skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Microsoft might have lost the server battle, those of us deploying on Azure hardly bother with which OS the type 1 hypervisors are actually running, many Azure workloads could even running directly on the hypervisors that we wouldn't really notice.

As for the desktop, regardless of all screw ups since Windows 8, GNU/Linux has hardly made any gain there.

Then we can turn into mobile space, which they did lose, however in what concerns tablets, hybrid laptops running Windows win out clusmy Android tablets every day of the week.

Finally, WSL is there to cater to the same folks that buy Macs to develop Linux instead of supporting Linux OEMs.
> Since you do have access, could you maybe share if you think it's worth paying for?

It has been handy for a few things, but given the finite hours in a day/week I tend to not read tech stuff in my off-hours, so haven't used it much in general. Most recently used it for some Postgres stuff and IPv6:

* https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ipv6-address-planning/9...
Maybe a SW upgrade by Elon / Tesla will suffice :)

def power_up(battery_pover_in):
voltage_in = abs(battery_pover_in)
voltage_up = battery_pover_in * 1.5
return voltage_up
It's interesting that today, in the United States, many people from the "middle east" (depending on their religion) classify themselves under the BIPOC umbrella and not category "5" as described in this essay.
They did and do. That was the hard part, though. It helped that we had good unit tests.
The Keys to the Kingdom
I don't take this guy too serious. He seem to know little about what has been happening in car engineering for the last 30 years, and I am not a car engineer, having to say that.
Not every country. Certainly a lot less likely in countries whose populations majorly descend from people who emigrated there in the last few centuries.

A Venezuelan-Canadian I met once in Europe made an interesting remark I never forgot. In the USA/Canada people care about what you do. In Europe, they care about who you are. What you do is much more in your control than who you are.
Could you share some details about that defect metric and how you implemented it? Sounds interesting.
Monetary stimulus went pretty well, and it's essentially free and reversible. Fiscal stimulus was a waste of real resources.

Fiscal tightening doesn't do anything about inflation. See eg the fiscal cliff of 2013 for an example.
If transwoman = woman, wouldn't it logically follow that woman = transwoman?
Another question would be: If google gives me an app from their official playstore, on their OS, should they be considered responsible for any loss that it causes to bank accounts, or we have given up accountability for big corps, hope regulators are sleeping well
I occasionally teach programming love this line.

It's doing exactly what you're telling it to do.
There are severe height biases in medicine. Taller (and thus larger) people fall well outside most "norms" of medical statistical analysis.

For example, did you know a large male human will have a larger prostate, which itself will generate a larger PSA number than a "normal" human? This in and of itself, at a certain age, will cause some doctors to attempt to stick a needle assembly you know where to sample the prostate. If one just goes along with this statistical oddity, instead of demanding the other (more modern) tests out there, one could literally end up fighting a nasty infection, or worse a spread of cancer if it was actually found.

I would say fighting hidden biases is more frustrating that fighting obvious ones, but both need to be fought and fought well.
Could someone comment on the down votes? The legislation is happening already, so I'm not sure why this is so controversial.
macOS doesn't need WSL, it is already a certified UNIX.
Jira isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be, only because it's so, so, so much worse. It makes simple things obtuse and absurdly difficult, all in the name of flexibility that is more liability than feature. I hate Jira with the burning passion of a thousand fiery suns.

I've used a bespoke ticketing system. I've used Trello. I've used stickies on a whiteboard. They each had their pros and cons, but every single one of them was infinitely better than the shithole that is Jira.
HN solved my existential crisis. I prefer hckrnews.com and often feels like I'm just wasting time but few posts and comments really changed the way I look at many things.
The problem isn't the clustering. The problem is choosing which individual points belong to which clusters, because every time people have mixed-race (or mixed-mixed-race) or whatever kids, which has been happening for millennia, a new 'cluster' gets invented.

Basically, there are no nice separations between the clusters, there are just denser and sparser regions in the feature space, so assignment of a point to a single cluster doesn't make sense.
Legendary psychosubversive hacker Susy Thunder, decades later
Oracle has plenty of happy customers that don't think twice about using Virtualbox.

Plus they aren't the only game in town with VM tooling.
Perhaps there is a future where we get a general DNA mod early in our lifecycle that primes us for easier regeneration later in life.
I can't tell you how ECMP over BGP works and I was an SRE at Google. Your idea of what's needed to run Linux servers is well over the top.
Hopefully, cheat isn't a normal state :-)
Yep - luck matters way more than effort. Effort is the catalyst, luck gets you there.

Which gets to an interesting point: If an organization values the effort you put into failure, it's a company you very much want to work for!
Diversity in the workplace is a work issue.

If that’s political, well, work _is_ political too (and even work organization becomes quickly political).
https://webperf.xyz maybe?

