skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it actually possible to breed enough pilot whales to completely reverse climate change? Presumably you have the research to back that up.
What specific action are you endorsing here?
Just to put another datapoint out there from the "anglo-sphere", Australia and New Zealand are completely metric.

The one exception you could say is height, where in casual speech people sometimes say "6 foot", but if it were a medical situation it would again always be in cm.
Like the festival of Brexit? Or leaving the single market? People said all these things won’t happen and yet they did.

Shit like this keeps happening and people are not pushing back. Because it’s tiring and more comfortable to just let it happen. Yet the UK is quickly degrading as a result of all this mess.
> As Canadians we typically measure our height and weight in ft and lbs. But temperature in celsius and travel distances and speeds in kilometres and km/h. Except for cooking/recipes, where oven temperature is measured in fahrenheit and we have to deal with recipes with cups and ounces and so on. ... But recipes are also often in litres and grams. So...

These statements always amuse me, as someone who grew up in a purely metric culture. I always wondered: do you ever get confused when talking in so many similar but different units, or is it second nature?
I have good experience with McK and bad experience with everyone else. But it’s just anecdotal. So I don’t know
It's wild to me that 144fps 4k is the bar now, a decade ago people hotly debated 60fps being significant over 30 (which it certainly is), but I kinda feel like after 60fps QHD the perceptible difference just isn't there, or certainly not worth the procurement and operational cost.
Firstly, cut out ALL REFINED SUGAR! If sugar is a regular part of your diet, you may get headaches for a few days.

A “healthy diet” sounds boring yet that is where mental and physical performance begins.

Solid foods are actually kind of a downer. I try to start my day with a liquid diet. ironically, starting with the GNC 1340 high calorie mix. You may balk, how can that be healthy, yet it is! Easy to break down calories means I don’t rely as much on heavy foods which fill my gut and slow me down.

Easy calories fill me with energy and I take micro exercise breaks throughout the day. These combined keep my mind and body active, which makes me productive!

This, and I get my nutrients from the Health Force vitagreens. The price tag is worth it. A heaping scoop is a full serving of greens. Best way to eat your greens!
No.

If you see them show up at your company, run. It will be hell.

My mother, a nurse for 40 years, knows first hand what a bunch of consultants know about patient care
oh no im so sorry what device were you using, i would like to fix it as soon as possible
Yes! Bring back the old coins! 5 farthings to the penny, 11 pence to the shilling, 19 shillings to the pound! Much easier for everyone!
Forgive me for my ignorance, but I genuinely don’t understand why you want a monitor of this quality at this frame rate. My understanding is most humans only see from 30-60 fps and 60hz, and with that I only ever optimized my equipment for that without stressing about higher graphics quality. Is my understanding wrong?
>From a minority position (e.g. far-left, person of color, or LGBT)

Several of these are not minority positions on big media.

>I think that's not bad - MeToo

MeToo caused huge fallout to the point male mentors were unwilling to tutor women, men seen with minors were deemed creeps, and more.

You're right as to the backlash and polarizing effects, but you are still only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
He means "even though one can make a game that must have 8k/120fps and all the latest shaders and GPU tech" the average gamer doesn't run that, can't afford it at the prices of those Nvidia cards, and is not their target market.
> The doctor said his patient, who has been identified only as C.Z., played the theme song from the 1970 movie "Love Story," and the Italian national anthem, at various times throughout the surgery.

FWIW, it was not the entire 9 hours, but still cool though. I guess I read the headline wrong and thought it was during the whole operation
Sounds like distance from the US has made you saner.

In terms of other English-speaking commonwealth countries, it seem South Africa is similar; heights etc. in imperial, everything else metric.

That mostly describes the situation in Canada, but as I said construction trades and recipes really push people to have to have a feel for both systems.
Go work for old banks
is it even a website if it does not work without javascript, https and websafe colors?
There are plenty of use cases for consultants:

1. Experts in their field often reach a point in their career where they've run into enough road blocks and solved enough major problems in their field that they can see some benefit in helping others avoid/solve said problems on fast track. [This is where I'm at]

2. Companies often have need for on-tap expertise to solve problems on fast track without being required to commit for the long haul.

And here is the intersection of consulting. I've solved about a million problems at this point in my career. Many of them solved the hard way - the way I'd like you not to have to solve them. I've spotted patterns that allow you to predict what kind of behaviours and working processes will cause what kinds of problems and I've formed patterns and processes that allow clients to sidestep issues before they become issues.

Wouldn't it be useful to benefit from that?

Many major consultancies, sadly, hire a ton of people that haven't put in the time and built the skills to be as effective as you may like - which is reflected by the fact that every time I've been approached by Accenture they've offered rates that only a junior or intermediate level consultant would go for.

