skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't help much, since antifeatures are rarely described as such (or even at all) in release notes.

What would be more helpful would be the ability to revert to previous versions (can't speak to Android, but this is certainly missing in iOS).
Then poor people will not be able to use the software.
The best answers on StackOverflow are those I wrote myself, because they match exactly my own question.
The actual feature size in the chip leaves something like 1000x scaling in volume from what I remember from Jim Keller's talk about it.

Moore's law is dead but scaling is not.
Functional TypeScript in Production Systems
The free market is only as free as the consumer.
I've canceled my subscription largely because I don't have faith they're going to be able to improve the product at the pace I'm interested in. I bought Hey more for its potential and stated intentions than its current reality. But with nearly half of the company leaving, due to what I consider poor executive leadership, I'm expecting the product to be in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future.
Migadu has a similar offering (sans the R&D on the JMAP but contribute to https://git.sr.ht/~migadu/alps) but a more reasonable (ie consumption-based) pricing [1] for people who own multiple domains. Just a happy customer.

[1] https://www.migadu.com/pricing/
Yea, as if that’s going to end up working well.
No one. Your personal information and email routed through Paced Email via Mailgun are not sold, read, or shared with third-parties. I'm not in the business of selling your data.

I appreciated the clarity of this. Thank you.
So basically a proprietary license. You use software under the terms of the license (or negotiate). Nothing wrong with that. There's a lot of proprietary software out there. But it's not free/open source.

ADDED: Music is more of a pay-per-play thing and I'm not sure how that works for software. But it's still effectively paying the copyright holder for the use of their work.
Everything Elon Musk ever wanted to know about Bitcoin's growing energy problem
>I don’t know why. But the purpose of the marketing campaign of Hey sent that message.

Did it tho? I'm not so sure. It's a marketing campaign, they're supposed to hype a product.

But if they were really going for this, it wouldn't just be pushed to their regular customers and nerd public. They'd get big VC money involved, make it free, push it much harder with ads everywhere, etc.
Five Things My Roomba Does Better Than My Tesla
Explanation of Boiler Feed Water and Its Treatment – Engineering Chemistry
> The foundation of the chip is nanosheet technology in which each transistor is made up of three stacked horizontal sheets of silicon, each only a few nanometers thick and completely surrounded by a gate. Nanosheet technology is poised to replace so-called FinFet technology named for the fin-like ridges of current-carrying silicon that project from the chip’s surface. The life expectancy of FinFet has been more or less set at the 7-nm node. If it were to go any smaller, transistors would become difficult to switch off: Electrons would leak out, even with the three-sided gates.
I like that idea. Things like ASCAP[0] come to mind.

Not everyone loves ASCAP, though. I am not in the business, so I don't know all the issues.

[0] https://www.ascap.com
An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers
One day april fool's joke:

> On April 1, 2018, as an April Fools' joke, the 1990s IRC server eris.Berkeley.EDU server was resurrected. Some EFnet admins worked with the Open Computing Facility student group at UC Berkeley for months to resurrect the server for April Fools. Only a very few EFnet staff were aware of the efforts and the server was linked in via a defunct H:line for the (normally) leaf (client-only) server irc.efnet.nl, bypassing the normal linking procedure. As of 12:30 UTC on April 01 2018, eris.Berkeley.EDU was once again a valid IRC server on the "Eris Free" IRC network and accepted clients.[11] At the same time, efnet.org begin redirecting to erisnet.org.[12] eris.Berkeley.EDU delinked on April 02 2018 at 19:50 UTC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet
> There's plenty of documentation of pretty much every significant world politico-economic system in English.

