skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It never seemed to me like the custom chip from Tesla could possibly ever keep up with the economics of mass chip production from NVidia, or whoever else became #1 at neural net hardware.

New chips are always fun to see and get discussed, but there are simple economic / mass design issues at play here. The Tesla custom chip just won't be made at the volume of NVidia or AMD.

And Intel's attempt to join the market seems like the better approach (even if it fails). You need to get the video game crowd to fund the research and development these days.

Video gamers want high speed SIMD for faster graphics. Without this source of money (and millions of chips sold per year), it looks difficult to sustainably upgrade an architecture.

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If not the PC market, then at least try to get the console market or phone market or some other consumer electronics fad wrapped up in things.
Already exists: https://github.com/sil-quirk/sil-q
I, for one, do not want a Tolkien Cinematic Universe.
Well, there's some of that in Silmarillion I think?
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
Yeah, total reduction is ~70%.
I'm not sure where you're getting these ideas about polyunsaturated fatty acids from, there are PUFAs that are literally essential for the human diet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyunsaturated_fatty_acid
So… That does not in any way clarify things. Is the parent right or wrong?
That only works for original content by JRR Tolkien. If other authors write that cintent, and not just adapting it for TV or cinema, it will the same mess as the Dune prequels. The Hobbit was great, I love it both the movies and the book, but even there you saw the less then stellar content and story arch around Gandalf that was only hinted at in the book. Now image the whole story arch is like that...
Lots of Americans in Vietnam now. Vietnamese people have also seem to have embraced American culture wholeheartedly.

The gastronomic results of the mix have been fantastic. Vietnamese food is already amazing but there are now a ton of food joints that use Vietnamese flavors and southern style bbq techniques for some truly spectacular results.
Forest tending simulator, with ents. They could also fight those pesky dwarves - crossover with their fortress game.
But how can a humble person accomplish something extraordinary? At some point, you gotta have faith in what you're doing, despite all the opposition.

Very rarely are accomplishments made traveling a road strewn with flowers.
Has Chinese propaganda made it to hacker news?
This!

I too, have resorted to the same techniques, making me feel like a "master forger" at his painstaking art.

I was imagining a tool which would just let me create an interactive overlay on a PDF. It sounds like Xournal might be just the thing I need. So, thanks for the tip.
If you're running old, unsupported software whose only purpose is to drag technology back, your "shit" is already "broken".
> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups

I work in fintech and it is very interesting to me. I've turned down recruiters from 50 countries since getting this job and I obviously don't care if you think money is the root of all evil or some other weird tree hugger babble.

So what is interesting for you?
Can you please explain why not use them or what's the use case?
Wrong. See tables 1 and 2.
Domain needs www: https://www.scriffer.com/
No matter what I simply won't show any code to interviewer due to security reason, no matter how simple it is. It's simply not worth the hassle.
"The outcome of too much humility is that you end up listening to the counsel of some mediocre individual."

Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
Tesla advertised being entirely powered by renewables, presumably mostly the solar panels on the roof of the factory (tooling in there likely represents the bulk of the energy consumed). There could be some accounting sleight-of-hand if there are no solar panels on office roofs. However, solar is a lot cheaper and they presumably have access to a lot, so I doubt it.

I think a better question is: could the heat be re-used, for example, to warm water in bathrooms? Capturing waste heat from computing centers with heat pumps seems like a very doable approach and a practice that is both responsible and profitable.
> Some remakes are better (Wizard of Oz, Ben Hur)

I'll have to disagree :). The only remake that was better to the original is John Carpenter's "The Thing".
Yes, Your Sinclair and Crash magazines used to have ads for it.
Oh the tiresome "you can't use what you're fighting against" trope. Yawn.
Google it, lots of material on this subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin#Dietary_lectin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba#Health_concerns
Will SpinLaunch lift a satellite to low Earth orbit by 2032?
While this is true, an oil like high-oleic sunflower oil is (obviously) a seed oil, but one which is mostly oleic acid, like olive oil.

Furthermore, coconuts are a seed, and coconut oil is often explicitly cited as an alternative to seed oils.

"Seed oil" is a reasonably proxy for the sort of high polyunsaturated oils we should probably avoid eating, but it's a heuristic for identifying products with bad lipid profiles, not a law.
Linux is only a kernel, unlike FreeBSD which is a whole OS.
Not only is it hard to get any conclusive answers at all in food/health science...

I find it's very hard to even identify controversies, scientific mysteries and open questions. The posture adopted tends to always give the impression of consensus and knowledge.
But aren't blockchain solutions a form of centralization?

The blockchain itself has a decentralized structure. But when we use it as a basis for our naming scheme it becomes a single point of failure. It isn't possible for some participant in the naming scheme to choose to use a different blockchain which they prefer.
> mind-numbing useless stuff

I'm curious, what is your definition for this, in more detail?

