skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could explain the Mars methane mystery.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/first-you-see-it-t...

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex...

>Methane on Mars is expected to have a rather short lifetime – around 400 years – because it is broken down by ultraviolet light. Atmospheric mixing (for example, by winds) should quickly lead to a more or less uniform background concentration. But previous observations hint at seasonal variations in methane abundance, with concentrations varying with location and time. If this is correct, there must be an active source to replenish the supply and, at the same time, a relatively quick way of removing it in order to account for the apparent rise and fall in the measurements.
I'll just note that you first issue, with updates being delayed by 4-5 days is a general F-Droid issue and not specific to NewPipe.
The delay exists, because F-Droid builds every application on their own server and that takes a while.
You could search for an alternative repo that just pulls the apk from github (maybe Izzydroid?), or host one yourself.
Original article: https://hakaimagazine.com/news/northwestern-vancouver-island...

Study that it's based on (with maps): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737912...
Ask HN: Which protocols should every developer know?
Hey HN! I'm looking to compile a list of interesting and useful protocols that would be good to be aware of as software developer.

Secondary goal is to find ideas for clients, and proofs of concepts to implement on niche languages. For example some that I have added to the list already

- DNS
- SMTP
- Scalar
- Redis Protocol
- gRPC

What else is out there that is interesting or could be fun to implement from scratch?
The iPhone 4 was released while Steve Jobs was still alive.

After he died, the "faster horse" contingent of Apple had a stronger voice.
> Then why don’t the people rise up against their state?

Because the governments have taken away or undermined all ability for people to organize. When you have to fear every single friend of you being a potential informant of the Secret Service, how will you find someone willing to do anything that goes against the government? Rule by fear is incredibly effective, it was what held together the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the GDR and modern Russia and China.

> Why would it be the business of other nations to intervene in the internal affairs of another?

Because we as humanity should have learned something from what my ancestors did in 1933-1945 - namely, to not stand aside in the face of obvious inhumanity.
> Second, the recourse to two M1 Max chips fused into a M1 Ultra means TSMC’s 5 nm process has reached its upper limit.

M1 Max is ~20x22 mm (~430 mm²), double this, even without some of the interconnect die space, doesn't fit into the reticle anyway.
cash at a bigger screen for better media consumption and gaming

I think you are underestimating how much people are using their phones for content creation. My daughter uses her phone for her entire video production pipeline. She records and edits videos, does compositing and animation, mixes audio, does photo editing etc. all on her iPhone.

I've tried several times to show her the advantages of using a 'real' computer with 'real' software, but she just finds it slow and annoying.
Same reason Google engineers don't delist sites like gitmemory and don't stop writing bots that automatically can people's accounts without recourse. They just don't care enough to leverage their vast power.
More of an artistic exploration but I think somehow still gets at a similar intuition in this context. Oona Räisänen (aka windytan) did a small write up and some code about how human speech limited to a single harmonic actually sounds a bit like birdsong.

https://www.windytan.com/2021/03/speech-to-birdsong-conversi...

YouTube video at the bottom provides an example. She also makes code available to duplicate.
It's impossible to use it as a display for anything than itself.
You complain about whattaboutism then point out that Russia is doing the same thing three sentences later. "We are at war" has been used to justify the worst atrocities in human history.
I know a guy who learned Standard ML when he was 11.

I also know a bunch of smart guys who dropped out of comp sci at Uni because that's what they were taught in their first semester. Some of them became developers anyway, others decided that they would never learn to code and did other things instead (which is fine, of course, but I'm sure they could've learned Python first and moved on to SML later).
Pardon me but even as a person who developed a few toy applications for BeOS back in the 90s, what about it could have been described as "modern", then or now? Certainly today, 25 years after the fact, it doesn't feel like an OS written partially in C++, that had a few SMP tricks but barely any working networking, is modern. Even at the time, its modernity was in question compared to even Windows NT.
If this was a level or neutral field, where the costs of 'food-bunny' delivery was the same or less than(faint hope) the Restaurants own delivery service then this is OK, but from what I see these cash-dash services charge a lot more than what the restaurant's normal deliverer = a piece for Google, a piece for the payment method and a piece for the delivery service.
In order to feed these parasitic hangers on, there is not much left for the restaurant = lesser food in quality as well as quantity.
Sorely needs regulatory limits that this lawsuit may engender.
Target display mode exists but it’s compatibility support could be improved.
Why U.S. Frontline Workers Are Quitting
Target Display Mode which turns iMacs into monitors is not supported on newer iMacs (anything post 2015):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
What we need is a war on drugs. We'll totally win that and there won't be drugs anymore.
I think there's a significant distinction between "I'd like to order food from restaurant X, I'll Google them" versus a concierge service. I can't speak for Visa's, but Amex's has never been misleading in this sort of fashion.
I do expect AWS to capitalize on this and persuade GCP customers to switch. I have no idea why GCP thinks that their customers are sticky enough to stay with them through the price increase.
Can I see mine please? Yes I can.
DevRel Community Africa
I wouldn't quite call it the top end, more like the middle.

