skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if you'd have any more luck with that hardware putting Ubuntu Mate on it. For basic web browsing, it probably wouldn't matter much to your family whether it's running Windows or Linux.
> And since I get asked this a ton, these federated features like federated following are (obviously) not in Gitea right now, but will probably be released in Gitea 1.18 in October.

This is really cool, and I look forward to this milestone being delivered and the functionality that will follow.
Not just technical candidates — I saw garbage like this when I was a lawyer, also.
Their statements indicate they were aware and investigating. My frustration is that they didn't give users the opportunity to do their own timely investigation.

> GitHub learned via a customer support ticket that GitHub Apps were able to generate scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. Each of these tokens are valid for up to 1 hour.

> GitHub quickly fixed the issue and established that this bug was recently introduced, existing for approximately 5 days between 2022-02-25 18:28 UTC and 2022-03-02 20:47 UTC.

> GitHub immediately began working to fix the bug and started an investigation into the potential impact. However due to the scale and complexity of GitHub Apps and their short-lived tokens, we were unable to determine whether this bug was ever exploited.
The "why are people expecting doctors to work for free?" argument is such a bad faith take.

You know damn well that nobody is expecting doctors to work without pay. I refuse to believe someone could actually believe such an idiotic argument is being made. So why act like it is?
On linux, if you want a calculator, just type python.
I'd say when the original creator of the "currency" defines it as a joke, and the coin is configured so that ~14.5 million new coins are minted every day... It's safe to consider it illegitimate as an investment.

At a minimum, it certainly can't be considered a valid value store, since the amount of currency in circulation inflates at an incredible pace, and without regard to the current value.
Not that it invalidates anything you said, but it was 750ms vs 200 microseconds.

But yeah. I agree. Why does Lightroom take forever to load, when I can query its backing SQLite in no time at all?

And that's not even mentioning the RAM elephant in the room: chrome.

Younglings today don't understand what a mindbogglingly large amount of data a GB is.

But here's the thing: it's cheaper to waste thousands of CPU cores on bad performance than to have an engineer spend a day optimizing it.
What if the purpose of the article is to compare queries without indexes?
are they suggesting inhalation of nanoparticles sensors? or is the sample a swab going into a device?
Most of the bigger distros have already switched to wayland. It's pretty much inevitable that the rest follow eventually.

https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/10/distros-which-adopted-way...
> IBM's OS/360 IEBUPDTE software update tool dates back to 1962, arguably a precursor to version control system tools. A full system designed for source code control was started in 1972, Source Code Control System for the same system (OS/360). Source Code Control System's introduction, having been published on December 4, 1975, historically implied it was the first deliberate revision control system.[4] RCS followed just after,[5] with its networked version Concurrent Versions System. The next generation after Concurrent Versions System was dominated by Subversion,[6] followed by the rise of distributed revision control tools such as Git.[7]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control#History
So much this.

I wonder what would be the software engineering landscape today if hardware specs were growing like 10% per year...
Good, hopefully they’ll find the image I left for them in my avatar the last time they did this.
I'm really not sure how a median of $1000 is supposed to make your point any better.
So you mean Asian as a race does not exists?

All genetics tests, all medicine all diseases related to asians does not exists?

It may hurt our ego (me included) not being born as Asian and enjoying extra points in IQ but that does not mean we will not have a fulfilling life.

There are several very smart asian people being overworked pipetting in the labs right now.

What if race realism is reality? Does it makes your actions and life less?

The fear of acknowledging it is higher than the effects.
I totally forgot about Triplebyte. Are they even relevant still? I remember back when it seemed like their ads were appearing everywhere and was a bit worried they were going to be the new way of hiring engineering talent. Seems like there's been nothing but crickets chirping for the last few years.

Why? My experience with them was pretty bad. I took their assessment for web development, I think I even did an assignment, and got put on a video call with someone from Triplebyte. He never cracked a smile. Suddenly I got asked a bunch of CS questions that really were not very relevant to web development, some of which were entirely inappropriate like sorting a binary search tree. I even told the guy that I thought I was getting those questions wrong and he just scowled and said "well you just don't know when you're going to use this stuff." "My point exactly," I thought.

Ultimately I got rejected.

The whole idea that you can boil down a candidate to some coding challenges and a video quiz is bad. I do like the idea of streamlining the hiring process for developers, but there's more to it than knowing a bunch of stuff, because that can be gamed. And quizzing me on irrelevant material was a bad move. A firm like Triplebyte won't be as good at interviewing a candidate as the employer itself, and may even keep perfectly qualified candidates out of view from all employers affiliated with them.
I don't know. I have ADHD and I can't watch a slow paced video (unless there is some sort of tension built in that gets brain cogs spinning). I often watch videos at 2x speed and I wish YouTube had an option for 4x.

