skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I purchased a Q2 mostly because it was an incredible price for getting into VR, something I had long wanted to do mainly because I read a lot of sci fi as a kid.

Unlike the Vive I rented some years ago for a party, the screen made text more or less readable when it was large enough (I think the screen door effect interfered more on the Vive). Also not needing up base stations was a huge QOL improvement for using it a lot, and after I upgraded to Wifi 6 the desktop lag was pretty negligible. The weight doesnt bother me at all to be honest but having it resting against my face probably wouldnt be great day after day.

But after playing around with some desktop mirror apps, I decided it's not where I'd want to switch - yet. I code on a 32" 4k monitor at 100% scaling and I'm not interested in replacing that until I can get close to the same number of words infront of me at a time.

But.. 8k Pimax has been out for a while, 12k Pimax VR headset was announced, and the Varjo aero is expensive but has 2880x2720px per eye and was just released to consumer. The space is getting interesting very quickly at the moment.
As a candidate I've been ghosted by many many HRs even after showing salary breakup. I do not know why they just don't send an email saying "position is filled"

This matters because in India we have notice periods that are 2 to 3 months by default so it is difficult to get the first offer letter.

When I was looking for a change and decided to decline offers, I wrote to the HRs much before my joining date as I didn't want to be like the bad HRs I had faced.
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8

"Understanding style" by Matthew Griffith (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb2GDWMIm0
They will Metastasize, even.
Game theory. If the idea occurred to you, then one can almost guarantee it will eventually occur to others - and to someone at your competitor.

With that understanding, there's only one rational course of action: to secure your supply before they do, and your competitor realized all this.

The only real decision to make is whether to risk the more aggressive move of also locking up your competitor's supply.
Our ears twitch towards the direction of sound too. Mine do sometimes at least.
Adderall is not meth. It's close - but it's not meth. And meth isn't that bad unless you smoke it, especially in huge dosages - and the vast, vast majority of Adderall users are not smoking it - or taking massive doses.
WiFi's Hidden ____ Problem – Computerphile
You know what I hear when a product is touted as being "in the top 10"? That it's definitely somewhere between #6 and #10. Because if it was 3rd, it'd be "top 3", and if it was 5th, it would be "in the top 5".

If a pull quote or headline shows a good statistic for one cohort, it's a fair bet that other cohorts didn't show such a positive result, or else the touting would have been something like "overall" rather than "15–24".
Any advice on how to get from "fast for a normal" to "fast for a computer person" (like you)? I'm around 90wpm on a good day, but for the life of me can't break ~100.

Always used to piss me off... my ex typed ~120 while I typed ~70wpm. Both of us engineers. Completely demolished me anytime we fought over chat. ;)
Cash bids on corn are up ~70% from last year. The production figures do not suggest to me that the supply is constrained on the production side to justify a jump that large. Especially when we're seeing large increases across all kinds of commodities in unison, suggesting there is something else going on. Are people currently holding onto such resources as a hedge against inflation or what may be driving it?
Plenty of space in Hong Kong for NGOs but not for subversive groups like Amnesty
I wouldn't recommend doing this nor saying I do this, but just FYI; The entire article loads way before the paywall.

This means two things:

1) If you disable JavaScript, the paywall goes away.

2) If you can quickly ctrl + a, ctrl + c the entire article you can read it on your IDE.

We need to tell economist.com developers to patch this.
Much of the cost of JWST was making it so it could unfold from a tiny cylinder that fit on a little rocket. Probably the overwhelming majority of the cost was just because it took so long before they could launch it. They kept losing the scheduling reason to reject unnecessary proposed changes. Probably it is a better telescope for many of the changes, but almost certainly not a 10x better telescope.
If your mom plays Beat Saber on an Oculus device, I think knowing the Oculus brand is kind of unsurprising. Most people have never played Beat Saber or even tried a VR device; Oculus, in those circles, is a pretty niche brand.
I can't touch on outputting a git repo, but org-babel can definitely give you colored terminal output and screenshots, etc.

But I love to see people play in the literate programming space and loved your article.
Open source community has been successfully creating high quality and complex products for years without ever meeting, let alone having a shared physical space to work from.
Just learned that there are two different things, stenotype, which uses a special keyboard (mostly in the US?), and stenography, a form of hand writing, which some of the comments refer to. Interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand
I don't touch type as fast as you do (only 80-110wpm) but I too was tempted by the idea of faster typing. I have experimented with several chording keyboards and could never get past 15-20 wpm range. My problem is that I have been typing on QWERTY keyboards for decades and my limiting factor is not my typing speed, but my thinking speed. When coding, I hardly ever can go for more than a couple of minutes before I need to cross-reference something, flip to a different file, check another part of the file, etc. That is what really limits my output, not the actual typing speed.