This explains why a lot of customers part ways with consultancies with a bad taste in their mouth. This isn't the grade of "expertise" you expect when you hire a consultancy. You expect senior or principal level resources for the rates you pay - people who have done the time, solved the problems and come armed with the solutions; not juniors and intermediates who may be great bums in seats, but not what you hire big expensive consultancies to provide.
Yeah so Zeek/Bro might be more of an intrusion detection tool, in the vein of snort or suricata, in that it can monitor network traffic and alert on suspicious patterns. It has some things in common with tcpdump or wireshark also, in that it can interpret common protocols for human inspection.

As part of Windows, I would speculate it serves a function similar to something like Little Snitch on macOS, but that’s just a guess. Maybe they have something different in mind.
stwui: Opinionated yet customizable Svelte-TailwindCSS component library
I don't buy this argument very much.

Higher ups are responsible for the company. You can blame consultants all you want but the board is still going to want heads to roll if you're underperforming.
> Also it doesn't "override other apps" whatever that should mean, but can draw over other apps.

It's a permission designed for accessibility. Because it's so intrusive you usually have to go through a more complex flow to enable it.

"override other apps" is a defensible colloquial definition because it enables clickjacking. Clickjacking is when you overlay an opaque, innocuous overlay and then open something you maliciously want to trick the user into clicking behind it.
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why
I have both PHPStorm and Pycharm running, each takes up 4+GB memory on a 8G M1. Slowly growing memory usage for WindowServer process makes matter worse.

For the last week, I have been playing with Neovim in spare time using a setup based on https://github.com/LunarVim/nvim-basic-ide It does pinning plug-in too.

It's working well for small projects so far.
I remember when this was originally posted, but I voted it up again because I think it's such an excellent story, and excellent programming. We need more people and companies like this, who are willing to go beyond "oh it fails randomly sometimes" and track down the underlying issues.

=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102241 Previous Discussion (497 points - 41 comments)
A lot of fans will actually be staying in Dubai and flying over. I read that there will be dozens of flights per day between the two locations.
You're either preaching to people who agree with your perspective or talking to a well-tread HN persona where all management is incompetent nincompoops and the world would be a better place if only devs had unilateral powers in all areas, including those where they have no experience or even visibility. You are being quite charitable to place the majority in the former category. See follow-on comments (both current and soon-to-come) for supporting evidence.
Confused, yes.

Especially since we are taught metric exclusively in school. But then get into the real world or deal with "adults" and find so many things in imperial.
Lowers the value proposition though
Does it decrypt TLS?
> at least in tech you get to play with: technology. So it’s fun

Right, without this fact, the tech landscape would look like a lot different.
This is easily one of the most important books about software engineering ever written, and remains in my top 3 recommendations for anyone in the software business -- programmers or not.

Brooks was the product manager for System/360, IBM's bet-the-company new architecture for mainframe hardware and software. What he learned from managing those dev teams should forever change the way you think about planning and building software.

Some takeaways that should make you want to read it...

-- Adding people to a software project makes it take longer and have more bugs.

-- Added communication is a burden to development, not a help.

-- The "4 quadrants" of development and their costs and outputs: product, programming product, programming system, and programming system product.

BTW, the "mythical man-month" in the title refers to how many people it will take and how many months to finish some software product or feature. Brooks calls this mythical (and proves that it is) yet it remains the basis of all of today's nutty "Sprint" planning system!
If using heat pump - can you have an additional container to store pressurised refrigerant? Or that only works for cooling?
Humans can perceive frame rates far above 30-60.
Oh man this is great, I have a W701DS that's not much newer than this, gonna try!
Out of curiosity, why is lidar necessary?

When a human drives a car, their only sensors are eyes, ears, and maybe vibration. Somehow we manage to muddle through it.

Why do L4/L5 cars need anything extra sensors-wise?
That won’t work because we don’t have any infallible subs to replace them with.
> Do you really think they take into account in other fields, that their doctors, lawyers, finance people etc should "Have fun" and change their decisions away from what is straight forward solutions, because of that? They don't. Only in software.

Two things:

1. Both my parents work in law, and both have changed jobs, taken in on new challenges, or focused in a specific area because they were interested in it and wanted to have "fun" at work. Eminent doctors will also frequently filter their patients to focus on cases they deem interesting.

2. You are saying that companies actively support non-optimal solutions just so that software engineers can have fun. It's not the case at all. Maybe bad engineers pushed bad technical choices because they wanted to have fun, and the company went along with it because the bosses didn't know better, but that's driven by the bad engineer, not by the company.
> "As Canadians we typically measure our height and weight in ft and lbs. But temperature in celsius and travel distances and speeds in kilometres and km/h. Except for cooking/recipes, where oven temperature is measured in fahrenheit and we have to deal with recipes with cups and ounces and so on. ... But recipes are also often in litres and grams. So.."

