skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Product management should take 20% of team's capacity and give it to them to spend as they see fit. You can't get away with much less than 20%. If the state is very bad, 30% or even more might be needed. Without paying this 20% tax, the debt will increase to the point where the entire organization will spend all of the cycles paying it down."

- about technical debt in DevOps Handbook, and that's not the only one

After working in several companies, ahhh man, how true that is.
Reading this, I can’t help but think of that classic Jack Nicholson line from As Good as it Gets: “You make me want to be a better man.”
That's the whole gist of gchatelet's implementation. Make it easy for the compiler to inline memcpy, so the compiler gets a chance to propagate the information it has about the parameters. In many cases it can eliminate all the branches but one.

The GNU way of using a huge, branchy assembly block that is selected at runtime using ifunc means that the compiler never even got a chance.

Regarding the question of whether or not they are faster, see section 4.4 of this paper. Replacing the glibc memcmp with something trivial resulted in up to 1% speedup in Google web search, when considering the whole program. It doesn't microbenchmark as well as glibc memcmp, but it is a better function that doesn't wreck the performance of the rest of the system.

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
At some point, weakness became a virtue.
I get a lot of unpopped kernels with an air popper but can regularly get a much higher percentage (often almost all) from pan popping but that could just be me using a cheap air popper.
I have done this on Hetzner. Cost about 10cent per scan
Clearly hasn’t listened to 7 Minute Freestyle by 21 Savage.
The civil society would benefit, because it is hard to entrust our business and affairs to systems whose degree of trustworthiness is moot at best.
> a social class originally posited by the John and Barbara Ehrenreich in the 70s

The professional managerial class was also identified and studied quite a bit earlier. James Burnham wrote about it extensively in 1941 in The Managerial Revolution, and that was based (in part) on ideas from Vilfredo Pareto in the early 1900s about "elite theory."
Falling off a roof was the slowest time I ever experienced.
King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard released a 30 minute album with just two songs this year. There are plenty of artists releasing longer songs nowadays if you look for it
I suspect that's because Teslas appeal to a lower class idea of what luxury is, while those who can afford luxury vehicles recognize the gulf between what Tesla offers and what actual luxury car manufacturers offer.
Twitter Influencers Used Penny Stocks to Dupe Retail Investors
I for one would like a bit more time. 200? Maybe 500? No one likely wants to be immortal but 80 or so seems criminally short for what our abilities are and how long it takes for us to find our calling.
Safari’s “Reader Mode” and the ability to make it default to on.
In Europe, we live in societies that witnessed two world wars, a Holocaust, and the less lucky corners of it Stalinism and also civil wars. That is enough trauma for anyone to take. And these are not edge cases.

We are children and grandchildren of people who went through all that and did not have any meaningful way to process it.

Our society is not sicker than it used to be. It is likely the opposite. And that is partly because we understand mental health better today so we can process our trauma. Including that which was handed over to us in the form of alcoholism, abuse, or neglect by our less fortunate ancestors.
I can’t answer every question known to man based off the vague prompt I answered. I took a pretty good stab at it. :) I also don’t know what makes things learning worthwhile to every type of person.

> Do Elixir's ideas improve your thinking when working on other languages?

Most languages do, and I’ve already mentioned Elixir’s unique features. Although, in a way, it will make working with other languages feel painful if you do any concurrency. Elixir and Erlang change the way you think about and work with concurrent processes and do it in about the best way possible, as it’s built in to the language in a core way. Learning how to deal with immutable data, writing pattern matching code, and functional programming are also all pluses.

> Are Elixir developers in demand compared to other languages?

I don’t know how to judge this, because define demand. The answer is ultimately relatively irrelevant to me and how I look for positions. If you’re asking, in a roundabout way, whether there are well-paying jobs in Elixir, the answer is yes.

> Is it a fad language?

I don’t know what a fad language is. Stack Overflow is not the global truth, and the plot is linked without context. Elixir has had its official forum for seven years now. It was created around the beginning of 2016, which roughly corresponds to the peak in the data you posted with a bit of lag in the downturn, as might be expected as people learn of the new forum.

Lastly, making a decision based upon what is popular now is not a long term thinking decision. What is popular now was making head winds 10-20 years ago.
The CTO and CPO weren't estimating the time to build the feature, they were estimating the number they needed to win the business. Successfully - job done by the C-suite.

The job of the author wasn't to build the feature in the X weeks, it was to manage the customer while the project completed in whatever time it took. He was successful too, even though he doesn't seem to realise that was his primary value-add.

The customer didn't want or expect an X week delivery of specific scope, they wanted to sign on vague requirements that they could change as the project went along while keeping the vendor under pressure to deliver whatever thing they eventually found out that they wanted.

