skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from Vasa, the museums I'd recommend in Stockholm are:

The Royal Amory (https://livrustkammaren.se/en/home/)

A lot of old items from royalty and nobility. If you ever wanted to see how armor was deemed bullet-proof they have some dented chestplates that shows it off.

Swedish Army Museum (https://armemuseum.se/en/start/)

Army history from the 1500s and through the Cold War. Old collections of weapons, explanations of how huge armies were maintaned and fed and iirc they also have a huge old soviet missile.
JiTouch. The only gesture library that let me draw characters on screen to open specific apps.
> There hasn't been a successful lawsuit yet

Why would it come to a lawsuit ? Companies would simply just pay the royalty.

That's how it has been for previous codecs.
On the flip side electric vehicles tend to require lower maintenance.

Electric motors are an even simpler technology with the only real complications arising in the battery tech, which likely wouldn’t be repairable on site anyways and would require replacements.

Hopefully the district has proper warranties and battery replacement timelines with their contractor.
Long term support for legacy hardware.
I suppose it all revolves around money.
(I also find myself thinking about so much software that has vanished over the years—my DVI previewer for VM/CMS plus the VAX/VMS change files for all the TeX software that I maintained in the 80s. There’s got to be a lot of even more interesting software where the only copies have almost certainly long since vanished.)
There's also the military approach where there's a clock and you either get promoted or you are out. And then it repeats. Languishing isn't really allowed as an option.

If a job/task only requires entry level skills, why are senior employees doing them?
> The important question is not "is it better or worse than alternatives" but "is it enough for me". Yes, it is.

All good! But if you're OK with O(100) RPS out of a server, then I guess basically every possible option is on the table. I bet `nc` spawning background `bash` scripts to handle requests would get to 1k RPS, even! ;)

> HTTP/2 doesn't change anything.

I guess that would work, as long as the fronting server managed all of the connection management details, stream demuxing, etc. But I wonder how you'd do that in a single thread?
tell that to every Linux user who was doing anything with mp3's before the patents expired just a couple years ago. i'm pretty sure even the Windows version of Audacity -- a tool with over 100 million downloads -- integrated with it. are you claiming the LAME approach wasn't successful? or that its success was a fluke, context-dependent, or for some other reason is a bad analogue?
Stainless. It was a great browser that had each window as a separate instance. I really enjoy it because it was a no BS browser for Mac.
It comes down to the fact that HEVC is supported by more devices. 1080p and lower resolution versions of pirated movies still come in H264, because that is supported by even more devices...
Man 401ks are such a sham imo
Lol: microsoft is about to destroy themselves with copilot (the damages have already been done). Their government welfare program (22 billion for AR beta test) is already a failure. Nobody wants to use windows 11 unless they are forced. Still DESPERATELY trying to monopolize the gaming market. They're a floating textbook example of antitrust, and about to get flushed. I hope the enabling shareholders all go down with them. Maybe not the textbook example easily explained to a lay-person, but their behavior does in fact tend to create a monopoly, and I challenge you to find a jury that would disagree.
I read the v4 spec many moons ago. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s that it tries to define everything rather than stop at a sensible place and let others quibble over the standards.

The price of embedded systems really.
This is probably the catch. Cloudflare is, unfortunately, very ambiguous at times. This view is shared by many users on their forums as well.
Yes, this is one reason I am personally really sensitive when various people say how privileged I was to get into computers and that we somehow got all this encouragement unlike young women, etc.

In the 80s we were mocked and called nerds for being interested in computers, and before and after dot com people thought this was dead end career.
Phone / TV / Computer integration that is not just handoff, but treats the 3 things as part of a whole UX. Why am I streaming from a website to my phone to the TV?
What if your colleague is autistic and struggles to understand indirect and nonverbal communication?
This article dances around some of the important stuff.

Maintaining engineering velocity is about adapting your culture to focus on the right things. At the beginning, engineering velocity is driven by low communication barriers and fast decision making and lack of existing tech debt. But this doesn't scale.

For engineering velocity at scale you need the following:

- Maintaining a high quality bar: You need to properly manage and prioritize tech debt and infrastructure complexity. This also means keeping dependencies low. The more engineers you have, the more code you're going to have. If this catches up with you, your velocity can be severely impacted.

- You need to have good change management: things like database migrations or big code changes should carry the least amount of risk possible. Documentation is important. You quickly get into hot water if you get stuck here.

- A culture of continuous improvement: teams should be data driven in measuring their performance and motivated to maintain and improve that performance over time. That means, for example, tracking sprint completions, bugs, etc. Each team needs to own this. The goal: ship high quality code faster.

- A close connection with the business and customers: When you focus on what the business needs and what the customer needs, it prioritizes things in such a way that your teams are dialed in to work on only what is needed. You can waste a lot of engineering time on things which don't matter.