Seeing reporting from Nordic political issues in US-based media; they often get it wrong. Sometimes a little bit wrong. Often a very skewed incomplete image.
Why would you think a semi's battery weight would make it not viable?
If you calculate what the batteries would weight and subtract the weight of the engine, transmission and of course fuel in a full tank, you get to about 2 tons more for the battery powered semi, if not less. That is a small reduction of the maximum load capacity.
I had a similar story. A search for internet access in high school (which wasn't common in mid-1990s Australia) led me to working for a ISP, then working for a company that ported bits of NEXTSTEP to other Unices, then interning at Apple, then starting my own company. I was cheap labour but I was surrounded by great people who were happy to answer my endless questions. I hope I can do that for someone else someday.

Amusing anecdote from first ISP job: you only ever rm -rf the root filesystem on your employer's sole server (with no backup) once in your life. Fortunately it ate had only chewed through most of the operating system before I called them in a panic, and we were able to power the machine down. They were very understanding and I spent the next day or two (in the middle of final year of high school) cleaning up the mess. They did buy a tape drive after that! (The cause was a Perl script that concatenated two strings which owing to a typo happened to be empty.)
Cambalache and Merengue: a new RAD tool for gtk4
... Properly, that is.

Probably self-signed?
My experience was exactly the opposite - nicer stations, high speed rail and vastly cheaper prices.

Please, do let us swap trenitalia for southern rail. I'm not such a fan of forking over 1/3 of a median wage for season ticket on a train that is delayed every other day.
There are readers who like to read and there are readers who read primarily to get to the information that interests them. The former like long pieces because they give them the opportunity to do more of the thing theylike, reading. So if there is an antagonistic relation, it is between readers who like to read and readers who want to find the information quickly.

However, I don't think there's such an antagonism. For every long, literary-style piece that conveys some kind of technical or historical etc information that may be interesting in the latter kind of reader, who just wants the facts, there are another 10 sources that give just the facts.

For example, when it comes to Ms Shilling's Orifice, you can find the same information on wikipedia in much shorter form:

Beatrice Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990)[1] was a British aeronautical engineer and amateur racing driver. During the Second World War, she designed and developed "Miss Shilling's orifice" to restrict fuel flow to the carburettor of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines in the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters. Previously the pilots had experienced a loss of power or even complete engine cut-out during combat manoeuvres, posing a potentially lethal disadvantage in the Battle of Britain.

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

Note also that the damniniteresting.com piece is sub-titled with:

Long-Form/Podcast: How a female engineer defied all norms to save England in the Second World War.
Written by James Holloway • 09 October 2020

Long-form should give a hint about what is to come. I believe such descriptors in articles (which I've seen many times, as e.g. in The Guardian's "The Long Read" etc) are there exactly to match the right readers to the right pieces.
I think Installer.app triggers the AOT translation, too?
Not Again Another Phishing Simulation Goes Awry
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)–the average man and indices of obesity
Alternate routes with competitors

London-Edinburgh (West coast vs east coast. West Coast is slower but cheaper)

Bristol-Manchester (XC via Birmingham vs ATW via Hereford - I usually take the slower cheaper Wales train as I prefer the route and the seating)

Manchester-Norwich (via Sheffield-Peterborough, Via London, Via Leeds-Doncaster)

London-Reading (GWML from Paddington vs South West from Waterloo)

Exeter-London (Paddington via Westbury on GWR vs Waterloo via Salisbury on SWT)

Manchester-Warrington (ATW via Newton, EMT via Birchwood)

London-Hastings (via Tunbridge Wells or via Haywards Heath)

And different competitors on the same track

Milton Keynes - London (West Coast, London Midland, Southern)

York - Newcastle (TPE, LNER, XC)

Manchester-Glasgow (Northern+WestCoast, TPE)

Stoke-Manchester (Northern vs XC vs West Coast)
Ask HN: Why do developers still write in-house frameworks?
I've taken over maintenance of a collection of apps written by a well-regarded team. It mostly works well, but I've encountered a few really painful, confusing and constraining custom frameworks written by an enthusiastic solo maintenance developer (in fact, if I see something weird on one of the projects, the source control history will invariably show it was done by this particular developer).

