skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have close friends with this mentality, and it frustrates me to no end. 6-figure earners with severe learned helplessness.
Tech is a small circle.
Unless it's something obviously wrong, you may want to be at least milder :)
I made a tool to migrate from CommonJS to ESM
First Take on the White House Executive Order on AI
"A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough"
>ISPs that offer dedicated fiber lines let you use an SFP with your own switch/gateway directly, if I'm not mistaken.

At least with Comcast and AT&T metro ethernet, they provide the modem/gateway - you cannot terminate in your own equipment. You get to use your own router, of course, but they will never let you directly touch the fiber. Don't like it? They're the only metro-E providers in town (or rather, a specific area of Nashville, TN I got to see quotes from), so if you need a dedicated line and don't like their rules, you can kick rocks unless you've got money to burn. Comcast charges $12k to install, but that's still pennies compared to paying a tier 1 that doesn't already have a presence in the area to lay a line to your door.
Why would a manager of a multi-million dollar department reduce the department to a single-million dollar department? That would reduce the prestige of their own job. I've seen managers who were overstaffed by double work hard to double their staff again. And the only staff that actually accomplished anything were punished and culled.

It doesn't make sense until you realize that they operate in an environment where there is no competition that can disrupt their business model. If their costs go up, their rates go up. There is never an incentive for costs to go down.
Clifford (i.e. "geometric") algebras are of some mathematical interest, but for physics the only real value I've seen from them is in offering a fairly nice presentation of spin groups, which is ultimately where the Dirac matrices come from. The geometric algebra advocacy, so far as I can tell, comes entirely from engineers who were never given a proper account of tensors in the first place: it's certainly an improvement over whatever godawful basis-dependent stuff gets taught there.
Making the lens thinner is just making the phone more visually appealing instead of actually improving capability at all. Which you could do by just... Making the back of the phone convex so that the lense doesn't protrude in the first place? ZTE's been doing it for years, and Apple themselves did it with the iPhone 3 and iPod Touch 3G.
I feel, when it comes to pushing regulation, governments always start with the maximalist position since it is the hardest to argue against.

- the government must regulate the internet to stop the spread of child pornography

- the government must regulate social media to stop calls for terrorism and genocide

- the government must regulate AI to stop it from developing bio weapons

...etc. It's always easiest to push regulation via these angles, but then that regulation covers 100% of the regulated subject, rather than the 0.01% of the "intended" subject
And when that system of institutional safety measures fails such as someone being swindled into sending all their money to a Nigerian prince you get news stories that ask why the institution isn't liable for the loss or doesn't have better safety guards.
> You can actually make a very comfortable career of Senior and Staff by learning to identify this kind of work/system and proposing ways to simplify it.

Where?
Be a rocketship or leave a big crater
I love this for purely self-appeasing reasons.

this machine kills imposter syndrome

or at least it helps. Having a background in solid CS theory from High School, and having a degree in Art, I find it very hard to apply for engineering roles, and my mixed bag of experience often lands me in Support Engineer / application admin / integration roles, fuming tremendously when the people with SwEng / Developer titles fumble on with implementing some JavaScript change for a feature I need in Service Now for my application's customers.

It is incredibly reassuring that it is not simply my organization that is hamstrung by the pretense of complexity, when really someone just made it complicated to make it seem important.
Thanks for confirming. I went up to Elijay last year and was blown away by how busy it's gotten.
Career bureaucrats have historically been more loyal to the government, IME, and have their incentives better aligned.
I'd pay it if they also didn't track my browsing data. Anyone know if that's the case?
https://archive.md/ucz0t
> Yes, the police harass, sometimes I get harassed but that presence is what puts a lid on crime.

> I’ll put up with some harassment in exchange for fewer criminals running free.

Maybe you have a specific harassment:imprisonment ratio in mind, but to me this just says "bring on the police state".

> We can seek redress from the police, we cannot seek redress from criminals.

You can seek it, unless of course they kill you. But will you actually find it? Police departments are famous for investigating themselves and finding that they did nothing wrong.
Consulting Wikipedia, I guess I'm talking about "Industrial Revolutions Units" then.
Nonetheless Madoff was caught, convicted, sent to prison, and died there.

Regulations sure aren't perfect, but that doesn't mean they don't exist or have no effect.
sure - if you do that from the start. Most don't. The codebase organically grows and then lines are blurred and then you have to come in and refactor. When this refactor affects several teams, it gets harder in combinatorial fashion.

With an HTTP API boundary, you don't get to reach into my code - it is literally impossible.
Ask HN: Any Experience with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse?
I have a new colleague is all excited about Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse [1].(Store data in parquet/delta files and use PySpark to transform data and serve them up using Fabric). I appreciate any thoughts or comments.

