skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
England may have run out of trees but Canada hadn't.

Hell my own country didn't have any forests left by the 17th century and built ships from Baltic timber.
For 300 years the entire world fed European industry with its natural resources. It is why God created Africa.
It's not really hoarding if you can afford to ask this question.
Doesn't this line of thinking apply to every university too then?
That's how DSL was supposed to work in the US. The telcos sabotaged it by not maintaining their copper lines and forced the independent ISPs out of business.
I read the article, and I do hope that Fuchsia is successful. A fast and secure microkernel that is open source would truly be godsend for many security needs, and a threat to each and all monolithic kernels.

The article is rather light on detail, dwells on a "starnix shell" (which sounds like dom0 not mksh), goes on about a clock widget, but adds this:

"It’s now been over a year since the Starnix proposal was accepted and work began. In that time, the Fuchsia team has made significant progress in making Linux programs capable of running on Fuchsia devices."

When I build a chroot() for a legacy application, I am expecting to dramatically raise the difficulty of exploitation.

I shouldn't have that expectation of Fuchsia just yet, even though it has been released into commercial products.

We are all really hoping for a kernel that "just works, and never needs patching" in the manner of chacha.

I guess not yet.
In Parcel 2, you can configure everything.
Pretty cool. Nice work. There's lots of money in the Zcash dev fund (almost $8 million, currently). https://grants.zfnd.org/ Perhaps you might try to build something else and apply for a grant. (I saw zooko retweet you).
> Waiting for target devices to have TFlops of FP32 performance, and good support for compute shaders, is less than ideal. Many currently sold phones, tablets, laptops, and even some desktop PCs, have limited GPGPU capabilities and/or performance. These currently sold devices gonna stay in use for at least couple years in the future.

I'm reminded of how Windows Presentation Foundation relied on a level of GPU-based 3D acceleration that wasn't yet universally available on non-gamer PCs when Vista came out. This affected my brother when he was in seminary and tried to run the WPF-based Logos 4 Bible software on a budget laptop bought around 2007 (edit: actually 2008 IIRC). By 2011 it got bad enough that I just bought him a new laptop. And he wasn't the only one affected by this; there were others talking about it on the forum for that application [1]. This anecdote has stuck with me as a cautionary tale about us developers failing to put our users first in our technology choices (though I admit it hasn't actually stopped me from using Electron when the pressure to ship is on).

[1]: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/6200.aspx
Fair enough. That last bit is a really good point.
I first came across Cowboy Bebop because I bought the movie on Universal Media Disc (UMD) for a Sony PSP! I had no idea what it was about other than I heard the series was good, and I quite liked anime at the time. Was hooked ever since.

Good times.
The US military wants to understand the Linux kernel
Disgusting move by Google to further reign in what hardware and software you can use, how you use it and how quickly you have to upgrade your device.

If they only wanted to cut ties with Oracle Java and have an unrelated OS, they'd adapt Linux. A number of companies are already working on it. But, that won't let Google own the entire chain from hardware to software in order to screw over customers.

Zero innovations in the mobile world for easily a decade. Because companies like Google are too busy running VMs on mobile.
You could probably commit a crime, get bail, and then submit proof that you were dead to get away with it?
It does exist. It's called GNU Guix.
Are there more cycles/cpu/work involved to `cat verylargefile | awk` vs `awk verylargefile` ?
This is a pretty good article. But I don’t think it is fair for him to say we learn nothing from heroes. We are not alone. Heroes do help us— propaganda or not. The author lists all the ways Steve Jobs was lucky. But everything he list only narrow it down to a couple million people who could have done what he did. Yet only a few did.
The whole purpose of adblocking is blocking ads except when it comes from the company doing the blocking?
Classic HN. One comment about the article. Nine comments about the title.
There are certainly a lot of problems with incumbent ISPs that many other commenters have pointed out: deceptive marketing practices, anti-competitive behavior (ranging from lobby-driven legislation to lock out new entrants, to outright sabotage / destruction of cables), wildly asymmetric up/down speeds driven by economies of scale from 20 years ago, just to name a few.

