skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the Texas storms caused hard power cuts to multiple chip factories, erasing, in the best case, a full month of chip production as they slowly restart the factories [1]. These chips are, btw, generally built on such old tech that Intel is refusing to fab them [2]. So I would have thought a chip was a chip, but apparently car chips can only be sourced from a handful of specific fabs.

Car manufacturers are clearly going to start building huge inventories of them though:

> “Because of a 50-cent chip, we are unable to build a car that sells for $50,000,” said Murat Aksel, head of procurement for Volkswagen Group, during a press briefing in Munich last week. [2]

Ouch. Though honestly, this probably ought to result in some execs being fired... If you sell 100k cars a quarter, imagine telling the board that you saved the interest on $200k and the rent on a small room and that's why you're not selling a vehicle.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/texan-...

[2] https://fortune.com/2021/09/17/chip-makers-carmakers-time-ge...
Great comic! There are definitely ppl out there like this.

I have a rubric of sorts I use to rank people and ideas. This makes it very easy to avoid the dilbert scenario.

Some of these people are very advanced (have contracts / LOIs, MVP, funding)
Why black plastic doesn't get recycled
VCs tend to believe that market validation can be done with engineers at any level of competence so why not go cheap? Then once you have that market validation you can always decide to hire competent people to clean up the mess. That way they get to take more shots, and solve the hiring problem as well because it is far easier to hire kids than it is to hire seasoned pros who might have a bunch of demands.
> This isn't some grand conspiracy to increase homelessness and increase the cost of housing. The problem is that we elect idiots to local government.

There’s a bit of both, but it’s not a conspiracy. Most cities have this problem (even outside US), because the issue is that most baby boomers have their financial health tied in real estate.

This makes those policies ideal, because they look like attacking the problem without really fixing anything.
A special thanks to all who replied! The spirit of the question was definitely less “how do I avoid taxes” and more “what other things should I be considering”, _but_ I’ve learned that I definitely need to find a good accountant and tax person because what I’m doing now in that regard is horribly inefficient.

I love the wide range of suggestions I received as this is exactly what I was looking for and the HN community didn’t disappoint.

Aside from tax/accounting/business stuff, here are some great takeaways/ideas I got from you all:

- First and foremost, and I’m extremely embarrassed to admit that it hadn’t even occurred to me, I want to start sponsoring folks working on open source projects. I definitely make considerable use of such projects and will definitely start supporting them monetarily.

- Related to the point above, I like the idea of sponsoring artists—-musicians, local museums, etc. I don’t have Muskmoney to throw at the community to make all artists rich, but I can definitely help fund a project or two for a year or something.

- I love the idea of sponsoring some local sports teams.

- “Pay for Sublime Text” made me chuckle.

- I’ve tried offering more money to my other developer, but they already have a well-paying job and this person was more of a mentor to me through the whole process and they are just happy to see the project succeeding.

- Donate to charity. Love the idea, but as others pointed out it’s hard to figure out where to put that money. I’m thankful for the givewell and charitynavigator links and will check them out.

- Assume it won’t last forever. This I know, and it’s part of the reason I wanted to ask HN. It’s operating profitable enough to get me set for life, so once I’m there, I now have a lot of good resources to turn to to see what else I should focus attention and money on.

Thanks again HN!
Also consider the budgets these engineers have to work with now. If cars had an average unit cost measured in 7-9 figures (i.e. like a Boeing 777), I would have substantially more trust in everything involved.
> As for putting things in threads, I would consider it a huge hack to move open/close. Threads are not and will never be mandatory to have great responsiveness.

The POSIX interface was invented for batch processing. Long running non-interactive jobs. This is why it lacks timing requirements. All well-designed interactive GUI applications do not interact with the file system on their main thread. This is especially true for game display loops. The fundamental problem here is that they are doing unbounded work on a thread that has specific timing requirements (usually 16.6ms per loop). As I’ve said elsewhere, this bug will still manifest itself no matter how fast you make close(), just depends on how many device files are present on that particular system. It’s a poor design. Well designed games account for every line of code run in their drawing loop.

> This is absolutely a kernel bug.

I don’t think that is proven unless the original author can chime in. It’s your best guess and opinion that the author intended to not block on synchronize_rcu but it’s perfectly possible they did indeed intend the code as written. synchronize_rcu is used in plenty of other critical system call paths in similar ways, not every one of those uses is a bug. I would guess you might be slightly suffering from tunnel vision a bit here given how the behavior was discovered.

