skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competition in general may not be a choice, but making it the axle around which the world revolves is a choice.
A compare function is definitely on my list. The site will get a complete redesign soon and will look more like https://baqpa.com
Interesting, I remember when Nokia exited the chip business in 2007. Up until then they had a lot of in house expertise for that. A few of my colleagues in Nokia Research were pretty upset about that at the time. In retrospect, this became a contributing factor to their demise. Their reasoning was that chips were a commodity, which at the time was correct. However they then backed the wrong partners (e.g. Intel, MS) and got cornered in a market they used to own and dominate. Windows phone and MS get a lot of blame for this. Also betting on Intels failed mobile strategy and going for Wimax instead of LTE definitely did not help.

But the key thing was outsourcing their core technology bit by bit. And that started in 2007. By 2012, a lot of Nokia factories no longer existed and production had moved to China and they had changed software strategy so often that it all got very confusing.

In the space of about five years they went from being the largest smart phone manufacturer to selling out to MS who then unceremoniously pulled the plug on the whole thing because there was very little left in terms of tech and skills worth salvaging. Windows Phone was a dud. Nokia as an Android phone manufacturer did not make a whole lot of sense (they actually launched one Android phone just before MS took ownership). Around the same time they also launched what could have been a Meego flagship device but was effectively a dead end when they killed off the entire team before putting that in the market.

Already in 2010, Apple felt they needed to do the exact opposite and have more control over their hardware. Fast forward 11 years and now world + dog is doing their own chips. And Apple of course dominates the phone market with a strategy of basically doing everything in house. Just like Nokia used to do.
>I always found the level of detail impressive

If you're into level of detail, you should take a gander at Hard-Boiled [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled_(comics)
[2] https://www.cuartomundo.cl/2018/03/26/hard-boiled-1990-de-fr...
Cash flow =|= profit. You can be cash positive and profitable (best case), cash positive and not be profitable (at least you won't go under automatically), cash negative and profitable (you face the risk of going bancrupt by running out of cash) or cash negative and not profitable (usually dead).

Whatvyhe other poster did was diving into Tesla's sec fillings. Those show:

Tesla is offering stock -> they still raise money

Tesla is selling emissions certificates -> that explains most, if not all, of their profits.

Not sure how new funding factors into their cash flow, and I am too lazy to look it up. It does seem so, that Teslas car business isn't enough to stand upon for now.
yes that is a valid point but there are others who dont want that because then the central authority can take away your money or stop payments send to you just because they dont like you like what happened to Wikileaks.
Thank you! I've seen this years ago, probably bookmarked it, but never gotten back to it. This should be its own HN submission.

EDIT: I've submitted it. Interestingly, it has been submitted before [1] but not generated any real discussion. I would think this is very relevant, and not often repeated, subject matter for a majority of HN readership.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=First%20Principles%20of%20Inte...
On a side note, those are cool when filmed in super slow mo/close up, saw YT video
Pandas Cub: Learn how to build a data analysis library from scratch
??? What's more political than a Hollywood movie company? How many conservative movies or TV shows have you seen lately?
to lobby for what
Brilliant, so this is why Danish for glasses is briller.

Although I thought skin itself is Danish for shine, and indeed the root for the word shine. Like skip maps to the English ship. I just loved the idea that skin comes from shine the radiance of people, looking it up though it seems to stem from hide or peel; I’m not sure how one would peel the sun.

I don’t think the Vikings were big on heliospheric physics and coronal mass ejections.
That reminds me of the "deviance in the dark" psychology experiment - they were describing similar effects, sometimes even more personal, like strangers hugging, touching or even kissing if I remember correctly. I learned about this from this comic: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/deviance-in-the-dark
I did know this but I prefer it just working to having to place magic files places.
The DA has said they won’t prosecute quality of life crimes. The police are choosing to not respond to smaller scale crime. This is a PR battle between the police Union and the DA.
Why can't they transition to fewer chips instead?

My old car runs fine controlled with a single atmega128 for the injectors, and that is the only chip in there (outside of the radio that I never use (I already carry a phone for all sort of entertainment))
But that Harvard legacy/donor/child-of-famous-person student started with more prestige. So even if they don't gain any more, they are still ahead individuals who got there otherwise.

Besides, the problem with merit is in how what is meritorious is defined. And coincidentally, the people who get to define what is meritorious are the ones who just happen to already be rich in the things they define as meritorious.
As I remember, Hounsfield originally used a much worse algorithm than that, although it was still workable and let him build usable machines. Later ones were more efficient due to using better math, but Hounsfield's got the job done.
I'm a complete introvert, but this is one of my favorite pastimes. Just two strangers with no baggage. My close friend once joked that I attract random people for some reason, and I sometimes feel that she is right.

