skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moore's Law would correctly give a factor of 35x linear density so 35^2 transistors on a square or rectangular die. But speed doesn't scale linearly with transistor count, both because there are diminishing returns per transistor, and because clock speed plateaus.

(Remember Moore's Law is about density, not speed. Density sometimes begets speed but not always; one big counterexample is memory access latency time.)
Dry air is less unhealthy than moldy air.
I still don't get it, how can people bare an iPhone. Even smartphone is a stretch, tbh.
Driving to the woods is easier than twenty years ago.

Cars are better.

Roads are better.

And of course, maps are exponentially better. Not only in terms of directions. Discovery is exponentially better. That waterfall that only showed up on the USGS topo map, is now on the map in your pocket...and Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter.

And the Forest Service website.
> I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero.

> Similarly, I don't discuss the benefits of getting people in the same room to solve a problem, but I am not super interested either.

Admitting ignorance is a hallmark of maturity. Boast about it and the desire to not learn isn't.
I looked through your comment history and didn't actually see additional details. What specifically are you referring to?
The examples and improvements in the article feel obvious like “common sense” — which is a good thing. I’m not 100% sold on the reasoning though. It kind of feels like a just-so explanation without much justification
1. Lots and lots of conversations and meetings. Either at work or at social events (Meetup.com?)

2. Very careful and mindful listening and observing. What do I mean? A large part of communication is non-verbal, and these are cultural and signal things that vocabulary doesn't. Also, tone. The rising and lowering of tone in a sentence changes quite a bit between languages, and is never properly taught IMO and unless you actively try to pay attention, almost no one realizes.
Every company has invested in l4 including ze germans. They just usually run it as spin off
They have a niche product that requires a lot of up-front investment; getting it cheaper than mass produced beef is a pipe dream. They're out to make money from price-insensitive vegetarians, which means prices will stay high. The only way this will change is with some sort of government action to raise the price of beef for consumers, but that isn't going to happen because this is a democracy; beef is popular and veggie burgers are a niche product. Even vegetarian dictators don't expend their finite political capital on issues like this.
Maybe it's for the same reason cinema ticket prices are the same for every movie. Price is a (often inaccurate) signal of quality. By lowering the price you are saying this product is inferior.

On the other hand it could be because if restaurants have a similar product at a lower price, then customers might go for the cheaper option, thus reducing overall profits.
Everyone who doesn't tightly control the systems they deploy to. io_uring is a new and developing interface so to support extant systems running libraries need to have fallback codepaths. Or more likely: they already have existing codepaths for the previous interfaces and add io_uring as a faster alternative.
There are already design standards for avionics software. DO-178 and DO-254, namely. Some car manufacturers follow something similar voluntarily. Maybe requiring something like this standard and having something like the FAA to enforce it is what we need?
I've found it interesting that we've been told how terrible highly processed food is, but somehow that doesn't apply to plant-based meat.
My basic point is go do your thing. Enjoy it! I’m happy for you. Why does everyone need to convince me how great his thing is and that I should be out there doing it. The genre rings hollow and I suspect that the real enjoyable thing is trying to control other people.

If you don’t want to look on your phone, don’t look on your phone. Maybe other people will notice how happy you are. Or maybe they won’t.
> the production of metamphetamine has increase

The production has increased but as far as I know it's fairly easy to make so there's a ton of small mediocre operations making it and also there's always incentives to make it weigh more for cheap.
We're talking about the US market, right? You can't tax meat here. You might as well propose to a new tax on baseball or the national anthem.
Yep, my details were part of the breach unfortunately. I hate Optus now more than ever.

I left them 2 years ago but they keep my details in a database accessible to the internet? Why? Details leaked are name, email, phone, DOB, home address, drivers license number.

About 4 years ago I emailed them complaining that their marketing team were using my date of birth to send me "birthday deals" on my birthday. Something I never opted in for. I found it creepy because the only reason they knew my DOB was from a sign-up security verification process. So back then they were sharing security details from customer signups to their marketing team for use in promotional material. No respect or care for user's data.

I wonder if a class action can be brought against Optus.
If these fungi are really capable of eating polyurethane in anaerobic environments, we'd better hope they can't do the same with polypropylene and polyethylene, because if so the polypropylene liners modern landfills depend on to keep their contents out of the groundwater are going to start leaking pretty soon.

(Some landfills use geomembranes of other polymers, too.)
Don't equate money with happiness.
I didn't have much exposure to AIX as opposed to Linux and BSD but I did not enjoy working with it at all.
There are many others like me and I always attributed this to GNU's popularity. Every task that was simple on Linux involved reading manuals and looking up informational on AIX.
What tipped you over the edge to jump back into the job market? I certainly empathize with prep bringing a significant increase to the threshold energy.
Modern volvo's are terrible cars where it comes to reliably.
I guess yours is holding out for now.

https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2022-us-vehi...
I welcome new Rust jobs, I myself have attempted to learn (and fail). But having it in a customer facing and a software embedded in customer's car is not what I expected.

