skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, you alone are responsible for all the little pieces of software that are part of your Linux system. People running MacOS have willingly given over to Apple the guarantee that Apple-provided MacOS software is not doing anything nefarious. The assumption being that 1) there are enough people capable of detecting malicious behavior that it will get caught, and 2) Apple has a very strong vested interest in maintaining their cred as a privacy-focused company.

It is certainly a trade off, and everyone will have their own reasoning. There is no objectively correct answer.
Any Google search on this shows your stats are wildly incorrect.
One of my favorite stories in the Bible is when the priests of Baal are challenged to a religion showdown by Elijah. The idea is each side will pray for an altar to be lit on fire, whichever altar is lit on fire is the altar of the true religion. I won't spoil the ending - but I think the setup makes a lot of sense. If there is a guy who can ignite stuff by simply asking that it be lit then I would really like to know more about that guy's religion.

I have the same opinion of academics - show me what you can light on fire. For example, I don't believe in physics because it makes intuitive sense to me, on the contrary, I find it confusing and counter-intuitive (sometimes). I believe in physics because the people who make magic boxes of light and sound that move fast and connect across vast distances tell me they did so via the knowledge they derived from physics. It's not how I would've guessed the universe would work, but who am I to argue with a blazing altar?

Judging by this standard I find many academic disciplines are severely wanting - there is a lot of chanting and waving of hands, but very little smoke. If I hear on the news that there's going to be an eclipse, I'll go out and look. If I hear on the news that eggs are bad for you, I'm going to roll my eyes.
Oof, non-zeroed charts are very deceptive in enlarging differences that might be within the error margins.
> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia.

Perhaps it's not "win or die" for Russia, but it is for Putin.

If you asked the average Russian on the street, they would probably agree that those are separate entities. If you asked Putin, I suspect you'd get a different answer.
Thank you for this! I've always wondered where this code lives because I love reader view and I'd like to use it as a base style for my blog.
I regularly make 5 digit USD transfers with no fees at all.

But that's with fiat, so…

They're also instant (seconds, maybe single digit minutes between banks), but that's because I'm in Europe.
The "irony" mentioned is that it isn't serving any of its myriad purported goals: it isn't a functional store of value and it isn't itself a mechanism of exchange or liquidity. Extralegality is merely a circumstantial property.
Unsupported layers will transparently fall back to CPU execution. You can then choose to implement those who can be as TPC kernels. It's fundamentally much less flexible than a GPU.

Efficiency of Habana hardware isn't that great either, but that's another story... (they're still using TSMC 16nm in 2022 notably). Where Habana has an advantage in some workloads is cost.
Finally some justice for the man but still I think the sentence was a little harsh.
When I was in university I was working on some biology homework and didn't have Excel, but I did have Numbers! I quickly became annoyed with how smart Numbers tried to be with formatting. It knew better than me what data type some cells were and iirc it was impossible to inform it otherwise. I bought Excel after losing an hour or so of my time.
That Silicon Valley is down the road from San Francisco is the simplest explanation. The computer revolution and the psychedelic revolution happened almost concurrently in nearly the same place. N+1 Magazine had a great article called Googlebang, which I cannot find now, describing the phenomenon of the Internet being a radical space filled with pornography, occultism, and drug information because the Internet inherited the culture of Northern California where it was born instead of the rest of the world where it spread.
PikaPods looks like an interesting idea. I invested some time setting up account, and trying to create Baserow pod. I was greeted with "Failure while adding container. Our team has been informed."
Details of how people highlight and act on Covid racial disparities in practice seems like important context for interpreting a scientific article about the potential effects of doing so.
Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Hey, I'm the co-founder of Magma and coded huge chunks of the product. My other co-founder Radek coded the collaborative drawing engine in Typescript with parts in Web Assembly and also using WebGL - that's why it has a native app feel. If you have an iPad or a Wacom tablet we support pressure sensitivity (enable Windows Ink if you have issues).

We prepared 10 drawings that you can join. Beware that there is a 30 users (drawing at once) limit on each. You can easily create your own drawing and share the url with others to join.

https://magm.ai/k36k

https://magm.ai/exp-1

https://magm.ai/exp-2

https://magm.ai/exp-3

https://magm.ai/exp-4

https://magm.ai/exp-5

https://magm.ai/exp-6

https://magm.ai/exp-7

https://magm.ai/exp-8

https://magm.ai/exp-9

How is it good for game dev?:
- Brainstorming on art
- Concept art
- Storyboarding
- Character development

Some trivia:
- There are 16 tools already like paint, select, bucket fill, including advanced tools like custom shapes
- We have multiple brushes to choose from. More in the Pro version. We will let you upload your own in the future.
- You can export to Photoshop and continue working there with some more advanced post-processing
- You can draw with a mouse, touch or stylus (preferred) - iPad, Wacom and other tablet vendors
- We are building a team space called "Artspaces" with project & team management. Currently teams can use an on-premise version of Magma (dockerized).

