skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you give some non trivial examples of architectures or techniques in software engineering that work regardless of the context?
Electric water heaters don’t need to draw a ton of amps. 4500 Watt, 240V 50 gallon ones are common, which is under 20 amps. Induction stoves peak at twice that.
Unrelated, but sharing just in case: I don't have electricity training, but last month I replaced my electric panel (upgrading to 30 circuits, keeping 100 amps) and it was easy: turn off every breaker (hiding face behind metal panel as is good safety strategy), turn off main, disconnect the meter, touch all dangling hot wires to ground (just in case, unsure if there's weird residual charge from something). Except for applying Noalox, everything is just routine - strip a bit of the wire, screw it into circuit breaker, pop it in. Make sure the panel is grounded to outside (as before), and it's done. Feels like a very easy task for most people - provided that the old wiring didn't have errors.

Happy to hear feedback / thoughts on this.
Netflix’s range for SWE is $90K to $900K. I imagine you’d have to be a hell of a negotiator to get anywhere near the high-end.
I have desktop product that among other things decodes 4K60P using MMF. The decoding part either decodes straight into DirectX texture if hardware based video decoding is supported or does it in software otherwise.

Software based path causes significant CPU load. Using hardware path keeps CPU at about 0%. Since hardware video decoding supported nearly on any modern Laptop, Desktop I would say 4K60 is handled very efficiently.
Is MSFT getting the deal of the century or is Altman selling at the right time?
Thanks! I wrote about exactly that a while ago: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413
I'd never heard of a 400 A service until just this discussion (it's common to have 100 A - 200 A), but it's important to keep in mind the voltage differences and that effect on total power:

UK: 100 A x 230 V = 23,00 W

US: 200 A x 120 V = 24,00 W

Edit: I am wrong in my understanding of US power distribution. It's 200 A per leg, which the US has two of. But it seems like the UK may or may not have 380 3 Phase, so the numbers are weird there too. Wrong all around!
I feel like your question is like "Why are there flathead screwdrivers? Shouldn't craftsmen only accept phillips head screwdrivers, since they're superior?" The reality being there are a lot of flathead screws out there.

An engineers job is to get stuff done and not fight an ideological battleground. The world is impure, and requires impure solutions. Terraform is a tool to get things done, and given the realities of managing stateful infrastructure it does a pretty good job of addressing the failure states of it.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy playing it!
A bit pricey but you can always look at the Ubiquiti products[1].

[1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless
Flight departures resume across the United States after FAA system outage
Just be careful if you go down the rabbit hole.

One of my friends, once he found out about cue marks, he could never UNSEE them.

You've been warned - but I expect digital projectors make cue marks obsolete.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark
Career-Boosting Skills for Developers
Realistically, there's almost no community that is impressed with having to deal with Web Components.

In this discussion I keep reiterating: there are multiple reasons why none of the major frameworks and very few of the new frameworks have WCs as their foundation. At best they can consume/embed them and perhaps compile to them. And even that is rife with problems.
Induction ranges are more efficient, so to heat at the same rate as an ordinary electric range, use less energy. But many people want an induction range that is more powerful than a typical electric range.
Switzerland: https://www.blutstammzellspende.ch/de

Registered this morning, was very easy.
I do this for some, but most of the time my use case is to look for something very obscure from a long time ago that I didn't regard as interesting when I first saw it (so didn't make the effort to manually categorize it).
Business logic goes in the controller. That's why it's called a controller because it controls stuff like access to your data.
Royal Mail 'cyber incident' hits overseas post
I would think a lot of long time meditators are much more in touch with reality and accept the past and don't worry about the future. So, I would expect them as a group to be much more likely to be happy. I would expect all enlighted individuals to be happy.
After thirty-some-odd years writing C, this is the first I have ever heard of it. I wonder how many times I have inadvertently broken those rules.
I use Emacs, Slime, SBCL, yes. Since it uses SBCL, game code is compiled to native machine code for each supported platform and architecture.

You can find more info on the dev process here: https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413
And the source code for the engine, Trial, and the game, Kandria, are both on our GitHub under Shirakumo.
Fair enough regarding tone; unfortunately too late to edit (man, I wish they’d increase the time limit on that)
Unless your startup is wildly successful, which everyone is incentivized into believing. What you described sounds less like a Terraform problem and more like a complex infra problem.
The image similarity search is probably a blog post of its own.

Short TL;DR: It runs off my home server running a large vector database (opendistro): https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/knn...
I realize that all scams are bad, but there's something especially terrible about targeting someone who was just laid off. Getting them to spend down their savings to start up a new job seems to be cruel on top of illegal.

