skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biden wants chipmakers to provide childcare if they want billions in free money
FWIW the GP sounds like he's taking a CEO view

Companies are ludicrously bloated because caring about it is too much effort for the value; during a downturn, they care a bit more

This is bang on. There are lots of competing priorities and prioritizing some kind of streamlining rarely rises to the top. Time and cognitive power is usually better spend elsewhere, which is why CEOs can often "intentionally" let the org grow some fat without worrying about it
It’s not funny if you have to explain it but it was mostly a joke, without rolling eyes. Also making fun a bit about how easy it is to make a claim that something is better than another thing and leave it at that, which is very common in every population but in particular something you hear from the arch one. I use Arch btw.
A little bit of everything, but the WebGPU stuff requires a full interop layer to translate WebGPU calls on the Rust side into calls on the JS side (a poor man's wasm-bindgen basically).

Additionally, there's just a lot of code being generated for common containers. It would probably be simpler and smaller to create unsafe containers that just shift pointers to boxed structs around or something, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
How would you go about creating something Chartreuse-like yourself?

Take some guess with what herbs and flowers might be used and soak it in Vodka for half a year.

I wouldn't be obsessed about exactly replicating the taste. Who knows some variation on it might even taste better.
judging with what happened with covid lockdowns i don't think the west is afraid anymore to apply authoritarian measures as long as it's correctly advertised in their mind as "for the people's own good".

(just like what every dictator ever said all the time as justification)
Unlike the author, I do not applaud the artificial limiting if supply. I find it incredibly annoying that it's become impossible to find Chartreuse and that the prices are skyrocketing. It's such a key and irreplaceable ingredient in many cocktails. Unlike a fancy whiskey or whatever, there is little you can substitute for it, so I'm not unable to get my orders at many of my favorite cocktail bars.
I mean even if you really want to believe they’ve broken every rule in the book, the concept of two wrongs making a right is still a poor take.
in what context?

I could be wrong about this of course, but I suspect what you’re observing is people saying thank you as they’re leaving: e.g. getting off the bus, or after buying something, or after receiving directions
Apple has been conservative for a long time. Their near death is still ingrained in the company [1]. It also wasn't long ago that people were giving Apple hard time for not hiring more.

[1] I was an partner in a company that nearly died, but was able to pull through and eventually do well/get acquired. Ultra conservative around hiring is a bias I know I still carry with me from the experience.
We have two kids under 4, and among our friends, what amazes me is how different children are - and, therefore, the parenthood experience can be.

One of my girls is the sweetest, calmest, most peaceful bundle of hugs. The other is a low-sleep, hyper-energetic, demanding chatterbox. She is unyielding and relentless from 5am, every day, and raising her is draining.

I don’t mean “resentful” - we chose this experience and chose not to outsource them to childcare. But some kids are absolutely more work: if your every day is packed 5am-7pm with sales, negotiating, customer service, and all-team workshops, if you get little sleep and no weekends or half-days, year after year, you will be tired. I bootstrapped a software business to 7 figures ARR solo, and raising her is more draining. And more rewarding.
A less well-known problem is by no means a trivial one. Only time can tell whether prediction of protein folding or prediction of next words for prompt is more important. But they are like apple and pear.
Interesting! I've been drinking dandelion root coffee for a few years alongside regular decaf and it's great (although a bit subtle).
What part and in what form did you eat it, leaves, root, flower?
their new modus operandi is to throw shitloads of cash at any new fad that surfaces in the media

Cryptocurrency. Voice assistants. VR.

What else?
I spend a lot of time in Nitro PDF. The feature set I use is comparable to Adobe. We switched for better price with perpetual license and preferred interface (ribbon vs. whatever Adobe's is called).

https://www.gonitro.com/
Meet first automatic Artificial memory for your work. Help us to become the Product of The Day.
May be you should ask GPT whether word or protein is more important :)
PyO3 works great. I've written an example repository for a hello world app for this if anyone's interested:
https://github.com/russnes/rust_python_package_example
Stop using eager loading in your Rails application; use this instead
It’s a popular internet recommendation to use eager loading in Ruby on Rails applications to eliminate the N+1 query problem. It may seem like a blessing initially, but it has drawbacks. Gladly, there is a much better solution I want to share with you.
A note for people who want to improve gov and specifically in areas like these -- FTC is hiring for their new division meant to work explicitly on tech

https://twitter.com/linakhanftc/status/1630273232535265282?s...
Yeah honestly this is what I'm really looking forward to. Daggerfall/Skyrim with auto-generated content that is in some way related to individual activities or personality traits of each NPC.
This is because English has lost most of its Indo-European heritage (except lexical), and looks much more similar to Chinese that to an IE language like German, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Hindi / Urdu, or even Farsi (though Farsi has also lost grammatical gender).

