skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"delivering knowledge directly into your eye holes with minimal friction" is a great way to succinctly describe typography.
TOML has a mess of separators (lines and commas) with confusingly optional delimiters instead of whitespace as separator and mandatory string delimiters: possibly nicer to write, but more complex, with unnecessary ambiguities, and less elegant.
We should solve this mess once and for all by banning ads, and as a nice side-effect we'd save the planet by reducing over-consumption.
I'm not blowing off any examples, I'm disregarding attempts to use these few data points as the basis for proving some asinine hypothesis such as "What man has broken, man can fix".

> How is that not an example of what you were asking for?

I didn't ask for examples. I asked for proof to back up the above claim. A few random examples aren't proof, I don't care how heavy and toxic lead is. It has nothing to do with our current environmental issues, it's completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
If the kids in question don't approach literature on their own with the intent to understand it they're not going to far well in that metric anyway, no matter how counter-productive the education system is.
So how are they able to transfer electricity to Finland, Poland, Germany etc but not from north to south sweden?

Completely unnecessary rules were put in place to create submarkets for north and south sweden, and it's these rules that disallow the transfer of the electricity. It's more profitable to limit production to keep prices high in sweden, then export and sell in other countries.

Hydro in sweden was overflowing and forced to produce more electricity in sweden during the fall, prices would be zero and even negative if supply and demand was actually in effect, but this would mean zero profits as well, so it's not allowed.
Semiaccurate isn't a reliable/unbiased source at all and shouldn't be cited as a serious source. They're on the level of the UserBenchmarks guy as being sometimes right, but always incredibly hyperbolic and emotionally attached, to the extent that it affects their work.

RoHS solder failing was an endemic problem from that era and affected all products from all brands... for example, there used to be lots of reddit posts about people baking their Radeon 7850 GPUs too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=amd+7850+7950+baked+oven++si...

Apple is just an 800 pound gorilla in every relationship they enter, and they like it that way, and they can use it to try and recover unexpected costs. A lawsuit of opportunity - there would have been no point in anyone suing the near-bankrupt AMD at that point, but NVIDIA had money and it was worth trying to pump them for cash even if it was an industry-wide problem... NVIDIA is part of the industry, right?
As I understand it, there's been some recent studies that suggest it might be better to stop early (which is interesting, but that hasn't become standard practice, so I'll just keep doing what the actual professionals tell me to)
It definitely is and you've expended some points to bring that up. The internal discussions they have are an outlet valve they can use to purge their negative and self critical thoughts they have due to their work. If they didn't have this outlet they may not feel so inclined to create and optimize ad tech and corporate surveillance.
Mice shedding
Would be glad to apply.. ;-)
Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal
It's highly unlikely that there is an economical return, because modern engines are radically different.

I like this as well, so my guess is that some people grew with an interest in game development, and they still find it interesting to explore it.

Game algorithms were also "not easy" in the 90s, but since the codebases were overall smaller, they're more approachable then modern ones.
> The current limit of these people has been shown repeatedly to be in the wrong place

"these people", it sounds like you're doing a lot of generalizing. Different people have different limits and the concern is for the future of the conflict, not the past. Hindsight has limited applicability to the future.

The Biden administration is presently operating with limits that more hawkish parties can characterize as appeasement. Why not gift Ukraine some tanks? More missiles? Why not bring the full force of the US Military to bear against Putin? These limits are all forms of appeasement from the perspective of those more hawkish than the Biden administration. Who is right, Biden presently, or those more hawkish than him, or even those less hawkish than him? Personally I think Biden is doing a very good job so far, but only time will tell. Nothing about the future is known for certain in the present.
Wikipedia. They have both pages on current events [0] and events from the past year [1]. The year page also has sub-pages for specific topics or counties. So if you're only interested in events from the USA, you can look at only that page. [2]. Wikipedia also has the benefit of being written in the style of an Encyclopedia, so editorializing is kept to a minimum (at least, that's the goal).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022#January

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_in_the_United_States
Pen Plotting. For those unaware, pen plotters are basically tabletop robots that you can put a pen into and have it draw whatever you want. There's a friendly online community of people making art with them on twitter (search #plottertwitter) and instagram.

It's nice to have a coding-related outlet that also produces something tangible you can hold in your hand or put on a wall.
Also these people make bank being in the public eye, the only power regular people have against them controlling every idea or creating negative movements is social media, a power we didn't have in the 80s and one that's often a two edge sword.

The problem is people thinking they actually have a right or privilege to a platform, you don't and never did. Nobody had a 'platform' in the 80s, but now everybody thinks they're an internet celebrity if they have 1000+ followers. You're not, if you say something bad you should be rightfully held accountable for it.

