skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most uses of chips are in cheap consumer junk overwhelmingly made overseas for bottom dollar

I don't understand your point. While true, those chips are made at historical process nodes using antiquated equipment. The plan isn't to buy antiquated equipment and try to compete. Friendly nations with low cost of labor and low geopolitical risk (ie., other than Taiwan) are perfectly capable of meeting our demands for old chips, given sufficient ramp time.

The lion's share of the value in semiconductors is at the leading edge. These are the chips that are used in phones, laptops, PCs, servers, GPUs, et cetera. The United States has never been interested in competing on volume.

We already are the world leader in producing (including manufacturing!) the cutting edge equipment that makes leading edge chips -- that is what we have denied China access to. The open question is whether we can "onshore" the actual manufacturing of leading edge chips again.

Strictly speaking, Intel has always kept their most cutting edge manufacturing onshore (Oregon), but I understand that has more to do with IP and cycle time reasons than cost.

An additional note: it is not necessary that a leading edge fab built today becomes a trailing edge fab in 5 or 10 years. There is a lively secondary market for used equipment specifically because of demand for the commodity chips you mentioned, so given that US labor costs are high, the old equipment would likely be sold and shipped to a low cost nation, and the US fabs repopulated with new equipment.
Less resource pressure. No need to fit in 64 MB when you have 2,000 MB.

Less experienced programmers (only know the latest thing; promoted to mediocre project leads... while the Old Guard doesn't pass on their knowledge before retiring)

Poorly documented code resulting layered workarounds (MS code from the 80's and 90's was hot garbage in terms of comments; source: I worked on Win95 diplay drivers and didn't comment any of my 16-bit VXDs. See previous gripe about O.G. being bad at documentation)

Bloated libraries (ironically, reluctance to jettison old code that is not well understood, so patch around it and keep dragging the baggage to the next release.)

Insufficient test suites causing too much bloat (see previous comment).

More complex APIs (spywhere and integrations everywhere).

I haven't walked the Windows source tree in 30 years, it would be fascinating to see a breakdown of the kernal linker map summaries.
I wonder what effect white pavement would have.
Why? To scale infra of my offering to my customers. They need it too. I’d like for my remaining customers to not suffer downtime. I’d like to use the existing infra I have without spinning up new ones. I’d like to offer a dashboard so my customer can configure their host.
Watched the same documentary. It seemed much more realistic and authentic.
Exploit code is in MetaSploit and being actively utilized. Summary on PacketStorm [1] Mirror [2] Mirror [3]

[1] - https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174573/WinRAR-Remote-C...

[2] - https://archive.ph/oobgr

[3] - https://web.archive.org/web/20230910170605/https://packetsto...

Some corp firewalls label PacketStorm as potentially unwanted application, use mirror from work
YC Library: Startup Compensation
But then you need fixed window sizes, which is pretty damn annoying as well.
Alright we're done here since you don't care about actual financial facts. Denouncing people as trolls when they provide data that goes against your opinion is a bad look. Credit rating has nothing to with anything. I already provided you hard data showing that median Canadians absolutely can afford rent in most Canadian markets, but you're just ignoring it. Now you're restating vacancy rates as though that proves something. It doesn't. You clearly have an agenda here and a belief set around that so I'm not going to convince you of anything.
Why go to college when you could be a plumber?
Maybe it shouldn’t evolve to be so shiny and gold so land monkeys won’t try to steal it. This is literally natural selection at work.
AFAIU an артель artelʼ usually did not engage in collective bargaining as such, so calling it a union is not really accurate; you might compare it to a guild but I think there’s no implicaton of a monopoly on a particular trade either. The most accurate description I can think of is perhaps a cooperative combined with a mutual insurance fund.
Yeah and my point is that these studies look at energy consumption they don’t take into account things like burning yard waste or plastic garbage into their co2 consumption which is often done daily to keep mosquitoes away and from laziness. Nor does it look at air pollution nor waterways pollution. So it’s a useless metric that doesn’t even have accurate data or tell the real story.

