skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"future Intel "Evo"-branded laptops would lack S3 suspend"

What is this about? Why would Intel remove a power saving option?
He's not wrong. Michael argues to leave Zuck alone, as he's trying to push the boundaries of innovation, and in a purely optimistic and naive world that can be true, but it's missing such nuances as argued by @acczibit. There was a time when everything on the internet was a first, or so very raw that it had yet to be exploited, it had yet to be turned into an exploitative and addictive rage brainwashing machine. But we see what happens, we see the addiction and we see the exploitation through advertising and we see how much Facebook and others enabled this to become cash printing machines. So yes people are reluctant to trust Zuck and while we could argue the other side that he's just trying to advance innovation that would otherwise occur, the question is whether we need to be more pragmatic and anticipate the ways these advancements could be exploited or exploitative.

The personal TLDR; I think Zuck thinks he's doing mankind a favour but I also know he wants everyone to live in his virtual world rather than the real one and I can't get with that.
Culture-dependent then. I did get dozens of impractical, boring, useless gifts that were a net zero value to me (or slightly less). I've never responded "thanks ... I guess" or implied that, because it'd be super-rude.

Maybe not a full nuclear option, but a heavy offense, to be remembered for years.
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Back when GST was introduced, they asked all exporters of software services to pay the 18% GST and then claim a refund because exports are exempted. This was before they introduced a process to apply for a "NOC" (which must be renewed periodically I think). So, I duly paid GST for the first couple of months.

5 years later, I'm yet to receive the refunds. First, they said that they were authorized to only sanction refunds for exporters of physical goods and then they said that this is handled by the State government, who said that it was handled by the Central. Finally Central accepted that they are in-charge of the refund, but by then COVID happened and I could not follow up for 2 years. In May, when I tried to claim the refund again, they said that this refund pertains to 2016 and it's difficult to "reopen" the accounts for that year and that's handled by yet another department. So, they have written to them to ask for the process. No replies after two emails. Story continues...
Blank page. Where's the content?
Could you elaborate? Which elements would you simplify? Would there be any tradeoffs?
> Enforcement of GDPR is a sad joke.

There are millions of websites that serve EU customers/users. Enforcing GDPR through the courts is expensive, because courts are expensive.

So GDPR enforcement amounts to making an example of prominent offenders, where the case is cut-and-dried. But before taking enforcement measures, the authorities will notify the offender, in the hope they will come into compliance voluntarily.

Honestly, I think cajoling people into compliance with the law is a better enforcement model than the "drag em into court, then fine the hell out of them" model, when the number of offenders vastly exceeds the legal capacity of the enforcement authorities.
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Absolutely no doubt a lot was lost with flash. Regaining it has been a slow process, mainly due to the challenge of achieving the expressiveness of what flash offered in an open, interoperable and secure way (flash was never any of those things).

But we're here now and you can do a lot more today with open web tech than was ever possible in flash.
Why don't "free speech" networks ever grow to be the bigger one in the first place?
I'm of the opinion that Apple iPhone will always be better of Android just because of a better GC process. Compile time ARC for Apple (https://microsoft.github.io/objc-guide/MethodsAndImplementat...) vs 100% runtime ART for Android (https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/gc-debug)
Not sure if political parties in India provide assistance in these cases, in return for electoral funding via completely legal and annonymous electoral bonds. This would be similar to lobbying in the west.
But the question is for how much, they would be willing to help.
I use notepad++, simple text file, with one macro recorded:

- Ctrl+End (goes to end of file)

- New line

- New line

- Left bracket

- Edit > Insert > Date time (custom)

- Right bracket

- New line

The macro is assigned to my F5 key, everytime I press it, the sequence is triggered.

In my file, it will more or less look like this:

[...previous log entry...]

[2022-10-28 12:48:31]

- wrote comment about my time macro in notepad++ on HN

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359329
No need to stay in your seat even, imagine seeing the game from the QBs pov
> changing data structures

liballocs is an approach for providing high-level facilities such as changing structure layout to a a low-level Unix environment.

https://github.com/stephenrkell/liballocs
This is some form of laptop Stockholm Syndrome. Why would you crank your neck, type on a cramped keyboard and use a tiny mouse? Fan noise is also not a problem with a huge Noctua fan and positioning the tower under the desk. And my personal pet peeve: small monitor.

> I've always chosen smaller (<= 14") laptop screens since I find too much horizontal space distracting. I prefer to separate tasks with virtual desktops rather than have everything on one giant screen.

Get a HUGE monitor, position it far away: you get the same relative size and relative pixel density, but your eyes can stay a lot more relaxed focusing at a decent distance.
Oh, that would be a tragedy. Honestly it is up there with c2.com for me in the hours I've spend just marvelling at people's knowledge!
Applying the 8 Golden Rules of User-Interface Design
Well, statistically, the people you are most likely to meet in a bar are the people that are most likely to be in a bar.
> politicians, donors, journalists, industry groups, etc

Do you have any reason to believe they are? Except journalists, I he obviously are.
Here is the JS reference in the article.

