skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially I have the solution you desired to set out to achieve, just through lucky choice of base hardware - single cable from desktop/laptop to dock which carries two monitors, keyboard, mouse, audio and network.

This stemmed from a hatred of USB-C Docks - I was provided a low end mac laptop for work and a usb-c dock with a DisplayLink chipset in it to drive two monitors on my desk. This was so lacking in performance there was visible lag on the desktop as the dual core processor was completely swamped having to render 2x1080p displays entirely in software. Basic tasks were unacceptably slow, the machine was demonstrably faster on battery than it was plugged into this dock and receiving power. I self funded a Caldigit TS3+ dock and immediately could use the laptop as it should have been in the first place, we got immediate approval to expense a purchase of these for the whole team. and I brought my dock home.

I have a HP Workstation as my desktop and the official method for supporting Thunderbolt 3 is exactly as you describe, install the add in card, use the two short DisplayPort Cables to the DP Inputs on the Thunderbolt card, and to then use the single cable to connect to the dock. GPU Display Out -> Thunderbolt PCI-E -> Dock. This appears to be the scenario for all desktop PCs using Thunderbolt, even the computers with the chipset built into the board - there's always a DisplayPort Input involved to present the display output from the GPU to the target.

On the counter side to this even Apple who are all in on Thunderbolt have problems with this separation between Display and PCI-E - If you look at the Mac Pro they've done some serious work with their custom PCI-Express implementation in the form of their MPX extensions to enable Thunderbolt support through their GPUs, by the looks of things they do the opposite thing - essentially routing PCI-E through the GPU and out of the USB-C ports on the GPU.

As an aside - nVidia discontinued USB-C Ports on their GPUs with the next generation 3000 series, this I think will lead to less confusion going forward
They got one thing right. No heisenberg insertion problem, and its reasonably robust.

They got everything else wrong. Cable differences, drivers, how people think about the space overall. Even in USB-C hubs (not docks) people make truly strange choices like "I will give you one USB-C power input, and one output tail, but I won't make another USB-C port available even though I could"
Yeah SQLite is such a powerful intermediary file format, I use it like that all the time.
@mp85, I don't think your MIT license is compatible with AForge.NET's LGPL license. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm guessing your license should also become LGPL.
There are dozens of sizeable competitors. And I'm not even sure Mindgeek is the biggest player here, at some point Xvideos was even bigger, even though it was never featured in the news.
The only reason I can't recommend it is because searching for a password (from a login form) takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds. It's a database of at most a few hundred entries. Why does it take that long? Happens on Android. It's been like this for years.
I arrived in my position in the late 90's, greeted by HP-UX, VAX VMS, and Unisys OS2200.

All of this was tied by our homegrown queue software.

Some years later, I was tasked with migrating HP-UX to Linux, in stages, and I was lucky enough to have found all the queueing source code, and I rebuilt it, imperfectly, on Linux. We hired back our past workers, including the original author, who made perfect my original port.

As the years have passed, I continued to improve this code, compiling with directives from "hardening-check" after bug hunts.

It has tied me to my role, but I suppose that I am happy here.
Diseasonality
Is there something wrong with creating solely for money and not self-expression?
The key term is “inbox apps.” Notepad is now one of them. An inbox app is a Microsoft Store app that happens to be pre-installed (it ships “in-box.”)

As such, Notepad, like other inbox apps, is now decoupled from the release cycle of Windows. It’s just some arbitrary app, that happens to be made by Microsoft, and happens to come with Windows.
In my experience, boards with built in TB work better than boards that have headers but require a dedicated card.

Recently I put an ASUS ProArt X570 Creator in my main tower, and its onboard TB4 works great. Some basic functionality was there straight away after a clean Windows install and the gaps were filled in by installing Thunderbolt drivers from ASUS’ support site for the motherboard. It even supports G-Sync on the monitor through the hub-connected monitor, which was a real surprise (though refresh rate is limited to 120Hz without using a compressed color format due to the dock only supporting DisplayPort 1.2).

The biggest problem was actually getting the video card to recognize DisplayPort as a monitor connection during boot. For some reason EVGA 3000 series cards had a quirk where DP connected displays weren’t recognized in EFI and would only come online after booting the OS. Thankfully EVGA had a VBIOS update available that fixed this.

