skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2020 I was working for a consumer electronics company and went to some presentations on how our supply chain and operations teams were dealing with the pandemic. I'm far from an expert on this, but this is what I heard from people who were working on this.

First, you had a massive lockdown in China in January 2020, which shut factories temporarily. Then when those factories came back online, the production lines had to be reconfigured so that stations were 2 meters apart. At the same time, a lot of the collaboration that typically happens by people from a company flying out to China to meet with the supplier face-to-face were shifting to video, which frequently met that at least one side of the call was early in the morning or late at night. And as all of that was happening, there were also large shifts in demand as some products saw spikes in orders. That pattern then repeated itself across the world - a company might move production from China to, say, Indonesia, only to see the new factory have to temporarily shut down.

I can imagine that two years of this would create major backlogs and disruptions.
> We’re in beta and feel like our product is not yet fully realized.

Sustainability remains TBD.
Pricing of real estate markets around the world focusing on ultra-cheap cities
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Step 1. Post some of your art in this thread. It will get some exposure here. Some will enjoy it, many will ridicule it (see the recent shed posting). And because of that, will give you a taste of the art world.

I'd like to see it. Good luck!
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Url changed from https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/in-1953-a-telephone-comp..., which points to this.
Not to dispute your assertions, but perhaps it's worth looking at an alternate viewpoint.

I found Masanobu Fukuoka's "The One-Straw Revolution" quite compelling. In it, Fukuoka argues for finding ways to diversify plant variety, improve soil quality and fertilization, manage pests such that external input (mechanization, fertilizers, pesticides, heavy irrigation) is not needed in the first place. All while improving yields year after year.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976905.The_One_Straw_Rev...

A dear friend has been applying the so-called "natural farming" principles for about a quarter of a century now, and swears by it. His farm is beautiful in a wabi-sabi sense, and is abundant like a forest.

(edit: language, clarified sentence)
The general rule of thumb is that power usage tends to scale as the square of performance past a certain point so I'm surprised that the E cores are so efficient, I'd expect the two of them to draw half the power of a P core rather than a fifth!
people for whom the system is working, affirm that the system is working.. check
Ironically, I specifically remember the introduction of voice search coinciding with a marked drop in search quality. This had also happened earlier with their "instant results" experiment.
And what if I'm on mobile with a spotty connection where I average < 1 mbps?
Indeed! I grew up with my Dutch grandparents in Canada and they had a print of the Night Watch at home. When I turned the corner of the Rijksmuseum and saw it, I thought it was a post of the museum wing it was in. It's HUGE!
The attitude in this thread is the exact opposite of constructive. It is a great library that the person is giving you for free. Yes it can be improved, yes it you should not use it everywhere, but can you at least appreciate the execution and the fact that there is a real person behind it who can read the entitled diarrhea y'all "hur dur the internet should be just html and usenet" ppl are spewing?

HN has become one of the worst places to have one's work demonstrated at.
I would try to incite a employee led mutiny - convincing my co-workers that we all quit at the same time if our leader is not fired.

This how the chimpanzee world works. Most believe that the alpha male chimp rules all like a powerful, authoritarian tyrant with size, power, and intimidation.

Not so. The alpha male keeps the peace and stability of the group, lays down the law when the law needs laying, distributes resources and food fairly, spends time grooming (socializing and happy hour in the chimp world), building coalitions and relationships with other chimps, etc. The actions of the alpha male chimp elevates the group and he gets first dibs on mates and food bc of that. That is also how effective leadership works in the human world.

But the alpha chimp also takes responsibility and accountability should his actions become a liability for the group. When the alpha male starts causing chaos and instability in the group, 3 beta male chimps gang up on the alpha male and tear him apart limb by limb, then they elect a new alpha male. This also why we hate our leaders right now in the western world - they get all the rewards and status but none of the downside accountability. Its why no finance CEOs or managing directors got any jail time or even had their bonuses clawed back; in fact the opposite happened, they gave themselves record bonuses the year after.
Does that mean most companies will be using 2020 generation chips until 2024?

Sounds they'll dump it in trash eventually and it'll be a terrible waste of resources
Speaking of Rijksmuseum and seeing things in person, they maintain a small satellite exhibition at Schiphol airport[0]. It's a wonderful way to spend an hour if you're flying through and have long enough between flights to get bored but not long enough for even a short layover.

0: https://www.schiphol.nl/en/at-schiphol/discover/facilities/r...
> Can automakers not use a 7nm fab?

Intel offered car manufacturers 16nm chips "as many as they wanted", but they'd have to be re-engineered from, from what I read, 150nm and certified for harsher conditions (temperature, humidity, acceleration, probably noxious fumes if installed under the hood) than consumer electronics, which adds to the cost.