Maybe starting in a backend service that they can monitor and deploy changes in events of outage would be an easy start. For something a scale of customer owned cars, I hope they are prepared.
FWIW, the length of time between D-Day and the German surrender was less than a year.
Thank you, I appreciate particularly all attempts at harm reduction, that's very thoughtful and kind of you.

Narcan (naloxone) is a wonderful thing, that I wish was more broadly available. I would still worry that sometimes people are not able to self-administer Narcan, so in addition fentanyl test strips are a very good idea to also have. They're a little false-positive heavy, but that seems better than the alternative.
In my experience, if the beef is fresh, high quality, and the right cut, grind and fat content, all it needs is salt on the surface at the time of cooking.

The salt mixed into many pre-made patties makes them increasingly rubbery the longer they sit in the supermarket. The seasonings are usually a crapshoot.

Toppings are a separate matter. Go to town.
Ask HN: How long it took you to build your SaaS pricing page?
I just want to ask SaaS founder, how long it took you to build your pricing page from scratch(designing, connecting to stripe).
I have an idea related to this.
That is a cool idea. Show the code the way you understand it best without even having to change the underlying text.
It being in the web means I can work on any computer without having to install anything, embed a Figma in a doc or wiki, and it’s super easy to write plugins (html/css/js).
If there is some legitimate reason (say performance) to keep a tighter form (inline assembly, Python 1-liner, whatever), then making the unfurled equivalency as a comment nearby to allow the next developer to have a fighting chance would be really helpful. Also, error handling tends to be not included in the 1-liners.
Yes. A conversation about the utility of the internet as an archive of news material presupposes access to the internet in some form. But in the Western world at least, notwithstanding certain American locales where right-wing activists defund libraries which carry wrongthink pro LGBT, trans or anti-racist literature, access to a public library is not uncommon even in rural or poor locales.
yeah - colleague here is outsourcing this kind of engineering for security Fortune 500 clients right now, and has been for 2+ years. There is big business going on right now building and shipping exactly this, as high end security camera installs, as far as I can tell. Its not new at all
> Definitely (though not half and half).

That doesn't count, then. I specifically mean half or even larger amounts.

The point is, the place you go as filler takes over is very different from these products. I'm not saying anything at all about small amounts of additive.
Perhaps you meant "generous". Yes, indeed. Although "generation" contribution is, I'm guessing, might be a noble thing to do as well.
Indeed. It's probably both subsidies for meat production and high margins for the fancy new meat replacements. Looks like there's a need for more competition.
if u are walking and ur phone is still suggesting restaurants, u arent walking away enough.
The article compares it to asafoetida, which is visually similar and comes from the same genus (Ferula).

Asafoetida smells pretty awful (I have a little jar of it), but it adds a pleasant onion-to-garlic flavor to dishes.
Code has a typo ‘slit’ instead of split after bringing up the concept of moving something into a function.
Pedantic nitpick that doesn’t diminish your point (you don’t like people doing photography and especially involving you in it, in the woods):

If they’re asking someone who is not themself to take a photo, the photo in question is, by definition, not a selfie.
Also decent restaurants get their patties pre-made..
Consider working with a speech pathologist. They are experts in speech modification.
Same here. m2^2 ;)
toying around with these kind of indices to detect / find repetitions for years already.

Btw: what's the best source for these kind of one of a kind, contra-intuitive algos and datastructures? Be it online, be it books...

BWT can't be the only one, right?
Each image is represented by it’s own distribution over the latents. So the encoder needs the ability to specify some latents very accurately and others more loosely you could say.
Costco has a 10-pack for much cheaper (~1/burger IIRC).
About UX, I agree insofar as web forums have worse usability than Usenet clients had before. However, I don’t see how web UX has improved in the last 15 years, in particular on the desktop, and in particular regarding forum and messaging apps.
Thats very dismissive. The paper is 39 pages. Most of the details is in Appendix which I think is fairly standard. I think they describe the network quite ok (page 16).
Coming from a background in lower level languages where you can only express one simple thing per line my tendency has always been to be more verbose than my colleagues. The worst time I ever had was when I had to work on someone's Perl code that one time. So I really like this heuristic to make code more readable.
While VAT is highly regressive, this does not make sense. Most people spend only a tiny proportion of their income on things subject to VAT.

E.g. for starters, the 20% VAT can only at most apply to what you haven't already paid in tax, so in the event of your hypothetical 50% effective tax rate including employers NI as a contractor (which means you'd need to be making around 110k GBP, placing you in the top 2% or so), you're at most spending 50% of your income, in which case VAT will at most add up to an additional 10% tax on your gross income.

