skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASML is the only provider of EUV lithographic machines. TSMC is just slightly ahead of Samsung and Intel at utilizing that technology. I honestly can't see how anymore puts TSMC above ASML.
They liberate decay products into the environment when the uranium ore is processed.

Coal fired plants aren't putting ash into the atmosphere either these days, in the US. Bottom ash never went into the air, and fly ash is efficiently trapped in electrostatic precipitators and bag houses.
I believe that's only true when the substance in question has flammable vapors. I.e. gasoline, but not oil or diesel. I suppose in the latter case, it would probably not explode on collision whether empty or full. But if liquid leaked out in the crash, I guess it could then combust.
It really depends on a lot of other inputs. The word sustainable implies planning over centuries or longer, and we just don't know what the population will look like over time, or what their dietary preferences will be. These things change over time.

There are worrying signs. Maybe the largest is the amount of deforestation happening to support the growing beef industry and feedstock for animal agriculture [0].

[0] https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/summer-2018/ar...
Different type of burb I guess.
It really begs the question: “who is Canada?”
If a govt minister makes a comment, did “Canada say it?” If the prime minister? The Canadian people? A lot of lazy headlines about this just use the “Canada” personified because of one minister’s comments.
Protection of Peatlands Is Important
China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities
Damn. Australia has fallen hard, I guess because lithium has become such a profitable export.
Would love to understand if there is something missing.
Git Compresses Files
My AOL updates in the mailbox always lagged behind, week after week...
This is a more nuanced and realistic characterization.
And tax gas so it costs $8-$10/gal.
Stopped reading after “you don’t understand people”.
Might be the case now (Note, I'm talking about Nightly), this was a few years back, I noticed that first it warned that a new version was working and then mysteriously bricked the browser after, complained and they told me that I "shouldn't be using nightly if I don't wanna have the latest updates"... which I do, but I don't wanna be forced into a restart unless it actually breaks?
Withholding source code is obnoxious in any era. But that's a pretty distant issue from administrative privileges.
Also, while above i describe it in a symmetric way, there is an important asymmetry - which side pays the mental load of deciding whether the request is appropriate. In the 'ask' culture, it is the answering side (as the asking side just asks for what they want), in the 'guess' culture, it is the asking side (as the answering side is expected to accept.).

From this point of view, it seems fair that such cost should pay the side initiating the communication.
I remember Win32s, I think Netscape Navigator needed it. I was thinking Lode Runner, but that was WinG.

I always thought it was backported from Windows 95, thanks for the info.
Agreed. Current insurance companies have profit margins caps by regulation. This is actually an incentive to drive up healthcare costs because 5% of $200 is more than 5% of $100.

I'm curious what barriers there are to prevent a company coming in offering insurance at 1% profit and undercutting the competition
Why call this situation an "exploitation" when all parties involved are better off from the transaction? And if it is truly a "life or death" situation, how is it moral to ban a life saving option?

If Kenyans are getting life-saving money in exchange for their iris scan, how is banning this arrangement helping them? Aren't they in a better position than you, or government bureaucrats, to judge what is best for them?
It feels like anonymous imageboards are the only remaining examples of such places.
I don't know what any of that means. I need an ELI 5
And yet Apple has famously broken compatibility on a regular basis. Remember when Apple went from Motorola 68000 to Intel x86? They did it by providing direct support to key companies to port their software, and providing Rosetta for applications that could take the performance hit.
That sounds dope, got any examples?

Unrelated kinda - does anyone remember seeing some videos of a guitarist basically PLAYING some speeches?

Like, there was a background of a speaker giving a speech or dialogue in a movie and this dude is PLAYING the speech with really weird jazz chords and they’re notated on the top of the screen.

Very weird and specific I know LOL
It’s fun to see something pop up that read a few weeks ago for work! This kind of excitation is particularly interesting because of how challenging it is to observe-it’s fully electrically neutral, so the vast majority of probes people usually use to interrogate solid state phenomena like light and voltages fully don’t work. There are other excitations that are electrically neutral and therefore awful to work with that we think might be useful for quantum computing. Successful work in this kind of energy space is exciting, and paves the way for the exploitation of so many wonderous patterns of electronic motion that scarcely anyone learns about in college or even grad school.
Only if it is statically linked with everything it needs. Otherwise good luck resolving dependencies.
Well, there's the WoW64 layer, but nothing particularly sophisticated beyond that.

For the most part the old DLL interface (kernel32 et al) just sticks around indefinitely even as parts are officially deprecated. Microsoft is careful not to break their public interfaces.
In the south it’s cooking indoors with wood fires and breathing in smog which causes high rates of lung cancer.
Humor me for a moment. What decade did you go to high school in?
I love Joel's advice usually, but I don't think that piece of advice aged particularly well, for a couple reasons:

1. I think there is lot of good evidence in the past two decades where companies got killed by competitors because the competitors had the luxury of starting from scratch with better, fresh ideas. Think all of the innovations in Google Chrome when it first came on the scene, e.g. V8 and it's process model.

