skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get a lot of bang for your buck with an expected input/output setup. In basically every database it's trivial to set up a few tiny tables, and it's cheap to run a query on small input. Pick a few edge cases and a few non-trivial representative examples, and any passing query written by a real person will likely express the logic you care about or will expose an additional input/output pair to add to the tests. Combine the high efficacy with the ease of writing and understanding such a test, and it becomes hard to argue against having at least a few.
You get a free personal subscription which can be used on up to 5 machines that you personally own.

Canonical are letting home users, community, power users and small businesses benefit free of charge from the extra security work that much larger enterprise customers had asked for, and funded. If Canonical made it free for the large enterprises, they would stop funding it and we would all lose the best and broadest security coverage in the market. Also, the Canonical security team has grown a lot to do this work, so the security coverage of Ubuntu ‘main’ which has always been there is now even better.

So this is pure win for you, me, and everybody else on Ubuntu too.

If you don’t change anything, you get more free security fixes in Ubuntu than any other Linux you could pay for, for 5 years, and that keeps improving as more big companies use Ubuntu Pro. With a free subscription you get personal / small biz coverage that’s miles better than any other enterprise offering. And if you are a large business, Ubuntu Pro is an incredibly cost-effective way to get full coverage and things like FIPS and FedRAMP coverage while letting your developers use any of the tens of thousands of Ubuntu packages. It’s 3-4% of the cost of the cloud VM, a total no-brainier for any CISO.

There is a reason the fast-moving companies are building new stuff on Ubuntu.
> Fuck your neighbors. The region is long overdue for more housing to fix the ridiculous situation that has formed down there.

I wonder what the repercussions of this type of uncontrolled building will be.

An overreaction to a frustrating situation usually doesn't end well.

There are good reasons to have construction permits, so growth can be planned. There's also endless ways cities abuse the permit process. But the good reasons still exist.

If developers are allowed to build without any limit, who is going to be planning for all the requirements external to the new building? Water supply capacity, sewer capacity, traffic flow into and out of it, new schools required, etc?

Developers are happy to build a building, sell all the units and leave town with the profits. But additional units do generate additional support needs from the city infrastructure, is anyone considering these needs if a developer is allowed to build anything they like no matter how big?
WSJ: The UNC Echo Chamber Fights Back
The University of North Carolina faculty is outraged that the school’s trustees favor open academic inquiry.
There are so many people who "think from first principles" (EDIT: meant "think for themselves" via first principles. Comments are not condusive to rewrites).

The reality is that many people are treading various intellectual ideas, and the idea that _you_ are the one with the new and innovative idea nobody else has thought of is... well.

I think what happens a lot of times though is that people will get to an idea that others dismiss, and then keep on going for whatever reason. Most of the time this leads to nowhere. Sometimes it leads somewhere interesting/valuable. But this is probably the most straightforward example of survivor bias out there. People with success will probably have done something counterintuitive or explored thoughts other people didn't have, but so many others waddle around endlessly in their search for having the unique idea.

If you want to get scientific with it, the way to prove if his ideas were valuable still would be to publish them anonymously. I'm a nobody and I have had things I post here get traffic. Some of pg's essays would also inspire some good conversations. But... this? I don't know.
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Large codebases are always a puzzle. Maybe I should be more plain - large existing codebases usually suck.

I suspect they drag down engineers, and cause them to refactor, or burn out.

But what if something like chatgpt could explain the code to you. If you could ask questions

"does anyone call this function?"

"who calls it, and what do they do with the results?"

"can you call it a million times, fuzz the inputs and see if it crashes?"

"can you replace the bubble sort with qsort?"
> there was a certain logic that retaining talent optimized performance

why do people still think a bunch of coked up degenerates who almost bankrupted the world are "talent".....
F22 is stealthier and has better radar packages, more oriented towards air superiority. F22 is designed to completely dominate the sky. F35 was originally designed to be a multi-role fighter, it's still that, but not cheap. And has some very advanced features not noted in this article, oddly. Integrated sensors and communications turn it into a flying AWACS, very potent.
They had a loss last quarter of $700 million [1]. They had a loss of $500 million in Q2 of 2022 [2]

[1] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1600/...

[2] https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1563/...
> My RSS collections have always been one of either I'm following a highly curated list that leaves me hungering for more content or I'm following a firehose that makes me miss the content I prefer.

Filtering helps but "i just like some type of content from that person" seems to be forever problem on every site. Like on youtube, you watched whole three videos of a guy cooking ? I will bomb your feed with random crap from his channel for next month or two!
not quite, Haswell was only 9.5 years ago :) fma+avx2 is a pretty nice architecture boost.
I have a movement layer on my keyboard that uses ijkl for arrows and pgup/dn, esc and enter when I hold my thumb on a thumb function key.