If there are any pauses I quickly lose interest and go on doing something else and forgetting I even started watching something.
I suppose it depends if there's someone manipulating it. A coin like Bitcoin is immune to internal manipulation -- there's one Bitcoin mined every ten minutes, and no one can change that, no matter how much money they have.

Satoshi proved that a blockchain is only secure if it's the blockchain with the longest accumulated proof-of-work record. Dogecoin's blockchain is shorter, and they can't win a race where the other players are already ahead. Miners will generally only mine the blockchain with the most value, thus the market for one mining the leading crypto squeezes out the market for mining all the others. Miners must vote with their electricity as to which blockchain to support. No other blockchain can ever maintain its stability as long as Bitcoin exists.

The game theory that backs Bitcoin also proves that all other cryptocurrencies cannot work in the long term.
My broken record take on this stuff is that whatever value there is in visualizing elliptic curves, there's more intuition to build just by playing with the curve formulae directly (it's pretty basic math) and seeing how the operations work in code. I don't have the math background to back this up but my understanding of the group rules is that they're --- at least for the application we're using them in --- a little arbitrary.
IMO this is more an attack on FLOSS/Python than anything else. LSP is pretty quickly becoming a predominant standard for free software editors. Making LSP proprietary for Python will kill it as a language for larger project by FLOSS developers as they won't want to use the proprietary component. I know I'll never use proprietary products in my creative pipeline as they should be open for anyone to work on at any economic level. I don't want to lock people out of working on my projects due to a restrictive development environment.
The author delayed his attempt to do something about the cult and got fired because he planned to do so. It would have been better to be fired after raising concerns to the HR. This would have been both more ethical and would also give a more solid ground for the trial, so that's a bit sad. Yet, that's so much better than the tons of people who knew and did nothing. Good luck to him!
Except as a developer I lose lots of time if I have to wait long for my code (esp. Unit tests) to run. Having said that larger projects in C/C++ are often very slow to build (esp. if dependencies are not well defined and certain header files affect huge numbers of source files - a problem that doesn't exist with higher level languages).
But even if using a particular language and framework saves developer time, it rarely seems to translate into developers using that saved time to bother optimizing where it might really count.
Sure, please write it, ship it, and then support my 8+ aging family members who need to use it.

Or just follow the spec.
I've always assumed they are loading a bunch of stuff into caches and pre-computing things.
No. How is the web browser supposed to know how an "unanimated" animation is supposed to appear? Animations can be very complex, and there's simply no way that a browser could do this without breaking a lot of stuff.
Lu with Massdriver (YC W22) here. Our public launch is June 29th but we'd love to get some feedback from the community before then. If you sign up at massdriver.cloud we can push you through so you can set up a POC.
> Why can't they sell ads?

I suspect the real answer is "because ads on Reddit are less than worthless" - so you get ads trying to sell you ways to poo.

I suspect Google is in a position of power so it is to their interest to make it hard to use their ad interface (or no reason to make it easier) because they don't want you to really work out exactly how useless the ads may be.

> What drives ad spend?

Momentum, likely, but I'm not in the business so I can't really talk to the values.
The earth's soil, oceans are living things - anything we can do to avoid dumping plastic ( a non-living thing) with benefit us... to put it mildly.
Triplebyte has given me my favorite interview to date. I love the concept, I had some interesting chats with Uber and Apple, but didn't end up going anywhere (they wanted me for positions I wasn't interested in -- currently at a different FAANG).

The repeated fails on execution is pretty disheartening.
Perhaps because copper has antibacterial qualities? I use stainless steel, myself. Never plastic.
On mobile devices it is more serious than just bad craftsmanship & hurt pride, bad code is short battery life.

Think mobile game that could last 8 hours instead of 2 of it wasn’t doing unnecessary linear searches on timer in JavaScript.
It's far easier to add code than it is to delete it. Software entropy.
I work at a BigCorp that ships desktop software (but none of the above products) and network latency is (usually) pretty easy to extract out of the boot critical path. Blocking UI with network calls is a big no-no, and I expect any sizeable organization to have similar guidelines.

Work like in the OP's article is probably the most difficult - it's work that is necessary, cannot be deferred, but is still slow. So it requires an expert to dig into it.
The Nomad List city guide may be a good starting point to compare cities, get inspired, read reviews, etc. -- https://nomadlist.com/
Oh yeah, I was just curious whether the author's native language (assuming it's not English) had interesting features that would lead to such a mistake.
Ammonia synthesized electrically is not restricted in how it may be used. Identically the same ammonia will be used for many things: burned in combined-cycle turbines for power, burned in retrofitted cargo ships displacing bunker oil, made into fertilizer, injected as working fluid into warehouse-scale refrigeration systems, dissolved in water for window cleaner, used as feedstock in a thousand other chemical pipelines, sent abroad in tankers, mixed into hydrogen fuel to scavenge NOx. It is exactly its wide usefulness that makes it attractive. Similarly for hydrogen.

