skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can go out to my late 80s truck truck right now, undo the lock nut on the fuel screw and wind that sucker up. It'll be a completely different truck. Will I half my fuel range? Sure. Will it be fun? Sure will be. If I care about the engine I'll attach an EGT gauge to ensure I don't melt the alloy head.
They were a first mover and have captured the market to the point where no amount of private investment could spawn a true competitor.

You have to have Amazon’s sales volume before owning a delivery and logistics empire makes any financial sense, and you can’t provide Amazon’s level of service and low costs without owning your own global logistics company.

Then you’ve got the fact that Amazon’s technology infrastructure is a profit center. In contrast, any e-commerce competitor has to pay retail rates for cloud computing or run a data center as a cost center. Amazon e-commerce lost money for decades while AWS propped it up.

The anticompetitive practices come from the ways in which they exploit this enviable position, like the issue the FTC is suing them over where they are charging their merchants money to fight over search ranking, and knowingly promoting inferior and/or less relevant products with the result of raising prices for consumers and merchants artificially. Merchants can’t refuse to play the game because if you don’t sell on Amazon you lose most of the addressable customer base.
Why wouldn't you use it again and what would you use instead?
Amazon retail outfit tops list of orders from EU member states under new DSA law
Many math teahcers (and likely mathematicians) could not care less about the real world applications of math. My college calculus teacher had no interest in physics or science. She liked math in the same way someone would like doing a crossword or Sudoku. A puzzle game with a well defined rule set and the challenge of finding answers.

I cannot overstate how destructive this is, because it basically presents math as this arbitrary logic game rather than as a fundamental language of the universe.
For what it's worth, I was a researcher at CERN with colleagues from multiple countries, where I turned down an offer to do a PhD in particle physics :-)

(A foolish career decision in retrospect.)

I think they are saying that if you were clever enough to do physics at that level, you wouldn't understand the problem being discussed. So when you said you don't understand, you gave a live demonstration.

When you emphasised your physics credentials as if to say the above didn't make sense even to a physics-smart and well-credentialed person, that pattern-matched even more strongly with the idea that those who go far through higher education institutes don't relate to the problem so don't tend to work on improvements.
Making the team “a team” is the silent work that people love to ignore in our field. Software is incredibly sensitive to team composition, IMO. It’s the biggest unspoken factor in “why did this take so long?” Well, bob, because we all had to figure out what each other was doing and thinking for their pieces before we could do that for our own pieces.
What else is it?
Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU
So, how does this work with countries that have, say, strict porn laws. Does Singapore or Saudia Arabia get to impose it's morals on the rest of the world?
> known locally as dingbats.

I have never heard anyone call them that lol
Council housing rent in the UK is much less that market rents. I agree that it would suit the well paid tenant not to move, and there doesn't seem to be a legal way of making them move out.

However, my point is not that it's illegal, just that it's unethical.
> Solar PVs are a disaster, if you know how to add numbers.

First time I've heard this claim, can you go into more depth?
C++ should be put out to pasture along with asbestos and lead paint. It's unsafe at any speed and should be discouraged in favor of memory-safe alternatives. Evolving the language is a desperate attempt to stay relevant when it should not, in fact, stay relevant.
I'm sorry, but why is it that Netflix cannot license technology that it uses? It seems absurd to blame Germany for Netflix's decision to use this technology without licensing it...
It used to be a standard $1k - $2k upgrade to get the navigation system which I imagine was highly profitable. It certainly didn't seem like any car manufacturer put much effort into it. Sometimes they could even get you to buy $300 map updates! With Car Play and Android Auto I don't know who's paying for that any more.
For me the killer app was POVRAY. Ran so much faster with a 387 (I seem to recall something like 100x faster but it was a long long time ago).
Why should pedagogy ever end? That's like saying at some point in health care medicine must end and you're responsible for your own treatment. What are the professors for, doing research and abusing their grad students?
It was never an issue for elites to have easy access to engage in highbrow pursuits while also hanging out with family, if that's what they wanted to do, even before the Internet. Reading this sentence, what immediately comes to mind is Princess Diana picking up her kids from school in an off the shelf Philadelphia Eagles jacket, signaling that she's just like any other mom, maybe even just a little more hip. No doubt earlier that week she might have sat in a private box at the Royal Opera House or sat at a private dinner party in a bespoke gown out of reach for anyone else.

Interestingly enough, official replicas of this jacket were recently made and sold for $400. They sold out instantly. This is because people want to associate themselves with the "aristocracy" of Princess Di. She isn't quite "ordinary" yet. :) https://www.mitchellandness.com/team-varsity-jacket-philadel...
Imagine the case where you're trying to create a storage system for a large number of virtual machine images (e.g., you're trying to build your own equivalent of AWS Machine Images). There is obviously a lot of duplication between parts of images. And not necessarily at the same offset, but also at different offsets that are n*2^k bytes apart, where 2^k represents the block/sector size.

