skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a brouhaha. Apparently the people buying MacBook Pro's are so non-professional that they are duped into buying a machine with too little RAM? I think they get a 30 day return free, so if they find out they were duped, why not just upgrade. And while the upgrade cost may be extortionate compared to NewEgg, a 16Gb machine is just $200 more, still considerably cheaper than the same model was in the Intel days.

I suspect that people who have decided to pay extra for the Pro model may actually have some idea how much RAM they need.
Yeah, Nordic crushes it right now with their sleep mode. Espressif is making progress in that area, though, but they have a lot of ground to make up.

Out of curiosity, how do you flash the nrf52832 board?
Curious about Moddio's community. Is it active? Do devs help each other out?
You should definitely check Stanisław Lem [1][2]. Some details might got lost in translations, but it's still worth to get to know works of this Polish writer.

[1] https://english.lem.pl/ (site's English version seems unfinished)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem (Polish variant has much more information)
But these are used, cheap new Atom miniPC doesn't have GPIO, and brand new Atom SBCs with GPIO are more $$$ with the same SoC compared to miniPC since they aren't mass produced.
A used Pi with sdcard/case/fan is much less than $40.
This just gave me infinite captcha challenges like some kind of practical joke.
There is a companion chip, the nRF7002 which supports Wi-Fi. Not integrated into a SoC though but probably way lower power consumption than an ESP. Not sure on the difference in performance between the two competitors Wi-Fi solutions
s/Rainbow's End/Rainbows End/
The world would be a much nicer place if the default for the insurance company was to cover your ass lol
> In 2020 this whole scenario sounds absurd

It's not really absurd at all. In fact, the increase in processor speed, core count and installed RAM means that it even more likely that in a given context, a single desktop computer system has far more capacity than a single user needs.

So, you extend the number of users that can utilize that capacity by sitting them in front of an X Terminal, which from their perspective is just like sitting in front of the "real" monitor of the machine.

This doesn't make sense for gamers, compile-happy developers or data crunching, but then this model never made sense for those use cases. But a dentist's office with a central desktop and 8 users? You just don't need 8 computers - 1 computer plus 7 or 8 X Terminals is far better use of resources.
I've joined Toptal (https://topt.al/nzcZgR) in 2015 to started doing this. Since then, I've been working for startups and public companies. The best part is that you can work part-time or even hourly, what makes it perfect for you if you don't want to leave your job. It's a very professional freelancing network.
No way are you paying 6%+ per agent.
> The only reason people are getting upset about it - the only impact,
> they just want the computer to shut up and do what they asked.

How do you make something so important sound not important?
Yeah my old intel macbook (touchbar) is pretty much unusable because the usb-c ports no longer 'click' so keeping a power cord plugged in is incredibly frustrating. I asked a guy at the local non-apple mac store and he said in my model they are soldered directly onto the motherboard and are a bitch to replace. Apple just wants to replace the whole motherboard. I think now they put them on daughterboards but i'm not sure. Thankfully the m2 I replaced it with has magsafe (or you can use usb-c to charge if you find yourself without a magsafe cord) so far less cycles on the usb ports.
So to complete the analogy, if you don't use iOS you'll die.

...?
I don't know about any such EU-wide store.

The small local hardware store near me is great for common things like M3+ screws, but understandably doesn't stock slightly exotic items like M1.6 threaded inserts. There's larger e-shops that sell those, though I can't speak to the markup. Larger parts are generally easier to find.
The comment by Adi Santhanam[1] who is an AWS product manager for networking has indicated a Lightsail pricing increase for IPv4 later this year[2].

> Yes, Lightsail is revising instance bundle pricing to accommodate IPv4
and new pricing will be published later this year. We understand the
importance of bundled and predictable pricing for Lightsail, so revised
pricing will include the IPv4 conservation charge in a monthly bundle
cost and not as a separate charge.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityasanthanam/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address...
As is discussed in the article, their identities were leaked. A portion of them came from companies that would commercially benefit from content scanning contracts.
Honestly probably would increase it.

For the last 80 or so years the nuclear weapon has likely reduced the number of deaths in war more than anything else. Of course it's hard to prove a counterfactual. This said, the cost of outright war with nukes is so terrible that the large nations of the world have avoided going toe to toe and instead engaged in smaller proxy wars, that while terrible, have had relatively low population kill rate in relation to what occurred in world wars.
I thought we hit 8 billion decades ago. At least I think I remember hearing that number in the late 90s.
Couple of things: 1) the writeup says this has been written in Fortran but the files in the gitlab are .c/.h. Was it rewritten in C at some point? 2) no one's ported this to a browser version yet? WASM maybe? Sounds like a fun project.
These phenomena seem closely related to the US. Why are there no (or far fewer) reports from similarly advanced countries which also have a free press?

