skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I go to “shop all” in the refrigerators section of Home Depot’s site and look at the count next to the filter for “smart” features - Only 97 out of 798 refrigerators they sell have smart features.
Same. I still will buy books on occasion but even that is maybe only half of the time and will pay a bit more to go to Barnes and Knoble.
If you're running Linux you probably want to do development work (just a guess).

My Linux boxes have uptimes of several years which is perfectly normal.

WSL has uptimes of several days. Microsoft will reboot your machine to install an update and you'll lose all of your development state. WSL is a pretty toy.

Given the choice (and I do have that choice) I only use WSL for trivial tasks like running a curl command.

Your karma may vary.
India's cost of Covid failure – a decade and generations
India's cost of covid failure costs generations
And they are not always more robust. Calibration, noise sensitivity...
A Golden Age of Tech Innovation Is Coming
Your package is missing Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) [0], duh.

Add a proper ECCN number (such as "EAR99" [1]), according the rules and regulations that apply to the specific product you're shipping.

FYI, export violations can reach up to $1 million per violation, prison for up to 20 years, and administrative penalties.

[0] https://www.shippingsolutions.com/blog/six-basic-steps-for-e...

[1] EAR99 is not a free pass: https://www.shippingsolutions.com/blog/ear99-isnt-a-free-pas...
I don't think it's quite as simple as blaming those who died for being stupid.

Autopilot's capabilities are exaggerated by both Tesla and Musk to the point of being fraudulent. This leads many drivers to put too much faith and confidence in it.

In addition, the mechanism to detect that the driver is paying attention is overly simplistic and easily bypassed. They don't even use weight-detection on the driver seat, despite the fact that the seats have the capability. Similarly, some of the other manufacturers have driver-facing cameras that further help ensure the seat is occupied. These are not complex mechanisms, and it is odd that Tesla does not have them.

You could make the argument that people will find a way to circumvent the mechanisms no matter what they are, but I don't think that absolves Tesla of the responsibility to at least try a bit harder.
There are sophisticated financial markets for trading fuel, but not for chips. In such a market, firms are incentivised to buy when they anticipate demand will rise (or supply will fall), which increases the price. Then after the price has risen (the demand has materialised), they sell. This distributes the consumption of the underlying resource more evenly across time, making shortages less likely.
I'm about done with articles that complain about cryptocurrency as a source of this "brand new problem"

Also why don't we talk about tax havens while we're at it?
Also ban activists whos solution to everything is to ban stuff. Like war on drugs didn't teach them anything
Ban this, ban that. Surrre. No problem.
Enjoy the next 20 years then!

I pray I will be alive when this system collapses.
What? I want to make the washing machine starting drying after a specific amount of time after the wash stage has finished.

And guess what mr programmer, they didn't bother letting me do that with the front panel...
What the statement says is that if a property is certainly predictable, then it exists. It doesn't say that all existing things are certainly predictable.
Does Bitcoin ASICs really "steal" wafer capacity from regular GPUs? Pretty different technology, I think?
Let’s just ban the banning of things. It’ll work out.
> Why is this an issue? Most websites support HTTPS.

Tor Browser and TAILS try not to keep any trace of the websites you've visited.

That means no 'frequently visited sites' start page, no bookmarks, no address bar autocomplete from history, and no HSTS unless it's preloaded.

So if a tor user visits bitcoin-mixer.com there's a good chance they'll be typing the address in manually - and a good chance they'll omit the https:// at the start.

(Also, a great many bitcoin mixers, for some inexplicable reason, don't get themselves HSTS preloaded)
He found out he bought a book about “chicanos” which I assume is slang for a gay or lesbian Latino/Latina person which the user takes as confirmation that the purchase they made in 1998 is the explanation for why they are receiving recommendations for Hispanic LGBT literature now in 2021.

I don’t think the user meant to imply they had gained any special insight into the algorithm other then personal confirmation that purchase as far back as 1998 are still being incorporated.
>My holy grail-- how do I use DOM methods to create a CDATA element to shove my style into? If I could know this then I can jump my Dodge Charger back and forth into XHTML without ever getting caught.

