skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big +1 on too technical leaders. Seen this a couple times with brilliant engineers who, once they became in charge of 50 different teams, appeared to try to just do the same work they did in one team but "scaled". Put every team in a spreadsheet and try to automate management through uniform metrics instead of focusing on managing and growing his direct reports.

And another time, seen a less technical leader step in, see engineers around me roll their eyes a couple of times at the lady (with maybe a smidge of male chauvinism blended in), but then see her actually fire bad hires, hire star players, and get everyone to align their priorities so they could be productive. Leadership is a very different job from the kind of technical excellence that too often gets rewarded by promotions (vs raises or bonuses).
This is looking like a solution in search of a problem
It is pretty much free. 10 daily downloads is enough for books and the papers are unlimited.

Do you even read 10 books per day anyway?
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should.

Nobody should be running their personal website on their cellphone. When I read this type of diatribe, I hesitate to agree with it. Abstract considerations of freedom lose out to "you're going to tell people they should do this, and that is a bad thing".
That depends on ISA's details, honestly. For example, Knuth's MMIX has 64-bit words and has separate intructions to load/store 8-, 16-, 32-, or 64-bit wide chunks of data to/from memory — which are forced to be naturally aligned because 0, 1, 2, or 3 lower bits of the address are masked, depending on the data access's width. So there you go, you have aligned access for all "natural" subword sizes.
A shame. I wonder what the undercard is going to be.

I'd hope they do more of this, despite not being able to sell many in-person tickets at this venue. (as well as the (minor) risk of damaging a historic building)
A university setting with university-grade tuition prices isn't the best place to be learning a language. Something like Duolingo is much cheaper and better too. There's no reason to start to learn a language from someone with a PhD is some form of literature in that language.
My understanding is that is that in the Chinese system of commercial paper (corporate depth) not only is the company responsible for paying back the money but anyone who ever held and sold that piece of paper. These trusts are a type of (shadow) bank that manage this risk.
It’s all mess though.

It must have been really obvious to all concerned that, by running to ground the lab leak theory, if it ever did get out (what they did) that it’d be a big net loss for trust in government and science.

So it follows that they must have been really (like really /really/) scared that it was absolutely necessary — damn the consequences.

But my guess it’s actually a feedback loop gone out of control. (We knew even then that this was no Ebola.)

At the same time, in the UK, right at the start, we have those now famous words: people were “made to feel more personally vulnerable”.

My guess is that the intended recipient of that initiative was us (i.e., gen pop), but the acute recipients (i.e., those most likely to hear, actively listen and be influenced) were those already involved in the campaign.

The volume could not be turned down (because it was assumed gen pop would otherwise not listen). But very stupidly, there also was no moderating mechanism for those “in charge”. So we have our loop.

(This doesn’t fully track, because later the British PM got seriously ill. And later still, the British PM also went back to partying. So, there would have been re-injected some non-trivial rationale to the severity worries, albeit only later. And there was also apparently a very effective moderating mechanism at least in central government. But as a simple model, it explains a lot for me.)
Guess this can be revisited now with their licensing
https://archive.is/HRngU
As a scientist, this is such a dumb take. The incentive structures in science encourage novelty, and there's no shortage of scientists who would love to see their career take off.

Unfortunately, reality does not make the greatest dissident.
The one that changes your listed points to something that's compatible with modern mobile development.

Your questions sound like a plumber asking how can he repair computers with a wrench and a saw. Don't get emotionally invested in tools.
he might have done it anyway, if he knew what engineers were going to do with those recordings a half century later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOQ-y87YnE
I definitely worked harder when I was a grad student than now as a software engineer who finds time to slack.
Take a look at Matrix and what the ecosystem is doing. The entire ecosystem is rebasing on the Rust SDK and bindings to it. It's a massive reduction in duplication of effort, and means there's fewer bugs with interoping clients because they're increasingly all using the same SDK.

It's considerably more flexible, more easily embedded than node or Go.
No one is looking to people who do weather modeling for policy advice. They do occasionally ask economists, but then generally ignore their advice due to being politically unpopular.

I suspect you greatly over-estimate how much politicians listened to epidemiologists during covid as well. A lot of decisions were more out of desire to be seen to be doing something, because the voters went to them and essentially demanded they do something.
is JS eating the world due to being "open" or because we are forced by browsers?

at least until wasm gets more and more traction
Why are you hamstringing yourself?
Finding a high-paying job is like sitting an exam where you can already find the answers. Just go onto job websites, search for what their experience requirements are, then work on gaining that experience however you can.

But you also mention wanting to find meaning. The two aren't necessarily related, so you need to decide what you actually want.
> Why do you want an ARM system so bad?

