skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll try. I’m self taught and spent years learning enough to convince an employer to pay me more than an entry level wage because I was career changing in midlife with a family to support and couldn’t afford to take a pay reduction to switch industries. Anyhow, I have for years spent 10s of hours a week studying to level up and still do. But my studying is and always has been entirely aimed and increasing my earnings.

So before I got that first job, I focused on learning general things to raise my ceiling, so I studied text books. OS, DS and Algos, Calculus, DB Implementation, and others.

Now that I have my job, I’ve focused on the areas that i am tasked with in my day job, like DB deep diving and Statistics and Linear Algebra.

I always felt that any side project I would focus on would impose too high an opportunity cost because I fealt I was learning better things.

I am still growing and will continue to grow as long as I’m in this field but my github has nothing noteworthy to show off.

That said, I believe your point is correct in the abstract, namely, that Devs who spend time outside of the office to level up will be better than those that don’t All Other Things Being The Same, I’m just saying that side coding projects isn’t the only instantiation of that activity
> What I don't want to see is regulators picking winners and losers

I'm not thrilled by the idea either, but I'd prefer it to another round of IE6. When it comes to dealing with monopolies I think you're solidly in the realm of looking for the least bad choice.
That's fascinating! These companies protect their assets as if release were an existential risk. I suppose it would impact their bottom line to some extent.

It'll be interesting to see in the future when content is cheap to produce. I predict a complete shift away from this.
They seemed to have missed major arguments around fair use and jury trial (having listened to the arguments myself). The jury heard detailed evidence and ruled that it was fair use. The court disregarded the jury decision and ruled differently. Google argued that a jury can make reasonable determinations and that blanket laws would be bad w.r.t. software copyrights.
Browser capabilities change. We’ve known the best way to implement dynamic UIs for a long time, but browsers inhibit that.
P22 phosphors are the ones used in all trinitron PC monitors. I get conflicting numbers on the actual decay time of these phosphors, but with a 240 fps camera the decay time is difficult to judge by flipping through frames. I’d have to make a proper set up to try and even give an estimate.

I can safely say the P22 decay time is below 1 ms. Here [0] it is stated to be 100 us for G & B and up to 1 ms for red. A commonly referenced list of phosphor decay times [1] lists it as “medium”. In general, CRT phosphors seem to have sub 1-ms decay times unless you want a long persistence.

The limiting factors will be in a monitor’s max horizontal scan rate (typically 130 kHz or lower) or the DAC’s maximum pixel clock (it used to be 400 MHz but most VGA adapters these days struggle to keep 200+ MHz stable).

0. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/video/phosphor_decay.htm...

1. http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/tubes/crt/crt_phosphor_research....
If the alternative is the end of the human species I think we might find some motivation to build them a bit faster and better. Just saying.
Last time i checked (which was about a couple of months ago), Mesa had very primitive support for display lists (most of the time you get a command playback though if you only submit vertex commands it gets converted to VBO - and i think that was added recently-ish) whereas Nvidia's perform optimizations in background threads to convert in the best GPU format, split as necessary to minimum calls and when rendering it performs culling before processing the full list. AMD's Windows drivers also do some of that stuff (though not all).

Mesa does implement a lot of stuff but they do not take much advantage of what the higher level parts of the API allow to optimize rendering. From what i remember until AMD pushed some devs on it, they didn't care about supporting the entire API at all.

Vulkan support is most likely good though.

(EDIT: yes, "display lists are deprecated", but this is irrelevant, the API is there, available and works and works great on Nvidia and still very good on AMD Windows driver and a lot of applications use it - Khronos splitting the API to core/compatibility was a mistake that made everything more complicated than necessary when what they should have done if they wanted a clean API would be to make something new like they eventually did with Vulkan and avoid messing up OpenGL )
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I doubt their ability to regulate properly too. But it does seem like the big tech companies have failed to self-regulate.
ACO developers will work on OpenGL at some point too. OpenGL in general isn't the case I worry about, as long as it performs sufficiently well. All modern things should be using Vulkan anyway, especially if something requires focus on performance.

And deprecated features? I think there are better things to focus on first optimization wise.
The worst LED lights are 60Hz, very short duty cycle, very quick flash, with no diffusion. They're seemingly-infinitely small pinpricks of pure chroma flashing at an unpleasant speed. The worst are the blues.
So according to this person, this event never happened and absolutely does not continue to happen? https://www.reuters.com/article/sec-bats-settlement-idUSL1N0...
> Have you ever lost a job because you don't have side-projects?

I am aware of hiring decisions between several candidates that hinged on their side projects (or lack thereof).
How is it a catastrophe? I game every day on AMD on Linux and have no issues. 99.9% of consumers don’t care about overclocking so if that’s what you’re referring to I think it’s a non-issue.
"I'm not a Christian and I loved his books as a kid"

As a kid the Christian overtones go right over your head.. as an adult they're a lot more glaring, and (to some of us), grating.

