skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how China's military could be rated as weaker than Russia's or by whom, but that can't be inaccurate, unless you're including nukes, which Russia has far more of.

I could see China's army perhaps being weaker, but even then I doubt it given how piss poor Russia's army has turned out to be. But both China's Navy and Air Force are far larger, better equipped, and more capable than Russia's. And those are the primary forces involved in attacking Taiwan.
>"A lot of people thought Xi would not crack down on tech companies either, because it would hurt the economy, but he did anyway."

From what I read the crackdown was temporary and is now coming to an end. I guess they've achieved whatever goals were pursued and it is back to business as usual.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/economy/china-economy-guo-shu...
I genuinely didn't know you could pay that much for a computer. Looking at the max specs of the Mac Pro (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/tower), it looks like everything is marked up 2-20x the price of the individual components. $7000 for a ~$3000 processor, $25000 for ~$1500 of RAM, etc.

Edit: I misread Newegg, the RAM would be more like $10500
I agree with your 18 cents/kWh. That's slightly more than the average cost of electricity in the US?..

That is interesting, that means for home-charging your electric cost (per mile) is about equal to the battery degradation cost.

Thats 2x cost than most think.
It would be certainly be a stupid thing to do so after the precedence of the Great War is already firmly entrenched in everyone's imaginations, not to mention the advent of nuclear weapons, which makes outright open warfare between the great powers a historical memory thus far (which also explains why the U.S. is fighting a proxy war rather than an actual war in Ukraine).
It's not like they hacked into Google's servers without their knowledge or consent, they were given access to the data. Obviously those who knew about it at Google were under gag orders, but one would hope that somebody involved would have the balls to leak the government's blatantly unconstitutional and illegal demands to the press regardless. Those gag orders wouldn't have held up in court if anybody at one of the PRISM companies had the conscience to go rogue. Every company involved in PRISM can be rightfully accused of colluding with the government to violate the basic 4th amendment rights of millions of people, knowingly and willingly.
Part of it is that most CPU architectures don’t make overflow checking as cheap as it could be (there’s no option to trap on overflow, so you need a branch after every arithmetic operation, which has some cost). Another part is the compiler: a lot of compiler optimizations assume that arithmetic is a pure operation that can be added and removed and reordered as needed. So right now, adding overflow checks means opting out of a ton of optimizations. With care it may be possible to recover most of those optimizations, but it would require major improvements to LLVM.
Early Vulkan AV1 video decoding for open-source Radeon driver
China has never stated this. It's speculation by American analyst based on the goal of "build a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced and harmonious"
You could make a very similar argument for Germany pre WW-I, Germany pre-WWII, Russia invading Ukraine more recently and the effects in Europe, and on and on.

Dictators do what I would call "irrational" things, though one could have a long, pointless, define-your-word fight about what "rational" means here. Over time, they become surrounded by yes-men and more and more insulated from the real world. Many of them also have very selective readings of history (e.g. Putin seems to think Ukraine should be part of Russia based on a slanted reading of history; he seems to have ignored the parts of history in which failed invasions lead to the dictator's head being separated from his body).

The "economies are so strictly intertwined" argument which finds that war isn't going to happen, particularly when applied to dictators, doesn't stand up to casual scrutiny.

One major virtue of democracies is that they never or almost never (again, fights about definitions here) go to war against each other.
Oh, we cannot modify it, of course, but we are talking about the ways of producing a modified copy.
The part of the argument about deep immutable structures is just a side remark: building them for modification is likely pointing to a problem with design, but that’s not the most important part.
The important part is that it is better to call business methods than externalizing the whole thing with deconstruction-modification-construction to a lens or some other code, when you have the full power of OOP to do it right.
> reinforce the perception that Republicans have nothing but contempt for the American worker.

I disagree...this bill is hurting the "right" people and there are plenty of constituents who want to use the legal system to do just that: stick it to the people they don't like.

This reads to me more like an elaboration on the above rather than a disagreement with it. After all, the "right people" being hurt are, in fact, American workers.
Not really, it's financing 101. If the cost of borrowing money is low then it's worth taking on debt to finance your growth. Once the rates rise you can service that debt (likely at ~1.5%) and reap the rewards on extend yourself with those low interest rates.

You don't even need to be an MBA so see that value, even your dentist probably does it. If they can borrow 150k and increase the size of their clinic, they can then get more money from providing their services to more people.

If you comment was more aimed at the amount, $77B, then keep in mind that it's far from a bad ratio considering the assets of MSFT at 107B that's 0.7 which is high but not abnormally high considering that we are coming out of historically low rates.