As British we typically measure everything in metric, including oven temperatures and recipes. Except for road distances and speeds, which are miles and mph. Unless it's an e-bike which always seem to be km/h. And most modern cars do have dual units, showing km/h in case you drive over to Ireland or the continent.

Oh, and a few things like milk and beer are sold in pint-sized containers, but must clearly state 568 ml on the bottle.
My grandmother recently passed away. She'd had dementia for quite a few years, and in a cruel "death by a thousand cuts" it's a disease that robs you of... you.

But it also robs your family of you, it replaces you with a physically present but empty shell in the shape of a human, who is not particularly pleasant to be around because, to quote The Zombies, "she's not there". One of my (irrational) fears is to be remembered by my family as I will be in my later, doddering years, rather than as the spritely, attentive, loving, and supportive father I've worked hard to be presently. Maintaining my health and intellectual curiosity is partially in pursuit of extending my stay outside of doddering old-age-hood as long as possible.

This story sounds similar, but all the more tragic because Lee Holloway was in early-mid life.

A shuddering reminder of the cold apathy of the universe, and to be thankful for, well, pretty much any good thing you've experienced ever.
"4k +144hz absolutley needs this kinds of performance"

Yes, but the average gamer doesn't do "4k + 144hz" and even if they wanted to, they couldn't afford to care for those Nvidia GPUs at these prices (often not also the required monitor). So this doesn't explain the niche those cards are addressed to (and sales demographics confirm this).

It's a general statement, not an absolute one about what any conceivable game and obsessive gamers would want/uses.
I think it's a clever name pulling from both.
As I understand we we're not 'reverting', it's just not going to be illegal to use the old measures any more.
And your numbers for these assumptions are based on what?
Underdelivering and overselling are their DNA. They can quickly bring in armies of incompetents and juniors.

I was working for them and worked for companies that hired them.
If only browsers could read/install third party certificate authorities, then you could do crazy things like serve an internal domain securely via a certificate you generated yourself, assuming the users agree to install your CA - or better yet, you could be an enterprise purchasing computers for your employees with the CA preloaded. Of course, that's not possible right now.
If you need larger batch sizes but don't have the VRAM for it, have a look at gradient accumulation (https://kozodoi.me/python/deep%20learning/pytorch/tutorial/2...).

You can accumulate the gradients of multiple batches before doing the weight update step. This allows you to run effectively much larger batch sizes than your GPU would allow without it.
Can you tell me more? Can you cite me sources? (I’m not asking to challenge you I genuinely want to educate myself on this. Like I said I was going off of a casual Google search that told me humans don’t generally notice beyond 60 fps so there’s no point in significantly higher monitors. If this is wrong I’d like sources because the sources will educate me further where the real info is about this!)
Thankyou i'm actually planing on doing that aswell, as of now you can try it out without signing up by clicking on get started button, you get perform search and terminal queries free of cost, but what you're suggesting is an amazing idea aswell, increase the number of credits once people signup thankyou so much for that i will work on implementing that
I have no idea what the software does but it sounds like network-sniffing, privacy-intruding malware being severely sugarcoated?

AKA 80% of Windows development since 2009?
Opinion certainly varies, but it’s ridiculous to suggest I’m a Russian propagandist for disagreeing with you. I don’t have to like Russia to be more fearful of the US. Especially if you go to Eastern Europe you will encounter this view.

This “Russia did it” story is also getting more and more convoluted. The EU already sanctioned Russia and is avoiding buying their gas. Russia can simply not send gas if that’s what they want, what is the EU going to do, sanction them more?

The US didn’t already have a way to stop the flow of gas besides sanctions. Since that may not be enough over winter, further discipline has now been administered. This protects LNG profits and strengthens the US’s proxy in the area, Poland. It shouldn’t be surprising that this happened after a pipeline from Norway to Poland was completed or that a Polish diplomat thanked the US after the blasts.
The high end market has always been like that even before ML or mining were a thing on GPUs. While yes, the majority of the use nowadays is in those areas, they clearly do sell enough of them to be making a profit even without being the majority of sales (otherwise they would've never made them prior to GPU compute going mainstream), especially considering that the costs of making the high end cards aren't that crazy when the lower end cards are often just the same chip as the high end model but cut down. It's also worth considering that the same chips also go into the workstation cards.

On top of all that, the halo product effect also plays a role, where it's easier to sell even the lower end models when you can claim to have the fastest model of the generation at the high end.

Furthermore, the current generation's high end tends to become the next generation's mid/low end, so it's really just buying into a product that could last a gamer one extra generation, which offsets the costs (ignoring that $1600 every ~2-3 years isn't really that crazy for someone with stable employment).
You electrically stimulate around the spot with a probe where you’re planning to resect. If the patient can’t perform whatever task you’re evaluating then you know you can’t resect in that area. Generally looking for a 1cm margin between tissue you’re going to resect and a positive stim site.

