skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know very well what it means to care about a memory allocation cost or an atomic operation in a fast path. In some applications though, that is not the dominating performance factor, instead the algorithm dominates. For example, with C++ an manual memory management our application could take something like 58 minutes to run while in Java it would take 60 minutes. The impact of the low level management is entirely insignificant for performance in the big picture in these cases.

The performance comes from the big O complexity. Memory management is a constant factor in the algorithm.
Several SaaS companies are pushing for Next.js as their main SDK, that is how real customers end up in Vercel.
This happens with protein folding in the body as well, leading to prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Once the badly folding protein is introduced there is no way back.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Same! I remember failing a coding interview because I forgot how to write a for-loop despite using them almost every day. It’s crazy how nerves affect you.
No HTTPS either! It's been a while since I encountered one of those in the wild.
As mentioned, the book was intended to be a "second course" in linear algebra. I personally self-studied out of the 3rd edition of Axler, and found it very helpful for understanding exactly what is going on with all the matrix computations we do.

Plus, the same can be said about artists. After all, it's all self-aggrandization, and art is not made to be simple or intuitive.
That’s kind of your fault. None of the channels I subscribe to do sponsored content.
So I went down the rabbit hole of going to the website. Guess what happens when you click the book link? "Your server is running PHP version 5.6.40 but WordPress 6.3.2 requires at least 7.0.0" [0]. Not sure how this fell through.

[0]http://www.markrussinovich.com/books/rogue-code/
[1]https://imgur.com/a/YYJJ9xD
Too bad it's too weak to get pytorch working with a LLM to be able to teach you math or help catch mistakes.
There’s an important difference here. The 1K mode is using the CGA adapter’s composite NTSC output to a standard (American) television set. It’s taking advantage of color television’s design to effectively turn high-frequency pixel value changes into new colors.

The original article discusses the sixteen colors supported by the digital monitor that IBM sold for CGA cards. It’s very different from a television set because the monitor itself converts the CGA’s 4-bit digital signal to CRT control. This monitor is completely unable to display the 1K color hack because, even though it’s also CGA, it’s not an NTSC monitor.

The upside of such a digital monitor was much better picture quality. CGA’s 80*25 text mode was practically unreadable via composite on a TV set, you needed a proper monitor. (They were also expensive. An IBM color monitor cost several thousand dollars, probably like $10k in inflation-adjusted 2023 money.)
Rendering Tidbyt Graphics in Rust
I really do not see how my comment is worst then original. Or worst then comments about slavery that are frequent in here when American history appears.

Only difference is that I argued against praise of state farms rather then argued against slavery or what not.

I was not much keen on sending my email and then just forgot about it.
This isn't a $100k loan. The employee received a fraction of the $100k (due to taxes and tax withholding), but now may need to borrow money to cover their debt.
Not saying stabbing people is acceptable but as far as stabbings go this one is almost understandable. You're stuck on that station for god knows how long and someone is repeatedly ruining one of the only forms of entertainment you have.
> This isn't an everything is fine mongering statement.

Then my apologies. The hand-wavey 'climate change happened before and will happen again' sounded like you thought it wasn't a critically important challenge facing us, frequently being down-graded by people with vested interests in understating the problem via dismissive 'this has happened before and we're okay' style comments.

The 'we need more science' refrain is also often heard from that quarter, so I expect you'll continue to spark a certain reaction when you use that phrase.

The problem in TFA definitely seems to be related to small rises in temperature leading to a much more favourable environment for pathogens. That it happened in elephants is profoundly sad, but what's genuinely frightening is we probably have close to zero coverage on what pathogens we're susceptible to are about to reach a viability threshold with a 2 degree rise.

In another comment you ignored TFA findings and said:

> But I am probably going to point out increased commercial farming in Africa as a potential culprit. The use of fertilizers are an issue with algae and bacteria growth.

It would be convenient for climate change apologists if that were the case, but as per TFA the event seems to be pretty clearly attributable to Pasteurella bacteria.
Google freely sends a bunch of video content to my computer. Why don’t I have the right to decide which parts of that content I want to watch? Which parts are permitted to execute on my computer?

My computer, my home, my rules. Google has their policies, I have mine. It’s none of Google’s business whether I watched the ads or not.
It might in some situations, but generally you will deal with banding anyway (8bit). Log needs higher ISO which means lower dynamic range [1]. Flat footage lacks depth so you'll need edit it, which create a new space for error.

Yes, I do audiovisual production and postproduction for living.

[1] https://www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/PDR.htm
Conversely, Apple has the cash on hand to buy most companies and not even notice a drop in cash in hand. Plus they buy companies all the time... but this once, they didn't -- but hired 20 people from there.

