skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the volume vs cost problem. You could put a fab together for under a million - but to do so your would trade labor for automation. A simple chip that a large fab can make for a profit (amortized) selling for 5 cents each would cost you more than $50,000 each to make. If you only need one chip that price is worth it, but most users of a chip are thinking a lot more and it typically turns out that getting a large fab to do your part is not only cheaper, but faster. Still you can do the highly manual process of making a chip if that is what you want to pay for.
Meanwhile the people who are making iPhone are working in abhorrent conditions. [1] Apple has huge margins and is hording ridiculous amounts of cash. There is zero reasons for this. Shame on all of us for letting this go on.

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Many large U.S. companies already have a legal presence in countries all over the world because they have sales offices there.

For example, here is the list of Google offices in Asia: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-paci...
Why is it authoritarian and condescending for a government to provide service and address societal problems, but no less authoritarian or condescending for a government to be in the business of protecting the rights that any self-respecting freeholder should be ready and willing to do so?
Haha. No. I quit advanced physics at Schrodinger's equation.

Turns out I preferred studying Hamilton instead of Hamiltonians.
They reached 1T in 2018
Trailers often have radically different things then the theaterical releases. That can be scenes, tinting, or sounds, so simply having a trailer with a different tint does not prove how it was originally shown.
She was talking about ethno-stalinists, not fascists
DOS 2.0 was originally supposed to be a single-user version of Xenix. There were some undocumented options to make it more Unix-like, which were removed in later versions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo8NG8T4rWs

The connection with Xenix is also pretty clear from the file names and comments in the released source code:

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v2.0/source/...
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> It's hard to make a fission reactor both large enough for commercial scale and safe without cooling.

Gen IV reactors all fit that bill. They all have passive safety properties (so, cut the power and the plant shuts down, no nuclear meltdowns) and they have very large outputs (2GW in the largest plants).

> The second benefit is not producing high level radioactive waste. With fission you can't really get away from the decay products of your fissile materials, they're intrinsic to the process.

Again, Gen IV reactors are much better than previous reactors in this aspect. While they do produce radio active waste, it's generally far more used (producing less waste) and radioactive for a far shorter time (hundreds of years vs 1000s).

> The regulatory framework is a real concern, depending on how many rules carry over from fission reactors.

This is the big sticking point that hurts the bottom line of fission reactors and will hurt fusion reactors. Without changes to the laws, nuclear power plants are going to have a rough time turning a profit. They mostly aren't unprofitable because of construction cost, but rather regulatory overhead.

It takes over 10 years to construct and turn on new reactors in the US, which is a major problem.
Perhaps you would like me to publicly declare my other protected characteristics in all my correspondence? My religion perhaps? Ethnicity, race, that I have a disability? It is not always with good intent, instead it is a demand to publicise a characteristic by which others will often judge you. If you want to announce that you are he/him she/her, they/them go ahead. But don't demand other people do it, because I have a right to privacy.
No-till is a fairly mainstream practices and it’s upsides and downsides have been known for years. My point was this kind of research has real and very dramatic impacts making it fairly easy to verify stuff.

As to yields on an individual farm or even state they very quite a bit from the national average. For example the state of Oregon averaged twice as much (241) as Montana per acre in 2020. https://www.cropprophet.com/historical-average-state-corn-yi... The cost benefit needs to consider local conditions rather than simply pointing at a national average.
> Also, homelessness itself can trigger mental issues across the general population who previously were well to do.

I'm sure it does but I'm genuinely curious whether this legitimately drives a significant increase in mental issues. Anecdotally as someone who's always been able bodied thus able to find day labor doing mindless unskilled work like moving drywall even in the worst economies, I find homelessness to be less stressful as the responsibilities and day to day worries just were much more basic. It takes maybe 2 hours of day labor a day to live a luxurious by homeless standard existence (plenty of money for food, drink, patching tent/shelter, maintaining excellent REI-tier outdoor clothing that ensure you're nice and warm in all climates, etc). By contrast, now that I have legal residence-zoned housing (in my state I could be found in violation of child negligence laws if I don't provide whatever CPS considers adequate shelter, so I have no choice) I find my stresses and worries to be much higher as the amount of money needed to maintain artificially limited thus expensive housing to be significantly higher.

