skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So agreed.

If you have <100 software engineers, I feel that being in the office lets you move super fast - conversations with sales folks, support staff, management, investors, etc in a very fast iteration loop. I've experienced this positive hyper communication mode.

But... when I think about my current job, where there isn't a single team located 100% in the same office... and certainly not along with most of the people they work with as well... it seems all for show.

These execs seem unable to either admit they haven't thought it through, or make the much more radical choice that imo would pay off - relocating everyone to be in the same location to increase communication bandwidth.
About a year ago I got a Tesla K80 off eBay for about $200. It's basically 2 Tesla K20Xes in one card, so it's pretty powerful, but the downside is that it's a datacenter GPU - it doesn't have any cooling.

I 3D printed a fan shroud for it and put an old (but surprisingly powerful) fan on there, and that worked ok. The issue, though, was that I wanted the fan to be quiet when the GPU was idle, and I couldn't figure out fan control on Linux, so I decided to control the fan speed via an Arduino.

I took a spare Arduino, some wiring, and despite never before programming anything for Arduino, I managed to hack this together: https://github.com/askiiart/k80-linux-cooling

It takes the GPU temperature, turns that into desired fan speed, then sends the desired speed to the Arduino over USB. The Arduino just controls the fan speed via PWM.
The relevant tvtropes.org page seems to be "Bottled Heroic Resolve": https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BottledHeroicRes...
Oh man, that brings it back! ytalk on the university student server was just about the first instant messaging system I used. My typing speed went way up after a few weeks.
Part of the review is pointing out that this glued screen was particularly easy to remove.
On a quick search, NO may not be particularly toxic at the concentrations in question. (And your body produces it!). NO seems like it’s mostly a problem outdoors because of other stuff it reacts with.

But NO2 is certainly toxic, and it looks like stoves product about 1/4 as much NO2 as total NOx.

(I also recall reading that stoves, with no pot or pan on them, produce minimal CO, but that gas ovens produce lots of CO. Also, residential gas ovens are IMO really quite bad at cooking.)
I'm curious why you think the US moved the goalposts when Kennedy set the goalposts in May of 1961: https://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html

You could argue that was moving the goalposts, since at that point the Soviets were (significantly?) ahead of the Americans, but the Soviets had just put Gagarin briefly in orbit. It seems hard to say that there had been that much of a "race" to that point?
I've wondered this in the pushback against RTO:

As an employee, if you make a push to change the parameters of your job, how close do you get the definition of being a contractor?

According to the IRS:
"The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done."
That seems an ambitious expectation for a 14-year old system.
I made a site like this, but for tenants to rate the places they lived in:

https://ratethispad.com/

I've pretty much never promoted it so it's quite empty, but feel free to pop over.
Requiring in-office means both a massive cost for office buildings and losing a large portion of the hiring pool, particularly those that can most afford to be picky (top talent). I don't understand what advantage this gives a company.
For what it's worth: I have a fussy gas range and I'd be peeved to have to give it up, and I don't have an opinion about whether it's good or bad to require new construction to use induction. But the racial angle on this is risible. It's evidence of bad faith argument.
Clang has -Weverything that I almost always turn on.
Not expecting to see JMac on Hacker news.
Yt-dlp exposes all of the codecs, I think I remember newpipe hiding some options when I last used it. I struggled to find how to download just the ~140k opus audio (-f251) or maybe the combination audio+video I wanted wasn't there. I'm sure things have changed since the last time I checked.

But Yt-dlp is still more powerful, it has extractors for way more sites. If I download a video, I usually care to archive it for a longer term, so I add things like subtitles and metadata. For opus files, I don't like the webm container, so I would end up installing ffmpeg for that anyway. I also make heavy use of the regular youtube app, I appreciate the interface. Although I haven't had the need, Termux + yt-dlp also allows using aria2c for downloading. And yt-dlp has also been useful in bandwidth starved situations, because the url and format flags are enough to get the video, it doesn't hang while waiting to download related/recommended video metadata.
USA vs. Google, LLC (Ed. Va.): Google's Motion to Dismiss Is DENIED [pdf]
>the "real" perfect pitch people are always anchored, no matter how much noise anyone throws at them. Which is also a source of discomfort and difficulty

Not least because the argument about "what note is this" and "what note do you think you're singing" starts basically day one of singing lessons. Trying to learn any practical music when you can hear the difference between close frequencies mean you're effectively learning colours from a group who insist that blue and green are the same colour.

One of my party tricks used to be saying the song and artist from the first 5 seconds of a track. These days with samplers and synthesisers that's almost impossible. I still get tripped when I hear some samples, like "that's the bass guitar from {song x} WTF" in the middle of some otherwise pleasant song.
Being a nice machine is largely separate from whether it's repairable (until one day it suddenly really isn't); what's your point?
> I think people would be shocked to find out how many channels are ran by teams of people.

