skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Performance is important but my main problem is reliability of the usb to SATA controllers.

In practice you often get weird timeout issues and unintelligible errors in kernel logs, hard resets, drives disconnecting or worst, data corruption. It's also always difficult to tell if it is a failing drive, or if it's a controller bug, or power supply issue.
I tried KDE recently on Fedora 37, and my workstation kept running out of memory (32 GB) due to its file indexer. I like KDE in general, but its quite heavy for my tastes.
> The problems facing health-care systems are not therefore caused by a lack of cash. Much of the increased spending has gone on programmes to combat covid

Maybe in your country, but not in mine... Our government is sitting on a surplus and won't spend it, and what little we do get goes to executives and all the laptops we had to give out so they could work from home, while all the serfs toil and burnout.
If you enjoyed triggering against events in the milliTesla range [1] imagine the excitement of continously measuring nine inputs in the nanoTesla range [2] - three axis magnetometers at the wingtips and tailboom of a drafting airframe [3] 80m above ground for millions of line kms per survey [4].

[1] https://www.ti.com/product/TMAG5124

[2] https://georesults.com.au/product/geometrics-g-822a-caesium-...

[3] https://scintrexltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CS-VL-Man...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZyNIGFHsE4
In some cases, the shortage has an obvious explanation. Many chips are made in exactly one fab, and may be made for a few days per month or a few months per year when a line produces multiple devices or device variants. Designs are not readily transportable to other fabs. So if there is an interruption from, say, a fire or a pandemic, the global supply of that chip is stopped cold until the interruption is resolved.

If a chip has been shipping for a while, the supply chain may be full of enough inventory that end users don't see a problem before production is restored. But imagine a case where the line is stopped for months and at the same time, the demand for that device accelerates. This is what COVID did to a lot of devices. Contagion mitigation strategies sent all the operators at the Infineon Kulim fab home for months, at the same time that auto sales surged. The power switch devices popular at US automakers, and purchased for 45 cents each, started seeing longer and longer lead times until Infineon's distributors started simply reporting 'availability unknown'.

This forced buyers into the perilous broker market. I say perilous because prices quickly went out of control for this chip. End customers were paying more than US$50 for many months and in some rare cases, over $100 for this 45 cent chip. These prices were paid by, among other companies, suppliers to semiconductor equipment makers. Without that chip, they'd not be able to sell their $10 million machines, which were also seeing demand skyrocket as chip makers scrambled to add capacity. Equipment makers would pay anything to keep their subsystem supply chain alive.

When the gray market got wind of the prices being paid, all kinds of scandalous activity happened. For example, unscrupulous resellers would gather many small lots of that chip, even units with different specification variants, paint over all the markings and re-label them all with the same, current date codes. This greatly increased their salability and value, but left the end customers with an unreliable product.

Eventually, the Kulim fab came back online and is back at full production. The supply chain is mostly recovered. And that 45 cent chip is now selling for 80 cents because Infineon saw first hand the high-value applications it was used in, and the price insensitivity of their end customers.
At least this isn't a law defining pi=3.15, but it is close in it's shortsightedness.
Sometimes the "interest rate" on the "debt" is low enough that your effort is better spent elsewhere. If your tolerance for tech debt is super low, then maybe it makes sense for you to constantly pay it down, but there are lots of times when it's a reasonable decision to just "pay interest" on it. It's worth keeping in mind the cost of the ongoing "interest rate" vs the cost to eliminate the debt.
The justification is a farce. It's political. Im surprised it took this long, honestly, given the swift push along other classical political divides.
Our process never includes ghosting anybody, even when we pass on a candidate, so something must have gone very wrong here. Could you email me at thomas@[company domain]? I'll look into this further.
> For those thinking about preventative solutions, there are some existing, all very expensive of course. The simplest is placing a row of red lights in the ground at all intersections to runways.

That's... a street light.[1] When street lights become "very expensive of course" it's time to revisit our priors about how we regulate. And I say this as someone not normally inclined to libertarian rhetoric.

[1] To be clear: a proven and effective technology deployed successfully literally millions of times over the past century of traffic control!
Does it work for anyone here?
Agreed until the very last sentence. Refactoring should never happen for its own sake. You should never make code beautiful because it's beautiful. It should be nice to the extent, as you correctly said, that it facilitates creating value, in form of a running program, not as source code. This means that refactoring is worth it exactly if the total time spent to refactor the code is less than the time you save implementing future features after the refactoring.