Finally, there is such a thing as carrying too little debt, which is unsurprisingly a bad thing because it hinders your growth. Think about what MSFT did with that money. They hired people and developed new products to fight AWS and GCP if they hadn't done that, their rate of innovation would be lower and they would have fallen behind, slowing their future growth. Without cheap debt they likely wouldn't have given a ton of compute to OpenAI for ChatGPT which is now making MSFT look much better compared to Google and Amazon.
A logic bug can be just as bad as any other kind of bug. Security bugs/memory corruption don't always deserve the extra special treatment they get, nor are they the only kind of remotely exploitable issue.
A lot of the bloat is at the top. How many executives, VPs, directors, high level managers, etc. are part of this?
Yeah that makes sense too
You have to do a readback but unless you're familiar with DC geography you might not think to ask which river to follow. You could give the readback correctly and then realize you have follow up questions that can't be addressed conclusively by looking at a map. Correct move by that point was ask for clarification even if it made you sound dumb on the radio.
I don't understand what one would do with a $52,199 Mac Pro. If you're blowing that kind of money on a Mac, you probably need to seriously rethink how you're approaching your technical and business processes.
I’ve had this problem with Twitter since I signed up years ago.
I would not sell cycles from my EVs NMC battery.
Well, some of them.
You are just being obtuse about the common use of language.
Or the Fifth Element's robot bartender, who will do great with a ChatGPT upgrade - https://youtu.be/sFAPW3W2yMk?t=114
How many Representatives mentioned this as a priority while campaigning, and what proportion of America's population do they represent?
False dichotomy. Why not both?
It is the counterpart: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pendant

There is no counterpart for Hammerspoon/KeyboardMaestro for macOS and AutoHotkey for Windows in Linux.
As stated in the advisory:

> It may also be triggered indirectly via Git’s export-subst mechanism, which applies the formatting modifiers to selected files when using git archive.

This very practical to exploit on Git forges like GitHub or GitLab which allow their users to download archives of tags or branches.
You think it's fine to invite developers to begin porting extensions to Manifest V3, and then kneecap their work a couple of months later as they port their extensions, while also telling them to open new bug reports in which they need to spend time defending general-purpose computing? This is not a missing feature, but a limitation that has been added only to Firefox.
I wonder how much the metals in it are worth nowadays...
I do. It's a good way to find articles I would have otherwise missed. It's also fun to catch a comment that's mid-argument so I can go right to it and catch up on the whole thread.
It seems to me like it might be a good idea to require citizenship to create an LLC.
I am beyond grateful for Bluetooth functionality on a free controller, but the greedy part of me was half-hoping Google would unlock the device and open source the gamepad-over-ip code. My wish is selfish: I wasn't play Steam games that are on a gaming PC in a different room to my TV, the PC is well outside of bluetooth range, but both areas have WiFi coverage. I acknowledge that this is a first-world problem, but regardless, I hope someone will be able to reverse-engineer the firmware and come up with an open-version.
Yeah, but you don't typically need to explain that on a sign.
Taiwan is about to be the next Ukraine, along with China being the next Russia.

I think this conflict can still be stopped with non-physical violence though.
Nothing nasty about my comment, its a factual response to the parent comment.

Fortunately I couldn’t care less if somebody decides not to work with me because they disagree with my opinions. People who care about results will get ahead, those that don’t won’t
What were the APIs you looked at and how were they not suitable?

Curious to know, since I'm currently developing a stable diffusion API at Evoke: https://evoke-app.com/
Assent, offer/acceptance, consideration, and capacity - looks like a contract to me. I don't see the argument against it.
I actually would love the opposite.
A very fast embedded version of postgresql!

Because postgreSQL handle multiple concurrent writer better.
Remember, the current governing party is ideally interested in a dysfunctional government as it buys into their belief that "big government is bad"
Apple silicon macbooks have one property that no windows or linux laptop will ever be able to give me. I use my MacBook to take notes in class, work on my CS homework, etc, so I spent most of my time in Firefox or VS Code. I charge my laptop once a week.
No, I edit it by hand and use Vim's search functionality. But I've used simple scripts to aggregate information.
Would you rather know if it was up to the government or not know?

Because the case with TikTok is that we do not know what the Chinese government is going to do with whatever it collects from the app. Or even if they do. Or anything really.

Now, while I think banning TikTok's traffic on the campus network is more of a stunt than anything worthwhile. I do see the argument from banning TikTok and just about any other non-essential app from government issued mobile hardware.

That's an area where you'd want to have as little possible surface area exposed as you can.
>why are people suddenly down to ban software?

>Why ban tiktok and not every other social media app?

If we banned all software that tracks users, capitalizes on their data, and doesn't respect privacy/GDPR/whatever - the world would be a better place.
Discord is notorious for being infested with moderators who try to groom/target teenagers and children, so them acquiring more access to teenagers could be a problem.
I don't know, my package manager doesn't let me download an application without runtime - say QBittorrent without Qt or Deluge without Gtk and Python - double click on an icon, and then say "It looks like you are trying to <strike>write a letter</strike> run an app that needs a library" and then proceeds to fetch it... from my package manager.

