skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many products like water boilers, ovens or toasters can be built more robust without digital chips. I would argue we would see a overall quality improvement from having a bad chip shortage.
He didn't approve of a two button mouse.
Nope, they follow many or all of the extremely problematic standards that are commonplace in the US and Australia. Don’t worry, the EU has published the guidelines for what is considered humane slaughter, so you can verify it for yourself like I did.

Also, what did you think of the film? Those are _exactly_ the methods that the EU has approved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspectio...

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There’s still a limit to the production capacity available, these are still incredibly complex manufacturing processes, just not cutting edge.

Personally my take away from that was “what is a smart toaster and why would anyone need that”.
Some thoughts as they come to me:

This completely trackballs my perspective on rock, which has been set for some time now by my understanding of what happened on Disco Demolition Day. The dynamics therein are hard to articulate in their complexity, but I realize now maybe best summed up not as attempted cultural genocide but instead as a sort of Cain-and-Abel moment. Wow.

On black musical artistry and afrofuturism, and in particular, this line: "He would’ve taken experimental cosmological jazz to new dimensions, marrying philosophical inquiry with technological speculation, and tapped into the potentialities of futurist prophecy long before Silicon Valley."

Please go listen to Earth, Wind, and Fire's Fantasy. What strikes you about its thematic thrust? Transcendence, reflection, mind made manifest? It's about the Singularity.
I don't think this is correct. It matters whether the person removing the second ball can see the colors and choose accordingly. If you can, and you willingly remove a single blue ball, you have the Monty hall problem where you stick to your choice. It does not influence the chances, it is still 1/2. But the way I read the problem, you choose a ball at random, look at its color, it happens to be blue. Now this gives you information on the composition of the remaining balls. The chance is 1/3.
To drive home the point that removing a ball "can influence" the odds of the first ball: what if you took out an extra ball that turns out to be blue? You now have two blue balls, leaving the chance the first ball was blue zero.
I agree. He was still around when the sdk and App Store were released. He could have squashed that if he chose to.
For years I've been asking: Why does my toothbrush have to connect to bluetooth? Why does my refrigerator twitter? These were always useless mis-features and we can hope some of them can get pared down now with the shortage. Bring back old style dumb appliances!
This is correct. The industry is currently constrained on everything from water to wafers, in addition to fab time slots. Everyone is panic buying too, so shortages are getting amplified.
https://outline.com/jpaTRm
Using Machine Learning for Gitlab Issue Triaging [video]
I did not know how to pronounce it correctly up until last year, when I first heard it spoken by a colleague.
Both can be true. SpaceX had the first reusable first stage, and Tesla provided large improvements in electric vehicles.

Maybe those wouldn't have been possible for someone lacking the confidence/exaggeration of Elon Musk at the helm of the companies.
Do you believe they actually delete it? I don't.

I deleted my account with Digital Ocean years ago, because I use NoScript and every time I went to a new page at DO, it required me to enable more 3rd-party domains. I switched to Vultr.com because they only use their domain for their web pages.

Recently I received an email from DO that my acct information may have been accessed by some hack. I replied to that email, requesting that they delete everything on their systems relating to me. They said I had to sign in and purge my account. I already did this, when I switched to Vultr.com. But I tried anyway. It wouldn't let me sign in (Duh! I already deleted the account), so won't let me purge my info. When I explained that DO would have to delete it, they never replied. They obviously still have my info or they couldn't have emailed me.

My level of trust that a company has actually deleted everything they say they are deleting is about zero. If it's to their advantage to keep it, they will.
LOL nobody remembers how to design analog control systems anymore
Non-Uniform Memory Access
Interesting discussion as a lot of people have their own secret sauce. I'll add mine.

. Practice at least five minutes a day. Doing it often is more important than rare, longer sessions. OTOH, Paul Desmond claimed to never practice because it made him play too fast. Go figure.

. One way to slow down a song for learning is simply to divide the speed by two. That keeps the clock more locked in.

. Learning tunes is valuable. Reading is useful but can also be a crutch. Playing songs you actually know frees up brain power for playing.

. Lessons aren't particularly valuable. Time in harness is.

. Backing tracks make really good metronomes.

. The only use of a computer I would bother with, aside from as a playback device, is software that slows down without changing pitch. Transcribe! is useful.

. On that note, transcribing will greatly improve your ear.

. Don't get too involved with gear porn websites.

. Playing with other people is a good thing.

. Record yourself. It keeps you honest.

. There are industries out there devoted to selling equipment, magic software, instruments, video lessons. Ignore them.

. Time matters more than notes.

. School band programs have limited value. They are mostly setup to deal with large numbers simultaneously and to impress parents. Use at your peril.
And even then, process nodes aren't fungible. Taping out a design for a totally new (to you) node is probably at least a year of time. And for what? Will the chip shortage be over then anyway?
Thomas Sowell is anything but a racist… take off the blinders.
That's exactly it. I have to say that the highest-level classical performers reach that level, but through different means. Not the improvisational part, but harmonically, understanding what the voices are doing in a counterpoint Bach passage for example.

