skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain the semiconductor shortage to me?

Usually when I hear shortage I immediately translate it to "the price has reached a level that I don't like". The "labor shortage" was used to justify changes to immigration policy. There's also a "car shortage", but you can buy a car, it'll just be more expensive that a few years ago. Car companies stopped shipping cheaper models because they can move the same amount of the more expensive models with higher margins. Obviously everything is getting more expensive (IMO due to the trillions of dollars of newly created money over the last two years) so we hear a lot about "shortages"

Is there a story behind the semiconductor shortage? People just say it as a matter of fact like bad weather affecting crop prices. Has there been natural occurrences that affect production? Obviously semi-conductor revenue is up a lot, but has the absolute number of semiconductors sold been flat, gone down or not kept up with prior YoY growth? What's going on?
You probably mean a Dervish turning machine, with a halting problem?
And turnips, who were the staple food potatoes replaced.
> It's very expensive to get regulatory approval for new engines and even more so to then get approvals to retrofit them to legacy or historical aircraft.

"The problems caused by rules we oppose upon ourselves are so bad that we can't solve the real biochemical issues caused by airborne lead" may not be the compelling argument you think it is.

> Unfortunately if you put regular pump gasoline in an aircraft you are going to have serious problems. Not least because of the bioethanol mixed in which will degrade the pipes.

There are plenty of fueling options other than driving down to Shell and picking up some E10. There are also readily available fuel lines that aren't degraded by ethanol.
Really helpful thanks!
The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
Thanks, but I've tried lots of more detailed ways of tracking before and decided this is just the one I prefer. My main concern is that I'm not overspending too badly and saving a good percentage for investments, and for that all I really need is a target spending number.
Looks like a nice offering. For those interested in an even more self-service style option -- check out https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler. Spin up a high-memory spot instance on your favorite cloud provider, run a command, let it run a few hours, and now you've got a complete tileset for the planet at the cost of a couple of bucks. I'm not affiliated but I've been using it for my own project (http://www.lumathon.com/map) and I've been very happy.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I'm risking no one's anything.

At worst, I'm acknowledging reality. Some people sometimes end up working on live wires. If you can't be talked out of this decision (or if it's legitimately not possible to avoid), a dose of caution is important.

Asking an untrained non-adult to be ready with a broom is a fantastically bad idea though. In the worst case, the kid lives with the memory of uselessly smacking their parent's corpse with a broom while the air fills with the smell of ozone and burnt flesh.
Exit the Fatherland (2021)
New reddit is also a shitshow on mobile. Load the page (which takes a while) dismiss the prompt to get the app, continue browsing, click Load More in comments, try to dismiss the login prompt, fail, give up and leave. On desktop new reddit scrolls all the way to the top when you Ctrl+click links in comment threads, it's a mess. I usually use libreddit.
hug of death for me
I seem to recall also issues with typical automobile fuel vaporising too easily at lower pressure, which isn't a problem in a car which likely won't be driving above 4000m ASL... but 4000m is nothing special for even cheap (comparably) non-ultralight plane.
The actual concern raised, buried in the article (which is itself only a commentary on a different study):

"So the action here, as the researcher admits, comes not from the kids in the treatment group getting better, but rather from the kids in the comparison group getting worse."

Isn't that how control groups are supposed to work? Your treatment should produce better outcomes than the lack of treatment. This appears to correctly be the case here. The fact that these treatments alone don't resolve gender dysphoria, is expected, they are one part of a process. Stopping a rapid decline is one huge step in the right direction.
You have to complete a number of prerequisites to be considered, never mind accepted, into a medical school. For engineering the barrier is much much lower, hence the higher dropout rate.
They tried something like this in. nl and that was pretty much exactly what happened: make some of the cash-limited house buyers be able to pay more increased prices.