- A culture of coaching and personal improvement: hiring good people is key, but ultimately it's how they play together as a team which is the most important. People need guidance on how they can be the most useful in that context. Sometimes people don't work out, so having fast feedback and showing people the door when they don't work out is necessary. Not doing this is a great way to demotivate other team members, at the very least.

- High amounts of ownership. This has sort of become a trendy topic in management philosophy, but ultimately it comes down to: can teams make autonomous decisions and own outcomes in the greatest way possible. This is all aimed at reducing decision making and communications overhead. It is also about making sure people with the greatest context can make decisions rather than somebody higher up with less context.

I'm sure I'm missing other stuff, but if you apply these principles things start aligning themselves in a direction where velocity is constantly improving.

However, I think talking about engineering velocity can sometimes miss the mark. What you really want is consistency.

Engineering lives within a broader organizational structure and other parts of the business need to be able to rely on you for certain things. When you can say: "Yes we can ship this feature by this date" and then hit that, you enable a lot of things. So yes, being fast is great. But you won't get there without being consistent.
Protip: Don't remap the controls to wasd and leave the fire key on ctrl. Not if you want to be able to run forward while firing.
The free tier is pretty great for getting out landing pages or static sites. It makes deployment as easy as possible, you just need to push your main branch. If you want a bit more like a database, things get a bit more involved but not any more complicated than setting up your own infra. Overall, happy with using it for the cases it handles really well.
Does this also apply to HEIC? We've had trouble with users trying to upload images captured on their iPhones. It only works in Safari.
A Pelton water wheel uses a similar effect as sailing perpendicular to the wind.

A normal water wheel moves at nearly the same speed as the water and extracts little useful energy, like sailing DDW.

Note that the energy of the wind is kinetic energy, so taking energy from the wind slows it down.

A Pelton wheel has bowl shaped paddles that, like a spoon under a faucet, redirect the water into the exact opposite direction. The wheel runs so that the rim speed is half the water speed. From the perspective of a single paddle, the water is moving half as fast. From this perspective, the water hits the paddle and reverses to leave at the same speed. From an outside perspective, water hits the wheel and basically stops, transferring all its momentum to the wheel.

Conservation of momentum also explains how Veritasium was able to ~sail DDW faster than the wind with a land propeller craft. The propeller spun fast enough to slow down the wind behind the craft, meaning energy was extracted.
Native/performant applications
I don't think they'll ever shut down GCP. But I could see them discontinuing services within GCP over time.
Oh, I've had issues with Manjaro Linux for example (I inherited a laptop at work that I didn't immediately reinstall) - but Arch/Manjaro are rolling, bleeding edge distros - it's like using beta channels of windows or being an early adopter of macos releases.

My point was specifically about Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS.

Ed: And of course errors found and bugs filed in Debian sid(unstable) or testing - or Ubuntu non-lts contribute to those bugs not affecting those that run stable releases.
>It's more jobs, especially different jobs.

It's jobs that Americans can't do (or at least not in sufficient volume). These are high-skill jobs; you can't just grab some uneducated person and expect them to do the work necessary to keep a place like TSMC running.

That's why these chips are made in Taiwan, and not in places like Cambodia, El Salvador, or Rwanda. America also doesn't have the skill necessary to replace TSMC. What chipmaking capacity it has is already tied up with Intel (which doesn't make chips for most things outside of PCs and servers). America doesn't have an excess of engineers that could be trained for this work; they're already busy doing other stuff (usually software), and there's already a shortage of them anyway.

This isn't a problem you can just throw money at to solve. There simply aren't enough skilled workers available to do what the leaders want here.
I dig through other people’s codebases all day long. I really don’t want to do that in my free time as well. Especially to fix the garbage that they built in the first place.

It’s just not fun. And that’s one of the most important reasons I do this job.
Intel’s Mobileye IPO to raise $861m at $17b valuation
Fireworks nailed it. I was astonished how many professional designers said "what's that" when I asked if they ever used fireworks.

Fireworks was extensible with Javascript. Extensibility is something lacking from all the newer replacements.
Last sentence implies he can encode at 30fps, same frame rate as the video.
So it was new? The problem was covid wasn’t bad enough I guess. People would be running through walls to get a “new” Ebola vaccine, wouldn’t they. And there’s a number of covid vaccines that use older, well understood mechanisms that weren’t accepted either. It was political bs and the world is lucky it wasn’t worse. Pity about those than checked out, eh?

