skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HBM is very low-clock speed and super efficient.

HBM's downside is that it requires many, many, many pins. Each channel is 1024-pins of communications (and more pins for power). In practice, the only thing that can make HBM work are substrates. (Typical chips have 4x to 6x HBM stacks, for well over 4096 pins to communicate, plus more pins for power / other purposes)

But HBM is among the lowest power technologies available. Turns out that clocking every pin at like 500MHz (while LPDDR5 is probably a 3200 MHz clock) saves a lot on power. Because DRAM has such high latency, the channel speed is more for parallelism more so than anything else. (DDR4 parallelizes RAM into 4-bank groups, each with 4-banks. All 16 can be accessed in parallel across the channel).

HBM just does this parallel access thing at a lower clock rate, to save on power. But spends way more pins to do so.
Not even close. Another Trump regime will spell the end of any democracy at all in the USA. He will finish the fascist insurrection that he started.
Management: ensure litter box is cleaned daily.

Micro-management: know where last bolus is in the dog's gut and expected evacuation time.
I find them worse than underwhelming. Generally, the thing that usually pushes me to upgrade is EOL of the OS I'm on, or escaping some abomination perpetrated by the OS I'm on. It's almost never a compelling feature, because I need an OS to run applications, mostly.

The abomination that would get me off of Big Sur is the ridiculously low contrast difference for titlebars between foreground and background apps. Turning on the contrast accessibility option looks horrible. However, it's looking like thanks to HazeOver, this is a wait-for-EOL cycle.
I was 1971, so a few years younger than you folks. For some reason The Electric Company scared the crap out of me, especially the creepy Spider-man segments. My older brother liked it, so we would watch it. But I had to watch Mr. Rogers afterward just to calm myself down. Obviously I grew out of being scared of it, but by the time I did I'd moved on to other shows.
One of the easiest ways to get into writing your own kernel is to start with the OS Dev wiki [0]. Both the wiki and their forums are a great place for getting your feet wet.

For more general information, there are also a handful of articles and/or blog posts that I've come across when I was getting started that gave a very good introduction to many of the low-level components of how computers work and what the OS needs to do to run them. One of my favorites was Many But Finite [1]. Check out a bunch of his posts about the memory map, the computer boot process [2], cpu rings, etc... Not exhaustive by any means, but good, well-presented info. Many other such sources exist; maybe others will share their favorites.

And if you'd just like to get a more gentle introduction into actual OS code than the monster that is Linux, maybe try looking at some of the BSD's. NetBSD [3] and OpenBSD [4] are remarkably easy to navigate and follow from a code flow perspective, and if you just want to see how things work in a real OS, it's both a good reference and a good place to start.

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page

[1] https://manybutfinite.com/archives

[2] https://manybutfinite.com/post/how-computers-boot-up

[3] http://netbsd.org/

[4] https://www.openbsd.org/
Whistleblower Absurdly Attacks Facebook's Privacy-Protecting Encryption Efforts
Because you pay only for what you listen to and you can use an open API?
I guess it depends on the language they are using at the specific moment. People in Hong Kong are probably going to pronounce it in Cantonese. Border guards in Beijing will probably pronounce it in Mandarin.

There is actually no good way to tell whether a name is Mandarin or Cantonese, except maybe by looking at the place of birth or residence. Ironically, the romanized form might give clues as there are many different romanization systems in use.
I think quite a lot of that has been available by copy/paste over Handoff, it seems like the major change here is that it's available with a shared pointing device. Still impressive!
Still can't stream fitness+ to a mac?
I'm pretty skeptical of claims that childrens' TV boosts academic skills. Even if it does, the results hardly justify a thousand hours spent watching it. It's probably the most inefficient teaching method ever devised.

The reason is simple. It's completely passive. In order to learn, kids have to actively participate.
I'd expect that people who speak Cantonese would use Cantonese, and people who speak Mandarin would use Mandarin pronunciation. When you see a name "Peter", how do you know which pronunciation to use - Dutch, German, Norwegian, English, or other (there's a couple more)? :-)
Prolly just "borrow" NSAs.
> The Mustang Mach-E is the better comparison.

I agree.

Ford are building only 50,000 of them in 2021, and their "best aiming high hope" is to build 175,000/year sometime in the future. [1]

Again, I don't see how building 175,000 vehicles in some future year has meaningful impact on a company that built a million in 2021 and will push close to 2 million in 2022.

Even when the "big car companies" want to go all-in electric, they can't. It takes a decade to scale up to what Tesla is doing, even for Ford.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/23/exclusive-ford-mustang-...
I've got multiple RasPis from 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gen that all have lasted years. I know of a Rpi 2b still running in a shed in the New Mexico desert that holds at about 90*F that's still going after 5 years.

