skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHY is only part of the DRAM chip, and trace length is only a part of what determines energy per bit, so increasing trace length by x % wouldn't increase overall power by x %, but a fraction of that. Thinking about it, there is a bigger problem than just energy/bit scaling; since LPDDR switches dynamically between high-speed and lower speed modes, the high speed mode is likely not used a lot. However, the low speed modes rely on being able to turn the termination off, which saves significant amounts of power. A socket may make that difficult to achieve, and if you have to run with ODT in the, I'm assuming, mostly-used low power mode, you might end up with a significant increase in power.
Those wind turbines are upwards of 10 MW each. That is massive. People dont get the scale of it.

If the dynamics, control amd reliability are proven, then the only hurdle would be drawing high power carrying cables through corrosive sea waters. And, build cables that withstand constant movement and bending.

Edit - Wind turbine capacity.
> Choose Android, get actual access to your device

lol, not sure which android you are talking about... probably the one where you need to find an exploit to be able to root it (I guess even HN forgot that you are supposed to be administrator on your own computer)
It's a risk, and the FCC requires that you plan on not killing people on the ground if your satellites are going to re-enter.
> In a universe where you want high-performance energy efficient RAM

You are cherry-picking an example that fits only a specific category of laptops.

Even so, CPU and RAM could be bundled together into a socketed cartridge that is easy to upgrade.

The real reason is all about planned obsolescence and profit margins.
This is just my own speculation, equally as invalid as the authors, but at most I'd say Bezos thinks his goals are entirely genuine, but it's entirely based on narcissism and wanting to be the only one smart/powerful enough to save us.

If it came to the point where he had to sacrifice things he actually cares about to help others with no benefit to himself or his ego I would bet Bezos net worth that he wouldn't lift a finger. Maybe convincing himself he's working to save humanity is how he justifies not doing something really useful with his wealth, like saving tens of thousands of people from suffering and dieing of starvation, instead of playing billionaire space games.
When the other option is being forcibly broken up as a monopoly, your greed would advise you to lose less rather than more.
For the vast majority of users, isn't it 1, by a _lot_? OS-integrated password managers that generate unique secure passwords are slowly helping here, but I suspect most people have approximately the same password for their email, bank, and Netflix.
If the union members are willing to strike, i.e. go without pay for an arbitrarily long period of time, why wouldn't users be temporarily willing to go without anything, when they know there is a good self-interested reason for doing so?

Saying "people won't do that" is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. Convince them that it's in their interest and they will.
UberEats face scan fails to recognize and fires driver with ~5000 deliveries
Just glue a momentary push button under your eyelashes and connect it to a headlamp. No need for all this overengineering.
Panel 0.12.0 Release
Developers are also users.
metaverse? does this mean in the real world we can get some nuclear powered robotic guard dogs, and portable beta-test linear accelerator miniguns?
Naïve Type Theory [video]
Propaganda ads don't need to make a sale. Slowly changing your opinion on something is the payoff.
You could have been a thousandnaire.
Why? Isn’t Snow Crash is a dystopian cyberpunk novel where corporations have superseded governments?
Our web based Python course is still "work in progress" but other programming related courses are there. https://academy.bigbinary.com/
iNaturalist is another good option for plant identification (and other forms of life as well). It has decent machine learning for suggesting IDs and is also backed by its community providing IDs. I've been using it a lot this year and have found it pretty helpful for IDs (though some regions and life forms are more likely to have good identifications than others), as well as for showing me what people are seeing in the area, and feeling like I'm contributing useful data.
Why would you want your external GPU built into the display?

When I saw the headline, I thought maybe it had a webcam and the A13 would do things like portrait mode, before the image reached the computer.
Just tried it and the lesson works for me. Didn’t get any errors
There’s something about FB threads that really attracts Reddit-style comments.
Yes ... which leads where? Those teenagers probably wouldn't have got Swine Flu if they'd just done nothing. So it probably leads to the conclusion that if the vaccines have similar effects to being exposed to the virus itself, that's not obviously a win?

The whole point of vaccines is that they are much better than getting the virus itself, and for the classical vaccines that established the reputation of the technique, that's definitely the case. For cases like swine flu and now it seems maybe COVID, it's not at all clear that the vaccines are universally preferable to the disease, especially for the young. For one, COVID is mostly not dangerous to people under the age of 65 or so. For another, the symptoms are often mild. And the symptoms of the vaccine are often quite intense. mRNA vaccines create the same kind of cell death as the disease itself, they aren't just presenting the immune system with inactivated virus and letting it target practice on the vaccine particles: they turn the bodies own cells into target practice. That's a fundamental difference in approach.