Indeed! I was surprised recently when a video creator mentioned the cameraman and producer in the room with them - up to this point I had naively assumed a one-man show, maybe with a video editor.
Of course, they want to avoid blame, or they risk losing their job.
Five Possible Worlds for AI
Why is this downvoted? This whole thread is scratching it head as to the “real reason” behind this. Here you go. Infrastructure is way too expensive to maintain for stuff you don’t really need.
The patent assignment stuff.
i think 80 is maybe a bit large for code; in most languages it's rare for a line of code to go past column 64, unless you're using 8-space indents, and those rare cases are often bad code. if your code was formatted for 64-character width, you could fit 12 columns across a 3840-pixel 4k display with a 5-pixel-wide font, versus only 9 columns if each was 80 characters wide

40, 64, 81, 128, or 121† would have been more logical; 72, 84, 90, 96, 108, 126, and especially 120 could be divided into equal columns in a larger number of ways; and for single columns of text, 80 is also a bit too large for optimal readability (it's about 14 words per line), but too small to fit two columns of text the way traditional book layouts do

usa typewriters commonly used 10 or 12 characters per "inch" ("pica" and "elite" respectively) which works out to 85 or 102 characters respectively across a sheet of usa letter paper, or 82 or 99 characters across a sheet of iso a4 paper, so plausibly the character width for fixed-width printers for these paper sizes had to be somewhere in the range 76-102

this week though i've been programming in proportional fonts, so the whole question of width becomes less well-defined. specifically the font lobster two because fuck you that's why

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† 136? yes, because that's the most positive number you can represent in five trits of balanced ternary. in our timeline of course nobody uses balanced ternary, but plausibly if people had been doing this sort of optimization instead of following tradition, they'd have switched to balanced ternary 70 years ago
Don't underestimate the greed of investors.
These days those are mostly electronic, it's not hard to edit the text in a PDF to make it show a different address. Not something an average person can easily do, but trivial for a motivated attacker to pull off with a bit of money or the right friends.

Also, if it has your name on it then it's no longer anonymous.
I lived in China for a decade and never once saw an electric stove.
The person you are responding to managed to work Tucker Carlson into the convo so obviously knows precisely what is propaganda and what is objective fact.

All rational and educated modern chefs understand that copper bottom pans are just a crutch, because Mother Jones said so.
> I’m from a third world country, and now live in the Bay

> You have zero idea what you’re talking about

Same here. I've endured the sweltering tropical heat in a polluted developing-country city during power cuts, so I well understand what I'm talking about.

> To give you context our place in SA was having a couple hours loadshedding a day, and here in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods our power was gone for three fucking weeks, and just yesterday was in and out three times.

In my Bay Area neighborhood there have been no outages for the last 3 years, but that anecdote is no more or less valid than yours when generalizing about California at large. It's a huge state with incredible variability in nearly every dimension.

Hyper-local conditions matter greatly to reliability. I'm in a dense urban environment, near hospitals and fire stations. That's probably why our power is more reliable. We have friends who live in a wealthy wooded and hilly area of the Peninsula who have lost power for days this past winter, because those repeated winter storms made so many trees fall on power lines. Similarly, extremely fire-prone neighborhoods just 10 miles from me experience public-safety-power-shutoffs frequently in the summer while I don't.

Your power problems sound highly localized, and you are right to be upset about it, but it's on your utility, not the overall grid.
RTO really feels like you want miserable people. People who spend an hour or more commuting. People who pay super-high rents just to avoid the commute. People who can't relax because there's no nature...

I moved to the suburbs next to the mountain. Takes me > 1.5h to get to the office, but I never do.

I feel so much better...
Photoshop seems like a straightforward way around this method of verification. It works for the DMV here in the States, but perhaps only because lying in that context carries legal penalties.
How was the fuel economy? What happened to it?
And how would the service verify the statements? Why would it take a fake account? It's not that hard to get a sample statement and modify it to seem real. If you could get confirmation from a bank or utility that might be enough to prevent forgeries, but what incentive would there be for them and why would they want to share private information?
Yo-Yo Dieting: Biology or Behavior?
I would expect forcibly overriding warnings to be a massive red flag in code review? Like, what company cares enough to care about warnings in CI but not catch people bypassing that check?
> I welcome the day artificial intelligence makes most doctors obsolete.

Guess you deleted this part.

When this becomes reality, let me know. If a better system existed given the current set of parameters, I believe it would have come into existence. Give me any medical condition, and I would take my chances in the US healthcare system over any other option.

My argument is not that physicians are error proof or that they don't cause harm through errors. It is to refute your claim that "most doctors are terrible".

Your AI system would only be accurate at diagnosis if it has all the pertinent data and unlimited resources. Patients often provide an unclear history, their symptoms are not common for their underlying condition, and there are not enough resources to do a full workup for every complaint.