I had a 3B running as a car infotainment system with hard shutdowns at least daily for three years. Sold that car and it's now in a drawer, but slated for use in an arcade perhaps.

I've got another 3b running as a Unifi controller that's been running for 2+ years.

I've got two 3b and one 4 running OctoPi (3d printer server) without issues for 3+ years.

Given the mass adoption and heavy usage of RPis, I would venture to day most people don't find them to be "horrible computers". I think in 5+ years the only time I've had an RPi fail at the hardware level and die was due to powering it via the 5V headers and accidentally reversing polarity. Might have also shorted one out when an enclosure was flooded due to bad weather seals.

All anecdotal, but I find most of the time when Pi's fail it's often either voltage sag, poor quality sd cards, or excessive writes to the SD. The SD cards are definitely a weak link in the RPi ecosystem.

Whenever possible, ensure your Pi isn't reporting undervoltage and look for ways to minimize writing to disk (or attach a USB drive for any heavy writing necessary).
It is also about pixel-perfect madness. Please just don't. Make things that scale, make things that adjust, and tolerate end users that have different fonts and size preferences.
I think this is more along the lines of redefining the bounds of text.

Because even in his demo, you can see where he's not encapsulating all of the text space. The comma is cut. As would be any letter with a descender. Also any letter with an ascender or capital letter with a diacritic mark.

Also, he has some space before the first "B", but not after the last "x". Why doe the first letter get leading space but the last not get an equal amount of trailing space? Or is the kerning of the letters just concerned with leading space?
Both orgs have absolutely done what's right many, many times, but 100% is a little high.

I'd highly recommend checking out All EFF'd Up [0] in The Baffler—it's quite long, but below is a relevant bit for both orgs:

> Leading EFF’s invasion of Washington, D.C., was Jerry Berman, who had been a top ACLU attorney and founder of ACLU Projects on Privacy and Information Technology ... Berman was a Beltway insider who in the 1980s was at the center of a push to turn the ACLU into a big business lobby and an ally of intelligence agencies and right-wing political interests. Among other things, the Berman-era ACLU defended Big Tobacco from regulations on advertising and worked with the National Rifle Association to fight electronic collection of arrest data by the Department of Justice for background checks to deny firearms licenses. Among Berman’s personal achievements: working with the CIA on an early version of a bill that criminalized disclosing the names of CIA agents—a law that was later used to prosecute and jail CIA officer John Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the Agency’s use of waterboarding as a torture and interrogation technique.

> ... Berman also helped craft the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a controversial law that gave the government power to grab electronic metadata from cellphone calls, email, and other digital communications without a warrant, which is now routinely used to collect user data from companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook...

> Freedom to Surveil

> ...His signature achievement had been collaborating with the FBI to draft and rubber-stamp a law that expanded FBI surveillance into the digital telecommunications infrastructure. Known as the “Communications Law Enforcement Assistance Act”—or CALEA—the 1994 law required that telecommunications companies install specialized equipment and design their digital facilities in a way that made it easy to wiretap.

> ...

> When EFF’s role in crafting this surveillance law came out, outraged members of its cyber-libertarian base cried foul. EFF, they’d been led to believe, was created to push back against government control of the internet...

> ...

> In reality though, the outrage stemmed from a basic confusion about what EFF was created to do. EFF emerged as a lobby for the budding internet industry...

[0] https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine (Ctrl/Cmd+F "Buying Silence" to skip the intro portion)
That's great to hear. I'd love to create some vector tiles with building and building height data on zoom levels down to 11. Is this the correct place to perform this change? https://github.com/onthegomap/flatmap/blob/e402a3333bc5127e5...

Or could I even achieve this via the config file? https://github.com/onthegomap/flatmap/blob/main/config-examp...
A simple solution to labor scarcity would be to relax HR processes (including hiring times) and elimination by automated software. In addition there are a number of absurd non-competes in the blue collar markets in many states. Luckily in California it is illegal.
It's like the Bono Haiti charity. Dude just made it to raise awareness that there are poor people in Haiti. No shit...
You also have to think about security implications of a hostile client being able to crash a remote parser with gigabytes of context, though if it crashes on malformed json then they could do that with a much shorter fragment. In the well intentioned case, being paged in the middle of the night to debug a weird crash isn't fun, so it's better to have an accurate diagnosis (version mismatch) in the log if not prevent the crash outright. There is also the matter of every weird javascript implementation that would have to be updated, if JS can't already accept the trailing commas. It just doesn't seem worth hassling over.
>Or I'll stop calling the police, especially if that first invasive experience doesn't end with my belongings returned.