The desired effect typically is not achieved because such measures are aimed at the least affluent buyers. Giving those ways to bid more will not decrease prices. It just means someone else is now the least affluent buyer - typically not investors.
I'm astonished by the amount of money Squaresoft was investing in game development at the time. Obviously, it paid off big time for them, but I can't imagine they realized the game would be as successful as it was. If I'm honest, their follow-ups make it seem like they never understood why the game was a success.
Can they not move to nearby cities and commute?
If you are coming from a Linux background, you should use WSL 2 instead of PowerShell. Using the Windows SSH client? Hell no! I install everything (even Docker) inside WSL, the only thing I have outside is VS Code, but all the extensions are also installed inside WSL, and I only have WSL window open all the time, keeping all my files inside the WSL filesystem. Much more convenient and less learning of Windows things.
Surprisingly, because most CAD and computer graphics programs are still largely not optimized for multi-threaded processors, the fastest workstations are typically using whatever processor tops the single core compute performance category, not the multicore. They are then paired with as much ram as the chipset supports. Also, when you are talking about pro graphics cards like Radeon Pro and the RTX A (formerly called quadro) lines, it only pays to upgrade to the next gen graphics card once your software vendor has had a year or two to integrate with a new hardware gen's capabilities. The pro gfx card market (at least when it pertains to OpenGL performance) is one area that will actually punish you for being too early an adopter, which is disappointing when cards go for several thousands of dollars new. The whole area of CG software has been stagnating for 5 years while OpenGL driver improvements have fallen out of favor for more bare metal processing approaches that are only now getting to feature parody and developer adoption like vulkan. Hopefully the next few years brings a positive trend in CG price to performance again as these new architectures actually start shipping in CG software products. As someone who works daily in CAD, the performance stagnation over the last 5-10 years has been depressing to say the least.
Do you live in either of those cities? I'm wanting to check out Chattanooga in part for the reasons you mention.
Seconded -- I don't have much interest in reading the guy's own writing at this point, but I'll gladly read a concise summary that leaves out all the boasting since I assume there might be some actual "content" buried in there.
Yeah, it is was the same with the game I played: no waiting time, just click away and play. There's no way to break the loop.

Well, gaming is for everyone, that's what I think. Given a person, you can find or build an appealing enough game for her to enjoy it. Well, barring stigma-aversion, prejudice, etc.

Seriously, though, try some single-player games. Max Payne 2, Machinarium, Fallout 1/2/3/New Vegas, Planescape Torment. My view on this is: deversify your experiences; there's a certain limit on how much you should play a single game for your own good, because at some point the experience becomes more miserable than positive.
I hear platforms ban < 13yo due to cost of compliance. Is this true? It was simple on Neopets when COPPA was new - just faxed a signed parental consent form so I could access the forums.
The correlation between the lifespan of a whole population and the dollar amounts spent by the government (which BTW probably shouldn't be compared across countries with different costs of living), is presumably pretty confounded.
We can't even get people to consistently pass basic mathematics at a college 101 level, what you're asking is impossible. There is fundamentally a culture of anti-intellectualism in many American subcultures and the left tries to paper over it by shouting about racism and the right straight up supports it.
I've never heard about Fast before I read the article. I don't know whether I live in a bubble or SV lives in a bubble.
i guess its up to what everyone is looking for.

I personally avoid start-ups like the plague. To the point where i dont even bother accepting linkedin requests from startup people

Im not that big of a fan of "Big Tech" either, i wouldnt go for something like FAANG, even if maybe the pay would be good

What gave me a happy life was "industry" firms. In my case those were either consultancy/strategy firms (MBB/Big4 ) at first, which was stressful, but had good advancement chances (jumping steps based on performance) and very good networking opportunities.

Now i've retreated in "an industry". In my case a forbes 100 company in the automotive sector (they have cloud systems and develop software too). And life is bliss.
This is very exciting.

IMO the Tools For Thought (#TFT) ecosystem is crying out for a standard interchange format to break down the silos. Org-mode could be that format. It's not just an outliner format, it's the best markup[1] and supports pretty much everything you need for journaling/task-management/project-management etc.

What's been missing thus far is a single canonical definition that everyone can build on (beyond the org-mode source code). I'd love to see this be the reference implementation of Karl Voits Orgdown proposal [2]. (BTW there was a recent relevant discussion here [3])

[1] https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only

[2] https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30879327
>I'm not sure why "amount over reserve / list" is a meaningful metric.

It's not. The salient part is that the current market is crazy and there is a large number of bids on any given house.

>It's clear that in a lot of cases the list prices are intentionally below market to attract more bidders and produce the appearance of more competition at open houses and the like.

Yes, list prices are intentionally below market but you know what ... houses are going for crazy amounts because we are in some sort of a bubble. This isn't the fault of blind bidding, or unscrupulous realtors or greed property owners. There are systemic economic issues at play. In my area, for example, there are houses that doubled in value in under 24 months. When I bought my property 12 years ago, there was blind bidding, and bad realtors, but on any given property there were only 2-3 bids, so there was no issue.
Ex-Snap Advocate at Ubuntu Creates Tool to Help You Migrate from Snap to Flatpak
I'm a bit confused how there is any bigotry involved. If puberty blockers do not solve some issues then they do not solve the issues.
Also it's worth noting that 3D printing with ABS produces microparticles that can embed in your lungs.
the EBCDIC encoding/character sets, however i don't know if it's worth implementing... (well, all terminal emulators have that)
I’m a Conservative Professor Who Opposed Safe Spaces. I Was Wrong
He was trying to navigate an impossible course between telling the truth and not getting fired for telling the truth.
Lead used to serve a necessary lubricating function way back in the 1930s-1940s before the invention of Stellite valve seats, and other hardened alloys for valves. Any aircraft engine that has been either built or overhauled in your or my lifespan already has hardened valve seats installed, or it is a fairly minor procedure to replace them as a part of a top-end overhaul, which often does not even require the engine to be removed.