I’m looking forward to more TB4 docks being released. My current dock, the TS3+ has been quite reliable (especially after updating its firmware), but as noted its DP out is outdated.
Let’s not pretend selling to private buyers is anything other than financially motivated. I don’t think security researchers who sell their vulnerabilities to private buyers are not acting to “motivate” Microsoft in a roundabout way. Even if we assume that is their motivation, such an arrangement is obviously unethical because vulnerabilities sold in this way are weaponized to do harm against others.
I just installed a Thunderbolt 4 card in a new motherboard, so I'm being a little more optimistic, but I will take advantage of the free return policies over the holidays if necessary. The only problem I have is devices from my connected Thunderbolt 3 dock stop working after waking from suspend (but the display DOES work), so I'm going to try updating drivers to see if it works.
Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc
Windows is stuffed full of anti-patterns. You can't avoid them just by using notepad.
A lot of people working 5x8 are actually in the "office" or online for more than eight hours a day.
Busan, a South Korean city, plans a floating neighbourhood
> The basic epi coming out of South Africa suggests that prior infection alone is wholly insufficient to prevent against infection with omicron

The only study I know of reported a possible reinfection rate of 1.27% for Omicron. While it's higher than Delta, it really doesn't support what you're implying.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.11.21266068v...
> Emoji support in desktop OS

Are you suggesting that a desktop OS shouldn’t support an input method for standardized Unicode characters? That would be incredibly annoying. Especially if you’re a developer working on programs that are supposed to handle said characters.

> Operating system for majority of users are feature complete for years

(Good) UI scaling support? Dynamic refresh-rate support? eGPU support? Thunderbolt? Support for modern biometric authenticators like Windows Hello? Support for booting off a portable volume? Handwriting recognition in arbitrary apps? Basically 80% of accessibility features being finally pushed down into older software (with “dark mode” as a side effect)?

Yes, none of these things are from Windows 11, but none of them are more than 10 years old, either. People forget how many extremely recent OS features have immediately become table stakes to be taken completely for granted. (And this process is continuous. I’m sure there’s some accessibility feature being added to computers only today, that will enable people who never were able to use computers before to do so.)

Try using a modern Bluetooth gamepad with Windows XP / OSX10.6 / Linux 2.6 / other “perfect” OS versions some time. Even if you can get it to connect, it won’t even recognize all the buttons, because old APIs had hard limits on assumed number of buttons!
They're collecting observational data, not science. I wouldn't normally be bitter about it, but the Trust The Science™ religion already has a terrible struggle with the basics so we shouldn't make it any harder for them.

My back yard rain gauge is not sciencing either.
Pick one from the list of free iPhone data recovery programs:
https://reviews.aolor.com/best-free-iphone-data-recovery-sof...
Stop using your iPhone right away and try to restore it as soon as possible. New data may take up the storage space of the lost data, and make it hard to recover.
It's not just in the repl.
There's a major "open niche" for up to date privacy legislation in the US. The privacy laws of the United States have never really been updated for the computer age. It's still safer to write a letter on paper and mail it than to send an e-mail, because the paper letter is protected by law.

The generation that's been in power since the 1980s and before has never chosen to protect citizens' privacy the way it was protected when they were growing up, because there's a profit in it for them and their supporters now.

Even creating a law like the GDPR on a national level in the US would be an improvement.
When I tried to do some Direct2D a few years ago it was a disastrous API and far slower than old GDI.

The "Disable hardware acceleration" setting, when present, still frequently makes all sorts of desktop software run faster and less buggy.
Good feedback. Most of the article is about integration inside an enterprise, although in the next installment I do talk about integration between organizations (hint: there are scenarios where I think low-code tools make sense there).
The industry is notorious (lead by TeamViewer) for leveraging vendor lock-in to screw their customers as much as possible.
> You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems

This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will. This, of course, does not imply that they will be able to solve them.

> You Can't Buy Understanding of Your Problems

This is less easy, but also possible: spend sufficient money so that highly intelligent people (think graduated mathematicians or theoretical physicists) will organize their life around understanding your problem. Because they are highly smart, they will very likely understand after some amount of time (hey, understanding highly complicated stuff by reading papers is what you do in graduate school).

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So the problem rather is: you are not willing to spend that much money or are far too impatient on people (i.e. you want a "fast solution" instead of someone who really deeply wants to understand everything from ground up as you do when in math research).
I like this premise.

- I recently discovered Spotify's Release Radar. It's incredible.

- On a whim, I went into a random bar in NoLA and discovered an incredible funky country band.

- I get daily txts from friends with new music.

As you said, these discovery channels are just as enjoyable as the music itself.
Robot looks like a pancake, jumps like a maggot
You don't intentionally choose weak engineers, but a strong engineer working on the wrong thing because they can't communicate effectively is less useful than a slightly less strong engineer who's always doing the thing that's actually needed.

This hold true as pretty much every level. A junior engineer who will never say "No, I don't understand, can you explain that to me again please?" and spends days/weeks writing code that doesn't meet a requirement is less productive than someone who'll talk to you to understand properly before starting to code. A senior engineer or technical cofounder who can't communicate well with customers will be much less effective in solving real customer problems or finding product/market fit.