> For example, they added a lot of great JavaScript features, cognizant of the ton of online and semi-offline apps that are written in JavaScript. In contrast, Intel attempts to optimize a chip simultaneously for laptops, desktops, and servers, leading poorly optimizations for laptops.

Now there is a JS feature in the M1. It's the FJCVTZS instruction "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero" which ensures this conversion follows the JS specification. [1]

And this does indeed improve JS performance for Arm CPUs. But why does JS behave this way? Because it was specified to follow what x86 does!

So to say that 'M1 is optimised for JS but x86 isn't etc' is just plain wrong.

Also:
- Apple didn't do it Arm did.
- It has nothing whatsoever to do with memory management.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...
Yeah, that statement is a bit of a hyperbole.

I think in the US this is called Zoning and you need Zoning permissions or something similar.
I envy the person who has the time to build their own custom rig and even write a device driver to access monitor controls.
This is a significant misunderstanding of what shareholder oversight does. All the biggest shareholders were humongous asset managers; hard to call that "democratic" governance.

Shareholder oversight is limited to addressing the agency problem (i.e., by firing executives if they egregiously harm profits). It's simply not a "democratic structure of governance", and has nothing whatsoever to do with content or moderation decisions. Even "activist investors" focus on things like dividends and buybacks, not content moderation.

Twitter's stock tanked 12% after Trump was permabanned; shareholders clearly had no say in it, or he would never have been banned.

Since shareholders' main impact is to incentivize management to maximize long-term value, and Musk will now own the majority of Twitter stock himself, the incentive has not changed. Even if Twitter was still public, shareholders would have no say in Musk's decision to reinstate (or not) Trump, for example. And importantly, a company being private doesn't mean it has no shareholders; it just means shares are not traded on public exchanges.
> In particular, it’s not obvious how to make volumes of virgin steel from iron ore without coke.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322275580_Electroly...

> Much of the plastic supply chain starts as oil or gas. Wood is a major building component as well.

If we really needed those things (why would we even want to use wood as a structural element on a space habitat?), we can build bioreactors from metal, glass, and water.

Oil and gas do occur non-biologically e.g. Titan, but they can also be made from algae grown in a transparent tube exposed to sunlight and provided with the necessary minerals and CO2, which is trivial to make.

IIRC the two limited resources if you needed biology and couldn't do it all with a clanking replicator are nitrogen and phosphate, everything else is easy to find basically everywhere.
Humans are famously unable to adapt to changes in their environment.
Nitpick: there are third party lenses for the RF mount but they are all manual focus. As you stated Canon has not opened up the spec and so third parties have been unable or unwilling to violate the patents that would allow them to make use of the RF electronics required for auto-focus.

I real shame as I would love to use some of Sigma glass on there without use of the EF adapter.
Ask HN: AI is really exciting but where do I start?
It's mind blowing to see all the advances in AI from generating images based on text input to designing beautiful interiors and even editing out objects live from video.

Where would you start if you want to practically work with AI?

I have some programming and high school level math background.
Ask HN: Are Windows 10 and 11 considerably more secure than the old versions?
Is it enough to avoid opening unverified executables and emails to stay safe? or I'm being oblivious
If nobody else answers, my tried and true technique is to refine exactly what I want to study, then try to map that into a college-level course, steal a syllabus, find a textbook, begin self-education.

Oh! Also there’s this guy Vaclav Smil you might check out. He is an author of absolute compendiums on all things energy. “Energy & Civilization” comes to mind.
I like tmux but it’s really annoying that you can’t scroll back up, and you need a special shortcut to go into “copy mode”
to do that. Maybe someone has a hack to make this more pleasant?
I do use an iPhone happily. I’m an engineer of computers, and appreciate the ability to run my own things. Here is my take.

iPhones are engineered very well, and even stands up to abuse quite better than the run of the mill Android phones. Dust proof, water proof etc out of the box.

Man, do I wish regulators would force Apple to break their monopoly on App stores on iOS! Apple can keep their App Store exactly how it is today, but as a user I should be allowed to install “aftermarket” apps via side loading. Sure, I can fall for “insecure” unvalidated 3rd party apps pulling a scam on me, but that’s my prerogative, not Apple’s. They sold me hardware I paid for, they gave me an opportunity to spend and buy apps at their store, but that’s where it should stop. They shouldn’t be allowed to prevent competitors from selling apps to me unless they bend over to Apple. I just don’t see how this is any different from Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows and pulling dirty tricks from preventing people from installing/using 3rd party web browsers in the nineties.
> Obviously hydroelectricity is massively damaging to ecosystems.

