skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just took delivery of some practice nunchaku off eBay :-) God what you can do in one day's watching tutorials! I just taught two of my kids the basics and we haven't broken anything yet.

Other than that. Midnight Commander (always had it, never learned it), picking up some Perl, Janet, Groovy. Some GDevelop with my kids.

Theory wise I'm working within my field to study some esoteric personality theory. A bit of math here and there. Some astrology stuff also for esoteric interest. Researching microscopes to look at buying one in the future.
I actually think the title is wrong. The URL slug actually states 2021, and later in the article: "The industry shipped 348.8 million PCs in 2021..."
I can't know but I think I see a fair amount of downvotes arising from misunderstanding.

I am excluding my own downvotes received and given and only thinking of examples where I was a bystander (except that I probably upvoted someone to counter what I thought was undeserved downvotes).

I can't know that someone else misunderstood a comment, or that I understood a comment of course, so I just leave my own comment saying "I interpreted that this way...."

But I have seen some truely inexplicable torpedoing of the most innocuous comments. I never get an answer to "I don't know why you're downvoted..."

Please assume that I know the difference between interesting or valuable and flies my team colors, or at least gave conscious thought to it, in this talk about deserved/undeserved, understood/misunderstood.
I’ve interviewed more than a few 10+ years of claimed experience engineers who couldn’t write a function to sum a list/array of integers.

There are incompetent charlatans that you’re competing against and if you’re not willing to engage to demonstrate that you’re not, some will (not entirely unreasonably) assume that you might be one.
We could also add a healthcare system damage surcharge for red meat. But not for cheese... for... reasons...
> I can practically guarantee it didn't

If that was the case, then Google would not have been sued by the Department of Labor. Don't presume to understand what a manager is capable of doing when you are a mere engineer IC. The fact that you believe the discretionary limit is a few hundred dollars indicates you don't know what you're talking about. Top performers routinely get discretionary refreshers of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of RSUs (on top of their regular annual refreshers). A few hundred dollars is probably less than your team gets for a single social event. If retaining a woman would boost the manager's diversity KPIs, it's easy to see how the diversity KPIs would cause discriminatory retention bonuses.

> I'm asking who it disfavors when there aren't any Asians.

Do you not realize that the <5% of Asians in your city are still applying to jobs and colleges across the country? Even if locally there are few Asians, they are still discriminated against by affirmative action. If I'm an Asian in bumfuck nowhere Kentucky and I apply to Harvard, I still get screwed by affirmative action equally as much as the Asian applying from California.

The situation you're talking about where there are no Asians competing for a spot doesn't exist for jobs and schools with any level of selectivity.
How does Zig protect against stack overflow? To make a "100% panic-safe program" you must disallow recursion.
Every time I have a recruiter explicitly tell me that they are "top of market value comp" and keep reiterating it, I already know there's going to be no stock or bonus and the total comp is probably 1/5 of what I get now and "can't" do a signing bonus. I have not had one that doesn't meet this benchmark yet.

The ones that actually pay top of market rate I reach out to, not the other way around.
There's a facinating article on by Scott Alexander about classism in the US https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on...
Researchers Report Major Advance in Semiconductor Materials
What is the meaning then?

dy = f'(x)dx is just a definition for notional convenience, primarily employed when doing u or u-v substitution. My point is that dx in single variable calculus is notation. It is not an intrinsic object. dx is an intrinsic object as a differential form on a smooth manifold. Of course, the real line R is a 1-manifold, so dx does have that meaning, but you need to understand what a differential form is to know that.

One doesn't necessarily need the full generality of smooth manifolds though. Harold Edwards' Advanced Calculus: A Differential Forms Approach and Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View teach differential forms for Euclidean manifolds.
Andersen Consulting/Accenture is my first job. Accenture directly sends me to the client after finishing my orientation program and 2-3 days of training.
On my first day arrived at the client side for some initial discussion. I saw everyone standing with anxious faces and suddenly everyone spontaneously laughing.
On lunch time, the client told me this was their first time engaging a big consultant firm and they did not expect a kid.
> Do you feel for the coal workers that lost their job because the plant went offline?