2. There have been examples of companies that have essentially "ripped out their guts and gone with something new" over the years - think Apple and all their chip architecture migrations over the years.

3. I've come to the conclusions that some old code bases are really just like quick sand, and they need to be scrapped. The hard question is how to do it. I think the biggest mistake is planning a major "big bang" release. While in some cases that is inevitable, the cases where a big bang is truly required are a lot rarer than one might think. From the description in the article I think there is probably a lot that could have been done beyond "we need to do a complete architectural change to get SSR". The primary problem is page load time. I've seen companies have success by putting up landing pages, which still have valuable info, but also start the download of the large bundle (the whole "it's not the wait time, it's the perceived wait time" that's the problem). Point being I think there are ways to do some gradual improvements while a larger rewrite takes place simultaneously behind the scenes. The worst thing to do is tell the business (or even worse, the public) that our current product is dead-ended but a great new thing is coming out a year later, fingers crossed, which in fairness was a big part of Joel's point.
It's a collaboration. Both sides should work together to find a harmonious outcome; neither side should expect the other to take 100% responsibility.
I've had the same experience. I've been on the "inside" of a news story a few times in my life, and in every case what was reported was wildly different than the actual situation. It's only a few data points, but also 100% unreliable in those cases.
95% of Yellowknife has now been evacuated due to NWT wildfires
Hang in there brother.
As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse its news ban
Most jugglers learn to kick up. That is, using your foot, slide the prop from the ground to your other foot, and do a quick lift of the foot so that the prop flies up vertically in the air which you can then grab. A lot faster and no back pain.
> Conclusions: The present data based on ultrasonographic bladder monitoring and biochemical analyses indicate that squirting is essentially the involuntary emission of urine during sexual activity, although a marginal contribution of prostatic secretions to the emitted fluid often exists.

Damn; that's one hell of a QED on this one. I guess the debate is over!
Wow! This is amazing!

I just sent this off to my work-self for investigation next week.

If this is true and it's enabled there, I can really really use this to great effect.

Most of my work involves filling very repetitive templates with the same information and variables.

Therefore, if I can auto-fill variables, my work is done for me.

I actually wrote a Docs Script to do this already: it's a simple search-replace substitution for a hardcoded string into a string that I enter in dialog. I haven't even shared this script with others because it's so specialized and rough. But variables could absolutely revolutionize my workflow, depending on the details. I'm excited!
Agree; n = 7 is a really low sample size.
Yeah I hear you on this. I worked on a mobile app for a few years at a company. Lots of interesting, custom animations and ux. But a huge pain in the ass to deal with issues when they arose.

Personally, I think you should wait until there's buy in from the customer before doing the rewrite. Or at least that's what I'd do.
> Are there circumstances in which it is acceptable (and/or legal in the USA) for a car, autonomous or manned, to drive directly into the path of an emergency vehicle giving warning?

Did the autonomous vehicle move into the path of the emergency vehicle? Did it simply stop and fail to clear the intersection? I can't find any video or explanation of the incident so I think "could have" is the correct grammer.
If someone didn't read it. They would not have responded. Thanks for reading the whole thing.
You didn't buy the game. You licensed it. They're merely allowing you to play the game. Aren't they generous? They reserve the right to revoke that authorization for any reason at all including no reason so better not piss them off if you don't want to watch your money evaporate.
It can be something more than TSMC being seized. It could be that he sees TSMCs share of the market going down over the long term. Which it probably will. Many governments are pretty unhappy with dominance of TSMC. The US in particular is dumping some money out there to onshore chip manufacturing. It reasons that this will probably eventually result in some shifting in the market.
I actually authored a patent for something related to this in 2020:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

Not specifically for Transformers but for all kinds of neural networks.

It's about training long-lived neural networks where the training spans longer time scales than the neural network architecture remains valid. For example in self-driving cars, it's important to be able to train a model with collected live data over the years so that we can upgrade the model architecture as we go without throwing out the training already done.

The patent describes operations where the model architecture can be mutated step by step from old architecture to a new one without forgetting too much of the training which was applied to the old model. This includes but isn't limited to: Increasing/decreasing the width of neuronal layers, adding/removing layers, adding/removing inputs, adding/removing outputs, changing activation functions, changing loss functions. It also describes planning the steps of how to migrate from the old architecture to the new one.
They fill a niche, and so did Xserve. It had an accompanying software suite that was fully fleshed out to an Apple user's likings.