The whole of the human race is massively damaging to ecosystems. That bit isn't in doubt. The question is as to whether the benefits outweigh the costs. And naturally, humans get to be judge and jury on the matter. But hey, do you want to be able to get to work, afford that iPhone, or not?
Engines are complex beast nowadays, my graduation thesis was porting a particle engine based visualization engine from NeXTSTEP into Windows.

What was a graduation thesis 20 something years ago, is nowadays a basic feature in a bullet point feature list.
Those Thinkpad keyboards look really sweet. They were even made under the IBM brand, but those seem to be ultra rare.

https://sharktastica.co.uk/wiki?id=ibm88xxultranav
Perhaps they were looking for some under-the-table deal, commonplace in the government offices of the subcontinent, that you failed to realise. Here, you need to may money to get your money back.
"With teeth" is something I can't comment on as I'm not a lawyer, but I thought California had something similar to GDPR?
I am not sure about a manufacturing company, but I could start a "firm", in a matter of 1 week, to conduct business. Granted mine is a software development one and I created the business primarily for tax purposes.

Looks like the author wants to use land demarcated for agricultural use to build a factory.

That is a whole new story. In many cities, there are industrial development centers and you can buy land there and build a manufacturing facility easily.(The very fact that the govt. sold/leased you land in that zone means a lot of environmental and industrial clearances are de-facto fulfilled)
In Brazil we have a saying: The government makes it difficult to sell facilities.
This does not seem sound and reasonable. Yes, India has been civilized for 5000 years, with the result that it's very densely populated; but "very densely populated" is only 418 people per square kilometer, less than twice Germany's 232.

53% of India's land area is arable land: 790 people per square kilometer of arable land, or 1270 square meters of arable land per person. I feel like 100 square meters of factory area per person is more than adequate, which would decrease the arable land by some 8% if you built it all on previously cultivated fields, rather than mountains or forests or deserts (or polders!); but that assumes you're employing the entire population in the factories.

Some factories do have lower density than that; for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI was 370 acres (150 hectares in modern units) and employed 5500 people at its closure in 02006. This works out to 270 square meters per worker. But now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Fremont_Factory occupies that space and some additional (175 hectares total) and employs 22000 people, 80 square meters per person, despite extensive automation.

If some of those factories are producing fertilizers, tractors, irrigation equipment, and food products, converting some fields into factories might actually increase your agricultural production rather than decreasing it. Germany harvests 7 tonnes of cereals per hectare that's planted in cereals; India, despite being tropical, harvests only 3.3: https://tradingeconomics.com/india/cereal-yield-kg-per-hecta...

Allocating scarce resources like land by means of capitalism is maybe not ideal unless you can make more of them (polders!), but it does seem to work better than allocating them by bureaucracy and laws.
Sure, but my point is that asking whether it's okay to call is somewhat rare among CEOs (boomer or not), while it's extremely prevalent among Gen-Z.
Come on. 50million+ people voted for him. Maybe he "shouldn't have won" in some technical senses (but not others), but to say he wasn't hugely supported by the Demos, the People, is ridiculous.

Embezzling every penny he could, modeling himself after Hitler, raising a mob to storming the capital to kidnap the vice president, and filing fake lawsuits about the election, was far far worse than losing the unofficial popular vote.
First time I am hearing about this. Could you elaborate on the Tips culture in US?

Do you have any first hand or second hand experience with it?
Wow, this is how a digital trip to a museum should be! Really well done and interesting - not giving too much information at the same time.
I'm in the process of moving from plex to jellyfin (even though I have a lifetime plex pass).

plex has some nicer things

1) skip intro built in and usable in all the clients I use (on jellyfin you can add it as a plugin, but not supported universally in clients)

2) the UI of plex is so much nicer/cleaner. Not a huge deal for me, but would be a show stopper for others

3) in all honesty, but much better library management (at a simple level, the ability to see what hasn't been "matched"/"identified")

probably more, but I'm just at the start of my migration

why did I switch? because jellyfin has 2 major features that plex seems to have no intention of adding

1) the ability to tonemap DV content to SDR (plex can tonemap HDR10 to SDR, but not DV, it be interesting in future if jellyfin would have the ability to tonemap DV to HDR10)

2) the abilty to have "external" transcoders. i.e. one can add cheap intel boxes (under $100) to get quicksync transcoding to an already existing installation. Can make it easy and cheap to scale.
> We still need to plow and harvest large fields even if we all go vegan

We would need just 25% of those fields. The rest can be returned to the nature. [0]

> Should we kill a bunch of cows to make way for native species

But we're killing them already, at astonishing quantities. It's enough to not make new ones, the problem will solve itself.

> okay when the feral goats in the Galapagos were machine gunned down

Maybe don't introduce farm animals where they don't belong?