If you are of sound body and mind, free of addiction and able and willing to work a couple hours a day (which believe it or not, lots of shitty jobs will tolerate you not being showered or whatever just fine), being homeless can be a pretty easy and low worry - even freeing - existence.
"The only interface a programmer has above the actual hardware is the kernel itself."

Laughs in bare metal.
I've yet to meet an ideological bias against Go that took into account & understood the practical tradeoffs Go is making. The ones I've seen thus far are dismissive and incurious. But if you've got that, I would love to hear it.
I always considered the idea of CBC to be... extremely weird. Having government approved journalists on government payroll sure sounds like something out of China, Russia or Cuba. Not a western democracy.
From the article:

> To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.

Here you can see someone "from the top" made that request and that the (taxpayer funded) employees are filling out their request. So much for "journalistic independence".

To me that, and that they are using taxpayer money to fund sitcoms and entertainment while it's one of the most profitable businesses on earth, is completely bizarre. I mean Disney and Marvel made billions just last year simply by producing content people want to watch!

> Most journalists know if they get paid they are expected to promote the owner's views - the line between pr and journalism is a fine one - but that they will be promoting wholesome, useful values and information. When the owners lurch too far people leave, both writers and readers/viewers, leaving a weak core.

At the same time they can push this ultra-liberal agenda because they aren't subjected to market forces. It doesn't matter if more and more people tune out, funding is guaranteed and comes straight from the (captive) taxpayers.

Lastly, for an "anti-racist" media, they aired content that was quite racist not that long ago, and refused to edit any of it. [0]. Maybe some races are more equal than other according to these people!

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cbc-apology-story-of-u...
Bob Lazar and flat earthers is harmless but people have lost their lives because of lies and falsehoods being punted by some in the IDW.
Remember when ma bell was split up? Now there's a strong distaste for breaking up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antit... - The FTC seems to prefer to prevent monopolies by considering and blocking acquisitions... but this clearly has blind spots.

Like all economic systems, a strong and independent state/gov't is required to force-fix issues that don't make financial sense to fix (ex. FDA creation after The Jungle). I think our current system is suffering from regulatory capture, and I don't see a way to resolve this kind of near-corruption. Corporatism will continue until the system is no longer sustainable, which likely will never happen (within our lifetimes).
IIRC each streaming service has a different set of acceptance criteria. I haven't read about color grading in this regard, but Netflix, Disney etc. do control things like audio levels to ensure that the experience is even across their different media titles -- having to crank up the volume on one title, only to be blown away when starting another one is a poor user experience. Requirements around mean audio level can have non-trivial impacts on the experience of a film -- ones with a lot of quiet/loud contrast may be affected differently from ones with less peaky audio tracks.

I hadn't thought about it before, but it makes sense that this would apply to the visual aspect as well.
Not to mention the fact that throwing a paywall in front of pretty thinly veiled sponsored content feels like double dipping to begin with.
TikTok, to my eyes, has produced a vastly superior brand of heroin. TikTok is the Fentanyl to Reddit and Twitter's crack rocks.
Wasn’t that plan shutdown by Apple?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-india-foxconn-iphone-plan...
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where is microsoft, possibly even nvidia
>Publishers were only able to produce high-quality content because, with no conversion metrics, advertisers were willing to overpay for placement.

This implies that big budget advertisers (the CPGs, like Coke and P&G), are buying Google/FB because they have better conversion metrics. That isn't true today; only SMBs and gaming companies care about conversion metrics. There are interns in LA/NY probably collectively spending millions on FB for P&G and only reporting the number of likes back to their bosses. Google and FB has never meaningfully delivered on conversions past anything like app downloads.

