skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a "value-based pricing" perspective a GPU that sells for $1600 and is utilized 10% of the time could be sold for $16,000 to someone who could keep it busy 100% of the time.

Only if you (among other things) ignore the other costs and profit of the cloud gaming service.

How much does continuously streaming 4k bandwidth alone cost over the life of a GPU?
The values you're quoting are wealth per adult, which is a mean, not a median, and therefore very useful to Credit Suisse in context and almost entirely useless in the current discussion.

To get a better feeling for how things look in terms of the actual humans involved, a median isn't bad, or a percentile based distribution, or you can e.g. cut off the top and bottom 10 or 20% and then do some sort of analysis based on that.

'Mean net worth' is only useful for a very specific set of situations - it's also why you often get charities talking about 'look how tiny the net worth here is' but that includes people with debt having negative net worth, which drags the numbers downwards in just as distortionary a way as the richest people in the US are dragging the numbers you're using upwards.

Of course, it makes great propaganda for the charities, and they're not -strictly- lying - and Credit Suisse aren't lying at all, they're presenting total wealth by country and providing the 'per person' number to help gauge that information, not for use as remotely representitive.

However if you keep scrolling down the document, you'll find Table 2 provides the median - and lo and behold because the mean for the US is skewed by the small (compared to total population) number of extremely rich people, the US in No. 18 by median wealth as opposed to No. 2 by mean.

Statistics are great fun but you do have to be careful to apply the right -sort- of statistics for the purpose you have in mind.
Past that, why do you want to hang out with other people who are doing poorly when you could be hanging out with people who are doing better?
Dutch healthcare has many issues, also for non-foreigners.
Hemorrhoids are awful. I have a close circle of friends that have different careers and are in a range of physical shape and most of us have some degree of hemorrhoid issues going on. One of them had surgery for them and they said it was one of most painful surgeries they have gone through. At least we can gripe about our shared ass pains together.
I just would like to give my opinion on some of your points, which I don't agree with:

> Looking at the documentation directly, what they advise you to do is kind of the worst idea they could come up with: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/signatures – you need custom logic[2] to verify that their MAC ("signature" they call it incorrectly) is valid and you need to configure a different secret for each of your endpoints

It certainly help that I use their official SDK, but it's one line of code to add the signature validation. Also, I'm not sure why you would want to create a lot of endpoints to listen to these webhook. I simply have one, and the Stripe SDK helps me in determine the event type, its deserialization, etc.

> Payment process information is such a vital business concern that "let's try to call them and if that fails... well we tried" is broken on principal alone

That's not how it works. The webhooks keep retrying with exponential backoff until they succeed. You can also manually retrigger them for individual events.

> The obvious approach is to have an event list which you as customer long-poll or just poll every few seconds if your framework doesn't support async well

Nothing is preventing you to do that. In fact, in my codebase I do polling to the Stripe API as a fallback to check if payment is successful in case there are issues with webhooks. But it's nice to have the webhook telling you immediately if a payment fails/succeed, in order to give feedback to the user fast about the status of his payment (and not wait the next long polling iteration)

Not everything on Stripe is perfect, but I do find it really pleasant to work with in general
> I'm pretty baffled by this layoff wave.

There is good evidence that layoffs conform to social contagion.[1] In other words, layoffs are trendy right now.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-la...
The Netherlands doesn't have tens of millions of citizens who refuse to engage with society in any meaningful way due to certain circumstances from many generations ago.
The issue might be that AMD users don't get DLSS so the performance is necessarily worse... and FSR (as DLSS alternative) simply isn't up to par.
Piracy might not have been the cause of Dreamcast's demise, but it was definitely rampant on that system. Anecdotal but I knew someone with a binder full of pirated copies of literally every single Dreamcast game ever made, which isn't something I had ever encountered on any other console at the time (sometime around 2000 or early 2001?). My understanding is this wasn't particularly unusual for a resourceful Dreamcast owner with a broadband connection.
What I'm saying is different from self awareness. Self awareness could arguably just be having a model of yourself. I'm talking about a sensory feedback loop.
Awesome project!

Yes, I've also thought about mounting the switches vertically. And more surface should also provide more grip on the table.
If I'm going to be in a crash, I want to be in the bigger car.

Of course, what I _actually_ want is to be riding a bakfiets with my kids in the front, but when I'm getting tailgated by an F-150 that's not very practical.
Fun with printing tables with std:format and C++20
Rent is not cheap, but if you are okay with 1 hour commute you can live in the Hague, Leiden or Utrecht. Less tourists also.

Btw, there are large companies in AMS (Booking, Amazon, Meta, Uber) and some financial shops. It's not comparable with US, but definitely in top3 in EMEA region.
On that note: with our (Australian) National Broadband Network (NBN), residential connections don't always have the best uptime.

