skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not what I was expecting from the article. I don't see how new ISA features could be net positive here.

Pointer tagging works fine on x86 already. Low ones from alignment and high 16 bits provided one does the masking/shifting to get back to canonical form before dereferencing. High 8 if paranoid about future address space increase.
Far API-First Companies Have Come
>> SoC is not certified for -20/+80 degrees Celsius

That is basically the operating range of the average graphics card these days. Not many people go sub-ambient with their cooling but no graphics card would complain if they did. The actual silicon is perfectly fine with such temperatures. The only real issue is the external cooling rig, a classic engineering problem that any car company shouldn't have a problem solving. A water cooler tied to the vehicle's coolant loop would easily cap the upper temperature range at water boiling points. A car engine has plenty of power available for fans or even air conditioning if necessary. Hide the controller chips somewhere in the passenger compartment and the humans will die of heat before the silicon.
Yes, I think the “unregistered security” description of crypto is most accurate.
> People are irrational

People are boundedly rational. The client base purchasing the black enclosure valued it for a few extra hundred USD relative to other things they may choose to spend their funds on.
I would've written something just like this a few years ago, but when the M1 was released, things really changed. It really is a lot faster than most other laptops for many types of work, and especially so for its price point.
Shortages are the result of mispriced electricity. Taking advantage of such mispricing is a good thing.
Maybe an English course should've been included in your "breath requirements" ;)
Very true. Wisdom is knowledge applied.
The only bummer of owning a black MacBook was the charging Magsafe unit was still white. It's a (tiny) shame that Apple did not choose to color-coordinate it, like it does nowadays. The contrast was tough sell when considering the 'premium aesthetic' angle Apple was making.

It looked pretty cool nevertheless by itself and the size/weight felt quite right. Good old memories of running Snow leopard on it in early grad school days
The original ask from Russia was: Donbas becomes part of Russia, crimea becomes officially part of Russia, Ukraine promises not to join nato, and “denazification” of the Ukrainian government.

Ukraine is now offering that to Russia. My ask is that the adults who were screaming at the top of their lungs to take that deal a month ago, were listened to.

Further that the people screaming at the top of their lungs that turning a nuclear superpower into an isolationist state, and actively working to collapse their economy, is a suicidally stupid thing, also be listens to.
Meccano Firmware Updater
It's very clear to me, clicking through to sources, the author came into that piece with a conclusion and worked back to the data from their.

The case they cite was instantly changed when pointed out, and the company said it was a mistake. This is a valid complaint to have, the way formulas and algorithms are applied (often opaquely) to important aspects of our lives is a real concern we should deal with, not just because of the potential for mistakes like this.

Jumping from that to "the woke left want to deny white people healthcare" is more than an astronomic leap, when citing a mistake by a Catholic healthcare company that objects to providing contraceptives. I don't think blaming that on the "woke" crowd holds up to any scrutiny.
I remember Siracusa saying something on ATP about it's how they're transitioning the driver model in OS X/iOS away from kernel extensions or something, apparently the benefit is more robust drivers in the future but there are growing pains...
I would never want the best developers. Imagine the giant pain in the back of these primadonna always thinking they can get paid more in their next job. And how you should give them this or that, or how you should change your development stack, language, processes, chair color, etc. I only need very few geniuses and a lot of normal ones. 80/20, remember?!
> the most powerful laptop on the market

In what way?
I'm fairly certain that sitting at a computer working 8-10 hour days of physical inactivity is far worse on the human body than moderate use of psychedelics.
The white 2006 Intel MacBook was my first Mac. Family members opted for the black one. Personally I never liked the black one. A lot of laptops from that era had cases in shades of black/grey/beige. Apple’s all white glossy case was very unique. However the black case did seem to be less prone to scratches. At certain angles small scratches were very visible on the white case. As the article points out the black model came with more storage but during this era of Apple computers the HDD/RAM was user upgradable. So for me at least the black model was not justified.

Both of these models irked me because the plastic used was prone to cracking. The bottom case started forming hairline cracks near the screen hinge/sharp corners. The case had a lot of flex. The screen did not perfectly align with the bottom case. The top cover of the keyboard started cracking off where you’d rest your wrist. I was very happy to replace it with a unibody aluminum design in 2011.
What I expected to read about in this article, was about people using cryptocurrencies for something. But it's only briefly touched upon at the end of the article in a paragraph

> The increasing demand for cryptocurrency mining in Lebanon has prompted many shops across the country to accept payments in USDT, which is a cryptocurrency with a value that is meant to mirror the value of the US dollar.