As a news site Rest of World is fast loading but because of lead image it can exceed 500KB in size depending on article.

https://restofworld.org/
Monetary and fiscal are largely equivalent

specially when the central bank has the tendency to print money to buy government debt, so public solvency is never an issue
Yes! that's how we ourselves run it. The project includes a ready-to-go Dockerfile: https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery-engine-playwright#u...
> Not to mention many parts of construction require skilled trades (electric, plumbing, carpentry, masonry, etc), some of which require licenses.

There's smaller and smaller areas of construction that is unskilled nowadays AFAICT. Unless you're just there to lift stuff and/or literally dig ditches (which is often done with machines), there's not much that can be done by some rando off the street. Even the day labourers that are found around Home Depot (probably?) have areas of knowledge, even if it's just framing.

Certainly some areas could be picked up fairly quickly (spreading/trowling and/or screeding concrete?), in most other areas there's some specialized knowledge. Especially if it has to meet code, which is getting more stringent over time. A YouTube channel of someone who does building inspections:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=326J5b_1ydI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD3Vo6WTsXA

Quite a few subtle places that one can mess up, even if you're a licensed professional (e.g., electrician) and are supposed to know better.
> I basically think that any government can both print money and avoid inflation bar external shocks with a modicum of common sense, [...]

It's all a question of how much money you are printing, and what your inflation targets are.

The Fed is supposed to 'print' just enough money to hit 2% inflation.

If the fiscal side is doing weird stuff (or not doing weird stuff), the Fed is supposed to accomodate that by printing more or less money, so they still hit their 2% target.
It's hard not to be critical of this headmaster, but I do have to question both the intelligence and the wisdom of someone who, in 1989, could not clearly see computers had no chance of becoming a "passing fad".

Picking up a copy of The Wall Street Journal at any point in the previous ten years could have clearly indicated that... and any school at which there's a "headmaster"... I would expect the WSJ is not a foreign entity to them.
>I'd take much longer issue resolution with hired operators over the fast AI violation check.

Would you also take the cost of their labor?
8 hours of sleep can undo less than 4 hours of problem-solving activity. Our large brains are already consuming too much body resources.

I have CO2 monitor, which I use to estimate is my brain working or not: when I'm working, CO2 level raises quickly above 1000ppm, so I need to ventilate my room often; when I'm idling, e.g. by playing a simple game, CO2 level is at about 740-790ppm without ventilation for whole day.

When I'm returning from work, I see at CO2 monitor that my head is still working. Yes, I'm able to «work» sustainable 4h per day only, but «work related activity» consumes my brain for whole day.
people usually prioritize entertainment over information density when it comes to movies
That's a weird thing to despise. You know it's not necessary to try and put everything on a level playing field. I don't think your argument is valid on that front because when you code, you're inputting code. Nobody says "I'm going to do some text based programming" unless there's a need for that distinction in that situation. I think low code and no code are perfectly valid because you're inputting no or close to no code to achieve the task.
> At some point, voters will start asking: what’s the point of all this stimulus, if it only ends up making us poorer?

Well, not all of us. Just people who work for a living and pay significant taxes, and people who were responsible and saved.

There may be enough votes in people who aren't in those categories to elect another tax-and-spender.
The 10% is not as bad as it sounds, because the author fails to mention that these statistics are heavily in favour of expensive cars with a good dealership network. And Tesla has no dealerships at all, as far as I know.

When you own something like a BMW, you typically don't drive the car to the inspection yourself. Especially not if it's a leased or company car. Instead, you bring your car to the dealership (or they will pick it up), they inspect the car, fix any issues they encounter and only then bring in an official inspector for the actual inspection. This way, the inspector will hardly find any issues. Also, dealerships typically don't chose TÜV, but one of their competitors that do the inspection at the dealership.

TÜV is where people go who want to save money by skipping the dealership. Most people who do this drive cheaper cars. That's why cheap cars are always having much worse numbers in these statistics. They are alternative statistics, like ADAC's (Germany's equivalent to AAA), but they all have the same problem. There are no good statistics for German cars. They all favour expensive German brands because those who the statistics will never see a broken car. The dealerships will always take care of that. I'd rather trust US-based Consumer Reports than TÜV or ADAC statistics.
> - Women, queer people, and minorities should be hired, treated, and paid the same as straight cis white men

No they should not. They should be paid similar to someone with similar work experience, skills, potential and likability. It has nothing to do with someone's skin color or sexual orientation.
Serious question: I keep seeing opinions about the inflation and supply chain problems being purely the result of the stimulus, and they feel, well, ideological. To what extent is this simply the effect of the pandemic? In my own family, we’ve spent way less on travel and more on things over the last couple of years.

