skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What causes our systemic issues? And what role do you believe embedded growth obligations play in the institutions involved in those issues?
The problem is that the article does not describe a repeatable process. Maybe the author's experience is repeatable, but that is not part of the content. The most critical component was the marketing, i.e. "going viral" on Twitter. Some marketing firms specialize in doing so and seem to have skill, yet I see no indication of where the author intentionally took steps to achieve that effect. Therefore, yes, it does seem like the author "got lucky".
I yearn for the return of that attitude, polite conversation of differences and the tolerance and rational discussion of nuanced issues which makes it possible.
Do you do any picture-in-picture of other apps with heavy CPU utilization, or apply any filters (chroma key/crop) or animated overlays? Multiple cameras or input sources? Multiple audio sources?

The framerate was terrible, the entire machine would lag, and the audio would constantly glitch out at best. Saved recordings were unwatchable.

I tried tweaking everything with the process priorities in OBS and the other apps, and could never get an acceptable result. AMD ThinkPad worked out of the box, did everything I described above, and CPU utilization stayed around 2-3%, and I couldn't even notice it was running while using other apps. All of this while I had it hooked up to extend the desktop onto 3 monitors. Streams and recordings are flawless.
Ask HN: Are database stored procedures overkill?
My manager is telling me to use stored procedures (in context of SQLServer) for the reasons of security (using active directory security groups), faster performance, and easier maintenance. His experience from what I understand is working in a windows dev shop from a while ago.

Arguing against his points, I see it as
1) You can control access to pages or functionality application side
2) Increased performance gains is negligible for our apps as we don't have much traffic.
3) Maintenance may be debatable. Have to now source control database code.

Typically, I have a wrapper around an odbc library that connects to our database instance. I define my SQL queries in the codebase and use prepared statements.

I frankly was a little mad when he questioned my lack of stored procedure usage, but not my call if he wants me to do it this way.

Anyways, I'm looking to start a discussion on this as I like insight from fellow developers on how they've used stored procedures in their career.
It wasn't so much a prediction as an observation of an incipient trend that went dormant and re-emerged. Post-modern attacks on Enlightenment ideals such as free thought and free speech were common on campuses in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then went dormant in the mid-90s, then re-emerged in the early 2010s.
Wouldn't be the first time a mattress company got involved in that space. Casper sponsors the Slate Political Gabfest podcast, or used to at least.
Similar in concept: http://youarelistening.to/ but just overlaying not melding the two.
Radiation from Chornobyl affected large area, but not whole world. People die from radiation induced cancer in affected areas only, of course.
Use freedom-respecting non-profit social networks instead: https://joinmastodon.org.
Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/678/
The rising challenges of developer education and productivity
Same as Wine: none, since they are required to be 100% black-box reimplementations. No one who contributes to Wine is allowed to even look at the original Microsoft source code.
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Also false, many people who you would claim are affected by “structural inequality” and who are more focused with improving their individual conditions also do not have time to concern themselves with politics.

Example is myself. I am a child of poor immigrants. I am neither white nor wealthy. I do not care about involving myself in your politics, I spend my time focused on working and being productive for the sake of supporting my family. Frankly your politics destroyed my country.
People what to change an X
but can not make one theirself
so find someone who sell an X
that fits the willing

(x={icon,...})
No, I wouldn't, but I don't know how that is relevant. If a mattress company refused to sell mattresses to gay people, I wouldn't do business with that mattress company, and I would also approve of employees of that mattress company taking part in political activism to oppose that practice.
Not only that, but according to the JHU dashboard, the number of infections are increasing again and not that far off of their previous peak, unlike their neighbors whose new peaks appear to be lower so far.

Dashboard here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
> but it supports ancient K&R C syntax, without such goodies like subscript operator or character literals. Still I prefer ancient C than ancient assembly language

A thought occurs to me: would it be possible to use that compiler to bootstrap your way to a modern C dialect? At one point, there were no C89 compilers. So, one would have to write a C89 compiler in K&R. Or am I failing to appreciate just how much work it would be?
Google has specifically said it _won't_ do this sort of thing (health data will not be made available for advertising, either within Google or [obviously] externally).
I have a lot of sympathy for this view, especially since 'hobby' platforms tend also to be those whose maintainers are doing it on the side and who are thus less likely to be keeping up with internal API and similar cross-codebase improvements. But it gets complicated when the project is a foundational one like LLVM, where dropping or not accepting support for an architecture is effectively also locking the architecture out from a wide swathe of other projects (for instance, Rust, and via Rust also Firefox). I think the best way to manage this seems to be to have an official 'tier list' with criteria and consequences for being in each tier (so for instance lower-tier ports might be in a "nobody else is expected to build/test this, failures are not a blocker for commits" grouping). That doesn't solve the problems, but it does at least mean everybody knows where they stand.
(IIRC LLVM does have a tier list system but I haven't looked up the details.)
Any illegalities perpetrated by the private sector should be (and are) prosecuted to the full extend of the law. In addition, market misbehaving is punished by the market through the consumer.