I wonder if the police would have any luck tracing the video calls that were part of the fake interviews?
I feel like this is some real rose-colored glasses memories, I can’t even begin to agree.
Thank you for the reply. My T levels are where they re supposed to be.

I do feel joy.

I have an interest in a lot of things and notebooks full of ideas.

I love and listen to music daily.

I am Buddhist and have a daily practice along with prostrations and reading texts, meditation, etc.
We don't necessarily know what the original digital transfer method + processing pipeline was for the DVDs. Comparing them to the Blu-Ray releases lets us make better informed guesses.
They limit the blast radius to the scope of systems that either directly or indirectly call the microservice, which is commonly the same blast radius as a monolith that was replaced by the microservices.
Why would an attack have to be 'on going' but bugs in 50 year old software be a 'blip' ?
Regarding the copy-cat behavior, the types of personalities that tend to be OK with working for FANG (external locus of control individuals who are likely to conform) aren't going to put themselves out there and do what they think is best for the company when they can just copy what [other FANG] is doing. They view these situations as "omg, amazon is doing X, how can I justify to my boss not also doing X"
At this point it would be better if they moved back to pre-self-service stores, and have the product behind a counter, and store clerks that will get you what you ask. As things are now, it’s the worse of both worlds: you still need a clerk to get the product, but instead of once, you need to buzz and wait once per aisle. A byproduct of this is that the smash and grabs would decrease, as there is no direct access to the product.

Or to put it differently, maybe the format of stores where the product is all available and you can walk out freely was chosen because it decreased costs, even accounting for lossage. Now that lossage has increased, they should rethink the format.
Obviously in most parts of the world, there is no electrical police who will raid your home and look for evidence of wiring done without the correct certifications.

Therefore, lots of people DIY stuff illegally...

If you choose this route, understand that:

* The main cause of injury/death caused by electrics is fires. Fires are normally caused by improper fuses (a fuse/breaker should always be the lowest rating of any device/cable/connector downstream of it, unless that device has its own fuse), or badly made joints. Do joints properly with wago blocks or by tightening screw terminals very tight.

* The 'obvious' risk from electrics of electrocution is reduced to almost zero by installing a whole-house RCD/GFCI device. I wouldn't want to live in a house without one. And turn the power off before doing electrical work.
It's not just the lithium battery, it's the ability to make it at scale fairly cheaply, and the ability to recharge it hundreds of times. We basically needed hybrid cars to happen first to build up battery demand and bring down costs and encourage research.
“If layoffs don’t work, what is a better solution for companies that want to mitigate the problems they believe layoffs will address?

One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

Companies could use economic stringency as an opportunity, as Goodnight at the SAS Institute did in the 2008 recession and in the 2000 tech recession. He used the downturn to upgrade workforce skills as competitors eliminated jobs, thereby putting talent on the street. He actually hired during the 2000 recession and saw it as an opportunity to gain ground on the competition and gain market share when everybody was cutting jobs and stopped innovating. And it is [an opportunity]. Social media is not going away. Artificial intelligence, statistical software, and web services industries – none of these things are going to disappear. “

If this was true, all that is missing is true leadership. Would people here take a 10% pay cut if it meant their colleagues weren’t fired?
The source code for the engine, Trial, and the game, Kandria, are both open and on our GitHub under Shirakumo.
Did you upgrade your wiring? Your old breakers were the size they were for a reason.
If it is possible to repair anything quickly, it shouldn't be as big of an issue.
Why do we need a new language to do this?
Yeah an induction range most likely wouldn't require any more power than a resistive range. The only caveat to that is that higher end ranges might have higher power draws due to having more burners and such and induction ranges tend to be the higher end. That being said it looks like most ranges require a 40 amp circuit now, while code now requires wiring a new range outlet for 50 amps even if you put a 40 amp breaker on it.
You can import more.
A* Algorithm Written in Clips
... says the guy who has spent his entire career in academia.
Haiku sounds much more usable than I'd realized:

> The new version supports HiDPI displays [...] and has significantly improved Wi-Fi support, including via some USB Wi-Fi adapters[.]

> [...]

> It has translation layers for both X11 and Wayland, as well as for Gtk apps, alongside the WINE support it gained this time last year. This means a number of new apps, including the GNOME Web browser Epiphany, a full graphical version of Emacs, updated POSIX layer, WINE, and more.

> [...]

> In testing, we didn't experience a single crash[.] [...] Just for reference, this article was written on Haiku itself, on the bare metal of an old ThinkPad W500, using a Markdown editor called Ghostwriter.

All I really need for most of my computer use is a web browser, Emacs, and a decent command line, and I imagine similar is true for many HN readers. Sounds like Haiku is ready for hobbyists in this crowd to use for a fair chunk of our most common computing tasks.

