skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I see the problem. I had expected the scroll and cursor speeds to be linked, but they apparently are not. For users who prefer slower scroll speeds, I understand how this can be frustrating.
Can you please post some sources? I would like to learn more.
Long hours, low pay, and tolerates verbal abuse from a boss with a filthy mouth.
I did some research and it’s more egregious than I thought: Senate rules can be changed by a simple majority, and unlimited debate is just a rule— prior to 1806 there was limited debate. So the democrats could just completely eliminate the filibuster, in any form, and pass what they choose, so long as they have 51 votes, or 50 and the Vice President.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

My preferred solution is to abolish the Senate.
>TRAP is the right way to do it though. They're syscalls. That's the m68k way of doing syscalls and to elevate to supervisor mode etc.

Yes, if you're implementing a UNIX. Of course, the fundamental mistake was using CP/M 68k as the base. GEM ended up effectively being just a GUI for CP/M, similar as the DOS version, rather than a modern system as AmigaOS attempted to be (minus the TripOS mistake... but at least dos.library fits on top of exec and the rest of AmigaOS, rather than being at the bottom of the stack).

The use of stack rather than registers for passing parameters is a particularly bad fit for the 68000. It effectively slows down the system considerably, as it adds significant overhead per-call.

>From today's POV some of the stuff in the VDI and AES maybe doesn't belong in "kernel" and would be done user space.

Agree 100%. I love how AmigaOS's exec.library got this right. In 2022, the world's still stuck with UNIX clones and struggling to move past that. Recently, with Haiku, Genode and Fuchsia there's finally some excitement again.
It works excellently on my 6900xt for another anecdote.
Many people still seem to have a very narrow, Mad Men-esque view of advertising.
I think in most cases it's just "talent" throwing a buzzword out there and is pointless to read into. On the other hand I agree it has the connotation that most people have brought up. If somehow the culture is really "gritty" it sounds like an excuse to coerce people into working without support and convincing them it's a good thing
Yeah, it's hard to find that data, as any search is swamped by tuition-focused content.

My anecdotal sense is that STEM is significantly more expensive. Here are some factors:

1) Salaries for STEM faculty are higher than non-STEM, due to competition from the private sector.

2) STEM education often requires additional lab courses, with their own dedicated staff, space, and equipment.

3) Non-Stem additional instruction (discussion sections, etc.) is taught by non-STEM grad students, who are much less expensive than even STEM grads.

Also STEM classes are much larger, with many state school having more than 50% of their students declare a STEM major of some form.
> It knows how to direct characters, and the showrunners understand that 60 seconds of horse riding doesn't make good television.

And the result was a soap opera set in a “fantasy” world. They teased us with white walkers in the first episode, and then… nothing, for like 7 seasons. We didn’t even get to see any dragons for what seemed like forever.
I don't think the insults are warranted, but he definitely has a point. Now that his comment is dead, it's an even stronger point!
Your brain has roughly a quadrillion synapses. These are (in a very rough manner) the closest thing there are to parameters in the ML sense. I think you can probably do better with smarter software, but if you want to match humans on general tasks, I doubt you can do 100x better.

So there is clearly still ways to go.
Underpaid and overworked with bs promises of upside.
Their ads are cringy. They remind me the "How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?" meme
Same as when they ask for rockstars or ninjas or whatever: maybe they can put me in touch with someone who can actually explain the role and context.
>Just ask the poor slobs in Russia or Venezuela who can’t sell their software and feed their families

Wait why are they slobs?
Be sure to include the cost of hiring graduates as part of the administration or government into the cost.
First I hear of this.

Could you provide sources?
Let’s say with your optimised settings your ROI is 20%. With Google settings is 15%.

An end user might say 15% is pretty good and don’t touch it.

Google just earned 5% by giving you worst ROI.

If you start comparing with other ad providers you’l you might notice you’re being screwed. But low spenders rarely do proper checks.
https://twitter.com/fellowgritty/status/1052190131376087040
Fitness tracking: task-specific associations of memory, mental health&activity
For starters, I do agree that the X11 model is fundamentally broken on the modern computing platform.

However, sadly, I'm beginning to think that Wayland has made some fundamental architectural choices that are not fixable and are also broken on the modern computing platform.

The biggest problem is that Wayland takes the "compositor" route and turns it up to 11. Unfortunately, nobody does multi-window compositor to application integration well--Apple is the best, but by no means good. Even Windows drops to software rendering on resizes and actually integrating with the compositor needs a whole host of new Windows calls that nobody ever uses.

The whole "You need link a library and draw your own decorations" is, put simply, ludicrous. You don't draw them on Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android. Yes, that means you can't change your window manager, so be it. Look at the contortions and dependency chain that the winit package on Rust has to keep in order to communicate with Wayland.