When it gets into these sorts of grey zones of a vaccine with strong side effects and a not very deadly virus (for certain risk groups), a repeat of the Pandemrix disaster is not out of the realm of possibility.
> Who is this announcement supposed to appeal to other than shareholders

Who matters besides the shareholders? /s
This. The stricter the compiler the more likely a mistake will be trivially caught by the compiler rather than be a bug that has to be hunted down in the output.

It may be easier to write in a language that isn't as strict, but it's going to take more effort to produce a *correct* result.
> I realised I did not want to be the reason people were using Facebook

I gave up my Facebook account about a decade ago. Not for this reasons (although I very much agree with it), but because I realized that I wasn't using it. Friends and family would try to communicate with me over it, and they wouldn't get a response because I wasn't looking.

A lot of them thought I was ignoring them, so I figured it was better to not have a presence there at all, to eliminate any possible misunderstanding.
Ironically, OSX lets you move the dock to left/right of the screen
Found a better one with a decent (but tangential imo) criticism.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/06/wil...

> All those taxes aren’t going to poorer districts; the money goes to the state, which also uses it to offset other parts of the budget. “Where did the state spend the ‘savings?’” says a slide from Taxparency Texas. It lists $2.6 billion for cuts in the business franchise tax and $1.2 billion for increasing the homestead exemption.
If the platforms are equivalent in functionality, then why can't Apple let people freely sideload native apps?
Wasn't that book supposed to be a bit of a dystopian/cautionary tale against VR? I thought the resolution of the character arc was that the guy decides to take the headset off and engage in the real world more.
Show HN: Why Not Track, an overview of why tracking is bad
Why did CDC VAERS deaths reports halve?
I was looking at how COVID19 vaccine VAERS data changed overtime and used the Wayback Machine, and noticed that deaths were reported 12,313 just a few day ago.

Today, the number was halved to 6,207. How can this number go down? The CDC states they do not publish amended VAERS reports to the public.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210721131024/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
I got it as part of this promotion

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2018/01/introducing-ars-pro-th...

so I'd guess 2018. I guess I could have reinforced the hole and I probably still could.

The build quality is still awful and given all the varieties of badUSB out there I'm not enthusiastic about a USB connector that lacks a grounding shell. (That said, at our public library all of the Dell machines have AC current floating on the USB shells that give a gentle little shock... That might not be so gentle if you were standing in a puddle)
maybe I'll write a short story about Bezos and Musk both wanting to become the savior of earth and competing to save humanity first/better to feed their own egos, to the point where they start sabotaging each others efforts to gain an advantage. Then neither of them are able to save us because they were more worried about being seen as the one to save the planet than actual saving the planet, and we all die
Firefox is workn for me. Ver. 89.0.2
Interesting. Does this mean the display itself would be running the WindowServer process? On my mac with a 5k external display, it's consistently using about half a core all throughout the day.
Sure, but the person I responded to was giving an anecdote, so I responded with one.
> If you graduate in the top 10 percent of your class, then you are guaranteed admission to all state funded universities.

UC is the more elite of two separate state funded university systems in CA, but it has a similar guarantee (but not campus-of-choice), that evaluates earlier (counts only 10th and 11th grade) and has a 9% cutoff for the “in your class” guarantee, which is called “Eligibility in Local Context”.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

They also guarantee admission to the top 9% statewide, even if they aren't top 9% of class.

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...

California State University, the larger state-funded system, has a process called “redirection” which functions as a kind of admission guarantee for qualified California residents who are applying as first-time freshman or certain transfer statuses, but I can’t easily find clear documentation of the cutoff (which may just be the minimum CSU eligibility cutoffs), but in any case is broader than UCs.

I'm not convinced that Texas is more progressive here. (Even before considering the sibling comments that indicate that the actual current guarantee is less than the top 10%.)
Has any western nation achieved dense middle class inner city neighborhoods post WWII? The anglosphere cities that rose after the ubiquity of the automobile are all sprawling. The outer run suburbs of all western major cities are sprawling.

The cities with dense middle class inner city neighborhoods mostly developed without cars.

You'd have to ban cars to achieve it.
"Meta verse" to me, includes some type of discussion, a "verse", but these days Facebook as a website does not have much "worthy" discussion going on at all, if anything to me this rebrand reads as "metaspying" (we can spy on you from a meta multitude of gadgets, scripts and bots)
There's actually a perverse impact, because young people can't drive. So moving to suburbia for "the kids" results in kids being isolated from their community. And remember, vehicular traffic is the 2nd highest cause of death in children in the USA, after birth defects.
Their Quest headsets still work fine with Steam… for now
It's an estimation problem, and programming is full of estimation problems. How many servers will I need? Will I be able to fit this in RAM or do I need an on-disk solution? How long will it take to go from 10 users to 10 million users, and will I be able to scale the design?

