skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still order Compulab Airtop 3 with Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB in a fanless configuration. See https://fit-iot.com/web/product/airtop3-build-to-order/
The hidden premium is that you either pay for planned obsolescence (your hardware going to 3mph after 4 OS upgrades) or you stop upgrading your OS. It makes everything 3x as expensive as you think, I bet we all replace our Apple hardware more frequently than we’d like to admit. Unless one of you winners is still rocking that iPhone 4S.
Your first two points are misleading:

1. The article conflated lightweight markup languages as a class and Markdown in various places, and you’re making it worse by performing that conflation in different places.

Markdown was a specific invention which took parts of ancient customs (some from at least as far back as the typewriter era), but applied various other rules never before seen. It was absolutely not just a codification of already-existing usage. As probably the clearest demonstration of this: no one would ever have used ![alt text](href) for images before Markdown. Interpret the remark “it’s barely a spec” in this light: it’s speaking of Markdown specifically.

2. The source quotation was talking about tables, not Markdown as a whole.
I think it's not just different standards (quiet = "I can't hear it when blasting Call of Duty at an unhealthy volume") but likely the prevalence of hearing damage. A 30 dB noise is way less noticeable if your threshold of hearing is in the 10-30 dB range instead of the -10 to 10 dB range. Likewise the ability of people to perceive separate noises simultaneously differs.

(Likewise many people say they can't hear the noise ANC headphones produce - it seems likely to me that they're either in a too loud environment so it's masked at all times, have hearing damage or both. It'd be interesting to see the Venn diagram with people who complain you can't turn up phone headphones to be loud enough any more - mumble mumble the EU took it from us! Meanwhile the volume step size of AirPods is too coarse for me because I'm only ever using the lowest four or so "clicks", rarely exceeding 50 dB per HealthKit).
I'm not sure how much telemetry Teslas actually send (do buyers really tolerate their absurdly expensive car reporting their every move back?), but in any case I would assume it all gets stored for bulk processing. Twitter's pretty different; when [insert celeb with 100m followers here] tweets, that tweet should show up for anyone who's looking at their profile, immediately. And the like and retweet counts should update for everyone looking at the tweet that just went out to 100m people (actually, it would be possible for Twitter to fudge this bit, but they don't seem to).

These might seem on the face of it similar problems, but really they're not at all. Ingesting lots of data is ~trivial; dealing with lots of data in realtime somewhat less so.
The problem here is that Apple themselves have problems with their kernel-space code.
Slack and Discord have probably made more people into casual Markdown users who do not even know that they are using Markdown. When I told my wife Obsidian lets her keep notes using Markdown she was not convinced, once she tried her response was 'oh, it is just like one big Slack message window'.
Wind turbines don't decimate bird populations. Windows and cats kill far more birds. The numbers aren't even close. Climate change and fossil fuels also kill birds.

With wind turbines it is however manageable. The tech to detect birds and shut down turbines is already there.

https://www.robinradar.com/bird-control-radar-system-wind-fa...
Two 1200 Mk2 and a mixer - all you‘ll ever need to enjoy a good mix. Got my two babies an overhaul a few months ago - they still run like the first day 20+ years ago.
Someone could also brute-force the 6 digit code from the hash.
> I wonder if Rust or similar could make the MMU transistors and energy budget redondant.

No, those concerns are completely independent of each other. Rust's memory safety protects from accidentally accessing the wrong memory within the same address space, while the MMU protects against accessing (accidentally or intentionally) any memory in other address spaces.

In addition, the address translation done by the MMU has many more applications, like swapping, memory-mapped files, shared memory, copy-on-write after fork, or stack guard pages, none of which can be done by software alone.
‘Bird Is Freed’: Elon Musk Is Reportedly Planning to Take over as Twitter CEO
You forget the random acts of clod:

1. e-mailing passwords and personal information (because customers need doxed by their e-mail providers)

2. shipping commercial beta source code to customers because someone was too impatient to learn how to package the product with a clearly labeled build script

3. shipping master x509 signing keys to random users because they are "good people" and can be trusted

4. deleting random database records with administrative privileges because it looked complicated and messy. Then tell users to pack data into document labels after destroying the key relationships.

