skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy for us hobbiests to forget that all the spare do-dads we have floating around our workbench aren't even a drop in the bucket compared to the number of chips bought by a single manufacturer for a single model of a kitchen blender.

We matter a little and can be somewhat of an indicator sometimes. Right up until we don't. A lot of times what matters to us just doesn't apply at scale.
> It's no different than a mob boss or a pirate captain

This seems like a gross oversimplification in the years after a mob boss who was also the duly-elected Commander-in-Chief of the United States tried to take over the US government and have himself instated President against the will of the electorate and failed. Is the argument "well, he just didn't have enough might?" Because that seems very circular.

This suggests the story is more complicated than "Might makes right" (I'd suggest that 'might makes right' may actually be a retroactive justification for disruption of status quos; 'they must have been strong enough to win because they won' may be correlation without causation, or perhaps 'strength' and 'victory' are synonymous, so 'might makes right' collapses into a useless tautology).
Do you not have anything like Home Depot/Grainger/McMaster-Carr in the EU? A quick check shows 3/8"-16 T-Nuts are $10/10, $15/50, and $33/100 respectively, with the first two available within a 15 minute drive of my location in the US.
Not when it comes to workplace saftey or going to war over some collective bargaining in Sweden, then not.

And Twitter, well, there are hardly any comparisons, are there?
Such a weird discussion because we're talking about a company that is going from the very fundamentals of operating system design and the boot process of bare metal machines in order to get more security.

It's very antithetical to that goal to add more layers of abstraction that could be buggy or reduce security. We're talking about motivated and intelligent people purposefully trading off convenience for security.

Containers, btw, cannot be snapshotted. So that's a weird thing to put into your question.

They've also discussed booting UEFI directly to VPN nodes: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur...

It's completely weird to argue that they might introduce a layer of insecurity here. Directly goes against everything else they're working on.
Do it man, disable their argument piece by piece using flawless logic and evidence! I know you can do it.
Every IoT device already uses esp chips, that's the only reason they can afford to make them. Them being low security doesn't matter, it's not like smart homes are secure now. Security is not important to IoT devices.
There are actually 2 Nordic SDKs, nRF5 (now in maintenance, but still in many supported products in the field) and nRF Connect (bundled with Zephyr).
Later gives a lot of access to both Host and Controller part of the stack and for commercial products that are not simply flipping a lightbulb it is still a standard.
ESPs are good for quick hacks and more competitive with Nordic if low power is not an imperative.
The actual complaint implicit in all this is that the upgrade pricing has always been, and still is, pretty expensive.
How slow are we talking here? How many minutes to build your monorepo?

Don't hesitate to be brutally honest — nothing can shock me as my go-to compiler is GHC.
Producing modern bullets is primitive technology, compared to any modern manufacturing process. Lots of normal gun owners do it at home to save money. Granted they usually buy the powder, bullets, and primer separately but it’s not like they are microprocessors or something.

The cartridge can be re-used. Gunpowder made of three elements that are widely available. The lead bullet is one of the easiest materials to find and work with, lead is a low temperature metal used for thousands of years; you can cast the stuff in a literal campfire.