"Tolkien and Madeleine L'Engle wrote novels in a similar vein (that are also excellent children's books)."

I loved Madeline L'Engle as a kid, but tried to pick up A Wrinkle in Time recently, and couldn't bear all the Christian preachiness. Worked for me as a kid, though, and back then I had no idea that was in it. I guess that's saying something. But as an adult it's nauseating.
Maybe it used to be? I don't know, but not anymore. Mint Mobile will get you unlimited talk/text and 3GB data for $15/month, no extra fees. They're an MVNO using T-Mobile's network. If T-Mobile can make money wholesaling their network to Mint, and Mint can make money selling plans at that price, there's no reason for a "normal" plan to run $70 before taxes and fees. Even Mint's unlimited plan is only $30, less than half of what TMobile has.
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I accidentally saw on the platform that day that the total duration of my League of Legends game was 6447.5 hours.
My first reaction was to take a breath.
I’m used to seeing VGA CRTs with maximum vertical scan rates of 170 Hz and horizontal scan rates of up to 130 kHz. Impressive stuff to be sure, and still relevant compared to LCD in terms of motion clarity. If you can afford a 4K 120 Hz OLED with black frame insertion, that has all of the technical advantages.

However, CRT TVs playing 240p games still have those thicc scanlines and good nostalgic feels.
You've made time to learn J! That's some commitment. I'm waiting for my first child right now and have recently been into J in my spare time. I'm also a manager now (CTO at a non-startup company).
This is pretty amazing, I'm surprised there's enough tweets with the exact time but I guess "It's X time and I'm Y" is a pretty common phrase
Not the first HN thread to have this happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599427

Come for the distributed, replicated, partitioned log. Stay for the existential angst, sinister bureaucracy, and paranoia in the face of the absurd.
It definitely affected throughput.

i.e take the phones out, and run all the speed tests at once - the business plan was guaranteed to run faster.

It wasn't like it was an issue with one particular phone just being better - you could swap the sim cards between phones and no matter what device the business sim was in, it got the best throughput.

How they actually implemented it I don't know, all we could go on was based on some testing from an end-user perspective.
May I request you to check our product. That "extra intelligence" is what we are differentiated from all other 99% of pdf to excel services.
>it gives the police discretion to get people in trouble for arbitrary reasons.

it also gives police discretion to avoid getting people into trouble because of too rigid rules. Many countries have a lot of lenience about the enforcement of relatively harmless drugs, for example.

Lenience and judgement on part of a police force is a good thing, and a necessary thing because reality is complicated and rules don't always make sense. The way you frame the issue just shows that you have low trust in your respective police force, in which case the issue is quality of policing, not rigidity of the law.
Isn't that what IAAS is in essence?
In England, there is a practice called change ringing [1], which is apparently an art, and involves ringing bells in amelodic yet mathematical patterns. If you live near particularly enthusiastic ringers, this can go on for hours on a Sunday, and is hell on earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing
I mean you can do both, comics and graphic novels exist. Then you get the unique honor of experiencing the suffering of people not liking your art AND and your writing!
Don't forget the part where you translated all 7 Harry Potter novels into flawless Latin because you've been both leaning Latin and brushing up on wizardry on the side.
"This item is not available in your country."

Due to this warning, I couldn't even install the app.
Fb ai research has some people working on solvers that crush human opponents even multiway

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00164
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> We will be selling servers.

Like you, I'm from the generation that grew up treating "computer" as synonymous with "personal computer", i.e. something on a desk or in one's lap. For some reason I can't quite articulate, it saddens me that a new company with "computer" in the name is focusing on those other things called computers in far-away buildings that we can't access. I hope that once Oxide starts making money from servers, it can branch out into workstations. Then, to me at least, it will more fully live up to the name "Oxide Computer". Yes, I know this association is more emotional than logical, but there it is.
Starlink won't be usable in urban areas.
I found it very distracting to be told that things "beg the question" that really did not.

