skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Structure, guidance, accountability, connections. At least theoretically.

It's wonderful that so much material is free, but it's an overwhelming amount of information for the uninitiated. Some people can self-motivate and self-teach starting from zero. Some cannot. Some would just prefer a formal curriculum and instructor. Nothing wrong with that.

And the best bootcamps have a direct relationship into companies for internships and junior dev positions.

Unfortunately as bootcamp hype has exploded, many bootcamps do not offer these things and are of dubious value.
PETA does not believe pet ownership is equal to slavery, it ran an ad campaign comparing abused animals captive for things like circus acts, marine parks, and factory farming to slavery. That said it does believe animals should not be domesticated, but has never suggested that owning a pet is the same as slavery. Okay fine you can disagree with that as I do, but don't exaggerate their position.

Finally the reason it has the highest euthanization rates has nothing to do with mercy, but because it never refuses to take in any animals, period. Other shelters, especially no-kill shelters, achieve their objective by refusing to take in an animal when they reach capacity and they avoid reaching capacity in the first place by refusing animals that are unlikely to be adopted such as those that are aggressive, or old, or are injured.

PETA never refuses any animals and as such people go to PETA often as a last resort when no other shelter will take their animal. In cases where PETA comes to the same conclusion that a no-kill shelter will come to about the prospects of an animal finding a suitable home, and after PETA confirms that no other nearby shelter will take in the animal, instead of simply refusing the animal which often results in dumping, or further neglect of said animal, PETA euthanizes it. Consider that there are over 60 million stray dogs in the US roaming about compared to about 3 million dogs living in a shelter. It's simply not possible to shelter all abandoned animals, so either PETA euthanizes them, or the animal lives out in the wild where it ends up reproducing and introducing or exacerbating negative effects to its environment.

All of these are positions that you may disagree with and criticize without exaggerating or misrepresenting them.
> Perf/watt isn’t the same thing as task energy, it sounds like you’re the one confused here.

How do you calculate Perf/watt if not Task/Task Energy?

> As I said, task energy (which is what’s measured in the OP) heavily favors “getting it done quicker”

Which x86 can do.

> It’s basically a “race to sleep”

Oh no, it gets the task done faster!

> I’m not the one claiming anything, if you disagree with Anandtech’s numbers go take it up with them.

I have no issue with Anandtech, since they made no such claim. I read the article, you're badly misquoting it.

> And again, that’s with it running at half the clock and half the threads of its laptop peers, so IPC is something like 8x higher in those scenarios.

None of which is ultimately important.

> That is not the kind of gap you close up with a node shrink or tightening pitches a bit. Hackernews experts know best though.

Look at the results again. For example for SPEC2017 ST the Apple M1 MAX is essentially tied with the 5950x.

Sure the M1 Max might be more energy efficent (though by how much you'd need to measure) - but remember it's a massively larger chip, a whole year newer, and on a newer node.

For MT we see the M1 max bearely beat a 5800X for int, and do significantly better for floating point - which shows different priorities of design.

Again, take a 5800X, shrink it down, add another FPU, and it beats a M1 max hands down.

> Next year Zen4 and A16 will be on the same node, and then it’ll be another excuse for why x86 is still getting dumpstered.

Except x86 isn't getting dumpstered.

You're just cherry picking specific comparisons that make M1 look great, and then ignoring all contrary information.

I mean, I could the the Borderlands 3 1080p benchmark, and say that the M1 got 21.1FPS to the GE76's 100, and therefore x86 is ~8 times faster.

It wouldn't be honest (I'm deliberately chosing the worst M1 chip, and picking a workload that really favors x86) - but I could do it.

But I don't, because it's not honest nor is it helpful.
In dev shops where python is needed for other tasks like data science or ML
> The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, EBCDIC does have support for all of the characters used as examples. Specifically, code page 37 - the "default" US EBCDIC code page and one apparently widely used on IBM mainframes[0] - has the characters at 0x45, 0x54, 0xCB, 0xDC, and 0x48 respectively.

