skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This bill needs to provide at least one of these things in order to not be a damp squib:

- Electronic components.

Most attempts to water down R2R specifically involve limiting the access provided to "assemblies" rather than individual chips. OEMs don't actually do component level repair[0], the labor costs are too high, so they make the consumer eat the cost of a logic board swap. Furthermore they don't want to have to sell components because that makes product cloning easier.

- Parts pairing tools.

Parts used to authenticate the user are typically paired to the device specifically to prohibit third-party replacement. This is for a legitimate reason[1], but that reason has been weaponized into a generic prohibition on third-party repair. Repair shops should have access to the tools needed to swap serialized parts between phones.

- Calibration tools.

Parts that aren't explicitly locked out for security reasons still sometimes require calibration. This is mainly because Apple likes to get the most out of their parts, and is a legitimate engineering reason, but Apple won't provide the calibration tools because it's PrOPrIETaRY. This often generates confusion when people swap logic boards and think that something is paired when it's not, and we can't tell the difference until someone actually goes and builds their own calibration tool for it[2].

- "Intellectual property"[3] exemptions.

People who make third-party pairing or calibration tools run the risk of spurious DMCA 1201 claims. While DMCA 1201 is ostensibly there to prevent people from selling copying tools for copyrighted works, that protection also applies to software, and software has a nasty habit of working its way into absolutely everything. While it might ultimately be legal to produce a tool to allow parts to be swapped, that still subjects the producer of that tool to years and years of litigation to prove their legality. Even the existing DMCA 1201 exemption process, which is specifically intended to prevent this, only applies to individual acts of circumvention and not tools. We need either a separate exemption process for tools, or at the very least, an extension of copyright misuse to include "adding DRM to things that are not copyrightable" and statutory damages for such misuse.

[0] Unless forced to do so to fix a product defect, and usually it's done like shit by the lowest bidder

[1] Fake touch sensors can just lie and provide the same fingerprint data each time

[2] Such as the calibration tool for the MacBook angle sensors, which everyone thought was paired to the device - even Apple's PR team - but wasn't. People were hallucinating all sorts of explanations as for why you would need to lock down an angle sensor when it turns out Apple just doesn't communicate any of this.

[3] I'm using the phrase "Intellectual property" in the sense of "anything we can use to stop competitors from competing", not in reference to any actual, specific law.
Inflation metrics are gamed, it no longer includes major categories.
"Given that"?

Is there any reason to assume that VR will be anything other than a niche of a niche in rich countries in such a short time frame?
I'm not so sure. Some of what looks like an artifact on level 8 is already more clearly visible on level 7 as a density difference. Do we talk about the same thing, some white lines which are not often crossed?
I think they're mostly targeting customers who want an AWS- or GCP-like experience from a developer perspective (compute is abstracted and you can provision it with an API, etc.), but want to own their own compute infrastructure and have it on-prem. That market has mostly had to cobble together consumer-inspired HP/Cisco/whatever stuff historically (like, one of the early talks about the Oxide value proposition was complaining about why every server in the rack needs a CD drive, which was the norm from Dell), because the kinds of stripped-down, super-efficient hardware designs the hyperscalers were building weren't available to the general public, so this is that: hyperscaler-like technology for people who want to own it themselves.

I think the motivations for why people would want to own their own are probably a mix of financial (at a certain scale there's a tipping point and it gets cheaper), and regulatory/compliance/whatever, like if it's healthcare data, or defense, etc.
I can't understand why people need anything more than

https://www.weather.gov/

I mean, that radar is pretty amazing with no ads.

As for rain: it is a bit of a bummer to go to a football game with an umbrella and you can only hear the away team's fans cheering because they planned ahead to be there but the fans of the home team decided it wasn't a beautiful day to sit in the stadium. I am punching my sports photo card so I go regardless. (This weekend I expect to drive for a few hours and brave 0.1 inch of rain to get photos of a varsity rugby game even it means missing the rugby world cup finals..)

There was that time in grad school when I went out for a long walk got friends and we got stopped by a cop walking out of a railyard who asked what we were doing "going for a walk" and he said "there's nothing to see out there" and I said "to the contrary... we saw three really big christmas light displays, we saw the Army Corp of Engineers dredging the canal, and ..." he asked "the weather is pretty nasty" and I suddenly realized it was raining and replied "it's not that bad and it wasn't raining when we set out"
Yes, the gov is spending 8% in deficit to achieve 4% in GPD growth. This doesn't sound like good economic policy to me. The growth should at least match to make this even workable. Of course, Washington doesn't even know how to calculate basic things anymore, everything is distorted to help the party in power at the moment.
I don't use X but might try facebook.
Do you have any pointers or read about either of these? Because to the best of my understanding neither of these can explain a GDP growth as high as this.
It will likely "grow" into 1 large war.
Violence is the ultimate judiciary of power and henceforth $$.

