skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think what is described as unbelievable is that the source claims that, but that the claim is true.

(And since it describes both “Windows” and “Linux” as “companies” that gained marketshare, I’m somewhat suspicious of their information gathering.)

But not being registered with them, I don’t have access to what passes for their detailed source information for that claim.
Encourage Teams to Take Risks
It's simple, he misidentifies the problem as such.

The problem all these AI companies have vs. Nvidia is not that nobody buys their chips because they are bad, but because nobody needs them.

GPUs on other hand sell well because, well, videogames
Perhaps the universe is state based, and not function based...

Programing language are away to represent reality, and manipulate it to your desire.

Object Oriented, and Procedural programing both use functions to manipulate state, while in pure functional languages you use functions and unnamed variables to present state.

The problem is when you communicate, you always do it with state and not functions. From API to storing data as it allows to very different systems to understand each other without to have the same internals. A java web based api/program and a swift/objective-c program running in a phone can easily communicate with each other via state (aka, rest of soap apis), and they don't have to know the internal state of each other.

You can save functions, and pass them along, but the other part has to know how to run it, and have the same type of hardware in order to run it.

I really think pure functional programming is a mathematicians pipe-dream, and theoretical CS nerds trying to shoehorn Math/Algebra equations into being the default type of programing paradigm, but for practical Computer Science problems the von Neumann style (statements and expressions) has won as it is the most practical

The only true successful alternative to von neuman state type of languages, is really SQL and its derivatives, which is a declarative style of programing language. You can pass SQL queries around, and they will be understood by all kinds of systems. But, ultimately they all act on some kind of state/data in a table.
What planet do you live on? Have you ever been to a datacenter?

Look at top500, it's literally 0% windows, https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/

Many of the VPS providers don't even have windows options because the demand is so low it's not even worth offering as a product.

Server farm sysadmins I know habitually lament they are rusty in windows whenever it's in front of them because it's completely vanished from their daily experience

If this was a survey of companies where the weight of say, a liquor store with a 20 year old beater in the back closet that they'll call a server is 1 vote, and say, all of Amazon is also 1 vote, then maybe you can get that number, but that's basically the only way
That’s a neat coincidence. The guy I’m talking about started having problems in the mid-80s around when the Apple IIc was released.
Lack of MFA, lack of hardware whitelisting, servers exposed directly to the Internet, lack of user privilege restrictions, allowing passwords that are known-compromised, ...
> cutting-edge

missed opportunity or subtlety mastery ?
None of that belongs to the US… we shouldn’t have touched it in the first place.
Yes. Not performing just according to expectations placed on you, but prioritizing your own health? That's what taking back control looks like. Acknowledging that your existence is more than a cog in a giant business, that you're a full human being, that your needs deserve to be honored? Taking back control.
My subjective view coincides with your new employer. I think that's pretty common.

ML Scientist and Data Scientist versus ML Engineer and Data Engineer.
Herman Miller Sayl. Verdict: Nope!

I thought I'd splurge a bit (on a name) without trying it out. I only paid £250 used and have had it for about 3 years now.It's ok, but not great. It squeaks a LOT and I can't figure out for the life of me where to lubricate it to stop the noise. The seat is too hard. The lumbar is too shallow. Adjustability is great though. Everything can be moved to accommodate.

Overall it's just a bit meh.

That said, it's head and shoulders above anything I've sat on from Ikea. But I'm going to keep looking.
I have had Herman Miller v1 of Mirra and it was awesome for well over a decade. (I still use it in one of my offices, it's probably 17 years old and still in decent condition, but the latest model is built a lot cheaper, don't get it)

I moved to a new office and they gave me a "very expensive" Steelcase leather chair, and it gave me back pain.

I then invested in a Herman Miller Aeron (newest model as of 2021) and it's the greatest chair I have ever had. But keep in mind, I intentionally use it for doing work. Work chairs suck to watch movies and relax in. If you have good posture and you want your chair to help you with your posture they are pure gold.

I have spent over 22 years in a chair, and I have spent 22+ hours a day in my Mirra and 10+ in my Aeron (I am older and wiser now, ha!) and I wouldn't go back to anything less ever again.

NOTE: Do NOT get the Herman Miller Cosm, it is a conference chair NOT a task chair. Go to a show room if you can and try them out, it was worth the time to drive there and do this for me.
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the attention economy demands it, as long as it reigns supreme we'll never be free from this dumb shit
I think it has to do with culture, but not in the way you suggest. Up until the mid seventies, Spain suffered a dictatorship that followed a bloody civil war. That means that for decades society had very little social mobility and a lot of cronyism. Scientists, artists and intellectuals in general were purged during the war, looked down upon later, and the inherent censorship and closeness of authoritarian governments made the country culturally barren.