In the past, I've very much enjoyed some places I've worked (like semiconductors) while others found the place intolerable, chasing the latest wiz-bang frameworks used by fleeting, "disruptive" startups.

I've been consulting for the past few years. I love the variability and also the reward from helping others accomplish their goals. I absolutely love the people for whom I work currently. We are hiring, simply because we do good work and have more opportunities than bandwidth. We work at a high level and solve very interesting problems for clients.

So to answer your question,

> Where do you find the interesting jobs?

They found me. I'm not sure how they do it, but they have a knack for finding very talented people.
I've been waiting for a mechanical keyboard with a proper low profile Mac layout for years. I use far left fn all the time.
And now you won't even let me throw money at you...
Don't forget about his "don't bother trying to change people or society because technology will fix it" approach to every major problem, like climate change and environmental damage.
I'm sure it depends on industry, but in my industry there is no way showing someone code during an interview would fly. Zero chance.

A programmer who decided on their own to show our code to someone without nda and a confidentiality agreement would be at best severely chastised and no longer trusted with anything important or dismissed.

But, your mileage may vary - every place is different.
The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval
I was curious, so I checked: If you get your own energy from e.g. vegetable oil (very high energy/$) you'd pay only $0.2 per kWh of food intake.

(Apply conversion efficiency of the human body before embarking on this business opportunity...)
Project Possible: Ascending 14 peaks in 7 months
The prequel back-flipping Yoda version. This all sounds horrible but at least it will give RLM something to tear apart.
Article prompted me to take Guix for a test-drive (as a user, not yet as a package-writer), but I'm running into some peculiar behavior.

Installing Python with "guix install python" tells me:

The following package will be installed:
python 3.8.2

But then it starts downloading

tcl-8.6.10
tk-8.6.10
python-3.8.2-tk

I find this strange, because Python is most often used without Tk (or Tcl) and I don't want to waste disk space.

Also, it installs pip3. But you can't use pip3 because you will get:

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/gnu/store/...'

I guess Python packages should be installed using Guix too.
(EDIT: yes, you have to install them like "guix install python-numpy" etc.)

Imho, this is a pity because it means one package manager (Guix) is circumventing another (pip), and thus wasting the effort that went into building and supporting it.
A bit unrelated, but one pet peeve of mine these days is the explosion of humble brag.

It used to be a little annoying, but it's now everywhere. Name dropping, inserting casually possessions, social status or achievements, using "I'm humbled by" all the time...

Doing your best to not sound pretentious is great. I wish I worked on that way sooner.

But faking humility, often badly, is such a mood killer for me.

I also think it comes with 2 trends that are rampant in social media, and runs especially deep in the US culture:

- adding virtue signaling to every interaction.

- using superlative for the most mondain things.

It's an instant credibility killer for me. But the problem is... for a lot of people, it seems to work.
Funny how some people are so brainwashed they assume anything that doesn’t match their own state propaganda is somebody else’s propaganda, not a honest opinion.
Check out Government Research Labs (like SLAC and other university affiliated labs)
True, but people might get pissed off if they notice there food tastes different.
I really like this. I like that it's bluetooth _optional_ with multiple devices remembered, USB-C, has a command key and control key _separated_ (I'm well aware you can do this in firmware for other keyboards that support it), the much lower profile, and the typography.

I've gone through a few different mechanical keyboards including things from Ramaworks and every time I get fed up with the bulk, the tedium of lubing switches, finding good key caps _with_ the legends I want, and then trying to get things as quiet as possible without super mushy key presses. If this can solve that I will buy one instantly; and I've signed up for the waitlist.
Deprecation Notice: GraphQL for Packages
Github seems to abandon GraphQL in favour of REST for their Github Packages revamp.
I just picked up the phone and they were there (they always introduced themselves and asked if it was a good time to discuss X -- I assume they'd just reschedule a time if it wasn't a good time). There was no notice that they were going to call. I was usually bored and driving, which is about the only time I pick up a call from an unknown number. Azure is b2b, so I think there's a reasonable expectation that <em>someone</em> will pick up the phone.
Apple would totally say no.

Currently it's a unique selling feature of the Apple ecosystem. If every phone could do it, then Apple would lose this benefit, and Apple would still be paying for all the servers.
I wrote an sse http server for that exact reason, that you can pipe data into from a posix terminal
I assume "email" here is being used in a very limited sense of the delivered message. Not the protocol etc etc.

Maybe "message" would be better.
If something is broken in the default installation, you'll notice quickly during acceptance testing and can go and fix it (for example by re-enabling insecure protocols).

If something is unexpectedly insecure, you will probably not notice until it's too late.

I think the admittedly annoying security people are right in this instance.
I apologize if my statement was unclear. I'm not claiming to understand the system any better than you.