If I was an alien I would also explore other corners of the earth. As a foreign power I would be more targeted.
The OP wrote—

> of having an extremely mainstream Californian outlook

One can have the outlook without the residency.

And what is that outlook? Certainly not what CS imagines it to be, e.g. "uncritical technological boosterism and the desire to get rich quick." If one wants the real California ideology, one only need look at Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party supermajorities of a past decade-plus. Or at the policies enacted by San Fran, LA, and other major California cities in recent years.

Scottish national policy as of late hasn't been too far off this mark. ;-)
It (the 5) has a hw HEVC decoder, just no encoder
There's always a better solution, but I always think of the haircut you take at car dealerships: it could be a lot worse for selling your house. Like, you're getting 20-40% under the value of your car at the dealership. 6% isn't a lot considering that.
One of my all time favorite games! The soundtrack is amazing as well.
Nvidia to release three new AI chips for China after US restrictions
Ethics is two parts. What is the expected ethical decision to make for a lawyer, and actually following through with the ethical behavior.

A test can easily test the former, and schooling doesn't do anything to test the latter.
Huh, I assumed that had been inspired by Doctor Who’s “The Beast Below", but now I realise the latter was itself inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Her books are like a mug of hot chocolate after a long day out in the cold. And I need a lot of hot chocolate these days.
My comment wasn't meant as a pissing contest. It's not me who has created GDPR, I did not have a choice of getting born in the EU, it just happened :)

But I am pretty impressed that in these days where most regulations for pretty much everything are defined by lobbyists, GDPR actually did happen, ended up to be a very reasonable set of rules, and actually gets enforced. It was written well, and unlike with other regulations it's not full of loop holes.

Laws and regulations created to the sole benefit of your general population is just something you can't take for granted these days anymore. Therefore, for me GDPR is kind of magic.
Can You Trust Farmers' Almanacs' Weather Predictions?
> Is there an alternative, though?

Certainly some people didn't like the changes of ND vs ARP and such, but once you're changing the address length, you have to alter the data structure on every bit of networking code, and any transition is going to be a slog.

IPv4 data structures have four bytes/octets (4B) for addresses. So how do you fit 8B of addresses in 4B structures? You don't. So you have to update every network element—host (desktop, laptop, mobile, embedded), router, switch, firewall—to have a new data structure (and maybe new function/system calls, as the old ones assume the old structures). So all devices have to have updated network stacks, including long-lived ones that sometimes are not touched for a decade+.

And not just pure networking code: anything that touches (e.g.) DNS as well, as A records are 4B-only as well, so you need a new record type and deploy new DNS server and resolver code everywhere.

But of course if you have a 4B-only network elements/devices, they cannot talk to 8B-only devices/services, so you have to create translation mechanisms because some devices may not yet have the update 8B-capable network stack. And sometimes an 8B network is an island in a sea of 4B, so you have to have tunneling. Of course some may have both 4B and 8B, and want to talk to something has also has 4B and 8B, so now you have to have code for source/destination selection.

And of course as long as IPv4 works there's little inherent motivation to go to any kind of IPng.

See "TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TUBA), A Simple Proposal for Internet Addressing and Routing" for part of the discussion from back in the day (1993):

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1347
48v DC is just under OSHA's opinion of what you should start being careful with. The heat generated by a short could easily burn you though.
I think with Microsoft no longer considering your data off limits to them regardless of informed consent we've hit a decision point whether you are okay with that (knowing that their AI software has the possibility of regurgitating anything it's been trained on) or have to rip off the bandaid and abandon them completely.
See JWST's New View of the Crab Nebula
Yeah that's fine but expensive for the tracing problem. You've completely ignored the harder bit which if you have any experience you know is a motherfucker of a problem: what happens if your async request fails, and notifies you, or, fails and forgets to notify you, or succeeds but takes way too long.

What sort of state management schemes do you have to put into place yo make sure your database isn't full of corrupted data that is going to crash you later (or, worse, silently violate an assumed invariant - and maybe black hole your money or your customers money)

The nice thing is that elixir gives you this either automatically or with a line or two of code.
> millions of families could stay in touch across high-bandwidth lines; online shopping was already a reality that needed a bit of a scale up; secured remote work was possible for many millions of people

Bringing these up in the discussion in this way implies that these outcomes were unachievable "without the comms and tech invented in the last 15 years". I'm not so interested in some pedantic retroactive interpretation of your comment when it's clear from the tone and presentation that you intended this to be some reach toward a techno-utopian narrative of progress. My point is that that narrative hides within it the absurd notion that we can't do without these things, when obviously we can and it is really quite easy to imagine a pandemic being addressed adequately without those things in place.