In addition to that, with the upcoming switch to electric cars they probably wouldn't produce enough of them to recoup the investment.
> a journalist suggested a moratorium on the use of the word "Africa" in reporting

I get it. Under most circumstances, “Africa” is a hopeless descriptor. Second in ignorance only to “Asia”.

Though I haven’t noticed its broad use in journalism as much as in common speech.
IIRC I read somewhere that Kagi limits you to only NN searches per day, but I forget how low NN was. Low enough I didn't investigate further.
In Texas (dunno about elsewhere), Goodwill has "Computer Works" stores that take older equipment in working or mostly-working condition. They assemble systems from donated components and sell them for pretty good prices. Behind the scenes, I gather it's a training opportunity. What can't be fixed or cobbled together and sold, gets donated onward, recycled, or disposed. I take all my old systems there, and I check in the shop from time to time. I've picked up all kinds of stuff... full-size racks, HP servers, oddball adapter cards, vintage stuff.
Neural net from scratch
Bitcoin is 13 years old today
Re-invest it in your business. Hire someone to help with SEO and SEM. Hire someone to write content like a blog. Find someone to manage your social media, moderate a discord and build community around your product. Spend (more) money on ads

You aren't going to find a better investment. A well performing mutual fund might get you 10% a year. Something riskier could get you up to 15%. I'm willing to bet you can make much more than that just by re-investing in the asset you already have. You can also avoid paying taxes on that money in the short term.

If you don't want to do any of that, just leave it in your business account until you do.
> I’ve only ever seen it in the context of frustrated newbie candidates complaining that they have to put in some non-coding effort in order to get hired.

This surprises me because I've generally heard hiring is broken because of how it affects seasoned programmers. The argument, as I understand it, is that "broken" interviews largely consist of "grind leetcode and solve my ever-more-specific algorithmic challenges" that have very, very little to do with the actual nature of the work or a candidate's general aptitude.
This is a really unhealthy perspective for so many reasons.

Almost all successful startups have good business leadership, sometimes from a technical founder, but usually not.
My father in law (who had a successful exit back in the 90s with an actual silicon business) is a strong advocate of engineer startup CEOs. ~"Non tech people aren't going to learn technology; it's very doable for a tech person to learn necessary sales and finance skills."

Having spent the last N years with sales cofounders, I wish I'd taken that advice on board earlier. (Though, there's certainly value in learning sales from skilled practitioners.)
is there a point in 'exploring' these ideas on HN where its very unlikely someone is going to show up with any actual evidence? what is the value in repetitive circular uninformed speculation?
Some amount of coronavirus research is very common in most BSL-4 labs. Coronaviruses are common, and are of particular interest to China in that region due to what happened with SARS only a decade prior.

It's really not much of a coincidence.
Big turds often leaves refactors almost equal to Joels "V2 rewrites", continuous runnable general cleanups is often the first step (and yields surprising benefits in general) then still runnable prep refactors that makes the bigger leaps smaller (temporarily increasing complexity so you really want them in just before embarking on the bigger stuff so it doesn't increase complexity in itself).

That said, in your case it felt a bit like an organizational failure also. As you could read in Ingo's mail he had to start over after plenty of work put in, for him there wasn't any reputation damage because he seems to have had free reign to start this as he wished.
That can definitely be a problem, but having someone who can actually sell your product is invaluable.
Well, business is different; you don't have to use your phone for that, you can use a separate smart device (which may be a non-phone like tablets or perhaps iPod might work) just for this purpose; and, unlike consumers, there's generally no taboo in requiring businesses to fulfill requirements which may need extra hardware that they don't yet have and need to purchase, or require them to change their buildings, etc, so saying "your business needs to run this app" does not imply "my phone needs to be iOS or Android" as there's zero expectation that your personal phone should be sufficient for that requirement imposed on the company.

Also, they're not saying that your business needs to run this app, they are saying that your business needs to verify Covid certificates and offering these apps as one way to do it. But it's not the only way - for example, it may be less convenient, but you can do that QR code scanning + Covid certificate validation on any computer with a connected camera using a web service (https://app.digitalcovidcertchecker.gov.ie/ is one random example, there is also open source code to roll your own checks for EU Covid certificates in some custom system if you need to), and there you can use Windows or Linux or whatever, there's no need for a smartphone as such. In fact, if the parent poster's Pinephone can run a browser and expose a camera to it, then perhaps it might work out of the box on the Pinephone without needing a special app.
There's plenty of great content made by great people. They have the data to solve the problem.
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Yeah we had a couple of comments going back and forth with conflicting scenarios. The one I was responding too was stating exposed above ground conduit, where EMT is often better than PVC due to sun exposure. Ridged is of course even better from a durability perspective, but a real hassle to deal with.

Burying EMT in soil or concrete is generally a bad idea and quickly leads to some serious tears - sometimes in a year or two with the right soil or if the concrete is exposed to harsh conditions).