How many? What can you buy? How often are they used? Demographics, any insight?

Otherwise this "turn to cryptocurrency" article seems to be just about an increase of local miners. The only two interesting aspects on that topic are that:

- hotels might connect to data mining operations to provide surplus electricity "bandwidth", as their occupancy is lower due to the pandemic

- Lebanon has an iffy electricity grid, and households are starting (have been for a while now?) to feel as consumers the extra strain on the grid caused by miners.
I think interview practice with real interviewers and expert feedback is an excellent investment.
The definition of racism until very recently was basically identical to “racial prejudice”.

The alternative definition that requires systematic power over another group is a very recent and not the definition most commonly used by the general public now or historically, and by the way not even by highly educated people in universities in the past.

The connection of that word with systematic power developed in the 1980s and beyond. That new definition is convenient for some people because it means that for example what would clearly have been racism by the old definition is not, when applied to the majority group using the new definition. This new definition is being taught to university students and lately even earlier than that. It has changed a neutral definition of racism that meant exactly “racial prejudice”, to one that is more useful for certain social aims of its proponents.
As far as i know MS windows was written in C++.
DomainOS (Aegis) was written in Pascal.
> based on my experience

I will throw out counter-experience that I did not succeed at technical interviews until I treated it like a fulltime job. In the past I just brushed up and failed Google's interview a handful of times before I decided enough was enough.

My takeaway ultimately is that how much time and effort one chooses to put in is entirely personal based on how much they want one of these jobs + what their gaps are in algorithms and data structures. Some people are going to need more effort than others.
> A Pi is bought for tinkering

Not always. Many of use it to run actual workflows too. It actually makes for a decent home server.
"A spreadsheet is then the simplest, most organically natural way of organizing discrete units of information, the easiest way to perform CRUD operations on any type of data."

So... you've basically answered the question here.

"It’s been 40 years since the original Visicalc spreadsheet program was released, and no one has been able to beat them"

There is a reason that columnar workbooks and spreadsheets have been around since humans started writing down numbers and manipulating them... it works.

A "grid of cells" does exactly what it is supposed to do in the most efficient manner possible. The only "innovation" opportunities are making the underlying product suck less, or providing analytics/reporting functionality.
"In an ideal world no browser would need a reader mode, because pages themselves would be reader-friendly by design."

This would happen if page authors just participated fully in the Semantic Web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
> If you’ve hired engineers from some of the companies in this post, have they performed better than others?

It should be: have you hired engineers from interview.io

This author is sadly blinded by the echo chamber of their own creation
(if your use case is running MacOS and using compiled-for-ARM software)
I am happy to see new hardware mitigations against exploits coming up. However all these more and more complex mitigations techniques make me wonder how much they are affecting CPU cost (design) and then run-time cost as the slower code execution.
But making that unsafe Rust block safe to call from safe Rust isn't the most trivial of things to do. Conforming to all the safety requirements is still a thing to deal with, otherwise you contaminate all your safe Rust code.

It's not an unreasonable burden for what you get in return, but it is still a burden.
Yes, I could have been clearer in my original post. My point was in reference to, many crypto advocates saying years ago that these types of small transactions at high speed and lost cost are one of the biggest benefits of it. This has never materialised, instead the market has been taken over by companies using mostly boring technology. It might well be, that fear of competition from crypto has caused the traditional finance companies to move.
> This relies on the weak assumption that the consensus algorithm will not finalize invalid data and then continue to build on it for over a year.

You don't need to rely on such a weak assumption.

You can use Incrementally Verifiable Computation to verify the entire blockchain history in constant time. See e.g. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/11/05/halo.html
Why is it no longer possible for Egypt to grow its own wheat?
It's easy to store small quantities of wheat for years at home, but that's irrelevant to this situation. We're talking about grain elevators and warehouses.
Why do you think the best engineers are hard to work with?
2 things, if your a heavy user your battery will be toast before the warranty. My S8 is still supported but the battery is long gone.

Second, what if I want to install a custom ROM which is updated. Not everyone can buy a new phone every year.
The key is that you can examine the state of most (not all) "intermediate" variables so not only do you know the inputs, the outputs, but also everything that happened in between in all these different ways.

Your calendar app adds 2 days for tasks? You can just see the cell where it says 2 to make sure that variable is set right. Its amazing, and we are just catching up to it with "always on" variable inspectors in IDEs.

