skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think better terms than big picture people are ones that think abstractly, conceptually, or analytically. These are the folks who are good 'at naming things'. That means they understood both the business aspect of what areas to separate and iterate upon, as well as isolating technical factors that minimize code quantity and maximize flexibility. If they can do this with a minimal amount of abstract machinery/metaprogramming, that's golden.

This is what I aim for, too. Seems to be working fine for me. Some tips for OP:

- Try to get a lot of informal chats with relevant departments. Being in the office or at events s.t. you can join conversations + talk face to face helps.

- Be a „yes man“ whenever other departments have some technical issue that needs to addressed. Or even if it's nothing technical.

- Think more from a business perspective during technical planning and implementation. Does it really create value to code more than the most basic MVP here? Do we really need that fancy technology and scalability?

- Get good at communication and soft skill in general. If you're smart but „difficult to work with“, you'll end up doing mostly specialized work.

- Get good at note taking and knowledge management. Where was that link to the product roadmap that was shared two months again? What was the context for that design decision two years ago? It's useful if you're able to answer questions like this with your notes.
The key may be economically transporting the waste plastic as feedstock. Guess it may be much more expensive. Even assuming 5 cents/ kwh of solar this makes economic sense as storage system otherwise. I presume in the future we have autonomous robots that clean the cities of plastic and feed it to such machines which run on surplus renewable energy
"Uh-uh-uh - Turning the car into oncoming traffic ... is counter productive!" has been a Jim Carrey tag-line for decades: https://youtu.be/4YnslaUd4VY
That’s wild. I had never heard of the cannibalism.

There’s so many sources on this but the official stance seems to be that “yea shit happened, let’s move on”.

What a sad and horrible start.
Quest Pro has AR features. They seem to call it mixed reality for some reason.
I've been slowly cutting meat out of my diet, and stopped eating beef a few years ago.

I think Impossible burgers are too close to beef for me- I feel ill after eating them and no longer do.

Much prefer the classic veggie/bean patties
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/whi...

Relevant quote:

"President Trump’s support for a plan to lop more than 30,000 Federal Aviation Administration workers from the federal payroll gives fresh momentum to an effort that stalled in Congress last year.

The proposal is included in Trump’s 2018 budget, which would cut funding for the Transportation Department by 13 percent."
No, this was extreme. When that interview came out it was completely astonishing to read that this option is in play at all for such a traditional meat processor. Other companies would have talked about their tradition and old strengths they should not give up, and said something like "we expect there to always be a market for our high quality meat products". But he opted for a different route.

> (and also the only thing that makes sense)

Companies die all the time because they refuse to adapt to a changing market, especially private german companies. Adapting to the market might be "the only thing that makes sense", but that is in no way the default position. Think about how much force was necessary to get german car companies to even just make alibi electric cars, even though it was completely obvious that not investigating that path would lead to their destruction in the next decade.
My impression is mixed reality is a made up marketing thing. By Magic Leap in particular I think, I remember them pushing the idea.

It just means AR where the device recognises real objects. So if you pick up a a book, you can have a version of it in AR. So there’s interactions between the AR and the real world and vice versa.

That’s my impression.
I think you guys might find this list I found long ago very useful when deciding on a mathematics book you want to read.

This is an introduction written by the original author of the list:

"Somehow I became the canonical undergraduate source for bibliographical references, so I thought I would leave a list behind before I graduated. I list the books I have found useful in my wanderings through mathematics (in a few cases, those I found especially unuseful), and give short descriptions and comparisons within each category. I hope that this list may serve as a useful “road map” to other undergraduates picking their way through Eckhart Library. In the end, of course, you must explore on your own; but the list may save you a few days wasted reading books at the wrong level or with the wrong emphasis.

The list is biased in two senses. One, it is light on foundations and applied areas, and heavy (especially in the advanced section) on geometry and topology; this is a consequence of my interests. I welcome additions from people interested in other fields. Two, and more seriously, I am an honors-track student and the list reflects that. I don't list any “regular” analysis or algebra texts, for instance, because I really dislike the ones I've seen. If you are a 203 student looking for an alternative to the awful pink book (Marsden/Hoffman), you will find a few here; they are all much clearer, better books, but none are nearly as gentle. I know that banging one's head against a more difficult text is not a realistic option for most students in this position. On the other hand, reading mathematics can't be taught, and it has to be learned sometime. Maybe it's better to get used to frustration as a way of life sooner, rather than later. I don't know." - by original author.

[List] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm
well, I was implying that at least for me, those alternatives tasted worse compared to 'classic' meat burgers back when I wasn't vegetarian. I'll even put it another way> I liked the taste at first for some brands, but I suspect they changed the formula in an attempt to 'improve' the taste or maybe cut some cost, but that change in additives ruined the experience for me
Ask HN: On device AI things to take advantage of M2 Max with 96GB RAM?
I don't have an M2 Max with 96 GB of ram. Yet.

