skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The default font size on HN is unreadable

Arguably the best feature of the web is that any content can be zoomed in and out as much as one pleases without problems. It does break on some websites, but as someone who zooms in most content I find it's relatively rare.

If you make text large you will have people complaining the text is too large. If you make text small you will have people complaining the text is too small. You you make text somewhere in-between you will have people complaining from both ends. So as long as you ensure it can be zoomed it doesn't really matter.
I wish this was more widely understood. People act like "the data tells us" actually holds some weight. And of course there are places where something is so obvious that of course it's reflected in the data. But anything subtle is probably just as subjective as giving an opinion. The more degrees of freedom, the more "the data" can fit whatever somebody wants.

In light of all that, making decisions by gut feelings or intuition is, if nothing else, at least honest, and probably just as good an approach as anything else.
Sorry for the pain you went through. I suffered subtle trauma as a kid. Some examples were verbal anger from father, lack of a model of a secure relationship since parents hated each other in private, no empathy, and rare sympathy, between all family members. We basically didn't care about each other but put on a facade of a happy family with others. Recently I came across Attachment Theory which describes types of insecure relationships compared to secure ones. Combined with some professional therapy, it has been enlightening and relieving understanding my issues. A long journey ahead. Reading about Attachment Theory is my recommendation for anyone feeling similarly.
I made the c-suite SaaS metrics generator especially for those types of managers!

https://github.com/patricktrainer/csuite-saas-metric-generat...
At what point does this become just creating meaningless work or pursuing initiatives that mean nothing? Do we know if the companies in the example given even support employee initiatives?

And working on-site does not mean people will be more productive. A lot of people are very good at giving out the impression that they are very busy day in day out even when productivity is rock bottom.
> just making up scenarios where you need to scale to 100x isn't actually engineering.

Even for "peak" Amazon's concern seemed limited to about ~5x daily TPS maximums unless one had extraordinary evidence.

The counter-balance to limiting resource balooning to 5x scale is introducing Erlang-B modelling. Depending on how many 9s you require, you may need way more service availability than expected.

The 100x calculations are probably doubly wrong (both too large and too small), providing negative value false confidence.
No, I go not think this particular feature can be added at the user level. It's something that requires significant support from the runtime to handle all the blocking -> thread parking shenanigans. Attempts to do it at the user level are terribly limited in that respect and just end up like clojure's core.async.
GitHub, the company with the closed-source platform, training CoPilot on their users' hosted code against license terms. That's to be our guiding star?
Edible boxes.
Ahh, fair enough. I'm not familiar with the material. Looks fun
Is it actually screwing up?

If you've got multiple accounts on a site, each with different credentials, you have to have some way to select which of your accounts you want to use.

Specifying the UI that clients should use for letting you specify that is entirely a client issue, so seems out of scope for the Passkeys specification.
How does Plausible compare to Google's Universal Analytics? And are there any SEO effects?

GA4 migration seems not aimed at general users, so I'm looking at alternatives. Ideally could import my data.
Who knew that tasty Hummus was the source of so much conflict?
TypeScript sucked out much of the joy I had writing JavaScript
I don't get why the stock market rallied on a strong jobs report.

Strong jobs report = the Federal reserve hasn't achieved what they wanted yet (slightly more unemployment and to bring wages down)

In order to achieve their mission, they'll keep hiking rates or hold them higher for longer.

How is that good news for the stock market?

There's easily been at least a few job reports in the past 6-12 months where, if it was positive, because of the Federal Reserve implications, the market falls.

"Good news is bad news" and vice versa
They have their limits to this laissez fair policy though, for whatever reason...I tried buying multiple pairs of glasses at slightly different strengths from Zenni (stronger rx for it for outdoor distance views and weaker for inside and they freaked out and they called and asked if it was a mistake. When I explained what I was doing, they said nope and cancelled the order on me.
The D&D reading lists look pretty good for fantasy:

https://www.dicegeeks.com/dnd-recommended-reading/
Changed in 3.3 and backwards compatible until 3.8 as I recall. Unless there is some specific 3.10 issue I am not aware of.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53978542/how-to-use-coll...
Introducing children to the concept of computers.

Keep in mind that Sesame Street basically pioneered children's educational programming.
Heres one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31351784/
> Feminists were not disparaging motherhood or unpaid work like if it was above them to do it.

Were? When are we talking about? This sounds like Lasch, in the 90s or maybe 80s, comparing 3rd wave feminism to 2nd wave feminism. However, now it sounds like he's critiquing 4th wave feminism, which is significantly more debased. I think you are talking past him either way, but it helps to be specific. Ultimately, your claims aren't contradicting his in my view.
Strongly agree, what's your opinion about someone constantly reminding you to make sure you are on track? do you think it would make you more productive?
Why on earth would Google institute a policy that runs completely contrary to the cell phone industry's business model, making their devices as useless as possible as fast as possible?