In classical you're an interpreter, and that's very challenging.

In Jazz, you're an interpreter of an improvisation, which is like composing in real-time. I also have to point out that the great classical composers did improvise a lot, and that trend was lost with time but is documented if you research Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin for instance.
By not allowing amazon, google etc to do business in their country they enabled the development of huge, profitable corporations like Alibaba, Tencent etc that now employ advanced personnel like software developers, ML engineers etc, invest in university research, and overall have great positive impact in their economy.

That is in direct contrast to what economists have been suggesting to us (aka the decision of China to restrict multinational corps to deploy their high tech would limit their growth)
If I may infer that this statement has been interpreted as not a conditional as it is stated verbatim (in the form A -> C where A is the antecedent and C is the consequent), but instead is a biconditional (in the form A <-> C), then it seems to be stating that to exist is to be certainly predictable.

That's a curious definition of existence.

And now that I think about it a bit more, it seems like it's not really talking about what existence is, but rather the consequences of existence and the consequences of certain prediction. That's not quite the same as a definition of existence, is it?
No need to wonder, it's not the first time something like this has happened: https://tedium.co/2016/11/24/1988-ram-shortage-history/
https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/19/2960606/qualcomm-snapdrag...
I still think tabletop RPGs when I hear the term RPG. For the most part, computer RPGs are weak imitations of tRPGs - better in appearance, maybe, but certainly lacking the flexibility, capability and replay value of a tRPG. The $60 one spends for what's usually an beta-quality game, at best, could buy a book that will last for a lifetime, without the need for a Season Pass to get fixes and story updates.
Also, "There's No Such Thing As a Fish", the QI Elves trivia podcast.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish
That is always what happens when prices go up. The whole point is to reduce the number of buyers who want the product at that price so that there is enough supply to fill the remaining demand. That is how a supply and demand curve works.
Nope, that's not what a physicist means when they say gravity isn't a force. What is meant is that apparent gravitational acceleration can be understood as a consequence of Newton's first instead of his second law.

According to Newton's first law, a body on its own (ie with no net external forces acting) will continue to move uniformly in a straight line.

Now, drag a marker uniformly and in a straight line (from your perspective) across a spinning disc. It will trace out a curved line, meaning an observer sitting on the disc will conclude that a force must have been present as the line would have been straight otherwise. We call this particular apparent force the Coriolis force, one of the pseudo-forces (aka fictitious forces or inertial forces) present in rotating reference frames. Being accelerated by such a pseudo-force won't register on an accelerometer, and the force vanishes if we analyze the motion from an inertial reference frame.

According to General Relativity, gravity is like that, a pseudo-force, except that there's generally no frame that can make gravitational (pseudo-)forces vanish in an extended region.

Taking a differential-geometric perspective, we note that there's no inherent notion of "continuing on in the same direction" on arbitrary manifolds. We need additional structure such as a covariant derivative, which gives us a notion of velocity change along a trajectory. Gravity hooks into that, with bodies in free-fall moving in 'straight lines' according to the Levi-Civita connection of spacetime.
The white frame of the screen above the sink in my kitchen window is marred by giant bold black lettering warning screens don’t prevent children from falling out so keep your window closed.

I think about that when restarting my push lawn mower after I killed the engine by letting go of the safety cutoff handlebar to get a dangerous rock out of the way. Maybe its easier to just mow over the rock and hope it doesn’t get bashed my way.

And when trying to tape up boxes using the new 3M packing tape dispensers that only extend the cutting teeth if you sufficiently mash the dispenser against the box at an awkward angle. You can unscrew that lever and Sugru or epoxy the mechanism in normal cutting position, or never ever discard your 3M dispenser from before someone sued them.

What I think, though, is: This is why we can’t have nice things.
his first business was paypal though
However at least here in Norway, they do know who to reach at customs to get an answer as to why it was rejected.

It might take a few bounces but typically they get an answer and is able to sort it out.
Connected devices are a good thing - i.e. I should be able to make the washing machine scriptable from my computer, but I bet these solutions are always crap because they are implemented in a hurry by engineers who don't understand either the hardware or software well enough to make it work, so you end up with quasi-useless boss-pleasers like we have now.
Ugh, eBay. Still hasn't solved ~10 % of buyers blatantly abusing "buyer protection" to get stuff for free.