The private sector is not above the law. The problem is that the government is. This is why, while both can misbehave, I see governments as a much, much larger danger to the average citizen than corporations. And the history agrees with me.
Maybe if a flight actually fills up to a certain point (75%?) they'll schedule it. Sort of an on-demand model.
Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
Except they are now rising again rapidly in Stockholm for instance [1]. You can use the html console to remove the overlay to read the article. They also were never on "almost no cases", they have been higher than the neighbours all the time except for a very brief period where they were on the same level.

[1] https://www.dn.se/sthlm/antalet-coronafall-har-fordubblats-i...
I do not think you understand capitalism, which can only be done in historical context, and is a misnomer. The actual term is private property rights. Do you believe that if I build a house, the mob either directly or through a central authority should be empowered to take it from me and give it to someone else ? The counterparts to capitalism are feudalism where a small set of people - the aristocrats are empowered to take resources from everyone else, or communism where the state is empowered to do the same, or some version of socialism where the general public is. The important thing about capitalism is you have rights to your own resources and no one , absolutely no one should be able to take it from one without assent. Assent to taxes is a different beast because there is a social contract between government and people to provide common goods which either are too expensive for individuals to provide themselves or the returns from investments are public like basic education is a requirement for a cohesive society and understanding of basic democratic concepts through the spread of education, so this is a public good that taxation should be used for, others include national defense, impartial judiciary, policing, transportation networks, public regulation.
While it isn't possible to separate engineering from politics in general, the sentiment is doubly hilarious when your goal is to enable a new global monetary system.
Rest of HN, I am breaking protocol here with full knowledge. Make what you will of it. sbmthakur had left a very courteous reply in a different thread and I am only paying that courtesy back. If you think this needs to be flagged or downvoted, I would accept that and take it on my chin.

sbmthakur, your comment on the other thread was marked dead so couldn't reply there. I am taking liberties here because I think your comment deserves a reply.

I think you thought my issues were specific to BJP only, I have plenty things to complain about them, but as you correctly pointed out, some of the problems are of a more generic nature (assault on medical personnel, is surely one of them. In fact the cases I am familiar with aren't from BJP states. I did hope, however, there would be some national level messaging and measures beyond useless flower showers and claps. I would have been happy with some temporary ordinance that made attacks on medical personnel and services nonbailable) -- after all I was replying on thread of India going to the dogs rather than on BJP.

Propaganda, is of course universal. I am sure all parties indulge in it. But going by the vile stuff I see on WA that are egregiously false and inflammatory, BJP has a clear upper hand, head and shoulders above the rest. (Recently I saw this video of a girl being assaulted and then eventually set on fire (reignited when flames weren't to their satisfaction), with herself too injured to do much about it. Quite horrendous stuff that had my hands shaking as I watched. Turns out it was a drug related violence in a Latin American country. But the subtext claimed it was Indian Muslims burning their women for not sticking to purdah system. These are very effective because some Latin American women, particularly Mexican women could easily pass of as an Indian woman. I get nothing of this sort of propaganda from the other side.)
LLVM’s architecture also makes supporting these platforms much less intrusive on the codebase than in an OS (or even other compilers), especially if they’re only for hobbyist use and aren’t doing many architecture specific optimizations.
Practically no one is doing vulnerability research on hobby platforms.
>Never discussed politics at any of the companies I’ve worked for, we were always too busy with...work!

Same, and that's the conundrum.

"Activist" employees put others on the spot by querying coworkers' political views and expecting discussion. And for those who have had their head in the sand for the past few years, things like "being a Joe Rogan fan" are now considered unacceptable politics.
It could be the ITP blocking or your DNS setup. If I had to guess it'd be the AWS setup you have as that is not seen as a client IP for a home network.

The interstitial page you're seeing attempts to validate IP location, HTTP headers, and the query string at the very least. So the fact that your requests look like they are coming directly from an AWS IP would, based on my gut feeling having troubleshot tons of these issues at CF, cause this issue.

