skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And usually this is what happens. Sort of. Big brands have new cars in the pipeline, and their product teams and thus the whole supply chain has newish stuff in development. [0] But since the market is rather fragmented/niche/specialized (even if the gross volume is large, the number of market participants is small), it simply makes no sense to launch a new component without already having orders for it.

The problem is that when COVID struck almost everything was put on hold, scrapped, and ... it simply takes too much time to get things back on track. (As there is basically a full half year of shortage.)

> are modern cars really in much need of custom silicon

Well, again, because the market is special, there's a lot of custom stuff, even if it's almost the same chip internally. Lack of openness and standardized interchangeable components lead to this. (Yes, there are a lot of aftermarket parts, but they are probably even worse.)

Also, probably the big dilemma for automakers is that they are simply not accustomed to this level of transparency in their supply chains. Now they point the blame at chipmakers, but they don't buy chips, they buy components from (the cheapest) vendors. (Who are cheap because they also never had any stored inventory, nor rainy day funds, nor any elegance and care in their designs that would allow this kind of retooling to other chips.)

[0] But only very-very-very tiny incremental newishness. Large major version upgrades are seen as something that is too risky. (See this part from the article: "Quigley added that trying to design new chips and vehicles that will use them in parallel often introduces yet more headaches.") And even if the whole industry is a decade behind, there's no time to catch up, because there's just no market need for upgrading that subcomponent to have a better software/CPU platform. Instead automakers launch wholly redesigned lines. Or source completely new components for the new set of functionalities envisioned. (But if some vendor can meet the new specs with again a bit of incremental upgrade, then that'll happen.)
I use Python Imaging Library + Seaborn to push out a bar chart bitmap representing some PiHole statistics to this: https://thepihut.com/products/inky-impression-7-colour-epape...
If u a white man and u still vote for the Democrats…. Smh
Seems a well researched, well and accessibly written article. Worth a read.

One of the major points - RAM latency can often be notably reduced with no ill effect on most addresses. It still boggles my mind, how RAM is expected supposed to be bit-perfect, on every read and write with no ECC. I wouldn't want to be tinkering with timings without ECC.
RIP your penis, player.
He talks as if the inverse correlation between interest rates and inflation no longer applies. But I don't think that the data shows that.
You'd think that the recent increase in popularity of type systems would prompt some: "aren't type systems schemas?" moments for some of these cases.
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Whenever we humans find something unique or special, we either take it and store it somewhere safe or mark it on a map. The prehistoric individuals who did that would be more likely to happen to have just the right thing for surprise challenges. They would then have an advantage over those who didn't care about special things, because by definition they're hard to come by. And those surprise challenges often have asymmetric upside for those who have a solution, because everyone else is desperate for a solution or because they can solve the problem drastically more efficiently that everyone else.

This is a beautiful story, but I can draft an equally beautiful, completely contradictory[1] story about how prehistoric individuals that wasted time collecting cool but useless rocks were less likely to have just the right thing for surprise challenges, because they directed their efforts towards hoarding useless bling. [2]

Here's my explanation - and bear with me, here.

Some people collect weird things.

That trait sometimes does, and sometimes does not result in an evolutionary or cultural advantage.

Making definitive statements about where this set of weird things falls on the spectrum above is just blindly guessing in the dark.

[1] Which is why beautiful, hand-wavy stories that explain the behaviour of people tens of thousands of years dead are largely useless for understanding that behaviour.

[2] If I were given the choice between asking for help dealing with a surprise challenge, and my options were two people, one of whom I know collects Funko Pops, and the other one does not, knowing nothing else about those individuals, I'm not going to bias my selection towards the former.
I have never come across a popular CS paper that was not available on the web, for what it’s worth. Maybe some of the lesser known papers are lost, but all of the important ones, such as Codd’s writing, are very easily accessible with simple search engine searches.
One of those would be ridiculous at a poker game, hahaha
MIT: Using AI and old reports to understand new medical images
i've worked with people who have needed GPU powered inference on AWS. Training had to happen on p3's but inference happened on g4's. The pricing is lower (and depending on the use case, often the overall cost) and spot savings are usually less dramatic as these instances can be very in demand.
MAD worked out pretty well. Sometimes the best outcome of a weapon system is that it's never used.

Reminds me of the Doomsday Machine in Dr. Strangelove.

> The Whole Point of the Doomsday Machine is Lost if You Keep it a Secret!
You are right. It just feels like the worldliness and maturity is plummeting across the board, people deciding so brazenly and arrogantly that they know how the world should be ordered despite not even scratching the surface of adult life, all while making endless contradictions. The confidence or lack of upbringing/culture to curtail these impulses is what is so frustrating - it rots discussion as much as flaming does.
There was a substantiative response, in the form of Occupy Wall Street.

