skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want Plasma to be good. I'm frustrated at kwin's breakage and lag on Nvidia (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443951 fixed), the years-old data-corruption heisenbugs I've encountered (kxmlgui toolbar corruption: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395497) and the instability of some apps (plasmashell crashes occasionally, plasma-systemmonitor crashes quite often when processes terminate in tree view). And it's difficult to fix these bugs because many KDE apps suffer from complexity in apps and libraries (any app involving both QML and C++ code), often accompanied by legacy code sometimes misusing inheritance (kxmlgui) and misused or no longer understood (kxmlgui, libksysguard), or churning and replacing mature code with untested rewrites (plasma-systemmonitor).

I'm trying Xfce on my desktop now (after using it a bit on my laptop). It's a refreshing experience so far, with a panel written in a compiled language rather than QML/JS with unreliable GPU acceleration, and it seems relatively stable so far. They've added window snapping with Super+Arrow or mouse dragging, and the docklike plugin (https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-docklike-plugin) is a good replacement for KDE or Windows 7+'s icon-pinning-based taskbar.

There are some issues (like the long-standing https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/libxfce4ui/-/issues/1, which I hope can be fixed but don't know for sure). But I feel Xfce is much more stable to begin with (in my experience so far, at least), meaning that fixing them is less urgent. I hope the codebase is understandable enough for me to work on it (I think Xfce apps are written in C, which I can read but I'm not super fluent in writing).

I also don't know if Xfce will survive in a future Wayland-based world.
I also share this concern; can someone downvoting this offer some context I may be missing here?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29233002.
Maybe it was the environment, that a lot of these people could be better if supported the right way? Or to say it simply (and please understand I know nothing about you so it is not meant as a criticism of how you personally work), maybe it was because they worked with you?

I would also say that throwing x% and hiring again does not work well. The pool you are hiring from is people that are not happy somewhere else. You are not getting a 90% chance of finding a "good" person.
Beautiful. Another great source for images: https://esahubble.org/images/potw2146a/
Charging a modern electric car is like charging many drone batteries at the same time with one power strip. It's not like charging one or two cells.

In this case, the "power strip" is passing 50kw and needs active cooling.
Actually the guy that was shot dead was the one with the FFL license, don't think Myers ever had one.
i think lack of application open selection is worse. like there’s no way to get a 3rd party reddit app to open on a browser link
Track is being laid for the Japanese Shinkansen system between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, tough it seems to be delayed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai%E2%80%93Ahmedabad_high-...
meanwhile i bought a 240v connector for my EV but never paid to have it hooked up because the 120v connector it came with it unexpectedly turned out to be fast enough for my use case.

I tend to get down to about 50% battery on my base model3 after a weekend of errands and it will charge back up to 80% overnight

I realize this new cable design would be more for on the road quick charging - but I think even that is pretty fast currently.
> another article blaming Java

No, the article blames

- hardware requirements,

- problems with application deployment,

- technology choices by large companies,

- the demanding and fickle green screen to fat client niche,

- Smalltalk vendor blindness to the emergence of web browser as a business platform,

- AND Java marketing.
>> Ideally you put them in the hands of a court of law.

>Why?

So that the Rekieta folks can live stream it, of course!
Have you tried running the desktop client in a container? Lots of options for this on Linux.

There shouldn't be any significant virtualization penalty. My guess is that it uses hardware video codec acceleration and that wasn't accessible in the VM you had set up? If the guest was Windows, looks like nvidia has supported this since host driver version v465 or later.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5173/~/g...

HTH!
Are they using Phoenix framework? They should hire Ruby/Rails engineers interested in working with Elixir and invest in onboarding.
30% charge will not work if you are traveling across country through desert and remote areas.
I assume air cargo may also be cheaper at the moment given the human transportation business likely hasn't fully recovered.
I too have had quite an awesome experience with Linux on older devices, everything just works, Many things are actually better than Windows, Unfortunately I feel like there is still a lack of software available on linux. Yes there are alternatives for everything usually, but things like microsoft office would make a great addition.

I would say in some instances driver support is actually better, I had this old logitech wireless keyboard and mouse lying around which worked quite well, unfortunately they came with this older version of unifying receiver which the current version of their official software refused to recognize (on windows, no official linux support). I was having trouble finding a older version of the software too. Somehow I ended up trying to use Solarr [1] (which is made for Linux) and it worked first try.

[1] https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar
Lithium does not have to come from strip mining:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201124-how-geothermal-l...

(And batteries can be recycled. Try recycling gasoline.)

Mining does not necessarily burn oil:
https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/...

Tires polluting more than exhaust is a myth. It's honestly surprising anyone believes this one: https://www.dcbel.energy/2021/08/24/myth-busted-lifetime-ele...