For example, at my last house (Melbourne), a 100/40 FTTC connection... the NBN company kept on having multi-hour outages (booked ahead of time) every 2-3 months. Note that's not my ISP, it's the NBN itself. For "upgrades" in the area and similar.

So very much "not business grade". Not even startup grade really. :(
>"Cedar falls somewhere between OPA with its datalog (prolog) based search approach and a Zanzibar based approach."

I understand the OPA from your description of it as a "datalog(prolog) based search approach" but you didn't characterize what the "Zanzibar based approach" is. Is there a similar short descriptive summary of its approach?
blind has to be the most toxic community in tech. I don't know if i can handle the mental damage for referrals and insider info on prospective employers.
> Are you saying an attempted or successful blockade would end a war?

Yes. I do believe a blockade and minor ocean fighting would be as far as it escalates.

I see nuclear war as China's only option to retaliate.
Yes, oil is used everywhere. And one reason why is because it is dirt-cheap compared to other materials. However, price does not account for the environmental price paid.

That's why even the article is telling that sail cargo ship projects are betting on regulation. If the adopted regulation is a cargo tax, we will use less and less oil. Of course, today we still need it and oil will be used to create new green solution. Even with a very high carbon tax, I assume there will still be use cases for oil because it is a really incredible material and energy source.

"The most versatile substance on the planet and they used it to make a frisbee. Typical of humans." Helen Cho - not very scientific but so truly mind-blowing.

Edit : layout for readability
Mutual TLS auth seems like such a no-brainer for APIs like these.

I do wonder, though, how does OpenZiti deal with client certificates expiring? Do you not set/enforce an expiration date or do you have some kind of automated renewal mechanism?
Imagine doing business with the US government and messing with an ally this way.
> Similarly, the lack of first generation jets flying today has a lot more to do with metal fatigue and the maintenance requirements

Don't forget engine efficiency. Early jets engines were extremely fuel hungry, and even today in the span of a decade engine efficiency has drastically improved.
The difference between Visual Studio Code and Emacs is the difference between an extensible editor and an editor that is designed to be extended and modified as you use it.

It can take just a few lines of Emacs Lisp code to add a useful command. You can do it right in your editor, eval it in place, and save it if you like it. Extending VSCode consists of generating a skeleton with yeoman, adding the requisite methods to e.g. register the command in the command palette, testing with a special extension-testing instance of VSCode, then bundling and packaging the extension. Installing an extension locally takes invocation of a special command, what you're supposed to do is publish it to the VSCode extension marketplace.
Fascinating. My dad is a professor and over Christmas break I showed him ChatGPT and he became obsessed. So much so, in fact, that he used it to generate a syllabus that prohibits the use of AI-assisted writing!

The cognitive dissonance is wild to me, and I think approaching AI as a tool to be embraced is much healthier.
they're here...

nice end of transmission simulator to boot!
Yeah, I like to remind people we do eugenics all the time. With plants and animals. We don't call it that because we often feel that humans are a different class of life and we need special words to describe things we do to ourselves.

But breeding a dachshund is eugenics. You are selecting for desired traits and not allowing undesirable dogs to breed.

Like, it technically works.

We don't do it because it also means violating people's privacy and autonomy. And that's just wrong. The mechanisms are inhumane.
More specifically the Dutch do not have multiple different multi-million strong underclasses with specific histories of dominated adversity. If you restrict the count of 333 million down to people who more closely match the financial and social background of the majority of the Dutch, you actually find a sub-nation inside America that's doing pretty well.
Replika users mourn the loss of their chatbot girlfriends
Without going as far as "dog eats dog", I don't know if I would feel the need to socialize with laid off people if I got laid off. What would that serve? It's not like one of them is gonna be like "hey, we're hiring at my company!".

Socialize with people who have a job.
SBCL, probably. Scheme would be a close second depending on the implementation (Chicken, Gerbil or other compile-to-C impls.) Racket and Clojure are closer in performance to scripting languages like Python.
I don't use any of the scintilla-based editors for serious developments, but as lightweight text editors.

I don't even want those two use cases to have the same history for files opened. In fact Notepad++ on Windows is my eternal scratchpad and I open a "code" file maybe once a month.
Is there an online console somewhere you can paly with and test these cuelang-based policies using cuelang-js?
>It’s bonkers police are under no obligation to protect citizens[0

This always seemed intuitive and obvious to me. The constitution is almost entirely negative "freedom from" rights. Gaurenteed positive rights are impractical and generally unworkable. This is why government obligation to act is a matter of policy, not rights.
"PMs work for the engineering teams" made me cringe. This statement is no different than what the article is preaching, just another flavor. PMs and Engineering should work together. PMs #1 role and why they should even have a job is bringing customer clarity and urgency. Being a tech-led/product-led organization is just another version of sales-led organization. The ultimate balance is being customer-led which many companies/teams don't fully understand. But I fully agree with the "product CEO take" - as a PM I hate that framing.
No.

