skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That said I’ve been out of the PC space for quite a while. Do mobile discrete GPUs greatly draw much power when mostly idle (such as general desktop work)? Did others give up on switching the discrete GPU on and off a needed as Apple used to do (and gave up on IIRC)?

I recently purchased and returned a Lenovo P1 Extreme Gen 4. It had an 11th generation i9 and a 3080.

With no external monitor attached, the 3080 power consumption in HWinfo was 0 watts doing basic tasks (e.g. surfing HN).This was plugged in or on battery.

If I plugged in an external 4K monitor, the 3080 power consumption was ~23 watts. A few watts less with a 1080 monitor. I think 27W if both were plugged in.

I think a lot of laptops can basically turn off the discrete GPU when it's not being used. Not sure about gaming laptops. There's some quirkiness to this with the GPU not turning always turning off when you unplug an external monitor - a reboot is required.
I would like to thank the author for bringing back memories. Not all of which are good...

(I used to work for a four letter computer corporation doing enterprise technical support, mostly on tape-based products.)
This is correct. And it is normal practice for not-truly-native apps (apps using React Native, Ionic, etc.). By declaring every permission in the manifest, they can add new features that would require those permissions without by just updating the javascript code over the air (no play store update / google play review needed).
Ah the same reason, why there is no proof of real wizzards. The ones tested and failed with science, were all frauds, while the real wizzards already have all the power and no need to expose themself.
LTFS has been reasonably well supported and it’s fairly open. (I think it’s totally open and published, but I haven’t drilled deep in to it) I haven’t manually restored files but I have switched vendors and it was transparent. It makes tape almost shockingly good, if you can identify by name what you want to recover you can recover it quite quickly.

I had previously used Blu-ray for backups, I think they are fairly durable if you have a dry, cool place to store them, but if you have to find date spread over 20 discs, it’s quite a pain. Now it would feel better if Redhat or Suse or somebody cooked ltfs in to their products as a first class thing. I think the catastrophic recovery process would involve building enough of a system to download and install ltfs to access the tapes. I could also create a “recovery system” and then just tar that on to a tape too.

My advice strategy has been to keep things relatively warm and when ltfs starts to feel like a liability then I’m going to move the whole archive to something else, fortunately it’s not 100s of br discs, it’s tens of tapes so it will take some hours but it’s mostly waiting on data to stream.
Self hosted gitlab with aws auto scaling group runners has been fantastic for us. Circleci has been very unreliable lately when running some legacy workflows
That’s not the same. It’s more analogous to subscribing to only one particular column.
I would suspect that. How do you know?

(this sort of discussion is what I'd love to see in a tech interview)
gov.uk was great from the day it launched.

It continues from strength to strength.
I agree with the complaints that esoteric competitive-programming stuff (suffix arrays, segment trees, Dinic's algorithm, etc.) should not tested in a coding interview.

But most of the Leetcode problems cover basic algorithms like BFS/DFS, binary search, dynamic programming, and other Algorithms-class material, no? As long as you're given adequate time to think about and solve the problems, I don't really understand the negativity in the comments towards companies requiring coders to... actually code.

(By the way, if all of the monetization/engagement/social-media aspects of Leetcode turn you off as much as they do me, I recommend practicing on https://cses.fi/ instead---the problems are higher-quality and better-taxonomized too).
Not sure why you get the downvotes, all I can imagine is that there are a lot of people here who learned on K8s and have never tried anything different, or had to manage infrastructure at scale (In my experience scale being 30k+ bare metal machines)

99.9% of the time I see a k8s implementation it's a shop pushing a ridiculously low amount of traffic and then needing to scale their application across decades-old hardware provided by a cloud provider. It's so bad that a single, modern 4U server, like I used to manage working at at a large company, could have replaced their entire infrastructure. The k8s users wind up with thousands of lines of YAML to solve a problem that could have been solved with better design decisions. The abstractions upon abstractions also prevent developers from truly understanding what is going on in the real world, for example your cloud provider's hypervisor doesn't align with your para-virtualization hypervisor so you end up with all sorts of issues with affinity and noisy neighbors on the same hardware that you can't even see, or your racks aren't splayed right so failures wipe out disproportionate amount of instances, that K8s then takes ages to rebalance things.

As far as the statement "there's no reason it should be as simple as Heroku", I agree completely. I imagine in a few years something like AWS Firecracker+ a simpler control plane will end up superseding k8s, and k8s will end up in the graveyard of dying virtualization orchestrators like OpenStack and CloudStack.
Wonderful, so I take it you are advocating that anybody who drives a motorcycle with no tail light and drum brakes should be left to die outside the hospital if something happens? Would that be an accurate assessment of your position?
This was my set of rules:

1) Save humans at the cost of animals

2) If both options involve killing humans, always prefer to do nothing (continue straight ahead). That way it's the failed brakes that killed them, rather than the car's "decision". I know not making a decision is also making a decision, but a passive decision is not on the same level as an active one.