(Actually, code page 37 has all characters that are in ISO-8859-1, they're just in different positions.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Page_37
They also reported that model 3 sales in Europe for the month was just shy of 25k which is the first time an EV topped monthly sales.

Renault Clio on spot #2 with 18k sold.

Interesting considering the price of the tesla….
Singapore already solved this problem: Execute all drug dealers.

Remarkably effective but at a tremendous cost to personal liberty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevale...
Not always true. Often building what you guessed is the quickest way to find out whether your assumptions are correct - maybe what you built is "wrong", but it sharpens the conversation about what the client actually wants. Iterating in software is extremely cheap, far cheaper than in traditional engineering, and going around the loop several times often gets you a better result than any amount of up-front analysis and design work.
With all this information collected and available, and with pretty basic technology tools (keyword alerts, fast searching, location data to pinpoint pretty accurate positioning) - how come there is still crime and other "bad things" that happen?

I'm not talking about heat-of-the-moment things, but literally anything requiring any sort of planning or organisation (kidnapping, gangsterism, etc) should be solvable with this. So why isn't it?

*Note, I don't want an uber-surveillance state - my point is that we already have one, and any feeble excuses from law enforcement about solving 10s of thousands of crimes with "ooops we can't figure it out" seems utterly hollow and untrue.
They’re incredible compared to current vehicle driving assists which won’t operate at all when the road is snow covered.

They’re also pretty great considering the millions of miles travels on such roads each year.
Socializus
Guess again my friend. Ate old canned food for a very long time while my parents declared bankruptcy as a kid - twice - so we at least had a roof over our head, and wore the same two shirts for years too. My Mom finished a 4 year degree several years afterwards that helped us pull out of the economic collapse of the aerospace industry in the area that had trapped us - and was studying late in the night to do it. While working a very demanding full time job too.

There are methods to avoid being destroyed by situations like this, but some never try or don’t bother to even figure it out. Doesn’t mean it still isn’t hard work, and stressful as hell, but it is there to stop the destruction. Folks have to look and try though.
> Equally often, a bill is often declared "passed" even when the voices of a measure's supporters are not obviously louder.

What actually determines whether stuck a vote passes then? Is there "real" voting behind the scenes that gives the real count, or is it just game of chicken where anyone can object to the determination if they're willing to be on the record as the naysayer?
Yes, and the reason people die to drug use is because drug use is inherently dangerous for people.
Lock-free programming is really tough. There are really only a few patterns that work (e.g. Treiber stack). Trying to invent a new lock-free algorithm, as this vulnerable code demonstrates, almost always ends in tears.
I'm sure some people do, but do most people really judge each other on rental cars?

That seems, well, stupid. Frankly, I'm not sure if most customers ever even see me in my rental car.
You're right I was confusing CV for the DK headsets - I remember playing fallout 3 on the DK2 and loving it.

I would say Alan Yates and Ben Krasnow are pretty credible.
Yeah I saw their 3.5" variant that's coming soon, but assuming it's prices only slightly higher than the 2.5" variant (keeping in mind it'd need a different power supply setup) it's still too expensive IMO. It's edging into the price range of other commercially available NASs for less performance.
The highest bidder, of course.
No commits in 2 years. Seems Google lost interest like usual.
What if I need to put more than 10 friends on my list. Why is it arbitrarily limited?
This doesn't contradict what I said. I don't know much about Portland's homelessness problem, but I'd guess that being the largest city in the state, and having famously left-wing laws, might attract people on the margins to come. There are probably a lot of reasons.
Seems like more than 2 columns would be handy even in those scenarios.
I rented an electric Zipcar recently (not a Tesla), without any previous experience of electric cars. My only problem was switching it on, which doesn't quite work like an ICE and there is some control position you need to adopt before it will let you do it. The ten minutes I spent on that were quite frustrating, since I was late and it seemed like I might not be able to get the car to work; also because Zipcar charge by the minute. But I had no problems after that.
They'll wise up to it when people start requesting it.