Chipmakers can make chips that are much more powerful than what they sell to consumers. For instance the top AMD CPU for consumers has 16 cores, but they sell server (e.g. "workstation") chips with up to 96 cores.

If they were really interested in marketing hardware to a handful of whales they could do the engineering to make liquid cooled machines (machines like the above are air cooled and produce fan noise that people find objectionable even behind a locked door) that cost $15,000+ and are much more powerful but basically compatible than a "gaming PC".

The real crisis in gaming is the games. Nintendo is healthy, to the extent where it's hard to see what a sequel to the Switch will look like. Sure you can play Control natively on the Steam Deck and can only stream it on the Switch, but that's not a function of gameplay, that's a function of graphics.

For Microsoft the situation is dire. I let my Xbox Live Gold subscription lapse which caused me to lose 20 or so games. I thought I really wanted to play 3 of those and maybe I'd get inspired to get a few more games.

I found Gamestop had hardly any used game inventory because I guess people don't buy discs. Go look at lists of "the top 25 XBOX ONE games" and you find most of them are big series or were games (Skyrim, Diablo) that were out for the Xbox 360.

It's so bad that Microsoft wants to take over the whole market for games with GAME PASS which will certainly fail in the long term because by separating the purchase of games from the quality of games can at best reproduce the "success" of cable television with a long term drop in quality coupled with long term price increases. What we should be doing is breaking Activision and Microsoft up, not merging them. What we've seen is that giantism in the game industry can turn a highly successful game into a failure, see

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23588083/meta-shutting-dow...
Another example of poor software strategy hurting AMD.
https://archive.ph/Zauha
Then apologies for misunderstanding your point!
AMA question: I've never personally been through this process, but I assume go-to-market DD is typically part of the process. Are there specialized firms that handle that side of the equation?
The flag is -Wformat-nonliteral or -Wformat=2. -Wformat-security only includes a weaker variant that will warn if you pass a variable and no arguments to printf.
If "mshtml.dll" is still there, and you can still instantiate instances of it, then MSIE is still there.
Where are you making $150k a month and are you hiring?
I don’t think this is the greatest counter example, as there are far fewer NBA players than big-tech engineers.

Small groups can differ significantly from the population average more easily than large groups.
The article is actually about not knowing how a creative endeavor will be perceived. Not physical silence.
The former is ideally resolved with attribute((format_arg)), the latter with attribute((format)).
Google has a CEL (common expression language) that seems easier to understand and extend: https://github.com/google/cel-spec

Using CEL for writing IAM policy: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/conditions-overview
We're sitting in the park, drinking Thunderbird and arguing with the pigeons.
It’s not quite so obvious in medicine. The patient often isn’t the one paying the bill, so the insurance company or government is the actual customer. In that regards, it’s more like a B2B transaction.
This argument is so empty of meaning it is itself ineffable.
A Review of Attacks Against Language-Based Package Managers
not really, with just 8GB everything will be very slow. You might get by but 16 is really needed.
That's fair enough, but also why any larger company should have a broad strategy for marketing and sales as there are a lot of routes that customers take. I once ended up in a multi year contract with a company because I ended up in their IRC channel and I liked it. Did they get most of their customers that way? I imagine not.

That said, DO is pretty well known in developer circles for its thousands of tutorials (less so for its ownership of CSS Tricks which is very recent) but that is certainly not universal.
> which episodes of Star Trek should I watch?

Perhaps 'The Neutral Zone' season 1 episode 26. There is a cryogenically frozen person brought back to life, and he is obsessed with finding out about the value of his stock portfolio, and he and Picard have a conversation about how money no longer exists.

But I don't recall any episode that really explores the idea of a post-scarcity world (which is essentially communism I suppose)
Lincoln was also a proponent of state surveillance. He reorganized the national telegraph network to spy on journalists and experimented with the use of spy balloons.
It just occurred to me that so many people were laid off, we could start the world's largest software co-op (and arguably one of the largest tech orgs, period). We could build software products that every industry needs, that every worker owns a part of and can vote on org-wide decisions.

Literally everyone you need was laid off... Tech people, business people, marketing, sales, etc. We just need a forum and some volunteers to organize. We all know what products companies/individuals would pay for, because we used to build/buy them.

(there are lots of different kinds of co-ops, and I'm not suggesting any particular model other than a worker owned organization where the workers own and control the company)
> Btw, there are large companies in AMS (Booking, Amazon, Meta, Uber) and some financial shops. It's not comparable with US, but definitely in top3 in EMEA region.

Yes, only those big companies pay "ok" wages.