The fact that I need 50,000 lines of code called wlroots is nothing short of a travesty. Even if I use a language which is much better for security, that 50,000 lines of code is a shambling security disaster that will bite me in the ass.

And that's before we start talking about some of the architectural design decisions made in wlroots. The design decisions are so anathema to something like Rust that people have given up and been forced back to C:
http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-i...

(Side note: this is one of my perennial hot buttons, and Wayland isn't the only guilty party. "Everybody Wants To Rule the Event Loop" by "Tears for Engineers" has become ingrained in programmers, and it's a BAD thing. Event loops don't compose and you wind up with callback hell trying to put two of them together. Polling does compose (ie. “readiness” rather than the “completion”), but it's a lot more work on both sides of the programming equation--the application and the library--to get it right.)

There's also some strangeness about hiDPI and scaling in Wayland that just seems to be wrong. But maybe my brain's just too small, and I don't have enough context--it wouldn't be the first time.

Of course, it's easy to armchair quarterback and difficult to construct. This is hard, grungy work and the Wayland guys are putting in the elbow grease. Until I'm willing to pick up an editor, my opinions aren't worth much.

Overall, though, I see myself staying on X11 until I simply can't anymore.
Both, but yes - we agree generally.
Sadly I think they’ll lose the little they gained and more. I used to be quite poor and went to a majority African American school for a time so I saw their plight first hand. I’ve never taken it for granted that I had an easier time getting out of there.
I really like your idea, but having been given to witness what disappeared the fastest from stores when Covid started, I'd back it with toilet paper instead.

Actual toilet paper I mean, not the green stuff that people use to barter these days.
To make money by helping people spend less, you need to be a "discounter" or some kind. E.g. here is fruit that is 20% less than your supermarket. But even such services and businesses need to advertise. Even the government needs to pay to advertise, even if it is advertising giving money to help people in tough economic times.

I think companies that are so large, and do one thing (advertise!) cannot be immune from business cycles. But is it a bad thing if these companies don't grow every single damn year.
I assume they want to hire someone who resembles the official mascot of the Philadelphia hockey team. Important skills include threatening physical violence over social media.
WebGPU Editor's Draft
If you ballpark it, generally for a given course, one student's fees could pay the lecturer, a second could pay the rest of the teaching staff, and a third could pay for the facilities that are actually needed. The rest is essentially glorified marketing and multi million dollar salaries for political positions.

Kinda like a microcosm for society.
The name is just branding nonsense. The TV just measures the degradation of pixels when not in use and uses that information to compensate.
Do you know if you get charged for misclicks that are blocked by pihole? I have googletagservices blocked, so I think it should prevent google from using me as an excuse to defraud you.
Edit: You have a last name only a Texan could pronounce ;-)

Similar experience with my family in South and Central Texas as well. They used to go multiple times per year, but never go now. Back then the cartels were more targeted with their violence. Over the past 10-15 years, it has become indiscriminate. A cheap tampiquena plate and a few drinks is not worth the risk.
HN: enjoy overpaid job and keep independent creators feeding their family in poverty.
Tools and Tips #1 from Applied Science (2015) [video]
Oh, I know. The election was just so secure.
Would you mind elaborating a bit on what has changed from your perspective please?

I have never visited Mexico and would love to although I will admit hearing things of this sort and some of the footage I've seen of carjackings and machine-gun fire and the like is admittedly somewhat of a deterrent, but then I consider how many scary things happen here as well and I wonder what's true and what's an exaggeration or simply a case of uniquely bad luck.
> Even still, there is no way to know

That seems unconvincing. In fact how much energy is required per hash is something that's really quite easy to measure accurately. At any given time there are no more than a few dozen hardware platforms in use (they get priced out rapidly, everyone is running the newest stuff in the BTC world). Just plug them in and measure them.

All that's left from there is to come up with second order corrections about stuff like grid efficiency. But we absolutely know to quite high precision how many joules were spent to produce the coins we observe to have been created.
> By this reasoning the vast majority of lawyers drafting contracts are not acting in good faith because the vast majority of lawyers are drafting obtuse unreadable contracts

More precisely, the clients the lawyers are representing aren't acting in good faith because they are fine with their lawyers doing that. As your next remark suggests, this is indeed the current reality: legal instruments like contracts are not used to enable win-win agreements that create wealth, but as tools of predation. That's not how it's supposed to be, but it is, unfortunately, often how it is.
I do remember I used MC to model the static nonlinearity I could expect from high speed digital analog converters for given transistor sizes in their current sources back in the day...

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-self-trimming-14-b-1...
orange, lots of hair, plays hockey.
postmarketOS (based on Alpine) has a Sway image for the Pinebook Pro (aarch64).
The credit card skimmer people fuck over individual human beings.
I cannot get behind it. Fundamentally ugly.
> Then the politics hit and the open-and-friendly feedback loop turned into a recursive folding inwards into one political view, for owner, mods (except jessamyn who didn't get into it) and commenters.