> kill off all the feral cats, or just let them continue killing birds and small mammals

Give the birds & mammals a chance to live and procreate, by giving them enough habitat to live in. In time nature will solve the feral cats problems - when bigger predators appear.

> Is it okay to spray for mosquitos and ticks

No, because you're spraying poisons and killing other species as well, and reducing the human health. That's not practical. But you know, biodiversity is the solution [1].

When you kill predators (owls, foxes, coyottes ...), mice proliferate. More mice, more ticks. Let the mice eating predators return and ticks numbers goes down.

Mosquitos? Don't spray poisons and let number of amphibians/fish go up. The problem solved.

[0] If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares - https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

[1] The biggest little farm - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8969332/ - not a scientific resource, but pretty illustrative
That's good. "Features" reliably make Twitter worse.
And skill
I am from Hyderabad. Can you share any success stories with this? I am very interested. Do you have any first hand knowledge or experience with this system?
Every time anything about OpenBSD comes up on HN I just remark internally how simple and straightforward it is.
They aren't, but there's definitely some present at the top. With enough money on the table, how could it be otherwise? Others have mentioned gas, but there's also BaFin/Wirecard: https://newrepublic.com/article/162084/weird-extremely-germa...
Displays just like that were on the Logitech G15 iirc. Nobody would take these keyboard seriously anymore but rubberdome was kinda the norm back then
There's some good stuff there but counterintuitive stuff that people pick up after a few years' experience that runs counter to common dogma often gets buried.
That worked when Musk bought a functional company and added his brand of PR on top. Not for saving a company in trouble.
Not all of them follow it ofc (like micro USB when released) but a bunch of them do, and I'd recommend buying compatible for compatibility sake AND for support for it:

https://www.powerforall-alliance.com/en/#tools
They replaced it with S0ix where the operating system remains running (Microsoft variously calls it "connected standby", "modern standby"). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29122687
And how has that shell set-up been for your international team members?

In my experience, it added just enough of a layer of obscuration to perpetuate a caste system, similar to how full time temps and vendors are currently treated in tech. US FTE employees had full HR support while Indian subcontractors had really poor HR/payroll/benefits resources from Remote. YMMV
There are repair shops that will replace your faulty capacitor/diode/chip/whatever. Sometimes components and chips fail, yes.
Really? Lots of land parcels are identified as Non-agricultural.
I'm in tears. So blissful to have understanding people among tech enthusiasts! Usually such topics as surveillance, biometry, privacy, control of people, digital currencies, dangers of wireless, etc. rise immediate skepticism and hate. I'm glad more and more people around are shifting from indifference.
They might not know about telemetry, but they probably recognize:

My Windows PC is slow, ad-ridden, buggy, and unpleasant. Also, the physical device feels cheap and the plastic is separating on the corner, and the hinge is broken.

Hey. Look at that super sleek aluminum MacBook there…
Marissa Mayer tried to murder Tumblr but it is still alive. Everyone hates Facebook but it lives.
Essentially Ai is just a code, thus learn how to code.

Ignore those who swear to the name of a specific language. The skills are largely transferable. Python has great resources and is pretty popular. It also host lates AI tools. Win-win in my books.
Well, that's what CHERI does, more or less.
A disconnect doesn't have to move to be implemented in hardware. They describe the implementation in the article linked above:

> In each product with a hardware microphone cutoff, one or more lid sensors detect the physical closure of the lid or case using some physical property (for example, a Hall effect sensor or a hinge angle sensor) of the interaction. For sensors where calibration is necessary, parameters are set during production of the device and the calibration process includes a nonreversible hardware lock out of any subsequent changes to sensitive parameters on the sensor. These sensors emit a direct hardware signal that goes through a simple set of nonreprogrammable hardware logic. This logic provides debounce, hysteresis, and/or a delay of up to 500 ms before disabling the microphone. Depending on the product, this signal can be implemented either by disabling the lines transporting data between the microphone and the System on Chip (SoC) or by disabling one of the input lines to the microphone module that’s allowing it to be active—for example, the clock line or a similar effective control.
> Innovation is not a goal by itself - the purpose of innovation is to benefit people in general.

Which is already happening under permissive licenses.

> Innovation is not a goal by itself

I'm having trouble understanding this point of view. You have enough interest in this software to debate it, while not caring at all whether software continues to be made?
Not surprised.

Over the last several months I have consciously been avoiding my knee-jerk of ordering from Amazon and going to Costco instead, after a few price comparisons convinced me how much more affordable Costco prices are.

I’m sure I’m not alone in this. Anecdotally noticing huge crowds at Costco.
What are you saying? Are you asking if the benefits of the human race outweigh the costs? Or of hydroelectricity? If it's the latter, I think OP clearly said that in his opinion hydro is a "no-brainer" in a minority of cases.
I remember also seeing a gridview with filtering without JavaScript but I can not find it.