I don't know the current state of GSP but a few years back it seemed like it was just a scam betting on customs not inspecting ~99 % of packages. GSP claimed to collect duties and import taxes (calculated... how exactly? It's not like an American seller is providing a TARIC code to eBay). Anyway, if the package eventually arrived, you'd notice that there was zero documentation attached apart from the usual sticker saying that customs didn't randomly pick this package to check. Some people reported that when customs randomly picked their fees-supposedly-paid-through-GSP-package, they had to pay duties and taxes a second time.
Let's hope we start making chips domestically after this.
My understanding is DPDK has much smaller set a supported nic's since it doesn't use the kernel drivers for the card along with all the other things that the kernel provides.

Wireguard in kernel gives great performance while just working if your kernel is already working on the hardware. Wireguard is so small it is considered easy to audit so is a prime candidate for kernel implementation.

DPDK is listed as an "Exotic" todo for Wireguard:

https://www.wireguard.com/todo/
Absolutely not.

Your rendition of history is horribly wrong, I mean "Batman fought Hitler on a tyrannosaurus in WWI" levels of wrong.
It's fascinating: because Factorio is deterministic, I always build out one massive, consolidated chip factory and distribute chips to other factories from there. But as we see here, in the real world, with droughts and pandemics, this is a risky strategy.
Very interestingly this is the first scale for anyone learning Carnatic Music (classical Indian music predominantly popular and taught in South India).
It’s a nice idea, but a spreadsheet is more flexible and worth the time spent contemplating the inputs.
We've seen massive innovations since the 1980s.

This nostalgic pessimism seems to be exactly the kind of pessimism you're complaining about
There are underground metal scenes in the Muslim world, in spite of disapproval from officialdom that the music is anti-religious. Those in Lebanon and Iran have been well covered, for example. Often its afficionados speak of the supposed universality of metal, and certainly don’t see it as bound to European paganism, so that alone doesn’t seem to explain its failure to connect with those of Afro and Caribbean heritage.

I would instead point to the fact that you can't really dance to metal. Music-making in West Africa and in its diaspora is strongly connected to dancing socially (and maybe getting your freak on), which has never been a priority of metal.
My cognitive dissonance is strong when it comes to Elon. I have trouble sometimes reconciling the obvious flaws in his character on the one hand (though none of us are without flaws) and his extraordinary achievements on the other.

He can be a bit of a dick, yes. He exaggerates, yes.

He's also in my view one of the most talented and inspirational entrepreneurs of our generation.

I don't see how people can call him an outright fraud with a straight face when you look at what he has delivered through Tesla and SpaceX.

But he seems to elicit strong polarised opinions. And I get it. Lot's of noise about FSD, his constantly slipping timelines etc.

I guess it depends what you choose to focus on.
It's just goldbugs being goldbugs.
No. They aren't supposed to protect the population. This is a lame excuse to implement it without popular revolt.

I was born in Brazil and lived there for most of my life. When I was young, it was, in practical terms, forbidden to import computers and cars to the country to protect the "nascent" national industry. I know very well from a close point of view how tariffs can make everyone's lives miserable.

My father had to import his first computers illegally. Knock-offs IBM PCs bought in Paraguay. Imagine in the early 80s to travel from NY to San Francisco to smuggle computers over the border because a mad man in the state decided you cannot trade goods with someone who lives far away. This is what customs is about.

Protectionism is not only dumb, it's vile! Pure evil!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7njIlZ2xYq0
The Wikipedia page on GNU shows the "g" is pronounced.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/En-gnu.o...

..Unless you mean "gnu" as in the animal, then it's like "new" (which I didn't know before).
It makes me wonder if it would be possible to build a chip-manufacturing plant for any reasonable amount of money to produce these chips that don't need to be 7nm GPU powerhouses, but like the old clunker chips that can't get attention from the big guys.

Almost like starting a "generics" business in pharma medication but for older chipsets.

I'm sure there's a great trade to be had in producing the lower end stuff.
I would be careful to conflate internet connected trash with enough ARM cores and LoC to make your brain melt with the likes of a well placed humble microcontroller.. the mechanical or analogue components they replaced were usually far more temperamental, bulky, expensive and bad at their job. There are exceptional environments like in nuclear power, but for most purposes integrated electronics have improved reliability when done well.
When I was at university there was a discount food store in that city called Matex (mat is Swedish for food). Me and my study friends we pronounced the store as MaTeX similar as LaTeX instead of the normal eks sound at then end, techies giggled and everyone else looked confused.
It’s still a license or “fee”, not a tax. What changed is who they charge it from and how it’s collected (now through the same method as taxes).

The license being charged from every taxpayer and collected using tax collection mechanisms doesn’t make it a tax.

The difference is that a tax would be collected into the budget and SVT would be funded through the budget.

A license on the other hand is paid directly to the public service companies which (in theory) gives some amount of political independence.

So: license, not tax.

It might look to some like a useless distinction “how is money paid on my tax bill not a tax!?”, but there is an important difference.
That might be great if the good we're talking about is consumer electronics. (At least economically. Environmentally or socially perhaps we'd be better off without consumer electronics.)