5. goofing with passwords, then issuing a support ticket when they get auto-banned from the system

If you think an external adversary is more dangerous than someone who shouldn't have administrative privileges, than you have never dealt with real sentient liabilities.

This is why people get grey beards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBpw1sdFu2w
> I am not really sure how you are supposed to stop corruption once it gets rooted in your society.

Well, assuming that all people are roughly the same as each other, the answer would be to adopt traditions and systems from countries that aren't corrupt. Attempt the sisyphean task of convincing people that giving power to the middle class is going to lead to a better future.

As your comment reveals, the instinct when confronted with corruption is ... centralise power and try to force it to be used for good. That doesn't work, so try to convince people to decentralise power. Political and bureaucratic elites are regularly revealed to be corrupt, so stop making them the bottleneck for handing out the "allowed to run a business!" stamp. Centralising power just gives corrupt people a target to aim for and increases the blast radius when they worm their way in to a position.

How you convince people to do the sensible thing and decentralise power is beyond me though. The instinct to push power to a single leader is remarkably strong in humans.
They consider overlapping handles only in cases where the handles seem to merge seamlessly with the blade, that's why.
What used to happen is the President nominated someone qualified and the Senate confirmed them.

Now, it causes a political circus.
I don't think that's the contentious part. The problem is the with the assumed exponential increase in intelligence after that, which is nowhere near as easy to imagine as the general idea that you can make an artificial human-equivalent mind.
~5 years ago, I hired three Indian developers. They asked me if we could set up an Indian legal entity, so that they could just get regular salaries in India with tax payments, deductions etc taken care of. I agreed and we got it done.

One of the worst business-decisions of my life. The amount of red tape, stupid rules, corruption, signatures, stamps, showing up physically in a certain office etc etc... Mindblowing.

I will not tire you with all the details, but to this day, Indian tax authorities still hold money hostage, that they agree my Indian company is owed (GST refunds). But all attempts to actually get the money back falls on deaf ears. We have sent experts to the relevant tax offices etc, but the ONLY guy who can handle it is never there, refuses to deal with it, then says we need to go somewhere else - where we are sent back etc etc. Sent around in circles, basically - with everybody recognizing the money is in fact owed...

I will never do business in India again. Happy to work with Indian developers (I still do), but they will get paid as freelancers and deal with the red tape on their end.
Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33368511 ?
And Sony forces you to buy their own expensive E-Mount lenses?

To be honest, Canon EF mount lenses are probably the best buy if you are looking for compatibility: there's adapters for Sony E-Mount, Canon RF-mount, etc.

The reason RF, Z, and E mount exist is because you can make the camera body much slimmer in MILC.

It's much easier building adapters for lenses going from DSLR -> MILC. It might not be possible to go the other way around.
Benchmarking Vite vs. Next and turbopack HMR performance
(I post these comments mostly to be able to laugh at how lame I am becoming as I grow up :))
Russia continues funding media in the U.S.
I also just checked, still need to sign up
There is a small Q&A from a Netflix dev about how they worked https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_...

I noticed the display too, you can still buy them https://www.crystalfontz.com/product/cfa635tmlku-display-mod...
Kindergarten humour ...
It's a standard thing to do in EE curricula; you normally do it in a one-semester class, and there are literally thousands of open-source synthesizable CPU cores on GitHub now. Some one-semester classes go so far as to design ASICs and, if they pass DRCs, get them fabbed through something like MOSIS or CMP.

To take three examples to show that designing a CPU is less work than writing a novel:

- Chuck Thacker's "A Tiny Computer", fairly similar to the Nova, is a page and a half of synthesizable Verilog; it runs at 66 MHz in 200 (6-input) LUTs of a Virtex-5: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~swm11/examples/bluespec/Tiny3/Thac...

