skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Right now when software kills people, they chock it up to a system or hardware failure.

This is sensationalism. Systems involving safety usually have an associated ISO standard. If it's not being followed, there's more at fault than just the SW engineer.

In many (all?) states, designing and building something that has safety implications requires a PE license by law - it doesn't matter if it's mostly a SW product or not. The individual engineers don't need the license, but someone in the chain does, and he/she is required to review the work, and it is his/her ass on the line if something goes wrong.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/04/05/1090920442/how...
It was a pretty big part of the keynote where they announced it, I think it’s just that they don’t really do in-product promos for new features in iOS.
This is fair advice, but this also makes the big assumption that the severance pay will actually be, well, paid. The company is legally obligated, but what happens if they choose not to send a check? What would it cost to hire a lawyer to go after it vs. the $6k-10k we're assuming was even on the table here? Would you trust the company if they pulled this?

The company appears to be in real trouble, too. In some parts of the world, promised severance pay is not necessarily guaranteed if the company is insolvent.
I'm okay with claims that snapshots are much better than backups for many uses. But in this case the GP was explaining that they only used their backups once in several years, so they did not need to change their backup system.

I'm in the same boat. I configured remote backup systems on a handful of computers. I think I reached for backups only twice over the last ten years. Of course I need something, backups or snapshots, but for my use case snapshots (with a network copy) would need work to set up. And if the remote storage is worse, that would be more of a problem than the changes in the restore process.
jsut so I understand: with equivalent encoding parameters, Apple's hardware acceleration produces a worse-quality video of the same size?

Um. This is not worth reporting; we need to see the comparison of parameters that produce perceptually indistinguishable (when comparing the compressed versions to
each other) videos. Speeding up encoding but losing video quality disqualifies an implementation.
Math degrees open an amazing numbers of doors.

Data science, analysts, strategy, legal research (or research in general), many CS jobs, etc.
Exactly, babies have been eating for an extremely long time, far longer than boxes and bottles have been around and filled with the "only way to feed the babies".
Ask HN: Is Mac Studio too much for web and mobile development?
Hey HN,

I am considering to buy a stationary Mac. I mostly do web and mobile development. Also, occasional ML.(once in 2 months).

Current: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019), 2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB

Issues: Too much heat, almost impossible to connect an external monitor, Hangs a lot of time (Maybe Monterey as a whole :) ). (I have lot of tabs on Chrome and Firfox open :) )
Do not like the Keyboard.

I do zero gaming. I am not particular with portability. So was thinking between Mac mini, iMac and Mac studio. The reason for Mac studio being not needing to invest again in couple of years like my situation now.
Or is the current line of Mac Book pros better and should I go with them?
Has anybody figured out the "screenshot -> Full Page" save to PDF option when the page is too long and gets cut off? I like to save MSDN pages and the result would be great, bt there's an arbitrary height cutoff apparently that makes the feature unusable.
The 'range extender' of the BMW i3[1] is basically just that, and the Chevy Volt's engine was also not connected mechanically to its powertrain[2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#Range_extender_option

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt#Drivetrain
> It’s just got 3-4x higher property taxes and highly productive economically

My point is that Austin is cherry-picked. If we need a huge city with a dense urban center, high property taxes, and high economic productivity to prove low density suburban development is viable then maybe we still have a problem. If we broke out Austin into smaller sections we would likely find large portions of the city would be completely unable to sustain themselves. Just because the urban portion can out-fund the problem (for now?) doesn't mean there isn't a fundamental issue.

For every Austin there are dozens of Lafayettes. I can think of a dozen towns near me that have similar size, density, and tax bases and who are almost certainly running a budget that doesn't account for long term liabilities (which is how publicly traded companies in America are mandated to do their accounting, for example).

You can look at their case studies[1] for different types of developments and you can look at municipal budgets and see that it doesn't line up, we just haven't been around long enough to see what happens when the party stops.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/6/14/the-growth-pon...
I’ll probably never do it, so I’ll throw it out here as an idea:

A journey-constrained social network. E.g. if you frequently travel between New York and Paris, you’ll be allowed to join the JFK-CDG group, then you can talk about travel deals, where to go in each city (as you’re likely from there or going there, and it’s a fair exchange with the other groups), what’s cheaper or worth buying as a gift from one place back to the other, etc.

Doesn’t have to be flight specific as the journey method.
America Needs a Liberalism That Builds, Not Adversarial Legalism
> More in general such megaprojects means very few earning big money

"Megaprojects"? The railroad infrastructure between Paris and Berlin already exists and did so for a long time, in fact googling a bit reveals that there was already a direct Paris - Berlin - Moscow connection operated since the 19th century until 1994:

https://uic.org/com/enews/nr/412/article/moscow-berlin-paris...