(This one is doubly surprising, because gas cars have tires too. Even if tires were single-handedly melting glaciers, an EV would still be avoiding tailpipe emissions.)

EVs are not perfect, but they are better - considerably better - which is why there's so much misinformation about them. The oil industry has enormously effective PR.

Another thing to consider is how gasoline is transported around. Gas pipelines are possible but last mile delivery is inevitably a huge inefficient truck.

Moving electricity is a solved problem - power lines have no emissions.
I agree. I think there is a strange trend of fetishicization of individual contributor capacity in tech world, some sort of hero syndrome. Even a lot of posts about 'culture' and 'organization' end up being about how at the end of the day these affect individual performance not how well the organization performs overall. Maybe we can all take lessons from playing in a team sport - it's true that the team will do poorly if each individual contributors perform poorly on their own for whatever reason but what wins the game is not about how well everyone played on their own.
Most effective people are not only because they are magical 10x people, but also because they have the right experience and knowledge in the situation. Skills and knowledge the company might have given them over years.

I think there are ways of reading this without ever thinking some people are 10x super humans while the rest are not.
Can't read it
Nothing is stopping them, but if they wanted to boost their PR and kick the US, thay would be a way to do it.
Are those the folks waiting for electric stops to drop down under 10 minutes?
Maybe you are just getting downvoted by the Musk PR bots.
Ah, I see where you're confused. I'm not weighing in about the case. This particular thread is about the neutrality of a reporter's initial story:

> I don't get why it's not reported in more neutral terms - "Incident at protest leaves two dead, one wounded. 'Self-defense' says shooter." Then describe the circumstances as they are on video or given by eye witnesses.

I don't disagree with a level of neutrality (though it depends on the context - for example, the media has a tendency to go overly-neutral when describing "cars colliding with pedestrians"), but I was saying that further detail is valuable and attainable on-site. In this case, whether the shooter is, say, a business owner defending their business (such as the Korean shopowners perched on the roofs during the Rodney King riots), or a guy from out of town walking through the streets carrying - yes - a super visible weapon (aka a huge gun). Some commenters in this thread are also throwing things at me about the criminal past of the other people involved, which sounds to me like they're also having trouble following the thread (which again, is about the neutrality of initial reporting).

> And if it's dangerous to bring weapons to these """""""protests""""""", then why did the third guy that Rittenhouse shoot have one?

I don't understand your logic. Are you pretending that I'm defending this third guy or something?
so do margins
If you have large enough ice cube — or any other object — that is capable of inflicting serious bodily harm, and you use it to physically attack someone, you’ve committed assault with a deadly weapon.

Why is this crazy to you? This is why someone can be charged for assault with a deadly weapon while trying to run someone over with their car.

Do you think that’s crazy just because cars are usually meant to be used for driving?
this is cool !! have you experimented with getting this to run on large datasets ? IE: running this with Spark or on your datawarehouse ?
Oh, we're going to squeeze those short sellers so hard. I don't care if they've already closed out all their positions, at this point it's the principle of the thing. Next stop omega squeeze!
No, US. About a dozen gallons into the tank.

But I bet the equivalent of a big two-tank truck will need significantly more than 5 minutes.
Discreet GPUs support encoding/decoding a lot more streams than the integrated stuff. Depending on the generation of Quicksync you have, the codec used by Zoom might not be hardware accelerated at all, though I think Zoom uses h264, so you'd have to be on some pretty old hardware.
The Tesla truck, the only model that made sense of you do any back country/rural driving was the three engine 550mi (if I remember right) version. Even then, I would think a generator would need to be carried (and fuel).

Rural areas don’t have chargers for the most part. That said, I’ve seen some chargers along 395 in rural NV that surprised me.

Until range becomes less of a concern, I’m not getting rid of my Tacoma.
It feels like a motte and balley because you're getting confused about what his question was. You seem to think his question was whether a malicious actor can pretend to be incompetent. That wasn't his original question. That was the situation he presented later when asking me for more detail. The existence of that claim doesn't have any bearing on his actual question. It shows an instance in which the union of the two sets isn't the empty set not that the two sets are equal. There exists a disjoint. Therefore they are not equal.

QED.

