skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a PCIe switch, you can run almost (obviously there are PCIe addressing limits, just to name one) any amount of GPUs per machine.

Source: my workstation has 10 GPUs in it. Two are plugged into the mobo. 8 are plugged in via two PCIe switches.
In practice, lunch does not bring a context switch as you just don't go to lunch until you reach a natural stopping point. Standups cause a context switch because they are scheduled by the clock, not by the work.

Asynchronous standups avoid that problem, but I've never seen an async standup bring any engagement and ends up being nothing more than "I'm working on X again. Duh." which is completely pointless.
I would call this one pretty straightforward; a driver rear ending someone is almost always liable.
Since there was a thread a few months ago, I think we have to mark this one a dupe. (Reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

Bonzi Buddy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399065 - June 2021 (114 comments)

Previously:

BonziBuddy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20234911 - June 2019 (80 comments)

Bonzi-Buddy Reborn as a Terminal Program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3916957 - May 2012 (2 comments)
Isn't that basically the Google assistant or Siri?
Funkhaus is a bi-coastal creative studio blending high performance, expert advice with a collaborative approach. We help companies design websites and visual identities, build new technologies, and develop strategic content and branding.

TLDR; We build high design marketing sites for world class creative companies. Lot's of Hollywood clients.

Our tech stack is Nuxt on the frontend with a low-code GraphQL powered CMS powering it.

Frontend Dev:
We are looking for a frontend developer based in Croatia to work remote with our Los Angeles team.

At a minimum you know JS, HTML and CSS. Ideally you have used Vue before, but we can teach you that. Bonus points if you can build Shopify sites too. Major extra points if you are good at animations.

WebGL/WebGPU Dev:
Also looking for someone that is great at WebGL or WebGPU work. Remote, freelance per-project. If in Croatia, open to full time.

Skip the recruiters and HR people and email me direct, I'm the Technical Director. drew@funkhaus.us.
What's next? Showing a Voter ID when we have to vote!
/s

How is this policy not just as discriminatory as the other?
It seems the first image in the article is:
“views of Jupiter in (left to right) infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, respectively.”
Any links to Juno pics?
The Rhine Bridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Rhine_bridges) is a good example.

Caesar comes, builds a bridge over a significant river, because why not, peeks on the other side and tears it down again. No big deal, he can build another any time.
While that's all interesting, unless Robert Moses was directing essentially every American city's development it's more than just his preferences that were at work.
"That’s because the more whales eat, the more they poop, releasing nutrients like iron into the ocean water to fertilize the growth of phytoplankton, which in turn serve as a primary food source in the marine food web."

Um, the whales are not creating iron. They are eating it and putting (some of) it back where it came from. This articles makes it seem like the more they eat the more iron is there.

A dead krill will release the exact same nutrients into the ocean - it's not necessary for it to be processed by a whale first.

"you might think that these hungry giants could make life in the sea scarcer. In fact, scientists theorize, just the opposite may be true."

This theory is not supported by the explanation given. I see no difference between krill eaten by a whale, and krill dying of old age - both will fertilize phytoplankton.
Needing to roll your car windows down is only a thing in certain neighborhoods and typically it is only the case at night.
A friend used to have a car they parked in SOMA - where they lived - and they had their windows joy-bashed a few times before they gave up and parked their car in the east bay. I also know other people who park their cars on the streets without any issues.

In general SFPD will not investigate anything short of a violent crime (I have personally experienced about $2k in property theft that they did not both to even file claims on for insurance purposes. I have needed medical treatment from an assault that was never investigated. FWIW, on one another occasion the police actually did catch the perpetrator of an assault with deadly case against me - though this was part of a much more serious set of crimes that happened on camera on a muni train).

In short SF has some serious problems. The police have by and large abdicated any sense of personal, professional or civic responsibility. In the absence of law enforcement, the results are simply whether people choose to be decent or not. For the most part SF is safe, but there are also some serious a-holes who try to make life shitty for everyone else.
Flow feels pretty dead. The VSCode extension is broken in major ways and hasn’t gotten a major update in years. The only mainstream editor that fully supports it is IntelliJ.
Who doesn't force drugs on their employees?
Then they can continue to lose the opportunity to do real, valuable reform by throwing a fit over a wedge issue.
I could work if you are doing dull repetitive coding tasks, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't tank ones efficiency and thoroughness in intense tasks.
I can't say for certain, but I expect remote will continue to be an option going forward. I also don't have a clue about compensation outside of my department.