I love the Linux desktop, but I'm really curious about non-Unix F/OSS desktops. I will have to see if there's a place for Haiku in my life on some old hardware!
*without raising salaries.
How does the integration work? It seems like a lot of security access is required.
Just looked at his bio: never.
> Objects, like sports cars, no matter how beautiful and rare, are there to be used and enjoyed, not hoarded and held in pristine captivity in fear of negative consequences.

I saw it more as, the Ferrari represented Cameron and his father's damage relationship. Cameron was the way he was, because his father was the way he was, and Cameron knew the Ferrari meant a lot to his dad. Him smashing it was basically a self-destructive cry for help (in my eyes). I felt like the viewer is left knowing Cameron and his dad will "work through something big/transformative" given the colossal impact the son (who the dad probably doesn't really care for) smashing his prized possession (that he really cars for) would have.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986

Fight Club - 1999

Doesn't Fight Club have the same kind of "life isn't about possessions, step out of your comfort zone while you are still alive otherwise you're wasting your life chasing Ikea furniture" message?
I want to investigate Switch support more deeply this year, and we have a potential way to do it. However, consoles are difficult due to their restrictive nature, especially regarding JIT and other techniques like signals and interrupts, which are important for many Lisp implementations.
Are there visas available for those in blue collar trades like this? I’m wondering if they’re also protected from immigration related market forces on wages
Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Update Bought a copy, definitely my jam. Played on the steam deck, noticed that the first time I used an action (move, jump, attack) there was a noticeable pause/stutter but has been smooth as butter afterwards.

PS: are you able to talk about the steam integration? I assume it's a C or C++ library of sorts and fairly straight-forward to extend; curious if you plan on releasing to another platform if it's possible to keep similar "achievments."

Also, kudos on the accessibility settings; changing damage and game speed, etc! Nice.
I imagine you could do even better by finetuning the neural net on the document before asking for the recursive summary. Then it has all the information to work with, albeit in a compressed form.
Where/how did you learn the electrical principles?
I've got a thing for packed structs (network encodings tend to be zealous to use weird bit widths and packings to save a byte on the header) but unfortunately for me they seem to be one of the most troublesome things in the language and every time I return to try them out it seems like there is always more to fix - though I usually get farther and farther in each round. The self-hosted compiler seems to have calmed things with it but there is a flow of mis-compilations still and they tend to hang around for a couple of releases each. For a good read of how weird these can be here is a bug report from last month https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13480
Isn't this because the UK standard is 230 volts? The US is only 120, so you need almost twice the amps for the same power.
High power motor controllers have been made with plain old BJTs, as well as thyristors and FETs. So I don't think IGBT's are an enabling item for EVs. Would it save $100 in gate-drive/base-drive circuitry? Also you could use induction motors, synchronous motors, and DC motors, and the friction would be a very small loss mechanism, so I don't think there is any enabler here either. DC motors might have an extra maintenance step by replacing the carbon brushes every once in a while, but even then, for the low number of hours a car runs, you might never need to replace brushes. I think it is mostly like the real estate motto: batteries, batteries, batteries.
RE: 1, that growth was never there IMO, it was all based on acquisition targets and pushing the whole "build a profitable business" onto someone else's shoulders. "Successful startup" meant bleeding enough money to survive until you IPO.
> if it's within your means, go to 400A to future proof (EVs, HVAC and hot water heat pumps, induction stove, and other large loads all add up, along with colocated generation of some sort

I have all of these on 200A with amps to spare. But I have a small house. I suppose if I had multiple EVs, dryers, or heat pumps, or 3000sqft it would be a different story.
This was a great read and finally explained why Vulkan Video is good being "just" a layer ontop of existing HW decode/encode. What's interesting, then, is that Nvidia and others are supporting it. As opposed to rendering where Intel, AMD and Nvidia have their own rendering backend in eg. blender. Nvidia has Optix and CUDA, AMD has HIP, Intel has oneAPI (ironic given this discussion) and Apple has Metal.[0] I guess there isn't much value in being unique for something that's anyways implementing an existing standard (in this case the codecs themselves like h.265).

[0]https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...
We also have a bunch of young people who have never seen a recession in these positions now, something to consider. FUD
Way better? Dunno.

Lots of things I search for, result in a 1/2 page of "helpful google snippets", which quite often have no value, or are even completely wrong.

The next half, is then often SEO spam, pages just copying other pages, or mailing lists/forums.

This often fills the second page, too, along with the very links google pulled the snippets from.

This was sorta how Alta Vista was in the end days, page after page of junk.

I think Google is still better, but, it's a joke compared to over 2 years ago, and no, it's not SEO/spam.

They're just not putting effort into keeping up, and even benefit by ad placements on those pages.
"Accept that the future will bring exactly what one needs to grow."