I'm at the start of my career as a software engineer but it seems to me a good rule for refactoring is that it should only ever be done if the advantage can be evaluated in the form of concrete new features being easier to implement. If you refactor the code so that existing features would've felt nicer to implement, or are nicer to read, you've already played yourself, because maybe you get a high of ecstasy because the code that was ugly before is now clean, but as soon as the next feature comes around that you didn't anticipate, it was all for naught, and you're writing ugly code again.
this is a wonderful explanation and illustrates the importance of fourier transforms in a simple way anyone can grasp.

coupled with voidhorse's comment, it appears like "transform" obscures the concept whereas "translation" would be more appropriate and clearer.
The tweet has it as well, at 5s of the second attached video: https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1614370783899303938/video...
Really appreciate your response Archipelagia. I'm in the process of trying to be more social in my day to day, however I work a remote tech job which limits my social interaction for a large part of the day. I've thought about trying a sales job as you suggested...any advice on switching into this field? I have ~6 years experience as a developer/manager, making that sort of career shift would be pretty drastic but I'm open to it.
> so a lot of the margin has been pushed there

It doesn't seem to be the case. I am just gonna look at Loblaw/Choice, but I imagine the other would not be too different. Loblaw had a revenue of 55.25B and a net income of 2.12B [1], bringing the profit margin to 3.84% over the previous 12 months. Choice's revenue was 1.34B [2] over the same period. Even if the entire revenue was pure profit for Loblaw, it would bring Loblaw's profit margin to (2.12 + 1.34) / 55.25 = 6.3%. This seems higher, but still not remotely high enough to explain the price increases.

But more importantly, Choice REIT's revenue has been fairly consistent over the past couple of years. There is no sudden increase in the past year or so to coincide with the price increases. So the extra price is NOT getting passed from Loblaw to Choice. Choice gets the same amount it was getting in 2019 more or less. Choice's total revenue has been 1.29B (2019), 1.27B (2020), 1.29B (2021), and 1.28B (past 12 months) [3].

Disclaimer: I am not well-versed in the field of finance, so I may have misunderstood the statistics. Please double-check them from the links below if you so prefer. I do not understand why the revenue in the statistics page is 1.34B, but total revenue in the financials page is 1.28B. But the difference is small enough not to change the conclusions either way.

[1] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/L.TO/key-statistics?p=L.T...

[2] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/CHP-UN.TO/key-statistics?...

[3] https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/CHP-UN.TO/financials?p=CH...
> Does that mean that currently US banks don't need to hold any fractional reserve?

They still need to maintain some reserves to permit cash withdrawals and certain transfers, and are still incentivised to lend out at a higher rate than the base interest rate the central bank controls (and reserves still count towards the bank capital requirements which are the actual limiting factor on a particular bank's ability to lend). So the central bank still can act to encourage or discourage money being created by lending exactly as before, the banks just don't have an arbitrary reserve target to hit.

It's not a policy which hasn't been adopted much earlier in other parts of the world, or a cause of the current inflation. The UK had no reserve requirement at all during the mostly low inflation period since 2009, and small symmetric reserve targets chosen by the bank where they incurred a penalty for having too many as well as too few reserves between 1980 and 2009 (a period where inflation came down from pre-1980 record highs to an unprecedented long, stable period of low inflation)
Hey I have a question for everyone here. Is it possible to go camping without being obligated to build a house at the same site?
What I take from your comment is that it doesn’t matter to business what the code looks like. But it does matter to engineers that they have buy in on the design choices. And that feeling like the code was designed in ugly / foreign ways decreases motivation and productivity.

I don’t think that the answer is for engineers to just “suck it up” and wait until there aren’t pressing feature demands (which usually never happens). But instead, we should spend time reading the code our coworkers and past employees have written to understand the design and philosophy behind it.

If the design of something you’re working on isn’t good by your standards, your productivity will still suffer if you leave it how it is. Especially if you have good taste. The feeling of deep authorship - like, “this is my garden and I’m proud of it” is something worth cultivating even if you only care about output.

I can close way more tickets in a day if I feel at home & in control with a codebase. And that’s something that matters to business as well as the engineers on the ground.
If this system fails when needed, every cent spent on it will be considered a waste. Nobody is going to say "sure, 300 people died and a couple $150m planes were destroyed.. but we saved a couple million dollars when it was installed 7 years ago".
This has nothing to do with variable length instructions. The issue here is that code the patch was designed to slow down… slowed down. Whodathunk?

As for your question, the LOCK prefix is only valid with a very select set of instructions. And those have to me of the mem/reg form (memory being read and written). If those conditions are not met, a hardware exception is raised.
Did the patch get merged? Are they thinking of other ways to trap the syscalls?
Eh, if it’s that secret, use Signal or something.
If you plan to work somewhere for more than 5 years, this can be done for entirely selfish reasons.

