skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I no longer need to have local resources to do amazing things. I don't need an 10GB+ GPU in my phone to be able to hit some website and use AI to generate images.

Perhaps, but most people don't use the Cloud for anything fancy, but to run SaaS apps like email, calendars, note applications, chat, and so on, that could be way better off served by local apps, and not only run better and be faster, but take less resources than they do running on the Cloud...

Like Slack (be it electron "app" or browser tab) taking 100x the resources to do roughly what ICQ did 20 years ago...
I mean it all depends on what they do. 3 hours a day of coding is huge amount of work. 3 hours a day of zoom meetings is meh.
Well, there's functions for working with code points within the bytes that (may) make up utf8 strings.. in order to do actual string level manipulation a library is needed (such as https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph or others)
The Ugly Naked Guys
Thats a primitive way to look at things, and incorrect on so many levels it would take few pages to list them all. To sum it up - their wealth is based on precise high quality manufacturing, and secondly on tourism. Banking is not even up there in top revenues for state.

Or, to put it in similar fashion - the wealth of US is based on plunder. The wealth of all western Europe is based on centuries of plunder.

See, the way you frame your posts leads down the conflict immediately. I've checked some of your posts, and kudos to consistency - you are not interested in rational discussion, just consistent trolling and largely baseless conflict.
HN should have stickies about this so that all articles, Ask HN's, and other prompts to spark the same debate that's been raging for three years now about WFH should be relegated to that thread. Same goes for like four or five other topics.
In the very old days Phar Lap made a compiler. They ran out of room in 64K so they wrote the DOS Extender. It was a far more popular tool than their compiler, so they sold that, for a decade, from 1986 until Win95 came out with 32-bit support.

They have indeed erased the original compiler from the company history. But the company name itself, Phar Lap, was a reference to the racehorse because their compiler was going to be fast.
Slack? The chat app that everyone has very strongly held opinions on? that slack?

It started as an MMO? I never knew this and have got to go read about it now, that IS an interesting pivot.
8GB isn't quite enough anymore, even typical office employees are starting to need 16GB now because of many browser tabs

Damn middle click is too convenient and no one wants to close tabs because they might not find that one critical page again
Can you name a greater one?
As a person, you can also opt in for carrying out a job in fusion research (=academia) or fusion industry. In case you are a software developer (as many of us here on hacker news), your skills are wanted badly both in academia as well as industry.
What is radiation hardening of chips?

Stuff on the outside to absorb? Different band gaps in the silicon?
serdes .... it's serdes all the way down ....

There's a growing trend in SoCs of just having serdes blocks - because these days PCIe, high speed ether, USB/thunderthing, sata etc etc are all just variants on the same high-speed technology - different protocols are just different MACs on top of a common serdes block
For most users that is true. I think there were several applications that drove the demand for more memory, then the 32bit -> 64bit transition drove it further but now for most users 16GB is plenty.
Slack and Discord have a lot in common. Both were the founders second attempt at a game company that morphed into a chat platform.

Jason previously founded Aurora Feint, which became the social platform OpenFeint, acquired by Gree.
They can go public, which is what they've done here and on Twitter.

After that, they have to consider legal action, and it won't be cheap.
16G is just enough that I only get two or three OOM kills a day. So, it's pathetically low for my usage, but I can't upgrade because it's all soldered on now! 64G or 128G seems like it would be enough to not run into problems.
What I’d like is a way to associate or generate a secret key with my webmail account, and by default all of my outgoing messages are signed without any input on my part. Recipients can then whitelist my emails by the cryptographic signature, confident that said messages being spam would be impossible. DKIM gets there at the domain level, but isn’t as useful when anyone can get an account at a public mail provider (gmail, for instance).

If keys and crypto are the path to online identity (passkeys with webauthn, distributed identity systems), this seems like the logical extension of such ideas. There is some ramp up time as existing graphs proof out (you receive an email from someone you know and click “trust this identity”), but it eventually pushes untrusted messages to the margins.
I tried using a 40" 4k tv as a monitor a few years ago. It was big enough that I had to move my head to see different parts of the screen. I didn't like that and now I'm back on around 30".
Those are all flaws in browsers, not HTML. In the case of bookmarks that's not even a part of HTML.

There's nothing stopping browser vendors solving the problems you're talking about but then you'll probably worry that browsers are becoming operating systems or something.
> The general public isn’t asking for a hundred gigs, but I’d love to see the baseline rise up a bit.

