skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel's "better chip" had better be faster and more power efficient. That's more or less the whole point of the M1--fast enough for normal use, and low power use so batteries last longer. Intel isn't exactly well known for power efficiency.

I assume this is CEO-speak to Intel shareholders to keep them from getting skittish.

What Intel should be worried about is whether Apple is hiring some top tier server systems designers. If Apple is able to leverage their M1 work into server systems that are fast and power efficient, they can hollow out Intel's profitable server business.
Interestingly there is a big divide between chit-chat bots and those having purpose.

The chit-chat bots at best have "google knowledge", the voice assistants only take small commands and the customer service automation bots are really stiff.

Anyways it's the customer service automation bots than already can do a lot of good. If you manage to automate away the easy portions of chats that's already a big win. Further bots can do many actions really quickly so you have no wait time if it can handle your conversation. I think building a good co-pilot scenario where you hand conversations back and forth to a human at the right moments is the near future here.
Urea comes from the Harber process [1]
Basically most of food fertilizer depends on fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Something about Russians and their rather sobering worldview.
Nobody has an issue if an unpaid open source developer doesn't feel like developing anymore. The issue here is that he tried to take back what was already out there.
PHP is not perfectly fine as a procedural language. There are several important features missing, like

Function autoloading, without it you need to come up with a reliable way to require dependencies. This usually differs from project to project in a non-reliable way and will be messy if you don’t think this thru. It will also affect things like testing.

Only global state or (closed) function state. Namespaces are fake in PHP, it only adds the namespace name to the class name or function name, you can’t store anything inside a namespace like in C++. Thus everything is global, which is horrible and bug prone.

You can use static inside a function to keep state as an alternative, but that is hard to manipulate from the outside when needed. It can be done with a separate function that keeps track on other functions state. When I tested modern pure procedural that is what I did.

No typedef for function signatures. If you want to create a contract enforced by the compiler you use interfaces in OOP, in procedural you want to define function signatures instead, but there is no reliable way to do that in PHP without classes (ignoring any external tooling that uses phpdoc)

Testing. Have you loaded a function into the runtime you can’t unload it again, thus mocking a function you already tested becomes impossible. You can solve this by running every test unit in a separate PHP process, but that is expensive.

These are the biggest and none of them will probably never be fixed, perhaps function typedefs has the biggest chance but I doubt it.

If you are writing a large project (+500k lines) all of these are very important. That is why OOP PHP rules because it can handle all of this.

The problem with OOP is that many of the legacy OOP projects inherited the inheritance based OOP from Java, however today we know that composition based OOP is better (both in Java and PHP).
It can only happen if unlimited concentration of capital is possible in the first place. In property right systems based on use (i.e. where society refuses to protect other property claims), this is not the case.
I think they do, but they're also a different form factor, and the screen is taller meaning that GBA games end up letterboxed. It's perfectly usable, but I can understand someone wanting to build a device to deliver an optimized "native" GBA experience.
I find Wasabi (S3 compatible) to be the most useful. I'm paying $6 for ~400 GB of storage.

I store/stream all my music there (use presigned URLs for playback).

I find that most cloud storage deviate too much from a simple file management interface.
Well, then we could make it a scale of what the worst transmission medium is that two pieces of hardware can (sort of) communicate across :)
Well, that depends on the details of the CPU architecture in question. Without knowing those details, I'd say probably yes, but userspace programs will need to ask the kernel to change the memory attributes of the mapped area they want to access non-coherently.

Case in point: a CPU plus a discrete GPU is technically a NUMA system, and low-level APIs like Vulkan explicitly expose the ability to allocate non-coherent memory. I strongly assume that accessing that memory doesn't incur coherency overhead.
2 of the 4 SSL options Cloudflare provides will give a nice lock icon in your address bar and HTTPS will all look like it's working fine, but the connection to the origin is still insecure. It's very misleading and IMO irresponsible of Cloudflare to offer these options.
Marak force-pushed to his GitHub repo to remove all prior version history. If all he did was publish a new broken version, then my opinion would be very different.
I don't think Ethereum PoS is ever coming anymore, or at least it will not displace the PoW version. It's been coming (TM) for a few years now.
If you increase latency, the ROB fills up quicker, and could get full which would back up the pipe. It makes sense why they’d choose to use the default “downclock on overheat” rather than add more circuitry to deal with that specific issue.
Pay-to-play happens in every single society. The bigger the government, the more benefit there is in engaging in this behaviour.
from a similar reddit comment, apparently non competes are not enforceable in California. not sure if true since I'm not from the US
I report every cent of my income to the IRS.