All of the hand-wringing in the article about estimation misses the point entirely.
Initiatives like this can be a signal of change and spur a new culture if they are accompanied by action and done thoughtfully.
https://archive.vn/WwC7c
None of those were singles.

Neither was Stairway.
You might find unyt useful: https://unyt.readthedocs.io

Disclaimer: I am the primary unyt maintainer.
"that’s why we made two-step verification mandatory,"

Hopefully, you didn't use sms as 2steps :).
Top-down: Detroit building could change the way cities are built worldwide
> It is highly offensive to me that people use the word "slave" because this means that they are automatically saying that I am naturally fit to be a slave and not a human being.

I fail to see how someone unfamiliar with that history could be conveying that meaning.
I only know it thanks to the Green Day song of the same name.
Show HN: A Repository of Wordle-Like Games
> in theory, this allows using zstd in GPL2 projects, for instance, in the Linux kernel.

More than theory, there is actually an implementation of zstd in the Linux kernel. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Walter Cronkite tells us about the home of the future. (Now in our past.)

I always enjoy these imaginations from the past of our modern future.

I wonder how our own predictions of the future will stack up when we get there.
I got yelled at by a female graduate student for using the term "rule of thumb". The Standford page says: "Although no written record exists today, this phrase is attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.", which I translate as "this is bullshit, but some people have decided to be offended by it".
I really don't think that's a fair take on The Leftovers. It was adapted from a novel, which season 1 follows the plot of pretty closely and completely. The remaining two seasons are entirely new plot but iirc the author was involved.

The novel doesn't resolve the core mystery. I won't spoil whether the show does, but it's kind of beside the point anyway. One of the core themes is how people grapple with sudden loss, something beyond their control, something unknowable. In any case the show resolves itself with a satisfying amount of closure in three seasons. Much fewer open threads and plot holes than LOST. The unresolved aspects of The Leftovers are genuinely thought-provoking and deep.

I wholly agree with Wikipedia's summary: "The first season received mostly positive reviews. However, the second and third seasons were highly acclaimed, with many critics referring to The Leftovers as one of the greatest television series of all time, with particular praise for its writing, directing, acting (particularly Theroux’s and Coon's) and thematic depth."

You say "The finale comes only when there's no more money to be made" ... that doesn't jive with a final season having a 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 98% on Metacritic!
Consider that death may actually not be as selected against in nature as you seem to imply. An everliving organism would not as easily adapt to a changing environment, if and until a new mechanism of evolution is generated. We may be stuck in a local minima.

Nature doesn't have goals. Humans, as far as I can tell, very much do. Put another way. Evolution didn't find a way to get life onto the Moon. Humans did.
Referring to literature and scientific works as "content" triggers a negative emotional response in me because I associate it with the corporatization and commoditizstion of speech.

Please use the phrase: "Words that describe subsequent words may follow this disclaimer."

(Except "follow" could have negative religious connotations.)
People have always danced to short tunes with instructions. Like traditional line dances or cotton eyed Joe. What seems to be different now is the lack of instructions.

Music isn't a monolithic thing. If the mainstream music you find on Spotify is coalescing, the independent music you find on Bandcamp is creatively diverging.
Isn’t this basically what 4Chan did with the “OK” hand symbol?
> Unfortunately nobody has figured out how to deploy enough storage to make intermittent sources viable.

They're viable even without storage as evidenced by installing new capacity at a rate of net generation of about 20% of the entire cumulative nuclear fleet per year. And getting enough storage is well understood, it is just not a priority in most places until around 70% penetration and progress towards decarbonizing transport is met.

> Australia is not a big success story: Fossil fuels still comprise over 60% of electricity sources for Australia - it's no better than the USA. They are not using renewables for chemical and metallurgy industries. And this is despite Australia having some of the best weather and geography for solar power.

Australia has languished under a government that was openly hostile to renewables for years. South Australia has been operating at over 90% gross renewables for a week and this is after only a few years of large scale effort with insignificant storage and limited ability for interstate transmission due to storm damage.

> Sweden is the country making the most progress into green hydrogen, but it's still experimental at this point.

https://gh2.org/countries/sweden

https://gh2.org/countries/australia

Looks like about the same level of investment for similar targets to me. Could it be that was another example of blatant lies?

> For countries that don't have widespread hydroelectric potential like Sweden, intermittent sources are not viable except as a supplement to fossil fuels.

Yes. 90% for a week right near the beginning of the transition is a 'suppliment'. Very sound conclusion from the evidence at hand.