What are the best things that could be run on desktop that are fun and would truly require that much power?
> but this is an absolute fail on the job application, unless the goal is to filter out intelligent people who have naturally curious minds.

Not sure why you think this is a crazy goal for a retail job. If you can't figure out that you should say "no" to the stealing question, no matter what the truth is, then you're probably not a good fit to work retail.

In fact, I'd bet that most of the "yes" answers to this question are people who are curious but have poor social understanding. I imagine that someone who really would steal is also dishonest enough to lie on the question.
The investigation was about the document, not the person. If, after they had met with the guy, they started interviewing family, friends, and digging into his life - THAT would constitute an affirmative answer to the question.
Ive been using the MPC1000 since around 2004, and owned and used an MPC60 for about 5 years. I recently had my 1000 serviced by a guy who does nothing but MPC refurbishments/customizations and he asked me how I felt about the whole "MPC Swing Magic" and what not.

My feeling is that the MPC60 really DOES feel better, but mostly because of its velocity sensitivity. You can really easily get a ton of dynamics without much effort at all. Much much more easily than with a 1000, or a midi keyboard, or any number of pads devices that I've tried. and yeah that for me includes machines which allow for variable velocity curves.

The thing that blew me away was that he told me most of the guys he's selling MPCs use them on FULL VELOCITY at all times. that making sure the pad sensitivity was in perfect condition was not a priority for them. I was shocked... but he was equally shocked I felt it was the velocity which makes the difference lol. Keep in mind these are pretty hardcore old school Chicago producers buying the best of the best vintage machines.

Im not trying to make a point. Just an anecdote. You can check out Kanamit and the work I got done here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CeXOIE0LuvX/
A neat thing about the ubiquity of cheap microcontrollers like the Arduino family is you can easily try this sort of stuff out at home.

Given a MIDI interface and something to trigger, it's not hard to see how counting six MIDI clocks for every trigger will give you straight-ahead semiquavers (16ths) because MIDI clock runs at 24 pulses per crotchet note. With a bit of thought then you can see how pairs of semiquavers will be 12 pulses long, which you can split up any way you like. "50%" is obviously six and six, 58% shuffle would be seven then five, and so on.

But you don't need to stop there. Imagine making a list with a velocity for each hit, and a "time to next hit" in clocks. As long as the total number of "time to next hit" added up to the right number of clocks per bar, the actual notes could be anywhere ahead of or behind the beat. If you deliberately used the wrong number of clocks, you'd end up with your pattern drifting out of step with the rest of the sequence, and if you do that right you've just (re-)invented polymetric rhythm.
While I appreciate the long write out. The bar isn’t low for men. The bar is high. Swiping data alone shows this, man.

I’m paying $250+/session for a dating coach just for online dating because the bar is so high - even though I’ve done all the usual advice from dating advice places. At this point, I have to spend another $5k on a pro photographer following me around for a few days and taking photos/videos of me at various events/hobbies with friends/animals/etc because that’s the level it is for men who aren’t naturally photogenic/good looking. Same for having the coach actually write out the profile, write comments, etc. I can’t even do it because it requires someone who does this as their full time job in order for an average looking guy to be remotely successful. I wish just liking a person with an average profile that isn’t holding any dead fish was enough but it isn’t. Women want more.

Not even joking. It’s bad for most men - you’re part of an exceptional few because you’re naturally good looking and won’t have to put in anywhere near the effort the rest of us do.
SQLite has been around for a very long time, it is easily the worlds most deployed SQL database. Litestream is just a way to do live sync/replication to make HA easier.

There are certainly use cases where SQLite is not a good fit. There are likewise use-cases where PostgreSQL is not a good fit either.

One is not better than the other, it just depends on your particular needs for that particular project.

My point is, SQLite is a totally sane and reasonable storage/DB solution for many server side applications as well.
ReiserFS was my first thought when I read the headline. Fantastic performance on folders with obscene file counts.
I don't understand your point here. He lost the cypher itself, not an encrypted message. So the code breakers would have said: yep, that's a cypher alright, it can be used for anything by anyone.

Being at war, you want to make sure it's not an enemy using the code.
A solution to a problem is still a solution regardless of what it is.