Any rich celebrity or business person like Elon Musk, could get shunned by all of society but they'd still do pretty good because of the money, pretty sure they won't cry too hard on their private jets.
How pop culture went multipolar
Cost of resistive heating is around 2-5x the amount you'd pay for nat gas equivalent. Probably not that dumb, unless your actually point is that poor people just need to be cold for climate change.
Almost no one does "official" TPC results these days (maybe other then Oracle and some of the Chinese vendors).

Most other cloud DWs have public TPC-H or TPC-DS results that are easily googlable. Clickhouse is missing for a reason...

- https://research.gigaom.com/report/data-warehouse-cloud-benchmark/
- https://www.databricks.com/blog/2021/11/02/databricks-sets-official-data-warehousing-performance-record.html
- https://celerdata.com/blog/starrocks-queries-outperform-clickhouse-apache-druid-and-trino
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-redshift-continues-its-price-performance-leadership/

Our results are here: https://www.singlestore.com/blog/tpc-benchmarking-results/
Question for you bugfix-66:

I'm struggling a bit with this one, having not previously encountered the Fenwick Tree concept.

Why isn't there a main which actually used the code? It'd help me trace through to better understand what the intended outcome is, especially if it's a failing test case.

Also, what is the purpose of this line?

i += i & -i

Is this the line which clears the lowest bit?

Edit: one small feedback, when I submitted the form before making any edits, I saw a hint on the next page. Consider detecting the noop and hide the hint, instead prompting the user to "try something, anything!" or similar.

Keep up the good work! Your site is so cool.
Windows has been fine with swap files since the age of spinning disks, so I guess using a swap file instead of a swap partition is fine.

Speaking of Windows: How is it that Linux seems to grind to a halt when it is forced to swap, while Windows works just fine in the same scenario? Sure, on Windows a lot of swap file "use" is just bookkeeping of empty pages because Windows doesn't overcommit memory. But even if it actually swaps it stays responsive, while I've had to reboot linux boxes more than once because they stayed unresponsive after memory pressure. Does Windows have a smarter swap algorithm? Is it more proactive about swapping stuff back in once memory pressure is gone? A better scheduler that gives more precedence to "interactive" things? And most importantly: can linux implement those things too?
> Voice chat app

Have you, uhh, so you know phones, like Android, have a native, well handled calling function?
We didn’t decide that, we used SingleStore
Yes but this is only a single special interest. A corrupt politician makes up for this in volume.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) holds a particular fascination to me. It’s hard to find the necessary focus time to work on during the weekends though, what with the family needing some attention.

I usually end up writing simple native apps to ease silly pain points in my day-to-day life - low cognitive load, high perceived benefit. I try to get raw sockets involved whenever possible. There’s something satisfying about moving bytes around yourself. Kinda like DIY home projects.
This phenomenon is neatly captured in the locker-room wisdom for the recommended amount of protein intake for athletes here: 1 gram per pound of body weight.
im sorry i'm not really good with writing copy :')

it's definitely not Bloomberg think of it like a lite version for Individuals investors, people in Harvard, Stifel really do use it haha

i'm sorry about the bad first impression, I will try to fix it or seek someone's help to fix it, thankyou so much for the feedback
Oh, well by misunderstanding your point I stumbled on what is, IMHO, a more interesting point. In theory its relatively straightforward to develop a "1 human per process" heuristic for a service like this, especially if you reserve the right to observe and interact with users at any time (which this service certainly does).
> I was getting at the fact that SQL systems don't scale as well horizontally

Google, for example, claims that BigQuery, which uses SQL, scales horizontally. Funnily enough, it is also column-based. Row-stores, like MySQL Cluster, can also scale horizontally and uses SQL.

But no matter what you are at the mercy of CAP theorem. Pick your poison.
“128MB NAT VPS” thing is OpenVZ or otherwise container based.

$5 per YEAR for a container, 128MB RAM, 1GB persistent storage, SolusVM user panel, and 123.45.67.89:16300 - 16320 NATd to your enp0s3. swapon/swapoff don’t work. I tried installing QEMU, didn’t work either because storage is I/O rate limited. IIRC, OpenVZ has some sort of unified cache control for RAM and storage I/O, and trying to circumvent quota through “disk” don’t work because of it.

I’m not sure what the use case might be, legal or not, but there seems to be dozen or so operators taking our credit cards in the exact same manner. Maybe the operation itself is a money laundering, or maybe it’s to run elaborate offsite contraptions for illegal activities, or to run SEO fake sites? I don’t know.
Are you sure about that?