It always cracked me up that Apple gets bashed for planned obsolescence when they support their phones longer than anyone else in the industry.
Your customers might love you for making a better website, and this is hard to do without feedback, of which analytics is one kind.
It's unrealistic to live the lifestyle we have right now, and expecting more of the same, except with EV.
So now sociopaths are replicants? Should we start hunting them down?

> Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

-- Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner (1982)
My second reply to you was:

>An inline function that depends on RTTI will fail to compile when -fno-rtti is enabled.

Note that you completely ignored that point.

>You will only have fun unexpected behaviors on some compilers.

I made it very clear, as did OP, that we were discussing the use of -fno-rtti. There is not a single compiler where that flag does not behave the way as I described.

You are discussing MSVC which does not have an -fno-rtti but instead uses a /GR- which behaves differently from -fno-rtti.

When discussing detailed matters involving C++ compilers and toolchains, precision matters. Especially since clang has a compatibility mode with MSVC where it too implements both /GR- and -fno-rtti and treats them as separate flags with different behaviors.
> if you know enough to know whether you need standard floating-point calculations, you probably know about the -ffast-math flag.

If you just want physics engine go brr and a small binary, though, maybe you don’t.

I find the FP advice suspect for a different reason: I’ve seen some no good, very bad, seriously terrible, really horrifyingly awful codegen from Clang for x86-64 things involving `long double`, and without checking first I wouldn’t assume that it doesn’t extend to all x87 stuff in general.

(Clang’s preferred optimized way to copy a naturally-aligned 16-byte union with a `long double` being the longest member is... to copy the first ten bytes with FLD/FSTP, then the following two bytes of padding by a word-sized MOV, then the final four bytes, also of padding, by a doubleword-sized MOV. Apparently it forgot its MOVAPS at home.

When it spills onto the stack a `long double` temporary it itself invented to implement an atomic operation’s inner loop, though, it first clears the padding using a bleeding XORPS+MOVAPS pair before FSTPing it there—inside the loop, twice, to two identical temporaries, because apparently it belongs to the offshore oil rig school of register spilling.

And so on. I lack the words to describe how bad Clang’s codegen is for anything that might have ever briefly brushed against a `long double`.)

Also take care with -Os; while clang’s -Os is generally sane, gcc -Os will e.g. implement division by a constant with IDIV instead of magic multiplication, giving you code that’s maybe three times shorter and easily a dozen or two dozen times slower. (I think I remember Torvalds saying years ago that he gave up on gcc -Os.)
> would a newcomer even use the programming guides if they weren't down in the archive?

Yes, of course they would.

If you don't learn multiple different paradigms for acquiring knowledge, you'll be automated by ChatGPT.

Natural language query searches, category design & grouping via visual hierachies, are merely two forms of knowledge acquisition.
CrushEntropy is awesome, really nice work on it! I came across it a year or so ago, have used it a bunch of times!
> Greenfield projects are 1% of a SE job.

That very much depends on the person, industry and company.
When ever I am getting into a new topic I try to start with OUP's Very Short Introduction series [0]. They generally do not give good understanding but they orient you in the field and provide extensive bibliographies along with the knowledge required to navigate that bibliography and select the sources which will give you the information you desire instead of what someone else thinks you want. Failing that I just go down to the library and talk to the librarian.

0: https://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/v/very-short-...
They've done far worse and tried to disclaim responsibility for fatal accidents caused by their over-worked and exhausted truckers under the pretext they are independent contractors:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-deadly-toll-of-a...
https://www.python.org/community/ would list communities more practical for this question.
> What are my options? Open the developer tools and tweak the CSS every time? Try to find a good browser extension that solves the problem? Write my own? And some of these solutions are inconvenient or impossible on mobile.

I wrote a bookmarklet a few years ago that doesn't always work, but does work most of the time.

javascript:(function() {
document.querySelectorAll('p, li, div').forEach(function(n) {
n.style.color = '#000';
n.style.font = '500 16px/1.7em sans-serif';
});
})();

I find this a good compromise between "the original design" and "reader mode", which I find often changing too much.

Biggest downside is that it doesn't work well for "dark mode" websites, where low-contrast seems the most prevalent, but I find "dark mode" very hard to read even with good contrast so I typically tend to just not read those sites unless I really need to.
Right... but where? If you can't say what industry, then I don't believe you.
Rectifiers (which convert AC to DC) are quite efficient. Apparently up to 98% [0]

And then there is the voltage conversion, which traditionally happened on the AC side (inexpensive and simple AC transformers are generally why the transmission and distribution systems are AC). Modern power supplies allow for buck/boost on the DC side.