You kick out US army to gain independence, to grow up, to sit down as a major player.
> was meant to stop businesses and the rich from paying real property taxes

like so many public policy, and fiscal policy decisions.. there is not one single answer. Firebrand curses at "the rich" do nothing about the serious and long-lasting effects. The truth is that in the USA, many ordinary people own very valuable assets, their home. While in other developed countries this is not the case.

Prop. 13 was very successful at doing exactly what it says on paper - locking very valuable, increasingly valuable assets, on a path of low tax. This made winners and losers. Not all the winners were "the Rich" and therefore it is useful to look more carefully at the fabric of facts.
Defending free Ukranian land from Russian invasion is important to keep American influence across the globe. Your comment about Taiwan is just a complete conjecture, but we would absolutely respond the same way w/ Taiwan as we are with Ukraine. More USA influence over the world = a freer, richer, more democratic, happier world. Of course you should want as much of it as possible.
> I got downvoted for this very short reaction

In part, I expect, due to the double full-stop which looks like it might be a miss-type ellipsis. It makes what could already potentially be seen as a sarcastic “cool story bro” response look even more so.

That, and the fact that HN generally disfavours short reaction comments (including, but not limited to, “Me too!”) which add nothing themselves other than perhaps (in the case of “me too”) an extra anecdata point.

Your follow-up post may well be downvoted too, because complaining about downvotes also being frowned upon (it is seen as adding unnecessary noise to a thread).
The problem is, unless you reorder and optimize your matrices to make the prefetcher happy, you end up throwing a lot of data, because you don't access the memory in the linear fashion where the prefetchers assume.

So, having more channels is always nice, but this "more cowbells" approach doesn't bring in the performance you expect in some cases.
You can encourage people to integrate. It’s not a genetic unchangeable.
Does anyone have comparisons for affordability of basic foods, housing, etc?
The benefits of this feel more one-sided than ever. Where's the trickle down?
Well since we're clarifying - it's a user opt-in to provide the advertiser ID to an app. That's why keeping Google apps away from your iPhone is how you stay safe!
Wouldn't putting it into production be a form of publication? If a phone book is printed in invisible ink, it's still printed.
But deficit doesn't mean inflation.
Apparently just giving money to the rich isn't a very good way to build an economy
I think you missed the very obvious sarcasm from that statement.
Look torward higher borrowing costs and inflation and while GDP can rise the economic situation can be people are unable to afford to buy a home and making ends meet is primarily a inflation problem.

But, that doesn't mean the the economy overall is seeing growth so we can hold all three things can be true.
Ouch, that hurts. But indeed, that shows that most people have the attention span of a gold fish.
A distillate is using condensed vapor from the distillation process, while extract is using a chemical solvent (such as alcohol) to pull a material out of a mixture. Hence with the chemical solvent, you get a less complete end product and extra (unwanted) flavors introduced into the final product.
I'm still not 100% clear what you want to make, but it sounds like one of those self guided driving tours?

If so, have you checked out apps like GuideAlong or ShakaGuide? The idea is that you'd download the tour beforehand (just a few MB of audio) and then from there on it's just the GPS doing the work. No cell coverage needed. I just used one of those in a national park last week, where there was no cell coverage. It worked very well and would be more precise and user friendly than FM radio (whose range is harder to gauge than geofencing).

Sorry if I still misunderstood. Just spitballing here.
I thought the declassification of US government documents was 25 years. Or I guess there's an exemption when it comes to military intelligence? I wonder where and when the data was collected.
The biggest problem of XR is the vision-blocking headset, not the tethering. And since all current XR technologies require a fully vision blocking headset, they have a fundamental problem that building a better vision blocking headset can't really solve.

And adding cameras to project the lost vision is not good enough. Having something strapped over your eyes for a long period of time (say, an hour) is just fundamentally unpleasant. Even normal glasses are uncomfortable and people avoid them as much as they can.
Rich get richer, poor get more in debt, GDP grows from both.
Write a short story for me and charge me $1 trillion. I'll draw a picture for you that's worth $1 trillion to cover that debt.

We just raised GDP by $2 trillion!
That's the thing - according to most polls, people ARE feeling good, but at the same time certain that everyone else - the public in general - are struggling to cover basic needs. There's a wide disconnect caused by negativity in media, mostly stirred up for political reasons.

Like this:
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/18/americans-economy-bad-perso... TL;DR: 71% say economy is bad and 51% say it's getting worse, while for 60% people in the same poll their personal financial situation is just fine.
There are many similar polls, all point to the same thing.
OK, what numbers do you propose are the ones we should trust if they're basic?
> Don't forget about the astronomers complaining about the global internet being provided by Starlink affecting their precious telescopes, while ignoring the minor detail that Starship will be able to launch a JWST-sized telescope weekly if they want to get above the atmosphere.