I'll even pay a premium for a 100% guaranteed reserved charging spot at a hotel. This way I can just gun it and arrive at 1% charge, plug in, sleep, have breakfast and be on my way with a full battery again.
Possible explanation: lots of terminals paste on click. A single miss click can execute who know what from your clipboard.
All those companies currently make less than 100k EVs per year.

GM barely makes (made) 20k of Bolt per year.

You might argue about what number constitutes scale or philosophically argue that "can" means some future, not current, ability.

But if you're Hertz and want 100k cars within a year, Tesla is the only company that can deliver that.
I frequently (pre-COVID) saw cars were literally being turned as fast as possible because people were waiting for them. The idea that an N (N << total number of EVs) car wide throughput problem with 30 minute cycle time isn't a bottleneck is insanely naive to me.
TELEGRAPHY CHANGED LANGUAGE STOP CHARGING BY WORD STOP FLOURISHES TOO COSTLY STOP

That era was just starting by 1850, but showed in some language, especially in newspapers, and to an extent Mark Twain.

Hemmingway remains the exemplar though.

I strongly suspect that the ornate language also served trust and signalling purposes. With faster communications, that could be indicated by other means (returning texts immediately rather than long exhortations of faith, fearing the correct gods, and infinite gratitude to one's superiors, should one have any). This turns up in business correspondence, and the history of business writing and messaging as communications increased in speed and bandwidth are interesting. A small handful of companies (the Souther Pacific Railroad, DuPont Chemical, General Electric) had an absolutely outsized impact on standards of correspondence and recordkeeping, particularly from about 1880 -- 1910 or so. Even standardisation of fields on memos, most of which were later reflected in RFC 822 email message headers, date to this time, and were aimed at improving ease of reference and filing.
While trying to exercise more I found a "hack" around this. I was only able to exercise +3 weeks when I priorized it over everything else in my life. Long working hours? Sorry gotta go. Wife needs help cleaning a room? Sorry gotta go. Who should getting groceries? Nah, I have to exercise sorry. Daddy read me more! Sorry gotta go(okay but just one more)
I've spent plenty of time driving Teslas, and I've always been happy to go back to my own vehicles. I'd never buy one.

That's not to say I don't think EVs are interesting. Teslas just happen to be garbage.
Then again, if Carmack being interested in something so strongly isn’t social proof enough, maybe you just aren’t very good at being an investor in this particular field.
I think people are doing the math on car TCO finally.

If nothing goes wrong, the first two-three years are practically free for an EV. Home charging costs pennies and if you're really stingy you can use free public chargers.

Then you might need a new set of tires maybe a quick maintenance at the dealership and you're good for a few years again.
It's simple enough to say that on the lighthouse system, the sensors are on the headset/controllers, and the beacons are cast from the lighthouse boxes.

On the oculus system the sensors were the external cameras, and the beacons were the LEDs on the devices.

My experience with both was that the oculus system did really well in a seated system but for room scale games the lighthouse system does better, especially when the controllers go behind you like in the valve archery game.

I haven't bought an oculus system since the DK2 so not sure how sophisticated it is now.
All companies already offer a known surcharge at checkin to do this.
Third possibility - FB fudges numbers.
What the officers did in both the original and comment article I would deem criminal abuse of power. Thankfully I believe police in America are have become more keen as of late on the whole not acting like an outlaw gang; with the rise of police accountability, police being charged/convicted/sentenced, and departments paying massive sums for poorly trained wayward officers.

The speed/level of abuse of force stories has dropped substantially in the past 6 months; I suspect it's not because the people becoming quieter.