Insisting that a synthesis plant must jealously direct every last liter produced to be tanked and later burned in a local peaker turbine is fetishism. The ammonia doesn't care, and neither does the synthesis equipment owner: any customer who pays is a good one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743182#31743198 :)
IDK when it recently started but I've been getting direct messages from various recruiters to an email that I only make public on certain open source packages. As a result I remove all instances of email and just mark every recruiter that I never reached out to as spam.

It's just so disrespectful, as you said.
Stuff some Christmas lights into some empty computer cases, especially ones that automatically blink and fade. Also, get a fog machine that you can turn on whenever you need a break from work (just remember to keep stocked up on fogger juice)
> If you hold up a sign with, say, a multiplication, a CPU will produce the result before light reaches a person a few metres away.

The latency on multiplication (register input to register output) is 5-clock ticks, and many computers are 4GHz or 5GHz these days.

5-clock cycles at 5GHz is 1ns, which is 30-centimeters of light travel.

If we include L1 cache read and L1 cache write, IIRC its 4 clock cycles for read + 4 more for the write. So 13 clock ticks, which is almost 70 centimeters.

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DDR4 read and L1 cache write will add 50 nanoseconds (~250 cycles) of delay, and we're up to 13 meters.

And now you know why cache exists, otherwise computers will be waiting on DDR4 RAM all day, rather than doing work.
Looks like QuestDB is faster if you don't optimize your table storage for 1 query.

But if you are okay that only limited number of columns to be scanned faster than others ClickHouse comes first.
I'd love a 'remote browser' if I could host it on one of my own servers, would help offload 15-30gb of ram usage from my main workstation. Unfortunately I know of no good software for that.
For contexts that can be exploited to benefit the one guy at the expense of other for sure. For contexts where there is no downside it depends, its good for broad research, bad for in depth content. The problem is there are hardly any places for the latter type of content anymore, because reddit took over with its subreddits that seem good fit for nieches and the price wasn't apparent in advance ...
That's really cool but I somewhat resent the use of percentages here. Just use a straight factor or even better just the order of magnitude. In this case it's four orders of magnitude of an improvement.
I just got it as well and don't understand what I can do. Can I somehow force all generated tokens to be revoked and get apps to generate new tokens to be on the safe side? Or, rather, is there a way to do this without uninstalling the apps and installing them again?
So you do a full scan and it's ~50 CPU cycles per row (48 CPUs at 4 GHZ), correct? This is possible I guess? And in this case Clickhouse is wrong.
Tldr - Effective leaders do x, y and z. Ok, how do you know they do those things? We ask people. How do you know they're effective leaders? We ask (presumably the same) people. What's the sample? Startups that people have selected to be in our accelerator (presumably based on, among other things, whether the leaders were deemed to be effective by our people). So many issues with the analysis that its hard to tease out anything of value.
This from a company that hires a gazillion phds. Sigh.
That is quite an amazing way to put it.

So the processor in my hand can compute a multiplication fast than light can cross the room?
Interesting. I would love to see this available for MS SQL Server.

I've played with Safepeak (1) which runs on Windows Server. It was sold later to an Israeli company (2), which have since gone out of business and assets ended up with another company and now sold as ScaleArc (3)

The original SafePeak is available free but no maintenance or anything, so not really production ready. It works, as tested in a test environment but eight years without support or updates...

(1) http://www.safepeak.org/
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafePeak
(3) https://www.devgraph.com/scalearc/
Agreed that switching to lower level languages give the potential of many orders of magnitude. But the thing that was most enlightening was that removing pandas made a 9900% increase in speed without even a change to language. 20 minutes down to 12 seconds is a very big deal, and I still don't have to remember how to manage pointers.
Food waste is great as food for pigs. Not sure how many farmers collect in big cities though.
I heard optimization described this way: Sure, you think you need to tune the engine, but really, the first thing you need to do is get the clowns out of the car.
Similar to another poster below, I found new modes of existential crisis from not just age but witnessing another's decline. A long-time friend's surprise death by brain cancer started me off with what feels like your observation about time running out.

But watching elderly relatives as their minds melt into dementia and delirium has certainly been more cataclysmic. No matter how much you know about the possibility in theory, the qualitative experience of it in intimate practice is quite another thing. As I've heard from several social workers in the past few years and felt myself, grief wells up for the person who is still in front of you as you keep recognizing the loss of different parts of them or of your relationship to them.

