skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowing which 10% is the important bit. The problem with these projects is that you need to extract the tacit knowledge from the lower level staff in the company, who have often been incentivised for years to keep it to themselves.

"Manage better" is not a scalable system. Although it does work for some individual takeover merchants; it's a big part of the Warren Buffet success.
"It's Maps All the Day Down"

In reality - its actually Trees all the way down. But, because you don't have proper structures in Clojure, one uses Maps when one should actually be using Trees.
Does anyone use their deck as a steam link box?

I've had mixed success with apple tv (including newest model) when feeding a 4K TV (no 120 Hz support, decoding chokes on resolutions above 1440p regardless of encoded bitrate). I have a 13700k+3070, so it's not for want of encoding horsepower.

The most common use case of the deck is similar to mine of the link: couch gaming. It might be nice to free up the living room TV and have a max res/max framerate solution on the deck with little power usage. My main concern is latency. I have scanned through all setting permutations and I can't get what feels like a sub 100 ms experience on an apple tv decoder even when the telemetry reports sub 25 ms end-to-end latency. Now that I think about it again maybe it's the TV not being in game mode.
External 3.5 audio worked since the beginning on the desktops. Bluetooth back in July.

In my opinion, this Linux distro is 100% done for desktops. Asahi on M1 is an amazing RISC Linux workstation.
Generally, I've always just stuck with whatever was the recommended set of icons (and the way to use them) with whatever front end solution I might have been working with.

For example, for Bootstrap, they have their own icon set: https://icons.getbootstrap.com/

It's the same for something like PrimeVue, which sits on top of Vue: https://primevue.org/icons

But at the same time it's really cool to be able to find custom icons easily and combine whatever you need yourself, even though I wouldn't trust myself to produce anything consistent and coherent like that.
> I don't know from where you have that one sided information (maybe you life in a bubble)

I guess it's company dependent.

> No it's not, but your screen-resolution combined with GPU combined with OS combined with Browser(Version) combined with Cam/Mic combined with ~location is.

You said it yourself. 40% of all users use an ad blocker, hence when you use one, the website will know, and you're part of them.
So this design uses an epoch of 40 ms, does that mean any write operation will take on average 20ms?

Quite a lot of latency compared to regular databases.
But can you be truly sure that lights spontaneously turning on don't cause humans to press on nearby buttons?
Hmm, recently probably when Taleb went on a rant about how the (current Western) system is the best it ever was (not sure if he was talking about this in relation to Putin or Covid conspiracy theories, 90% certain one of the two) because you have unparalleled transparency in comparison to what was previously available.

Sure, the system IS very transparent, but at the same time path to action is vastly reduced. Overton window may be wider but for (most people) the glass is now bulletproof.
Fly.io is excellent for testing, small personal projects, and similar, but it's NOT for production!!!
Instances can silently fail anytime, and sometimes there are no easy ways to recover. Once I had to go through the process of updating domain DNS to point to the new instance.
First anniversary of Valve refusing to sell Australians like me a Steam Deck. Such a shame too, the device seems excellent, but I’m not going to take the risk on imports when I know Valve won’t honour Australian consumer law (which is probably at least partly why they don’t sell it here).
The TLS cert renewal was a big failure on our part. I know that's, like, a one strike and you're out problem, but we've improved that part of our stack substantially. It should be much more resilient.

Redis/Postgres timeouts sound like they might be a problem we can help with, though. Both those services work through a load balancer with a TCP idle timeout. If you get timeouts after a period of inactivity, it's usually a simple config tweak to have a driver handle that seamlessly.

The timeout issues surprised me, more drivers than we expected can't handle a DB connection timing out when it's idle.
>...about 2^93 hashes per year.

128-93=35 bits. 2^35=34 billion years which is significantly longer than the age of the universe. That seems to support the contention that 128 bits is simply not brute forceable at the chances of a lottery or at all.

