skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pure marginal cost of fabrication of a modern chips is not that cheap when seen in the context of production capacity

I mean, cheap is relative...but given the tens of billions needed for a fab, versus the tens of dollars of silicon, power and labor to produce a chip, I would still argue it's cheap.
I can understand why this looks odd if you are not used to how professionals interact over process questions. This strikes me as very similar to how public companies 'fail' audits - which is to say that companies never really fail audits, they just have their auditors resign.

The reason for this is that, when you hire people to validate a process, most of the failure states come from processes that you are unable to verify as good or bad. This doesn't always mean that something is wrong - it just means that the validation team (or the code of conduct team in this case) does not feel, in their opinion, that they can confidently render an opinion. This is important because, at the end of the day, all these teams can do is produce opinions.

The obvious reaction is to suggest changes to the process that would allow you confidence in validation (these are called 'controls' in the auditing world). However, if the group you are trying to validate won't make your changes, then you are left in a situation where you can't be confident about doing your job. You aren't sure that anything is wrong exactly, but you are sure that the current setup won't allow you to be sure. You're faced with sitting in a situation where people expect you to validate a process, but you feel you can't - and so the only path is to resign.

However, as you can tell, there's a chance that the problem is the process verification team. Maybe they are dumb, or jerks, or whatever. If they are jerks, then you both wouldn't be able to rely on their specific accusations and it is possible that they missed things because of rudeness or incompetence, etc. So either way the sensible thing to do is not make specific accusations aside from "we don't think we can verify this process and we would recommend you take what others say about why with a grain of salt."
I am a continental European and I have lived in the UK for some time. I always lived under the impression that the goal of the EU was to increase integration. I think the majority of continental Europeans feel the same and support this idea to some degree. I always felt that this was only news to the British.

I also support brexit. I would prefer for the UK to be in the EU because it would make all of us stronger and closer, as I think we should be, but I have to accept that current UK culture is just not compatible with the European project.

Good luck to my British friends, who I know see me as "foreigner". I don't see you as foreigner.
Seems to me this can be filed under "How being a jerk can sometimes yield benefits".

Being a jerk can yield benefits. See Psalm 37.
Does this mean that one day https will not be allowed in the EU and companies will have to go back to supporting http?
>all the solutions to climate change are marxist

This is an uncharitable misstatement. Conservative media tells people to call a lot of things "Marxist" that objectively have nothing to do with Karl Marx. That misnomer does not mean the things being criticized are good ideas. A lot of the proposed solutions to climate change are fantastical and misguided hype.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dzq9yPE5Cbo

"Plastic from Air" is a good example.
> I agree that induced demand is nonsense

It's not. This is a fact. It sounds like you are trying to reason about this from pure logic, and are not aware that this is an empirical fact.

You can only go so far armchair guessing about how city planning "ought to" work.

> Demand either exists or it doesn't.

To get to the place, yes. To get to the place in a car, no.

If you double the capacity of a road network, that means more people will choose to drive.

Example: If the city I live in doubled the car capacity, I would buy a car and drive it. But since everyone else would too, it'd actually stabilize to the same congestion. (I forget, but the actually observed phenomenon has a name)

Or let's say you had some billions of dollars to improve the situation of the I-101 in California. What do you think will happen if you add a lane? More people who currently take a tech company shuttle will start driving instead. More people who currently take Caltrain will start driving instead.

And then you're back. I'm not guessing, this is established knowledge. No matter how hard people try to double down on a failed strategy (see Katy Freeway), it just doesn't help traffic. It just makes more people drive.

Now spend those billions on making the Caltrain experience better, and you'll start seeing existing lanes on the 101 free up.

> After all, if you built 100 lanes there wouldn't magically be 100 lanes of traffic.

A 100? Maybe not. But apparently 26 lanes is not enough (Katy Freeway).

But there are other aspects to this too, other than roads and transit. E.g. zoning. It greatly reduces traffic on existing roads if you can just walk over to the store to buy some groceries, because it's a 5min walk. Instead of driving and being stuck in traffic for 10 minutes because it's too far to walk and crosses an 8 lane highway.

Every person who went shopping in the local store is another car not on the road, both ways.

> Demand is fulfilled only up to the point that the demand exists.

This is only true in the sense that it's irrelevant. If you widen every street and avenue in NYC to 26 lanes, then maybe that's enough. But only because there will barely be any houses left to go to.

> There's no magical induction that urbanists vaguely gesture at.

That's not what's happening.
Hey, let's keep inventing lengths.