Indeed in many ways some aspects of the response would have been more robust. I brought up just-in-time because lack of inventory as a buffer (of masks in particular, but also basic necessities) was a huge driver of the virality in the early days. With such a buffer it's feasible, plausible even, that we could have weathered the early days easier and anxious people could have had less severe overreactions to mask mandates and the like, and the total death count could have been 10% or 1% what it was without adequate reserves in place.
> In the hands of skillful and strong archers, bows can thus produce a similar rate of fire as semi-automatic weapons, and they can outperform guns and pistols.

This is ridiculously false on its face. Pick a novice and give them 1 hour of training and they'll be able to shoot faster and sustain that rate of fire with a modern semi-automatic pistol than any expert archer in the world.
Because their MUA is a website now instead of a desktop application. tbird is still a desktop application.
Feels like it's still in flux/research phase
I had no idea!

But I do know that water sheds in California frequently transit through heavily populated areas and/or feed into key reservoirs.

To be clear: this is a generic comment about regulation in proportion to number of lives impacted, not the details of this find.

Also to note: I essentially live surrounded by Superfund sites that brought about the entire silicon revolution. I'm acutely aware of the actual generational impacts.
The church was responsible for making sure that useful lies were the only legal source of truth for millennia. Now it's the fault of a website?
I think it is disingenuous to pretend that I am making an argument on logistical, thermodynamic, oceanographic, etc. grounds. I claimed one thing - bad optics, bad public relations.

Sea surface temps are in the environmentalist spotlight at the moment. Between when Microsoft started their pilot program in 2018 and now, surface temps have changed dramatically. Some experts believe this change has made storms more energetic and less predictable.

Salt-water cooled power plants along with desalination plants have been getting pushback from environmentalists for years because of the negative effects of their heated effluent. This will only intensify.

For Microsoft, public relations have a documented cost. My claim is that their PR team would say that right now the cost of a large phase II deployment would outweigh the savings.
When was the last time you had a kernel panic on Linux?
Funding for Research on Psychedelics Is on the Rise
Some companies have sanity in hiring?

I've been hired to work in Erlang without experience (although I got typecast into php stuff because I did have experience) and although the company was dependent on Erlang, we almost never hired anyone with Erlang experience. Hire smart people that are comfortable learning new things, have a project where the strength of BEAM is compelling, buy a bunch of Erlang books.

My current job is mostly Rust and I didn't know that before I started either. And seems like the team is similar. Smaller team, so I don't know have confidence in my likely to know Rust estimate.

The pool of people who are looking for a new job, and are experienced in Erlang/Elixir, and have exposure to the business specialization, and want to work for a company is very small and hard to find. Hiring companies can ask for it, but they'll have to compromise. It almost certainly doesn't hurt to apply to a job where you don't meet the stated requirements; there's likely no real penalty for having your resume tossed out, and that happens with qualified resumes too. At worst, maybe they blacklist you and won't look at your resume again ever; that's probably ok.

Same thing goes the other way, I'd have preferred an opportunity to use more Erlang, but I didn't find one that met my other needs, so I compromised and write Rust in a cloudy environment and dream about using BEAM and dist and hotloading and all that. Maybe one day.
But did they tell you to "think about accelerating your adoption of IPv6 as a modernization and conservation measure" when they announced the charges? Because AWS did.
Pretty rich, coming from the author of Accelerando. ;)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
Just checked out Moddio's features impressive stuff
> "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

He predicted the effect of mobile phones.
Missing windows discovered on U.S.-bound plane after departing London
Alternative take: Nokia was before is time
The Futility Closet did a brilliant podcast 'featuring “forgotten stories from the pages of history” — surprising and curious tales from the past.'. I think it stopped because of health issues. But it is well worth checking out:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/podcast/
> I'm adding voice recognition into the game I'm working on right now, for example.

Very cool! I've also found that it's helpful when the game supports different controllers too. I absolutely cannot play games with keyboard & mouse but plugging in an Xbox controller to the PC is completely fine. I'm sure people out there have the opposite experience as me, too.
Yes you need personnel but not very many. Local governments that give these tax incentives for data centers often think the presence of a data center is going to lead to a lot of high tech jobs. This is simply not true. If you’ve ever walked around a data hall in a big data center, it’s an amazingly creepy and lonely place. The first time I visited a huge data center in Altoona Iowa I was shocked at how few people there were.
Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin
Maybe don't allow central governments to accumulate so much power.
Tell HN: Dear Google you don't have to give up to fit in
Google seems it is in panic mode, and is messing up it's entire search just to fit in the AI bandwagon.

I want to tell Google they don't have to change their organic search identity. I prefer a new tab called "ai or generative ai" that users can click if they want generative ai results. "Think I am feeling lucky"
> State powers also learned from nonviolent movements. Like what are some major nonviolent protest movements against state oppression that have significantly achieved their goals in the last 50 years?

