skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there used to be a direct correlation between doubling transistors to doubling speed.

The transistor to speed ratio might be interesting.

Or whether other CPU’s are doubling in speed still.
Santa can't give personalized gifts without the data.

$5 gift certificate to 7-11 is the standard gift for everyone without tracking
They leak nasty stuff. Every worker would need to be wearing more protective clothing and respirators.
That doesn't make them tech companies so much as it dilutes what "tech" means.
That's still an apples-to-oranges comparison since Facebook made it trivial to onboard to from in the Instagram app and made sure that lots of mainstream celebrities (and more importantly, advertisers) were posting there from the beginning.
I feel seen! I've spent my entire career as a web dev (15+ years) almost exclusively working for non tech companies: solar companies, nonprofits, museums, sustainability funds, etc.

I loved it! The pay was much lower (50 to 100k), but generally livable, and the people were awesome -- folks from all walks of life, not all tech bros, a lot of women, etc. Good work life balance (I've worked a total of maybe 6-7 hours of overtime in my whole career), no weekends or holidays, no crunch. No bonuses or equity either, but that didn't bother me.

But more than anything, I got to work in interesting verticals, whether it's alongside energy engineers, battery experts, world-renowned conservation scientists, archeologists, etc. People who love what they work on, making small but meaningful contributions to the real world (as opposed to like enshittified ad tech or crypto pyramids).

Would strongly recommend, if you can get over the lower pay (like you don't have a family or mortgage yet) and the lack of prestige (you're just another minion in the machine, not a privileged SWE). It's a lot of fun, though you also lose the opportunity to work with experts in your field (who are usually at proper tech companies), exchanging depth for breadth. It's not for everyone, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
I just browsed the article, and missed you make Lunar until this comment.

Fantastic work. Absolutely critical for taming the weirdness of my LG 5K display.
TIL.

Still, I haven't seen any distro create or put it in PATH in the 24 years I've been running Linux.
Microplastics should be the least of your concerns. You ingest far more reactive substances just from food and breathing.
Do you have a substantive criticisms of the paper? Or will you just proclaim that it's questionable without any elaboration?

The possible ranges of representation are from 0% to 100%, but almost all fall within a band of 20%. This is a pretty tight band. Proportionality between the lowest and highest isn't that relevant. A range from 10-20% is still a wider band than 1% to 5%, even though the latter has a bigger proportional difference from the lowest to the highest data point.

More importantly, there are zero examples of countries with 85%, 80%, or 75% women in STEM. But there's plenty of examples of countries with men of those levels of representation. If it were culturally or socially determined, we'd should see women's representation in that range among some societies.
I use it because I actually get engagement on it, and it’s always positive. When I post something, I can expect feedback. When I reply to a post, I can expect to have a pleasant conversation. None of this has ever happened on Twitter. I can @ industry experts and get a reply for help, I am surrounded by people who post about interesting things and who are interested in the things I talk about. Sure every now and then there’s some negative or off putting content, that’s always gonna happen in a system like this, but I can easily just mute and move on.
Void Linux does something similar. /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin are all symlinks to /usr/bin.
Which Garmin products require an engineer at Garmin to account for general relativity? Lots of products have GPS, but they use an off the shelf mixed signal IC that contains all the hardware and software required to implement GPS. As an engineer, you just feed augmentation data from a web API and receive a text stream of NMEA messages from the IC. It's literally glue code. The required skill set is the same one required to hook up the Shopify API to a web store (ie. "Software Engineer")
Learning to sleep like a bear could save your life
> Yes, but...there is something else to be said here. One of the things we have evolved to do, without necessarily appreciating it, is to intuit the behavior of other humans through the theory-of-mind.

One of the first thing my driving instructor told me was: never trust anyone on the road except yourself. That’s why you see people waiting for a car with the indicator on to visually hint they really intended to turn.
https://archive.ph/rt7yQ
Wonder what the author thinks of the Tesla software locked batteries.
> $PREFIX/bin vs $PREFIX/sbin division

Why did you go to so much effort to avoid typing 'usr'?
The original paper is quite short and readable: https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/Math/GCC...
The tragedy here is that there's nothing particularly wrong with Windows 11.

Unless you give a hoot about keeping control of your own equipment and the consequent effects on security, privacy, reliability, and usability?
Not really, that can still be done without permissions. You WOULD be able to stop them from knowing the files are there if you remove read permissions to others, but I haven't seen this done.