Please no. The pressure on us software developers to keep our bloat under control, particularly when better options than Electron become available, has to come from somewhere. There will always be people who can't afford to upgrade to the new baseline, and we shouldn't leave them behind if we can help it.
Probably a good time to run a new iteration of the Libsodium WebAssembly benchmarks.
Please don't let perfect be the enemy of good. This is an improvement.
this would be a great social study. cases where technology has enabled the racketeering and price gouging by corporations with almost no gains in efficiency or output or quality or any metric of value.
The US healthcare system is wildly complicated and inefficient because it is a double-bureaucracy; pubic and private. The government bureaucracy makes a bunch of rules and also provide healthcare through Medicare/Medicaid. The private bureaucracy compete with each other, and hospitals, and pharma companies, ect.

Many of the private health providers are for-profit and lobby against rule changes that would reduce complexity and save the system money. It know this may sound glib, but if you are trying to understand the US healthcare system and something seems strange, usually it's because it makes someone money and they'll fight hard to keep it that way.
They are all the same way, maybe even worse. Google is notoriously allergic to having real people in any step of a workflow, even for paying customers. Twitter is currently going through its own battle with the fact that a huge chunk of the userbase isn't even real. Amazon product quality is going down due to lack of manual quality checking of their sellers. And so on. The culprit is always the same: real people don't scale to the expectations of shareholders, so everything gets automated, and then some very real people show up and exploit the system.
As a potential employee, it's our job to refuse positions like that
256GB of RAM has its uses. I'd rather go with that than having to fiddle with a 'distributed system' that requires another level of care and feeding.
RISC-V is NASA bad?

“Launch aborted, whenever we access the pressurization control we’re getting an ‘ISA not implemented in this version of the core’ error from the controller that arrived overnight. They must have received the wrong version of the chip and didn’t catch it in the test rig we gave them 6 years ago.” #roflmao
Hasn’t memory sped up dramatically in the last 20 years? Maybe that, combined with ever faster SSDs, means most people just don’t need too much more.

It used to incredibly painful to run out of ram. You’d have to hit swap or page a file in from disk that was tossed and wait hundreds of milliseconds. That was incredibly noticeable.

But now we can get things into memory so much faster having to load something off permanent storage takes a few tens of milliseconds. It’s not so objectionable.

At the same time most people are doing similar things to 20 years ago, needs haven’t scaled. Sure needs have gone up as images have gotten sharper but text is still text. Audio is still only a meg or two a minute. Unless you’re doing high end photo editing, video editing, or neural net stuff (which is mostly GPU memory?) do most people really need much more than 8/16GB?
> If this is your opinion then what difference does it make if there’s a monopoly?

The argument is against monopoly, even an effective one. Chrome has about 65% market share (88.5% in India), I'd call that an effective monopoly (especially considering all the chromium based browsers). Large enough to dictate how things should be done and people will follow because they have to. It doesn't matter that it is open source, it matters that there is too large of a userbase that decisions fall into the hands of few. It's not like Microsoft's Internet Explorer abused this in the past and we have no precedence or anything...

I guarantee you that this will only lead to a fracturing of the internet, especially considering it is a global network.
I haven't looked at numpy/Numeric in about 2 decades, but back then there were a few undocumented functions which were suitable for nested data-parallel aggregation. I had assumed someone would surely have documented them in the meantime, but TFA didn't make any attempt to use anything of the sort...
"natively" was the key word
Slowly becoming irrelevant: https://paperswithcode.com/trends
> … no evidence that the epidemic had no lab involvement…

"So you simply cannot prove general claims that are negative claims -- one cannot prove that ghosts do not exist; one cannot prove that leprechauns too do not exist. One simply cannot prove a negative and general claim."

https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_re....

What would you accept as evidence of "no lab involvement"?
no, ipfs.io seems to originate from protocol labs own network: https://bgp.he.net/AS40680
I've fortunately never been robbed in a dark alley and that's not something that sounds like a real threat to me, but I had to intervene on nightmarish code-bases and some “convenient” feature sometime turn to be real curses (JavaScript `with` anyone?).

Edit: it's late in here, and I completely missed your point. I'm personally not usually afraid with language features, but some requires more work than others to be accustomed to, and not everyone is willing to spend their spare time doing so.
Except that __attribute__((__mode__(__QI__))) makes that effectively equivalent to "unsigned char".

From https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/sE6I4sgGyPs

> A few tests on generated code, however, suggest that gcc treats these
exactly as signed char and unsigned char, both in how the react to
_Generic and in how the compiler handles them for alias analysis.

So, that means that there are currently zero existing compilers that treat uint8_t differently from unsigned char.
>Can you find a single day in the CAISO records where the net grid demand (so not including home solar, grid solar or grid wind) is below the amount produced by their nuclear and hydro?
If you can't, and I don't think you can, why do you claim his solar is useless?

Why would you take the number before grid wind, grid solar, and home solar?

I think the relevant number is is demand minus grid solar, grid wind, grid nuclear, and probably hydro.
My point is that it is inefficient.

It makes no sense to idle a commercial solar or wind farm with a purchase contract so that the electric company can also purchase residential solar.

