skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is sadly incorrect (not poor journalism necessarily, but based on statements from vendors who are defending their own interests).

Big name manufacturers are refusing to invest in fab expansion because they believe (correctly) that total demand for semiconductors has barely moved. What has changed is the confidence in the market (and this was destroyed by a major fuckup by car manufacturers deciding to screw over their suppliers at the expense of literally the entire industry). Nobody is actually producing more electronics (many manufacturers are producing less because they need to ration supply and can't allocate as much to specific products and risk not being able to produce others). Everyone is buying more, because they can't be confident they'll be able to get stock when they need it.

Chip manufacturers know that anything they put on the market now will be gone immediately, at any price. They also know that one day everyone will have enough stock stockpiled and will stop buying for a while. If they increase production now, they have added expenses and a limited time to recoup them before there's oversupply on the market. If they keep production at current levels, they get more revenue as the prices are higher, and lower costs so they can weather the coming overproduction phase better. It makes zero economic sense to expand production.

Some chip manufacturers are asking customers up front for demand visibility several years out to be able to plan better. Others are being absolute dicks and doing the same thing in an openly-hostile way by holding customers hostage (yes we know you ordered two reels of this part and we promised delivery by date X. We won't deliver on date X unless you also order and pay for another ten reels which we won't commit to a delivery date on, and also your order for the two reels is non-cancellable and non-refundable). I can't name this company because it would put the customer at risk, but they're a household name in the industry.

The core problem is everyone is operating in the dark and there's no visibility into future demand, supply, pricing, or availability. In this situation, large capital expenses make sense on the buyer side (to ensure future supply and widen their visibility horizon) but not on the supplier side (who then shoulder the risk of future demand cratering and being left sitting on their capex).
Err... what? Gyms literally live off the customers that just go once in a month or directly never show up. They are dimensioned taking this into account, and they charge factoring this in. If 100% of the customers were body-builders using free weights, they would have to charge them at very least 2x.
I have no clue how things are built in this field, but can’t you put the same design of a 180nm one on a 7nm one?
I don't like the pedestrian killing murder-machine aspect of their vast In Vehicle Entertainment systems at all. The Vegas Loop tells such a strong tale though, to me, of control over infrastructure itself, in a vulgar & horrific way.

Just like Tesla's charging infrastructure! Can you imagine if you had to find a Ford or a Toyota gas station to fill up at? This world used to be able to get along, to find general welfare. Cooperation used to exist. Tesla keeps being more and more an example of anti-cooperative anti-civil market-capture horseshit. A car no one else can repair, with it's own charging infrastructure, it's own roads: this screams "THE ENEMY" to me. It's the most capitalist-lowlife Lawful Evil behaviors writ large here, on display: vulgar & primitive exercises in dominance, with no pretense that there's space for anyone else in the world, no sense in leaving any room for any one else on the planet.
"Back in mah day" - they weren't :)
Are you saying not to log ssh logins, or not to allow access via keys? What would you tell people to do instead?
This is common in newer cars in Europe - if you brake so hard that ABS is activated, the brake lights will flash / pulse.

I suppose regulations do not allow it in the U.S. but at least here it can be programmed on/off via service terminals.

Random example from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJk-rJpgF1o&t=108s
I have an LG TV with WebOS. The OS is fine, but the CPU is underpowered and has difficulty streaming video.
"Join the Discords and sift through the to find the little glimmers!" ... "Here's a link to ... a Discourse instance".

So which is it? Join Discords? Or forums? Or?...

> To me this sounds like a fair description of curiosity!

It isn't. Bullshit is finite. Life is finite. There are so many things to satisfy one's curiosity that don't involve digging through bullshit.

The main reason you have to "just google it" to find any coherent info on crypto projects is that when you boil everything down to a single-page coherent description of what it is they are trying to do, it turns out it's just bullshit. That's why all these projects, consciously or not, never produce anything that someone can point to and say: go, read this. Almost invariably it's "just find it on Discord".