Regarding your second link regarding misdiagnosis in emergency rooms, you just need to look at the PERC rule or the HEART score that ED physicians use for evaluating for pulmonary embolus or acute coronary syndrome to get a somewhat clearer picture of the deviation. Even with scores of zero, there will be a substantial amount of missed diagnoses. Not everyone who goes to the emergency room is going get a full cardiac evaluation or a CT angiogram of the chest if their symptoms don't suggest the illness. There are not enough resources to do this.

https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/347/perc-rule-pulmonary-embolism

https://www.mdcalc.com/calc/1752/heart-score-major-cardiac-e...

Of course other civilian professions don't have death rates this high. They don't deal with dying people every day. Again, I'm not claiming that the medical field is perfect as it is. I just believe you are mischaracterizing data for which there are many intricacies.

You are also throwing out a lot of strawmen regarding race and sex which bears little relevance to your initial claim.

Regarding your final piece of data about the amount of misdiagnosed heart attack cases, look at the following sentence in the same article

> It estimated that, if heart attack patients were correctly diagnosed initially then – over the decade of study – over 250 deaths per year might have been prevented.

250 * 9 = 2250 preventable deaths over a 9 year period.

Far less alarming than the data you present of 198,534 missed diagnoses.
I see someones cane get hit by a car one time causing him to lose orientation and make an almost 90 degree turn in the middle of the road. If the cane is pointed towards or away from traffic people don't even stop anymore.

This was actually long ago but it stuck with me. Just now I realized what perfect analogy for life it is. You move towards something, something interrupts the journey and then you just continue, thinking you are moving in the same direction.
https://www.liquidpiston.com/how-its-made

If I'm not mistaken there are no apex seals in there – so there's one major weakness eliminated. Regardless of military applications there is some real interesting engineering there.
Sean Carroll: Extracting the universe from the wave function
People can have absolute/exception memory for other things too. I dated a woman who could look at a bit of cloth and say "that's the same colour as..." and be right every time. Even when she hadn't seen the other item of clothing for months. It made shopping with her somewhat less painful because she wasn't constantly swapping things just to look at the colours.

Much better than perfect pitch, otherwise known as the ability to know that something is out of tune, by how much, and struggle to ignore that. A violinist friend managed to train herself to shift pitch to match the rest of the orchestra but I suspect part of the reason she turned to the dark side (jazz) was the latter's ability to adapt to her sense of correct pitch.
You might consider a better way than dropdown selection for zipcodes. heh
I’d like to know these places you speak of because every single time I’ve applied for a job in the past ~15 years where I didn’t have explicit experience in the specific programming language that was specified, I failed to get the job. A lot of those that I applied for I had significant domain knowledge as well. In fact I can’t even think of a time I got further than an introductory phone call.
Those are just suspicious bits. Bits in the shape of an integer, but only knowed and understood by the compiler.

And the preprocessor... dark arts indeed, manipulating the bits of the program itself!
> If you watch the video I linked

I have in fact. It's a nice talk about security in Windows 11, but I haven't seen anything in it answering these issues. He says absolutely nothing about DCH and doesn't give any explanation for the minimum hardware requirements. The closest I recall was he was mentioned of integrating Pluton on chip and making its firmware directly updatable, but I don't believe for example that the 7820HQ and the 7700HQ are any different with regards to Pluton.

> I'm not sure what you're getting at. DCH drivers were already the default for current-gen hardware _before_ W11 even came out, W11 just made it a requirement.

No, they didn't even make DCH a requirement; Windows 11 runs with standard drivers too. [1] And, again, DCH doesn't imply anything about hardware security mitigations, which was purportedly their reason for this.

> Note that you're still referencing a blog post from 2021. W11 22H2 enables core isolation by default for new installations, and HVCI is enabled by default when using the Windows Enterprise security baseline.

Because the situation is fundamentally the same since 2021. Core isolation support is not a distinguishing feature between (say) the 7700HQ and 7820HQ, as far as I know. And the Windows Enterprise security baseline seems kind of irrelevant for the millions of average consumer devices out there. A company that cares about consumers or the environment is telling consumers across the planet to turn perfectly good devices into electronic trash now because they might add something that helps security years later?

I'm going to let my comments rest here; people draw their own conclusions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/pr4kmr/why_is_wi...
Android 13 DP1 allows Google Pixel 6 to run full-fledged Windows 11 as a VM
Well. No surprise GPL is dying.... where it was dominant license 20 years ago when I started with Open Source/Free Software.

If you goal to maximize adoption and really your user freedoms it is no good to force them to release changes under the same license as GPL tries to do. And many companies found out maintaning their own fork is costly anyway and so it ofen makes sense to contribute to upstream.