Yes, even 4k video streaming at 20 Mbps is viable (assuming that your connection is stable). Yes, poor wifi performance / latency / bufferbloat / squirrels eating your coax are more common underlying causes of end-user pain points. But that doesn't mean that there aren't common use cases that benefit significantly from adding more bandwidth, nor does it mean that adding more upstream capacity is useless in the context of these other factors.

Also, let's be realistic: most regulators don't have anywhere close to the level of technical expertise that you'd expect from, say, a network engineer. It's a lot easier to reduce everything to the single dimension that is download speed, and it's a lot easier for a layperson to understand said changes.

It's also a straightforward way to place pressure on ISPs to upgrade their networks if they want to keep saying that X% of their customers have access to broadband plans.
Cruise robotaxi service under review following anonymous letter
> but I was absolutely grateful they stepped up, even if I might have done things differently myself

This is a truism in running volunteer orgs well: you get to pick from the people who show up, not the people you wish had shown up.

And often "willing to donate time at all" is a higher priority skill than any subject matter expertise.
The average working day of Charles Darwin is ~4h/day
Invasive species are a problem of trade, climate change, and language
> The 'domains' collected by the source, as those "with the most referring subnets", aren't necessarily 'websites' that now, or ever, respnded to HTTP

Majestic promotes their list as the "top 1 million websites of the world", not domains. You would thus expect that every entry in their list is (was?) a website that responds to HTTP.

> `subdomain.www.domain`

Is this really a thing? I mean, I know it's technically possible, but I don't think I've ever seen anybody do it.

> Many sites may block `curl` requests because they only want attended human browser traffic,

Citation needed, because if you do this, you'll also cut yourself off every search engine in existence.

And for kicks, I'll add one reason why the 900k valid sites is almost certainly an overestimate: the search can't tell apart an actual website from a blank domain parking page.
> It would take massive social change

The optimist in me observes that there really has been a “massive change” in renewable energy in the last few decades. Too little and too slow, perhaps, but who would have imagined 20 or 30 years ago that we’d have electricity prices dropping below zero at times because of an over abundance of wind and solar power?

I also believe that _people_ reducing their daily energy use by 30% is totally a realistic thing. Where I am (.au) the energy market is going crazy, with electricity retailers bumping prices by 30-50%, and even publicly advising customers to go elsewhere because their rates are going to jump by so much. Almost everybody I know has had discussions lately about what the best way to reduce energy use is. All these price rises are going to tart hitting peoples bills at the end of this month or quarter, and I’m positive those energy saving discussions are going to ramp up then.
> healthy ecosystem of phone manufacturers. For awhile there were but now? Now it's really just Samsung.

Confused, aren't there a ton of phone manufacturers? Sony, OnePlus, Asus to name a few off the top of my head. In what sense are they all "unhealthy" except Samsung?
> It also is one of the few down to earth use cases for a blockchain.

Please no. It may be really difficult to get a human beaurocrat to fix something but can you imagine what it would be like if there was a smart contract that wasn’t coded with this possibility in mind?
Fortunately, we’ve fixed the glitch.
Can you elaborate or add citations? Your claim is possible but so far we have seen the opposite with autocrats, authoritarians, groups who benefit from controlling their own currency.
> It screams of being the pet project of some very high level engineers.

This seems true of so many Google projects lately, big promises that don't deliver and get shelved in a few years.
Joseph Campbell was encyclopedic in his education and analysis. Hero With a Thousand Faces persuaded me.

But his thesis is not that all mythology boils down to one simple story. His thesis is more like the website tvtropes: there are recurring identifiable patterns in cultural teaching stories.
Most households are not a single person living alone.
Which implies that it's separate from linear momentum (the conservation of which is implied by invariance after linear translations).
Likely a dumb question:

Many years ago when gas finally went above $1.00/L (Canada), the Brent crude index followed it 100:1 almost exactly. When Brent crude was $130 the price at the pumps was $1.30. When it was $99, $0.99/L.