Drop me an email (address in my profile) and I'll forward your resume right to the responsible party.
Usually the verification is as simple as taking a look at the key owner's ID card (Social Security card) or driver license, or any similar legal doc, just to make sure the key owner name matches the real person.

I got my key signed with the same simple procedure. The only troublesome part was to find Debian devs to meet physically, because there were only 3 in where I live (Hong Kong), and only one of them had a valid key (others have expired or just lost keys). Two signatures are needed, so I needed one more. Luckily, I happened had to travel to the US for work, so I solved my problem.
crust punks are definitely a thing
or how about mining on a xerox alto? http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xero...

They are cheating by putting it near to a known hash to verify that it works, you can't earn anything off it.
14th Street is much nicer now that it's only for pedestrians, bikes, buses and local traffic. And for the past few weeks the city has been taking away from cars the west lane on 8th Avenue in midtown (30th to 42nd St, maybe? Basically, from Penn Station to Port Authority, the two local entrances to hell). Something similar is happening near the Javits Center, to give bikes a safer path between the Hudson River and Midtown. Slowly, but it's happening.
I don't know where this conspiracy theory keeps coming from, but as someone who was there it's definitely untrue. Apply Hanlon's razor.

If Googlers could mind-control Mozilla employees, they wouldn't be sabotaging the browser. They'd be getting Mozilla developers to rubber-stamp their W3C proposals so they could look good on performance reviews.
Can someone please explain to me what this is all about like I’m five years old?
Perfect illustration of stereotypical HN reaction to thing. Focus obsessively on small details and that dominates the conversation. Nice.
Write fewer tests and change quickly.
Well the difference between your daughters and my daughters is that they're reliant on a giant system and the good will of others and mine are reliant on themselves. When they walk home late at night they don't need to worry either, because they have guns.
Rosetta Project[0] physically etches data into an object for long-term durability. Project used text for human readability as it only requires magnification. One could imagine establishing some OCR/barcode system to enable future re-digitization. Evidently there is now a Nano Rosetta[1] commercial project you can use today to have jewelry printed with your information.

Alternatively, the Arctic Code Vault project[2] evidently used Piql[3] which claims 1000 year durability.

[0] https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
[1] https://nanorosetta.com/
[2] https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
[3] https://www.piql.com/services/long-term-information-storage/
Your extension is why I still have a copy of Firefox 56 installed on my desktop. It makes the webextension version look crippled in comparison.
I’ve worked at Tyler Technologies for over eleven years and love it. You won’t make high TC you can make at FAANG firms. However, you can build software that helps local government and municipalities. I feel like my work is valuable and helps contribute to a better world. I work on 911 software for dispatch centers and first responders. Tyler also has a large courts, education, and appraisal and tax prescience. We’re also growing into the Federal market. If you want to make government better, it may be worth checking out.
(loxias has an mit edu address)
if it's clear the fit between employee and
team isn't there.

This is very interesting to me. How good is management at discerning between...

a: "employee 12345 has been here for one year and probably wasn't a good hire"

and...

b: "employee 12345 has been here for one year, and they were probably a good hire, but they're not a good fit for their current team so let's get them to a new one!"

???

On a human level, I'm a firm believer that (b) happens a looooot. Personally, I've been anywhere from a turd to a star depending on company culture and team fit, and it wasn't me that was changing.

But I am amazed there are organizations that manage to spot (b) and actually correct it rather than cutting a person loose or just pidgeonholing them as a low performer.
,, The business model is refreshingly simple: people pay to watch shows they'll enjoy''

I believe that this is true, but I also have a feeling that the main goal for netflix is maximizing views, and not maximizing the experience per supscriber weighted by user spend.

In other words I would prefer less, but very well thought out and executed movies that focus on having a great story (like House of Cards until the main character was kicked out of the series). I would still pay the same amount of money for those few movies than a person who's binging on all new lower quality and lower budget series. I loved the movie Dune for example, where the story made sense, in opposed to Netflix's Brave new world, where even my girlfriend who read the book said that the movie doesn't make any sense, and it has nothing to do with the book itself, and totally ruined it, as the movie series had no story.

Can you tell me if Netflix focuses on total views for a movie, or rather tries to estimate the revenue by dividing user spend by the number of movies the user watched?
Ask HN: Is it better to specialize or generalize?
I am at a decision-making point in my career, and need some counsel!

The company I work for is offering two different pathways in IT, and I'm not sure which one will give me better options in the future to transition and work somewhere else (which is a foreseeable future goal).

Option A is a very specialized career focused on cybersecurity, ethical hacking, etc. (along with all of the certifications and technical training required to carry out the job description).