But in reality, most peoples biggest expensive will be things like mortgage payments or rent, neither of which you pay VAT on, and other major expenses such as a lot of food products, are also VAT exempt.

Last time I did the maths for myself, VAT added up to 4% of my gross salary.
It would be nice. The problem is the same as self-driving cars: they work but ONLY in certain very constrained and limited application scenarios that limit their adoption.

Self-driving cars will never do well in snow country during a blizzard.

Airships will never do well in thunderstorms or other similar severe weather.

Failing to recognize the limitations of an idea or technology is the #1 way innovators, inventors and startups fail - they lack the critical thinking rigor and fail to nip bad ideas in the bud because they are too emotionally attached (by ego or by lack of brain cells) to KILL their bad ideas. You attack your own ideas as aggressively as any competitor would to get good ideas.
Hey, try the note command to make notes. Example -> https://github.com/araekiel/jot#create-notes-and-folders

And yes, this tool is meant for integration with text editors. Jot is simply for creating and managing notes (markdown files). You can use the text editor that you fancy, like nano or vim, or something like vscode, if you need a GUI.
Run SQL on CSV, Parquet, JSON, Arrow, Unix Pipes and Google Sheet
I think what you mean is many native speakers simply use the word ‘humble’ in its verb form incorrectly.

No one is humbled by winning an award, that is, brought low or humiliated. Rather an award is typically an exaltation or celebration. What they hamfistedly are trying to say is that they feel unworthy of the award or recognition, and so many otherwise learned people do this it has come to be understood.
Useful Lesser-Used Languages?
> If website owners want to detect and block users

Oops. I guess you meant to say user request selector/filter then if the term "block" is so loaded.
I want code that is easy to read, write, update, and debug. It isn’t obvious that this means it should be ‘clean’, or indeed, what ‘clean’ is. Some other things described as clean code (eg uncle Bob) seem pretty bad to me. But then lots of people who complain about that also suggest things that seem bad. Perhaps lots of these things are too insignificant compared to other business or design decisions that one can’t really learn from experience or past successful or failed projects.
I just did a whole test because I missed the fact that you said 1Password 8. I'm still on 1Password 7:
https://imgur.com/a/WpeffJE
Every automotive code base I've seen has been a dumpster fire. This (mostly) isn't the fault of the developers and Rust won't fix it. The business process creates this outcome. No one likes it but little is done to address it.

The software development timeline is slaved to the rigid manufacturing timeline. There is no allowance for slippage, so making things work By Any Means Necessary is the rule of the day. Concurrency problems often are not debugged; locks and similar are just sprinkled around until they disappear in testing. It is TDD taken to an extreme -- passing the enumerated tests, technically, is the definition of done even if the code is obviously poor or broken.

There are a vast number of software and hardware components sourced from myriad vendors that are swapped out every year to save a few dollars or deal with a supply chain issue. There is no stable baseline but all of these components need to work together. The code has to constantly adapt to the reality that someone sourced parts for a new model year that work differently or are in a different programming language.

This code is usually required to be supported for 10+ years. The developers don't just have this year's tech stack and code base to deliver on a rigid schedule, they are required to maintain several older implementations concurrently, often built in different languages and architectures.

Basically, the automotive industry has failed badly at the transition from being hardware manufacturing companies to being hardware + software manufacturing companies, and try to run their software processes the same way they ran their traditional hardware processes. Choice of programming language is the least of their concerns, that isn't the source of their code quality issues.
Demanding audible expressions of appreciation is the most aggressive thing I've heard of in a TOS, but I suppose it was inevitable.
Another useful rule is to think it terms of intentions and split to those individual intentions. You can always reduce code down to a single function call, but was that the original intention? Try to think as a reader that just stumbled on it without any other context. `result = DoEverything(payload)` is often less readable than `step1Result = DoImportantStep1(payload); finalResult = DoImportantStep2(step1Result);` if Step1 and Step2 mirror the actual process that goes in your mind when solving that particular problem, so when re-visiting you can understand what's going on faster, without having to visit the implementation of the single `DoEverything` function.

Edit: To clarify a bit more, in contrast to the rule of six, i'd definitely keep a line that is more complex than usual but conveys the intention of my thinking, rather than splitting it to multiple lines and losing that important information, losing the original intention.
I'm not familiar with all the technical details, which in any case differ from country to country. But if you're trying to claim that the central banks of countries with fiat currencies can't create money to finance government deficits, you're just wrong. They very much can, and when they do to excess, the result is hyperinflation, as seen in places like Wiemar Germany and Zimbabwe. In moderation, it is a crucial part of central bank monetary policy, being the main mechanism by which central banks can expand the supply of base money, which is typically desired in a growing economy in order to prevent deflation.