When a dev invests time improving the codebase, refactors mercilessly, and cleans up the code - they gain mastery over it, respect from their peers, and trust over the architecture. This is fantastic for your career long-term.

In reality, with developers hopping between jobs, it's a difficult case to make. Ironically, a hot job market for developers ends up hurting a key mechanism for technical mastery.
(or tourism in the Valley in general -- there's absolutely nothing to see!).

What!

There loads to see, and do!

You can look at the bizarre spectacle, the motorhomes of the homeless, parked across from a restaurant serving $500 plates of Japanese beef!

Or a homeless guy sleeping on the steps of a Maclaren dealer.

Or you can walk in The Standford Hills, marvelling at how, using existing real estate pricing, they are worth trillions upon trillions.

And you can just walk around Palo Alto, noting how 70% of commercial property is completely vacant, and wonder what comes next!

Actually, it's a nice place, but just weird in its extremes...
That's not how that works. Jerry Seinfeld's impressive car collection isn't paying writers' salaries. Which isn't to say he isn't reinvesting some of his windfall, but his dollars don't travel as much as if they otherwise could. It's like the difference between the marginal value of $1 to a pauper vs $1 to a prince; that $1 has much more worth to the pauper (i.e. the struggling artist who could benefit from public domain assets) than it does to the prince, even if the prince spends it on the poor.

As other people keep pointing out, investment decisions don't much care about what might happen 50 years in the future. Windfalls that happen in the future increasingly inure haphazardly; they don't actually figure into the finances of how the industry works, not even as magic helicopter money.

Economists have run the numbers. They have models for this. That's why extension advocates principally hide behind theory, not empirical evidence, because the empirical support is poor at this point.
“We can make Christianity the de facto law of the land, have federal holidays be Christian holidays, have the interests of the church intertwined with that of the state, have “secular” state institutions mirror christian sacraments, have our pledge of allegiance essentially be a declaration of our country being Christian — but hey, they can’t make you go to church on Sunday” is not exactly what one might call a strong separation.
Same.

> We loved this app like I loved my mom.

> Like my mom, the API has been declining for awhile.

I can't tell if these were attempts at humor, but if they are they're disgusting, and if they're serious then they're even more disgusting.

Elon Musk may be an asshole, but so is this guy.
This follows another Republican ethos:

Tit-for-tat.

This solution to the iterated prisoners dilemma is necessary when dealing with a partner who won’t follow agreed rules — ie, when trust is compromised.

So Republican groups are “defecting too” in response to Democrat actions they believe break agreed upon rules — eg, civil rights and open markets.
I've seen some success with targeted reductions in tech debt. Limiting the scope, limiting what can be changed, and focusing on a goal to be achieved by reducing the tech debt. It also makes it a much easier sell to the client.
Looks like DuckDB is pretty seemless if you're just querying:

https://duckdb.org/docs/data/csv.html

Beyond that I too tend to write something in Node/Python where I can use an IDE etc. Scratch scripts in IDEA's IDEs are great for this.
I'm pretty sure that's the point of the comment you replied to.
I think it's just to appease some folks as many are losing their jobs. Power here in Wyoming is cheap, 11 cents/KWH and there is just about every form of power generation except geothermal and I think they are looking into that. Drilling into Yellowstone should make for some fun conversations but I am looking forward to that option. Mini-Nuclear reactors are being built Bill Gates had a couple small set-backs but it's going to happen eventually.

Wyoming provides power to quite a few states [1] and has the highest potential for wind power [2][3]. Wind power has been growing very fast. The grid I am on also has a massive solar farm but I do not have stats on how much it produces. Probably not much right now as it has been snowing all day.

I think they can probably get away with saying that since about the only demand for EV's would be in Jackson Hole. Most of the state is rural and most ranches and farms need powerful trucks that can haul large loads long distances. Equivalent EV trucks do not yet exist to replace Ford F450/550/650 and Chevy 5500/6500 and even then the battery weight will push some medium sized ranches over their weight station limits in all fifty states.

[1] - https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WY

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Wyoming

[3] - https://cityrenewables.org/state/wyoming/
How does this compare to https://guardianproject.github.io/haven, which is free software?
I’m really curious to see how the inevitable court challenges go if this law is passed. I’m sure this will be called unconstitutional in several different ways by detractors, and they’re going to be fighting basically everyone but big oil. Power companies. Natural gas companies (that fuel power plants and want nothing more than for cars to electrify, effectively stealing oil business), car companies (which are all pushing to electrify), environmentalists.
I think an important aspect is separating "tech debt time" completely from your backlog or planning. Generally speaking, there's less stakeholders involved in reducing tech debt and less need for requirements gathering or prioritization - developers generally know where the worst problems are and can be relied upon to choose something to focus on next.