If you're ever curious you might want to try and hit a site you know serves you these pages regularly without the VPN setup just to isolate the problem.
You can still get new 68SEC000s from NXP, but the part is NRND (not recommended for new designs), so you'd better order soon if you're interested.

Ironically, a HN comment I made about this a few years ago is now one of the top Google results for "68SEC000", ranking higher than NXP's own product page.
Minimum wage doesn’t increase restaurant prices much. It varies a lot, but ~8 people can handle an average of 50 customers an hour. That’s an extra 90cents per meal assuming their all paid an extra 7.50 an hour. More realistically several of those people where already making more than minimum wage so the impact is even less.

Further, rent is based in large part on how profitable the location is. So, land lords end up picking up a chunk of the difference.
What about when the engineering decisions you make today affect the politics of the future?

Perhaps this doesn't apply to your area of engineering, but I do feel that it does affect a substantial chunk of the HN audience.

How and what data you choose to collect about internet visitors is no longer a purely technical analysis, it now has broader implications that potentially involve political actors. You don't know who might have access to that data in the future or what they might do with it.

We as engineers are the final implementer of these decisions. Should we really abdicate the ethical responsibilities tied to these decisions so easily?
This is a typical phenomenon of Extremistan: https://coffeeandjunk.com/mediocristan-extremistan/
Are there really that many? A lot of very smart people tend to end up at Google, FB or Amazon, their ethics don't seem to be the deciding factor in the choice of employer.
One of the best features of Gitter is that it can be embedded on webpages which reduces a lot of friction for public communities. Please keep that feature and perhaps, even replicate it in Matrix. This can be a unique value prop for both over the proprietary ones. Plus, it enriches the Web as opposed to moving all things into app silos.
> religious activism seems to be more of an American thing

I would argue it's a Reformed Protestant thing. Reformed Protestantism is the religious scaffolding of American culture.
Or Veracrypt.
Can Central Banking Survive the IT Revolution? (2002) [pdf]
The sandbox in this instance would be Linux creating a Unix compatible operating system not that Linux supported multiple platforms.
If you think poor workers should make more money, then the government should give it to them. The last thing we should do is make it harder for them to retain a job, or penalize those that have provided the best job they have on offer. Preventing the low skilled from working stunts their career permanently.
I guess I don't see how the response is relevant. If Coinbase refused to sell cryptocurrency to gay people, I'd be all in favor of employees and external political activists saying they should - and Coinbase agrees, they don't expect to be apolitical with respect to the actual work that they do.
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I wonder if long term this kind of anti-labour aggression will lead to governments taking a tougher line with Amazon than if they had been reasonable
Yes and every year those old school liberals get less and less, especially on the West Coast, because they are seen as being right wing as you can tell by the many new normal West Coasters in this thread.
maybe someone will finally port Pinball to X64, given MS didn't seem capable (at least in the time allotted)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...
Nvidia RTX 3090 and A100 Ampere GPUs Smash HPC Benchmarks
This is worth a read. I think it applies to Chernobyl, Challenger (where it was coined) and the 737 Max.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

All three had known issues (in the case of Chernobyl, for decades), but averting disaster gave people, specifically the engineers, confidence to continue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQat0vX-wjM&t=31s

Hardly any mask, shops open normally, they are doing a very good job. One of the rare country that still can stay rational and sensible during this covid.
Your parents' situation describes my marriage somewhat. I'm a software developer and (at least in my own evaluation) am an intellectually curious person. My wife is comparatively uneducated, not a good thinker and not very curious at all.

We had our first baby this year and I'm the one who does all the research and evaluation to ensure that we're taking care of our baby well and doing the things to help our child be setup for success later in life.

The problem is I work full time and she stays at home and is the primary caretaker. So I'm not there most of the time to give intellectual input.

As someone who seems to have grown up in similar circumstances, do you have any advice to make the best of this situation?

And just curious. Don't have to answer if this is too personal. How was the dynamic between your parents given the intellectual disparity? And what was your attitude and experience growing up with this disparity?

For myself, I love my wife dearly and she is a kind and loving person, but the intellectually disparity is a cause of disappointment at times. Of course, I don't express that directly. I just lower try to lower my expectations and find intellectual stimulation in other arenas.
I'll have to remember this site so I don't accidentally apply to any of these.
One annoying thing is that nobody makes new 68k CPUs anymore. The only real source appears to be scavenged chips from China.

