is sanctions against specific individuals, which the US does do. So at least it's harder for them to participate in the international banking system.

And from my understanding, US law enforcement will often try to trick these cybercriminals to travel to a seemingly more neutral country (sometimes areas that are common vacation choices for Russians), where they'll get arrested after arriving. Some of them have gotten nabbed this way - notoriously Alexander Vinnik, the owner of BTC-e and launderer behind the Mt. Gox hack [1], though I'm not sure if he was lured there or just happened to be there. But as long as someone is smart enough to never leave the country, I think they're pretty much untouchable.

General geopolitical pressure and sanctions is probably the only viable option. Keep collecting evidence of the Russian government's permissive stance and bring it to the negotiating table. If enough pressure is exerted, they might eventually relent and actually start cracking down on the big actors.

If they could pressure Russia to permit extradition to the US for serious crimes, that deterrence would probably stop a lot of operations overnight. I doubt that'll ever happen under Putin, though. (And it'd probably be unpopular enough in Russia that I doubt it'll happen under Putin's successors, either.)

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bi...
> Steve Jobs DID call it a "revolutionary internet communicator" like at least half a dozen times in that presentation. And he didn't deemphasize apps. He pushed for a native Google Maps app. He did push for a native YouTube app. He thought most of third party extensibility will be web apps, but he and his team were quickly convinced they need a native store when people jailbroke the phone and made one.

Not only that, but his hook was that Apple was releasing three products: a touch screen iPod (that he led with this makes me laugh, but really, it was a big deal at the time), a mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communicator.

I remember at the time, one of the most amazing things was seeing mobile Safari actually rendering real desktop web pages. Ironically, Steve even loaded the NYT website as an example. At the time, the existing "smartphones" (which Steve made fun of :D) completely choked at rendering HTML, and some of the vendors were even trying to introduce simpler markup languages like WAP just for mobile devices. Regular web pages rendered normally on the iPhone, and the multitouch made them work almost as well as on a desktop.

And then I also remember a particularly funny moment when Steve made a crank phone call to an arbitrary San Francisco Starbucks, asking a barista to order thousands of coffees. It was a wonderful demonstration of the integration you could get on a phone. Obviously Steve was imagining that iPhones would enable many more of these kinds of integrated experiences (mainly provided via the web, in his mind). It's just at that time, so few of these integrations existed because the phone was brand new!

So, yeah, totally agree with you. This article is just not accurate. The journalist could have watched the launch demo a couple times end-to-end on YouTube, and have realized that the iPhone really was meant to be a revolutionary device.
There are privacy-focused coins, like Monero, which are developing some pretty awesome tech
> News is completely different from how it was a decade ago

The article in question is very, VERY clearly not news.

It's opinion. It's a flow of thoughts. It's conjecture.

It's a bunch of things to keep our eyeballs glued, but it is most definitely NOT news.
State of Data Eng (2021)
Borrowing also means you have to carry collision insurance, the surplus value (over the expected payout) of which should also be considered a finance charge if you’d otherwise not carry it.
It's a fair criticism IMO just done in a rude way (again, IMO.)

- - - -

To me "just" in that sentence would be (IMO) a signal that the speaker hadn't thought things through deeply enough. The jargon word "circular" is the clue. It's not just about the 3D printing of wood, or biodegradable glue, it's about a sea change in our economy and technology to be in harmony with (for lack of a better word) Nature (and therefore durable on large (10K to 1M years) timescales.)
I previously found this article and wrote a bunch of notes about it that I never got around to posting before. It was too long to be an HN comment so I've just cleaned it up and posted it here: https://macil.tech/2021/05/09/bad-mwi-criticism/.

I'm not a big fan of the article, it mostly just defines self in a nonsense way and then treats it as a contradiction with MWI despite also laying out more sensible answers.
No Coiners, charge into the breach!
I'm living in Europe, and the situation seems better over here. While going by car is cheaper and faster in most cases, train is not much worse.

At least Biden seems to be a supporter of the railway. But it could go faster if you'd build tracks instead of tunnels with Teslas.
There is a place for anything. My wife uses for work an older 4GB Surface Pro; my father is also using a laptop with 4 GB of RAM. I am using the company provided laptop with 8 GB of RAM and a desktop with 128GB of RAM (>75% used most of the time); my daughter is using a laptop with 16 GB of RAM and my son a desktop with 32 GB of RAM. All run Windows 10. All of us have different needs and usage patterns, me being the extreme where the laptop is a portable email and light work tool and the desktop is the workhorse, my daughter using the laptop at school and my son only at home, so that's why he has a desktop. I am not making a case for 4GB of RAM, but 8GB is a enough for many people that don't use crappy apps or don't have special needs.

Oh, and my main development VM has 8GB of RAM; I can give it more, but I never used more than 5 or 6.

Expensive laptops is a very relative term and judging the value of an expensive laptop on the amount of RAM is dodgy; I expect build quality, great lifetime (my wife's Surface Pro 3 has 6-7 years of flawless operation), low weight, good screen - I don't have RAM in that list. Yes, if you need more RAM you buy a model with more RAM, but if you don't need it then you don't buy it, it is that simple for me - I agree others may see it differently.
You still own the bike, he is stealing from you. You could argue that depending on the circumstances the sell still owns the bike and is the one who has his bike stolen. But at no point does the delivery company own the bike or has the right to sell it
I disagree.

Whether your into sports cars or fuel efficient cars, both categories have meaningfully improved over the past few years.

For sports cars, there's a number of 500,600,700hp cars on the market. Corvettes went mid engine (2020), Miatas lost 400lbs of weight(2016), Mustangs/Camaros/Chargers are now 460+HP (2018ish), a VW Golf R will hit 60MPH in 4 seconds with a 2.0L motor, and that's not even getting into Teslas.

For economy cars, a Rav4 hybrid gets about as good of fuel economy as a 2014 Prius, while being substantially larger. There are good hybrid offerings from non-Toyota brands, such as KIA. Plug in hybrids are pretty widely available. Even non-hybrids such as the Civic improved substantially in fuel economy in the past few years. In 2016, Civic fuel economy improved about 8% across the lineup.

For many auto makers, the transition from early 2010s to late 2010s came with substantial improvements. Not just in measureable metrics either. Transmission performance has improved so much between 2010 and 2020. It's really insane to experience a 2010 6 speed automatic, then compare it to a car with a modern 8,9,10 speed. The difference is night and day for most cars.
True. But if someone's goal is to launder, they're just going to use Monero - no need to do any kind of shuffling and mixing like that. It's simply untraceable by default and way more anonymous than USD or Bitcoin.