To all others thinking "but free healthcare/whatever/etc", then why don't these companies pay enough (compared to USA,England) for remote where you only pay in gross?
Out of curiosity: Has anybody ever heard of an engineering manager making the transition to showrunning?
Everyone on Blind is a Principal Engineer making $750k TC while only working 8 hours a month
For those who haven't read E. M. Forster's fantastic short story, it's here: https://archive.org/details/e.-m.-forster-the-machine-stops_...
Boeing asserted that no "critical flight software" was outsourced, but it specifically didn't label the MCAS as "critical flight software" when describing it to the FAA.

What we know was outsourced is "flight test software" which sounds a lot like something that should have caught the 737 MAX failure...
Yep, I've noticed car choice mattering for myself and others as well.

Reflecting back to my original comment:

I guess my goal besides sharing my opinion was wanting to communicate to people who seemed to have the "just be polite and respectful view" is that factors like these make the predictability of politeness or respectability affecting the outcome at all way more variable.

Sometimes to the point of not mattering at all.
Same for destruction ;)
I apologize for my answer being in the form of a youtube video. I hate and ignore it when people link me youtube videos. It's a terrible format for information and discussion. But...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u6ZkAVQfPA "Jack Scannell - Why was biopharma so much more productive in 1950 I DeSci.Berlin" - The main points is the need to formally evaluate biological models.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-no-longer-needs-...
Maybe [Kiss My Ass] from Takeshi Ohmi could be a good read to Jack's ass.
> The human mind appears to have evolved in a tribal system, and it appears to be predisposed to tribal thinking.

+1

I learned about this was when someone posted this article on HN some years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200808051003/https://nautil.us...
Invoke-WebRequest still depends on some of the internals too probably, but who knows?
Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis
Hey, guys. I've just made a plugin which turns your pandas dataframe into a tableau-style component. It allows you to explore the dataframe with easy drag-and-drop UI.

You can use PyGWalker in Jupyter, Google Colab, or even Kaggle Notebook to easily explore your data and generate interactive visualizations.

PyGWalker (pronounced like "Pig Walker", just for fun) is named as an abbreviation of "Python binding of Graphic Walker".

Here are some links to check it out:

The Github Repo: https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker

Use PyGWalker in Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/asmdef/pygwalker-test

Feedback and suggestions are appreciated! Please feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Thanks for your support!
The useful checklist is a product of experience. Items come from death and disaster caused by not doing what the item says to do.
Nuclear powered ships would be to putting a crew of ~20 low cost workers assembled from around the world with the inherent communication barriers that brings responsible for a reactor. That does not sound feasible.

Regarding sailing, scale is not the issue. Rather what limitations port operations impose. Combining containers with sails are indeed a challenge. Thus, shipping companies are looking into hydrogen, methanol, ammonia or synthetic fuels.

We bult sail ships weighing 10 000 tons a hundred years ago. Switching the sails to rigid and using modern engineering principles and there's no issue going the x10-40 of that which are current ships scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preussen_(ship)
Web EyeDropper API
>So it's arguably not bitcoin.

It's always Bitcoin in any scenario we can think of since value never ever leaves the chain, only the person with control of the on-chain value changes.

>Someone can just print out the same paper wallet twice.

I used "paper wallet" as a simple place holder, many tamper resistant one time use solutions exist, like Opendime.
More correct albeit less clickbaity headline: recent builds of Microsoft Edge will uninstall any remnants of Internet Explorer from your PC and replace them with compatibility shims, so most legacy apps should continue to work as-is.

On Windows Server platforms, where IE11 is still inexplicably the default experience even in the most recent 2022 editions, you can still enjoy its full functionality, until you explicitly install 'Edge for Business'. Which you should.
Government might scale, but people's willingness to give up their own resources to help someone else does not scale indefinitely. As an extreme example, I'm much more willing to help my immediate family than my extended family and I suspect the same is true for most people. That same property extends to being more willing to pay for my local schools than for struggling schools 1300 miles away in Mississippi or being more willing to pay for support for a homeless person that I can see and interact with than to pay that same amount for one hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Given that DLSS frame multiplication requires Reflex, the latency trade off is minimal/non-existent
I was just thinking that we're about to have people going around claiming to be "experts in AI" because they know how to use ChatGPT, despite the fact that they can't even produce "hello world" in Python (without asking ChatGPT to do it for them, I guess?). Like some people seem to think that kids these days are all like Steve Wozniak because they grew up with access to an iPad.

Anyway, yeah, maybe there is actually some valuable skill required for this? But I agree that skill in operating new technology probably doesn't hold its value for very long.
Here (Israel tech scene) there are a ton of initiatives to help people who were impacted by the recent layoffs. Lots of mixers with companies that are hiring, free tutoring/help and meetups. Certainly not perfect but it's very far from "dog eat dog".