In other words, the fact that it is normal for them to behave differently is at least as damning is it is exculpating.
One reason that ZFS can't turn a directory into a filesystem
Milling a case from a block must be far more expensive that folding a few sheets, right?
The only reason I was able to use my 2012 MacBook Pro 15 as my daily driver for 11 years, is because I was able to replace 2 failed non-soldered SSDs.
I don't have any problems with this website on my phone (Android, Firefox, not usually a combination that's tested), maybe there's some kind of extension or setting that's breaking your experience?
Nixos is a perfect toy for techies with too much free time. Decades ago it would be *BSD, Gentoo, Arch and so on.

Opensuse with snapshots and some repo magic, can do 99% of functionality, without learning yet another abstraction layer. But dealing with RPMs is very unsexy.
> Keep moving forward!

Except you. And you guys. We don't even know you any more.
Generate Bitmap Images with Python
This program was created with the intent of learning how to generate bitmaps from scratch. Please feel free to open a pull-request, issue, or fork!

Shoutout to Wikipedia which was largely my source of information on the relevant structural specifications of the bitmap format.

Grateful for any feedback.
That's not correct. A few years ago YouTube changed their TOS, so they're now allowed to show ads on any content, regardless of settings.
This article boils down to "if you hire mediocre people then you get mediocre results". This is true for all disciplines. But, the biggest problem here is not poor product managers (although that often is a problem) but poor-FIT product managers. Anyone hiring a career Google or Amazon PM to manage products at an early-stage, sales-led B2B supply chain startup is almost certainly committing hiring malpractice. That's not to say that the PM isn't any good, or can't adapt, but I wouldn't trust the hirer to make a good decision one little bit.

Problems with PMs generally boil down to "they're not very technical" (mostly irrelevant, because there's much more to being a successful PM than being arbitrarily "technical"), "they're just a project manager"/"they're just a status update monkey", which does happen depressingly often. However, this "prod-ject manager" archetype is generally something imposed on the PM by a company that has no interest in having anyone do actual product management work. The "all metrics all the time" people do, of course, exist. There's a place for them in bigger companies that are primarily optimising what they've got, but they won't last 5 minutes at a lot of companies.

So much of what people criticise as bad product management (or, but extension, bad product managers) is actually a systemic lack of product management at all. Leaders hire the wrong type of people for a role they have no interest in supporting, with inevitable results. However, are we expecting that these same leaders are going to make A-grade hires in engineering? In my experience, the engineers who complain most about product managers are the ones that would benefit from (good) product management the most.
SCENE JERRY'S APARTMENT

JERRY

so the app does nothing

ELAINE

get out!

JERRY

no really, the app is about doing nothing

GEORGE

Jerry did I tell you my parents moved back to del Boca vista? If anyone is doing nothing it's them!

ELAINE

so what do you do with the app if it does nothing

JERRY PRESSES A BUTTON ON THE APP AND IT CHIMES. KRAMER BUSTS THROUGH THE DOOR LOOKING CONFUSED.

JERRY

well it's made that a lot more predictable.

SEINFELD THEME PLAYS
it didnt work because people don't search for videos via google usually. They get the video directly from youtube, or was linked by friends virally.

Plus the early days of google (before youtube acquisition), i dont think their video search was as good as the text search anyway (but i might be misremembering of course...).
Install an ad-blocker with annoyance block lists and stuff. I agree with you on the same things, but this site had Zero popups for me.

Edit. Not even a newsletter, or cookie consent banner. Awesome.
Every person in my company has a laptop screen and two monitors on their desk, including devs, product, managers, infra, admin... Literally everyone. The only people who don't use them are senior leadership because they're rarely at their desks.
Do you suggest any book that does disambiguate between polynomial and polynomial function (i thought they were equivalent!) ?
As a PM I think this is spot on.

The path to becoming a great PM is longer and arguably harder than becoming a great engineer. Like you say a lot of what makes a great PM comes from years of experience in a variety of roles and companies.
Again, how is that different from the current situation?
Sounds like science-fiction or some conspiracy theories indeed... but the phenomenon seems to be scientifically well-described. I'm just wondering, wouldn't a clean room be able to keep out those micro-seeds?
>Theo states that there are only 7000 users of OpenBSD.

While he's certainly in a position to give this estimate, I'm curious to know the factual basis of this opinion. That's a shockingly low statistic.
It does still work, yes.
I wrote a guide here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1340
I think it's more about ssd's with limited cycles+ the fact that with smaller RAM, swap can nuke those ssd's pretty fast if you go beyond ram capacity
Software in the wild is full of millions of bugs. It’s a gigantic mess! Who is out there fixing it all?
>Interviewed at length, he is jittery, nervous and looks extremely young. He is also, in his measured way, defiant. Who are you, Roth is asked, to make this decision? “I’m no one,” he responds. “It shouldn’t be any one person’s decision” And there’s the nub of it. These people didn’t seek this power. They are essentially nerdy kids

Eh... Calling Twitter's team that banned Trump just "nerdy kids" is highly offensive. Only non-nerdy people can make important decisions?

