skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to have mostly come true, with one caveat: attention requires measuring, so surveillance is equally important as attention
I wasn't aware they accepted funding. So it seems odd they are so evenly balanced.
Snowy 2 can store 350 GWh - slightly more than 2 weeks' worth of energy from an average nuclear power plant.
The article is a (correct) premonition. Advertising companies have already more than half of our day with smartphones and TV, when we will use smart glasses and self drive cars the circle will be closed.
> you think people are going to pay mortgages they are massively underwater on?

The payments might be comparable to if they got a current rate mortgage at the current value.

There's reasons it would be nicer to have a lower loan balance at a higher rate and the same stream of payments, but it's probably not worth the cost of moving and a foreclosure on your record.
Does this have any impact on Truffle to speed up Ruby on Rails?
How do you implement this. When a company dies you can't access its servewrs etc.

Which is why in the contract you have with the software company you include having them put the code in escrow with a third party.

The third party is necessary
If most developers can't debug a VM, then anyone who can will be able to charge a premium. If you have a proficiency in ops, remember that the next time you negotiate a compensation package.

[Edited my compensation numbers to avoid down votes - yikes]
They did, but stupidly it's a paid feature
I think the situation would have been better if the people opposed to Debian would contribute to better init script support then just forking it.
And most of it is unnecessary. Git commits already have identifying info tied to them so there's no need to maintain a separate list of 'owners' using this thing when you can just `git blame`.
I'm java developer for the last 15 years or something like that and I can't really say much bad about Oracle Java. IMO Oracle got a good team working on Java. Java is completely open source. There are many builds of Java from different companies, I like liberica one, for example (be aware of Russian roots, though).

I have no idea about this graal thing and I think it's rather niche application. I played with it but concluded that it's not ready for me yet.
This isn't surprising, we have seen a lot of evidence that stuff that seems pretty innocuous to adults can be more harmful during developmental years: cannabis, low fat diets, moderate alcohol consumption, poor nutrition, ...
It's fully open source still (as it has always been), it just won't be part of OpenJDK.
This is why our house does not have a garage - I love woodworking and if I had a garage, it would probably end up with tools and wood costing more than the house did. Before significantly downsizing in the move to this state, I had been eyeing some guitar kits (like from Martin Guitars) to build my own. I wasn't sure if I wanted to get into luthiering.

https://www.mi.edu/education/guitar-luthier-can-become-one/

I have an older edition of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Archtop-Guitar-Robert-Benedett...

I love cooking, but I found that I disliked cooking for 1. Not long after my last relationship ended, I stopped baking and cooking anything other than basic food. I had more than 200 cookbooks. After the downsizing, I shrank my collection to about 10.
There is a distinction between computer and stored program computers, and you're right that the first commercially available stored program computer appeared in 1951. (Though, interestingly, there was a 1936 patent application on the idea in Germany. And a barely functioning one was actually built in 1941.)

But Turing complete computers predated that. In fact Turing's own design for a Turing machine was NOT a stored program computer. And you're right that the modern idea of programming postdated stored program computers.

But computers are older. As you pointed out, arguably thousands of years older.

However I maintain that automatic tabulating machines were on the path to modern computers. Early accounting applications were based on them, as were key parts of the technology used. Like punch cards.
I don't think it's worth popularizing such concepts and patents. I've seen plenty of them in the past 2 years and non have reached production and promised value that outperforms solar panels.

Furthermore, there is research done on solar panels all the time too to increase their efficiency and panels have and continue to improve their W/m2. So by that time, solar panels might have outpaced it.

This "same cost" is likely calculated as initial cost + electricity/24h instead of initial cost + maintenance cost + lifetime.

Other comments have mentioned the moving parts which don't exist on solar panels. Moving parts will inevitably fail in contrast to solar panels which often outlast their 25 year warranties with only reduced efficiency.

Wind is less predictable than sun too. It's also less powerful the lower the height is due to buildings blocking it. That's why wind turbines are so high and usually out of cities.

Cost is not the only factor that matters. Panels on rooftops are more or less not visible. This thing sticks out a lot and isn't aesthetically pleasing.
Whose freedom you're talking about matters: and your perspective focuses on developer freedom.

Which is the freer society: one where loud, all-night music in residential areas is permitted with no consequences, or one with restrictions on noise disturbances? Your definition supports the idea that late-night-parties has more freedoms, and I disagree with that. Hence the "eye of the beholder" thing applies.