A great example is in a sibling discussion mentioning Orange DAO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133241

Even your example literally has nothing of value in that discussion. Original problem statement: "Now they are grappling with how to update registration prices when domains expire". There's literally no grappling in there. A regular community discussion with a voting mechanism that is happening hundreds of thousands of times a day all around the world. This is interesting? How?!
Oh no, I didn’t hear that the LCM shut down. That’s a real downer. I went there a few times, including one time when they had a vintage computing fair.
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Sounds massively complex compared to just a stateless rendering pipeline clearing the canvas and drawing the sprites with drawImage on every RAF.
Ahh, I've been meaning to revisit this... cool.
Archive link: https://archive.is/q3PSx
> For media, an aux input does it all. Doubles as a charging cable, and you could easily swap it out for different and new devices

I thought aux only carries analog sound, is charging a new feature? Did I miss Aux-C? What does the author mean?
The steering wheel in an F1 car only goes about 220 degrees in either direction (drivers have to keep their hands on the wheel and their arms aren't made of rubber). The steering in a regular car goes about 540 degrees in either direction (one and a half times around). When parallel parking you often have to turn the wheel three whole revolutions.

F1 steering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVz6IW_wegs&t=45s

Tesla steering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtJu0q3sBQ&t=44s
Idaho sounds great! Would never ever live in the other two, ofc.
Sorry, I submitted it from the phone and have no idea why it was submitted like this. :(
They may be bad in Amazon, but algorithms are the future of governance everywhere. It will be the end of political divisions.
Yes, but there is still hope. Not in the current academia (IMO rotten beyond repair) but in human nature.

Because have you noticed how when something "real" hits the science shelves, any honest research grounded in reality and careful thought, it goes like hot cakes? The research doesn't even have to be revolutionary: anything repeatable, or at least sanely executed. The bar is incredibly low.

Everyone is starved for real ideas… or at least real implementations. Anything authentic, in the sea of marketing BS.

Which I find a hopeful sign! As long as that human instinct persists, the truth bubbles up. People still "feel" wrong when lying, which is great. When that stops (a question of culture?), we're in real trouble.

Funny aside: The front page of today's national news: an elected university rector had to step down. Reason? Academic fraud!

https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/clanek/vojtech-adam-rezignoval...
Ask HN: What does the GDPR penalty for loading fonts mean for website owners?
Story of GDPR penalty for loading external fonts from Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135264

I was thinking of starting my own blog recently. I like the idea of having comments section in blog powered by Disqus or another service that can be embedded in website with javascript. But this will be violating GDPR? Is it risky move?

From now on we should load all page resources from the same domain? No more using of external javascript to power syntax highlighting for code blocks, commenting section? What do website owners think about this penalty decision? What changes will you do to your websites to protect yourself?
AFAIK, even on Teslas, the infotainment system run on the low voltage circuit, powered by the same lead-acid battery used in ICE vehicles.
This initiative previously discussed here:

2019: Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21789224

2020: Exploring new forms of chess using artificial intelligence

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431381
My local pizza place (not a chain) does this. But manually.
If you call they will ask if you want the usual. Then that is it.
No confirmation of address, price, anything.

I can literally call and say "I want a pizza" and unless I want different toppings, that is the whole process.
Show HN: I made a Google Sheets add-on that adds 28 new SEO custom functions
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There are a lot of good templates trying to solve specific problems. Do you need to scrape something? Here’s one template. Do you need to extract the search volume data from a set of keywords? Another template… and the list goes and goes.

I’ve started creating some custom functions that helped me in my day to day needs in order to avoid the template madness but when I’ve built more than 15 new custom functions it was not optimal to copy/paste every single one that I needed in a specific spreadsheet in order to use it. Imagine if someone on my team needed a function too in another spreadsheet, yeah, it was a mess.

What I wanted was to have all of these new features in different spreadsheets for all the users of that spreadsheet without the hassle of creating different templates or doing copy/paste of every function I needed.

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getUrlsFromSitemap
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slugify
suggestQueries
getAvgDailyTrafficFromWeek
getLocaleBySubdomain
getRunRateCurrentMonth
getRunRateNextMonth

Free utilities
existsInColumn
groupByCell
myReplace
returnCellInversed
returnLastCell
unlimitedVlookup (beta)
v2lookup
combineAll (columns)

Premium functions
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selectRandomCell

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https://www.techradar.com/how-to/apple-care

Has AUD prices.
The Hardest Computer Game of All Time (2014)
How do you know I'm deluded though? You don't. But I know you're deluded because you are pretending that this reality doesn't exist.

You're saying because you, grkvlt, can't understand how it can be therefore it doesn't exist. That's the delusion. So you can't say I'm deluded because you're coming from a deluded point of view. I am not deluded. I look at the data and I go okay it works. you don't look at the data. or if you do you don't allow yourself to face that reality. Because you don't understand it or you're scared of it. So you pretend. That's the delusion.