* English has no inflections; nouns and adjectives stay the same no matter what role in a sentence do they have.

* English has no noun-adjective agreement, and a very rudimentary verb-noun agreement (only third person singular).

* English words have unpredictable pronunciation: like in Chinese, there are some hints and rules, but they are full of exceptions. Try to find a pattern: "busy" / "Suzy" / "circusy", "corps" / "thorps", etc. No way to predict the sound without knowing both the etymology and tradition.

* English has no grammatical gender.

* Though unlike Chinese, English has a sharp distinction between singular and plural.

No wonder even German looks somehow distant from English :)
Aren't dogfights a relict of WW2? I don't think modern fighter jets would ever enter one, unless they have to rely on their cannon only.
I think almost all A2A kills today happen out of visual range with long distance fire-and-forget missiles.
Security is basically layering imperfect solutions on top of each other until the statistical probability of breaching ALL of them gets small enough to satisfy the requirements of the organization.

In the case of LastPass, they're holding data (which they shouldn't have been to be fair) that's INCREDIBLY attractive to everyone from script kiddies to nation state actors. When it comes to keeping out nation states the threat model can get kind of wild and difficult to engineer for while building what's ultimately a consumer facing product. However, in this particular case it's fairly obvious that bad IT policies lead to an issue and LastPass got burned.

I would be more forging of LastPass but letting employees do BYOD means you have to trust everyone that ever uses that computer including spouses and children. It's just really dumb.
PocketHost
The law says that "attempt to monopolize" is a crime, so even trying this was illegal.
Yes, Adobe is trying to buy their competition into submission to protect their SAAS model.

I don't think their moat is defensible indefinitely for the cost they're asking, but this type of thing would buy them some time.

It is telling that they can't do something better with the 20bil, though. Not much innovation left to squeeze out and there's no chance Figma generates this type of revenue for years (if ever?).
>I don't find Casey's performant version less readable

It does create implicit coupling. If you try to add a new shape you will run into the problem.

In the clean code version, your compiler will remind you to implement calculateArea

With his version you have to add a new `case` to every switch statement and hope you didn't miss one with a default case, because the compiler won't catch this one.

It's a crap way to code
You absolutely can. I’m single stacking IPv6 on my fresh hetzner box.

Cloudflare in front of web services and it just works(tm).

For everything else - Argo can do arbitrary TCP (requires cloudflared though) and then you can start bugging your ISP about the very real need for IPv6.
Funny. At my uni (western europe), foundational courses for CS were about 70% maths + electronics + physics, and 30% about DS+algorithms, OS, etc. Literally, the first year of the CS degree one was asking oneself: did I sign up for a Maths degree?

This was 16 years ago or so. Nowadays, it's kinda the opposite.
Reddit will let you search comments on a post right from the search bar
I love ffmpeg, a single command of `ffmpeg -ss 01:15:42 -to 01:16:00 -i example.mp4 -c copy output.mp4` will let you create a video clip at a certain point in time from a larger video without decoding/encoding it.

I wrote a blog post and made a demo video the other day going over using this feature at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-video-clips-with-ffmpe...
> Okay so I didn’t tell the spoon thing to Tony Abbott, but I did tell him what I always told my mum, which was: “Mum you just gotta press all the buttons, to find out what they do”
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> He was like “Oh, you just learn by trial and error”. Exactly!

This resonates with me. I've quite often heard people say something like "I think I broke it", when they've done nothing of the sort with their computer. There's a general fear or worry that some (a lot of?) people have that if they don't use their computer with care, they'll ruin something.

Of course, you can ruin things, but that willingness to experiment is how I suspect many of us got good at these things. Trying, experimenting, breaking, and then fixing.
> Workers increased salaries were passed to consumers. No problem until consumers stop purchasing.

