skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I fully agree it gives Apples a huge advantage to be on a better node than competitors by 2+ years.

But this is also a free market.

Apple is both willing to pay more and has the needed scale to buy up all capacity. If someone else wanted to both pay more and buy up all capacity - they have the ability to do so.
> still how do you give the user the option to say "I know what I'm doing."

You make configuration available. Most of these disabled-by-default protocols can be enabled by a user who really knows what they are doing (and isn't just saying so). A few might have been outright removed from the code base. In that case, you really need to know what you are doing, but you can still bring them back by installing a custom patch or downgrading the program in question.

I think it is a good idea to create friction along pathways that are probably mistakes. The people who really need to go down that path will put in whatever effort is necessary, while people who are motivated by the path of least resistance will be nudged in a safe direction.
I think you're missing the part where people who don't do software are asking people who do software.

I've literally had clients go "Hey, can you add search to the platform? Can't be that hard, it's just a single input field on google dot com".

Your task is to tell them that this is too big to estimate and needs to be specified better and broken down into managable chunks. Well ok, in this case, just telling them to sod off would've been smarter, but that's a different story.
The return of Dogpile!
I read a great article recently about "sexy design" you might like it: https://dirty-furniture.com/article/tell-me-do-you-intend-to...
>While Bose is no longer manufacturing and selling SoundControl™ Hearing Aids...

https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earbuds/sound...
I configured all my programmable keyboards to map Capslock to Fn and use Fn+WASD for cursors keys and Fn+Q for Home and Fn+E for End, so I think that dedicated keys are unnecessary.

I cannot imagine using anything else anymore because it is so insanely convenient to press and hold down Capslock with my pinky finger and browse around text extremely fast.

All my keyboards also map Fn+1 to copy and Fn+2 to insert text which saves additional effort to lift my finger from Fn/Capslock.
"N3 technology will offer up to 70% logic density gain, up to 15% speed improvement at the same power and up to 30% power reduction at the same speed as compared with N5 technology (According to TSMCs website). If this holds true we could see 300+ MT/mm2."

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/3_nm_lithography_process#TSMC
I think part of the deal with groundbreaking ideas is that people don't see them coming and/or think they're bad ideas until someone proves them wrong. Another problem is that you're not aware of all the fields that are changing. It's not just going to be all sexy CPUs and GPUs all the time, but for example, things like low-cost, decent density solid state LIDAR is going to be huge pretty soon. We've seen prices for LIDAR go from as much as a house to low four figures today and if Velodyne et al. achieve what they want, even three figures in the next few years (velarray, velabit, plus competitors). Cheap computers are going to be able to see in 3D in high fidelity soon; even robot vacuums have some LIDAR now.

Look at what patents are expiring, what fields are being juiced by macro moves in the industry (e.g. LIDAR with autonomous driving), and look for problems that are becoming or already are expensive and currently have no or just cumbersome solutions in the market at the moment.
That's actually a thing apparently. If the foreigner is over, its suddenly drinking time all the time.
looks really great, personally i think being able to use it with a cable is a must. i don’t care about bluetooth.

the rotary is a great idea but if you only have one maybe make it so you can spin it with a finger instead of turning it.

what did you use for modeling and rendering software and what did you use to create the website in terms of languages/frameworks etc?
How did you make the synth?
There's also jrnl.sh (https://jrnl.sh/)
Give it time. Someone will make the JRE run on WASM and wipe away the distinction.
I'm all for nostalgia, but I can't say I recommend putting your email credentials into 20-year-old software running on a 20-year-old OS connected to the internet.

EDIT: why the downvotes? Windows XP can be infected with malware merely by plugging in a network cable with no user action. If you follow this blog post you're likely to lose your account. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/185642/how-can-...
That was not necessary. I have nothing but respect for the people in our team.

I worked with them for decades, and they were (still are) some of the finest engineers and scientists in the world (not hyperbole). They, in turn, had a great deal of respect for us.

It upset me to see the level of drinking, because I am quite aware of the toll it takes. These were my friends.
Apple isn't doing this to be altruistic. They see a huge business advantage. Look at the hype on HN the M1/M2 MacBooks have.
If you think the Orthodox can dictate to non-Orthodox you haven’t spent much time in America.
We have an "all-hands" meeting monthly at my current employer. The head of the IT department speaks every time about what we've accomplished and what we plan to accomplish. Of course, our business is primarily selling subscriptions to a web site, so it is plain as day that what developers accomplish matters for the bottom line.

