skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s be more like bonobos and less like chimps.
There are several commercially viable desktop OSes other than Windows and MacOS, but they are not mass market. I knowingly wrote my comment to exclude specialist players addressing niche markets because they have completely different adoption dynamics.

Actually ChromeOS is arguably mass market. That's all beside the point though really. It doesn't change the fact that the dynamics that drive consolidation are actually in a very large part motivated by user self interest.
With EPAS your steering wheel still physically steers the wheel via the rack and pinion gears.

With ABS and ESC, most cars on the road today have a computer involved in the braking system. It seems pretty safe.
Web desktops usually aren't meant to be a true replacement of an actual OS. They tend to be long-tailed exercises that marry web development and desktop development.
Ask HN: I want to use my phone as a webcam, I want an 100% open-source solution
There does not seem to be an application that will allow me to do that.
I need the application to be 100% FOSS and to stream the same quality from the phone to my linux desktop, if I could use USB instead of wifi even better.
>So do you think it would be better if Facebook didn't do any moderation at all?

1) Holy strawman batman

2) If they were unmoderated or lightly moderated cesspits of degeneracy then maybe their ability to pick sides on a whim wouldn't matter. Nobody cares if 4Chan bans something or cancels someone because nobody takes platforms like that seriously in the first place.
There's a small pot of land in my city that starts right where one of our parks end. It's not fenced, the amount of traffic (people, dogs, cats, trucks) is similar to that of the park.

On that land, grass grows freely, bushes stretch and grow at will, weeds come and go throughout the year. Native flowers bloom seemingly out of nowhere. There's always bees, mosquitoes, ticks, birds and the likes during the warmer months. Every fall, a new layer of mulch forms as leaves, plant matter and dog poop gets stuck in the grass and plants, protecting the soil from both heat and winter in the coming year.

On the park land, there is an annual cycle of desperate attempts to keep the grasses and bushes alive.

Each fall, months of cutting the grasses short, plucking weeds, removing leaves and plant matter, cutting down bushes to "encourage root growth" and general practices that expose the soil to sunlight during dry months have decimated most plants. By winter, something like half of all grasses are gone, a small section of bushes get diseased and die off, leaving only a few patches of healthy soil versus a large amount of compacted earth and/or mud that gets washed away during heavy rain fall.

Each spring, the city drives heavy machinery to replant most of the grass(es) again. The earth being heavily compacted, all seeds land on top of the soil. They subsequently dry out in the sun, and a large majority of them never get to root. The regrowth of grass is either via direct transplant (soil and everything) or when people in the neighbourhood plants their own seeds (and make sure to water them) after deaf complaints to the city/municipality.

Taking inspiration, we tried to replicate such a system for our shared courtyard.

Branches, twigs, leaves and food waste is composted and used as mulch (though we started with store-bought wood chips). No dirt is exposed to sunlight or frost, only plants are. Barely no effort to remove weeds as very few are strong enough to grow through all that mulch. When we are forced to restrict water usage during the driest months, most plants pull through, with some having minor die off or they just look droopy and sad until next rainfall.

The neighbours (three courtyards) do it the more traditional way of removing leaves, dead plants and pulling the large(r) amount of weeds that pop up in the barren soil. During years when water use is restricted, a lot of their plants and flowers dry up and die, causing them to buy and replant new ones the season after.

We've managed to convince some by showing them our results, but so far it's only us in our block that does this.

It's madness, and I wouldn't be suprised if there were similar stories with (industrialized, work-intensive) farming.
If you want actual advice... What I have done in the past is coach candidates that the interview process will suck but the job is good for xyz reasons. Its hard to do if you dont get to be the first touch point for the candidate but it did work at least 50% of the time.
> "trail", which you are probably confusing with "non paved path"

This terminology difference might be meaningful in biking circles, but the places I go are designated as "trails" both colloquially and often by various governments.

> Take the same bike, replace the suspended fork with a steel rigid fork and remove the electronics and you have a bike that can be ridden for years with decent maintenance.

Wouldn't it be too heavy as a normal bike? From what I understand, ebike frames work out cheaper because they don't have to care about not making them heavy.
I went through an active search two years ago, and what I learned is that cofounder fit is super hard to find, and probably impossible to timebox. But I thought that similar to how zettelkasten allows your ideas to grow into essays, I could grow the size and strength of my network until it becomes extremely obvious that someone is a great fit.

