skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d say things got “boring” quite a while after the pentiums. All the peripherals like the cd burner got faster. Memory got larger and faster. Video got substantially faster. Network went from 10mbits to 1gb over time. Smarter power management started to exist. USB came online. Wi-Fi started to exist.

I’d say things got “boring” after the clock wars. Now says the clock is basically the same as it was 5 or even 10 years ago (though massively more parallel, etc). Average memory size seems to have peaked around 16gb (though substantially faster and more parallel). Average disk size has remained about the same (though way, way, way faster thanks to SSD’s).

Also things have gotten much smaller and more energy efficient. Back in the day your motherboard had all kinds of discrete shit on it. The board was huge in comparison to a modern board.

Note: it’s been a good 10 or 15 years since I’ve built a desktop PC from parts… I kinda miss it.
IME it’s more that the ugly ones with a window or mesh go on sale all the time :/
Convenient to assembly code authors and compiler writers. It had a lot of addressing modes and they were all almost completely orthogonal, which meant you could use them on any register, source or destination, and the hardware and microcode had to figure out how to not only execute the instruction, but back out all of the state if a fault occurred and the CPU had to handle it. In addition to its addressing modes, the VAX also had complicated opcodes, such as POLY, which evaluated a polynomial of arbitrary degree by taking an X value and a pointer to an array of coefficients.
IMO the link should be changed to the FTC's press release, which has no paywall and provides a better summary: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/...

You can read the proposed rule and the full notice and factsheet here: https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

Of note, an FTC commissioner (Trump appointee, so a minority voice in the executive atm) released a dissenting statement outlining the strategy that will be used to defeat the proposed rule: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p201000noncompe... (warning: pdf). In her dissent, she speaks eloquently about how darn important noncompetes are to Business and Competition, and "encourage[s] all interested parties to respond fully to all parts of the NPRM’s solicitation of public comments."

Which, well... I'll also encourage all interested parties to respond fully to all parts of the NPRM’s solicitation of public comments! You can do so at regulations.gov
Great. I have a hard to finding anyone whose has actually read these texts. I think we could have an interesting conversation, but HN threads are a bit constraining.
Shirley being from Slovenia you must’ve seen that Yutel interview of Bosniak JNA conscript going wtf am I doing here in 1991
I'm the author of lnav and had never heard of logviewplus before, thanks for mentioning it. It looks like we've independently arrived at a very similar feature set, that's pretty neat. I will now shamelessly steal some of your ideas :)
Do you often cook with ingredients like canned beans or canned diced tomatoes or premade stock? Do you buy any kind of grocery store bread, including the "fresh" stuff from the bakery section? All of these things usually contain added sugar in the US, sometimes in shockingly huge amounts. I think people from other countries don't know to look out for sugar in these kinds of processed but not ultra-processed food items because such things don't usually contain sugar (because it's totally unnecessary). So even if you're mostly cooking with raw ingredients you could be getting way more sugar in your diet than you did wherever you lived before.
Do you have examples? Wikipedia[1] only mentions these:

Instapaper (restored service in the EU in August 2018)
Unroll.Me
Klout (went defunct in 2018)
The Chicago Tribune (local newspaper)
The Los Angeles Times (local newspaper)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
What is laughable is thinking that Apple (or anyone else) can just walk into a multi-trillion dollar industry with zero prior experience and displace existing players. Heck they have even tried to build a car/self driving tech for many years now and constantly failed at it.
On paper this itself isn't necessarily a bad idea. Just like saying you need an ID to buy alcohol isn't a bad idea.

BUT we all know damn well this is not about protecting the children. This is about further stigmatizing sex and porn because this country has such a backwards view on sex. We already do this with alcohol, kids (and adults) spend 21 years being shown how special alcohol is and and how "bad" it is and its no wonder 21 year olds are known for their benders here.

We need to stop raising seriously repressed kids that have no idea how the world actually works, or get all of their actual information from the internet because their schools sure as hell are not teaching them about sex.

Does the porn industry have issues? Yes... so does every other single industry. If we really want to go down that path than we should outlaw video games, the movie industry (I mean that industry had Weinstein!). (This is sarcasm if it isn't obvious).

We also can't ignore the major privacy issues with collecting this data and how this could theoretically be used for other issues, particularly if tied to watching Gay porn.
"--" is a GNU originated thing afaik.
GabeN hit the nail on the head. If you make paying for a service/content impossible or hard, people who want it will find other ways to get it. Regional DRM/content licensing is one annoying culprit.. Consumers want something instant, and if you instantly tell them "this is not available in your region," they're obviously not going to go out of their way to figure out where, whom, and how to pay for it.
For comparison...