No difference between who the people are, whether they're passengers or not, or even how many.
You definitely can but it's not easy. These people are really good at bullshitting, that's why you have to back them into a corner. The simplest way to do that is to have them prove, live in the interview, that they can write code.
For that 10% fee, a Government department gets a whole host of DevOps support, all the contractual stuff dealt with, all the security vetting / compliance bits sorted out. The alternative is they can go and hire all those people to make that happen and it takes months or years and cost £000's more than the fee!
> how, the US is welcoming the successor of Nazi ideology. I'm not seeing it. Not even at a glance.

The guys in Charlottesville shouting "Jews will not replace us"? A Presidential candidate (and later President) openly mocking a disabled person on stage? Said President who sees immigrants as a threat and has no problem being backed by literal white supremacists, antisemites and KKK members? Who made first popularity with spreading the myth that Barack Obama was not a citizen of the US? Who openly called for the illegal locking up of a political opponent? Who disrespected the freedom of the press and the independence of the legislative and judicial branch that forms the pillar of a democratic society? Who invited if not outright ordered his backers to disrupt and prevent the orderly transition of power to his democratically elected successor? Who continually and baselessly accused vote fraud?

The Trump Presidency, its campaign and its voter base was and is filled with Nazi ideology at its core.
Grist: Open core alternative to G Sheets with SQLite storage and Python formulas
Sure, but then you can't, say, restart the server with no app downtime (for patches, maintenance, etc). You'd also probably have to setup cgroups yourself if you don't want to risk a rogue process taking up all the resources and starving other processes.

For AWS and GCP, there's zone-specific VM scaling groups that ensure you're in multiple AZs so you'd know for sure you're not on a single physical server.
Those polls also show that they strongly favor free IDs that are easy to obtain.

Almost no one opposed the idea of voter ID if it is free and easy for everyone who is eligible to vote to obtain such ID.

It's when shenanigans like those in North Carolina described in footnote 360 in this report [1] take place that it is a problem. The government knew that 25% of black voters lacked DMV-issued photo ID but the law provided that all government issued IDs would work (even expired ones), so that was fine. Then with race data in hand, the legislature amended the law to exclude most of those non-DMV IDs that black voters had, and retain the non-DMV IDs that white people were likely to have.

[1] https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access...
Gov.uk is _the_ primary way that anyone interacts with the UK government. Why shouldn't it be one of the highest priority aspects of government? I don't think the Prime Minister was sitting in on daily standups and sprint planning, but it makes sense that they should have a good overview of progress and development in GDS during its infancy.
The photographer and not the subject is the owner of the copyright. So life+70 it would be with regards to the photographer. So if a grandparent photographed their baby grandchild and died shortly afterward, when the grandchild was in their 70’s the photo would enter the public domain.
No, it is the full answer. The other stuff is their market position. That can change on a dime. (It also does nothing about to dual problem of stoking social division to generate more profit.)
Literally the only reason any company invests actual time into data security is HIPAA, GDPR and SOX. I keep wondering why people haven't demanded more regulation after all their SSNs got leaked
Even for Facebook, I'm surprised at how deeply upsetting and tone deaf that comment is coming from them.
Candygram for Mongo?
> modern science suggests that god probably doesn't exist

Huh? From my understanding, "science" has had the same perspective on this since like forever: it's unfalsifiable either way, but both explanations are at least self-consistent. There's no smoking gun against either side, and so it all depends on your priors.
> We need a credential that counts as passing a technical interview

This idea already exists in many forms. Pick any language, platform, or technical concept and there's someone offering training and certification.

It also describes the whole recruiting industry. "What if there was one person who did a lot of interviews and then presented just the best people to employers?"

It's an extremely human incentive alignment problem. Any certification program, interview farm, or bootcamp that makes more money when they produce more candidates will make quantity the goal, not quality. If you can figure out that problem, maybe there's a niche. Otherwise, it puts us right where we already are.
Is there a unix-style streaming tool, like tar/zstd/age, that does forward error correction? I'd love to stick some ECC in that pipeline, data>zstd>age>ecc>tape, cause I'm paranoid about bitrot. I search for such a thing every few months and haven't scratched the itch.

The closest is things like inFECtious, which is more of just a library.

