skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the question becomes: is there a prosumer-level portable printer out there? I haven't been successful in finding one.
My understanding is that this is essentially a solved problem because they've stopped coating them in reflective material.

And yes, I know they link another ars article saying it only "minimizes" the issue, doesn't take it to zero.
Was the OLPC a net negative?
Have fun, explore, distro hop, after while you’ll settle on the right mix of tools for you
The problem is that they would also be useless to NATO countries.
Or perhaps find the most competent person who isn’t busy? Incompetent people tend to be busy all the time because they don’t know how to work effectively. A bad developer will add as many bugs as new features and will therefore be busy all the time, always falling behind. A great developer will introduce very few new bugs and can therefore easily add new features, not falling behind.
Another thing that was mentioned in the thread is non-copyright issues with training data, for example laws around consent for use of personal data.
In no way do I "worship" Fauci. You're projecting your own hero worship of Trump onto me. You're the one who believes and spreads unfounded conspiracy theories, and whose mind Trump broke, if it was not already broken before. It's you foaming-at-the-mouth Trump-worshiping Fauci-haters who are the deranged ones injecting disinfectants, popping horse dewormer pills, and drinking your own urine, instead of wearing masks and getting vaccinated. Get a grip on reality and stop parroting lies and drinking Trump's piss flavored kool-aid. The rampant racism in the US and the fact that Trump exploits it is not a conspiracy, it's a historical fact that you can't deny. You fanatical Trump supporters are spreading ridiculous unfounded and totally disproven conspiracy theories that it was actually AntiFa who attacked the US Capitol to make Trump look bad, when we all know because we saw with our own eyes that they were racist Confederate Flag brandishing Trump supporters, egged on and organized by Trump himself. So do you also believe the election was stolen from Trump, too, like MOST Republicans do? Or do you just pretend to believe those lies and conspiracy theories as performance art trolling, the same way you go out of your way to purposefully mis-spell "democrat politics"? Then Popehat's Law of Goats applies:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...

>Popehat's Law of Goats

>He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.

>He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.
Social media for developers? Ummm you're pretty much on it right now :P

Asking this question here is probably the best thing to do.

Though it sounds like you're still learning. Don't expect to make great money until you've proven yourself. In any country. Of course other countries you'll be paid according to local standards but still crap. And consultancy companies always exploit their employees. When I consulted the company charged 10x as much for my services as they paid me. And still managed to make a loss due to all the useless management layers and overpaying the sales suits that were so stupid they sold stuff we couldn't possibly make.

But be aware a company looking for remote developers from Madagascar is probably doing this so they can pay you a pittance as well and think you'll be happy with it. If they're going to pay you their country's local wages for a starter job, they'll rather get someone actually local I guess. Makes the whole tax thing a lot easier too, they can keep an eye on you (like sick leave etc) and for moving you over the immigration process will be prohibitive for them. The problem is they're not going to go to this kind of effort for a starter position unless they have no choice.

I think the best thing you can do is become a known expert in your specific niche. Make sure you're on all the fora and slack/discords whatever for the stacks and frameworks you use. Help people there when they have questions. Soon you'll become a known and this may lead to things.

PS I have lived and worked in 4 countries. Though all Western well off ones.
This author calls others who use the term "software failure" unsophisticated. I call this author unsophisticated. They are making a pedantic argument. Any seasoned engineer knows exactly how software works and this essay does nothing to enlighten anyone with new information or insight. It only proposes a new narrow definition for "failure" in a sideways fashion and assumes everyone should have been using it all along.
Ha! It's fascinating when revelations like this happen. I used it for all those years with absolutely no idea of the pun in the title.
This. I'm in the military, so keenly interested in how much you can do without network. I have two XO-1 laptops and I was a Cr-48 test pilot (their label for their beta testers). I took the Cr-48 with me to Japan for Fukushima in 2011. ChromeOS was not all that useful. Why run ChromeOS when Xubuntu is available? Lubuntu? Pick your favorite lightweight Linux distro. After about a week I cried uncle and installed Xubuntu. Depending on network for the ability to type a document is non-sensical. If I recall, Google Docs didn't have offline mode yet, but due to that experience I have keenly attended to offline mode. It improves things, but it's not a panacea.

I don't think a laptop without network is ever going to be as awesome as one with network, but there's a lot of room on a laptop to do more than run AJAX applications in a browser (do they still talk about AJAX?) that offload all the smarts to a server-side app.
There wasn’t anything at the price.
A lot of claims being made here without any actual proof.