People who have tried Dvorak keyboards find it difficult when they need to work away from their personal desktop / notebook. I got far more value out of simply learning to touch type well. That is never having to look at the keyboard - eyes on the screen at all times.
Did the developers of the Linux kernel need to share the same physical space on a continuous basis?

I think open source software is a testament the the idea that software does not require physical collaboration most of the time.
Given that everyone continues to talk about Zuckerberg’s website every single day despite the massive fines, privacy violations, scandals, etc it tells you that his ruthless business decisions are working and his website is more relevant to this day than ever.

You and I may not like him or use his website, but it seems that it is enough for someone like Carmack to continue working there for longer and the users who still detest him and his website to continue to have an account and use it regardless.

From a business standpoint, he is still winning. Every time someone uses his services or he is talked about, he wins.
And I agree with you enforcing the flameware rule because if that's not done HN won't be a discussion forum it'll be a cesspool of hate like Twitter or Facebook
Not really. My thesis is that IF the stock market is NOT a casino, then the capital gains are real income, thus they need to be taxed. For example if the stock prices were set by the companies and they were obligated to buy back shares at that price if asked, then indeed you have a valuable asset on hand. If the company increases the asking / paying price for the stock then you have real tangible income that you can realize. Similar to the interest you accrue from savings.

But if we agree it is a casino, then we should not tax air, only the ones who cash their earnings and walk out of the casino. And goes without saying that we should stop incentivizing people to gamble their money and pensions on this. 401k, Roth and all these need to go.
MANGA
Psychological Operations Capture their minds, their hearts and souls will follow
Sweden, UK and Germany have double the homicide rate of the Netherlands, US 10x
On the contrary, we create more abstractions and complexity from more people which create more complex social dynamics, more inventions, words, ideas, etc. In addition, tribes were not so static in Pre-agricultural eras. Tribes would regularly trade or swap members, and some would grow or collapse entirely.
https://github.com/openui/open-ui last commit 10 hours ago
So wasn't this part of the original dream for Smalltalk? Then this would seem to be coming full circle: Smalltalk, Objective C, Swift and back. I know some of you are Alan Kay fans so maybe you can comment on that aspect.
In Australia, one of the big reasons have been invasive surveillance - They have multiple cameras set up inside, tracking how many seconds you are looking here or there. If it detects your eyes not doing what the AI deems acceptable, then it pings your manager up in his executive chair and they get to yell at you.

Basically takes your attention completely out of driving the truck and doing your job, to deliberately making actions to stay within the allowed parameters of AI.
> Many of us have also realized the quality of work is not the same when there is zero in-person collaboration

"Many of us" with decades into this career and who have managed such teams would disagree.
It has an API, it is called CoreML. The compiler will use whatever resources will run your code the best, which on a phone may consider power consumption as well as performance. I am doubtful as programmers we know more about the hardware performance tradeoffs than the designers of the hardware.

"Core ML optimizes on-device performance by leveraging the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine while minimizing its memory footprint and power consumption."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreml

Yes, CoreML may or may not run on the Neural engine, depending upon what you are trying to do and the system conditions. It will run your code on whatever works best.
> I mean the way people talk about Zuck, you'd think he's a mass murderer

For many people, the way (most) people talk about someone (i.e. their tone, not specific details) is the primary signal used to determine their own general tone/opinion about that person.

A few other common reasons someone may not like Zuck:
1. He's rich
2. He's at the top of a hugely profitable company (and profitable companies are generally disliked)
3. FB has absorbed a lot of the advertising spend, at the expense of traditional media (whose tone sets the tone for many people, pt 1)
There's also EnterpriseDB, a commercial version of PostgreSQL that has added support for the Oracle SQL dialect, including the stored proc language (pl/SQL or whatever it's called).

I don't think it speaks the Oracle wire protocol though.
Getting edge equations done right / consistently is certainly important. That's not actually a floating point vs fixed point argument though.

There's always going to be rounding and clamping. With fixed point code or fixed-function hardware it's obvious and explicit. You can do all the same range reduction work in fp32.