The one part you might have a hard time with is the primer, but you can stock up on those or use a black powder rifle and flint (Look up successful attempts to make the Gorn gun)
Most elementary proof showing that exponential wins against polynomial
Professional mathematicians trying to give easy proofs of the well-known fact that an increasing exponential eventually dominates every polynomial.
A much simpler solution is to just ensure that politicians' children (and politicians themselves on rotation, perhaps) are the very first to the front lines in any given war they choose to conduct.
I have an eightsleep, which cools the bed down dramatically (circulates cold water). Makes a huge difference in my ability up sleep.
The point of weapons is a bit complicated. One interpretation is that they create fear of engaging in violence in the first place. In that respect the killing ability may be secondary.
By shipping the logs to another box.
I'll add to the chorus of folks that is somewhat baffled that 8GB is not enough. That is a ton of memory.
It is interesting to point out that that while the Nazis did come to power democratically, they didn’t actually have a majority of ‘the masses’. Turns out that a strong enough minority that is willing to change the laws and leverage fear can turn the herd.
> “If we are remembered at all, it will be as the contemporaries of Herodotus and Mark Twain.” (Gene Wolfe)
This is very detailed and a fun read. I'd done a similar set of research in 2022 as well: https://er4hn.info/blog/2022.08.23-tormentnexus/
Why the entitled attitude? They do a lot of open source contributions already so maybe just give them some time instead of immediately disregarding the whole improvement? Small steps into the right direction.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/open-source
Management wouldn't risk being called on their bullshit and contradictions.
My perception is these laws are enforceable only in the most obvious of cases. It seems like you can go right up to the edge -- things like https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-exclusive-salary... or https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... (we'll see on this one) come to mind.
Megadose B1/B5/B6/B12 when doing endurance exercises? Those should promote remyelination.
In this case I think the point of running from RAM is that there isn't non-volatile storage. Of course, someone who has physically compromised the server could do potentially bad things, but this makes it harder to e.g. persistently compromise a server, since it doesn't have storage to store malware on persistently, or e.g. accidentally or intentionally log data, since there is no local storage to log it on.

Encrypting what's in RAM would possibly add some additional protection but realistically if things are done right what's left in RAM will probably be only marginally more interesting than what you can see over the wire; at most I'd expect you could see a tiny amount of active request data. That's just a guess, though.
Huge disclaimer that I'm not an expert on this, but:

Googling suggests that you're trading off electricity used to cool the data center with electricity used to blow the air over the electronics, and that ~25C is the temperature where the sum of those is minimized:

https://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/whitepap...

On Oxide and Friends (a podcast by a startup building servers) they claims their choice to use larger quieter fans reduces the power consumption of the fans from ~20-30% of the power a rack consumes to ~2%. Which might suggest that that ~25C number is actually a result of poor hardware choices for moving air more than anything else.

https://youtu.be/xNLxknaj72g?si=TWdQnHIRq_BsOOXi&t=3301
If 8GB will be a bottleneck for many today, imagine the performance of that non-upgradeable laptop in a few years’ time.

Apple used to sell an iMac with non-upgradable RAM:

we found this iMac has the memory soldered to the motherboard removing any possibility of adding additional memory. Users will be permanently locked in to the 8GB of memory, as there is no Apple factory upgrade option.

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/25084-teardown-of-lower-cost...

Lots of returns and refurbs on that model.
> Did you ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we're living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s?

I don't think it does. Imagine a pandemic without the comms and tech invented in the last 15 years.
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Externalizing Disorders
My limiting factor is _command_ throughput in my brain; coming up with the words I want and how to spell them massively slows me down. I really wish I could figure out how to go faster (~80 WPM) because I'm essentially limited by the speed my internal narrator dictates to me, which is close to realtime speaking speed. This is less of a problem while coding, but I still think it's quite relevant.
The point is not that more options is bad, it’s that Apple is marking ram up more than what the author considers a reasonable amount. In the past you could buy a 3rd party sodimm module and pop it in for much cheaper but now you can’t since everything is an SoC now.
You can bust your ass and maybe get a job there after a few years suffering.

Or you can just go there directly without the suffering.

Given the choice, it’s not unrational to skip a few years of uncertain payoff.
Standard qwerty people, how do you get around the arrow keys? It seems to be the only thing that reliably throws me off-cadence, when I have to reach to the bottom right to move around in code.
I bet they know the problem. But they don’t want to see it.
supercool! 2004 vs 2023 screenshot:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5LtAhqoGQrpwp62PA
My monospace font is https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/latinmodernmonolight/
It’s not in my experience. “Normal users” are starting to run into this issue as I can anecdotally pass along (browsing, google suite, slight photoshop use, etc). I actually had lots of reservations before I “green lighted” those first gen M1 MacBook Airs at 8GB across family and friends. Unfortunately I unreasonably fell for the rather over hyped reviews across the board (“I want to believe”). It’s especially on me as my last private intel MBP before my “maxed out” M1 MBP wore out its on-board SSD after only 4 years and that one was large (1TB) with ample memory for the time (16GB). It’s running my personal “hack on Linux” from the SD card slot since so it’s somewhat cool but yeah..

