skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, but there is a difference between teaching the mechanics of a language, and teaching how to write safe, correct and secure code in that language.

Perhaps that mindset is part of what made C survive for so long and in such diverse roles.
The one you know. Or if you want to try something new, the one that has the best documentation.
At this point the most direct and highest impact way of making phones last longer is forcing Qualcomm to support their chipsets for more than 2 years.
Gotta be this. Spent hours and hours on Folding when Bitcoin was just getting started, if I’d spent a single day mining I’d be retired now. Doubt I’ll see an opportunity like that again in my lifetime.
Or just drastically shrink how much data has to be pushed.
Static content can be hosted via a CDN to get it close.

Serverless workers distributed on a global basis running
nanoservices backed by Sqlite on the edge that gets way
complicated.

My favorite sanity test is "distributed transactions".
Do you need them? If so how complicated will it be to
synchronize all edges when changes comes in from all edges.

The usual answer is "we will build that ourselves",
then over time the team discovers why it is definite
hard problem to solve.

You end up reimplementing parts of a database server with
added level of complexity.

Most architecture should start with

"Distributed transactions".

Do we need them
If so how will we do it.

That is just my obsession.
Staying at my previous job too long. 9 years. At 5 years it started to turn toxic. I always hoped it would get better but it didn’t. I should have left sooner but I wanted to finish the project I was on because I wanted to leave behind something to feel proud of.

In the end the company screwed my over. But I have a better job now so it worked out ok.
Mastering a skill doesn't imply being in the top 10 or even 100. It simply means acquiring expertise to a point of diminishing returns and being recognized by your peers as very skilled. It's perfectly possible to become really good at chess and at the violin after a lot of practice. Good enough to impress a beginner.

Learning a second programming language isn't really learning a new skill, it's maybe more like learning a new genre of music if you already play the violin well, or learning how to play speed chess once you're already a master.
Not necessarily. A politician doing the right thing for reasons of principal and ignoring elections could result in a loss of power for the entire party. If those who gain power are truly evil then what you've done is lost sight of a far bigger "right thing" by insisting on being principled in every small action. Political naivety is a very poor excuse for doing a "right thing" that eventually causes great harm. Especially for an experienced politician.
i've been in remission for 3 years. I'm not dead yet so I don't have any regrets, just gratitude for more time that I was given.
Yeah, Kiwix is great! I have that on my phone to browse when I'm on airplanes.
>You don't even really need to rein it back, modern processors will throttle back automatically depending on how effective the cooling is

This isn't about thermals. This is about power consumption.

I'm not suggesting reigning in a CPU's power limits because it's "too hot".

I'm suggesting getting 95% of the performance for 59% of the power consumption. Because it's not worth spending 72% more on electricity for 5% increased performance. Again, even the manufacturers themselves know this and are admitting it. Look at this slide from Intel: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/13th-... Purported identical performance of previous gen at 25% of the power consumption. They KNOW the default configuration setting (which you can change in a few keystrokes) is total garbage in terms of power efficiency.

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I guarantee you server CPUs aren't going to be configured to be this idiotic out of the box. Because in the datacenter, perf/W matters and drives purchasing decisions.
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Similarly for Postgres, but without the spreadsheet part: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest
The 10,000 Hour Rule is misnamed. It's not a rule. It's a rough estimate.

Also, when you read the small print, it does not guarantee success. It simply say that *if* you aim to achieve mastery - to be towards to the top of your given field - then expect to put in *at least* 10,000 hrs.

It's a generalization and will vary from individual to individual and skill to skill.

As a side note, I recently started reading "The Are of Possibility" by Zander and Zander. If your considering a career / life pivot then this book might be for you.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-art-of-possibility-transfo...
If only I would have had the foresight to buy a lottery ticket with the correct winning numbers.

Yes, there was Bitcoin, however there are always millions of investment opportunities that may or may not pan out. Most don't.
If you think you can afford to make a change and you have a clear goal, then you should take advantage of it before your life changes and you can't any longer. I had a major career change in my early to mid 30s (I'm 40 now) and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've heard a saying which I heard is an old Chinese proverb; no clue if its background is true or not, but it goes like: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is right now.
No problem with the question. codequestion builds a fully local index that can run in VS Code. It also has features for topic exploration and graph path traversal.
It’s better than not ever doing it, but that’s not the only alternative.