Modern rasterizers have been outputting "24-bit Z" aka the equivalent of [-0.5, 0.5] in fp32 forever. Said another way: fp32 hardware perfectly implements a signed 23-bit fixed point :).
I did my time in a 99 Corolla, it's doable but gross
And we have no idea how far out "people believe there's a predictable level of demand" is.
I think this is partially right. The difference is Apple made the Mac. Microsoft made Windows. Facebook was the thing and then Facebook (the thing) made Facebook, the company. The relationship between owner and intention is something like retroactive. If Facebook could have called Instagram “Facebook” at the very moment of acquisition and got away with it I’m sure they’d have been thrilled. But that was similarly never the way of things. Facebook the company has always been trying to convince everyone that Facebook (the originating product and all it’s ill-gotten marvels) is a product of the thinking. But it’s the source. A tiny homebrew app for gossip didn’t suddenly will into existence Instagram and WhatsApp. The nature and timing of the product put the resulting company in a financial position to encourage us all to play along and believe they had anything to do with the purpose and utility of those things. Oculus was similar. The promise of infinite cash for the problem. Make it better faster. Fastest. The product existed, now please believe Facebook is why. Call it meta. The meta is why. Sure it’s a little on the nose, but is just here to assemble the pieces anyway, so who cares what it’s called. Now the carnivorous beast built of such crudely stitched limbs it so desperately tried to integrate has donned a hat. A hat on a hat. Unsurprising, yes.
It seems that now we use around 10% of the brain power. Maybe we were optimizing for energy consumption?

Until the second half of the last century it was hard for the majority of people to find enough food.

I would expect that our brain will start to grow slowly if food won't be a problem for a long period. The same way our bodies started to grow once we had enough food.
///// Third phase of output
//
// This is the heart of this program. It aims to be able to produce a
// sustained output rate of 64 bytes of FizzBuzz per four clock cycles
// in its main loop (with frequent breaks to do I/O, and rare breaks
// to do more expensive calculations).
//
// The third phase operates primarily using a bytecode interpreter; it
// generates a program in "FizzBuzz bytecode", for which each byte of
// bytecode generates one byte of output. The bytecode language is
// designed so that it can be interpreted using SIMD instructions; 32
// bytes of bytecode can be loaded from memory, interpreted, and have
// its output stored back into memory using just four machine
// instructions.
You may be right or you may be wrong, and it will depend on supply and demand as it always has. You are implying that globalization will suddenly bring top notch talent into the reach of American software companies, but hasn't that always been the case thanks to outsourcing and H1-B visas? I understand your fear as a fellow older software engineer, but I do not share your pessimism. I am much, much more afraid of technologies which will make programmers 50% more efficient than I am of foreigners depressing my wages. If you are at the lower end of the skills distribution then sure, I can understand your worry. Talented engineers don't have much to fear, however.
Anyone know what GPU "codegen" it's using on PC? Tech specs say GPU needs Direct3D 12.0 capable card, but I'm not convinced that's for GPU compute, but maybe it is a compute shader?... I'd assume OpenCL for cross-platform (but then if they're specialising Metal for MacOS maybe they don't care about that, and are using Direct3D.
I agree! Nothing I said was really to do with how scripts should be written, it's about how they are and how they have been written for decades at this point. People would be better served by not using which, and using something portable.

None of that helps this specific situation at all, which seems to have been poorly thought out in that it had the possibility of negatively affect many people, and not just the developers/admins who write scripts, but those that use what other people have written.

It's important to strive for chance for the better, but it's also important to see the world for how it actually is and what happens if that change happens all at once, which can (hopefully temporarily) be worse than what came before.
True. 2 years ago $5000/month was super rare, now it's the lowest bound for a senior role. Still nothing compared to the "rich world" but not complaining at all :)
Oh, OK. That didn't occur to me, as I thought to be timely ads would need to come from a server.
Same situation as you here. We have our standup mid-afternoon to make sure everyone can attend.

I'd say we're 4s more than 3s. I would say that an agreed upon, regular meeting doesn't dictate your set hours--just a single obligation that you all agreed to.
I agree with you in pretty much every way here really. But shoving an ideological framework upon them ends up creating externalities. People want to be fairly compensated for their work. I agree that there's no clear answer and there's lots of rent-seekers in the mix; I just want to push back on the utopian idea of "free information exchange" because I feel like it's played a large part in creating the predatory advertising-focused model that plagues the web today. Let people be people.
First time seeing this brand. The site is cool and their products seem interesting but I can't quite figure out the market segment here?

