skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numbers speak better though. Usage stats show, that with AMD open driver stack becoming very competitive, Linux users are gradually preferring AMD to Nvidia for gaming GPUs. The only thing that's holding AMD back now is sketchy availability of high end cards.

And for low end and integrated cards, using Intel or AMD APU is an obvious choice, especially in laptops. Optimus is such a horrible mess, that no Linux users should come anywhere close to it.
In June, 2003 Italian astrophysicists used radio signals from the Cassini satellite to test general relativity when the sun was between Earth and Cassini -

(paywall, but nice summary in the non-paywalled abstract)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01997

https://www-n.oca.eu/Mignard/Grex/Presentations_pdf/Grex04_B...

https://physicsworld.com/a/general-relativity-passes-cassini...
If by governments you mean people who are tasked with thinking about the negative implications of policy and technology on other human beings and (hopefully) opting to act in ways to minimizing negative consequences for society while balancing the needs and human rights of people, then yes.
Disagree, it is a kernel error if it cannot gracefully deal with removable media being, you know, removed.
I have distinct memories of people buying PC hardware specifically because it came with a "compatible with Windows Vista" sticker, and they were thinking of switching.

I didn't read any "holier-than-thou" sentiment in the parent comment. It's not unreasonable to expect users to think about the things they want to be compatible with when buying hardware.

"I want to be able to use the next version of Windows"... buy hardware that's known to be compatible with the next version of Windows. "I want to use this printer from my iPad"... buy a printer known to be compatible with that model of iPad. "I want to use this printer from GNU/Linux"... buy a printer known to be compatible with GNU/Linux. "I want to use OpenBSD"... buy hardware that's known to be compatible with OpenBSD. "I want to use Ubuntu 17.10"... buy hardware that's known to be compatible with Wayland.
Sure, junior devs will usually outpace senior devs (especially looking at LOC). But in the end, did they produce robust, reliable, fault-tolerant code that is easy to understand, extend and most importantly delete?

I'd like to hear more specifics on this project. Especially why if junior team A and senior team B were already working for 3 years, why was team C introduced? Did they save the day?

I'm really curious about the final outcome and any learnings you might have had.
which is what really matters

Says who? This isn't a debate and you're not the debate moderator.

For my money, interesting things about the author are absolutely on topic. They help us put what we're reading in context.

And opinions are okay here too.
Same here. Had to check that I had JavaScript turned on.
Motl
Assume I know 0 math and want to learn mathematics for mathematics sake. What is the most gentle intro to algebra book?
I have a feeling that that is because refined sugar is absorbed in a different manner than the sugar in juice. Just speculation though.
That line is three years old, so how is this news now? And what's this "i wonder," do we not know how to use git here?

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/c4cd7c1dc41a0...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/6edf56775f256...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/4c30cd08af9dd...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/0652274db0aee...
Ask HN: Jobs in NYC that are “low level” outside of finance and adtech
Looking for insight into what type of roles one can get in NYC that require deeper understanding of systems and low level stuff than your usual application developer. Kinda “eh” about working for trendy big tech company as well, doing that now and it’s getting a bit old now that I’m in my mid 30s.

Don’t see too much embedded systems and the like in NYC, but could be wrong. Please tell me I’m wrong :-)

I found this neat post that confirms what I’ve already been thinking, that going lower in the stack is the way to “age gracefully” in tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19100129

But struggling to find such roles in NYC that aren’t hedge funds or adtech
This looks just like AWesomeWM - Only more awesome!
Interesting..
Wait till you get validating cert chain without the carts issuing cert. following AIA fun stuff the things cert issuers can return
It's going to fundamentally be a different group of people and that will make it different.

Some technical differences:

It uses tags to try to categorize stuff somewhat. Unlike on HN, your threads page also has links to your posts, a feature I requested probably at a point where it was basically me and the guy coding it up kicking around ideas for a forum.

It's grown substantially in a short period of time, but it's still very new and if you want to shape a forum into a place with the kinds of discussion that interests you, it's an opportunity to do that.
Cocaine was used in many medicines at the time.

Coke was pretty good about getting it out of their product when people realized it had bad effects- before any serious public discontent over cocaine was popular
100% agreed.

>(If it decreases between 1B and 10B views on such content, and if we assume one person falling for it each 100,000 views, it will prevent 10,000 to 100,000 "falls") 14/

What does this sentence even mean? It's very hard to parse to the point of being incoherent.

The fact that people have gone from writing long-form essays to "twitter threads" to argue something is tragic.
Great tip, I feel more and more that my company has ancient tech that they still adhere to (basically as massive VM riddled with third party expensive proprietary software making it impossible to eat our own dog food even) and I now have three choices 1: Learn it and grow in this company but get stuck, 2: Force modern scaleable ways upon them (I've seen people try and fail but I hear more and more employees complain, perhaps I can be the one to lead change) or 3: Leave. I think I'll make this decision within 1 or 2 years (still a lot to learn).