Only a person can beg the question, and then only if they are either very confused or are trying to deceive you.
Facebook responsible for94% of 69m childsex abuse images reportd by US techfirms
I remember the Catalyst days. I used to work for a company which included a pc in the price when selling its software. We unofficially supported people who would run it on their own PC but eventually had to put our foot down and explicitly state that we wouldn't support AMD cards.
Worth noting that that’s a fairly recent development. Whether for good or ill though I really can’t say.
Why on earth would they pay $300M to have a fiber cable to Chicago? It sounds like they could move all their employees from Chicago to NYC for cheaper!
Wait hardware has source code? I’m just a web dev so I’m not aware of this. What does the code look like?
Totally agree with need to assess when comfort crosses into stagnation. I'm 10+ years in the same division at my employer thought not in the same team. But I've become bored particularly on getting rid of hand me down tech debt I (with others) eliminate. To that I wrote a proposal in distributing computing, which got picked up in another division. Looking to see if a transfer makes sense. Probably should have done this 2-3 years ago.
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Dangers of an AI Race [video]
If you are on android, check out NewPipe
https://newpipe.schabi.org/
Whoa! This looks pretty wild, going down rabbit hole now. If I make it out I will report back!
Sure. I have heard this now so many time here. To me however Kafka the software does resemble a Kafkaesque way: the literary style found in Kafka novels. Apache kafka is nightmarishly complex software which barely works. And I never fully grasped what I would use it for.
How do they work on Macs? iOS? Android?

Got any details on how to use them with Linux?
I think this is essentially sort of it tho, it hasn't been studied properly, but addiction is commonly misused as a term and misunderstood
Thank you for the correction. But I'm still off tomorrow so this weekend felt a bit more generous than usual.
cf. arbitrage [0]

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage
That just sounds like lazy programming becoming a feature for the chief revenue officer ;)

Call call = new Call(timestamp);

String hour = call.getHour();

if (hour < 19 hour && hour > 6) call.setRate("Premium"); //military time
Yes. Big blunder on my part!
>Unlimited should mean unlimited, not throttled.

Throttled is still unlimited in the same way as any other connection. Your connection is always throttled, it's just a question if there are two different speeds with the latter triggering after a particular threshold.
I always found the Microsoft / Turbo C++ inline assembler syntax clunky, very limiting compared with the GCC version.

With the Microsoft syntax you were generally stuck with having to fix specific registers, and hope the surrounding code was ok working around the asm code and its unstated and excessive constraints.

Whereas with the GCC extended assembly syntax, you can tell the compiler that it has a choice of which registers to use, which memory locations are read from and written to, and many other options that the compiler is free to optimise with.

The GCC version is much better for optimisation. It can even optimise away assembly instructions whose output is stored in a variable that happens to be unused by another part of the program, and select between code using registers or code using inline constants or direct memory operands, depending on expressions that are passed to functions. It also works with "new" instructions that the compiler doesn't know about but the assembler does, or even assembler macros and linker directives that the compiler doesn't know about. The Linux kernel has used all this flexibility to great effect since the beginning.
Modern cancel culture is McCarthyism, but widespread and at scale. There are numerous parallels - accusations without evidence, damaging impact without due process, changing definitions/goal posts, hyperbolic accusations, political repression, and the destruction of many careers. Labeling people with pejoratives is exactly the weapon used to silence opponents. Most typically I’ve seen it used against those that don’t align with progressive viewpoints, although that’s not always the case.

We’ve already seen the damage that cancel culture can do, and so Yelp giving random people a way to damage an individual or business without a principled process (like that of the courts) seems like a really messy and bad idea that’ll make cancel culture worse.

As for your notes on Communism - to me banning visas of those associated with such policies/parties seems reasonable. Marxism/collectivism is responsible for tens of millions of deaths in the 20th century and we have numerous data points showing that these ideas not only don’t work, but that their implementation requires brutal governance that is in conflict with our most basic principles, like free speech. So yes I do not welcome anyone affiliated with such parties into my country just as I would not welcome terrorists.
over time the entirety of the state apparatus (and business as well) who recruit out of these institutions because excellence and merit are replaced by legacy more and more and the quality of government and leadership continues to decline.

I mean you can literally witness it with your own eyes right now when you look at the US on the world stage. Compare the quality of governance and selection of candidates to a country like Singapore, or hell even China whose ruthless political apparatus weeds out people who don't perform quite effectively.
> If you get deeper into his stuff you'll see that he's not at all, in fact quite the opposite.

Meaning, he has no plan for simplification, and maybe even not only that, but he doesn't believe the common man can understand these ideas? (If so, I'm curious how he plans to launch his new world order scheme.)

I was watching this Michael Malice fellow on Lex Fridman the other day - very intelligent guy, knows his stuff (that which is in his bubble) very well, and he is very strongly of the opinion that not only can the common man not think currently, but that they are incapable of it at all.

Now, it is possible that this is the case of course, but forming strong conclusions about something for which there is literally no data (teaching thinking has not been attempted in any serious way) demonstrates a significant gap in one's intelligence. Although, about 90%+ of the population suffers from this (take the HN hivemind on political topics for example), so I guess one shouldn't be too hard on him.
Both of those have long professional mandatory training which does the evaluation once at the start of their careers, and then subsequent hiring is done on prestige rather than re-evaluation.
I should've been more explicit. I meant, does it impact speed in a meaningful way? Once we can send+receive real time high quality video stream on a retail plan... Does it matter that is slower than the business one?
Are any of the slide decks for video games?
That whole section rings true...