What will we do when these societies who give no fucks about the environment (compared to the west) get wealthier?

White guilt is not going to save anyone
I thought this was about the VIC badlines inhibiting faster serial comms due to a bug in the serial chip. It's fuzzy, but some things in the C64 are bit banged, and the badlines necessary for video DMA make that difficult at higher speeds.
Thank you, I won't jinx myself but I'm going on my thirty-sixth year as a motorcyclist including years riding (and bicycling) in NYC. I improve my odds by practicing annually and wearing fully armored gear including spine and chest protection. I ride more cautiously and anticipate more than I used to but I am aware it's not going to make a significant difference if a SUV crosses the center line at speed.
Does the demand side of the equation just not matter to you? It’s not “blaming foreigners”, it’s blaming politicians who come up with the policies that affect both the demand and supply side of the equation.
"People who are part of the legal system should be held to an even higher standard, as their lying undermines trust in the system itself."

They should. Instead the system protects itself by insisting that secrecy must be maintained to preserve public trust. That's the reason they give for making judicial complaints so secret that you can't even subpoena judicial complaints to show a pattern of bias or misconduct by a judge.
I think this opinion is less nuanced than it could be. Perhaps this will help?
https://hypirion.com/musings/haskell-transducers
> but now UI is better than ever

Now the question is, for whom? Users are not a uniform block.

I suspect: For those unwilling to learn the tools they use on a regular basis.

Because for those who are willing to put in the work, most general purpose software got worse, in terms of how many layers of menus you have to click through, how well default shortcuts are thought out, etc.

This is the old poweruser vs one-time user tension. Granted, good design can resolve that tension in a way that makes both classes of user happy, but that costs development time and research.

In doubt today's software company often priorizes habing an "intuitive UI" over making it efficient. The first onboarded user counts more than rhe one using the thing a hundred times a day. That is a design decision and it is made for economic reasons. However if the typical web startup designed a supermarket cash register we would still be waiting in the line because the animations take their time, the multi step process takes more clicks, etc.
That's not cultural. He was angry because he thought someone was deliberately stealing his parking spot. His anger went away when he found out that it was an accident and that he would now be able to access his parking as much as he wanted.

He apologized because it turned out that his anger was not actually warranted by anything.
Jordanian centre demands return of Mesha Stele from Louvre (2016)
Why do so many people hate EU bureaucracy?
Global warming is a potential factor, but decades of poor logging practises are also to blame (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259006171...).
Here are some pdfs:

How it works: https://enpot.com/assets/pdfs/enpot-how-it-works.pdf

Energy modulation: https://enpot.com/assets/pdfs/Enpot-Energy-Modulation-of-Alu...

First was operational since 2019. If you push past the “virtual battery” marketing nonsense, a summary of the tech is… they modulate the cooling fans for closed loop thermal regulation, regardless of processing rate (+/- 20% long, 30% short term).

Talk about low hanging fruit.
Despite this, they also have a huge length of high speed highways with cars going back and forth. The topology is not much different than in the US. Difference is there, but it's quantitative and will not in any way prevent climate change, especially as it also relies on infrastructure that US does not have and will take a huge carbon footprint to build.
Then why doesn't a country with a nationalized health care system do it? There are incentives in other countries that would encourage this, if it were possible.
> TFA lists various ways use of a non-MFi charger could have.

Sure, I guess Apple could limit non-MFi chargers/cables, in which case I'll get suitably upset. But (1) as I say, we collectively have several years of experience with this, and (2) this is an anonymous "leaker" via Forbes, who I don't have a ton of respect for. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-f...