You need a bank account to buy cryptocurrencies. You also need fiat money to buy it. In the US at least, you need to be KYC'd to buy it from an exchange with fiat.

It's really tiring hearing propaganda like this, that easily falls apart under even a little bit of scrutiny. Like "banking the unbanked", it's lies being told that try to sell people on how cryptocurrency is enriching people who'd otherwise be poor, and opening opportunities to people who otherwise would not have them, but it's nothing more than preying on people's greed and FOMO, to pull in more suckers to fleece.
It seems very selfish to me, knowing you are maximizing the risk of passing the infection on to other people, and prolonging the pandemic for everyone.

Maybe you are fearful of the vaccine, but the sheer number of people who have received one should, if you understand basic statistics, cure you of that fear.

Even if it doesn't, refusing to wear a mask is just plain arrogant.
I think critical thinking isn't that hard, unless it comes up against someone's sense of self or value because they've invested a lot in a belief. Maybe Vulcan emotional detachment isn't the answer (it might be even be part of the problem in some circumstances, since Vulcans invest so much sense of worth into their own logic). Rather, I think humility and a sense of wonder and joy about finding things out. Think of kids! When kids are excited to learn they have absolutely no problem finding out what works and what doesn't. They haven't invested their whole egos into something yet. They just got here, after all. We shouldn't be overly critical of kids and expect performance out of them at every turn. It kind of....crushes them little by little.

I wanna be a kid again. It's fun. Instead of "oh man, I f'd up here, I hope no one finds out..." it's "whoops, that didn't work, let's try something else!"
Sure, but again, that will never take off. "Install this plugin to access our website" is a non-starter for most people.
I don't think it's promoting censorship. When someone claims medical expertise and authority when they have none, and they make medical proclamations that are actually dangerous (especially when they have a large audience), it's noteworthy if actual medical authorities express concern about their ideas.
From my perspective, the other side of the coin is that major version upgrades are a major big deal. You can't upgrade in place. You can't even upgrade with downtime (afaik). You've got to create a new database and migrate everything to it.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/health/california-omicron...:

> Compared with Delta, Omicron infections were half as likely to send people to the hospital. Out of more than 52,000 Omicron patients identified from electronic medical records of Kaiser Permanente of Southern California, a large health system, the researchers found that not a single patient went on a ventilator during that time.

> Compared with Delta, Omicron cut the risk of hospitalization in half, the study found, and the people who came to the hospital with Omicron stayed for a shorter period. The variant cut hospital stays by more than three days, a reduction of 70 percent compared with Delta.

> Fourteen of the Delta-infected patients died, while only one Omicron patient did.

> “Vaccines are quite helpful,” Dr. Lewnard said. He and his colleagues found that Californians who were vaccinated were 64 to 73 percent less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people.

> Even among unvaccinated people, however, Omicron was less likely to lead to hospitalizations than Delta.

The absolute numbers are hard to ignore. Tens of thousands of patients in the studies referenced. None went on a ventilator. One died.

But when it comes to boosters, we're not even comparing the vaccinated to the unvaccinated. We're comparing the previously "fully vaccinated" to the boosted and asking what real benefit there is to get boosted for people who are not at high risk (i.e. above >70, with multiple comorbidities) and who almost certainly retain meaningful protection from cell-mediated immunity produced as a result of the initial 2-dose series in the face of a variant that a) causes less severe illness generally and b) for which the antibodies our current vaccines produce are far less effective at neutralizing.
Fellow dotclock editor checking in.
That needs to be fully determined. If it blew the fuses without prompting then it's likely the owner of the replacement chip could sue for damages (the 'replacement' chip only in the machine to test the faulty mono/CPU argument).

Also, it would be complicated for Lenovo too as warranty and consumer laws in every country are different.

Everyone, thanks for the info, once I had a high opinion of the company but it's been going steadily downhill in recent years. Reckon I'd never buy another PC from them again over this nonsense.
Likely this will come from multilateral government forced break up of TSMC if they get too big.
I’ve never met or even known anyone who has met anyone (as far as I know) who has died of COVID or even been hospitalized from it. Would you suggest I should conclude that there have been no COVID deaths or hospitalizations at any meaningful level?
Honestly, I don't care if it's flat or not, and I will happily make the argument for it being flat, just to annoy people who can't let others just be wrong.
I use tinc VPN [0] to connect a bunch of separated LANs together, and a built-in configuration directive

GraphDumpFile = /etc/tinc/network/graph.viz

will generate a real-time network graph using the Graphviz DOT language. It's a cool feature that I find quite useful.