The main advantage I see of having them separate is that you can remove sbin from user's $PATH to avoid confusion.
I think Pry is EOL, last time I checked, and wasn’t getting much help either.
The word in question is "wichser". The dictionary says it means "motherfucker". In my perception wichser is one of the strongest insults in german.

https://youtu.be/S1ZnpYEsUNs?si=nGr-2MgtBMR16dgl
it's a lowercase y with an s over it, like you would see a diacritic rendered. never seen it before.

edit: it shows up in the "descendants" list on the side of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
The same could be said about having /bin /lib /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/lib /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib ... yet these were all merged into /nix/store. NixOS's handling of state is poor. Even ignoring the problem of it all being spread out it is not uncommon for secrets to make it into /nix/store which is world readable.
Those usually don't pay as well as tech company jobs.
Why not bring back Pontiac as a direct sale only model?
New Images of Uranus Are Spectacular; Planet Can Be Seen from Wyoming This Week
> At some point communication is critical and you need to be able to write up a design document before making major changes or additions to code or infrastructure.

... which is typically written after hours of understanding the problem and then minutes to hours of writing out the document. Not 5 minutes after reading a problem statement.
Once you can boot “by hand” from a Grub prompt a lot of the magic starts to disappear…
You can’t really dim an LED - they’re generally on or off.
Definitely, but then, call it what it is. "Tech" companies are those who provide "tech" products, such as cloud hosting, software for managing tech stacks, etc. It's not merely "anything that requires software to run".
If I want to build a feature that I know would need a lot of work so I’d like to make it paid, I note it down. That’s it, I just leave it there, and focus on getting the app launched as free first.

After the launch, feedback will guide you through what noted features to act on, and even add some more.

Launching it as free also gives you time to iron out the inevitable edge cases that won’t appear in your tests. People will have lower expectations, and feedback will contain less angry tone, which is usually a big demotivator.

The “launch early” phrase you keep reading in maker circles, makes a lot of sense for indie devs. It’s easiest to validate an idea, and get help on the direction of the app. Your idea of what the app should be is not always the best idea, user feedback can help fine tune that.

However if you have a very specific vision, and “if someone pays, good, if no one pays, still good”, then disregard what I said above. Keep working on your vision, something unique might sprout out of that.

EDIT: I realized I might not have answered your actual question. Because I always build apps to fix a problem of my own, I make free only what’s essential for that problem. Like what I would do in a script, but with just a bit of polish and UI for it to be usable by non tech users as well.

That’s how Clop launched: first it was a single Swift file that checked the clipboard for images in a loop and ran pngquant on them. I would run that at the command line. Then I packaged it as an app with minimal UI and released it as free.

Most of everything else will be paid. That’s what happened with video and PDF optimization on Clop.

But if it’s an improvement on an existing free feature, I will add it for free. That’s what I did with ignoring specific types of images from the clipboard, or detecting Universal Clipboard etc.
Biggest takeaway: extraction of prompts seems to be complete bullshit.
Many years ago I once tried to share a History channel documentary on the JFK assassination with a friend. They watched up until the first part, the documentary dramaticized the assassination and talked about how the shot seemed impossible based off the shape of the car.

See I had already watched this documentary in full, and knew that this was just a cliffhanger for the second part that explained the car was modified, making the seemingly impossible shot very possible. Yet, my friend said "See? That's enough evidence." and walked away.

I asked, "don't you want to hear the rest?" the response: "nope."

Your comment reminds me of this experience
So you see iMessage as the only available option for people to use in order to obtain open messaging? Worth violating society's understanding of ownership and property (you may think corporations aren't people, but people do own corporations, and those people have property rights).

And how far does "most people want <X>" go? If "most people want" to prevent people from being married, is that justifiable?
Speaking from the other side though, many of my non tech colleagues are having a really hard time competing with laid off FAANGers who are flooding the labor market all at once. It doesn't just affect tech companies proper, but also everyone else working in the same roles elsewhere.
Not really - They are both selling apples (i.e. a similar product) but one has a competitive advantage (i.e. ease of onboarding, advertiser revenue and content from celebrities). The the product is still mostly the same while the go-to-market strategy has been different.

It's more like an apples-to-apples comparison, but one company is selling apples in a small market stall and the other is Walmart.
So you can't easily see which programs are installed in a directory, it's all abstracted away in a database?

That sounds horrible. NixOS sounded kind of interesting, but if that's true it kills any interest I had in it.
You're at a friends house. They offer you a glass of water. Do you drink it? Do you inspect the filter for biological debris first, and then accept it? If you don't, and you get sick, who compensates you for lost wages? Who compensates your insurance company for the doctor's visit? I think this is, realistically, a complex situation.

Having said that, I'm not sure why a filter is needed. Is your tap water not already filtered enough?
I don't remember what it was called, but yeah, something along these lines. It really looked cool.
Expanding the foreign ownership rule to include social media platform companies (and, frankly, any strategically-important technology company in general) seems like a no-brainer.

