skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a signal integrity standpoint, you really don't want both pins (i.e. SSRX1 and SSRX2) tied together.

> Having one of the pins not connect to your processor would create a stub inherent in the design, which is probably a bad idea.

I was more thinking that each wire for a lane has two pins, one on the top and one on the bottom, which are electrically connected. So e.g. SSRX1+ on the top would be connected to SSRX1+ on the bottom, SSRX1- on the top with SSRX1- on the bottom, same for SSRX2+, -, etc.

With the same wiring in the plug as well as in the socket, there wouldn't be any disconnected pins. The wire for e.g. SSRX1+ would split before the plug, then lead to two pins in the plug; the plug connects to two matching pins in the socket which merge back into a single wire.

So in that modified header one differential pair would occupy four pins, two in the top row and two in the mirrored bottom row.

This means the header would have 4 additional pins per row (so 8 in total) compared to what it has now.

But of course the splits and merges in the wire might cause interference as well.
In some cases a soft delete is the only option. Say I run a chain of stores and wish to close a particular store mid year. The existing sales data still needs to reference the now closed store, but any other attempt to interact with the store should be prevented.

The application and its use of data must take this into account. I don't believe there is some magic bullet here. However, audit tables are invaluable for tracking changes and culprits.

Eventually, the store and all its data can be deleted using cascade delete to maintain referential integrity.
Does Apple not allow multiple timers for hardware reasons?
Hi HN, hope you can settle this new years debate for me.

Why do iPhones still only allow one timer? My friend believes it’s due to hardware limitations (only one interrupt based timer, I guess?) but I can’t see that — the watch and TV have the same internals and support multiple, although that means it could be something external.

My theory is the same as why there’s no calculator on the iPad, Apple felt like it
Uh, IRC didn't even had encryption and anyone in IRC chat can still record everything just fine. That's so weird thing to have issue with.
Romania is not in the Eurozone. They don't use Euro.
That's a different part of GDPR: purpose limits. Deleted or not, you can only use data for an approved consented purpose that is mapped to that data item.
> this still happens to this day, Linux doesn’t work well with a 4k monitor + a lower resolution monitor

I'm typing this response right now from a Thinkpad that is connected to a 4k monitor and two 1920x1080 monitors (using KDE Plasma); works perfectly. All the monitors are Dell.
I think you should reconsider the position that inflation is a sign of a booming economy. It is an erroneous albeit common perception and perspective. Inflation, the fraud of increasing the number of IOU Currency tokens called {fill in your currency of choice} in circulation simply by copying them is the cause of increasing prices, not inflation itself. It’s a matter of misunderstood definition.

An analogy is an artist that puts out a limited edition print, lets say 100, and then realizes that he can make more money if he just prints 2 of each numbered edition, so there are two 1/100. That is inflation and the means of its fraud is the government “printing” more money, and thereby defrauding the people who have the currency based on the prior value.

It’s just common fraud on a ruling class scale with no one to hold the psychopathic common con artists ant the top accountable.

The Fed (among others) are just people scheming to commit fraud against the people who produce the value. Usually they just keep the fraud at a level that skims a certain low percentage that they get away with and no one notices when everyone is fat and happy, but they always get greedy and desperate when the Ponzi scheme they are running starts tipping over.
Self-Control Issues Due to Childhood Neglect
I think I read once that Joan Didion practiced typing the opening of A Farewell to Arms just to get Hemingway's voice into her head.
The media didn’t write this headline, or any headline for that matter, because the media is not a singular entity. A person wrote this headline for a publication.
Kind of mindblowing that you can speak to someone who was already in their 20s during WWII.
This dispute isn't about their HQ, it's about some random office space elsewhere. And I don't see how moving an organization's titular headquarters has the effect of abrogating a commercial lease.
Doesn’t help that Google often de-ranks non-corporate content.

They used to ensure a mix of results: some blogs, some forum posts, some reviews, some videos. Now it’s just the bigger players.

If I search for a big Canadian bank, the first page is entirely their own website and their own social media properties. Even Wikipedia is toward the bottom of the page…
refusal to take a good look at GitHub, a shipped product, or portfolio is a red flag that indicates bad org health, and to avoid.
Seems like, so often, recessions are self-fulfilling prophecies. Unless it’s some journalist clanging their own bell.
I don’t have an M1 but my Ryzen notebook runs Linux and works great. Ryzen 7 5700U, pangolin model which doesn’t seem to be sold anymore..

It’s quite quiet, battery life is great (a minor miracle) and I’ve done some genetics processing in it and it’s quite fast (multi hour runs, 8 core fully loaded) where the fan spins up but is quite low volume. I think the power supply is only 45 watts.
I knows that’s a theory, but I haven’t see any more evidence that inflation is due to monetary policy than I have that it is due to Ukraine. Lots of philosophical arguments that it must be, but no evidence. Correlation, causation, all of that.

