skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I'm not sure I'd go strongly either way.

According to reports (https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/investing/tesla-profitability...) Tesla received $1600M in regulatory credits and had a net income of $721M.

If you look at the 10K (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021...), Tesla received $27,236M in automotive revenues (which includes sales of regulatory credits, thanks Elon). The corresponding cost of sales is $20,259M giving gross profit of $6,977M and gross margin of 26%. But after that, you have operating expenses ($4,636M) (blah, blah, interest, taxes, other, blah) and a final net income of $721M.
ESP is close. I was poking at Intel claiming they could help when they dont have anything close and wouldn't want to for the price.
Expanding:

> The most significant change is the elimination of local or “offline” accounts within Windows 10 Home—a fact that we were told in July and appears still to be the case. At present, Windows 11 Home PCs must be set up and administered with a Microsoft account, though local accounts can also be added later for additional users.

> To enable local accounts as part of the initial setup, you’ll need to install Windows 11 Pro, either via an in-place upgrade from Windows 10 or a clean installation. During the setup process, you’ll be prompted for your Microsoft account information. Simply click the “sign-in options” link instead. The next page will offer you the option to sign in with an offline account.

Did I understand correctly: does this mean that I need to have a working Internet connection to install Win11 (non-"Pro"), hoping that my NIC works during the installation process?
Really fascinating! I wonder if these cells all have defects in innate immune sensing of cytosolic DNA. Like, do cGAS/MAPK/etc. require linear for recognition like RIG-I does for dsRNA or are they all mutated/shutdown in these cells. Would be interesting to see the innate immune transcriptome with and without ecDNA.
I was assuming that if you actually knew enough about Linux to know that your use cases require full Wayland support and cannot be satisfied by X11, then you are probably already using Linux to some extent. It didn't seem realistic that you could have come to such a conclusion about Wayland if using Linux at all is merely a distant hypothetical to you.
This is a very US centric view. In virtually all of Europe, for instance, WhatsApp is the go to messenger and no one uses SMS anymore.

In some countries - primarily Russia, but also in Europe e.g. Germany and increasingly the UK - Telegram is also popular, and Viber is popular in African countries, while WeChat is used extensively in China, and so on... people have to use the messenger everyone else is on.

I do use Signal to chat to close friends, and Telegram has become popular enough as a second to WhatsApp that I often use it too, but as others have said it's a strong network effect.

The only other messenger I can remember having the position WhatsApp has was BBM back in the day. But as soon as BlackBerries went out of fashion it was all WhatsApp and has been ever since.
Overall I do really like the new UI, but the lack of taskbar customizability does indeed suck (I used to have it at the top, but now that I'm forced to have it at the bottom I've set it to auto-hide). The Settings menu on the other hand is leaps and bounds better than the absolute garbage that is the Windows 10 Settings menu (except for the default app mess but hopefully they'll improve that).
Maybe the arrow of time has an implication on free will - since time is constantly moving, there's always only one thing you can do, so in a sense you don't have a choice.
This means more competition right? I mostly think good will come from this for consumers. Things felt like they really stalled out for a while with Intel
10 games in 3 years...yeah, that's not sketchy at all
Yes, 100% this.

However, there is an additional reason: If you don't have scrum, then the managers that implement scrum have something to put on their resumes, which is probably the biggest driver.
I understand where the author is coming from. However, I don't think that stopping "growth" is possible. Our society cannot stagnate, either we continue to grow, most likely in unpredictable ways, or society die out. "Green" alternatives are popping up everywhere and a lot of them are far from perfect but we can only try to do better. This article just comes off as unnecessary and dishonnest rambling. No alternative to our current model is offered here.
The owner isn't the only party involved here. Anyone entering their house (or ringing their doorbell) becomes an (unwilling) participant in this surveillance apparatus.