[0] https://tinc-vpn.org/
Oh, look at this guy everyone, with his fancy "downloading".
JetAlone, your second paragraph is a tipical example of why nonchristians find it unpleasant to engage in discussions, especially on religious topics, with devout Christians. I do not believe there is a way to convey to you what a nonchristian feels reading that second paragraph.
> Kessler syndrome

You do understand that at the altitude they are flying at even if they fucked everything in LEO (nearly impossible anyway) we'd be fine in a decade right?

Few things give me as much hope for the future of mankind then seeing the starlink constellation come online. Almost nothing is as clear of a milestone in human advancement. The fact that a dedicated billionaire can drive this gives me a great deal of faith we can handle all the climate issues.
Sure, but Netflix has also canceled some key originals while renewing some shows I feel like most of us on HB would agree are garbage.
Given that the (vast, vast) majority of doctors are strongly recommending it, do you believe that they are lying, or that they are simply mistaken and you know better?
Would you mind sharing your code?
I see! Thank you for taking the time to write that out, much appreciated.
The problem is mostly slow JavaScript performance on this era of ppc machines
Yes, and they had a schism between "One Piece" Zoro and "Legend of Zorro" Zorro :P
You are describing cognitive dissonance
Great project! Thank you!
Ask HN: Would the cloud survive a US Civil war?
I'm not from the US, and the question isn't intended to spark any kind of flamewar, but I'm simply trying to game out a scenario of what might happen and HN is the only community with enough insider knowledge to give a reasonable answer on this.

So I was wondering, say there were a civil war in the US sometime in the future (I certainly hope not, but just entertain the hypothetical), what would the impact be on cloud computing and what flow on effects might that have on the global economy?

The reason this keeps me up at night lately is when AWS sneezes the whole internet catches a cold. Aren't there some global services hosted out of US-EAST-1? Developers can work remotely, so that's fine, but what if there was enough civil unrest that the people who maintain the physical infrastructure couldn't perform the upkeep necessary to keep that particular datacenter online?

Am I imagining things or is there a possible systemic risk of a months long outage of AWS under such circumstances that would grind large portions of global commerce to a halt?

Or am I just paranoid?
There are somewhere in the neighborhood of a million Druze, they haven't accepted converts in 1000 years.
If you don't mind me asking, can I inquire about what data source(s) you used to form this belief?
In the sci-fi novel Dune there is the Space Guild that became so advanced with shipbuilding that no other entity can possibly compete with them, and they internalized all the knowledge. This made all the noble houses have to deal with them.

Perhaps some technologies are just so advanced and difficult, with so many people and specialized knowledge, that firms like TSMC are unbeatable. No one can compete and their global power is assured.
> How does it actually compare to other industries, namely defense, aerospace and oil.

The $12 billion given as the cost for TSMC's new Phoenix fab would buy you approximately 1 new Ford-class American aircraft carrier or a ~10% share in Canada's oil extraction industry.

Chip manufacturing really is the industrial big leagues.
This article is from 2011. Notably since then, the Department of Commerce’s control ended in 2016:

https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/cheers-to-the-multist...

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/stewardship-o...
Not quite. My M1 is running Tiger in QEMU and it’s a little slower than my 1.2GHz eMac.
Agreed. The app stuff is nonsense. We have one of these and they could very well have used a small display or light patterns to indicate test progress and test results without a mobile phone.
Uber Merchant Impact Report
Uber Eats helped 400,000+ US merchants generate $11 billion in sales from October 2020 through September 2021. Eats facilitated 500+ million orders in the U.S, delivered by 2 million couriers. Globally, 3 million customers ordered grocery and convenience items delivered.
There's a lot more shared identity today as a result of colonization and the reservation system, which somewhat extends to things like food. Frybreads are a good example since they come directly from the reservation system and the typical ingredients provided by the government for cheap calories:
flour, beans, oil, "cheese", and some form of meat, sugar, etc. Despite the common name, it's a shared culinary heritage for many tribes in the US.

