skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's not so much about improving the efficiency of the team, but rather removing things that reduce the efficiency of the team, of which there are many.

For me it's Scrum. Every two weeks we have a full-day meeting with the entire team. In addition, every Thursday and Friday we have a meeting mid-morning of "analysis" (whole team) which means I can't get anything significant done beforehand, nor afterwards in the morning. That only leaves the afternoon, and I'm sort of a morning person, so most Thurs/Fri afternoons I don't get anything done either. I do want to get a lot done, but the company gets in my way, so what am I to do, I have to accept it.
Apple M1 Ultra Chip Is Nearly 3 Times Bigger Than AMD’s Ryzen CPUs
How to get lost in your neighborhood
I don't normally defer to Wikipedia, but on this topic the Wikipedia entry is far more informatative and less slanted towards trying to make them about 'narrative stories':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
https://archive.is/Wmcy2
The Russian Army Is Running Out Of Trucks For Its War In Ukraine
> Zillow eliminates the notion of showings as an event

Showings aren't an event unless the seller (perhaps through their agent) decides they should be.

> They plug in a smart lock and (at least to my understanding) you can tour the minute the listing goes up.

A lockbox with a key that buyers agents can get access to has been routine for sales of homes where the seller doesn't actively choose to limit showing for a long time; changing the technology doesn't fundamentally change anything. If access is made directly to buyers that would be a slight change in accessibility (also an increase in risk for the seller), but not, in practice, a huge difference.
Berlin Brandenburg is the poster child for why.
I would probably hack the camera system first...
I strongly feel the opposite. The difficulty is what makes you spend time with the game, and truly appreciate each bit of progress you make. Without the suffering, you can't truly appreciate what you find around the next corner.
You have a previous comment on another post about roles above $250k being about politics; I am not sure a FAANG would solve that problem for you.

I wouldn't worry about products per se. I've found that the way to get things done at that level is basically through EQ and influencing people. You have to sell your idea as if it was there idea. You want them to take ownership of it. The way you do that is help other people solve their problems.

In terms of work, you may be more effective hiring more people to work for you and reduce the extra workload that way. Also if you can say no or push back asking for prioritization.

Also you are not who you were 15 years ago and presumably the job you want has different interview criteria. Since you have papers in IEE and ACM conferences etc.. I think one option is to reach out to LeCun, Hassabis, or Hinton directly. Maybe start with a collaboration. You are at another level but don't expect the front door through recruiters or a job posting to be the best path in.
Thank you. I live in two places; if Tailscale "just works" I could use it. I came to the comments figuring if there was actually a better product people would say so here.
Can somebody with knowledge in biology and/or physics take a look at (one of) his book and comment if it's decent as in if the science is solid? I browsed https://www.motionmountain.net/motionmountain-volume5.pdf and I'm intrigued (there are no reviews in Amazon).
I suspect the colors were manipulated though. Some of the zinc crystals appear to be reflecting a cyan light placed somewhere else in the room, but look at the one cyan reflection under the guy’s thumb.
Press the buttons along the right hand side from top to bottom in sequence. It usually works. Only failed me once at a station who was clearly intent on wild amenities and overkill experience.
Kurt Vonnegut probably had the biggest impact on me. Mother Night and Timequake in particular. Two quotes I use all the time:

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

And

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
I'm very confident that the amount of greed and corruption in New York in 1905 was greater than or equal to the modern amount. See: Tammany Hall.
Well, now you know why the original C64 was (lovingly) called "the breadbox" in Germany. Later "all-in-one" computers (C128, Amiga 500, Atari ST) were better, but the keyboard was still higher than we're used to today...
I thought electric had better torque, ie acceleration...?
I was quite literally trying to install OpenBSD on my M1 air yesterday. How about that?
Most of the pumps I've interacted with have blank buttons near the display. In my region, the mute button is second down from the top right. Mash the unlabeled buttons though, and you'll probably find mute.
Based on the the contrast of your text to the background this kind of factual comment is not popular here lol.

I think stop global warming at all costs segment here as well as society as a whole would be better served by getting behind initiatives that promote anti pollution ie getting rid of coal and burning oil to produce grid energy. Solar is good too. Put your energy into promoting that and other solutions such as planting more trees instead of planting yourselves in front of a badly needed oil pipeline. I and a large segment of the population might support those efforts more if they were more centrist and weren’t so hostile to society. Focus on the common sense stuff.
If you want to try it, don’t use the original power supply. They have a common failure where a voltage regulator will fail and feed high voltage on what should be a five volt line. Buy a recently made replacement power supply - there are tons of them.

There are common failure points on most Commodore 64s. PLA chips and memory chips are common and good news is there are modern replacements! 6526 and VIC-II chips are a little less common failures that don’t have modern replacements. They probably would if not for the recent chip shortage that killed some promising FPGA projects.