Many decades have passed since then, and nowadays Spain is of course a fully developed democracy, but the remains of that society still exist. It is present for example in the value given to stable jobs by the low-middle class, where people basically assume a glass ceiling - "why take risks changing jobs or try to start a business? You don't have the contacts nor the money anyway".

The lack of people with technical backgrounds in the upper class is also very evident: In the US you'll find many engineers that later went for an MBA and moved into leadership positions, and many companies have engineers as founders. Here, business administration is a career, not a masters degree, and for people who graduate in such programs, it is assumed that they already have the money or the connections to start their careers already in a leadership position - they practically choose "boss" as their job description, so to speak.
I think we're probably best off with both Hunter S. Thompson and Walter Cronkite, but I'd much rather have - and think society would be better informed and pointed in a better direction by - two Thompsons and no Cronkites than the other way around.
Bauer and his team were bigger war criminals than the people they tortured and persecuted.

I was going to say that this was created in the wake of 9/11 and, for the US, it was a sort of catharsis. But the US hasn't existed without an enemy, it appears to proactively create them.

The X-Files is one of the few series I know to directly call that out, because that's been US modus operandi ever since the Brits and the Confederates stopped being an enemy. An entire episode is literally "what do we do? we have no enemies." But of course, the show continues with the invention of a new threat.
Instead it belongs to a warlord.
I should've emphasized lab before of homelab. Agree, doing a full stack hardware validation (managed to even get a full multi-vendor stack deployed into a Dell validation colo to do our internal performance test). Even then, we only ran out own performance tests, as we cared about our workload, not a generic workload suite.

Edit: Additionally, we only did that work on a single set of systems prior to purchase, not the systems post purchase, so 1 of N, instead of rerunning on N. It was presumed that performance would remain the same on same hardware configuration etc.
AMD sells server chips as quickly as they can make them. They are capacity constrained.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/04/28/amd-hits-intel-below...
You have to create an account and login, even a throwaway is fine
With our skill at making meat, I wonder how true that is.
Booch: Your functional programming work was unsuccessful.

Backus: Yes.

Booch: Let’s dwell upon that for a moment, because there
were some other papers that I saw after your
Turing Award lecture [“Can Programming Be Liberat
ed From the von Neummann Style”, 1977] which was
also a turning point. Because I’d describe it as a wake-up call to the language developers and
programmers, saying there’s a different way of looking at the world here. The world was going down a
very different path. Let me pursue that
point of why you think it didn’t succeed.

Backus: Well, because the fundamental paradigm did not include a way of dealing with real time. It was
a way of saying how to transform this thing into that
thing, but there was no element of time involved, and
that was where it got hung up.

Booch: That’s a problem you wrestled with for literally years.

Backus: Yeah, and unsuccessfully.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
That’s actually pretty close to the point, just warped slightly. What if we stopped fighting because part of fighting a war on drugs means turning some pretty cool people into enemies?
I would actually love to use pen and paper. The problem is I have very hard time reading the notes I have taken when it was important to write fast. I'm not a great typist either but recognizing extremely heavily misspelled (because of fast blind-typing I have never learnt to do right) words consisting of actually readable letters is much easier than deciphering the weird glyphs I produce when fast-writing.
A Mysterious Crater’s Age May Add Clues to the Dinosaur Extinction
I found a very nice desk chair about twenty years ago at Ikea.

It is unusually large, robust, fake leather, very comfortable, but they stopped producing them at some point, more than ten years ago.

This chair followed me in five cities and three different countries, it doesn't look brand new, but still in a pretty good shape.

And it was quite cheap, about 90 euros.
This has nothing to do with trademark. Trademarks must be registered and are specific to industry, and are only relevant in cases where there can be confusion. Made up words (google, hulu) can be trademarked, but common words and names can not (apple, ford). If disney can't trademark the name Mickey, they obviously aren't going to be able to trademark Loki.

Far more likely, this is referring to a copyright violation as the shirt in question can be considered a derivative work. A quick google search of "low key loki" shows dozens of different works depicting the marvel character wearing that shirt.
Larger companies have no problems finding people to pay to support Linux, or if they are really large (say, Amazon), supporting it themselves and being who people (including big companies) pay to support and host Linux systems.
This is not performance data, this is market share data.
How long did Aeron last? And how did it break?
We had a Sony Wega TV CRT that had a special "16:9 Enhanced" anamorphic mode that basically narrowed the vertical scan area of the electron gun while keeping the same number of lines. For a while you could find specially mastered DVDs that digitized the source material at a higher than normal vertical resolution. If you played them on a normal TV, everything would appear vertically stretched. If you played them on the Wega (or other similar TVs? Were there others?), then the picture would be scaled down correctly and would appear super sharp and bright.

