skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (I am told that Apple also uses magnesium for the inside case of its Duo computers, but I haven't been able to verify this fact.)

Can confirm. I'm not 100% sure it was a Macintosh Duo (but around that same time) and indeed the frame when you removed the bottom of the laptop was cast magnesium.
I'm enjoying all the skeptical commentary here, especially how the end case is guaranteed to be personalized ads for you. Followed by law enforcement subpoenas to appliance companies for all their data on you.

Pro tip: if your fridge & freezer get too hot or too cold, things will happen to the food and you'll notice. I do like it that it beeps if you leave the door open.
This is perhaps a better example:
https://github.com/google/gvisor/blob/master/pkg/tcpip/trans...

Also, some networking tests use separate frameworks (which look more like the setup the original post is describing, since those are needed also), e.g.:
https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/test/packetimpa...
Yes, if you ask people who know how to use emacs what they would change, the answer is going to be very different from the answer you’d get asking people who have tried to use emacs and gave up.

The documentation does really suck. The terminology makes no sense to users not used to it. It does not explain that to make this into a functional system, some configuration needs to be done. It is terrible out-of-the-box. ‘Because this is how rms did it 45 years ago’ is not really a good excuse.
Just wait until Jesse Duffield discovers ioctl.
Apple Won Its Legal Settlement with Developers
I bought the Emacs Manual from Richard Stallman and friends, so many years ago, and I still rely on it, especially with Mosh+tmux for working in remote servers.

Off topic, but I have been trying to figure out why Emacs startup got faster and editing seems snappier on an M1 MacBook. The M1 is generally faster but not enough to account for the difference. Maybe some engineers at Apple in some way optimized the Emacs that ships with macOS? The speed up has increased my use of Emacs locally on my laptop.

EDIT: I love Common Lisp, but probably it is not worth the effort to replace Emacs Lisp.
Some of PGs arguments against static typing (in hackers and painters, IIRC) were also completely unfounded. It turned out he was confusing static typing with explicitly having to type (keystrokes that is) the type of a variable or parameter. Utterly unaware of type inference.
It is friends and family that are most important to life satisfaction and longevity. I think volunteering is associated with happiness as well. So if you stay, go make some friends etc... and if you go sounds like you have friends their already.
+ AFAIK Discord said they aren't going to completely remove message access, just lock it behind a privilileged intent. What's stopping malicious developers from adding features such as bad link detection, chat activity leveling system, thus giving them a reason to say to Discord, hey, we need message access, and then using the message access for these malicious reasons.
Current consumer QLC devices still do very well in read speed and especially latency. The latency often is better then on older enterprise SSDs.

Only device managed SMR is terrible. Host managed SMR is fine for data-hording if the savings in size/price are forwarded.
Elizabeth Holmes’s Lawyers Say She Suffered Partner’s Abuse
Facebook says it’s hiding friends lists on accounts in Afghanistan
I have a smart tv and I don't like the fact that it connects to the internet...but would it be any better if I had a dumb tv and a fire stick? Honest question...I don't really know the difference.
> As it will get hotter, hundreds of millions will die of heat stroke and water and food shortages

We used to die in droves from heatwaves and water and food shortages, but we don't anymore, because of technology. Is increased CO2 going to harm crop yields? No, it's the opposite. Was increased CO2 bad for life on ancient earth? No, it was the opposite -- earth used to be an endless jungle teeming with life.

It seems to me like some people want to mess around with the climate because they imagine some neo-Malthusian horror story about the future, like we won't use technology to adapt. But they don't want to call themselves nature obstructionists, like I suggested elsewhere, because they insist that the warming is the fault of humans, despite the fact that the climate seemed due to warm up anyway, even if all humans had been wiped out by a plague in the year 1000 or whatever, since it had been in the Scotese "ice box" stage.
Agreed, but why do they move in lockstep? Is it a conspiracy among elite banks (or whatever other businesses)? Or is it a rational response to their political vulnerability? Or something else?
> they typically consume only about 200 to 400 watts per square centimeter.