Might not be the most glorious or flashy solution, but like you mention, getting to the next step is all that really matters, IMO.
I just started reading Book of Proof by Richard Hammack and I agree it's an amazing book
Southwest's meltdown was definitely not an attack. Their crew scheduling software was so outdated that it required people to call in and speak to a human to report when they were out of position due to a cancelled flight. The sheer volume of cancellations resulted in this very manual system simply falling over, and so when the weather cleared up they actually had no idea where most of their crews were.
Oxygen plus recirculated flue gas in an appropriate ratio would burn cooler.
The interface is unfriendly to say the least, but if I follow the trail

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded... (click “release”)

• https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... (click the date of the most recent complete build)

• https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... (click “B” next to your desired platform, OS X in my case)

• https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=mozilla-release&sea... (click “Artifacts and Debugging”, then “target.dmg”/“target.zip”)

• https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/api/queue/v1/task...

… then I get a “Nightly” build reporting version 109.0.1.

The direct links to the latest releases should be better maintained for sure, and it did take me longer than I'd like to figure out the build interface.
Not sure. But I think it does help explain articles like this one.
Augmented Reality (AR) takes an image of the real world around you (or just the real world itself through a transparent screen) and superimposes images onto it. You could be looking at a very real tree in front of you and see a virtual squirrel on it, or your actual wall and a virtual TV to help you see if it will look good there. Or just a list of your text messages in the corner of your vision. Whatever.

Mixed Reality (MR) is essentially a synonym for AR, but sometimes described as having the virtual elements interact with the real world rather than just being superimposed on top. The term appears to originate from Microsoft’s marketing for their HoloLens product and it’s just kind of stuck.

It seems like in practice it’s usually a matter of preference but you should read closer because sometimes they’re trying to distinguish some product feature from “regular” AR.
> AMD's driver is much better on Linux than Nvidia's.

1. Agree AMDGPU is awesome.
2. All tests were done in Linux with the exception of coreml on MacOS.

> And ROCm HIP stuff isn't obscure.

It is from my novice perspective. While Nvidia stuff works out of the box (even on Linux) I had to install Rocm and a special version of PyTorch for rocm. Then it only kinda worked after an assortment of environment variables to set GFX version. And even then it uses as twice as much video memory as what torch uses on Nvidia, limiting what I can do.
You mean besides the last three years of reduced on-site staffing, and employee travel to support maintenance and modernization? No.

$5 says this is the XKCD for this. Corrupted DB file was the culprit, as announced by the FAA. It's a system that relies on user inputs, often manual, and it's all being put into a database. My bet is a user decided to put in a bunch of "fun characters" to make their input easier to read. You can't account for and sanitize all levels of stupidity on user inputs.

https://xkcd.com/327/
For those metal ring pits with a cooking grate, you can build the fire on top of the grate for better airflow. If you can get air coming in underneath the fire from all sides, it'll greatly reduce the smoke. And you also reduce the chances of smoke "chasing" the person that's sitting the closest, since they're not blocking a lot of airflow from the sides. Still not peak efficiency, but a lot less smoke.
Which also assumes I have a particular device or service open. My randomly generated offline passwords should be sufficient security.
Why? Perl has cryptic syntax, while AWK has syntax that is easily understood by anyone that has experience with common programming languages like C, C++, Java.

If you find unknown syntax construct in Perl code, it is hard to identify what it is, but if you find unknown function in AWK, you can just google its name.

Also, AWK is mandated by POSIX, so one can assume it is installed, while Perl is optional.
Heh, in Windows I've seen some applications do worse, they iterate the same file multiple times! Developer never noticed it because they look at 10 test files and never profiled their behavior, then you stick it in the customer environment and they face it at a huge directory and things explode.
It's topic drift, but this is a great example of a scenario that I think is interesting: the apparent existence of a skill that you cannot articulate.

Usually, if you're better than someone else at something, there are things you KNOW you are doing differently, and you can give pointers/instruction, right? In my bar-going youth I was a better than average pool player, but I could also help YOU with YOUR pool game by showing you what I was doing, right?

But sometimes these things exist at an unconscious level. The main example of this in my life is animal interaction, which I am pretty sure is due to countless inarticulateness lessons I learned from my dad, and by working with him at his veterinary clinic in high school.

I have joked for decades that I simply inherited the Kindly Veterinarian Vibe, because while I definitely CAN tell you simple things to do if you have trouble connecting with a dog or cat, but I can't transfer everything because I don't even know everything that I'm doing. A huge chunk of it is understanding the animal body language, and it seems like lots of people just suck at that, e.g.
Hm. I had multiple UK visas (but only visited once lol) and I don't remember that. Granted, all of those visas were applied for with assistance from the job I had at the time. The entry form was also much more boring.
I think it’s misleading to say Tesla faked the driving.

They were running one off software, purpose trained for the route, showing the golden run that was successful.. yes. But it was computer vision and self driving that they demonstrated. It just wasn’t their production system.
It's partly due to the insane subsidies that livestock farming receives in the EU.