You're not just doing this to yourself, you're doing this to everyone you're interacting with at home, on your doorstep, or on speaker phone.
No problem except it was built without elevators...
Ethical considerations.

Converting energy into non-productive work for financial speculation used substantially by money laundering activities is in the same category as:

Having Goldman Sachs invest my money in coal and diamond mines managed by cadres of Russian oligarchs.
The extensions present in the M1 are not used at all by Apple’s public compilers. From the perspective of a 3rd-party macOS developer that doesn’t reverse engineer, it’s just a regular arm64 machine.

This allows Apple to deprecate/change those extensions over time without developer involvement, and even use Cortex reference designs where it would make sense for them.
macOS 11 still gets another two years of security updates though.
I think this idea is kind of nuts. Even if there is a Linux distro with 1:1 feature parity with Windows for a particular business application--which I don't think is a given--there are still massive hurdles:

- The cost of retraining users

- The cost of evaluating whether, for each use case, the Linux distro has feature parity

- The cost of transitioning each old PC

- The dissatisfaction among the employee base about having to re-learn a system, even if the necessary features are there

- The fact that most business with 10k+ users are going to have business-specific apps that barely run on Windows 10, with no equivalent on Linux

- The risk to the decision-makers if it doesn't pan out -- it's the opposite of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM"

- The fact that all of the back-end infrastructure--active directory domains, security, etc--is going to have to be transitioned too.

- The likely costs to the business itself in terms of lost opportunities, errors, and so on while the transition occurs.

The hardware itself is relatively cheap compared to the cost and logistics of getting that hardware set up and training users. My guess is that basically every business with that quantity of users would choose to just buy new hardware and keep their existing infrastructure and training over the alternative.
I think I'll post this again, because its funny..
Elrond from the hobbit, "There is moon programming here.. see?"

For the person who is killing my post just because they think they can get away with it - no you won't. You'll be brought to justice for every wrong you do to someone else, whether you think you can get away with it temporary or it is in secret. There is a God, and He will judge such, and the wicked that do evil in secret because they think they will get away doing it are the lowest.
Steven Pinker suggested that scientists should voluntarily avoid research and discussion of such topics, not because it's not worthwhile, but because (given human history and social organization, and the fact that "race" can be used as a highly visible marker) it can provoke the worst in people, or be used by bad ones to justify their nasty attitude and behaviour.

I could subscribe to a version of this dictum, but it should apply to all participants and views, not just a particular theory someone prefers.

If there are rules (better spelled out) like "any discussion of a connection or lack thereof between genes, race, and cognitive abilities is not allowed on this site", fine with me. I can see the reason, and anyway it's fair.

Allowing some people to say that there is no connection, while suppressing ones of a different opinion (in a scientific context, mind you) is entirely different.
Via technology is making x86 CPUs using Cyrix's licence (they purchased Cyrix 20 years ago)
I've used gitit and it is pretty nice. Why do we need another one of these?
Thanks! Very interesting on VHE.
You know any tech platforms that took
six years to scale to the point of usability?

The internet comes to mind. It started in 1970 with ARPANET. And we still have scaling issues :)
WASM runs on 3 billion devices!
Stock Sale Day Before Fed Emergency
It’s not.

Modern batteries integrate the charge controller with the cells, this allows to track the cell life and it allows the management of the chemistry.

Even small changes in chemistry require modifications in the charging algorithm. The only real solution for managing that is bundling the algorithm with the cells.

Setting the wrong configuration can definitely blow the cell up, or cause swelling.

Source: I did blow some cells while designing a battery pack for a portable device
Any kind of jamming equipment is illegal in many places.

So could you? Maybe. Should you? Well, I suspect you're more likely to get punished for jamming frequencies than for spying on people...
I personally believe that out of all the electric car startups that have sprung up after Tesla, Rivian and Lucid are the 2 that are most likely to put out a product and potentially have some staying power, or get bought out.