I don't see the lack of escape hatch as a weakness. It just gives you a stronger motivation to move on to a "real" language, when the time is right.

I don't think you can really wrap adult tools into something nearly as ergonomic as Scratch. Bear in mind that you don't need to be able to read, write, or type, to use scratch (although basic reading ability certainly helps).

I am certainly an outlier here, but I enjoy implementing advanced concepts in Scratch, for the challenge of working in such a constrained environment - I suppose in a similar way to how demoscene coders still enjoy working with the C64. For example, I recently implemented X25519 elliptic curve scalar multiplication in scratch[1] (I'm slowly working my way through most of libsodium's cryptographic primitives). It's a turing complete language, so there's really no limit to what you can do with it.

As an adult, progamming by dragging blocks around feels like wading through treacle, so I wrote some codegen tools in python to speed things up.

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/656881761
‘I can’t move my car’: Americans struggle as vehicle expenses rise
Stephen W Hawking (1.8.1942 – 3.14.2018)
I agree with those points, but will also add that the VVS is likely as poorly maintained as the Russian Army.

They may have a lot of aircraft sitting around, but may only have the fuel, munitions, and parts to keep a fraction of it working.

There was a lot of discussion for a while about the state of the tires in the Russian army, and how that often led to break downs or troops getting stuck. Likewise, something as simple or mundane as not having enough flairs or chaff, could be enough to keep much of the fleet grounded, doubly so in the face of a reasonably effective Ukrainian AA network. Multi-million dollar aircraft are temperamental beasts, and missing even a few parts, or not being confident in said parts, is essentially a recipe for casualties, and they can't just conscript more SU-35s
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
As an 8 year old, I had no interest in playing with children’s toys. I wanted to learn how to what the grown ups around me that I admired did, making professional looking things. VB6 and Adobe Flash were perfect for this circa 2002. They were professional grade tools that were easy to get started with but capable of sophisticated professional looking output. The drag/drop/drawable user interfaces or scenes of these programs was also great for a kid to make something interesting without getting too frustrated with detail. I enjoyed doing things like making clickable buttons change text on a label or pop up a message box or open a file. I also thought making menu bars for applications was so cool and fancy. Likewise, I enjoyed making simple animations with flash. I think the key is having a tool the kid thinks is useful/professional grade and cool (I didn’t find kids toys or kids software cool above the age 8 or 9) but also approachable for early gratification with results that can be seen.
As a Coldline user myself I'm not exactly happy about this, but
Coldline is also the cheapest class of archival storage that Google offers. This means the increased costs will not kick in unless you actually need to un-archive data, which for typical archival cases like old logs happens quite rarely.
Do you know what would be the most promising next gen autovectorization optimizations?
Maybe polyhedral ?
https://polly.llvm.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_optimization#The_polyhedr...
You're quite right on your point about the distinction between imperialism and colonialism. I meant colonialism.

Something can exist alongside or in tandem with a system without being identical to or necessarily dependent on it. A great example is capitalism in China. Politically it is communist, yet it also has a huge capitalist economic sector. The capitalist economic system in China has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, a feat no other economic system has even approached.

Japan is capitalist, is it also colonialist or based on racist exploitation? What about Sweden, or Germany, or South Korea? There are many capitalist countries that never had any significant empires or colonies, and certainly reaped extremely few economic benefits from them if any, that have done extremely well. What made them wealthy was industrialisation and capitalist economics.

Even the USA had barely any colonial presence, and any that it has had made almost no impact on it's economy which throughout it's history has been almost entirely driven by internal demand, and most of it's trade was with developed countries, not colonies. Yes it had mass slavery, but in fact ending slavery was hugely economically beneficial by allowing former slaves to emigrate north and take up jobs in the industrial belt.

Look, I'm not in any way denying that colonialist abuses were appalling, that we benefited from them, that there are lingering historical injustices that need to be faced up to. All of that is true. It's just got nothing to do with capitalist economics, which if anything actively contributed to the downfall of that system.
There's a prairie right beyond my backyard. We get plenty of local flora from it. Still needs to be mowed periodically.
Means MacabookPro m1max orders will get even more delayed
> NYC, DC, SF have mostly decent transit, and I'm willing to bet there are more Americans here on HN who live around there than outside of around there.