I would prefer something in go/rust, since these languages have shown really high backwards compatibility over time. Last thing you want is finding 10 years later building your recovery tool that you can't build it. Will also accept some dusty c util with a toolpath that hasn't changed in decades.

https://github.com/vivint/infectious

Ok I just dug up blkar, this looks promising, but the more the merrier.

https://github.com/darrenldl/blockyarchive
How do you know?

That fish is so smart, it was never even spotted.
I guess one could always try to sue to get your embarrassing baby photos redacted from publication. Oh, it's been tried before and failed? Nevermind.
It shouldn't matter to whom? The key here is advertisers don't want to be associated with that. You cab very well respect and accept her, but if a private corporation funding or hosting her videos has an issue with it we can't force them on moral grounds. That's policing other folks as well
Yes, but storing many TBs on several low volume disks is a PITA unless you can invest in a robotic library.

I wonder if Sony's ODA format could ever become more popular in the consumer market. I've never heard anybody mention it before.

Alternatively, I wonder if there could even be a "prosumer" robotic library system for common optical disks, something like a desktop archival data jukebox...
You left out my two favorites!

- Sailing Nahoha - https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingNahoa

- Project Atticus - https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectAtticus

(edit, on second look Atticus was included)
Have you written about your experience at all? If you’ve got a blog (or even a book!) I’d love to read it.
Depends.

You need some luck, and learn to be good at marketing yourself. More than that though, you need to work your arse off. Work-life balance is something you always should be mindful of, but you'll have to work harder and smarter without the leetcode,etc. and a degree, than someone with those things did, to get to the same spot.

I think the biggest benefit of leetcode and things like it is that they help you prepare for coding interviews.

I've been working as a software engineer for twenty+ years, am making low six figures, and do not have a bachelors degree (I am in the slow process of going back for it). I also don't have a leetcode account. Someone with half my experience, but with a degree from a prodigious school, could be making $300-$400k. I also am more risk averse due to family situation (so no moving to SV/Austin/NYC to take my shot with a startup, yet).
Yes, there are many young people on Youtube. But what is the problem here exactly?
Getting hydrogen out of banana peels
Intel is at a critical juncture where investment in fabrication is the best path forward. However, many investors prefer near-term profits to long-term growth, even in the case of tech companies.

"Though demand for server chips is helping bolster sales, the forecast adds evidence that profit is suffering from an Intel spending spree. Gelsinger, who took the helm last year, has embarked on an ambitious plan to overhaul Intel’s manufacturing."

The narrative given credence by the article is that Intel's financial performance is worse when Intel decides to invest in fab infrastructure. However, this approach by Intel is the smartest move because fabs take long to build. Only a proactive company that lays out capex today will be positioned with enough manufacturing capacity in the event of future turbulence in the sector. That turbulence could come exogenously, for example in the form of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, or it could come about naturally due to continued semiconductor demand creation.

More fab capacity is essential in ways that the equity market rarely rewards.
> a DSL for making system-wide changes

Like... Kubernetes? :)
More interesting, can we talk about the story of people successfully emailing themselves...Suggestions?
It will never learn because there is no incentive to do so.

Tech organizations value their managers in terms of their budget, headcount and being in fashion. As such the tech business model has always been about getting "good enough" results through a brute force process, possibly with the latest tech. Expertise/deep knowledge is only added/valued when the development gets stuck.
> Funny how the people always banging on about the evils of capitalism have never actually lived under a communist system.

Almost as funny as seeing any criticism of capitalism turned into strawman about supporting communism.
Do we still need to exchange and download these APKs like if we are smugglers?
What a great read, I definitely learned and understood a lot of perspectives.
Data colonialism is bad enough on these poor people. I see a future world divided into data literate privileged people who can secure their privacy and those who are colonialized and exploited.
No.

Before I interview, I definitely spend a couple of evenings working through leetcode exercises to sharpen up on those kinds of problems. But it’s just that, a couple of hours to sharpen up working in that format - the foundation that lets me perform in the interviews is my existing skills in the field.

I actually think of it as akin to running - the thing that makes the difference is your base of aerobic fitness, but you perform best in a race if you spend some time sharpening for it.

I’ve generally not found coding interviews to be a barrier to getting good offers either on-site in the Bay Area or working remotely.

I’ve also never felt like the questions I face in interviews are totally out of alignment with the work I do. They’re not the entirety of the work I do, but they’re usually a decent distillation of the hard parts of some aspect of the “writing code” element of the job.

