skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need a $1,200 Chinese electric deathtrap to accelerate EV buying, we need a better charging network. Range anxiety and reliability are the factors that have put EV purchases in a slump (not to mention interest rates).

The article itself acknowledges this briefly: "one of the biggest challenges that EVs face here is not the cars; it’s the chargers. In America, charging stations are still too hard to find, and they are too unreliable. China’s charging network is much more extensive than America’s, even in rural areas. Ash Sutcliffe, of the massive Chinese carmaker Geely, told me that in the eastern part of the country, you’re generally never more than a kilometer away from a charging station".
No, they were on the boat, they just mis-managed it. They used to make Arm chips, but sold it off just before the first iPhone was released as they saw no future in mobile CPUs. Same with network processors for routers around the same time.

They have been trying half-heartedly with GPUs on and off since the late 1990's i740 series.

The root cause is probably the management mantra "focus on core competencies". They had an effective monopoly on fast CPUs from 2007 until 2018. This monopoly meant very little improvement in CPU speed.
It's always curious to me how Apple's superior products are somehow some other company's fault.
The CEO at the time of the McAfee acquisition was Paul Otellini -- an MBA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otellini.
> access to unskilled, unmotivated labor is really that profitable for most modern industries

It depends on how we qualify "modern" industries, but there's definitely a market for unskilled warm bodies. Recycling triage could be an example of that: the result is simple enough to assess that you can set a dozen of people on a line and adjust reward/punishment depending on the results. And it's definitely a modern problem.

The other aspect: while there will be better ways to do it, it won't beat the price of "slave" as long as there's no other risks in participating in the system.

In a very dark way, it's pretty hard to beat "almost free" through sheer technical advancement.
There's definitely a lot that can be critiqued about that period.

Famously they divested their ARM-based mobile processor division just before smartphones took off.

The new CEO, as the article mentions, seems to have a lot more of a clue. We just hope he hasn't arrived too late.
See also 'Why are you changing gc-cons-threshold?' <https://bling.github.io/blog/2016/01/18/why-are-you-changing...>
Curious as to how the code base evolved after forking from clickhouse
https://gid.pdp-11.ru/a/mpss/mpss86-04.html

https://gid.pdp-11.ru/a/mpss/mpss84-04.html
Tab means however many spaces visually you want. This is literally the argument for tabs over spaces.
I think we mostly agree, but this is a particularly interesting point

> I would not cite Japan's drug laws, as well as plenty of other laws in their legal system, as the paragon for the world to follow either.

Japan is one of the (if not _the_) healthiest countries in the world. Further, US has one of the worst medical malpractice rates in the developed world.

Why would we _not_ cite Japans drug laws or any of their medical practices as a paragon for the world? Certainly we would in relation the US healthcare.
I'm sure that's so they can keep from reducing the life expectancy of the owners too drastically.
Aignorance
After years of working in Typescript I've been doing a Dart project for the last 6 months or so. Overall it's a great language but one of the clunky aspects is the use of code generation for so many things. If this can reduce or even eliminate that it will be a big step forward for devX.
so are sprints out or not?
I guess they needed to find something after the bootleg VHS/DVD movie market dried up? :-P
The iPhone also came with a great data deal for the time, as I recall.
I don't really understand Nostr. Without having your own personal relay or website, how can you publish your public key? (or without a trusted centralized authority)

And if you do have a website where you publish your private key, why wouldn't you just publish your content there?

How do you manage public keys you trust? Is this something a client implementation should do?

What happens when all relays you write to go down? You lost all your followers? How would they learn of the new relays you write to? Doesn't really make sense in terms of free speech. Sure, you can still write/publish but if no one knows where anymore isn't that the same as having disappeared/been banned?

I do understand that "nostr is just the protocol" but what makes this usable at all in practice?
In case anyone else finds this interesting, the DOD has night vision goggles which have nearly-zero latency (all analog), amplify much better than digital cameras, and emit very little external light (hard to spot by adversaries).

This veritasium video at 12:00 shows how these goggles work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeJHAFjwPM

That said I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the DOD was buying them for general tech exploration though.
I think it's a fantastic ship to smuggle drugs and weapons, so every high profile crime organisation on the planet will desire one, maybe yours, gratis ... admitting they can really deliver the ships without going out of business.
We believe that third party browsers should be allowed to compete fairly on iOS using the same engines they safely deliver to every other platform. Further, that Web Apps enabled by the functionality, stability and security delivered via intense competition between browsers should allow developers to bypass and contest the gatekeepers App Store via the world's only truly interoperable platform, the Web.

With this in mind OWA has been looking over Apple’s proposals for compliance with the EU’s Digital Markets Act to determine whether Apple intends to genuinely comply with its legal obligations regarding browsers and web apps. As OWA has argued at length, true choice in browsers is the most important counterbalance to gatekeeper monopoly power, so the answer to this question matters enormously.