You should look into QMK and ZMK-based keyboards and you can set up all kinds of crazy stuff. Sounds like you'd like it.
Intel are screwed. Many of its biggest customers have started just making their own chips instead. The bleeding edge of compute appears to be falling to Nvidia (who now make both the chips and the network that connects them). Their latest GPU project is going the way of their other GPU projects. They don't even have the biggest/baddest fab capability thing going on any more. I have no idea what's going on in there, but I can imagine, and it's not pretty.
> also don't fully understand the dividend investor mindset

Suppose you have ~5 million invested for retirement.
The dividend you could get from this is ~100k-150k per year.

That is a very livable salary if you want to retire early (45? 50?) and focus on your family and hobbies.

Does this make sense yet? It's essentially a conservative way to lead your live if you are not necessarily married to your profession.
It's a lot easier to copy something than to build something new.

Without the freedom to fail and the freedom to challenge the existing socio-economic status quo, China will have trouble out innovating the USA.

The best and most valuable innovations generate creative destruction. Change in China is top down not innovation driven.
Comments in code are like pizza or sex. When they are good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s better than nothing
Thanks for that great David Bentley Hart link.

I see multiple trends going on in writing. Academic "STEM" writing is
getting impenetrable, not because the authors are obscuritan, but to
satisfy non-functional powers; to conform to keywords, generate REF
impact factors and whatnot. At the same time science journalism is
pulling the other way. In an effort to dumb things down to a folksy
and breathless "hey, isn't that amazing!", it ends up just wrong. In
both cases the stylish tail is wagging the dog.

What I read here from Bentley is something else, anticipating the
corporate grey goo of soulless, value-free - "voices utterly anonymous
in their monotonous ordinariness." It's a kind of linguistic
self-harm.

To me, that writing is not merely passive, it's actively cowardly.

I've read a lot of 'perfect' resignation letters sent around email
by colleagues;

"I have worked for Company X for the past Y years during which time
I've had the pleasure of working alongside all of you. Thank you
for your wonderful support I have received over the years...." yada
yada

But everyone knows, just two weeks ago there was genuine concern that
person might just go postal with a Samurai sword in the C-suite.

What energy it must take to be that insincere to oneself. And at what
cost to your soul? And after all that, it's kinda insulting to
everyone too. Such corruption of words.
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> Intel’s leadership has decided that the dividend is more important than employee retention

That's what happens when you're a publicly traded company? Your primary role once you're listed is to make your stockholders money, and if you don't, your stockholders will vote to replace the people at the top refusing to focus on dividends. You can have all the morals and ethics and good intentions and those amount to a sum total of zero after IPO, because unless you bought enough of your own stock to retain majority control, you no longer own the ship, you only get to set the course and steer it, and if you don't do a good enough job at that, the ship owners will have you replaced.

It's a shit system, but that's the system.
Came here to say this. The F-35 was widely considered a boondoggle, if not a flop. Not sure what cave all the MIC boosters crawled out of, but this is hilarious.
Very cool. I ended up googling your final result and was led to a number of interesting sites!
the economy should adapt to the needs of the time and society

why is always the plebs that must adapt to every inconvenience and illogical irrationality...just because that's is how it always was :/
As opposed to a crawling AWACS?
Upside might be not having to search for a job in current job market with layoffs happening left and right.
Yet way to find what you like is nice. Youtube for all its mess did let me discover a bunch of channels I now watch often, even tho most of my browsing comes from me subscribing to YT channel's RSS feed
Building a legged robot in 80 days: Lessons learned, tears shed, blood spilled
Most of my Google searches return AI-generated spam anyway. Might as well go straight to the source.
> Will people pay it? Yes, because they have no choice in the matter, they need a place to live.

That's not entirely true. Yes, you need a place to live. But it doesn't have to be right there, it can be elsewhere.

I wanted to live in Manhattan but the rents were insane. Eventually I gave up on the idea and moved elsewhere.
Something like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/9a/e8/3a9ae804abc43be473e6...
Ok, but it's worse than copy and paste from internet, because not every thing that chatgpt writes make sense. Longer the output, higher the chances that it doesn't make sense.
Once you let accountants make decisions any company eventually gets to this point. Accountants are wonderful human beings who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Source: I’m married to one.
Meanwhile ~50% of the EE PhD graduates, and ~10% of the CS PhD graduates from my university are joining Intel on a regular basis.

Intel has a steady funnel of smart international PhD grads who are usually fine with the comparatively lower pay.
Ubuntu is the delusional cult of convenience that doesn't scale well to extremely large operations. Their whole premise was they released a completely free distro that was identical to the commercial support version, as opposed to RHEL. If this is this case, then they've footgun fireworks factory fired themselves.