Looking back on my career this isn't an isolated incident: many of my most frustrating moments in line-of-business development have come when I've had to fight against an in-house framework developed by well-meaning developers who were out of their depth, but looking for a challenge. I myself produced a couple early in my career, and I cringe at the complexity I subjected the hapless developers who came after me to.

I'm sure there are successful in-house frameworks out there, but IMO the world would be better off without the vast majority.

None of this is particularly novel, but I have to wonder why every cohort of new developers have to learn these lessons anew? Should "don't write a framework" become an aphorism, alongside others like "avoid premature optimization"?
I'm not a UI/UX guy, but the presentation in the book was so good, I decided to read it all in one sitting! As a user, I have faced the problems you describe in pages 38 and 57, websites should always try and make it clear where there are more options/content that may be hidden due to lack of screen real estate.
It really is an awful name. I'm not even sure how to pronounce it and its very forgettable.
I suspect that's up to the software developer. If they want to write software in a manner that allows its use by poor people, then no problem. I write software like that. I use the MIT license for most of my software.

I don't like GPL, because I don't like coercion; but I'm a contrary bastard.

I like the "ASCAP" suggestion. I would be unlikely to use it, myself, but I think it's a viable option.
You forgot firejail also...

I am completely lost too, and have the feeling that anyone has pros / cons, and no one is really an efficient product to be used in the daily life :/

I used firejail many months and got several issues with maintaining configurations for different softwares, especially after software updates.

Also, those are softwares on top of the kernel I think, and not utilities in the kernel directly, but I may be wrong for this.
And what happens when party A fucks up and you vote in party B who also fuck it up your are officially out of options.

The tender approach for time limited monopoly was just terrible though and had no good incentives at all, and so I'm not really sure a government monopoly will be much worse.
At least for us casuals, a "performance metric" ala number of some standard ARM core (with some fixed caches sizes) or similar per unit area could at least be more relatable?

Though not sure if this would be useful for those who actually work in the industry, maybe we'll just end up with "TSMC 8600" etc there too.
An improved metric is for example the LMC metric, which uses 3 numbers: density of logic (Dₗ), the density of main memory (Dₘ), and the density of the interconnects linking them (Dᶜ). But density is still a fundamental metric:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219935
In the way that molecules are so fast that they go past each other frequently, making global effects possible to arise from small perturbations.
Fyi if you weren't aware ... most podcasts don't have text of the audio because high-quality (accurate) transcription of podcasts costs money. Example rates: https://www.google.com/search?q=podcast+transcription+servic...

So this thread's podcast of 52 minutes of a complex technical topic with multiple speakers could cost ~$200. A programming-related podcast is already a niche topic with a tiny audience and an Array Languages podcast is an even tinier subset of that so the cost might not be justified.

I suppose podcasts could be uploaded to Youtube and let their speech-to-text algorithm do an auto-transcribe. However, the A.I. algorithm is not good at tech topics with industry jargon/acronyms and the resultant transcription will be inaccurate.
> does anyone really think that the FSF would be able to stand up in a copyright court against Apple and Google?

I do. I strongly suspect I’m not the only one.
It can be similar to fines in Scandinavia (AFAIK). They're linked to your total income e.g. 0.001% of it for running a red light.
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It seems that basic income should be the solution here. Anyone will be able to work on their hobby without dying of hunger. With time, the amount of basic income can increase, leading eventually to a society free of exploitation.
e.g. a negative value?
Go up North and you have Northern, which as well as running pacers for years (I think they're all gone now) drained funds, because running a rail network with few passengers is expensive.

