skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I ultimately believe you're correct (along with open borders and travel) I wish there were more rigorous proofs that this were the case.

I think about the line in West Wing: "Free trade is essential for human rights...the end of that sentence is 'we hope because nothing else has worked.' ...Chinese political prisoners are going to be sewing soccer balls with their teeth whether we sell them cheeseburgers or not, so let's sell them
cheeseburgers."

While war and human rights are different, they're also pretty correlated.
If something is parallelized that must not be, the result typically won't be something "close enough", which is the point in the article. Not correctness as in numerical accuracy, where we can establish tolerances.

However, the irony here is that the specific target audience for this tool actually will cheerfully accept incorrect parallelization for a speedup. Evidence for this is the use of parallel make, which does nothing to assure correctness; correctness is up to the Makefile rules expressing the correct, complete dependency graph.

It's a fairly common practice to unleash parallel make on Makefiles that were written by other people (e.g. authors of free software), where those authors provided not a shred of documented assurance that their Makefiles were designed and tested for parallel use.
I love this demo, it what got me to pick up Sasa's book.

I was attending a show and tell following seeing this where an engineer was trying to isolate failure of certain functions from the rest of the system and i sent this to them.

No idea if they watched it but i became an OTP evangelist in that moment
needs a browser extension or bookmarklet to let you add external data to your wiki (add to pocket / save to instapaper / add to evernote etc)
> "Nothing will change other than having a couple snacks in our office and having an in-person meeting," Pruiett said. "We're kind of starting to think that this job isn't worth it."

This is critical advent that we cannot make concessions on, even Hybrid is not useful for most roles; what should be agreed upon (if necessary) are re-negotiated pay for those who do not go back into the office. I think most have seen their productivity increase during WFH that talent retention will be a bigger threat when remote first businesses are still growing.

Moreover, it should be noted how hypocritical most of the largest advocates of supposed environmentalist based corps are on this, including Elon's stance, because it goes to show that its a merely lip-service when it disrupts with business as usual--and likely lots of external investments like real estate. The sheer amount of needless energy consumption is jaw dropping when you see what it takes to maintain such a system, and this is at a time with rising gas prices.

This is something that should come down to whether in office roles are mission-critical and if they are they should reflect a better pay rate/TC for those than cannot be done remotely: that is how efficient Markets are supposed to work and in regards to this supposed 'labour shortage,' threatening people with layoffs/firing is not the move that sends any confidence: hence why Tesla took a hit after that email was leaked to the press.
I did capacity planning for a large user facing service more than a decade ago. Not only we had global N+2 redundancy (we could still serve peak traffic if we lost the two largest clusters worldwide), but I also made sure we had at least N+1 per "continent". That's how I managed to get resources for us in the infamous, reserved and now long gone Budapest cluster(s), whose only other tenant was Gmail.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QdhwTXwhA4c

Sorry can't resist
Singapore and Tokyo are large, densely-populated cities that don't have the public-order problems that California cities do. I can't say if their policies are "conservative" or not based on the US understanding of the word, but they do seem to work...
Planned leak of 137GB of crypto scam related telegram messages
It's really common for chip companies to shop around and start a bidding war to see where they can get the highest subsidies.
Instead of providing freedom to choose remote vs in office, big techs are repeatedly pushing their own agenda... No wonder why some part of country gets too developed creating imbalanced development.
One of the best things you can do for a great many PNG files is to convert them to platted images using something like libimagequant. If you are willing to accept some image loss you can even apply this to images with more than 256 colors. In most cases it will be difficult to find the difference with just your human eyeball, and most of those cases you should probably be using webm or even JPEG instead.

The file size savings can be enormous, way more than you achieve with just twiddling the block sizes and compression levels.
Bitcoiners who like to take their self custody seriously often use tools like fire resistant metal plates to write their recovery seed words through a center punch tool. Products like the coinkite seed plates backup exist but it is also possible to roll your own using washers and bolts. For BIP39 only the first 4 letters of each word are necessary. You can also setup multisig or seed x0r to make sure a thief doesn’t breach into your seeds with just one plate, often stored on multiple geographic locations.

I wonder if some similar strategy exists for normal master passwords. Could be a nice idea for a low-tech-product-for-high-tech-solutions product. Perhaps a metal card where the user can manually punch a QR code.
Gitlab: “required pipeline” moved from Premium to Ultimate tier in version 15
Just to make this thread a bit more aggravating, I have two pre-Mariko switches — at least they both have the Nvidia Tegra vulnerability, anyway — and I have yet to see either fail to charge on random USB-C cables and chargers.

As another poster mentioned, however, they will only dock with the OEM charger.