If meat was not heavily subsidised, it would be much, much more expensive.
Sneaky Ad Scam Tore Through 11M Phones
Some 1,700 spoofed apps, 120 targeted publishers, 12 billion false ad requests per day—Vastflux is one of the biggest ad frauds ever discovered.
In modern therapy it is considered[0] that at least some of the inner critic issues are responses to past traumatic events and emotional trauma. It tries to help you avoid doing something that hurt you in the past, like a legacy broken failsafe mechanism.

Perfectionism, avoidance and other problems often have very traceable roots in the past, and there are therapy tools like EMDR[1] that help to fix or mitigate the root causes.

In my experience, it is not really possible to fix serious emotional trauma with affirmations, and deeper emotional work is required to start seeing your inner critic (and other trauma symptoms) shrink.

The best way to start working on such problems as inner critic is to find a licensed mental health specialist.

0 - http://www.pete-walker.com/shrinkingInnerCritic.htm and similar research on CPTSD

1 - https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/02/17/emdr-and-trauma-what-...
For those of you who are like I used to be and are just honest in an unfiltered way that sometimes caused you trouble: don’t think of it as lying, think of it as keeping secrets. You can also view it as maintaining a personal boundary, which is not something people of my generation were brought up with. We all keep secrets to some extent: shameful memories we do not readily recount; job confidentiality; things we only share with our doctor or therapist. Just be like that more, it’s okay to be a bit of a mystery to others, and you can do this while still divulging a ton of stuff about yourself. Lying just feels stupid and wrong. Pretend you are a spy in this life, and you can consciously choose what face to present to anyone.
Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis has a really special place in my heart. Chapter 3 is great- it's a great reference for derivations of a lot of fundamental identities about limits used in undergrad calculus.

Chapter 4 is a great place to learn about topology for the first time.

In general, it kicks up the mathematical rigor you're used to a notch. Seeing ">" defined as "not <" really blew my mind when I first read it! "<" is just something that satisfies some axioms, like anything else in math.
In the USA, landfill space concerns are based on a hoax. Landfill space is a function of landfill development, and there’s no shortage of spaces to create landfills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvesting_lightning_energy

"A single lightning strike, while fast and bright, contains very little energy by the time it gets down to earth, and dozens of lightning towers like those used in the system tested by AEHI would be needed to operate five 100-watt light bulbs for the course of a year."

As I understand it, most of the energy from a lightning strike is turned into heat.
It might be that the next one might have those features, but not the current one, and so the $400 meta headset in question is not an AR platform.
> the companies are public and they are looking for the next unicorn to invest in.

Just noting that "unicorns" are private companies valued at >=$1B. So, Impossible Foods is already a unicorn (still private, looks like valued around $7B a couple years ago) but Beyond Meat is public and has a market cap <$1B.
You can trim, slice, and hammer pork tenderloin as another way to get a fairly low fat schnitzel.

Regarding cholesterol, the link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol isn’t very strong. As far as I know unless someone is following specific medical advice from their own provider eggs do not need to be restricted.
Just the other day Italian police announced they found some old mafia boss who was hiding for 30 years because they got a tip he was sick, so they scoured the national health records for clinics treating someone around the right age with the same conditions.
> Not Americans assets, or anyone else. Coinbase is careful to only mention Japanese assets.

Fwiw, Brian Armstrong clearly asserts in this recent interview that Coinbase assets in general are not commingled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dueFaHFulVA&t=3m35s

There's no evasive language or weasel words or anything like that, it's a straight up commitment, backed by the fact that Coinbase is a public company and subject to that level of auditing, transparency, and scrutiny.
Houston Zoo opens Galápagos Islands exhibit
FWIW, this sort of issue is a serious problem for many people with severe OCD. Basically a thought comes into their minds, about something disturbing or taboo, and they start obsessing over the fact they had the thought, because they're so distraught about the idea it would even come into their mind. In most cases, they are so far from actually doing anything related to the thought, and that's why they are so distraught. This leads to penitential behavior, and compulsions, etc.

Sometimes figuring out if they're just obsessing because they're worried about a thought, versus actually perseverating over a potentially actionable drive, is really really difficult.

Not saying you have OCD, it's just a whole area that can lead to seriously debilitating problems for some individuals.
I notice that you haven't actually brought up any arguments. I'm especially curious if you can find any arguments at all for your second assertion.
It's a cycle. Corrupt leaders run things to the ground while enriching themselves, necessitating external loans to be used to 'rescue' the situation. Guess who's in charge of administering the loans, the same corrupt leaders.
Unikernels and NanoVMs
By single GPU, is a normal one would suffice?
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt
Happens more frequently than you think.