You could consider building this storage system on top of BLAKE3's tree model. Namely you store blocks as small Merkle tree. And an image is basically a collection of blocks that has a different 'hat' on top of it. Unfortunately, BLAKE3 makes this hard, because the same block will end up having a different Merkle tree node depending on the offset at which it's stored.
To add to this, when there are annoying things like that in the office.. most places there's no people in charge. There are facilities teams but they don't really care if the toilet flush is not powerful enough, or if one of the taps is leaking, or a quarter of the chairs are wonky.. and you can't really say it to your direct manager since it is not work related.
As someone else already mentioned, did your last vehicle purchase involve you cost-analyzing every individual part of your car versus other cars in it's class? Of course not.

I know that a 33k Mazda3 and a 33k Honda Civic are "similar", but neither of them are exactly worth the same 33 thousand dollars. But who cares, really? Ultimately, even a 33k purchase is a "throw" away. You're not gonna compare control arm thickness to find the better value, and you're not gonna examine where the materials came from.
It's really kind of sad that people don't seem to understand this. If these politicians were really so bad at making deals, they wouldn't get elected. They know what they're doing.
In the modern world, inventors often don't own the patents to their own inventions.

I'd be very interested to hear from people who actually used a software patent in a useful manner. (Ie. Could they actually write a successful implementation, based on the patent text)
> Says anyone who has spent more than a decade in the workforce.

Well, no. I have worked almost double that, and I don't feel that way.

I tend to think there is mainly an echo chamber of somewhat entitled young north americans incorrectly correlating high compensation in a decade long hyped industry (tech) with social status.

> a crafted reality controlled by sociopaths

Well if that is your definition of reality, maybe you should consider whether you could be part of your issue with office spaces...

> shitty management trying to take it away

Definitely, that kind of remark reinforces my opinion that you should reflect on whether your look at the situation is biased.
Ditto for Latvia and Lithuania.
Tolkien was initially critical of the Dutch translation of LOTR, complaining that many of the nonclemature were too localized to his original liking[0].

That said, from what I understand, Tolkien would later change his mind after the original Swedish translator took even more liberties, which provoked him enough to write an official translation style guide, and in retrospective light apparently the Dutch translation would mostly end up conforming to those guidelines.

The entire thing is pretty curious given the fact that if you want to get down to it, the framing devices of Lord of the Rings is that it is an alledged translation of a book called "The Red Book of Westmarch". Tolkien himself took liberties with this supposed translation, which is why many of the place names have some form of "common" English name, to make them more palatable to English readers. It's pretty interesting to see him then take offense at other translations.

[0]: As someone who fell in love with Tolkien's work from the Dutch translation - eh, it's fine? Most stuff is fairly faithfully and accurately translated. The main issue is that the translator was an even bigger fan of purple prose than Tolkien and occasionally used German roots for certain words. Most of the literal translations used are translated to what amounts to kinda formal, stiff Dutch but others flow fairly well. The biggest difference is probably the title which is something closer to "In the grasp of the Ring", which... might be more accurate to describe the events of the book. It's hardly about the Lord of the Rings himself after all.
Yeah, with a car and a cliff hitting the brakes is a good decision. Civilizations have a lot more momentum than cars though.

There's an analysis saying that if the Titanic had hit the iceberg head on, it wouldn't have sunk. I like the car analogy because there's opportunities for passengers to bail and thereby lighten the car for those who want to clear the cliff, but in terms of ability to turn or stop an ocean liner is probably the better metaphor.
Yeah, and Belarus is doing so much better than those "degrading" baltics.
I've had the pleasure to work on such kinds of Rails apps a few times. It was almost magical, compared to all the other common Rails apps with their ever accumulating fat models, complex controllers, untestable- coupled classes and so on.

One had this what you describe: everything in /lib, and the MVC merely delegating to that. MVC downgraded to what it should be: plumbing that binds together your domain stuff.

The other did something similar but had it in gems (bound as Railties/engines). IT was a bit more cumbersome, as one had to release a new gem before being able to integrate it in the rails app. It forced a very solid separation of concerns.
I loved that game.

But you should have tried breeding on a 33 MHz 386SX. I think I had to let it run overnight.

My next computer was a Pentium 133. The difference in fish breeding was mind blowing.
Curricula are hard to change for the same reason widely-used apis are hard to change: it’s the downstream dependencies. There’s a shared understanding of what “took undergrad differential equations” means, and breaking from that has a cost. If you teach differently, your students will be at a disadvantage because they won’t know the things futre courses, tests and employers expect them to know. Maybe that will be outweighed by the objectively superior education you’ll have provided with your bold new approach, and maybe not.