Why is it now that gas is $1.85/L when crude is $100?

I know I didn’t factor an exchange rate and this isn’t really the best index to compare, but why is it so so different?
Tech to an ecommerce business.

Your tech skills and systematic approach will correlate very closely with digital marketing.
If "head and shoulders" wasnt enough, now theres a name for an asset that fluctuates in a stable horizontal pattern?
What a weird product. Those robots are annoying enough a the grocery store.... In my home? No way.

The last thing I want is a roving camera in my house, inventorying everything, listening to my every word, monitoring me, and sending it all to fucking Amazon.

How stupid are we, that this is even remotely a viable product.
That is the common definition I used, we've had two consecutive quarters of widespread negative growth. Its fair that its just the Fed estimate for Q2 still, but Q1 and Q2 are negative this year.
Generics are totally helpless for runtime things.

I would be good for the official runtime to be designed in a plugin way, so that third parties may experiment their own implementations of some aspects of the runtime.
People with money on the line actually know that people writing for these newspapers are clueless and not worth listening to. Unlike HN readers who keep posting and upvoting this stuff.
That’s a funny way to spell “shareholders”.

If you start something to benefit other people, you run a charity or a non profit.

Companies are started and run by people who want to make money for themselves and their investors. You might be using “benefitting our customers” as a tool in your profit-making, but it’s not why you get out of bed every morning (whether you admit it to yourself or not).
> Reminds me of when in March 2020 I was also told I didn't know what I was talking about when I pointed out how a Covid vaccine could be made available in 6 months rather than the conventional 18 minimum times. The vaccines were available in 7 months.

Conventional vaccines are sterilizing, have good safety records, and protection in years, or decades.

This "vaccine" is none of above.

These MRNA "vaccines" required a change in the definition of a vaccine, and have atrocious safety records.

The new Novavax vaccine [1], which is a conventional vaccine, may prove to have much longer effectiveness period, and not require boosters every 3 months. It also took much longer to develop.

[1] https://www.novavax.com/science-technology/recombinant-prote...
I'm a www advocate and reroute my domains from apex domain to www. When you use an apex domain, you have to use an A record which means if you have a server outage it is going to take time to update the record to point at a new IP address. If you use www with a CNAME, the final server IP can be quickly switched assuming you've set the CNAME and network up for that functionality - you can't do that with an apex domain.
I am on a small ISP and the best I can buy is 20/1. I am not sure how this proposal would change that situation.
At my house, thanks to Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. It's in the US.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/b6f39b75-d71a-4d89-b0f5-9...
The Music.app rewrite is AppKit-based, so it's not unheard of for Apple to still reach for AppKit internally.
This is what happens when a company has too much money.

Why is native android support required, when for example they could be emulated?

Are developers going to really release apps for a fuschia phone without testing? Recall this is a space where every device is different. If developers and going to test and modify their code, is too hard to ask them to recompile using a fuschia tool chain?
That sounded a bit crazy to me, so I checked.

I don’t think those are actually several TB. They’re fakes that are advertised as having several TB.
I feel like the live Ed was universally disliked, but everyone seemed to agree that Ed would have been nearly impossible for anyone to pull off in-person without it looking really cringe.
It is better to do a few simple things that you understand well, than hide or self delude oneself with complexity and not know where your shortfalls may be.
I suppose their monopoly extends to offering service for money, not for having it for yourself (or a collective of neighbors who own the gear and share costs). Were it nit so, they could sue you for sharing the cellular internet around your house.
Have you looked at Planetscale?
it's not guaranteed it's not reproducible
> I wish that all language design went through a filter where every character mattered like the designer was in an episode of Squid Game.

Yes, I totally support this! Coming from languages like Haskell, most languages look so unnecessarily noisy to me. Cut the fat!

> Anyone who proposes a way to minimize Lisp parentheses, who hasn't introduced a symbol for missing outline levels, is just pulling out chunks and hasn't used their system to write thousands of lines of code.