Yes, obviously yes.
> Do you feel for the coal workers that lost their job because the plant went offline?

Uh, I sure do.
What an excellent comment. Thank you for sharing, it was a great read!
“Consulting is a test. You pass when you leave.”
- Unknown
China deploys tanks to prevent withdrawals of money from crisis-hit banks
I'm learning a bit more about FPGA and digital designer career, I've been think about to change my career a bit.
American Diogenes – Henry David Thoreau's Living Philosophy
Agreed, but the shitty electronics store around the corner from me doesn't have the breakout you linked in stock, and if I try to get it shipped from overseas they'll ask me to pay with a credit card I don't have, and then it will get held up in customs and probably returned to the sender.

Third world problems, I know, but they're still real problems.
I can’t wait to see how Much Ado About Nothing is connected to Point Break. But, if I were going to script this, I could imagine the time machine from Bill and Teds fracturing space time into a Keanu multiverse… but that’s almost too obvious.
I completely agree: in my neck of the woods, a breakfast combo at McDonalds now costs more than the incredible mom & pop places nearby. The problem is convenience and access.

Fast food chains are ubiquitous and designed to be a quick and predictable choice for people. Mom & pop places don't tend to have large parking lots, or drive-thrus that people can line up around the block for. They also can't afford the margins that UberEats or Doordash take — and food delivery has exploded in the past few years.

Lastly, many people are creatures of habit and few are probably looking to shake things up right now. The unfortunate truth is that the best value or quality seldom wins these days.
Most reasonable people understand that rates and salaries go up. Going in with the attitude of "we don't need to justify shit" is going to turn reasonable people into unreasonable ones.
It was purchased by Unity, but I don't see anything that heavily ties it to Unity. I've used it locally, and it certainly didn't require any Unity dependencies.
These are not commonly used in application code, but are "commonly" used to implement reclamation in languages without memory management for concurrent mutable data structures.
The irony is that these companies can have multiple design systems for the same brand because the ownership breaks down by geography. The best is often US versus global, but more often you have brand managers for the top 15 economies.
The state-venue anti-trust bill passed the Senate and is stuck in the House. There a multiple anti-trust bills.
I’m brushing up big time on analog electronics in studying for my extra class amateur radio license.
I've got a cheap bridge for sale. Anybody want to buy it?
Redux Toolkit!
Summary and commentary on Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System
Would they be posting billions in profits without subsidies? My understanding is that for several years, they were only profitable because they were selling fuel efficiency credits to Ford and GM so they could continue selling tons of trucks and SUVs. But those subsidies are going to be phased out and there will also be less demand for them as the big makers sell more EVs.
What about, I can't read this code. Who's the idiot who wrote it?

git blame

Oh that was me.
To an extent, the B-Tree data structure (and its variants) are cache oblivious. They smoothly improve in performance with more and more cache memory, and can scale down to just megabytes of cache over terabytes of disk.

The issue is that the last tree level tends to break this model because with some caching models it is "all or nothing" and is the biggest chunk of the data by far.

There are workarounds which make it more truly cache oblivious. How often this is used in production software? Who knows...
How to play guitar. I'm in my 60s, but it's never too late to learn how to shred or shoe-gaze.

Similarly, 30+ years ago I learned how to ride a motorcycle, and rode for 30 years without crashing. It was great having a hobby that had absolutely nothing to do with computers. I recently sold the bikes and gear, it's just too risky at my age.
> In practice, it's not an issue, and unlike with rust I have a very clear idea of when and where memory is being freed and allocated.

I'm very skeptical that the lack of memory safety is not going to be an issue "in practice". That's what every C++ developer thinks too until they write code people actually try to attack.