I'd take that bet. America is a big place and unlike Europe, our population is not concentrated in one or two major cities. There are huge numbers of tech jobs in places most people outside the U.S. have never heard of. Just as a for instance, there are over 15 cities in the U.S. larger than San Francisco, like Houston, TX or Jacksonville, FL.

I'm not going to argue about urban design, I agree the U.S. could do much better on that front. But for now, a car is an absolute necessity for the vast majority of Americans, including Americans who work in tech.
I believe they got rid of target display mode support a number of years ago, in terms of both a hardware and software (High Sierra or earlier only)
I pay for YouTube Premium. Have been for years.
I was amazed to discover Taskfile. Didn't realise it was a copy of Make.

https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile
That did happen, as you describe it.
How sharding a database can make it faster
Target display mode has been dead and gone since 2015.
He also was the head of Apple France.
I basically did the same things for the same reasons as a kid. I'm very glad to have learned C++, but I bounced off DirectX pretty hard. The API wasn't great (this was DirectX 7), and the tools available for free were mostly nonexistent. So I never made much progress there.

I'm really glad that kids today can build games with real-world professional tools that are much more friendly, like Unity or Godot.
Not only that, here in Dallas many homes are being sold sight unseen these days.
It's a lot of work, but there are a lot of tutorials and readymade libraries out there to get you started (which you may end up ripping out if the project grows sufficiently that it's worth doing custom stuff, but most projects never get to that point). It's definitely nowhere near as difficult as it seems like it would be to get a basic game up and running (though it's still very hard)--you're not going to come close to competing with something like UE5, but if you're doing a game from scratch that probably isn't your goal in the first place.

For FOSS in particular, it helps that people are willing to devote massive amounts of free time to programming when the outcome is a video game--it's why a lot of people got into computer science in the first place, after all.
Why not have all kinds of tools? I began my career with a "for kids" software creator tool called Klik and Play[0] and I loved it. I also liked typing into the DOS console, creating simple games with batch files and the CHOICE command, but having a nice GUI to create graphical games was really fun and as it turned out, educational. I have no experience with Scratch, but looking at how widespread it is, and how people create projects to help learners transition from Scratch to other languages, I think it's a fine starting point IF someone is interested in it.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Klik+And+Play&iax=images&ia...
This used to be possible on older iMacs and was called Target Display Mode. I believe a five year old iMac is too recent to be able to do it.

DIY display from the hardware should be possible with a display driver from Aliedpress, though.
nowadays even first page of google search result is full of ads

clearly people behind those ads know better seo optimization, gaming google search

kindly ask google to change to new search algorithm and we'll get rid of ads ... until those ads people master new seo otimization tactics

rinse repeat
Can't downvote this enough.

I recently cancelled my Toronto Star digital newspaper subscription - some $17/mo or some bullshit like that - because I was horrified to find after paying that frankly ridiculous subscription fee, I was still being fed ads within their iPhone app.

This obviously isn't the only - even recent - case of this.

In no way does a subscription payment mean you will not have advertisements or tracking.

It's infuriating to see time and time again how companies care just so little about the customer and so much about taking advantage of the very people who are paying them. :(
It is Google's fault that they are forcing an elderly Thai couple, who have owned a restaurant in Wrigleyville for 20 years, to spend extra time and effort to figure out how to protect their meager profits from internet-based poachers.
Not just discoverable.

Have enough modules available they can start making stuff they want to actually use. Help them find opportunities to solve problems that matter to them using code.

Your average kid would much prefer to write a Twitter bot than a car parts inventory system or calendar app. (The latter being a typical CS assignment)
That was a truly bizarre segue. I wonder what emotions or thoughts he was hoping to inspire with that sentence.
That escape hatch is just the rest of computing. Onboarding is always the hard part. How many people get started just fine with the language and then can't figure out how to compile and link their program? I think you underestimate how needlessly complex and also boring many parts of computing are.
No single Google employee can solve the "no recourse" part of accounts being removed when they trigger automated abuse systems, unless you expect them to be the only ones to maintain the support inbox for that recourse. Any change for the better has to be done by committee, legal, PR, etc. and unauthorized changes are surely going to be cause for termination and/or criminal proceedings against the rogue employee, depending on how much they changed things without permission.
> It was so traumatic .... Lena decided to go back two more times to do more humiliation scenes with same producer. $$$$

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply snarkily that because Lena went back to do more pornography shoots that she is lying about her experience and trauma. But just in case that is what you're implying it's worth me pointing out that repitition is a very common consequence of sufferring a trauma. The mental effects of trauma cause a cycle of trauma re-enactment behaviors.

https://lakesidemilam.com/blog/trauma-stress-repetition-comp...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2664732/
> It also means TSMC’s 3 nm process isn’t ready, probably not shipping until late 2022. Apple, by virtue of their tight partnership with TSMC has known about and taken precautions against the 3 nm schedule, hence the initially undisclosed M1 Max UltraFusion design wrinkle, likely an early 2021 decision.