If you can’t manage to review your campaign promises until it’s time to campaign again, that gives me reason to doubt your competence or your genuineness as an executive. There are literally thousands of people working who support the President. None of them could find time to write up an executive order and put it on the agenda in the first 100 days? (Remember, they would be allowed to “cheat” and work on this before inauguration or even before the election.)

But because the frying pan is slightly more comfortable than the fire, people keep tolerating this and voting for the lesser of the evils they’re offered, so so long as this strategy is epsilon more effective than actually leading the country and aggressively delivering on your promises, we should expect to see more, not less of it. Ultimately, the voters are partially complicit in this nonsense.
It's a rule. If you have practiced for only 9,999 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds, 999 milliseconds you suck.
First, the 10k hour rule doesn't mean people are terrible and then suddenly become experts. They are getting better the entire time. I would argue the large majority of working professionals are nowhere near experts at their jobs for the simple fact if someone is any good they tend to get promoted to a new job.

Second, I know many people who switched careers. You have plenty of time at nearly any age if you are willing to be humble and learn. I have found that it's not that older people can't learn, it's often they are unwilling. At someone who just turned 45, I make it a point to practice humble learning daily.

Finally, think about what you can uniquely bring over from your old career to your new career. People skills transfer very well, but also industry knowledge and general business.
I'm asking myself how Casio compete with Garmin. Currently I'm using a Garmin Instict Tactical and I'm very happy with it. Looking at Casio website I found Casio GBD-H1000-1 that's looks similar in features. But checking the Phone App G-SHOCK MOVE on Play Store it has 2.8 stars. So the App looks like very bad
i would try not to fall prey to an entirely "rationalist" perspective here

you cannot predict the future and success is dependent at least as much on "luck" as it is on expertise
In theory yes, but layouts that require just filling in missing numbers are not puzzles. The layouts with missing numbers become puzzles when some thought must go into entry selection. The question is how many puzzles requiring logical deductions are there for each unique 81*81 grid.
Mitch Hedberg sounds right but I remember the joke as being about someone handing out paper advertisements on the street.

The doughnut joke is a different one I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5pjBmNyrE

Also, for someone who died going on 2 decades ago, he's really got some staying power; I see kids discovering him and liking him to this day.
Nah, my personal experience told me it's highly unlikely that long. Last time I checked my CD/DVD archives of around 10 years old. Checked some random 20% of all, 50% were completely unreadable, 30% readable but with noticeable losses, other seemed to be good but still I had no confidence of the integrity of the data. So I dumped all of them, even almost of full bucket of 50 unused DVD-Rs and quite a few DVD-RWs. Since then I did not really touched any optical drives at all. To my surprise, all my data left on HDDs or Flash drives were still good without any issues.
Scientists stumped by holes in Sue the T-Rex's jawbone
> No, because if a coal plant springs a leak

We still build them to not spring a leak, which I think was OP's point.
Any good sites for super difficult sudoku?
Is silicon manufacturing done entirely in a vacuum yet?

Because a vacuum pretty eliminates dust - with no air, dust just falls towards either the ground (if it is uncharged), or towards a positive or negatively charged surface (if the dust particle itself is charged).
The scientific ones are fine. Occasionally questionable, but overall fine. The political ones (including literature) are of course a joke, no need for “becoming”.
There are 3 kinds of commercial nutritional supplements with DHA and EPA: fish oil, krill oil and oil of Schizochytrium.

Fish oil, either from oily fishes or from cod liver is by far the cheapest. In Europe, a typical price is around $0.20 per gram of DHA+EPA.

Krill oil is much more expensive than either fish oil or oil of Schizochytrium, so it is a choice that does not make sense.

The oil of Schizochytrium qualifies as a vegan oil. When it has appeared on the market some years ago, it contained only DHA and a negligible quantity of EPA. Some vendors still sell this old kind of Schizochytrium oil. Then it seems that either other strains of Schizochytrium have been discovered, or they have been genetically modified, and an improved oil of Schizochytrium began to be produced, with a proportion 2:1 between DHA and EPA.

Now the only remaining disadvantage of the oil of Schizochytrium is the price. However, in the last 2 years the price of the fish oil has remained constant, while the price of Schizochytrium oil was reduced by more than 2 times, so it can be hoped that in a few years improvements in the cultivation methods might cause the price of the Schizochytrium oil to match the price of the fish oil. In Europe, the price of the Schizochytrium oil is now around $0.80 per gram of DHA+EPA, sometimes a little less than that.