More technical:
- We are one of the first commercial projects to use Deepkit - a revolutionary high performance Typescript framework https://deepkit.io/framework
- It works on Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari - but Google Chrome is preferred
- We use all the cool web tech like Canvas with WebGL acceleration and a software fallback. Websockets for communication
- 99% is built in Typescript - 1% is Webassembly and C for some optimizations. Node.JS on the backend.

Happy to take questions :)
>What am I missing?

Shifting suppliers on this scale in normal times isn't a quick process. Right now global logistics are still a complete & total mess.

With great uncertainty, $cost becomes somewhat disconnected from supply. Right now futures are up about 40%. Availability won't mean much if it isn't affordable, and countries need to lock in supply because it's not really a JIT distribution system (see previous point on logistics). If the war has disrupted your deliveries 3 months out, you need to lock in new contracts now (if not 3 months ago) to keep supply moving.
Excel is seriously killing humanity. No version control, no debugging, brittle support for automation. Excel, to me, is the single most obvious sign that we must get rid of the giant tech monopolies to re-enable innovation in software.
Or that less qualified people do not apply for Dropbox. It's a % acceptance rate almost - Harvard is good for having a low acceptance rate, not high.
i have siri off and my numbers are 16 and 2.2M (16" intel MBP, 11.4). fwiw, all of my triald's (outgoing) connections are blocked via lulu, but i don't think that makes a difference here.

for folks with siri on and extra bloat, i'd guess they could reduce it some by turning off "Show Siri Suggestions in App" and "Learn from this App" for each app in the "Siri Suggestions & Privacy" section of siri's system prefs (for the apps they don't care about having siri integration).
Rust basics, from the perspective of a high level programmer
Your comment is less a criticism of monetary policy and more a review of the reality of life in a small, weak nation. No monetary decision can change the more fundamental reality of belonging to a small, weak nation. Reality must be confronted as reality. When the nations of Europe decided they wanted to establish a rival to the USA, they realized they could only do it by joining together, which was one of the driving forces that lead to the establishment of the EU. Likewise, Britain can claim that there is a political act that will give it independence from Europe, but fate has decreed that Britain is some islands off the coast of Europe, and no act of Parliament will ever change that. Now, and a thousand years from now, Britain's fate will be more closely tied to the fate of Europe than it will be tied to, say for instance, Malaysia. Reality is reality and cannot be changed by political decrees. A nation's location on the Earth remains, forever, a large part of its fate, which no political decree can change.

The nations of Central America have the same options as were available to the nations of Europe. All of Central America and the northern parts of South America were unified under a single government back in 1820. They decided to break apart into many small, weak nations, due to the selfish interests of the different types of agricultural interests being pursued in each area. But they could borrow ideas from the EU. They could reunify. If the whole region was under a single government, they would have much more room to push back against the dominance of the USA. But by itself, El Salvador is always going to have its life shaped by the USA. There is no monetary policy that will change that.
A Letter to Americans
The smallest and worst HDMI display
Airtable is great, but it's got more of Access than Excel in its genes imho.
There is no logical link between your first and your second statement since it doesn't give us any info on how much it contributes to energy use in Lebanon. The second statement is true though.
I'm an electro-mechanical engineer unfamiliar with small farms. How would you change this type of design to be more modular or adaptable?

https://www.overlandcarts.com/
I think the idolization of business is killing public institutions. Instead of looking at the greater good everything is focused on money and numbers to achieve. This has corrupted politics, research, education and healthcare.
Hypothetically they could be using an account / login process to allow them to filter out measurements from devices that for whatever reason (hardware / environment / etc) to be sending low quality data. Alternatively they could have used device id without having the user setup an account but that actually feels more intrusive.

Not saying that is a reason but it could be one of the non-user visible rationales.

I too would prefer an anonymous option
I'm glad to see this getting roasted in the comments, as it's a really good example of how companies put out self-serving pseudo-statistical nonsense in an effort to promote themselves.

There's no effort to quantify what "technical" or "communication" skills are - these are left to the interpretation of a the interviewer. It makes no effort to show where these engineers are going, what the interview process they're completing looks like, what impact demographics had on this, etc.

I find this stuff repugnant. It perpetuates the myth that there's something really special about Silicon Valley engineers, while making only lazy and perfunctory efforts to examine any alternative explanations than "this is where the rockstar ninja coders work." Shameful.
Only if the math allows for this to happen. I am not convinced that the CAP theorem tradeoffs in cryptocurrency allow this, since consensus is statistical and nature, not based on any communication to determine authority to make changes.