I am mostly concerned about PySpark and can't wrap my head around the pricing model. Similarly, if we use it to power Tableau or PowerBi, I can't figure out the pricing model. With Snowflake, which I am more familiar with, I can get a good price estimate. Thanks in advance.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/tutorial-lakehouse-introduction
HW-Decoding uses less mm2 than encoding, provides biggest power saving and benefits to user, all while being cheaper on patents.
The bank was Revolut, and the ATM was Eurostat or something like that.

Exchange rate is actually pretty fine for Revolut, and I am on one of the premium plans, so I shouldn't have high fees in that regard.

I don't know.

My numbers were wrong. It was 50 zlotti and 18 zlotti fee.
Mastodon's latest update makes it easier to follow the news
> addressing point 10 would worsen point 50

I confess I am unable to come up with a line of reasoning where eliminating the amplification of bias, misinformation, and polarization has a negative effect on journalism's advertising revenue. The disruption to revenue, as I understand it is a direct outcome of Meta/Google/Twitter manipulating rewards and costs to drown out factual, thoughtful discourse in favor of whatever brings the most views to their platforms. Case in point: Twitter and the situation in Gaza as I write this.
Offloading all of your design to users just shows that your team is lacking.
You have no idea what you're talking about lol... Facebook or Google does not sell your data.

It's literally against their own interests to, even if you think they're completely evil... Them and Google have a data monopoly, why the heck would they ever sell that monopoly? They'll charge to have access through their ad platforms, but would never sell it, even if it were legal...

There's FTC, and EU regulations that govern big tech... I'd except better from Hacker News Readers...
Microservices is a newer term than SOA.
There's a section on data privacy here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/data-priva...
Compared to the alternative? I'll take the lesser of the two evils.
Indeed, I wouldn't trust a word on this topic from this source.
Stack Overflow: 79% of developers considering new horizons
Not all jobs are promotion driven, at all. My current dev job is for a small family biotech business, and the only path upwards from where I currently am would involve church bells and a flower girl.
Would it also be possible to get the thirst traps and booty models off my feed too? Just like I get some control over my ad preferences and tags, it'd be very handy to get some feed controls in place.
>> The expectation for your 401k is that it's going to grow by 6-8% each year.

I have always been suspicious of the 6-8% figure, as it also includes an unknown number of insiders. They know when to buy and when to sell, so their returns are higher than 6-8%. Correspondingly, all non-insider returns are lower, such as 3-4%, but you will not be able to tell because statistically, it will still average out to 6-8%.
Defining "multiplication" to be "any function that takes two arguments and outputs one" isn't a very interesting definition of multiplication. The word is a lot more useful if you put constraints on it like saying for something to be a multiplicative operator it has to respect (a + b) * c = a * c + b * c (the distributive property).

Once you put a "reasonable" set of constraints on it... you discover that you can't actually multiply vectors (no function exists that satisfies the properties you want). Though the talk isn't about proving that (or justifying the set of constraints that mean you can't multiply vectors) and instead goes off in another direction of extending your vector space to a bigger space (like how the complex numbers are a bigger space than the reals) where you can define a reasonable multiplication operator.
> So if they lose their capital, they can just be like the rest of us.

Nah, if they had enough capital to live off of before then, they are far more likely than us to fail upward into a management job.
I'd wager that the best fingerprinters/profilers work at Meta and/or the NSA.
We are currently supporting just Kubernetes environments. docker-compose, VMs, and Serverless are on our roadmap and will be ready soon
As other comments said, this is not just an appeal to authority. He really is an authority.

However, having established real authority, he then uses it to convey ideas which are less supported. https://youtu.be/eKwSDqJAum8?si=WKNMLmu8Y8OO7kwn&t=631 calls this a "science sandwich", and it is a good description. So, for instance, he'll have a series of lectures. Some are real science. Such as how the big 5 personality characteristics correlate with political alignment. Others are pseudoscience. Such as using Jungian archetypes to push his politics. He doesn't differentiate, and audiences who have accepted his authority ALSO don't differentiate.
I wish I could give this move upvotes.

Unions are labor monopolies, so there are a lot of missing positive incentives, while offering incentives for corruption. In the case of the UAW, it puts auto makers at a disadvantage because there's a single labor supplier they all buy from, so the supplier can play the automakers off each other. In the moment labor is currently having, you might argue that giving labor more power than business is good, but it's not; it's toxic to those businesses in the long term. You need balance between business and labor, and competing unions is a good way to solve this.
It won’t just be regulated, it will create the need for global citizen IDs to combat the overwhelming flood of really distortions caused by AI. We the people will be forced to line up and be counted while the powers that be will have unlimited access to control the narrative.
Even when I got my first UNIX computer in 1992, it was fun to explore the bin directories and try running all the different programs found there. Even then there was old stuff whose purpose it was hard to discern.
> Are many small applications running as seperate binaries/processes/on different ports talking to one database endpoint also microservices?