The funny thing is that I vaguely thought Ms. West was the owner, or at least ran things, so to hear that she's only now taken over is surprising. Certainly she was for years the closest thing Metafilter had to a public face.

>It wasn't just an automod bot banning keywords or your comments getting shadowbanned. You could say what you wanted and the people (entire user base and owners) would figure out the best way to reinforce their recursive implosion and completely destroy you and whatever point you were trying to say. Kind of impressive in a mechanical sense, and you know, horrible to participate in.

Yes; the shunning was entirely people-driven.

At least with Reddit, it's possible to find another subreddit if you don't like /r/politics. With MeFi, the only alternatives are off the site entirely. I never used my MeFi account much despite its age because I could see early on the trends that only accelerated as the years passed, so it's no surprise (but still sad, given the site's venerable history) to see that many, many others with much more participation decided to go off the site.
> Adobe aren't buying Figma to kill it.

I'm sure it's not their purpose, however they may end up doing it unwittingly anyway.
It’s a term of endearment. Anyone who can’t defend themselves from the connected entitled elites are, by definition, “poor slobs”.
Because of the name, it took my brain a few seconds to realize this is not related to mercurial.
You’re making it sound like the problems define the brands today. In fact everyone faces nearly identical set of problems just that their approach to solve them are unique. Almost all EVs will weigh very high over 5k lbs and will have motors that produce instantaneous torque. The vehicle segment is merely defined by what body you put on a skateboard modular frame.
> Stories like this have been appearing pretty regularly on HN

This is literally extrapolating from outliers (notable news stories about fraud or mishaps) to make predictions about whole data sets (reliability of transactions using the US Dollar).

No one can prove to you that dollars are safe if you don't believe it. But no one has come up with a more reliable alternative yet, and BTC is laughably far down the list of challengers.
Set this theory against the fact that there was zero net inflation in the US from 1800 to 1914, and endemic inflation since. What changed in 1914? The US switched to a fiat money system.

Clearly, it has something to do with fiat money.

(The Revolutionary Government also had massive inflation, and the Confederacy, too. What characteristic did they share? Fiat money.)

If shortages caused inflation, then one would expect to see corresponding deflation when those shortages eased. But that doesn't happen.
Absolutely. Gritty brings wisdom and danger.

https://twitter.com/lennyaduncan/status/1328769408773148672
Feels like a meme from 2012, implies low pay on the downside but a willingness to work across teams and hustle on the upside
denier; n: a person who denies something.
> The thermal mass of the air is tiny

> Chest freezers have better [...] door seals

Hmm.

Is it outlandish to think that a modern standing freezer with working seals will let less air out the seals than is exchanged by opening the door even a couple of times a week?

Modern standing freezers are starting to get drawers with sides in them now, presumably for reducing air loss while it's open. And seals are practically air-tight (if you've lived in a place with high humidity, even tiny gaps or holes in the seal causes noticeable condensation and water build up. So I'm skeptical about the seal claim. Better insulation may be true.
Came here for this. They’re called “damper babies” and have cute little characters explaining the physics when you visit Taipei 101.
Oh thank god I thought I was the only one. This drives me up the wall - you get all the way through a command, go "oh wait, I don't actually remember what I need..." and the only thing `--help` does is print `For help please call command help the command you wanted`.
Writers rooms have fallen off a cliff. Look back at the cinema of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Dialogue, character arcs, stories, even plot hole ridden films were competently written. A lot of it still holds up.

A majority of the stuff we are seeing these past 10 years is really bottom of the barrel writing. Occasionally something great will come along like BR2049. But for the most part the writers rooms have been terrible. This is unsustainable and will eventually bottom out as poorly written movies and shows (I mean, “content”) continue to lose money.
Its puzzling how the world's richest country spends more than a country like South Korea on public transit and still stuck using Windows 98 and other ancient antics.

For instance the Seoul Metro yearly budget is 10x less than New York's yet it runs far longer and more efficient. It's also safer.
I think there is a very simple solution. It requires no technology, but it does require changing the culture of billions of people. And that solution is to make search a paid-for utility. People pay for their ISP, Electricity and Phone, but expect search for free. The problem is this would be less profitable for Google. Because advertising me a $10,000 computer at $10/1000 impressions that I will buy "for my company" is more profitable than me paying $10 a month for search. Therefore the solution might be to make Google a public service, perhaps owned my multiple governments around the world. Call me a dreamer! Downside to that might be tighter surveillance though :-(

I don't see blockchain as a knight in shining armour here. Search is one of those hard things. Like sending a man to the moon. No one can compete overnight. Maybe the hope is AI could create a scenario where a search engine running locally is realistic (like all the prompt-based image generation stuff that has come out, can be run locally now).
It's one anecdote. I could point to someone successful who started off with nothing like Rockefeller and say the opposite.
Damper baby miniatures are available in the Taipei 101 gift shop. I have a yellow one :)
Pre ~2001, when the XBox and GameCube mostly converged on PC-alike hardware, as opposed to bizarrely-different console architectures.