So certain product lines or businesses can't afford the same number of engineers maybe. But the demand for good software engineers seems to far outstrip the supply so suppression of wages doesn't seem like an appropriate resolution to the problem.
Not only that, but streamlining and trimming the bloat/fat during good times signals to investors that there must something wrong with the org (just look at Intel) which will cause the stock price to go down, so CEOs never do it during good times to signal that the org is "healthy and growing" even though everyone in the trenches knows there's tones of bloat piling up.

The last bull run fueled by negative rates lasted far longer than it should, which lead to growth for the sake of growth without efficiency in mind, which lead bloat and inefficiencies to accumulate far more than normal, which nobody dared to address because "line goes up".

Now that the line went down, CEOs feel pressured to remove all the ballast they accumulated, which causes the line to go back up.
OK, but why? If you aren't doing anything illicit wearing this seems like a hassle (does this even work on non-IR cameras?) and if you are doing something illicit wearing this will make you standout.
Yes, having everyone involved learn IPv6 is more expensive than burying your head in the sand and adding another 4 at the end of NAT444444444444444444444, but at some point it’ll just be too ridiculous.
Living in and operating out of Germany must make this stance easier for Tutao GmbH. What options are available to organisations in the UK?
Speaking of supermarkets, I think I remember in Grenoble Chartreuse rows of bottles even being on the "discount" shelves ??

I will have to check how much it costs in mine (it's great, but I'm not really into alcohol...)
Could anyone on HN give some insight as to what these 130 might be? to my knowledge, we don't even have 130 edible spices/plants growing naturally in France!
What would your recommended approach be for distroless containers that don’t run a shell?
My understanding is there's a certain amount of nvidia cleaning up after the game developers too. e.g. replacing poor performing shaders with optimised versions or just old-MS style "let's change how the driver works to keep the game working". Which is why they've been so resistant to opening the driver, they believe some of their perf advantage/secret sauce is in the driver rather than the hardware.
How is this different from other generations that struggle with scanners? I’ve worked for almost 30 years and there’s always been a sizable portion of the office who can’t work scanners and copiers.

About 5 years ago, I was in a budget planning meeting and a senior level colleague (probably about 65) was advocating for hiring contractors to print out her meeting materials for her. She would have spent about $75k/year to print, collate, scan and organize paper. I showed her how to do these things through the print settings as our printer would do all that automatically.

I think printers are complicated because they can do a lot. Many people don’t want to go through training and don’t want to spend time going through and testing lots of nested properties. I don’t think it’s a gen z, or millennial, or gen X, or baby boomer, or lost generation thing.
I think if you dig into why any of these tools perform poorly, you probably won’t find it’s because they were implemented using “Clean Code”, but rather that it’s down to a combination of many different things. I can’t say anything concrete because I don’t know which applications you are referring to.

But IMO framing it as clean vs performant is a mistake
Why Didn’t Deepmind Build GPT3?
One of the reasons I almost never visit Facebook anymore is I don't trust them with my personal data. And even after being fined $5 billion - the largest privacy fine by far in history - they never come clean and admit any wrongdoing.

I will stay far away from whatever Zuck accomplishes with generative AI.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
Tbf that's a pretty low bar to clear.
Depends where you go. At Tim Hortons for example you say "Black Coffee" and that translates instantly to "Black light roast non-decaf drip coffee" even though now they can do a black dark roast or a black decaf or a black Americano or whatever. The base assumption for "coffee" in North America is drip. I'm curious now how often you heard "black coffee" and the customer actually wanted a black espresso or black Americano?
I think you need power densities much higher than the shielding of an MPRR you saw to melt skin away. You'd probably get some bad radiation sickness and maybe even die instantly within a short radius, but not have the Hollywood skin melt.
There's a huge difference between "caring" and acting effectively. If the CEO is letting the company get bloated in better economic conditions and self-destructively slashing in worse economic conditions, who cares whether they "care"? One might say that the CEO in both of these cases is merely reactive and not proactive. Anyone can follow the winds as they shift.