But I feel more and more that growing in this company may be a trap.
I don't mean to be rude, but I think it's very unfortunate that so many people think they have a right to intrude into the marriage of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, especially to pronounce judgments upon its terrible ending. It's the cheapest, easiest, and lowest form of "Lit Crit."
Because it's an important distinction. OP is using "voter fraud" to refer to voters acting fraudulently, and "election fraud" to refer to election officials acting fraudulently. Of particular importance here is that the former is relatively rare (despite scaremongering by one side of the political spectrum) while the latter is decidedly less so.

Also, legally, neither one is treason.
There is a word in applied behavior analysis: enrichment. An animal kept in a plain concrete cage develops stereotyping behaviors (pacing back and forth endlessly, rubbing so much on the same corner that fur falls out). The solution is enrichment, adding things to the environment that engage attention and are reinforcing at a healthy level when engaged with. What qualifies as the right amount of enrichment varies. A box turtle needs a few interesting objects to turn over, drag around, break, crawl over. A cockatoo...a cockatoo will engage to destruction with everything you have the mental space to give it and then start on your house. They're like toddlers with high intelligence and beaks that can bite through wood. (We do not have a cockatoo.)

When you accept all this stuff into your world, it is for enrichment. So is playing sports with friends who having a cup of tea and catching up with someone.

I have found that my guilt over not keeping up went away entirely when I switched to this. I don't have an obligation to this stuff. It has an obligation to me for giving it rent-free space in my head.
You phrase that as though there is a real choice here. There is not. The open source community has had experience with how to interact with closed source drivers since the Linux 0.01 in 1991 and that experience screams "don't do it". Xorg has been a technical disaster for more than a decade; I have sympathy for the people who want to use Nvidia cards, but they are going to have to use X.org and like it anyway because that is all Nvidia supports.

Attempting to run a project based on the opinions of a group of Nvidia devs who (1) don't care about your project and (2) don't care about your goals is technical madness. It took the kernel more than a decade of stubbornness before all the other device driver writers caved and supported decent design. As far as I recall Nvidia is literally the last major device driver who refuses to play ball with open source. If Nvidia users can't use Wayland for driver reasons that is because of Nvidia's choices and there isn't anything the Wayland devs can do without repeating all the mistakes of X.org.

If it takes another decade before Nvidia caves and behaves like a good corporate citizen then that is a decade well spent by the Wayland devs. Long term maintainability will eventually trump short term user issues; just like it did for wifi et al. It is unfortunate Nvidia is making their user's lives hard, but the writing has been on the wall since AMD started open sourcing their driver stack in the 2008 era.
I’ve seen this happen even within the same (large) company. Someone is a director level who has maybe 100 reports. The entire product gets cut. The IC’a find other jobs within the company. There are only so many Director level positions around and many of them are achieved organically. The ex-director then goes somewhere else as a regular engineering manager unlikely to ever have such a position again.
> but these weren't exactly topics of discussion on this thread before you brought them up

Well, we're sorry we didn't recognise you as the discussion warden, but I think that's how a conversation works: people are free to bring up the points that they feel relevant, and people can either continue the train of thought or not. If it has no appeal to you, you're free to let it die a natural death rather than make pronouncements on what's relevant or not.
Then please explain how would you create a patch where the only new content is a loop around the existing call to write but “sell” it “with a duck“ easier?
Not the OP, but I presume they meant RSA can only be used to encrypt really short messages.

More typically to sign a message, RSA is used to sign a hash of the message.
Right yeah, true. Also, I probably wasn't adhering to the HN guideline please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.[1]

My bad, sorry about that.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it more likely companies adjusted their salary bands to be at least in the ballpark of each other, so you either need to move locations or take a “riskier” job if you want an automatic large bump in salary. There are clearly exceptions to this, but in general, companies have started to wise up.
Do you mean people who abuse carbs? Fatty foods don’t really get you. It’s the carbs.
I am saying that taxi medallions have an impact on competition - that is a more appropriate analogy given the magnitude. It boosts the start up expense of competition considerably as opposed to just processing and serving the data at a discounted rate as a 'mirror'. Assuming about 30 KiB per page a mere Gigabyte comes out to about ~$3500. Which is vastly more than the about $0.08 of cost of 1 GB storage space.