So at most the existing infrastructure outside cities needs conversion to high-speed tracks (or more likely, trains will just travel at reduced speeds, which for instance is the case for most of East Germany where only few high speed sections exists - but mainly because cities are so close to each other that travelling at 300 km/h wouldn't save much time between stops).
Basically: they can be buggy. Either they work fine for you, or you hit an edge case and have trouble. They can also have worse performance as they only have one SATA controller and split it amongst the drives.

The fancier more expensive ones are typically referred to as HBAs instead of "SATA cards" https://unraid-guides.com/2020/12/07/dont-ever-use-cheap-pci...

If you're doing this at home, you can get used enterprise gear on eBay (like an LSI SAS HBA) for the same price or cheaper than brand-new consumer gear, and it will probably still be more reliable (I built a 130 TB NAS for my friend's video production business and literally everything aside from the drives and the cables was bought used on online auction, and it's been humming along fine for a while now - the only part that was bad was one stick of RAM, but the ECC errors told me that before I even got around to running my tests on the sticks)
Yes but there’s a price/reliability/performance trade off.
Also, with disks that big failures become qualitatively different. For example, when a disk fails in a mirror, the bigger the disk size the higher the chance the 2nd disk will have unreadable blocks.
And fox news is not alarmed? have you seen their headlines or tucker carlson perma-outraged scowl? Journalism relies on shock, alarm and outrage to sell, got nothing to do with liberalism, at least ny times has some real ground breaking journalism in the middle of all the posturing and virtue signaling.
> What is so wrong about it?

This is the topic of the linked article.
Planetccrma, but not sure if it's still active.
Care to share the science? This sounds more like a learner's internal/external locus of control. If you believe you are capable of figuring something out you're probably right and likewise if you believe you can't.
When I was in high school, a bunch of AP students cheated off the valedictorian our senior year...when it was exposed, they hushed everything up rather than allowing a scandal that would ruin the school's and the students' reputations (some of which were bound for Ivy League schools in a few months' time).

Sometimes, the entire community will protect its cheaters.
Exactly. It was really unsurprising. [0][1][2] DuckDuckGo has already admitted they are compromised and at the mercy of Microsoft Bing. From [3]

We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

And it is flagged because it is true.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30703172

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839873

[3] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
I can’t argue with that. :)
That's silly. Whether it's a good or bad metatheory for theorem proving depends entirely on one's goals and preferences. Most mathematicians use a type theory over something else, so it's hard to even take your view seriously.

On top of that, you seem very opinionated for someone who was just confused about the topic of this thread. I have no idea why you're waging a holy war over this but maybe take a break.
I set up my most recent NAS using a TerraMaster unit. It's basically a nifty case (9x5x5 inches) around a low power Intel board with a USB stick for a boot device (which I replaced with a mini 100gb USB SSD).

I don't know and don't care about TerraMaster's software (it might be awesome - I have no idea). I just rolled my own NixOS install with ZFS so that I could have a deterministic installation (I've heard good things about the TrueNAS OS as well, but I'm a control freak and like being able to rebuild the entire server with a single command and a config file, so I stick with NixOS).

The nice thing is that I essentially got a motherboard, CPU, PSU, and compact case for $350 (for the F2-422). All I had to do was upgrade the RAM (SO-DIMM) and add the drives.

I've long since reduced to only two drives for my NAS. At one point I was up to 7 drives before I realized my madness. It's cheap enough to get the storage I need with two mirrored drives, is quieter and uses less energy (I can keep it in the same room), and when I finally outgrow them in 5 years or so, the old drives will be re-purposed as backup via an external USB enclosure I keep around.
That's one of the reasons DoH is better than DoT: it's harder to block wholesale.
Leaving aside other problems (are there really enough travelers for pairs other than the most traveled airports?), how could you ever verify this?
> well-funded

A startup in a recession might have a good recession compatible plan or a long enough runway. Do we need a whole separate recession vocabulary so this job ad wasn't a lie?
I would highly recommend https://factor75.com. A bit pricey, but the food is worth it.
>>It's like we've forgotten how to function as humans in some respect.

It is not that we have forgotten, the social and governmental structures have been for a long time pushing for dependence upon corporations / government and less self reliance.

Self Reliance is something that is to be socially mocked, "survivalist", "prepper", etc are seen as derogatory terms.

Even community level reliance has systemically been rejected in favor of top down corporate and/or national government level programs to provide for people.
This is a lot more readable than the medium site. Thanks.
My tiny NAS is still using ext4 + md raid1. It’s the third incarnation of essentially the same design (previously used raid10 when drives were smaller).