It's also worth noting that Ford has invested in Rivian (first or second major round I think?) in return for some of their tech. If you're a believer in the staying power of the F-150, then this could be viewed as a win for Ford as well.
In a brake-by-wire car, if you stomp on the brake pedal with all you've got you end up engaging a cylinder that can directly exert force on the front brakes, even if the electronics are fully dead. (Maybe there are some systems where the brake pedal is truly just a "dimmer switch", but I've not been able to find them).
Developers have a wide range of alternatives to Microsoft products, so Microsoft must compete on the merits of its products. If I don't like SQL Server, I could choose between Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and many other RDBMSes. However, non-developers, particularly those using desktop operating systems, have limited alternatives to the Windows ecosystem. Applications that are exclusive to Windows are still a major reason why many people are still using Windows, though thanks to the Web and mobile computing this is less of an issue than it was 15 years ago. There is also still the fact that most retail PCs ship with Windows by default; options for purchasing PCs with Linux are still rather limited, though once again this situation has improved greatly in the past 15 years. Sure, there's the Mac as an alternative to Windows, but Apple does not compete in certain use cases and price points, whereas the Windows/PC ecosystem covers most use cases at a wide variety of price points.

When you're the 800-pound gorilla, you don't have to worry as much about the other animals in the ecosystem. I remember the days of Internet Explorer 6 and how that browser was allowed to stagnate, giving time for Mozilla Firefox to rise out of the ashes of Netscape Navigator and offer an alternative so compelling that it forced Microsoft to compete again. I feel this way of thinking may also explain Microsoft's approach to controversial features such as telemetry and UI changes; where will users migrate to? Migrating to the Mac or Linux requires tradeoffs that a wide amount of users have decided through their actions are not worth migrating away from Windows despite some of Windows' problems.
Theoretically if the pesticide is below a certain threshold I should be fine. However if I mix thousands of dangerous chemicals together while keeping each portion below the danger threshold until I have a cup of this stuff I can gulp down than in theory I should be fine.

However if I suffer from ingesting such a concoction then logically this theory of keeping chemicals below certain danger thresholds does not logically hold weight.
The mainline Linux kernel will also support pretty much anything you throw at it these days anyways. My 12 year old Thinkpad almost has complete feature parity with my perpetually upgraded desktop, which is a super nice basis to build my personal infrastructure off of.
The comment you replied to is still correct though.

Distance wise, tow charging makes no sense. Energy wise, maybe it does.
The metadiscussion about scientific racism is no more productive.
Sadly, I agree 100%. Time and again I see labs/papers/companies trying to "target" cancer cells for specific killing. What we are all awaking up to now in the field is the only way to reliably achieve durable responses you need to a) have a functional immune system, b) somehow convince it to kill cancer cells via surface antigen recognition/MHC all without getting checkpointed. It's a super fucking hard problem and I makes me so angry; but I agree there is a bit of awe in how clever/sneaky/insidious it is.
In Brazil it is close enough to 100%
There are some jobs. We see announces on /r/lisp, Twitter, LinkedIn… sometimes very informal ones. Some companies still pick up CL, for instance: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (it's possible that Ravenpack is still hiring?). A good way is of course to learn CL and have something ready to show. Some announces don't require a (commercial) Lisp background though, they seek high-level engineers. Another way is to use CL for yourself, at current job or not. There's plenty of space for that. I use it for new services, instead of extending a Python aging monolith (DB access, FTP connection, XML parsing of a big dataset, a simple web frontend,…). I have even been doing live reloads for a year, installing new libraries while the app is running, and it's been a joy so far. I found one bug (with Sentry alerts of course), because I used = where a number could be nil. So I use `equal`. I am happy, I am productive, deployment is easy and the app is fast.
It’s called an architectural license. There are a few publicly announced license holders, including Apple and Qualcomm. Refer to the Arm wiki page for a list.