And anyway who's more deluded and out of touch with reality: someone who can actually see the future and see what's coming up or someone who can't? the deluded one is you. You're clearly just scared and projecting here.
I disagree with that. Due to the economics of chip manufacturing, massive consolidation in the industry was inevitable. Fabless has enabled countless companies to operate despite only a few leading edge fabs worldwide being economically justifiable. It's not (only) about profitability, but without fabless worldwide chip innovation would come out from the geriatric bureaucracies of a few megacorporations.

Even if you don't look at the leading edge, where the economics of a fab aren't as forbidding, fabless has enabled entrepreneurs with a clever idea to get started with much less capital than would have been required in the old vertically integrated manufacturer world.

And it's not like the current chip shortage is somehow manufactured by the fabs in order to shaft their customers. If the fabs were able to, of course they'd produce all the chips their customers would pay for. Particularly so for the pure-play foundries like TSMC, which explicitly don't make their own chips.
This is a prescription for a complete lack of focus. For an article that theorizes that execution takes a second seat to riding an S curve, there's not a lot of focus on acquisitions that aim at another S curve. Instead, it focuses on a somewhat odd competitive advantage - antitrust - and considers scattering bets all over mostly on the basis of demographics.

$10T is treated like a target which is naturally good. But so many acquisitions would be financed in significant part by stock swaps, so all you're doing is getting to the $10T by agglomeration rather than growth.

It's a fun business strategy essay but I didn't find a compelling strategy and the sustainable competitive "advantage" is odd, because it only empowers agglomeration instead of growth and actual competition. Needs more focus on why the agglomeration would be more efficient.
I have an entirely unreasonable fear of getting stuck in my car as it slowly sinks, unable to open the windows. It makes me want to get hand-cranked windows.
> Static sites are nice from a deployment perspective, but CMS's make a lot of things easier than static site generators do. Seems like there's room to have the best of both worlds.

A few years ago I wrote a static generator for Ghost. The workflow was the following:

- A Ghost instance runs on my raspberry pi

- I log into it to write content, and save

- A hook is triggered by the content update (this is a native Ghost feature), that sends an HTTP request to a local ExpressJS instance

- A script downloads the whole dynamic Ghost site as static files, fixes the links, and then publish them somewhere

It was _very_ brittle but it worked for my use case.
yeah but at least it is also better than those blades you get in microsoft Azure. Now that is a clusterfuck.

The 'beauty' of GCP is that I can effectively use my ipad's browser to manage some stuff on the go, or keep google cloud open in a small browser window on a secondary monitor, with full flexibility and full featureset. On azure, the pages don't always work, or break, and the app has way less functionality.

The best thing would be naturally a design that adapts better to display size than what they currently have, but I would call it badly optimized instead of bad design.
That is actually surprisingly cheap!
I think these gimmicks and the new touchscreen UI serve a purpose for Tesla. Their goal is to make the car so divorced from human input that (1) it becomes increasingly reasonable to claim that an unfinished self-driving system is no more dangerous than a human in the loop, and (2) their fan base is conditioned to accept the eventuality of having no meaningful input (or feedback) at all. As for part two, I noticed it a couple years ago with a relative who bought a Tesla and was still just awed by its features. But all the ones he was awed by were the ones that took power away from the driver. I wondered then, why would anyone want to own this car once it really does all the driving for you? No one will actually own a Tesla at that point, they'll just call one on an app. Except for maybe a few silly people who want to feel like they're telling it what to do with a joystick.
Here's an interesting one: "this set is open, hence it is not closed".
Apparently this is wrong, and R is both open and closed. Does anyone have a clear explanation as to why this is or what this means? I can't quite understand the comment explaining it.
Why should it be faster? It's doing the same work. In modern browsers with their heavily optimized and JITed JavaScript runtimes, an animation in JavaScript will often perform better than the equivalent CSS. (And that goes double if you're using WebGL and can just hand it off to the graphics hardware).
This kind of failure happens as a consequence of an intellectual environment: the impossibility of carrying a nuanced message. This perhaps can be solved by "more education", in the broader sense. Until then it's hard to blame individual instances of public officials who try to do their best to distill a complex tradeoff in a public announcement where they either have to talk with an authoritative tone otherwise they'll be criticized for being weak if they don't or they will be criticized for being too paternalistic if they do. They are between a rock and a hard place and various figures are trying to carve their own paths without any rule book, and most of them will spectacularly fail.
The solution is to move the burden of accountability from low-level management (which is replaced by machines) to the people in charge. CEOs should not be immune from jail
I've noticed this issue for years. And that is the reason why I never go past page 2.
How do you address ABI issues with standard C++ library types?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

Astounding little things. I hope the west picks up the pace for research in this area.
Use a physical board and play against a person.
Zuse Z3 is running for one last time
This will write duplicated entries to the file. Do you remove them on shell startup?
> I hope you are aware that nearly every markdown renderer respects full HTML right?