Whoever buys omega-3 nutritional supplements, regardless of what kind, should better take care to always compute the price per gram of DHA+EPA. There is a huge number of shameless supplement vendors whose products have similar prices with the good products, but which contain very low concentrations of the active substances, so that the effective price per gram of DHA+EPA may be even 10 to 15 times higher than at the decent vendors.
For me a lot of streaming services have simple stopped working(Amazon Prime) in Firefox or are limited to 720p(Netflix), even though I have the DRM stuff enabled in Firefox. So I use it to be able to stream my "Debian ISOs" in at least full HD.
Jimmy Carter was so principled he served one term. He was such an honest man and a poor leader that GRRM cited him as an inspiration for his thought process behind Game of Thrones.

Being a good man doesn’t get you re elected. Reality is harsh and unforgiving.
One of Elon's most visible projects (Hyperloop) is literally public transit.

Elon does not actively work on the Hyperloop, and critics have argued it may even be a red herring that he put out there deliberately to distract from more realistic and well-proven high speed rail technology. What Elon (or at least the Boring Company) did work on, though, is the 'Vegas Loop', a sad joke of a project.
This is more: I’m a bank with many old systems that are reliant on OS/2 and I need some kind of update for my systems!

There are other industries beyond finance, but that was a large one.

Personally, I’m happy for it existing. I hope that at some point open source efforts succeed or that Arca can secure access to the source at some point in the future.
>for the simple fact if someone is any good they tend to get promoted to a new job

It's nowhere near that simple. "Too good at x in X to promote to y in X, where X is a career path and y is a stage above x" is fairly common.
In this case, Biden actually was a major component of the reason they’re in jail: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/25/18282870/j...
Good to see it being in active development. But the one feature I'm waiting for is a network whitelist. For example, it should never connect over my home or office network, but only via anonymous VPN.

(Edit: I know you can do this already with firewall rules, or containers, but I don't trust myself to not make a mistake. Ideally this should be part of the OS. You should be able to right-click somewhere in the window and say "use this network for this app".)

The other feature I'd like to see is sequential downloads, but the developers object out of principle so that is never going to come.
it's not the number of hours you put in - it's how you practice.

you can get very proficient quickly if you apply insights to your performance to identify your shortcomings and address those.

and similarly you can spend 30k+ hours learning something and be merely mediocre.
We do not have yet three dimensional white space overloading unfortunately, will have to wait for the next release train, targeting C++26.

In the meantime, you can use multidimensional analog literals: http://www.eelis.net/C++/analogliterals.xhtml
Because bash error handling is a thousand blades and no handle.

https://blog.habets.se/2021/06/The-uselessness-of-bash.html

I've reviewed a lot of code, bash and otherwise. I have never, not once, reviewed bash code that didn't have subtle bugs. And this is code written by smart people.
Genuine question, if Amazon is knowingly selling this product to minors and they are aware if its intended use, how is this being “blown out of proportion”?
"Structured programming" (AKA the 'for' loop, 'if' statements) had early adopters, and serious arguments over their wasteful inefficiency took place at industry events.
I think there's some leeway for bifurcation, so "guess and check" when there's only two possibilities. It's not as "clean", but from what I gather it's commonplace in competitive sudoku because in some situations it's the fastest way to find the next digit.

But obviously to get to bifurcation you still need to infer enough to narrow a cell down to two choices, so that would still put a limit on solvability.
But why? If civilization collapses I'm not going to think "oh, let me consult Wikipedia" I'm going to think "man, this sucks".
Not much point, way too time consuming. I dumped hundreds of CDs/DVDs as most of them were unreadable. 20% of them might still good, but really no longer had that energy to savage them.
I'm still programming in Java like it's 2001. No problems here :)
Forget nuance, what I would have given for one meaningful moment from my largely aloof old man. You are lucky to have that relationship in ways you'll never know.

Either way, sorry to hear about his condition.
I switched from a career in software development to creative producing in films and television. I make less pay and I am not the most skilled compared to others in the industry. I have some knowledge but I have lots to learn. Thanks to Covid none of the projects I have worked on have gone into production. But they will next year and I will have opportunities to learn then.

I am no master. But I enjoy the job and I am happier. I made the switch at 36.
The finite nature of sudoku puzzles guarantees that there is an underlying logic to a given move, whether the solver is aware of it or not. Ultimately, all sudoku strategies are backed by an overriding master logic:

"Does this branch of the game tree contain the completed solution or not?"

Whether or not humans have come up with a name for a given strategy depends, almost entirely, on the depth of that branch.
The hours rule is nonsense. You can of course change career at 43. However, while we are all born with relative potential, intellectual capacity and more importantly, personality play significant factors.