Furthermore, the best fit might be someone who is not on the cofounder market, that way I might be able to recruit them first.

Interesting approach by OP. As a technical founder I am similarly taking the approach of meeting as many people as I can and sharing, building in public, being helpful, but not with the frame of cofounder dating. If we really vibe with someone, then we can take it further. Meanwhile I make progress on my idea that I find meaningful.

Good luck on your journey, Abe!
What if we force people to wait before they can comment?
My first advice ($10K/mo solo founder) is to not be complacent. Most likely competition will eat up your revenue if you don't invest in maintaining your customers - whatever that means to you (could be product upkeep, marketing, new features)
It's way more known among people who were involved when FSF was a bigger force than it is now, but not anymore.
> How refreshing to see a mention of generative art that isn't followed by the mention of "NFTs".

Well, thanks for kicking things off for us!
Ghidra uses an intermediate language called p-code. When defining the CPU opcodes (and how to parse them), you also write a small snippet of p-code that represent that instruction. This makes the decompiler architecture agnostic.

Example: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master...
The world just set a record for sending the most rockets into orbit
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> They design chips and market them. They do both things like no other company on this planet.

Latter for sure, former not so much. Apple is not designing its own CPUs (but ARM does) nor they are physically manufacturing or improving the silicon process (but TSMC does), they build SoCs like many other companies out there. This means that they can't make an advantage over the competitors by:

1. Making the silicon process more advanced
2. Improving CPU microarchitecture
3. Improving CPU instruction pipeline
4. Improving CPU branch prediction or OOO execution
5. Making the TLB page-walker algorithms more efficient
6. Making better cache-coherency protocols
7. Implementing their own bus interconnect which is faster than others
8. Designing better RAM modules
9. Etc. etc. (I could go on and on but I guess the point is visible)

What Apple can do to make a difference is that they can fine tune the SoC microarchitectural details but hardly anything else. By looking at the specs of M1's, the biggest outliers with respect to other chips of the same or similar class currently existing on the market are:

1. RAM and CPUs are physically co-located on the same die
2. RAM is advanced to (LP)DDR5
3. CPU caches are massive (L1, L2 and TLB)
4. There's a separate cluster of CPUs for low-power mode execution

First three things from the list is what is making M1's so fast, and especially the third point. Enlarging CPU caches has been done by the server CPUs like forever and which is the reason why quite old (2014) 2x Xeon system can eat AMD Ryzen 9 5950X for breakfast in some of the multicore workloads I ran (and I mean substantially). Last thing from the list above is what is making this chip more power efficient and this technique is as old as the moment when big.LITTLE was introduced in 2011. In nowadays ARM chips it is known as DynamIQ but the concept is the same: conserving energy by running less power hungry CPUs when workload does not require the full power (which in average user is most of the time).
Yeah something happens where the achievement in the arbitrary job becomes a main dopamine driver. You feel like you're progressing by getting stuff done fast, but really you're just on a hamster wheel working for some big company.

You gotta use your time off to do other stuff. That's why people travel etc, because it changes your environment, people, food, etc. It lets you step out of that daily routine and mental pathways and feedbacks.
I used to use a really great lightweight (5k) library in Flash for simple 3D geometry, polygon shading, etc. (anything simple that could be handled on CPU without uploading anything to GPU; I'm not sure I would attempt to do a full screen terrain with it, but a test would tell). So yeah obviously if you need a couple triangles, look elsewhere than ThreeJS. I'm just saying it's a fantastic library... there's really nothing else equivalent in the ecosystem at this point. It is what Away3D was to Flash, which is a compliment.
Exactly. I predict people will solve climate change problems and space travel will be affordable. A visionary!
I don't think they are suggesting that people should starve. They are suggesting that we need to stop making so many damn people, so that we can transition to better farming methods (among other things).

From my uneducated perspective, the pain of "not having enough young people" due to declining population growth is a temporary problem, whereas reducing the long-term population growth trajectory is still a good thing. Is that wrong?
Each one of us carries about 5L of fluid... it's just kind of mission-critical.
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How does one even get into the cofounder speed-dating circuit? My background is software engineer, SE manager, occasionally playing PM/TPM at a big company. I want to build something cool. Ideas are cheap, need someone who understands execution.
>Unstable governments have been an endemic problem (See "colonialism," above).