One of the very nice things about memory safety is that it frees the programmer from having to think about when memory is freed most of the time. The compiler or runtime system will take care of that. Most of the time, manual frees are just noise--this observation is the entire reason behind destructors.
> because even when you get into things with the best intentions --- and I take 'mtlynch at their word that that's exactly what happened --- circumstances can fuck everything up

The web agency didn't just mismanage the project; they dragged him down the rabbit hole of upselling everything. He wanted a simple redesign - that they agreed to - but instead got a constant upsell to the point of where they were redesigning virtually everything. It wasn't just, "Hey we don't have time for this", it was, "Hey, if you just pay us more, you'll get everything you didn't even know you wanted." If they were so overwhelmed, how did they have the time to figure out what to pitch him?
Seems like a win if the reckless drivers get booted into autonomous cars, even if those cars are no better at avoiding accidents than careful human drivers.
My own model is pretty good. (pun of the decade) I could fully explain it but it says it wouldn't be understood. (lame I know) But we can start with dismissing the rational actor. It was something I loved to pretend to be true. This was irrational. There is nothing to suggest people act rationally! We all have heads full of nonsense. Just wait 1000 years and the common man will be laughing his ass off. There is no reason to think we are the exceptional generation. We ponder all these errors we believe to be facts and "rationally" arrive at erroneous conclusions. Then, now that we've figured things out it will be a rare exception for us to implement it. In stead we do what we always did and stubbornly defend our actions even if we know its wrong.

It is astonishing to see what we've accomplished despite these rather large shortcomings.

If you disagree, how do you know this emotion isnt triggered by what you would like to be real?

When convinced of anything one grows a bias blind spot of biblical volume. It is a tremendous struggle to look around it.
Finger drumming, guitar, track making, and how to educate children to make electronic music too.
Would be a great iPhone case.
The Communicator-style device, the N900, was not based on Meego and was never sold in the United States. They sold just fine in the EMEA market which Nokia focused on. The Meego-based device, the N9, was released around the same time Stephen Elop torpedoed his own company, and nothing Nokia had for sale was attractive to anyone after that fiasco.
>Journals are often uninterested in negative results, and researchers can be reluctant to contradict a famous investigator.
> Specifically, the firm is now virtual, but can materialize physically on command.

That’s a funny way of putting it.
This is a trick question. How do you quantify quality of articles? How much new science they created? We can't know that yet. What they provided in term of societal impact? SameThey reproductibility, lot of chemistry and biology from the 50s turned out to be really wrong for example.
I would still say that the average quality (in my field), chemistry is lower but just because there is a deluge of really low quality publishers and journals that have no ethics. But if you stay in the major journals of fields, the answer is radically different.
The article he links to actually refutes pretty much everything the author says.

https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/05/13/overdose-deaths-rose-3...

Oregon had the 5th largest rise in overdoses behind such progressive luminaries as Alaska, Kansas, South Dakota and Vermont. I may be wrong, but I doubt any of these states decriminalized hard drugs over this period.

And the article points out the massive jump in ODs is due to a significant influx of Fentanyl in Oregon, which until recently had been largely an East coast phenomenon.
Local governments want Portugal’s drug decriminalization results without resorting to Portugal’s methods. It can’t work. Former long-shot gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger has written about this extensively.

>Many progressives believe that Portugal and Netherlands reduced drug deaths by simply decriminalizing drugs, which is wrong

>The Portuguese coerce addicts to quit, and don't allow public drug use, as the architect of the Portuguese approach explained to me:[…]

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/14153458369139220...
Convenient for slight stress testing, but if you want maximum thermal generation there is no substitute for FIRESTARTER:

https://github.com/tud-zih-energy/FIRESTARTER

With my system hooked up to a watts up (but including the monitor and a couple of other things) yes > /dev/null on each core gets a bit above 42w, openssl speed on each core occasionally gets above 45w and running FIRESTARTER for a bit gets above 57w (on an i5-6260U (NUC) with hyperthreading disabled, 15W TDP with some attempted power restraint in the BIOS, firefox on decent websites like HN tend to use about 31w and I think that is something like 10-15w (I think 12w but it has been a bit) measuring the computer only).

