skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is crushingly pertinent for my career at the moment. I've come from an organisation that I might describe as "architecture-led" into an organisation that is perhaps more "engineering-led". I prefer to plan and solve problems before they become crises. I don't know whether my boss like reacting to crises or we're just working through a really tough 12 months but we seem to _always_ be in a crisis. Problems are almost always solved in the "simplest" way - which makes a lot of sense from an engineering point of view - why do more than you need to? - but this often, and openly, means not actually solving the problem and just solving enough of it to shave off the spiky bits that are causing the "crisis".

There's very much a firefighting culture. That is, after all, how people earn medals. And whilst I've heard the adage that rewarding firefighting results in arsonists, I don't think it's quite that.

It's more than rewarding firefighting results in people who spot small fires but tolerate them to the point that other people notice - and then they don their helmet and rush in to fix it.

No one is maliciously lighting things on fire - but they won't put out the fires they find unless someone is watching.
The Stupidity Manifesto
2022 Update on EGPU Support for M1 (Pro/Max)?
Also - Africa is huge. It's the second largest continent after Asia, and has 1.4 billion people living there.
You hold some misconceptions about how CPUs work. Such a box grill not fry even if you disable a fan completely, throw it in an insulated box, and run it at full bore. Modern CPUs have a hard limit on performance but are most often soft limited by available voltage, amperage, or temperature headroom. As the CPU runs faster it runs slower to produce less heat and stay within its soft limits. Both passive and actively cooled CPUs operate by this principle. In both cases it's possible to prevent any heat transfer at all and the CPU will shut down, just disabling the fan on a mini PC outright won't cause that though.

Having even a tiny amount of airflow drastically increases the cooling capacity though. It's really quite remarkable by how much.

The setting procedure, as a result, ends up much simpler. You set the fans to a static speed where you no longer hear them. If that's off that's fine too, but having even a tiny something is a great help in getting more than the e.g. 6 watts of CPU performance headroom the Zimaboard has. If you're rebooting constantly or adjusting things based on season you've done something drastically wrong as my recommendation was set a static fan speed not tune the box for an overclocking competition.

I will admit you have to plug in a monitor... I will also say most consider that less tinkering than even just zip tieing their server and externally mounted drives to things :).

Again, I can assure this is as easy as I'm saying, no need to invent other possibilities, as I have some of the aforementioned boxes sitting next to me in this exact configuration. Some even beefier but dead silent, like 8 core 64 gb ram mini PCs with 3 drives and dual 2.5G nics running quite silently year round and a single trip into the BIOS (which you should honestly be doing even if you're not going to adjust fan speeds).
>Gaming is what made Windows dominate personal computing - not Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

Being the default OS is what made Windows dominate personal computing. The average person doesn't think about what OS they use at all, even when they're thinking about getting a Macbook.
It could also motivate more renewable installations. Over-building on the energy production side should make the energy storage side easier (won’t need to dip into the batteries as often if we can power everything even when the panels are only operating at 50%).

Currently I guess they probably run full out all the time. But really AI training seems like it ought to be a pretty shiftable workload.

A workload that can produce good economic returns while eating up as much power as we have available during excess times, but which can be shut off easily when we need to shave off the top of the demand peak, could be really nice for the grid.
> Very much this. Having authentication tied to hardware you don't control is a near-certain denial of service in the future.

Then you can tie it to hardware you do control, or to software.

Obligatory "Passkeys misconceptions" article: https://www.stavros.io/posts/clearing-up-some-passkeys-misco...
Tik tok and vine have and had nothing of substance alike.
That was also probably due to having a carburetor which won't completely stop putting fuel into the engine on decel like EFI.
No they get destroyed leading to hear failure and shock needing surgical replacement if you survive
No, this is Resource exhaustion attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_exhaustion_attack And its not the first HTTP2 rodeo https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/http2-vulnerabilities

One of the 2019 vulns https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9514 even sounds extremely similar to current attack.
Home again home again, jiggity jig! Goooooood evening J.F.!
If the Boring Company mention was an attempt to combat the hype (“everybody is talking about yet another musk company”), you've contributed to the problem in much the same way as the saying regarding traffic: “You're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.”
If I recall right, about $500 for the electronics and $150-ish for the picture frame (it's a nice one with anti-reflective UV filter glass, because at the time I wasn't sure where I'd hang it and e-ink can be susceptible to UV light).
The pricing directive is pretty boss.

It's the main reason EEA countries show the full price of something on their price label, as well as unit prices (e.g. cost per kg) in most cases. You may not be aware of it if you're outside of europe though.
It does and it's not such a good thing - we try to avoid having multiple frontpage slots consumed by the same story cluster, and so we try to downweight follow-ups: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Follow-up links are great of course! but they belong in the comments, not the submission feed.
Yes, they are. Similar in some ways, but different.