What are outline levels? I tried Googling it but didn't find anything.

> C syntax is ground glass in my eyes.

Is that a good thing? I'm not sure what you mean by it.
One thing to note about children's IQ is that, contrary to intuition, environmental factors tend to play a smaller overall role as the child mature into adult. Instead, their genetics seem to play a larger role.

As the children mature, the heritability of their IQ grows from roughly 0.45 to 0.8 (similar to height) [1]. The fact that the age of the child at the time of the IQ test is such a large factor is often not accounted for in research, which creates inconsistent results. Ideally, breastfeeding research would compare the IQ at adult age of children that were breastfed for different durations, normalized against their parents IQ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#:~:text=Ear....
I don't have exact data to hand, but my recollection is that Samsung is the only Android phone manufacturer turning a profit on phones.
The BA.5 Wave Is What Covid Normal Looks Like
This isn't explanatory, but should at least demonstrate that it is separate: electrons are point-like particles and thus have no internal substructure to rotate, yet they behave as though they have angular momentum. This "intrinsic angular momentum" is the electron's spin.
Overzealous and primed for violence
I have never worked at Google, but some of this seems... odd from my perspective.

> Upstreaming driver changes was something phone manufacturers just didn't do and didn't want to do.

This is absolutely true. However - and this makes no sense to me - Chromebooks apparently do upstream everything, even for ARM models. Any idea what went right there?

> you had duplication of services between the all-but-dead AOSP and Play services.

My understanding from the outside is that Google likes to pretend that AOSP is sufficient for antitrust reasons but really wants to control everything directly; you can't solve that by creating a new product unless the hope is that nobody cares that the "new" ecosystem doesn't get examined by the same standards.

> Remember these are statements of fact.

I'm assuming you meant to type "not" there?

> Google had always had hopes that there would be a healthy ecosystem of phone manufacturers. For awhile there were but now? Now it's really just Samsung.

Samsung is certainly the biggest, but it's hardly the only name in town; https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers puts them at ~34% with the rest in the long tail.
My question remains, would this money have been better spent in buying QNX?

Could an open-source QNX accomplish all of Google's goals?

Given that QNX cannot be killed, and the cost to Google in attempting to do so (or enacting major change for legacy customers) would be catastrophic...

Why not buy a working microkernel? Are there other commercial microkernels that are more attractive?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

Maybe Samsung should buy it, and put themselves in the driver's seat on Android. (They did buy Joyent, and SmartOS seems fine.)
I work directly with the employee who submitted the complaint. He is understating the problem.

The letter also states that Cruise ... intentionally hides from the majority of employees the results of investigations into collisions involving Cruise vehicles and other sensitive, potentially damaging matters.

Cruise has been covering up safety incidents since before the GM acquisition, including an early incident where an engineer suffered a concussion due to violent cabin motion caused by bad motion control code.
Google to leave Australia over 'evil' filter (2010)
Mantras to Stop Your Mind from Spinning Out of Control
It was cancelled before most people had a chance to see it.
True, but not that many people are true sociopaths. Much more common among “bad” people is garden-variety self-centeredness with lots of rationalization. Everyone has selfish instincts, but very few people can sleep at night if they see themselves as a bad guy. Fortunately for them, humans are ridiculously good at mental gymnastics to subdue that cognitive dissonance.
> similar to – but stronger than – the Chinese spice

Most Sichuan peppers sold in the West have been sitting around for years and have barely any numbing effect. There are also two different common varieties: the one almost always seen in the West is Zanthoxylum bungeanum, the red Sichuan pepper
(红花椒), but in China they also use a lot of Zanthoxylum armatum aka green Sichuan peppers (麻椒 or 青花椒). The green ones are much more strongly numbing and can even be eaten fresh (藤椒), with an effect not unlike putting Pop Rocks into your food!