I'd avoid the temptation even to have "projects" during that time - make it purely about accomplishing refactors and tech debt removal that can be completed during that day, and specifically don't have plans or a backlog.
I will die on the hill that hall effect control sticks and triggers are superior to pots. SEGA used them on the Saturn and Dreamcast controller sticks and triggers and they were awesome. It's good to see Gulikit making OEM stick parts and OEMs like NYXI putting them into products like the Wizard.
It’s actually good to have idiots like this on record being idiots. When investments don’t get made, they’ll change their tune.

The playbook for obscure republican politicians is to flip the bird at something and get some rah-rah from the base. Plus, sometimes hidden in the pandering is some actual problem identification.
You wrote: "no mainstream distro". What is wrong with Debian and its variants? Assuming that you are vanilla x86-64, GNOME, KDE, and many other windowing systems are first class citizens on Debian.
"Either high-rise or single-family sprawl" is a false dichotomy. Even OP allows for up to 15 stories. If you want to learn more about the "missing middle" kinds of housing that would serve most people best, I suggest browsing around here:

https://missingmiddlehousing.com
An apartment with heat exchange towards the outside through one wall is worse insulated than a single family home with all four walls plus roof and floor leaking heat? Color me extremely skeptical.

I honestly suspect the entire urban planning profession was a mistake.
I’m a huge fan of class D amps, although usually on the cheap end of the spectrum.

Recently I purchased a “fosi audio” (brand names seem to rotate) stereo amp with bluetooth. It’s about the size of a raspberry pi.

It is plenty powerful to drive a pair of bookshelf speakers, sounds good, and connects to a turntable and bluetooth source at the same time.

$25 on ebay. Really hard to beat for the price and size
My thoughts exactly. Extremely irresponsible leadership. I'd guess that they probably are just looking to use some year over year growth metric for the year or two they are at this job and then go hop to the next job with that on their CV.
To address the “I don’t like the structure” argument, I suggest quantifying code quality by how long it takes a new engineer (moving into the codebase or just hired) to ramp up on the system to fix a bug or add a feature.
You can use Guided Access to automatically relaunch the app when it crashes!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
I don’t believe the usefulness increases linearly. I think many features have a negative or zero value which makes it even worse!
KDE Connect also runs on iOS (I find it the easiest way to send large files to my iPhone then open with VLC for example). Also, Windows! A bit ironic that a KDE Connect user probably exists that uses it on their iPhone and Windows computer together.
But why are we letting those people control our games? That's what's insane to me in this whole discussion.

It reminds me of the ok hand emoji kerfuffle; where it was briefly racist/taboo to use it.

I think it's total madness to let people I disagree with influence my fantasy world games. Why give them that power? Maybe I don't get it because I'm not American and this is a cultural issue specific to the US (and the majority of people here, I assume, are American).
Chrome does keep side loaded extensions through restarts. Firefox doesn't unless you submit to Mozilla for signing. But once signed you can install from a file or even your own site.
The article directly addresses this, mentioning the high AC costs that make them significantly less energy efficient than their neighbors. There's a lot to be said for economies of scale and other aspects of denser housing, but at the very tall end that the article talks about there are also diseconomies of scale.

ETA, for the folks in the peanut gallery: do you suppose that those AC costs allow a 100-story high-rise to be more energy efficient than a 15-story neighbor? Have you seen what kind of electrical (and other) infrastructure has to go into such a building, to make them workable at all? None of which is necessary in more modestly sized structures. These issues have relevance beyond just comparing at similar heights.
> This is not really correct, many screen readers only support a very small subset of CSS which doesn't really match the parent's comment, that browsers must support HTML and CSS.

This doesn't match with current versions of accessibility software which either connects to a browser or simply bundles an embedded version of Chromium. The ship has sailed on no-JS websites sadly, and not supporting (substantially) all of CSS modules would simply render 90% of websites inaccessible.
There should be an in group above the law, and an out group controlled by it.
I can list that in the feedback to the authors or recommend that in the confidential remarks to the editor. If they will listen (and force the authors if necessary) depends on the journal.
You don’t have dedicated time for technical debt. You make fixing technical debt part of your estimates for new features.
there are several ways to get around this, including natively via chrome://extensions/shortcuts
I have been eyeing Orange Pi for a while. They made great boards but the limited choice of cases for them, especially for their latest board, has made me hesitate. The limited space in the city limited my access to 3D printer at home. FriendlyELEC does a much better job by selling board with cases.