By comparison, the gap between a 2010 MacBook and a 2020 MacBook is
shockingly narrow. Looking at this spec sheet from 2020 eyes, I'm
imagining that this computer would run today's software reasonably
well if macOS supported it […]

It's also noticeable how innovative this iMac is from a design
standpoint. My eldest daughter was born a year after this computer
went on sale. I should have recorded her comments as she saw it.
"It's sooo cute... why don't they make computers like this anymore?"

I'm pretty sure that if they sold a Mac like this with modern components,
she'd be first in line. […]

By comparison, today's devices are slabs of machined aluminum and
display panels. Functional? Certainly, but missing the whimsicality
of these older machines. I miss that personality. There's not much
JOY in today's MacBook or iPhone. Hoping that we can see a return soon...
Isn't it the same tune as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Your_Ears_Hang_Low%3F
As your neighbour (Lithuania), I'd also like to point out your air pollution affects us a lot. Our air quality is a lot worse on days when there is a south west wind blowing.

Now of course not all of that is from burning coal for electricity (Poland had a lot of manufacturing and heavy industry), but if you were to decarbonise in general it would make a big difference to us :-)

From next year, all new homes here are required to generate most of their electricity from renewable sources, so we should start to see a big uptake in solar. I think this comes from EU regulations to decarbonise housing, so maybe there is something similar in Poland?
Paraphrasing TuringNYC[0] from another recent HN thread[1]:

> Just a decade ago, SMS messages in the US cost 10 to 25 cents per SMS. You also got charged for spam SMS. Prices were completely disjointed from the reality of underlying costs (zero for the telcos).

> In the following ten years, the tech giants sweeped in, competed, provided a better service, with better cross-platform support, for zero dollar immediate cost to the end customer -- gained a massive following (think whatsapp), and are now vilified for their "monopoly" and the "harm" it has caused.)

The only thing holding back a messaging-style disruption of voice services is the universal inter-operability of phone numbers. Various apps can be used for voice calls within the apps themselves but they're not compatible with a phone call from a landline for restaurant booking confirmations and such.

Google Voice achieves this and Twilio got a mention in the other thread, but I'm not sure what else is out there (I'm not in the US so it's not a problem I need to solve for myself). Seems that US telco's are still asleep at the wheel in regards to their consumer-level services and will devolve into providing purely network connectivity and losing entirely any of the services that sit atop the network.

What's ridiculous is that such things have become necessary. That there's no (enforced) legislation to prevent selling any and all contact information that passes a receptionists desk.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TuringNYC

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971
quick question on unity vs unreal engine. the more i see the future the less i see one for unity vs unreal especially with movies using unreal engine in the last 2 years (really from the movie first man to now most of the new movies) i feel the money and R&D that will span from that in the unreal engine will allow them to totally crush unity. already today most of the modern games made with unity are 2d or average 3d games.

What is your take on that?
For what it's worth, Tidal pays its artists a whole lot more per stream than Spotify does.[1] That's the main reason I'm subscribed to Tidal.

[1] https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-streaming-...
Depends on the broker. Some make it instantly possible. Also instant if you already have a cross-listed holding.
Simple explanation of image stacking and noise reduction
I use amazon India, sometimes I receive broken stuff and I repair it on my own and ask Amazon India if they are willing to refund the part of the sale price.

Recently I had received a dented cooktop and since it was functional and my family isn't too much interested in aesthetics, Amazon offered 30% refund to keep it.

I think I am doing my part to prevent these products from ending up in landfill.

Amazon also honours refund and return request, but not all time I request it.

It's still better than offline shop experience where I've to deal with a real person making weird faces which I find hard to interpret.
Bit – A modernized Git CLI written in Go
Interesting read, but about half-way through I realized I was reading a scathing criticism of the New York Times...in the New York Times?

"The paper is in the midst of an evolution from the stodgy paper of record into a juicy collection of great narratives, on the web and streaming services."

A little odd as the author is writing about the Times in the 3rd person. Threw me off a bit.
TIL. I'm curious what Fortran buys you over, say, Julia.
Yeah, someone mentioned it on here a while ago and I decided to give a go. jsoftware has really amazing resources/free books if you dive into it. It's really enjoyable if you use jupyter cuz you write in literate style so you can remember what the heck you just wrote months down the line. lol. https://github.com/martin-saurer/jkernel-docker. yeah for a few months I was addicted to it, and it's the only language where I feel like a sculptor since you are literally sculpting and transforming the array to yield your solution. For me the saddest thing was that I can't bring that experience to other languages,