skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a rather pragmatic decision given corporate capitalism is the economic model under which most processor design and trade happens, at least toward the higher end. The good news is since the main ISA and several open extensions exist, any open source hardware implementation of those aren't hindered by the ISA. That's also true for SPARC, POWER, and a few others of course. But RISC-V seems to be the belle of the ball and apparently simpler to build a hardware design around.

Someone, somewhere may eventually form a coalition to pay TSMC or Samsung to generate an in-house spec for a high-performance RISC-V processor with an open-source license on the hardware design, too. Some places use RISC-V in products where the processor is another line item in the BOM and not the centerpiece of a SOC or dev board, like Western Digital using it in storage products. A group of companies and institutions could very conceivably get things where we'd wish now that the open ISA has set the stage.
And masonry also lasts forever… ignoring ground movement, frost damage, properly maintained mortar, etc.
I am angry, yes, but not at mathematics. I'm angry at math academia (and math education, if the difference means anything) for not giving mathematics the care it deserves.

Math is an amazing academic subject, not the least because it's the language the universe is written in, but none of that sheer sense of wonder is ever conveyed when it comes to teaching math to students. That's what I'm angry about, and of course I would love to not be angry eventually too.
It's difficult because there is not a lot of news or pressing issues in fiction. Contemporary fiction is not robust enough for it to be the basis of an aspiring writer's study. Canonical works are. This is distinct from coding, where new methods, and news about developments in technology, are directly applicable to the best work being done. You would need to create a sense of urgency about literary criticism, but this requires an abundance of reading on the part of the user base.
You clearly only read the first third of the (admittedly) somewhat roundabout and meandering commentary. I know because your comment was what I was thinking until about a third of the way through, when I realized that that was not at all what this person is saying.
Maybe, but what a fun wheel it was to reinvent! Honestly one of the more fun things I've done in my career.

I guess I could've just made another static site generator though ;)
Actually a real law:

Determine that a particular person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter, whatever is extra-terrestrially exposed and quarantine such person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever. The quarantine may be based only on a determination, with or without the benefit of a hearing, that there is probable cause to believe that such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever is extra-terrestrially exposed.

- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1969-07-16/pdf/FR-196...

In effect 1969 - 1977, removed from register in 1991
No, we know exactly what to do with it: run a bunch of Electron apps to use it all up.
I am currently reading a paper [1] about the Far-side Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02216
And humans are back to waving off reality in deference to ephemera.
The power dynamic between managers and those they manage is the differentiator. Sure it's a spectrum but half of that spectrum (from average to god awful) have power over your career/work, to your detrement.
Native or framework for mobile app that focuses on realtime audio processing?
I need a break from back-end API development and I have decided to do a hobby project on cross-platform mobile development that focuses on real time audio and music score processing. I have a hard time deciding if I should use a cross-platform framework or native for this as I have read many different opinions. What do you guys recommenced?
> “quiet quitters” [...] meaning they fulfill their job description but [...]

No. There is no room for a "but" there. Calling people "quitters" for doing their job is ridiculous. If you need your workers to do more than their contract says, change their contract. If they don't want that, pay them more. If you don't want to pay them more money for more work, sucks for you I guess.
As someone who has switched between management and IC work, I’ve found management to be much, much more difficult to do well. Management should be managing people, which is much harder than managing code.

Perhaps this is why there are so many bad examples. The job is nearly impossible to do exceptionally well.
Shame on you for ignoring the industrial feedback loop that is required to make consumer vehicles.

The building and refueling of gas stations.

Shipping replacement parts.

The trip to the store is not their only impact.

You’re cherry picking a stat that represents the smallest part you want to take responsibility for but demand for all of it as resource costs.
Use alternative safe front-ends if they exist ( Piped or Invidious for searching YT combined with yt-dlp for instance ) and take uBlock Origin as a tool that gives you info on what to avoid.

Sites that use and abuse malvertising, tracking and analytics deserve zero visits or engagement. Find alternative sites and services whenever possible.

Paying for things is perfectly fine, too. "Free" is rarely free.
I'm wondering if there is a big asterisks next to that "Hydrogen is cheaper* than batteries in these use cases"

*when hydrogen is sourced from fossil fuels and/or fossil fuel powered generation
This is cool. The model of distributed local fabrication is one that I think we’ll see more of in future as automation becomes more capable and cheaper.