Does this help? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cr...
> third party provider then could be compelled to disclose information about you.

What data exactly are you worried they would disclose? Everything they see would be encrypted, no?
Chinese scientists discussed the weaponisation of SARS virus before the pandemic
> ...Being accelerated by such a pseudo-force won't register on an accelerometer...

Just checked the accelerometer on my phone. It reads around 9.8m/s/s pointing downwards.
Can’t tell if “deferentiation” is a typo or a pun.
I'm always very sceptical when electronics and chips are used as a solution to problems that nobody had. Reliability seems to suffer most of all. When I hear from my parents how long their products lasted back then ...
My washing machine has maybe about 300 to 600 permutations of options, none of which do exactly what I want.
VPN hardens against your local ISP knowing when you are and are not using Tor, which is important meta data and has been used to identify people in the past.
Yeah you really shouldn't generally be using TOR to browse the clear net if you're worried about attacks from a national government.
> Generally you don't care about memory management in Go at all

I think this is true for the majority of devs, just as it is for any managed language (C#, Java...).

But sometimes you are working on something performance sensitive, and there minimising allocations can be a real problem.
I usually check the rating. If its 4-5 stars, then I will proceed to reading a few 5 stars, and a few 1 stars. You can usually tell if the reviews are real and this also helps you decide if the negatives matter to you.

I bought a vaccuum recently and did this process. One of the 1 star reviews was something to the effect of, "this vacuum sucks too hard. Its a workout to use". I have 2 huskies and a sea of fur to contend with, so this 1 star was a 5 star to me.
And the only correct spelling of "squirrel" is sqwrl.
This is demonstrably not true

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
I hate cryptocurrency, but trying to ban them is just dumb. It's not going to work. Ban where? How? What are the side-effects? What about people's liberty? Cryptocurrency is stupid and depletes natural resources, but trying to use the law to ban it is only going to make it stronger.
Celebrity worship is that strong.
Ask HN: What are examples of simple (software) solutions for complex problems
> In addition, by eliminating your ability to publish carefully curated images to social media directly from your phone, you can simply be present in a nice moment, free from the obsessive urge to document it.

Live it, be present, yes, but that is not the opposite of documenting it. Take that photo if you want to, just postpone putting it on social media until you're at home, bored. Then sit down, take your time, write the story as well, not just the photo, find the correct wording, and then post it.
I suspect the ultimate outcome of RISC-V is that it will be the commodity CPU the same way any fab can make DRAM.
I’d argue that on average the engineers working on these things understand things just barely well enough to implement these things in whatever hardware/software combination is selected.

Any more understanding than that would be sub-optimal for shipping consumer products where cost optimisation is a primary concern as the salaries for more competent engineers would cost the company more.

You can see this effect in action with the explosion of “smart home” devices after commoditised internals were made available by the likes of Tuya. Suddenly your company only needed junior engineers who could skin the whitebox turn-key solutions and product designers who could design a moulded plastic enclosure around a standard set of postage stamp sized circuit boards.
As for who uses Varnish, the best public data I know is:

https://trends.builtwith.com/Web-Server/Varnish

My personal estimate is that around 20% of all HTTP traffic pass through a Varnish instance somewhere, many of which are not public-facing.

As to why people use Vanish, I think the main reason is that VCL gives you full and instant control over your HTTP traffic, and people really like that, because it lets unify heterogenous sites and pamper legacy systems as necessary.
How do you have reverence for a corrupt news organization that: covered up the Holocaust, covered up Stalin's mass starvations in Ukraine, singularly made Fidel Castro successful, spread lies about the Vietnam war that lead to american presence being extended for years, and, most recently, rewrote history with divisive lies via the 1619 project?

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Ashley-Rindsberg/dp/...
But you still have a shortage, right? People still want microchips. In ideal conditions, the price will stabilize at the level where every chip gets sold, but nobody who wants to pay that price has to wait in line for too long. But if you reach that point, you still have a whole lot of buyers who still want a microchip, but who are unable to pay for them at those elevated prices - i.e a shortage.