Debian is fine, but RHEL-derivates are most reliable because they run at scale and have the most stable kernel going.

CentOS (5 year lifecycle) is patched more often than Alma and Rocky (10 year lifecycle), so there's no "perfect" alternative free to RHEL. Large enterprises should be purchasing RHEL because most multibillion dollar companies run Cent or one copy of RHEL.

Also, I wouldn't use RPMs because they muddy the boundaries between OS and app: nix, microdnf, or habitat where all of "your" stuff is isolated and vendored separately. At the boundaries, it's important to sanitize environment variables, PATH, and shebangs that could cause bleed through. When in doubt, create a minimal chroot environment (even within containerization, and use SELinux) because apps shouldn't be able to run wild over a system.

Then s6 or a daemon tools-derivative non-init process supervisor that doesn't replace init is also important since Systemd is unreliable for real apps.
B2C to acquire the product (userbase), B2B to sell it
Flagged. Buchheit himself says this is not at all what he was saying. https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/1620553998293143552
... as opposed to an AWACS AWACS.
This blog will guide every startup or new offshore player with what it takes to form an offshore company.
Looks like the Arc Browser, in developer mode, with the left sidebar hidden.
The op's point which you failed to comprehend is the less often you cycle a battery the longer it lasts. So the overnight cost per joule delivered is constant.

You could object to the amount needed up front, or use some reasoning based on discount rate, but you didn't.

Also it would be wrong even if you did because the energy needed for the infrequent long duration events is a small fraction of the total and doesn't need storing inna chemical battery. Even using gas for it for centuries would release less emissions than the emissions released whilst building the nuke instead of something reasonable.
No, it absolutely makes no sense to me. Dividends are taxed as income, capital gains is taxed at different rates.
If you can fit it all in the subject line, even better
“Mostly been fixed.”
Please elaborate, cite.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/23/the-new-york-ti...

https://mises.org/power-market/f-35-15-trillion-boondoggle
I agree that the distinction between property and other forms of wealth doesn't make a lot of sense from the perspective of taxation and mostly exists for historical reasons. Especially because the wealthier the individual, the smaller the percentage of their wealth that is derived from property. Small amounts of wealth like clothes and family photos probably shouldn't be taxable in the same way that small amounts of income aren't.
Yes, maybe because I'm studying because I want, as hobby,but in another hand,in my university the last examination, each semester, is oral, so if you don't know, you fail. So I have to learn.
> A good default en keyboard layout (why would the default not be a good one? It boggles the mind—and sure, that's a distro concern, not a "Linux" concern, but so's everything that matters on Linux).

You must have had some very bad experience with keyboard on Linux. Just curious: what was that?
The cost of wind or pv is a rounding error in this context.
>Dividends are taxed as income.

Exactly, you either supplement your income with it or retire early and replace your income with it.

There are whole generations of people doing this.
It's ver simple, they just meant companies selling ads on those platforms, their experience got better
> there is no evidence the F-35 is cheaper

Than the F-22??
It doesn’t sound like we have any substantive disagreement other than potentially what GitHub’s role in it is or should be.
To the extent that writing is like playing an instrument, one should try writing simply before trying to be stylish or entertaining. And for many purposes, simple writing is enough.
Strange use of the word civilian. Aren’t private companies similarly civilian?

That being said, if they truly beat out Kestrel (or are they referencing Merlin 1A?) that’s no small feat.
As would be with code too. You have to validate the code, integrate it to your codebase and understand it,since soon or later you will have to debug it in production
What does surplus even mean with respect to wages? You could always pay your employees more! So what you mean is surplus is when you pay the market rate wages which in turn suggests the minimum amount of money the company should pay to ensure it gets the workers it needs.

If they cut the salaries and still enough people stay, then the money they saved still is surplus by that definition.
Package it as visual novel game and sell it
I think this is my first time seeing an animated stereogram. Very cool
Yes, of course. Many investors want low risk, inflation proof investments with good dividend yields. However, Intel seems like a poor choice for such investors regardless if they temporarily prop up the dividend via cuts that will inevitably cause harm in the future. After all, what are the chances that Intel will become a higher performing organization as a result of this?

REITs and telcos are a much better choice for this investor class.
The US government bailed out banks by effectively purchasing large portions of their assets and tasking the banks with continuing to administer these troubled assets. In the end it worked in that the US eventually was able to sell those assets back at an accounting (though not economic) profit.
Thanks for sharing -- makes a lot of sense. Indexing browser history is very high on our priority list, lets us cover the less-widely used apps much easier. (though is somewhat limited to things you've seen while the integration is set up, similarly to Rewind)
Best I've ever heard. Steep pricing to get only 2hrs a month and only 2,500 characters at a time though. I was about to sign up to use this to read articles to me but that amounts to about 4 articles per month and fed into the generator in parts at a time.
dang, I think you should write like Paul - meaning, you should write a few essays, and see if you like writing them, and then if people like reading them. I can happily offer to read your drafts.