I'm pretty quiet, and reserved, but for some reason I always end up meeting people during my night walks and have had all manner of conversations, offers, and interactions. I think some people just need someone to talk to that won't judge them.

My recipe is the following: grab a drink from the nearest convenience store (ideally alcoholic), and set out into the night towards the busiest area you can find, and just watch the hustle and bustle.

Just a sample of the adventures I've had: spending a couple hours wandering the streets of Tokyo with a couple Danish tourists during their last night in the city.

Talking for a few hours in a park with an off-duty US military servicemen, after which he suggested we start running drugs from Mexico across the border -- no thank you.

However, one of the most interesting, jarring, and thought provoking interactions I had was with a young man, of obvious African descent. This took place in Bangkok. I was out on one of my night walks, and as usual stopped by a convenience store to grab a drink. I noticed the young man, sitting on the curb, if I recall correctly, having a smoke.

At the time, I was working in Bangkok as an American on a relatively cushy salary and high on life. So I walk over and strike up a conversation, expecting to hear about the adventures that led this gentleman to Thailand. So we chat for a bit, and I tell him about life in Thailand and working as an expat. I then ask him, "So what brought you out here?" He gave me a one word response, that made me realize how privileged I was. That word and his answer was, "war".

He went one to explain that his country undergoing some internal conflict, and he had fled to find a better life. Here I was, a relatively happy and well-paid American -- I really had no response other than listening to his story. We sat there a bit longer just talking about life -- two people from vastly different experiences, sitting on a convenience store curb and enjoying a chat and a drink.
Humans have dug up and burned more carbon than the amount in all living plants
I have great memories of DK64. The theming stays unbeaten on its genre to this day thanks to the lightnings and cinematic. Kirkhope did a memorable OST that stays with you for decades (as this guy always does, tbh).

I managed to finish the game as a kid and it felt like an achievement to me. I was never bothered by the collectathon aspect. I just liked to replay same levels multiple times with different kongs.

But maybe as a kid I wasn’t playing for hours and I remember that for me the timespan to finish games such as DK64, Banjo-K/T or Mario 64 was accounted in _years_. Every completion of one of those games was a little event in my life.

In this context, DK64 was a perfect shot for me : nearly infinite adventure before fighting against King K.Rool in a memorable boss fight with the inimitable style of Rareware boss fights (I have fond memories of beating Gruntilda - and its skeleton).

I miss rareware.

I’d love to see a new DK with the « darker and stranger » theme of DK64 .
Weirdly they already had that release model and abandoned it. I suspect they trusted that the windows store would be a success and would bring the revenue instead of selling windows licenses. That didn't go well therefore they are reverting to the old model.
Oh, that's probably true too, but another comment already covered that possibility.
“Stop Letting Your Ridiculous Fears Of Nuclear Waste Kill The Planet”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19...

> By letting go of our nutty fears of nuclear waste we can save nuclear power. America’s nuclear waste fund — which is comprised of money paid into it by the operators of nuclear plants — still has $46 billion in it. It should be used to subsidize the continued operation of economically distressed nuclear plants, and subsidize the building of new ones.

> If such a fund paid out five percent interest per year — an amount the IRS requires philanthropic foundations to give away annually — then $2.3 billion could flow to the distressed or new nuclear plants. That amount would be enough to keep uneconomical nuclear plants operating while creating an incentive to build new reactors.
My high school journalism department had a couple macs including an SE/30 with the 20"? apple monitor.

It was really nice to be able to work on a two-page spread in QuarkXpress but PAINFULLY slow to redraw the entire layout or an ad in Illustrator 88.

Those were the days.
Similar ideas as elementary OS (built on Linux) I suppose. I’m a fan.
See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. People have looked at the sensor placement and conjectured that kernel_task CPU usage is related to it doing some sort of throttling. It's a good hypothesis! But nobody has finished the job by going through a trace and actually checking that the kernel is doing that. That's the missing portion I'm asking for.
Every once in awhile I find an article that is so well written I feel like it walks me through a complex technical situation like a layman while also expanding my understanding of a tool I use everyday in a meaningful way. This is definitely one of those and I just want thank the author(s) for taking the time to write this up. It was interesting and enlightening.
Great resource, I actually bookmarked this years ago.

He's got quite a few important interface concepts - not objects but concepts - laid out like Discoverability and Simplicity. It seems to be updated as well.
On the Bodyke Evictions:

https://books.google.com/books?id=thw_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA150#v=on...

https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/bodyke_evi...
Apple implements POSIX correctly, it's fully SUSv3 compliant and has been for many years.
I suspect their end game is building machine learning features into the silicon.

Most Chromebooks at the low price point use awful low-end intel CPUs that seem unable to cope with opening more than 2 tabs at once. If Google can create a CPU that is competitive in performance and price to those terrible Intel based ones, but also chuck in some hardware assistance for ML inference on-device, they're likely on to a winner.
Yeah, an actually good trait system has been on the wishlist for a while, but it's hard to make work effectively with multiple dispatch.
It was already like that with the UNIX wars.

