skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more recent incarnation of this, which I used to see promoted by pamphlets in SF is an international rail project pushed by the LaRouche PAC, with a long view towards a Bering Strait tunnel.

Re-visiting this idea at this specific moment is interesting. Partly it was presented as an investment in a cooperative relationship with Russia.

> Former Alaska Governor Walter Hickle spoke out strongly at a Moscow Megaprojects Conference in April in 2007, in favor of “big projects as the alternative to war,” and in particular, of the Bering Strait tunnel and the benefits of Russia-U.S. collaboration. They “together will change the world.”

https://larouchepub.com/other/2020/4744-the_alaska_to_albert...
Honestly I am not great at making friends either. But at least as far as interactions options:

Check out Demeo or Eleven Table Tennis on Oculus Quest (Meta Quest, whatever). Or VR Chat. Also there are a lot of Discord channels (or Matrix maybe? ) for kind of everything. So if you can get interested in anything at all and start a project, that is one way to have a bit more interaction, discuss that problem in that area with those people.
it could also be there because the work is for a company that some have moral objections to, like raytheon or meta. i think i remember a story on here that meta had to highball offers for similar positions when compared to their contemporaries because of how they've been torched in the media lately.

i think of it like free agency in sports -- unsuccessful teams, teams in small/undesirable markets, and teams with unliked coaching/management will have to pay a premium to attract talent. why go to detroit, a basement dweller team with a coach who is universally reviled when you can go to los angeles and be on a winning team with a respected front office for a modest pay cut?
Moore's law is very much about real, commercial products and economics of manufacturing hem.

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...

These "research" transistors have never had any bearing on the reality of economically manufacturing products. Here's a paper way back 50 years ago they were already making tiny transistors with electron beam processes https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5391506 - it would be about another 15 years before commercial chips were made with this transistor dimension, and that's 15 years at the height of Moore's law.

Not to say they don't inform what might be possible and advance knowledge of the physics, but it's not much of a predictor about what might become economically viable to make.
I tend to think of it as: people (including kids) are generally smarter than you think, but know less than you think.
Removing the statement in parens would help.
Check 123.
Your car doesn't need 10 SSDs
Please note that this hasn't yet been released. It's available on their download servers but not linked from their homepage, download page, or mentioned in their news page which posts each release. These all point to 3.0.16. Nor is it available within the automatic updater where version 3.0.16 still shows as the most recent release.

Version 3.0.17 was posted on March 7 and was never officially released. Version 3.0.17.3 was posted on March 11 and has not yet been released.

Lots of projects will have a build on their download servers, third party sites, mirrors, etc but end up not releasing it due to bugs, last minute updates, etc.
Amdahal's Law says hello. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

If we keep scaling up number of processors rather than clock speed, what is going to be the maximum number useful cores in a laptop or desktop? 20? 100? 1000? At some point adding more cores is going to make no difference to the user experience, but the way we are going we'll be at 1000 cores in about a decade so we better start thinking about it now.

Or to put it another way, what normal workloads will load up all the cores in the new M1 chip?

Being a software developer, compiling things is the obvious choice, except when you come to that rather serial linking phase at the end of the compile job. Already my incremental Go compiles are completely dominated by the linking phase.

There are a few easy to parallelise tasks, mostly to do with media (as it says in the article). However a lot of stuff isn't like that. Will 20 cores speed up my web browser? How about Excel?

Your average user is going to prefer double the clock rate of your processors to doubling the number of processors.

Anyway, I don't want to rain on Apple's parade with these musings - the M1 Ultra is an amazing achievement and it certainly isn't for your average user. I wish I had one in a computer of my choice running Linux!
I can't believe how confusing all these cloud products are to do the most basic things. It really makes me appreciate Cloudflare, they seem to do a really great job with their UIs.
My submission was flagged because of the phrase “golden shower”, huh. Copying it here:

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/shortlog/35f...

Basically, Firefox 98.0.1 is a point release only concerned with removing Yandex search for users in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey, and switching them all to Google by default. Some old promotions from mail.ru and ok.ru were blocked, too, but these have been dead as a doornail and irrelevant.

Note the smoking gun: regular Google links were used in configuration file on 11 March, and then were switched to firefox-tagged (sponsored) ones on 13 March (“part 2”). Why couldn't Mozilla switch Yandex search users to regular Yandex links the same way if they reportedly had “troubles” with their agreement, which supposedly would be the best for the users, and best for Mozilla, apparently? Imagine their wet faces when they beg on their knees for more after successful extension of Google's sponsorship agreement onto 4 big countries, and you'll know why.