I doubt if they'll ever be able to remove VBA. Way too much legacy code... the customers would mutiny.
Is the rule really about "track use" or is it just off-road or on-private-property use? How does the distributor know I'm not just rolling coal on my uncle's farm?
And offered full refunds for those users, even if they had bought it five years prior.
If it's hot and you want your AC to keep running. Or if the baby in the back seat cries once the vibration from the engine stops :)
Lifestyle inflation, urban planning, and choices makes living a quality life more difficult than it should be.

You're able to afford a larger house and a car or two, but you're also spending more money than necessary on transportation and housing. Buying a car is expensive and so is the road built for cars. Trains are more expensive than a car, but its cost can be amortized across many riders.

Housing is a problem of both government and market dysfunction and is directly tied to our transportation woes. People are tied to the idea of real estate as an investment which means they often opposed development. Planners continued to zone only SFH, and made middle housing illegal. They also don't do mixed zoning which improve efficient utilization of land.

I supposed if income goes to workers more, they would just push the housing price higher. It can't be fixed unless we build sufficient housing.
That particular crisis was missed by just about every central bank until it collapsed. It was due to the leverage being hidden behind traditionally solid assets. That kind of surprise collapse today is unlikely with tech stocks - that is already known and widely planned for volatility. What has not been planned for is possible collapse of commercial real estate valuations which did not anticipate much volatility.

The whole game of increasing interest rates is to increase the strain gradually to slow and hopefully not collapse portions of the economy.

But we will see as the entire world seems to be more wobbly operating on entrenched assumptions.
Of all the characters I learned of while playing Railroad Tycoon, he had the most memorable name.
Anti-price-gouging laws are an incredibly bad idea.
Indeed I suspected so, but thought you'd be presented the option not to add it.

But no - these fuckers, when you do device discovery, it re-adds everything it finds automatically instead of confirming what you want to add. Then you have to disable the device once discovered. What do you want to bet that disabled devices occasionally, mysteriously, get re-enabled?
Don’t build a generic API for your specific interface.

Unless you have hundreds or thousands of developers consuming an API endpoint, it’s generally better to build the API tailor specifically for each screen/ use cases/… you have. When thinking about API that way, the value of graphql is not that clear anymore
Tooth fairy is most assuredly femme presenting at a minimum and probably uses she/her pronouns, though would also likely accept they/them or other pronouns given that fairies aren't likely to be held to human gender norms
I have a passion project 4x4anarchy.com that operates with a Python-MariaDB system for querying map data by latitude and longitude, transforming it into GeoJSON for map display. The website deals with sizable tables, approximately 1 GB in size. I've made extensive optimizations, relying on well-structured indexes, caching mechanisms, and query optimization to enhance performance.

Given these circumstances, how might the incorporation of Julia and some geospatial DB (PostGIS) contribute to further optimizing geospatial data retrieval and presentation, especially when dealing with large datasets and intricate geospatial operations?
Well, he traded the BMW for a crappy plane in its first appearance. I like to pretend that the next few movies never happened.
End user also gets screwed when they are phished for their paper key. And I'm not sure about liability, unless you consider the requirement to check haveibeenpwned once a week for a breach to be no one's responsibility.
You might want to familiarize yourself with how we think about these things—for example the question of how to moderate political stories on HN. There are lots of past explanations on that at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... These two links are ok starting points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 (April 2020)

This site has a 15-year history with these questions. You're absolutely welcome to disagree with how we do things but it would be good to know what the approach actually is before agreeing or disagreeing with it. It's based on some pretty clear principles. If you can figure out a better way to moderate HN with respect to such questions—that is, a way which does a better job of following those principles—I'd love to hear about it.
What I learned about MP3 encoding
Bizarre...I just watched this video this evening.

"Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7Qc3bsxjI
What do you think would be better? How many LSAT question's answered per hour?
I think it’s time for a government solution, but nowadays it’d be done to be benefit big tech and the surveillance state.
> Is this the same Apple whose new iPhone SOC has hardware ray tracing?

IMG has had raytracing in powervr for like a decade, and they just did another "most advanced ever!!!" thing a few years ago ( https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/imagination-launches-th... )

But it's mobile and so it's way too slow to be useful, so nobody cares. That's 99% likely to be the case with Apple's newest offering, just like it is with Qualcomm's and ARM's (that's right, literally every mobile GPU offers this now - Apple is one of the masses here)

Look at how hard it hits consoles and PCs, it's utterly pointless on a 6" display with a 5w SoC
>Depending on city size, car culture, etc. Buses with dedicated lanes could be pretty fast.