That's quite a gross inaccuracy coming from the ARM researchers.

Most chips barely get above 100W/cm², and it's a very hard limit.
Yes, there’s a long history of it ever since the source code was either open-sourced or just made public.
The Apple M1 chip, which is much smaller and has lower power consumption, has 16B.
In my experience, the churn is on the systems side, not languages side. The churn happens because someone makes a marginal improvement on some API and makes a nicer marketing copy, and boom, the new most popular JavaScript framework/bundler for this year is born.

Programming languages don't churn nearly as fast (and some degree of existing churn can be attributed to the business model of a PL funded by a company - they have every incentive to push it, no matter how little improvements or different concepts the language brings.)
Two reasons.

One is the higher incidence of chargebacks. You don't have to ask if something is naughty -- just look for the chargebacks and it'll tell you. What happens is someone charges a thing, their partner sees it on the CC statement and asks about it, the first person is ashamed to admit it so they act shocked and insist it MUST be fraud because THEY would never charge something like that, and to keep up appearances, they call the bank and have the charge reversed. And platforms have to build in large margins to cover for it, or screw creators out of their payouts, or sometimes both and keep the difference.

(Which is why something irreversible, like cryptocurrency, keeps getting talked about. It wouldn't solve the shame problem, but it would eliminate chargebacks, and creators would just get paid. It just brings a bunch of other problems.)

The second is extremely vocal pressure from some fringe religious groups, who will pump the bellows of the CSAM-PR-disaster furnace for anyone who allows a nipple on their platform. You don't know the groups' names, but you've seen the hit pieces they put in the press. Look up "Exodus Cry" for one.
This is made using TSMC's 7nm fab process so surly the number of transistors in this chip is either enabled or limited by that process, isn't it?

Honest question, how much is chip design a factor separate to fab process?
>The question is if the ability of the hateful to find communities of like-unminded people allows them to persist, organize, and affect the lives of the objects of their hatred in ways that were less likely than before

I suspect this is a serious factor. In the before-times, the ability of these people to meaningfully organize was hampered by their comparative rarity and geographical distribution. The consequences of those two factors created a damping effect: the majority of their social interactions were with non-extremists, giving them neither a chance to express extremism nor mutually reinforce their extreme beliefs.
There is a useful and practical small diamond hidden in the big ball of mud.
Especially considering the fact that this is harping on about Ampere. Which is _not_ the number to be looking at here; that'd be watts. That fridge is chugging down 6A at 110 or 220V (assuming it's a new fridge, unless its absolutely gigantic or incredulously inefficient, sounds like that'd be a 110V model) - not at 1 to 2 volts.

If someone can build a fridge that is so efficient, it can make do with 6A @ 2V, dang. Where can I buy me one of those? That's 12W total, I can power one of these for a full hour with 4 AA batteries.
My LG TV is always connected to the Internet and I don't use it as a dumb device at all, its only use it to watch local Netflix-like service and Youtube.

I don't complain, though. Its smart capabilities are absolutely sufficient to me.
Perfect! :-) Too many people forget that if you are incapable of working, the minimum wage is zero
Very nice, good catch. It has UFCS [0] like D!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax
I wonder how much of this has been pushed along by incumbents in the space - they nearly always benefit from regulation as smaller companies suffer the most.
>Yeah I'm not so enthusiastic

Enthusiasm? Did we read the same article? The author is being sarcastic. He pretty clearly regrets getting a refrigerator with the ability to beep and text.
ah, yeah you are right.
That's not what I'm talking about. Notice that Airbus started assembling A320 planes in China (under Chinese pressure), then Comac was founded, most of Chinese people working at Airbus went to Comac 1000 km away to build an A320 clone. This isn't simply a case of people "freely switching jobs". Particularly not in light of blatant and repeated Chinese espionage of incredible breadth in France going on for years and years:

2011:
https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/10/12/01016-20...