With fuel, you can reduce your car usage for a while and when prices get back down you can just go back to your old level of fuel consumption. But with microchips, a reduction in "consumption" results in pent-up demand; people who have been waiting a while to buy a new GPU still want to buy that GPU when the prices go down.
That was, at one time, true for "smart TVs" as well.
You're the first person I've ever seen who says they want a connected washing machine. I'm curious: what will your washing machine script do?
Most (all?) washing machines have a delayed start.

Why would you want your clothes to sit wet, collecting mold, before the drying begins?

See, part of being a good programmer is figuring out a solution using the tools you have. Which includes figuring out how existing machines address your issues without requesting they come with a fully programmable API and wi-fi, just so you can delay the drying cycle.
Used car prices going up 10% very suddenly is interesting...see the chart within this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/used-car-prices-saw-their-bi...
My understanding is that most of the "shortage" is in older processes where capacity is shrinking as fabs offline older tooling. Customers with parts that are stored as masks (e.g. engine controllers from the 1990's) or whose design teams have lost the expertise to resynthesize the HDL (again: think auto manufacturers) have very few options when capacity in these older processes starts disappearing.

Crypto hardware is generally "just logic" which means that it's (1) fabbed on fairly modern processes and (2) generally quite portable to other processes just by recompiling your Verilog and wiring it to a different manufacturer's PCIe PHY or whatever.
Insulated boxes outside that are can store frozen food for up to four hours
>> Cause if tolkien could create LOTR

> Tolkien was religious.

More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis), and his mythos reflects that:

[x] The one true God who is good created all things including evil and gave humans the "gift of mortality."

[x] The most powerful angel rebels against God, and this great enemy seeks to corrupt the world and its creatures.

[x] A partially human hero is the first to return from beyond and by doing so overthrows the great enemy.

I also find it interesting that while the Orcs in Tolkien's world are evil, he wouldn't go so far as calling them irredeemable.
Connected washing machines continue to make little sense to me. The only benefit I can think of is a notification when it's done. Otherwise all the interactions with it are done in person. (loading/unloading etc)

What would you want to script?
Whenever a speaker is talking about opinion or emotion, it is the speakers' opinion or emotion unless otherwise specified or contextualized. If I say, "We should eat pizza," the correct interpretation is that it is my opinion we should eat pizza. If I say, "In my opinion, we should eat pizza," the meaning is the same.

Surprise isn't an objective fact. It's a statement of emotion or subjective experience or whatever you'd like to call it. It is often a consequence of an objective difference between an expectation and a result. (An expectation can be subjective, but whether someone holds that expectation is either true or false.) But surprise isn't that objective difference, it's the subjective response.

So if I say, "Surprisingly, the sun rose today," absent other context it means I find it surprising that the sun rose today. It doesn't mean, "Everyone should find it surprising that the sun rose today." For that, I would need to add more context or you would need to bring in some assumptions that aren't supported by my statement. So, this is equivalent to "To my surprise, the sun rose today."
There's useful technology, like computer controlling your engine to make it more fuel-efficient or whatever. And then there're "smart appliances", like a fridge with a screen. Do we really need it? The companies try to sell us more useless stuff, that's what it is.
This is BS. How many obscure security, devops, etc tools get posted here without so much complaint?

Paid products, public releases, etc. are different and are treated differently.
I've made a pledge to never read another NYT article. They've been writing absolute dogpoop for the last decade and have lost any credibility they once had.
Can someone who knows more about anthropology explain to me what makes Neanderthals their own species and not just a separate race?
I have a suggestion - how about we stop fucking with each other's civil liberties just because we don't like the current situation, and rather we come up with real solutions?
I couldn’t imagine not having smart lights, they are one of the few iot devices that make my life a lot more comfortable- def not a novelty
That is kind of funny to me because where I live the S-Q-L vs sequel divide is more along the linux/microsoft divide.