The only issue is with commercial software, but even there JIT enabled emulation is a possible solution.
I upgraded my HTPC to windows 11 but this is the reason I won't update my workstation. Vertical taskbar makes sense on wide screen multi monitor setups. Centered task bar is ridiculous, even worse than left justified bottom screen cause the icons locations depend on what's on the taskbar making the ui unpredictable and kills any muscle memory advantages.
Re: (1) I'm genuinely not sure how that would work. I suspect if you claimed you received it in error and sent it back, that would probably not incur an actual tax obligation. Not sure though, that's the kind of thing I'd want to run by a tax attorney if it was a non trivial quantity.

Re: (2) definitely, which makes the threat a lot stranger.
I've never browned mine before smoking but as with all my chicken I throw them on the grill for a bit after smoking to get some crispy skin.
Exactly my thought - the first association that popped into my mind was that it is some kid of airborne SS unit. I am not a German but I am of eastern European origin and I would say having capitalized SS in your name would not be good idea here.
They are huge in education, and I am guessing they are seeing the new hybrid work world as a huge new avenue where people might want a simple/easy/disposable laptop to give employees for working remotely.
> I'm a complete introvert

No offense, but are you sure? Because the rest of your text sounds like you are absolutely not.
I'm glad you found this useful. But it doesn't work on every site nor on every cookie warning. On some of those sites you can get rid of it by switching off javascript.
LiveCode
Charging from the wrong side will also fry a charge IC. That's what partially pays my bills, my business offers MacBook board repair.
I didn't say they were geniuses, just that they were more familiar with the tech and its implications than the average person. Smart contracts have been around for a while and we basically know the scope of the catastrophes that can result from bugs in smart contract code. The DAO hack was years ago. This is not a new problem space
The Bodyke Evictions (2003)
By way of an interview with a 107-year-old Irish Farmer filmed in 1965, in which the 1880s evictions are mentioned, commented on an earlier thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daIMIv8perM

Note that the Clare Library article is one of a series on the entire Bodyke Evictions episode. Return to the article head for the other segments.
Apple used to contribute plenty to LLVM.

Nowadays less so, for them C++ support is good enough for what they make out of it (MSL is based on C++14 and IO/Driver Kit use an embedded subset).

The main focus is how well it is churning Objective-C, Swift and their own special flavour of bitcode.

None of them end up upstream as one might wish for.
> What you mean is that people within cities earn a higher income, which is true. Urban populations have higher incomes and consumption. But that means that money is flowing into the city from outside. Every time you swipe your credit card, someone in Manhattan gets a cut. Every time you buy an online ad, someone in Silicon Valley takes a cut. When you buy insurance, someone in Hartford takes a cut. Money from all over the country flows into cities.

I assumed money was shorthand for value. If cities are running a balance-of-payments surplus compared to rural areas, that's because they're producing more value (I guess people move into the city when poor, do a bunch of valuable work that makes them rich, and then move out of the city), so it's weird to frame that as "parasitical on money".

> I don't mean parasitical in a moral sense,

Then why use such a morally loaded term?

> but in the sense of the flow of real quantities (as we are talking about transportation along roads), because the value add of cities is organizational in nature rather than productive in nature.

You're drawing an artificial distinction between "real" and not. The farmer who grows the food, the engineer who produced the fertilizer, the chemist who did the fundamental research, the banker who loaned them the capital... you can portion out the crop yields between them, but no-one's contribution is more real than the other, given that at the end of the day without any of them there'd be fewer kilos getting grown. If you want to compare the value of things that different parts of a society are producing, your measurement for that should be, well, value.

> There is not a single pattern. You need a market place and you need producers to meet in that marketplace. Life is heterogeneous.

Sure, but there are better and worse ways to do it. Put it this way: for someone on the margin at the moment, if they switched from a rural to an equivalent (and that's a whole other can of worms) urban lifestyle or vice versa, in which they were equivalently productive for society, would they be consuming more or less resources/GHG emissions/...?
Don't use third party chargers on A1706 or A1708 MacBook Pros. Doing so will kill a charge IC. It's well documented and I fix one or two of these logic board faults every month.
Who is gonna pay? Nuclear reactors are expensive to build and maintain.
Wow! I have two young children, and we’ve been cautious about using paracetamol. But this really changes the perspective for me.
> Furthermore, in Western regions the prevalence of male reproductive and urogenital disorders has increased. These disorders include cryptorchidism, hypospadias and testicular germ cell cancer, together with early puberty, decreased sperm counts, levels of sex hormones and decreased fertility12,13. Data support the contribution of environmental exposure during fetal life, including exposure to pharmaceuticals, to these increases in rates of neurological, urogenital and reproductive disorders13,14.