Other countries should logically do the same. If Burma/Myanmar doesn't like what Facebook is doing there, they have demonstrated the capability to shut it down on multiple occasions. Setting aside that their government is a basically-illegitimate military junta, if I was them, I sure as fuck wouldn't let a US tech company operate within my country without a significant local presence that I could exert influence on.
>Immobility-associated thromboprotection is conserved across mammalian species from bear to human

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5044

Abstract

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) comprising deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Short-term immobility-related conditions are a major risk factor for the development of VTE. Paradoxically, long-term immobilized free-ranging hibernating brown bears and paralyzed spinal cord injury (SCI) patients are protected from VTE. We aimed to identify mechanisms of immobility-associated VTE protection in a cross-species approach. Mass spectrometry–based proteomics revealed an antithrombotic signature in platelets of hibernating brown bears with heat shock protein 47 (HSP47) as the most substantially reduced protein. HSP47 down-regulation or ablation attenuated immune cell activation and neutrophil extracellular trap formation, contributing to thromboprotection in bears, SCI patients, and mice. This cross-species conserved platelet signature may give rise to antithrombotic therapeutics and prognostic markers beyond immobility-associated VTE.
> 2-3x yearly net revenue, more if you're lucky.

And what is the yearly net revenue of a game like generals?

> Also most sales agreements have a confidentiality covenant

Yeah that's super annoying. I'm mainly just interested in the ballpark. $10k? $50k? $100k? $500k? >$1m?
Don’t forget about Hollywood and the dominance of English-speaking media. And English has been the lingua franca of the Internet. I travelled a bit before the mid 90s and not as many people spoke English in many places as do today.
Really? That’s an interesting take and one that I hadn’t considered. I need to think about how I feel regarding the underlying premise but I can certainly see where you can make the argument. I agree that jumping to lynch mob reactions aren’t helpful.

My original point—-which was likely not worded well—is that the humans which make up “society” need to reach a point where they can recognize that corporations make and follow-through on decisions because they are supported by sign-off from our fellow humans, not because of an abstract corporate mechanism.

Thank you for the sidebar.
I think if you've left cookies out for him, you've implicitly given consent
People that don't understand math appreciate dictatorships because they can imagine themselves in
power.
On which metric was Stadia inferior to xcloud?? GFN, I could understand, but Stadia would smoke XCloud
I have never heard about GoboLinux. The linked page gives me the impression that GoboLinix tries to improve the FHS by using more self-describing directory names? But still follow the general principles of splitting a program's dependencies into a statically defined directory structure?
Nearly every business uses software on phones or computers.

In that way every business is a software business and if they’re serious about their business they will find ways to be a software and tech business to get things how they want or need for their competitive advantage.
My father got a kick out of being like this

- there are 1000s of recycling numbers

- color was invented in the mid 20th century, "back in the black & white days"

- giving random sounds to toys (trex goes neigh)

- he told my sister he could fly. She believed it was happening for a moment when he slowly flapped his hands & went up on tippy toes

- accidentally he explained to her a scifi short story where martian colonies seek indepence by collecting water from Saturn's rings. She wasn't corrected until she brought it up at school, where her real father was a bit annoyed about my father feeding her nonsense all the time

Overall good upbringing & it's good to teach kid's not to be so gullible
Ask HN: Building picablog – Instagram but as blogging platform. thoughts?
Hi! I am building picablog, an Instagram like platform but as a blogging platform that lets you share photos, control privacy, add tags, geolocation etc., but somebody reminded me that similar can be done with Wordpress too. So I just want to know if someone would be interested to use this as a platform if built?

TIA.
Moore's Law says transistor count doubles every two years. If it is doubling every three years, it is dead.
> nor is it capable of producing beeps

I mean, the whole device is basically a speaker. It can beep if it wants to.
As the page said, it's inspired by https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html, but I prefer the version on his post: https://149909199.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201... , where a week with an event doesn't expand to take up so much space, and it's possible to add background colors to mark segments of your life.

I was making a similar app to learn Angular (and realizing the performance is lousy if each square is an Angular component), an interesting thing is, because of the day-of-week drift from year to year (Jan 1 2023 is Sunday, Jan 1 2024 is Monday, Jan 1 2025 is Wednesday, hello leap year 2024), the grid isn't always 52 columns wide, some years would need 53 weeks, because your birthday could be a Sunday (end of week in a particular year) and it'd be a Monday next year, meaning there'd be 53 Sundays between the 2 birthdays...
I suspect this recall is precisely because someone figured that the relief path wouldn't work.
The shrink created Denard Scaling, which directly boosted speed.

Later, when that ended, more transistors still delivered strong enhancements to capture greater ILP and TLP.