- James Bowman's J1A is more like Chuck Moore's MuP21 and is about three pages of synthesizable Verilog: https://github.com/jamesbowman/swapforth/blob/master/j1a/ver... and https://github.com/jamesbowman/swapforth/blob/master/j1a/ver.... You can build it with Claire Wolf's iCEStorm (yosys, etc.) and run it on any but Lattice's tiniest FPGAs; it takes up 1162 4-input LUTs.

- Ultraembedded's uriscv is about 11 pages of Verilog and implements the full RV32IMZicsr instruction set, including interrupt handling (but not virtual memory or supervisor mode): https://github.com/rolandbernard/kleine-riscv/tree/master/sr...

In all three cases, this doesn't include testbenches and other verification work, but as I understand it, that's usually only two or three times as much work as the logic design itself.

Maybe we should have a NaCpuDeMo, National CPU Design Month, like NaNoWriMo.

I haven't quite done it myself. Last time I played https://nandgame.com/ it took me a couple of hours to play through the hardware design levels. But that's not really "design" in the sense of defining the instruction set (which is, like Thacker's design, kind of Nova-like), thinking through state machine design, and trying different pipeline depths; you're mostly just doing the kind of logic minimization exercises you'd normally delegate to yosys.

In https://github.com/kragen/calculusvaporis I designed a CPU instruction set, wrote a simulator for it, wrote and tested some simple programs, designed a CPU at the RTL level, and sketched out gate-level logic designs to get an estimate of how big it would be. But I haven't simulated the RTL to verify it, written it down in an HDL, or breadboarded the circuit, so I'm reluctant to say that this qualifies as "designing a single CPU" either. (Since it's not 01982 anymore maybe you should also include a simple compiler backend before you say a new ISA is really designed?)

But I also wouldn't say I'm "well versed in the topic". I can say things about what makes CPUs fast or slow, but I don't know them from my own experience; I'm mostly just repeating things I've heard from people I judge as credible on CPU design. But what is that credibility judgment based on? How would I know if I was just believing a smooth charlatan who doesn't really know any more than I do? And I think Rob is in the same situation as I am, just worse, because he has even less experience.
i guess with yasnippet something like this, but may need a more to open your note file and expand the snippet (with yas-expand) at the top of the file.

# -*- mode: snippet -*-
# name: note
# key: note
# --
----------------
`(format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %T")`

$1
At least for Germany... we're not overtly corrupt: you don't need to bribe policemen to get out of fake charges or traffic stops, you don't need to bribe city officials for building permits.

But at the large scale, we are absolutely a corrupt nation: our former Chancellor Schröder sold us out to Russia, there have been dozens of millions euros worth of (shockingly ruled legal) corruption during the pandemic, the large companies ("Deutschland AG") have an extremely cozy relationship with almost all parties in Germany, not to mention corporate donations and sponsorship of party gatherings (except far-right AfD whom no one serious wants to donate money to and far-left Linke who refuse to take corporate donations out of principle).
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There's no reason to avoid JS to these extents.

Half of them look and feel incredibly janky to use as well.
I'm not calling to put him in the reeducation camp or a prison. Reputation is a mechanism of self-regulation in free societies, so it's the opposite of authoritarian.

There is nothing to refute, he's just being manipulative. Politics is "culture" + all "culture" is good and should be accepted without questioning => authoritarian governments are just as good as democratic ones and should not be judged. That's plain nonsense.
Because it was never about solving the problem, it was about absolution.

Without suffering they won't feel they deserve the absolution they crave, so every solution has some "problem"

- Electric cars still emit particles from the brakes!

- Nuclear reminds me of a scary TV show I saw!

- Solar doesn't let plants grow under them!

- Wind turbines kills birds!

The solution will be to come up with a way this type of person can feel properly absolved. A few decades or centuries ago they accomplished this with just a wooden box and a black robe, but that's not an option anymore. Not because it's better or worse, it just doesn't work today.