However, for the purposes of debate lets say we strictly limit our discussion to the cases in which there is malice. We're now in a competitive context in which our upside is going to be minimized. A lot of people don't seem to realize that the prisoner dillema is actually a condemnation of rational behavior, since it traps us in the worst possible world. It's actually smarter in plenty of real world scenarios to intentionally cooperate, sacrificing your own utility, rather than engaging in tit for tat. Flowing out from this mathematical idea are many teachings in religion from the Lord Jesus Christ like being good to those who are evil to you. You can see the underlying principle in our biology too. We aren't strictly rational, we instead have emotions. In particular people who are angry with other people have health consequences. There is a biological punishment to choosing not to cooperate built into us. This shows that evolution has selected for that quality which implies there is a benefit to this. I say all this because not attributing to malice what is better explained by stupidity isn't a completely foolish idea even in the case that they actually were malicious. The world in which they merely pretended to be incompetent is less severe than the nuclear war of tit for tat that wipes out all life on Earth and leaves it an irradiated wasteland.
Ah, cheers, that makes sense, I didn't see it mentioned further in the architecture.
> it's not the 1990's anymore

Russia has a much more sinister regime now.
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I think the important thing there would be the frame size no? Clearly Kafka can handle the throughput side of things but it doesn't seem to be meant for large messages out of the box[0].

I wouldn't be surprised if it was perfectly fine though -- with compression (and all the video/image specific tricks) the file sizes should get pretty small...

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21020347/how-can-i-send-...
Strange and fascinating that AZERTY has a dedicated ² key. Searched a bit but couldn't find any discussion on why. Any theories?
Sure, Pyro is very nice for some deep latent probabilistic models. E.g. deep HMMs. So great to model complex time series and space-state models. Edward and TensorFlow Probability are theoretically also good for this, but docs are a bit lacking.

Turing is very user friendly, but in my experience really hard to scale to large hierarchical (multilevel) continuous variable models, which is what Stan was designed for. It can do lots of other things, like e.g. Bayesian NNs (Turing + Flux). And it's good for learning.

I've prototyped lots of models on Turing, but I have had to eventually migrate them to Stan as I struggled a lot with efficiency once I tried to scale to a massive number of variables (think e.g. a proteomics experiment).
Learn to repair stuff, there will be enough stuff laying around that just needs to be fixed, to last for decades, if you have the skills. Stock up on solder, spare tips, electrolytic caps, through hole components, and get yourself a few hundred feet of old 25 pair phone line.

There are still a few hamfests happening, buy out everyone who wants to sell off their junkbox of parts.
Huh - now I can see why exceptions are looked at somewhat askance in low level coding circles.
I didn't downvote but it doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine that industrial mining vehicles will go electric in the near future.

Tires are definitely an issue but producing gas involves a lot of trucks as well. Between all the work in oil pumping/refining/distribution there must be quite a bit of rubber burnt!

Edit - I think the tire issue definitely needs to be solved, but theres no reason it has to keep us using gas vehicles over electric
Thank you!

And yes, the editor view is not fully intuitive unfortunately. You can delete blocks similar to how you delete blocks in notion - dragging a rectangle over them.

If you are having trouble creating content for an idea you have, feel free to email me at rahul@textframe.app. I can help you figure out any other issues you have.
Naturehike Tent
I’m really hoping Home and the HomeKit system get some much-needed TLC, but I’m not holding my breath…
In my experience, the only thing worse than an OKR meeting is an OKR meeting where the conversation turns to the nature of OKRs.
Our way was murderous, maybe the worst way to do it. Maybe the only other case where it was worse was in New Zealand where the Māori people were almost completely decimated.

In comparision, the Britishers were saints. They did not perform genocide (until Churchill came around... that was the age of barbarians unfortunately)
It's not about summer or winter. 1.5 years ago was COVID lockdown, hence no pollution.
There's DB2, and then there's IMS-DB/DC...

COBOL itself isn't too difficult to pick up, its the rest of the infrastructure around it. JCL is particularly unforgiving. I'm in total agreement with the parent post of this thread.

I think the thing that bugged me the most about COBOL is the difference between END-IF. and END-IF

Everything else was onerous compared to other languages but relatively straightforward. It's not something to get a simple job done quickly in though.

The simplicity created by things largely remaining the same over time in mainframe world is one of its core strengths.
This is why I think the by hybrid market will still win for now. Tesla makes sense for people driving short distances but not really long distance trips.
Efinix FPGAs
A couple past threads:

Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16459477 - Feb 2018 (10 comments)

Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679 - June 2014 (91 comments)
> I didn't downvote but it doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine that industrial mining vehicles will go electric in the near future.

Ah, I may have miscommunicated my concern, which is that the resources involved/required in the acquisition, sequestration, production, and recycling of batteries may ultimately be more damaging than conventional fuels [in the long run]. It is possible that I am wrong, however, it remains a personal point of concern.
Car-Loving LA in Midst of Largest Rail Construction Program in US
Apache Spark is an open API. You can build your ETL with it and run it on an open source Spark cluster, an AWS EMR cluster, or a Databricks cluster. It will work across all three (and others) because the API is open.

Vendors can implement that API with their own optimizations. EMR makes optimizations in their implementation and so does Databricks. Photon is a new engine, but it implements the Apache Spark API for better performance. There's nothing to stop EMR or any other Apache Spark vendor from undertaking the same strategy.

