skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with globalized food fads. Ideally people should eat more local, and reserve distant food stuffs for a few special occasions.
Except when the drone was launched from a civilian apartment building. Then you get a whole lot of bad press, and people insist you stop fighting entirely.
Yeah, it sucks.

But to call it not actionable advice is just hilarious.

You are 100% able to not buy keyboards that don't work for you or you don't agree with.

This is actionable.

You might have to bring an external keyboard with you everywhere if you can't find a laptop one that works.

Having values requires making sacrafices sometimes. Here is how Richard Stallman reads the web:

"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I
send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time."
Because PS5/XSX SoCs are way too power hungry for laptops and too impractical for desktops. They’re designed to be cheap to produce for a console which means they use fewer transistors and run in high clock speed leading to higher power and cooling requirements than laptops can handle. Discrete Nvidia GPUs blows it out of the water on desktop. So do standalone desktop CPUs.

Furthermore, they use unified GDDR RAM which has high bandwidth but also high latency. The CPU would not be competitive. This is unlike Apple Silicon which takes the more expensive route by using LPDDR5 with many channels.

I think what you want is an efficient SoC with a very large GPU. Basically an M3 Max. But Apple is way ahead of AMD at making mobile SoCs. It would also cost $3000+ starting - which brings us back to the territorial of Nvidia GPUs having more value if you’re a gamer.

With that said, I think chip makers were woken up by Apple or caught with their pants down. I do think we will see bigger GPUs in SoCs on laptops and desktops. Nvidia is rumored to be making an Apple Silicon Competitor. Qualcomm is with their Nuvia based chips. AMD and Intel are putting bigger and bigger GPUs into their SoCs.
It really was. Just my own machine's traffic makes it scroll faster than I can read, these days. Every web page and program constantly phoning home up and and including sending real-time mouse cursor locations, mdns, UDP local-network-device-discovery traffic, all kinds of stuff.
The wise will insist that ex-employers do this, if not immediately, then over a very small number of hours. If I'm to be let go, I want all of my access to go away ASAP. That means they can't blame me for things that go missing afterward (minus logic bombs and other kinds of criminality that we do not do, ever, ok?). The last thing I want is for, say, a computer to go missing a week after I left but when I still have an office key, or data to be deleted while I still have AWS access. Take my keys, OK?
yeah the 68k story is funny, I've heard that before, though I remembered it as Apollo that did that dual 68k trick.

It always confused me why Motorola didn't just axe the original 68000 entirely when it released the 68010 (with the fix for the page fault mis-design). there was no reason to keep producing the former after the latter came out, and it couldn't have cost them any more to make the '010 and it was pin for pin compatible (I've stuffed an 010 in Atari STs here with 0 problems, for example).
When I was in high school I helped a lot of my friends fix issues caused by quick tire and lube shops. Lots of snapped, stripped, and rounded fasteners.
Sagaar from Breaking Points felt the same way in his monologue today.
Giant Tuna are Megafauna

That is a whole different kind of problem to farm than having a humdrum sub-mega fauna fish farm

Problems are more akin to trying to raise farm grown Elephants
> I've long felt that adding a required "reason" field when flagging would be useful.

I've resisted that on the grounds of not wanting to make things too bureaucratic, but I can feel myself tipping slightly on the question for a somewhat odd reason: there are too many mistaken/accidental flags, especially on mobile, so we probably need a confirmation screen to allow people to say "oops, cancel". If one adds that, it's probably fine to ask for a reason too.

Re the other questions: flags, above a certain threshold, act as downweights on the story. Above another (higher) threshold, the [flagged] marker appears. Above another (still higher) threshold, the story will also be killed, meaning it will show up as [flagged][dead], and closed to new comments. However, if a thread has already gotten a lot of comments, the software won't kill it. In addition, moderators sometimes put [flagged] on a post—but this is rare for stories; we do it more often on comments that are breaking the site guidelines.

So that makes 3 different ways for a story to end up [flagged] but not [dead]. The one you postulated (a story is [flagged][dead] and then we manually unkill it, so it becomes [flagged] but not [dead]) is technically possible and I can't say it never happens, but it's definitely not standard practice and would be a weird edge case if it did happen.

Have I answered your questions?

p.s. various past explanations can be found at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: I forgot about another case. If a post is [flagged][dead] and then enough users vouch for it, it will stop being [dead] but will still be [flagged].
That’s assuming then original install torque spec was correct.

Much easier to strip aluminum threading if you over torque. Steel tends to just bend (and bend back better).

Aluminum also fractures while steel bends/stretch back and forth better.