If you want to limit your retrocomputer design to only parts that are still manufactured, like I do: The only cpu choices appear to be: Z80, 68c02 and 68c816
I could see arguments for keeping that sort of behavior out of a base library. I've never had to implement a menu that swipes out like that, but I could see it being a complex behavior to get right.

if you need that use case, it seems easy enough to implement
America had an appallingly incompetent Covid response, with poor testing, tracing, and compliance. This makes it a poor benchmark for updating your priors, unless one of your previous beliefs was "America can muster a coordinated response to a pandemic".
> "They continue not to wear masks," he said. "That can be a big drawback in the Swedish strategy if masks prove effective and key in fighting the pandemic."

There aren't any randomized trials that look at cloth masks. There is one trial enrolling in Guinea Bissau. It seems likely we may never know because there isn't an interest in doing trials.

This article from Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine discusses the issues with masks:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...
You’d be surprised what modern neodymium drivers in a well designed enclosure can accomplish bass-wise. Though you are right in that the laws of physics have not changed, and something has to give, usually what has “given” is the increase in power output of small amplifier boards, thus allowing DIYers (like myself) and manufacturers alike to throw more power into lower efficiency, but higher mass (and thus more bass in a smaller enclosure) drivers.

With Hoffman’s iron law where you can have two of efficient, low, or small, it seems like efficiency is what has gone down to get more bass extension while keeping enclosures small-ish.

I’d be happy to provide photos+construction details of one of the portable speakers I made, and frequency response measurements if you’d like, to illustrate this.
Every single country has had a second wave. No, the reason why Sweden's covid-19 strategy is flawed, is the high number of deaths per capita, the government refusing to even suggest wearing masks, and failing to protect the elderly at our care facilities.

Our neighboring countries have enacted strict restrictions against Swedish travelers and workers and I totally get why: not only have our numbers been horrible but the government has been so irational at times that it must have been difficult to trust them to make reasonable decisions that wouldn't jepordize the lives of citizens in our neighboring countries.
I will not do a repeat of the discussion on how supporting the status quo is in itself a political statement.

But you must be very naive if you think how a company is run has no effect on how a country is run.

Fifty year ago in the US whether your company had segregated bathroom or not was a proselyting of their views on how the country should be run.

Now it whether trans should be allowed to use the bathroom they want.

Why? Because they are political decision taken from the people working there.
Nope, it's a combo of makefiles (GNU flavour I think) and C called Kconfig.
Someone would have to DFU your laptop before hand and jailbreak the chip, since booting into DFU requires shutting the system down.
Currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636899
What do you say to the LLVM maintainers when your branch-to-be-pulled breaks SystemZ or SPARCV8 regression tests?

That's the OP's point. Merging LLVM changes is gated by CI tests for obscure and moribund platforms.
How does policy "contradict" science? Science doesn't tell us what we _should_ do, it tells us what is and what may be the consequences of decisions we make. The policy you say "contradicts science" is just promoting values and ignoring consequences that you disagree with.

I think Sabine Hossenfelder
said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGVIJSW0Y3k
I'm sure you will find lots of like minded people at Coinbase. And fewer and fewer people with differing opinions. Hmm.
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This was an interesting analysis, however I think for histograms with not a lot of bins it's better to use kernel density estimation[0] to better visualize the spread and not have to control the bin size.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_density_estimation
I think the common challenge leaders are facing is the missions employees bring into the offie in fact aren't particularly aligned or orthogonal to the company's mission.

This is exacerbated by a decade+ of claiming the company is "making the world a better place by X," when really of course it's not. It's selling ads or what have you.

So, I think part of the insistence to bring politics into work is also driven by that - the employees were sold a bill of moral goods at 23, slowly realize the company doesn't actually have the PR mission it says it does because it's a profit seeking company, and employees start trying to overcorrect.

At least CB is being open about what they're about :shrug:.

Probably a matter of pick your poison.
> If you buy a ticket, your flight gets cancelled and you end up spending the next weeks jumping hoops and waiting for your money to be refunded

Whoa, thanks for your comment. I thought I was going crazy. Booked two different flights, one ticket was cancelled after 5 days, one just after 2h. Both without any explanation. I was wondered whether my credit card is blacklisted.

And true, now I'm not hoping to get my money back for weeks, maybe even months.
The reason they don't want you to take much baggage is that the airlines are major freight carriers. Your baggage is competing for space with parcels.
What i dont get is this: the purpose of insurance is to average out risks in life. The more insurance is 'tailored' and personalised, the more it defeats itself.

If an insurer could see the future, he would give me a policy that costs (cost of my future accidents + X% profit)/(my lifetime)

Essentially turning insurance into like bad savings account with negative interest rate.