skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good piece. There are plenty of other good ones.

Re: Monopolies & Cartels. People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

"Mercantilism" is often rendered mostly as "preference for export.." left at that. That's one chapter out of many. If you look at some other chapters describing Mercantilism or "the commercial system," they sometimes seem to be describing modern (post 1980s) western conservatives. (1) Mercs obsess about "trade imbalances" (2) Merc obsess about "gold stock" in domestic circulation^ (3) Merc's trade deals fleece their own home countries... there are a surprising similarities between Smith's complaints about the incumbent Mercantilists and modern complaints against post 1980s conservative economics.

^Roughly equivalent to modern conservative obsession with public debt
I was you once, amazed at how badly the VCs had let me pull one over on them, and sure I'd stop if it became a bad deal.

That was probably tens of thousands in spend on overpriced delivery meals making them huge profits off the initial "investment" they made in this customer

Of course the promos dried up and the pricing became awful not too long into the process.
If this is anything like the “trucker shortage” in the USA, it’s not just because of the demand, but also because the jobs suck and are underpaid relative to the amount of skill/commitment required to be good at it.

And yet, executives always complain only of the demand? Are they unable to see the truth or are they simply unwilling?
I think a better way to think about it is in separating API and implementation or wire format and semantics.

In terms of the wire-format and the low-level concepts, HTTP2 and 3 are completely different from HTTP1.x. it's not an extension like HTTP1.1 was, it's a complete reinvention.

However, what they did was to reuse the high-level semantics and the "API" of HTTP1, so as a web developer you can pretty much pretend you're still using HTTP1 and let the browser and web server do the rest. This makes transition significantly easier.

I could imagine something similar with K9s. Maybe some other product will come along that supports (a subset of) the k9s API but does something different under the hood. I believe, k9s itself did so with Docker: You can still define k9s images using Dockerfiles, even though no piece of Docker is actually involved in the process.
> Password managers rely on a cool technique called “Zero-Knowledge Proof"

In case anyone gets confused, this is not true.
Your link doesn't work for me; I get redirected to a "Choose your Country" page, perhaps because I'm in the USA. (FYI...)
Literally a power play, pun intended?
That's an awful example being such an exceptional case, so maybe you should elaborate.
From Wikipedia:

“ The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith.[1][2][3] It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776), Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795), and Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763) (first published in 1896).”
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This happened when Mexico and US stopped being on the same DST schedule - San Diego and Tijuana now have a time difference part of the year.
Where i live in the Midwest everyone has gas installed for the furnace and then the builder asks if they want a gas or electric stove. If you ask you can get a heat pump instead of just air conditioning, but it is extra cost and you still need gas heat for the really cold days we get every winter.
> and have been for almost a year now

Correct!

> are not related to Russia at all.

Wrong!

The price increase has EVERYTHING to do with Russia... because the conflict has been ongoing for much longer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30522164

Those trading energy knew of the energy related tensions between Russia and the west and hence were bidding high prices for these commidities in the futures markets.
CU and Bank both have shareholders.

The shareholders of a credit union are by law/definition its customers/depositors.

The shareholders of a bank can be anyone.
But please wear our t-shirts.
Saying that "few developers care much about Linux" is like saying "few people care about breathing".
Dude, it's everywhere and you can't do anything without Linux nowadays (not even game development anymore, because it is more popular on the Desktop).
Can’t afford or won’t afford. There’s a (big) difference.
Yes, it means that i'll be diffraction-limited, even if the lens is F/1.0. It'll be diffraction-limited for red light around F/0.9. It's possible to make lenses that open, but hard. That's why camera phone lenses are so funky.
Another option to address the same basic issue is to fix estate taxes, which might be an easier fix. (Among other things, change the cost basis for the estate taxes to be the price when the asset was originally acquired, not the price when it was transferred to the inheritor.) Either way, I agree that it's critical to close the routes to avoiding taxes.
Good points .. however, my advice for the cash strapped students on HN: Buying 1 good machine will last you 4+ years easily these days. Buying a system like Alienware with a 3070-3080 was under 2K Canadian over the recent Black Friday shopping event. Over 4 years, that is $500. If you are studying CS, it is absolutely worth buying a decent machine. You don't need a top of the line machine but you need to be able to study your craft on something more powerful than a rasperry pi or junky old machine.

I was quite poor growing up, and I recall buying a 3K machine when I started undergrad (that was crap hardware by today's standard). And i have no doubt that having this machine helped me get my first job, and things got better from then. If you are in CS, think of it as an investment, and make it pay off!

Btw, I am trying to be positive .. pls don't construe anything here as negative. I appreciate that money is tight for a lot of folks. Paying 10% interest to buy a 3K machine is not a good idea!! I just skimped a lot as a student, and some of it was quite pointless. I wish someone explained this to me, and hence my comment.