Tech undermined publisher's revenue because the internet cratered distribution costs. Advertising revenues for big media crashed because the eyeballs moved away, not because it was any less efficient.
"Prove" is too strong a word and I shouldn't have used it. That's why the challenge is "convince", not "prove". But I don't think anyone ever even suspected that Euclid was from the future.
This reminds me of Drexler's early nanotechnology work.

They need to fabricate something, anything, to validate that they can get those devices to work at that scale. Things are not Newtonian down there.
What about someone who's hobby is working with tech but they also work in tech as a career? Does that make them unemployable somehow?
Everyone has "that one thing" right? How many guys at parties have tried to seem interesting by telling everyone how overrated the Beatles are or how the MCU isn't really even movies when you think about it.

goes back to humming "Little Black Rain Cloud" to himself
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Honestly, how much of a hinderance is that? A person could just supply a recording of another person, couldn't they?
I think the problem is that choice is a burden. When there's only one version of a film available, it's great. But then a "better" version becomes available and all of a sudden it's not great. Or is it? Now you need to think twice before you watch that film as you wouldn't want to miss the better version.

I believe this the subject of a book The Paradox of Choice. I've only read a synopsis of it and it seems to match my own experience.
> start my own company

Then the obvious question is: How would you feel if you had an employee doing the same?
The original Carlo Strozzi "NoSQL" database did exactly what you said.

It was an RDBMS.

It supported joins.

It just didn't use SQL syntax; it used a stream-operator paradigm.

Instead of "OUTER JOIN" you used "jointable -al"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strozzi_NoSQL
> I built 32 kernels, one for each bit of the SHA-1 prefix, which only took 29 minutes.

Oh, that is evil, thank you. I even encountered a link to this article a couple of months ago[1], but wasn’t hooked enough to go and read it.

Though the conclusion sounds somewhat dubious to me: the kernel doesn’t document or control stack usage limits for the vDSO, they happen to blow way up on a system built with obscure (if arguably well-motivated) compiler options, a language runtime that tries to minimize stack usage crashes as a result, and somehow the fault is with the runtime in question for not going via libc (which happens to virtually always run with a large stack and a guard page, thus turning this insidious concurrent memory corruption bug into a mere extremely unlikely crash)?

More like we’re collectively garbage at accounting for our stack usage. To be fair to the kernel developers, I would also never guess, looking at this implementation of clock_gettime() [2], that you could compile it in such a way that it ends up requiring 4K of stack space on pain of memory corruption in concurrent programs only (it originating in the kernel source tree has little to do with the bug, it’s just weirdly-compiled userspace C code executing on a small unguarded stack).

[1] in <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRun...> via <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CStackS...>, <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/StackSizeLimit...>, and <https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/StackSizeLimit...>.

[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/C/ident/__cvdso_cloc...
The fact that the film is 55 years old means most visitors here have not seen it (this isn't a classic films forum and the majority of HN readers were born long after the film came out), and the quality of the discussion here increases the odds people might be interested in seeing it. Why spoiler the film for them by needlessly including a detail that's a plot surprise but irrelevant to the subject matter of the discussion here?
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> but most simple game designs don't really benefit from the powerful type systems of a Rust or Haskell (or even a TypeScript).

I get that feeling too but I have no experience with game development. I wonder what reasons you think so?
In 2013 I elaborated about this topic: http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng... I would add that in 2021 we can easily do Natural Language Understading (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) and can build zillions of web pages that don't follow the original page ranking concept of Google. Probably important sites share less low rank pages and there are many more link rings and clusters. More decentralized blogs seems a thing of the past (expecting to be rebooted in the future).
Intellectual property
I remember only really vague trailers before the movie came out. All centered around the "No one can be told what the matrix is.." line. There was kind of a glut of movies around that time (esp. Sixth Sense and Fight Club) that were trying to disguise a reality-bending secret and The Matrix was definitely one of them in my memory.