Pausing or revising history requires a central authority that can be listened to. So either that won't happen, or it will happen when someone defects and creates something that uses the tools of cryptocurrency but with a more authoritarian philosophy.
Last time I used it I believe it just crashed when opening a large CSV file.
Why does this need to be in the metaverse? Can't we have 3d excel sheets currently without the need for VR?
Well there are some who believe the Beirut explosion a few years ago was actually orchestrated by a foreign nation as an act of war.
GPT-3: Write an investor pitch deck for Datasette
https://www.colorware.com/categories.aspx?category=130
Just curious if you have been around people who take a lot of MDMA (I don't know what the "abuse" threshold is) or you have yourself.

It does "something" to your cognitive abilities that is not beneficial. I don't know how permanent it is. Probably recoverable in most cases?

Maybe not using 3 time a year (or whatever) but multiple times per week for months on end yes, it makes a person get "funny in the head". I've seen it with more then one person.

I'm not anti drug nor denying therapeutic use (makes sense) but I'm fully convinced from observation MDMA is not risk free or harmless, especially when used to excess. Yes, anecdotal. But just a word of advice for whatever it's worth.
The author confuses successful products with high performing tech and high performing engineers. I’ve met many brilliant indie engineers that build highly performant code that almost no one knows about yet it provides these people with a steady stream of income and they would never work at faang or unicorns.
Ask HN: Best approach for always on TV dashboard
We would like to set up some displays in our office to constantly display some performance dashboards. The dashboards are custom built but accessible via the web.

We'd like to set up about 6 of these devices and want to keep them as low maintenance as possible.

It feels like overkill to setup a laptop for each screen just for this purpose but we weren't sure in 2022 what the best approach from a cost and reliability perspective would be.

Some routes we have considered:

- Use 'Smart TVs' and rely on the built-in browser (can be janky to use)
- Use a Raspberry Pi connected to a monitor (hard to source new Pi's at the moment)
- Use an Amazon Fire Stick (they have an auto-sleep that can't seem to be disabled)
- Use an no-name Raspberry Pi-esque mini USB-C PC (dubious quality)

Do any of those seem like the obvious choice or are we missing something even more straightforward?
Sure.

Well, pages are coarse grained so you'd end up giving the other quasi-process access to more stuff than it should have. And you'd have to flush the TLB so you pay the context switch cost anyway, at which point why bother? The reason operating systems make overlapping mappings is (classically) to enable better memory sharing due to not needing relocations or GOT/PLTs. That's all irrelevant these days due to ASLR (which doesn't even work that well anymore) but that was the idea.

You can do some tricks with using special allocators for the stuff you want to reveal that places the data in SHM segments, then blit the stack across to the other process and it can work. I know this because I built such a system as my undergrad thesis project :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160331135050/plan99.net/~mike/...

It's very ugly though. And again, you need to coordinate memory management. For FastRPC it didn't matter because it was used mostly for holding stuff temporarily whilst you called into a library, so the 'outer' process owned the memory and the 'inner' process just used it temporarily. I never did anything with complex lifetimes.

One way of thinking about it is to study the issues that cause people to write large JVM apps instead of large C apps. It's not any different at the systems level. They want GC that works across all the libraries they use, they want to be able to upgrade the backend compiler without frontend-recompiling everything, they want to be able to upgrade a library or change a memory layout without recompiling the world, and they don't want all the goop that is triggered by allowing libraries to use arbitrary compilers and memory management subsystems. Forcing a unified compiler and GC simplifies the inter-module protocols so drastically, the wins are enormous.
Yes, Excel spreadsheets frequently contain errors that are hard to spot. Sometimes those errors end people’s careers and damage companies. Tools like Quantrix that use multi-dimensional models provide a formula syntax that’s radically less error prone while providing far superior reporting.
Public discords are no better for bad actors. You just need active moderation in both cases
My point is, a home server is not a main computer. I have several Pi's but never used one as my main computer.
If there's a picture of the person on the ID, gender doesn't seem very helpful in verifying identity.
Unsure where you've been for the last year, but there's no laptop that has a better single thread performance or GPU.

Even at twice the power draw and expense, there's nothing quite as good as a macbook at the moment.

However, this requires you to be using ARM and not x86, and it requires you to use MacOS which has _interesting_ performance characteristics for certain workloads.
> It's not "Win or Die" for Russia.

It took the US more that 8 years to retreat from Iraq, and you're asking a poor country to do such thing immediatly?