That means either higher tax to subsidise it, or it means higher prices on profitable parts of the network to cross-subsidise it
Yup, but even density is not enough, it's not possible to get enough power into the most densely packed area, and sometimes the highest performance parts need to be lower density - in other words it's also dependent on microarchitecture. We are so very far away from being able to describe chip performance using basic underlying physical metrics.
I'm not even sure who is being criticized here. I think it's just an issue of tone. Bluntly telling someone they're wrong, when their statement is arguably correct, will generally trigger an argument over who is correct.
Oh boy! Wait till he finds out about "unlimited" traffic.
Maybe you are right there as well, but the Privacy page says "This page was last updated 2021-04-24." That made me post the HN comment in the first place, as I think the information gets updated pretty fast in Sweden.
Fortran isn't an array language at all, really. Maybe some features of the array languages style are super-imposed atop it with parallizing extensions, dialects, or whatnot; but it's style has always been and still is to write explicit loops and mutate state left and right. John Backus in his famous 1977 turing award speech explicitly named it a representative of the "fat weak" languages he talked of and said it was a thin veneer over assembly, he based his fictional FP language on APL instead.

Maybe grandparent meant it has the same _application_ as array languages, in that its only surviving kingdom is scientific computing where devouring gargantuan arrays of numerics is the only thing that matters, unlike C or C++ that are much more widely used. Maybe that's why it has a long history of being parallized with various tools and runtimes _despite_ its inherent imperativeness. (I don't remember where I heard this, but somebody wrote an analyzer to analyze some Fortran programmes in the 90s and found that over 80%/90% of Fortran programmes are spent doing variations of map, filter and reduce. So it's an extremely imperative language against its intended use. Maybe I will post a link in an edit when I find the source of the claim)
I am not clear how does this logic work.

I belong to a social group that does barbeque and goes for beers. What would group succeed at if I go "above an beyond"?

Local sports groups dont win championships, most of the time they don't even compete. I struggle to find an example where this analogie hold.
I dunno it kind of feels hard to fight the inevitability of trillion dollar corporations running everything. It really does feel like there these immovable forces in an increasingly vital sector of society we’ve abdicated control over. I often wonder if something so amazing and vital as the internet and web could actually get made in the current climate. I feel increasingly worried about future iterations on similar ideas like the metaverse/AR which seems to be gearing up to be a fight between Facebook and Apple with Unity, Epic and Roblox on the side. I think we’re going to end up with something pretty closed and dystopian.

Visiting the Bay Area, the spiritual home of it all really hammers home that dystopian quality. There is such a stark contrast between the glass palaced elite and the poor.

Sometimes I find it very hard to feel positive about “tech” and it’s future.
> I don't like GPL, because I don't like coercion

Permissive licenses allow coercion of users by corporations.
After the legal dispute, it appears that Andrew Lee owns the domains, website and any trademarks. This is about as much as Freenode "owned" for christel to sell.

The server donors own their servers and can take them elsewhere if they wish.

The channel operators own their channels and can take them elsewhere if they wish.

The staff own their volunteer labor and can take them elsewhere if they wish.

The users own their choice of platform, and can support whichever they wish.
EnergyVis: Interactively Tracking and Exploring Energy Consumption for ML Models
> Of course, as soon as you bring up the idea that the capitalist system itself is a problem, inevitably people will start objecting, saying that capitalism is what has enabled the creation of all these things in the first place. While many of the creations that they would point to in fact benefited a great deal from government subsidies and/or regulatory capture, it is true that we’ve seen an unprecedented boom under capitalism. However, that doesn’t mean that capitalism is the system we need to stay with.

This kind of drivel drives me nuts. Let's just dump on the system that got us here an enabled amazing things to happen, whilst trying to be vague and non-committal about a suggested replacement. The author tries to slip by the fact that they're sympathetic with Marxist ideology - so they show their cards. We've experimented with the kinds of systems that the author subtly favors, time and time again, and they either turn into dystopian authoritarian madness or fail outright. I wish these folks would spend time in one of the failing states, or one in which they have little guarantee of any aspect of life (including liberties), before waxing estatic about utopian tomfoolery.
You forgot fox news
Poettering makes some really valid points in this post; you shouldnt be using select. And the resource limits are weird. But I just want to consider that open fds are a resource hog, and you should also strive to close fds sooner rather than later. Most applications will stay well below 1024 fds, and if they consume more then that - it’s probably a bug.