Once the movie was out though there were more detailed trailers.
Maybe it's because I'm not American and am pretty unfamiliar with that system, but yeah.

To be clear I'm not disagreeing with OP or saying nobody else is to blame, I just didn't fully understand. I was glad someone else had asked and hoped to scroll down and understand, not find an argument, I think everyone had good intentions here.
I read a blog post mentioning how Google artificially boosted Wikipedia in search results years ago. So movement up or down is a result manipulation on their part.
When I saw your comment I was reminded of Dorothy Parker's quote. And indeed, what should I find in the link... (I did like Milne's books as a child though.)

He did write some other things that were definitely not as child-oriented. I saw his play The Dover Road when I was in London a number of years back.
When I read the headline I said to myself "I won't believe this unless the car was a 2CV!" Surprise! Another 2CV story. But seeing the contraption I still don't believe it. Nonetheless this remains a good yarn and can only add to the 2CV's charisma.
In absolutely no way does any beef sold in stores contain artificial color.
A newspaper reporter I knew in the early-90s did much the same with an external drive. Notes, then stories that came from the notes, were saved with a name-datetimestamp name, every time that person got up for some reason, or answered the phone, or felt like it.

The 'master' file was the one on the local HD.

That reporter was me.
Security and privacy are a nightmare. I wouldn't trust anything that requires heavy levels of compliance. However if you're a private individual or a startup, I'd go all-in until you either outgrow them or can afford nicer things.

Zoho user for 5+ years here.
An object in a halo orbit spends most of its time out of Earth's shadow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_orbit#/media/File:Animati...

Hubble used cooled instruments, warm mirror. If you only partially cool a mirror then thermal expansion effects will mess up the focus. In the paper they propose heating segments that are shadowed, to keep the whole mirror at the same temp.
> US military at least, the prevention of prisoner escape is a justification for deadly force regardless of the reason for imprisonment

Well, the world is aware that the US tends to have a "shoot first, ask later" policy.

Meanwhile, time for your regular reminder that in the UK policing operates on a consent basis. Overall this basis has served the UK well for the last few hundred years.

Even Tasers are classed as a weapon requiring specific training prior to issue.

So, for example in London there are about 40,000 officers, only about 7,000 of them are issued with tasers, even fewer of them get to walk around with pistols, and even fewer of them get to drive around in cars with semi-automatics in the boot.

Use of a weapon is taken seriously, if an officer discharges in public, it results in instant referral to the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) for independent investigation. This is not with a view of punishing the officer (unless they did wrong, obviously), but with the view of reviewing processes and procedures and whether use of the weapon could have been avoided (or indeed done better).

I'll take UK policing over US policing any day of the week.
"She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously."

That's the key line there. A more highly connected world, intermediated electrically.
Rotoscoping of “Out of This World” / “Another World” [video]
It seems you haven't been around Seattle DT.
I'm from a 3rd world country and it's really bad even by my standards.
We also didn't have the internet back then for people to immediately call bullshit on stories like this, so there was a higher chance for it to enter the urban mythology without much question. Once it would have hit Reader's Digest, man, it would have practically been a fundamental law of nature.
I actually mostly agree. I just don't really like the aesthetics of writing Go, which I know is a silly reason.
I'm actually not pushing for anything, and since I wasn't following antivaxxers this is all new to me. I guess this was my 10000 moment for the day (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
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In my experience there's usually not much speed advantage to be had from assembly unless you have a specific thesis about how you're going to do better than the code that a good compiler would generate; e.g. the article author skipping C runtime setup overhead, or Mike Pall dissecting the ARM implementation of one of the bytecodes in LuaJIT (recommended!):

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hkzg8/author_o...

Unless you can think of something you can do in assembly that a compiler just wouldn't be able to think of, their ability to generate good machine code is really quite impressive:

https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/will-it-optimize.html