If you are in a situation where you'd have to take a loan to buy a system, pls don't feel like you need a GPU to do anything useful. I am certain one can make do with just colab and a web browser. Good luck to all the students out there!! Life is hard at that stage .. it gets far easier once you have a paying job in the field.
Why did you start this project?
WoN is a good read, though I hope you like reading a lot about how the price of Scottish wool changed year-on-year
TP-Link routers apparently sending customer data to Avira without user consent
I think the problem is magnified by the status of teaching as a profession.
Teachers compensation and work conditions are less than ideal. People that would be great teachers leave for other fields with better conditions. This will attract people who are good playing by the rules even if they are bad at teaching.

Very few people care about students time usage and future as long as they follow those processes.

It's crazy how little value we see in kids and teenagers time usage and filling it with dumb tasks is the standard.
Another quick note: you would probably be surprised by how scientific marketing is. In one point you claim they’ve (MBAs) never been exposed to the scientific method (I would dispute) and then in your second you claim they’re researching and optimizing, which is quite true. How do you think they do that? My marketing team is consistently collecting and measuring data to test effectiveness of campaigns (hypotheses). I’m definitely not defending this article with that point - and it doesn’t make any of them experts on any particular fields within science other than data science. But they’re very much using the scientific method so I found your point to be ironic. Marketing departments now employ data scientists with PhDs and MBAs (my sister is one). So you can dislike their work product but hard to say it isn’t scientific.
Semi-serious question: At what speed does time propagate away from UTC? Do systems take into account relativistic effects when synchronizing across the earth, given that “Now” does not propagate instantaneously?
So I agree with some of your points: I.e. I think people would generally agree the user experience of Uber is an improvement over taxis even if the labour conditions are a regression.

The problem I see is that even the potential for disruption is consolidated in fewer and fewer hands. With IP law the way it is, Google and Apple acting as gatekeepers to mobile ecosystems, Amazon owning e-commerce and squeezing or competing with vendors who depend on it - the world is increasingly becoming a place where a project has to be blessed by one of a handful of giant corporations to be allowed to exist.

And it’s making things worse for consumers. For instance Disney buying up entertainment properties and putting them behind a walled garden, or MS doing the same with game studios.

Silicon valley made its name as a place where a couple people in a garage could invent something to change the world. It’s debatable whether it’s even worth trying anymore, since it’s such an uphill battle to compete with the giants. If you ask me that’s a problem and we should seriously think about the way IP law is handled.
Surely not until they’ve spoken the contents of their ads first.
There is one billionaire I can think of who is "building a survival bolthole" in NZ, and that's Peter Thiel. Who is eccentric even as far as billionaires go, and who doesn't really have a "survival bolthole" there, just a normal extravagant mansion.
Why start with vision? Do some language models. I used to train those all the time on my laptop.

GPT 5MB for the win. It really works.
And mental well-being probably as well :) I tried the opposite approach too many times and it only led to misery and feeling of wasted time. So on board with this.
AMD issues fix for Spectre v2
Sell it? There will never be a better time to get rid of garbage GPUs at unreasonable prices. Dump it on Ebay, pop the popcorn, and watch the desperate bidders roll in!
It is true that you can’t blister peppers on induction and you can’t get wok he, but you already basically can’t get that on an indoor stovetop. The actual proposed benefits of gas are so marginal that they do not affect a home cook.
Right. It's crazy that we welded civil time to UT1 rather than TAI. TAI is ours, we made it, here on this rock we're all stuck on. Because time is necessarily relative to your position that's the best we could hope for.

The astronomers are welcome to UT1, it's useful for them and I have no problem with that, but it's crazy to keep tweaking UTC to match UT1 rather than just letting it plod along mechanically forever with TAI. Abolish leap seconds.
> Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy in the past 600+ years, otherwise it's always been an autocracy.

To pin this on the Russian people is ludicrous. I think Russia has been consistently dealt a bad hand when it comes to leadership. And interference from the "west" has also been a negative influence in modern times. Consider Lenin[1] and western economic advice that led to the looting of the Russian state after the fall of communism[2].

[1] https://m.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution-o...

[2] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-piratization-ru...
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The binary standard is defined in the gABI. They are independent.

I want to fix something in it, so I need to fix C++, C, and the gABI. Three separate processes, each needing about 3 years, though C and C++ are aligned now.
For starters, hokkien is only a majority dialect in Penang... In KL its Cantonese or Hakka, for example. Much like (British) English, if there was going to be formal education in a Chinese dialect it was going to be Mandarin in line with what both the ROC and PRC did, since the whole point is to eventually enable everyone of Chinese ethnicity to communicate in a common tongue ( that isn't English...)