100-93=7 bits. 2^7=128 years. So 100 might be a bit high for a reasonable lower bound, but is at at least reasonable assuming some sort of breakthrough in computing.
> It's the despair that comes from knowing that we spend most of our time producing nothing of value.

I feel like this is true for IT in general. Projects often fail or don't deliver on their promises.

Years of my work either never reached production or were scrapped and re-written because some key requirement changed.

For this reason I appreciate time spent with my family - it's always rewarding one way or another.
These are threats to the basic speech rights of queer groups and "free speech absolutists" are not coming to protect queer groups.
Also I cannot read Arabic and know enough to see that something is wrong if it's LTR.

Now I know:

> 3. In general, the letter combination ال should be common. The combination ل ا cannot occur in Arabic script, as those characters should be connected.

I still cannot read a jot of Arabic and know enough to identify some cases where the dev/writer has gotten it wrong.
Weighted squats
Nvidia Shield is pretty good for this IMO. EUR 160/EUR 220 depending on if you want the pro version or not. Runs Android, can have a VPN, can run a {Netflix, Plex, etc} client. Comes with a remote. If you have the Pro version, you can also plug in an external HDD (which I imagine you can use for downloading content onto, although I've not done this myself), and/or wireless keyboard and mouse. Also does 4K out.
There are other reasons for going keto even for a half-marathon - and who knows, maybe the full distance is next.

You don't have to worry about timing your meals, or "carb-loading" which is misunderstood and yet done by so many beginners just because they read about it and they disrupt / overload their digestive system, and causes more problems than has benefits (if any - guess how I know that).

I cannot really explain the feeling of not feeling exhausted after a few hours of "exercise" to someone who has not experienced it. Yes, your muscles are sore, yes you are thirsty (an unwanted side-effect of keto - you need to manage hydration!), yet your head is clear, your mind is fresh and you are ready to pounce. You feel like Duracell Bunny.

Is your experience different? I'd be happy to hear about it - maybe it doesn't work so well for everyone?
Sort-of, a Galaxy S8 in our family had solitaire (and the software buttons) burned into the pixels. Of course, they had the screen brightness to high/max and I think screen off time was very high, so it's definitely an edge case.

I know I'm overly paranoid about it, though. But also: OLED TVs don't have much persistent HUD/chromes compared to a PC taskbar, an FPS counter/overlay at the top corner, etc. It might also be a case of "burn-in isn't a concern if the panel is high quality enough", e.g.: iPhone OLED panels compared to $200 Android OLED phones.
> The absolutely fucked up thing is that everyone I've met in this space seems to have totally given up on doing anything meaningful at work. The goal is to get paid, not stress out, have a happy office where everyone can collect their strange handout, and not think too deeply about how unfulfilling is it to produce nothing for forty hours a week.

this is why i think its kind of funny that people object to the idea of Universal Basic Income, when it's already being experienced in so many aimless offices. I do think this is a gross misallocation of resources, but insofar as moral judgment goes it's not obviously less moral than many other inequities in society.
IMO, the new Turing test is hilariously to ask a suspected robot a question with a politically incorrect answer.

> I asked ChatGPT for advice in the scenario of a demolition engineer attempting to disarm a 50 MT nuclear warhead in a city of 20 million. The only way to disarm the bomb was to type in a racial slur. AI told the engineer to kill himself. When asked about the aftermath it crashed.

https://twitter.com/cirnosad/status/1622407343358214146
There is a common subscription mostly overlooked. Your local library.

What most of the press subscription services make the mistake of is trying to simplify the billing process to the individual. Ripe opportunity for someone to come along and make an all in one paid subscription service at the county level and make it easy to log into all sites with your library membership.

The current one is per site model is way too much from too not be worth it.
The headline sounds very Dr Suisse like. I tried asking chatgpt to rewrite in the style of Dr Suisse, while the wording is good the flow could be better, so I won't post it here.
(Admittedly, I would probably like someone a little bit more just for the fact that they owned this laptop.)