The real issue is that there's been very little widespread systematization of "traditional" indigenous cookery. We've started seeing that over the past few decades through the efforts of people like Lois Frank and many, many others, but it's a process.
That's still an absurd amount of money, since everything they're proposing to do, they can't legally do. They don't have any actual work to do, and are being paid $90k a year each to do nothing.
>"Rover detects carbon signature that may hint of past life on mars"

If you expand the list to include all the geological stuff Spirit/Oportunity, Pathfinder and Viking found then slap a "you are here" on it we are much closer to the "earth" end of things than the "dead rock" end of things.
Does anyone use crypto for payments?
I think you seriously overestimate the overall harms of vaccines. I'm a life scientist, and I'd take the side effect profile & risks of the worst vaccine in the last 50 years over that of an Extra Strength Tylenol any day.
I am a person and it would reduce my willingness to work.

So that was pretty easy to disprove.
> Is fear of the unvaccinated clogging up hospitals the primary motivation?

Yes? Hasn't it always been? Beds in ICUs are the main limiting factor of how much Covid we can handle. Lowering hospitalisations is great, that way it can end up as "just a bad flu" we have ( as in, a virus that's present, and spreading, and people get it, and some unfortunate people die from it, but doesn't grind whole countries to a stop).
Two doses of Pfizer is effective against Omicron for severe disease or death, especially for young folks. That doesn't stop some colleges from mandating boosters.
With whose money? Is it possible to vaccinate all wild animals and every house cat?
It doesn't seem different from "install this app" to access our services though? And clearly, this model has proliferated with fluidity.
This. The number of times I've checked an evildoer's Bitcoin address and seen multiple deposits in there makes me sad.
The title should be edited accordingly
As someone who dealt with a ton of Spring in the recent past, I completely disagree.

First of all, thread pools are part of the standard library. Spring adds little to no value on top of it.

Second, reinventing some of that stuff is absolutely worthwhile, because Spring's library design/implementation is not very good.

Finally, when I had the opportunity to start a new Java project, I opted to not use Spring. I finally had a server that started up fast, took less code than a Spring project, was easily navigable in an IDE, and whose code was generally easier to follow. It was also easier to write tests for.

One thing I learned is that people seem to underestimate just how thin Spring's abstractions are over stuff in the library, servlets, etc. Most of what Spring does is wrap things in a bean interface so they can be used with DI (which is something I’ve never found any value in).
Giant googly eyes appear around Adelaide
Even with a CIC, the Operation continues [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites
It's a huge issue. I think there's a decent chance China / Taiwan will devolve into a shooting war, and TSMC will either have its factories bombed at some point, or it will be nationalized by a victorious China and American investors will be told "This is ours now. If you own shares, write 'em off. You lost the war, so tough cookies."

I used to own TSMC stock. I sold it. Concern about this exact scenario is pretty much the sole reason I exited my position.
That all makes a lot of sense. And I think you've helped something 'click' for me (and hopefully others) in understanding some things here, thank you for your time writing all of this up! It's really appreciated.

A quick final questions on pronouns, if you have time: I'm contemplating the idea of just using they/them pronouns for everyone. I quite like the idea currently for a few reasons, and I can't imagine people being offended by it(?). But one negative I could see is that, when someone asks for others to use particular pronouns for them (e.g. she/her), using those pronouns I can imagine would be a nice acknowledgement/validation/show of support etc., which using they/them instead probably wouldn't give. Did you have any opinion on people making such a choice, given any insight you might have from your own experiences or an understanding of the LPGTQ+/etc. community? I'd definitely like to be able to reasonably justify it as a rule (even if someone's specified certain pronouns).
Yeah... also

>> Software does not decay.

The term 'bitrot' exists for a reason. Most software doesn't exist in isolation, the things it interfaces to directly (eg, libs, the OS, bits in cpu words) or remotely (crypto certs, algs, protocols) will change over time and break it. Even if it truly was not broken before.
Is there anything that great about standard UI metaphors? Most of them are descended from designs when hardware and performance was severely constrained, and hand around because it's too hard to change everything for most people (touch devices like smartphones and tables are the main exception, but they were only just getting a foothold at that time). Given the opportunity (in this case, since the audience had little or no prior expectations of a UI), why not try something new?
In contrast, Oracle's database upgrade agent (DBUA, graphical Java app) will perform an upgrade in place, usually taking less than 30 minutes.

The one place where I've found DBUA to fail is an upgrade of a 32-bit database to 64-bit (version 11.2.0.4 was the last offered for 32-bit). This type of upgrade requires the command-line dbupgrade utility, and it's a bit more complex.

Complete export/import is only required when switching architectures for Oracle. Postgres should try for this sometime.

I've also seen MS SQL Server quietly upgrade an imported database.