Edit:
That's not the only trick: cells don't have variable names but locations. You don't have to remember the type (they are all cells) or the name of a variable. Its just a location and you click on it to select it.
I'm seeing this as well. Sends me to some home loan page.
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I think about this a lot. There is a need for more data-driven applications to create graphics that are more “track able” than excel. I have a series of charts that need to be sent out to multiple people (internal and external) each week. Charts, logos, tables, etc could benefit from a pipeline but without needing a data engineer. Right now, we have a standard data download from Bloomberg or another data provider, macros to change the format, access to slice, back to excel where the charts are 75% standard but might need some tweaking. Bloomberg might not classify one company as healthcare but I want to include them so access keeps a list or companies I want. That same Bloomberg output could include companies some of my colleagues would classify as tech companies so relevant for multiple people. No way to see what was done last week or changes made to the chart / table output from one person to another besides new versions of the same excel file (but still no way to see the logs)

Long winded description but hopefully helps describe how important excel is but there is still room to grow.
bitcoin energy use is around ~0.5% of total worldwide, so we can probably guess the Lebanon energy crisis isn't because of crypto.
Bettering a table for data is going to be hard. Calculated fields (instead of $L$123, $Total) could be represented in other ways to bound to cells. As could code. But honestly, with the amount of time people already waste formatting spreadsheets, less options is probably a productivity enhancement.
I'm not sure - what makes a Chromebook cheaper than similarly specced regular laptop? I've looked at price/perf/quality and they seem to be fairly comparable.

Why not just buy a regular laptop and put Chrome OS on it?
unsurprising as this trend is seeing popularity in south america as well as other countries the US deems of ill repute. Frankly im convinced this is the quiet death of Kissinger era soft power, the American monetary policy cudgel.

The US currently sanctions monetarily ten percent of the financial world. If you take into account various chinese sanctions, its easily more than this.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

when your country racks up yearly multi-trillion dollar debts and expects other countries to continue financing them amidst such sanctions it tends to betray a certain disconnect and highlight the delineation between the political class and the capital class. Politicians have taken a very serious tool and run wild with it like a child with a pocket knife to such an extent over forty years that i think most players have simply had their fill of fair-weather ethical discourse from the land of the free.
Crypto transactions also involve fees and middlemen (the miners, exchanges).
> redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does

Doesn't seem like that has changed to me
"...Waymo sued the California DMV this week to prevent it from revealing certain information about its cars' performance, including Waymo's internal analyses of collisions. Waymo argued that the information, including any "potential technological remediations," represents a trade secret that would have "a chilling effect across the industry" if released, and would dissuade potential market participants from investing time and resources into developing self-driving cars..."

Now the question is, did the government officials who approved this, been given access to this data? And if not, why not?
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Toilets are a great example, thank you.
Working with jupyter, I'm seriously contemplating around how to bring the best of Excel into a pandas or jupyter workflow. Mostly for exploration but also making reports, statistics, aggregations
I liked the way Apple did it in their Numbers clone of Excel - you can have multiple grids on a single page. It makes it a lot easier to have related data on the same page without fiddling with the row/column sizes to suite multiple types of data.
So saying the same thing in an insightful way would have been acceptable? Because that’s literally what it is.

One can say “Apple prices are exorbitant”, or “Apple offers its customers a premium and select pricing line”.
Aesthetic benefits, perceived at least, are worth $200 to some people...and that black thing looked cool.

Especially SWEs who work in products w/ zero marginal costs shouldn't complain about market value of a product vs. BOM costs
I think that's a question of an "insufficiently smart compiler" rather than necessarily something the programmer should be concerned about?
Because people will pay more?
They do, but their population has also ballooned far past what their own agriculture can supply.
Where can I learn more about web development on Chromebooks? I thought it was just Chrome made to boot as an OS, not that you have full Linux access.
It would be nice if people stopped stealing catalytic converters because the plantinum, palladium etc were no longer worth the effort.
I thought the cpu was faster too?
Used to be everyone had an FM radio and no plotter.

Now everyone has a printer, but no FM radio.
it's possible. we did see statistical significance when comparing dropbox to others despite the relatively smaller sample size. but yes, that is possible.
I've shifted to Airbase for pretty much anything data sheet related. The ability to have more typical data-flow joins with an easier to manage UX that teaches folks along the way is pretty phenomenal. It grows as you need, but still remains relatively simple.