A far worse problem than lead fouling, which just electrically shorts a spark plug and results in power loss and annoying vibration, is lead deposit preignition, where hot bits of lead oxide deposits adhered to the piston act as preignition site triggers, resulting in detonation. Despite the violent sounding name, it will typically go unnoticed by the pilot unless they have automated cylinder head temperature monitoring and alerting, which the majority of piston powered aircraft do not have. At cruise power it can destroy an engine within a minute or so.

https://resources.savvyaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/artic...
I intentionally don't want to say the game name or mentioned many details as I'm afraid maybe many people would like to try it, and some of them could get addicted like me. It would be a bad outcome for the world :D

Selling the PC and going to mac is great advice. Many times I feel a small temptation to just go download/install and set up my keyboard shortcuts again because it would take just about 1 hour. If I had to buy a new PC to do that I wouldn't even consider it.

The problem is that I'm a C# developer, and even though it's now possible to develop .net core in a mac without issues I don't think I want to do it. Also I find macs extremely expensive, my ThinkPad is a beast in specs and costed 1/4 of an equivalent mac. Well of course it's also uglier, heavier, makes more noise and spends more electricity than a mac, but I'm ok with that, I like my computer ugly on the outside but performant in the inside :)
Yup. Pretty much no complaints. We do have a very boring setup though YMMV
> the company only generated $600K in revenue in 2021

Ain't none of the investors catch this ... ? Losing money is one thing, but this seems to me as really low growth
You're being downvoted, but you're not wrong. Microscopic particles of whatever material masks are made of absolutely do flake off and end up in your lungs.

Is that why the planet is full of microplastic pollution? Not by a long shot. That'd mostly be due to snacks, water bottles, fishing nets, toothbrushes, flip flops, packaging of all kinds, beauty products, toothpaste...oy, the list is endless.
Your comment reminds me of a talk that was on LibrePlanet 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQM-GWKdHsU
There's a point at which complexity becomes irreducible. Computing freedom requires that the user elevate themself by learning (not the other way around).
A proper control group should be defined as the state-of-the-art alternative, not as "no treatment". The latter is a common ploy used to push substandard, "me too" treatments.
Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice
When military considered it fine to give amphetamines to pilots, it also considered it fine to run soldiers through still hot ground zero of nuclear explosion (so hot the boots would melt), or purposefully release radionuclides over american cities to research the effects.

Military isn't necessarily a good benchmark for sane ideas.
>I'd also like to see a ban on corporations purchasing private homes and significant tax increases on non principle residences.

This would actually solve the problem (the calls are coming from inside the house- foreign investment is merely a scapegoat), and as such it won't be done.
Uber had revenue and millions of customers begging for someone to offer the service.

Google did not have "staff+" when it was starting out.
It had founders and a couple of hires.
I'd suggest emailing hn@ycombinator.com for any official response.
"Conceive of" is a different idea than "visualize"...
Why not excluding the brand name as negative phrase keyword?
This title seems misleading. It isn't a conservative professor defending "safe spaces". It's a conservative professor who wants a type of space that can be called a "safe space" but that is not at all what the term means in common usage.

I wonder how many people will see the headline and erroneously feel confirmed about whether safe spaces are good.
Serious personal tragedy can compress the middle phase into a very short period of time. Comedy is born where hope dies. Devastating disease or injury, a long jail sentence, a ruinous lawsuit, living through a war, etc. Most of the quick routes to lifelong wisdom are not desirable.
Slight counter point, I have 80yo neighbor. Her laptop is sluggish due to some strange problem in the windows install (I investigated hard but it's "window boot event log" level of problem).

I mentioned her I can put another windows like thing, safer, faster, freeer, and probably easier. She agreed, when I ran Mint on a live usb key she said yeah but where are my icons and my things and lost interest in a second.

Humans are complicated.
>> In many countries, including Europe, new properties are quickly snatched by investment

> Demand for housing is not infinite, and supply of capital is not infinite. Building more units will always help. The quantity of units which are bought and then kept empty long term is tiny in relative terms.

I think it's kind of pointless to argue over which one policy to pursue to fix this problem, why not try a multi-pronged approach?

1. Implement some policy to ban large investors from home-ownership (say no corporate ownership and a small cap on how many an individual/family can own). There are more reasons to do this than just supply.