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Non-fiction or nothing. Not interested.
Shader programming blows my mind, especially those niche programmers who are able to create entire scenes using only shaders.

For examples: www.shadertoy.com
For learning: thebookofshaders.com
Every commercial job I’ve had has had swap set to zero. We’d rather run out of memory than swap.
Plugins on Linux work just the same way they do on macOS and Windows.

But yes, it is true that to some extent, there was a tradition from the late 90s to the 20-teens to create synths as standalone apps for Linux, connected via JACK.

That is really going away now, and you can run U-he synths, Helm, Vitalium, Serge and many others as plugins just like you do on macOS and Windows.
Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Regulator says no, riling tech sector
‘These people’ is the opposite of generalising because I’m replying to two specific comments with specific limits.
I was reading this and although I know nothing about the topic, these thoughts just entered my mind.

While on meeting many people are in mute. In that case something of the sort can be done that position/part of people on mute is rendered less frequently.

And people who don't have their camera on are only rendered once
Some guy with no idea what he's talking about, sending messages randomly inside a company of over 100k employees, is exactly why they have that training about not drawing conclusions of law in written communications. Even if you have no idea how Chrome works and how ads logs work, which is quite likely, and even if you have no idea what the standard of "misleading" might be, which is extremely likely, your ignorant utterances will be discovered and used to say that stuff like this in court.
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it's been frustrating to troubleshoot when I can't it to print without screwing up (using a model that other people have been printing with no problems).
I still have no idea how to navigate a Gerrit PR. I sometimes land on one trying to investigate a bug in Chromium or something like that. I’m sure Gerrit’s approach has some benefits, but it definitely fails at showing a simple before and after view, i.e. “here’s what changed.”
I've seen a few articles off this site and they seem to be clickbait and very lacking in substance. I think there's some general misunderstanding about what private browsing can and can't do. It works as expected in that it's a sandbox for cookies and browser history. It's incognito from the POV of a desktop app. It's not a cloak of invisibility.
> I would counter that I bet they have been having these discussions for some time and this is all being used to sway opinion against him. Like him or not, the cool thing now is to hate on musk and worry about what could happen with twitter and this helps build that negative sentiment. The state department doesn't benefit from that transaction either and the federal government poking at him over the deal has left as sour taste i'm sure.

Well like I said it all basically comes down to whether you consider Musk trustworthy. Personally I see a him as a grandstanding, lying charlatan. This is a belief I've held for many years long before you say it now has become the cool thing. But I don't run the DOD and only watch this from the sidelines. We'll just have to see how the the DOD and other portions of the government react.

> From the outside the only fact we can ascertain is that we know his services are not net 0 in cost, so by that assumption any expense is one he can argue he deserves support on.

This is a bit of a straw man. I haven't heard anyone argue that he must give out services for free. The criticism I've heard has been to question the actual numbers Musk has provided and the way he's gone about doing it.
There’s some information here on how Defender approaches this (processing data, nothing specific to Zeek) and which talks about the scale — many petabytes of data and trillions of datapoints.

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1540745195786192...
World's richest man can't donate a few bits.
In theory this should be possible with cgroups. The mechanism is there but I don’t know of a way to easily set up a policy that does what you want.

It should be possible to allocate say 95% of the system resources to the default cgroup and then you could create a secondary cgroup — recovery — which has access to the last 5% of the system resources which you could use to run commands such as “kill” or “top” to recover the system state.

Additionally you could run a second ssh server in the recovery cgroup which you could ssh into in the case of system lock up.

In reality it is probably easier to just reboot in most cases, or if you are dealing with servers use ipmi.
Ask HN: Performance psychology in the workplace?
Hi all,

I've been a SWE/Research Engineer for a decade or so, but I come from a sports background* and I would like to carry over the gratifying elements of that world to my day job. This includes things like optimizing sleep and nutrition, deliberate practice, mindfulness, and more. In the end, it's about pushing yourself to be the best <something> you can be, in the same way athletes push themselves.

My question is: are there others who have similar attitudes towards their jobs? What is the best way to connect with them, e.g. is there an existing community here or on Reddit? If not, is there enough interest that I could create one?

Thank you!

*not professional, but Division 1 and then semi-professional. Good enough to be dedicated, not good enough to be impressive :)

PS: I want to make clear that this includes working in a healthy, sustainable way. I'm not pushing for rise-and-grind or hustle culture.
Tesla has nothing close to an AV. They're at about Waymo 2014 level at best.
So when pro wrestlers bleed there are two ways, blading and hard way. Hard way is exactly as it sounds, someone got hit so hard they got busted open. The second and what the OP is referring to is blading, you get a thin razor blade and nick your scalp-forehead area and you start bleeding. It isn't as extreme as they made it sound.
These are far more satisfying than dot matrix or laser printers. I used to draw stage lighting plots with them in college in the mid-80's. So much fun to watch them work.
I just googled it because I've never heard of it before... it's pretty crazy.

