skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't just make more masters.

You can given enough time. Your second point is more likely the real reason. These jobs might seem to pay lots from the outside but if you dedicated the same time to a more boring job like management you very quickly make a lot more money with almost unlimited room to bump your prices.
Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28935671 - Oct 2021 (206 comments)
Tech compensation has gone up recently. All the tech stocks are skyrocketing.

Problem is - people think: "Oh, salary is everything" but it's only like half of senior TC.
"YJIT currently provides average speedups of 23% over the CRuby interpreter on realistic benchmarks, and near-instant warm-up time. Plans are to include YJIT in the Ruby 3.1 preview release so that more users can test it out and benefit from potential performance gains."
F-Droid rules.
The core point of the parent comment was that the symbols become more composable, so you end up with vastly less of them to learn than the equivalent set you'd have in a traditional language with shorthand spam from things like "reduce(+,x)" (or worse if you need a lambda around plus) being way too unwieldy and hard to read.

APL has like 80 builtin glyphs, compared to hundreds or thousands of functions in stdlibs of traditional languages, and when you learn those 80, you can read & write all of APL (and the terseness means you can consume information much faster, and knowing all of the language vastly simplifies the writing process too - you might not need to learn all of a traditional language to read it, but writing one well still needs a very big coverage of knowledge, or constant docs lookup).

Sure, for someone who knows C-like syntax, Java is infinitely more readable than APL, but if you bother to learn APL, it's pretty simple.
It's funny you mention Apple and "screen images simulated" ads.

It's because Apple was forced to add this because people complained that their visuals were misleading in ads.
Cerebras is a thing.
This is awesome! Ruby is a notoriously hard language to optimize thanks to its (wonderful) dynamism, so it's very exciting to see substantial performance gains with this new JIT.

Something that I noticed that might throw others for a loop as well: the changeset is north of 350K, but the actual JIT is only a couple of thousands of lines of C. 90% of the changeset is two torture test files.
I agree with your overall point, but their submission vetting process is at least less automated than say Glassdoor:

https://www.levels.fyi/addcomp.html
Seems to be doing well despite CA's policies and politics not because of.
> Writing gave a huge advantage to the Western forces. By that I mean military men had access to a couple thousand years of military tactics books. Having advanced weapons is one thing, knowing strategy and tactics is quite another.

If memory serves me correctly, military tactics didn't really become a genre until the late 16th century, after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. And during the early 16th century, it's quite likely that most of the soldiers (including the commanders!) would have been illiterate and thus not really able to read any extant military tactics books, especially whatever survived of Greek or Roman military texts.
No not really. Protestantism is so divorced from traditional Christianity as to be something else. Half the gospel preached is terrible new age nonsense bearing no resemblance to Christianity.

If we look at more catholic countries in the Americas, the middle class neighborhoods do look nicer in my opinion.

Edit: I should specify I don't believe this is specific to catholicism. Other religions also embrace beauty, like Islam and Hinduism. Protestantism by and large rejects the idea that material goods can embrace God, in their rejection of icons for examplr
Sanity trumps energy every single time. Noise from shared walls will drive most of us insane eventually.
For all its syntactic sugar, dealing with files in python (which comprises probably 90% of what I open a shell for) still requires a fair amount of boilerplate. Which is good for a general scripting language, but makes it poor for the the kind of tasks I expect of a shell.
As long as the solution demands radically slower development there will be problems. Do you really believe that a team of 5 overworked devs will re-implement all functionality pulled in by laravel and their app without introducing yet more vulnerabilities?
Remember these articles are people in tech jobs, not just employees of tech companies. People in corporates in tech jobs dont get RSUs.
It sounds like the feedback loop can only occur because there is a shortage of space at the warehouse. If warehouses responded to being full by raising prices until they are not full, would companies with goods in the warehouse start paying shippers more to take their goods from the warehouse? At some price, it will be worth the ship’s time to wait for the goods to be loaded.
Related past threads. Others?

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28874283 - Oct 2021 (47 comments)

Proposal to Merge YJIT into Ruby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691048 - Sept 2021 (77 comments)

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371977 - June 2021 (1 comment)
Okay sure. I don't buy that theory at all. The ruling class uses morals as a way to control society while having few themselves. Just look at the behavior of the Saudi royals.
Per transistor performance in M1 isn't any better than the x86 opposition, quite the opposite in fact. The standard M1 has 60% more transistors than a current gen Ryzen mobile chip, while having halve the large cores (and significantly worse multi ore performance).
> Not when building large software projects.

While working in rust I am most limited by single core performance. Incremental builds at the moment are like, 300ms compiling and 2 seconds linking. In release mode linking takes 10+ seconds with LTO turned on. The linker is entirely single threaded.

Fast cold compiles are nice, but I do that far more rarely than incremental debug builds. And there’s faster linkers (like mold[1] or lld) but lld doesn’t support macos properly and mold doesn’t support macos at all.