This seems to fix one of the big problems with pre-fab houses, that they are expensive to ship long distances, and therefore can’t benefit from economy-of-scale centralized manufacturing.
Nothing beats the simplicity of FAT.

Btrfs has a lot of bugs while being active for a long time. This is mostly related to its complexity.

If I'm going to implement a filesystem for a custom hardware I would definitely not chose btrfs.
In fairness, the Agile Manifesto is about pushing developers to work directly with the business people and each other in order to cut out the 'middlemen' you speak of. Each of the twelve principles highlight areas where developers need to pick up the slack when product/program/project management is cut out of the picture.

For better or worse, this is what we, as an industry, have adopted and a generation has grown up not knowing any better.
The way I read this, his response saying that a full team would be needed to uncover this is not a flaw in the question - because IMHO that's exactly what was required - but rather that Facebook has not done the work required to meet their legal requirements. Yes, it's quite plausible that Facebook might need a team to do extensive work to produce the analysis and documentation about where private data is flowing - that's not a valid excuse though, Facebook simply needs to make that team and do that work, no matter if they want to or not, until they can properly answer these questions.

They need to have an exhaustive list of how they're using private data, and they need to have a process ensuring that their engineers are not adding new sources of private data or not using existing private data without the company approving and updating that list. Yes, their current processes aren't fit for that - as Meta documents quoted in TFA say "We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose,’" - so these processes must be changed.
> temporarily beneficial

This was the crux of my point.
These things always devolve into the Product Owner or the Project Manager are actually the Engineering Manager without the pay and/or authority.
Yeah, people's metabolism can be really different though.

I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease and prior to getting medication I had been gaining weight.

Although that's an actual medical condition so I guess it's an extreme case.
Let me know if you ever plan to, I'm ready to help :-) (OP)
Edit: I guess my first look is wrong, on second look, it appears it needs their own filesystem driver. If the hack as I wrote would've worked, it would've been very clever, and dangerous...

> de facto file naming convention

From a first look, like it's using Microsoft's own hack of long file names[1] to create file entries that look like they belong to 1 file. A file that has a long file name (more than the 8+3 character limit) is actually several file entries, but they're empty files. Seems like the tool is creating non-empty files instead, that Windows is chaining together as one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_the_FAT_file_system#...
Taking this further why aren't there more communities like HN? What makes this place so special and obnoxious at the same time?
Does anyone know of a similar project for garden offices?
twitter. for real. a ton of writers engage with each other on twitter.
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson has a city on Mercury that stays at twilight on the terminator, but being on a rotating planet, it has to keep moving on a massive track. Until it doesn't.
it's more like protecting the team from being shut because some asshole somewhere managed to convince an exec that there was overlap with their team, or raising warnings when some product idiot has a new idea that's obviously going to end up having a last-minute dependency on the team, hustling to get licences to use Circle instead of Jenkins or whatever, etc
It's less common in the other fields (where an engineer's decisions are less likely to involve life-risking decisions, or enormous amounts of public money), but the Professional Engineer certification is certainly a thing in the other fields. In fact, it's ambiguous at least in my state whether it is legal to run a business offering "engineering" services in those fields without a PE on staff.
That's a good tip. How many emails a day do you get? I found that in healthy orgs, even if you're a higher-level employee, you probably should not be getting more than 50 real emails a day.
This is actually pretty consistent across companies: being the most senior person around when the last manager leaves. Sometimes it's a senior dev, sometimes a PM, heck I've seen it be somebody from the UX org. The path of least resistance is a quick promotion from within. As many of us have experienced this leaves us with a non-zero amount of managers who are both unqualified and uninterested in their role, but accept it for status (you're supposed to get promotions after X years right?) and pay reasons.
Portion sizes are a really good point.

I'm British and my partner is Russian. Our first date was at an Italian restaurant and she ordered a pizza.

She was shocked to receive a full circle of pizza, as opposed to a slice.

I was shocked she was only expecting a slice.

That was quite eye-opening for me. I've never been overweight and growing up my parents brought me up on a good diet (albeit somewhat large portions). Looking around, many people weren't fortunate enough to have the same experience with food. Either because they grew up on fast food, or because their parents cooked large batches of rather beige British food.

(Practically) anybody being stubborn with themselves following a CICO diet will lose weight. But the portion sizes and types of food people eat have definitely been misunderstood as having less energy.