Today, it’s a combination of many small factors. Leakage is still going down, drive amplification is still going up, and density is still improving switching power, but the overall manifestation is more subtle and depends on design to bring out the best in the process.
If you think they’re good, just wait till you read the Athenian speeches. So good.
If a single plant can simultaneously mimic two different type of neighboring plant, then it seems unlikely that any potential horizontal gene transfer is happening through the roots, where it might be expected to affect the entire plant, not just one localized side.
Thank you! I didn’t know that feature of YouTube. I love YouTube and you made it a better place.
Because now I block the front page but then I miss the posts of channels I subscribed.
Would you consider a shop that sells GPS trackers a tech company too?
Wow, i'll check it out, thank you!
I just found a newly built 7 bedroom villa with pool in Bucharest for under €500k, not ideal as it's near the airport but if anyone could point to an equivalent in the Manchester metropolitan area I'd be very interested.

Also found an entire building on Bucharest's second busiest street Magheru Blvd for €1.4M. Out of my price range unfortunately but it does include 12 separate 3 bedroom apartments, a floor of offices, and a restaurant, cafe and art gallery at street level.
You do have to eventually replace your toothbrush head, though. You are grinding down the brush bristles with polishing compound ("toothpaste") every time you brush your teeth.
(Not OP)

The cheapest are €44.76/month so that's already ~$600 (if you want your server to be located in germany you are already at minimum €51.36/month which would be ~$680)

But you can get better bang for buck on the "serverbörse"/server auction. (That's what I'm currently renting)

https://www.hetzner.com/sb

But if you want to have large storage while also using RAID + a decent amount of RAM you'll still get to the ~$600 per year pretty easily.

I don't know what you have at hetzner, maybe you are thinking about VPS?

EDIT: ah okay, you thought it was $600/month?
I already tried this route (using the DOI), unfortunately, I was not able to get the first names of the authors this way. Example: https://search.crossref.org/search/works?q=10.1111%2Fanae.14...
I had enough saved, to allow myself to do OK. I wasn't planning on retiring for another ten years, but I wasn't really given a choice.
The headline would be a bit more accurate with: 'In response to US Cyber threats, and in retaliation for numerous data breaches incurred in the last 3 yeas, Iranian cyber-spies target...'

Seems the news agencies like to conveniently forget that part of the story.
Ah. A simpler time when people were still able to access the operating system internals of products they bought and alter their function without first having to jump through hoops that risked bricking the product they bought.

There’s an irony that the products we buy now which are so thoroughly locked down have learned all the lessons of Windows NT both in terms of product marketing and the security improvements which protect the product companies even more than their users.
No matter what your views, we should all be very concerned that a technology company that specializes in social connections is controlling what people can say to one another.

This combined with the close government coordination that was recently exposed is deeply concerning.

‘Disinformation’ seems to be more and more just ‘opinions we don’t like or support’ and this episode should serve as a warning to use all to limit their power before it’s too late.

And I don’t care if you like Triden or Brump: this shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
Teaching middle schoolers is just about the worst job in the world. But at least it pays poorly /s
If CCP really was "worse than Putin", they would have invaded Taiwan a long time ago already, and killed a couple of hundred thousand people in the process, as Putin is perfectly content to do in Ukraine. But they haven't, which shows that its leadership has at least some competence.

My country shares 1300km of border with Russia, and I would choose China over Russia as a neighbour any day. China might be an oppressive dictatorship, but its still more civilized than Russia, which frankly has never left the Middle Ages in terms of mentality. Apart from perhaps North Korea, there is no worse neighbor in the world than imperialist Russia.
They can't. It's a pizza cutter comment. All edge and no point.
That new feature of Youtube is indeed fantastic.
He also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
Sure, I can get behind that. However, it's the other side of the coin that I still don't get. What would count as a tech company?

Even AWS is just a rental company or private utility when you strip away, "happens to need a lot of tech".
Yet the press this is getting is, like the article said, a black mark on Philips. They were a very diverse company, until they chose a few specific markets in which not to divest, healthcare being one of them. This must be quite the chill at headquarters.
Yes I do already know that.. I find it criminal that they call themselves private then take your fingerprint.. Even Google and Bing don’t do that!
Well thats the rub innit. I loved the bmw i3, I love my tesla even more, but they are f'in expensive cars, my coworkers are coming to work in beaters that cost less than a fifth of what I spent on my model 3, my down payment was more than several of the cars in my parking lot.
I’d rather not be treated as a cost centre and have non-tech business people second-guess everything.
While I agree if he were doing anything questionable, IDK, my reading is that he's exporting software development services from Japan and paying taxes in Japan correctly on both business income and personal income incident to doing this.
no kid in history has ever liked it. It's the teacher's job to make sure they learn something anyway.