A single Google TPUv4 'pod' (entire row of datacenter racks) gives 1,126,400 TFlops.

Thats why your pet ML projects will always be behind those done at big companies.
Private lawsuits can seek relief that otherwise would be beyond the state's power under the 1st Amendment. For example, speech itself can be penalized by a court if it violates a non-disclosure agreement.
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Why is it that he dismisses the ability of each of the native cultures (Mesoamerica, Egypt, China, ...) to have developed their own technology? His fundamental thesis is that they couldn't. That thesis comes from pseudoscientific 19th c. babble; that 19th c. work is for sure rooted in European exceptionalism.
ISTR the SLC introduced SMM that allowed laptops to use the main CPU to do things that otherwise would've required an elaborate embedded controller.

And thus began the trend of having entire layers of functionality in the CPU that were outside the view of the OS which thought it was running at ring 0....
I like buying physical discs and then bringing the media I'm bored of watching to a friend swap. I get rid of movies/music I won't watch again soon, and I get movies/music I want to try!
> Is there any public info about how heat dissipation is handled?

By pulling the chips back to 120w, it looks like!
I found the Q&A pretty readable and does provide a decent basic overview of the broad strokes. Are there any deeper 'dives' on best-effort computing that you would recommend? I don't have any outstanding objections to the general ideas proposed, but as you have pointed out, the paradigm as a whole goes against almost all of the presently accepted practices. I also noted some superficial similarity to Chuck Moore's colorForth work and the 'multi-core' chip he was working with/on.
I 'd freak out for sure. How can you be cool with your car changing direction when it should not? And how can someone not pay attention? What will you do? Sleep? Read a book?
> you try to take my property, I will shoot you

Now map this attitude to intellectual property and you see the problem.
> My experience is that the learning curve for piracy has increased quite a bit. IIUC you need some private tracker to reliably source things, something that takes time and connections most people don't have.

Only if you want rare and older stuff (and even then, only sometimes). Anything mainstream, a public tracker is more than enough.
> That sounds like a great feature/configuration option. Maybe even allow a admin-defined backlog size for people that want persistent instances.

Done! https://github.com/quackduck/devzat/commit/00160b83751d90176...

> SSH based chat is not super popular which really surprises me. I could see devzat being an amazing fall-back for a private chat inside a company when Slack or Discord are having a moment or for those times when people want to say something that isn't recorded forever and especially not visible to their management. I think it would also be amazing for people in oppressive regimes that block access to all the mainstream chat platforms but allow SSH to specific VPS providers.

:))))) I'm glad you like devzat. I'd love to talk to you on the main chat!
80s as well. But then, I was but a wee lass, and maybe my choices were easily available, just not in store.

Still, now I'm deeply interested in reading an account of how different book selling systems in the 80s worked. (Yes, I'm avoiding other tasks, why do you ask? ;)
> trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical in both energy, accident risk and individual time

This works if you live in a perfectly flat country with completely contiguous landmass and no islands.
I came across this on HN a month or two back, might be the kind of project you're looking for?

https://539kernel.com
>how long would it take for any other car maker to ship steam games and have 60 fps gaming on the car.

I'm still young, but hearing about this kind of feature makes me feel like a luddite. I just don't get it. Is it so passengers can play while you're driving, or just to play while the car is charging/you're waiting somewhere?
The UK. Lines interconnect all over. But that doesn't mean connections are possible when you want them and don't involve time padding and risk of not making them and sometimes completely illogical routes, and even with one of the world's highest densities of stations many places people want to go to don't have a station particularly nearby or a last mile solution that isn't a taxi. And no matter how good the end-to-end connections are, they're not suited to any journey involving non-trivial amounts of luggage. Compromises you may have to make include adding extra hours or overnight stops to journeys, taxis for the last mile or twenty, not having more than one bag's worth of luggage, or spending a lot more money than the equivalent journey by car even without the taxi/hotel bills. And not travelling at all when the rail workers are on strike, like today

There are certain things train services are excellent at, like serving people's daily commute at predictable times into a congested city centre (with the caveat crowded trains aren't necessarily a pleasant experience) and letting you travel whilst drunk or putting the finishing touches to your presentation, but they're not going to eliminate many of the most common uses for cars.
> Why were you banned?

I don't know.

> could you share a bit more?