The biggest gap right now (afaik) is Apple's virtualization limits. Regardless of the cores in your system, any Mac can host no more than 2 instances of MacOS. It's a huge kneecap to how Macs can be used as a server, and a death-blow to any serious hosting company that wants to provision them as a virtual resource.

> I would think the performance per watt would be very competitive with other server vendors on the market as well.

I can go get a 4 core Ampere ARM instance for free. The market goes so much cheaper than Apple's CPUs it's not even funny. Performance-wise, Apple kinda got their lunch ate by Nvidia's Grace server. There isn't really a demand to fill for high-performance ARM computing, and the cheap end goes so cheap that Apple can't even touch them.

I see two ways for Apple to escape this:

1. They can double-down on their ecosystem investments to create a "CUDA-killer" and accompanying hardware, spending tens-of-billions of dollars across multiple years to obsolete Nvidia's industry ties.

2. Initiate or join an Open Source pact to write a CUDA replacement or translator a-la Vulkan/DXVK that gives vendors no choice but to abandon Nvidia.

Of course, the easier play is to just pretend all of this is beneath you and continue building your current ecosystem. It's what I would do, and I don't see a rational reason why Tim Cook would read your pitch and greenlight a project like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket

In addition to sending data, processes may send file descriptors across a Unix domain socket connection using the sendmsg() and recvmsg() system calls. This allows the sending processes to grant the receiving process access to a file descriptor for which the receiving process otherwise does not have access.[2][3] This can be used to implement a rudimentary form of capability-based security.
> The latest Cruise incident occurred Thursday night when a Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed and left a passenger injured. Cruise said in a social media post that one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.

Noticing and responding to emergency sounds/signals in the road, distant but approaching, is yet another subtly complex aspect of human driving I hadn’t thought of but which seems obvious in retrospect. Seems solvable in theory but also involves a lot of uncertainty and contingencies. Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…
Looking at the reported patterns of the spikes (just a few widely seperated sensors having their stored aggregated data routinely being corrupted at similar times of day) there's another highly probable cause.

Brittle software and data management.

According to the linked third party piece and the Wired reporting things are going wrong at the first aggregate server that collates all the sensor data.

The first port of call for the regular data admin HN crowd would be bad cron jobs, sloppy scripting, glitchy deamon whacking memory, .. a thousand possible causes all of which have happened before in the history of remote sensor data aggregation.

It's likely persisting as ground zero is in a war torn country at a place that likely faces time, resource, and staffing challenges; and it's likely being "ignored" at the higher action levels as the data has been looked at and random spikes are being filtered away and there's a big yellow post it note somewhere to look into the root causes as soon as possible (which may take some time).
Is HPC code magically immune to values containing infs or NaNs?
Serde is a Rust library for serialization. serde_derive allows creating serialzers/deserializers automatically by marking structs. It uses Rust's procedural macros to generate code at compile time. Rust compiles procedural macros at compile time before compiling rest of code. To speed up compillation of code using serde_derive, a recent change was made to implement the procedural macros with a precompiled binary
Yeah, I loved Reamde by Neal Stephenson, but I had to put down Termination Shock, which takes place about 100 miles from my house, because I didn't recognize the area at all, even accounting for future climate change. He described Waco as an overgrown forest and said that fire ants were eating electrical wires (it's crazy ants).
Dedicated can be an issue unless you have sufficient volume, unless I've been mislead in the past.
> It is worth noting that the DOJ defines perjury as a declarant “willfully” making a false statement, that the declarant believed that what they were saying was untrue, and that the statement was related to a material fact. Misremembering a detail is not, in and of itself, perjury.

The prosecutors and judges have a lot of leeway with assuming "willfully". Plenty of people have been convicted because a prosecutor wanted to apply pressure / make an example and choose to believe an incorrect date was a willful lie.
I agree. UIs written in python could benefit massively from noGIL - complex / computational UIs especially.
I think the main problem is inability to shop around. It's basically impossible to start a insurance company. If you do, your profits are capped as a percentage by law. Do you know what makes more profit than 5% on $100? 5% on $200.

Now you have a system where it's basically impossible to start a new insurance company and compete. For the existing insurance companies, the best way to make more money is to pay more for treatments and raise premiums.

It is clearly a not a competitive market.
I am a little confused at how the reduction request is coming from the CA DMV…

> The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state, requested the reduction in operations.

… while it was the CPUC that allowed an expansion of their fleet:

> The CPUC, the agency that regulates ride-hailing operations including those involving robotaxis, approved Cruise and Waymo on August 10 for final permits that allow the companies to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, expand their fleets and charge for rides throughout the city.