I think Apple will promote the use of MFi chargers/cables for pragmatic reasons — they eliminate risk, guarantee the best possible user experience, and reduce support costs simply by ensuring that they correctly support USB-C/USB 4.
Executives vs. Chatbots: (If Execs say more than ChatGPT could, call is useful)
The decline in usability ("enshittification") is due to a readily evident change in incentives behind the software.

You're no longer selling a shrink-wrapped application in a competitive market, where you compete on usability.

You're giving it away, while figuring out how to extract value out of the user in other ways.

Online services that have captive users (e.g. the one and only government site you have to use for some service) don't have any incentive to improve their user experience.
But that is not new. There was no previous version of that which had a better user experience; the previous version was an obstinate bureaucracy driven by paper pushing in the backrop of rigid protocols. What you see is just the computerization of that.
What % of this warming is due to humans? Aren't we exiting an ice age...?
That's great stuff!! I had my HAM transmitter connected to those controller ports.

Was a great resource, especially in the older machines that had 4 ports.
The UK is smaller than Oregon. It's really not an ideal comparison.
Those wealthy enough to own homes are more likely to have the time (especially if retired!) to be able to organize, communicate with their representatives and assuredly to vote in an election.

In contrast the poorest working class people (renters) that are struggling just to survive, are more likely to be so busy working multiple jobs, commuting etc, that they literally do not have the time to vote in an election.

Additionally because of this, the two parties that have traditionally formed government, rarely even acknowledge the issues of the working poor, which means that the working poor are even more dissuaded from participating in the process, because regardless of who wins they can be assured that neither party is interested in policy change that would help them.
It appears that purslane is the same thing as vergoladas, sold in Mexican grocery stores (I am not an expert in this, I did a quick Google search and found a supporting article here: https://mexicanmademeatless.com/verdolagas-purslane-in-salsa... ). I’ve been trying to figure out what vergoladas is to English speakers. Very good as a green-salsa addition anywhere you’re using avocado, adds a peppery spicy flavor. Spoils quickly.

Thanks for writing this, it’s been bothering me for a year, and without your comment I wouldn’t have thought about the possibility of a connection.
SHA-256 hash from URL, the easy way
open source software user groups fighting the mass default pre-installation of windows on PCs. As far as I could tell...
It depends on what range of the x-axis you select, and what units you use for y
Most of the time it’s companies concerned that they’re not doing a good job on equal opportunity stuff. Most of the time (mostly east coast white collar jobs) these orgs are doing just fine. A lot are concerned because top level stats suggest minorities are doing worse. But when you look at hiring, retention, promotions, comp, employee engagement/happiness surveys, they tend to be pretty equal when normalized. Companies that are interested in doing these analyses that I’ve looked at are generally doing the right thing and are on track to diversify to the maximum extent that the candidate pole sensibly allows over time, which is pretty slow, but it’s there. Generally speaking if you’re in a liberal cohort of people you’re not going to see a lot of impact structural biases that hinder folks at the organizational stat level. You very well might at the individual manager level and that’s basically impossible to catch aside from personal conversations and astute leadership.I wouldn’t generalize this across all areas or industries mind you.

To some extent imo, provided an org isn’t overtly discriminatory, the most important thing is to make sure that hiring channels include diverse sources for candidates.
Interestingly enough, it's a cannabinoid receptor agonist.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ardp.202200493
Looks like that research led the lead author to found a company[0] and develop a probiotic tablet[1]. Seems like it could be worth trying.

[0]: https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/oral-systemic-health/a...

[1]: https://probiorahealth.com/
How Big Tech Got So Damn Big
There exists an incentive for corruption, is more like it. Therefore we should be skeptical.

Then, with a skeptical eye, we examine the scheme and we see that in order to capture carbon, they are first freeing equivalent carbon that was already captured. And then they are proposing to repeat that process whilst sending the carbon to an unproven magical place that might not work (no concern of theirs) and then claiming credit for it.
This fascinates me - we can measure if a CEO tells the analysts something useful by comparing what he says to what ChatGPT would have said.