Here comes elon zealot just copy and pasting empty claims and ignoring the actual facts we have. The lack of accountability is just staggering. And the only defense is a cave man ad hominem - oh they are just butt hurt anti-elons.

Elon Musk has a long list of bogus claims, outright lies and now currently on trail for fraud. His shtick is to make semi-revolutionary clam in X years, and before people start asking about that claim in near future he is making new claims about something completely new.

Thats why people are calling him out on his BS claims. So lets have a look:

The re-usability claims are all bogus, a make believe at best. For one, Starship is basically an early prototype rocket. Two, falcon 5 - a much simpler design - has current re-usability window at one month (as far as i remember). How do you go into weekly launches...

Empty claims of Elon Musk that they will work out the kinks are akin to Elisabeth Holmes claims. Or self driving tesla Next Year(tm), or underground tunnels, or hypelink, or amazing AI robot buttler all next year (tm).

Not to mention pretty strong evidence for Kessler Syndrome is already happening. And polluting orbit with starlinks are not helping.

global internet being provided by Starlink - you mean a toy for rich. Right? Cuz even tough it somewhat affordable now, for starlink to actually make money need and will cost way more.
Agreed that GDP in isolation is a poor measure, but when you take it in context (every report is done the same way) and with other financial data it can help paint a picture (still an imperfect picture).
Very good. Look at Sweden nowadays. Trying to integrate people that came to "take over" as opposed to be integrated is never going to work.

> At 4%, male migrants aged 15–64 with non-Western backgrounds had twice the conviction rate against the Danish Penal Code in 2018, compared to 2% for Danish men. In a given year, about 13% of all male descendants of non-Western migrants aged 17–24 are convicted against the penal code.[1]

> In November 2018, the government announced plans to house failed asylum claimants, criminal foreigners who could not be deported and foreign fighters in the Islamic State on Lindholm (Stege Bugt), an island no permanent residents.[92][93] The scheme was approved by Danish parliament 19 December 2018. The plan was opposed by council leaders in Vordingsborg municipality and merchants in Kalvehave, where the ferry to Lindholm has its port.[1]

They are obviously trying to backtrack

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime
Oracle, AWS & Azure all have "Cloud at Customer" offerings.

And these offerings have existed for years.

And from hardware manufacturers, Dell/VCE, Nutanix, and more "hyper-converged" infra has existed.

Note: I'm not being a hater. I'm just genuinely confused.

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https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-stack

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/
"Real" mainframes have RAS (Reliability, Availability, Servicing) features such as hotswapping for all hardware components and automated HA/workload migration across physical racks. They can also do SSI (single system image), i.e. run a single workload across physical nodes/racks as if it was just multiple 'cores' in a single shared-memory computer. Oxide computers will probably end up doing at least some of this (namely workload migration across racks for HA) but saying that it can comprehensively replace mainframe hardware as-is is a bit of a stretch. In terms of existing hardware it's closer to a midrange computer.
Where is all that money going?!
Maybe Human Development Index?
Teeny jumping spider found in woman's ear after days of torturous racket
Mozilla's AI Guide, the developers onboarding ramp to AI
Mozilla has just announced its AI guide https://ai-guide.future.mozilla.org/
> I think nobody is arguing the need for static memory safety, just that the poor Rust ergonomics aren't a good tradeoff

Unless the "poor ergonomics" and lack of shortcuts are explicitly what provides the static memory safety.
It’s a shame that more Western leaders haven’t understood that we are simply trustees of the nations and cultures that our ancestors created for our descendants.
Deficit spending is still spending. But anyway economic activity isn’t evenly distributed. You may not live in a booming area, but there certainly are many booming areas. I recently moved from one mid-sized city to another, in different states but not all that far apart, and the difference in how the local economy feels is remarkable. One place feels stable but gradually deteriorating and the other is dynamic and growing fast.

Besides regional differences, it’s also the case that more and more economic activity is being captured by fewer and fewer people. So, if the richest billionaires grow their stash fast enough, the rest of the country will probably feel less dynamic.
How would you "account" for this? Seriously?

I think a lot of people feel bad about the economy because they are told to feel bad about the economy.

Which, if your job is hiring people, might be the case because wages are going up for those on the lower end.
Yes, the fact that the main criterion for demolition is the proportion of residents of "non-Western origin" (i.e. non-white people) is what I find disturbing. If they wanted to make it about, say, proportion of native Danish speakers, I would think that would have a similar effect without blatantly discriminating on race.
Careful saying that around here ;)
Same for Chargebee lol.
Was an analytics lead at a fintech company. We computed our revenues in our data warehouse based on Chargebee data. It was a nightmare because:

#1 - raw data is indeed very messy.