Dedicated bus lanes would help I'm sure, but I still don't see how this could ever be "fast" when buses still have to stop at intersections for red lights. It's what makes driving in a denser city so slow. Trains and subways don't have this problem.

>They will run at a deficit and require government subsidies because they are necessities.

Not true. The trains in Japan aren't subsidized and run at a profit from ridership. You could argue that they got some "unfair" advantages in their initial funding for construction, but as it stands today for ongoing operations, they don't need subsidies; they generate a profit for their owners. Moreover, the companies running many of the trains are really real estate companies: they own big stations in certain places, and then build big complexes around those stations. Build it and they will come.

>banning cars in certain metropolitan areas

The biggest thing to do is simply make it horribly inconvenient to use a car, by not having any free parking. If there's no place to park except some extremely expensive parking lots that might be a longish walk from your destination, people won't drive.
Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
If it were up to me, cat memes per BTU?
Dutch science academy critical of Cabinet's new anti-espionage law
Heh, unfortunately too true.
Yes. Should be fixed in thunderbird nightly (or daily, as they call it). Let me know if it works!
Ask HN: How did you get rid of your performance anxiety?
I'm a software engineer who has struggled massively with performance and presentation anxiety for the past ten years. This was the result of a presentation gone horribly wrong in my first couple of years in the workplace. I suffered my first ever panic attack mid-speech and had to flee the room.

As a consequence, this issue has been in the back of my mind (and potentially the front of my sub-conscious) ever since. I've gradually shifted as far away from management positions as possible, and tried to avoid roles at work that would require me to speak or perform in any nature. I'm terrified of panic arising mid-speech, turning me into a wreck before any presentations. This has begun to spill over into social events, parties, networking meetups, or anything else remotely performative in nature.

The worst part about this is that I was actually quite a natural speaker prior to this anxiety arising, and was often complimented on my speaking ability.

I've tried all sorts of techniques to fix this. Some work better than others - beta blockers help a lot, as does alcohol. Obviously, I don't want to become overly reliant on booze or anything stronger than propranalol, but sometimes the immediate relief feels necessary. Exposure therapy like Toastmasters seems to provide big short-term gains, but the effects fade fairly quickly, and if I don't do it for a few weeks I'm back where I started.

Please share any suggestions! I'd love to hear your own stories.
Rotating the art while not actively producing light is a pretty big draw. The power seems like a red herring.
Microgravity-induced muscle atrophy: Implications for long-duration spaceflights
> However, it reads (to me) as not enough people are playing the game on the mac so they are dropping support. To me that doesn't read as being too hard for them to support mac.

I think you're missing the context here that CSGO was just replaced with CS2, and CS2 is an entirely new engine (it's Source 2 based whereas CSGO was still Source 1)

So this is a switch from a DX9 engine from ~15 years ago to a modern, Vulkan-focused actively developed engine.
They previously warned of the impending collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Worth taking seriously.

https://www.ft.com/content/19d76cf1-4836-4dde-b228-26faee5c8...
A river is mostly its watershed and not the waterway which while very visible doesn't matter that much. No amount of machines would help create the watershed, so no, there's no point.
Kagi – Miscellaneous Fixes
For future reference, here is a fragment anchor for the topic:

https://kagi.com/changelog#:~:text=Oct%2010%2C%202023
MoltenVK is not enough and it lacks features that are mandatory for acceptable performance with dxvk/vkd3d.

For example, VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer is a critical one, and there are more: https://www.khronos.org/blog/vk-ext-descriptor-buffer. And MoltenVK doesn't support Vulkan 1.3.
and 1% of the time, it just does the wrong thing. It just silent clobber your data; it might crash your program due to creating an incoherent logic state. Who knows?
Bring it to market faster then?
One could argue that, only if making it hard to make games resulted in better ports. In actuality it resulted in hardly any ports.
>There was no expectation for there to be a ground assault from Gaz

there were expectation that there will be. this is why there is fence, undeground wall, seismic and acoustic sensors to detect tunnels (there were multiple attempt to attack Israel through them) and some observation towers .

there were multiple army and police exercises for dealing specifically with what just happened. There were multiple people who predicted that it will happen
Toyota had the most real world electric drive train miles, regen braking, battery mgmt etc etc. I thought for sure they’d move Prius to an extender model maybe, phev earlier etc etc. instead it was hydrogen endlessly- the amount they spent on hydrogen has to be huge!
But how can i be sure it’s really you? How can i track you that way?
I first became aware of Isambard through the late works of Sting, in "Ballad of the Great Eastern", on "The Last Ship" album. Catchy song. It tells a darker story, likely taking some liberties with this legend.

https://youtu.be/eaMQxDvfHEg
I don’t buy it. 25% of workers is a lot of workers for a megaproject of this scale. This would either have to be a single devastating week, in which case they would learn about it really quickly and would probably still be the collective memory, or O'Rourke Engineering Construction Company willfully allowed their workers to die out of mysterious causes and opted not to investigate.