My own subjective perspective is rather utilitarian: there are more users thsn developers (as developers are also users), hence, user freedom is more valuable than developer freedom, and it is worth restricting some developer freedoms to that end.
Ofc, as you mentioned RISC-V is simply an open-source ISA; however, it is arguably the groundwork for chips independent of Intel/AMD.
It's more nuanced than that. Engineering schools have mugh higher admission rates for women, sometimes over 2x, in the case of MIT: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/can-your-gender-give....
I can see a demand for a modular open hardware / open source ecosystem where the community takes ownership and drives change from these shared resources ... car review process needs to include a review of the vehicle's ease of repair outlining compliance to these industry wide open source plugNplay components
And the above comment is how the candidates with the most opportunities will see things, meaning your system to find the best candidate by default filters out valuable candidates that also value and are rational about their time but great for finding 'wage slaves' that will accept unreasonable demands of their time and don't really have other options. Gee, what a funny, totally unexpected result for the company ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not a direct consequence, but "purely incidental" is a bit strong.
I'm not sure that I get this viewpoint. Anybody in the Apple ecosystem for years probably has enough random working cables/dongles laying about to survive without buying even 1 new cable until fully wireless everything is a thing.
I've been trying to figure out a similar system when I looked at potentially making some software source available. I wanted contributors to receive a portion of that months sales for the software, possibly including future ones as well. Some kind of development equity setup. It fell apart when you start trying to codify/cement how the equity is awarded, nothing is ever clear cut when considering level of effort/impact.

While this project tries to solve the money aspect (not sure benefit of it vs other sponsor distribution platforms...), it doesn't solve the biggest issue: how do you figure out who gets what. I can't imagine the kind of vitriol it would generate in the face of CoEs and modern meritocracy controversies for open source projects. Money corrupts everything.
The IME was never a secret. Anyone can decap an Intel chip and point to it.

I find it implausible that the A/M series chips have an independent subsystem that is so obfuscated that the expert attention which each Apple die receives has turned up no trace of it.

The company has its own approach to secure compute with the T2 modules, but no, I don't believe Apple would be able to hide something like IME on their CPUs without it being detected as such.
In practice it is not a footgun at all! If you use Lisp, you can tell what's a function and what's a variable by position - functions are always first in a list, variables - never, (except in bindings)... etc.
Yes, please. I'd like a Lisp/Scheme/Racket programming environment on an indigenous A.I. chip minus the Von Neumann bottleneck to memory.
of course, but that just illustrates that GPA is less about actual academic achievement, and more about playing a revolving game of teacher's pet at best, and at worst, being another tortured cog in a horrible system of petty social games called "high school"

giving any credence to GPA is upholding this hellish set of norms.

K-12 should be K-9. High school is glorified babysitting, with bullying and drugs being the only escape, for both parents, teachers, and students.
> "functionality that is desired by hardware owners"

We hear this all the time don't we? Claims that something is;

"Because people want it".

"Markets demand it".

But we see absolutely no evidence of them whatsoever, this mythical
mass of people clamouring for features that are strangely aligned with
the things big-tech suppliers and manufacturers wish ti push and get
to simply assert that "people want".

We like to think of ourselves as "evidence based, rational society"
We'll happily hold governments, scientific and health research to a
high standard of evidence. Even Wikipedia articles demand "citation
needed".

Show us those people! Back up your claims Intel.
The negative health effects of polyunsaturated seed oils have been well known for a long time, it's not 'bro science' or some recent internet trend. NIH Biochemist William (Bill) Lands has been sharing this information since the early 90s, including a publicity campaign and website from the NIH. Here is an old talk from William Lands on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivrYNjiXk8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E.M._Lands
https://efaeducation.org/

It's also been a major part of the concept of the 'Paleo Diet' ideas starting with Swedish Professor Staffan Lindeberg's nutrition research in the early 90s, and later popularized by Professor Lorden Cordain's Paleo Diet in the early 2000s.
We intentionally focused the article on 1 to 100.
Today we are over 400 engineers and we are still pretty happy with how the engineering velocity progressed as the team grew.
Not a fan of the modal popup that seems to force you to either click "Continue" or "Not Interested". You can't ESC it away and it completely blocks out all the relevant info about the trip.

How do I know if I'm interested or not if I can't even read your own description on the page and make a decision?
It doesn't necessarily need to be a backdoor. Look up Remote Attestation, which is getting easier every year. With that, you can run whatever software you want on your device - but other servers do not need to talk to your device if they detect that you are.

It's coming up in Android more with SafetyNet. If your device is rooted, you fail SafetyNet. If you fail SafetyNet, almost all banking app servers will refuse to talk to you, rendering their apps useless. SafetyNet could be spoofed historically, but SafetyNet is moving into hardware instead of software since ~2020, so the spoofing has gotten way, way harder and may cross into downright impossible.