Have you seen evidence of causality that goes beyond theory?

(I’m not necessarily disagreeing, just saying it often seems like a faith-based view)
Any of them? I'm talking about CPU performance, since we've already hashed over hardware. Plus, this wasn't really a question directed at you; I'm generally curious if the parent has tried a Ryzen laptop in the past half-decade.
This is absolutely the case. Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. There is literally not anywhere in the country where you can pay for a studio apartment at that pay. Better hope you can scrape together five roommates in a three bedroom.

People have figured out that the cost of going to low-wage jobs like that is more than it is worth. The number of parents who realized they actually brought more money home by one parent quitting their job and taking care of the kids instead of paying for childcare while they work is high.

A lot of folks, after COVID, and seeing that business owners literally didn't give one fuck if they died on the job or not, decided that maybe living their life was more important than grinding at a job that will happily send you to your death to make a buck.
I think at least the android app is very much native
I am sorry you hated it. The first time I started running I hated it too. But that was just because I did not know how to run or what to expect. I think my very first run was something like 250m after which I through the shoes and vowed never to try again.

But once I learned how to run, calibrated my expectation on how running looks like (I was trying way too hard before) and got my body couple months to adjust I started genuinely loving it even though initially I was forcing myself to do it for health reasons.

I think running is something that you can stick to for long enough to be able to figure out if it is actually for you.
Matrix is a fantastic project and I'm glad it hasn't yet been encumbered by open core or any other licensing nonsense. It truly is one of the best open source initiatives in the space and a huge shout out to Matthew for what he's done here. I just wish the team leads were more receptive and responsive to certain UX issues. I work at a company that pays over a million dollars a year for Slack. There is so much money being left on the table. It's just nowhere close to being in a state where any company of our size can move over to it.
I can't even easily split the monitor to have two windows side by side without installing third party applications.

I thought this was supposed to be the pinnacle of UX?
Yes, just like in browsers where one API is faster in Chrome and slower in Firefox or vice versa. Then Safari drops in and completely upends the notion of "best strategy".

The underlying implementation will always affect top level access performance. "Best" will always be implementation dependent.

That said, the DBs I use most (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, and their derivatives) have pretty consistently improved performance from version to version with surprisingly few regressions.

Also there have been more "knobs and dials" added to get what you want.

WITH foo MATERIALIZED AS …

springs immediately to mind. The ability to set or remove an optimization fence does wonders while still maintaining SQL's declarative roots.
"Couch" pretty much = bad posture = bad joints.
That's illegal in Europe, and unethical everywhere.
it does signal ... that Twitter ... are distressed

Disagree - this is automobile industry tactics where you pay your suppliers late and short because they have no choice. Musk is negotiating for lower rent.
+1 for mentioning the greatest casting duo of all time. Sad they moved on, hard for me to even guess how many hours i've spent with them on in background or foreground
Funny I thought I was the first person to post this to HN like 9 years or so ago… searching I find the oldest post for this is 14 years ago.
U.S. Offshore-Wind Plans Face Threat from Rising Costs
Buybacks were rampant through this era.

Difference without a distinction.
I think blogs are great but social media should not be ignored. It is a great source of traffic for your blog.

You CAN have it all. It's ok to have a facebook, twitter and instagram account.
You are just giving up too much potential exposure for not participating in social media. It's nice to get comments on your blog, but people need to find it first.

If you don't want/need/crave exposure, you could just use your blog as a personal space. One that you can look back to in 5-10 years, like a journal.

Personally I use my blog to bookmark things that I find interesting (like a personal archive). Sometimes I don't just save the link to the site I want to bookmark, I copy-paste the whole contents of the page into my site (because the site could disappear). If you are worried about copyright et all, just make your blog private.

Private blogs ARE A THING, if you didn't know.
I’ll one-up you: capitalism isn’t the problem, people are the problem.
Again, this article is not about their headquarters office on Market St.
Right now, 80% of California water is used for agriculture. If you reduce the ag water usage that is shipping most of that produce to the rest of the country, CA has water for residential and ag. for its 39 million.
The Year Big Tech Stocks Fell from Glory
Because hard workers/the ones who actually know how shit works stay in the trenches, while the ones who know jackall get promoted. Then these people get have veto and power over the ones who actually deliver value.