I guess Cruise is still officially allowed to run the expanded fleet, but the DMV has the ability to say "Stop everything" and so their request has the weight of an order?
So funny enough, I checked and those are actually still for sale brand new. I feel old.
That was obviously a typo. C'mon.
That’s some IRL congestion control
Interesting. Maybe more like a "You don't have x, right?" than a "do you not have x?"
Who benefits from attacking an astronomical observatory?
Related: Overly Sarcastic just released an episode on the birth of Rome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kij-7DJVPkc
Not a Rust dev, but I thought this tutorial was great the way it stepped from the obvious, through the nitty-gritty performance enhancements, before ending up using an elegant feature that you probably wouldn't appreciate very much without knowing what it's doing for you under the hood.
I had this - temporarily - watching the original matrix movie.

In the beginning it's a city scene with policemen and carrie ann moss. And all of a sudden she does the unbelievable physics-and-belief- defying moves to escape.

I was like... this is NOT realistic.

But then I found out it is all a simulation, and I smiled and resuspended my disbelief.
> Then I suppose the cone-blocking hackers will start playing siren recordings to confuse the robotaxis…

Ummm, that would even confuse normal drivers, and I hope that it would wind you up in jail.

Those siren sounds get played on the radio sometimes, and I really wish that it was illegal to do so.
Honestly, looking at recent news reports in the Chronicle, I don't think cone-blocking hackers need to do anything more right now. I mean, why cause trouble for someone if they're already slipping up in this way?
Carl Zeiss makes some amazing optics to allow it all to happen
https://www.asianometry.com/p/how-carl-zeiss-crafted-a-house...

To quote:

To make these EUV mirrors, each 2 to 4 nanometer layer of molybdenum and silicon has to be deposited one by one. Fifty times, without fatal defects.

After that, each mirror has to be painstakingly polished. The acceptable surface deviation metric is 50 picometers, or 50 trillionths of a meter. That is a staggering number.

To put that into perspective. 50 picometers on a mirror that is 450 millimeters wide. If that 450 millimeter mirror was blown up to the size of the United States, 4,500 kilometers or 2,800 miles wide, then 50 picometers would be just 0.5 mm tall.
Fun but "dog not found in database" is a bit surprising.
> It is their platform.

That's the problem. They shouldn't be able to own the platform. There should be no platform for them to own to begin with. They shouldn't have the power to ban anyone nor should there be any place to be banned from.

You're gonna speak of moral obligations while defending DRM'd platforms owned by copyright monopolists? You gotta be kidding me.
That's because there's only one or two companies out there that actually have anything to do with our (US) optical health services.

"...one of the many powerful functions of names such as Ray-Ban (which is owned by Luxottica) or Vogue (owned by Luxottica) or Prada (whose glasses are made by Luxottica) or Oliver Peoples (owned by Luxottica), or of outlets such as LensCrafters, the largest optical retailer in the U.S. (owned by Luxottica) or Sunglass Hut (owned by Luxottica), is to make the marketplace feel more varied than it actually is."[1]

[1] https://theweek.com/articles/784436/secretive-megacompanies-...
My neighbourhood which I've lived in all my life has changed drastically, dramatically, creepily.

The original owners were part of a sort of Habitat for Humanity type organization only it was a local thing a co-op. This was 1972 nearly ten years before early 1980s super crazy inflation so even then it was hard to afford a home.

Everyone on the street knew each other even one street over either way people knew everyone's names and children's names. As people moved away new owners bought the homes it was OK for a while new people. But now a younger generation starkly different in attitude and behaviour.

Now it's like living in some dystopian alien hellscape. OK maybe that's a bit too much but it's surreal. Nobody goes outside, not even to sit on decks former owners built, vegetable garden plots and not planted, laundry is not put on lines, food is all "Ubered", windows are all shut (for AC?) blinds down.

Grass on lawns is a foot high, plants of former owners grow wild and are unkempt. Supposedly "no mow may" for dandelions (local bio prof says is bunk) or to be green but I suspect it's linked to never seeing anyone outside ever more than for environmental reasons.

Every single one has a dog too which was rare years ago maybe a few people had dogs. Now maybe 1 in 10 or even 1 in 20 homes has any children human children I should clarify.

Here I am outside in the vegetable garden, or on the deck in summer. Yet all homes are sealed up, no activity except for thumps of car doors as people leave or come home. The bluish glow of monitors nearly constant. Sometimes it feels like I am living in a horror movie.

It's hard to greet people as they run to and from their cars never to be seen again.
Why stop here: your are Earthling, your wife is Earthling.
Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s (2021)
A person who knows and likes the program can do that, but the default name is a drawback for adoption. Nano is shorter name, using it is user-friendly and it already is on almost every modern Linux installation. So micro has a tough rival to beat, and it seems to be an "uphill battle".