2014:
https://www.nouvelobs.com/societe/20141204.OBS7033/comment-l...

2015:
https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2015/02/16/l-espionnage-chi...

2018:
https://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/la-france-visee-pa...
https://www.businessinsider.fr/des-espions-chinois-ont-ete-a...

2019:
https://rmc.bfmtv.com/emission/expliquez-nous-quand-le-contr...

2020:
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/l-improbable-trahison...
I noticed that the previous article on this topic got flagged. This one has a less sensational tone, focusing more on the business and legal elements of the story.
What’s your expertise on this subject beyond armchair quarterbacking?
Well, Prolog for one seems very different. In functional/procedural/OOP you have to write a program describing every step of the way. In Prolog you just have to describe the destination.
It was actually a case of me going and doing something else and then returning to this tab and reading first of all the comment that I responded to; yet having forgotten the context, I immediately thought of keyboard keys; and the concept amused me so I ran with it and it ended up somewhere a bit different from where I expected!
It is agile only if it can evolve : if it is "rigid" then agile is just a buzzword.

Having a standup meeting only when it is necessary seems a good thing to test, measure and deploy if it's better.
You do not own the seeds - owning the crops always was the real wealth for farmers.

It is similar to not owning your hardware, but with much worse consequences for humanity as we loose crop diversity, which is very important for producing new resistent crops.
Show HN: I made cognitive biases as online flashcards that made $43k this year
Small sacrifice for the benefit of the rest of the HODLers
For reference, this Richard O' Keefe:

Dr. Richard A. O'Keefe is a computer scientist best known for writing the influential book on Prolog programming, The Craft of Prolog.[1] He was a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand and concentrates on languages for logic programming and functional programming (including Prolog, Haskell, and Erlang).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Keefe
Ask HN: How does a crowdsourcing based company get users?
I am analysing a pretty famous example: Waze.

The core feature of Waze for me (I may be wrong about this) is to get real time data on traffic when I am travelling to get to a certain place in a smarter way, faster.

This makes the real value of the application itself rely on crowdsourcing, but how can you get users to love your app if it will only work the way it is supposed to when there are at least x active users? There must be something in the equation that I am missing here.
Interesting that the Tu-144LL was fitted with the Tu-160 bombers engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznetsov_NK-32 ; The Tu-144LL did test flights for Nasa and Boeing, when they tried to design a supersonic jet liner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144#Use_by_NASA ; at least someone was trying to learn from the design of this bird.
Not me, but one of my friends. He ran an ecommerce shop, selling items manufactured in China, and easily cleared over 1M in revenue (think it was something like 3 to 4!). Eventually, since it was consuming his whole life, he brought on a team to help him handle other aspects especially since he just had a kid.
QLC also has shitty slow write speed. (Slower then linear writes on spinning rust!)

So consumer SSDs now depend on a limited dynamic part of flash being used as SLC to cache writes. Just that this dynamic part mostly gets smaller the fuller the device is.

And as soon as you do anything with large writes you will hit a brick wall of slowness, on full devices sooner then on empty ones.
I'm guessing the Miami building as a lesson.
There are currently 32 millions passenger cars in France, so for 1,473,000,000 kWh by 32 millions that's ... 46 kWh per car.

Most cars have more than that as battery so when all car are electrified, put together and filled up they can power France for a day without any other generation source.

France peak demand is about 100 GW so that's 3.2 kW per car.

It's a tiny amount relative to the power of the motor.

It can flow through a nearly normal plug (16A 230V).

And this is for the worst day of the year.
Questions for an OS Designer
worth pointing out that Dojo is meant to do one thing and one thing only... ML
"99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions."