You don't need the exact value, just a rough order of magnitude. That's the whole point of the big-O notation. A problem like that is lighthearted, which has the advantage of removing all of the computery specifics that could bog you down in a realistic question. The ability to pull numbers out of your ass quickly, and still have them be within a factor-of-2 of an answer that would take weeks or months to gather, is critical for a developer.

The ability to guess that is also a good indicator of whether you're likely to be a good culture fit.
Something I don't understand about the criticisms of the launch is that the rocket landed back on a platform. This was something SpaceX was (entirely justifiably) lauded for. Is it just old hat now? Or is the SpaceX version of it more technically challenging in some way?
Oh great, more call center bullshit coming our way. I'm in latin america btw.
He could start by treating his own employees like humans. There's a great mass of "humanity" whose lives need improving and they're called Amazon workers.
Man whatever that means, I am sure nothing good will come of it. Society is not ready for all access, all communication, mass, thought influencing media controlled by an ethically ambiguous mega corporation.
Google Homepage Game for Olympics
I'd welcome it if it actually provided a benefit to end users but I'm highly doubtful the institutions involved can move at anything but the glacial pace they always seen to.

More concerning for me is the continual "push" by news narratives telling us how CBDC's will bring about a utopia.
It's not that the robotics is hard. It's hard to stop the time-traveling saboteurs from the Resistance from undermining you.
If you're someone who's able to figure out how to block such things on Android, then you'd be happy to know that this is possible on iOS by using apps like Lockdown that work completely on-device. [1]

[1]: https://lockdownprivacy.com/
Topology is often used to prove existence or non-existence. If you base that on a shaky conjectures you’re not any wiser.

If you apply it to algorithms that means the difference may be that the algorithm encrypts your data safely every time or just 99.99% of the time. Or you can crack it by precomputing something for 100k CPU years.
Normally I'm a huge proponent of BSD and MIT licensed tech over GPL because I believe in the goodness of people to be generous and share (if for no other reason than enlightened self-interest). When it comes to a company like Google I don't have an assumption of goodness and generosity and I cannot help wondering if Fuchsia is meant to be a pathway to "proprietary but open source" displacing Linux in much the same way that "almost all of Chrome is open source" but there are some essential -- and evil! -- things in Chrome that are VERY closed source (and very invasive and unacceptable for anyone concerned about privacy). I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst -- and developing a new appreciation for GPL along the way.
Who claimed the platforms are equivalent in functionality?
Alternate title: "Mark Zuckerberk says Facebook will own the 'metaverse'."
Sure heavy industry in space wouldn't pollute the Earth, but the physics for this just don't work out. How would you get all the produced goods back to Earth? Lots and lots of rockets that would then have to fly back up to space. The energy involved with that would be massive and cost prohibitive on the scale that it would need to be in order to replace any meaningful amount of heavy industry on Earth.

A space elevator could potentially be much better, but none of these private companies are pursuing space elevators.

Investing money into developing renewable energy power for heavy industry makes infinitely more sense, but isn't as cool as launching rockets. IIRC the Gates Foundation is investing in a solar powered method for smelting steel.
Agree that both the Wikipedia article I linked and the article you linked are not very good. FWIW, the state property tax illegality issue was somehow addressed shortly after the article you linked was written via some legislation that lowered the minimum obligation to the state and awarded local jurisdictions more leeway to levy their own taxes instead.

Here is a more recent article with some numbers that I linked in a sibling comment that details how Texas has essentially painted itself into a corner with Robin Hood funding: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/31/texas-robin-hood-rec...

Everyone seems to acknowledge that its current implementation is somewhat problematic but there really isn't a clear path forward for resolving the issues with the system that is tenable in the current Texas political and legal climate.
That meteors vaporize on impact was long not known. At least that is what I learned from this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater#Daniel_M._Barrin...
In the real world most people care about saving money. Whether that’s due to wear on the bulb or extra energy consumption is irrelevant.
Starting off by catering to a tiny, rich elite in order to drum up excitement isn't a bad idea. Look at Tesla: they started with a $100k+ sportster model to create buzz, dispel myths about electric car performance, make it look sexy instead of focusing on environment benefits and cost-per-mile efficiencies. That generated revenue--and, more importantly--free advertising and buzz. Then they started making more affordable, less-sexy vehicles for the broader market. It was very much intentional. Musk could have repeated the pattern with SpaceX, but didn't have to, since he'd already proven himself and had a nice bankroll.
Monopolies are efficient given status quo processes / technologies / business models, but cause development in all those above areas to stagnate. Ergo monopolies create inefficiencies given the march of time. It's bizarre that I have to state such a thing on something like hacker news.
Lex Fridman has had a few astronomers on his podcast recently that go over planet and moon formation. If you find this stuff interesting definitely check those episodes out.
Ransomware key to unlock customer data from REvil attack
I hate to be the one to bang on about standards, but the cyberpunk vision of the Metaverse -- and I am aiming at kind of a bog-standard middle ground of it -- will depend on some very open standards that are decentralized at the core, starting at Snow Crash and ending in the John C. Wright "The Golden Oecumene" sense of things.