I got my first Commodore 64 in 1982 and my first modem (300 bps Mitey Mo) in 1985. In the past year I’ve gotten into component level repair of Commodore 64s in general but I’ll be tackling a non-working 1541 drive and a non-working 1702 monitor next. The Commodore 64 motherboard is actually pretty easy to repair using a Dead Test cartridge.

Fire it up! SD2IEC, pi1541 and Ultimate II+ are good 1541 drive replacements to use with a real Commodore 64 in ascending order of quality/price.
The motto of America's utility-monster-coddling public policy is, "The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many."
What if they agree? A bit of incremental life insurance is unlikely to cost them more than a few 10s of dollars per month unless you are elderly. No, the discussion about remote work should be centered around the pointless commute, not COVID.

I don't think there is anything else more illogical in modern society than waking up in building A, hopping in a car and fighting traffic for an hour to get to building B just to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours (perhaps with a few minimally productive meetings here and there), then commute back to building A 8 hours later.

Building B sits empty for 16 hours a day while Building A sits empty for 10 with both being heated/cooled for 24 hours. The employee wastes 2 of their 16 available waking hours in the non-productive commute while incurring significant financial costs (lease/insurance/fuel/energy) in order to support this patently absurd activity. Similarly the employer wastes time and energy negotiating leases, re-arranging offices, purchasing AV equipment for meeting rooms in building B in addition to paying the likely enormously expensive lease itself.

The impacts on the environment, the number of hours of human life wasted in commute, the pointless buildings and associated costs to employers as well as the public infrastructure to support it (roads, trains, busses, etc.). Surely, all of this could only be justified if physical presence had a dramatic impact on productivity. Yet, we cannot tell one way or the other if it actually improves outcomes. Let's face it, it's dumb.
I doubt this is true, as much for many people, they're not willing to invest the time to overcome the challenge. Which is fine, but they're not the target audience, and that's also ok.
Are you sure? It sounds like you're applying a pet/fad theory to somewhere where it's not super-applicable.

Some of the biggest advocates for inefficiency in construction (at least here in Australia) have been Union members getting cushy jobs for their mates.
Other people have already gave many examples, but they can all be summarised as "shorten the feedback loop".

CI/CD shortens how long it takes to see your code running in a production-like environment.

A good type system and a good test suite help catch bugs before the program is actually run.

Short compile times (or an interpreter), hot code reloading, a good debugger, all help to see the impact of your changes faster. Even autocompletion or an efficient editor like Vim relate to getting your code done and running faster.

It all comes down to fast feedback. Reducing friction is also nice, e.g. PHP is really easy to get started, but not as important as the fast feedback IMO.
What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About Right-Wing Logic
Beaverton, Hillsboro and Washington County meanwhile are busy widening roads like always.
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

https://github.com/madd86/awesome-system-design

https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/this-is-my-architecture/
Have you considered starting a company? It's a bad financial choice in the short-term but it gives you significant flexibility and potential to get to a high salary within a few years whether you succeed or not (since you'll then have industry experience you can pivot from into big tech). Your background would be an easy fit for getting funding IMO.

Happy to talk more about it if you're interested and introduce you to some circles that might help, phil@multiprocess.io.
Ask HN: Can Xbox Series X System Clock Time Drift Cause Games to Run 5% Slower?
I have two XSX and one of them runs consistently slower by 5% in a game because the system clock timing is off. I don’t know if the cause is the crystal oscillator or CMOS battery. I searched for hours and did not find anyone with this problem. Is this a widespread XSX issue no one noticed?

There is an easy way to test if your Xbox is affected. Please, share your results by going to TestUFO.com using the Edge browser and let us know what your FPS and Hz are.

My normal XSX shows 60 FPS and 60Hz. My slower XSX shows 63 FPS and 63Hz. This is consistent with a slow clock. The function to calculate FPS will count more frames if time runs slower.

My system clock time will drift by 2 minutes in 40 minutes. I restarted both and the system clock synchronized over the internet to 10:00 AM. Twenty minutes later one was 10:20 and the slower 10:19. Twenty three minutes later one was 10:43 and the slower 10:40.

King of Fighters XV, a new fighting game, has a training mode that shows how many frames you hold a direction or button. The game counts fewer frames on the slow XSX if I hold and release a button down at the same time on both XSX. For example, the normal XSX shows I held a button down for 100 frames and the slow XSX shows 94 frames.

Character idle animation and menu transitions run noticeably slower. If I reset a character on both XSX, the idle animation on the slow XSX will drift behind the normal XSX.