That is why promotion must be a goal for everyone, so that people who actually have a clue get to make the decisions.
This is an antiqued take for nearly all of the IT industry. Most of my peers are industry veterans without a degree. Some only completed high school.
Your experience was not the sum total of the incident. There was indeed a partial outage: https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-down-thousands-users-downdete...
Alarmists and pessimists always win either way: If the prediction comes true, they were right and if not everyone is happy and has no reason to blame the alarmists.
I started with couch to 5K last January and after making it through the program I decided to stick with a three day cycle of running, rowing, and strength training. An Apple Watch turned out to be a great investment for me. I was able to track my runs and workouts and by downloading a couple of spotify playlists and some podcasts to listen to while running I was able to leave my phone behind when running. Some people can zone out or amuse themselves while running but I tend to need a distraction and so a decent set of wireless headphones and a phone or smartwatch are now as much of a requirement for me as a pair of running shoes.
I didn't say that the inflation is 35%, I just took the spot prices of groceries I usually buy and those are that much higher compared to months previous.

There is no beating around the bush, the economic situation is far from good. Walking outside, seeing normal, retired people dumpster diving collecting empty bottles makes me depressed because I can easily see myself doing the same when my time comes.
I've run Linux as my primary desktop from 2003 to 2006, and from 2011 until today. I've run it on all my laptops, all my desktops and my media PCs. Additionally, single person I hired over the last 10 years has used Linux as their primary desktop OS.

I think the best thing to happen to 'Linux on the Desktop' is that I finally don't give a shit about this argument any more. I'm ok with the fact that there are people who will never get on with Linux on the desktop, that there are those who will try it every few years and have a bad time. I'm even ok with the ones who seem to actively and gleefully seek out reasons why it's not for them just so they can tell me all about it, apparently trying to convince me to stop using it.

However, it comfortably feels like the critical mass of users like myself has been there for a while now, and I know many other people who consider the experience excellent, better than any of the alternatives available. It also feels like some of the most active distros nowadays assume a certain level of knowledge and interest, and I think that's also great - Linux has found its middle ground. The recent SO survey on OS use vs MacOS kinda confirms it.

I will continue to support the development of desktop Linux in any way I can. However, I no longer consider mainstream adoption to be critical to its success. In fact, I think chasing mainstream adoption at this point would be detrimental to its success as an OS that works for people like me.
Why would someone not consider time spent on work meetings or work emails "hours worked"?
Some companies will take a chance on you again, depending on their needs. Just not everyone.

I once reviewed a resume where someone literally had a 30 year career when their longest stint was 14 months with several stints of 2-6 months each. Not exaggerating. I passed on the candidate myself, but the last 20 or so companies who hired him were willing to take their chances.

I also once interviewed someone else much more jr who looked like a serial job hopper. During the interview he had a very good explanation for it which eased my concerns literally 100%. This was like 4 years ago and he's still onboard.

At a previous employer we hired someone who had a 15 year job history where he left every employer like clockwork every 14-16 months. We hired him anyway because he had a specific skill we were looking for.

And, yeah, sometimes people with a string of bad luck will begrudgingly grind out a couple years somewhere they'd prefer not to be to better help their future career prospects. It's REALLY not the worst thing in the world.
It isn't ergonomic and hurts to use all day. Saved you a click.
I never said open source was to be the foundation. In fact, I never talked about open source at all. All I'm referring to is source availability.

As I said earlier I'm not going to complain that you won't use a free license such as MIT or AGPL or whatever else. The real issue is just the sources being publicly auditable. Are you worried about your competitors copying your non-copyrightable material? Ideas?

While there would still be an issue, I would be a bit less harsh on the policy if at least the clients were source-available. Transparency is security.

> It is hard to seriously compare the features, the security design, and the UX of Bitwarden to 1Password — it is not close.

How does Bitwarden not come close in security? All I can come up with is the secret key requirement. Is that all? If anything Bitwarden feels more secure because of its transparency. You can see the developers working live, each commit they make.
Firstly pricing it in doesn't to stop it happening. Even if it did, nobody knows which stocks, commodities, etc will be impacted by how much when. Then again assuming The Economist is correct not everyone necessarily believes this and so won’t factor it into their behaviour.
Google something like "Banana bread recipe." Notice how all the results have dates. People are more likely to click on results from 2023 because this is often a good indicator that it's what they are looking for.
I am pretty sure they are using inevitable to mean “given where we are today” and not “could never have been avoided by different past choices going back to the Big Bang”.
So solve the problems of wealth and inequality too. I fail to see why these must be intrinsically linked. If anything, the compounding effect of immortality on wealth inequality would almost certainly lead by itself lead to a structural revolution.
Thanks for highlighting this! While PTRACE introduces TOCTTOU vulnerabilities, Packj sandboxes fixes that by using read-only args for ptrace. You can find my PhD work [1] on this relevant.