5. Length in terms of time until complete display when rendered in a given architecture.

6. Length in terms of Braille characters needed to display it.

7. Length in terms of time of lecture at 300 wpm.

String length is overwhelmingly discussed as character length, meaning #2. Length in bytes should only be an issue for data transmission or storage, and people who still work with ASCII. Rendering dimensions are not relevant to the published article.
> Binding to port 0 is standard behaviour (literally, part of the standard)

I've seen a couple of programs that explicitly check and refuse to start when asked to listen on port 0 (for example, to this day "ssh -D 127.0.0.1:0 remote-host" refuses to start).

> If you’re working on your web stuff having to copy/paste a URL from your term every time you restart your server.

Don't the developer's standard server-launching scripts (re)launch browser after they start the server? IIRC, npm start and VisualStudio+ASP.NET do exactly that.
Thanks! Academic here, also thinking about using this for notes and lots of reading research papers with not too much annotation.
Correct. Ownership is an ambiguous concept, when you “own” something, it comes with terms of what that “ownership” entails. An NFT is an entry in a ledger that says who owns that entry - it’s a _proof of ownership_, not _ownership itself_. Whether that includes copyright ownership of the artwork, right to modify or distribute, etc, it’s all contractual aspects that are external to the ledger/entry.

Smart Contract maximalists may argue it should all be code - and maybe we’ll see more and more becoming code, including TOS, DRM, etc. Maybe one day there’ll be a way to fully model and enforce ownership of a digital object, but I’m not holding my breath for that.
Researching third way democratically run economies with Clojure
I had great hope when I heard about the STIR/SHAKEN protocol [1].

It's been in effect for five months now and I think I get more spam calls than ever before.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication
What do you mean by a "Linux phone"?

If you just mean a phone that can run a more traditional Linux distribution, you could look into Postmarket OS. There's a list of supported devices here: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
US lawmakers _are_ the robocallers and spammers.
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Covid driven inflation reduced the cost of a battery by $500?
Introversion/extroversion isn’t related to your social skills, although your level of social skills can muddle your impression of your introversion/extroversion.

Introversion and extroversion are, on the extreme ends, whether you need to seek out “down time” after being around people versus never needing down time and always wanting to be around people, respectively.

For example, I’m more of an extrovert and if I’m dead tired at midnight but someone invites me to go out, I will still say yes because being around people gives me energy and it’s like ecstasy. And if one of my friends says no, I will respect it but “won’t get it” as to why you’d want to go home.

(Of course you have responsibilities as you get older but that’s a separate issue.)
Outlaw as in make it painful for those who use it. Cannabis has put many people in jail, its a plant that continued to exist. Same can be done with this. You’re not using government approved electronics, in jail you go.
Neal Stephenson recommends 6 books on information manipulation
Wyden is the single best tech-related legislator in Congress, in my opinion. A great all around senator as well.
Arguably the EU is enforcing the rights of their citizens more than in many other places (eg. GDPR). Ultimately the EU citizens should vote when there are parliament elections instead of complaining about the bureaucrats afterwards. Only 50% turnout last time.
Well, the question is rather- what is a "fuck up" to them?

And to that- who knows? Certainly the point of a CoC is supposed to be to codify this, but I believe experience shows that its interpretation tends to be expansive, when the wording is not already expansive to begin with.

At the end of the day, events like Curtis Yarvin, a person who has never harmed a fly, almost getting banned from Lambdaconf over "safety" concerns, demonstrate that the fuck-up may just be having a political difference of opinion with the group in question.

(Analogously, and I say this as somebody who would vote Dems every time if they lived in the US, a moderation team that included at least one Trump voter would also assuage such concerns. Consider it a commitment to diversity.)

edit: To be clear, I am not asking for anything resembling quotas; just any demonstration of the ability of the team to coexist with a person they have serious ideological disagreements with.
Do you have anything to back up those claims? As someone who makes a living out of working with .NET (albeit also a lot of other things) I call BS on every point. And please, don't link some irrelevant opinionated news articles from The Verge and whatnot again (which again only consist of ranting and Twitter screenshots), as the forker/OP already did ... Like what objectively is your problem with .NET and the way it is managed by Microsoft right now? For example you claim they bring back "Windows and Visual Studio entanglement"? Like, uhm ... what? And let's imagine for a second that that (whatever you are referring to) was true: How is this fork even attempting to solve this? Ranting in issues, READMEs and on HN surely isn't going to help.
Fingerprint scanners compile a small set of identifying features (typically where ridges end or split). They don't characterize the entire fingerprint. The higher quality the scanning system, the more identifying features they use -- so the size of the search space is both smaller than most people think, and varies depending on the quality of the system.
Yes, it was (rolls eyes) plus (shocked face)
I think there's room for both, and it can be figured out from context, usually.
> 99.x% of people will comply

You are not interested in just "people". You are interested in very specific subgroup of those (1-x)% that already operate outside the law.
Yep, or like Gun.