My current work machine, a M2 Pro MBP at 32GB actually has less usable memory than my sluggish i9 MBP had - due to unified memory. We know the CPU/GPU is great but the memory story really isn’t, my system is palpably less responsive with a couple of documentation / bad web interface Safari tabs too many… RAM configurations are just prohibitively expensive even for “well off” companies / purchasers at this point so it’s often a struggle to fight for more.

I’ve been a big Apple / Mac fan and loyal customer since Panther but we shouldn’t turn a blind eye here.

These constrained memory configurations - even when streamlined OS / system software optimizations are in place (are they? still?) - are probably playing a good part in their great margins but they do need to go with the time (bloated websites and apps) as well of course their own stacks running on top.
It's a nice composite bow, I'll give you that. But the engraving gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever. Unless you were planning to auction it off as a collector's item. And you're forgetting one more basic thing… You don't have what it takes to kill a home invader.
My argument at this point was only that speculation probably triumphs illicit usage. Do you mean that speculation is built on top of illicit use for crypto? It maybe doesn't even matter what the fundamental beliefs are because it has a price, today, now.

Fiat money derives its value from what you say, indeed. It is traded on exchanges because of that. But fungibility is only one of several factors. Money should also serve as store of value, but how long is highly debatable and the point.
They tried to grow (maybe not even "too fast", article doesn't talk about options).

I wonder, if they had told their customers "we have limited manufacturing capacity, we can't expand that fast" and put the inventory they had out to bid; would they have been stomped for "price gouging" during the pandemic?
Likely September 7th?
FWIW we did this to significantly reduce storage usage

strip = "debuginfo"

This was a ~20x reduction in size, 279M -> 19M. If you have slow storage it could really help performance (don't recall, personally).
Secret War New Wounds, Silence from The Pentagon
It’s actually possible to use the debugger on the NRF dev kits to flash/debug custom PCBs with NRF chips. So a separate (more expensive) JTAG debugger is in fact not required.
They might get sufficient amount of B vitamins to replenish myelin. Maybe when you gave them food without those you'd see a lasting damage?
The Three Body Problem trilogy is fantastic, and originating from China has quite a different feel to western sci-fi. Adrian Tchaikovsky is from the UK and has done some super interesting stuff as well, start with Children of Time.
Fixed: https://github.com/reegnz/jq-zsh-plugin/pull/25
Keep in mind that Einstein was a German Jew, and 1939 was after Hitler had come to power, passed all sorts of extreme anti-Jewish laws, and then started World War II. So it's a fair bet this is really about "how could so many people vote for and support Nazis?"
Depressing thread. Why yall trying to be Anerican? Sadest place on earth. Great nature though. Should stay around with your folks, use *internet to create connections, invite people to visit you. Don't go there, really.
Yeah, that's cool and all but Baldur's Gate 3 is more fun.
Better approach: Point out that a sound-separated space is a reasonable accommodation. That should do the trick.
A lot of those are even older than C++. And of your list, only Objective-C has seen adoption on the scale of Rust, and it both predates C++ and requires a much heavier runtime than C/C++/Rust.
This is all about the NordicTrac home exercise system sold on late night television, right?
No, DHTML is exactly what is now called a "web app" or HTML/CSS + Javascript

It was just called DHTML instead of javascript because:

1. Javascript was not nearly as popular as it is today.

2. DHTML actually supported multiple languages, it was a catch all term for any scripting that interfaced with HTML so it included VBScript, JScript/ECMAScript, ActiveX controls, etc.