Can’t undo brain cuts. CNS neurons don’t repair themselves like peripheral neurons or your skin. Generally not cutting glioma brain tumors out per se more likely to use ultrasonic aspiration to suck the tumor out piecemeal. Depends on the tumor though.
In the case of twitter bullying there is, just ignore it. Who cares what stirandom265428 thinks on twitter? Chances are it's not even a real person.

I noticed the same thing in the 90s in France, a country were many still have a cult of the revolution. Anytime you had 1000 guys vociferating in the street, they are somehow referred to as "the people" (except if their opinion is contrary to major newspapers, then it is a "small violent mob"). The reality is that it is only 1000 guys in a population of 60 millions. They are representative of nothing else than themselves. But it's a way for journalists to push their own opinions like if somehow they were mainstream.

It's the same today. You can find 10k retweets for any random cause, even hitler. But if they align to major newsrooms opinions, they will be presented as expression of the public opinion. And I think the people doing the cancelling (employers firing, companies cancelling contracts) are more worried of the media than of the twitter mob. But given how little credibility the media have those days, they could safely ignore them and nothing would happen. Unless they evolve in those few liberal circles where all your friends will turn their back on you if you think differently on a single thing.
China's economy is 'in deep trouble' as Xi heads for next decade in power
> He wasn't cancelled, per se; but he did suffer negative consequences for it.

What negative consequences, other than some people having a negative opinion of him?

There's nothing inherently wrong with people having a negative opinion of another person, that happens all the time. It's not a phenomenon to be worried about.
Specifically, what were the consequences or nature of Coltrane’s suffering?
Isn't that the point? It'll be familiar to older people, thus proving how they're super to today's youth. (/s)
It's sort of unsettling how this twitter "mob violence" echoes the patterns laid out by Hannah Arendt's exploration of totalitarianism.

The really point isn't to find who is guilty, which is why these witch hunts almost more often than not targets people on the left that dare stick out their neck or ask the wrong questions, usually left-of-center moderate liberals.

I was trying to find a nice summary in written form of her theses, but here's a nice podcast discussion on Arendt's totalitarinism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_fV_2LOL6Y
Just to be precise, they have not proposed to switch back to imperial, they are proposing to allow imperial units to be used (so for instance a supermarket would be free to sell potatoes in pounds instead of kilos if they wanted to).

Either way, this is indeed a distraction and it has very little chance of going anywhere.
Brit here. Second nature. It's either clear from context ("doing 70 in a 40" -> mph) or you instinctively make the units explicit. Metric is better though ;)
There is a big effort right now by one of the working groups at ICANN to review dns abuse. They’re trying to address it because it IS a big problem. Even though the latest report says it’s going down globally. https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-publishes-dns-a...

They are addressing it, though, and I believe there is a place for public comments.
100% this, all smoke and mirrors. But you can’t argue with it’s effectiveness.
> but in the long run it is much faster than anyone expects

I saw the first Moon landing.

At the time, everyone, the experts, the public, everyone, expected us to colonize the Solar System within a few decades. We expected that fusion power would be too cheap to meter and that burning fossil fuels would be a thing of the past. We expected human life expectancy would soon rise to over a century in developed countries.

Serious, respected scientists said all these things, and everyone took them for granted.

None of these things did in fact come to pass.

Humans have not ventured in person even as far as the Moon in fifty years.

Our first atomic "pile" was 80 years ago in a few months, and we still don't have a fusion reactor. The tokamak was the big fusion design 50 years ago, and it still is, and we are better at them, but we still are nowhere near actually producing real power.

Life expectancy increases stalled quite fast, and then life expectancies started to regress. Americans have lost about two years of their life, basically because of their group mistrust of medical science.

It is simply diminishing returns on the amazing discovery that is the scientific method - it is unavoidable.
the details here are insanely thin on the how. is this rolled out to every windows 10/11 os in the next security kb? is this a windows feature that can be enabled by enterprise editing only? do I need defender atp license for it? can I fw the data to my detection engine at my enterprise like normal or does this go to a cloud console in azure somewhere first? is this designed to be available to enterprises, or data to improve Microsoft's defender product?

if ms is getting this data, how the hell can they afford the disk space?! my bro implementation was 250GB/h of disk space for 20k endpoints. I can only fathom what all windows agents would generate.

soo many questions around this still
I still don't get how we ended up from there to so many people linking their real life name, location, sex and even workplace to anything they post publicly... Like we used to warn children to not disclose their name, or location or anything. And then the same parents happily started to broadcast that stuff...
> and people still do fine playing even latest games with smaller GPUs

At 1080p, which is what I was using 20 years ago.