If it is indeed the case the synchronize_rcu is taking up to 50ms I would suspect there is a deeper issue at play on this machine. By search/replacing the call with call_rcu or similar you may just be masking the problem. RCU updates should not be taking that long.
They are hot/new if one is fresh to the game. If you've been around like 10 years be prepared for many repeating patterns. My personal favourite is the flapping between Server side and Client side business-logic - and the same circular conversations.
My reading of the poster's comment was that you don't literally lose your right to vote but may *effectively* lose your right to vote simply through bureaucratic requirements. In the US, you can still vote as a homeless person, however you are required to list where you reside. A quick google led me to the instructions "mark your residence as a homeless shelter" which still could be prohibitive to those who chose not to live in a shelter, those experiencing homelessness in areas without shelters, etc.

It may seem trivial to some -- "just vote somewhere with a shelter" but it's worth noting that homelessness as a state is an extreme burden and these kind of options simply may not exist depending on an individual.
Acronym stands for Public Housing In My Backyard. (I had to look this up)
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It can take time for supply to increase. Chip fabs can't be built instantly no matter how much money you're willing to throw it the problem, any more than babies can be made in five months if the mother really tries hard.
What about PDS Basic?
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Also criminal might not be as "dark web" lurid-sounding as it might sound- it might just be otherwise law-abiding citizens from certain countries trying to move capital out.
> Developers on call should be paid extra

Sadly there are many organisations out there who don't respect employee annual leave and expect their engineering team to be on-call without compensation. The usual excuses are things like "it's the holidays, it'll be quiet".
That's only true in relatively small areas. Most places resisting home construction are full of homeowners. The political impact is larger in SF/LA because they give left cover to homeowners, but even that's not a thing in most states and cities.
>If growing cities are consistently unaffordable, that's a national problem.

Affordable and unaffordable is a subjective measure. Clearly there are a lot of people willing to live on the razor's edge for the benefits they perceive coastal California cities provide (and other areas with higher than average demand relative to supply).
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Liberal policymakers in my town push heavily for homes to be built, thought they push for "affordable" housing specifically, which maybe is a mistake.
That's usually regulated by states.

California Business and Professions Code 22507: "the ticket price of any event which is canceled, postponed, or rescheduled shall be fully refunded to the purchaser by the ticket seller upon request."[1] The seller thus has the financial risk if the event is cancelled. This is coming up a lot during the epidemic.

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if the need arises, another browser supporting widevine can be easily used

why be limited to a single browser? we can diversify usage to reduce reliance on a single software provider
That connection has been contested, but even if that is the case, nobody using git would think of that, since slaves aren't a thing in git itself.
I used to work in EVs (and tangentially still do). They really only require some power electronics - gate drivers and IGBTs - in addition to the normal bunch of chips all over the vehicle. So even if demand was "skyrocketing" rather than being a tiny fraction of the market, they shouldn't impact the demand for chips on regular cars.
I agree with you that many people are just echoing whatever they see on social media, but it’s easier than ever to read the primary literature for yourself. Synthesizing what you read in in introduction sections can be a good way to get a sense for the current consensus, and they are usually pretty accessible if the paper is any good.

As a layperson the technical meat of the research is harder to assess, but there are lit reviews and editorials that you can read, in addition to reading blog posts and such by people in the field
This seems trivial to recognize & bypass with good old image processing without even having to use machine learning.
My rule on mobile is if it takes more than 5 seconds to load it's time to hit the X and go somewhere else (unless it's my bank's page or something that's actually necessary)
I don't care where you work but would love if you could point/list some other smart things they do. Those things where it's so smooth nobody notices - that is the hot shit to copy.
I'm still not really getting why "huge" matters though, unless you're doing very small embedded work.

Which I'd argue Go isn't a great choice in the same way that running full linux on a limited microcontroller is not a good choice. Every systems language shouldn't have to over complicate it's run time to squeeze kilobytes out if 99% of use cases are running on modern personal computers. (C or TinyGo, or a variety of languages are better suited for embedded)

Like, yeah, 5 cents is huge compared to 1 cent, but we're dealing in hundred dollar bills here.
Patent shows the Apple Watch Digital Crown might be replaced by optical sensors
I don't see any evidence of this. The most likely scenario is the original complaint confused BBB (totally pay-to-play, scam) with CR.

CR doesn't review this category and a search of past CR review categories doesn't yield moving services. In general, they don't review anything regional.
What has he been wrong about?
Just out of curiosity, is it the norm in the US to be able to exceed a third of your income in rents ?

In my country, in theory, you cannot have more than 33% of your income used to pay rent.

Well, it’s not forbidden, the bank can be flexible, but they surely are double checking because they take the risk for the debt to be cleared if you became insolvent because of them.
>People live in these places because that's where the jobs are. You can move to a 'cheap' city, but you'll find that it's cheap because the pay is equally cheap.