Directly following that event, we all got distracted with the race politics that suddenly came to the forefront.
> At best, these stories get a good chunk of the airwaves for a couple of weeks, and then it's on to the next thing.

Wrong. Someone here from a third-world and small country. Some people got prosecuted because of these leaks. I'm pretty sure some people out-there are packing their bags and heading toward an exit. Legal process is very slow but it does exist and now that everything is public, there is a high risk of being prosecuted.

But there are always "but"s.

1. This was done legally and lawyers have made sure that every step is legal.

2. These people own the political/legal system (ie: Putin).

3. These people are dead, on the run, broke, already in jail, used third-parties and hid their identity, etc...
s/Chinese/any government representing a material amount of their revenue/

Don't be deceived; the San Bernardino case was a very intentionally public op to convince us that they will "fight" for our right to privacy, but the not-so-public track record since has demonstrated their absolute willingness to lick the boots of virtually every government whose citizens impact their top line materially.

This isn't a slag on Apple, specifically. Facebook, Google, et al will declaim "Russian Propaganda" all day long and then immediately roll over for Russian demands to censor political opposition, for instance. They all do it.

It's all a show. You have no privacy with any of Big Tech, regardless of where you live.
> Apple has chosen not to have a privacy violating business model.

Not doing something is not the same as taking a ethical stance against it and not doing it. You're presuming a motive on their part.

> The created a whole mapping service costing billions to avoid selling user data to Google.

I don't think for a second that they did this for any altruistic reasons. I think it had more to do with Google not shipping concurrent features for Google Maps on iOS. As soon as Apple Maps got better data Google started shipping features like step by step directions for Google Maps on iOS.

It was a competitive response to Google.
I sold my M3 to shift for a profit and the process was insanely easy. They didn’t even care about some cosmetic issues. The guys told me they just drop the car off at DCH and they resell them. That’s a pretty great business model for them to flip a car in a matter of an hour.
High verbal IQ individuals with shallow understanding will still sound smart, except to a specialist.
I actually wrote more about this exact topic on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/remote-working-and-the-elep...

Personally, it feels to me that these personality types are simply incompatible - conditions in which the first group will be happy will be disappointing for the other and vice versa.

The logical conclusion for all of that in my eyes is a split culture - certain companies and teams will go remote first, while others will go back to the office when safe, and the respective people will sooner or later migrate to the environments that are better suited to them, as long as such positions can be found.

However, this is not just an utilitarian decision but also something impacted by the people in management positions, who in my experience err on the side of the more traditional in person work. If it were not for the pandemic, remote work wouldn't be as prevalent nowadays.
In China this is probably a day's worth.
Someone made a laser that shoots mosquitoes:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/laser-shooting-mosqu...

While googling that so I could provide the link, I found a household robot that's doing the same thing:

https://www.theawl.com/2017/01/i-love-this-robot-that-kills-...

Just thought you might be interested to know your idea exists.
Antitrust wont solve the privacy problem at all. Its the wrong tool for the job.
> 2,000 years ago even the plebeians had the right to vote

By what measure?
Oh wow! 4000 people and still hasn’t reached orbit? WTH are these people doing?!!! I didn’t actually realize how large a workforce they had.
Does this system work with hard-sectored disks too?
I have turned off the Private Address switch but am still getting the message in each and every email So annoying. There must be a way to see if the sender is on a “safe list” or in my contacts.
Have you used dotnet core lately? From 3.1 and onwards? The ecosystem (both tools and libraries) is quite nice, and C# is great and getting better (can't wait until built in sum types)

It's honestly one of the most enjoyable developer experiences out there. Almost everything seems well designed and cohesive
Any reading suggestions for books on electricity from archive.org?

Are there any particularly old books that are interesting?
Can you please provide some examples of white supremacist rock and rap musicians?
Sure, except your story doesn't any explanatory power for unusual modern day behavior, so it's not actually that beautiful.

If your story is true, then you would expect the trait of collecting useless bling to have died out a long time ago, or at least not be as prevalent as it is today.

And by the way, you could extend my story to not just being about collecting lots of physical things, but also seemingly useless information and skills. Rare knowledge and rare abilities aren't a huge leap from rare physical resources.
Yes but when you write an article with that headline it does seem odd for most of the article to be about how much data Google hovers in, no?

The permalink for the article is far more innocuous.