I still have not been able to get to the bottom of it. My ex stole a bunch of money from me, lied like crazy and ran off with our two daughters (this part is heart breaking and kills me every day). We are in a bitter legal battle (an ironic thing is I am ordered to pay her legal bills), and she has sadly perjured herself multiple times. She somehow got YC involved, and was able to steal $50,000 from my business Mercury account. I couldn't believe it, and still haven't gotten an explanation or apology from Mercury. I raised bloody hell on the forums when that happened, and so I'm guessing the ban was related to that. I think it might be a cover your ass thing, as they really fucked up that one and are probably worried I'll sue (which I may, as I have great cause and people have been encouraging me to, but I'd rather focus on more positive things in life).

They've done their best to censor me, but luckily there are mostly honest people there and many stick up for me. I'll keep fighting for the truth.
Putin orders Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine
What? No, that bakery example is completely crazy.
How would you supervise your kid when he's at school but you're at work? How could you prevent a classmate showing him porn?

Back when I was a kid I had no way to access extreme porn. Porn mags were quite tame compared to modern porn sites where pretty much anything goes.
Your conclusion is completely backwards.

The dollar is stronger, which means that imports are cheaper and exports to other countries are more expensive for those that are buying American goods.

This leads to a larger trade deficit.
https://archive.is/nLiSq
> The rule should be that they can make you not compete, but you must be compensated monthly at your salary level prior to departure.

> A non compete without having to pay is having your cake and eating it to so to speak.

Agreed. Noncompetes and NDAs have become standard boilerplate in job contracts despite being inappropriate in the vast majority of cases. In my opinion, it's an intimidation used by employers against employees: "we don't actually enforce this, unless you do things like leave us a negative review on GlassDoor".

Despite being unenforceable where I live, I know several people who have been threatened by their ex-employers. Even if such legal action is frivolous, most people don't have the time or money to spare fight it off, and employers know this. This relates back to the bargening inequality mentioned in another thread.
I'm pretty sure they can analyze those parts to find where they originated from, their date of manufacturing, then draw a line from the fab to the buyer. Digital parts can have internal serial numbers readable with reserved instructions, as for analog ones I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't very subtle differences in their manufacturing (material composition, tolerances?) that could be used to identify at least roughly where they originated from and a list of potential buyers.
Sure, I can see it being useful for servers, just not for 99% of home users.
> It seems like the free market ideal would be to allow them and if people didn't like them they wouldn't sign them.

This only works with a robust social safety net where a worker can have no job and still be ok. Otherwise you're usually going to be choosing the lesser of several evils when it comes to employment contracts.
I'm mixed on that because while I appreciate the craft of a professional narrator, I support a group of users who are mostly blind and there's a constant tradeoff between availability and the quality of an audio book. People value good recordings – people often have favorite narrators and will select books based on that, sometimes even outside their normal interests (which wasn't something I'd previously appreciated) – but if it's something you want to read, having it now versus a year from now matters.
> Making a Twitter profile or a YouTube channel disappear is categorically different in my mind from making a GitHub repository disappear and I think GitHub should want for me to feel that way.

I agree it's categorically different but not in the way you mean. From your other post, I understand that you view Twitter and YouTube as social media, and they are distinct from software infrastructure like GitHub.

The way I see it, all three are social networks, but what make GitHub distinct from the other two is that it's backed by git. So if GitHub wants to ban me, I can easily move my code to any number of services. Which, honestly if you're relying on GitHub as infrastructure, you should have a backup plan anyway for if/when it goes down.
How about:

If you get a written offer from company B while working for company A under a non-compete, A must either:

- Allow you to leave unopposed

- Keep you in your current role by negotiating a more attractive offer

- Pay the value of offer B to put you on gardening leave for the non-compete period or 12 months, whichever is longer, and also compensate B for their recruitment costs

Would never happen, but it would be amusing to watch CEOs pitch a fit about it on Twitter.
Irrelevant to whom? Mughals, Byzantines were culturally richest as they militarily declined
Well, you also don't have a god-given right to get paid for something you made, if there are a million copies of it out there free for the taking.
Good, but still looks like a blip on the nominal chart.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

I wonder, with the economy having expanded since 2020, many former hospitality workers now doing better paid office work and lower paid workers seeing significant raises, how many more dollars are "appropriate" to be in the economy now? M1 is currently at 20T, we probably don't want to go back to 4T pre-pandemic, but what number makes sense for limited inflation without recession?
Apparently so, yes.
I work in technical due diligence, and this is spot on. One of the questions we get asked to find out is "how hard would it be for a competitor to copy this quickly?".
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I have learned everything from changing brakes, engine work, generators, pond building, house repair, etc. without YouTube I would have spent thousands on various things so the investment in premium is a drop in the bucket. And those who have ads get some money from me being a premium user.
> You think automakers don't know about software?