It very much evolved into web apps as they are today.
The market is shaped by human aims. The laws we speak of were not handed down by aliens. They were specifically created by society for the benefit of society.

There is no such thing as a best possible world. Not two people would ever be able to agree what that even is. Every benefit comes with a detriment. It's just a matter of what tradeoffs do you want to accept. Society has made its choice, seeing a regulated market as being more important than access to drugs for all (for now; that choice is fluid and able to change in the future should society change its views, but trying to predict the future is well beyond this discussion).
If you want to pop to the shops, hopping on a bicycle can be the better option.

If you want to hunt small game, a bow can be the best choice.

But if you're attacked by zombies, you grab a gun and get in the car.
The article is strange unless its point only limited for recreational hunting.

Anyways, I was wondering why we still don’t have modern lethal dart guns that can replace traditional firearms? I remember seeing them as a potential futuristic military weapon in Pop Mech. I’m guessing that reliability is the issue?
I responded to you a couple days ago with the relevant quotes from the article.
> part of our nature.

This comes up now and then. But it doesn't hold water, because if true then people would on average be killing people roughly at the same rate, regardless of epoch, geographical area or society. But nations and tribes that were constantly warring have over time become good, peaceful neighbors, while the opposite is the exception. In spite of the impression one might get from the daily news, person-on-person violence is at an historical low.

Why is this explanation still popular, despite the obvious falsity of it? Good question, not sure. Maybe for now suffice to say that it isn't true whenever it pops up. Eventually we might start scrutinizing the real reasons (or lack thereof) for going to war, and the mindless slaughter it necessarily entails.
Simple machine quickly winds coils
It is not a ton if you're using the laptop for professional software development or for professional whatever software work that would call for professional hardware - I am specifically excluding professional work that can be done on a MacBook Air from 2017.
Ken Macleod is a Scottish sci-fi author I've enjoyed. Stanisław Lem and Ken Liu are two other well regarded authors; Poland and China respectively.
Release Notes:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/
Right, but what I'm saying is #1 and #2 could easily make any evidence from these databases inadmissible in court. It's a straightforward argument for any lawyer to make.
> Oceans are insanely large (citation needed) heat sinks.

If my math is right (hopefully), and assuming there's no cooling (hopefully not), it would take 790 billion years for Microsoft's datacenter to raise the temperature of the ocean by 1 degree.

(1.426e21 kg * 4184 J/kg) / (240000 J/s * 31536000 s/yr)
And monthly online fees?

Or is that only PS?
> I would recommend FreeBSD to anyone wanting to jump out of the Linux bandwagon

As a desktop OS?
The problem with Hugo and Nebula is that they’re still pretty American or American adjacent. But I would suggest more anthologies than novels, like “Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction” which is all African sci-fi and fantasy, and “New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction” which is what it says it is.
A unique connection per host isn't too bad. But I have 12 connections for each of my desktops and laptops and phones and tablets...

As you say the problem is somewhat caused by Apple ~~and Google~~ forcing apps to use their proprietary notification systems so that e.g., mail can be checked while a phone is idling. But the end user does not care about the market abusing power of the monopolies--they wants instant notifications when they receive mail...
I've only used the nRF5 SDK. It worked, and it worked well, but it was cumbersome to work with if you didn't want to keep your code in the same tree as the the SDK itself. This was probably an organizational issue on my part, honestly.

The other thing which really bit me was someone here used a symbol name which collided with one used in the SDK, but the build system allowed this to link without error.
Yeah, I tend to use that one as well, but for me it just feels 'right' as a line editor plugin. I'm running a lot of kubectl commands and for me this plugin proved to be invaluable.
What will happen is that either the 0.01% will order the robots to kill the 99%, or the 99% will go out and kill the 0.01% and whoever else is near them.