'https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection'

Using headline like that to drive traffic is as old as John C Dvorak. Who is a hack but I remember his name well enough to know his middle initial so clearly this tactic works :-)
Oh they know. They know exactly how it works. But it's a secret.
Fair enough. Whether it looks "better" is subjective. There's no question that it's shockingly higher in resolution and detail, though.
The tech radar article convienently leaves out the details that show Apple in a bad light and redirects all of the attention to Google.

So while both articles have biased titles, at least Tom's Guide provides a more accurate article.
> All complexity is operational complexity.

Uh, what?

Example to illustrate the difference:

Automatic transmission in an automobile, operationally simpler than the manual constant-mesh trans it broadly replaced: Driver (AKA the Operator) selects drive or reverse when stationary, no need to participate in gear changing while in motion. Substantially more complex in implementation in exchange; go look at the hydraulic valve body of your average slushbox.

Manual trans: Simple implementation, single clutch assembly, sets of gears selected mechanically by axially sliding dogs on splined shafts. Operationally complex since the driver must continuously participate in the selecting of gears and clutch operation while in motion.
In this particular thread that is exactly what it is. A fiction to transfer wealth nearly tax free.
Ah nice. Yeah I'm looking for the right display for my skymap that shows the sun and moon and planets as they track across the sky. It's fun to see the sun curve change with the seasons. Would be way better to have on 7 color eink in the living room than on my phone or laptop.

This one looks good. Are there any that are like 3 inches bigger with borderline similar price points?
Use TypeScript. It'll actually make you faster. It relieves you from remembering things because your IDE will give absolutely fantastic contextual information (documentation, arguments, etc.)
Moderators, please replace the link with the original source:

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
Dash Cam Unboxing
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts
Obviously this is a hot topic but just because it's been labeled "disenfranchisement" does not make it so.

For example, voter IDs. I guess it's possible that some person somewhere really is a legitimate voter who can't get an ID and that's preventing them from voting, but I think the much greater disfranchisement happens when all legal votes are "watered down" by illegally cast votes because of lack of IDs.

It's amazing that the disenfranchisement narrative has any legs. It's logically equivalent to saying "banks are stealing your money because 2FA makes it harder for you to log in" - the reality is this modest friction actually makes it much more likely that your money remains yours.
what correlation is there between this 'leak' and the previous Panama 'leak'.?

I am extremely skeptical about the veracity of leaks like these. To see where they come from, look to see whose leaders are NOT included.
Isn't it worse to lie to you about your level of privacy than to be upfront about the data you collect?
This is a lie.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end...

The iPhone uploads very nearly the entire contents of the device every night by default to Apple, in a format Apple can easily read.
I'll take "Famous Telegraphs" for 600, Alex.
Very prescient and thoughtful.
How OSHA will enforce the vaccine mandate for 80 million workers
I use Qt's built in bindings for the engineering CAD style programs I wrote
Surely you'd want to be surrounded by other people who also want to be around one another, not by people who would rather be somewhere else.
Probably that's why you can't make money on it at scale that you can with any addictive type of device and so it's not attractive for most entrepreneurs - a lot of work to put in and not enough money to even buy a Cessna.
Why is this going to change anything? As the article points out, people burned by the Panama papers just moved their business elsewhere. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to solve anything just crack down on the tax havens themselves.

Plus, it's as if the Treasury is not aware of all these dealings. You can't move USD between any institution in this world without the US Treasury knowing about it...
You can't add an IMAP email account (or a gmail email account) to the device's local mail app with 17./8 blocked on iOS.

And, of course, you can't install or update any apps.

The iPhone depends on Apple services to function even outside of iCloud and updates. I've tried.
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”—Donald Knuth.
I wonder what the reason is for this solution. He must have one.
> The results of around a dozen psychological studies, published between 2018 and 2021, are remarkably consistent, and they differ from conventional wisdom: they find that trigger warnings do not seem to lessen negative reactions to disturbing material in students, trauma survivors, or those diagnosed with P.T.S.D. Indeed, some studies suggest that the opposite may be true. The first one, conducted at Harvard by Benjamin Bellet, a Ph.D. candidate, Payton Jones, who completed his Ph.D. in 2021, and Richard McNally, a psychology professor and the author of “Remembering Trauma,” found that, among people who said they believe that words can cause harm, those who received trigger warnings reported greater anxiety in response to disturbing literary passages than those who did not. (The study found that, among those who do not strongly believe words can cause harm, trigger warnings did not significantly increase anxiety.) Most of the flurry of studies that followed found that trigger warnings had no meaningful effect, but two of them found that individuals who received trigger warnings experienced more distress than those who did not. Yet another study suggested that trigger warnings may prolong the distress of negative memories. A large study by Jones, Bellet, and McNally found that trigger warnings reinforced the belief on the part of trauma survivors that trauma was central (rather than incidental or peripheral) to their identity. The reason that effect may be concerning is that trauma researchers have previously established that a belief that trauma is central to one’s identity predicts more severe P.T.S.D.; Bellet called this “one of the most well documented relationships in traumatology.” The perverse consequence of trigger warnings, then, may be to harm the people they are intended to protect.
That’s a good idea,but google sometime crawls without the google user agent. So that’s not going to be 100 percent foolproof.