Put another way, isn’t this the product of a combination of factors and not just because of the stimulus? I’m not convinced supporting people out of work through no fault of their own is a bad idea.
12 signs you're working in a feature factory (2016)
In a word, no, mainly because humans cannot really cope with race.
Cray Simulator (X-MP, Y-MP-el, J90, SV1)
High-Resolution Audio: is it worth the hype?
So you already have your ChromeOS, just by starting Chrome. :)
Less paging. I could swap but it was slow.

basically nobody is swapping because of a 128MB executable. if you are, get more ram or don't run prometheus.
Playwright's built-in codegen tool creates scripts that can be run as load tests with this project :)

https://playwright.dev/docs/cli#generate-code
uutils already (optionally) builds that way. The GitHub release has a single 8.4M binary.

That doesn't seem so bad, the GNU coreutils Debian package has an Installed-Size of 17.9MB. Though there might be hidden drawbacks I don't know about.
True but 1,800€ for a good appt. is amazingly cheap. I live in Tel-Aviv and here you'd be lucky to get anything for under 2,000EUR. There's no public transport other than buses so getting anywhere is a nightmare. Cost of living is through the roof. Especially essentials like food etc.

SF is MUCH worse. Healthcare there will kill you. It's easy to complain but things suck everywhere and the cost of living is rising all over. This is because of interest rates and commercialization of land ownership.
Yes, they are with a lot of other species. Another intelligent species that can be real assholes are monkeys.
But this "aren't clearly delineated" gets pedantic sometimes. The same issue is true for assigning hours into morning/day/evening/night, yet no-one talks about issues there. Stratifying something continuous into categories suddenly becomes bad when talking about ethnicity.
For W-2 exempt (salaried), if your definition of "work" is the equivalent of being in the zone for that much, of course not.

However, meeting Japanese-style salaryman-type management expectations of butts-in-seat-appearing-busy, or in a poorly-led consulting company that underbids and expects hapless employees to still deliver with uncompensated overtime while timesheets read exactly 40 hours per week, or overbook in a subscription-based business and throw the overage onto the heads of the employees, or any number of numerous scams I've seen?

Yeah, that happens plenty. Any area of human activity that is so structurally secular that it not only has a formal label ("overtime abuse"), but has law firms specializing in litigating it [1], makes it a real stretch to assert it is a "myth". I'd like to see where your assertion is coming from, because this is a concern I have to address with job candidates, and I'd really love to have persuasive evidence that it really is a myth in general, and with my organization in particular.

[1] https://winebrakelaw.com/abuses-of-the-executive-employee-ex...
You can count me in that circle. I have recently, finally, gotten around to listening to her late 70s albums Hejira and Mingus, and plan to continue through her later albums. Genius isn't dictated by marketing and pop radio.
What's the page size on linux. Are executables (even statically linked ones) demand paged? How much of the executable that you don't use is paged in when you don't use it?
They exist. There are military history generalist textbooks on archive.org along with more recent ones. For a more recent one I would recommend the Cambridge History of Warfare. https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-History-Warfare-Geoffrey-Pa...

If you have specific questions about how military units are organized in the modern era, I would really suggest downloading US army manuals on various topics from the era that you want more information about. For example, if you want to learn how US officers were trained to attack a city, download the manual about it, and it talks about what infrastructure to blow up first, how to handle communications, what formations to use, and so on and so forth. It's a lot more direct than reading a conventional history of a war. You can get answers to questions like "how did soldiers learn to move with stealth during the Vietnam war" by reading the manual more efficiently than you can from general histories.

I really recommend reading military material and not trying to glean things from games or fiction. The latter lean heavily on rule of cool versus rule of not dying and killing the other guy more effectively.
I wouldn't know, but I can speculate that it surely should be a concern -- goats are strong, one wouldn't want to get kicked, rammed or bitten by a goat, especially with one's pants down.
I'm not talking about traffic I'm just talking about expectations as far as software capabilities.
You've made essentially the same comment in three separate places in this thread. This kind of passive-voice imputation is neither productive nor intellectually honest. _Who_ has been "spending the last few years..."? Is it the same people who are now "outraged over a single schoolboard..."? Can you show that?

I suspect you can't, and that you're suggesting it only because it fits your ideological biases.
Fuchsia could very well become a universal OS (mobile, desktop, tv, wearables). Not sure what are Google's intentions though. Maybe they will end up killing it as they typically do.
I do this every day in Elixir and it’s never been a problem. You get used to it
> Would you also take the cost of their labor?

Google takes a 30% cut on the Play Store, it's their problem to police it properly.
I like this trend of conservatives discovering the concept of monopoly and advocating anti-trust.