That's almost the perfect interview scenario - how much does the person really understand the behind the scenes "stuff".

This feels bigger than face value
This feels like a modern rewrite of "Falling Down" :)

* That's not a criticism. I agree with your take on it.
> citing xkcd

One of the largest issues surrounding this particular problematic is the fact that people basically treat climate change as a meme.
We've come full circle, textual is basically react for python (including stuff like css) and now it's on the web!

Personally I don't like the react way of doing things, but seeing as there aren't really any good TUI libraries I suppose I'll make do.
Depends on the nature of commercial code and if it has another level of parallelism (think of web servers and read my comment below). As for DB queries, here's the thing: most commercial code is using DB transactions and there is no way to run transaction across multiple connections, so you are either single-threaded and do things in sequence anyway (why use async then?), or you are multi-threaded and then forget about transactions. Besides that, even if you can get away with multiple transactions there are those pesky questions like "what to do with a partially failed state?". Not all transactions are idempotent, and not all are reversible, it's hard enough when you run them sequentially, and running them in parallel and dealing with a failure might be an absolute nightmare.
Why do you think people have to die? Keep the strictly necessary things, get rid of the superfluous. Doesn't seem too difficult to me.
They're only net carbon emitters if they're powered by fossil fuels. The Climeworks plant is powered by geothermal. Any renewable or nuclear power source would be fine.

It's expensive but it's scalable. There is a vast supply of suitable basalt formations. In terms of land area, it absorbs a thousand times as much CO2 as planting trees.

I have seen a lot of complaints about the sheer number of devices that would be required, but this is the sort of scale that civilization is accustomed to. We built enough hardware to put that CO2 in the air. We can build enough to take it out. The real question is whether it can be made cheap enough in mass production to make a difference. That will partly depend on clean energy costs, but they are dropping constantly.

It's certain that reducing emissions will be more cost-effective in most cases, but for some applications, like long-distance jet travel, we probably can't get away from hydrocarbon fuels for the foreseeable future.
Always apply Arthur C. Clark’s classification system for mysteries.
My theory is that UI has the exact same problem as programming:

We don't know what we're doing.

- Corporate interests lead to enshitification and chasing after local maxima.

- We never learn from the past, new blood comes in faster than seniority can deal with.

- Trends and fashion give us comfort and a superficial feeling of (faux) improvement.

- Preferring change over stability.

- Vague methodologies and adages that sound good, instead of dry, actionable quality metrics.

- Proliferation of bureaucracy and marketing.

- Productization instead of standardization leads to a lack of foundations that can be relied upon.
I don’t even think it’s that calculated. I think it’s just that there are teams of designers employed there that would have nothing else to do once the design is “finished”.

My ideal is to create a product that is well loved and used, automate the hell out of every conceivable customer support and operational concern, and either/both move on to a different product or kick back on the beach.

Nobody wants change. I only ever see hordes of people complaining whenever any UI changes. There is never an equivalent mob of true believers on the other side of the line.
I think we need to move past the first to market model and assume a best in market model. Allow things to reach peak usability then maintain them. Add security features and new usability when it's discovered but let a good product make you money.
> That's a bad-faith interpretation of removing qualified immunity.

No. On the contrary, it is the only good faith engagement with the issue. Bad faith arguments are in the majority on this thread.

> If a police officer's actions can be found to have been necessary to their duty, the laws already protect them.

Yes. By qualified immunity.

> Nobody proposes to "punish a private citizen for doing what the government forced that private citizen to do."

Yes. Removing immunity would do exactly that.

> The proposal is to hold them accountable when they exceed their remit.