This is not a joke, this is a Very Hard problem, and also the one with the higest payoff for society. Can you imagine being able to make these people happy and letting the rest of the world get on with their lives? Golden age. Come on, nerd harder!
Can't say I'm old, but as anyone else I'm getting older.

Yes I've been seeing this behaviour in myself lately. Not something new for me, but now it has a stronger feeling. Could it be due to the general increasing distrust in big companies and nation states? Maybe. It's hard these days for a technical savy person to trust big and loosely regulated organizations.
Maybe not if there are many encodings.
Lol ! Whot ??
The very fist example of storing password in clear-text locally I found two examples this year alone !
Cost. Fuel cells require quality manufactured membranes that also require regular maintenance and replacement. Getting volume with them is also a hard problem.
No. Apple just has their own poorly thought out fan curves just with different priorities. You can see this really easily on the Intel models where they don't even bother to turn on the fan until it hits something dumb like 90C. Quieter sure but I doubt good for long-term life of the hardware. It also had a negative impact on performance.
They need well-factored accurate multimodal world models. Things like transformers and stable diffusion are promising such as the 3d video stable diffusion paper or DeepMind's multimodal transformer.

One thing that has held back progress is the way putting knowledge directly into the system has become taboo. So much so that they often fail to even guide the training towards really core aspects of the world model. Or even deliberately going about it with the assumption that everything from start to finish must be determined from the barest input data such as pixels. Then being surprised when it learns random inaccurate and overfit models that miss the underlying hierarchical structures.
You could fit 13,000 4K movies in 262TB. But Netflix will have versions for different resolutions/output devices pre baked so I reckon (I wouldn't want to gamble to much on this) that a single device wouldn't have everything.
PAJASA
Among the sea-changes in the publishing industry was the abolition of exceptionally high taxation rates on advertising in the UK in the early 19th century (circa 1830 or so).

I've only read peripherally about this and don't have any good sources handy, but it's a historical fact which strikes me as quite interesting.
Apple is free to bring the App Store to Android, while Google can't do the same.
WASM would probably be a better fit for this problem. But I believe that software security ultimately needs to be tackled on the hardware level. It would be a bleak future if I'm forced to write programs for some platforms in a specific 'secure' high level language, this would hamper progress by competition in the programming language design space.
Taskwarrior has a `log' subcommand, originally used to note down tasks that you have already done. In combination with the tool's search & filter capabilities this results in a quite decent log tool.

You can use a specialized tag to separate your log from your finished tasks. I was using "+memo".

So

task +memo +yak "Tuned up my Emacs config a bit now it boots -0.02s faster"

You can use Taskwarrior's other features such as projects, contexts etc. with this. And of course you can use as many tags as you like.

Also you can customize report formats for your log, and create shell aliases to make logging and looking up easier.

Edit: typo
I think it's a bit like the recent abandoned UK budget. Lots of countries, under current conditions, will show budget deficits this year, without really being punished by the markets. And the bulk of the UK deficit under the proposed budget would have been that sort of thing. But the difference with the UK was that a portion of the budget was just _gratuitously throwing money away for no reason_ (particularly the top-rate tax cut), and the markets punished them for that.

This is similar; everyone dependent on advertising is struggling to an extent, but most of them aren't currently setting fire to vast piles of cash in service of an idiosyncratic project which most people don't have much hope for.
Twitter at scale is far more complex. With Tesla's telemetry it's just writing to a datastore, with less fuss around latencies, data duplication or consistency. There's no need for millions of clients to then get updated, as there is on twitter. Musk tweets and 110M+ users (+thousands of API clients) need to receive that almost immediately. Twitter has figured out how to do this in a very scalable fashion. Once you know how it's done it's not all that impressive on its own but when you take into account the littany of other features twitter has to maintain at scale you start to realize how many unique problem domains there are within the org.
The stats for self-driving cars also have other caveats: they are only deployed in extremely favorable conditions (areas with very little rain and no snow), and the vast majority have human safety drivers for added verification.