Also, I am sure PG is really smart, but do not underestimate the effect on your brain of spending hours a day on HN, for many years. That's what makes me curious to read your stuff, in addition to Paul's.

Ah, I believe the simple main reason why people criticize Paul is... envy.

He doesn't need to be right all the time. He writes things that are provocative, and often make me/us think a lot about the topic. That's a success, in my view. Some people take it like that, others can't wait to criticize it to sound smart. And even if they're right, there are many ways to contribute to the conversation, instead of just bashing his writing as many often do.
Salespeople giving delivery dates to prospective clients without consulting the dev team.

Seems insane, but surprisingly common.
And sometimes the hobbyists will beat out the corporations a la open source software.

But yes money + fear of being fired can be a powerful motivator.
According to MoD Twitter (what a world we live in) they are using the su57 but very conservatively. Long-range attacks from inside Russian airspace only, so when they get shot down the wreckage will land in Russia. Hardly the choice of a confident Air Force.

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1612337912091217920
Hey everyone, author of the repo here.

Never expected to see this near the top of HN, but here we are! Super cool to see so much excitement around my weekend hack. Happy to answer any questions on the project.

I posted a couple demo videos on Twitter, in case anyone is interested:
https://twitter.com/varunshenoy_/status/1620511932930490372?...
I got acquainted with stereograms at a young age and this is absolutely awesome! Never thought it's possible to create animated ones!
> they focus on hi-fi audio

IIRC high quality on Spotify is Vorbis at 320kbps. If you can tell the difference between that and lossless, I'm impressed.
Yup, this is correct. Huge fan of Arc!
organic growth.....
For hobbyist use, is this really any better than macOS' "say" command?

Once you've downloaded the Premium voices (e.g. Zoe) it's just a CLI, no API or hidden bells and whistles.

$ say -v 'Zoe (Premium)' "This is an example of the Zoe voice for my comment on Hacker News."

You'll have to download the voice ahead of time, but Zoe (public) and Maeve (internal) are both excellent voices.
I saw this on twitter, really great work! Thanks for sharing!
Spotify was never profitable. If their business model was good it would become profitable years ago. This way, lije many startups, it is basically a Ponzi scheme where the sucker will be investors after IPO.
Exactly. I once read a linguistics text that called these a particular form of complex noun phrase, but that doesn't appear to be a standard term. Regardless, English allows you to use a noun as an adjective almost anywhere, without adding any suffix. A web font (which is not a web). A computer engineer (which is not a computer). A grocery trip (which is not a grocery). And so on. This is just like other Germanic languages, we just don't erase the space between components of the word.
That is probably true, but it is worth noting that when people war gamed out a swift capture of any Baltic state (kind of like what happened in Crimea) one of the frequent moves of the Russian player was to capture Gotland, which made NATO reinforcement very difficult. Also, it showed that while Sweden has a capable air force and good naval assets in the baltic, it still might have trouble defending Gotland in the future.

I don't think anyone thinks an attack on Gotland was ever likely, and it certainly isn't now, but if Russia's goal was to bring back all the former states of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states are on that list. And that gets pretty difficult for those two countries to stay neutral. Finland was once part of Russia too and they have a contentious history.
I've used Xournal to fill out PDFs on Linux.
Of late, I'm reading diverse authors, and I noticed that I get drawn to more aesthetically pleasant writings. So I'm beginning to pay more weightage and attention to the aesthetics of writing than before. Good content and pleasing aesthetics go together. It means the writer made an effort to make the writing beautiful besides bringing forth insightful points.

It could also be about appreciating subtler aspects of life as I grow older. Regardless, the net result is my impressions about "write simply" suggestions are exactly what you stated.
>would kill such a a program in the crib.

Did I miss something in the comment you're replying to or do I need to read the article?

1500 is a small town for sure. I'd consider 12k to be a small town as well. 1500 is way bigger than the town my dad is from. There's about 100 people there now. Your small town is huge compared to that. He sometimes talks about being on the highschool football team at the school shared by a collection of towns in the county. He says they did pretty damn good in the first half, but by the second they were all so worn out that they'd just get steamrolled. They only had enough players to cover the field you see. The guys all played both offense and defense.

I imagine even a couple folks moving back there and working remotely would be a huge boon for the town. Heck, it'd make a big difference in the county, what with the biggest town only being around 3k people. It's very pretty there, but it's over an hour to the nearest city that has any kind of employment opportunities. If you can't make finances work on the pay from the gas station, your options are move out of town or move out of town. The internet is decent there and being able to work remotely would be the difference between being able to survive in that town or having to move away to find decent-paying work.