Seems like whatever is happening with the OG switch USB-C implementation it’s not straightforward.
>> This keeps showing up but it's total bullshit. Cuban wants to take 15% of the transaction for running a web site and processing payment.

If he saves the consumer a lot of money, does it really matter if he takes 15% of the txn? Secondly, dont people/companies deserve to be paid for value they add?

My US-specific experience is that customers are squeezed for a pound of flesh. These often come at the worst time, when you are sick, possibly really really sick. For example, you're deathly ill, on line at CSV, and you're arguing about a $200 mystery co-pay for a prescription you cant wait days for. Luckily for me as a SWE, I can afford $200 mystery charges. For some it could mean death.

Any way to create transparency of pricing is really important, and could lead to live and death moments. I dont think we should dismiss these lightly.
Mini-B (2000) had serious reliability problems, and would often damage the device rather than the cable. Micro-B (2007) was a pretty smart & necessary response. USB-C (2014) elegantly encompassed the additional high-speed data-connectivity that the hideous huge SuperSpeed USB Micro-B (2008) tacked on, & added significant future-proofing/adaptability (alt-modes).

I have a hard time imagining much advantage beyond USB-C. It's pretty mechanically fit & reliable, it has huge bandwidth (I think DisplayPort alt-modes can do 80Gbps?), it can transmit 240W in Extended Power Range variants. Someday perhaps. But I also think this might be here to stay for a long long time.
What is this snarky attitude? Be civil.

As the parent comment mentions, the service providers are obviously going to see an issue the second it happens, but it might take minutes/hours for information to disseminate on the root cause.

Just like... Practically any incident. If you immediately know the root cause, it shouldn't have been an incident in the first place.
I’ve often wondered if it’s possible to put modern tech “back in the box”. At first, this seems impossible. It permeates our daily lives in so many ways.

Continued development towards a tech dystopia might be the only way. But I’m worried it will require the dystopia part before people will wake up and accept that moving back to the physical world might be required.

The next few decades will certainly be interesting, at the very least.
I wouldn't trust that : for one thing, they list the "Entry Level Software Engineer" average as £57,581 when "Software Engineer" is £53,392 overall.

Better in my experience : https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
Not everyone; only the minority who were using non-USB chargers.
Using Jordan Peterson as your example professor, and the default demo on your landing page, is a bold choice lol.
We don’t yet know how to build self-repairing machines. That’s basically the same as creating new life forms.
>Sorry to hear that. I'll do my best to resist asking if you'd like to chat instead ;).

Wow - you're looking for dirt on a company in the EXACT thread that calls out some shady things you've done against them.
You can send money to any Ukrainian bank account via SWIFT. This includes all personal bank accounts. A recipient needs to lookup the bank's SWIFT code and IBAN which can be non-obvious but working with crypto is also non-obvious. Fees vary as do crypto fees. Crypto is not a qualitative improvement here, it's just one option out of many with pros/cons.
> When you look at the huge homeless population today, I think it was less than 10% back then of what it is now

I'm not sure when "back then" was, but homeless in SF has only increased by around 2% from 10 years ago, and has actually dropped by 15% compared to two years ago. (From https://hsh.sfgov.org/get-involved/2022-pit-count/ using the non-sheltered counts, as you were referencing the population you could 'look at')

Looking at earlier info, the NY Times in 1998 quoted the Coalition on Homelessness saying there were 16,000 homeless on the streets of SF then. That would mean a huge decrease today compared to then, but I suspect the two numbers may have been counted differently. (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/13/us/homelessness-tests-san...).

Anyway, it doesn't seem like the data supports your claim that there has been a massive increase in the homeless population lately, unless you go back to at least before the 1980s (https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/overview/)
If this approach works startups will leverage it to gain an upper hand. We've seen this with remote work. Startups identified this gap and used it to outcompete other larger companies.

Personally I believe in remote and that it will get even better as tech to facilitate it improves.

I don't believe in working 4 days for engineering specifically. The field changes rapidly, there is a large learning curve and it takes a lot of hours to really master it. There is also some fixed overhead in communicating with other departments which stays the same even if you work less hours. So you remove more than 20% of your productive hours with this approach. You also reduce the time you spend learning. This further hampers your productivity. I think it will be a niche thing only done by some startups that care about this, have no other way to attract talent and aren't very ambitious.

That being said, for some people it will work well. It's pretty common for some roles in the netherlands for instance.
cro·mu·lent

adjective [HUMOROUS]

acceptable or adequate.

"the continental breakfast was perfectly cromulent"

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I can never remember that word. For some reason it sounds like it should be an English pastry of some sort.