The genie is out of the bottle, I don't think the west will suddenly drop all sanctions, pretend nothing happened, and resume business even if such never-seen-in-history retreat happens.
I think the end result is the same. Outsiders should be highly skeptical of reporting on topics which take decades of expertise to start to understand.

People seem to feel compelled to form an opinion on every topic, and then think that whatever their take is must be informed.

It is okay to not have an opinion on a topic!

If someone is particularly interested in obtaining an armature understanding of a subject, by all means, they should jump in and form on opinion, but maintaining some humility is essential.
The implication in your blog post doesn't make that clear-

> At interviewing.io, we’ve hosted over 100K technical interviews, split between mock interviews and real ones.
It's a sign of mistrust in their own currency. The easiest way to use crypto is to load a debit card with it and pay in your local currency as needed. Layer 2 networks provided by debit card providers avoid transaction fees and waiting for transactions to clear.
I think it's certainly highlighted the importance of Consistency. Especially for early-stage teams. Most larger world-class organizations end up having mechanisms, processes, or conventions to ensure context travels [somewhat] fluidly across teams, but smaller companies used to "get away" with not thinking about it as much when everyone was in the same office (read: room). There's now a forcing mechanism which means these things need to be thought of sooner.

Metaview started pre-pandemic and was originally non-remote company, so, we were always deliberate about this even when we didn't "need" to. Having now become a remote team, the transition was coincidentally incredibly easy for us because of our PUP expectations.
> given over to Apple the guarantee that Apple-provided MacOS software is not doing anything nefarious

That depends on your definition of nefarious.
> Ukraine is now offering that to Russia

I've not been watching this as closely for the past week or two as I was previously, but I've not seen this. Particularly the "denazification" point seems unlikely to be agreed to by Ukraine.

Do you have a source for this claim?
I agree. There may be no better UX alternative than columnar spreadsheets. Excel shines in scenario analysis when, for example, the data comes from your head. I believe Excel has an opportunity to improve when data comes from external sources like CSV dump from a CRM. I would like to see Excel improve the way it allows you to extract data from other systems which would reduce redundant effort and decrease the likelihood of errors.
Pretty regularly [1], depending on the bank. Every year, there will be several hour-long outages or out right data loss incidents (not all get publicized).

https://www.wcjb.com/2020/08/05/bank-of-america-glitch-accou...

Would you also class going to pay for something and not being able to because the payment network is down as "forgetting your bank balance"? Because those happen even more frequently; the cause being the POS terminal not being able to check your balance, so naievely defaulting it to $0 and giving an error about the network not being available.
we could do that in the 80s when you hacked into the Gibson
There was a LOT of push back in the scientific community regarding the risks of HIV by demographic with a ton of efforts to try to communicate it was a major risk equally for all.

I think this was similar in some ways to claims that things like N95 masks helped more (initially called disinformation by my local health department).

In these cases while there may be laudable larger public health goals, I do worry it impacts credibility a bit?

What is the actual risk of death for a 5 year old for example from covid? Do we have hard numbers? Mental health impacts, obesity, drownings, accidents, family abuse issues / foster care / divorce / single parent households / various mood and behavioral disorders?. I'm kind of curious about where COVID falls in spectrum of childhood risks.
> people put too much effort

> spend a reasonable time like a month

Spending a month on interview training is exactly what I would consider unreasonable effort.

Here's a scenario – I have worked at big tech company A for a decade writing backend code. Big tech company B has many openings for senior backend coders, and is desperate to fill them. B's recruiters are hounding me every day to consider a switch. The job looks interesting, and the salary and benefits are great.

Should be a perfect fit, you say? Except if I interview with B today I'll get rejected at the very first coding stage. The barrier to entry they have created for themselves is me taking time away from my current job to solve programming puzzles, solving them perfectly in an interview setting, then throwing away all of that knowledge. They are never going to make me go through this effort unless I am truly unhappy at my current role.

This is the exact reason companies are finding it so hard to hire engineers, and why they have to pay them so much to switch.
I feel like the whole programmer community is literally running out of things to try. And this is the result.

And somehow I find it really intriguing.

Next PaaS prediction: hosted Postgres with PL/v8, pgpodman, pg_graphql and PostgREST. Run everything inside your DB!
Haven't worked at a startup yet with a sysadmin. They either have devops or SREs take care of infrastructure but those types tend to be cross functional so they're also handling infrastructure, operations, incident response, developer tooling, CI/CD environments, code performance issues (basically everything that's not application development).

One company I was at heavily used SaaS and AWS for everything so there weren't very many systems to manage. We'd just jam everything in Docker containers and use AWS ECS. Patching hosts was just rotating to a new AMI on AWS; patching applications was updating dependencies.