It's also coming to Windows with the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement. See the video game Valorant, for example. If you are on Windows 11, it will mandate that you have a TPM 2.0 enabled and Secure Boot enabled. It has exceptions for VMs and Windows 10 and earlier right now - but they can literally close that door, at any time, and immediately remotely lock all machines to that requirement. No amount of game patching will bypass it - the multiplayer servers won't talk to you unless your hardware cryptographically reports that you've passed Secure Boot checks.
But what you write isn't true, at least not in the way it comes off:

When I hear "monitor your personal finances" I think on a month to month basis or more frequently.

In Sweden, as written above it is yearly and with several months delay.

Also what you you write just doesn't "feel" realistic at all. Source: I live next to Sweden and have Swedish colleagues.
This really resonated with me, thanks for sharing. This lines up very well with my perception of success being composed of preparedness and opportunity. To me, Level One represents the cultivation of skill; preparing, said another way. Level Two is in the pursuit of opportunity and Level Three is the capitalization of opportunity. But the funny thing about opportunity is that it's mostly external to you. For sure, you can be in places where opportunity is more likely or try to find people who are passing on opportunities you'd like to capitalize on but I feel the most potent and useful opportunities are the ones that exist outside of your power.

All that to say that I don't think Level Two is fully intractable. I think it depends a lot on the opportunity density. In our field, for example, going through Level Two to work at a desk job where you don't particularly care where you end up or what you're doing is not that bad at all. In fact, it's just plain ole job hunting. But for sure in creative skills like musicians or classical art or any other skills where there are a few elite that have made it into Level Three, it is much more challenging to find your way through Level Two. There just isn't enough opportunity that can hoist you out of it.
No one, especially a government, has a right to require vaccines.
> Getting a job these days sans personal collections requires sending out many, many applications

I think this may be more a consequence of blasting out numerous applications, than the cause of having to do so.

Every job I've gotten in the past 20 years has been a) the company I was targeting to work for, and b) the result of a targeted, careful, and studious effort to get in there.
It matters because vaccination has slowed both the severity and rate of spread of the disease, due to a reduced viral load shedded by the vaccinated individual.

It isn't a binary yes or no, but it has been a gradient. And every policy decision is made on a gradient of harm/benefit. So yes, it is entirely relevant about what the ethics of the hypothetical would be.

Not getting vaccinated is an action that directly harms other people, for what turns out to be no net gain. Requiring vaccination... Is an action that directly harms a few holdouts for some net gain for the rest. None of this is an absolute ethical question, and the degrees of harm and gain are this completely relevant to it.
> Curious to see other people's responses.

I agree with the other guy. If you're trying to make money, you are monetizing, regardless of whether it's actually profitable.
> better be just as invested in it as you are.

This is a good chance to plug supporting FOSS through monetary donations (or feature/bug bounties etc programs). If you save $100k from not having to implement something crazy, then consider throwing them $100. Part of what makes FOSS so important to the world is we're amortizing capital costs across many people, and using the "Free" part to break first mover disadvantages and challenges in coordination.
Why is there such a dramatic performance gap / slowdown for 3.10 + 3.11 compared to 3.9.12?
I think you're talking about Bryan Cantrill : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
Unless you can buy the next house in cash you'll be waiting seven years for your credit to recover.
Anyone interested in me helping your team with scrum for free?
I'm curious to see if any company would want someone from outside their team to help run scrum ceremonies.

I'm a PM and developer but the best part of my job is running scrum meetings, especially the retrospective. I think I could add a ton of value to any team trying to do agile development just by running a couple of meetings for you each week.

Who wants to try this? I would do it for free the first few times.
Lower demand doesn't mean prices have to drop. Things are cheap because they're mass produced. If quantity goes down, all the overhead gets spread across fewer devices, until the product is no longer viable.
Thats not how property taxes usually work. Most municipalities set a millage rate based on how much revenue they want. If property values decrease, the millage rate goes up. If all property went down 30% the millage rate is adjusted accordingly to hit the revenue target.
What is your opinion on [0] ?

I disagree with him about " My best guess is that a truly great consumer service needs to be something that is can be used every day. " I use Wanderlog (YC19) almost every trip I do, a lot of my friends after I recommended this tool started using it. Yet it is kinda right - Wanderlog doesn't seem to be making big progress, although pandemic is probably responsible for that

[0] https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-software-the-most-...
I assume the failed automatic cut-off switch was in the tanker...

If so, upon a refuelling the day before which caused a flame-out and loss of a plane, there is no way they should have been reusing that same tanker until the root cause was understood.

There could have been other causes, like a bad batch of fuel (could easily cause a flameout), debris in the fuel, water in the fuel, a subtle leak in the connector, something that causes foaming of the fuel, etc.

Exception: A major war where risking loss of a few more planes and people is worth it to avoid missing a military maneuver that cannot be delayed.
It looks like you're saying you've had this conversation before.
I'd love to see if some the following issues have been thought through:

- This sounds like spec work, where someone writes up a PR and submits hoping that they will be picked and/or paid the amount they request

- What happens if there is a disagreement about the payment amount? If the submitter withdraws their PR, are the maintainers then limited in their ability to code up their own fix since they've already seen the PR?