Most codes technically allow it though, sometimes with ‘supplementary corrosion protection’. NEC 358.10(b).

Some electricians use duct tape for the ‘protection’ which is terrible.

Proper pipe wrap is expensive and doing it on your own is a real hassle.

[https://www.electricallicenserenewal.com/Electrical-Continui...] random link with some pictures.

That is one of the areas where plastic really shines - I’ve had great luck with schedule 40 or 80 rated plastic conduit - always go up a step or two in size above
what you think you’ll need unless you hate future you. Schedule 80 for anything exposed to impact or exiting/entering the ground or a building.

And if you’re burying something like conduit, it’s almost always better to bury 2 or 3 instead of 1.
Fortunately for us, there are no laws against wasting time, nor losing opportunity cost, nor doing gainful things with every moment, otherwise Hacker News would be long gone. ;) The manager might be wasting time, but we only have one lopsided view of the situation. Keep in mind that as far as we know, the manager might be protecting the team from something worse, and the employee may have no idea what it is.
Direct link: https://shows.acast.com/the-rich-roll-podcast/episodes/rrp40...
After a multi-client public testnet is running, I mean "under."
> I know why: it is good practice to feed back any input into the state of the React component so everything is in sync.

I used to this. A better approach is to use the onBlur event of the input field to update the text to state. The text itself can be accessed via a reference to the input field in the onBlur event (created with useRef). This makes it so that not every typing action rerenders the whole component.
Not disputing any of your other point but this one:

> 1. Intelligence is not the same as height, as one of these is low-dimensional and mechanical, and the other is high-dimensional and very complex.

Is way off. Height is influenced by a huge number of factors. It’s not just some simple genetic program.
> Also, free software is not guaranteed to be sustained or be in front of the pack

Nor is commercial software. In fact it's more likely than free software to become abandonware.
Oculus 2021 Sales Estimated at 5.3 – 6.8m units
from an eagle eye point of view. A shortage always means, Demand is higher than supply and prices and or supply cant adjust quick enough.

Price cant adjust: Long term contracts, regulation etc.

Supply cant adjust: Move to newer chips (so essentially misplaning), shortage of people, congested supply chains etc.
Won't even load in Brave on Mac.
It's really not that crazy given that the first cases were in a meat market where wild animals were butchered and sold.
I loved The Power of One as an early teen. And yes, it was absolutely chock-full of everything in this article, plus the hero is a white savior, and it featured a huge setting sun with an acacia tree on its cover.

By my late teens I had worked out that setting sun was indicative of a certain kind of book.
Are you interested in collabing on projects like these? Feel free to message me, contact on profile, exploring economic alternatives to extraction and local economic empowerment/autonomy initiatives
Seeing the amount of part theft in Stockholm I understand why they do it. Particularly steering wheels, they steal them and send them to the baltics where they put them in vehicles where the airbag has fired.
If there's nothing worse selling inside it, I'll just use the hard drive for storage or try out attacks on it
That's bullshit - everybody can read and write what they like. Nobody is forced to read a "neo-colonialist" book, and that is the difference to colonialism, which was forced upon people.

If people are unhappy with existing books, they should simply create better books.

And even if they are cliche, I suspect the issues mentioned in the article also do exists. Kids with genital mutilation, starving people, elephants being hunted to extinction and so on, they also exist in Africa.

So everybody should also be allowed to write what they want. Of course you are also allowed to call it "neo-colonialism". Whatever.
The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
> Note that no, the state of the art fabs cannot be re-outfitted to make legacy chips. The old equipment they were developed on is generally no longer available and the profit from making those inexpensive chips would not justify the capital spend on new equipment.

Interesting. I had assumed that the difference between state of the art fabs and older fabs was that state of the art fabs can make smaller things, and perhaps more geometrically complicated things, but that they don't have to. If they wanted to make a design that only uses bigger things and simpler geometry they could.

Where does this assumption break down?
Online static QR code reader, capable of shearing, cropping, etc. I have no idea how to extract a link from an image file with a QR code, at least on a laptop.
Power-tripping middle management is unfortunately a common issue. The question I'd ask is whether this behavior is limited to interviews, or whether it's just particularly visible in the interview situation with the largest power imbalance.

Are there other places whether the manager abuses power dynamics or makes life difficult to sate an ego?
- Do they involve themselves in situations where they're unnecessary?
- Do they make employees grovel and beg for vacation time?
- Are annual reviews a cavalcade of negative feedback where people are just happy they didn't get fired?
- Are people afraid to speak up in the workplace?
DOS was essentially a clone of CP/M, which did not have a hierarchical directory structure either. When the main form of storage were floppy disks which only held a few hundred KB, you generally didn't have enough files to need a directory hierachy.

