skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to do with cost more than anything else.

Look at the performance per dollar on CPU, even with slower improvement rate on node and IPC, the compound performance added up over time if still significant.

For DRAM, especially when we moved to LPDDR, the price floor of dollar per GB hasn't moved at all over the past 10 years. This is a challenge when vendors' profit margin are constantly being squeezed.

> It’s unacceptable to charge $1,000 or more for a laptop with only 8GB of RAM now.

Consider Apple has their entry level laptop at $999. And most chrome book at below $400 are absolutely junk. I would rate $999 as high medium tier.
If you have a taste for irony, my company makes critical components for semiconductor equipment. If we can't ship, they can't ship. If they can't ship, semiconductor fabs can't increase capacity to meet the demand and solve the shortage.

We went line down last week due to shortage of a critical chip for our component.

In reality, the shortage is likely self-inflicted, like toilet paper a year ago, but for whatever combination of real demand + hoarding, we can't get them.
They might oblige you for one.
Samsung has a fab in Austin, so many of their devices have USA-made chips.
People should remember that all kinds of stimulants do not deliver energy by themselves. Instead, they push the organism to produce\overwork on what it already has.
No it isn't. Arguing with people like this is just boring.

Not interested.
The eye has been developed twice - check out cephalopod eyes. If anything, their design is superior (no blind spot, nerves on the rear vs front, hard lens vs soft deformable lens for focusing)
Cars are getting larger in general, not just trucks.
For more, the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geis...

"Almost immediately, questions emerged over whether the committee had mistaken automated activity on Canvas for human activity, based on a limited subset of exam data.

Geisel students said they often had dozens of course pages open on Canvas, which they rarely logged out of. Those pages can automatically generate activity data even when no one is looking at them, according to The Times’s analysis and technology experts."
The history of programming languages is one of my personal interest fields, and I find it fascinating how, 25 years on, many of the most popular languages are still slowly encorporating core features of functional languages like OCaml: records, enumerated (sum or variant) types, pattern matching and destructuring, true tail calls, type inference.

To be clear, I’m in favor of these changes, and I don’t denigrate any existing language for not having them, I just still marvel seeing HN headlines like “Python to get match statement”, “Record Types in Java”, “Tail Call support in Rust” and appreciate all the more the things OCaml (and before it, ML) have gotten right for so long.
Unit tests also have to be maintained - which compounds the cost
I could be much worse, corporations could have taken over.
But it's a great save your ass tactic that's used all the time.

If it's a big news story people are focused on it. And humans mistakenly attribute events to what the are focused on.

Trump was a great scapegoat for local, city, regional, state politicians.

All kinds of things can be blamed on climate change, systematic racism, etc. Basically anything that a leader can't fix but is in the news is a great scapegoat.

Not to say that these aren't real issue. They are, but once you hear how they are over attributed as causal you can't unsee it.
Sardines are fairly low in mercury. You might not want to eat them every day, but a few times a week shouldn't be a problem as long as you're not also eating other fish that are higher in mercury.
Rhetorical question: how much e-waste do you think Wirth's Law is responsible for?

I personally don't think that people should ever have to buy a new computer until their use-case changes. At most, they might need a battery replacement after a few years. The idea that people need to replace a machine every six years to keep doing the same tasks is backwards.

Hardware is, and should be, limiting.
Wikipedia is absolutely in need of disrupting. If that happens, it should be done very thoughtfully.

https://www.wired.com/2007/08/wiki-tracker/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190410141316/old.ycombinator.c...
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Mongols and Tibetans probably got it from them given their original location in Bactria/Margiana
Kind of silly. Whatever he didn't predict, he would've watched happen, adapted to, profited from, and probably taken credit for retroactively.
I agreed with you until the last line.

Company that design phones and especially apps are designing them with addiction in mind.
yes of course. Roku tv does content recognition.
There is something to be said for packaging products such that they are not selected for screening. Won’t help this guy now, his stuff is flagged. But once we started shipping our international orders in a bubble envelope instead of a small box, we had many fewer returns as a result of unpaid import duty by the recipient.
> There's a whole community of otherwise often cutthroat rivals cooperating somewhat peacefully on a truly giant software infrastructure project for 25+ years.

That just appealing to tradition. There are other open source projects with "cutthroat rivals cooperating" who do not insist on keeping archaic systems. It's not like the viral close of the GPL will cease to exist and enforce public contributions of useful projects just because patches are not sent by stripped down emails anymore.