1. https://lwn.net/Articles/803890/
You know how journalists, for the sake of transparency, disclose holdings or interests when they cover a subject. There should be the reverse of that where they make a bet to show conviction in their beliefs. It would be a funny game. Most of them will bet $0.
Community will probably hate my comment but that's what I did:

I was in your shoes year ago.
- I was finance controller in huge corporation
- I started coding in 2015
- Now I work as full stack developer

What I did:
1. The hardest thing: I was working full time in finance and in the meantime I started on upwork (it was hard..)
1.1. I managed to use the upwork conctatcs to be freelancer on my own
1.2. I remove finance work from resume as I had 2 years of experience in different companies (The owners didn't had any issue to me putting this as a experience)
1.3. The resume was literaly written like that: Compan XYZ, Developer; Company XYC, Developer; <- I never metioned it was a freelancing contract...

2. I start applying for a jobs to test out my skills
2.1. I quickly learn how to solve coding test and what to say during interview (to be honest I learn more in this period than anything before)
2.2. I got some job proposals in start ups but never took it as the rates were very low. I had briliant idea..

3. I use LinkedIn to conctact directly people and get job with rate I was dreaming about
4. I left the corpotation and I provide serivce to 2 different companies and I was never happier. (that was also hard the leaving process and constantly provide service)
5. 11 months later (nowadays) I still provide serive to 2 different companies but plan for 2023 is to be only on 1 contract and focus on family.

It was a long journey but definitely worth it and I had to admit I had a great support from my wife. Imagine doing full time job and learn/ or do work in other times. I want to point out it was challenging but definitely worth it.
The negative effects of running are about body mechanics, not aerobic fitness.
UK perspective: can the landlord not instruct bailiffs to take possession of the building? Change the locks &c. This is distinct from any debts owing except that the non-payment of rent provides the grounds for obtaining a possession order.

I often see the bailiff notices on defunct companies here. There is a standard form of letter that is pasted onto the door. Quite Victorian.
Disclaimer, I have no idea if this is even slightly logical, I'm not an economist.

House prices have increased significantly above inflation for decades to the point of absurdity, many multiples of a households income. People in their 20s (and 30s) increasingly don't believe they will ever own a home.

If we have a period of inflation, with increased wages (obviously with a painful lag), but house prices remain stagnant with no increase, would that bring them down in real terms without a "housing crash"? Could this be a "good thing" and does that even make sense?
I don’t know why Apple limit the number of timers in this way, but I do know that a single hardwire timer is sufficient to manage thousands of software timers. Look for George Varghese’s work on Timer Wheels if you’re interested. Commonly used in hardware constrained embedded environments.
> Are recessions a healthy part of a normal economic ebb and flow? (Over the long-term)

Ray Dalio discusses this in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0&t=483s

And basically the answer he gives is "yes".
"Immersion" is a tricky word that I don't feel comfortable using without qualification.

What I like to do is spend at least an hour a day reading, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, or watching videos. A good day for me is a day when 100% of my media consumption for entertainment purposes is happening in my target language.

And that really is it.

I don't really bother soliciting explicit feedback. I suspect that it's potentially harmful because it can trigger the affective monitor. I've also encountered some SLA researchers saying the research indicates that it's not actually helpful. I'm becoming increasingly enamored of Bill VanPatten's conceit that, in a language learning context, there's no such thing as errors, there are only differences between the learner's interlanguage and their target language. Which is something that should be embraced as a natural and essential part of the process rather than a problem that needs explicit correction.

So what I do instead is just pay attention to whether successful communication has happened. When getting input, that means I'm focused on whether I understood the content or not. I want it to be a little bit difficult, enough so that I'm not getting bored, but not so difficult that I feel I'm really straining to comprehend. (There's nothing scientific to that, it's just personal taste.) When I'm having a conversation with somebody, I'm just interested in whether or not I am having a successful interaction. In a sense, what I'm trying to do is set up a feedback loop that optimizes for pure enjoyment, which, for me, seems to be a very good proxy for learning effectiveness.

To that end, I don't really intend to shit on Duolingo and practice exercises and whatnot. A lot of people enjoy those approaches to language learning, and the single most important thing is that you enjoy what you're doing.
I agree. Whenever the public/media assume something is definitely going to happen it seems like it always backfires. Another anecdote, I remember in 2020 there were all these articles with predictions about how 2021 would be the year of fintech... then all the fintech stocks imploded. It really does seem like following the herd is not the way to go.
Or more likely, some analyst that would like to have a little buy-low opportunity tomorrow.
Can you use it to help clean up a resume? Mine looks way to clinical, not enough fluff words.
I've found that a great way to discover new interesting blogs is the Thinking About Things newsletter [0]. They were on hiatus for a while but seem to be back now. I've gotten some great reads from them.

[0] https://thinking-about-things.com
Most people never mention the hardware issue in regards to installing a successful Linux desktop. The expectation that all hardware combinations will just work is a little bit optimistic. I've run Linux desktops ever since X11 was available, but I always research the hardware aspect prior to installing a distribution and have always had a good experience (not perfect, but good).