I want more actually viable options in the ARM space for consumer general-purpose computing. Why? Because Windows laptop battery life sucks ass because both Intel and AMD can't be arsed to do what it takes to even get to half the runtime Apple gets out of their systems. I'm happy with my 2022 MBA, but Apple's pricing surcharge on memory and storage is only possible because there is no competition.

At the moment, the only option consumers have is Apple, and that only runs macOS, but no Windows (and Linux, but with some serious drawbacks). People didn't buy Microsoft's first dabbles in ARM that used Qualcomm SoCs because the SoCs were underpowered garbage (no wonder, they were designed for phones) and there were no apps, app developers didn't develop for ARM because there were no actually usable development machines that didn't cost an arm and a leg/had ridiculous lead times, and there was no Rosetta equivalent because the CPUs were garbage and underpowered... a self-reinforcing circle.
It's true that there will always be unscrupulous actors but there are many ways to restrict or punish them already, I don't see why they would necessarily overwhelm existing methods.
Academia sounds very similar to writing pull requests on a large project, or working retail, waiting tables, serving on a Church board, going to court, teaching a master class, interacting with strangers, and growing up in a large family.
Isn't the need for code generation indicative of the language holding you back?
> The movie and music business sure spends a lot of money fighting piracy.

If they spent it on providing a no-bullshit, reasonably priced platform that provides access to their whole catalog, then they would be making a lot more money than they would from lawsuits, and piracy would be virtually non-existent.
You've answered your own question by posting that response.
Medicaid enrollment went way up but federal spending growth remained relatively close to the trend. They didn't even overhaul the system to combat the price gouging that is going on. To me this trial run proves the opposite of your conclusion: the US would be able to afford public healthcare if it adopted an intelligent model. We need to set the bar higher as a society when it comes to social well-being, not pull back on our ambitions.
Having a 4 year degree in Japanese from some random US flyover state isn’t going to make you fluent enough to translate business contracts anyway. I studied 4 years at a higher-rated university and could barely get by in the language until I studied a lot more on my own
Google can hire separate developers for each platform and pay them, investing millions of dollars into their mobile app.

Can you afford to spend money developing same thing twice forever?
Maybe the federal minimum wage is also wrong?

The federal minimum wage is highly politicized and the 'right'/'Republican's'/'business' have always lobbied to keep it low. To have cheap labor.

But Food-Stamps/Welfare is driven by what is the minimum to live.

In a perfect world, yes the Minimum Wage should be high enough to match what it takes to live. Then there would not be a need for Welfare (if working). Minimum Wage should match the maximum for qualifying for Welfare.

But since different groups have different goals in driving the two programs, they do not match.
I imagine you could write a custom tRPC link to send the data over something like MQTT which may be better for an embedded client - there's prior art in the likes of electron-trpc, showing how tRPC could be adapted to non-HTTP transports. Not sure how that interacts with the JSON-RPC bits of the subscription protocol though, if there's no way around it then plain MQTT may be better suited to your use case.
You were living in an echo chamber if you think that is true. I dare you to question any covid crap in front of your parent or (former) friends and relatives. Wait until they call you every awful thing in the book.

Criticism or intellectual curiosity was absolutely not tolerated.
False title. The article states that they would have approached their plans differently. Regret is a much stronger emotion, but I guess we wouldn’t have clicked on the title without it.
Only obscure to developers living in the present, without caring about learning where we come from, or presenting novel ideas without proper research.

Android Binder, XPC, COM and gRPC are yet again another set of IDL quite present in current times.

JSON? I thought everyone was using YAML now. /s
> is also probably the kind of person who is going to try to LOOK busy at the office

I disagree. The vast majority of people benefit from basic supervision and accountability.
https://archive.is/KUano
:wave: Hey Mark -- I'm one of the primary contributors to Fern.

+1 to your comment about how needing to support multiple languages results in not being able to leverage certain language specific features. We've tried the best to manage the trade-offs here, but there's a limit to what you can do.

If you have feedback on how we can improve the TypeScript client, feel free to comment here or create an issue on our repo (https://github.com/fern-api/fern)!
What's the point of the middle layer? Seems like an extra step and a language change for no reason. Why not just expose HTTP from your Rust stuff?
> The problem with WV is a pervasive culture of corruption among its elites.

As compared to where? Senator Byrd did a lot to bring federal programs to WV- the FBI, astronomy, interstates, various DoD, I don't think anyone has replaced his influence for the state.
right to repair creates more security risks, which trumps all arguments. as long as enemies of democracies are making the majority of the peripherals and batteries this concern will always be #1

the real issues with apple is what they charge for software/ideas that were conceived decades ago by other people in the open source world, their licensing of those ideas and the schism that results from it.
Is it just me, or is this over engineered? Brings me back to SOAP services and WSDLs.
is the Unix Network Programming series still in print? A new copy of the book is extremely expensive on Amazon.
I haven't done this but I've read about plenty of folks using Termux with an Android phone to host a server. Here's a guide from 2022.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/host-a-web-...
Easy: housing that can be afforded by a single income household, where the loan is serviceable at wages obtainable by someone 25 years old.
While this is true, if you were to calculate the last-mile carbon cost it would be much, much higher.