Unfortunately so far it appears that the answer is "no".

Our analysis digs into the following questions:
- Will browser vendors be effectively able to bring their own engine to iOS?
- Will browser vendors be able to implement proper web app support on iOS?
- Will browser vendors be able to compete fairly with Safari?

Lets dig in
This data is actually public and scrapable. Here’s a (non-official) chart for CA:

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/H1B-Salary--in-Califor...

Considering US DOL didn’t count stock comp for prevailing wage (at least last i checked) it would not surprise me if over 50% do in fact clear 250k in total gross comp
I think Dart really suffered from missteps in the early days. Originally, Dart didn't seem like anything special and it kinda wasn't. It was a dynamic language where optional type hints were suggestions and it'd be run in a VM just like JS and seemed like JS with some slight differences.

It feels like Dart became a completely different language that just happens to have the same name. It's now statically typed, has AOT compilation, null safety, etc.

I think that left Dart in a weird place in terms of mindshare. A lot of people likely looked at Dart 1, didn't see a real place for it, and haven't gone back to it. Google was also highly ambivalent about Dart for a while and most of the mindshare went to Go (despite the fact that I suspect most would prefer Dart).

In the end, it feels like Dart is lacking the ecosystem that other languages have. There's so much written for JS or Python or C# by comparison and so much of Dart seems to be in order to support Flutter.

Rust somewhat occupies its own place in the universe: people who want something a lot stricter than ordinary static languages where there's still a GC and still some runtime stuff. However, I think if Dart got more momentum it could be seen as a nice alternative to Java, JS/TS, C#, Python, etc. Note: I'm not saying that Dart has no momentum, but as you note it's mainly for Flutter.
> There are things that can be done with HTTP that cannot be done with cURL.

Such as?
python is also extremely fragile compared to something compiled

just setting up the python env to run the "script" requires a ton of bash (or simpler python)

of course it's true in all cases that if you know what's your supported/required/target environment is, then just a few lines of bash/python is enough. but the wider the spectrum of complexity one must handle the more it pays off to front load said managing, and distribute a compact and powerful program with few dependencies and as minimal complicated bootstrap steps as possible.
Clearly, Cruise should've trained their AI by having other vehicles hit pedestrians into them.
500MB for such a complete product is tiny! The largest CDN in the world ships 10GB+ binaries. 1G is common for large code bases if you link things statically. The bloat tends to come from transitive dependencies, most direct code is small in size
Qt supports this too:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/webgl.html

I've used this to let friends on IRC paint on my LED shelf (https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht), which has a Qt-based embedded and phone app GUI, over the internet. Cheap fun!
Microsoft engineer says firm thwarted exposing DALL-E 3 safety flaws to WA AG
The whole point of Buddhism is to become a Buddha and not waste any effort in the idolization of an imagined external Buddha, be it in image or scripture. This is a matter beyond words or mental believe. So what is the point of an LLM'ification of Buddha/Buddhism?
I was curious about this so I tried surfing the web and seeing how I click on things. I am literally unable to click on buttons or text inputs without actually looking at them. If I try to only use a corner of my eye, I miss the buttons 90% of the time. How do people not look at what they are clicking?
> Democratic donors have openly stated that demographic changes would help them win more elections.

How does "illegal immigration" impact this? You know undocumented workers cannot vote, right? Hell, you know documented, legal, residents also cannot vote? The only people who get to vote in US elections are US citizens.

Demographics shifts obviously help the modern DNC, for the same reason it helped the GOP a century ago: Conservatism is definitionally rooted in having minimal demographic variance (be it race, gender, religion, or whatever), so if you have two parties one of which says "only this group matters" and the other says "more than that one group matters", then increasing the demographic variation will always favor the latter, because for anyone not in the ideal conservative demographic will see that party as actively targeting them.

It's also important to be careful when saying "look at elections from the past", because a lot of laws were passed in many countries in the late 20th century to address a variety of biased laws that impacted the voting power of targeted blocks. In the US there was redlining which prevented specific demographics from voting in specific areas of the country, coupled with extensive gerrymandering this allows large scale disenfranchisement that is still being undone by the courts today, even though redlining itself became "illegal" in the 80s. There are a wide array of actions that occurred in the states you're talking about through the decades you referenced and onwards to now, that both made it possible for demographics to shift where previously people were functionally banned, and to reduce the disenfranchisement of demographics that were already present. None of that resulted in "illegal immigrants" impacting elections though, because again, non-citizens cannot vote in US elections (even though they pay taxes in the country that produced "no taxation without representation").