It would be entirely different if the electric company had massive storage, but they don't. The residential solar generators do. It makes most sense for the electric company to buy residential solar only when it has been time shifted to when grid farms are not producing.
> Eventually, the locals start getting unhappy with you.

Pretty sure the locals are unhappy from the start of the foraging process, with all the stealing, murdering, and raping.
Shamelessly mentioning our project shaderpark, which is also a live-coding interface for working with SDFs but using javascript!

https://shaderpark.com/
It was called Glitch and it was super dorky.

But it was after their Flickr exit, so they were basically doing what they wanted for a while.
> So, to get prices like most other developed nations, we would be forced to cut nurse and doctor salaries, which would likely lower quality of workers as future workers went to more lucrative fields, which would likely lower outcomes.

Why are you ignoring all of the costs that go to people besides nurses and doctors? I know very rich people whose entire careers are built around selling overpriced products to hospitals. These people are leeches that provide no value other than profiting off of dumb compliance laws. If you can buy the same product at any store for 1/10 the price, there is no benefit to requiring it be gatekept by people whose sole incentive is squeezing blood from a stone.

Get rid of graft. The problem is the system and the incentives it creates. US healthcare is dictated primarily by insurance companies who care more about maximizing profit than providing healthcare.

To fix the system you start with increased transparency, then you focus on accountability. Why do we allow such blatant corruption? Let's get rid of all the leeches first, since they provide no actual value while jacking up prices. There are so many areas we can improve results and cut costs before we address the salaries of doctors and nurses.
> Speed, convenience, reliability, and more are not the problems protocol need to solve for. Providers can solve for these problems

They can't if the protocol doesn't allow it.

Otherwise it will be regular centralized storage providers with IPFS bolted on top for one or two geeks who care about it.
It might be a bit over the top in the heat of a 30 minute interview, but for say an at-home two hour challenge it's not too unreasonable.
That's silly. When a regulatory body lets some folks pass on renewal for decades, then hits up one guy with a big fine for being late 2 months what do you call it if not abuse of power?

Sure its technically within their rights to fine folks - its right there in their charter. But the fact that they don't exercise this right for years then pick out this guy shows that something is up.

Further, the licensing has f-all to do with whether a particular engineer is endangering public safety. That entirely depends on their training. The certification doesn't come first - it's simply a label so folks can tell who's competent. This guy had the certification for years; he has it now. There was no issue with public safety. Which is indeed reflected on the lax enforcement of renewal - normally just a late fee, which just makes sense.
My font (Firefox) was actually very helpful for this. A tiny serif at the base of the l.
a banana maybe? I mean does a tree produce 1 banana worth of oxygen?
>attempting to avoid SARS-CoV-2 is utterly pointless

Maybe you should start by learning about cumulative probability and hence why n/2 infections carry less risk than n infections.
For that statement you would need to show industry graphs, not only research
I didn't say air handlers are heat pumps, I said the product of the heat pump are passed off to the air handler. But again you seem confused about basic terminology about the subject you are talking about.

> An air handler can be put in place of a furnace, but it certainly does not have to.

An air handler just moves air around, it doesn't replace a furnace. Its an essential part of a central heating / cooling system regardless of whether its attached to a heat pump, gas furnace or anything else.

I'm not sure why you keep doubling down on speaking authoritatively about something you don't understand. Why don't you read a basic intro and then you'll understand?
Hell, you can even root an android phone via the browser!
https://protonaosp.org/install/web
The only caveat I know of is that on a dual socket system you won't get twice as many lanes. 48 (or 64, depends on the configuration) of each are used for the interconnect to the other socket. Then of course the performance of any slot-to-slot traffic may depend on the different paths taken inside the interconnect, but that only matters for very high-bandwidth of low-latency applications.
Foraging require enough of density of settlements en route. Cause that is what foraging is, taking food from locals by force. The bigger the army, the more and bigger settlements you need to burn and steal from.
I don't use Brave and I'm not shilling for it, but it does consistently rate high in privacy research:

https://privacytests.org/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...
COTS = Commercial Off The Shelf
> They often doubt the measured productivity improvements of WFH, and either believe that the metrics are inflated or that they are temporary, and as in-person connections fade then so will productivity.

> However, I think they are being honest about their motives: They believe that in-person connections lead to better work output.

We that is how belief works, thinking something without any data to back it up. It's a little more gross in this case since the places that do have data are writing it off (funny how that works, it's almost as if they only collected the data to use it when it agreed with their gut, don't get me started on KPIs and the like).