Not that we should give up and resign ourselves to outmoded received pedagogy, but these are hard breaking changes and we should set our expectations accordingly.
The problem is, like many social sciences, people refuse to apply the scientific method to pedagogy and would rather lean on vibe-based "theories".
The thing is that the current environment is sort of what you'd expect if most people don't come in most days any longer. I think some companies are giving a permanent desk to people who come in most days but most coworkers are probably still not coming in regularly.
No one uses any codec 'exclusively' because you need the client devices to be able to decode what you serve them. I think the current strategy is that they have AV1 for large/popular media, then h265 and ultimately h264 as fallbacks.

Client-side hardware support is what holds AV1 back currently.
VS community came out right about when small businesses started really jumping onto LAMP/WAMP for LOB apps.

Not hard to draw the line from there to 'keeping people on IIS and MSSQL'
> the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers.

Projecting much?
Your response does a pretty good job demonstrating the internal challenges universities face. The interest in making a change was motivated by unmet needs, and it's not going away until those needs are met. The only way to deal with people who won't meaningfully engage in the problem solving process is to go around them.
This could be interpreted like you've switched to giving them an implicit command
This is why even the trademark of a package name by a commercial entity is hostile to OSS. Nothing the currents.dev author has done seems to make him a 'bad actor', except in their interpretation. It looks like the standard lifecyle of extending an OSS project.

What do they expect, and why are they licensing their stuff as MIT if they think this is wrong?
I'm sure Russia was providing that infrastructure for free and didn't take anything from other countries while they were in the USSR.
I couldn't agree more with you. I personally will attempt to circumvent "boring, mildly effective education" by homeschooling my children (who are at present still too young to even speak in words), but homeschooling is an ugly compromise to a stupid problem. A true comprehensive education would take place everywhere in society.

Have you ever read Ivan Ilich? I find his style almost too iconoclastic for even my contrarian tastes, and I can't stand his sentence structure. But he makes some very coherent points about exactly what you're talking about. John Gatto is a former teacher who writes in a somewhat less brazen style but keeps a lot of the same opinions. It was actually on HackerNews where I first read "the seven-lesson schoolteacher".
That...would seem to require a lot of cooperation from ever power generation plant, all the utility companies, etc

An interesting idea, though
There are lots of reasons why offices tend towards bad rather than good. If I sat and thought about it I could probably list a dozen systematic biases towards crappy office spaces. Here are just a few off the top of my head:

- Open-plan offices, hot-desking, and other negative patterns are more cost-effective for a given amount of space.

- Cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all spaces are "easier" to manage from a personnel/HR point of view. Less griping about who gets the "good office," as there is no good office. No need to think about differences between people, we can just treat them as fungible "human resources."

- Similar race to the bottom regarding amenities (coffee, break rooms, etc.). Just look in the other comments of this thread. It's easier to target the least common denominator than provide personalized/individualized benefits in a manner that's fair to everyone.

- Insecure, distrusting managers promote bad office spaces like open plans, hot desking, etc. in order to better micro-manage their teams. Good managers can push back, but in practice the bad managers tend to be the squeaky wheels and get the grease.

I've worked for 10 different companies so far in my career. All but one I would consider a good company. But of those nine "good" companies, I have had one good office space. That's why I've been remote for the last 6 years. For me personally it was either go remote or leave the industry. I'm never making a open-plan or even cube-farm layout my primary working space again.
All DDR5 has ECC built into the modules.
The same question should apply to the increasing number of western dissidents.
Currently the compiler can choose to omit monomorphization, if the code is unused. If monomorphization can fail, the compiler needs to compute some unused monomorphizations, just to ensure they don't raise an error. This could hurt compile times. Otherwise you get compilation failures that depend on the exact way the compiler decides which monomorphizations are used. Plus otherwise semver compatible changes in a dependency can surface latent monomorphization failures, breaking the build.

However I do overall agree with you, that rust needs to accept post-monomorphization errors. I see no way to get usable const-generics otherwise.
The reality for me in what I guess you would call "weak organizations" has been that half of the tasks are expected to be trivial, non of them really are, all of them delay previously assigned tasks without this being acknowledged by the boss, and the boss makes it clear by their tone that they have no real interest in a follow up discussion which means everything you say to them about it may be pushing you towards the door.
While playing around with modern NetBSD on a system with just 10 megabytes of memory, I ended up getting and adding an m68881 just so that I could remove the floating point emulation code from the kernel to save a few kilobytes.