I've been confused for some time as to why our food packaging recommends 2500 calories for men and 2000 for women, when the basal metabolic rate (BMR), the amount of energy burnt daily by doing nothing is around 1500, and the extra 1000 calories would require a decent amount of exercise which most people simply don't do (akin to a daily 10 mile run). I have assumed it's food companies lobbying to increase it with a very optimistic view on people's daily energy expenditure.
> Most are about average.

That is not how averages work. It depends on the distribution.
> I don't use Akka, but I feel the pain of the people who did that and now has to tear the thing out.

I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money.

> Because I don't see how anyone would want to use it, that pricing is completely ridiculous. No one should pay per vCPU, much less those extortionate amounts.

These are companies making lots of money. The license fee isn't that much when it comes to the amount the company is making.
The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
That seems specific to how mortgages work in the UK
Probably something on Reddit. If you don't mind the evil.
In terms of carbon let's calculate that. Rotterdam to Shanghai is about 9000 km. The package is 250 g. Container ship transport is about 15 grams of carbon per kilometer per metric ton. So a total emission of 2.25 grams of carbon for the trip.

It costs about $600 to remove a ton of carbon from the atmosphere the hard way, rather than messing about with tree credits and other stuff that's too easy to game. So we'd want to add another $.001 to the price to account for the cost of the carbon involved in transporting it. Bulk container ships are very energy efficient compared to other sorts of transportation.

However, they do use bunker fuel and the above doesn't take account of all the sulfur and particulates that gets emitted.
It's still around and getting periodic updates. I originally bought it mainly to give Sublime more money (after using the Sublime Text trial for most of college), but it ended up being useful and I use it daily

https://www.sublimemerge.com/download
> Managers exist on the same spectrum as any other role. Most are about average. Some are better, some are worse. Same with engineers themselves.

I do understand what OP said somewhat though. Mostly due to Peter's principle, thus, managers are not "about average" but "mostly incompetent". It is easier to promote people managers than ICs in growing organization, hence it is easier to play out Peter's principle in real life for people managers.
The demo feels like a dream. You try to move towards things, but they transform and you can not reach them. You can also not go back, the place you came from totally changed. Suddenly, you're somewhere else completely.

Awesome idea and solid article!
Changes to Octopus Server and Cloud Pricing
A logo’d shirt is a poor example of a Veblen good.

Per wiki

>A Veblen good would be something where the demand increases as the price increases.

Shirts with logos are actually priced lower than shirts with logos. They might signal that someone can ship at an outlet mall rather than Walmart, but not much more. All the high end clothing will not have conspicuous logos.
According to the data this article is based on [1] (shown in chart form with a handy "Get the data" button to download a CSV), at least half the workforce has been neither "engaged" nor "actively disengaged" - a state we're now calling "quiet quitting" - since at least 2000, and 2022's 50% is an all time low point that we've been at since 2020. Quiet quitting may be real, but it's only a trend if you were ignoring it for the past two decades.

[1] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/398306/quiet-quitting-real....
I think this is the sign of inexperience/immaturity.

What you're describing is a universal aspect of life. From parents, to teachers, to managers all the way back to chieftains of prehistoric tribes there have been power differentials between people and the more competent person has not always been the more powerful.
One funny thing about this twenty-year-old talk is the part about making the book thicker. Those books moved to DVDs and then disappeared completely, at least ten years ago.
I'm 99% sure they got this pricing model from their current contracts for support contracts with enterprise companies.
Its true, but I think the impact is what matters. Even a below average dev produces output; it may be substantially less than a great dev, it may not be of the highest quality, they may require more hands-on reviews and mentorship from other devs on the team, but its still producing output. In comparison, a bad manager can invert the productive output of a team or individuals on that team; high attrition rates, high quiet-quitting rates, prioritizing the wrong things, interrupting work such that little gets done, not playing defense, etc etc etc.

The "old" saying (well, I've heard it said a few times) is: bad software (probably) won't kill your business. There's a litany of examples to this effect. However, bad management will, with increasingly leveraged effects the further that bad management is from the line worker.
This is an excellent comment that really does distill down what an EM is supposed to be.

As someone who's been on all sides of this (currently an EM, been a tech lead and an individual contributor in the past), I really think there is a lack of understanding among large parts of the tech community about what engineering managers do. A good manager's first and primary responsibility is to reduce chaos for their team. In an ideal world you won't even know I'm here, because I am shielding you from all the stuff that is going on further up in the company and clearing out obstacles so that you can work without interference.