I have no doubt that some people do work better in an office environment but forcing everyone back because some subset want to go back to the office is just insanity. In the end the companies pushing people back to the office that don't want to go back will suffer as talent that doesn't want to work in the office leaves for greener pastures. They will be left with the people who can't switch jobs (for whatever reason) and the people who do like being in a office.
I routinely use this much RAM for work. And it's not malloc experiments lol. I need 200ag to 500G for my research work. Most of our systems have 384G and this is just enough. If I could only have a laptop with that much...
I’ve seen other people harassed by Hamasaki and been at the receiving end of it myself, so no, not really.
Riff has an internal registry mapping crates to external dependencies. However, the registry is intended to bootstrap Riff's utility. If projects define their own Riff metadata in their own Cargo.toml, that data is preferred. The README shows how to do that: https://github.com/determinateSystems/riff#how-to-declare-pa...
And "Slackers" would have a whole new meaning these days.
The whole point of choosing SiFive over anything else is to encourage competition.

SpaceX is similar while they are very successful it also encourages competition in a space that really needed it and now there are so many other companies doing smaller launches that don’t make business sense to SpaceX.
> Why would you need more than two NICs in your machine?* (See below)

I've always wanted to build an 8-port or 16-port software Linux-based switch. Just for fun.
And unfortunately in North America teachers and nurses are leaving their professions. I don't see any migration of "apparent altruists" like OP filling in those vacancies!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening

Larger node, different substrate, shielding, and other things.
Dude, I have the same issue with like all the articles in Rolling Stone
good point! please see now; have you got any interesting ideas to work on?
> What will be the confluence of circumstances that will demand that we take our jobs more seriously?
I can think of one "confluence of circumstances" that would make me take my job more seriously: Higher salaries
> You could give me the source code and let me run this function

If I understand correctly, in this case, that function's source is highly distributed in wetware. It's about as closed-source as it gets; nobody has anywhere near the full source. Each hospital is its own fiefdom!
Ask HN: Facebook account was compromised, lost access, how to report?
Hi,

My wife lost access to her facebook account. She received a notification in Facebook to re-enter password and date of birth as her account was not secure. Once submitted, a few seconds later she lost access to account. Then some 10 minutes later she got a message that her account was posting videos which had been reported and thus her account was being blocked. We have tried using "Report compromised account" feature and provided with phone number/driver's license but we cannot gain back control.

Anyone who can suggest how to block this account and gain back control as we also have a credit card on file added to this account.

Any suggestion on how to reach out to FB to gain control.

Thanks in advance.
Sandeep
I'll never get tired of reading stories about the SR-71.
What a strange argument. The diversity in cars helped set the universality in the gas port. The same thing is happening with electric vehicles. Yeah, there are some proprietary ones like Tesla, but as more manufacturers have gotten into the space there have become standards as companies realize that a standard charging port helps them beat Tesla (being a united force). Network effects are real.
update to those reading later, the links don't work for the twitter people decided to take down the archives from the wayback machine...

the same links from archive.md:
https://archive.md/c8hXj
https://archive.md/cgWAJ
Pretty sure 4 gig RAM was common consumer level then, but I take your point. I think the average consumer user became rather less affected by the benefits of increased RAM somewhere around 8 and that let manufacturers get away with keeping on turning out machines that size. Specialist software and common OSes carried on getting better at using more if you had more demanding tasks to do, which is probably quite a lot of the people here, but not a high % of mass market computer buyers.

Honestly I think the pace of advance has left me behind too now, as the pool of jobs that really need the next increment of "more" goes down. There might be a few tasks that can readily consume more and more silicon for the foreseeable, but more and more tasks will become "better doesn't matter". (someone's going to butt in and say their workload needs way more. Preemptively, I am happy for you. Maybe even a little jealous and certainly interested to hear. But not all cool problems have massive data)
May 8th, Musk to Morgan Stanley: “let's slow down just a few days ”
I do not, although I use Strongbox - liked the UI a tick better. They are pretty similar feature-wise, KeePassium is a tick cheaper for the pro-tier, and sources are available. Strongbox is able to merge the DB in case of conflict. And in reality both apps are written by a single guy, so I would say it is a draw :)
Those are hardly obscure. Tex, makeinfo, dvipdf?

If that's too much, wait for a finished version to appear on the literature download page.
You can just use profiles in FF and achieve the same. No need for 2 separate installs.
Note that the name of the language is not generally abbreviated this way. But there's another implementation called CLISP.

Clask sounds like a Flask-inspired web framework for Common Lisp to me. [Googled it] Yep, "something like Flask", but in C++, not in Lisp.
Preact Signals
Firebase started as a chat widget/plugin for websites.
Not banning smoking probably is up there.
The helicopter uses an RAD hardened FPGA for handling the flight computation while the Snapdragon handles the less critical stuff. I'm guessing if the Snapdragon faults out, the flight computer will slowly descent and go idle.
Brex went from virtual reality goggles -> corporate finance saas

They basically started on the billing system for their VR and decided to pivot to that.