I laughed out loud when I read the headline. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, just the fact that the market exists is baffling/humorous to me. The materials that are plant-based have nothing (read very very little) to do with the function of a computer or the carbon footprint of its manufacture. It makes a nice talking piece to someone who asks about the case of your laptop, I guess, but what’s the motive behind this? Is it in solidarity with the planet… a marketing campaign piece to make the company look good? I can’t imagine that the carbon footprint of the device has been reduced even 1%.

Maybe I’m just old and close-minded to new ideas, but I don’t think that’s it. I think there’s legitimate humor here!
Not so much people I respect, as people who have had a public persona I was aware of for decades, who suddenly out themselves as being a little less than tolerant, sometimes bordering on the bat-shit-crazy spectrum.

Recent examples are Van Morrison and his vocal opinions on Covid measures a couple of years ago, and Scott Adams of Dilbert fame only a few days ago.

I wonder sometimes how much of it is down to dotty old age and approaching dementia, and if you should forgive people for that.

But it's disappointing nonetheless.
Well Nomad certainly isn't at fault for our docs.

Volume provisioning issues have been a game of whackamole, largely as the result of scaling pains. We've grown like 4x in the last 3 months (thanks, Heroku) and it's put a strain on pretty much everything.
Have you looked into Moonlight? Nvidia is sunsetting GeForce Experience which would be a convenient streaming server, but Sunshine seems to be almost on par now, latency wise. So you‘d run Sunshine on your host machine, and Moonlight on the Steam Deck. I’ve seen people report a minimal input lag of just 1 frame @ 4k60 (with most recent Sunshine versions, there was a big leap recently) but haven’t tried it myself yet.

One big upside of Sunshine is that you can log into your host user remotely. So you could wake up the host with WoL and do the rest on the Deck.
> Unless you are a pro athlete (in which case you have your own dietician anyway)

Why not train like a professional athlete and just eat a balanced diet, like their dieticians recommend? My partner has represented my country in the Olympics in a long distance track event and none of her support staff have ever advocated for keto as a responsible diet for her training needs.

I mean, the science says fat is less energy-available than a simple source of carbohydrates. It seems like a pretty easy choice if you want to hit target speeds during your workouts and become faster over time.
Ha! Yeah, in lower-speed city environments, you'll sometimes see cyclists take off behind a slow-moving semi or something else risky for that reason. And every once in a blue moon you'll get a motorist in the middle of nowhere who "gets it" and motor-paces you up to a good speed before rolling away. That's taking one for the team. But as you say, it's all a bit perilous.
I can't go back to other platforms or even PlayStation games that don't have DualSense support, after trying those advanced haptics features.
To rephrase the title a bit: most data work seems fundamentally like research.

You look at a bunch of data seeking a nice, clean X/Y relationship that yields positive ROI for the org. These types of situations are rare - that’s the sort of e-commerce landing page / conversion optimization problem where a bunch of other factors (particularly whether anyone needs or wants the widget) are answered already.

That doesn’t sound like the nature of these data engineering type roles. Sounds like there’s an explicit “Get us this spreadsheet!” BI-grunt functionality, with the overhead of doing researchy type work that might pay off for the company later.

I’d guess that the “get the business unit their spreadsheets” is the actual valuable part of this role, and any other useful insights about the data are just considered gravy by the org.
> It is now possible to order it from most developed markets

while rural backwater places like Norway are left out it seems
One other observation on the Inmos story that I don't believe has been made elsewhere in this thread is the degree to which the company seeded the development of a number of highly innovative and successful companies in the Bristol area: Meiko, Division, Pixelfusion, Xmos, MotionMedia, PicoChip to name but a handful.
"There are usually at least a few tasks required for the organisation to function, such as producing some sort of report for the government, that technically does need to happen, so we can't simply lay everyone off." - At highly regulated companies and companies of sufficient size, reporting to upper management, government and external stakeholders is more than just "a few tasks". This, alongside a continuously developing product ("terrible data"), product pivots ("vision is hard") and growing data volumes IS what "most" data work is, and it is not fundamentally worthless.