Also, many self-driving cars are not so much unsafe as occasionally bad at the basics of driving in certain scenarios - such as massively over/under-steering in intersections, leading to the need to maneuver in traffic (I've especially seen this in Tesla FSD videos).

Also,

> Your standard for "maybe" exceeds the abilities of many humans.

I'm very curious what human driver is simply unable to do that task. In fact, the vast majority of human drivers could do this task, but 0 current self-driving cars could even attempt it.
> And rightly so. There's a lot of things broken in the security
> industry, but letting users pick: "Hmm, i want AES 256 ECB instead
> of AES 128 GCM, because 256 > 128" is not the answer.

Not quite the granularity I had in mind. But please say more. What I'm
interested in specifically is whether or not you believe the owners of
data have no stake in it's protection and no say in how that's done?
Well, I've been using laptops since the late 90s, no problems whatsoever looking at a screen close to my keyboard. No strain to my neck or back and of course I'm not so young anymore. I can't imagine having to raise my head and look straight ahead all the time. What for? On the other side, as cyclist I'm used at spending hours with my head raised much more than that to look ahead. At least I rest when working :-)
> But, you know, you're the one who selected a lifestyle where you value your muscles above life of innocent beings,

No I valued a lifestyle where I felt healthier and could perform at a higher level outside of the gym. But performing at that level requires me to train hard in the gym otherwise I am prone to bouts of depression.

> You're killing innocent beings.

So are you going to act like the food chain doesn’t exist anymore and all animals are innocent beings who don’t eat other animals. That’s some Disney Princess shit.

> Not just the ones you consume, you're also the reason why wildlife is disappearing.

Ok but you can’t label all of this at the door of omnivores.

Presumably you are typing this on a device which mined the earth for rare minerals so I hope you are willing to give that device up. And if you have any kind of vehicle other than a bicycle I hope you’re willing to give that up too. When you get sick, I hope you are willing to eschew medicine as it has almost certainly been tested on animals (most likely mice) at some point before making it to market.

Every time new construction is undertaken habitats are destroyed. So I hope you are ok sleeping in a tent and not a house or do you just want the rest of the growing population to sleep rough whilst you are excluded from having to make this particular sacrifice? You’re also guilty of killing animals unless you’re living in a hut wearing home spun robes. It’s just more abstract for you so you can delude yourself into thinking you’re one of the holy ones.

> When somebody points out that you don't have to do that, you counter argue that it's inconvenient to prepare vegan meal? As if your convenience was somehow relevant

First you’ve cherry picked the sentence and disregarded the rest. And yes, my convenience (and everyone else’s) is relevant. Humans are wired to conserve energy. I am not going to waste my energy unnecessarily if there are more convenient options available. Presumably you do the same or are you still taking your clothes down to the river to scrub them rather than using the washing machine?
Intrigued by how this can work in the face of changing data structures. eg. You start by storing some data in a linked list. However later you realise that's too slow so you switch to a hash table. There seems no sensible way to load a new object file and have it access the old data without some kind of in-place upgrade system (and what if two modules want the data in old & new formats?)

Edit: He does mention some kind of data persistence system, but I think he vastly underestimates how complex and insidious this problem will be.
As a person that's been using Android since 2.1: that's a feature that's completely unnecessary to the average consumer.

I use it frequently as I use f-droid, but let's face it: Android is a (less successful) walled garden too.

Nothing would change if Apple allowed third party stores either.
Check the one near Cape Town. It can run for up to 12 hours with two "small" dams and the altitudes for the dams are ~100m & ~350m respectively, connected by water tunnels & 4 turbines. It is located in the mountains, right next to the coast (which I think minimizes negatives further).

The the size and rainfall season matters for how long they can run. Cape Town has a winter-rain season that runs from roughly May to September.