That is already the substantive law. That's why the immunity is "qualified." *

(* EDIT: I should note that we're conflating a couple concepts here for the sake of general discussion, because the precise applicable doctrine depends on the method of holding them accountable. Qualified immunity is specifically a doctrine invoked in civil suits, typically in § 1983 suits.)
I do, because there is an entire generation steeped in understanding of climate change already taking up policital roles. Minds may be changing (but not fast enough) so intead the politicians changing will be what saves us.
That same Microsoft solved that nicely in win32 by using "DLUs", or "dialog units", for layouts. These scale with the font.
Conveniently doesn't mention that DIM smells horrible!
Oh for sure. Armchair pointing in hindsight is trivial, or at least easy. The folks who fleshed this out at such an early stage did an extremely impressive job.
100% on target. Windows, which advanced the state of the GUI nicely in the ‘90s, has regressed into an absolutely infuriating, incompetent UI disaster.
Might wanna play around with the slider to make more continuous.
Some loud & clear segregation in the modules would also make it easy for the eyes.
The best part is that OP edited his comment to make it seem like he didn't argue that an exhausted battery consumed lithium

Fun!
Two out of the three things you mention are so 'undesirable' that the few dense walkable urban areas in the US are more expensive than living in the suburbs. There's a reason why left-wingers use the word "gentrification" a whole lot. In many cases suburban home and car ownership is actually cheaper than the traditional urban lifestyle, for various reasons including but not limited to:

1. Supply being limited because America outlawed dense urban construction decades ago. Dense cities cannot legally expand to meet demand and building up gets more expensive and unrealistic after a certain number of floors.

2. People in suburbs being further away from lucrative jobs - i.e. proximity to one's work is priced into the cost of the home.

3. Various government subsidies and tax credits that distort the market to produce more resource-intensive suburban housing.
A dream - the code contains a hash which identifies the file. Like ipfs + bittorrent.
> But this has no bearing on the question of whether it's rational to assign higher prices to naturally produced diamonds.

Sure it does. In economics, it’s called a negative externality, and it’s a common topic when discussing pricing the output of industrial processes.

>But unless they can all coordinate and change the market price in unison…

They don’t need to. We have governments that do that, through mechanisms like taxes and tariffs.
s/abandoned/crystalized/g
Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy
Dude, work on your reading comprehension. Hyperbole is a literary device.
I’m surprised and happy to see Greg posted here on HN. He’s my go to resource for all things SoCal gardening. I always look forward to his weekly newsletter and even have his calendar which I use to keep track of when I fertilize and do other major tasks.

If you’re in our usda zone he’s worth a follow.
Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen
That seems low to me. As a bored teenager in the pre-smartphone era, I would occasionally time myself holding my breath to pass the time. I started around 3 minutes, and with a little practice and tricks like hyperventilating beforehand and keeping my back straight, I got up to 4 minutes.
The issue is, the officer helps the prosecutor. Who is going to prosecute you if you’re helping the prosecution? It’s a case of turning a blind eye because it suits the state.

I’m in total agreement though that if a police officer is found to have lied under oath, in statement, or report - they’re done. Same as one who discharges their firearm outside of a hostage/terrorist/school-shooting. Gunning down civilians, whatever their crime, is murder. Shooting someone because they are running and you can’t run fast - is murder.
not sure why you got downvoted, that seemed like a pretty reasonable thing to consider.
It's pretty good as far as throwaway one liners go, but I stand by saying it isn't "very funny", just mildly amusing imo. Still impressive (to me at least) that it came from a LLM.
Great example of terrible software UX that we just put up with. I want to save this file onto my filesystem as a PDF file. Why the hell do I need to choose “Print” to do this?? If you are a developer, you might know the reason, but as an end user, this is baffling and totally unexpected. Just put “PDF” as another option in File->Export, where it makes the most sense to an end user.

Or, even better, developers, just use the “Save” function, not “Export”. Why we have to separate “Export” from “Save” is another terrible UX that only makes sense to developers.
Oh man, I remember attempting to install Mandrake Linux on a HP machine back in '03......Ended up taking all night and into the morning with a buddy and I, and even then some drivers were missing and did not work well... Good times though for sure.