The latter is actually more likely but not really. There is no way the tunnel would have been finished if a quarter of the workforce was dying and the company just allowed it to continue happening.

Compare this to the Panama Canal which started construction under US supervision the same year as the Hudson North River tunnel. They didn’t know much about the spread of tropical deceases but they knew enough to supply their workers with mosquito nets etc. The French effort to build the canal totally failed, primarily because of the high death toll among workers. When the US took over preventing the spread of deceases was a primary concern. And this project now lives in our collective memory as one that costed so many lives.

Now there is no doubt in my mind that working condition for the Hudson North River tunnel were horrendous, and that far too many unnecessary deaths resulted from total disregard of worker safety by the construction company. That this number was 25% and that it was because they didn’t know about decompression sickness... That I don’t buy, dozens of workers dying from the construction company cutting corners, overworking their workers, setting harsh deadlines, not providing safety gears, and (yes) not treating sick workers, that is far more plausible.
I’ve met a bunch of top engineers that kept working into their 70s and beyond because they couldn’t do the cool stuff at home. I’m very excited to see if more people may begin to retire earlier & get involved with open source now that participation is more broadly accessible.
On the contrary, that video probably surfaced for you precisely because this study is making the rounds. More people than usual are probably searching for and watching stuff about Seattle seismology.

As it turns out, the algorithm does not work in such mysterious ways.
> What you described is EDR: where non HDR content is artificially limited to allow HDR content to contrast better. In sunlight the screen will stay in SDR and use HDR brightness levels without any tweaks, which doesn't result in washing anything out

What do you mean by this? Are you saying the Macbook has a special display mode that only activates when it detects sunlight (as in lumens? or?)?

> With infinitely efficient OLEDs, we'd just crank the brightness on the lit pixels high enough to match the brightness of a white piece of paper in sunlight and have a better e-ink: unfortunately in the real world that'd generate more heat and take more power than mobile devices can afford right now.

Are you talking about the contrast ratio? I meant more that high brightness with a direct light source into the eyes can be pretty uncomfortable compared to reflected diffuse sunlight. If there's a way to get the contrast of LEDs to a similar readability of paper & e-ink without needing to blast my eyes, that'd be great. The few OLED displays I've used seem to have that more of that effect (still not as nice as e-ink), but I don't have a monitor that size either.

> At the end of the day we have both matte and glossy displays with reflective characteristics that rival old school matte displays because of improvements made across the stack... but nostalgia makes us assume things were very different than they were.

Like what? Are you saying my current Macbook is actually more readable in sunlight than old matte displays, I just don't realize it...? If so, hmm, I'm dubious but I will take it out again and try to compare it again without nostalgia, as much as I can. Or is there an objective measure of sunlight readability I can refer to?
Have you tried with firefox nightly? The change hasn't made it to the release version yet (https://whattrainisitnow.com/calendar/)
right, they complain about anything greater in price, its heavily undervalued for the value it provides
I've got security keys on Yubikeys, Android devices, and Windows devices. Only one of these are Google.
That seems like it must be using sci-fi as a lens for social commentary—an age-old tradition, of course.
You either have an airgap or you don't.
No shit. That's my point. You said "games are usually not native". Which games?

Not sure what you mean by that. Never mind.
It's better, perhaps, to link to the parent page:

https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/

Shapiro mentions "An even more up-to-date, faster introduction to Common Lisp" therein, if anyone's interested.
The Basics of Photovoltaic Systems: How They Work
Inmates settle lawsuit after Arkansas jail doc gave them ivermectin for Covid-19
> One's lies and misinformation is another's facts.

You don't believe there is such a thing as truth? If so, that's an incoherent philosophical belief none of us need to bother engaging.
> Naively I’d expect there to be a two-key solution that would allow Vendor A to transfer passkeys to Vendor B without requiring them to be stored unencrypted.

That's actually the kind of implementation I expect them to produce.

> Is the issue just that the two vendors have to trust each other (as opposed to just both being trusted by the user) for that to work?

I think the issue is that neither of the vendors trust the user.

They'll probably devise an exclusive (i.e., monopolistic) list of trusted vendors.
A radio link would simplify this enormously. You could link nerves "wirelessly"from a leg to near the brain without any surgery in between.

I don't see why it's fundamentally impossible?
Also there was a small earthquake in the region 2 days ago that probably has some people jumpy.