Probably outdated article on this: https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/finance/arm-...
Heh, that's a killer. I saw this joke a while back:

A man buys a pack of cigarettes at a corner store. The attendant hands him a packet, and on it says: "WARNING: smoking causes impotence and erectile dysfunction". The guy looks at it for a moment, and says "Sorry, can I have the ones with cancer instead?".
Agreed.

Also "truth" isn't exactly static. Just look at the change in the "science" of mask best practices; or the Hunter laptop that has now been verified.

How do we handle that?

Do we compensate those that were punished prematurely (when they turned out to be right)?

Do we punish platforms that censored people? (when people turned out to be right)?

The issue right now is that the platforms do not have the same standards as the people using them. The incentive is just to censor content that isn't backed by power or money.
The people reverse engineering the M1 found that it uses an architecture that will likely make it easier (not harder) for Linux to support new generations of Apple hardware as it is released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28183176
I had a paper in the Journal of Irreproducible Results many years ago that explained how languages developed Basic Color Terms to help sort laundry.

I'm on my phone so I can't get a better link than this other: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Yes, and putting the target in the position of having to prove the negative is yet another tool of oppression.
I’d be quite happy with a ChromeOS just want to be able to install it on my own hardware rather than the over priced stuff that's available ATM
For me, it is not an investment. It is gambling.
I recently read American Prison by Shane Bauer which is a nonfiction by a Mother Jones journalist who goes undercover in a for-profit Louisiana prison. It was incredibly well-written and eye-opening and also has a great detailed look at the history of the "prison industrial complex" in the USA. Basically after the outlaw of slave labor, prison labor filled the void and is still used in the south to work farms and fill other industrial jobs.

The guards give zero f*cks because they themselves are underpaid and overworked and barely make cost of living. Meanwhile the states use the prisons as a job base, so everyone's getting paid and there's zero incentive to change the system.

It's horrific and I highly recommend that book to anyone looking for a gripping and eye-opening read:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Prison-Reporters-Undercover-...
Sorry, I thought the question was a critique of macOS, not the Pixelbook, and I offered a clarification that macOS is actually pretty open and you can run whatever app you like, in most cases.
Whatsapp used to be openly hostile against efforts for providing native client applications even for platforms they never plan to support themselves. Going as far as effectively attacking open source project developers working the clients - for an example see: https://reviewjolla.blogspot.com/2014/10/got-banned-in-whats...

(Sailfish OS is a Linux based mobile distro.)
It wouldn’t, OEM batteries can be swapped with no issues, it’s non-genuine parts what causes issues.
Every giant tech company seems to do this to some extent. I call it 'genetic drift' as it's akin to that phenomenon in nature. When a company gets so big that it will keep existing and being profitable no matter what decisions they make, then, they make random decisions, there's no selection pressure anymore.
Try it on a physical Mac Mini machine and tell me it’s useful.

Progress is being made by REs such as marcan and others but it’s not useful, yet. And I speculate that by the time it is solid, the M1X/M2 machines will be out and a bunch of additional REing will be done.
> put it on 2001:db8::1

Except my prefix is a hell of a lot longer than that...

And it's not my choice that it changes every now and then (at least once a month).

That said, I use DynDNS for IPv4 too, but it's easier since I only need to configure it for the router, but for IPv6 each machine I want to access needs it's own record.
Yeah I remember being on various extropian mailing lists, and then SL4 which was a gateway into all the singularitarian people. Mind blowing stuff in my teens, although as it turns out it would have been better to just study more linear algebra and ignore what was for the most part a bunch of LARP.
Not rare at all if you sit on a train and glance around you. I see people watching movies/TV on phones and tablets constantly out in public. Very common.

It's partly the reason I got a Fold 3. Very good for on the move media consumption.