Meaning if you encounter someone here that pronounces SQL as sequel you probably found a DotNet developer or at least someone that primarily focuses on Microsoft technologies.

S-Q-L is used by pretty much everyone else here.
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China banned it and something like 60% of the mining happens there. The whole thing was built to get around bans.

Also crypto was thing that just pushed us over the edge, before that Apple was buying out (preventing any chips from being manufactured at) entire node sizes, there were serious issues with semiconductor manufacturing already.
This is amazingly true if you look at someone like VW’s annual report in 2011 and 2012... and the the S was released and then look at 2013.
Gameboy Online Multiplayer
I think that everyone should learn logic and workflows. It is one of those building blocks that is largely missing from core curricula. Probability and statistics is another; learning how to learn is another; and creativity/design/innovation is yet another.

But learning to write software is a craft, and I don’t believe the craft is for everyone. In time, I believe that programming will be replaced by higher level building blocks—just like IC’s replaced transistor circuits. It’s inevitable, and it’s important.
Do you need an EIN on the package label?

https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1145?language=en_US

Interestingly it seems to be the fault of the Census Bureau wanting to provide aggregate economic activity reports rather than border patrol themselves. Nothing more fun than watching two departments try to "cooperate" which is why you're probably not getting much help from Customs.
You can also put a 16MHz 8bit which can cost you a few dozens of cents max (Outside of shortage)
Finding a dumb TV is a lot harder.
"In my opinion, an apple is an orange citrus fruit."
There is a price hike. But paying 2x more for silicon inside e.g. a car that retails for $40k isn't going to be felt by the consumer as a change to the demand curve, it's going to look like "car shortage". So the car manufacturers have to explain that it's due to silicon manufacturing capacity, so now it's a "chip shortage".
Can you provide source for this usability statistics?
I bought my house about 6 years ago, and since then I've converted the whole house (about 100 bulbs) to LED, using bulbs from maybe 5 different manufactuers.

One of the mfg bulbs go bad. I think I'm at about a 50% failure rate with them. Something like 10 out of 20 bulbs. None of the other mfg bulbs have gone bad. Basically I bought bulbs that were on sale. The "bad batch", IIRC is when average 60W led bulbs were in the USD$2.5 range and I got them for about $1.0, so about 6 years ago. I bought some other bulbs at a similar price point/date, and they are still all fine.

So, it could just be you got unlucky with a crappy mfg. Try some different bulbs.
Without the hardware to script moving wet clothes to a dryer, and possibly folding and sorting dry clothes, is there a point, other than to set an alarm to prevent a moldy forgotten wet load?
I get the best drying if the machine washes, drains for a bit, then starts drying after that.

If I were to do this it would take 4 trips to the washing machine because they didn't think to make it tick over from even washing to drying.
Just curious, do you have numbers to support this?

If you purchased a model 3 with both state and federal rebates a year or two ago, in a number of states the short range RWD model was the sticker price of a nice civic. And Biden has frequently floated massive tax breaks for EV purchases to come….

The maintenance is extremely infrequent and cost of travel per mile is cheap for electric, like an order of magnitude cheaper than a typical consumer car, not sure about a Prius.

Depreciation is definitely in teslas favor- the cars hold their value incredibly well compared to most every other vehicle…
> In Joseph Bertrand’s box paradox (1889), three boxes are presented -- one containing two gold coins, one containing two silver coins, and the final containing one of each. Assuming the participant draws one gold coin from a box, the problem then asks what the probability is that the other coin in that box is gold. Bertrand, who concluded that the probability was ⅔, was lauded for his ability to look beyond the obvious.