> A place where no one even asks about your skin colour, gender, religion or other abilities as long as you can submit correct code in a way that everyone is comfortable with. I'm fairly certain even Donald Trump, bin Laden, a seven year old school girl or a gay albino penguin could all get a patch accepted if the patch was OK. Edit: I'm fairly certain even Iranian and Israelian coders could get patches merged in the same release and nobody would even notice. Maybe it has even happened a number of times already for what I know. Same goes for hardcore Atheists, Buddhists, Catholics, Hindus, and what have you. We can't even know because the kernel people do not keep notes about that.

I never made the argument that they reject people based on their ethnic or religious background, why are you even bringing this up? Toxicity is not limited to being xenophobic...

> Then there are people coming from the outside trying to insert themselves as authorities not only on what tooling should be used but also as moral authorities down to the level of deciding on what language should be used.

That's just appealing to tradition and if we weren't talking about software I would be under the impression I was debating a hardcore conservative renting against "outsiders" but I digress.

It's not like critique from the "outside" can't be insightful. And frankly when people immediately become defensive and feel that someone threaten them with their "moral authority" for a simple critique, it only shows that they do not talk from a position of confidence.
You lost me at "Koonin’s controversial views"
The popular stuff is easy to find (though I love This American Life as much as anyone…), so I’ll mention a few that haven’t had much distribution:

* The Red Line, where each episode covers a geopolitical issue by interviewing 3 experts: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/

* Bangkok Podcast, for a glimpse of expat life: https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/ (places to start: https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/linguist-rikker-dockum-on-rai..., https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/thailands-freedom-of-expressi...)

* S-Town, which was incredibly popular when it was released but rarely comes up now: https://stownpodcast.org/
> Nissan is reportedly leaving navigation systems out of cars that would normally have them

Wonder if this will begin a trend. The car navigation system is pretty worthless these days except if you find yourself unexpectedly out of phone range (I still carry paper maps, but these days many phone navigation apps allow you to pre-download your route so you don’t have to worry about being out of coverage).
Isn’t addiction a personal responsibility? It’s so easy for us to externalize what we should be more vigilant about. There is an endless sea of addicting things in the world. Passing responsibility to someone else isn’t solving the problem, it’s playing the victim card.
Why not? I've heard it before in conversations. Search "inferring species networks from gene trees". Look at the math in RaXML, MrBayes, etc. The intersection of two different fields is often the most interesting, if you can communicate between both.
problem is that it doesn't reflect how browsers parse things. if you were using this in a security context, e.g., here's an example it won't detect (granted this is not technically valid, but does it matter?):

<div "> put arbitrary html here as you please (using single quotes for attributes)<div ">
I like this video a lot, both because it shows the lion in peril against the pack of hyenas but also because it shows that it only takes one additional lion to change the balance completely. When the second lion shows up around 2:50 the hyenas just disperse and don't even bother fighting.
I thought opnsense had various issues too? I can’t remember what, exactly, but perhaps it was around security or performance?
I strongly disagree, if you look at either SpaceX or Tesla, what they've accomplished is far more than a simple willingness to lose money for a number of years while developing the business. Also, that's not how you use the word literally.
All modern cars have amazing new features.

Oh yes. Remote monitoring, tracking for advertising, contact list stealing through the USB charger port...
Strong Steve Ballmer vibes about this comment.

"It doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

Sure the iPhone was such an evolutionary product - practically indistinguishable from my old Nokia.
I have a house. It has a front lawn. If I set up guest chairs on my front lawn and invite the world to sit on those chairs and give their opinion, it’s still opinion being broadcast from my lawn with my endorsement implied by the fact that I set the whole thing up and charge for advertising banners laid out at the speakers’ feet.

The fact that I nudge-nudge wink-wink don’t endorse these opinions, and that I don’t formally employ the speakers is wildly irrelevant. If I don’t want to be accountable for the quality or correctness of their opinions, I shouldn’t put out the chairs and invite people to sit down and hold forth.

I think we need to get rid of this pretend distinction between “opinion” and “editorial.” It’s all stuff a newspaper promotes, just as every talking head on Fox News is something Fox chooses to broadcast for money.
Wikipedia is one of, if not the best thing(s) to happen to the internet. It achieved basically what the internet's aim was: to democratize information.

Even when I have to learn something, ANYTHING, I'll go to Wikipedia, after which I read the sources of the article for in depth research. And while I dislike their political articles a lot, the science, math, history and arts articles are genuinely incredible to read.
Citations desperately needed. What do you hope to communicate with this tirade ? You're basically saying I spewed out a bunch of things, some of it is true. Figure out which.
Even Yahoo forgot about the ! :(
Like travel agents, retail sales associates, or fastfood workers?
What is NR?
The track is there. I can see it in the photo. I was just providing context, I don’t really have any stake in this conversation.
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Sardines seem to have the lowest mercury concentration of any fish: https://www.fda.gov/food/metals-and-your-food/mercury-levels...
I read most of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox. To me it is still unclear, how all this proves, that it must be one particle or some observation of its attributes affecting the entangled other particle or observation of one of those attributes of it. The wiki article always says things like "X has shown in experiment Y, that Z.", but the details are what matters, if I am to really understand it. I guess without investing years for the mathematical background and physics background, it is hopeless, to try and understand it in an afternoon. My mind will always ask the next "but why?" question and I will be left with the feeling of not understanding it properly.