But it could have been. If the switch from delta to omicron went worse instead of better things would have turned out bad. I’m not comfortable playing at such high stakes. The virus just reproduces when and how it can.
Youtube staff needs to be completely gutted, and the site should undergo a complete overhaul. It's damn-near inoperable on non-chrome browser and that does tend to create a monopoly...

edit: I can't even use the site without overriding my useragent with a blank one... WHY IS THAT I WONDER?
Definitely it is, and it does open doors for this, I'm just curious if running say, a JavaScript or Python interpreter on top of WASM would be more performant than V8, given that there could be two layers of VMs, ie the WASM VM and the JS/Python VM running on it.

I'd hope that they'd be comparable in performance, especially when it comes to doing client-side web app things in languages other than JavaScript.
Ten to One founder aims to change people’s perception of rum
It was Ruby on Rails, it was forms-based, and it was hell. To personal taste these days, I much prefer writing a heavyweight client and a thin server that emits raw data and does very little HTML rendering or HTML pre-processing to the alternatives I tried before.

But even if the server is doing a lot of heavy lifting, the end user experience can benefit both in performance and bandwidth from minimizing page reloads. There's some pretty spiffy client and server template technologies now that let you get pretty close to write once, render on either the client or the server depending on which is cheaper.

And there are other applications for which manipulating history is a better fit. Otherwise, how would you mail history into a web experience that doesn't match very well to page navigation at all, like a WebVR walk where you want to be able to return to a location via URL, or a music player where you want the history to go back and forth between the songs you played?
Fortunately I've never had to try procuring legally-verifiable paperwork from a doctor to prove that a loved one is too sick to tell me their password, but I have to admit that such a process probably does exist, and someone could navigate their way through it during an emotional difficult time. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
This. This is what I did when I had ~100 servers, mostly lower end Supermicro, just buy an extra unit. But now I have ~20 higher end Dell boxes ($13K), and the pro support makes more sense, especially since maybe only a third of them are on support. I used to buy a couple machines a month, now I'm buying a machine or two a year.

As I said, Pro Support has been fantastic for every other issue I've had, it was just this one memory issue.

For comparison, a couple years ago we had a machine in production that system load went crazy on, 300-400 in "uptime". Nothing was really goning on on the machine. I ended up with 2-3 engineers helping me out as the path of the sun moved me into different support regions. They couldn't pin it down to any specific thing, but ended up replacing a couple SSDs, the RAID card, and the backplane. I'm pretty sure it was the LiteOn SSDs soiling the sheets, but that's what they ended up doing and we've been good since then.
PS5, XBox One, Chromecast, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV support HEVC but not AV1.

And they represent a significant proportion of video consumption devices.
Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramics (UHTCs)
If I'm reading the financials correctly, ads constitute just shy of $54b in earnings while Cloud just $6b.

As long as consumers are buying stuff, companies will advertise to them. As long as Google has a captive audience and they can continue to mint keywords for advertisers to bid against, I think this flywheel continues.
That's cute, and not insanely expensive.

On the "little machine for custom jobs" front, can anyone suggest a low cost subnotebook, x86-64 or ARM (i.e. Chromebooks OK) where I can wipe the Google software and install some version of Ubuntu? I've been using EeePC Seashell machines for that for years, but they're wearing out and I need something close to current production.

I'm looking for a machine where there's not too much difficulty doing this. That varies with the machine. Some require removing a jumper to let you overwrite the OS. Some require overwriting flash memory with somewhat sketchy binaries.
Have you ever tried to load a development build of a project with 3000 modules in Vite? It’s like a webpack build all over again every time you load the page.
Show it!
There may be more than one person posting on HN.
> My 10980XE is like 96% occupied while watching AV1 without HW acceleration

That seems high. What resolution and frame rate is the video? And which decoder are you using? dav1d is a highly optimized software decoder so that's the one to try:

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/

It's used in Firefox, Chrome, ffmpeg, etc.
> Now they bring HEVC support to Chrome and the top comment is another complaint!

Well, you know how it is, some complaints are wrong and some are right.
That does take a few seconds, for me. But I could see how that could get painful on larger apps.

I'm not trying to mislead... but it would be good to know what they are actually measuring.
I should have clarified with “Western”.

Although I think your point that our only company in regard to school closures is China and India doesn’t frame us in the best light in terms of pandemic response.

Also, I seem to have upset you with my comment. It was poorly phrased and I do apologize for that. I don’t think that you are 100% wrong in your argument and I appreciate your position.
What previous mRNA vaccines? And it’s being used to deploy cancer treatments. If it can use the body’s mechanisms to make drug matter rather than dosing, think of the efficiency. Particularly outside the richest countries.

We make all sorts of things medical and otherwise by adapting biochemistry. Nobody seemed to mind before.
Buy once, use everywhere media - we regressed from owning the vhs/dvd/bluray to finding which service will allow you to rent / license the media.

While I'm there, the path from media rental to "ownership". If I watch a movie for $4.99 and it's good, why not take the $4.99 off the price to own it rather than making me pay full price?
You already paid for it. Might as well try and watch it.