I mean, 80/20 principle. You would only have to write code for the dozen or so runtimes, and then add metadata for a few hundred or so popular apps. Totally in reach for a volunteer community (like many distros, or stuff like PortableApps) and especially for a companies like Canonical or Microsoft. And then when it is going, people would add metadata to their apps themselves, and we would no longer have to ship the runtimes together with the apps.

Think of the metadata it like a 21st century shebang line. Not `#!/usr/bin/env python`, but `#"§% require python>3.9 and gtk-stack>4.0` or `require java-xxx`.
> But are they really putting $70b down in cash for Activision?

Yes it's all cash.

https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-a...
Chinese society was neither caste-based or ruled by a hereditary elite.
Honestly none of this really matters, the only thing that matters is what people in power decide is worth it

The almost dictator of Brazil, Bolsonaro, brags that his biggest achievement when in power was to bring the colors of the flag back to people’s lives

Like, wtf, how is this important?
So either insider trading or a lot of people guessing they’d do a big layoff at some point?

Microsoft stock has been incredibly volatile though in the past year.
I don't really agree with the person you replied to because 'enough to bankrupt a small country' is not a helpful comparison.

But while the debt obligations are certain, the ROI is less so.
The studies (hilarious when I assume the point of the bill is to increase efficiency—but here's a bunch of politically-motivated busy work!) are just fishing for things that can be cherry-picked for other anti-remote-work initiatives of all sorts. Making federal agencies run the studies saves conservative think-tanks and business associations from having to do as much of that work themselves. It's "free" (except to the taxpayer).
there are json stream decoders that allow you to deocde large objects without using a lot of memory, but they are harder to use
Ask HN: What orgs have a good track record stopping abuse by the US Government?
I was thinking about it, and most everyone that has criticized the US government have quietly disappeared after the news cycle is over. Every whistleblower gets arrested or escapes to another country. Julian Assange and Wikileaks has been entirely dismantled and stopped at this point. The groups that remain will complain in a news segment and deliver nothing else. The incumbent advantage in democracy has kept politicians in charge that don’t ask for serious change.

Ultimately, many social problems are never addressed. Does the U.S. government have any effective check and balance?
HN can't survive a cloudflare outage
It's not per cycle, but per kWh.

In any case I'm getting 10-20 cents depending on battery pack size and chemistry.
The GOP intention is to make as much government work done by contractors as possible, because it allows more public funds to go directly to crony capitalists, makes the government more expensive, and makes the government worse at it's job. These are all goals of the current republican party.
Your could use interrupts, no? Basically free when not triggered and when triggered you probably don't care about performance anymore.
They have far more to lose now. I suspect things are rather different once you attain a certain level of prosperity and preeminence, which causes one to reevaluate one's appetite for risk.
Presumably they still need to make the payout because it's an accrued employee benefit on the books. Not doing so would be illegal--at least in a lot of places.
Tangentially related question, what are the most successful products built around browser extensions? I sometime have ideas that would require browser extensions, but it feels like the target market must be computer literate for any chance or success (no mobile support for example).
This is just tautological thinking
As unpleasant as these women's experience is, none of them are in jail, and none of them were murdered by the state for holding these views. We're a far cry from the Lysenko era. Especially because none of the parties (on either side) even claims to be doing science.

What I see in the articles you linked is a lot of noise on both sides of the ideological line, using twitter first and then traditional media. We live in a noisy time, and this may have deplorable consequences, including (self)-censoring. I don't see a systematic state-led ideological war using systematic jailing and killing.
You can enable YJIT and get a ~30% speedup by passing an extra environment variable to your Docker container. Moving away from CRuby to an alternative Ruby is a lot harder than that.

Also Oracle.
> It's "ad blocking". People use those extensions to block ads.

I use them, and DNS filters, to block stalking. They just happen to block adverts too because it is practically impossible to separate the two ATM. I'll accept ads based on the page I'm looking at and my rough geographical position, but I don't see why I should put up with being followed and profiled everywhere I go.
It actually is

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/acceptance-of-contra...
> $200 is almost nothing.

What I'm trying to say is that even with decent margins extra 8GB does not cost anywhere near $200. Apple is just price gouging their customers cause they are a monopoly in the macOS market.

> I am saying “when is it ever enough?”

I'd say as long as it's relatively cheap. Most people buying $700-1000 machine would be willing to spend $50 for 8GB of RAM. That's pretty reasonable. So the "minimum" amount should be based on what's generally affordable to 80-90% of consumers buying new hardware. Anyone buying a laptop (or a screen less device based on laptop components like the mini) in the price range I mentioned would afford 16GB of memory if they could install it themselves or if Apple sold upgrades at with margin similar to that it puts on the the base device (and not 200% they charge now).