And in those days of the early 20th century when the foundations of formal education were laid if one was an educated person it would have been either in Mandarin or English (that said HK Cantonese is/was a huge pop culture influence but I don't think it ever was in an pan-sino educationist sense)
The analogy in my case is it's like cooking someone else's favorite food. I do get some joy from them getting their dream thing. But in too many situations, a lot of founders don't even have a dream, they're just in it for the money.
Why Kubernetes is important for the future of data platforms
Thanks. The introduction left me confused what the intent of the article actually is.
Microsoft's current policy of not adding new symbols to an existing CRT DLL is justified IMO. Any possible way of messing up a Windows machine will happen on some poor user's machine somewhere, including downgrading libraries. So if Microsoft is able to make their systems more robust in the face of misguided users (edit: and misguided third-party developers), that's good.
Envoy was originally written by Matt Klein @ Lyft, and the IP is owned by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Here's the initial video where Matt Klein introduces Envoy: https://www.microservices.com/talks/lyfts-envoy-monolith-ser....

If you want to buy commercial support for Envoy & Istio, Tetrate certainly is an option.

(Note: I am/was the CEO at Ambassador Labs, which organized the Microservices Practitioner Summit where this talk occurred.)
> They are also given out for a number of other reasons. For example, when someone is perceived as a flight risk, because it makes their manager look good to promote their team, because someone has been given a lot of responsibility, whether or not they're good at handling it, because it's good for team morale to show that promotion is achievable, or because it can make a headache go away for the manager.

Big tech company is a huge group that has widely different cultures. Based on these reasons you listed, you likely didn't work at a FAANG or similar company (Uber, Doordash, Lyft, Airbnb...etc). The reasons you listed are responsible for 0% of Staff promotions at these companies (except the "given a lot of responsibility they're not good at handing" reason you gave, assuming the person is taking credit for other people).

I agree that all of your reasons are valid for Senior and lower promotions, but these companies take Staff+ to another level by using a completely different promotion process beyond Senior level (even L5B or Senior II at Uber uses the more strict process).

The reason you see the "Jedi-like" trope is because the strict bar set for Staff plus promotions at these companies. To be fair this Jedi trope is created by the perception of other engineers because of the difficulty of achieving these levels and not knowing what it takes to do it. Career advice including this StaffEng book actually lessen the trope because it makes it clear how you can get these roles and removes all the mystique around the unknown.

The root cause for promotions occurring for the reasons you listed are due to promotion decisions being owned by just the manager or only a single chain of command (manger's manager, director..etc). This is how Senior and lower promotions also work at these FAANG+ companies. To get rid of that bias and gaming, all Staff plus promotions go through a promotion committee, and your manager has no power aside from submitting your promo packet to the committee.

No matter how bad the manager or his director of even Senior director wants to keep the employee or look good, they have no say in the promotion decision. There is a calibration process that ranks all engineers submitted to the committee against each other and only approves a small % at the top rank. Someone who got Staff promo this year might not have next year depending on the competition.

None of this is to say that the process is perfect or removes all bias. But the process is very strict and the promo comitte vigorously applies the rubric which is why you see all of this advice to exhibit skills typical on these rubrics.
Well, how do operating systems handle this sort of stuff? With updates. When it's at all possible to update. There are many devices that don't receive any updates at all any more. There are some devices that weren't designed to be updatable to begin with.

It's a necessarily manual process and it creates a lot of confusion either way. And it's sufficiently rare to ignore. And these changes tend to be announced in advance.
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Minor pedantic note: Adam Smith worked at the University of Glasgow for a time, but he was not Glasgwegian, nor is there much likely to be lost in translation from his spoken scots language to the written page and then to the modern reader, certainly not that isn't dwarfed by the distance in time. This isn't Trainspotting we're talking about.
That’s school all the way through bachelors.
The emphasis of school is the deadline and the test score, not the application. Until that is turned around, no one is going to miss a deadline because they spent more time trying to get a deeper understanding of something.

Personal story below:
I failed my first round of Calc II because of trying to get a deeper understanding of something. The professor wrote the theory of limit on the board, talked about it for 1 minute and moved on. I went to the library and tried to teach myself theory of limit to get to the point of saying “ah yeah it’s true because X”. Well, the class moved on past me and I was still stuck in theory of limit, I was never able to catch up. This has been a big big problem for me. I was doing school wrong. My friends were able to just move on without understanding anything as long as they knew the mechanics to solve the test problems. I wanted to LEARN the content. I dropped out.