Should anyone here serve on a jury panel in America, do not forget you can vote not guilty if you believe the officers acted improperly or the punishment of trial/detention/seizure far outweighs the original non-crime. Jury nullification is a strong force of good which legally cannot be brought up in the courtroom itself, but is important for cases like these.
When I get forms like this I just dump them to jpg, fill them in an a paint program and zip them back up and send them as static images.
Noam Chomsky prob

Shoshana Zuboff

Even stuff she wrote 100 years ago legit

But her recent stuff good too

Think she was one of the first to put it succinctly

Facebook or democracy

Choice is ours

And we've made our choice
Market cap is an illusion, in both stock markets and crypto.
AWS operates LightSail and LightSail is cheaper for who use bandwidth a few TB. That's why the question.
This is likely the organization of the project. What do your service objects look like? Domains? Repositories? DTO's? How do you organize them?

How about adapters?

There's some great pieces of literature out there about advanced ruby / rails - well worth the read!
Well, I don't know if they'd really fit the bill for you, but what comes to my mind is stuff by Jaron Lanier, and "When Google Met Wikileaks" by Julian Assange. Assange actually seems similar to Chomsky to me because of the depth and breadth of his knowledge.
Name sounds like some prescription drug.
Blue Origin: Jeff Bezos unveils plans for 'space business park'
I'm really torn on this stuff. On one hand, the big failure is a company process one: people should not have the permissions to just run "terraform destroy" and have it actually destroy a production environment (ditto for the HDFS /data deletion). Or at the very least, there should be a strong culture of never getting into the position of being able to do that without someone looking over your shoulder, double-checking every command before you run it.

But... some of this just feels like carelessness. I've certainly made my share of mistakes, but these just feel egregiously bad. This takeaway in particular is just all wrong:

> Measure the risk when you give all the permissions to one developer, one data engineer or one SRE — it means similar stories could happen

There is no need to measure that risk, because no one should have permissions to take down your production infrastructure so easily. This just seems like table stakes for running or working at a company that operates this kind of infrastructure.

I think it's three things: first, abide by the principle of least privilege, and make company-destroying permissions hard to come by; second, put safe (web, command-line, whatever) interfaces in front of common tasks that need to be done that could turn into accidental downtime; and third, when it's required that you do things outside of the safe interfaces, drill it into people that you never do them without a copilot who can check over your work, in real-time, before you do anything (and if anyone develops a reputation for being a cowboy... seriously, fire them).
Better yet would be Ruby. It's much more beginner friendly and is a thoroughly consistent OO language—i.e., everything is an object, including numbers and strings.

Ruby's also got a much better web dev story, which is good for junior devs (without ML and/or infrastructure backgrounds) who are looking to enter the market. After learning Ruby, either JS or Java could be a great 2nd language.
Not sure what was so wrong with the design; I recall people would bypass BIOS calls for speed but I never understood why. I guess there was no BitBlt or set-multiple-pixels call, so you incurred call-and-return overhead for every pixel drawn?

Later I ran AutoCAD on a PC-XT with a CGA and an MDA. The graphics were on the CGA, but all the text was on the MDA screen, which had, I think, a slightly nicer font; the lack of a shadow mask made the letterforms break up less, although it was the same shitty green phosphor as the Z-100. Even bypassing the BIOS, line drawing was slow enough that when you erased a line it would just draw the line in the background color, leaving spaces wherever it intersected anything else; periodically you would have to type REDRAW and wait a second or two, which would have been unbearable if you had to do it after every erasure.

Games got by with blits to small parts of the screen, commonly with XOR (a trick AutoCAD used for drawing the crosshairs and rubberband lines, and ended up having to pay a patent troll for). Some, like ASTROTIT (nsfw), managed to draw a fixed background with sprites on top of it, redrawing it when they passed.