Option B is a more generalized management/leadership approach to IT. There won't be nearly as many opportunities to gain technical mastery and improve specific skills, but the opportunities for developing my team-building and leadership skills are appealing.

Is it better to specialize or generalize?
When it's time to go to the next talk, I abruptly stand up and walk out, even if I'm sitting at the front. It's not like the organizers aren't furiously flagging the speaker or anything.
This is literally the worst take I've ever read on hn. What's your background in neuropsychology? On what basis besides Elon Musk PR do you have to make this prognostication?

It's never going to happen because that's not the way the human beings work. Which anyone with any knowledge of the brain (i.e. not tech bros) will readily tell you.
When I worked there a few years ago, Xero was a pretty stellar employer. Lots of really lovely people, lots of opportunity to explore different avenues in your career, and active attention paid to employee wellbeing.
I am not sure about the science of this, but personally it has to be work that doesn’t involve speech/language processing. It would be interesting to set up an experiment to see which activities involve speech processing that you wouldn’t necessarily associate with that role of the brain.
It would be better to live in the kind of country where girls can walk home at night safely. Whether that's with or without guns doesn't really matter.
> some of these will probably be sold to unwitting games, right?

Probably not, they’re more likely to get used for mining by someone who knows they’re stolen. The thieves already know that selling them is extremely risky. Which is why tracking from the driver is an interesting idea, but also probably won’t work. But then again, we’re only speculating, so maybe it’d work!
Leatherman Multi-Tool.

Ages 5+.
Not feeling like examples?

Anyway, I have no reason to believe podcasts are any worse than other typical places people would try to learn things. And surely the takeaway shouldn't be "don't try to learn"...
Huge numbers of people have at least one co-morbidity. The number of perfectly healthy people is probably a minority of the country. The number of co-morbidity rises with declining income and dangerousness of work.

So all the bushiness owners and fancy lad writers, managers, programmers, and other white collars are better positioned to withstand the pandemic with virtually every advantage in both isolation and physical health. All those guys that eat shit because they don't have money or time and burn themselves out physically working hard get to die.

In a slightly different category of person, it's morbidly fascinating watching unvaccinated people on twitter note their buddy just died and say they had comorbidities with a profile pic that shows them to be obese.

In this case, we have to judge whether the petty authoritarianism of those that spread illness and death vs the government pushing everyone to help stop that with, at this point, a fairly convincingly safe vaccine.
Which assumes that the code doesn't have a trojan horse waiting to go off, or just some random bug.
FAA: Leaded Aviation Gas
For those unaware, parent comment is a pretty good layman’s version of Marshall McLuhan’s position. See: the concept of hot and cool media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media
I try to limit how much I listen to podcasts, because it's easy to get into a habit of turning one on every time I'm driving or walking or cooking or cleaning. It's noise that minimally engages my brain and tamps down my own actual creativity and original thinking.
I loved working at Microsoft. From a management that actually cares and understands dev struggles to great code review practices that don't waste dev time with bs.

Plenty of opportunities to learn, switch teams if needed. I've seen people shift from team to team just because they wanted to add their expertise to another product.

I'll admit, if you're a startup kinda guy you might find things a bit slower than you're used to. Focus is kept on extreme quality.

I hate the fact that Microsoft gets a bad rep coz of the older practices from Gates and Balmer's time. As a company it's really changed and they've embraced open-source finally.
> These colorway selections will be available in Firefox 94 and 95. From Firefox 96 onwards, you won't be able to opt in to Colorways but you will be able to maintain access to the colorway that is currently enabled when you update to Firefox 96.

This is the kind of move you'd expect from a paid, commercial piece of software. Tell potential users that they only have X amount of time to jump on the hype train because after that they're too late for the colors.

The lack of that kind of user-hostile "feature" development is the primary reason I prefer open-source software. FOSS won't do this to you because the developers, in theory, shouldn't care how many users they have to the extent that they'll try to FOMO people into their product. FOSS won't do this to you because it's so easy to fork away the annoying parts of the software and just create a new release without the nonsense. See the VSCode/VSCodium divide.

But I guess Firefox doesn't really fit in with the rest of FOSS. It's the primary revenue stream for a giant company, and far too complex to fork without a mammoth-sized maintenance effort.
The wording of moderation comments varies over time, and plenty of moderation doesn't come with comments, so you can't draw such conclusions. If you want more examples, try these:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

or this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The purpose of linking to old moderation comments isn't statistical, it's to explain the principles we use.
Will be interested to see how this works out. Don't understand why people are treating this as a bad thing here.
I know it doesn't mean you get all the RSUs at the 4 year mark but if you leave after 2 years, you only get 50% of your RSUs. Why leave potentially hundreds of thousands on the table to jump after two years? I've never heard of this two-year stinting.
i don't think the service was/is as good as the image they created for it to begin with
Check out secureframe.com as well (I like them the most, albeit just getting going)

Also in the space:

- Drata

- Laika

- Tugboat

- Kintent
Oooh, oooh! I know!