Simple is better. But they all have yet to be proven workable from an application standpoint, it seems.
I've seen websites hijack the keyboard shortcut and prevent right clicking from opening the context menu but none that actually prevented dev tools from being opened
yet 99% of people break that speed limit regularly. We all know speed limit laws are less about public safety, and more about generating revenue for the state, at least in the US anyway.

and 99.x% of people aren't engaging in sharing child porn anyway, it's the 0.1% of motivated criminals that will share encrypted files anyway, no matter what the law is. They will find ways around the law, they always do.

This is a thinly veiled excuse to take basic human rights away from people.
People crack DRM all day, every day and they have ever since it was invented. It's never stopped. It's even a fairly well-known thing for people to buy games and then use the cracked versions without DRMs because they tend to be so invasive it can result in reduced performance.

I'm sure some people have been arrested and prosecuted but that's just symbolic scapegoat tactics and a pebble trying to stop the tide.

The laws you are describing are never going to be put into effect. It's just not going to happen. I don't believe the EU is full of people stupid enough to let it happen.. and even if it did, all the member states don't just automatically adopt and enforce every law immediately without thought. There are plenty of reasonable member states that just wouldn't accept these insane laws, or have populations which wouldn't accept them.
> Conversations on Gitlab by comparison always feel a lot more serious and professional.

I doubt it, at least in my experience this has little to do with GitLab or GitHub.

> The low barrier of entry to Github

In this case no low barrier of entry is involved. There is no low barrier of entry to join the core Team. This is not drama because of a random person posting some random bs on GitHub.
Ah, brilliant, thankyou.
UK will require new homes to have EV chargers starting in 2022
It has absolutely nothing to do with cryptocurrency.

And it's not exactly a ban either. It's about a mandatory backdoor in encrypted communication.

Not that makes it any less bad but it's important to clarify. The title is not clear about this.
I was at the supermarket one time and tried to remember something. In the act of trying to remember it, I instinctively reached into my pocket (to Google it), and found that I'd left my phone at home, and suddenly felt like part of my brain was missing.

At that moment I realized the Internet had become part of my my "memory". The feeling wasn't "I can't look it up", but literally "I can't remember."
As long as participation on social media is sponsored by advertising dollars the problem of misinformation will not go away. This project is gathering volunteers to do free work for Twitter and enrich its shareholders which makes sense from their perspective but not from the perspective of whoever is contributing to this project. So what's gonna happen over time is this will turn into another meta-layer for misinformation games because contributors will realize it is in their best interest to moderate content that seems to be against their own interests. Doing otherwise only enriches Twitter and its shareholders so there is no incentive for the contributors to be honest in their work.

The business model is the problem. There is no way to keep the advertising based business model and reduce misinformation because the underlying incentives are fundamentally adversarial. Twitter cares about keeping people engaged because that's how they make money. They have no incentives to propagate truthful information because the advertisers don't pay them for that, they pay for attention regardless of what it is directed towards. Eventually people realize this and that's why there is such a high prevalence of sociopathic behavior on social media, every person is acting in their own best interests to grab as much attention as possible in order to shill some weird but personally enriching ideological doctrine. There is no common cause uniting groups of people together other than going viral to maximize attention from other participants. All the other weird behaviors like doxxing and cancelations follow directly from this incentive structure, those behaviors get attention and so people internalize them because that's what the platform encourages.

Social media, instead of AI, is what Nick Bostrom should have been worried about. Encouraging sociopathic behavior is antithetical to maintaining stable societies and that's exactly what we're seeing.
Fascinating company. Not sure I see value proposition though for festival rentals replacing generating power as they aren't completely interchangeable products. Wish them luck though greening up the festival space.
Price is already there. I bought ~89$/kwh LFP batteries last year (shipping brought them over ~$100/kwh though). Some LFP batteries already have a 5000+ cycle count, I'd expect way less than a 10 year outlook.
Speak for yourself. After messing with Windows 11 last night, I cannot fathom how people tolerate that trash. Went back to my M1 Mac.
"Someone who chooses to get offended about what others write or say" would be my working definition. I don't think being offended is a reasonable thing to be, generally.
The poster there actually worked on the Rust project and did more than Ashley Williams, at least on the technical side. I even noticed their "absence" (or lower involvement) earlier this year and was wondering if they're okay.

As for Steve's rant [1], it was weirdly guided against the "Rustacean principles" (which are totally harmless [2]), but happened right after Ashley's interim director contract was not extended.

Actually, on the HN post back then, Steve complained more about how Amazon didn't give her the job, than anything else.

But yes, you're right, this is just speculation.

[1]: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1437441118745071617

[2]: https://rustacean-principles.netlify.app/how_rust_empowers.h...
The cryptography engineers will be happier the sooner they let this go and find some new slang for themselves.