2. Put an onerous tax on housing that is not occupied full-time.

3. Build more housing.

1 & 2 would help ease some (but not all) pressure that makes 3 less desirable.
Bill Clinton: I Tried to Put Russia on Another Path
Wow, interesting. I had been considering building a pfsense/opnsense box to get fq_codel on my network to help solve issues like the ones I was seeing, didn't occur to me it would already be enabled within Linux distros- that def might explain my different experience on Linux then
I would hesitate to endorse Robbins. He’s had a litany of sexual abuse claims against him, among other legal problems
Some people in the US work with a 'metric ounce' which is exactly 28 grams.
The control program of IBM operating system/360 [YouTube]
> … if we could "merge" Smalltalk images … merge two Smalltalk images … what are the conflicts …

Merge changes, not images.

Even back in 1983, "Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment"

"check conflicts

A prompter appears in which you type the name of a changes file. When you choose the yellow button command accept, an analysis is done of all the items in the change management browser menu to see if any of them refer to the same message selector, but specify different definitions."

page 472

http://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePro...
I wonder which component who limit first.. the gun or the flyback driver.
As an outsider, I believe Rareware's secret sauce was a combination of a can-do, down-to-the-metal, fast-feedback-loop game development style that came from the pre-PC British bedroom game coders, a management team that understood how to manage game development and releases, and Nintendo's coaching on mascot development and general game polishing.

Rareware's talents were big advantages in the early 3D game console era. But by the PS2 / Xbox era, their special skills didn't help as much.

Today I'd say that Epic's Fortnite is the spiritual successor of the old Rareware.
Bankrupt (2006), acquired by Rackable Systems (2009), then aquired by HP Enterprise (2016).
Wait, you can fly with 3rd class? If the classes are the same as in europe...

I had to take 2nd class for gliders (1st class is required for ATPL/CPL only, I believe)
Is it ok to run Docker from inside Docker?
> We get job candidates with high competing offers for companies I know to be rotten inside,

I fell for this trick once when I was younger, but never again.

As it turns out, when companies are bleeding talent and struggling to hire they suddenly find ways to pay well above market rate. You can have a fancy title, too!

We had a competitor do something similar at a prior company. I would tell candidates that we can't match their compensation numbers but to come back if things don't work out at the other company. I'd often get a message about 3-4 months later asking if the job was still available
Installation wizards ask the configurer to set various levels of security. It's not apparent that this option should be elided from any and all installation workflows.
It would not have made a difference. Maybe they'd be losing $9.9M a month instead of $10M a month.
A friend of mine recently bid on a house and came 2nd highest in the bids. The winning bid was $75,000 more than his...

That's a good example of blind bidding driving up overall prices.
Sure. The question is why they didn't do that until ~1970, which is when I think that era started.

It sounds crazy today, but the vastly poorer US society of 1960 supplied pretty everyone with an indoor place to sleep and call home.
We don’t live in a perfect meritocracy. Equal opportunity is difficult to achieve when education isn’t demonstrably democratized. On top of that, this argument is laughable when she has as much qualifications and experience as any Supreme Court candidate.

There’s a big gulf between the education that the average public school student in say the Oakland Unified school district receives versus wealthy California suburbs like Palo Alto. You’re living in a fantasy world pretending that we don’t need to do something to help settle the echos of America’s’s sin of centuries of discrimination and slavery.
You're lucky that you have him.
I would guess a lot of people, maybe more non technical people think that.
Every console generation the file size of games gets bigger because of bigger textures, better models, etc.
So it's easy to make the relation between huge file size and quality, which isn't always true. The difference between 5GB and 80GB should be noticeable, but now with 150GB games I don't think it's all content and more bad file optimization because it's cheaper this way and people don't (really) care.
the answer here is about the competitive space that he's in and whether his competitor is buying brand terms around his area. if not, he's probably fine and he can use his organic strength to stay tops.
Computers used to be people. Until the advent of electronic computers, computing machines were all mechanical or elecro-mechanical affairs. This was the world view of the founders.
For the record dual agency is actually illegal in some places: https://www.homelight.com/blog/dual-agency-is-illegal-in-som...

Though I will point out that in most of the jurisdictions in the link provided, there's nothing that prevents your scenario - a third party offer is turned down due to the dual agency bid being favored by the sellers because they never received your bid. Only in Colorado, Florida or Kansas is it explicitly prohibited. But at least if it was in one of the other states that requires disclosure (Alaska, Maryland, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming) the sellers would have at least been aware of a possible conflict of interest and may not have entered into a contract because of it.
Dumb format. Tags should be allowed after the content data.
Everyone thinks they're immune to ads.
What's fun about working at startup that is just cloning a bad old Amazon feature?
Besides getting to call yourself a "staff+" on Twitter, I mean.
Also available in Edge. I had to add Brave Search manually to set it as the default search.
Aight but then why no other company managed to compete on the numerical core array ? still funny, as if the wealthy gaming market funded nvidia venture into serious computing enough to choke the potential competition.
I'm going through the process right now. It is every bit as bad as described.