The changelog for 98.0.1 is currently absent. The changelog for 98 has a vague note about search engines. The relevant code-related bugs have zero explanations. Bug 1748923 is private. The UI that alerts the user about the removed search engine was introduced two weeks ago (and had it text changed to be more vague). There is a specific (and vague) help article about the switch:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal

However, the first signs were noticed about a month ago (in Russian):

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=56721

As usual with Mozilla, there were bugs. Users of previous version of Firefox that automatically update the list of search engines but have no UI to warn them about the changes got it removed silently.

I personally don't use Yandex, its results for IT-related English language queries have been quite shitty, in all honesty, for many years, most likely because of the supposed full-on focus on keeping the existing (mostly non-English-speaking) users. However, it's another nice example of treating people like swine by those who have even a tiny bit of power over them. Oh, we're used to that, thank you very much.
Lobbing one of their own into the Arctic Ocean?
Six months later, the startup gets wrecked when attackers inject ransomware into their product and it infects 28% of their customer base.

The first two CISOs are currently employed. The third goes and grabs some coffee with the CEO as they discuss career prospects.
Really cool and congrats on the launch! I wonder, how resource intensive is it to develop your supply chain and produce these trees? I wonder if you’ve thought about or quantified what the resource cost is upfront - surely there are energy and transportation needs to make a tree?

Cool idea and best of luck.
What "uses" are you thinking of?

It's not going to replace industrial laser scanners for surveying and site inspection but it's good enough for many of things we're currently using photogrammetry for.

And the sheer ease of use could open up new applications that wouldn't have been viable with slower workflows. Speed is a feature in it's own right.
Ask HN: What multi-city flight finder do you use?
I'm looking for the cheapest option for flying between three cities in the summer with relatively broad constraints. Google flights, which normally serves me quite well between two cities, is pretty rubbish on three and searching past HN discussions, the options seem to die (https://airx.mikface.com, https://fluugi.com, https://www.prestotrip.com).
It goes way too far on the "privacy oriented defaults" spectrum, I think. Why would I want a browser that does not save history by default?
Meta narrows guidance to prohibit calls for death of a head of state
I like this approach, but I think OP was trying to form a movement.

A movement of programmers hell bent on ridding the digital world of advertising.
"You can use more than one iMac as a display, if each iMac is using a Thunderbolt cable to connect directly to a Thunderbolt port on the other Mac (not the other iMac)."

Do Mac's not have USB ports? It's truly bizarre that you need 1 thunderbolt port per monitor. That's an incredible amount of wasted bandwidth.
I've long been intrigued by Paulownia (empress). Nice to see others share the same thought.

Unfortunately its strength in this area is a weakness for adoption because its so highly invasive: http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/paulownia-princess-tree-on...

Bamboo might be another option. While it can be invasive I think it's much more manageable.
> And the girls would be too afraid to go to the authorities for help

In which western European countries are human trafficked girls afraid of going to the police? It's hard to imagine any western European country where authorities wouldn't take this extremely seriously, and where this wouldn't be front page news.
I recently read "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet" by Tim Hwang.

He argues that the internet ad market could crash soon because it isn't really delivering value anymore, or rather it delivers far less value than advertisers currently believe (and pay for).

If true, it could be pretty devastating to the current internet given how many major players like Google, Meta etc. depend on ad revenue to provide free services like Facebook, YouTube, GMail etc.
A Makefile inside a JavaScript codebase is a good indicator that you will encounter other less idiomatic ways of doing things in that codebase.
Olympian Motors: Unique and High-End Electric Vehicles
My intuition, and some experience sitting in meetings with GCP folks, is that their engineering teams don't dogfood their own products end-to-end sufficiently (e.g. including billing) on a daily basis, like their customers have to.

The amount of blank stares and "Oh..."s that happened when asked about relatively simple, everyone-would-need-it use cases for management, visibility, etc was mind boggling.

GCP feels like Google rediscovering being Microsoft of the 1990s. If you have strong product teams, but no strong overarching experience teams, your resulting system is going to be a hash of well-polished but distinct products, with an extremely ugly unification layer.
I actually feel disgusted sharing the same community with you.
Look to the Stars: Navigating the Urbit
I don't think it's common for porn websites to do these sort of verifications. Also, who would trust a sketchy porn website with their id? Remember the Ashley Madison incident?
Selective breeding is helpful to get ~1% increase in growth rate per year. Given we use biotechnology to enhance natural processes, we haven't seen the same pushback as if we had added a completely new trait in plants that doesn't occur naturally. When it comes to enhancing our seedlings with microbes for secondary metabolic pathways, additional nutrient fixation or finding specific varieties of trees that preform well in a localized region, we are using methods like selective breeding.
Tagged Unions (“containers”) vs. simple Unions is basically about composability.