Also, "the economy" is merely an aggregate, an abstraction. In every economy there are both winners and losers. People tend to forget that one of the most successful products in history, the iPhone, was introduced shortly before the so-called "Great Recession". Of course a lot of workers and consumers were hurting during that time, but apparently there were still plenty of people able to afford new iPhones too. Imagine if Apple had decided to cut back severely rather than investing; that would have been a huge mistake. If you believe in your product, then you need to stick with it.
Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" also has "Replace Conditional with Polymorphism". I like the intent of the book but I don't follow it 100%. Another part of that book that tripped me is where he calls the same function with the same argument multiple times instead of saving the result in a variable for reuse.
YEA though the long bony finger of DEATH beckons you towards senility, incontinence and the cold eternal grave, think to yourself: could be worse.
Very clickbaity but leads to some good links
Show HN: Winken.io – Audio chat with your website visitors
Book more customer leads/meetings in less time by cold calling your website visitors.

Talk to your website visitors before they leave the page through an audio or video call while they are still on your site.
"Why communists say that capitalism puts profit over people?":
That seems to be similar to this approach, at least at a cursory level:

Check Your Facts and Try Again: Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12813

The “facts” being derived not from Wikipedia but rather the rules of the fictional world.
I wish this didn’t resonate as strongly as it does. Thanks for sharing this
We Have a Real UFO Problem. and It’s Not Balloons
But there is a lot of copy-catting going on. Have you called a bank or any other large institution in the last 3 years?

"We're experiencing larger call volumes than normal".

The fact that this is pervasive and constant makes it a lie. It means that many organizations have seen that everyone else is doing it (cutting support staff, or not increasing head count).

I would say that is both copy cat and cost cutting behaviour.

Very few non-FAANG organizations have a lot of fat to trim post-2009. In fact, reduced head counting and overloading already over-stretched employees has been going on since the mid-90's in most industries.
Well, I think the point is that robots.txt != usage_policy

We probably need a license.txt convention to resolve this.
Time to study reflecting sun away from the Earth, says UN
FM radio receiver and a headphone jack! Both are hard to find and on my wishlist. This might be my next phone.
Defy the law and do the time. Or give up.
How the Germans Measured Milliseconds Mechanically
That is true of America (Gulf War, not WW2), which has enjoyed air superiority in nearly all of its conflicts in the last few decades.[0]

But here’s a video of a dogfight between Russia and Ukraine fighters: https://eurasiantimes.com/ukrainian-su-27-flanker-dogfightin...

[0] https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/are-the-days-of-dogfights-over-...
> I'm pretty sure that if some compatibility layer, allowing to use Steam libraries on xbox/PhlashSpeed and Switch, existed the Deck would be dead on arrival.

And if my gramma had wheels she would be a bicycle.

The hole point of the Steamdeck is that existing consoles are locked down and would never allow running your existing steam library.
> Eh banks run securely because it’s very difficult to steal money.

Banks run securely because they have serious and mandated change control processes, applied against a formal classification of the importance of systems.

Something you generally won't see outside the T100 of non-bank companies.

This means their IT evolves glacially slow, but it does keep things stable.
Why is stating your opinion free game, but getting a reply you don't like is not?
Printers are complicated because they never work, their UI leaves a lot of guess work, you have to have some office lingo training to use them, and who knows if what the menu offers will work. Printers are special in that they’ll offer to copy in color but then you realize it was set up as grayscale by the vendor, or this one didn’t have the X option but the driver lets you do it, it’s the shittiest device and no one is stepping up to make one that doesn’t suck because people buy them anyway.
EU says Apple breached antitrust law in Spotify case, final ruling yet to come
I think this is hilarious when talking about someone like Muratori, who has had his hands in more games' code than most people on this site have ever even played. He is incredibly productive by comparison to all the people making excuses why their programs are slow bloated garbage fires.
Prof. Keshav was the original author of the REAL network simulator, the precursor to the popular ns-3 network simulator:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ns_(simulator)
None unless you want to:

1. Get sued

2. Get a court order to backdoor your encryption

3. Get your doors bashed in by police for non compliance, everything seized, and a criminal case coming your way

It's not like one company can fight its own government.
Is there a filter for device function somewhere that I just missed?

I don't care about games that aren't available on any device that I already own.
> Nintendo 1st party, you have no choice but Switch

ahem, I hear that Switch emulation works quite well on the Deck.
I think the only scalability dead end you'll end up in is people-related. That is, you won't be able to scale further because it would require using patterns/solutions that balloon the complexity so much you now need a team to keep track of it, and/or it would require more money than you can manage handling on your own (e.g. you would need to turn your project into an actual business in order to fund it further - at which point you need to start hiring people, to either do the businessy bits for you, or the technical bits, whichever your preference).