Anything but an open and radically-decentralized interoperable set of standards and you're Running On Someone's Specific Hardware. That means that they and the country (or other municipal structures) might have opinions on what you can run on their hardware, and thus the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse will be invoked at the start.

As you slide toward less interoperability and more corporate/government control, you're going toward the Johnny Mnemonic territory (maybe without the cyberdolphin). You'll have to hack your way around the place, and that means that the ordinary folks are left out. They might not have the smarts, the hardware, the wetware, and so on.

Further levels of control and you're into Second Life -- one platform, one company, but perhaps some local rules/anarchy. And if you're still thinking of the children, the Metaverse eventually looks like Club Penguin. You can finally rest assured that the concept is functionally dead when we are all sending each other only various emojis of unrealistic skin tones.

So, the question then becomes, does anything in the Facebook/Zuckerberg history suggest where on that spectrum we will land?

As a side note, I believe that pretty much any version of this Metaverse means targeted ads. On the controlled side, the people running the hardware will want money, and that means ads. On the uncontrolled ads, randos will want money, and that means that they'll do whatever they can to sniff your activity and monitor you, and then send you ads.
GPUs do use fairly fine-grained dynamic frequency scaling on their memory chips for precisely this reason: having a top-end GPU run at around 15-20 W under light loads simply wouldn't be possible otherwise.
I for one can't wait for people to start having AR-enabled QAnon propaganda beamed directly into their homes!

Every time Facebook has a press conference to the tune of "what if we were even more immersive" it strikes me as incredibly tone deaf given how many problems they engender already just with a regular web app.
Maybe 2022 will be the year of Windows on the phone.
Given that Israel already called a "new type of terrorism" when an ice cream company didn't feel comfortable working on the country anymore, then I'd say that we are not far from that at all
They're very good lectures, too.
What are you afraid of them doing with that?
> by any cloud provider

I don't care much for cloud providers adding unnecessary restrictions, so I manage my own sshd_config on VMs. I'd like to rent a flat, not a hotel room, thank you very much.

> Git hosting platform

It appears GitLab, one of my platforms of choice, does support this in self-hosted setups[1]. Even if they didn't, it'd be trivial to extend their sshd_config by myself anyway.

1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/ssh_cer...
How is Open Graph replacing Dublin Core? I'm not familiar with the space.
I'm evaluating different python dashboard libraries and thought this release of Panel was cool since it includes a new ReactiveHTML class that is a little reminiscent of React/Vue.
Good point, maybe he could stop actively hurting people before thinking about helping them. I always overlook that somehow
Great point, we have ran into the problem that people misunderstand our product before, especially when they are not familiar with the eCommerce app stores. I'll start testing out plugin/add-on and see if that improves it, apprecaite it!
Betteridge's law of headlines says no. ;)
Android filesystem permissions.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1008

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366

https://old.reddit.com/r/Syncthing/comments/g9es5d/alternati...
And as a result, the person who took more Honors classes will be "more educated" (assuming the Honors / AP classes succeed in their stated goal). Therefore, the student that took the Honors classes is more competitive.

It comes back to the question of what universities should prioritize. Should they be optimizing for the fairest / most equal student body, or the most gifted / competitive student body?
Going Olympic: the five newest sports to join the Olympics
> The first is a lack of funding in poor schools. Less money, less resources.

Are they really less funded? Interestingly, poorer schools are often eligible for state and federal grants.

> The second is that just having money doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be managed well by the administration.

That's interesting.
I can't help but cringe and shudder at the opening of that blog post: "MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle..."
Crashing into the ground is a risk, crashing into the atmosphere not so much.
Ironically, it's Apple themselves with the M1 laptops that make the iPad case much less appealing.

The laptop can do everything that the iPad can do except being a touchscreen device.
Just curious, has Bezos engaged in behavior indicative of an actual narcissist. Or have there been reports from people close to him? Or is your assessment mostly a projection of Amazon back onto him? I know a few people who actually have narcissistic personality disorder but I don't know Bezos at all.
I have a friend who did the same thing as you (go full-time iPad), but eventually switched to an XPS when his favorite apps started getting pulled. He built a pretty impressive workflow, but it required him to pay for a dev license and do a bunch of other super complicated stuff to maintain it. Once they pulled his favorite emulator (GBA4iOS), it was the last straw.

YMMV, but this guy couldn't even use the device for entertainment/reliable text editing. If that's what it takes to replace a "traditional computer", then I'm pretty sure my left shoe qualifies as one.