USB-C power supplies are above 90% efficient. [1]

[0] https://eepower.com/new-industry-products/huawei-claims-most...
[1] https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/tidudw2c/tidudw2c.pdf?ts=168350042...
>some existing meds worked

Which?
I am so baffled by this whole discussion. Isn’t serverless (aka event-driven distributed systems made up of small components, with no reserved capacity) just one of many options? I write code for 8-bit controllers that I’d never run on Lambda (even though I’m a Lambda/Step Functions freak). I need 90s server software that can only run in a VM.

It’s a complicated world and your favorite tool/model just isn’t going to cut it everywhere. Move on maybe?
I know there's a whole SF specific narrative, but to some extent this is happening everywhere. Retail is no longer a place where you need to physically go for most stuff - lower end stores got decimated years ago and now the same is happening for higher end.

Where I am, sadly, it feels like what used to be a mix of different kinds of stores is becoming just restaurants and cannabis stores. Once people can order weed by mail, the latter will vanish and we'll be left with restaurants as the only in-person thing people do.
Exploitative publishing is not a technical problem. Publishing a journal isn't very hard and in particular in the academic world where writing stuff and organizing committees is something that people do all the time. Tons of artifacts are already available on various software and data repositories, either public or institutional.

The problem is that through some hoops of history a couple companies hold quite firmly the political control of important (and less important) journals and publications. To attack this there is no other way than to organize and move the journals to either an alternative administrative "host" entity (university, association, ...) or setup a new one. Which takes time, lots of emails, solid reputation and some luck in convincing people that have a say. And it's not like the academic world is particularly well currently, with everybody having tons of time to bootstrap such things.

Just calling for change and starting your "github for research" won't do anything (semantic scholar exists, tons of startup exist in this space). Anyone a bit serious studying what's happening for 1h can come up with tons of deficiencies. The question to ask is why it stays in this obviously deficient state: corporate political control, time, support from employers, ..
Which is what makes it misleading.
Opinion on calendar usage? Is it a necessity and does it make one more efficient?
on a pure Pixel bought firectly from store and in Google Fi plan, I can toggle OEM unlocking, so this may be a ATT or verizon thing
>Some sources point out that only 10-20% cases of covid are admitted to intensive care unit

There have been at least 100 million confirmed cases of Covid in the US. Do you believe 20 million people stayed in the ICU with Covid?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/parenting/mommy-brain-sci...
> They hire you to "perform duties for x hours a day", not "complete x tasks/x story points per sprint"

Then why hire salaried workers while tracking work via sprints?

>your velocity might be half or less what it could be if everyone ended up on-site.

This is assuming more work actually gets done in an office and that offices don't have their own set of distractions. People can also slack off in an office too, or become so distracted by others that their velocity suffers.

Measuring employee performance seems to be a continual struggle that has no relation to in-office vs remote workers. If you can't accurately measure success & value generation of remote workers, you probably also can't measure office worker's either. Just checking that someone is physically in their seat doesn't actually mean they're adding tangible value.
You're not wrong, but most modern CL implementations provide all the primitives you need even if they don't go all the way and provide a fully-fledged Erlang-style parallelism library out of the box.
I'm very happy to hear that! Thanks!
Loved reading this! What a fantastic dive into the update, and the visualizations are easy to grasp (also the VRAM ones reminded me of original Doom corridors). Generally impressed with XeSS given the lack of real world execution from Intel on this front, compared to the likes of DLSS v1.

Also a great overview of the general state of ray tracing, I feel similarly in that some might be placing far too much emphasis on Nvidia's perspective: that raytracing the holy grail of gaming right now, when we are forced to give up quite a lot for playable experiences.
Ah, "tool using", the best of goals.
> Nor would I be liable for any amount over and above my insurance deductible, because that's the point of having insurance.

If your insurance is dicking me around (and you seem like you've got assets), I'm going to take you to court, and if you can't get your insurance to do their job, it's on you.

That said, lawsuits are a giant pain, so two months of delay isn't enough to get a lawsuit going... When possible, I also try to go through my insurance, so they can deal with your insurance, because at least my insurance has an interest in giving me timely information. Can't always do that though.
I'd love to read that, would definitely be worth publishing on a blog or something
Really depends on the context of the scene.

Since I've been exposed to violent movies (and shows, and videogames) for 25+ years, I can neither remember nor imagine how it feels for someone seeing murder on TV for the first time, but for as long as I can remember, it's been the case that a similar-looking scene could feel cheesy, boring, neutral, or emotionally devastating, depending on the story, setting, tone and other contextual elements. For example, scenes from Saving Private Ryan or The Band of Brothers are still burned into my mind, having both moved and disturbed me greatly as a teenager - while plenty of other movies featured similar ones, and watching them I'd just yawn.
Who would've thought the CEO of O̶p̶e̶n̶AI would be a hypocrite? Color me shocked.
Same issue here, could be a topic that I have 10 years of experience in both academically and professionally. The instant contrarianism without any experiene is quite astounding.
Brazilian President Lula Da Silva Calls for Freedom for Julian Assange
I strongly encourage you to take a vacation in the Greek Islands, preferably with some incipient emergency dental issue just starting to flare up.