Intellectual capacity doesnt change much until past about 70 and it's tied to long term diet, lifestyle and external factors. Personality is also largely plastic past the age of 6. It can shift over time, and this is one of the advantages of youth, you are still malleable.

Age beings to rob this from you as routine and habit starts to build up parts of your brain. Change takes time. 43 is still young in the grand scheme of things, particularly in 2022, but you must question if the change you want is simply your personality being novelty-seeking or the grass being greener elsewhere.

One good reason is if your personality fit has been bad to your current work.
What's the best and smallest choice to replace admin/ops bash scripts ? Python ? Python with some lib ? Ruby ? Lua ? Rust ?
Had a job interview in an unfamiliar, boring[0] midwestern city. Drove over early the day before to see if I could stomach living there. Saw that Medeski, Martin and Wood were on a marquee for a show that night and did the responsible thing of not going to see them and getting a good night of sleep before the interview.

I should've gone.

[0] I'm from a rust belt city in the Midwest. This isn't some kind of outsider prejudice against "flyover country".
Self referential HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=33119741
How much of that do you think could be solved with better marketing?
They’re obviously talking about bfloat on TPU.

The day when a lot of wrong math adds up to a computer drawing a pretty picture. Who would have thought.
Some Thoughts on Automation and Mathematical Research [pdf]
"I think in reality politicians have schedules and priorities and the constantly shifting demands imposed on them by world events."

As the chief executive of the country, the job is largely delegation. Sure, there's still going to be some limit to WIP, but it doesn't look or feel that his office is close to that based on what they've accomplished or are working on.

"Then they actually look for these sorts of quick fixes because it can give them a little boost in the polls for something they were going to do anyway."

For one, it can remove the pressure to create a proper fix. We can end up with a bunch of half measures that don't fit well. There's also an argument to be made around expansive executive power usurping the voice of the people (not on polls but elected congress members) as I doubt that blanket pardons were the intent of that power. Sort of like how executive orders can be used to say how a law can be enforced, but has started to be used to flat out ignore enforcing the law. Technically legal, but feels like a loophole (similar to how you can change senate rules requiring a supermajority by a simple majority vote).

So yeah, like many things in politics, the people that agree with the result are less likely to question the method used to get there. The people that disagree with the result will question everything. But... it might be wise for all of us to start listening to the people who agree with the result but question the methods used, lest we undermine the trust or perception of legitimacy in our system of government. I think unilateral actions further the win at all costs mindset and will continue to hurt us as a nation driving us apart.
We at the Enarx project (https://try.enarx.dev) plan to implement precisely such a network policy in the very near future.
> Optical drives are still available of course, but they are now rarely standard with a new PC or laptop, and soon will become specialist components, and then it won’t be long before the drives become a greater limit to longevity than the media.

IMO, the #1 use case for optical drives is probably playing music in the car. For anything old enough that it doesn't have an aux port, it's the best solution.

* Tape adapters add a lot of noise. Maybe different drives work better than what I've got, but I tried and it's totally unworkable

* Short range FM adapters are terrible. Similar noise to tape adapters and the quality is really prone to degradation depending on the EM environment.

The stock of older, working cars is quite large. Eventually it'll get used up (outside of enthusiasts), but that'll probably take a few decades longer.

And as long as people are listening to CDs in their cars, there'll be a demand for the ability to burn them.
There is a good episode(ep 517) of freakonomics radio about that
I hope you've sought some professional help and are doing better. It is incredible how damaging bad parents can be. Being the brain so malleable, you'd grow your entire persona and life—your entire self—around a messed up childhood and then slowly solidify into position as you age.

Many of your thought patterns are tainted, and healing is a very long and painful process. But being (made) aware of the extent of the damage is the first and necessary step to a healthier self.
I have to agree with them, it’s antithetical to what torrent is about.
When I was a kid, I sold most of my old computers and game systems to get new ones. I wish I hadn’t done that. That stuff would be awesome to have now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b0a2z/a_reddit...

or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371463 (about AsmBB)
Bad question, because it is two questions that the OP treats as related (regret vs possibility to have done something differently in the past), but that are actually not.

For example, let's suppose that the answer to the question about the biggest regret is "not learning to swim while still a child" (I learned while being 31 years old), but the reason is that my mother could not teach me and actively opposed any other possibility for me to learn. This was not something I could change about my past, even in theory.