Trailers seem to have only a loose connection to the movie itself. They're made by different teams, sometimes with different (unused) footage.
well yes, but not everyone wants to download 70GB movies, so blu-ray movies are often re-encoded for smaller filesizes (10-20GB 4K HEVC, 5-10GB 1080p H264 AC3 sound, 1-5GB 1080p HEVC AAC)
I only really use soap under my arms and mostly in summer. Otherwise it just isn’t needed.
So firstly I did and do think mdma is neurotoxic.

I was under the impression that the literature was pretty settled on it being neurotoxic but sounds like I might be wrong about that.

I said 5-apb is probably nuerotoxic because it's serotonin effects felt very similar to mama, and that feeling has always felt to me like I was doing low grade brain damage or at the very least heavily downregulating my serotonin receptor system.
Ancient Athens -- birthplace of democracy -- had an answer [1]. The sponsor of a law that was later found to be, in modern parlance, unconstitutional, could be fined.

Also worth considering: ostracism [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphe_paranomon

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app
+ Pnpm monorepo
The Tories have been systematically destroying Britain's welfare programmes since they got into power. This was all planned, when David Cameron effused about "Big Society" back in 2010, he meant his government was going to cut state-funded services to the bone, so charities like food banks would have to step in. Usually run within churches (or other religious organisations) by people who actually care about others, unlike all these Tory vultures who only want to feather their own nests and enrich each other.

The worst is how they are treating disabled people, it's very common now for the government assessors to claim there's nothing wrong with you, and mark your disability score as zero, only to have this overturned in court later on, after months of stress and poverty. The unofficial government approach seems to be, let them die. It's disgraceful and appalling how these Tory scum are treating the most vulnerable in society. I can only hope with recent events they've fucked their electability for a very long time. A general election can't come soon enough.
Why not? Production isn't where bugs should be found. Plenty of time to test things before production.
They used FTP heavily at a point too. I remember transferring batch wire transfer instructions by exposing a tsv file on a particular FTP server. The only security was obfuscation, it could have been bad but never was so it felt secure.
Sometimes people don't understand there is a problem unless is very clear.
Culture also plays into the issue, I work with international teams, and the English needs to be very direct.

Like another comment says people from California are more subtle. OTOH my experience working with people from Eastern Europe is that in their culture there are not many nuances in conversation, they don't give it, so they don't expect it as well.
When the LOTR came out originally the theatres I went to had no break.

When they did the marathon showing of the extended editions before the first hobbit movie they did an intermission on each movie. It was nice.
Xara
I wouldn't call entertainment work (even the craziest corners of that world) nearly as off-brand as suggesting that women dominate it. I have no idea how far from 49/49 the makeup might be, but I do know that I'm a guy who's done plenty of entertainment industry gigs (music production, fwiw) where the pay is quite reliably received before going home, and that's the important distinction here.
Who's going to hold the government accountable when they do whatever they want?
In the year 2022, the browser supports full motion video, 3D rendering, dynamic audio synthesis, local key value database storage, a USB access API, and an API for interacting with head mount displays and hand trackers.

The simple dynamically-linked page displaying application you are imagining a browser to be is long dead, in much the same way the simple programmable calculating machine that was the personal computer was long dead by the time John Carmack got it to run Doom.
You can play it in your browser: https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Alright, and why should we care about it?
Yeah amphetamine salts are an add med and they are almost certainly if not certainly neurotoxic. See : audio recordings of Jim Jones before and after years of heavy amphetamine abuse.
This is how I missed the midiclorians scene in phantom menance and it made the movie so much better
Reminds me of Rebol, a precursor to JSON.
JPEG-XL next, please
You start the app when the movie starts and it just sends a notification that vibrates at the best time. If you read the cues beforehand it’s a great reminder. Not distracting or disturbing to anyone else in the theater.
CWM written in C works better over the years. Compiling C++ software from 2004-2007 can be a nightmare.

Also, on C, please, get OpenBSD and check their security practices.
Are people still pushing the children meme? COVID is not a threat to children.
In the eyes of copyright law, the human element, as only humans can hold copyright. (for now)
In what way were you burned with Stadia? I thought they reimbursed folks and you got some entertainment while you subscribed.

Ultimately, they couldn't convince enough people to sign up, but that's a whole different story about product strategy.
Supply chain issues like the workforce being sick, factories shutting down due to the pandemic, and a giant ship clogging up the ocean for a while.
I wrote a similar post the other day but with my top 10 vim commands: https://catonmat.net/top-10-vim-shortcuts
Except you can use this to tell you in advance when you can run, so you know when to take you're 1/2 way break.

And a discrete timer that vibrates in my pocket disturbs noone. And it does it at the best possible times.
Sounds universally applicable.