FIRESTARTER has some evolutionary algorithms as well, but at least on my CPU after hours they were still doing much worse than the default. I was wondering why there wasn't much discussion of BIOS power settings that I could find and after some testing found out that they are not effective at restraining max power use (I forget if they had any effect on typical power use either but I don't think it was much if they did). Also, the integrated GPU can use more power than the CPU and can't be limited. For that GpuTest is handy (but not open source):

https://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/

For me on the internal GPU, Pixmark Piano and Furmark use the most power, either can get 60-61w and adding FIRESTARTER in the background only adds another w or two.

Similarly, checking temps with turbostat (PkgTmp), 2x yes seems to max out about 70, testing one of the higher power openssl tests on each core reaches 75, FIRESTARTER alone quickly reaches 80 and slowly ramps up to 90, and adding gputest got up to 96. Interstingly, the max temperature is reached when the CPU dethrottles too quickly after the gputest is done. It takes a few gputests alone in a row to get into the 80s (I got bored after 2x each alternating Furmark and Piano that hit 83). Similarly, looking at power useage with turbostat the max PkgWatt with yes is 8.26, with openssl speed ecdsa 9.88, with FIRSTARTER alone 17.62, + gputest 19.97 (or gputest alone, seems unreliable).

Anyway, this is a long diversion to say that even fancy yes or openssl speed tests are not that great as CPU stress tests :).
My guess is targeted advertising works great up until the point you share your devices with other people. parents and their kids sharing accounts, laptops, tablets leads to a bunch of junk input and this makes up the majority of population
Learn Zig and get back to me. It's nothing at all like managing memory in C++, not even close.
You should find a 100% remote job. If other people are there full time, but you're only there 0-2 days a week, you're never going to be that close with them. You said you're happy when you're at home, but going into the office makes you anxious. So you shouldn't have an issue working at home full time.
Re-learning C by reading K&R and operating systems by reading Tanenbaum et al in the evenings. Hoping to then read a bit deeper about operating systems and long-term dreaming of getting so deep (if I ever get there) that I can write/improve device support for an operating system. This is all with the end goal to feel less helpless when things work on one and not another, while not being best buddies with a BSD kernel hacker and almost certainly knowing that I lack the funds to hire one for the amount of hours necessary. '^^
Excuse me, where did I lie? I have no role in collecting or reporting on adverse reactions. I don't even know for sure that adverse reaction numbers are as large as I suspect.

I do empathize with the people trying to minimize deaths from a raging pandemic in an atmosphere of politically-motivated disinformation that is actively contemptuous toward public safety. People with your attitude make their work that much harder, and cost more unnecessary deaths.
I don't know much about Zig, but it shares a problem with Rust in that neither have a built-in REPL.

I'd like to learn Rust, but every time I try to, I am a bit overwhelmed by its complexity, both in syntax and overall feature set.
It does however increase the level of effort to find the wheat.
Agreed, all those formally simulated cells and metabolic networks didn't age well.
For me it's a combination of how people talk about others 'below' their class, and how much social mixing between the classes there is - but I realise that this is very hard to measure. Just my 2c having lived in UK, Europe, and US.
If we had user modifiable coreboot it would probably be (relatively) easy enough to drop in a seabios payload.
I work with garbage collected languages all the time. Do you know how much time I spend tuning garbage collection and worrying about its performance? None whatsoever. Honestly, it's not a thing and it's mostly fine.

GC mostly just works really well. Occasionally you get some poor performance and then you find that you are doing something silly and then you fix it and move on. Or you throw more hardware at the problem.