If your goal is to ensure there is no commercial derivatives... with raise of the cloud for many classes of software GPL became useless for protection, this is why we see raise of SSPL etc.
If it's really that important to you, you could buy an electric burner or use other types of electric cooking devices.

Also, the poster is correct that it's not the function of government to tell people what type of kitchen appliances they can use in their own home. We would typically consider that governmental overreach. It's telling that society is becoming so accepting of being told by the government what they can and cannot do in so many areas of life.
They've already lost the conversation though.

There were Windows products people were genuinely excited for. 95 being the obvious one, but WinXP did really deliver the promise of modern, NT-based windows for the home desktop, and Win7 felt like we finally broke free of the stagnation of XP (worsened by the bad press Vista got).

I willingly went out and acquired a legit copy of Windows Vista (at the time, the pre-pre-predecessor to Bing Rewards let you grind some crummy games for a few weekends to earn enough tokens for a copy) but even being told Win11 is free and will be delivered directly to my desktop, I just go in and slide the TPM option to "off" in the BIOS to make sure it doesn't prompt it.
MRSK was designed to handle deployment of 37Signals products to bare metal servers and it does that well. However when it comes to deploying to cloud it falls short by a lot: start with dealing with cloud native load balancers (ELB, ALB, …) as services come and go, or persistent storage requirement for state full services and much more you’ll need to take care of yourself.

I think it’s important to remember that MRSK is a bare metal department tool and not really designed for the cloud, as per the creators’ statements. https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
Tomacco!
Yes it does. Unless you think reforming regulators will somehow be easier.
> She was waiting a whole year to sign the bill and at the end decided add loopholes which made the bill worse than useless.

So what’s with this 10 day timeframe? I’m confused. So, technically, they haven’t been waiting a year and vetoed the bill right away?
I think a lot of people would be into this. If you're willing to, you should totally do it! You might get some good contributions from the community, too.
All I can find is a website made by crypto bros. Do you have a link to the courses?
Power/Weight ratio matters for pretty much everything more than one initially thinks.

People usually think first of adding power as adding performance. But power affects only one parameter - acceleration. In contrast, reducing weight similarly improves acceleration, but also improves turning, and braking performance, and reduces the loads and wear on every other component (the opposite of adding power). And that is just in automotive performance.

As soon as you go to anything that flies, the same effects are just multiplied. Every gram of weight saved is either a 1:1 increase in available payload, or an increase in range and/or fuel that can extend range, and of course still improved performance across the entire envelope.

And the only reason that e-Vehicles get away with such absurd weights is that all that weight can be put low and centered in the suspension so the fundamentals of chassis dynamics is acceptable. They still massively abuse the tires, but with a higher weight distribution would be absolute pigs if no virtually un-driveable.

Of course, any vehicle choosing between a Wankel and this LP thing is not likely an overweight battery-heavy vehicle, so it'll count more. Obviously a 1% saving of 45 pounds on a 4500Lb EV is not going to do a lot, but ... yeah, it's still a key issue.

And this is especially an issue because LP is making it the central claim of their pitch, and it is so easily beaten by much older technology. Makes it seem more like a basis for fleecing investors than a serious entry to improve the state of the art.
It's something you commonly see in videos with YouTubers showing off their kids. The adult is trying to make an engaging video and the kid just looks bored or shy around the camera.
Add a few bags of charcoal and you're set to BBQ some gooood ribs or steak there! And the candles are nice for lighting.
Also here is a youtube video which explains how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQK-E_Mzeq0
> I've found that a lot of the complexity of the cloud is self imposed

Indeed. I prefer the terms circumstantial- and inherent complexity. Inherent is the easiest to define: it’s the bare minimum to do what needs to be done, analog to Kolmogorov complexity and in the spirit of “if I had time, I would have written you a shorter letter” or “make it as simple as possible, but not simpler”. In the real world, your software interacts with imperfect and legacy systems with their own issues, but doing that is also part of the inherent complexity (because if you removed it, it wouldn’t satisfy the requirements).

Circumstantial complexity otoh comes in many forms: initial poor design, tech debt from scope creep and requirement changes. In adversarial environments it can even be deliberate, such as DRM, inter-team politicking, and “job security through obscurity”, or “if nobody else understands this doc, it’s less likely to be changed and my coworkers will think I’m smarter”.

In the case of AWS, I suspect there’s all kinds of circumstantial complexity, but in particular there’s “green field accidents”. As an early mover (all cloud tech is extremely new), you don't get the simplest possible design on the first try. Instead, you get something that works, but is full of redundancy. For one, the best way to layer your systems aren’t clear, so you end up with individual products having to reinvent things like consensus, caching, durability, replication, data integrity, yadda yadda. But at the same time, it’s an immense pressure to get stuff out the door, so we make do with what we have and keep cargo-culting until it’s cost efficient to replace a lot of the garbage with something better. That can take 10 or 20 years.