Perhaps my idea how it might happen is too much of a metaphysical one? Here is what I think:

I imagine entangled particles to be something like 2 sides of the same coin. Something we can observe in the known "world" (all the things we know about or can look at in a lab or experiments), but which has an actual character, somewhere/when, that we cannot grasp yet. Perhaps like an object in front of 2 light sources, throwing 2 shadows, and we observe the shadows, instead of the real object. But the shadows for us are all we currently can observe at our level of scientific understanding or with our technology.

It is unclear to me, which definition of locality that object would be in or not in, reading that wiki page, so I am trying to not use that word.

The problem is, how one could prove or disprove such a thing, because it is basically an "escape hatch", with which one can always say, that there is something, we do not yet see. From an "unknown object, whose shadow we can perceive" one also cannot draw many predictions, I think, so it might not be immediately useful to assume such. My guess is, that physicists stick to theories one can prove or disprove things about. Perhaps I will ask a knowledgeable coworker to explain to me, why my idea cannot be how it really is. Thanks for the pointers, I can also mention those in my questions.
That's plausible, I just wanted a nice set of stairs with an improvised path.

There are tons of them that aren't for bikes.
Suffering until global supply chains are disrupted. And when that happens, your country’s lack of production independence becomes a vulnerability. Like how things are right now.
Sure but those apps are often also ridiculously restrictive compared to their Android counterparts.
How to setup a secure file server with chroot SFTP
Ask HN: Where can I find exercises on problem domain solving?
I am reading books on Software Design and Java/Jakarta EE and I am looking for exercises to practice it.

All the resources I found on "Programming Exercises" are either focus on Data Structure/Algorithm or are just very simple CRUD app.

Ideally I am looking for exercises like: "I want a software to calculate taxes, here are the tax rules etc..."

Is there any books or website that provide that kind of exercises?
I‘m guessing you haven‘t used too many „real“ encyclopedias? The quality of writing on those was very high. In terms of readability, understandability, and reliability, I find the average print article to be significantly better than your average Wikipedia article. Their big downsides being, of course, that they were not as exhaustive on any given topic as Wikipedia is (though this actually helped with the understandability), and they were quickly out of date (especially as they were too expensive to replace every few years).
AMD server CPUs capture highest market share gains from Intel in 15 years
I once cut down a banana tree, with a breadknife.

It's not very much like e.g. an oak tree. More like a scaled-up celery.
Service-oriented architecture is one reason why Amazon dove head-first into things that would lead them to create AWS.

Couple SOA with "two-pizza teams" (a team isn't any more larger than could be fed with two pizzas) and "single-threaded owners" (complete authority and autonomy to build or buy anything that meets business needs, even if it is duplicates efforts of another team), you've got yourself an org structure similar to that of Amazon's.

Refs: https://archive.is/lWPof | https://archive.is/tBpsj

Also: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53138083-working-back...
Well the FCC uses the stick of regulation to force industry to police themselves. Although the ratings are voluntary, without them, then content would have the be limited because there are laws on the books requiring the ability of parents to filter content.

So yes, they could get rid of ratings, but then they also couldn’t publish certain content.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-120A1.pdf
This post elicited a response from antirez back in the day. Then he and "the varnish guy" /g had a meeting of geek minds. You'll learn quite a bit from both.

http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/what-is-wrong-with-2006-prog...
A nice idea, but depends on the good will of other people. A fatal flaw. And encyclopedias depend on experts to sift through the dross and figure out what’s worth it. That costs mone. This wiki may fill up with articles about star trek episodes but who’s going to take the time to write about hard biology topics or medieval history?

Also: English only. There are other languages you know!
> 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..

That’s seems like a rather existential problem. If I’m understanding correctly, the kit supplier makes the control board and the manufacturer does final assembly?
They are developers, I am the manager, so they do more SQL work than me. Some of the databases we work with are over 1TB, a lot of RAM is needed to run queries fast (in memory). I prefer a good desktop any day to a half-baked laptop that is thermal constrained.
Look up “protein coffee” and maybe try to lay off the snark a bit if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Steve Jobs wasn’t a memelord shilling dogecoin on social media and tv.
The investment in rearchitecting also happens when it's a big enough problem that team A builds their own solution to team B's service. Then team B either loses a big internal customer and their service slowly dies out as engineers flee to greener pastures. Or both teams support different ways to solve the same problem and the big picture problem becomes even more complex.