[0] https://www.manualslib.com/manual/321453/Sony-Wega-Klv-15sr1...
Once scammers know you're a mark, they'll exploit it. This is why email lists are next to gold to scammers, because they're lists of people or organizations who have parted with their money under false pretenses before, and are most likely willing to do so again in the future.
Hope the fix for this will be Elon tackling climate change :)
Allometry predicts much about animals, according to the evidence. What evidence do you have?
Their new, but not really new anymore, redesign is so adversarial that the site is frustrating to use unless you use the old version or a different mobile app. Comments section cut off by a news feed, nested comments require loading a new page, but going back doesn't save your location because it was collapsed to show the news feed. The news feed preload lags way more. The new search basically has never worked.

It basically feels like you are constantly trying to fight the ui to show you what you want while trying to dodge the buffet of churned content they throw at you to try and keep you in the social media vortex. Like everything else that becomes mainstream popular, the demographic has shifted away from people who care about these things.
I totally agree, salaries aren't bad, bonuses are.

And pay disparity can be a problem, especially if salary data is hidden. I think most of the time the problem is a lack of openness about salaries and why they are as they are.
We use UUIDs in production too with Hasura. I remember it was painful to make it work.
Agree. It's interesting that they don't treat the optical and gyroscopic systems as two separate sensors with the possibility to disregard one if it disagrees too much.
A quick restart of the visual system would have been the most optimal solution #2020-hindsight
That's neat I've felt the same instinct.
That’s pretty close to what I was getting at. Without violating too much confidence, the guy I’m talking about had a bit of a breakdown in the mid-80s, around when the IIc was released. With just a couple of small changes, I can’t even guess what he could accomplish.

Unfortunately, we fight a war on drugs and make people like that into enemies. I don’t think fighting is the solution and if it is, I’m still waiting for results.
Also misleading...usually when people talk about "quiet mind" they're talking about meditation, not TBIs
Federation means that each site can introduce their own standards for moderation, so that's hardly an insurmountable problem.
How do you work at a startup making $200k salary with one year of experience? You must be working at a public company.
Do you have a link to the wheels? I bought a set but they changed the height enough to not work well with my desk.
I’m one of the founders of Branch Furniture (venture backed DTC office furniture startup based in nyc). We founded the business to help growing companies (think WeWork graduates) furnish their office space with ergonomic office furniture without an Aeron level budget. Our enterprise business basically disappeared during the pandemic, so we’ve been selling to consumers for the past year and have learned a TON about what makes a great home office.

You definitely should check out our seating line if you’d like an option that offers a fair amount of adjustability and (though this is subjective) a home office friendly aesthetic at a sub $300 price point. If you’ve got a higher budget ($400-500) and willing to work the liquidator / Craigslist home office grind I’d honestly endorse the used Aeron approach as well — they’re rock solid chairs, extremely adjustable and buying used is objectively better for the environment (we have a trade in program for our enterprise clients and working on one for consumers).

But beyond the chair you pick, three big lessons to keep in mind:

1) For most folks in tech, it’s not the chair that’s the problem. Adjusting it to your body and needs is critical to maximizing its ergonomic benefit for your body. Something like 80% of office workers only adjust the height and tilt of their chair. Would strongly recommend giving the user manual for the chair you buy a read (download it online if used). We offer an ergonomic consultation to every buyer and are working on a few cool tools to guide folks who use our furniture in making the most of it.

2) The rest of your setup is equally as impactful to your comfort. Get a monitor arm or put your monitor on a stack of books. If you’re short or petite, get a footstool so you upper and lower legs are at a 90 degree angle to each other and your backs of your knees don’t press against the chair seat. A standing desk makes a difference, if not for standing than to adjust the height of your work surface to your own height.

3) Take breaks. Seriously. There are no chairs I know of that will support you adequately over 10 or even 8 hours of work, summed over weeks and years.

I’m so glad to see this question being discussed! Figuring out the most supportive setup for your needs is like flossing; you don’t always see the benefit immediately, but you’ll be glad to have done the research after a decade of desk work (and perhaps before). Feel free to reach out — email in bio — if you have any questions about ergonomics. We also released a cool guide to basic ergonomics that might be worth a read. [0]

[0] ergonomics.branchfurniture.com
Reading the author's description of waking up in a hospital bed reminded of when I found myself waking up in one. I felt like I was peeing the bed and was embarrassed about it. I couldn't move or look much, so I was exploring with my hands to "assess the damage" and wondering how I was going to explain wetting the bed as an adult to whoever when I discovered the good and bad news. Good news - I hadn't wet the bed. Bad news - I had a catheter.

The author's brain injury, of course, is much more unsettling. But, if the old you has died, then it's not coming back. May as well make the best of the new you.
You think it's an article on the downsides of excessive patience or zen meditation, but no, TBI.

As a tangent: I learned how to enter a waking ideation / guided daydreaming state associated with sensory deprivation without extreme stimuli removal. It is good for startup ideas (not that they're any good but for generating them), fiction novel outlines, and letting your subconscious out.