Servers, sure; each connection can easily consume 2-3 fds, that’s 300-500 simultaneous connections - that’s nothing.

Systemd and other service supervisors, sure, with pidfds, timerfds, sockets, proc file sockets and whatever else.

But for your average image editing softwares, email clients, CLIs, etc; id think it’s probably better to keep the limit? That way you are saving yourself from badly written software draining too much resources.
The AI Economist: Let’s Automate Politicians Away (May, 17 2020)
Until photonic processors become cheap, and then it’s a keccak-256 ASIC. Silicon wafers at 90nm quality are already quite cheap, but actually, a photonic waveguide can be made out of doped glass or grown on any substrate. Also, the 3D integration possibilities are nearly endless. If there was a real economic demand for these processors, the cost would go to nearly zero.

If you can figure out an actual hash with just the photonic part, then you have a strong case.
Remember Xscale, anyone?
He owns Freenode Limited:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/05/19/freenode_file.pdf
Yes, that's another reason I am sticking with Bash for teaching for my book on deployments. Your Bash will only change if your tools change. If you want to know how things work under the hood, you don't want to go through a rabbit hole of Python modules that also change beneath you.
One might organize such a union as a platform cooperative.
That literally de-googles, but I could see someone not being inclined to move from one tech giant to another.

Also their server side mail filters aren't very good.
>The train companies are also often making a loss on these routes, commonly subsidised by foreign Europeans governments looking to expand their rail business, Dutch or Italian tax payers should be annoyed at how their taxes are being wasted.

Last i checked one or 2 examples they ran a profit. Surely they can run a loss/be funded initially but if you get that money back out it's not really what you describe it as no?
>Dedicated cybersecurity tools are pretty awful, and very expensive

Can you give a few examples of
these?
>0.001% of it for running a red light.

That would be $1 on a $100k salary.
D has it
I suspect a key divide in reaction to this news is between those of us who are member British Rail and those of us who don’t. I do. It was like stabbing yourself with broken glass.
In theory this is meant to be a good thing because it allows for competition between train operators which sounds like it should lead to better outcomes for customers. There's also a desire for companies to be able to operate commercial trains that don't have government backing on an equal footing with the government-chosen operators, which only works if the other train operators also have an arms-length commercial relationship with the track owner and operator.

Also, you need to bear in mind that European governments benefit from the other governments strictly following this rule because it means their train operators can run trains in those other countries, but are often less keen on doing so themselves. So there's an interesting dynamic where a lot of countries insist that of course they're following the rules, it's all the other European countries that are unfairly bending them to benefit their train operators.
> Someone devotes a large amount of their time and effort to making something that many people both depend on and make piles of money from, but don’t recompense that original developer.

I wonder how much free stuff that original developer used to get to the point where they could write working code to begin with?

I find the problem with free software isn't capitalism, but greed. Some people are quick to forget how much free software/information they utilize without paying a dime back.

> It seems clear that open source isn’t sustainable as things are now.

Clear to you maybe, I on the other hand am bewildered to find that anyone can seriously think this is such a clear position they don't feel the need to back up such a claim with any data. Even their linked article doesn't make any real argument other than "what if?".
> There's plenty of documentation of pretty much every significant world politico-economic system in English.

Coincidentally, I haven't ever managed to find anything on how the Chinese actually operate. I'd be very interested to know what they've done - for all that I don't like their approach to freedom they did engineer one of the (if not simply 'the') greatest economic miracles of history.

Love or hate them, there is something to learn from in China. They seem to be fairly tight-lipped on the details of what. Nobody in the western media seems to care.
Google sets the date for quantum computers: firstcommercialreleasewillarrive2029