I’m pretty sure tsc and most javascript bundlers are also single threaded.

I wish software people cared anywhere near as much about performance as hardware engineers do. Until then, single core performance numbers will continue to matter for me.

[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold
By the way, many things that "exist as an idea" do exist within the nature itself, like the idea of gravity obviously affects the direction of the water flow in a waterfall.
Simply put, living off the land is HARD, even with an established settlement and some trade, mass starvation is a pretty likely outcome.

Reality is more complex and challenging than Farmville or AnimalCrossing.
They literally HID the lab that had the actual devices from FDA inspectors. In a B-movie style "slide a cabinet in front of the door" style deception.

Don't try to handwave that away as "the sum of promotional practices". That's abject fraud, not "faking it til you make it".
I would love this as an actual command or even a telnet/ssh server!
Btw the actual commit is here since the pr was closed and merged separately: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/6a9e2b3cc381fd1b6c5ec5ed...
I think the first 8 apply to all software development, not just web development.
Once I saw a father who was separated from his kids by an ocean get down on the floor with them and draw together in VR, I realized that basic human needs are going to be met by VR technology eventually. The removal of physical proximity as a pre-requisite for social presence is about as disruptive development as they come. It’s not 3D TV, and it’s not about tech: it is about the human experience of being together when physically apart. This is why Facebook is repositioning the whole company behind it. Zuck has understood this for a long time.
You can use a Minkowski sum to give yourself a fillet. I did it once. It worked but was 2x as hard as learning enough Fusion360 to do that whole part and then each design after that is 20% as hard.

I eventually got pretty good at OpenSCAD, but I’d say I now reach for OpenSCAD about 3x/year and everything else is in Fusion.

I wish I’d have switched years ago.
Does anyone remember the days when some geneticists were saying that 98% of DNA is "junk" DNA? When I heard it I knew it couldn't be true but it's probably going to take another 50 years to figure out how much really does get used.

I can't help but suspect that a lot of the genome is a part of the boot sequence that helps you go from one cell up to all the differentiated organs and tissues and systems.
Aproximately 100% of my searches include atlest one typo.

Spellcheck is for the week.
From his wiki:

>In court, Hale said he accepted punishment for taking the documents, and for taking innocent lives during his participation in the drone program. Noting that he is a descendant of Nathan Hale, executed for spying on the British for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Hale paraphrased his ancestor's reported last words, saying, "I have but this one life to give in service of my country."

Man its seeming more and more like the US is straying from its roots. Are actions like this a canary in the coal mine for a future collapse of the union?
i.e. it's well tested and solid. Including running on some production Shopify systems :)
700k dead not enough for you?
If you don't touch-type, typing English is terrible; you might reach 24 wpm. The words just have so many letters! By contrast, ιρρω, ("generate the indices for the dimensions of the right-hand argument") is four keystrokes on three keys, like BASIC on a Sinclair ZX-81. That seems like it would make APL a lot more usable for a non-touch-typist than English. With the stickers, anyway.

(I do keep forgetting which keys I have ψ and ξ on in Greek: the illogical C and J. Maybe I should make stickers.)

For a period of time, custom font ROMs or typeballs were harder to improvise than custom stickers; although the PLATO IV and V terminals had both softfonts and overstrike, very few were ever made, and both features were entirely missing from more common hardware, like the IBM 2741, Diablo daisy-wheel printers, Epson MX-80, ADM-3A, VT-100, VT-220, Heath H-19, IBM MDA, Hercules, and even the CGA. In 01986, in the Microsoft shill magazine PC Magazine, Charles Petzold touted this killer new feature of the US$524 EGA: "Even with 64K [video RAM], the normal font is replaceable by software." (March 25, 01986, p. 115.) The TI-99/4A and Nintendo Famicom did of course already use programmable "character generators," but I don't think anyone ever offered APL for them. Eventually, of course, we all moved to framebuffer displays backed by cheap semiconductor RAM, so custom fonts were no longer a premium feature.

I think the "font problem" really was a significant issue for APL adoption during the period 01968–01988, and as it turned out, that was a crucial formative period for computers; that was when we got, among other things, the PDP-8 (and thus process control computers), Unix, TCP/IP, C, the Macintosh, the IBM PC, MS-DOS, spreadsheets, object-oriented programming, semiconductor RAM, computer animation, digital music synthesizers, TeX, Intel and its 8008/8080/8086/80386 line, the primacy of ASCII, the 68000, ARM, RISC in general, and the modern IDE. Of these, only MS-DOS and the 68000 have really fallen out of favor.

There are a lot of path-dependent things in computing that we can attribute to standards established during that time. If IBM hadn't had their head so far up their ass, or if VisiCalc hadn't been written until 01986, things might have turned out very differently for APL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Farmers_of_America
They are indeed using Bing:

>However for some features, like searching for images, Brave Search will fetch results from Microsoft Bing.

