skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several laptops that are multiple times that. It's common for people earning $200k+ per year to spend 5-10k per year on computing hardware.

My desktop was like $14k new. It has been my daily driver for over 4 years, so less than $300/month (and still going down). That's a rounding error in relation to the money I have earned using it.
In all studies that I saw (and there is general lack of quality studies in that area - hard to set up realistic A/B experiment and observational data get you only so far) while average productivity dropped after 40h there were outliers (~10%) with no drop in productivity or increase in error rate with 60h/week. There is good chance that in elite job in Asia (and TSMC is definitely elite) almost everyone is in that category - can work very long hours without burning out. People who could not are either pushed out or leave on their own.
The only program I’ve seen do it “properly” is Darktable, which has a dots-per-inch setting for things which have to be compatible with real-world linear measurements (WYSIWYG stuff for the most part), a dots-per-degree setting for things which depend on how far away you are sitting from your screen (UI element size), and a font size. I suspect the reason people don’t regularly do this is the same as the reason CSS no longer has pixels: it’s difficult to design (in the declarative CSS model) with more than one independent length unit.

(I just went to check my several-years-old impressions against Darktable’s almost-undocumented config file, and... it no longer seems to have these settings? I’m not sure.)

Unfortunately, the “UI scale” thing seems to be baked into Wayland nowadays; I have no idea how to get Evince to realize that an A4 sheet at 100% should be 210 cm wide whatever my screen resolution and “UI scale”.
This was in the blues brothers : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blues_brothers/quotes/
Ask HN: Do your Amazon products/apps get slower over time?
The Amazon Video App in my smart TV has gotten noticeably laggy with every passing update for years, now taking over 20 seconds just to load the catalog. Browsing and pausing streams also seem to be annoyingly slow.

To add to this, my Kindle reader received an OTA update last week, and now it takes literal seconds to perform basic functions eg. to look up a word in a dictionary.

Have you also noticed your own Amazon apps/devices getting worse and worse performance over time? If so, why do you think that is? Do they simply not care about performance as part of their testing cycles? Is it a conscious effort at Planned Obsolescence?
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This reminds me of my first foray into useful programming, which was on a TI-83 in high school circa 2000 - I wrote all the code on the calculator! Didn't do anything crazy, learned from modifying games and wrote some programs to do some of my math homework for me. I do have a funny story:

I wrote a program to calculate between orders of magnitude and gave it to a few classmates. Before the test, the teacher noticed people I think transferring programs and asked what was going on, and one dude said something like "We've got a program Andy made to do the test for us!" The teacher responded, "Well then you better know how to do the work so you can make sure Andy knew what he was doing!"

That program worked, but since becoming a dev a decade ago there's definitely been instances where that would've been good advice lol.
> Your assumption seems to be that if: 1) an existing language has finite utility 2) a language where any string is a valid program has no utility, that it must be true that utility decreases with the unconstrained-ness of a language (and thus increases with more constraint).

The converse is actually the OP's argument, ie. that a language's utility increases with unconstrainedness. I merely showed that to be false, and argued that constraints are essential, but nowhere did I suggest that utility scales with the number of constraints.
2 + 2 = 4 is no more true than saying water is wet.
I think it will reach a point where it's similar to page builder. It works, sometimes that's all you need. But it's bloated, not always optimal, you will likely reach a point when it's clearly not enough.

In my opinion there is a market for it but they should not fall into the trap of trying to be generic (like bubble for example), when they do, they are quite hard to use that you might as well learn coding.

But for specific use cases building a simple and custom CRM, showing structured data, prototyping etc it's good.
You'd be surprised how much parents can shape things, especially if they have time and money (mostly money).
Lots of people seem to complain about Ubuntu support on this machine. There seems to be a consensus that Fedora is the option that works best for that machine.
If the library is installed separately, the terribleness is about adding "-lfunkylib" to your linker command.

If you embed the source in your project, the terribleness is about adding to your Makefile:

funkylib.o: funkylib.c
$(CC) $<

myfinalexe: ... funkylib.o ...
# your existing executable creation (linking) command
>I am self-taught and I can't do these leetcode problems if my life depended on it.

>I still deliver high quality software on time, and on budget, and have a solid grasp on my career.

There's simply no way of proving that to recruiters without Leetcode.
Doesn't duckduckgo just mostly use microsoft's search results?
Iran is facing similar power shortages made worse by crypto miners.

Proof of work cryptocurrencies have got to be the worst invention in a decade.
We can look to Salesforce for how this will likely play out - they aren't the only no-code platform out there, but they are big and have been around a while, so their dev culture has had a long time to evolve.