When it fills up, I delete some files rather than adding disks.
First item

> 1215 Magna Carta requires “one measure” of wine, corn and cloth throughout the realm; and similarly for weights.

Corn is native to North America/Mexico. Was the term more general?
No mention of the amount of food diverted to biofuels, such as corn being converted to ethanol. Stopping doing that would be the easiest way to increase food production.

Maybe this omission has something to do with their ritual invocation (on no evidence) of climate change as a cause of the food shortfall. Not mentioning biofuels may be a matter of solidarity with other climate alarmists. Even though biofuels are a total scam, that damage the environment rather than help, pointing that out might lead people to ask whether other aspects of the climate agenda are also dubious.
> most free-software users/contributors can see past political squabbles and work on tech that improves society more objectively.

The problem is apolitical can easily be or become amoral, so I can't agree this is a virtue without further clarification. Some differents can and should be tolerated, but in the spirit of the paradox of tolerance others should not.

How would you feel if you released software under an MIT license that helped a neo-Nazi resurgence for instance?
May I ask what audio interface you use for recording? I want one mic preamp and one direct input for guitar, and my Roland Octacapture that I am otherwise happy with is not supported on Linux.
That's basically the point of university isn't it? It assumes that not everyone can be qualified to do everything and imposes restrictions on who can be hired based on their known qualifications.
Mill would definitely make things more interesting. They were supposed to have their simulator online a while ago, but sounds like they needed to redo the work on the compiler (from what I understood). Once that comes out it sounds like the next step is getting the simulator online for people to play with.
Students are just as much a part of the system as teachers, so I don't think this elitism about who can have an opinion is helpful.

I think there are a few constructive things that can be done. One is allowing curious students to design their own academic career (with guidance and supervision). I think students usually cheat because they think the course work is irrelevant to their future lives. Sure people need to be exposed to new things, but a semester on something you know you will never care about is torture. I have a computer science degree, but I remember being forced to take geology. To this day I can't think of a bigger waste of time, I remember nothing from it, and even if I did I would never use it.

Vocational schools and apprenticeship should also really come back. I know parents want their kids to be part of the affluent elite, but in a good society being a car mechanic should be a good life. There's no point saddling people with student debt if their degree gets them a job at starbucks.

I also think that things like essays are a lot better than quizzes. Sans plagiarism, it's hard to fake knowledge if you have to write it out.
For that specific feature they did/do highlight it quite a bit:

- it was shown off at the keynote last year https://youtu.be/TfRMXk53wPY

- I believe the tips app will mention it to you

- they have support articles describing it https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212630

- any text field you're in will let you scan text directly from the camera.

Granted, maybe they could go further to show people when they go into the photos app or something, but it's definitely a very highlighted feature relative to others.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have lost $115B in five months
Apple likes end users to discover stuff like that on their own. They hyped it up a ton at the WWDC keynote before it came out, but only a small % of mostly developers see that. Part of their philosophy is to delight users along the way and maybe finding things like that is delightsome?

They rarely throw "check out the new features!" dialogs on upgrades. (Sometimes they do, but it's rare relative to the # of new features.)
I see, so I assume the upside is that it's a time saver. Thanks! I personally wen't with samba on Linux and with btrfs. I was wondering if there's something non-obvious in TrueNAS that I'm missing out on.

And to my account, I think my upsides are that:

- ability to choose the kernel

- no need for SSD for base OS since running off of RAM is
rather easy on Linux

- samba can run in a container thus a bit more control security-wise

- server may run something else as well

Of course, this comes with a lot more technical hurdles. More like a side-project than utility really. That's why I was wondering does TrueNAS provide non-obvious upsides that would be lacking in self-rolled one.
That seems like a bad analogy, given that this web site is explicitly aims to teach a method.

It doesn't explain the "why" of anything, except in broad strokes (a big fat heading is more punchy and so on), it only prescribes a specific, extremely narrow set of choices.

Methods are based on principles. If nothing rigorous underpins the choices we make in design, how can it be taught?
I notice there seems to be a "No true Scottman" issue here where the critics is stating one problem and the proponent is like "yeah but what if we change it to this". I'm guessing the process at your place is much more tolerable than what people have been complaining.

I wonder at what point does it stop being "whiteboard interview" and just a "few sprinkle of algorithmic questions to test logical skill".

Also when the talents pool is large enough, obviously you can do as many brutal questions as you can and still fill the headcounts with good developers. So I think saying "but it still works" is not very productive.
> Now I do my semi-dream job as a Deep Learning Research Engineer building actual products with Deep Learning.

> I have a truly realistic chance of getting my dream job within the end of this calendar year.