This constant lying must be exhausting. Just sell your coal shares.
Wow, that's news to me, too bad they don't support high-fidelity audio, then I'd move there.
Hydrogen is extremely insoluble in water. How do they "infuse" it?
I just looked up, Hurricane was released as a single. The b-side was... More hurricane.
Google for India
Actually even with the requirements I laid out, DRM would still work. A manufacturer could ship a device with decryption keys for DRM content. If the end-owner decided to liberate their device, then the decryption keys would be erased and DRM content could no longer be played. The owner would be left with a blank device ready to accept new software, likely open source, and the device wouldn't be relegated to becoming e-waste.
This reminds me of a paper written in '77 by Donald Knuth about the algorithmic complexity/information content of songs and how it's been reducing using "devices" like the chorus etc. Basically, the idea is that due to compressibility, you can remember a song of length N by remembering just a fraction of N words.

I suppose it's an in-joke of some kind but given that it's from Knuth, there's probably something to learn from it anyway. There's also something philosophical about it. I used to memorise poetry because I enjoyed reciting it out loud dramatically. They were long and complex unlike modern songs which can be easily memorised and hummed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs
Apple Music Sing: a second look
When the service first came out I found that a lot of my favorite songs didn't yet have support. Since then I've been pretty impressed with how quickly my favorites list has been shown love. The beat is a bit heavy imo, when adjusting vocals volume, but overall I'm impressed.

Edit: I find that a lot of my favorite songs (heavy rock) sound a lot better when toning down the vocals just a touch. I think I'm quickly becoming a super fan.
Hey guys, remember when Stanford was prestigious?
Very well stated. My conclusion is the same: It may not have been comfortable or unambiguous every step of the way but basically all stakeholders win in this story.
Maybe I'm missing something but why don't more ppl just built their own (web-based?) media player and drop-in mp3s and mp4s...? It's not that difficult and is easily hosted on a server available anywhere behind a basic authenication gate. This solutions is esp. useful if you have any NAS setup.

What's the rationale for not building homebrew media players instead of railing against Spotify...?
Order one quantum-field store and load achieved? Just imagine buying that with a Cs-133 backup clock and an os that never reboot.
Regardless of this language thing, the difference is 18 years which is a whole different generation.
I can't get their site to load.
They used to spend more money on the intro so they could shorten the actual show. Now I suspect they just run more ads.

There is a great interview out there somewhere about the money they were willing to spend on the Hawaii 5-0 intro/song because it could be used in every show.
Yes, but if you use "y'all" it either means that you don't think southerners are idiots, or that you are ironically acting like you don't think they are idiots.

Even the wokest wokes have their limits.
I would add: "It is natural for projects to appear to progress quickly at the beginning of the development cycle, since developers will seek out assignments that they understand. At some point there will be assignments that are more challenging, that are outside the primary expertise of the developers, or that take coordination with other teams. It is important for the long-term success of the project that developers not play games related to this, and specifically not to cherry-pick easier assignments to make themselves look good".
Oh come on. The page itself recognizes that it’s only advice.

There were a few things on the list I didn’t know the history of (e.g. ‘grandfathered’) that I’ll try to avoid now. I can understand why someone who comes from a different history than I do could be frustrated by them - indeed, I probably will be (mildly) now I’ve learned of the connotations. It costs me almost nothing to avoid them.

There are also a few things I find questionable - but on the whole this list is basically just ‘try to be kind to others’. It’s disappointing to see it so badly received.
Depends on who I'm talking to. An estimate is not actually a number, it's a probability distribution. Few people want to hear that; they want one number to summarize it. But not everyone wants the same number.

My team wants to know the mean; my manager needs to know where the cumulative distribution reaches 90%; and marketing needs to know where the cumulative distribution reaches 99%.

In my experience, a developer's educated guess hits very close to the median completion time. Software task completion tends to be lognormally distributed, so to get the appropriate scaling factors, multiply that educated guess by 1.6, 5, or 10 respectively.
Why was that guy running Jenkins without a password?
> Yup. Pumped hydro is aall taken and there's none under construction. Just look at this map of projects under development https://professional.hydropower.org/page/map-pumped-storage-...

You got to be joking here, look at the very few ones "under construction" ones in Europe and their actual capacity, that's pretty much what I said. Nothing here will help for a winter spike, those won't even cover a full day of bad production.

> It really isn't because every potential Uranium mine on the planet would have to be under development right now for it to be remotely relevant. And even then it would take far longer.

That's kind of taking the consumption of a 60s car with the known petrol fields of the time and doing a multiplication, it's bad maths and bad economics.

> Citation needed. Be sure to include the costs of enrichment, reprocessing, and colonial mining activities. Additionally Germany ate a bunch of the first mover costs. For a valid comparison you'd include the manhattan project.