(This is mainly from my experience working on bicycles, and a little auto)
Hello, when do you plan on launching the beta version?
Doesn’t this call into question the manufacturing of ALL 737 MAX’s including the 7 and 8 since they must use the same manufacturing process?
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is better than CLOCK. It seems like a hack to make updates easier which however makes both practical performance and conceptual justification much worse.

The elements which are between 'hand' and 'tail' are going to stay there for a long time, until the hand pointer cycles. If there are lots of elements which get put in the cache but don't really deserve it, that could take a long time. But that's exactly the case where you wouldn't want to keep the elements behind the hand around for a long time. Remember, they got 'promoted' for appearing twice in around the cache size records. Not a great indication that they should be kept for a long time. On the other hand, when the pointer cycles, they could get thrown away quite easily.

On the other hand CLOCK converges to a situation where elements which have appeared a lot are at the front. They are much less likely to be thrown out even if they have a temporary run of scarcity. The elements which don't appear much quickly bubble to the back and become much more likely to be thrown out in the next few evictions. This is accentuated if there are lots of elements which are getting hit relatively more frequently.

After a long time of running SIEVE, there's not really anything about the state which will improve future performance compared to when it starts cold. In many cases it seems it will be locked in to a suboptimal state by overadapting to past observations.
Wow, I hadn't seen this follow-up post! Cool!

(btw I really love your masthead graphics)
totally_safe_transmute, Line-by-Line (2021)
A number of years ago at a previous job we had building security doing a sweep of our building with a big heavily antenna'd device because some sort of unauthorized wifi access point showed up.

Never found out what came of it, but I wondered then as I do now if someone had just enabled AP mode on their phone.
All this "science communication is bad" thinking is missing the forest for the trees; The public doesn't seem to know how to educate themselves (in a time with more possibility to actually educate yourself somewhat than ever before), doesn't understand how to read or interpret a piece of media in general (a high school level concept), seems to gleefully ignore things they WERE taught (like basic math), and often explicitly describes science and education in general as "liberal brainwashing"

Yeah, it's going to be impossible to "communicate" with someone who filled their ears with concrete and is shouting as loud as possible "I think you are the devil (literally)"

This has nothing to do with science communication. Entire swaths of the American public believe "My ignorance is as good as your evidence", or worse, that if they don't personally understand something, then it can't be true.
Noted. Thanks again.
INAPL but I think is what by default both the employee can expect some weeks after the notification (and depending om the circumstances - have an opportunity to move to another job of similar title and/or pay in the same company) and employer can expect some weeks if nothing unexpected surface up. But both parties can terminate their relationship in the same dame on a mutual agreement.
> My core point is it never gets to the point where Iran is making missiles, the Houthis are firing them and the U.S. is doing nothing more than intercepting them. Well before it becomes a production contest, the situation is resolved diplomatically or escalated.

Given the “final warning” issued 4 days ago by the coalition, I think escalation or resolution (probably the former) is very much a “sooner rather than later" thing.
I already told you what I purchased. Now you’re just trolling me and it’s useless to continue with you. I was a freaking network engineer I think I know how science works.
Be more useful than just saying you agree or disagree with them. What is it that makes you agree with their behavior to not remove a problematic install experience? They are forcing me to modify my software and publish a release so users will get a notification at runtime. That't not what I want my software's users to experience. Given they don't allow printing an installation note, it's fair to ask them to remove the software from their platform, as I don't see it fruitful to add a bloat code to my software just so users get notifications at run time for what really are installation notes.
A major concern is presumably over-torquing a screw and causing partial failure of threads in the material. This could be subtle and difficult to detect, but present as a problem over time.
Working conditions in the USA have come to a point where many don't care because the company doesn't care about them. People are fired at will after working for 20+ years with zero shits given. There is zero loyalty and in return workers just don't care either.

There are only so many checks and balances you can build in until this situation will catch up with you.

Doesn't amazon have such a huge turn over that they are running out of possible candidate to replace those workers?

Being pushed to deliver more and more packages in shorter time or inspect train cars in less time then required why would one care if a packages gets tossed or a rail car is not properly inspected?

In most jobs the only consequence is to be fired which is already possible for no reason what so ever in many states.
It's global market data, not political propaganda. If people get these numbers wildly wrong, they lose money. The "Chinese numbers can never be trusted" canard can only be stretched so far when it comes to global economic data that is materially validated on a daily basis by countless non-Chinese stakeholders.
Pretty sure that was a Kazaa feature, not Napster.
No worries. My unfinished PhD wasn't for nothing ;)

Was gonna reach out to your email on your site but getting cloudflare blocking me for some javascript reason i cba to yak shave.

xfce >>> gnome + KDE. will happily die on this hill.
Side note, most comments here are talking about Linux, but despite Windows having a nice async IO API, it turns out that it sometimes is also just sometimes synchronous, yikes.