#2 - MRR can be theoretically be computed on either the invoice or the subscription table. Using invoice: sum the subscriptions fees by month. Using subscription: sum the subscription fees for the period where the subscription was active . Well, does not really work that way. In practice, invoice table holds a lot of noisy information not useful for MRR and get the active period for a subscription is not straightforward (involves snapshots and scd).

#3 — Discounts and offers. Chargebee's coupons and discount pretty much are a blackbox with some pecking order.

Long story short: we never had the same number as Chargebee UI.
Inflation still rampant, unaffordable cars, unaffordable homes, salaries growing slower than inflation. In other words, things that don't affect the rich (that's why the numerical growth in GDP), but are essential for the middle class (the majority).
Am I crazy? are beep/whistle interchangable?
University of Chicago researchers seek to "poison" AI generators with Nightshade
>it's making us in europe jealous.

I don't think there is any growth in US that Europeans have to be jealous of. Any "growth" is just more wealth for billionaires, at a high cost to individuals.

Health spending accounts for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy [1]. Between 2000 to 2020 health expenditure tripled from 1.4 trillion to 4 trillion, at a 4.2% annual growth rate. This is projected to accelerate, grow at 5.3% and reach 6.8 trillion by 2030. [3]

It is mostly health-care, which grows faster than the economy. Then higher rents, high cost of food, the numbers go up! Almost all sectors are monopolies/oligopolies with pricing power, they can extract more and more. Of course, the numbers will go up. But I doubt anybody is happier.

Family health insurance through work now costs $24,000 a year (note: this is just insurance, not the total cost!). Job-based health insurance are up 7% from last year: https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/family-health-insuran...

A lot of new construction is hospitals. I have two new hospitals coming up where I live, in a one mile radius.

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/health/health-spending-set-to-outpace-g...

[3] https://www.cms.gov/files/document/nhe-projections-forecast-...
(love what you do at Lago btw!)
Hey, nice resources, man! Thank you. No worries that you can't decide on the amounts, it's OK :)
Isn't it more like "see, sanctions don't work, so... you can just as well lift them"?
Maybe you are not. This offering definitely sounds like something for on prem and not a large data center. Basically, if your core competence is hosting stuff you don't need the extra value they provide. But if your core competence is basically anything else and just need more than a single server under the IT guys' desk then this begins to look very exciting.
You cannot in general deport people to countries they did not come from, because they have no right to immigrate there either. The UK's attempt to do this with Rwanda required a massive bribe.
caching = memcache. We do that.

autocomplete = inproc caching (no network turnaround). We do that.

job queue = SQS / RabbitMQ. we do that (SQS)
We don't have a minimum wage here.
I passionately wanted one when it was unveiled. I have a really low reservation number.

But I no longer have any intent to buy it. It's exactly like you said. Originally thought it was clever and cool, turns out it's a psychopaths delusional fantasy. Nothing about it makes any sense. And now he's talking about production hell when its design was flaunted as evading all of that.

I am highly skeptical it was ever intended for production but was supposed to be a publicity stunt and then they'd unveil their "backup" design -- but you can't do that when everyone actually gushed over it

I'm planning to spite cancel when he officially jacks up the price.
I know US has lot of problems. However, I was just thinking this earlier that if you are a US Citizen, you already have so many advantages and opportunities that many don't just because of that Passport. It is a great privilege especially as an Immigrant who became US citizens years ago. Not saying we are perfect obviously and just had a mass shooting earlier this AM (an unfortunate normal now) but if I had to choose a country to get ahead in life with the most opportunities possible as an immigrant, US is still the country to be at. Especially if you are entrepreneurial and want to control how you live your life.
Europe has largely been behind the US economically ever since being decimated by the World Wars. Allowing Russia to freely expand without penalty is undoubtedly the worse economic decision.
A note on putting the hot path into C component:

Writing performance-sensitive code in C/C++ and calling it via interop used to be the way to go during .NET Framework days but since then has become a performance trap.

Especially for small methods, calling them through interop is a deoptimization because they cannot be inlined, and involve GC frame transition (which you can suppress) as well as an indirect jump and maybe interop stub unless you are statically linking the dependency into your AOT deployment. In case the arguments are not blittable to C - marshalling too. Of course, this is much, much faster than anything Java or Go can offer, but still a cost nonetheless.

It is also complicates the publishing process because you have to build both .NET and C parts and then package them together, considering the matrix of [win, linux, macos] x [x64, arm64], it turns into quite an unpleasant experience.

Instead, the recommended approach is just continuing to write C# code, except with pointer and/or ref based code. This is what CoreLib itself does for the most performance-sensitive bits[0]. Naturally, it intentionally looks ugly like in Rust, but you can easily fix it with a few extension methods[1].

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...

[1]: https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/Compa...