In that world, most devs work primarily in the no-code portion of that platform, maybe with some basic coding skills. That group does the majority of app dev work. But there is a smaller percentage of people who do write code, and who do the work that goes beyond what the no-code features can do.

So most other platforms will likely match - a wide swath of people, functions, and apps are no-code, and you absolutely can succeed both doing no-code work for your job, with most businesses not needing more than that. But there will always be another layer underneath the non-code to let businesses who need more to have coders who add more features.
I have a custom built small form factor PC in a Dan Case A4 [0]. The case is a lot smaller than a Razer Core. And it's a whole PC, not just a GPU. Fits in a cabin bag or backpack and I have traveled with it.

You can go even smaller at 3.9L in a Velka 3 [1], if you use a single fan graphics card.

- [0] https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php

- [1] https://www.velkase.com/products/velka-3
IIRC that was actually smith in the first movie, during his interrogation of morpheus

“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.”
US Military vs. 'Costco Drones’
In Poland you just get cut off after a few months of nonpayments. I know because I forgot to pay a few times.

I think we have social programs for people who can't pay for electricity. Or at least I hope so...
Pick something you want to do then google it.

For example, I batch recorded a bunch of videos. I wanted to slice them up with ffmpeg before I brought them into the video editor. To do this, I use the command

ffmpeg.exe -ss 00:00:05.00 -i input.MP4 -t 00:00:18.00 -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.mp4

-ss is the start point
-t is the offset from that start point
-acodec copy copies the audio codec
-i is my original video file

-vcodec copy copies the video codec
We used them at a previous small tech company. My experience was pretty good. They did all the legwork for payroll, med benefits and other HR-type stuff that a team of 10 engineers did not want to bother with.

Justworks and it ilk are part of the "business as a service" model that works really well. Corporate GMail or Outlook365 allowed small companies to let go of the burden of Email management, Justwork does the same for benefits/payroll dept. I'm sure Ziprecruiter and other companies are doing the same for hiring departments too.
A $6k laptop seems reasonable if you are using it for earning SWE incomes ($200k+/year).
people worrying about their clipboard contents vs. malware capturing keystrokes is baffling.

you may as well keep your passwords in a plaintext file.
I use cli emacs with termux on android with synchting, no vps needed
Pathminder appears to have predated Norton Commander by a couple of years, tough I've never used it.

As a former Amiga user I'm compelled to argue the ones who perfected this was Disk Master and Directory Opus ;) Directory Opus is still available, now for Windows, but looks nothing like the early versions and frankly I don't like the modern versions.

Personally I preferred Disk Master II [1], which by default kept the two directory listings and a command palette, but instead of making them fixed like most file managers of the era (including the previous version of Disk Master [2]), the directory listings and the command palette were all windows, and you could configure the layout and which commands were included so you could e.g. have it execute your own scripts and the like (I'm sure most gui file managers have that today - at the time it wasn't at all ubiquitous).

EDIT: AmigaOS also had CLImate which used a similar two-pane system, and which came out about the same time as Norton, but CLImate was very primitive and marred by the developers seemingly wanting to make full use of the available fonts provided with AmigaOS - note the at least three different fonts on the buttons [3] - and way too much padding taking space from the directory listings.

[1] http://myplace.frontier.com/~jodytierney/dm2.html (click on the image for a bigger version) shows a customised DM II setup.

[2] https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/411586853453284894/

[3] http://eab.abime.net/attachment.php?s=2b3fea62abf55fc52bffc7...
Yes—I think it’s a difference between people who accept that light rail costs us $500 million/mile and subways cost us $5 billion/mile and those who don’t. Also, those who think we can run reliable, efficient public transit even with good funding, and those who accept that we can’t.

I used to be a rail fan. Then I rode Amtrak to work for a couple of years. I saw the DC Metro, which is well funded, so badly maintained that automated train control, a core feature when the system was built 1970s, had to be turned off. (That was a decade ago and there is no sign of it ever being reenabled.) I came to the conclusion that Americans running transit projects like the Europeans or Japanese is just wishful thinking. A camel cannot be a bird no matter how much it wants.
<i>Our economy needs parents to be able to work 40 hours per week while raising children. </i>

Let's be honest. Our economy only needs people to work 20-25 hours a week max.
Tauri allows you to build apps that are pure rust - the js is optional and has multiple configurable integration models called 'patterns' that allow defining and constraining the engines includsd, the interfaces between them, and the tradeoff between binary size and distribution simplicity/robustness.

https://tauri.studio/en/docs/usage/patterns/about-patterns
Your post reads as the US is the only one working on NPT. It is not.

As for your reference - US based and owned org is of course totally unbiased. Color me surprised.
Dragon Innovation has a number of good videos on manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0JdkHIkL7I

It appears the company may be defunct, but the information is pretty good.