This was not in the US, my classes were 4h long, no breaks and 200 people in the classroom at a much higher pace. I now go to school in the US and I hold a 4.0 GPA while working full time and I don’t think I’ve felt 1/100 of the stress I felt back then, the difference? Well I just submit what I need to at the deadline and be done. I only want the degree for the resume cred and my job pays for it.

Masters are different though, at least the ones that require research. I see it through helping my girlfriend in MoCell Bio
It probably goes like:

1. repeat in media that there is a shortage of X

2. people conclude that it is a good idea to get an education/training in X

3. there are more people are in X, meaning that wages can drop

4. profit
The huge difference is that in USA most of your taxes goes to the federation while in EU most of your taxes goes to your local authorities while EU gets very little of your money. People are more willing to pay taxes when they know it wont be sent thousands of kilometres away.
I got a Sony "Smart Android TV" last year, and have never connected it to the internet or cable (and therefore never updated firmware or anything), and it works perfectly as a dumb TV.
It wasn't a hit piece though, it was a balanced look at a contentious issue. The author of article did actually interview two transwomen who agreed that what the article describes - lesbians being socially pressured to have sex with males - is indeed a problem.

This is the BBC doing its job admirably, presenting different points of view and perspectives, to educate and inform the reader in as neutral a manner as is possible in journalism.
(OP, please don’t subject yourself to TensorFlow/Keras. The moment Jax became available on TPUs publicly, the moment I stopped using TF. And boy oh boy, “never looked back” is an understatement. I still cringe remembering all the time I spent trying to get tf.function to just please, please work, like a housewife alarmed that neither her partner nor herself are able to actually work.)
People always cite global national trade, but there are even trade barriers, organizations, and economic zones which are provincial/state based, and in some places, even city based!

An example in Canada is a province with differing legislation for, say, farmers, which may aid the farmer in some way. Then said product is essentially more competitive, so another province may restrict trade in some way. An alternate, is where it becomes more difficult for a farmer, thus local pricing is higher.

Lastly, even minimum wage laws, which are provincially controlled, and access to temporary immigrants, which can be eased, makes a difference on the bottom line.

Just look at the cost of living in, say, Utah vs California. May as well be entirely different countries, economically.

These are the same issues with international trade, yet all people seem to discuss is just that. International.

Globization seems to have been a semi-falied policy due to all its baggage, and maybe some manufacturing will return home, so national trade issues may re-express themselves....
Not sure if this is what you mean...

Herb Simon, a collaborator with Newell at CMU, used a "memory palace" to greatly enhance recall.

I sat in on one of his courses once, a grad seminar in Cognitive Processes. He took questions for 20 minutes and then answered them in order for the rest of the lecture. They were very detailed subject matter, well over my head. I've never seen anything like it.

I was studying cog processes as an undergrad and I think I asked my professor about it and they said it was a memory palace technique.
I'm with you! The pictures I always see - which are admittedly beautifully designed - are always giving the books more effort than the human. I'm waiting for some up-and-coming designer to make some similar statement and become famous for "re-centering home design around the people who live there." All the while the rest of us will just stare in awe.

I'm sure there are similar paradigms in most industries (esp. design oriented ones) - I'd be really interested in a book or blog that explored those and talked about why it works out that way.
If you're interested in his thoughts on cities, have a look at his "A City is not a Tree".

https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
Unless you have a telescope with an extremely wide aperture, then no this sensor doesn't help. Pixels that small mean it is diffraction-limited if the telescope has an aperture of F/1.0. That's plausible in the most funky of camera lenses (but expensive), but completely unheard of in telescopes. The widest aperture telescopes are the RASA-type which have an aperture of around F/2.0, and they are expensive enough. They are regarded as fantastic light-sucking monsters, great for dim targets but not for small targets.

Most of the time, the image sensor on a telescope actually slightly over-samples the sharpness of the image that the telescope is able to project. So having smaller pixels won't help.

But to actually answer your question, these small pixels will be worse at low-light applications than larger pixels.
Could the same be said of Washington bureaucracy? After all, we have a tremendous record of foreign policy blunders over the last 25 years or so.
What, if anything, is preventing for-profit platform co-ops from obtaining VC money and chasing a similar growth-to-unicorn curve?

Is it just cultural inertia, i.e. nobody has tried yet?
In the US, at least, the standard is to have outlets every 4' (I think), and have the outlets alternate circuits. So, you plug into two adjacent outlets (not the same two in the same box, but adjacent boxes) and you'll be on different circuits.
So you'd rather push out an update every time for your app to rewrite the times it has stored to match the timezone change, instead of "just" updating the timezone database and the app automatically doing the right thing?

And we've had examples in the past years of this happening with only weeks of notice, so no, it's not something that never happens.