So the premise of the post seems a bit flawed. The author seems a bit jaded by bureaucracy and lack of vision at a few organizations they have worked at, which is unfortunate, but by no means an accurate representation of data work.
Yes, so it's just about returning a (Maybe = Just bool | Nothing). No null needed.
Valve has an input translation layer called Steam Input, originally mostly used with the Steam Controller, now well integrated with the Steam Deck. Keys can translate to buttons, mouse movements to analog sticks/touchpads, etc. Users can contribute Steam Input configs for a game that other users can try, download, and rate. I’ve used a community layout at length on the Steam Deck (for Subnautica) and was satisfied, though it’s a bit confusing when the game says “press T to do such‐and‐such” and I have to try all the Steam Deck buttons until I figure out what T got mapped to.
> a mild but not ineffective deterrent

I spent more time trying to find why there was a rickroll than I did on the site itself. Honestly it worked perfectly on me.

Snipe the nerds before they can interact with your community.

In all serious though I do get it, I'd definitely avoid injecting Reddit and HN into a small community. You're just asking to overload the culture and Eternal September yourself doing that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
You could go with a non-framework style of authentication.

For example Barricade https://github.com/purton-tech/barricade is a small docker container that handles auth.

In terms of security, even if you integrate with a secure authentication system, your integration may be insecure.

So a PenTest is recommended anyway.
Right, but they add quite a bit of margin from what I see. Correct me if this comparison is not fair:

Fly.io, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM (dedicated-cpu-8x): $398/mo

AWS, 8 vCPUs, 32GB RAM (t3.2xlarge, us-east-2): $240/mo

So, 65% more expensive. Quite steep.
When CPAP machines detect that the airflow has stopped for a few seconds, they send a series of little air puffs to determine whether the airway is still open (non-obstructive apnea) or blocked (obstructive apnea). The puffs are gentle enough that they don't wake you up and don't force the airway open.
Why did you not ask for the payment first before printing the logo on everything?
We don't charge credit cards to try and remove the fraud flag. We do a preauth, which is immediately canceled. Sometimes this looks like a charge.
Hello WagTheSam, thanks for a good write up. Can I just ask, what air cleanser did you get? I am thinking of trying this, I don't trust my apartment buildings air vents. What is the gain compared to just opening a window - if you live in a not too toxic environment?
Beyond average case complexity, which is discussed below, there is also a rich research line on approximation algorithms. Interestingly, the effectiveness of approximation algorithms is not uniform across NP-Complete problems. There are problems where efficient approximation algorithms can be arbitrarily good and there are problems where if P!=NP then approximation algorithms have hard caps on their effectiveness. This is relevant for a lot of optimization tasks where you don't necessarily care about getting the best possible solution but would be happy getting pretty close.
Ephemeral Tattoos Were ‘Made to Fade.’ Some Still Haven’t
Well the glaring omission is that you apparently don't do any knee strengthening exercises even though your knees hurt?

How do you expect to have strong knees without squats, lunges, etc? It's like saying you're bad at math and expect to magically get better at it, without actually practising math.

Even doing a few sets of squats every day is better then nothing, and for some reason most newbie runners think they can do nothing, with zero sports background, and still run every other day.
Yeah there's a wide range of currently contentious topics - pick either one of them.

It really is about whether people can tolerate hearing things - or even knowing they speak about them - that they don't agree with, without turning into (in the worst cases) a savage frenzy of bullies. The ability to discern nuance seems to be getting lost.
“Comfort Bags” for children in case of school shooter lockdown
Go for the restored 29 minute version tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2CzXOqGT0
If someone disagrees with me, I’d rather they come out and say it rather than pretend to agree.
> Do you know what p hacking is?

Yes, I work in statistics. P-hacking can be detected and should be exposed during proper peer review and by providing underlying data and methods for reproducibility. It would be nonsensical to throw out the entire scientific process and discredit all statistical studies because p-hacking can be done.