This was the era when 3-D CAD systems still used "calligraphic" displays from Evans & Sutherland (called "random stroke CRTs" in less pompous times), like the vector displays used in the arcade games Tempest and Star Wars, but so expensive I never saw one in my life. You could do 3-D on a CGA (3-DEMON was a super fun first-person CGA Pac-Man clone, like an FPS but with no shooting) but at its shitty resolution, 640x200 (or half that if you wanted color), and updating the whole CGA screen was, as I said, noticeably slow. The same 16 kilobytes of RAM used for a vector display would have been enough to put 5000 lines on a 4096x4096 "calligraphic" display, and you could move any of them whenever you wanted --- or change the camera matrix.
> because nobody is doing raytracing on CPUs.

Nobody is doing realtime raytracing on CPUs. The author is talking about production ray tracing rendering working with scenes that won't fit in most workstation GPUs.
Question: What would it look like to be living on an electron, whizzing around a proton, inside a molecule, inside a living being?
I don't think it "must" be? Tomatoes are very common in that situation because their seeds can survive passage through the human digestive system, but if a different plant's seed happened to coincidentally land there there's no reason it couldn't grow too?
Sounds more like a crutch rather than a fix
You are correct. I have a mainframe right here in front of me, with a "test card" of all 256 byte values. There certainly are accented characters in most code pages.

The problem is that they are difficult to deal with. They cause problems with data entry. They make sorting more complicated. They make searching difficult. etc etc. At my current site names are even stored in uppercase to reduce these issues.

I welcome efforts like this to force computers to be more compatible with people - many mainframe systems are stuck in the dark ages of "to hard to be flexible" and need to be kicked into the 21st century.
Experienced solutions architects prevent mistakes from being costly with responsible infrastructure design, disaster recovery plans, and solid management workflows.

Companies cut corners by not hiring architects because they are not cheap, and then they cut corners on salary for roles on mission critical projects because they are also cheap, and they often pay the price anyway just later-on because failure is expensive.

Hire experienced people for the right money if it's a mission-critical system. The simple facts are all there.

Nobody successful designs a good building without a good architect, and the project never turns out well when pay isn't right.

Also important to note: The architect should not also be the one to physically build the "house", in order to maintain proper objectivity and in order to avoid conflict, even if the company insists on being cheap.
Not really, at least in the negative sense of the term. Try talking to Oracle or SAP sales for that :)
Lease Swapping for Travel on Facebook
The m1 max TDP is projected to be 90W. The Xeon is 45W.

https://newsbeezer.com/franceeng/the-tdp-of-the-apple-m1-max...

Now here's that Xeon beating that 11090HK. Hmm, same CPU according to you. Wonder why that is.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Xeon-W-11955M-vs-...

Sorry, I stopped reading after your first line.
> perhaps you should do the math, 5 cents per user would be 2.81 billion * 0.05 = ~$7 million.

This is some creative math!
But it's SO THIN -Jony Ive
If agency on-site charging is fast enough, that’s a win, like a pump at every stall.
People in this thread have repeatedly explained how the data could be wiped when regenerating the security keys. So Apple isn’t doing anything here but controlling everything to effectively lock out third party repairs.

But sure if they really want to remove all competition for security reasons, they could certainly show good faith by doing all repairs entirely at cost thereby removing any profit motive.
> It attracted the worst junkies from all around Europe, it created a crime wave in a country that was crime-free.

Well, that's the issue. No one area within a zone of free travel can exclusively do this. That is, if Ohio did it, druggies throughout the US would go there.

But, as I understood the idea, the free drugs were required to be consumed on premises under the watch of a professional. So why would any drugs even leave the facility.
Perhaps you'll also find joy in 'demisemihemidemisemiquaver' and friends!

Here, though, the quest for elegant variation must prematurely conclude at 'quasihemidemisemiquaver'.
They might need some custom software from Tesla for the infotainment unit to allow people to pair their phones etc.

Having to do a full reset of the head unit after every customer isn't really a good option.

And I'm pretty sure they'll tap in to the car telemetry and they WILL know if you've been doing quarter mile runs on their car =)