Before that I've worked at technology-oriented companies and the situation was the same. I think I have to go back to 2005 or 2006 to remember working at a place where the salespeople were full of themselves and outright dismissive of the contribution of the tech people.
Obviously some people in my vicinity live right next to the store but the average distance is substantially larger for the majority of people in the area.
> And, suing a merchant is prohibitively slow, expensive, and arduous.

Is that true because credit cards mean there's no incentive to make the court process more efficient?

That is, without credit cards playing that role courts would become more efficient and less expensive.
If I'm not directly helping someone, stuff I do in my spare time I do primarily for my self. Not interested if anyone use it or not (same with music). If I want something that lasts I plant a tree.
So your argument is what, that we don't have extreme enough monopolies in every sector?

At what point do corporate consolidation and vertical integration become enough of a problem that we need to do something?

I think you have a misplaced focus on the (unfortunately popular) word, "monopoly". A true monopoly is the problem we are facing brought to its absolute extreme. We may not be seeing many instances of literal monopoly, but we are still experiencing anti-competitive behavior that has the same structure and effect that monopoly has. We shouldn't wait until literal "monopoly" happens to stop anti-competitive practices.
Bookmark syncing has been around for at least a decade. I haven’t worried about syncing bookmarks in Chrome since then.
Unsolicited advice: I think you're right, nobody will pay you for it. Every serious programmer interested in game dev writes engines as a hobby. Just search through GitHub. It's partly because it's just tech exploration fun..

If you're serious about games you should make a game. Build an engine too, but only build what you need for the game. This will guide you in making the countless tradeoffs necessary to build an actually shipping piece of software. Otherwise, it's just a tech demo with no constraints or commercial value.

The general game engines (Unity, Unreal, etc) that are commercially valuable spent a lot of time and effort on excruciatingly boring things: supporting a lot of file formats, having very stable tools, being very accessible for beginners, etc.
I don't read his post as him changing his opinion on recommending Pine64, but as a request to Pine64 to fix the situation, in which he expresses his expectations. I'm rather happy he did: he is read, and I share these expectations. I want Pine64 to succeed (actually, the mobile Linux ecosystem but I think they have a major role in it and can keep having a positive influence) and I think they need to do what Drew wrote for this to happen.

I hope they'll reach out to Martjin and that they find a way to come to an understanding.
I'm kinda the opposite. I always saw the older developers writing SQL in lowercase, so now when I see someone using caps, I think they must have just read a SQL book or something.
So can we consider the airline a division of a major bank?

Chase - United

Citibank - American Airlines

AMEX - Delta
They don't have to be altruistic. Without Apple's investment or similar, TSMC is very clear they would deploy new nodes far less frequently, simply because they could not otherwise afford it.
Name collides with Dia diagram editor (http://dia-installer.de/)
"Get patriotically smashed and smash".
I'd be curious to. Wikipedia seems to says that this might be mostly marketing speak. 'The term "3 nanometer" has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by IEEE Standards Association Industry Connection, a 3 nm node is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 48 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 24 nanometers.'
Can public transport be a cause though? I’ve definitely didn’t hold back my drinking as much when traveling somewhere I didn’t have to rely on driving.
About $900 per month, which is non-aggressively asked for (a single button on a single website with no pushy messaging - just "buy the server a drink").

The costs are below this, in the region of $600 most months except when TLS certs and domain names roll around. I donate extras throughout the year to causes related to the one website that delivers the donations.

I do receive a few other donations from a few other sites based on "pay what you feel it is worth", and those amount to another couple of hundred dollars.
Django is still good and simple.
You know a modern company is active when there’s a photo of a black lady with natural hair holding a laptop by a server room.
Thanks for the encouragement! The tent looks pretty great, considering what was available in 2010 both in terms of fabrics choice and educational materials.

Nowadays I'm mostly a flat-tarp user. I use an HMG 10' x 8' tarp which I used with some success (and some failure) on the HRP and GR54.
Since I live in Israel, hiking locally means dry but often windy or humid (but not rainy) conditions, and for that purpose, I hope to be able to downsize to a 5' x 7' tarp, which I think I'll try my hands at once the hiking season begins here.

I think that unlike everyday garments (some) hiking garments can be very forgiving. An example is a SilPoly rain pants I made last year for a fall GR54 hike. It's not pretty and I wouldn't use on a trail like the A.T for fear of frying myself, but it worked perfectly to keep me warm in stormy days.
Luckily it will be around for the M3 and iPhone 15... and the M4 and 16... and ...

The lead time would be enough, that I doubt M2 was ever going to be a 3nm chip.
Why do we waste state of art, bleeding edge manufacture capabilities on some cars?
Who needs cars this fast?
Who needs newer cars?