How much of the current sexual identity revolution is long-suppressed true identity, and how much is that we have poisoned an entire generation with untested pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and environmental toxins starting in-vitro and continuing through their entire childhood?
Ask HN: Looking for recommendations for document generation APIs
Can anyone recommend a good api for generating pdf documents? I'm thinking of something that you can provide with a template (maybe html) and a model and it spits out a pdf document. I know it's not too difficult to write one's own, I'm just curious.
Pascal P-Code.
I think most crypto-supporters overestimate how much of a police state modern banking is, and underestimate how much of a wild west the current crypto ecosystem is.

They’re willing to trade a system with reasonable and democratic oversight for a “free for all” shark infested pool that will rip from their hands their retirement fund just before they mean to retire.
It absolutely does and I would hazard a guess that you have never needed to lose a large amount of weight after being overweight for a while. First of all, all of those things you listed can be rather addictive. Secondly, you don't need any of those to become overweight. I don't eat candy, I only drink water, and I don't like fast food. But I have needed to lose about 20 lbs for a while now. It is very hard. Though, it was much easier when I was younger. For me at least, maintaining the weight I am at is not hard. But losing or gaining is very difficult.

The human body is very good at conserving mass. I can lose ~5 lbs easily - no problem, which is why maybe skinny people think it's so easy to lose weight. But once you really start cutting beyond a superficial amount, your metabolism starts to fight it. Hunger hormones ramp up, and your metabolic rate at rest starts to fall. Additionally, the lighter you get, the less energy you need to move. Your body goes into a kind of conservation starvation mode. Now the amount of food you are eating each day and have grown accustomed to eating is too much, you have to cut more or increase your workouts.

Add to all this the tons of unknowns about gut microbiome affecting mood, cravings, energy levels and a million other things and all the other factors that can come into play.
Maybe shell companies should not exist. Or be fully transparent.
Pixels are grouped into independent 2x2 blocks called quads and the derivatives are calculated only with respect to the other pixels in the quad.

At the edges of a triangle, when it doesn't cover all four pixels in a quad the pixel shader is still evaluated on all four pixels to calculate derivatives and at the end the results for pixels outside the triangle are thrown away. Your pixel shader better not blow up outside the triangle or you'll get bad derivatives for the pixels that are inside the triangle.

As triangles get smaller, the percentage of pixel shader evaluations that are happening outside of triangles goes up. In the extreme case if the triangle covers only one pixel, the pixel shader is executed 4 times and 3 results are thrown out! This has started to become a problem for games with high geometric detail and it's one of the reasons why Epic started using software rasterization for their Nanite virtualized geometry system in Unreal 5.

You might say "why don't you just stop doing this approximate derivative thing so you don't have to execute pixels that are thrown away? Are derivatives that important?" The answer is that derivatives are used by the hardware during texture sampling to select the correct mip level, which is pretty much essential for performance and eliminating aliasing. So you'd have to replace that with manual calculation of derivatives by the application which would be a big change.
The Pandora Papers – leaked dataset of 11.9M financial documents
>> everyone has to use facebook

You suggest that life without _any_ social networking platform would be bad. All of human history before Y2K would suggest otherwise.

There are lots of ways (even on the Internet) to socially network without using Facebook (or whoever you currently think of as a Facebook compeditor).

Or, dare I suggest it, socialising without the Internet?
I agree that the strictest regulations against insider trading would effectively make equity compensation impossible. But you're basically saying that it shouldn't be outlawed because it's currently legal, and currently practiced. If either of those were not true, then outlawing it couldn't be on the table to begin with.

This feels like you're begging the question, or that you left off a step or two at the end and stopped a bit short of a complete argument. Maybe something about equity compensation being a valuable tool that can provide a beneficial incentive structure that is not easily achieved through other means?
I like to write docs with Jekyll in the same repository of the code, not in separate repository as in GitHub. In this way I can document the changes in a feature branch and leave unchanged the docs in the release branch. Then the changes get merged when we release the feature.

A customer of mine writes documentation in Google Sites (horrible UX and not for for this task, they eventually realized it) and my pages (Bitbucket) are linked from the table of contents (release branch). To read the documentation for a new feature one must know the name of the feature branch.
At this point I don’t understand what’s being argued about. Are you saying you have anecdotes that this happens? Yeah, probably. I have some, too.

Are you saying the median total comp for a 7-year total experience Facebook engineer is $1m? If so, what’s your source? (Or what are you claiming? The top decile? The top quartile? Etc.)
aka acetaminophen (popularly aka Tylenol in the United States).
Any suggestions on what else you can do to prevent overheating? Does having something cool underneath or a fan-pad or something like that help?
The Alder Lake hardware scheduler – A brief overview
Microservices Design Patterns and Principles