Yeah, I'm aware.

> That way you can just write prose when you are in content mode. If you want to switch to dev/designer mode you simply have to open a HTML tag.

When I want to just write prose, I can use a WYSIWYG word processor. When I want to make a post on my web page, I can write it in HTML. I rarely benefit from having a third option... markdown, the "mediocre at all things" format, which is not good enough to replace a word processor from the 1990s and not good enough to use in place of HTML when I'm making my web page.

I do actually use markdown... for small snippets of notes. I have all my Emacs setup to edit markdown quite nicely. If the notes start getting too large and detailed, I copy and paste the notes to a word processor, so I don't have to deal with markdown's awful syntax. If the notes evolve into a blog post, I'll rewrite them in HTML--I always rewrite notes anyway, before posting. It's much more common that I start blog posts in a word processor, rather than markdown, though.

> When you can simply think of markdown as a syntax tooling on HTML that is widely human readable (by non-web developers!) without stopping you from having the full power of HTML whenever and however you like it, how is that not a win?

This argument is taking for granted the idea that people like markdown syntax, when I thought that I had been pretty clear that I don't like markdown syntax. I think it's just kinda mediocre at lots of different things, and in the end, is worse than just using plain HTML... except for a few niches, like READMEs on GitHub and comments on Reddit.

To be clear, markdown is not a win for using in my website because it makes my tooling more complicated, and it delivers no benefits.

I can understand why some people like it... surely you can try to understand that some people don't, and we don't just dislike markdown for no reason.
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What's so interesting? I already told you this wasn't a simple missclick. No need to reiterate.

You can dump money into a pit just as easy with the classic banking system. Where I live (EU), wiring money is the primary way of payments and money transfers. People don't use anything else.
> Very dishonest argument, considering…

Oh come on. Yes, NPR and CNN referred to it as “the Wuhan coronavirus” at a time when it had just left China and looked like it might still be containable to the region. The only people still calling it “Wuhan flu” (particularly in fall of 2020 when it had long ago spread to everywhere else) were people who wanted to downplay its severity by comparing it to the flu and who wanted to really hammer home the point that it was from China. “Wuhan flu” is not some organic thing that people were just saying, it’s deliberate vice signaling on the part of conservative politicians.
> “every time this happens he closes that website immediately and goes to a different one that we ranked #2 in the autocomplete search.”

This is a disheartening yet frighteningly common problem with UI automation. It doesn't learn enough to actually be aware of the expected result, yet it can't be programmed to behave exactly as you want or need.

Automation in user interfaces should be exactly the opposite. It should try to learn your repeated actions so that you can perform them automatically, yet if the learning goes wrong, the user should be in control at all times and override the automatic deduced actions.
>We don't just set GPOs to be dicks.

That's not how it is perceived by users. I don't think I've come across a big organisation where IT wasn't seen as an obstacle to getting things done.
Ask HN: Have you ever written a not-to-do list? How did it work out?
When I woke up I said: "today I am NOT watching YouTube, Netflix or read HN." I said this yesterday, it seemed to have worked in helping me to go from not doing much to being quite productive because of the boredom that surrounded me.

Did you do something similar? How did having a not-to-do list work for you in the long term?
It's just unfortunate terminology -- a closed set is one whose complement is open, not one which is not open.
Alas not in the UK, where it's still mandated. Looks like the US has finally dropped this outdated "skill", but not in the 1850s UK
I was not, but I am now! Thanks!
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Eh, he just needs to touch up his PR when it comes to labor relations.

> Do you know that Texas where Tesla is building its next factory does not allow to sell Teslas?

You think you can't buy a Tesla in Texas? What planet are you on?
Thanks, StackOverflow confirms you're correct. [0]

That's what I get for using GCC as an approximation of the C standard. (By default, GCC permits empty initializer lists.)

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/17589839/
42u for a home rack seems like excessive (unless you run all 3u-4u servers).
Fair. It looks like you could walk from the control center to the silos in the Titan complexes, which I think are the ones that most often for sale. My info was about the current Minutemen silos. I figured they were all the same.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.co0919.sheet/?sp=2