The type of comment that you left is a pattern I have been noticing where someone will state that they don't understand something and then proceed to criticize it.

This does not make sense to me, as I don't understand how someone can assume they have legitimate criticisms of a system without first asking clarifying questions to improve their understanding.
> We also have underground compressed air using existing deep cavities, and undersea compressed air. And underwater buoyancy, drawing floats down toward seafloor-mounted pulleys, using a winch and motor-generator on shore. Demand will not exceed our capacity to make cables and floats.

These are more technologies that compete with batteries, not fuels. And poorly at that. CAES in ideal sites might compete with batteries for a while yet, but the others do not. Even a single truck full of ammmonia can store the equivalent to tens of thousands of cubic metres worth of displacement storage. A cubic metre float in a 500m deep body of water can store 5MJ, or about the same as a battery you can lift with one hand and buy for a few hundred dollars.

> But the real answer is that there is nowhere even close to as great a need for long-term storage as you imagine, just as there is not much petroleum stored today. Petroleum is extracted and delivered continuously and reliably. Myriad tropical solar farms will synthesize ammonia year-round, shipping anywhere needed on demand, so storage is needed only until the next shipment arrives.

Moving energy 2000-4000km as not-electricity is strictly a harder problem than storing it for 6 months and is solved with a subset of the same solutions. The main upside is energy input is cheaper and there is less idle time. This is definitely part of the solution but comes under the same heading.

HVDC systems are a solution for most of the issues, but distant solar isn't completely uncorrelated. Also no country is going to stake their survival on a system with cascading failure modes that can be triggered by anything from war, to a heat wave, to a blizzard, to a cyclone, to a forest fire, to political games. Thus capacity for months of backup is still required.

All of this is moot anyway because your other comment led me to find sources stating green ammonia is already within 50% of cost parity with fossil fuels for the cheapest solar energy sources and ammonia fuel cells are now viable as well with the same technology. Between that and thermochemical storage, fission is obsolete immediately and fossil fuels only need one more price shock for the transition to start.

Also none of this supports your original assertion that pumped hydro meaningfully exists in a non-ecosystem-altering way.
Faeces look disgusting as you learned that it was disgusting from your parents when you were young. Its unrelated to your own evolution but is instead a memetic idea passed on from one generation to the next
Sorry guys for the lack of context. Doctor's advice to reduce excessive work, prepare for talks, and then fly around the country speaking at conferences.
Do you have any documentation on that? I have a hard time finding the relevant details on this.
Unless you have some seriously and permanently weakened immunity, exposure to colds and flus actually helps long term. Also you are potentially passing this increased immunity to your offsprings.

Of course going through it sucks, I am in same bandwagon with 2 small kids and getting often sick with same stuff they have. And they do have stuff basically semi-constantly from mid autumn to mid spring. Half the class has constantly running noses.

How do you think kids build their immunity? You don't get it by just growing up, its exposure after exposure. Protecting them too much from common stuff is one of the worst things you can do as a parent, they will have serious health issues and allergies later on.
That is mostly what GNUStep managed to be compatible with before running out of steam.
This is a disappointing response. I don't have a horse in this race (besides wanting to have access to good hardware for FOSS platforms), but I do have my ear on the ground in this community, so here are my thoughts on this.

> [removing SPI] was based on the fact that for years SPI was largely unused on PINE64 devices.

People have been arguing that a u-boot firmware needs to be installed on that flash chip for years, too. Essentially everyone in the dev community has been pushing them to do this for essentially the entire lifetime of their product line.

Would you rather find, download, and flash a special-purpose, pinebook-specific image onto a microSD card, pop it in, and boot that up to install a distribution, or would you rather it supports a standard UEFI booting interface over USB, netboot, whatever else, like every other laptop can?

> We created a space for development talks to be held (as we always had)

My understanding from speaking to friends and colleagues who work with Pine64 is that these spaces are pretty toxic. Manjaro has the loudest voice and other projects don't get the respect they deserve. And I'm prepared to believe it if this flippant response quoted in Martijn's article is accurate: "people who want [an SPI chip] can just solder one on."

This is not the behavior that I expect from a project which claims to honor its community.

I'm very disappointed in this response and in PINE64 generally. I expected an apology and a promise to improve, and this isn't it. Pine, I believed in you from the start.[0] I thought you were better than this. The past few years of your behavior has disillusioned me to your project and I can no longer offer you my support.

[0]: https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/18/PinePhone-review.html
>What's the purpose of the rotary encoder?

The ZMK firmware allows you to assign or map a wide range of keys and functions to it. The inclusion of an EC11 encoder has become a go-to trend, especially in the keyboard building community, and adopted by the established players. However, it is mostly a bit of novelty and redundant after a while and probably only gets used for the obvious media controls.