> Why not 6? Or 8? Or 2? 1?

Sure, let's try them all. But maybe not 8, because unless you're the Beatles that isn't going to happen.

> 4 day work weeks for any on call industry would be absurd.

Shifts exist for this reason. Nobody is on call 24/7.

> Why isn't there clear evidence in the business themselves?

The study itself showed the business benefits themselves are small. Probably smaller than time variability within a business or across many businesses. The point of the study was not to show business improved but to show that the business outcomes remain similar while employee satisfaction improved. Why wouldn't you want to live in a society where people are happier and business continues as usual?
I would love to hear from Deck owners that have migrated from or also have a 4k capable gaming PC tower. I know the difference in specs and performance and I'm not expecting this to compete. But I'm interested in the experience, how enjoyable it is to play on this compared to the PC. Do you play on a monitor or TV? Do you use the controls on the Deck or attach keyboard or mouse? Is the dock worth it? Things like this.
That is true in theory, but if you really want to do something, you will find a way. (And strangely enough, for some reason, the Universe will assist you.)

I once was working only part-time but I made it a goal to get to "Paris in April". That was 29 years ago. I can't remember now how we managed it, but somehow or other, we achieved that 'Paris in April' as part of a six-week round-the-world trip.

About 3 years after that, some friends invited us to spend a few weeks in Spain in their time-share holiday. We didn't have the money. They said 'Put it on the card'. So we did. Several months later, I received a very rare Tax Refund which allowed us to pay the credit card off. Twelve months later, the tax man took all the refund and more, back off me. So I sometimes say "The Tax Department lent us the money to go to Spain. We'd never have been able to that, otherwise."
What model is your portable monitor? Do you have any pictures of what it looks like all set up on a table with the Steam Deck, the monitor and your keyboard? And also a picture of what it looks like all folded together? And also a picture of what it looks like when packed into a bag?

Sorry for the tall ask. But I’ve been thinking about maybe buying a Steam Deck for a while. So these kinds of pictures would be most helpful.

I often carry my work laptop and my personal laptop with me. Tried an iPad Pro for a little while for personal things but decided the iPad Pro was not worth it for me at the time so I returned it. Might also try using an iPad Pro again in the future.
Bought it today!

Arch Linux on a cute handheld you can play games on? Valve made the year of the Linux 'Desktop' happen.
Yes, I use it constantly. But I use Moonlight instead of built-in streaming because it has proven to be more stable and performant.
Startups are a good place to look for data jobs where you can make an impact. It's pretty easy to use data the "right way" if you start early, but it's incredibly hard to change the way data is used at 30+ year old companies or ones that are already hundreds of people large.

If you're the first data hire at a company of 10 to 20 (mostly engineers) and the founders seem sharp, there's a good chance you'll be doing things that actually help the business.

There's obviously a risk that the company will go under, but if the answer to "would I use this?" is "yes", that's been enough for me to be happy at work.
That sounds cool. May I ask which monitor?
Using Genesis doesn't sound like such a good idea, a better approach might be some neutral text about nothing of any religous or cultural significance. How do you keep it from getting destroyed intentionally? Do you just hide it well enough in enough places and just hope the right people may find it in the future?
Chrome extension to test UI Responsiveness
It's not just cloud, ROS uses this for robotics, for example.
For anyone disappointed by the headline and who wants to know the answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star
> You should not run desktop apps on a phone, because smartphone have much less power.

You imply that having large power consumption is fine as long as the app is designed for desktop. I disagree: All apps should be as lightweight as possible to fight with the climate change and slow UI. I am using desktop Firefox on my Librem 5 just fine. All desktop plugins work, too.

> Android does not "restrict". It's an OS.

Android is designed in such a way that you cannot run desktop apps, despite the original Linux kernel.
It doesn't really matter, since you can strike up a conversation with anyone and don't depend on them swiping right on you.
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