It's one of my favorite pieces of software from the past decade.
I don't know where this idea that governments want to abolish cash comes from. The crypto-world loves to bandy this about, but in reality a HUGE portion of the people still transact constantly in cash. Granted in the US only about 10-15% of people are "cash-only," but 85-90% use cash daily. Cash isn't going anywhere anytime soon, no matter how great Starlink gets, no matter how much Illuminati-conspiracy the Internet dreams up, electronic only money is a pipe dream in the foreseeable future. Maybe in another 50-100 years? Who knows.
> Look at the failings of the IQ test for example.

can you elaborate on that please?
The stereotype for "those people" is that they're willing to pay a premium for purely cosmetic differences, but the emblematic white shells are just the cheapest option available. By paying extra for the black macbook, you ironically became one of "those people" by trying to not look like one. :)
Slightly informed guess is that the highly productive but water-constrained farmland of the nile valley is better used for value crops, like fresh fruits and vegetable, than a staple such as wheat which is more cheaply grown elsewhere.

Edit: there’s a great writeup about “hoop” style greenhouse farming there and how productive and water efficient it is… but the article escapes me presently

Edit2: ah!
Here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/dining/norwich-meadows-fa...
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A few hours is a pretty long time for a CPU to be running at near-T-Junction temps. On top of that, every time I pull from a larger repo or unzip a large folder, MacOS will decide it's time for me to take a quick 2 hour break while it depletes 60% of it's battery. Instead of setting up a complicated ignorelist, I just disabled Spotlight indexing altogether.
you should have analyzed 100k interviews to figure out how to reverse the leetcode trend
I very much concur with the view of programming being a projection of our understanding of something in the world (physical or otherwise) into executable code. Like you point out, much can be improved by eliminating the unnecessary dissonance between implementation and domain.

However, we can still do much more than that. Take your example of searching textually for a class / method. First, when we search by text we assume that code has no structure. Would it not be a significant optimization to have a search that allows you to be search semantically through your system?

Now, the problem is that a system is interesting from many different perspectives.
- For example, a security issue is most likely going to be crosscutting the domain. When we look for it, we would like to see a projection of the system specifically for our problem.
- Or take communicating with the domain specialists. Most often, that communication happens on the whiteboard. However, what is manually drawn on the whiteboard represents what the writer thinks, not necessarily what the system is. To see the system, we should want the system to draw itself on the whiteboard. Any manual intervention in this process introduces an interpretation that hinders the communication. So, we can start with writing on the whiteboard when the system does not exist, but as soon as it does exist, we should have the system draw its representation. That can enhance communication manyfold.
Yes. Anecdotally a friend of mine had to climb over a fence at Vandenberg Air Force Base in the late 1970's and a high resolution satellite picture of him was presented the next morning as evidence. All that to just give him a slap on the wrist. His ID badge was clearly readable. I have no idea how many of these satellites existed back then.
It's easier to find the audited FED's balance sheet than Thether's.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/audited-annual-fi...
Yeah, I agree that irrational behavior sucks. But this brings us full circle to your OP, and the lack of a better alternative.
Your definition of best engineer doesn't sound like they're the best engineer.
I am definitely not a scientist, but speculating on race because of names you find to be too hispanic to be white feels like spectacularly bad science to me. This is not my field though so perhaps that is normal an accepted.
Unsolicited advertising should be made illegal.

Then there'd be no reason to optimize the web to serve up ads, because legally you couldn't.

The world needs to switch away from advertising for the good of humanity.
It's pretty easy - you're asleep, phone sound/vibration wakes you up, you're on call so you pick up the phone, it face unlocks, through your unfocused eyes you see a thumbprint icon and aren't sure if face unlocked worked in the dark, so you touch it.

A second later you're wide awake and wondering what the hell was that mfa for...
Numbers is deeply underrated.
What can the limits of artificial intelligence tell us about human thought?
And I'm too scared to try against mine
You can completely fail in one thing, and succeed in another. Crypto people have moved the goalpost of what it is supposed to be useful for a lot over the years. Which is fine. Doesn't mean it has completely failed to deliver on some of them so far and the market has been taken over by others.
BeOS and Haiku are mentioned in the article.
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Attacking rival, Google says Microsoft's hold on govt security is a problem
"best performers work" With a title like that you really just cannot take this study seriously lol. Not to say it's not interesting but that is one crazy claim, at best title should be "most effective interviewees." Also, I work in FANG but signed up for this website and can't even participate, so how you chose all these candidates is also questionable.
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Biden announces historic oil reserve release to reduce gas prices
You're using a different definition of "understand how the systems works". Your grandmother doesn't understand unix signals.