The addition of hierarchical directories to DOS was driven by the inclusion of hard drives in the PC XT.
What did you get your elevator operator for Christmas?
do you expect javascript, python, java, and C# to have 25% 0-5 YOE?
You're ignoring the parent's point about lab leaks happening all the time. It was only like a decade ago that Congress ran out of carrots and sticks to use against the CDC and finally pulled their auth to do gain of function research in US labs because they could not get their act together. The US CDC's track record of leaks already was reason enough to do what the parent is asking for.
Maybe paid too much attention in that "elective" class Environmental Science in college but this book should have been taken seriously since its publication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
This paragraph in particular gave a good viewpoint - "Either one would be a nice jump from the 3.5 million Oculus units estimated to have sold last year. And it is far better than the anemic sales from before the company put out its first Quest headset in mid-2019. Oculus devices before that mostly required a cable running to a high-powered PC. Such “tethers” have severely limited the appeal of VR devices even to the gamer crowd. Analysts estimate that Sony sold about 5.5 million units of its tethered PlayStation VR headset in the fiscal years 2019 to 2021, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha. That is equivalent to about 12% of the total PlayStation console units the company sold in that time."
COVID-19 presents as being similar to the flu and at least at first mostly killed older people with preexisting conditions. It is entirely possible that SARS-CoV2 had been rampaging across the countryside for some time before reaching Wuhan and being detected there. HIV started spreading in West Africa but was only detected years later in LA and NYC after traveling through multiple island locations.
I sell them or give them away on website, https://www.finn.no/, a bit like Ebay.

Pretty much any functioning laptop will find a buyer if it is capable of running a modern web browser and in many cases there are enthusiasts willing to take hardware that can't even do that.

Over the past couple of years I have sold hundreds of bits of old computers ranging in age from five years old to 25 years old. Everything from ThinkPads to 20 year old power supplies taken from scrapped Compaq desktops and all the components in between including tape drives, DEC terminals, etc.

I also sold a non-functioning Quad 303 power amp for 1000 NOK (112 USD). Could perhaps have got more for it but as it hadn't cost me anything and it had been waiting for repair for over ten years it was a good price.

Someone will want your Mac mini, they just need to be able to find it. Put it on Ebay, Gumtree, Craigslist, Finn.no, or whatever your locality has.
If you just want a hobby, then do art as a hobby have fun. For the most part, ascension in the "art world" starts at a young age with going to art school and following what is a traditional and boring path.
It's almost like initially dismissing and censoring the lableak theory as a racist conspiracy has helped fuel all these other conspiracies. Conflicts of interests like these fuel distrust of authorities and vaccine hesitancy. It's self-inflicted
So some variation in IQ is caused by genetics, but to a very small degree compared to other factors. Am I interpreting (a) and (b) correctly?
The M1 Air has a ~50 Wh battery, ~2 % over ~six hours is ~0.15 W total system power. For comparison, I'm getting ~0.9 W total system power under similar conditions on a five year old laptop (i5-7200U, 16 GB non-LP DDR4, no memory DVFS, MX500 SATA SSD, 1080p IPS screen).

But you'll likely find that the screen/display system is the biggest power hog in light use. For the laptop above just turning the screen on at a low brightness requires around 1.3 W (for a total system power of around 2.2-2.3 W).
Yeah I worked for a company that did all of those things as well, it didn’t change the fact that the interviewer was always less prepared with the second question, and that there’s always wasted time switching between questions. The true nightmare was when a candidate knew two questions in a row, or when they didn’t realize they knew a question until 5-10 minutes in.

In a perfect world every interviewer would calibrate for those minutes lost, but that calibration is fuzzy at best unless it’s built in to your scoring rubric.
A deployable, annular, 30m telescope, space-based observatory [pdf]
Or, perhaps, the key to feeding the world in the short term is petro-chemical based agriculture, leading to massive overpopulation and total collapse.

while another key to feeding the world over a longer time span would involve permaculture-style methods and slower population growth,
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ending corruption in distribution networks and much of the world's governments.
Yes correct, I was reading Open Culture at your link, then I posted via bookmarklet, I'm a bit confused, don't know what happened, sorry. Anyway the url point to one of the article's sources, still curious to understand what happened.
I know exactly how you feel and have been there. It's important to adjust your thinking from "I need to break out of it and I keep failing" to celebrating the individual moments you succeed. One day at a time, as it were. Don't think "I need to start exercising regularly" just do something, go for a walk, lift weights, etc. Don't worry if you are going to do it tomorrow or the next day. You did it today. Good habits aren't things that "start" they occur because you just did something today, and you happened to do it the next, etc. until you just do it because it's a habit now.

I know it's hard, and I have to remind myself of the same things all the time. But I'm successful when I get out of my head and start acting.
I understood OP's visualisation immediately, and I still don't understand yours. Not sure if the fault is in me or it...