Edit since I can't comment below right now:

I'm so sorry, I learned it intuitively by spending days / weeks by myself without human contact or interruptions in a low stimuli environment. Instead of going "crazy," it's possible the mind can entertain and amuse itself. I think this also explains why kids (and adults) in very poor countries have such wild imaginations and are so happy when they have almost nothing. And, where else would magical realism arise if not Colombia?
maybe, but most ransomware attacks aren't via zero-days but via simpler means. Also ransomware infects a whole network and so part of the cause is systems that allow that.
Just think 35 "persons" voted for it. Most probably than not the voting is being heavily manipulated, but still.
And only 6% of users having an SSD.
If I understood correctly, one needs to suck with diaphragm, by inhaling. Is it so? I mean, I suck through straw using my mouth only, I can breathe through nose while sucking into mouth. It seems for me that it wouldn't work. Am I right?
> The Vespucci application, excluding the GPLv3-only preset icons found in the folder assets/images/presets, is licensed under the Apache License, version 2. You can find the full text of the license in the file "LICENSE-Apache.txt". The Apache License version 2 allows to use the covered work in a GPLv3 work.

> The full project contains a small number of icons taken from the JOSM project under the GPLv3. Therefore, the full package, consisting of Vespucci and the bundled preset icons, is licensed under the GPLv3. You can find the full text of the GPLv3 in the file "LICENSE-GPL3.txt". The list of contributors and sources for the icons can be found in the "josm-contributors.txt" file.

https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
The cynic in me suspects that this is intentionally obfuscated to the readers not already in the know.

Whereaa few of the general public are likely the target user of a CDP (customer data platform), they are likely the actual target of the product: they will have their data and interactions detailely stored and processed via this platform. However well done this may be, it is more comfortable not to be too aware about it.
you meant a 0% serious note right?

The 0s and 1s are in the human brain friend not the computers. You can make computing as probabilistic as your heart desires, people will not stop simplifying and caricaturing the world to fit their biases, not by one "bit".
4 legged stool like the one pianists use. Large enough to be comfortable but no backrest. Height is adjustable.
Some law enforcement seems to love it, though others have rejected it (some after using it for a while) because of cost, studies of its low reliability (particularly, high false positives), low benefit because actual gunshots tend to get as much information from 911 calls as Shotspotter provides, and community relations concerns.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/you-can-now-play-snes-games... has a bunch of screenshots of unmodified SNES games in widescreen (though they don't work perfectly)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/hd-emulation-mod-make... talks about "HD Mode 7" support, which relies on the fact that perspective backgrounds ("Mode 7") are scaled for TV display, but they don't inhenently have to be downsampled to TV pixels, and on a emulator outputting to a higher-resolution display, it can preserve the resolution instead of trying to get pixel-perfect accuracy. I think the widescreen stuff works on the same principle: the data is there and being scrolled, so you may as well render it.
Editing to remove the "not" - There will never be a situation where a player does not realise they are participants of a tutorial, but an invisible tutorial will hardly be discernible from the game experience as it respects the pacing of all experiences around it.

Still doesn't make much sense as now they are saying that invisible tutorials can't exist because the player will always realize they are participants of a tutorial (fixing double negative).
I think we need more obsessive and honest curation of titles.

Perhaps a "launch a title change vote" feature so the community can fix it.
I had bad back issues for a while, and my employer got an ergonomic assessment for me - they used this company to build a personalized chair:

https://somaergo.com/products/somacustom-chairs/somacomfort/...

There are loads of options but that chair in particular has a design I’ve not seen elsewhere, which has a narrow back so your shoulders can be free to move/retract. I find normal chairs to be quite uncomfortable in comparison now that I’m used to this one.
Cars are so incredibly destructive to society, in so many ways. But most people are so blasé about them.
> Since there isn’t a widescreen resolution in the SDTV standards

En Europe we had WSS (Widescreen signaling), a digital signal embedded in line 23 describing the aspect ratio: full 16/9, full 4/3, letterbox 16/9, etc. It was very useful in late 2000s for owners of 16/9 CRT TVs.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widescreen_signaling)
Is there a YouTube video of this somewhere? Didn't see one linked from the github page.
To de-clickbait this article: the author had a traumatic brain injury which eliminated her racing inner monologue.
If the borrow checker of 1.52.1 "screeches" on every LOC but it compiles on 1.0 then very likely either there's some bug in 1.52.1 that you should report or you code was never correct and should never have compiled in 1.0 in the first place but did due to a compiler bug that since got fixed.

Of course, without more info nobody can tell which of these or even whether it is one of these two or something else.
That is the classic argument of the colonizer.
I love my Branch Furniture Ergonomic Chair! So comfortable and offers great support: https://www.branchfurniture.com/products/ergonomic-chair