To give you some answer. I'd say that newer technology enables the following, completely not exhaustive list:

- Macbooks that can run on a single charge for whole day and have very high performance.

- Cameras in pocket/phone that almost no-one except professional photographers have to carry photo equipment

- Electric cars which can finally travel such distance that they are actually useful

- Combustion cars so that every city we live is not toxic. And they get to be economic too.

- Comfort within a car which we value.

- Phones are small (oh sorry this can cause flamewars, so let's say it like this - circuits get small)

- Technology demand, whether it comes from manufacturing phones or something else, benefits making computers (i.e Apple Silicion was for phones/tables, now for macs). It benefits other vendors as they get to access the technology too. So much investments enables TSMC to actually enable the technology.
It seems that you have little experience in construction and you meant a passive house. This is not a bad idea, but it is important to take into account the peculiarities of the terrain. A friend of mine built such a house, but decided to play it safe and bought a pair of radiators on https://www.radiatoroutlet.co.uk/designer-radiators/vertical... During the cold winter, the operation of a two-storey Passive house with an area of 160 sq.m will cost 14,500 kW, including 9200 kW for heating. If desired, as I wrote above, the house can be equipped with any additional energy sources, such as a fireplace, an oven, a heat pump, a solar collector for heating water, a wind farm, solar panels, etc.
https://github.com/aviramha/ormsgpack - Seems to be used by some folks and it helped my previous organization

https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrord - Actively working on this, still very early but I think I (and the rest of the team) are developing exciting stuff!
I can offer a broad generalization. The new manufacturing process should get us some double digit percentage gains in performance, power consumption or heat. Current Apple product designs are mainly constrained by heat as seen with the recent thermal throttling of the new MacBook Air, so a future M3 processor could be pushed a little harder before it hits its thermal limit. Performance and battery life are already pretty fantastic, so not as much of a practical difference there.

The only current products that are really hurting for better chips are high powered wearables like watches, VR headsets or AR glasses. The next few years should see some tangible improvements in those products, but probably not much difference in desktop, laptop or phone. Datacenters, since they run at high utilization rates, will continue to take advantage of the cost savings of slightly more performance per watt and dollar per transistor costs.
Ask HN: What made you feel that coding as a skill can make you achieve feats?
"What" === a project or a language or a book or a course
FAANG is mostly 3 steps.
1. chat with the recruiter
2. screening interview
3. on-site interview

You normally get an offer after 3.

EDIT: I'm downvoted, but this was my experience at Google/Facebook. There were exactly three steps. There can be more if they ask a follow up if you're borderline in some of the interviews but it's not the default.
An elderly friend, retired, likes to reminisce about his time in the middle-east. He was quite upset when he heard about the conflict in Syria. For him, it was one of the few places that had a vibrant culture in the middle-east, and the beautiful women there (not covered up), added to the cosmopolitan charm of the place.

(Another good read that provides a brief glimpse about how the tragedy of partition affected people - An Indian author’s last days in the Lahore of 1947 - https://qz.com/india/1355466/khushwant-singh-recalls-lahore-... ).
Like almost every spectrum of opinions, the strongest opinions are typically the least practical, and useful only in a theoretical sense and for evolving the conversation in new directions.

I think TDD has a lot to offer, but don't go in for the purist approach. I like Free Software but don't agree with Stallman. It's the same thing.

The author takes a well reasoned, mature, productive, engineering focused approach, like the majority of people should be doing. We shouldn't be applying the pure views directly, we should be informed by them and figure out what we can learn for our own work.
I lost it at the conclusion of the editor argument one.
Improve Handwashing and Privacy
I will eat crickets when the rentiers do, which is to say, never.
I don't think it is. In public they must wear only cotton kimonos, and in competition they wear silk belts. Maybe the training belts? They look to be of some heavy, stiff material. I'd thought they were just thick cotton too.
This is actually a serious issue that’s ruining food supplies (particularly in the oceans). Farmed catfish in the USA has been noted for high levels of dioxins. US chicken often contained crazy levels of arsenic until agricultural practices changed to avoid that. Broth made from bones often contains more lead than the daily allowable intake (something like 475% more in the case of broth made with chicken bones, skin, and cartilage present, but still far too much when using just the meat).