I used to read The Guardian often. Now I finally see it as what it is: war-mongering, overly dramatic, anti-any-tech, very one sided reporting. Are there some good pieces? Yes. But overall, I'd stay away.
> A quick google tells me that the median CEO makes 20 million a year.

What a damn lie. The median CEO pay in the USA is $189,520, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics [1].

$20 million is median pay for CEOs of S&P 500 companies, the biggest companies in the country…I wonder why people let themselves get suckered by clickbait.

1- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/top-executives.htm#:~:tex....
The calculator in the article, the fx-cg50 is just what he needs.

It's like the FX-991ex mentioned elsewhere but it remembers more things and has history and a display that is decent.

I own one and have been using it for a couple of years now.
> Very few engineers want to maintain relationships with customers, interview users to identify potential features, manage leadership, play politics for resource allocation, and so on.

Because the more you do, the more you are responsible for, but what you get doesn't increase. It's a question of profit distribution.
I can just as easily block their ads unconditionally. If they want something in exchange, they better require payment.
Honestly, if you have the time, just go abroad to India or Thailand and get a full body check up. Don't leave your medical conditions untreated. Considering the restrictions around getting medications in the US, these hospitals night already have ways for you to prescribe you stuff. Just stick to the reputed ones like Apollo or Narayana Hrudalaya in India or Bumrungrad in Thailand. Or if you can splurge the cash, go for non-resident treatment at an American hospital (which is arguably cheaper than the insurance-covered prices).
Or even better, a nitter url. This is like combining my two least favorite platforms.
It could, evolution is a drunkard's walk.

It would be unlikely to outcompete its commensal siblings that don't damage the host.
Unity game engine
The power scales to such an extent that a black hole light enough to be in a phone is just an explosion.
> What's your issue with having to watch ads if you watch less than 1 hour of video content a month?

Why should I be forced to watch something I don’t want to watch? Google sends my computer a stream of “[ad][ad][content]”. It’s my own damn choice which parts of that to watch.
Curious if this is something you have actually done personally and if you had success with a major intervention
Ah, the holy grail, the top of the pile, you’ve reached it. Not getting the respect you „deserved” must have been the most insulting experience of your life.
I agree this form of blocking will be less appealing to many, but personally, I wouldn't mind a few moments to just breathe, especially when I'm doing ad heavy things. Instead of blanking the screen I might instead show a screen that says "Is there something better you should be doing?".
Depends. libgd (has good API for FFI, van be side by side installed easily). ImageSharp (C#, very good, paid for commercial use). Sharp (JS). I use hugo's build in image tools. Sometimes a desktop app: Paint.Net. Affinity Photo. Whatever else suits my needs.
Pascal in its various variants had support for arenas already into the language.

C++ new isn't required to call malloc()/free() per ISO C++, underlying OS APIs can be called instead, there are the whole allocator infrastrcture, and placement new as well.
Not really. They're still showing people videos for free. Only difference is they're detecting the ad blocker and discriminating. That's a bug, they're not supposed to know about the blocker.
> This is actually why I feel that mathematical texts tend to be not rigorous enough, rather than too rigorous. On the surface the opposite is true - you complain, for instance, that the text jumps immediately into using technical language without any prior introduction or intuition building. My take is that intuition building doesn't need to replace or preface the use of formal precision, but that what is needed is to bridge concepts the student already understands and has intuition for to the new concept that the student is to learn.

If you read the book in the original post you may find it's absolutely for you.

Axler assumes you know only the real numbers, then starts by introducing the commutative and associative properties and the additive and multiplicative identity of the complex numbers[1]. Then he introduces fields and shows that, hey look we have already proved that the real and complex numbers are fields because we've established exactly the properties required. Then he goes on to multidimensional fields and proves the same properties (commutativity and associativity and identities) in F^n where F is any arbitrary field, so could be either the real or the complex numbers.

Then he moves onto vectors and then onto linear maps. It's literally chapter 3 before you see [ ] notation or anything that looks like a matrix, and he introduces the concept of matrices formally in terms of the concepts he has built up piece by piece before.

Axler really does a great job (imo) of this kind of bridge building, and it is absolutely rigorous each step of the way. As an example, he (famously) doesn't introduce determinants until the last chapter because he feels they are counterintuitive for most people and you need most of the foundation of linear algebra to understand them properly. So he builds up all of linear algebra fully rigorously without determinants first and then introduces them at the end.

[1] eg he proves that there is only one zero and one "one" such that A = 1*A and A = 0 + A.
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-10/417378.pdf
disable or enable absolute volume in dev settings
They are mostly still around because you can't take Excel or smartphones into exams.