Those costs are included in the nuclear but not on the renewable part sorry, to get a full comparison you would need to add maintenance, waste management, backup costs and diplomatic & environmental costs for renewables which I don't think anybody is counting now.
I want to run PostgreSQL directly on a RAID controller.
I personally would prefer a Journeyman exit degree option :)
In the 1950s scientists were freezing small rodents and reanimating them using a primitive microwave. [0] If vitrifying and reviving a single rodent organ is the state-of-the-art 70 years later, I am not exactly impressed by their progress.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y
It will be used as a convenient tool against anyone who goes against the groupthink of the day.
The equivilant to SWAT in Germany is run by state police. They are used in specific situations, and most of those are never covered by the press. Statiscally, they are have on average around one deployment per day.

The big difference is, those units in Europe are a professiobally trained force and part of a professionally trained police force. And not somw wannabe commandos recruited from ill-trained police officers run by departments too small to even exist in Europe.
Not back into the freshwater reserves, obviously.
There's a bizarre formula that Citations Needed uses in their titles to describe something they seem to disagree with in a way to immediately distance it from truth. They'll use the following words as synonyms: narrative, cliche, talking points, media, machine, stories, mythmaking, discourse, sentiment, framing, messaging, notions, theater, demagoguery, dogma, rhetoric, diatribe.

Pointing this out helps diminish whatever propaganda they might be distributing. Curiously, they seem to refrain from applying the word 'propaganda' to whatever it is they're describing, as that would reveal them as biased and their trick.
You wouldn't be saying "everyone should be paperless" if everyone was paperless!
For blisters from sports, hydrogel patches are like nothing we had previously. It's amazing to me how well they work.
Feels like https://cryptech.is people would be in this space. They did an FPGA HSM but a secure element with an open design is in the street, a neighbour idea maybe?
This is a conundrum. On one hand, I understand how frustrating something like this can be. But on the other hand, your cloud provider did provide those services that you're being billed for. So they did incur costs, why would they just eat those costs?

Unless they're somehow at fault by exposing your credentials or making it easier for hackers to log in without 2FA or something of that nature.

If you're using a credit card to pay (though can't see a credit card having a 200k limit, even business) you might want to see if they can help (though it's not the credit card itself that was stolen, so it's unlikely they'd cover you). Otherwise, I'd imagine you're SOL unless you have some other insurance you can rely on.
And with AI/ML, we're soon to be creating more music in any given month than all of human history to this point [1].

It's going to be very interesting to see what fates await the RIAA, labels, industry awards, streaming giants, top musicians, legacy musicians, and small artists. I think each will navigate the upcoming AI future in a slightly different way. New types of entities will emerge, and many old players will no longer exist in the same shape or form as they do today. If at all.

[1] (I'm furiously working on this, and I know a lot of others are too.)
> During estimation people are generally optimistic and estimate assuming that they will not encounter any problems or issues along the way.

This is especially prevalent when people don't anticipate the overhead of the technical aspects needed to finish some business functionality.

And yet, when my estimates are large people look at me odd and try to peer pressure me into not being an outlier.

In the end, however, there's certainly a sort of multiplier for working with legacy code or overcomplicated systems.
My understanding was that Wesley was supposed to have much less screen time, but due to how syndicated series were run combined with a writer strike what was a bunch of unpolished early drafts (that normally would end up condensed into fewer episodes after a lot of editing and polish) ended going straight to screen due to lack of finished scripts.

Have no proper confirmation of this, though.
So:

1. At intersections with "leading pedestrian intervals" or "exclusive pedestrian phasing," walk signals provide unique safety benefits that reduce the risks posed by oncoming traffic.

2. This can be important: due to road geometry or other obstructions, it can be hard to see oncoming traffic from a distance, especially for the visually impaired.

3. Blind pedestrians can hear audible walk signals, but cannot see oncoming traffic at all.

4. At sufficiently complex intersections, it can be impossible for you to tell whether stopped cars are about to come towards you when a light changes.

5. Most importantly: walk signs usually tell you how soon a light will change, so that you don't start walking just before a light change.

This is why walk signals reduce car-related fatalities, particularly at night, when people are most at risk.
You’re fighting a pointless war.
OCD is not the same as detail oriented. OCD is the disorder of having to have certain things in a certain way.

Detail oriented is just that, you care about details. Like someone who paints your house can go fast on the large surfaces, but you get the detail-oriented person to do your window trims in a different color without it splattering over the white facade.
Right, I should have said "nominative" rather than "descriptive", at least as far as US law is concerned. It's directly below "descriptive" in your link.

Really I wasn't trying to name the exact defence but gesture at the principal that trade marks prevent competitors from using names that might confuse customers, but they don't prevent competitors (or anyone else) from talking about the product. It was just a coincidence that I used a word that happened to also be the name of a specific kind of fair use.
If you’re not being sarcastic, “you guys” is never (and I know how strong that word is) gendered. It’s literally a synonym for “you all”, ‘y’all’, or ‘you’ (plural).

Are you a native speaker? I’m genuinely curious because I can’t imagine this not seeming ubiquitous to a person that’s grown up in American English.