A full container of goods costs about 60 gallons of diesel to ship across the world.

That same container costs 60 gallons to move 360 miles from a port.

Delivery vehicles drive approximately 0.8 miles per package delivered, and get around 10-20mpg delivering, so each package costs 1/10 to 1/20 of a gallon of fuel to deliver from the depot to your door. Assuming there are 4000 eventual packages in a container, the last mile delivery for the container is 200-400 gallons.

Obviously this is not the case where the final destination is a large receiver, but even then there are still significant transportation impacts in most cases.

I hate the fact that when I read the part about sulfur dioxide I’m like, well, that’s good at least lol. There’s some evidence that cleaning up ship emissions might be a significant contributor to recent sea temperature acceleration, since the cloud seeding effect from ocean shipping has been drastically reduced.
Ok, so where do I get it?
Even without going back to 1970, there's an "interesting" question of how we would have adapted to the pandemic even 20 or 25 years ago. To me, it seems fairly obvious that we couldn't reasonably have just switched to WFH for an extended period--even leaving more expensive (albeit not 1970 levels) telephony charges out of the equation. Many, maybe the majority, of people were just getting dial-up Internet in the mid- to late-90s and basically none of the Internet services we take for granted today like Amazon existed until fairly late in that period.
> It's a massive reduction in duplication of effort

Sounds more like a massive duplication-effort to me ...
That does rather depend on whether the scientism zealots have any influence on the practice of science (I'm really not sure why ignorant people who agree with the mainstream consensus would be any more likely to prevent good science from being done than ignorant people who dissent from it, especially since the latter often hold political power too). And for that matter what the net impact is, given that being a dissenter is a route to outsized fame and influence as well as outsized criticism on many topics.

I mean, I don't think it was members of the public endorsing the scientific consensus that ossified the divide between mainstream medical professionals and homeopaths, or added political implications to debates on anthropogenic global warming. And whilst
lots of laymen shouted at each other over whether Invermectin was a miracle cure that Big Pharma were trying to suppress or an unproven Covid remedy most loudly promoted by quacks and anti-lockdown politicos, lots of studies on its efficacy were carried out and I suspect the career implications for those developing world doctors who carried out studies on their patient base, found some benefit and continued to prescribe it even after other studies suggested it was not a cure for COVID symptoms[1] were generally very positive.

[1]it probably helps that, being scientists rather than campaigners, they might have been capable of reaching agreement with the scientific invermectin-sceptics that it quite possibly was only protecting against parasite-related comorbidities, but that still meant it made sense to prescribe to their at-risk patient group
Thank you, it's great! Favorited.
Since Apple now controls the entire hardware stack for all their products (except the mac pro), they could conceivably design their own assembly language ('Apple Assembly'?) optimized for, and only for, Apple silicon and bypass the problem.
I see it's already mentioned upthread and you've added to your reading list - but I just want to add yet another recommendation here - Code by Charles Petzold is so so good in it's early chapters when it gets to the program counter and the fetch/execute cycle. I'm sure you'd really enjoy it!
txtai is in Python but much of the underlying code isn't. For example, PyTorch/Transformers uses C/C++/CUDA for most operations. The approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) libraries for vector indexes are Faiss, Hnswlib and Annoy. They are all C/C++. Much of the sparse vectors code is NumPy and uses Python's array module for storing term vectors.

There are no 3rd party benchmarks for txtai as of now. You would have to compare how it does on your own data to judge.
Oh, I wasn't offended at all. I am not one of these Oxford comma type of people (I think that was a trend on Twitter a while ago). I have no idea what that means, except maybe it is about grammatical correctness, and I am not going to google it. :)

I was just being a little pedantic for fun. I don't do that often.

So peace and order was not even disturbed, at least for me.

Enjoy.
IIRC macOS got rid of privileged ports for these reasons. Dunno about iOS... But in any case what cell provider is going to let you handle inbound traffic? Most of the wifi networks you are on are NAT'd, etc. At best you'd probably want an outbound persistent tunnel that is "terminated" by a relay elsewhere. At that point you might as well just have the relay host the thing.
But why do you need to handle this situation? If you're already happy with your job and they are with you, who cares?