As an additional note, because of US government representation being determined by total population, and not "legal voters" the abuse of biased law enforcement is hits multiple times: first off victims of that bias lose representation, but then regions that get prisons get increased voting power. If you're in a region with 1000 people, but have a prison that has 5000 prisoners, then you get the congressional representation that comes from 6000 people, but only 1000 of them get to vote. Again, prisoners should be able to vote. Felons should be able to vote. Ex-cons should be allowed to vote. If there are enough of those groups to impact election outcomes, then it's a reasonable assumption that law enforcement is being used as a tool to restrict voting rights (Something that multiple people from the Nixon and Reagan administrations have explicitly stated was the reason for how the "war on drugs" was set up).
I don't think Macs really amounted to much $ in sales for Intel, compared to e.g. Dell etc.
Honestly I think the real deathwatch started during spectre/meltdown. Intel had a real choice. They could own the issue, patch and use it as a chance to retool a largely broken architecture when corporate money was still 0% interest or negative interest.

They didnt. Every press conference downplayed deflected and denied the performance issues, every patch to the Linux kernel was "disabled by default." They lied through their teeth and real players like amazon vultr and other hosting providers in turn left for AMD.
I think what the commenter is trying to get at is the name sounds like something that would brand a powerbank you'd buy on Amazon.
When I looked into who is actually hiring H1-Bs, I was shocked to see it was mostly bodyshops. See: https://www.mbacrystalball.com/blog/2022/02/07/h1b-visa-stat...

The majority of "Top H1-B Recruiters" are in the "Professional and Technical Services" industry. I think people imagine that most immigrants on H1-B visas are being paid princely sums directly by FAANG companies. Instead the reality looks like they're being exploited by the same Indian bodyshops like Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, Tech Mahindra, etc. Of the companies in that list that aren't bodyshops, the majority aren't in IT.

Aside from all of the obvious problems with the system, and the political implications, I think many people really have the wrong impression about who the real beneficiaries of the H1-B visa system are.
Dogcow by Apple
It seems like the dealer doesn't accept the warranty.

The warranty comes from the manufacturer.

The warranty from the manufacturer takes place in the manufacturer state of indiana.

By the way, most RV manufacturers nowadays have been bought and merged into one company (I think it is probably thor).
PyScript maintainer here - I'd love to hear more about this application! Either here, or over on our Discord (invite link is on the GitHub Page [1]).

[1] https://github.com/pyscript/pyscript?tab=readme-ov-file#summ...
https://archive.ph/2024.01.29-165444/https://www.rollingston...
Snowden seems to have a much better life than he would in a federal prison, don't you think?

Doesn't Putin have an incentive to show that he treats defectors well?
Is it just the fate of large successful companies? The parallels with Boeing always come to mind. We’ve seen this play out so many times through history, it’s why investing in the top companies of your era is a terrible idea.

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_archive/f...

I wonder how many of our companies will survive at the top for even 20 more years?

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

Berkshire is the only one I feel sure about because they hold lots of different companies.
thunderbolt 4 switch.
just like the legal disclaimer the purchaser signed. :)
As someone who has written plenty of Java and JavaScript, Dart feels way more enjoyable to write. It just does. Maybe it's because I was less experienced when starting with Java and JavaScript, but it felt like there was a much smaller learning curve with Dart, too. I imagine it helps that I'm writing it in Android Studio, a JetBrains product, but I find the ergonomics better than even Kotlin. If you want to use it outside Flutter, you probably will wish it had a larger ecosystem, depending on what you're trying to write.
And the manufacturing failed to save them:

[...] when Intel’s manufacturing prowess hit a wall Intel’s designs were exposed. Gelsinger told me: 'So all of a sudden, as Warren Buffet says, “You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” [...]'
There was a lot of work before Lilienthal but he was the first to demonstrate heavier than air flight, which was a really important step in the history of human flight. The Wright brothers basically copied Chanute-Herring's design, as another user already pointed out. Their design was in turn an improvement on Lilienthal's. The Wrights had studied all of that, they said that Lilienthal inspired them to get into flight. So maybe without him, they would never have worked on it.

That said, there were many others working on gliders both before and after Lilenthal. It's interesting seeing the progress over time, in retrospect. Makes you think about our modern age. The general public was extremely skeptical that "flying machines" would ever work. It's still the same today, with out modern tech innovation. We could have so much more progress if the majority were more open minded and into experimentation. They mock inventors until the invention actually works, and then after a few years everyone pretends like it had always been obvious.
One, maybe two escalator repairs. After a few years of making us walk up stairs.