The process is known in economics as "monetizing debt". That this is a thing that central banks can do, and do do, is not in the least bit controversial.
I would like to give you words of encouragement, because for these minor conveniences there are ample gains in the quality of relationships and interactions with my peers.

> During the pandemic I went to a couple restaurants.

One more detail about being phone-less, I was almost denied my 2nd vaccine for not having phone or email until I asked why Amish and homeless couldn't receive vaccines. I received it ultimately, but was warned that I would have difficulty traveling as I'm not 'in the system' as a result of this.
Also while I wouldn’t call raw potato poisonous, it does contain toxins that are neutralised by cooking.
Around 332 Mods compiled into one package for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly
I find it amazing how devoted the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community has been over the last decade. Not only have they combined the maps of three games into one, they've made the entire experience into an almost DIY adventure with dozens of different playthrough styles
The PAYE/NI distinction is really because it's wildly politically inconvenient to admit that the difference between the lower and higher tax band is effectively much smaller than most people think it is. Merging them would create a lot of political pressure to widen the difference.
Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't see what this is doing besides aliasing `cd`, `mkdir`, `ls` and `nvim note.md`?
Visions of the future where the consumer has to pick apart "human curated", "human assembled" and "human made" much the same way we do now for cage free and free range eggs at the grocer.
> As opposed to the unsubstantiated assertion I responded to.

I'm not going to try to substantiate it; if you're not already aware that Wikimedia is owned and run by a self-confessed Zionist, you can look it up for yourself. I don't engage with the Zionists on Wikipedia; it's a waste of time, you can't win. Some Zionist admin will come along and declare that you lost the dispute. I'm not inclined to take up arms here either; it's against the rules, and anyway, in matters of this sort, you can't defeat your adversary by producing evidence or substantiation. This is an issue that people on both sides are strongly emotionally engaged in.
No government has an absolute monopoly on violence. Here in the US, some thug could steal my bike and likely get away with it. Much of the literature using that definition includes coercion as a form of violence, and no government fully covers economic coercion.

If the number of entities in a society with discretion over violence is not equal to 1, what is the optimal number?
So I guess this means Volvos will be... crashing... less?
Is there a fitbit type gadget that let's you USB or bluetooth to a laptop and keep your health data private?
I wish they would provide a meat substitute in Canada with a no-sodium-added version. I understand our diet is heavily salted and sugared, but it would be great for those of us on special diets (or caring those who are).
> Then why don’t they articulate this to us?

They do. At multiple levels of detail & complexity, depending on the specific audience (industry, general public, academics, etc.).

In general, I've found that when I ask "why doesn't the government just say that?" the answer is typically "they did, I just didn't hear it"
An AI that does good UV unwrapping would be much more interesting and useful.
When the RS/6000 launched, AIX had some neat system management OS features and hypertext documentation that was better than any of the other workstation vendors at the time.

Also, the RS/6000 and/or AIX was noticeably fast at some things. I remember a Systems Engineer being amazed that you could invoke a shell window (aixterm, IIRC), and it snapped instantly onto the screen, no lag.) The workstation vendors were often leapfrogging each other, but on that one metric, 0 perceptible time was new. I don't remember how compiles compared.

If you can pick up an RS/6000 on eBay, with licenses and install media, it might be a little fun to play with. And maybe either check that GCC will work, or that you're getting license and media for the compiler.

Today, though, there's so much neat stuff to play with atop Linux alone, that you could never get through it all. And, if you haven't already made your fortune and retired from paid work, things atop Linux are also more likely to be more directly relevant to paid jobs for current production environments, or at least to be better for resume keyword-matching.
Landing gear status must have been cached in s3.
How was it, when Gregory House put it... "...and no, I don't have a pain-management problem. I have a pain problem. But who knows, maybe I'm too high to tell..."
US is misleading in its assessment of China’s Taiwan threat
I would buy it except that I suspect GMO ingredients. I do not believe spin articles about sales volumes of basic products, at all however.
How easily can you work in Sweden with no ties at all? I did Google a bit and didn’t see anything supporting what you said.

https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...
Before you upload it all to Github etc, for folks recommending that...

Keep in mind that there may be passwords / keys in the spaghetti etc...

iykyk...
Land value tax!
Skimmed the article and the comments and got no answer - can someone tell me what the rule of six is?
Oh come on, medical botany and snake oil selling has been huge business for pretty much all of recorded history.
Ask HN: How did you become a good hacker?
What is your story behind becoming a good hacker?

What helped and what didn't?

What advice would you give someone who wants to become a good hacker?

P.S: A good hacker is someone who when given a problem can break it down and solve it in a correct way. Now that problem may be purely mathematical or something related to computer science or something else. Basically a great problem solver.