That implies other causes (which you yourself mentioned above) are minor by comparison. Surely this was true in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. But now, 50-60 years later, that explanation alone just doesn't cut it. A lot of places were colonized outside of Africa too, often much more brutally than many parts of Africa (whose colonial legacy is as heterogenous as other things you mention), and are on average doing better (hence the ugly 'poor man Africa' caricature this piece lampoons so well). And yet the onset, length or brutality of colonization doesn't seem to coincide well with stability or quality of governance. Heck, Ethiopia almost got away with not being colonized at all.

Like yourself, I don't know what to prescribe. I do know that it should be Africans themselves doing the prescribing.
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>> Combined with enhanced selective pressure on the spike protein RBD due to mass vaccination campaigns, these are scientifically supported alternative explanations for the observations in OP.

Gotta be careful saying stuff like that in places other than HN ;-) People freak out at the notion of vaccines driving the evolution of new strains.
Birthdays are an exception to this rule.

Generally I think Dates (without time) are usually considered time-less and therefore timezone-less.

In fact the examples you mention are only a concern when considering the start or end of Christmas Day, and not the actual date of Christmas Day.
>I would add a KYC type of clause to it though. Basically if you can identify the speaker of a piece of content, then they are responsible, otherwise the online platform is responsible.

The last thing internet platforms need is more incentives to invade users' privacy.
Apple also licenses it from the same party - it holds an "Architecture License" from ARM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10190521
Interesting connection.

Perhaps it isn't as direct as the Scrooge McDucks of the world saying "we're running out of Plan A (oil) rent seeking assets so let's move to Plan B".

It still works even if it is just that capitalists preferentially look for rent-seeking opportunities over value creation because it is easier and longer lasting (and most of them aren't actually smart enough to consistently create value).

Kind of ironic that two movements I see in younger generations are 1) 'anti-capitalism', and 2) 'be minimalist, own as little as possible and rent everything'. #2 falls right into the capitalist's trap.
I went to undergrad for graphic design and worked along side several artists in the art building, and I also know of a few working artists. I'd like to present you my brief anecdotal understanding of their art careers.

Recognition and shows usually come from connections, many of which are formed over a four year liberal arts education. Indeed, college and university art programs put on multiple shows a year, and a local community college art class can be a very cheap way to enter into a small but passionate art world. Many of the fine artists/illustrators from my school's art program ended up working for commissions in one form or another, promoting their work and socializing with other artists constantly on Instagram and social media.

There are tons of small coffee shops running small sales and shows of art all over: it doesn't take college connections to show art here per se, just a certain amount of charisma and a good portfolio.

If you are interested in becoming an artist, I'd encourage a HN reader to keep a few analytical and rational practices when approaching the art world, but to throw away the engineer's notions of done, perfect, and exact. One should gravitate towards art they love and imitate it until they are enjoying their artistic process.
> I thought about emergency breaking automatic vs. manual and I actually feel safer knowing that the car can potentially break faster.

For me, the knowledge that some other engineer designed a system that is a complete black box (from my perspective), which can arbitrarily stop my car with incredible braking force is terrifying.

What happens if the emergency braking system decides to have a bug while you are exiting the freeway at 75mph?
some of this too. intel and AMD architectures need to work for laptop, desktop, and server markets. that's a pretty wide optimization target.

And yet, my previous passively-cooled MacBook Air M1 was faster than a workstation-class Ryzen 3700X with a large active cooling block. And my MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro is somewhere between a 5850X and 5900X performance-wise. Both have 105W TDP and require again a large active cooling block, while the MacBook's fans barely spin up.

Then, thanks to the AMX matrix multiplication unit, the M1 Pro has almost 2x sgemm throughput of a 5900X (2254 vs 1390 GFLOP/s). The M1 goes toe to toe with the 5900X (1217 GFLOP/s) while only using 7.5W.

Sure, of the performance per watt can be explained by a better process node or focus on portable devices. However, the fact that M1/M1 Pro are as fast as high-end Ryzen workstation CPUs at a small fraction of the TDP, shows that Apple also put some of the finest engineering work in the M1.
> 2mb is practically nothing on modern machines.