This is also a statement about what kind of programming the speaker has done.
I've seen all these before and it makes me wonder why someone doesn't just make a different version of emacsen like guile-emacs. There must be a lot of inertia behind emacs and substantial amount of development effort to make all these changes that keeps competitors to gnu emacs from progressing to replace it.
The sprinkling of bias throughout the article does not help it bring attention to the problem. Here are two words that have apparently been broadly discussed by the IPCC report [1] judging by the article, that the report itself never mentions: "nationalism", "healthcare". The best way to make climate change not a political issue is to NOT make it a political issue.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
> I think a regular national ID was attempted under the Obama administration but failed due to pushback, if I'm remembering correctly.

Not really. There was some discussion of it during the period of the Bush Administration which turned into Real ID (2005 was well before Obama was elected), but it's a stretch to call even that, much less any murmurings during the Obama Administration, an “attempt”.

> It makes me wonder how long it would take a true national ID system with digital verification

If you mean a mandatory one, mandatory ID faces Constitutional issues that are central to the US conception of liberty, so probably a collapse of the Constitutional order.

If you mean available standardized digital ID with digital verification, well, TSA had an RFI that closed in June preparatory to a rulemaking on adding digital ID, including digital verification, standards into the Real ID standards, because a number of states have digital ID efforts and there is a demand for them to qualify as Real IDs, because of the uses for which Real IDs already are (and the more that thet will be in the next couple years) mandated for l.
It doesn’t service the major bar area of downtown Chandler, much less Old Town Scottsdale, Tempe
or Downtown Phoenix. Although it does service Chandler Fashion Center (one of the main malls in the south east valley), you can’t use it to send your 15 year old to the mall/theater, as you must be 18 to use the service alone. Intel’s Ocotillo campus appears to be in their service area, so if an Intel employee lived in the 40 square mile area, they might be able to commute with it. It doesn’t service either of the airports. The trial area effectively requires a vehicle for any practical lifestyle, and any of the use cases that I’d normally take a Lyft/Uber for, just aren’t serviced by Waymo.
Monocropping is bad for the environment anyways. The most environmentally friendly method would be grasslands with lots of ruminants.
> If you offered an SRO to most of the people that I've come across in the last 10 years, they'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

Why? Sorry if question is dumb..
Why is everything JavaScript these days aaaaaa
I don’t think that’s the gp’s point.

Every call site has to decide whether the type argument is admin or user. After the change every call site has to decide which of the two create functions to call. The differentiation already existed for a reason not explicit at the place where create* was defined (although in this trivial,example it’s obvious).
Not a big fan of a Google Authentcator myself, and didnt want to stay with Authy as well, thus I started working on my own authenticator, which is web-ased: https://www.daito.io/

The main differentiator is that this a web-based authenticator, not an app-based one. The main goal being a fully separate service (thus full separation of concerns) from a password manager. It's not ready for prime time yet, but if you are interested to test it, please reach out.
His net income was $150k after taxes. Gross revenue was $800k in 16 months. Wouldn’t count it as a $1M company, especially as mobile games are entirely seasonal / one-time events, not recurring revenue.
He specifically talks about robber barons, who were the greedy corporations of their time.
You might be on to something. Make it easy to be homeless and you should be surprised when you have more homeless.
The level up bots should be unaffected by this, as they don’t need to read message contents—they just need to count messages.
The nvidia A100 is larger and has 56B.
Most of what's said there does little to support the headline.

This is interesting though...

"Waymo says it provides hundreds of rides a week"

Which almost certainly means less than 100 rides per day. Typical Uber drivers do 4-6 trips in a 4 hour shift.
I think that something is "git" :)
Rocket materials don't ultimately compile down to the same material though. This makes the analogy somewhat flawed. Also, if a novel language feature is useful enough, it's often stolen by the competition.
I'd say it's obviously true and right. And it doesn't require assuming arrogance and pretentiousness.