I am not interested whatsoever in having to prove to them that such and such transaction isn't income.
I was a lowly CS undergrad at Princeton, never even took Kernighan’s class but spoke with him a few times in passing. On graduation day, my father was standing around in the back and struck up a conversation with him, oblivious that this was the legend of the department. Yet even so, they had a great conversation and Kernighan even slipped in some nice things to say about me. So on top of everything, he’s also an extraordinarily kind and humble man.
The lead architect of every main Apple CPU from A7 to the M1Max is still going through a court case, being sued because of a non-compete for trying to do a startup
https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/apple_nuvia_ceo_suit/
Metabase uses H2 for their default database. I hope they are aware.
Just be sure they're not contracting out development to artificially reduce the FTE count and increase this ratio.

Another strange ration was a CEO at a tier 1 automotive supplier telling us he was looking at engineering as a percent of sales (or revenue or similar). We were above the industry average which seemed to indicate spending "too much" on engineering. My first thought was that a lot of engineering (vehicle specific calibration and software tweaking and integration) was on a per-vehicle basis, so that metric could be improved by not taking the smaller production programs. DUH. But as a leader it makes sense to grab all that business, including the less profitable projects. Maybe those are even a basket of programs with one OEM negotiated all at once. Who knows.
nalgeon actually only submitted this once (24 hours ago), it got no traction and the other one (which did get traction) was submitted after nalgeon's initial submission. This probably got into the second chance pool and ended up getting "resubmitted" (not an actual resubmission, a change in its submission time so it will have a chance to show up on the front page again).

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool - to see more items in the second chance pool
This is hilarious! How is that possible? it looks like coordinated large scale actions on a network -- but I'm no expert and I have no idea what I'm looking at really.

What's going on here?
I think so. The 8086 port was done at AT&T in 1978. Xenix was based on that work.
Hobby farms generally are run by an individual. Family farms are run by families, and thus tend to be much larger to be able to support families.
The labeling instructions for every object detection dataset I’ve used say you should include every pixel of the object.

That said, I’m sure a lot of people don’t select squares that have only 1 relevant pixel so the captcha should be lenient.
Saying the only lever we have is regulation is just saying the only lever we have is violence but with an extra intermediary steps

The reason you don't litter, dump used oil down the toilet, buy conflict diamonds and complain when Nike gets caught using sweatshop labor isn't because some jackbooted thug will put you in a cage, it's because you know it's the right thing to do. Sure there might be some laws you begrudgingly put up with because of the risk vs reward but making a lot of people do that at scale that doesn't work well.

Convincing people to voluntarily do what you want is far cheaper than violence or threat of violence and it comes with a much lower risk of you being shot in the hole you just dug.
People might think anything is bad.
Full isn't actually enough to secure this - with their MITM position, Airtel could send an untrusted certificate and continue to intercept and modify traffic. Full (Strict) is the only safe option.
Shale revolution saved US and indirectly rest of the world of many things. We had one heck of decade with cheap Natural Gas prices in the US and the market adjusted to that. The days of Cheap NG are over given that it is now the preferred input for electricity generation including the peaker plants. The next step is US banning NG and Oil exports which can happen before next presidential election.

There are many reasons but the second and third order effects of 'plague' have to run through the system and it would take a decade for all these things to wash through.

It is not a coincidence famine follows plague and war follows famine. The bush fires have already started if you are paying attention.
I am done with this mindset. It is useless brow furrowing and knicker bunching that traps you in an endless doom cycle.

One of the few things that still works about capitalism is you make an expensive toy, it catches on, and then it gets cost reduced ruthlessly to the point that almost anyone can afford it.

See flat screen TVs and cell phones for two compelling examples of this phenomenon. See Corsi boxes for an example of how to build cheap alternatives to an expensive thing. In Beijing, they got as cheap as buying a $25 fan and strapping a HEPA filter to it in order to filter out small particles.

The outlook that nothing ever gets better and there's nothing we can do about it because the rich control everything is what will get us all killed. The rich will make money where they can even if they have to make it up with volume.
Show HN: Finding the best Wordle starting move
It is (likely) showing the 0.1% percentile of measured wet-bulb temperatures. i.e. in a given year, we expect 0.1% of the wet-bulbs to exceed this temperature or approximately 8 to 9 hours in a year.
I agree but this seems bigger than finding arbitrary hash values - after all, China shut down crypto mining months ago I think and yet they had to shut down a phosphate factory in December.
exactly what I have been doing
I like and use Signal, and it's really taken off in the past couple of years.

But integrating crypto makes me nervous. It seems like they are likely to come under regulatory attack from regimes that don't like crypto. Signal's actions here seem kind of tone-deaf to the needs of their userbase.

I always hope that Threema will get more attention, but since it's not free I guess it has no chance.
This thread seems to bring out the worst in me, but what point is there to a "federated" closed source app?