I've also always felt that "numbing" is a wholly inadequate translation for 麻, which in Chinese is also used for anesthesia, the hemp plant, etc. It doesn't just numb your taste buds, but alters them: for me even plain water tastes thick and salty afterwards.
I would say that traits are a better analogy for dynamic types, but at the same time you can think of enums as closed sets and traits as open sets, so they are different ways of encoding sets of possible structure and functionality, more alike in what they provide than it initially seems.
Children compensate for lack of concentration through creativity
I haven't had time to do a deep dive, but Glamorous Toolkit also looks quite interesting:

https://gtoolkit.com/
Pasteis are universally consumed in Brazil. One of the foods I've missed the most in my almost 40 years outside.
(this is a rather odd time to submit an April Fools joke from 2010)
Why can’t they just fork the runtime to experiment?
Two consecutive quarters of negative growth plus...well the S&P is down nearly 25% over the last six months.

If this isn't a recession I don't know what is.
It’s an oxymoron. envy is unhappiness with reality, it’s not logical.
I haven't looked up any others, but I just looked up OnePlus and saw this [1]:

> For the first time in company history, OnePlus passed the $1 billion mark in revenue and became profitable. (2018)

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/oneplus-profitable-830348/
English has "formiculation" as well, but it usually refers to the "bugs under the skin" feeling that comes from opioid withdrawal.
What’s actually wrong with electron, or makes electron slow? I feel like every ‘UI frameworks suck’ posts glosses over this, but no real indication of why.
Why Netflix Chose Microsoft to Power Its Advertising Ambitions
The article mentions that Larry Probst was ceo at the time fwiw.
It's the market that's unhealthy. Samsung and Apple are really the only big players at this point - Sony has sub 1% market share, Asus likely even less. OnePlus is owned by OPPO and together they have about 9% market share. Samsung is the only brand that is actually able to compete with Apple.
I can’t actually think of any where the client is the limit. However for some having faster server nodes that are hosted at peoples homes would help speed up some currencies such as nano.
> gone to the length

Right there. Because typing 20 lines of source code should not be an argument for weakening your model layer. Re-use would be great if types were identical between actions, but in the real-world they're not and they accrue subtle differences over time.
This is a Truism of big anything. Once people are high enough in an organization and we’ll connected enough… their projects are unassailable.

I can guarantee you that somewhere in google is a team of 3 getting shut down for making 100MM a year with a boring tech focus. Meanwhile Fuscia continues unquestioned.
I've been looking for toasted rapeseed, but even our mainland market doesn't carry it. To substitute, I roast whole barley to infuse canola.

You can probably just add a little sesame oil to it instead. Corn oil and grape seed are also fine carriers.

As for recipes, Kenji Alt-Lopez has a wok cookbook with some for chili oils, but Fuchsia Dunlop is really the definitive author on Sichuan cooking.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102582

(Posted yesterday; 55 points, 21 comments)
> 8,000 RPM

Usually it's way, way more: https://store.supermicro.com/server-accessories/fans.html?fa...
Why do dogs eat poop and how you can get your pet to stop
The bigger problem of Linux for Google is that:

a) Linux doesn't have a stable driver ABI.

b) Manufacturers will not upstream their drivers. It's been years and they simply won't.

Google have been beating against this for years and getting absolutely nowhere. It's the same thing that Linux has ongoing issues with, and have made significant inroads with, for things that aren't tablets or phones. But manufacturers do not want their drivers to be public.

The reasons no longer matter, decades of compromise has resulted in the hardware partners shifting not a single ioata.
I think you're thinking of https://vlang.io/
Your statements about Samsung reminds me of Wear OS 3, that Google is said to have developed together with Samsung. Does anyone know how much of that is Wear OS, i.e. Android, and how much is Tizen from Samsung? Wear OS 3 seems to differ quite a bit from previous versions, it's been Samsung exclusive for a year, and it doesn't work together with the Wear OS companion app on Android.
Why is there a winner of every paper rock scissors tournament?
This isn't a "lately" phenomenon. This has been the Standard Google Playbook for about the past 15 years.