After that, it felt like multiplatform releases on console were "easy enough" that AAA began always targeting them in game design.

Prior to that, AAA PC titles didn't really give a damn about consoles, which only maybe received a some-features-included reimplementation if the game was a hit.
I'm less cynical than others here. They probably just wanted a job ad title that a) sticks out b) gets your attention by making you reflect on your own personality and c) entice you to click through to the ad and see what kind of jobs "gritty people" applying for.
> Does ZFS snapshot every single operation you do?

Snapshot-ing upon certain operations (e.g. file/s moved to a directory) is certain possible.

This blog post covers that pattern with my tool, httm: https://kimono-koans.github.io/inotifywait/
Well, the damper isn't completely stationary, but it is moving much less than the building around it, yes.

A good demonstration here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=607&v=VCxm3vTWgvU&feature=yout...
The nerds get revenge?
If the test was done on a single processor and not repeated it's possible only that particular chip has this unique behaviour.
The most famous erasure was in Julfa, not mentioned in that article. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Azerbaijani army destroyed an entire cemetery of about 10,000 17th-century Armenian "khachkars," finely decorated tombstones that were a common medieval Armenian art form. These had been documented by French and Scottish explorers hundreds of years ago.

When confronted by the UN, Azerbaijan's government denied the claims and suggested that an unknown actor destroyed them. This maybe could've been believable from the outside, but then their govt not only asserted that the tombstones weren't Armenian but also that no Armenians had ever existed in Julfa. They claimed that any monuments there were Caucasian Albanian. The tombstones do have inscriptions written in the distinctive Armenian alphabet, and both Armenian and Albanian histories in that region are well-documented.

These aren't isolated incidents but go well in line with what high-ranking Azerbaijani government officials have been saying: there is no history of Armenian residence in disputed territory, or even in Armenia proper (e.g. Pres Aliyev claimed this in 2020 about Armenia's capital Yerevan). The common claim is that the Armenian identity was made up recently, and their alphabet or anything else often dating back ~1600 years is actually Albanian. Baku's recent ex-mayor, and the deputy PM of the nation in 2018, said to a German delegation in 2005, "Our goal is the complete elimination of Armenians. You, Nazis, already eliminated the Jews in the 1930s and 40s, right? You should be able to understand us."
This is not even close to true.

If you don’t pay Google/Facebook you’re absolutely screwed. You will lose no matter how good the product is.

What this actually means is that now companies have to pay a Google/Meta tax simply to enter the playing field. And once they enter the playing field. And once you enter the playing field, the only winners will be the ones who pay them the highest amount of money.

So a smaller business, which in the past could potentially use some ingenuity, or target a specific niche audience to get some traction and then build word of mouth and let the product do the talking, doesn’t even stand a chance now because they simply cannot differentiate themselves as your exposure is entirely dependent on how much money you give Google/Meta.
Mostly, yes. The damper acts as a pendulum that’s out of phase with the frequency of the earthquake, negating most of the effects on the building.
The vast majority of tech books are garbage and are often obsolete I don’t read any without a good recommendation and I get few. I always see a few gems like “mastering vbscript” kicking around corporate offices.
>But they don't always make themselves look like the good guys in those history books.

Of course they do. Do you have any examples to the contrary?

Many times, their distant ancestors look back and realize their actions were poor, and revise the history books, but that usually takes generations at least.
I had no idea RISC-V was such a threat to them. Downplaying is done by those who fear, otherwise they'd just ignore.
> You the laborer have the capacity to decide where the value of your labor should be kept.

Depends on the laborer. There's no law of nature that grants me the ability to make good financial decisions as an award for my labor. The ability to manage risk is not an ability that gets unlocked once you accumulate enough money to invest. Now, I have to both work hard to make money, and gamble to protect my future.
The hacker news audience is definitely in a minority demographic of highly tech literate people. You may not always realize it, but just by being in this community and participating in our discussions you are miles ahead of many other people.

While we may identify and scroll past all sponsored google results (or even use adblockers or custom host files to block certain actors, etc) most other people are not at the same level of computer sophistication and won't necessarily do the same. Ads get clicked a lot.
Hypothetically working on the security aspect doesn't seem so unethical. I mean, it is helping the evil empires in a sort of abstract way, but realistically people are going to use the services because they are ad-funded (and so, appear free). The direct harm to people who have their communications which they believe to be basically private (in the sense that they are only spied on by the service provider) broken into seems to be more significant.