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Edit: It looks like they were acquired - https://ir.avnet.com/news-releases/news-release-details/avne...
Unless many people do that.
The parent is trying to say that it’s just regular old racism. Competent Asians are disadvantaged because this serves the elite better.

I think the reason underperforming minorities are so prioritized by the media and the elites is simply that the elites don’t feel much competitive pressure from them, and using them to distract the masses, they can then conveniently screw the minorities that are actually threatening their interests. Another reason is to delegitimize standardization of merit (e.g., standardized comprehensive exams). This allows them to use a subjective (“holistic”) approach that obviously favors themselves.
No less so than any other state right now.

NY and NYC is home to Covid authoritarianism and it’s achieved absolutely nothing. The numbers don’t lie.
I am 100% against proof of work, but I don't think your statement is quite true. If you mine Ethereum on a modern Nvidia GPU you can easily offset your electricity costs.
You might also be interested in my sudoku solver from 10 years back: https://dancing-links.herokuapp.com/.

I implemented it using dancing links, and applied the same code to solving polyonimos too. It was a fun exercise. Code is here: https://github.com/kybernetikos/dancing-links.

For comparison, the 'really hard' puzzle is

...8.1..........435............7.8........1...2..3....6......75..34........2..6..

And the 'harder' puzzle is

..39.....4...8..36..8...1...4..6..738......1......2.....4.7..686........7.....5..

If you're interested in the timings, you can type

console.time();solutions=sudokuSolver.solve("..39.....4...8..36..8...1...4..6..738......1......2.....4.7..686........7.....5..", 20, 1000);console.timeEnd();

into the console.
Interesting, I’ve never looked at importing slightly used international models
Capital costs maybe. Running costs would be equivalent to running a plain resistive heater element, which I think just about still counts as a modern heat source, given you can wander down to the local shop and buy one. You can beat it with a heat pump.
people are really jealous if the people they believe to be no more talented than themselves gain alot more, they attribute the success to luck and that is where their depression starts (Oh why am i so unlucky, what did i do wrong in life etc...)
> As an European these hours would be completely unacceptable to me unless it's 3 days on 4 days off, which it doesn't seem to be.

Americans aren’t interested in 13 hour shifts, either, unless the pay is extraordinarily high.

I agree: Something is missing from this article. If they’re running 3-on, 4-off schedules with these hours, that’s one thing. But if they’re asking 13-hour days and 5-day weeks then it’s an open and shut case: Their jobs are a poor value proposition and people will (rightly) leave.
player.fm has a share feature that lets you include the timestamp, e.g.
https://player.fm/series/space-boffins-from-the-naked-scient...
So the problem with AMD and Framework is that the Framework uses Thunderbolt4 as the basis for it's expansion ports. Something that AMD doesn't natively come with.Not to say that it couldn't happen but I'm guessing 12th gen intel before AMD
But you won't be developing a web app, you'd be developing a desktop app, much like with React Native.

Having web developers learn C++ and Qt instead would be much more unacceptable.
My recommendation looking at it from the side and personally as an amateur without inside-scoop info (and without exact info on what you're building) is to look at sheet metal. 10mm thick metal, cut into various shapes and assembled with off the shelf parts like bolts can do a whole lot more than we give it credit. The benefit is that you could probably find local laser-cutters that could do small runs of cutting the pieces for you without the big cost of milling or injection molding.

Personally, the biggest hurdle for me is "finding" the cost of some of these processes so that I could adapt my idea and material early on. All places in my local area require you to submit a formal quote and plans without giving you an indication at all of how much it'll cost (which is inside info that people who use those services often know).

Oh and don't get sucked into the trap of ordering runs from Alibaba, even though you will find someone that does what you need at a cheap price there. It's a pit of time sifting through spam and incorrect info till you find a good reliable supplier, so rather deal with local providers in your area.
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Verizon, AT&T delay 5G rollout plans again, bowing to aviation safety concerns
shrug

A friend of mine works at a fab at another company and he's not working crazy hours. I think he currently works the three days on three days off shift.

It's one thing to have on-call hours, it's another to have on-call hours while also being expected to work 60 hours a week. It sounds like TSMC is expecting the latter.

It might also just simply be a problem with management.

There's other industrial manufacturing that happens 24/7 in the US, so it's possible
Hello what is the interview process like? Also by flexible you do still mean within the EU timezone I'm assuming?
Just a idea, but support could be a reason to pick a 3rd party to manage these kinds of devices instead of installing the original project. You do open up extra avenues of compromise, but rolling out an OS project you are not really an expert in to staff is a big risk for usability. I can see a value proposition of "locked down devices, more secure than stock, 98% as secure as possible, 24/7 support" being an attractive tradeoff for some companies or people.
I highly recommend the documentary American Factory which highlights similar culture clashes in a windshield factory in Ohio.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/m36QeKOJ2Fc
I'm really pissed about take-home projects now. I put so much effort into one, I passed it, I hit the interview loop, I got very positive feedback on my tech skills ("top tier"). But they ultimately pass. Five days later I get one sentence of extremely vague, useless feedback about my soft skills. That's representative of the entire process, which had numerous long delays and cancellations of meetings.