Source: https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/
Two reasons:

1. People (in the US at least) overall consistently choose more land over living somewhere walkable. In a lot of places, the marginal cost of more land is near zero; and

2. The dirty secret of car dependency is that most people (in the US) like being car dependent. In all but the densest largest cities, private vehicles are so much more convenient. Even in Manhattan there are a nontrivial number of people who cling to their cars.

When a lot of people say they want to live somewhere walkable what they really mean is they want their same 4000 square foot house on half to one acre of land next to somewhere walkable.

Walkability is predicated on high land costs so obviously that doesn't scale.
Unions are a tool to contain and prevent abusive practices by companies in a free market.

As a result, most union members are going to be pretty anti capitalist in nature, or at the very least against unregulated capitalism. They would much rather have the abusive practices they protest against banned.

The alternatives to an unregulated free economy are either a state managed economy (communist style) or free-ish markets regulated by a government that sets the rules and limits the damages of the competition, by providing both regulations and safety nets (social democracy). both of those approaches require a strong state, which is were you get pro-government and pro-higher taxes.

I guess you could, theoretically, have unions that see themselves as the only necessary opposition against companies' power in a free market, and which see no need for legal protection for their own activities. It's a weird middle point though, and I certainly have never seen a person hold those beliefs.
> if the reasons are complicated, then the design should represent that complexity. Hiding complications makes everything harder, and excessive minimalism is just as harmful as excessive decoration.

Love the phrasing and idea of a design "representing" complexity accurately.
I’m aware of guardian - it is the hello world example of what I’m talking about. Currently VR apps are not meatspace aware, guardian is just a safety tool.
Mull Browser: Hardened Firefox Based on Fennec
I just think this is insane to me. We know the cost to build more intricate builds - it isn't a 2% cost increase its a 30 or 50% cost increase. There are already tons of restrictions on building and zoning in America.

I like nice cars but I dont insist that everyone drive a European sports car just because it would be aesthetically more pleasing. Ultimately, a city/town will be better off if people can spend 20% of their income on housing instead of 50%. Not just because they are selfish or short-sighted but because they can actually use the additional resources on things for themselves, their family, and their community.
You are correct! SoI was common for high-performance ICs in the early 2000s, but lost out to more conventional CMOS processes.
The 4/12lb is bigger than the 3/12 burger.
Speculating at a 10,000 foot view: It may just be the case that, in any real conflict, phones, the internet, etc. are doomed no matter what. It would be so easy to cripple digital infrastructure with physical means it probably doesn't make much sense investing in digital prevention.

Physical safeguards are both easier to implement, easier to demonstrate when funding is decided, and generally the better investment considering most compromises of government digital infrastructure come from people with direct physical access (plugging in a dropped USB, spies, phishing, etc.).
I don’t think the notch is a big deal on MacOS as that area has the menu bar anyway. It’s a much bigger deal on the iPhones. In dark mode, that notch won’t even be noticeable.

I am curious however on why Apple didn’t do a punch hole instead since it doesn’t even have Face ID? Unless they are setting the expectation for next year when they do add Face ID?

Also does anyone know what happens to the cursor around that area? Does the cursor go under that area or is it blocked from going in that area?
Health-related parenting behaviours in early childhood
No it's not. It's not even remotely victim blaming. At no point did anyone even remotely hint it was their fault.

People have taken this to a ridiculous level. Giving practical advice about how to avoid problems is not blaming the victim. Telling my child to look both ways before crossing the street is not blaming him if he gets hit. It's not wanting to see him get hurt when the person actually at fault fucks up. Telling someone to avoid non-ASCII characters because a program can't handle it is not blaming them....

Your comment was unhelpful. Great! Not their fault! What now? It's also part of a larger trend that will lead to people being hurt.
Beauty or aesthetics haven't been quantified so they cannot be used as a metric to guide decisions in a world where all decisions are made via metrics. Looking at modern architecture or urban design, everything is designed based on a few metrics - cost, time to build & energy efficiency primarily.

How does a policymaker argue to spend $X more on a prettier building? That would just come off sounding too subjective to justify today. Now we will no doubt see psychological studies telling us obvious truths about humanity - that living in nice places feels good actually. The paper will say things like "pretty buildings improve quality of life by 23% and productivity by 6%". But unlike subjective opinion, a scientific paper is a defensible piece of evidence so we need the study to justify building a pretty neighborhood in a modern context.

This clinical economic view of the world is pervasive today so nothing can be justified outside of a utilitarian lens.
Are You Burned Out? Or Is It Something Else? – HBR
It would equivalently apply to petitions for immigrant visas where applicants would be outside the U.S. and apply via consular processing. Or for employees on intracompany transferee L-1 visas.