It is a well known phenomenon given things like how quixotic the article 13 upload filter is because the expense locks out new competitors.
> Nouveau works. Use it instead.
No it doesn't. I have dual GPU laptop Intel UHD 620/Geforce MX 150 and until I blacklist nouveau the laptop is unusable. It either won't boot or when it boots will freeze the system every 30 sec for 10 sec making it unusable.
Bach also cribbed a lot of well known work. The four harpsichord concerto is almost a transcription of a Vivaldi four violin concerto. The man had music to produce, and he borrowed from everywhere. We just don't remember it because in most cases he was such an amazing technician that it eclipsed the original.
I went to a talk recently [1] in which the researcher explained a theory of the origin of life where early cell membranes were based on amyloids. The theory can be described as ocean vent metabolism and amino-acid first (as opposed to tide pool and radiation/lightning RNA) and it's definitely not the most accepted theory but it's pretty interesting. Here's an open paper [2] and the speaker's homepage [3]

[1] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-buenaventura-embs-talk-fig...

[2] https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/174...

[3] https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Russell/
Ask HN: How common is it to use alcohol or other drugs for code augmentation?
I think he just got the last two phrases backwards :)
Wait. I'm reading that differently.

I read it as saying $31 billion in revenue since Android was released, not in 2016 alone. That was more than 10 years ago.

And of that $31 billion, $22 billion is profit.

Finally, a lot of that revenue came from payments made to Google by handset operators, not app developer fees.
>> I am not sure if the title of "staff/principle" can be transferred

It usually can, actually, assuming you're going to a company of roughly the same stature. I.e. if work at a small company, your title doesn't mean much when going to a large company unless you're otherwise known in your field. And if you're a Staff engineer working at e.g. FANG, you can demand the "God Emperor" type title at a small company and you'll probably get it if they feel they need you.

The only things that matter are really:

1. Whether you'd enjoy the work

2. How much you get paid

Titles are arbitrary and they don't mean anything outside a particular company. Even between otherwise comparable companies there are significant misalignments, see e.g. https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Microsoft
It's not like you really have do anything but download with your package manager and add it to your .xinitrc or xsession files if you just want a vanilla experience.
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Never use an airplane blanket again
You need better advisors. Bach's technical chops were so high that omitting large parts of the performance practice still leads to an amazing piece, but it can't be considered a competent performance.
Yep, that's the trade-off. Volunteer projects just aren't going to do whatever it takes, because market share doesn't override all other considerations.

But maybe that's okay. With a viable alternative, we can be patient.
So use the Intel GPU instead.
This is pretty insightful!

To me this capture the right gist of being more valuable than senior eng.

Next for principal, it must involve business decision. Their work must noticeablely affect top or bottom line of the company.
"OpenLisp is a KISS (Keep It Stupid Simple) full conforming implementation of..." You might want to rephrase that.
I think it is very hard for a principal engineer who is also managing people to be effectively plugged into all the things going on that make him/her a "principal" engineer while also being an effective manager, and vice versa.
> Tay is an instance of deliberate manipulation, but YouTube is a case of wrong incentives.

I think it near-certain that YouTube is both. Considering the obvious value of getting your video into as many people's recommendation streams as possible, there's surely a whole "SEO, but for YouTube" industry out there, working furiously to game the system.

Anecdotally (albeit not "an industry" per se), on a number of occasions I've observed... let's call them "radical activist groups", organising off-YouTube to flood a favoured video or channel with activity, with the explicit goal of causing YouTube to make it more visible to "the masses".
Since this post is about to vanish, I'd like to post again and reaffirm the notion that it's unethical for WP to not disclose their conflict of interest about this article. Y'all need to quit with the echo chamber antics. Bezos is not yours, or my, friend. He's a modern-day robber baron.
And “OK” is how you described violence in the absence of a genuine threat, which is not an objective statement of “what people will actually do” but a subjective endorsement.
At some point in a startup, you need to be all-in. No half measures. That is how it works. So if the board wants you to join full-time as CTO, I don't see why that is an issue. You can be a part-time "employee" if you want, but you need to be a full-time CTO. It is about skin in the game. Either you are all-in or you are not.

Also, don' work for free. The startup is 3 years old and CTO still works without any pay ? Something is strange here.
During the transition period and while I am still part-timer, should I work without pay for a VC funded company?!
I agree about grapefruit juice. I stopped drinking orange juice years ago but do occasionally drink grapefruit juice.
But I am also at this weird point where I am not sure if the title of "staff/principle" can be transferred to another company. A lot of the value that I add now is because of the historical knowledge I have.

That happened to me, and in my opinion and experience:

. Now you're competing with other managers for managerial roles

. The way you sell yourself for a managerial role is different, and in some ways a lot harder, than an individual contributor

. You have the option of gunning for 'lead' roles that aren't necessarily managing staff. That's what I do.

. You also have the option of architect roles, which is also what I do.

You're a higher tier employee now, and you're now competing with others of that tier level. While for most of us it's actually harder, not easier, to find roles that match, the plus side is there's a reputation and comp upside.