Sorry, but this is panglossian nonsense.
Yes, looking at all the comments it’s pretty clear nobody reads the article or stops reading as soon as they read something that goes against what they already know. He even suggests methods to avoid layoffs: broader cuts in staff compensation in lieu of letting people go.

The most trotted reason for layoffs (“market conditions have changed”) isn’t really being justified with any kind of numbers so I find this argument unconvincing. While I understand layoffs may be required for companies that aren’t profitable and low on financing it makes little sense for highly profitable ones like Meta.
And then, from an adoption perspective, you needed to make them accelerate faster than gas cars. Prior efforts failed from lack of demand because the cars were (perceived as) extremely slow.
Thanks. The usual response on news of medical breakthroughs is someone pointing out it only works in mice. Looks like this isn't even that far developed:

> This work can only be fully understood in its use in humans after its validation in animals.

and

> Contrary to common lore, a full BT is achievable, at least theoretically. Of course, further extensive cadaveric rehearsals will be necessary, followed by tests in brain-dead organ donors (as e.g., done recently in kidney xenotransplants). New surgical tools will have to be developed.
In Defense of the Randomized Trial
What business is he building?
Yes I definitely want to improve the search to be better. It is currently very text heavy and I (only recently) got image similarity indexing working. Hoping to leverage this to do something like you mentioned!

I'd also like to figure out how to turn an image into a description of whats in it. My ML/tensorflow knowledge is very weak though, so I still have a lot to learn here.
Not completely relevant to your comment, but I personally I think the word "bubble" is a really bad label for what happened during 2020-2021 and redirects blame away from those responsible.

It assumes there was some irresponsible multi-asset speculative boom in various markets including, government bonds, housing (gloally), crypto and stock valuations all conveniently around the same time in late 2020/ early 2021 when central bankers were doing trillions of QE and governments were injecting similar amounts of fiscal stimulus into the economy, fuelling a general demand boom and pushing the risk-free rate to near-zero. And top on of this central bankers were completely wrong / lying about the path of inflation and rate hikes in the coming years miss leading investors and businesses about the environment they would be operating in going forward.

I guess my point is that if tech companies "over hired" they only did so because the risk-free rate being near-zero devalues profits and incentivise growth. And meanwhile they had a massive demand boom to service caused by the insane fiscal stimulus. They were arguably just doing what they had to given the macro environment governments and central bankers created.

The "bubble" might as well have been government policy. Investors / businesses were just responding as you would expect given the economic conditions.

Were we to drop the risk-free rate to zero and pump $2T in the economy again this year exactly the same thing would happen again.
> At the point in time when you slice the domains you might not know all the product requirements. Probably a feature will arise which forces you to tangle two services together - now you have one domain. But distributed. Urgs.

Are there any architectures which would allow you to monolithize services like this? Changing product requirements sometimes mean you've just arrived at a better abstraction, which may need you to combine services directly.
Nice hack. But doesn't Google/(any public search engine) image search do this for us already?
Voltage to residential main electrical service panels in the United States is 240V. Major appliances run on 240V circuits.

So when you install a 400A panel in the US, it's 400A*240V which is 96,000W.
Panels are getting cheap enough that its almost worth just laying them on the ground in the yard than paying to put them on the roof
Ask HN: What is your opinion of “unlimited” PTO?
With Microsoft moving away from formal PTO tracking to DTO (discretionary time off), so I was wondering what others have experienced and think of working at a company without formal time off tracking.
The complete git history and the development .bash_history file are my favorite parts.
Anecdotal counterpoint: I’ve always been a very happy person, and I coincidentally tend to do most of the activities the experts listed. I’ve also experimentally dropped some of the activities purposefully from time to time to see how they affect my mood (in hopes of getting some free time back).

Sleep, exercise, and time spent in nature are the essentials for me: when I don’t have time for them, everything goes to shit. I’ve found that my mood also decreases pretty drastically when I don’t work on hobbies. I also need to at least talk to friends/family even if just on the phone or texting. Meditation is sort of in the middle, with only a slight affect on my happiness, so I dropped it. Prayer doesn’t do much for me, and I’ve never tried therapy. Spending time on social media, news, and/or Reddit completely destroys my mood.

That’s my personal hierarchy. The major points align with the “experts.” And IME, the activities do affect my mood, not necessarily the other way around.
I think the idea is that instead of thinking "here's the object I'm serializing" you should think "here's the view (endpoint) I'm serializing for".

Contrary to what people usually think, the shape of the serialized object is typically defined by the API endpoint, not by the object itself. Different endpoints can (and will) serve different shapes of the same object.

Even if two endpoints serve the same shape today, they can deviate tomorrow. When this happens, most people are trying to resolve it through DRF inheritance, which is wrong.