Anyone who is using an old device should be able to upgrade it's memory without having to buy a new one. The fact that Apple is selling computers that could be obsolete in a couple of years is deplorable from the perspective of the environment (obviously great for Apple's shareholders).

That developers are writing inefficient software doesn't really justify this in any way.
You are not your customer
It works on Edge for the record
The 2 cent figure is per kWh, not per cycle. Multiplying by the 75kWh pack size gives $1.50.

What about the remaining 10X? The calculation you’re doing isn’t the right one, because the battery wear isn’t directly related to miles driven; Tesla’s battery warranty is pricing in a “full stack” picture of battery degradation while actually driving.

Your computation implies that the battery has 0 value after ~1000 cycles, but battery manufacturers commonly warranty 3,000-5,000. In addition, cycle count is only one variable affecting degradation, others include the depth of discharge, the charging and discharging profiles, the thermal management, etc.

(This is one reason why a 10-year-old Tesla has noticeably different battery degradation than, say, a 10-year old Nissan Leaf, which has no thermal management and a very poor BMS)

Finally, even when battery degradation occurs, it doesn’t remove the battery’s entire capacity, so degraded batteries can still be used for stationary storage applications. While an extreme degradation like 50% is very bad for an automotive application, it doesn’t matter so much for small-scale grid storage, since space is usually not the limiting factor.
It is indeed legally bound

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/contracts-101-make-l...
Isn't that what the article concludes?

> I am sure someone in Japan must have calculated the likely economic costs of rerouting Japan-bound traffic this way (or in a more extreme circumstance, replacing Middle Eastern energy supplies with North American ones) but I have not yet seen any actual numbers. But given alternate sea lane possibilities, I doubt clearing Japanese shipping out of Taiwanese waters entirely would be enough to threaten Japan with “famine.”
My company also pays out an annual bonus in March. They explicitly state that you're eligible for the bonus if you're on the payroll as of 12/31. I've had co-workers leave in early January, and I assume they got the bonus, although I never checked with them. I have no idea if this is standard, but you may want to check.

(Not sure how you can ask your company's HR about this discreetly, though...)
Meanwhile in Firefox for Android: absolutely nothing is going on with extensions, because Mozilla disabled nearly all of them.
> on eBay, the storage size on iPhones is basically irrelevant to resale price

This claim seems quite unlikely. I just checked iPhone 13 128GB within 100 miles of the Bay Area and the median selling price for sold items was $549 but for 256GB it was $630 and for 512GB it was $735.
lack of accessibility/discoverability and meager focus on looks has been a staple of FOSS for decades, but HN should be a site that helped with this, not one that supported proprietary uses of FOSS software to the benefit of an anti-competitive behemoth such as MS
My interpretation is that their base will not perceive this as contempt for American workers, but as a boon for "real" workers who don't want to support the laziness of entitled workers who want to work from home. This can be perceived as pro-worker from that perspective.
I would like them to treat the CCP as a malicious entity.
Are we bidding?

I bid $990
Almost certainly 'yaxu who has a bunch of videos on YouTube re: TidalCycles (the live coding env he created in Haskell) - https://www.youtube.com/@yaxu/videos

Also does a lot on the Euler Room channel including a live stream this last weekend - https://www.youtube.com/@Eulerroom/videos

There's a web based version called Strudel that's a good way to get a quick intro without the hassle of the TidalCycles setup - https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/
A video with no volume slider, really?
I rather want some kind of marketplace that's more like solutions <-> problems matching, not maker "community". For example, identifying business problems is hard, the platform should solve "Could these companies' problems be solved by my solutions" problem. Name it realbusinessproblems.com
Video reveals Twitter team warned of 'shooting in the streets' ahead of Jan 6
For some companies investing in the know-how to build and maintain custom workstations for a couple high-end employees isn't worth the effort or cost saving.

That's the only excuse I could come up with.
Ionic – The Mobile SDK for the Web
On what grounds would Apple/Google remove it from their app stores?

Did they remove Facebook after it was fined $5bn by the FTC for privacy breaches?
It turns out power is more important to those whole wield it than fungible tokens (money). With power arbitrary wealth can be built and rebuilt.

For the average Russian during the 1990s life was worse after economic liberalisation.

What can a vast country like Russia, China or the USA not produce domestically, keep people employed and keep profits at home?

How much is wasted on advertising and market casinos?

On the one hand globalisation expands the labor pool and access to capital. On the other the more labor there is the lower its unit value.

So under autarky prices would rise but so would wages (labor would be more scarce).

So for a big country it is not clear that people are worse off in the long run going alone.

So called comparative advantages are more a function of structure of the economy than long term inherit capabilities.

When people are scarcer their price goes up.
They also import a ton of food, ore, oil, and LNG, so who knows how that dependence plays out.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00784-6