So what’s your dream job? :-)
I wonder if it’s possible to back up ZFS (eg, a ZFS server) to btrfs (eg, a synology nas)?

I mean backing up the file system (as with ZFS send) not scanning all files (using rsync of restic).
Are you in the middle of the ocean moving at 600mph towards <destination>?
Not disputing any of this, but this has nothing to do with food security itself. All those cheap recipes still require grains and basic food stuffs whose supply are threatened. Whether you buy it locally or abroad, the supply is fungible enough to effect costs.
Important to note that this article is alread almost two months old.

Since then there was even more recovery. Interest rates while spiked briefly to 20% now lowered.

There was a brief capital control but now it's not neccessary: ordinary Russians can withdraw their dollars and even send them abroad (up to $50000 per month).

You don't need any kind of special financial magic when you've got billions from gas.
Made me smile :D
The person who made this at Apple worked on this directly in front of me.
I have to say, I'm put off by the power benchmark. I have a way older system with way more stuff (6 3.5 inch HDD, 2 2.5 inch HDD, 2.5 inch SSD, 8-port SAS controller, Intel NIC card) and it idles (all drives spun down) at ~30 watts.

When I first bought the system over 10 years ago, ZFS on Linux wasn't really a thing, so I used FreeBSD. I later switched and with the switch came substantial power savings.
Oh the irony. This is the Pelican program restart. Circa 2005. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Pelican

Pelican was a ground-effect heavy lift aircraft, too. DARPA refused to fund any Pelican developmental work 20 years ago because the “Technology has been demonstrated already” (by the Russians).

I had the privilege of working for the people who did the concept of operations work.
I'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but I really wonder how much influence drives actually have on games.

My gaming computer had an old SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Evo IIRC). Some games took ages to load (particularly Fallout 4). I switched to a much faster NVME drive, and subjectively, it's not any faster loading games. I'd say this was a very underwhelming purchase.
Me and a partner actually have an MVP built out for this. Its kind of stagnate right now, but this specifically does this:

Define areas of interest. Create tour routes. Geo-specific content (You can post audio, links, etc, to a particular point of interest.

When you arrive within the designated (content poster defined) area, and are within a certain range of the POI - the content can be auto played, such as the audio description of a view point, landmark etc.

It will do way finding and pathing...

We have a working MVP on android, but like I said its currently dormant.

One feature that is useful to emergency responders is the ability to provide geo-cache locations, so when the scouts for firefighters are scoping a best route to address front-line wild fire, they can mark a point where they leave an equipment cache, take a photo of it and share the route with firefighters.

We have a digital LED wayfinding strip in the brim of a hat - so you have the way finding light compass to tell you the way.

We have a patent on the hat...
Tim Robinson built working copies of the Difference Engine out of Meccano [1] a few years ago, and is now involved with Plan 28, a project to build the Analytical Engine, which @jgrahamc provides regular updates to the Computer Conservation Society [2].

[1] https://meccano.us/
[2] https://blog.plan28.org/
There's always a leading edge to technology that remains highly exclusive for a long time. Even if it's far away from being used for much it's exciting to see what the future holds. Things are being implemented now that were only a glimmer on the horizon 30 years ago
> But the adversarial puzzles and whiteboard programming are not "the job".

This is true. They are closer to ”the rare, most intellectually difficult parts of the job.” A hockey player typically spends 70% of each game sitting on the bench; yet this isn’t what is emphasized in tryouts.

> Hire for strengths, not to avoid weaknesses.

I guess you didn’t read the part of my comment where I wrote:

1. ”Failing to hire a strong candidate carries a much lower cost than hiring someone who can’t do the job.”

This is the default position of large tech companies who do coding interviews, and especially those like Google and Microsoft who interview with very difficult discrete math problems.

If we assume 1, the hiring practices of Google/Microsoft make perfect sense. They are not trying to hire all the extremely talented candidates. They are trying to ensure that all the hires are extremely talented. Put differently, they are optimising for precision rather than recall.

It seems like you disagree with 1. And if you’re right, then you have a huge opportunity, because this suggests you can disrupt any vertical where the incumbent does the LeetCode thing.

But my default position is scepticism, because if it was possible it would probably already be happening.
They had it as a flagship feature one year, and I was notified in-app after upgrading.

It’s also in the Tips app, which is great to go through from time to time!
It's probably because the script is blocking a modal window. When you clear the window, the scrollbars return.
Someone who cares about how our existing knowledge shapes or understanding of new knowledge. Knowing how a computer works helps to understand the why and how of higher level concerns.
I feel like Apple has a hard time making all of the features of their products easily discoverable.