OTOH, who doesn't like to toy around with the power to do 100,000 floating point operations a second? ;)

I do hope the author figures out the cause. The issue is an interesting one.
Curious to know how many days/weeks it’ll take Netflix to transcode all their 4K shows from 265 4K to 264 4K. I mean, it’s gotta be more than 10 hours.
Offer a loop-hole?

If someone went as far as putting the money in an escrow account to buy out your asset, you could retroactively increase the declared value. This of course has a price: You need to retroactively pay the tax for a few years and a surcharge for the expenses of your buyer.

This could be repeated, similar to an auction.
The walls have another benefit: they act like noise canceling headphones for your eyes.

That’s one of the issues I have with open floor plan offices: people buzzing around in my peripheral vision can be incredibly distracting and detrimental to productivity depending on the day and my mental state, and there’s almost nothing that can be done to mitigate that.
Pakistan's Lahore is the latest megacity to shut down due to pollution
> Why would I be entitled to interrupt someone to review my code, just because they are sitting next to me?

Yes, and because your work depends on them.
That's not true at all. I've litigated patents owned by their inventors. It is true that small-time inventors often have to sell them because they cannot afford to enforce their own patents due to the high costs of litigating against a much larger commercial entity.

>In the modern world, the inventors often don't own the patents to their own inventions.

Right but that's most likely because of his employer... so it seems entirely besides the point of whatever principle you are tilting at.
If Linux was a commercial project we would have had to wait for this to go through a team of product managers, managers, organise a few meetings to prepare meetings to discuss the feature and then maybe few months a year down line it would be approved for work to start.
Disable stopping on breakpoints: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xr0X9.png
>They think they’ve insulated themselves from small asks because nobody wants to go through all the trouble of asking the question just right to get them to acknowledge it, but over time they build a reputation as difficult to work with.

Sounds like they're completely right, then. "Don't bother Steve unless you really need something from him", which is exactly what he wants.
A lot of people work virtually regardless of their location. You can return to the office but it doesn't stop. You still work as if it was remote because there will always be somebody in the meeting that isn't there. They could be at home, in a different building, or a vendor in another country.

Such is the consequence of complex organizations and outsourcing, as well as employees increasing demands to have a say in their schedule.

When you really think about it, collaboration is the problem rather than the solution. The modern distributed nature of work means that you need a huge amount of collaboration to even figure out what to do, when, and to resolve all dependencies.

So it's pretty maddening that managers call for more collaboration. We need less of it. The perfect workflow is where you tell me with clarity what to do, and then let me do it without distractions or changing everything halfway-through.

Modern employees spent half their time in email, chat and meetings. Not producing anything. And that's generous, quite a few have to find actual productive time in the fragmented 10% of their schedule. It's as if we've all become managers.
Very interesting. I'm wondering whether distance and "direction" are an issue here? That is: over large distances (how) would (light speed) latency translate into phase change if "downstream stabilization" suddenly becomes "upstream".

(Sorry for asking such a poorly stated question that I really haven't thought through — I know very little about electricity and you seem to understand quite a lot about this subject.)

Someone have a link to 101 power transmission? I find this fascinating.
> Understanding now hardware is used is very beneficial for programmers

I agree, but to say that all developers must know how AI benefits from GPUs is a different claim. One which is false. I would say most developers don't even understand how the CPU works, let alone modern CPU features like Data/Instruction Caching, SIMD instructions, and Branch prediction.

Most developers I encounter learned Javascript and make websites
But then how are they going to stay motivated and perform to their best??????? /s
KangarooTwelve: Fast hashing based on Keccak-p (2018)
Homes where one lives in are usually exempt from a lot of taxes in many jurisdictions of the world.

For rental properties, I'd love to see this happen, it would IMHO significantly drive down prices from the current overvaluation.
There's supposed to be an H.265 patent pool at the very least.
Rails really is the premiere framework for web development speed
I would love to see the EU’s Digital Markets Act be applied to YouTube. By all accounts, they are a gatekeeper of the user-generated video streaming market. The DML could enforce some increased level of interoperability. This would not only make youtube-dl legal, but also allow other platforms to sideload videos from YouTube.

I would love to see other streaming services offer access to videos on YouTube for cheaper. YouTube‘s premium tier is exorbitantly expensive.
Key sensor involved in detection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangmeter. Gotta love engineering humor.
As a consumerist society we sure choose slave made e-waste over "fairly sourced" tech like Fairphone. When's the last time we heard a peep from them?

It SHOULD be easier to make an industry of fairly-sourced tech than it is to make an industry of fairly sourced minerals.

But the tech industry makes far far more off of their slave labor than any mining industry, and the average person is far more likely to ignore the guilt of a device they need to use daily than a rock they wear occasionally.
Being empathetic doesn't mean you have to accept wrong definitions.