Apparently, the wrestlers cut themselves on their scalp / forehead some time into a match to make the match look more intense, with the blood from their head mixing with sweat and dripping down...

A 17 year old kid was even hospitalized due to blood loss from it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blading_(professional_wrestl...
Autodifferentiable programming!

Neural networks are the famous example of this, of course -- but this can be extended to all of scientific computing. ODE/SDE solvers, root-finding algorithms, LQP, molecular dynamics, ...

These days I'm doing all my work in JAX. (E.g. see Equinox or Diffrax: https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox, https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax). A lot of modern work is now based around hybridising such techniques with neural networks.

I'd really encourage anyone interested to learn how JAX works under-the-hood as well. (Look up "autodidax") Lots of clever/novel ideas in its design.
Acronym casts a long shadow over cyberpunk fashion
I have to also mention https://directus.io/ here. Coming from Strapi, Feathers.js and Supabase i have to admit it is the closest competitor to Supabase i know. There are things Supabase is doing better but the Admin Interface and the Customization Capabilities of Directus are just unmatched.
It's already not illegal to use them, as long as you use metric alongside them. I don't see the problem this is trying to solve.
i looking for an app developer as a cofouder https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33216287
He also mentions Lynx. I use w3m quite a lot myself in tmux sessions. In fact, I have about two dozen tabs open in w3m right now.

And there is still quite a lot of content out there that works without JS.
For example, https://lib.rs/ is lightweight and fast pure rust alternative to crates.io that works great in my tmux session, which is pretty awesome if I'm doing rust stuff in a terminal. (it was originally written as a replacement for the official site which rejected it due to the maintaners being more familiar with their JS implementation)
I don't understand the argument proposed here. Americans should ignore what is an enormous (no pun intended) health crisis because other countries are slightly worse? It doesn't matter what Mexico is doing or not doing, the current figures for obesity are staggering
The first application I wrote for Firebase was back in 2015, before it was acquired. I don't remember the specific issues, but I know I spent about the same amount of time trying to keep it running post-acquisition as I did building the app in the first place.

I tried again in 2019 and got burned by Cloud Functions Node runtime changing underneath me.

Edit: I should point out that averaging a single breaking change every five years means that an application has a 20% chance of being affected each year. I'm not willing to roll the dice, generally speaking.
We don't know why everyone suddenly decided to eat a lot more calories starting around 1980. It's not even clear that people are eating more calories than in 1880.

Food was abundant in the US for most people long before that.
The way we respond to GitHub’s increasing abuse (as well as continued willing collaboration with those who operate concentration camps in the USA) is to stop using GitHub.

Don’t log in, and don’t collaborate on software there. Email users directly.
coworker #1 was literally waiting 30seconsa for his webstorm to open a subdirectory (in a really big code tree)

coworker #2 was struggling with his vscode autodeleting some imports

strange times when you are the vim developer in the house and the one with the most solid IDE...
Two Tattoos Gone Comically Wrong
Why not just use a guest user for that, and have full isolation?
Generate Google Slides from Wikipedia Content
> We love PostgreSQL which Supabase utilizes. We plan to do more research on scalability, since column-based databases can’t grow as big as their NoSQL counterparts.

I would argue there are very, very few types of problems NoSQL solves better than relational DB, and the “benefit” of quickly deploying schema changes is actually a nightmare later on. That it took so long for these devs to realize this is… perplexing
Incognito new tab page says exactly that when you open it. It specifically says "other people who use this device won’t see your activity." That's the top line! Then it goes on to specifically point out "Your activity might still be visible to websites you visit".
There are very significant regional differences in obesity, for which “access to cheap, good tasting food” is not in itself a sufficient causal explanation.
Comcast would like a word...
I don't understand why this issue still persists on linux. As far as I can tell all earlyoom needs to do is kill the process that has eaten the most memory in the last minute or so. On windows this issue is non-existent.
https://archive.ph/gHBrN
Related:

- https://www.mintpressnews.com/twitter-hiring-alarming-number...

- https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engin...

- https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tikto...

- https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-fa...
IMHO that is just slander started from the movie.
Oh this is awesome, I'll definitely schedule a chat for next week! What a neat idea! I do this informally for a small network of junior devs now but I like how you've extended to total strangers.
I know I was there. And they didn’t buy TikTok. I’m talking about a general practice of quid pro quo.
It's too much work for the guests remember to log out