Everything is eroding slowly?
Building Background Effects for Slack Clips
I was raised in the South and grew up across the midwest, so that may color my perspective.

The place where I encountered sysadmins the most was people who managed a small collection of assets; the keyword being managed. I didn't see them inventing entirely new systems. Working across DCs, I would see Systems Engineers building these new systems, being escalation support for them, and at times coding up entirely new infrastructure applications.

I don't really buy the idea that administrators are underappreciated, I just don't think it accurately captures what a systems person on a product team actually does, much less the distinction between a SRE-SE and a systems person.

My base argument is that it's not the same job at all. A good Systems Engineer does not guarantee a good SRE-SE because the job is that much different. One of the notable distinctions is writing application code, which is much different from Terraform, Ansible, Salt etc
Ensuring accurate metering in the context of commerce is within the scope of "To … fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". The specific form of the nozzle clearly is not, but they might justify it on the basis of some other enumerated power—the interstate commerce clause is frequently (ab)used for this sort of thing. Nothing technically requires every regulation produced by the NIST Weights and Measures division to be grounded exclusively in the Weights and Measures clause, though one could be forgiven for making that assumption.

As dpratt remarked earlier[0], any interpretation which would deem nozzle size—or the specific form of an electrical connector—to be covered by the Weights and Measures clause of the Constitution would effectively cede unlimited power to the federal government. What couldn't they regulate under such broad rules?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31654558
I would love to see an estimation of how small real world images would get if we could calculate their Kolmogorov complexity.

Aka if we could find the shortest program that produces the image as output.

Some images obviously would become very small. For example an image that is all blue, a spiral, the flag of the United States, the Mandelbrot set ...

But what about the average portrait for example?
Using GraphQL Directives Efficiently
Technically ..., but practically you are correct.
>But it’s not credible to deny that this will have a negative effect on innovation.

Why? What consumer friendly innovations in charging have we had since USB C came out that this law would have made illegal if it were introduced from the start?

>That is always the impact of regulation like this.

I think it would be fair to say that if we could point to examples of useful innovation in the past that would have been killed by this legislation. But can we?
Silicon on hacker news pretty much always means latest and smallest logic node, because most commenters aren’t aware of semiconductor applications beyond computer parts and assume everything is about 7 5 3 nm because that’s what gets in the news.
My kneejerk reaction is that it doesn't seem wise to run your previous breathing gas through an ICE but surely its not as boneheaded as it seems at first glance?
Am I missing something about how cutting notes works, or am I correct in saying that cutting notes relies on a centralized single-company-controlled server being both online and releasing a decryption key?

This entire release seems a little bit light on technical details so it's not clear to me exactly what notes are doing when they're transferred, but it does seem like on first glance there are a lot of red flags here. I would love to see a more detailed technical breakdown on that website that isn't just promotional material.

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Even ignoring the centralization angle, all of the verification advice I'm seeing boils down to "scan each note and cut it when you receive it." And if everyone is going to do that, what's the point of using a physical note instead of an app? The promo images and descriptions clearly expect that this is going to be used like cash so that technical burdens are lessened for people who aren't good with more traditional cryptocurrency transaction methods.

But if non-technical users use it like cash, they're not going to scan anything. And if you think you can teach them to scan every bill in their wallet with a phone, then... why not just teach them to use the phone?
I'd guess that they'd be required to implement both. If there's a USB-C charging option, I don't think the EU would prevent an additional magsafe charging. They havent banned wireless charging, for example. This is to insure an essential minimum compatibility (I hope/as I see it).
The directive is designed to make things easier for customers and the environment, not OEMs per se (even though there will be benefits for a number of companies).
Without looking at details too much, it's seems significantly different than paper claims on a separate physical asset held by a custodian 3rd party subject to counter-party risk.

The control of the BTC is maintained with possession of the private key stored in the bearer asset cash.

Holding gold certificates does not enforce any fundamental claim or control of the actual asset the backs the paper; possession of the physical gold does. You need to trust somehow that the holder will exchange the gold for the paper in the future, as well as actually have the gold at that time.
>I don’t recall ever seeing prior USB devices fail at adherence.

Really? You've never seen a power only micro-usb cable (missing 2 bus lines)? I have dozens from all types of devices that use USB as a charging only connector.

This has been a problem with every USB iteration (hard to have the U in USB if you aren't able to handle a wide variety of applications), but I vastly prefer it to the early 00s when you might have 5 different cables to each "specialty" application.
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Although I am a self-taught developer, I consider myself a quick learner who prides themselves on their work. I currently work at a very busy pub, where I have developed extreme levels of ability in communication, teamwork, working under pressure, and perseverance.