You can't emulate Result[Result[T]] with a simple Union.
> It isn't a protocol carefully designed by a committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee
1) everyday - fast iterative process beats everything
Even when times are good, cars are what largely keep Americans poor.

Back when I lived in LA, I literally had a car salesman try to tell me I should be okay with an outrageous interest rate, because everyone can just refinance later.

There is an intense amount of pressure to not only own a car, but to buy a nice car so you can show off. For one, you're not going to attract quality people like that, and two the moment things go bad you'll lose that car.

I was able to reduce my monthly expenses by about 20% just by going car free, and I refuse to ever own a car again.

Owning a car is just this giant liability, but of course I'm rather limited in where I can live because of that. Much of America is just broken, there's no way to fix poverty as cars will keep you poor. You have a tiny handful of cities which both have decent public transit and are moderately affordable. One of these cities starts with a C.
Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, David Sacks, and Luke Nosek, with Author Jimmy Soni
IKEA sells one with a 10” for 850 Canadian.
Oh yes, but unfortunately the physical passport is enshrined in a ton of treaties that are very hard and slow to change.

There are also some nasty privacy and autonomy implications to digitizing the passport system.

This is not primarily a technical problem, but that doesn't mean it's not a very hard problem. Tech people tend to assume that every non-technical problem is easy. Often people, legal, ethical, and institutional problems are quite a bit harder than just making shit work at the tech level, and it is not just because people are lazy or inept. It's because there are loads of competing concerns and stakeholders.
I'm not in any way related to this startup, but in my experience trees that grow faster have lower-quality (weaker, less durable, but lighter) wood than slower-growing ones - this also includes the "empress tree". To quote Wikipedia, "Paulownia grown on plantations generally has widely spaced growth rings, meaning that it is soft and of little value". So "developing" trees that "grow faster, capture more carbon, and produce more durable wood" will be an interesting challenge...
voxels processed through marching cubes algorithm - https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-i-geometr...
What's your source on pnpm/yarn shipping with node? It doesn't in my experience.
Depends on what the UltraFusion interconnect is. Ganging up chips as am unplanned stop-gap isn’t unheard of (e.g. the ATI Rage Fury Max). But it’s much harder to do when you’re talking about grafting on a cache coherent interconnect. If they’re using something off the shelf like CXL maybe it wasn’t planned from the outset.
> Rathole

What is that? Not having much luck: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rathole+software
How will you plan to grow these trees -- is the expectation that they will be cultivated in a farmed/managed environment with only a few species, or are they equally adept at growing in the chaos of an unmanaged forest?
You can now buy from most firms a separate fridge and freeze which practically means dual compressors, and even better you can replace just one side in case of a catastrophic failure.
Thank you for pointing this out. After reading the opening line of "Thierry Legault pointed his camera up at the night sky..." I thought to myself "Man, that must be some camera." Turns out he very much does this professionally and a telescope is also involved.
There is a fine line between tasteful ads and obnoxious ads. Once the line between the two gets drilled, consumers start looking for ways to block ads
RICO isn't broad. The predicate acts of RICO are an explicitly enumerated list (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1961 for the full list). Then there's the tricky part that the defendant has to be doing that on behalf of a particular enterprise. (See https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-... for a fuller description).

Most internet peanut gallery shouts of "RICO!" are not, in fact, RICO.
>The first CISO comes home, complains about what they have seen at the company and is worried nothing will get done, calls the CEO and complains about everything they saw and how much of a mess it was. They get fired on the spot.

>The third CISO comes home, calls her boss, the CEO, and tells her there is a lot of work to be done and to be prepared, but that it’s an excellent opportunity to get it right. The CEO backs them up.

Don't forget to be honest. I know there's this cult of positivity crap floating around, but the best CISO in this scenario calls the CEO, gives them the honest grim assessment of the current situation, says what can be done to fix it, and is eager to get to work.
> unlike with other youtube alternative clients, you basically had almost 1:1 feature parity over the official app

I believe that's because unlike other alternative clients it is a modified version of the official app.
Nice, that's good enough for me.

Now if only I could find a box with a button on it to switch the monitor between two or three computers, at full resolution, retaining Power Delivery and attached USB devices. I'd buy one right now.
I think the only (and easiest) way to fix this is with centralized government identity infrastructure. Right now every agency has to spend some of their budget to verify identity instead of relying on someone whose main job is that.

But I think a lot of the US, myself included, opposes central identity.

Therefore we are in our own self made hole.
I'm afraid that in quite a few organizations, CISO stands for "Chief Incident Scapegoat Officer".
I have a friend who is gay and some 15 years ago when online webcams were starting had earned enough to buy a flat and a car with this, within 1 or 2 years. Nothing hardcore. It was mostly from tips. Wouldn't be possible to earn that much now, not for same things.