Being a great engineer isn't just about writing good code, its about writing the right code - and to know what that is you need good communication skills.
There's a huge difference between wanting to change and wanting to complain. Sadly change does not attract people reading your article.
>>>Why did you invade Iraq then plunging it into total chaos and support ISIS in Syria against the Assad regime? Why did you overthrow the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

Both of these governments were attempting to sell oil for something other than US dollars. Threats to the Petrodollar system are NOT tolerated by the Galactic Empire.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur...
https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~norman/CurrentAffairs/DeeperNew...
https://thenewamerican.com/gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-h...
https://www.rt.com/news/economy-oil-gold-libya/
You have an extra multiply there.

If you need, say, 50 ops per particle, and there's 1 million, and they're updated 10x per second, this is just 500 MFLOPS.

A typical recent-ish (not even latest-gen!) mobile GPU can handle something like 500 GFLOPS, more than 1000x the amount needed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750535

You could even update the filter 1000x per second to track high-frequency motion and still only use 10% of the GPU power!

Obviously, some models need more ops per particle, more or less particles, or different update frequencies. However, consider that current-gen phones like the iPhone 13 are already at multiple TFLOPS, and this number will just keep going up over time.

There might be some really interesting algorithms unlocked once we're at the point where we can run particle filters "per pixel" on a video feed.
[Disclaimer: I work in the US]

It's just so hard to correctly evaluate health care plans, though. Even at the company I work for now, it took multiple evenings of spreadsheets, calculations and hypotheticals to choose from one of the three plans my employer offered, and that's with access to the HR Slack channels and internal docs to help clarify our questions.

I can't imagine trying to do the same calculation from outside the company.
I'm simply stating how Arbitrum works today. And sure, once there's more adoption on L2s then there will be a reason to stay in the ecosystem, and I do get that it's inevitable that we'll have a multichain future (we have a multichain present anyways), but in this model I just don't understand why ETH has value in the thousands of dollars per token. The answer is simply amounting to "you cannot afford our chain so go use a different one". So I'll happily work with a more affordable chain with higher throughput.

I hope that the ETH vision works out because right now it's kind of a clusterfuck tbh. But until the planned vision is not theory and is fully realized, I think it's absurd to refuse to work with other L1 solutions like Solana simply because Ethereum has a large head start on decentralization. I think that if people try some Web3 apps on a chain like Solana or Avalanche, more people would be excited about the potential that Web3 can bring. Instead, we have people blindly yelling about how NFTs are bad for the environment or whatever nonsense, or that it cost someone $100 to move $50.

And regarding using ETH for nation state transactions, you can simply just use BTC for such important transactions. It's more decentralized than Ethereum and is just going to continue to decentralize.
Well that actually makes it almost plausible for Hubble to capture an image of JWST

According to Wikipedia, the order is: Sun, L1, Earth, L2. So L2 is always in the night sky.

I don't see issues with focus. 1.5M km is effectively infinity. Indeed for my camera on earth, 10m resolves as pretty much as well as infinity, f stops notwithstanding.

JWST is about 20m by 14m in size. And it's out of the earth + moon shadow because of the nature of its orbit. It has a sun shield, and radio dish in the shield.

The resolving power of 0.05 arcseconds at 1,500,000 km apogee is indeed 350 m (ish), which is much bigger than the JWST. The situation is worse at perigee. An image of JWST would take up less than 1% of Hubble 'pixel'. So there may be a faint blob, depending on the albedo of the JWST. (I don't know how Hubble's the photodetector arrays' resolution compares to the maximum resolving power of the lens.)

However, Hubble's guidance systems have permitted astronomy at 0.0003 arcseconds, which comes out at a little over 2 m at JWST's range. So after a lot of computation, stacked images and fine-guidance shifting, presumably there could be an image of around 10 x 7 pixels (or whatever they are after the computation).

And that's a result!
The music business is not a viable business model. In other news, the ocean is wet.
> Subs crash very rarely, so the software seems to be sufficient.

Subs also operated for many decades without any kind of computer-assisted navigation, and training to handle the loss of such systems is routine, so your statement is pretty vacuous. The software at a minimum should allow sailors to operate as safely as they did without it, but one would assume that the entire point of software assistance is to improve safety and/or operational effectiveness.
I think they did it all with non-reinforced concrete, which can last more or less forever. It has good compressive strength but hardly any tensile strength, so they'll have had to design the dam in a way that doesn't depend on that.
Ezekiel was away on other business.
I find Ubiquiti wifi to be excellent and their EdgeRouter line has been reliable too but the routing products are just missing basic stuff.
> Logical replication slots should have timeouts where if you haven't read the WAL record in say 24 hours it should be dropped. Make it configurable and set a sane default, problem solved.