One database endpoint as in ? You can use different schemas and have no relations between tables used by different services, or on the other extreme have services which write to same table.

I have read in a book that the most important criteria is independent deployability. I forget the name of the book.
> when the Displayport standard (and other operating systems) support daisy chaining

It doesn't support it, exactly, it supports a compressed image in each of the multiple streams transported, which can introduce quality problems when doing the production work people use higher end Macs for.

"the combined data rate requirements of all the displays cannot exceed the limits of a single DP port" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Trans...

Arguably, compared to TB ports transmitting a full quality image to each screen, this could be "unexpected behavior".
I find Lecun’s argument very interesting, and the whole discussion has parallels to the early regulation and debate surrounding cryptography. For those of us who aren’t on twitter and aren’t aware of all the players in this, can you tell us who he’s responding to as well as who “Geoff” and “Yoshua” are?
Please don't nostalgise me of my script kiddie days..

I miss those times; it all feels like we've all been lumped in to one big box.
Please don't, with enough people cheating it this way, that will destroy my ability to use international cards. Google will start checking card procedence to prevent people from taking regional discounts.

I cannot use local cards because of banking issues
Why would a PE firm be buying (for example) a doctor's office if the doctor-owner was retiring? The doctor is why the business exists in the first place. Without him, it's no longer a doctor's office, it's a charming little suite with front desk people and a few nurses running around.

We had a local machine shop (that I used to go to for welding) sadly go out of business because the owner was retiring. I asked him if he considered selling it instead so it could stay open and he said "Who would buy it? I am this shop and I'm retiring. In 5 days it's just going to be a pile of tools."
That would be $EXTRA. (sorry, EXTRA €)
> which he calls the "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex", because they're all in a big conspiracy to suppress his genius ideas.

I don't say this sarcastically or ironically... but isn't that one of the big things proper science actually does? Think about it for a moment, science is the business of suppressing all the stupid ideas humans have come up with over the centuries. And until it got started doing that, those ideas were everywhere, keeping everyone ignorant.

It has a somewhat careful methodology to this suppression. It designs experiments to falsify everything it can, conducts those experiments rigorously and exhaustively, until everyone is convinced that those ideas are wrong and the ideas are as dead as doornails.

But, if somehow it comes across one that is falsifiable but that can't be falsified by experiment, it moves on... plenty of other ideas to suppress.

Hell, science should adopt that moniker and run with it. Be proud of it. It's one of the things it gets right.

If that's his worst jab at science, he's just lazy and not very clever.
I am certainly not going to pay for Facebook. I hate everything about it and barely spend any time there.

If I could pay for it to be sane, to actually show what my friends were up to in chronological order, to show what is around me of interest etc we might be talking.
Executive order for AI: Biden will sign executive order to address his concerns
If these are such bad writing why are they so entertaining?
I suspect that triangulating the source of the control signal will be an effective deterrent to people attempting this anonymously. Anything that can fly unaided even without remote control will probably leave some digital fingerprints in its design. For the rest, well I'll admit there's a part of me that hopes it remains only a very small minority that seriously considers this type of terrorism, and that social and political programs keep that segment of the population in check. The realist in me sees the dramatic amount of naivete in that sentiment, but then isn't all hope a fair amount of naive?
I accidentally cost my company half a million dollars, but it's not really my fault HR misplaced a comma.
You make good points but with excessive vitriol.
Business and markets run on trust. The less trust you have the more overhead you have to verify that every claim your counterparty makes is true. That's expensive and means some worthwhile things become impossible to do profitably. It's a tradeoff and I think in general the US finds a good spot between regulation and ease of doing business, and the rest of the world benefits from it too.

There are failures of course, but most of the big ones recently have been in private markets not the public ones.
Mouse embryos grown in space for first time
As soon as you add these physical constraints on what counts as a 'computer' you're no longer talking about computers as specified by turing, nor computer science -- which is better called Discrete Mathematics.

You're conflating the lay sense of the term meaning 'that device that i use' with the technical sense. You cannot attribute properties of one to the other. This is the heart of this AI pseudoscience business.

All circles are topologically equivalent to all squares. That does not mean a square table is 'equivalent' to a circular table in any relevant sense.

If you want to start listing physical constraints: the physical state can be causally set deterministically, the physical state evolves causally, the input and output states are measurable, and so on -- then you end up with a 'physical computer'.

Fine, in doing so you can exclude the air. But you cannot exclude systems incapable of transfering power to devices (ie., useless systems).