Good managers reduce chaos, bad managers create chaos. In my experience, engineering managers are a lot like all other employees: you have a few outstanding performers, a significant number of average/acceptable/mediocre managers, and some number of pretty bad ones. The difficulty comes in knowing which type you have, and often that only becomes clear when a manager leaves. Either a new EM makes things better, or things get dramatically worse because a good EM is no longer helping the team.

It's like that Futurama episode where Bender meets God: "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
I use https://sumi.news (I made it).
One more tree-sitter based diffing tool - diffsitter

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
Alright, I'm on board. Thank you for the information & references.
Bell curves apply to every profession. There are a few truly terrible managers, a bunch of mediocre ones, and a few truly great ones. Same with developers, engineers, teachers, nurses, or whatever.

For someone in some profession 'A' at the top 5% of their peer group, everyone else seems incompetent by comparison. However, it's easy to ignore the incompetence of their own peer group. There are a few reasons for this. For example, if you're good at 'A' and someone is bad at 'A', you can more easily fill the gaps with your own knowledge and paper over that problem, which makes it seem less important. Similarly, highly skilled people tend to work in teams with other similarly skilled peers, etc...

However, when looking at random samples from profession 'B' (whatever that is), then the top-5%-at-A person will typically come across median 'B' people. That's just statistics.

So what does a top 5% at 'A' person think of median people in profession 'B', 'C', and 'D'? That they're all idiots and that their jobs are not as complex or meaningful as whatever 'A' is, of course!

Don't assume anything about what 'A' is. Could be engineering, science, finance, or whatever. The statistics is the same.

Management however gets significantly more flak than other professions, because they're forced onto employees. You don't generally get to choose your manager, you're assigned one. You don't get to fire your "superiors", even if they're clearly in the bottom 5% of the management profession and you're in the top 5% of your profession.

This is why you hear skilled engineers grumbling about bad management. So does every other skilled member of every other profession, including skilled managers, which have random managers above them!
Good way to bash that down is to ask 'would you want their role?' It makes them stop and think what does that person really do and they usually do not want to do it at all.
Engineered wood solved that problem. Plywood is a type of engineered wood. Same for gluelams, LVLs, and CLTs. These are typically stronger than solid timber, including old growth.

It does take more energy to fabricate, but still much less than concrete and steel.
My understanding is that this was being worked on by Jan Vitek and his team as a research project. Not sure how much communication his team has with the Julia compiler devs.
Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
I occasionally use Otter.ai to transcribe when I'm multitasking. Recently they made an update, which I carefully opted out of, to automatically join every meeting through my Google Calendar and transcribe it. Screenshots prove I had the feature disabled.

The bot proceeded to join two confidential meetings on my behalf and record the whole thing, then email every member an absurd, inaccurate "outline" after.

I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation. I have opened a support ticket with screenshots but there is no response, and according to Twitter they are essentially not reviewing tickets from free users at the moment.

So just a heads-up to the HN community!

Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?
There are oodles of terrible managers. There are oodles of terrible everything and we definitely remember the bad experiences more than the good experiences. Especially since a lot of what a good manager does (deflect distractions, ensure consistent prioritization, hire people who don't suck) makes it seem like nothing is actually happening.

A very large number of people really are saying that these roles aren't necessary. Larry Page famously fired all of the managers at Google at one point in the past. I regularly see people say that zero management at all would be preferable, both for startups and megacorps. Heck, the article itself is about this very idea.
Same reasoning works for banning internet in general.

Banning discord in general is of course less damaging, but the reasoning is similarly incorrect. It's an enormous platform for chats about virtually everything.

A general ban on discord is going to socially harm any kid in the west.
So it's not the copper, but the bureaucracy then?

Could that maybe be fixed by the political will that Putin is creating all over Europe?
> The systemic fogginess of Facebook’s data storage made answering even the most basic question futile. At another point, the special master asked how one could find out which systems actually contain user data that was created through machine inference.

“I don’t know,” answered Zarashaw. “It’s a rather difficult conundrum.”

This is not a basic question because of how ML works. Can we say a system contains my data if my data was used as a training input to a neural network at some point in the past?

In that case, can I sue anyone using Stable Diffusion for stealing my data because the billions of images in its training set included something I created?
There seems to be a pretty concerted effort to paint Meta as worse than the other big ad-tech companies. Maybe it’s just the contrarian in me, but I’ve noticed a way big uptick in these stories over the year.
Money is fungible, personal data is not.