I also think people get way too hung up on them. At the on-site stage, honestly, I think more people fail on the more holistic system design and architecture problems than on the pure coding ones.
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The more I read about Facebook, the happier I am I avoided it ever since.
You would be competing against all the people who offer the same for 20 EUR. Not saying the quality would be the same, but when freelancing you are basically competing against all the lower cost (and salaries) countries.

I think you need to distinguish it from regular contracting.
>To be a little nitpicky about these sort of problem "How many fence posts should Farmer Bob buy"?

Sure. I'll go with that. Farmer Bob can be a part of a case study. We start off simple.

Farmer Bob buys exactly as many posts as necessary... then he discovers shrinkage/theft/errors

The next project, Farmer Bob uses linear extrapolation from the past 5 projects and buys X% extra posts... but then he discovers new employees break things

The next project Farmer Bob uses Linear Regression, broken down into key variables (like # of new employees)

I think we can get a book deal with this!
Related, Never Trust a Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta7tBkVu5oM
I think books are a great comparison for Gemini.

Sure, some books have the occasional image and are made better for including it. However, thumbing through a lot (not all) of my stack of books, I see maybe one or two images in an entire book [0]. A lot of those are simple diagrams that could be conveyed (albeit crudely) via text.

The remaining image (singular) could have easily been a URL or even a description. "A picture is worth a thousand words" works both ways. Therefore, sometimes it's better to just say a thousand words.

And none of that is to say that we shouldn't have movies or shows or newspapers and textbooks full of pictures! Books pose no threat to any of those, so it's pretty odd to see people threatened seemingly by the mere existence of Gemini. Especially when part of its introduction is that it's not a replacement for the Web!

Perhaps that upfront clarification is what's so scary? Depending on context, "we mean you no harm" can also sound like a threat.

[0]: Though most have precisely 0. Obviously depends on author and their intent.
You might find the book “The Fish Who Ate the Whale” interesting.
i just got another announcement where they offer to skip the setup fees if someone wants to upgrade their auction server to a regular one. it only lists my old servers, not the new one, which pretty much confirms that the new one is already price adjusted.
Appreciate the sentiment, and I’m glad to have been afforded the opportunity to have a faster track into this than most. Another reason why there is such a lack of working appraisers now is the same reason why it was easier for me to find a supervisor to train me: You either have family in the industry, or a close friend that gets you a foot in the door.

I will be a 3rd generation appraiser, following in the footsteps of my father (who has been in the industry at different levels for 30+ years), and his father (who got into the profession my answering a newspaper ad for FHA appraisers). For the longest time I balked at going into “the family business”, and it took me beating my head against a wall at places that didn’t give a shit about me or my skills to find the one place both of those things were taken seriously.

A side note for those reading this that have ADHD, I cannot stress how much of an overlap there is with appraisers and having some sort of attention disorder. This is not a bad thing, but a pattern I’ve noticed in talking to appraisers from around the US, but many of us seem to have self selected into a profession that works really well with the way that some forms of ADHD work. The specific report forms we fill provide structure and readability of the written reports we prepare, but the randomness and dopamine hit of a new subject and comparable sales to analyze every report keep it fresh.

Any questions anyone has, more than happy to answer!
soulseek
Reeks of privilege and lack of perspective.
@dril / @wint
Why? US and Anglo-Canadian corporations will not spend a penny more than they need to advertise and serve a largely bilingual population. Not protecting the French language will lead to its quick marginalisation, as has happened to approximately all minority languages surrounded by much bigger cultural and economic entities, with few exceptions. If you think preserving a different culture is important, the law is logical and required.
What are the trade offs of embedding a Prolog interpreter versus having a library that implements prolog logic without having to have another language.

Are there any high quality prolog as a library implementations in languages such as Rust, C++, Java, Go?
Do you live in a weird area? Like very remote or extremely low density or something? Or are you just upper class? I would assume getting all your groceries delivered from amazon would be significantly more expensive than buying them from a supermarket.
You have to ask yourself, did Joe move politically or did you?

because in my experience I have seen the "Alt-Right" be expanded to include a whole host of people that are not what "alt-right" was it was originally described, instead anyone that disagrees with any position of the authoritarian left is now "alt right" also anyone that expresses any support for any person previously called "alt-right" is now themselves "alt-right" by their mere limited association or support..

i could go to COVID as it provides many examples of this, but lets take another hot button issue of the day, Abortion. I am pro-choice 90's style democrat on the topic, I support the idea of "Safe legal and Rare" but if I say the new law out of NJ may be going to far, or that maybe we should not out right celebrate abortions instead viewing it as something tragic that ultimately may be needed and certainly should be outside of the purview of government regulation I am viewed as "Alt-right bigot" for my very centrist and rational position
Oh nice! I thought there was some deeper meaning.