What a closed source application implies is: I want to get access to all these people in the fediverse, yet I am not willing to do anything to give back for that. To me that sounds like a bad deal, for any self-titled "experts" out there.
Family courts have begun to weigh in on parental Covid-19 vaccinations
To play the devil's advocate the main things I like about dropbox that syncthing doesn't help with is:

- being able to store way more data in the cloud than my computer can fit

- Seamlessly being able to browse all the files and seamlessly opening them even if they are not stored on my computer

- Being able to save a bunch of files. Turn off my computer, open those files on another computer later without even thinking about it.

- Having a really nice mobile experience for backing up my photos and browsing all my files, if I need to.

- Knowing that if all my computers get destroyed by a volcano all my files are still available if I decide to then buy a new computer.

- Being able to share individual files with people

There's honestly probably more that I'm forgetting.
I see value in paying for a service which would curate results by eliminating content farms.

Average Joe would also not see any value as he doesn't know what a content farm is to begin with.

It's all about finding a niche (and selling out once you're on track to get traction, but alas).
I prefer listening to audiobooks (novels) for going to sleep. The app I use on my tablet has a sleep timer with a chime sound to signal you when it’s about to turn off. Shake the tablet briefly to extend the timer. I use cheap wired earbuds, or earbud actually because I cut off one of the buds and listen with the ear that isn’t facing the pillow. Occasionally I’ll get up and out of bed dragging my tablet with me.
Show HN: Radar Chat – Geolocation based communication
Oh, that was you! I love it.

Captcha can sometimes get so philosophical.
Your skepticism is warranted :) Grossberg is not that unrecognized. I'd recommend Talking Nets by Anderson and Rosenfeld and Margaret Boden's Mind as Machine. Both are scholarly histories of the field. Boden's book is far more comprehensive. Worth reading in any case if you are interested in the study of the brain and mind.
You could just preserve the history (= don't use rebase, just merge), it has benefits too in addition to making your immediate life easier and safer.
So unfortunate bee are past the open discussion fase. I experience that talking about Covid, vaccines and restrictions is a taboe, and gets you shamed/judged quickly. So sad.

At work they asked if I participated in the riots, only because I discuss both sides of the coin.
That's a bit of a stretch using the word 'return' there. Forgive my exactness, but return implies, well, returning a value from a function.

I'd say that Java has similar semantics to C. One can easily pass object references to a function that sets their data. That looks and behaves almost exactly like C. The fact that the references are allocated on the heap is an implementation detail.

Let me be clear, a pointer to a struct on the stack in C is obviously not the same as a reference to an object allocated on the heap in Java. The point is that from the point of view of what the language induces you to do, Java and C are similar. Anyone that has used older libraries in Java can attest to this; they look and feel remarkably like C.
This was all over trader Twitter a few weeks ago. Its a bit late to act on this information now. Can it go down more? Sure. Am I betting on it? No.
RIP Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, 1927-2022.
Yup, Obama under the radar a few days before leaving office to Trump approved the creation of a propaganda department specifically targeting US citizens. Its no wonder we hear the same talking points across corporate media.

At this point the only thing we can truly trust is independent journalists. Most concerning is the rampant and normaliced acceptance of censorship in social media. Democracy depends on free speech. Its time we start dictching Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google search for more open platforms that allow a broad and unfiltered exchange of ideas. We the people, not the other way around.
There are exceptions to this. For example, the W2 can state "Applied for" instead of having a number.
It hasn't lost meaning at all, it's just that some people don't like the meaning so they misrepresent it or pretend not to know what it is.

It basically means hypocrisy and/or insincerity toward popular progressive causes. That's the meaning. There's also an older one which has mostly been displaced as far as I'm aware, but if it's still used it also has a pretty well defined meaning. In context, at least in this context, it was not ambiguous which meaning was being used.
roderick on the line is pretty good for this. meandering conversations with long stories.
Problems with a meta-analysis of “nudging” in PNAS
Also: Questionable request for Accessibility permission. I was surprised to see Dropbox is still asking for this. I thought Apple put the hammer down on this behavior from apps long ago. You're supposed to only request Accessibility if it is for the purpose of supporting assistive technologies like VoiceOver, to help people with disabilities. Accessibility permissions have become something of a golden ticket or carte blanche for apps, allowing them to do just about anything on the operating system. Dropbox's dialog is vague about the purpose ("To get the most out of Dropbox") for requesting this superpower, so one can only assume that they are not doing it specifically to support assistive technologies like VoiceOver.
It's common for one farmer to plant and harvest thousands of acres pretty much by himself, at least in North America. Labour, particularly up in Canada, is often in short supply which makes moving livestock around impractical - and not all of them even keep livestock, because it's not profitable unless you're keeping thousands of head.
considering how many people commenting on HN didn't notice it and commenting on something different I don't think it will be much effective - this headline is quite hard to notice for people who are banner blind.
I believe I should be able to do this with my GitHub repo. (Obviously, anyone is free to fork and I don’t expect to be able to do anything about that.)
I recently failed a google-bicycle captcha.. "you can't fool me, that's a motorcycle not a bicycle!" I thought.. and then had to complete 2 more challenges. Including a cross walk one where one of the images was just asphalt and painted lines (no context/edges so it could be a parking lot, and airstrip,a highway, an intersection, or a cross-walk).
A propos "Sneakers":

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/dec/20/sneakers-rob...
Baltic states?