You’d be better off just blocking all of the ip addresses that google crawls from. There are lists of those out there.

When I used to cloak website content, and only serve up certain content to google, the only reliable way was to use ip cloaking. Because google crawls using “partners”, such as using Comcast IPs.

So if you’re want to really get your site out of the index, serve up the page with a noindex tag or noindex in the server header based on google ip addresses.
China became successful after the market liberalizing policies of Deng Xiaoping that turned it into a mixed economy. They had a few hundred dollars in GDP per capita before that. So isn't this evidence that central planning was a failure?
A lot of magazines were in B/W in the 80's except for the cover.

For newspapers, even in late 90's a lot of them were just in B/W.
In international air space. Same as US Navy does FONOPs in international waters.

Nice sensational media beat-up though. If you're getting your news from CNN, you're doing it wrong.
> IMO, economics is an area that will continually be hampered by models that don't fit, and increasing complexity.

Psychohistory

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
Clinton and Obama were both middle class presidents.

You're adopting this class warfare perspective and it's simply not how normal people look at things. To a man on the street, being rich is not bad, it doesn't mark one as an exploiter. Normal people have also not accepted this theory, oh-so-common on internet message boards, that rich people are responsible for everything bad.
I had showdead enabled for a while and it's surprising to me how little downvoted crap it actually is on HN. But I agree HN has some quality posts on many topics so lurking experience is great in contrast to many other sites nowadays.
Twitter tags 'misleading' obituary of woman who died from Covid vaccine
Re error propagation: look at standard library’s JSON encoding source code. They use panic internally to bubble up errors from recursive calls and have a recover at the API boundary which turns it into an error value. I thought it was a neat trick, until error handling matures further.
A vaguely similar project that might be of interest is: https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER

It's also an "unbundled" low-level component that one could use as the foundation for a database engine or whatever. According to Microsoft, FASTER is not just "fast", but significantly faster than even some basic in-memory data structures that ship in the .NET standard library!

The downside is that it doesn't (yet) support some more advanced features like multi-server distributed mode.

However, that relative simplicity may be preferred in some scenarios...
I was mostly being facetious and wrote that in jest - with a title like that you should be prepared for some OT banter ;)
I remember reading somewhere on HN that it‘s a patent/monopoly issue but I didn‘t verify.
Should remote working be a legal right? These countries think so
I had a similar problem in a prediction pipeline a few years back. If I remember correctly, someone updated a R package to the next minor version. The package was to read an obscure file format. The fix installed a new C++ library. That C++ library somehow interacted with a second R package (using a specialized type of linear model) when compiled at source and all the results coming out of our package were subtly wrong but only with large files.

It turns out the way the second R package would determine the required precision of floats in sparse arrays was based on the compiled linear algebra libraries available. It took a week for us to debug and ultimately it was easier for us to just rewrite the whole thing in Python.

Renv has made things easier but I don't think packrat/renv allows you to lock C/C++ libraries as well as R ones.
Why would it be surprising when the product is complex snd huge?
> How can we have free markets when we don't even know who owns what?

Great. Let's add more paperwork to the incorporation/reporting process.

> As for taxation, there needs to be an overhaul.

Taxation has a hard time changing the current laws because these are revenue for government. It can't do an overhaul but it can make new rules/regulations. Great, more paperwork.

> Moving profits to other countries shouldn't be possible, or rather, it should be more fixed by the nature of the business than by the desires of the CFO.

More paperwork, regulations, rules and advisors. That should simplify your tax diagram.

> Perhaps the way to see it is, if you say "we make money by selling coffees in the UK"

Many economic players are way more complex than a company selling coffee in the UK. These also happen to be the most influential and important nodes in your economy.

tldr: Tax is a really complex issue. ICIJ is, surprisingly, not that transparent in its funding and the people doing the funding/leaking these documents; I'm really doubtful they are doing it because they have "good hearts" or on any goodwill to help "society".