Do they focus on audio gear (synths, speakers, ect..) clothes, computer cases?? Product lines seem all over the place.
At very least my office is going to have to improve my working conditions for me to go back a significant portion of time. Crowded noisy open plan space with constant interruptions aint gonna cut it any more. Give me private space (office or not), stop interrupting me, and give me my 3-monitor setup I have at home and we can talk :-)
Remote-first was a success because it made companies spend less.
Whoops I meant 10
Lots of retired affluent people fall into that category. A $4M portfolio would throw off $80K in annual dividends assuming an average 2% dividend rate.
Not mentioned enough on this topic: not all engineers are software engineers and not all software engineers never need to touch hardware.

If you plan to work on/with web frameworks, advertisements, data science, or pure CS topics for your whole career, then there's probably no excuse to force you to come into the office 5 days a week. But good luck doing that as a software engineer at a company like SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, AMD, defense contractors, etc., let alone as any other kind of STEM professional. I think it's an important distinction to make. For me personally, some of the coolest work I can imagine doing is likely going to be done in the office/lab for the foreseeable future.
Not being snarky but I find it hard when well-meaning folks like Petersen don't give alternatives. Maybe the obsession with RoE is bad but what's the alternative? What measure should CEOs care about if the shareholders who put them in charge aren't happy?
150 million on AR/VR... I get the feeling this is gonna flop. Hard.
The come down on speed is awful. The come down on high dosage Adderral is awful, you’ll be jittery and and unable to sleep. Imagine Meth or Coke now. The combination is to create the perfect drug, you speed up, hit the half life, and then instead of the awful come down, you ease in to a landing with the calmness of an Opiod that will rockabye baby you away from intense anxiety and hopefully relax you into sleep.

Certainly not something to make a habit of, you’ll be dead in the long run (but I suppose no one gets out alive in this life anyway). Cheers.

I honestly can’t tell what’s worse, a speedball or using Alcohol to blackout after 18 hours of being on speed.

Oh I know what’s worse, Meth + Fentanyl. How the wicked live.
Angry people can turn violent and put you in the ICU, too. To be fair, the list of things that can put you in the ICU is very very long, and many of us avoid it for the majority of our lives.

Like angry people, the vast majority of folks don't turn to violent crime, especially if other avenues exist. Society can provide this if necessary and we already have laws concerning violent crime that we can use.

I'll note that most of us pass addicted people every day when we leave the house. Most of them, you simply won't know they are addicted and if you are normal, you'll probably assume a person or two is addicted, yet they are not.
No advice, sorry! It's a rare example (for me) of having a skill despite never having actively worked at improving it, and my touch typing form is not good even though the speed is high. I had a lot of classical guitar lessons as a teenager and that seems more likely to be related than anything else. Would be curious to hear whether the correlation with being an instrumentalist shows up for other people too.

Well, maybe one piece of advice for a small boost in speed -- I got into mechanical keyboards for a few years, and eventually had to conclude that full height keys slow me down a lot compared to cheap laptop chiclet keyboards, so eventually I swapped back to using those.
How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?
I'm not knowledgeable on mining, but I thought I read that ETH performance was largely dependent upon memory bandwidth. If that is true, it should be possible to create performant ETH code with a 400 GByte/sec memory system. Of course, maybe I completely misunderstood something. Please correct me.
The Pixel 6 Tensor Chip’s Best Upgrade Isn’t Speed. It’s Security
Has the experiment of highly skilled, same-city / same time-zone, all-remote (not just some segmented piece of the team) been done before? I think you're understating the novelty (or overstating the similarity of previous experience) significantly.
It's your server and someone is accessing it. It's up to you what you serve them.

If you want to be clear, you can put the gzip bomb behind a link that says "do not click, gzip bomb". The bot won't know the difference.
You guys are missing it.

This leads straight to outsourcing.
Perhaps surprisingly, the round-trip efficiency of an energy storage medium becomes relatively unimportant when the top-line cost of production gets low enough. Other costs come to dominate.

The odds-on favorite for utility-scale battery storage is iron-air batteries. Nobody even mentions the round-trip efficiency of those, so it must be pretty awful. But they are darned cheap. We can expect solar, in particular, to be routinely massively over-provisioned, so that much of the time most of the output would otherwise be wasted if not used opportunistically to charge batteries or hydrolyze water to synthesize H2 or NH3.