Yes, I'm bitter. I don't know how these things are so expensive and take so long.
Intel is a product of corporate cancer that is management consulting.
What the heck is going on with the UX job market?
OpenAI launches ability for users to invoke GPTs directly in chats by typing " "
A disadvantage in what way? Unless I'm missing something this just sounds like markets being markets. As a worker, why would I accept a job that pays less and requires me to live in Alabama if I can do better?
Sure. But Linux doesn't do any of that any better than another OS, and the remaining 5% there's a decent chance it disrupts their workflow, and is thus worse. The effort of switching alone is a substantial downside, so Linux needs some substantial advantage towards accomplishing a desired task to get people to switch from other OSes.

For developers, Linux is often worth switching to because so many dev tools have first-class Linux support, or are Linux-only. Most other domains aren't like that.
I think you're being unfair to Fruit Ninja. It's a real game with it's own community and the creator recently did a YouTube video about it.

Same creators as Jetpack Joyride.
What? Why would a degree matter. Either an employee is worth sponsoring or they aren't, regardless of degree. Degrees are largely a waste of time.
Yes.
My experience with youth church groups is they can be just as bad as high school groups. Just with some extra guilt and holier-than-thou providing even more extra dimensions for peer-judgment.

So scale that up on-line. Brutal.
> Clinician lead process

could you tl;dr what does that mean, why the English one relatively failed, and how it would have fared better with a clinician led version? thanks!
I wonder if this is allowed under Medicare or private insurance. It doesn't seem like the insurer should be willing to pay as high a fee if the doctor effectively isn't taking liability like they normally would.
"That's the case for many, if not most public companies."

But even if true what effect does that have on her arguments. She never claims having these relationships is unusual. She only states that the minority shareholders were not informed about them.

"Yet, it amounted to a huge gamble - multiplying the value of a 50B company by over 10x -, which in case of success the board agreed to reward with 6% of shares."

Her opinion emphasises that Musk indicated, repeatedly, he had no intention of ever leaving Tesla. What was the gamble. No matter what happens he still stays working there forever. Where is the leverage. Musk was even dumb enough to admit he was "negotiating against himself".

Try going to your boss, promising you will never, ever leave and then ask them for a raise.^1 Imagine the boss has no personal relationship with you and acts in the best interests of the company.

1. Just in case anyone becomes confused: I am not suggesting what Musk was "negotiating" was a "raise", I am simply using as a hypothetical a more common scenario amongst mere mortals where compensation is being negotiated and the threat of leaving can be used as leverage.
Yup ... it's not lost on folks where the original design came about
I code in PyCharm but I don't use most of the features. I mostly appreciate the autocomplete for certain parts of the code and the syntax underlining, but perhaps an LSP would help with that. Besides that, I like using command line for everything. I dig your minimalist approach.
You can Google it. Few people seem to know this and love to argue in circles about what H1bs make but all H1B salary data is public.

You can even search by company and see how much your colleagues make for each job title (no names though)

Strange but true.
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>Do you have experience living in any variety of urban areas in first world countries outside of the US?

The vast, vast majority of Americans have never even been outside the US (except maybe to Canada, and possibly Mexican tourist spots), let alone lived outside the US in a first-world country, and this includes the OP and most people on HN. It's why reading comments on urbanism on forums like this is both entertaining (because it's so wrong and US-centric) and depressing.
Thankfully, if a page is cached you can still use the 'cache:' command to retrieve the cached version - e.g., cache:https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
So what if a few pedestrians have to die along the way, the business model must not be disrupted.
Adult is relative. Is it 18? 25?
Because chemistry and IT/swe are not the same jobs. And America also needs chemists
>VAX and 68000 ABIs sadly and (really, unnecessarily) used the stack, leaving a lot of performance on the table.

AmigaOS uses registers for parameter passing on m68k.

a0/a1 and d0/d1 are scratch (and also the first to be used to pass or return pointers or values). The rest you're meant to preserve.

Atari TOS (probably inherited from CP/M for m68k) unfortunately uses the stack.
It's beautiful engineering (if real), but all I can think about is the number of people that could be fed, housed, and educated for that amount of money.

The world could be made a permanently (slightly) better place instead of building this.
Excellent article.

I'm going to have to look at some of your other material.

Experimentation is different than other research or engineering but I think anything that amounts to a "system" can benefit from a systems problem solver who can perform as needed across the whole system.

Any organization is fortunate to have a person who can go without routine or typical workdays and do this.

It does seem like the bigger companies which have the most clearly defined roles can eventually get by on momentum without having anyone at all in a creative problem-solving position.

OTOH a small outfit can deploy unique problem-solving ability using only a handful of people that many corporations have none of. So the "very, very best people" may be what can get the momentum going to begin with given the right opportunity.
I’d also add that a lot of the rhetoric in the cryptocurrency world is based on this very board game-y mentality where it’s like a contest to set the rules up so you win, which completely misses that in the real-world people just choose not to follow your preferred rules.

No police force says “oh, you have impregnable cryptography and a 42 character password, well, we only have one prisoner slot so you can go free now”.