This reminds me of Michael Bolton in Office Space being angry at the musician with the same name.

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI1NfFExOSo
Disruption at the lower end doesn't stay there. Just ask the American auto industry about their experience ignoring the super cheap Japanese cars in the 70s.
Neither plain Python nor beartype-enhanced Python is type-less like FORTH, BCPL or BLISS, so I don't quite grok your comment.
Even Bruce Schneier is still annoyed about it seemingly: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/crypto-means-....
You're right, it's walking a tightrope. But they do put this at the end (on the Reddit post[0], not GitHub):

> we wish to ... focus on Constructive Criticism: how to improve the state of things, moving forward.

> There are many potential topics that are worth exploring:
> What should the Rust Governance look like?

> How should the Rust Moderation Team be structured? What should be its responsibilities?

> How can we ensure accountability and integrity at the top? Who Watches The Watchers?

and I don't see how these can be meaningfully discussed by someone who doesn't know what went wrong. You can't diagnose and find a remedy for a problem that you can't even see. So while the sentiment "let's talk constructively" is fine, in public at least it seems like a non-starter.

Note that I'm not saying that this means they should publish a tell-all either -- but it needs to be recognized that, without that openness, the divide between insiders and outsiders remains. And the outsiders can't do anything constructive about these questions.

[0]:https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...
Moderators are nothing. Developers are everything. Moderators can resign all they want. The important thing is that developers do not resign. Those CoCs are getting out of hand. It was a terrible idea from the start.
I've seen it used correctly just once: by a lecturer of Contemporary Philosophy marking my essay...
I am sure the Scotts and Irish are thrilled by the change.
Or you could do like me, who never felt the urge to "sync to the cloud" any notebook, be it paper or e-ink based.

RM2 works great offline and does not need any network connection to do its main job. I think you will find you won't really need updates if you use it the same way as me.

And yes, as they mentioned it is enough FOSS friendly that there is quite a community of tinkerers around it
For math, being able to quickly erase false starts and reorganize lemmas on the fly is surprisingly useful. Compared to paper notebooks, it's easily doubled my productivity.
I also dislike language subsets. I feel that you run into the limitations of the subset real quick and figuring out the boundaries of the subset often feels like groping in the dark. Especially true for large languages like Python.

My most recent experience is with Numba, the python subset JIT, so it may be slightly different for micropython
>Not everyone is young, healthy and rich enough to bike.

This is such an alien attitude to me. Why would you need to be young or rich to ride a bike? Then I remember that American cities are so hostile to cyclists that, of course, only the young and rich would be able to do it there. Then this inequality is somehow taken to be a problem with the _bikes themselves_ rather than the cities that made cycling so dangerous. It's maddening to see.

And cars are not cheap either, you know.

Go to a European metropolis, you will see cyclists young and old, rich and poor, black and white.

Is there a name for the following fallacy:

"X is good, we should have more of X and make X available for more people."
"No we can't do that, X is only for rich white people and therefore bad."
I entirely disagree with your assessment. From what I know, most Apple employees want to go back to the office and are happy to do so. While a non-negligible minority would prefer to work from home, that's a far cry from claiming almost no one wants to go back to the office.
Features-based framework for diagnosis of Covid-19 from chest x-ray images
Yeah, but the comment I was replying to said:

> BS in Computer Science (from a reputable school)
> This isn't improving consumer choice, it is how to milk a cow to the largest degree possible.

I know you didn't intend this as support to my comment, but it does.
In court, absolutely.

There are still plenty of places where polygraph examinations are used legally.
Regarding "moral calculus"... I would never condone killing someone for stealing.

From another perspective, why should you value the life of a person more than said person values his own, e.g. why would I value your life, as clearly you value it less than you do the parts on my car, or items in my house?

When society permits people to hold you hostage via your "superior morals", so they can take advantage of you, your work, your family etc, isn't this a major breakdown?

Consider the (stupid IMHO) duty to retreat laws in some places. You are locked inside your safe place, your home, or your car, likely with your family. A person decides they want your property, or possibly your life. And these laws require you to retreat, to possibly vacate your home or car, pulling your family out of harms way if you can. Because these bad people are what? Misguided?
I think most of us operate these days like this. This allows for consistent breadth. While you may have deep expertise in a specific language, coding paradigm, or other technical area, the shared resources of the Internet allow you to operate more efficiently and broadly. Your "depth" in this breadth space is by having an efficient operating model that weeds out spam, bad input, and similar gaps when the "broad" knowledge base is incorrect.

I believe this is the real reason spam-answer/grifting sites are so bad. They pollute this shared commons of freely available information. From a policy recommendation I certainly hope these free resources are kept in place, timely, and free from spam/SEO farming.