The normal XSX has a serial number lower than the slow XSX. Do newer XSX have this issue?
One of the recommended lectures on a logic class I had at my school, which was run by missionary nuns from Minnessota (and the teacher himself was catholic), was Carl Sagan's The demon-haunted world. It turned me into an atheist.
Which would be fine, if the story was:

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090 when running x86 games under emulation

But it's not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Antarctica
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

And not a book, but a documentary – The War by Ken Burns.
I wrote software for an environmental consulting firm. It is the dark side of construction and permitting in the US. Basically, people that worked in government permitting would leave their job after 10 years in the public service then work for us in the private sector. Let's say you wanted to build a mall. You would need us to come in analyze the land check for vernal pools, cultural artifacts, rare species of salamanders... the list is 20 pages long. We would then run software (me!) to find places which you could pay to protect (the pay off)- in order to get a permit for plowing over that area. Our firm would spend months analyzing a rock to ensure it wasn't an arrow head or watch if bats would bread in your area. "Why can’t America build quickly anymore?" I would say permitting is a large portion of the answer. If you wanted to build without knowing this system or you fought it - your application would sit in some bureaucratic office for years.

Somewhat off topic: https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1376644161172987905?lan... bill maher wanting to build a shed in CA. Hilarious.
"Yes, yes, repression, anti-gay prejudice, I know all right-thinking people are supposed to be horrified by such things – but...” -Erik S Raymond

You owe me $100. Please PayPal it expeditiously to don@donhopkins.com.

And if that 10-year-old hateful ESR quote I already provided you with isn't enough for your upwardly mobile goalposts, then here are a couple more recent, even more explicitly vile, hateful, racist, and demeaning ESR quotes. And there are lots more where those came from.

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

“Unfortunately, this doesn’t cover the BLM crowd, which would have an average IQ of about 85 if it’s statically representative of American blacks as a whole. I’ve never tried to train anyone that dim and wouldn’t want to.” -Erik S Raymond

https://quotepark.com/quotes/1914270-eric-s-raymond-in-the-u...

"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color." -Eric S Raymond

Did you really mean to carry Eric S Raymond's water so enthusiastically with such aplomb? You're the one who foolishly decided to publicly bet your own money that he couldn't keep his hateful racist mouth shut, and you spectacularly lost that bet, so please pay up.

Thomas Ptacek raised over $30,000 for charity from people who wanted him to stop posting vile ESR quotes to twitter, so consider yourself getting off dirt cheap for only $100 to make me stop posting ESR's own words, after you asked for it.
I think https://www.crusoeenergy.com/ is by far the largest participant in this space with a view on using crypto mining as entry point but layering in distributed compute data centers as scale play

It’s an interesting idea to bring the utility directly to the energy and think about the infrastructure required (uplink / maintenance / etc) required to fulfill the vision
Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – Live data in your documents, without code
Hi HN, I’m Arsalan, founder of Livedocs (https://livedocs.com). Livedocs is a no-code analytics tool that lets you build simple reports with live data from tools like Segment, Stripe, and Google Analytics, without writing code. Here’s a video of how it works: https://cln.sh/6NKYiG.

Working on early stage teams in the past, I got tired of tracking and reporting even simple metrics. My team would resort to either esoteric hacks, VBA scripts, or simply nagging data guys for metrics—even simple ones. Tracking metrics from multiple tools is a pain in the neck.

That’s when I realized most teams rely heavily on software that already offer some sort of embedded analytics on their dashboards. All they needed was a way to compose data from these dashboards into a single place.

Livedocs lets non-technical users track common metrics like retention, MRR, etc by connecting directly to tools via OAuth. IMO, until teams or projects hit a certain size or success, writing SQL queries or hopping between different dashboards to track simple metrics is overkill. So we let these users build live reports and documents using pre-built blocks that connect to their tools directly.

For example, solopreneurs, super-early stage startups, and small businesses use us to keep track of metrics like MRR, churn, web traffic, and product analytics like retention, activation, etc., from Stripe, Google Analytics, and Segment. See here for what that looks like: https://livedocs.com/doc/1e2e4001-ed5a-44ad-8d13-806deafdde9....

To pick another example: side projects! I have so many side projects, each with their own Google Analytics, Stripe, and sometimes Twitter account that I lose track of how each is performing. Now I just set up a quick report on Livedocs for each—like this: https://livedocs.com/doc/46a38473-e525-4482-aa46-4da4a77cf18....

We call these “live documents” because they are like a document with live variables, graphs, etc. The closest comparison would be a dashboard, but way more flexible—e.g. as editable as a document.

I also wanted these documents to be easy to replicate for other projects and quick sharing, so I built a templates feature into Livedocs. Commonly used templates are listed here: https://livedocs.com/templates. You can easily clone one and connect it to your own data sources to get started, so please feel free to try it out.

We charge $30/month and offer a free 14 day trial (without a card).

I’m keen to hear your feedback!
Uh, .NET is free open-source software. Have a look at this 1500-line package-lock.json: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/mono/wasm/ru...