Oh my sweet summer child. Calling the police is never about getting the belongings back. Calling the police is only about striking the perpetrator with violence, hoping that it would equalize the karma levels.
>> 2020-09 $21.2b revenue, $7.8b income

>> 2021-09 $28.2b revenue, $9.1b income +17%

Let's not overlook the 5.4% inflation rate during this time period.
Reminds me when the trigger keywords for Echelon[1] leaked on the internet [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2001/05/31/what_are_those_words/
No... its asking for the alternative. Your answer implies there is none, or that you don't want to propose one that could easily be shot down.
who ever owns the choices leading upto , what amounts to distribution of a list of SocSec numbers +PII is in jeopardy.

i wonder how many browser caches currently hold that list.

now the next part is interesting, seeing as the government issued that list, is it now part of a public domain?
can any one who distributes or causes it [list] to be distributed, be prosecuted?
> Pre-internet, it feels like a warrant for anyone that ran their finger down page xyz of the phone book.

More like inquiring for / looking at certain books in the library. Which is something I'm sure happened all the time, historically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_inventions
For the web, I use Capsize to eliminate the extra vertical space. It's a huge hack, but it does seem to work well across modern browsers, and it certainly makes dealing with web design layouts a lot easier.

https://seek-oss.github.io/capsize/
Are you saying that if another company, say AMD, had access to TSMC's 5nm process than it would easily achieve comparable performance/watt to what Apple has done with the M1 series?
I can't speak for tpmx, but I'm fairly certain that my values have changed less than the ACLU's. They recently edited a quote by Ruth Bader Ginsberg in a very 1984-esque way[1], and my values have always been that 1984 is a warning not an instruction manual. I think that any organistion with "Civil Liberties" in its name should believe the same.

[1]: see https://pontifex.substack.com/p/links-13-nandy-and-aclu-cont... , last item on the page.
Now tell me how you feel about the common phrase "I'll be there momentarily."

(I may logically accept that language follows usage, but I just can't not be bothered by that one. Also, people don't seem to like it when I reply "I hope you're right.")
I was a 2015 UX Bootcamp grad (Chicago local, later acquired and run into the ground.) I think I paid $8k and have had a pretty great career, though it took a couple months to find that first job. The last 2 years, I've had a side gig where I do practice UX interview - usually to bootcamp grads.

Y'all I felt bad for most of these folks. The majority were not taught how to solve problems, but rather how to take generic steps in design thinking in order to create a cookie cutter portfolio. There was rarely any consideration for anything on the either side of UX, be it business or development, so they were learning in a vacuum. A couple of the schools had former grads teaching in order to boost placement %. How are you supposed to learn from someone who's never executed in the real world is beyond me. The most successful folks almost always had tangental previous work experience to draw from. And in the rare instances someone had learned some UI skills? Yikes. All that in a market that has been oversaturated with junior UX/UI candidates the last couple year, it's no wonder places are starting to ditch the UX programs. Plus now, you always have college students with UX degrees to compete with.

I think a lot of people believed it would be easier to break into UX because there was no code/is less technical which led to this burst bubble. Not to say that's not true, but designing software for humans is more complicated than a persona and some low-fi wireframes!
"garbage quality"

In 2021, really? {{citation needed}}
I was hoping for a bit better performance. Any suggestions for similar that could max out 4-5 drives, maybe add a M.2/U.2 for caching (or 2), and handle 2.5 gbit ethernet?
Unfortunately this looks like Amazon is hosting it on a special, on-prem, air-gapped group of servers similar to AWS GovCloud, so we can't look forward to misconfigured public S3 bucket shenanigans
Ok, Scrum, Extreme, Rational Unified are some processes with a degree of Agility. What are the alternatives?
If the reasons don't leak (they usually do) then it will still be possible to see what Gilmore was blocking by watching what the EFF does over the next six months that it hasn't done before.
Ask HN: What are some open-source continuous deployment tools?
My team is evaluating different deployment tools to replace our homegrown solution.

There are plenty of continuous integration tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCi, etc.), but adding deployment aware logic like canary deployments and having an audit log of deploys requires adding lots of code which I'd rather not maintain.

I'm looking for tools focused on code deployment. A quick search turned up shipit (https://github.com/Shopify/shipit-engine) and teletraan (https://github.com/pinterest/teletraan).

Are there other open-source deployment tools like those projects?
Congrats and good luck! Show the world that safe and economical nuclear power is possible.
I'm not sure I need yet another macOS version, feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle. I (genuinely) wonder why...
I am so confused with these articles. They seem to not keep straight what is basic Autopilot and what is FSD Beta.

What recommendation did the make? Did Tesla do updates and simply not officially respond or did they do nothing? Are these request about functionality or requests about naming?

We know that Tesla has responded to request and bugs pretty quickly, for example from consumer reports.