So now you add that: a device which, through its operation, powers other devices. You keep doing that and you end up with 'electrical computers' or a very close set of physical objects with physical propeties.

By the time you've enumerated all these physical properties, none of your formal magical 'substrates dont matter' things apply. Indeed, you've just shown how radically the properties of the substrate do apply -- so many properties end up being required.

Now, as far as brains go -- the properties of 'physical computers' do not apply to them: their input/output states may be unmeasurable (eg., if QM is involved); they are not programmable (ie., there is no deterministic way to set their output state); they do not evolve in a causally deterministic way (sensitive to biochemical variation, randomness, etc.).

Either you speak in terms of formalism, in which case you're speaking in applicable non-explanaotry toys of discrete mathematicans'; or you start trying to explain actual physical computers and end up excluding the brain.

All this is to avoid the overwhelmingly obvious point: the study of biological organisms is biology.
Sure, I get that, but I think it's a mistake to think of these things as totally interchangeable, that anything can just be quantified to a salary number.

There is some threshold where many people simply quit or leave a profession, and basically no amount of salary would cause them to come back - I've seen this in droves when it comes to nurses and teachers.

Point being I guess is that, for employers, the total cost of, say, adding some additional workers to provide better working conditions for everyone is going to be a much lower cost in the long run than simply providing hellish conditions for fewer workers and then needing to pay them out the wazoo to keep them from quitting.
“I hate math” usually is shorthand for “I hate math lessons, and I don’t feel any need to learn it”.
This sounds a lot like prion diseases.
As someone who does this sort of work (but posting personally, not officially), you're 100% right. There are groups of already-networked folks you can join like USDS or 18F that are already connected to the problems. The post reminds me of some of the stuff you might see in gov, though I've never seen someone save money and be punished like this.
Yes, for context the Pi 1-4 all had H264 hardware encoder/decoder support, which could comfortable encode at least 720p @ 30Hz in realtime. The die space argument makes sense for why they don't have AV1/HEVC encoding, but it does not explain why H264 was dropped. The fact that the CPU is now powerful enough to encode H264 at better quality and frame rates than the old hardware encoder is a better argument, but still a step backwards for folks who need lower power consumption or need the CPU for other things, and doesn't explain why the hardware support needed to be dropped. It really does sound like something else (like licensing) drove the decision, and this is a post-facto attempt to sell/justify that decision.
Ha, I kept wondering whether I feel such a strong need to "make unjust things just", but "make incorrect things correct" rings much closer to home. I guess the former gets crippled hard by social anxiety, while the latter can drive a lot of behaviors where social contact isn't in the foreground.
For an iOS/Mac alternative:

I made a shortcut called Trebuchet that pulls up the archived version of articles and opens up in reader mode.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0df29c2c9aba44d48de1025fc8e...
Do the Go developers hate Unix?
> go is the worst because the unix-hater club at the root of their development team [...]

I was surprised to find this sentiment about Go. I always felt Go focused on simplicity, modularity, good tooling and even good integration with C. Those are qualities that seem UNIX-affirmative to me.

Where does De Raadt's opinion come from? Could it be referring to Rob Pike's blasphemic Plan 9 adventure or is it just a provocative rambling about a certain ioctl-incident?
The legislature has the right and ability to do so at any time it so chooses, and has chosen not to. As our legislative branch is currently non-functional, it's reasonable to expect that legislative action will not be taken in any kind of time frame that matters.
I agree, but the issue is that the union really gains a lot of strength from controlling most/all the workers. If there were 5 equally popular guilds, a disagreement with one means only 20% of your workers stop, which isn't as big a deal as all of them being forced to stop work.
The main factor for reduced latency is the separation between recording and processing of data. The eBPF programs are the only overhead for the instrumented process in terms of latency. The eBPF programs transfer the collected data to a separate process which handles all the exporting. In contrast to manually adding code to an application which adds latency and memory footprint in terms of handling the exported data.
>he was briefly addicted to anti-depressants

That is a very severe understatement. He was so badly addicted to benzos (for years) that he ended up going to Russia to have himself put into a weeks-long medically-induced coma to go cold-turkey, which resulted in brain damage. (He insisted on that course of action, which Western doctors refused to go along with, for obvious reasons).

That left him unable to walk or speak properly for months and he still hasn't and probably will never fully recover. Just watch videos of him from a few years ago and compare them to videos from recently.

I get that benzos is being studied as a potential treatment for depression, but he was doing massive quantities, and not as part of a pharmaceutical trial.
As someone that doesn’t spend a lot of time in Python, but is familiar with the ecosystem and numpy. I would say this is actually a lot more approachable than I thought it would be.
The only thing that really surprised me was that rewriting corrcoef led to a speedup. I would imagine that’s a fairly optimized function in numpy.