Building new tech solutions is intellectually fun and gets people promoted. Migrations and support are hard and can be way more valuable in the long term, but are rarely recognized or rewarded at some big co's.

I've heard this phenomenon called promotion-oriented architecture.
Implementing Co, a Small Interpreted Language with Coroutines #1: The Parser
> Stuff gets obsoleted all the time, it doesn't take a chip shortage.

This is just not true. But when it happens, there is usually an announcement well ahead of time (e.g. 1 year), as well as a last time buy option.

Historically, there has never been a need to buy the chips of all the boards of a revision. If you are in the position of being able to buy all the components of all the boards you'll ever make for a certain revision, you're probably just above hobbyist level.
Be careful that when you're doing that you basically add variables to your macrostate, to the point where entropy itself is meaningless. This type of example is commonly used in CS, but does not correspond at all to a physical system. Bear in mind that information theory's entropy and statistical Physics' entropy are quite different in the details.
> all the good restaurants are there, all the shows are there, public transportation is better, and so on.

I know this is heresy and contrary to all I purport to stand for, but I've gotten pretty acclimated to suburban big box eating, lol. We've been to Glory Days Grill more than once.
A bird not flying outside it’s habitat is not delusion. Likewise any animal.

Just because there’s this modern idea that you need to travel and sample (trample on) everything, doesn’t make it more rational. Will going to Mars do anything for happiness? You haven’t been, you can’t know! That’s a fallacy, I’m not sure what, but it’s a fallacy because we know animals are adapted to their environment. We also are pretty good at knowing if we’re feeling alright.

You’re confusing scientism with reality. You can’t begin to claim to be right about some scientific thing without having explored a lot. But happiness can be found locally, in total ignorance. Your dog knows this. Only a human could confuse something like that through the curse of knowledge and modern culture.

What I will say is this man is rich. Not everyone, in fact almost no one, can afford to buy a farm in a beautiful area that’s surrounded by people and culture you like, with a temperate climate and natural beauty. He’s very lucky.
It seems the article does defend "it's possible" for strictly regular expressions. To allow lookahead will be context-sensitive, so not in that spirit.
you could try this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92758/
It's hard for me to be upset at my data helping cure disease and save lives like this.
Domesticated animals
Not internet connected, no unsafe touch screen, no chance of software glitches or reprogramming... the list is long. A humble analog toaster is normal, a digital toaster is a step backwards.
Yes, and it really isn’t fair, but prop 13 wasn’t about fairness.
I don't believe it's only a matter of personal responsibility. We have laws to help prevent addiction from gambling, alcohol, tobacco...

When a company hires neuroscientists to design an addictive product, how can you say the responsibility of addiction falls on the users ? Would you say the company's behaviour is ethical, or desired if it leads to profits ?
"wiki cannot be trusted"

"have anything better? how specifically is is it bad or biased compared to alternatives?"

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Absolutely, but did you ever try to use any of that ?

Back then /everything/ was a special case and everything needed to be programmed as such.

This is literally why JCL is a nightmare.

The genius of Ken & Dennis was to boil all the special cases down to one simple abstraction.

(Look at the socket API to if you want an example what happens when people dont understand the importance of sticking with the dominant abstraction.)
The same reasons usually apply to large BMW and Mercedes SUVs. The correct people own those so they don't attract the same Attention.
Thanks for the link. It seems to involve quite a bit more than unit circles though ;)

I have one note, which I hope you don't take the wrong way: I think it would be great, if you could put the slides as PDF on your page (viewable with browser's PDF.js for example), rather than on slideshare.). Then the slides you link to for understanding the braket notation would be as accessible as the original page you link to.
Ah yes, the day a few softcore porn peddlers decided to create the greatest repository of knowledge in all of human history. One thing I love about the internet..

Yes, I'm aware of the flaws and criticisms of wikipedia but I stand by my assessment.
It looks like the platform does closed-loop driving of the electrodes. It can determine where droplets are at any time.
Tesla also has a carbon footprint. I won't deny that it is lower, but it isn't some "order of magnitude" improvement over a hybrid vehicle. Rather, it is approximately 35%: https://electrek.co/2020/09/01/tesla-model-3-emits-less-life...

If you really want to go down this route and account for this externality, you should calculate the cost of carbon capture. Costs of carbon capture are around $100 per metric tonne. The above link suggests a differential of around 6-10 tonnes of C02 in favor of the Tesla over a hybrid. This amount to an extra $1000 in favor of the Tesla. Once again, this doesn't change my point about cost per mile at all.