The exception to the last paragraph are those that constantly broadcast on social media and make a name for themselves that way and doing presentations at conferences, etc. Not my cup of tea, personally.
Ok, but why would the CTO work for free even in a part time bases?
Miners are increasingly moving to specialized ASICs anyway. Which is good for gamers who needs GPUs :)
Great write up. That said I found the section about nvidia drivers confusing.

> All three are necessary for most Wayland compositors. Only the first two are implemented by the Nvidia proprietary driver.

Ok. But what about nouveau? Is nvidia supported using the open-source drivers (the only ones I will use) or are these drivers too lacking?

Are the wlroots developers completely disregarding nvidia-support over issues only found with the proprietary drivers, or are there actual unworkable nvidia issues regardless of driver used?
:) appreciate the straightforwardness - it seems like it has limited use; maybe people starting out new in sales or customer support who need to memorize scripts might get use out of it?
I'm discovering amazing content every day thanks to YouTube recommendations, mostly in the diy and construction / technology categories. Haven't seen a single conspiracy video yet.
“Me and PRIM”
Market share is probably not comparable.
Question for those in this thread who want to see 'conspiracy theory' content either not recommended/promoted or censored outright: do you also want the same thing for videos that support your own ideologies? For example if you are a liberal Democrat (as I imagine most of us here are), do you question YouTube's recommendation engine when you click and follow video recommendations towards videos you hit 'Like' on? Aren't hyperactive users skewing recommendations by promoting fringe political views (e.g. socialism) in those instances?

To be clear, I don't want to turn this into a debate of left versus right or about what is fringe and what isn't. If there is a problem with the quality of recommendations on YouTube, I believe it exists more broadly and not just with 'conspiracy theory' content. My point therefore is to question whether this recent noise about YouTube recommendations is really about the algorithms or if it is just about the power dynamics between groups of people who have different opinions and want to block ideas they disagree with personally.

After all, isn't it just a vocal minority of hyperactive Internet users who are complaining about YouTube's recommendations and fomenting Internet outrage about it in the first place?
"You don't have to sue"

There is literally an App[1] to track the progress of the hundreds of FOIA lawsuits outstanding at any given moment. The federal Government routinely denies FOIA requests and forces applicants to pursue them in court. If attributing this to Trump would help you inculcate this reality then have a look at this[2]. Agencies are deliberately not investing in IT systems that would serve to facilitate FOIA, according to MIT[3].

1. http://foiaproject.org/lawsuit/
2. http://foiaproject.org/2018/01/16/lawsuits-trump-first-year/
3. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3097047/software/the-fbi-is-...

Now that your objection to a key premise of this story has been comprehensively discredited, perhaps you might make the necessary world view adjustment and reconsider your conclusion.

BTW, the foiaproject links above are concerned only with Federal FOIA; similar state laws exist and the number of FOIA lawsuits at the state level are legion. Your governments are actively thwarting FOIA at every level.
well, Alzheimer's has been highly correlated with diabetes (which diabetes is correlated with gum disease), so its hard to tell. If I were to guess, given if there is a correlation with gum disease and Alzheimer's, I would bet my money that what ever causes gum disease also causes at least some Alzheimer's - not that being treated for gum disease causes it.
I think this is very personal and you shouldn't assume this for everyone. I personally find general -> specific MUCH better, in fact this is how I learn mathematics. I first learn group in abstract, then I study dihedral group, symmetry groups etc... If done the other way around I'm always confused as to what are rules of the game.
You can get Errors & Omissions (E&O) policy using a broker such as https://techinsurance.com. They will help you find deals with various companies. No affiliation but I have been using them for 5+ years for our business. It can cost you a few hundred USD per year on an average. If you are starting out, you could probably get it under $500 for the first year.
Around here, that’s mostly a cost issue. Hawaii for example has a real obesity problem relating to fruits and fruit juces.

However, insulin response is not just about total calories. Fruit juice is at the extreme edge becase of how rapidly you can consume and absorb sugar.
Not in C, there isn't.
But why does every single DE has to reinvent the wheel with hotkeys? Why can't we have that provided by Wayland? (or maybe by libhotkey, if you wish). Why so much effort in replicating the same functionality over and over must be wasted in the entire linux ecosystem?
It is not abuse, it is biochemistry. Your body is extremely efficient at absorbing carbs because in nature they only appear mostly encapsulated in fiber which gates their abortion. If you absorb a large amount of sugar your body has to immediately turn it to fat with insulin or you die. This results in a situation where you have met your caloric needs for the day but you will get very hungry again even though you met your needs. Most people can't deal with that and succumb to the natural desire to eat. The high sugar loading destroys your satiety mechanisms.