It includes some pretty big cases like "if the filesystem is encrypted" or "if the write extends the file": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubles...
Absolutely. It’s weird though that tech focused companies with Silicon Valley style cultures who are looking to cut costs are completely uninterested in those regions. With more developer-friendly working conditions, they wouldn't have to compete as aggressively on TC. And with more normal cost of living, it could be sustainable for senior people who are not independently wealthy to have long tenures there.
A Rail Cart for the Space Conscious Passenger (2022)
Also proving yet again that the best way to find out if something is in use is to unplug it and see who complains.
model reverse engineering is a pretty cool research area, and one big area of it is figuring out the training sets :) this has been useful for detecting when modelers include benchmark eval sets in their training data (!), but can also be used to inform data poisoning attacks
pg_dump is a completely different category as it’s a machine portable logical backup. You can restore an older version backup to a newer version installation as an upgrade mechanism.

Just about every other backup program concerns itself with binary backups which generally facilitate point in time recovery as well.

Both have their place and it’s common to have both done on different schedules. Though purely logical backups get interesting at scale as it literally has to run a SELECT * on every table from scratch each time.
Are you making a pipelined FPGA architecture or a systolic array?

How would you improve my FPGA? I have two directions that I could take my FPGA architecture such as adding analog Logic Blocks and adding beamforming LUT interconnect.

Can you explain how you would go about getting an MVP manufactured?
. . . and the US airline industry has still not had a fatal crash in just under 25 years.
You are assuming this is problem in the assembly and not in the design?
>So why can't they just strip the proprietary Sony/Microsoft IP from the silicone and release a PC version of those APUs?

They could, but it would run like shit. DDR4 is way too low bandwidth for video memory. Zen2 was a pretty slow architecture to begin with; the ancient 14nm Intel CPUs are faster.
Hey friends, use 802.1X for your datacenters and enterprise (certificate) wifi auth so you can audit and rotate credentials to prevent... exactly this problem. Everything else iot-like gets a very limited VLAN / alternate WiFi network.
What in the world is anthropomorphically generated electromagnetic radiation? This isn't a phrase that's coming up in any search results and my colleague with a PhD in particle physics has never heard of this phrase.
The latter. The real-world instances are not uniformly distributed across the language. It is pretty easy to randomly generate problems that are hard for current solvers.

Caveats:

* "uniform distribution" is a tricky concept over infinite countable sets. Famously, it doesn't exist. You have to restrict the length or something.

* I have no idea if there's a concrete result linking Kolmogorov
complexity and solving ease. I suspect no, since even a complex but known problem can be solved rather quickly by special-casing.
well, at $300K a pop, it may make sense to lease a Skynex (4-5 containers - control room, radar, 1-2 Oerlikon guns and a container with missiles) and load it on a container ship before the ship would enter the Houthi's attack zone. Unload after it makes through the zone and load on another ship, etc. If I were in private military contracting, I'd right now be making a killing so to speak.

In general, with drones proliferating, an affordable highly mobile (all in one container - radar, minimum 20mm gun, laser, vertical launch Stinger class missiles and EM countermeasures) point defense should become a pretty good selling product.
The vast majority of fasteners on your car do not depend on being torqued precisely. Basically anywhere you need to worry about clearance (e.g. bearings). If it's a matter of ensuring nothing comes loose you'll have things like threadlocker or a cotter (split) pin.
I don't think the article proves that. I think these policies can be a bit of a McNamara fallacy[1].

When things go wrong, the benefits of aggressive termination are clear.
But when things don't go wrong (vast majority of time), the alternative's benefits are not so clear — employees have more time to hand-off their work, document things that are in their head, better good-will towards the company and its management, etc.

So, because one approach has a clear, measurable benefit (avoid some disasters), and the other approach has un-clear hard-to-measure ones, people sometimes dismiss the hard-to-measure side as unimportant. That's the fallacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
Because of the laws of international waters etc it’s essentially impossible to police, short of aircraft/naval patrols being willing to fire on violators on sight. There is no legal basis to keep another nation from overfishing as long as it happens in international waters, and china largely just does what they want even in territorial waters. Unless you’re willing to start an international incident the best you can do is get one boat while the other 49 slip by with their haul.

We set up the laws of the sea basically on the same model as the United Nations. They’re there to keep the peace between international powers, not produce good governance.
IQ is scored on an SD15 or SD16 scale, not an SD10 scale. On a more typical SD15 scale an IQ of 163 is 1 in 74883 people, or around 4500 people in the US. It’s lower than my IQ, and I’ve by happenstance met people with the exact same IQ working in the same company.