Or we could reform our system so it can cope with abundance. It's perfectly well known how to do it, and it helps creating that abundance too. But the 0.01% seems completely decided to fight against this to their death, so I'm not holding my breath.
This was realized by me after reading the sleep solution by Chris Winters, who also has a podcast that has the same theme.

Everyone has insomnia sometimes, it's abnormal to be able to sleep easily. Candlelight is bad for the air around you and for your eyes the flickering damages your eyes, although the higher CO2 might help with oxygen diffusion.
Albert Einstein in 1914 composed a message for his wife that was a little less forward-thinking:

https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/einsteins-misogynist-manifest...
I do hope that our civilization starts someday putting substantial research funding into moonshot bets to escape this limiting ending.

For example, if we eventually have multiple star systems' worth of resources at our disposal, then I hope we put at least a trillion dollars per topic into long-shot research topics such as time travel, the multiverse, FTL travel, methods of creating new universes via an artificial Big Bang, applied theology (trying to find evidence of a God so that we can communicate with them), methods of achieving infinitely positive states of qualia such as something like nirvāṇa, and so on.

Each bet might be 1 in a million - but I'd much rather that we try every possible chance at escaping what we currently see as the inevitable, and not go gentle into that heat death night.

This goal, to break through the wall at the end of the universe, was what Asimov called for in his inspiring short story The Last Question.

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
I don't know whether Einstein meant "the intelligent few are more intelligent than the masses, collectively" or "individually," but it's not fair for you to say that one reading is "loose metaphor" while the other is completely straightforward; either interpretation is sensible.
> Containers, btw, cannot be snapshotted

Why not?
Ruby 3.3 (coming this Christmas) will have a much faster and more memory efficient YJIT than 3.2. We've made major improvements this year.
SmartyPants seems to be the obvious brand-name when they take this to market.
>Of course this would get upvoted on HN

Entire article begins with "What If" and then explores it seriously. What if questions are important even if the subsequent topic isn't fundamentally serious.
while bracing myself for the downvotes storm: why is this frontpage? it's very bland content harping the same old story about immutable data and pipes, without any real insights other than "3 months of a new thing and it seems cool".

are we really at the point where rust or elixir in the title = instant karma shower?
No, the point is that the 8GB model is just for pretending that the base price is not 1799. The price difference is just apple telling you this (if 8GB were viable, they could not charge that much to unsabotage the machine).
And eventually KDE, Gnome, and so forth will develop a shared layer on top of Wayland to handle such core functions can call them Wprops, they'll all implement the same _NET_WAYLAND_HINTS and a new group freewayland.org will come together to standardize it. Then waykill will work globally
Check out the scifi subgenres like Afrofuturism. I remember The Ear The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer being a great intro to the genre that was on my middle school summer reading list.
To answer your question - "yes" I definitely could be projecting my own values. Just as everyone else reading it another way could be projecting their own. We all have our biases. I do recognize that. I'm also not beholden to the language used (incomparably). To me that reinforces my interpretation, but of course often the interpreters can assign more meaning to a word than the author intended.

I'm not saying mine is the right answer, but I definitely think it is an answer.
The Short-Term Effects on Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market
Yes, I had a small piece of a tusk for research purposes that was harvested from an elephant that had died naturally, there was a bunch of paperwork that accompanied it. Paper published here for those who might be curious: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nn3049957
Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up
I think the best reaction would be shame. Just a big round of shame for a trillion dollar company being so greedy to cripple their top equipment. Tech’s stagnated for over a decade and largely because of greed and at the expense of innovation.

Prove me wrong? Do something genuinely new, like a mass produced cpu on germanium. Make a modern OS that’s a successor to unix-and plan9. Edit-Or at least a moddable iphone that can plug into a monitor/keyboard/mouse.

Edit2-shame the company though, not the people who walk around carrying iphones or other apple devices. The company is the problem here.
Physical server can also be frozen (literally) and then data extracted from RAM.