I guess sudden relative wealth isn't something many of these can handle properly and start doing stupid things.
"Garbo said it has tried to address the pitfalls of background checks by adding its confidence indicators and limiting the information it provides.

For example, results Garbo gives Tinder users exclude arrests and convictions for financial crimes that are more than seven years in the past as well as for homicides or robberies that took place more than 14 years ago. Such time limits were developed by criminal justice reform advocates to give people who committed crimes a chance to change their behavior, Garbo said."

I'd like to know if a potential date killed someone 15 or more years ago. Instead of Tinder deciding what's relevant, give the information to the user and let him or her decide what to do with it.
Yes, that's what I'm saying.

Factoring univariate polynomials with integer coefficients (that is, seeing if a polynomial with integer coefficients has smaller degree polynomial factors with integer coefficients) is in P [0]. Factoring univariate polynomials over the integers has known to be in P since the 1980s (since LLL came out, which is one of the major reasons why LLL was developed in the first place).

Integer factorization is still currently unknown to be in P or not in P.

If you see how to use polynomial factoring to factor integers, please let me know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization_of_polynomials#F...
Last couple of years is just when it became blatantly obvious to pretty much everyone.

Google's founders were funded and supervised by DoD employees in their grad school.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

Here is how "Google Earth" happened: "In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005. The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Facebook launched in 2004. First check from Peter Thiel, who founded Palantir in 2003. DARPA's Lifelog was "cancelled" in 2003.

They were designed to be mass surveillance from the start. Some even funded directly be equity investments at pre-seed/seed stage. Others, funded at the research stage.
you can have arbitrarily complex assembly language when you define a new architecture. You'll have an easier time fitting into existing assemblers if you are able to accept gas-like directives at least.

So yeah - just create your mnemonics for your new architecture that happened to be prefixed by the instruction class/domain.
Write them to unsubscribe and tell them why, then
It still holds up pretty well. I’ll take a multi-threaded C++ GUI toolkit over Electron any day.
If it were up to me, I’d disband Russia entirely (too much polarizing history). I’d charter it as a constitutional democracy but remove its right to a standing army. The purpose of Russia should be to increase the happiness of its citizens and protect their welfare, not keep them under the iron boot of some mafioso tyrant so he can pursue his mad dreams.
It's interesting to me that the wikipedia article posted makes no mention of this connection to Gilpin's racism and colonial desire.

Additionally, the wikipedia article on William Gilpin doesn't mention the Cosmopolitan Railway, or any of Gilpin's racist notions.
I interpreted OPs sentiment to be an example of consumerism. Individually, sure, “some degree” could be considered meaningless, but collectively, the sentiment drives supply and production decisions, so no, I don’t think it’s a spurious or meaningless assertion to make.
> Who might consider citizenship so desirable to risk his life over it?

For those volunteers who already decided to risk their life for Ukraine that is not an issue. What it does is give them, and the state of Ukraine, an out from accusations of "ruthless soldiers of fortune!" or Western nation-level meddling: "No no, these aren't foreign 'mercenaries', they're our citizens!"
I skimmed some of the links and "Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown" seems to be not russia/ukraine related? Looking at the OP it's about lockdowns from omicron covid cases.
If I were to make a best case scenario on where multiprocessing , GPU acceleration and the neural engine I would say a iOS App development using a simulator , a container that contains your backend services and the iOS app using ML inference. Training on the M1 Ultra isn’t really worth it.
STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to stop the spoofing. For an explanation, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
> Modern backends and frontends can surely handle way more than 20 entries in a dropdown without sweating.

I agree. I meant that I as a user will not find it usable enough if I often have to search the correct value in lists of 20 or more.

The discussion of the load on the frontend and backend was about amounts large enough to create problems if the developer wrote naive code, but we did not get in to a specific amount.
My point is that communities that cam think long term seem rare based on the available evidence. Thus most of the communities where the housing crises is being exported will just face the same problem.

This why why I am making the point that we shouldn't rely on remote work (of self driving cars) to solve our housing crises. The only good solution is increasing density, (and I suspect we agree on that.)

It's great if people want to take advantage of remote work to live I'm new housing markets, but they should realize the consequences of those choices and work to mitigate them.
Unsubscribe and tell them why they. So much news online. Choose the ones that don't give you shit...
I've usually volunteered somewhere or another most of my life: university clubs, Red Cross, ham radio club, makerspace, etc. Right now serving on the board of a makerspace I founded and that can fill any desire I have for meetings and battles. Also means I have a place I can go cowork.
Monetization wouldn’t be an issue if we paid for these services. I’d be willing to pay $5-10 a month for a good search engine that respects your privacy. But I guess the average person hates the idea of paying for any software these days.
I use Newpipe every day, it works great for me.