The PERM process is specifically a prerequisite to an I-140 petition for immigrant visa. Anything assertion that Facebook was "defrauding the H-1B program" is completely spurious.
What would a company do if they are short on cashflow and orders?
Great, another stupid trend that I hate started by Apple.
Minds and Machines
As people stated in the announcement post, a high memory bandwidth doesn't really benefit CPUs much. That's also why AMD and Intel don't have high memory bandwidth on their cores, because it doesn't really help performance.

Where it is beneficial is the GPU; for comparison AMD and Nvidia cards often exceed 400GB/s. A desktop RTX 3090 has 900GB/s.
Managers are better thought of as "agents of capital or ownership" under this distinction. Manager compensation would typically be at least partially tied to overall company performance, even without equity (e.g. cash bonuses for a strong P+L). Employees, as a group distinct from the Managers, earn a flat wage regardless of performance.

Of course, this is industry/location/company dependent, but I believe that is the reasoning for the distinction.
I think you are mistaking the word "conservative" for a political position. The parent is using it as in this definition "averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values." Steep roofs are more traditional.

I'm definitely not buying the idea that asymmetrical houses are "stressful" in any meaningful way. I mean, I guess you could say anything that is interesting and non-bland is stressful, but that is quite a stretch.
That’s because the media hasn’t convinced you that it’s the most important characteristic of your humanity.
I used to run Docker on an older Intel Mini and it was fine--a little slow but usable. I've also used it on other Intel Macs without major issues, including running giant Java apps and SQL Server.

On my M1 Mini, I found it unstable and incredibly slow (for Postgres at least, using stock images from Docker Hub) and mostly quit using it. I upgraded to the latest version recently and it was still too slow.

For everything else, though, I find that the M1 Mini is significantly faster. E.g., compiling Python versions is way faster.
I didn't even know that A&W restaurants still existed. They disappeared from my part of America decades ago. What areas do they operate in?
Of course there will be other brands. The iPhone is by far the most successful phone brand, and they ship less than 30% of new phones each year. Something similar could happen here, where GM loses share like Nokia did, and new companies like Lucid take a market segment, like LG does with phones.
The M1 SSD is significantly faster than previous Macs. Could be that swapping is much less noticable now. I also have a 16GB M1 Mini and haven't noticed an issue either.
How Twitter Tries Users to Be Nice
> In a fully free market, a group of employees is able to come together and bargain with a company. This bargaining can include saying "unless from now on you only hire people from our organization, you'll immediately lose all of your current employees."

I agree with this. The problem is that today, it's illegal for a company to go with the "lose all of your current employees" approach.

> But in the above situation, you would have to get the government to interfere to make those sorts of exclusivity arrangements illegal if you have an issue with them.

I don't want making deals with unions to become illegal. I just don't want companies to be forced to make deals with them. For example, just because 51% of the employees want to be in a union doesn't mean that they should get to force the other 49% to join, or to force the company to only hire union workers going forward.
I assume you get exhausted after doing that all day. Just know that I appreciate you doing it!
IDK, I'm generally on r/badeconomics which is the best one of the badX gang, but as far as I saw, badhistory was very informal but generally fine?

Like, sure there's probably a bias to the left but it's not the hellhole of r/badphilosophy for instance there. They won't advocate for nonsense stuff,just use the terminology from social sciences
Well, it's not illogical. It's a logical consequence of how human perception interprets "viewing a thing with a notch" greatly different from "using a thing with a notch".

If you're a driver, you're familiar with this; photos of cars clearly show these obstructing pillars left and right of the windshield, but in practice when driving, you get so used to working around them that you don't take conscious note of them anymore. That's why Apple said about the iPhone notch "trust us, you won't care", and sure enough, their users mostly don't care.

(Yes, it's still a good idea to reduce the blind spot of pillars, since lots of drivers don't bother looking around them to see if there's a person there. But the good drivers that do look around them still don't notice the pillars – they just move their head and look around them without taking much conscious notice of the pillar or the workaround.)

I could imagine this is because we need to be able to pay attention through a forest, and so whether or not there's a tree blocking one arc-degree of your field of view is ultimately irrelevant to paying attention in a forest, and that car pillars (and cracked windshields, and dangling objects hanging from rearview mirrors) fall into the same general bucket.
I have talked about this a bit more in another comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28936345

There are also possible contacts between ancient peoples in Europe and the Americas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...

But as I mention, the impact of 1492 eclipses it all (that is why is called Pre-Columbian!)
Me: No, I wish to sit in the car and bang my head on the steering :(
How to build a do-it-yourself vector-network analyzer (VNA)
Very cool. Now please let me access it over SSH.
This is fascinating. Are there more details on what they did? What chips they swapped etc?
Using only ascii letters is the edge case. Most of the world either uses Latin with diacritics or a different writing system.