It's really insulting to put so much effort into something and then get treated this way.
The crypto miners are just a symptom resulting from government in the electricity markets
People unfamiliar with computer history beyond the past decade are downvoting you.

Apple may not contribute much more than a bare platform with M1, but that isn't unusual in the scope of computer history. What's important is that they are not actively enforcing exclusivity or deterring the attempt. They've even shown tacit support in recent EFI patches by making changes that preserve the current mechanism other OSes can be loaded.
The difference is the index size and generality for me - for instance I can search "lkasdjfai" in Google and it will show me the one time that someone once said that on Flickr.

Siri only needs to return a result when it thinks its got a worthwhile result to show, it won't search all documents to find the phrase I want (and returns nothing if I search lkasdjfai, and falls back to Google results). It never even says "siri found no matches for lkasdjfai".

I can't use Siri to search for my cousin for instance (I just tried) but with Google he comes up straight away.

So for me, a web search is when you are searching any arbitrary phrase and bringing back results for any query, where instant suggestions is an optional response when you think you have a good result.
I felt bad for his family.
I have no issues with mine, except for the deep sleep one. The current prevailing theory on the forums suggests it's got something to do with PCIe Gen4 SSD firmware. The issue is widespread enough that I'm hopeful we'll see a fix soon enough.

Otherwise I'm extremely happy with mine!
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How? If you're mining is profitable you're getting paid to be heated.
Offtopic. Let's keep the word "dark" for sinister things, like "dark patterns".
> Dogmatic Programmer: let’s make everything abstract, what if we need to switch databases?

> Pragmatic Programmer: we will never switch databases.

In other words, the blog author is saying "I don't have much software experience." I used to think I'd never switch databases too, until I built a very large system and had to switch databases.
Next to zero efforts for you. I have lost hours debugging issues caused by it, and I am sure I will lose some more in the coming years.
Obviously this has implications in academia, but I wonder how this will affect museum tours and the explanations of art the docents give.

And I must admit, I clicked this article hoping to discover there were lions wandering around the south of France today.
> Kazakhstan government is facing incredible amount of protest now due to rising fuel prices.

It's so bad that the presidential residence was set on fire a few hours ago.
You don't get rid of racism by making it illegal... People will always find a way. You get rid of racism by educating.
North Kosovo is a very tricky political situation where the govt. does not have effective control of the region, for political reasons you can’t force the population to pay but you can’t also cut them off either, since Serbia will step in and undermine Kosovo’s sovereignty.

The electric situation has allowed domestic and foreign opportunists to set up extensive mining operations with free electricity, this has cost the Kosovo govt. tens of millions in bills they have to cover. My grandpa’s village is a popular spot, every house is renting out their garages at crazy high prices, I’ve seen videos of rigs worth hundreds of thousands sitting in the barn in shelves next to the cows who use the heat.
Am I missing the sarcasm here?
I remembered it being 11 characters, and indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.
No-code is fantastic for basic websites and apps. Prototyping basic businesses has never been easier than with no-code tools that let people string together common functions.

The key is to know when it’s time to outgrow the no-code version and start a real custom implementation. Not all businesses will get there, but the developers need to know when it’s time to switch over.

Fortunately, replicating a no-code site as a custom solution is actually quite easy in most cases because the no-code building blocks have a lot of easy to use code library equivalents.
Only Startpage uses Google, to my knowledge, as there isn’t an API you can enable to start getting Google’s search results (without entering into talks with their sales / exec team). Bing does, though, and that’s why Brave and DuckDuckGo use Bing under the hood a lot.
This is not my channel, but is a pretty good guide to set it up

It equates to basically standing up a new vault on an iOS device and choosing to store it in iCloud in the first place, then migrating the data over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqI4_gQqPQg
I was wondering if it might be something like there are more male surgeons with more experience, therefore they get the more complicated cases, but I don't think that would explain it either.

It might be interesting to see it broken down by different kinds of surgery.
There's no way of proving that to recruiters with Leetcode.
Hmmm, I started programming in 1982 on a TRS80 Color Computer, and am still at it building web and desktop apps. I agree if you were out of the scene for a while it'd be a hard task to get to grips with things, but otherwise some of us can still understand and maybe even use some of the newfangled stuff.