There are plenty of embedded systems that have <= 1mb of memory. E.g. a popular one is Teensy (https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy40.html).
Thanks, I see. So it means anyone can add any architecture to Ghidra.
I've never been to a stadium gig. I've been to concert-hall shows, with letter/number seating, and no grooving in the aisles; the ticketing experience was horrible. The shows were good, in a way; but I've always much preferred pub gigs and student-union gigs, where you just pay cash at the door.
I get what you mean, but I think there’s a slight difference. I kinda skipped ahead here, but you can phrase it as more of a question.

If we create an axis, and then say “let’s just only focus on the really good ones” is there still any spread on the axis? If not, that axis is a subset of “good ones”. If there is, then we have some other axis to think about.

Extreme example, but if we’re talking about creatine (a nutritional supplement) and we considered the axis of purity and then only the good ones, there wouldn’t be a large range. At least to me, I don’t think there’s any creatine that’s both super high quality and less than 99% purity.

Not the case for books. I can think of great short ones and long ones. And the point of me constraining things this way is to avoid the “a book isn’t good if it’s too long” or “I once read a book that was long and bad” which just isn’t super useful.

Don’t need to keep things isolated though! I’d certainly rather have the average book be half as long versus twice as long. So there’s a trend there, at least for me.
That's only usual if the product is weak, your rep is high or if you have a relationship.

To be an equal you need equal equity but it is not that simple. Two friends holding 66% can dilute you, move your work into another company assgin a low value and cut you out. The many ways to get screwed is extremely high.
Cisco also provides a DNS-based popularity list: https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/cisco-umbrella-1-million
Except for the fact that there are more than just federal tax laws and OP needs to talk to a professional.
The guy is absolutely definitely wasting time consciously and on purpose. Fully agree with you there. Figuring out how to fix that particular case still requires knowing the whole story. And yeah, when I interview, I know some of my time is going to be wasted, there’s no way around that, but it’s better to (1) research the job/company before interviewing, (2) use the interview as part of your research to filter out bad companies to work for like this one, (3) focus on the goal of finding a good employer, good salary, etc.

One way to look at this is that the manager might be, in the big picture, saving time for the candidates. It might be much worse for them if they were to take the job, it might be years of time wasting as opposed to an hour.
I may have simplified a bit.

The black box is GitHub Actions Self-Hosted runners. Recently a very large blast radius Keycloak got added (we're a go team, we have zero experience running anything Java/JBoss).

GitHub Actions was used to sell GitHub somewhere way above me, a Microsoft enterprise contract might've been involved too. GitLab wasn't even considered. Rejecting GHA outright as a team is something we all agree would be right, but not politically feasible.

Keycloak is another team running off. The entire tribe is massively understaffed because limitations to salaries (also from higher up) are slowly eating away at all the performers.

I like my team and the tribe in general, but even if we could hire more people, we've become the least desirable team with all the broken shit and hiring is always for all teams, so long term I'll probably ask to do something else.
The guy actually doing the modding and putting his butt in the seat has far more skin in the game than anyone who's second guessing him here.
> The UN is not a great example because the five permanent members of the security council can veto any resolution

Any security council resolution, sure.

> essentially making it unable to fully function as a governance body.

The UN has many problems, but not having a way to adopt policy in the presence of a security council deadlock was only even arguably one of them for less than five years after the Charter was ratified, prior to the explicit adoption of a General Assembly bypass for Security Council deadlocks in the Uniting for Peace resolution which has been used repeatedly since it's adoption.
Good news about all those chucky tokens is that gpus will iterate and innovate much faster than otherwise.
Withing 15 years, there will be microchips in your seat, table, and the packaging of your bread. And your iToaster will not toast unauthorised bread.

I am concerned about firmware because it is being used to take ownership of our devices away from us.

Oh, you could fix your device by replacing the chip, but we own the firmware and it's a crime to copy it. Also we can uodate the device at any time and add or remove fubctionality without you even knowing.
eBay if:
It is still relatives new and still worth a lot.

If I have the feeling that someone else might find it useful.

Recycling:
If it had sensitive data on it and cleaning it up is not worth it at all like small and old hard drives or old and slow USB stick.

Gifting:

If I have the feeling that it would help. Like a laptop which is old but not too old for normal daily use. I will clean it, fix it and search for someone to gift it.

I do try to do something with those things fast as it only makes it less useful longer I wait.

It also annoys you when it is inconvenient like when you move and find all of the old stuff. Or you lost that space for ages and then you throw it out anyway.
Everything is wrong unless it's the right time I guess.