This openness has allowed customers of Hortonworks and Cloudera to migrate their workloads to the cloud easier than if they had to refactor from something completely different, like from Oracle PL/SQL routines.

Snowflake does not have an open ETL API. If you write stored procedures in Snowflake, you can only run them on Snowflake. This is one of the reasons people choose to use dbt with Snowflake. It gives them an open ETL layer to provide future optionality.

There's no reason why you couldn't use Snowflake as the datastore and Spark as the ETL. However, it would be prohibitively expensive to do so. You would need to pay for the Spark cluster, but also a Snowflake cluster to export and import the data. Exporting a handful of terabytes from Snowflake can also take hours depending on your cluster configuration.

By storing your data on S3 in an open format, like Apache Parquet or Delta Lake, you can just use a different engine on it without needing to export / import it. In addition to Spark, Presto & Trino are popular engines to use when querying a data lake.

This optionality is ultimately good for customers. If Apache Spark is best for your use case, then you can choose to host Spark yourself, EMR, Databricks, Cloudera, etc. If Presto is best for your use case, you can choose AWS Athena, Starburst, Ahana, etc. Once you pick the best tech for your use case, you have several vendors to compare against for the best deal.

If I want to move off Snowflake to Firebolt or some other data warehouse, I need to pay both vendors to get my data out and get my data in. Snowflake wasn't around 10 years ago, and if they are not still a good option 10 years from now, I don't want to have to pay them for the privilege to export my data out. I could rectify that by keeping all my data in a data lake, but now I'm paying to store the data twice.

Open APIs enables an open ecosystem, which encourages competition.
Correct. Bitcoin's "difficulty" parameter will tend to increase as cheaper energy costs allow the total mining network hash rate to increase.
AMD and Intel benefit from having the same open source interface to their GPUs even if Nvidia doesn't use it, because it doubles the amount of target hardware for developers.

Also remember that AMD and Intel both make discrete GPUs and iGPUs but AMD has much more share in discrete GPUs and Intel has much more share in iGPUs, so this helps them both.

And then if either of them managed to hit one out of the park on the hardware side it would benefit both. A really interesting possibility there is to put a strong GPU in a HEDT CPU socket with a lot of memory channels to feed it, because then it shares a memory controller with the CPU and doesn't have to copy over PCIe. That could drive demand, and Nvidia can't do that on a PC without an x86 license but AMD and Intel both can.
Related:

Titanium FPGA's

https://www.efinixinc.com/products-titanium.html

Trion FPGA's

https://www.efinixinc.com/products-trion.html
I wonder if our senses prefer to smell the good and ignore the bad and that’s why the odor-blocking aroma chemicals work so well?
I don't think the convicted child rapist thing is that important. The defendant would not have known this information and it would not have factored into his decision to fire his weapon. The other things you mentioned feel more important.
Yeah, existing cables carry enough energy to boil a kettle in a few seconds, for comparison sake. 2500 amps at 480 volts pushes boiling a liter down to about half a second (so even a large kettle would boil in 2 seconds if you figured out how to just heat the water with the energy).
Has cryptocurrency finally became too big to fail? With $3 Trillion market cap, that’s a lot of vested interests.
I didn't get that feel out of this at all. Sure, there was mention of a few individuals who were "10x-ers", but I read it as appreciating each individual for what they can bring to the team and to the org, which is always different for each person.

The point is that people are not fungible. Some people have specialized skills, while others have a broad breadth of skills. They won't both be good at completing the same tasks, so you can't reorg to put them in positions that don't make use of their strengths and expect success.

The bit about budgets was really eye-opening. Reducing things to "headcount" instead of figuring out what kind of people you need for a team or project is a great way to fail. If you just say "hey, you can hire three level-2 people", but believe that hiring two level-3 people (assuming at your org that the total cost for both of those is the same) will be more successful, and get told you can't do that, that is a failure of the organization.
Chrome has some APIs that Firefox doesn't; for example, Jitsi video conferencing supports e2ee videoconferencing on chrome, but not Firefox, due to Chrome having an API that let them do the manipulation on the video stream after it hits the client (I think. My memory is fuzzy.)
The obsolescence isn't planned, it's a feature of embedded growth obligations. You have to keep growing, even if everyone already has a smartphone, you have to sell them a new one, keep increasing your market share, and profits.

The push for more and more features, instead of reliability and stability, is driven by the desire for sales at all costs.
The argument essentially is that it hints to there being an exploitable slack in the system.

If you treat bargaining with employees as a zero-sum game (which it really isn't, but some companies do treat it that way) then the other party being very satisfied with the bargain indicates that they would be also willing to get a worse offer. So if all the employees are extremely satisfied with the compensation/effort ratio, that indicates that you could either lower the compensation some or extract more effort until they're satisfied "just barely enough".