But quite frankly they are handy to have around if you want to do a trivial analysis or find some roots. And the recentish ones have input methodologies and functionality that is not present on any smartphone app.

Still my go-to for "I need to get an answer to a problem quickly". I dabble with electronics regularly and they are very handy for that too.
Boards don't do the researching part but headhunters. Then the board choose the pick from a nice pptx.
Based on the attitude of its advocates, a flat earth would lack science and mathematics entirely, so pi would be undefined?
Yet, many CEO-s seem to be appearing again and again (even bad ones as others pointed out). I do not know many, but the few CEO-s I have personally interacted with seem completely driven by the wish to succeed, having some form of lacking empathy, being very optimistic and being a bit charismatic.

With such traits potential punishments will not work great (they will just think "it will never happen to me"), hence it is why I think rewards are used more, but mostly as a form of measuring "success". After couple of millions it is not really about the money but about being more "successful" than the others.
Google presentation: Discovery ads strategy (ACM) (June 5, 2020) [pdf]
Absolutely agree with this. Real skin in the game would require CEOs and executives to face ruin in the event of failure.

Pilots have skin in the game. There is rarely any doubt that their priority is landing that plane safely. Now imagine a world where airline pilots are able to safely eject with a golden parachute and minimal damage to their professional reputation. What are the chances of achieving the same safety record?
The 2017 MacBook air has a ton of aftermarket batteries available for less than $60. It's really not that difficult to replace it yourself. The ifixit guide says it takes 15 minutes.

https://www.ifixit.com/products/macbook-air-13-late-2010-201...

"with no third party repair shop willing to work on your laptop at a reasonable price."

I am not aware of any third party repair shop who would refuse to work on a 2017 MacBook Air. Unless it is a repair shop that refuses to work on Apple products in general.
We'll just block their blocker instead.
If you've ever used one it's a massive upgrade on display quality over everything including the TI89.
> Admitting things aren't perfect is the first step to making things better.

the implied assumption being made here with this train of thought is that it is the author's imperative duty to make things better.

It is not. The author has zero obligation to make it better for anyone; they do it at their leisure and at their convenience.
Surely you must understand that if everyone took that view and ran Adblock on YouTube that eventually the site would be shut down and all of that content would be lost.

I just don’t get it. The casual “theft” here that’s socially tolerated (like say the theft of product from retail stores that’s so common now) just seems wild to me. Why shouldn’t creators be compensated for their work?
That's what pen and paper are for. Calculator is for getting answers to shit.
yes, hence the (planned) move to flake.nix and then compile to docker.
Good to know, but the UK is not the EU
Thank you for making the world a better place!
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Do you see how you used the word “probably” to signify that the thing you’re claiming is just your opinion and not based on fact?
That is quoting an article from 2002, 21 years ago.

https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying

(I've been using OpenBSD as my primary OS since 2000 so I guess I'm one of the 7000 OGs.)
I believe video costs around $.1 per TB to deliver above 100PB. Is the provider making that much?
Were you asking them in a language they were familiar with? They also might have gotten nerves and thought about using some fancy DP algorithm and gotten stuck in that rabbithole. I've personally definitely had my fair share of unbelievable brain farts
If you click that link, you’ll see it’s a reference to an ancient and prolific Slashdot troll post (“Netcraft confirms it—BSD is dying…”).
There are many reasons why youtube reigns supreme but I wonder if newer, extremely efficient video codecs designed with AI inference (as shown in some demos for the last 2 years) would help in breaking up youtube's moat. It's very clear to me that the cost of hosting video content is one of the main things keeping alternatives from popping up, and maybe a codec 50x more efficient than what we have now will finally help us break free from google...
React on the front-end because of eco; Fastify on the backend w/ Postgres. I host React w/ Remix for light-duty SSR, but real work gets done on the backend. I'm moving away from metaframeworks as single solution -- they're easy, but keeping biz logic on the be makes it much easier to swap out fe and better for testability IMO. I'll prob shift over to Solid once / if Start ever ships, else Qwik.
My impression is the institution of boarding houses died out in the 1940s (in the USA).

In researching family history, I was surprised to discover how frequently a nuclear family would have various relatives living with them. This was up through the 1930s. It seems that American ideas of desirable personal space changed significantly around the 1940s.
> Video creators also get hurt by ad blockers

I don’t have any kind of business relationship or agreement with content creators. This is their problem and YouTube’s problem.

I only deal with YouTube, which sends video streams to my computer for free, and I’m exercising my right to decide what I want to play on my own computer that I own.

More and more content creators are getting their income through sponsorships and referrals, anyways, as they feel the squeeze of YouTube’s exploitative and predatory behaviour.