We know that Tesla has actually respond to the problem of static objects and have upgraded basic Autopilot. Unlike any other system that uses rader. Somehow we never hear about that from NTSB. Where are the endless open letters to the other car markets who have not addressed this problem?
If people never used rare words or poetic turns of phrase, then communication would just be unbearably dull.
From the US IRS site: For tax year 2020, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $107,600 per qualifying person. For tax year 2021, the maximum exclusion is $108,700 per person.
Given how stable Big Sur was until 11.15.6 I don't think I'll be hastily upgrading!
[Edited]
Because adhering to a 6th grade vocabulary is tedious.
ACLU hasn't changed their values at all. They just finally understood that dangerous, violence-inducing hate speech like that coming from Nazis imperils the free speech of decent people who those Nazis directly threaten.
Right or wrong is so hard to say, I'm just speculating. You could easily be right.
Climate Anxiety – reactions to unprecedented threats hardly surprising
I am not sure I would say “entirely unlike” even though their economic philosophies are literally poles apart. And they are friends despite these differences.

I’ve known rms since 1978 (back before he stopped cutting his hair) and have started two companies with John. I know the kind sides of each of them which are unfortunately often not mentioned these days.
I didn't really understand your point insofar as it sounds like a truism you could plug in any company name for: "If everyone holding TSLA tried selling at this price, a small fraction would manage to execute orders at that price before it plummetted." ??
Exactly, thank you! At least they should implement some easy cli commands for those who don't want to deal with the awful UX.
NK is Japanese Fascism in practice with Communist propaganda as a showoff to "calm" China and make it their ally.
> Calling the police is only about striking the perpetrator with violence, hoping that it would equalize the karma levels.

Or, you know, prevent them from doing crimes again.
I've been enjoying Safari's tab group feature quite a lot. It's helped me wrangle the usual set of 5+ windows of tabs related to various tasks down into a single window, with the groups lined up neatly in a side list and auto-sleeping tabs.

For me at least it's much better than the implementation Chrome has gone for which tries to shoehorn groups into an already overburdened tab bar.
I've had a lot of luck using the Samsung Evo Select micro sd cards, and use them almost exclusively with my RPis. I've recently been trying PNY Elite-X as well with good results, though I think I've only got one Pi running those (and two Wyze cams).
Unless some sort of internal NDA prevents them to do so, which being the EFF would be ironic, albeit in a sad way.
that's great to hear

i have a MacBook Pro with Intel as well

Big Sur feels sluggish, it's not that it's slow, but it feels slow. I don't remember what OS my MacBook came with, but every update made it slower, especially Mail.app, which takes good 10 seconds to launch. Downloading Monterey now, hopefully will see improvements!

edit: but my biggest macOS complaint yet has to be the space used by "Other", which at the moment is about 50GB and 70GB at times
World travel is still not as easy pre-covid due to expiring vaccination certs being required.

Lockdowns to continue throughout the world.

Some big events will be cancelled because the performer gets covid.

WFO pushed back and back due to covid outbreaks.
Several people have stated this but none have provided an example. Could you be so kind?
> free to play

If only you could run iOS games on the M1 Mac, you'd be all set...
It's a work in progress, not a train wreck.

On the balance sheet it doesn't look good, but if you think about the strategic impact it will have on the business once they can bring costs down and ramp up installations, I think it's more fair to call it an investment.
That was an abomination of a ruling.

I find it amazing that the Data Protection Commissioner basically went against the constitution which clearly states that Irish is the first language of Ireland.
As stated the impossibility theorem is true, however we can design a democratic system that does satisfy all of the conditions set forth. (unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives) The key is to elect multiple people and give them power proportional to their electoral results, and to allow people to split their single vote fractionally between multiple candidates. I think this is where democracy will head in about 200 years.
I have mentioned upthread three BIG cooperative ventures that have lasted foer a long time; they're just the ones that I can think of quickly.

I care about coops, so I notice them, so maybe they're rather rare.

VC backing would make a coop no longer a coop. That horse is not a runner.

All this venture capital business is about getting a return in five years. A coop is about a bunch of people working together for their whole working life; it's a different way of organising work. If the thing works, then the investment is organic (and slow). The coops I mentioned have lasted a long time.
Look, my Vega64 raytraces all the time when I hit the "Render" button on Blender.

But video-game raytracing is about hardware-dedicated raytracing units. Software (even GPU-software rendering) is an order of magnitude slower. Its still useful to implement, but what PS5 / XBox Series X / AMD / NVidia has implemented are specific raytracing cores (or in AMD's case: raytracing instructions) to traverse a BVH-tree and accelerate the raytracing process.

"Can do Raytracing" or "Has an API for GPU-software that does raytracing" is just not the same as "we built a raytracing core into this new GPU". I'm sure Apple is working on their raytracing cores but I haven't seen anything yet that suggests that its ready yet.
I'm almost in the same boat, though I use emacs' language-specific input methods for longer texts. The postfix input methods especially work great with Dvorak.
Wow - this is a really impressive farewell.