Tech in particular tends to attract high IQ individuals, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are hundreds or thousands of HN users with similar IQs or higher.
I think this is just a small part of a larger discussion, which is what the role of science communication should be. Is it to inform the public or is it to help change public behavior. It seems pretty clear in retrospect that the CDC had a specific public behavior outcome they were trying to achieve, and framed their evidence or lack thereof with that in mind.

I think that was a mistake because of the erosion of trust, but to be totally honest, I'm not sure where I stand on this overall.
Most interesting to me is the built-in NPU / "AI Accelerator" / Ryzen AI / XDNA. While descriptions of the chip are relatively easy to find, I haven't yet found out how the thing is programmed. Hetergeneous programming across APU, GPU, and NPU is going to be interesting.

Update: https://ryzenai.docs.amd.com/en/latest/
Hard to take the article seriously with so many inaccuracies. I cannot shake the feeling that the writer tried to make more of this than there is by exaggerating.

"almost as powerful as the Rasberry Pi itself: the nRF52832-MDK. A very powerful wifi, bluetooth and RFID reader."

First of all, the puny little Cortex-M is no where near as powerful as the rPi. Second of all, nRF52 series does not do WiFi, and third of all, RFID will not work without the coil plugged in (which it is not in the picture), and in any case only has a range of an inch at best.
> Do you think it could be viable to set aside commercial interests to address the deep discord among the countries and their proxies in the region?

Isn't that precisely what choosing to sail around the horn of Africa is? It's commercially unfavorable and it is designed to avoid the area of conflict.

> The practical approach to call for calm and protect commercial ties and robust economics is the only way forward that I can see.

Sure, but do you think that automatically heightening the level of conflict is the best way to achieve that? The OP even suggested that requiring this approach through legislation would be favorable.
> If you’re using new parts, sure, but once they’re old/re-used parts

Most service manuals require new bolts, fasteners and washers for torque-critical parts.
If you are fired, sure, but that usually doesn't happen if someone voluntarily leaves. You usually set an end date, and work on transitioning your work during that time.
You don't need to use the same IDT as in long mode. Just have a 32-bit one that decides whether to handle an interrupt (e.g. vm86 traps/emulation) or re-enable long mode and forward it to the 64-bit handler.

But you don't have to imagine -- early amd64 Linux could do it, and there was a patch floating around that kept that feature all the way to 2.6.2x series.

These days vm86 is borked even in 32-bit kernels.
I don't use any cloud-connected automation in my house. All my desktops run Linux of some variant other than my gaming machine. I've offloaded myself from Google services. The last bastion of cloud connectivity I have is my phone.
> you can actually understand the OS.

The way you describe FreeBSD is how I imagine an OS should be. I'm going to make it a goal this year to get a server up and running. Thanks.

-- Rant

Linux gives me more inferiority complex than any other technology I've ever touched.

Sure, something like a database system, or a moderately large code base or framework is complicated, and intimidating, and it might take many years to get a grip on, and understand, let alone master. But Linux? I just don't get it. I've tried for years, read books about it, etc. etc.

But in the end it's voodoo to me, and I'm always left searching for answers to problems, unable to solve them myself. The answers are always just rote step-by-step; do this and copy this command, problem solved. Why? how? nothing makes sense!!!

I always have the sense that somewhere out there is the holy bible of Linux, the missing piece of the puzzle; read this and it will all make sense.

Admittedly I've never compiled a distro. So in some respect I'm guilty of not going into the deep end. I suspect that if I learnt systems programming, and really go into the thick of it... then somewhere I might start to find my feet.

But it's easier to just believe that I'm stupid, and Linux is beyond my ability to comprehend.
The Saudis with help of the US has already tried to get rid of the Houthis. That didn't exactly went well.

Never in my wildest dream would i think that the Houthis would be one doing the first modern blockade of a strait. I always expected the US to do the first modern block in the Malacca strait, when China is forced to do a Armed reunification with Taiwan.
Thanks for trying, X.

... argued that the federal government’s prohibition on the company disclosing the exact number of receipts of national security-related requests for surveillance of users was unconstitutional, and should be granted only in exceptional cases

It seems wrong to prevent reporting not just of the particulars of the surveillance but on the scale of it as well. It hides important perspective from the voters more than it protects national security. Or perhaps it's an attempt to protect the security apparatus from the voters.
Also when you could just plug something into a switch and a) the port is active and b) it goes unnoticed.

Probably still the case in a lot of startups.
Google makes more money from the Web platform than the Android platform.