We are exposing ourselves to dangerous substances every day due to bioaccumulation in animal foods.
It's an interesting model for a small subset of domains. Within those domains, things get very complex if you need consistency guarantees and non-trivial downstream pipelines to process those events. And maybe most importantly, the majority of developers are working on existing systems, not on greenfield projects where this architectural decision is even on the table.
Pardon my ignorance on this subject, but at 3 nm, don’t you get into some weird quantum artifacts because the layers are so stupidly close? Curious how that is addressed?
So there is no possible way that people with intelligence and high work ethic aren't able to graduate from a top 30 cs school or spend a year outside work hours teaching themselves obscure algorithm trivia to pass an interview? I'm afraid you are a 22 year old recent graduate with little grasp on life outside School or Silicon Valley.
Where is the tax-funded propaganda trying to get people to buy more guns?
Borland pivoted to enterprise long before this thing called Embarcadero. Recall it renamed itself Inprise before renaming itself back to Borland.

Also Embarcadero isn’t Borland. They acquired Borland’s product lines but not Borland itself.
> So with that, it shouldn't matter what the center console is like, because the driver shouldn't be messing with the center console at all while driving. It might as well not even exist to the driver. That's my argument. I'm far more leaning towards your car being a tool for driving when you're in the driver's seat and the car is in motion than you probably are, as I imagine you'll probably say the driver should be adjusting the fine tuning of the radio, the driver should be changing how the AC is blowing, etc.

That is the ideal scenario, but its not realistic. The fact is that there are situations where the driver needs to be able to turn the volume down, adjust the ac or whatever and they don't need a giant screen to do it - they need easily accessible controls that don't require them to take their eyes off the road.

You can wrap it in whatever justification you want, you're still arguing for a car to be an entertainment center first and a usable tool second.
Beautiful. Nice marquee animation!
Yeah, I, Robot was a good movie.
Could you accidentally mistype the phone number or do you need it for something?
That and the 9/11 spec script[0] have ruined all other attempts at updating Seinfeld for me.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B50l484pDaMobXI2Wk5CX0NMbkU...
Threadripper is pretty reasonably priced; a 5995WX is about $101/core, or about 3% more than a Epyc 7773x for 10% more performance. For comparison, a Xeon Platinum 8380, which has roughly similar perf per core, costs $224/core. Sure, consumer CPUs are a bit cheaper; i9-12900kf is about $45/core (though half of those are slow cores) and 5950X is about $34/core, but price discrimination for server lines has always been fairly standard. I think the least expensive you can get into Epyc Milan is around $55/core, but that's on a part that only needs half the cores on an 8-core chiplet to be functional; the 7773x needs all of them, for 8 chiplets, and the 5995WX is that but with even tighter binning for higher clocks.
The country is in complete deadlock politically - all of the warlords from the civil war just became politicians and then systematically looted the country.

I always wonder why many democracies devolve into politicians just looting the government, whereas others become successful and relatively less corrupt.
>>Lebanon beforehand, it is important to note, was not Muslim majority at all. It was Christian and Druze, and that was the very foundation of the country itself. It was never the country of Muslims in the first place.

As a part of Sykes-Picot Agreement, the French wanted Lebanon to be a Christian Israel in the Middle East.

WW1/2 didn't workout well for France and Britain(Should have listened to Neville Chamberlain, the empires would have continued for another century at least). And ensuing rise of USSR to the world scene mean't both French and British colonial aspirations were brutally put to an end.

Too bad for the French, their colonial designs failed, and it didn't achieve the required demographics to achieve its goals of geopolitical control in the Mid east. Lebanon didn't end up being a Christian Israel.
> "There's a split between what people online post pics of on fancy desktop setups and what people prefer to use as their daily driver."

I see people use Mac and Windows laptop keyboards in professional capacity day in and day out without difficulty. Aside from that, separate USB numeric keypads are still available for those who really feel the need.

Frankly, I can't even recall anytime in the last decade I touched the numeric keypad even in environments where I had a 100% keyboard.
There’s nothing discernibly mac like about the squiggle button, it’s a section sign: §. I think tilde is used more often for sure, but § is particularly common in legal applications.
I'm not sure what you're referring to by "mac-like" squiggle button. The button to the left of the 1 is the standard button on both EU and US keyboard layouts. As a programmer, I'm using ~ daily. I don't use the § which is standard on EU layouts, but it is commonly used in the legal profession.
Ah, I think I got it, thanks. The broader range is the range (0-1) as opposed to (0-0.5)?

This is what the author means by "This will give you twice the precision to quantize the second vector because the inputs are now spread over a broader range of the I3 data type."?
You need to look at either the private companies or university-affiliated research centers doing the actual research and implementation of technologies for the government rather than the government itself. There are loads of these places that don't require living in DC or have a ludicrous application process. Just to throw an example out, US government spacecraft operations have a large presence in Colorado, so there are a ton of government-adjacent opportunities for tech work in that sector there.
How is it “anticompetitive”? Do you propose that TSMC give the capacity to a company who is willing to pay less?