As for data use, aside from the points already brought up - ability to download for later from Netflix, certain services not counting towards data usage on some plans, etc - Netflix and other streaming services will also know you are on a mobile network and provide a more compressed stream at a lower resolution (720p with lower encoding settings being common) to reduce data usage and buffering.
Automotive is notorious in MFG for being one of the WORST industries to be a supplier in (at least for US Based Suppliers). Low Margins, and unrealistic demands by the big brands.
Market cap is deflated by debt, pension obligations etc. Many of the big US car makers, apparently, pay pensions from their own balance sheets.

'Enterprise value' is the metric, derived from market cap, that corrects for it. "How much is this company's living organism worth, without caring about debts etc.". There Tesla, and Rivian presumably too, look less good, since their EV is not encumbered by decades of debt and pensions.

Still...
Windows 11 requires new hardware, but delivers hardly any useful new feature.
The instructions are (all?) for acceleration I think.
For a third month in a row, Linux remains above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey
For kicks I installed Works 9.0 yesterday; on my bleeding edge beast of a gaming machine. _Holy hell_ is it fast _and capable_.

For comparison, I popped open the relevant Office 365 apps and every one of them was noticeably slower to load, and slower to function. Even text rendering of input seemed to have a bit of a delay.

I can only imagine a world where Windows 2000 simply kept receiving security and driver updates. sigh
I think GNOME 40 was notable more for the regressions it mainlined. It's pretty subjective on the visual side of things, but objectively they did remove quite a bit of GNOME functionality in exchange for... slightly more consistent themes?

I use Linux too, but GNOME is a pretty bad example of iterative improvement IMO. Ever since they ditched the "Unity" interface, most people agree that it's gone downhill.
Chips made on modern processes are dominated by capital costs. Old chips are made on old foundries, which are fully depreciated and therefore have no capital costs. If you made a 90nm foundry today, then it probably couldn't sell those microcontrollers for less than $100 each, just like a modern CPU.

>why can't existing chip companies, some startup or GM themselves spend $10's of millions building a fab that can unblock $100's of millions of product, and alleviate the shortage?

They can't do it fast enough. Standing up a new foundry takes years under the best circumstances, and today you couldn't do it all, since all the tooling is sold out and deeply backordered. If GM could snap their fingers today and magic a cleanroom into existence, they'd still be waiting a hell of a long time to put tools in it.

Secondly on the price question, microcontrollers just have way fewer gates than a desktop CPU. A dozen registers, a thousand bytes of RAM, a few kilobytes of flash. This makes them physically smaller, which lets you put more on a wafer, and makes the unit price cheaper. The total die area of the ATmega8 is just 7.9 square millimeters... at the 500nm node! https://zeptobars.com/en/read/atmel-atmega8 This gets you 8,100 dies from a single 300mm wafer. (If there are any 300mm foundries at 500nm, which there probably aren't)

Thirdly, what makes you think anyone could build a 90nm foundry at all?

Take a look at a list of foundries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... I don't see anything making 90nm after 2014.

Which makes sense. Fabs don't make all their tools in-house, that's done by vendors. As an example of one tool, by one vendor, the NXE:3400B EUV stepper by ASML. Unit cost, $175 million: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-euv-tools-order

These are ultra-bespoke, super-low-volume machine tools. ASML makes a couple dozen or a hundred steppers of a given model, then shuts down production and starts upgrading to the next node. Is it even possible to buy a new 90nm stepper today?

I'm sure they have all the documentation and could roll back to the previous generation easily enough, if they had to. (Which they don't! They are maxed out just supplying current-gen tools) But given all the voodoo in semiconductor lithography, people retiring etc, I bet that rolling back two decades would pretty much require starting from scratch.
I remember Vista had some hardware grading system, and this was around the time GHz scaling was plateauing. I think really high end systems started out as like a 3 on a scale of 10...

Did we ever get to 10?
Brazil.

Here are some sources for the event I described:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/19/whatsapp-blocked-in-brazil...

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-mil...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/whatsapp-ban-b...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/12/17/zuckerber...