I think you'll find the dentist to be just fine.
If I'm remembering correctly, the circus horse invented dynamite.
I've worked on 2 just this calendar year
I was in the chrome dogfooding program at Google, testing pre release hardware and I used panopticon. They locked it down a short while later. I could see all the acer Chromebooks in the wild before the lockdown. I imagine they renamed it and/or came up with a new tool named panopticon since it's a common term for a special type of prison where from one location you can observe every prisoner at once.
https://archive.is/IjTm3
I tried wkhtmltopdf some months ago and the PDFs it generated where nowhere near the original documents.
Are they finally gonna adopt ARM? My understanding is a lot of the performance improvements from M2 is that improving efficiency for the x64 isa is hitting diminishing returns. We've optimized it pretty well, but there's also a lot of cruft, so you have to build subinstructions that hide your actual isa to keep it going.

Feels like the next big "easy" win for intel and amd would be to actually make the switch. (Easy in quotations, because I imagine the first few iterations would actually be a fair bit more work).
It’s so crazy how this game continues to get significantly better and better but since they botched the release, these updates go mostly ignored
The startup advisor I know said they told the writers of an incident that happened to them, but the writers rejected it as being too outlandish and audiences wouldn't believe them.

It later made it into season 2.
Wikipedia is massively raging in edit wars.

Before 2014's Russian aggression towards Ukraine, several Crimea-related pages pointed out (with citations) that Crimea tried to split from Ukraine twice already during soviet times, but this whole narrative was steadily rewritten after 2014.

Considering how many people rely on Wikipedia to get "facts", this has always struck me at how much history rewriting can happen and how much can it influence the world we live in.

Now, I'm no historian, and I didn't live in Crimea in the 70s, I have no clue what happened there but the whole edit war about Crimea-related pages made me really think about how little and how potentially distorted (in multiple ways) information can be even for recent events.

I think The Office put that beautifully when Michael Scott says:

“Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.”
Interesting. Thank you heaps for adding that, it better explains what you were saying.
> why hasn't anyone done it yet and made it easy to consume for everyone else?

Dunno. No demand? No standard?

I recently wrote a library like this for my job. It took me about a day. I haven't published it because it was a work for hire and so it's not mine to publish. But it's the basis for my confidence that it's not hard to do.

If you want to write up a spec, I'm available for contract work (and I'm sure you would have people lining up if you actually were willing to pay someone to do this work). But I suspect you would find that writing the spec is the hard part, and if you actually did it you would find that it's easier to implement yourself than to try to hire someone.
Security, the classic excuse behind reducing freedom.
> Gsuite account includes YouTube and most other google services.

I'm sure it does, but "if anything happens, you will still be able to at least transfer the email to another provider" doesn't apply since you can't "transfer {YouTube,money in Wallet,password from sync,etc} to another provider" in the same way as email. These things are more than just an address you can point to something else.
Nothing is ever truly a mistake, it's much more about understanding what you are trading off between real hardware, cloud servers, something like fly or heroku or vercel and purer serverless functions on AWS or whatever.
I used to think like this, but as I worked on so many messy projects, I changed my mind.

Designing a robust/performant/reliable architecture right from the start is not "interesting", it is effectively impossible unless you have divination skills. At some point, your architecture will suck, and restarting from scratch is usually a bad idea, and that's when things get interesting. That is, fixing the mess you created, making something robust/performant/reliable out of something that is not, with the additional constraint of not breaking it in the process.

But you still need to start somewhere, even you know it will fail. It means you will essentially do a dice roll and hope for the best. Yes, the beautiful architecture you start with is nothing more than that. If you leave after that, not only it may not be cool for the ones who will inherit your mess, but you also won't get to see the hard (and interesting) part.

Of course, even though it will always be a dice roll, it doesn't mean your initial decisions won't matter. How fast will you fail? (failing fast is a good thing) How fixable your mess is? How will it fair after an army of monkeys tramples over the code? etc... These are questions experience can help you answer, but you won't get this experience by doing greenfield projects. You will get this experience by being in front of the fan as shit hits it.

So yeah, I understand the love for greenfield project. It is like a reprieve, where you can use that experience acquired during the time you were covered in shit, and try to make the best roll. To me, it is the comfort zone, but as often, the comfort zone is not the most interesting.