The hardest part may be contemplating the limits of caregiving. I have newfound respect and awe for doctors, nurses, et. al who have to face this throughout their career. You have to acknowledge many limits in yourself and in the patient, including inevitable suffering which you cannot prevent no matter how much clever planning nor deep understanding you can muster.
Ask Reddit at /r/cableporn. They will be thrilled to have you.
I think it's even stronger than a habit. When you're exposed to the typical "performance" of the web and apps for a decade or so, you may have forgotten about raw performance entirely. Young people may have never experienced it at all.

I once owned a small business server with a Xeon processor, Linux installed. Just for kicks I wrote a C program that would loop over many thousands of files, read their content, sort in memory, dump into a single output file.

I ran the program and as I ran it, it was done. I kept upping the scope and load but it seems I could throw anything at it and the response time was zero, or something perceived as zero.

Meanwhile, it's 2022 and we can't even have a text editor place a character on screen without noticeable lag.

Shit performance is even ingrained in our culture. When you have a web shop with a "submit order" button, if you'd click it and would instantly say "thanks for your order", people are going to call you. They wonder if the order got through.
Thai Theravada and Japanese Zen (and State Shinto) were reinvented in the 1800s to look more European and incorporate Romanticism because they knew if Europeans showed up and you didn't have a European-style religion, they'd declare you savages and colonize you. It more or less worked.

See "The Making of Buddhist Modernism", review here: https://vividness.live/the-making-of-buddhist-modernism

That didn't happen in Tibet, although it modernized later with a marketing campaign resulting in everyone vaguely associating the Dalai Lama with "compassion" and "ethics".
Huh? Retarded just means "slow" literally. So, if I get your meaning, it's absolutely not "kinda" retarded, it's depressingly/horribly/saddeningly/hopelessly retarded. And I do not recommend putting "kinda" together with "retarded" if you want to be received positively.

(I'm sorry for what you and your calico endured. F cancer)
Exactly correct. They're literally more deserving of credit because they've done something that to this day nobody else has been able to do.
There's an interesting piece about being a mini/micro celebrity by Tim Ferriss. Am too lazy to look it up, but the gist is that for every ~thousand people, several are bat-shit insane and looking for something to obsess over.

So if multiple thousand folks know you exist, prepare for some stalking.
Europe’s major new rocket, the Ariane 6, is delayed again
Ah I see, doctors aren't supposed to work for free, just other taxpayers (who most likely make far less than a doctor) working for free to pay the (much higher salary) to cover someone elses expenses. Got it.
It's similar to hiring on mission: ensure alignment between what the person wants to do and what the company needs done. The more out of alignment, the more costly in energy, $, time, management, QA, etc. it becomes, and the less likely bottom-up innovation happens.

In this case, a volunteer is a nice mission-less proxy. Is some work engaging for the owning employee, or do you need to get someone else on it, or even switch to outside staff for it?
I was once asked to be a partly-decorative sysadmin in a similar situation but offered to split the fees with an actual male model in a smart suit while I did the crawling under desks bit...

What are model rates in your area compared to cost of eye candy hardware?
Duff's device is a fixed size loop unrolling with an ugly hack to make it behave for arbitrary inputs. The assembly makes sense but the C code is rough.

It's not quite as fast as self-modifying or custom compiled code, but it's pretty close.
> but is not the fault of landlord greed

Yes it is, and I'm tired of pretending it ain't.

> Blaming high prices on greed does not make sense because Landlords were just as greedy 30 years ago when the prices were low.

That reasoning does not make sense because there's this thing called "supply and demand" to which landlords are constrained. Demand for land comes from economic activity, and that has grown considerably over the last 30 years - and landlords have been at the ready, greedily capturing that growth in rents.

Landlords are parasites - literally-rentseeking middlemen between honest people and housing. They serve no purpose that their tenants could not do themselves; they exist solely to hold land hostage, and I have no sympathy for them. They are long overdue to pay their rent to the society in which they exist - that rent being a land value tax.
> Nobody has created a language that is both thousands of times faster than Python and nearly as straightforward to learn and to use.

Not Python-based, but Lua-based is Nelua [1]

If you like Lua's syntax, LISP's metaprogramming abilities, and C's performance, well there you have it!

[1] https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang
I'm sure its average, but the self-reported IQ might be way higher ...
It could open up a new industry specifically for this purpose. Right now for narrowbodies all transatlantic routes are pretty marginal in terms of range. There are some but only on very specific routes, which doesn't scale (you don't buy airliners for just one route because you'll have a huge problem if you need to change it).

And Ryanair is an Irish airline but Ireland is far from its main market these days. For the rest of Europe it's already a lot harder to reach with their aircraft.

There are a few lowcost airlines already targeting this market, like "Level" in Spain. They had to scale down long-haul destinations significantly since Corona and I could imagine smaller capable aircraft could pick these back up.

I live in a smaller city in Europe that could really benefit from such destinations.
at that point, almost anything compiled will be at least an order of magnitude faster than python