And even if you ignore that: what about the browser you use to install it? The library you use to decompress the file? The library you use to checksum it? The dependencies you install when you write code in .NET (which is the entire problem here and is literally no different whatsoever in .NET, aside perhaps from differences in the size of their standard libraries)?

I'm sorry, you're right to say that this is wrong and that the ease of installing malware is terrifying (and not nearly enough acknowledged), but there's no lazy magic bullet that will save you. Welcome to combinatorial explosion!
20-30 minutes on a bike and I'm out in the sticks, a bit further and there are forests and lakes aplenty. Higher-density living means less sprawl and a shorter distance from city centre to back of beyond.
> a thousand bucks of free gas?

You could set up payments via anonymous cryptocurrency.

From article: “At the time of the study, Kaspersky said around 29% of gas stations in India, and 27% in the US were connected to the Internet.”.

That had the potential for a lot more than $1000 before getting fixed, although you would want your opsec to be pretty good.
Please don’t make me use Databricks notebooks
I've used it, it was actually so good I donated money to the author.

One of the best build systems I've ever used. The author replied to my question within a day on the Discord.

It's an underrated build system. Easiest thing, and has support for just about every language under the sun baked in, even obscure ones.

One of my favorite features particular to C++ is that you can configure dependencies to use local libraries, vcpkg, or Conan specifically.

Before anyone knocks it, highly suggest giving it a try on your next personal project.
One technical failure that definitely happened:

Selecting desktop processors over mobile processors as strategy. Basically a double-down on what had always worked rather than paying attention to the signs of the market.

We've all heard the story of Steve Jobs asking for a mobile processors for the iPhone and being shutdown by Intel management. I knew a number of Intel engineers and managers who were pushing the mobile path in 2009-2011 even after the iPhone showed that mobile was the money maker. When push came to shove, those Intel engineers got shutdown hard and most of them left Intel. When the evidence in your face is ignored and all you hear is "stupidity" - the non-masochists get out!

I used to work for Intel so seeing it collapse like this roll out as a slow-motion tragedy has been sad. But that's also been true (for many of the same stupid management/strategy reasons) of Hewlett-Packard for whom I worked for 10 years when Bill and Dave were still alive. Leadership matters. Probably more than anything else, even technology know-how.
Basic Economics from Thomas Sowell.

It show me there is another world if you go outside socialism and that socialism has a lot of bad consequence that are never talked about
Fish is so great! I'm a user for 7 years. The autocomplete suggestions are so helpful!

However, since using Github Copilot I'm expecting a bit smarter suggestions. I wonder if anyone has tried putting a GPT-3 like engine behind command line autocomplete suggestions. Or maybe the Copilot team offer a sort of API for this.
A classic: How to Win Friends & Influence People - D Carnegie
1. Continuous delivery.

2. Git, mercurial, bazaar. Dvcs.

3. Code formatters, static analysis

4. Cloud services. No talking to sales to get another server.
That's a bound not an expectation.
That's right, it's a highly opinionated approach to building software, which comes with a host of benefits.

Including my favourite; a complete untangling of your development and production environments. With Polylith you always develop your system as a monolith (because that's the most effective way to build software), but you're able to deploy it as multiple services (because that's sometimes the most effective way to run software). It turns out that separating deployment complexity from development complexity is a game-changer, and something that I haven't come across from other architectures.

It's true that you don't reap all the benefits of Polylith until your entire codebase uses the same structure, which feels a bit like "all or nothing". However, many of the benefits are unlocked "as you go", so even converting one or two existing microservices to Polylith will feel like a nicer codebase to work with.

> so I shall simply wish you good luck with that part

Thanks!
A bit poetic, but suddenly the universe feels a bit more approachable, more within reach, a bit more sane. As if, through JWST, you can extend your hand and touch and feel and socialize with neighboring galaxies. Truly a window to our galactic neighbors.
Sure, makes sense. But then again, you seem to be as little of a sports fan as I am: If I were to got to NYC, I'd try to take in as much as possible of all of those things... and perhaps some kind of sportsball game while I'm at it. (Never having seen any baseball, I suspect I might try to fit that in, to see what all the hoopla is about.)

But I know people who plan trips abroad, for instance from Helsinki (Finland) to Liverpool and Manchester (UK) etc, mainly to see football. Sure, going that far they do other stuff to -- visit team museums, for instance:-) -- but the matches are the backbone the rest of the journey is scheduled around. Maybe there aren't all that much fewer of that kind of people than there are fanatic foodies? I really don't know. But yeah, of course both categories are a drop in the ocean compared to ordinary tourists.
I spent about 12 hours per day on my Commodore 64 and not far off of that on computers today in the software engineering field for several decades.

I pay zero attention to ergonomics and have zero problems.

Many years ago I was referred on HN to this page and it totally changed my outlook on ergonomics:

http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/mb_what_is.html