- If someone submits a PR and gets paid, then a bug is found in their code, do they have to pay from their share to fix the bug? What if the payment amount requested for the fix is higher than their share?

- It sounds like payment amount is determined through negotiation between the maintainer and submitter, or through discretion of the maintainer. Any clear metric on amount is likely to be gamed.
You don’t need signing, you need a way to make changing a boot path impossible by anyone who is not the user or the OS (or at least, tamper-evident on reboot).

Simply storing hashes that are set on first boot (much like SSH does with known host hashes), and allowing the user/OS to reset the hashes, will be sufficient. M1 does this, as far as I know.

> Remote attestation because you can NEVER trust the client.

IRL, I don’t carry a weapon everywhere I go, because it’s clearly overkill. For this exact reason, overkill measures like remote attestation should not be a thing on general purpose computers.
This is why a good physics education is important... Under certain conditions the standard model includes several spontaneous transformations from eyeballs -> cash. The trick is getting a critical mass of eyeballs for the conversions to be frequent enough to pay the bills.
I don't think there's much holding JS back from also being a glue language. JavaScript has certainly evolved from being only a browser language these days.

The only request I'd have is more granular garbage collection (marking FFI memory as refcounted for more immediate destruction).
Found the manager/C-level. a thread with 8 million valid reasons why people are unwilling to do this and Twawaaay's takeaway:

'candidates, frankly, are too lazy for the barest effort'.
I'm in the opposite boat. We had to move for work, and we bought a crappy house in a town I desperately want to leave as soon as possible. The housing market was going bonkers, so we now have a huge mortgage (but at a low rate).

Now? The price of the house we bought is dropping, and the cost of buying any house anywhere else is effectively going up because of the rate increase.

Putting aside my narrow self interest in the bubble being sustained so I can move without losing my shirt, I do hope that this causes actual home values to go down. A lot of first time buyers would have been really hard pressed to afford the down payment at the peak of the bubble, so it's good for them that things are correcting now.
The existence of the High Assurance Platform (HAP) bit makes it pretty clear that
1) three-letter agencies don't trust the IME, and strongly implies that
2) they asked for it to be there in the first place.

"High Assurance Platform" https://trademarks.corporationwiki.com/marks/high-assurance-...
To make it easier to think about databases, I group them into categories

- SQL Databases (Mysql, Postgres, SQL Server, SQLite)

- JSON document stores (MongoDB, etc)

- In-memory key-value stores (redis, memcache)

- key-value stores (cassandra, etc)

- Graph DBs (neo4j, dgraph)

- Search DBs (elasticsearch, Lucene)

- Timeseries DBs (timescale)

I consider the SQL databases and the JSON document stores to be the general default databases that my applications will use 90%+ of the time. SQL databases require defining the schema ahead of time, while with document stores I can just dump data into the database and then figure out what's needed afterwards. At this point, I usually use postgres as my go-to database since it's open-source, well-supported and has some additional features like the ability to use json, but if you're more familiar with a different SQL db use that instead. Most of the other database categories are specialized for specific use-cases (in-memory key-values are great for queues and caching, time-series dbs are great for metrics)

EDIT:
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking currently shows 381 unique databases, which is probably a bit of an undercount but not by much.

I realized I didn't answer the `Why there are so many databases` part of your question. Essentially, many companies outgrow the general-purpose databases and need databases optimized to their read-write level and data structures. Analytics tend to use columnar-databases once their data sets are in the TB+ range so that their queries return quickly.
That's 3.9.12 of PyPy, not CPython
That's pypy 3.9.12, it has a JIT implementation to interpret python. The other two are standard CPython which doesn't JIT interpret the code.
7. The websites for entering your application are across the board very buggy and there's apparently no incentive to fix them. The employer is unaware of the bugs and wonders why they're not getting "quality" applicants. The company that creates/manages these sites doesn't hear about any problems and is blissfully unaware. There's no way for an applicant to tell anyone about a bug they've encountered in the application process.
I think the progress is mainly limited by cost of fuel and sonic boom. But progress has been made in so many other areas. Planes are safer quieter lighter and more reliable. Some parts of computers also stopped progressing. For example keyboards haven’t changed much and neither have laser printers. ;)
A Kube native way to manage DigitalOcean Managed Databases and egress traffic
As long as everyone is happy with the output, I don't see it as a problem.
Not sure what point you are trying to drive across. The graph I posted shows a macro trend.

My home was built in 1970s. I believe the initial price was around $40k. Current worth is $450k.

It is hard to take all the different things into account.
Worth it. Love that movie.