GC has a bad reputation but the reality is that there is a lot of software being written with languages that aren't exactly famous for even having a particularly good garbage collector. Python, ruby, go, etc. They are alright but certainly nowhere near best in class when it comes to garbage collection. If that matters to you, you can pick python and ruby implementations that have way better performance than the default implementations provide. But the thing is, it does not matter. It's genuinely not a problem for people using those languages.

I\ve used each of those languages and also use Kotlin both on the JVM and in the browser. So, you'd think I spend a lot of time obsessing about what the javascript garbage collector does in the browser or how to tune the jvm? Nope. I just let it do its thing. We have no garbage collect related issues. So why spend time on it?

My observation is that engineers love talking about optimization but rarely realize how expensive they are relative to just throwing more hardware at a problem. And the thing is, some modest hardware goes a long way these days. We run our Spring/Kotlin JVM servers on cheap vms in Google cloud and in another data center using openstack. 2GB and one VCPU. About 25$ per month. That's around 10 minutes of my time at my freelance rate. Those are European rates, not Silicon Valley rates. Those are more like 3-5 minutes. We could go cheaper and I'm pretty sure I can make it run with half an GB if I work at the problem. But the savings are negligible and I like a little safety margin. We have many issues but our hosting bills are pretty awesome. Cutting them in half is literally not worth more than 1-2 hours of my time per month.

I think it's great that C/C++ are getting some competition from modern languages now. Rust has a pretty innovative borrowing mechanism and it seems to genuinely be better at certain things that have been the exclusive domain for heavily optimized C/C++ systems for decades. That's great. Zig seems like the more reasonable choice for people that just want something simple that works that isn't ancient and awkward like C but gets you ballpark in the same league in terms of performance. I learned C a long time ago and I love Linux. But the never ending exploits and security problems are a thing that I just don't need in my own projects. Having a garbage collector and some other safety has a tiny cost but eliminates whole classes of bugs and exploits. Completely worth it IMHO.
Gamers nexus had a few video reviews as well.

A a380 from China benchmarked.

https://youtu.be/La-dcK4h4ZU

Intel sent some engineers over after to explain the models and talk about drivers and tech..
https://youtu.be/AN8ZAf15DrM
Right, because having a gun definitely will stop the next Mandalay Bay gunman from sniping me out during a rave.
It's pretty obvious these people simply aren't voting or aren't voting for appropriate representatives. The US is an optional democracy. It doesn't really matter what you answer in these no-stakes surveys if you can't be bothered to show up for them when electing your representatives. If you sent out a survey asking if people wanted free money, you'll probably get a similarly high approval rate.

Your revealed preference when you don't vote accordingly is not "deep down I think Congress should legalize marijuana", it's "I don't care".

And let's not get carried away, not legalizing marijuana or establishing your preferred healthcare system does not mean the system is "broken". There are ways for people to express that they think the system is broken, but it usually takes more effort than voting accordingly if you're actually right that there is such a strong consensus.
Just means the restaurant wasn't very good to begin with. Chipotle, McD's, etc. have all raised prices nationally, and they operate in what has to be the most price sensitive market possible. I know the good restaurants in my area have doubled prices and people keep coming because they're the best.

Rising prices differentiate the good businesses from the bad.
> It was great having a hobby that had absolutely nothing to do with computers.

Totally agree. I’m also learning guitar and I started with an acoustic and have continued with it because, even though I borrowed a friends electric, there is something awesome and refreshing about a practice so far from computing that it doesn’t even require a power source.
For one thing a lot of BMCs are not the easiest to secure and at least KVM devices like a Spider or PiKVM can be patched so that these network accessible devices aren’t so easy to own remotely. A number of BMCs can start advertising and routing to itself across different PHY so even not hooking up the management NIC to a separate LAN won’t be enough then (you’d need to have the right settings and hope you can disable this behavior to avoid such a broadcast across other NICs). I have this issue with my ASRock ASpeed BMC and never got around to fixing it but it bothers me a bit every time I see the IP pop up in my DHCP list and ARP tables.