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia?
I don't know anyone who uses Synching with any type of cloud-based instance, so I'm not sure this is a real issue for Syncthing users. It's all P2P file synchronization between their own devices.
Tilling and fertilizing gives you a great yield today, but damages the long term fertility of the land, and pollutes nearby waterways. The best analogy is buying things on credit. You might feel rich at first, but when the debt comes due and you can't afford it bankruptcy is a bitch.

It does require letting some land lie fallow to regeneration, so you need to devote more total land to agriculture, and it also requires fencing and for someone to go move the livestock to a new paddock every few days (though you save on tilling/herbicide application costs). On the plus side the unit cost of everything you produce is lower, and meat is typically much more profitable than vegetables so you've diversified.
Close call then with OS/9 released in '79.
It's really really uncommon to use "contribute to society" in any sense other than "contribute positively/constructively to society". It's clearly a misunderstanding here.
I'm not saying everyone should use ECC, I'm saying ECC should be an option for everyone.
Well, they're sending packets to an upstream ISP that then does the wrong thing with them. They certainly have more leverage to get that upstream ISP to clean up its act than their customers do.

More broadly, if enabling a particular Cloudflare feature (in this case, Flexible SSL) constitutes "misusing Cloudflare", then Cloudflare should simply not offer that feature at all. There's a bit of a balance here; when they introduced it in 2011, a lot of hosts didn't offer HTTPS at all and none of them offered it for free. MITM is genuinely more likely to happen between the end user and Cloudflare than between Cloudflare and the origin server (because the former can involve things like unsecured coffee-shop wifi), so for webmasters who couldn't use end-to-end HTTPS, it provided a real security benefit—which had to be weighed against the cost of telling end users that their connection to the site is secure against interception, when that wasn't entirely true.

I think there's a case to be made that this tradeoff was worth it in 2011 but is not worth it in 2022; today, end-to-end HTTPS can be had for free, and is easy enough that there's usually no excuse not to.
My father farming on ~400 acres purchased from the government ~140 years ago isn't a hobby. The records for the deed have only my relatives after the Louisiana Purchase. There aren't a whole lot of family farmers left out there, but they do exist (regardless of large operations branding themselves as "family farms" because "I have a family!" and what others classify them as).
I have a VPS in Digitalocean that's running syncthing ever since Untrusted Enrypted Storage[1] has been introduced last year.

It's great, it's even better than cloud storage, since the VPS never has access to the encryption key.

[1] https://docs.syncthing.net/branch/untrusted/html/users/untru...
WebAuthn works now, but it was a regression.

Nightly supports about:config but stable does not.

Only a specific short list of extensions are supported.
I do the same unfortunately. I have a cheat sheet text doc called Git Shit that I use to attempt to keep track of the myriad ways to do shit in git. What a lot of people don't understand is that one wrong move and you've LOST ALL YOUR WORK! Which I have done enough times that I take the safe way that you describe a lot of times.
I work in political communications/education as the only techy person on a non-tech team. I have a background in front-end/UX + librarianship and instructional design. So while I do code when I make instructional materials + use my knowledge when I do things like our metrics/data analysis, it's not the majority of my job and none of my teammates can code at all (all but one of them break out in hives if they have to look at HTML).

Minuses: Nobody appreciates when you pull off something difficult/do something impressive.

Pluses: Coding is black magic to them so if I need more time I can say 'this will take me longer' and they're like 'alright'. That wouldn't fly in an actual developer job.

I also do research, outreach, and do things like give educational talks on civics + administrative law concepts. So I prefer to make a living with my research skills and public speaking/presentation abilities as opposed to my creative/coding ones.

I like to use my creative/coding skills as an extra: I'm a LOT better at my job than I would be without my tech background.
Software and interactions should not be patentable.
Downside of squashing as opposed to making a merge commit (without fast forward) or merging by rebasing, however, is losing granularity. Later it'll be hard to roll back a small part of PR while keeping rest of the changes.

Also it'll be harder to go back and review changes when troubleshooting issues because formatting changes were squashed together with business logic changes. With merges at least there are still original commits available, and it'll be possible to either rollback everything or a single commit.
Why I like winter. I can always add more layers. However, in the summer, you can only remove so many layers until it becomes a crime.