The initial distribution is:

[gold, gold] [gold, silver] [silver, silver]

With six possibilities for drawing a coin:

1. [----, gold] [gold, silver] [silver, silver]
2. [gold, ----] [gold, silver] [silver, silver]
3. [gold, gold] [----, silver] [silver, silver]
4. [gold, gold] [gold, ------] [silver, silver]
5. [gold, gold] [gold, silver] [------, silver]
6. [gold, gold] [gold, silver] [silver, ------]

After drawing gold, you are left with:

1. [----, gold] [gold, silver] [silver, silver]
2. [gold, ----] [gold, silver] [silver, silver]
3. [gold, gold] [----, silver] [silver, silver]

In 2/3 of the scenarios, you drew from box 1 and the remaining coin is gold. In 1/3 of the scenarios, you drew from box 2 and the remaining coin is silver.
What people forget about Jobs is that he always believws that Apple products were the best possible thing, and that every alternative was bad until Apple figured out out to make it the way they wanted it to. In Jobs' worldview, " not ready yet" was the same as "wrong, terrible product". This led to him changint his view the instant Apple was figured out how to make something work, like the App Store, or Intel chips, or ARM chips.

This is very different from the PC/Windows/Linux view of "eh, if someone might find it useful, we'll make it, and they can deal with the compromises".

Of course there was a lot of Reality Distortion too, where if Apple couldn't so something a competitor could do, Jobs said it was stupid until the day Apple became able to do it too.
I want to be your company's resident artist
Nine Neanderthals were hunted by a pack of Hyenas? Wow, didn't realize Hyenas could be so aggressive, and couldn't be warded off by sticks and maybe fire.
It was actually Zip2 and then X.com which became Paypal later.
_You_ are providing that acceleration. You need to drop it!
The idea that Steve Jobs was laying out some sort of foundational moral ideology of smartphone usage in 2007, rather than trying to sell the iPhone to wary investors by describing it as an iPod that makes calls, is just ridiculous. I don’t think Jobs in 2007 had a clear idea about how iPhones would be used - and if he did, that idea had changed dramatically by the time of his death. If he were still alive his views on iPhones would be unrecognizable compared to 2007. Likewise I doubt Jobs would have been able (or even willing!) to stop negative trends around the internet and society which in fact predate the iPod (online radicalization, social ostracism, propaganda and misinformation, etc). The logical premise of this article is tenuous at best, and generally preposterous.

That said, it is not nearly as preposterous as the moral premise, that we should live our digital lives in a way that (the author asserts) Steve Jobs would approve of. The man is not a saint! He is a dead technologist who was well-known for being a huge jerk to his friends and family, and whose company was only ethical compared to Facebook/MSFT/ etc. I understand Cal has a book to sell, but even by the standards of shameless billionaire-worship this is hard to stomach.
As the other poster said, performance. The idea behind wireguard was that it would be a VPN protocol small enough to implement securely in kernel space.
Ah, glancing at your profile I think you're hitting the traditional English problem of pronouncing letters which aren't there :) "To be forced to sawr into such rawr meat should be against the lawr"

It's nicely counterpointed by the other habit of not pronouncing letters which are there, like in Worchestershire.
Doubting the IHME claims about excess deaths by country
Throwing out a few points regarding DPDK/low overhead data/event exchange between kernel and userspace:

1. It is faster if you make it so, i.e., you need to invest quite some work to get to a point where it's faster than kernel - but yea, with that you can make it go brrrrrrrt in quite a few use cases, it's more like an SDK.

2. Some NICs support loading a smaller program to operate directly on the NIC, e.g., through eBPF - nothing gets faster than that as it avoids that (some) traffic hits the CPU at all. But again, it's work to create and maintain and only feasible for specialized stuff.

3. Note that with Linux[0] a lot of the context switch overhead can be avoided by leveraging the state of the art async framework IO-uring, BSD may already have or get something similarily[0]. I recommend reading the paper of the original author[0], it's fascinating IMO.

[0]: I know this is about BSD, so somewhat off-topic, but still shows that most of the context switch complexity can be avoided while not re-inventing the wheels in user-space.

[1]: https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
... and while there is lots of "real" demand we also get the cryptocrazies exerting additional pressure not just on the finest and best silicon available, but now even on HDD/SSDs. Prices have already risen 50+ % in the last few weeks.

F--- t---- m-----.