Uhh, the apartheid movement in South Africa? The Bolivian Water Protests? Lech Walesa and Solidarity in Poland? The fall of the Soviet Union?

The weakest link against nonviolent civil disobedience movements is precisely that - polite deaths and killings come out strongly in the international media for every country to see. What's changed is the lack of action by the erstwhile guardians of freedom and democracy.

For an example of such pressure, look at how much pressure the US put on the UK under FDR and Truman against British brutality in India, or how the entire third world reacted against the apartheid regime in South Africa, jointly. Sure, some people will die, but they'll die as heroes instead of "terrorists" and the like.
What's uncomfortable about it? Good people will have different opinions than you on controversial issues. Understanding that is the cornerstone of a tolerant liberal society.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Nordic announced a processor w/ Arm + RISC-V cores on the same die. It's already happening!
Enabling LTO can cause things to fail to build or fail to run in some cases.

My understanding is that LTO itself is not breaking anything. In these cases the software that it was running on was broken in some subtle way that didn't show up before.

Linux distros like Gentoo that can try to compile lots of stuff with LTO find a lot of bugs related to this.
"Pro" usage doesn't mean docker. There are many "pro" workloads that work just fine with 8gb ram. You can get a lot of real work done with an 8gb machine that has terrific battery life, is great for travel, great screen, etc.

If you work on large C++/Rust projects you need dedicated build servers with ungodly amount of CPU/ram. A laptop cannot possibly compete with servers that draw 2000 watts each. Desktop PCs also blow laptops out of the water in terms of raw performance. And yet many professional developers have a MBP as their main device because apparently they don't need the extra performance a high end desktop delivers.

Somehow many people here believe that:

- an 8GB MBP is not pro

- a 16GB MBP is pro

- desktop with 1TB ram is unnecessary for pro use

Somehow their preferred device is the "pro" device and should be called "pro" and less capable and more capable machines are irrelevant.
Yup. Stross is insufferable in this regard. I find his blogs very hard going given the giant size of his ego.
> It appears your argument is "I don't like the law."

???

Read again:

> You mean cash? Bitcoin is no more or less illegal than cash. In either case, follow the laws, pay your taxes, and you'll be fine. I'd rather deal with the IRS directly than argue over the phone with a customer service representative from Chase.

It seems like you want to paint me as a criminal because I dared to use any currency other than USD, and then reported it on my taxes? If you're not able to engage with my questions directly instead of changing the subject, I'll assume you're not posting in HN's spirit of curiosity, and end the conversation here.
From the perspective a backwoods redneck, all these "elite" types think, act, and look the same. They've taken California with them wherever they go. It's a state of mind.
Lots of people have been primed with the notion that Berghain is some sort of peak experience, so if they make it past the door when they visit Berlin, they're probably going to view the experience with rose-colored glasses.

It's amazing brand strategy but that doesn't mean it actually is the best thing going, of course.

I trust the Berliners I know (and those who have posted here with similar opinions) who don't view it quite so favorably. From them I hear it's a very good club but usually not worth the hassle of the lines and the arbitrary door policy.

This rings true with my own experience as someone who has been to Berghain multiple times over the years - I've never had a bad time, but it's gone downhill, and other Berlin clubs offer equivalent or better experiences without the annoying exclusivity.
Economic success is associated with reduced fertility, not greater fertility. (And it's almost certainly causal.) If regions don't have economic miracles, that will mean higher population, not lower.
My severe mouse-clicking induced RSI turned out to be not caused by the clicking itself, but constantly being in a "ready to click" state, i.e: holding your click-fingers(...) slightly tensed on/over the mouse buttons all the time.

Simultaneously this hinders precision movements with the mouse, so my other fingers also tensed up as a result of it.

The solution that cured my RSI for 90% was to route mouse button triggers to keys on an external number-pad, which I operate with my other hand. (I use the "Karabiner" app on macOS to route keys).

In other words: I move the mouse with one hand, and do the clicking with the other hand. This relieves so much tension my RSI was basically gone in a few months.
I was confused by this too. I thought the GSVs were pretty neat, and the world of The Culture was generally better for the median person than our world is. By far, probably. I'm aware that those books were originally intended to be a sort of parody of Star Trek's techno-utopianism, but I'll be honest, I'd trade either of those imaginary worlds for ours. Maybe Stross would say I'm credulous.
It was one of the best podcasts around.
ICBC hit by ransomware impacting global trades
> […] and then bundled in a pile of mandatory added complexity (DAD, SLAAC and router advertisements rather than DHCP, initially mandatory IPsec).

SLAAC and RA reduce complexity as you no longer need 'extra' infrastructure (DHCP) to get going: plug in and the router sends the information and you're done.

You also get rid of the complexity of STUN/ICE/etc as you no longer need NAT, so you just need hole punching for SPI firewall (also needed with NAT for port forwarding, so no change there).