I find it hard to believe that this was a last-minute decision. Rather, I think this pattern of a new core design (using a new process if there is one) releases first for the smallest devices (iPhones), and the gradually moves its way up the lineup all the way up the Ultra before the cycle repeats with a new generation is likely Apple's new strategy going forwards.

My understanding is that this is pretty much what Intel and AMD do too (releasing their smaller dies on new processes first) and that this is a general strategy for dealing with poorer yield number on new process nodes. The idea that Apple would ever have considered releasing their biggest chip as the first chip on a new node seems far-fetched to me.
"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is untrue, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it,– "I refute it thus."

Boswell 1763
FWIW, one cost decrease actually also uses the word "increase": The amount of Always Free Internet egress will increase from 1 GB per month to 100 GB per month to each qualifying egress destination.

But I don't know if 100xing the free egress offsets all the doubling storage costs...
Nigerian fintech firm eyes Asia after $105 raise
Showing someone an alternative approach does not prevent someone "deeply understanding" their current method; it's not zero-sum.
> Let me tell you, as one of the highest performing team members in every organization I’ve been at: if a manager doesn’t care about you, no amount of performance will help you. It didn’t help me.

I agree with the other comment that performance is a necessary but not sufficient condition.

You build your own brand. A good manager helps with that. A poor manager takes the credit and you aren't acknowledged.
But why?
Ok it is faster and save storage. Is that really a huge problem?
I’ve been in this boat and have documented weird bugs and things that don’t work, but yet to write something about a working configuration.

I wanted to use mTLS for self hosted services and it took a while to come up with something that worked well in browsers, but apps on iOS and Android basically can’t use the certs making it fruitless.
They've never supported target display mode for any of the 5k iMacs. 5k displays, in general, seem to be few and far between, and poorly supported (haven't seen a single one for PC, only Apple's offerings), so I imagine trying to support target display mode wouldn't be great.
Maybe there was some environmental factor that eliminated the spike in 2020 - more seriously, I'm going to have to talk with my kids about why I don't have grandchildren yet!
> That's the world's biggest caveat.

Exactly. Not having a car is only a money saver if you place next to zero value on your time and what you can do with it.

If I switched to taking public transit to work, the additional childcare costs alone from the increased hours I'd be outside of the house would likely negate any savings I might have otherwise achieved.
I am interested to see what my avatar looks like ;) edit: aha, squid!
I think it is you who misinterpret the point. As a counter - are there things in life other people were better at compared to you? Perhaps painting or writing or cooking?

That 'easier to parse syntax' of yours might actually be trickier for other minds to work with, where they instead benefit from big blocks, little blocks and coloured abstractions that might be like so much fluff to you.
What is interesting is the observation that cost-per-transistor is rising:

"2018 was Apple’s last major step down in cost per transistor due to TSMC’s N10 to N7 process node shrink. With the transition from N7 to N5, the cost benefits were relatively small due to SRAM scaling issues. N7 is entering its 5th year of production, and N5 is now at its 3rd, yet the only hint of per wafer pricing changes have been in the wrong direction... Due to the way the 3 major DRAM companies have slowly increased output, cost per bit of DRAM has not really fallen."

Sophie Wilson (inventor of the original ARM instruction set) has been saying that cost-per-transistor has been rising for several years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4ZNfvw1cw
JLG also worked at Apple through the 80s. Ran the Mac team and a few other groups.
I was assuming that most people aren’t doing media creation, but yes, that as well.
people here are not talking small raises. Like what job can match a 30-50% raise in compensation? That's absurd. Do you think they can sustain that over time?
Not excusing anyone but, AFAICT, DoorDash and GrubHub are extremely popular. Google is just giving consumers what they want. I have friends who eat > 50% of their meals via DoorDash. I live in an apartment complex and see tons of orders coming in. So, maybe it sucks for the restaurants and that should be fix but it seems hard to knock Google for doing what their metrics say people actually want. Their metrics probably say people want to order food and so they tried to provide that info. There no need for to apply "evil" motivations. Good intentions gets the same result.