In other words, replication without using replication slots. Postgres has had it for a long time, although the limit is set in disk usage rather than time.

(unless specifically logical replication and/or debezium don't support this?)
What about Star Citizen?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319340 [5 years ago]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553371 [3 years ago]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628957 [6 months ago]
The correct metrics are 1. Strong skillset, and 2. Able to follow instruction (obedient). Every other hot metrics now are pretty much misalign with company goal of earning profit. Purely on your criteria alone "strong communicator" are way down the list while "strong engineer" will be easily top 3 criteria. In a company you only need 1 or 2 strong communicator, usually they will be the head of departments or more likely C leaders. Too many chief and less foot soldiers will be like what happen to Enron where everybody just hop from departments to departments unable to deliver useful productivity. Talk is cheap. Actions speaks louder. Those strong communicators are also the most likely to jump ship and change job for the better within a short time. It will be very detrimental to company having this group of employees. Speaking from over 3 decades of experience in HR.
RNA can do much of what proteins can do and much of what DNA can do, albeit not so well. It's plausible that early life was an "RNA world" before proteins and DNA.
This is exactly where that customer was coming from. Many many broken promises from their previous vendor about essential features "being on the roadmap" for 2-3 years without ever seeing the light of day. (And we knew that was one of the biggest reasons we poached them away.)
So its MAAAAN? Seems disappointing
The RNA World Hypothesis
You just don't realize how high attrition would have been without the perks.

Pay is to attract. Perks and good work environment is to retain.
You've mentioned this before, here:[1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5549627 (2013)

There you link to writing of your own from 1997, "Real News":

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/real-news.html

A book that explores some of these concepts (in terms of the Net's impact on traditional news media) is Andrew L. Shapiro's book The Control Revolution (1999).[2]

What numerous prognosticators (yourself, Epic, Shapiro, and more) got right was that the traditional print media would be profoundly disrupted. What seems to have been broadly missed was that digital, algorithmic media would allow for individual targeting and manipulation, if not by the publishers or platforms themselves then by those who exploited them, either in partnership or as hostile attackers.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Not stalking, honest! I was looking for this particular comment to come back and respond to it.

2. Not to be confused with James Beniger's similarly-titled 1986 book. Shapiro does reference it, both are well worth reading. Shapiro's is far more politically-conscious.

Shapiro's: https://www.worldcat.org/title/control-revolution-how-the-in...

Beniger's: https://www.worldcat.org/title/ltltthegtgt-control-revolutio...
Judge blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for federal contractors [pdf]
I've used Buildroot in the past to make very specific linux build. It has a little bit of a learning curve but you end up with a linux that you control pretty much every aspect of it.

https://buildroot.org/

If the goal is more educational LFS is a terrific tool that shows you pretty much everything that goes into building an OS and from there you can make it as minimal as you want

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
500 server error :(
Consolidation is what capital does.
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I noticed some additional rate limiting as we're processing a backlog of data from earlier today... It's possible they just have increased the normal thresholds while everyone is in a similar recovery mode and they too are bring capacity back to normal levels.
A true knight of dev land knows how to tjhost with the bars of the helmet down. It's a Editor, the text is no central
Real News (1997)
Yes, but modern Gnome 3 and KDE Plasma have also similarly regressed.
* Apart from supporting music-makers, making a business out of music is destructive to music.

* Video does not add to music, it turns it into a mere soundtrack to move one or more products.

* Recorded music is always inferior to live music performance.

* The enslavement of music, like all enslavement, diminishes the culture that practices it.
There are some other aspects of locations that use downloaded data, like building heights, wifi base station locations, etc.
The world is becoming more authoritarian
It really depends. I've seen things go pretty quick in other industries, like my wife, who works in marketing. At most she usually has a call, a psychological test of some sort, and a long onsite. She's also had some that were about as long as mine, but on average it's relatively short.

And she never has to grind or prepare beyond making sure her portfolio is ready. They don't ask her to prove her InDesign or Powerpoint or HTML or even tech skills (one job she had to lead a tech initiative to lead the department into evaluating and then switching to new proposal management software that was HTML template driven, and then basically be tech support for a bunch of salespeople that didn't want to invest the time to learn how to use it).

I'd rather go through her process than mine, quite frankly. Although she has found it more difficult than I have to find a company willing to pay her what she's making now, as her salary has gotten pretty high for her field, and she often has to sell them more on what she can bring to the table since she's had experience with so many large accounts in the past.

Meanwhile I could move to SV and double my salary easily, so I'm nowhere near the top, just the top of the ranges for all the recruiters in my region that contact me (I could probably find something in the area that's about $50k higher, I'm guessing, but no one is advertising it, most are advertising about $30k less than I'm making right now). And yet my process always seems to be long and painful.