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I've tried a few, the best one was pingo (https://css-ig.net/pingo). pingo -s9 gives better results than oxipng with Zopfli, while being usually two order of magnitudes faster. It's also faster than "regular" oxipng while being better. I can usually shave of 15%/20% of the size of png files I encounter. One thing I didn't check is that you might pay that in decoding time, I've never seen anybody talking about that though.
That'd be great, but I'm sure there are some "metrics" that would not benefit from disabling the audio feature.
Let me turn this around.

A scientific theory is only as valuable as much as it can guide the action of some person.

Popperism is an incredibly successful simplification that made it viable to judge a theory. But at the end of the day, it's just a proxy that nobody really cares about.
Hmm, maybe the EU could step in and help regulate this stuff!
Interesting. I'm kind of skeptical of claims made at industry events, though. Did they also talk about the recyclability of their plastics?
How did MagSafe historically handle this? The pogo pins may've been recessed, but they were still exposed to the elements.
Apple Unity Plug-Ins
Note that, despite their name, the ACLU doesn't defend all civil liberties either. They expressly chose not to defend the 2nd.

Relating to free speech, I believe the ACLU from last century would generally oppose the ACLU of today.
> With Premium Plus, get everything in Premium plus [...]

Off topic, pedantic, but still...

That is horrible writing. And that's not even going into the "and more".
> Finding a secure way to store a master password in the event you cannot recall it,

Currently my master credentials are on an old USB stick (a Yubikey device that I got in an offer, though I only use it to type the long password as if it were a keyboard) and printed (plain and as a QR to save typing issues) & stored well away from the things they secure. The printed copies have the lot, the USB version requires a prefix which I remember.

This may seem risky (the old on-a-post-it-under-the-keyboard issue) but for my online backing and other key stuff the key risk is my password store which is secured by one of those master keys, and its main risk is someone remote getting access to both the key DB and the passphrase and it is properly air-gap secure against that. Similar for the encryption keys for local storage and off-site backups.

> or perhaps in the event of your death

This is a concern I've not at all addressed in my plans. The basics will be putting details in my will for how things should be accessed, but those details need to be both secure from inappropriate access and easy for th eright people to access when the time comes. Though as I have nothing much to leave to anyone that isn't too big a concern yet…

The halfway point is a bigger matter that I (and many others) really should address: what if I'm incapacitated temporarily or otherwise? Someone may need access to my stuff to sort a great many things while I can't. We've had an issue with this with my mother who due to dementia can't even sign her name, so neither she nor my dad couldn't access an account that was only in her name without a huge rigmarole of paperwork and assessments to sort out power of attorney. We've since got things sorted in advance of further problems (myself and my brothers set up with joint PoA so if something happens to him too we can sort what needs sorting more easily) but I have nothing like that setup for myself for either life stuff or technical stuff (or the things that are both).

I'm in good health as far as I know, but I'm not getting any younger (this year I'm on the cusp of leaving "the low 40s") and I've seen unpleasantly final things happen to people who were similarly good health as far as they knew.
I think any protocol that wants to implement a wide range of features will be complex.

Afaik if you don't need these you can just implement the parts you need e.g. charging.
It's coming: https://twitter.com/recall_wiki/status/1527567344951779335
Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting
To clarify to a since flagged (by someone else) comment:

When i say "I'm at least 90% as productive" -- I mean I am more productive per hour worked. Not that I end up working 90% hours but only getting paid for 80%.

I really do work 80% hours, only four days a week, Monday to Thursday. I am not expected to and don't work on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays.

I just get done I think 90% or more of what I would get done in five days, in four days. As seems to be commonly reported by people in this situation.

Some people have also said "Yeah, but in my remote software dev job, I work even less than 80% of my expected hours, I just don't tell them, and I get paid a full salary."

I'm not gonna say much about the ethics of that, I guess I think it depends on the specific situation. But regardless, I'd myself just be stressed out if I had to be less than honest about my work. And my 80% schedule is clear -- I really don't work on Friday, nobody expects to be able to reach me on Friday (any better than they could on a Sunday or at 4am, unless I'm on-call), I don't check my email or look at my work calendar, I am really not working. And that's the whole benefit to me -- it's a different thing than using lots of hours for personal social media or something (which, sure, I do to some extent too whether 4 or 5 days a week.
Thank you for the offer but I solved the problem with an old phone and this:

https://www.ultramobile.com/paygo/

This is absolutely guaranteed to work in every case --- even if a security focused service provider insists on verifying the number with a voice call. Privacy is also enhanced.