Niche languages, by definition, are not good investment if you're after a well-paying job. A niche language that requires understanding advanced programming concepts is, by definition, filtering for people who a) can understand those concepts, and b) have a non-monetary reason for doing so, which implies c) they're likely not faking it.

Whether or not such people would be good software engineers is another topic. Software engineering encompasses more skills than just raw programming ability. But a proficiency in advanced niche language plus proficiency in a mainstream language plus some work experience? It's hard to imagine how this would not be a good signal for smarts and skills.
I personally wouldn’t consider someone’s awareness of another building’s collapse to be expertise, but hey it’s the internet
Voltage drop = current × resistance. Power lost to heat = current² × resistance. I think they are making a reasonable point that resistance losses are likely to be a much bigger problem for a CPU than for a large appliance with similar wattage. 10-20A is an enormous current even on household wires (most household circuits are rated for 15-20A), and while wires on CPUs are shorter, they're also a lot thinner.

The wires in the refrigerator would likely be unable to handle 20A at 2V.
Why should emacs have to adopt your changes (or mine)?

Make a "Modern-Emacs" and make it what you want, make it something you and others can love. Maybe others will love it enough to contribute, maybe no one but you will ever use it. Either way is great, and you still have your ideal tool.
You should have a donate button on the front page.
On the other side of the ledger, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is widely considered discredited by linguists.
There was popular demand for these flights. My father once flew with Tu-144 from Moscow to Alma-Ata because of some urgency. The distance between these two cities is about 4000 km which is comparable to the distance between London and New-York. By the time he used to be a student and since the flight was subsidized it costed him just 83 roubles, which is just 20 roubles more than a flight on an ordinary plane, according to wiki (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83-144#%D0%9A%D0%BE%...)
It's not that simple because that way you lose too much information. Actually it is more likely the whole system would fail if weights at any layer are reset.

There is a way to selectively unlearn something via Memory Aware Synapses (MAS):
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09601

The idea was developed mostly for transfer learning as in learn new stuff on a new domain but do not forget the old stuff as well. For forgetting it could be trained on some old images + all zeros target mask and the MAS to preserve everything else.
That tool is great! Sent you some teslas (or coffe) and commemorating it with this silly meme I made: https://gfycat.com/DampDesertedAfricanhornbill
There are some real treasures in the AT&T Tech Archives. I love this.
> It could be a fact that climate is changing. And also that we contribute to it in some known ways.

> Who will be responsible for the consequences? Also, we can keep adapting, as we always did if the climate is changing.

> I do not see the point in taking every piece of news from climate change like the end of thw world: we will have to keep adapting.

This is only because you don't understand the problem, or don't listen/trust the entirety of the scientific community. Like all organisms on Earth, humans and human society can adapt to a limited set of circumstances. We can create thriving societies in Finland and at the Equator, but we can't create thriving societies in Antarctica or the Sahara desert.

What (the certainly man-made and certainly happening) climate change is doing is going to make a lot more of the Earth unlivable for humans. Even the livable parts will become much more variable in their livability. Humans will migrate in massive numbers from the now-unlivable places (such as Bangladesh, currently housing ~160 million people) to places where society can still thrive - but as can be seen from the massive reaction to the minuscule trickle of refugees from Syria to Europe, this is met with utter hostility. Further, scarcer resources (especially water in many places, such as the US south or India and Pakistan) will likely lead to wars, further creating refugee crises and disrupting supply chains.

The timeline is indeed unclear, and there have been cycles of too-pessimistic predictions and too-optimistic predictions. The current discussions seem to imagine massive changes in the 50-100 year range, but recent weather patterns seem to suggest we may be on the optimistic side at the moment.

But regardless of timeline, the general trend is clear and undeniable, as are the conclusions. In some sense, you are right that "we will adapt", as humanity as a species or even human civilization are unlikely to simply end. But they are also not going to remain the change, and there is no plausible path from current society to a +2-4C average temp society that does not involve the deaths of billions.