Of course I assume this will only apply to narrow issues such as right wingers being deplatformed. For any other issue they'll go back to a maximalist interpretation of corporate property rights.
What happens if you have a peer that clocks 14 hours per day and work weekends too, for some reason? At our place they started comparing everyone to him. I work like at half his total speed. He often break things or have to redo things or are late to standup and don't really partake in conversations. We've all asked him to slow down and not burn out but he keeps going.
Your statement does not contradict parent.
Just checked my site[0] and got 247kb[1] Uncompressed and 136kb compressed, the only improvements I can see is reduce image sizes and remove third party JS code, mostly injected by Cloudflare.

[0] https://golang.cafe

[1] https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/7PvRciZS/

edit: 215kb after removing unnecessary js third-parties (instant.page and CF rocket loader) https://gtmetrix.com/reports/golang.cafe/Xey7C7LM/

ps: also the site is not a static site, it connects to postgresql and serves 2,000 requests daily on avg
Related: https://xkcd.com/865/
Jira is overloaded, a bit slow and a bit glitchy. But lots of software is. I tend to think that people mostly hate Jira because it reminds them of their dysfunctional processes and work in general.

Personally, from my work experience, I despise Visual Studio and Outlook a lot more (Jira is clearly trying to be usable compared to these).
I like Rust a lot but this is a big frustration with it. I have a hard time seriously imagining Rust taking off in game development when debug code is so bad, at least without some style guidelines that avoid the worst problems with it.

I'm glad Zig is providing some competition here that's more in line with what one would expect from C.
As far as I know (and I have quite a few apps on google play) the list is compiled from the apk itself. On android you need to specify all permissions in the manifest (a file in the app that describes what the app requires). If you don't and try to use it, the device rejects it. The play store description is a "human version" of the list. Some permissions are grouped and other ignored.

The app from the post had a list of permissions declared in the manifest, and on first look it seem to match what play store shows.

In any case: no, you can't leave out permissions and use them later. If you don't declare them, you can't use them. (At least not by normal means, it is possible with adb and root, and also by installing extra apps).
When (not if) we decide to part ways, how will we do that?

Best advice I ever got was from our lawyer during the formation of our C-corp when we outgrew our partnership: "It's important to decide how you will split up now, while you are still friends, because when the time comes to split up, you may not agree." So true.

While I give him credit for this advice, lawyers in general are overpaid and not usually very reliable in my experience. This same lawyer gave us our corporate papers printed with some other company's details, including their bank account information.

Don't put too much trust in a lawyer unless you have a lot of experience with them to back up that trust.
The author's analysis is so entirely subjective as to what constitutes "work" as to be meaningless. I certainly believe that most creative workers cannot spend 8 hours a day being creatively productive, although even there the variation is enormous. I used to observe a factor of 5 or more difference in productivity between the most productive and least productive of my engineering team, and a lot of that was due to the ability of some to stay focused and fully absorbed in creation for hour after hour, whereas the average engineer simply stopped producing much after a couple of hours. Interestingly, a lot of this was attention span limited. Take the person who was good for 2 hours of productive coding on a product, and give them two significantly separate areas of responsibility, and their productivity would close to double, as they could pull off a mid-day switch and be fully energized for a second shift at the creative keyboard.

But just because you're not doing the highest value / highest drain portion of your job constantly, doesn't mean you're not working. Good managers know to balance workload and expectations.

And as others have noted, this varies enormously from one profession to the next. The nurses in the hospital where I worked as CTO worked 12 hour shifts, and nobody in their right mind would make the argument that they weren't working the entire time. Most worked three 12 hours shifts per week, so they had a short work week, but the doctors they worked with routinely worked 12 hrs/day, often 5 days per week, and then spent part of their 2 "off" days working as well. My daughter-in-law, who teaches elementary school, has no "own time" between 8:00 AM and 4:00PM, other than a half hour break when her students are at lunch, and then works a couple of hours most evenings in addition. It's a rare week during the school year when she doesn't have 45 hours per week in which she is completely "owned" be the job - which is to say, working.
Each hour put in as a manager is many times the return of you as an IC (for better or worse). As technical work is an endless pit of time, it’s very difficult to be a hands on manager that’s effective.
It's really hard to say Ramanujan was a genius "without formal training." He didn't have the formal training of an English mathematician at Cambridge, but he had access to tutor and some material. He absolutely obsessed over what were essentially mathematical reference manuals for years in a way that was probably central to his extreme skill in symbol manipulation. It was a form of training that almost nobody would voluntarily expose themselves to.
The post I replied to, which has disappeared in the meantime. The ghacks link.
That's exactly what the article says. It's a chronicle of the authors experience with the government demand that he, a man of mixed race, classify himself into rigid racial boxes, and how those boxes don't actually exist in reality.