Judging from my experience with cars' integrated sat-nav, speech recognition and bluetooth hands-free I would say most automakers do not consider good software to be a priority.
Those are all good points. I would probably push back on the idea that economic efficiency is treated as an end to itself, rather than a means to an end. There's a tipping point where increased economic efficiency isn't necessarily a net good for society overall.

I think part of me just laments the fact that previous generations took a much bigger risk to form unions and modern generations have largely let it fall to the wayside.
Most of them were probably manufactured in Asia just for american companies.

Also nothing here really looks like something irreplaceable. A bunch of compute[1], the standard supporting chips (power, sensor interfaces etc.), I think only thing that might be problematic to replace are some high end analog stuff. The microcontroller on the photo

Point being they could probably get by just with chinese chips, just picked the "vanilla option" because it's easier to read datasheet in english than in chinese.

About only thing that would be hard to get off top of my head would be fast thermal cameras, as US for the long time limits anything consumer/export to low framerate and I'm not sure whether china does any of their own that are available.

> Also discovered were components built by International Rectifier – now owned by the German company Infineon – and the Swiss company U-Blox.

I'm guessing first one is some diodes/power transistors and such (easily replaceable) and U-blox I think just provides ready-to-go modules so less of a "part" more of a "module" made of stuff also from asia.

Point being blocking exports wouldn't exactly do much unless China also closed borders; it would be far too easy for 3rd party company to just... buy what is needed and get it in via china with other chips.

* [1] https://www.ti.com/product/TMS320F28232/part-details/TMS320F...
I do remote software work from a very picturesque but somewhat remote coastal village in Sweden that has been largely left behind by urbanisation.

My impression is that there's no reluctance to go into these lines of work for young local people here. I imagine it would be the same in the US.

In the cities where there are more office work opportunities for young people, even without any qualifications to speak of: it seems like there are a lot of people from eastern Europe working in these fields.
That may be true in some places, but I'm skeptical of any causal relationship. To use Portland as a example familiar to me, the urban area is the least wealthy. The most expensive, exclusive neighborhoods are around the edges and have awful transit service. Looking at bigger cities, what's a better example? You certainly don't move to Manhattan just because it's walkable.
ah. Well then, my "little later" is probably multiple hours as, as my wife puts it, I have "time blindness" lol.
> I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

Doesn't Leica have a reputation for world-beating optics?
Do we really want Github regulating links in repos based purely on the moral instincts of random support employees? Seems weird. It's just a link, and not even to illegal content (AFAIK, I didn't actually follow them).
Do you extend this thinking to other forms of child sexual abuse? For instance: if a child meets an adult in person for sex, do you justify this by saying that "nobody ends up meeting somebody for sex by mistake"?
Surprise, surprise, GitHub took action because of "links on wiki led to sites that contained pictures that didn't align with github's values" and not because of Automatic1111's racist repos.

That said, I hope this whole debacle has shown a light on the potentially problematic nature of having the Automatic1111/stable-diffusion-webui project be the go-to UI for using Stable Diffusion. Not just because of the viewpoints implied by Automatic1111's other repos. Automatic1111/stable-diffusion-webui is a mess of a codebase and while it has the largest plethora of features and plugins in the StableDiffusion ecosystem, it's also one of the hardest tools to use. InvokeAI has a much friendlier UI, for comparison. Plus Automatic1111/stable-diffusion-webui has no formally published license, making its codebase a tangled web of legal nightmares.

None of that is to degenerate the work of Automatic1111 or the hundreds of contributors to his project. And I'm for the most part not a fan of "censoring" code. But I hope we can agree it's not ideal to have such an important repo side by side with a "WhitesOnly" rimworld mod.
Yeah, the macOS "native" build was added for "Draw Things", it should support macOS 12.4 and all the way above now.
so it hurts higher education by not allowing professors to reasearch its destructive effects on society?

was this piece directly funded by TikTok or did they have the courtesy to pay for it thru an intermediary ?
To add to it: a recent attempt at designing a psychometric test encoding human cognitive priors: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 - the ARC dataset.

https://github.com/google/BIG-bench - the most recent kitchen sink of a cognitive test, which includes the previous test as a subtask.

Apparently there are large language models (Chinchilla) that perform comparably to a median human level on this second test.
I noticed that too - closer to the end he mentions the public