I was making just as much in Chicago as I was in LA, and my rent was about 50% less, and I didn't need a car. This was in a much more desirable area where I could do all of my grocery shopping, hit several bars, and generally socialize ( met my first real girlfriend in real life) without driving.

>The bigger problem is that the landowning class is viciously extracting far more wealth from the populace than is warranted by the service they provide, and using that wealth to lobby to prevent competition that would reduce the rents they extract.

The competition is the rest of America, you can find a $1,500 two-bedroom in Chicago because several other landlords have to compete.

If you mentally trap yourself in a place like LA, then sure two bedrooms start at $2,800 and there's nothing you can do. Sure, you can hop on Twitter and complain. Your rent is still 2,800. Aside from a full-blown communist revolution, I don't see a way to make a place like LA affordable for normal people
I think he's talking about the embed that goes to https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/14770042390251847...
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No, they'd simply redefine what the word homeless means.
check your CPU/GPU usage before and after to make sure you want to pay that price
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for what it's worth, the EU didn't "save" Romania with money. The net cash inflows are about 1-2% of GDP each year, while Romania grew at around 5% for 2 decades. They did indeed saved Romania by forcing it to modernize in order to get in.
> "Default MRI" (i.e. fully sampled) should definitely be acquired when possible when testing

It seems unlikely you wouldn’t appreciate this already, but clinical MRI has not fully sampled in a long time.
Between the old and the new - reduced phase resolution (image plane and slice plane) parallel imaging, compressed sense (or sensing), reduced frequency resolution with partial echo techniques, high reconstruction max trim with low acquisition matrix, the list is quite long.

The changes in resulting artefacts as acceleration techniques change (eg high compressed sense values) is a bit of a change to how people work. Very digital looking artefacts are just gross.

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I think we need more information in order to provide useful advice. What non-work things have you done with your time in the past two years?
It would help to make a distinction between those who become homeless because they're addicts and those who became addicts because they were homeless. Providing housing to the later group would slow the growth of long-term homelessness by not letting people fall so far that they get stuck on the addict path.
The point of an architecture license is that you license the ISA itself but can design your own chip from the transistor up :) There's like 15 holders of ARM architecture license. As long as Apple properly implements the ISA and passes validation, they can literally do whatever they want to the core itself (not just the SoC around it).

Most ARM users have much more limited licenses, and can only buy and fab IP blocks designed by someone else (usually ARM).

That is the case of Amazon, the Graviton used A72 cores, and the Graviton II uses Neoverse N1, which are derived from the A76 with more focus on server workloads.

Both are designed by and licensed from ARM.
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I read through this whole exchange.

If we're being completely fair here, not only did scabarott leave ChrisMashallNY's points unaddressed, but you and ChrisMashallNY seem to leave scabarott's points unaddressed. To me, it seems that entire exchange is largely emotion based lashing out. Yes, these comments make a few points on both sides here and there, but nothing really worth taking the time to address given what appear from the outside to be ingrained and intransigent attitudes toward other viewpoints among all the participating commenters.
I think the only issue there might be that google might be unaware that it is a paywalled content due to how many sites allow crawlers access to content but not to users (based on crawler ip ranges). Agree such a flag would save time when available or even a search filter option to skip those results.
Mental health and addiction issues. (The later is the root of most of the former.)
Exactly. How do we know this wasn’t just copyright protection? And in any case, YouTube is notorious for removing anything controversial with no regard for censorship concerns. It’s what they do.
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If you want to truly watch and dive into a tarkovsky (and auteur cinéma in general) film I highly advise you to watch them in your local cinémathèque/cineteca. I've watched the films years ago on a laptop but when I recently saw some during the retrospective at the kinemathek in Berlin it was an incomparable experience.

Edit: plus you'll see the films with their lovely original laser subtitles.
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> it'll solve even more problems

Wow. Why doesn’t everyone do this?
Not sure how relevant that is, but JWST will operate in quite extreme setting. The mirror has to be cooled to 44K IIRC because it is trying to observe in IR, and this is the main reason why JWST is so complex in terms of engineering.

The abstract at least doesn’t mention IR observation, in eg visible spectrum JWST would surely be built differently (more cheaply).

EDIT in fact they do reference JWST but I guess only as a point of comparison, as it does have a large mirror. Their parameters table shows observations would be in visible spectrum (450-750nm).
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Damn, it just blew my mind that video calls are now commonplace, keyword: Zoom...

(Yes it was a thing even before Zoom or the pandemic, but I wonder what percentage of the population did their first video call in Q2 2020...)
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