>I'll buy a USB touchpad and keep it where it rests on a laptop

You can acquire macropads in a plethora of configurations, from a single key to matrix of keys, only limited by the choice of MCU. All built using either traditional [key]switches and/or mix of encoders. The popular firmwares (QMK, KMK or ZMK) allow you to map the afore-mentioned, so you can choose to enter long IP addresses, purpose it for macros e.g Illustrator, Premiere, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, Eagle etc., or just use it for regular cut-n-paste type jobs via the use of layers.
Yeah, AMEX has lots of issues getting accepted outside the US. Some places won't accept tap-to-pay for Amex, but only chip+pin, or various other oddities, if they accept it at all.
Thank you for sharing this. It looks interesting and I will wait to hear more. I wish that you had a few high res photos of the keyboard from different angle that I could just go through. The spinning graphic and different slice cuts are a bit hart for me to mentally place and imagine the keyboard.
Alternatively, one of you could move to an underpopulated area, and we can all stop consuming beyond our wildest needs.
You said

> Pick one and be consistent.

If smoking is bad, alcohol is bad, cars are bad, etc. you can't be consistent here because life is a cause of death.
This is exactly why I don't eat shell fish. I have always thought they look like underwater bugs and the thought of eating them is revolting. I am fine with others eating whatever they want, and my wife eats them but its just not for me.
The government (or other non-profit entities) funded significantly more than 0.01% in this case. You’re not wrong that there’s still a ton of money required to get from “this works in a lab” to “this is something available at your local pharmacy”, but it’s not 4 orders of magnitude more…

That’s also discounting the fact that they aren’t paying for all the projects that don’t make it to the “works in a lab” stage. That a significant chunk of risk that they aren’t exposed to.
Seriously? The conclusion I quoted is easy unconvoluted language. I cannot imagine what could be changed to make it more understandable.

Over a period you have a reduction of the total deaths due to CHD - 11% of that reduction is due to a ban on trans fat.
Except they only copy the look, not the feel, nor the development experience.
The overall decrease is 74% (adjusting previous rates for population increases). 14,993 expected deaths → 3,883 actual. Transfat ban is credited with 11% of that reduction so "only" an 8% reduction overall.

Still massively significant, but not to the point of the silly headline.
It looks great!

The letters and numbers on the keys appear to be painted on. My experience with such keys is the paint wears off, and by then you'd better know how to touch type!

A feature I'd like to see is being able to clean the keyboard without ruining it. Best would be if I could run it through the dishwasher.
I really like Pinboard and Maciej but Pinboard feels forgotten.

Even the Pinboard blog URL [0]he linked to in his leaving Twitter tweet[1]is showing the Apache Default page to me.

I know there are a couple of good mobile apps for Pinboard but I’d much prefer just being able to use the site on mobile

[0] http://blog.pinboard.in/
[1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472?s=20...
As @pseudobry mentions: 'the book uses GDP as a "human welfare" metric'.

I don't think anybody here (even the author of the book presumably) is suggesting that they are cause and effect, but they do appear to be correlated.

Also just because 50% have 1% of the wealth, doesn't mean they don't contribute towards the wealth of the other 50% of people holding 99% of the wealth. For example, your boss gets the majority of the profit, but they couldn't run the company by themselves.
The ONLY thing I want from a keyboard (well, the main thing) is the ability to wash it thoroughly. These things become disgusting. I had to buy an old logitech keyboard on ebay, one that's no longer in sale, to have this.
please respect the mod rules of this site
How lipstick and underwear can predict the economy
Small teams can only get a small amount of work done. How long would a team of 7 take to deliver something like Word or GNU/linux (both not just the kernel, but everything involves in a OS/distribution )
Reminds me of just, sake or rucksack.

https://github.com/casey/just

https://github.com/alajmo/sake

https://github.com/acritelli/rucksack
While conceptually I can see such information can exist, I take it the same way I do free speech as a concept, over all I believe the negatives of allowing governments to hold secrets to be more damaging than any positives

Just like I do not believe tech companies, or governments to censor "misinformation" or "disinformation" because the negatives of controlled speech far far far out weigh any net positives that would come from censorship

Back to state secrets, I think the clear and obvious abuse of the practice should make it more than clear we should cease giving government agencies the
"benefit of the doubt" and massively shift the Overton window back in the direction of total transparency

State secrets, if they exist at all, should be EXTREMELY abnormal, rare, and continually in need of justification. Today however state secrets are the default, standard procedure, and we need justification to open records which is a complete inversion of how it should be
I remember trans fats, among other things, being a contentious topic around the time Obama was trying to get the TPP going.

People were worried that it would put local producers at a disadvantage and promote cheaper, lower quality food from the U.S which would result in higher obesity rates and worse health outcomes for the population.
> The only explanation I have is that people are scared to lose their burgers.

How about "biodiversity"?

and/or: Different ethnicities evolved under different conditions?