It will be an employer that's not pushing lame woke initiatives. Those pretty quickly divide the workforce and lead to a witch-hunt environment.

Look for a good, solid workplace that sticks to good business principles while quietly treating a diverse workforce with respect. (In other words, they walk the walk instead of talking the talk.) That'll bring you happiness.
No one downvoted that comment. Posts by banned users get killed by software.
"folks are diverse...in terms of background"
Tells me they don't have any other diversity (hopefully not due to a deliberate policy)
You could build a giant space pyramid out of anything in principle, according to Isaac Arthur on YouTube[1]. The limiting factor quickly becomes the size of "giant" needed for most materials and the limited size of Earth to have a wide enough base. Maybe being Hydrogen-infused would mean less pressure on the lower levels and able to build it higher.

Really though, doesn't AeroGel work by being mostly nothing? The more gas and less substance it has, at some point you may as well use a cloth balloon and only have the surface area size, no?

[1] In this video on Space Elevators - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc8_AuzeYKE
I remember "Catz"[1] and "Dogz" [2] fondly. They, of course, only served to behave like cats and dogs sitting on your desktop rather than BonziBuddy's supposed purpose to assist you in computing. It's interesting that we seem to have "grown" out of these sort of silly applications running on our desktop. I suppose Bonzi Buddy and Clippy traumatized a generation and our computer assistants no longer have a virtual avatar (except Cortana, in some sense, I suppose).

I feel like there's a serious lack of whimsy in software these days, but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough.

[1]https://petz.fandom.com/wiki/Catz

[2] https://petz.fandom.com/wiki/Dogz
All wild mammal biomass. Domesticated mammal biomass is massive. In fact, humans + our livestock comprise 96% of mammal biomass: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-muc...
Yes, and their child won't get to enter the venue.
In my humble experience, management is a very dedicated speciality and a lot harder to pick up and do well than other technical talents.
This has been my personal experience. I came from a non-RoR background but I have done plenty of programming. The amount of clever solutions advanced ruby-ists come up with can be hard to comprehend and add to that the dynamic module resolution that rails provides it makes for a high amount of mental overhead when reasoning about what something should do when running. I get the whole this is slick and it eliminates boilerplate but that is only if you know what is going on, a new comer or non-ruby programmer is going to be sunk until they figure that out.

I have yet to find a decent book that isn't beginner (here's how to create a rails controller or let's define a class) or super advanced (so you wanna meta-program, hold my beer) on the topic of Ruby. So definitely getting devs up to speed on a Rails project that got clever is an uphill battle unless they are senior.
Its not an original idea or something that can't be made right now. It's just deflection from someone out of ideas. Nothing has changed just because a dying company announced a 30+ year old idea.
SFPD don't investigate because the DA wont prosecute. Actually the DA has the lowest prosecution rate and highest dismissal rate of any DA in California (maybe in the U.S.) for even those things that the police do investigate, which is, as you point out, very little.

"Since taking office Jan. 1, 2020 through March 1, 2021, Boudin has tried just 23 cases resulting in 16 convictions, including four assaults (three convictions); one auto burglary, one residential burglary, one gun felony (no conviction); three sexual assaults (two convictions); two robberies; seven misdemeanor DUIs (four convictions); and one misdemeanor vehicular homicide, which he lost. In 2019 during the same timeframe, Boudin’s predecessor, George Gascon, tried 294 cases and got 203 convictions.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office obtains convictions by trial as well as convictions via plea agreement, however, they only release the number of convictions obtained by trial and have thus far rejected public records requests for convictions settled by plea agreement. Total convictions, therefore, are likely higher.

In 2020, SFPD presented 6,333 felonies to Boudin’s office. Contrast that with neighboring Alameda County, where 6,331 felony cases were presented, resulting in 1,413 convictions. Alameda dismissed only 11.4 percent of cases, while San Francisco’s dismissal rate was 40 percent."[2]

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"Prosecutors filed charges in 116 of 266 cases presented by police involving petty theft in 2020, compared to 450 of 647 cases in 2019, according to the data provided by the District Attorney’s Office."[1]

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[1]https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/data-shows-chesa-boudin-pros...

[2]https://www.marinatimes.com/chesa-boudin-by-the-numbers#:~:t...