It sounds more like you want to work on getting rid of imposter syndrome. Just realise nobody really knows what they're doing because there are no absolutes.
That makes sense but the ultimate in cost savings is… WFH, which they hate.
The mistake isn't investing time into Flutter; it's being "the Flutter guy", only knowing Flutter and only searching for Flutter jobs.
Friends pooled $3k to sell T-shirts–they’ve brought in over $250M since 2019
What it would have done was taken the reproduction number below 1, making contact tracing effective. It's the distinction between 'elimination' and 'eradication'. TB is a classic example of a highly contagious respiratory disease that has been eliminated from much of the developed world. Yes, active TB cases still pop up, but the spread is stopped before it goes out of hand. The fact that associations like the NBA managed to implement a successful bubble shows it would have been possible for essential services to keep moving. Yes, the cost of doing so would have been high, but if people in February 2020 knew what was coming they might have considered it more seriously.
> The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites.

~$5-7 a month for a web server via various platforms. A better one than your phone would be, most likely—certainly more stable. I don't think that's what's stopping people, I think most people just don't have a use case for hosting a web site.

In my 90s dream of the technohippie utopia they would all have extensive and idiosyncratic personal websites about various things they've soldered together, but that didn't work out. Turns out most people want to watch videos of other people doing things, and that is most efficiently hosted in a centralized place.
It's not necessary. Indeed there are many GCs that use type information (as a sibling comment says, Go GC is now precise). But it's more complicated, so it's a tradeoff. You may pay some little cost in dealing with tagged arithmetic but you gain a simpler GC codebase, one perhaps that can work with both the AOT and bytecode compilers (just speculating)
Apps can already open ports and with the HTTP DNS record arbitrary ports can be used to serve http/3 content. Services like RDP and several types of VPN server all connect to unprivileged ports any app can listen on.

There should be a separate permission for listening on standard, reserved ports (anything in the IANA docs for all I care) that should require manual consent, like with location access. In fact, I think there should be a retractable permission for any kind of remotely accessible port binding. The fact any calculator app can start a VPN server on my phone without my knowledge isn't good! That doesn't mean providing any type of service is inherently bad, though.

For instance, there are tons of phone <=> desktop sync apps (My Phone on Windows, KDE Connect on Linux/Windows/Mac) that constantly communicate between each other. Why should your phone always be the one to initiate that direct connection? Why should we rely on cloud servers when mutually authenticated SSH is already doing every bit of protection we could possibly need? My phone is half a meter away from my computer, it shouldn't need to be this difficult!
I'm gonna drop a big [Citation Needed] next to your claim that "it will require far more". If you're a consumer, you are not going to be running a 70GB model on your computer for regular purposes. It is too large, loading from disk takes too long, and inferencing would be impossible without a massive GPU to accelerate it. Multimodality be damned, that is just too large for any end-user, let alone Joe Shmoe on his iPhone.

If resource consumption increases in AI, that will just further bolster Nvidia's control, and the presence of the cloud for AI compute. I have no idea how you can twist this into an epic win for the M2 Ultra owners who are stuck inferencing with... checks clipboard Metal compute shaders.
Mine are also useless. Communicating with your team is super important but the mandatory status checkin when team members are working on unrelated things is pointless and draining.
> If you want to keep a spare phone plugged in all the time in your closet, connected to Wifi/Ethernet, and hack it to be a webserver, then go ahead

even this low bar is (imo sadly) currently impossible for someone who just has a spare phone in their closet and a bit of html knowledge

looking forward to the unicorn that makes wordpress for ios/android
I remember in covid times, everyone was on remote, we would just call each other, hang out in teams, discuss work, really collaborating. Low threshold for doing some ad-hoc discussions etc.

With the "hybrid" solution, when I am at the office "no-one" else is, can't really get everyone together anymore, some will be in office, others at home.
People in the office busy with talking to other non-project colleagues etc.
Must schedule everything etc.

Also, for international teams, going to an office in a country where maybe none of their closest co-workers are located, really make no sense at all. Yet due to some company policy people must clock-in, and will generally be less available to their respective teams.
So, astronomy is not a science? Because we can't do experiments on stars and galaxies.

Astronomy is not only a science, it's the science that kicked off the scientific revolution in the 1600s.

You don't need to be able to experiment to do science, you just need to be able to observe. Theories are tested against future observations. "Natural experiments" where something new happens are useful for this. An example in climate science was what happened after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
What is a good resource to check potential cost of solar panels installation in southern part of USA?

I had a few quotes and the prices were all over the place. Prices seem to be going up rather than down. Tesla quote was about $55k, Sunrun quoted me at $96k for slightly lower capacity and same power wall batteries. And I thought that Tesla was going to be the mark for top price. Feels like I’m doing this wrong.
The only thing I care is better battery, I don't need more powerful CPU. Phones are insanely good already.
Yeah, something like that. Basically a nation building corps of some kind. I mean if you’re going to be empire building you may as well get serious about it.

Or maybe just don’t.