It's difficult for me to see how this works for the farmers and textile manufacturers. Underdeveloped economies by definition don't have much advanced industry. If you wipe out local producers of necessities you have virtually nothing left and no base to build on to develop advanced industry.

I'm also not really sure this has turned out well for advanced countries like the US, but it definitely does make part of the country richer.

I'm leery of any argument that claims that any given economic policy is an unmitigated good with no contingencies or tradeoffs.
One can also do the choice to not buy any of these. I have no trouble finding non IoT toothbrushes, fridges and so on.
> Elon is able to develop these things because he is using his own money

Though an alternate narrative is he arguably used public money through government credits:

These opportunities to leverage government programs, some designed for people much further down the income ladder, have driven Musk throughout his career: The megabillionaire built his companies on the backs of enormous government subsidies, tax breaks, and exclusive contracts. A 2015 Los Angeles Times investigation estimated that Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX had together benefited from “$4.9 billion in government support.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/160500/elon-musks-big-govern...

// Note: Consider sources
Ban cryptocurrency exchanges and some of the wafer capacity currently being dedicated to mining will return to regular use (or we can just wait for the ETH2 merge, then ban the purchase of PoW cyrpto).

Secondly get workers back to work by ending COVID-era unemployment payments and workplace restrictions.
It'd be cool if the dental calculus was preserved. The microbiome sequencing can tell a lot about how people (in a sense that we have some neanderthal DNA) and microbes co-evolved [0].

[0] https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21674
Why should you be able to connect to run a script on a washing machine? Don't you need physically be there anyway to move the clothes around?

The only use case I can see is a notification when the cycle is done, but I think there are better ways to go about that than using an SoC.
God damn human rights...
The world isn't driven by "I should have all the nice things I can imagine". How are you gonna script the washing machine to take the underwear off your bottom and put it in the drum? You'll have to do that yourself. And when you do it, you might as well "script the washing machine" by pushing the buttons on it.

I'm a programmer and honestly I can't wait for this IoT fad to die down a little. Sure, maybe it's cool to have LAN connected lightbulbs as a novelty product. But this kind of shit will never ever be the norm, simply because it makes no damn sense in terms of value proposition.
What a load of extremely distasteful manure. The Cal Newport has a negative opinion about smartphones, but instead of just presenting his own opinion, he tries to put words in the mouth of a famous dead person by stretching a few carefully mined quotes.

The iOS App Store opened with Jobs as CEO. Even if you imagine he didn’t have the foresight to see how putting a computer that can run any kind of software in everyone’s pocket would change things, he had years to see the growth of the App Store and how having Gmail, Facebook, etc. in your pocket changed people, and yet there’s no quotes of him saying anything indicating that he had opinions like those Newport is trying to imbue him with.
So? He was right. From usability statistics I've seen, most regular users, even today, don't right click.

Besides, Macs had optionally multi-button mice for ages, including under Jobs.
Saying "anyone using LiDAR is doomed" is a controversial statement sure but the self-driving problem is indeed a computer vision problem.

George Hotz puts it quite neatly, companies like Waymo have spent millions so far and someone sitting at home could not use their product highlighting their inefficiency. He further states to think about how a human would drive a car, does a human need LiDAR to drive a car? No, not really. The legitimacy in his statements come from the fact ( imo ) that comma.ai ( his self-driving startup ) outperforms with less funding than one could imagine by solving the problem absolutely as a Computer Vision problem. They treat it slightly different than Tesla but in all, it goes on to show that you don't really need to use LiDAR to solve the problem, it can potentially solve the problem, but it's an inefficient way to do it.
"Never Wanted" is a bit of a stretch - the article seems to be talking about Steve Jobs view of the iPhone when it was introduced in 2007 - with no App Store and just a few built in apps. It would be interesting to see how his opinion changed after the App 'explosion'.
OK, so I need to be able to script my clothes, then.
Hi, Varnish Author here...

The reason why Varnish does not have built in TLS, is a matter of security design and flexibility.

First, as to flexibility:

If we added TLS support to Varnish, we would have to pick a TLS library, which means our users would automatically be locked into that library.

This would violate one of our core principles, which is "Tools, not policies".

And given the state of TLS implementations, I /really/ dont want to make that choice, I want to leave that to the person responsible for the security at the site running Varnish.

Second, I think it is sound security engineering to confine the server certificate in a process which does that one thing and does it well.

I know several sites that have two different TLS frontends in front of Varnish, using different TLS implementations, so that whenever a CVE hits one of them, they can just shut that half down until the issue is fixed, and still remain in production. That would not be possible if TLS was bolted into Varnish.
Guess it depends how you pronounce 'law' then ha! I can't start 'law' with 'lah' no matter how hard I try - 'lah-ore' maybe?
Apparently, You Can Use Route53 as a Fast Database