skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still think that, as a concept, it's dumb as shit, even thought it was profitable for me. I just got lucky.

What, specifically, do you find dumb as shit? I don't want to come across as confrontational here, but it's difficult to gauge how much a person knows about blockchain, its uses, current pitfalls, and the technology's mission. And these conversations usually end up in one of two ways for me depending upon how much the person on the other end actually knows. Either they know next to nothing besides how to buy and sell it, in which case, the conversation almost always tends to lean into pointless vitriol; or they actually know a lot about the current crypto industry, see it for all its weaknesses and none of the potential, and are willing to have a civil conversation.

Frankly, like the other user, I'm in the boat of thinking that our current financial system is in desperate need of some kind of overhaul. Blockchain/crypto could be a part of that overhaul, but doesn't necessarily have to be. But it's clear to me that something needs to change.

Anyway, I'm just always curious about other people's thoughts. I'd say the majority of people I talk to on this topic though just jump straight to abusing the person that's pro-blockchain-as-a-concept without having substantial reason for disliking it besides:

1) it's a huge waste of the world's non-renewable energy resources, which is not necessarily true, it's mostly only true for blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum PoW, there are blockchains that require substantially fewer resources to be a player on the chain.

2) That crypto prices fluctuate too much when cashing back out to fiat. This argument seems short-sighted, because in a possibly ideal situation you would never need to liquidate to a fiat. In an possible future (for blockchain) you would be able to pay for your morning coffee at a PoS terminal using your crypto wallet directly and there's possibly a government system that lays out the purchasing power of a coin. I use the word "possibly" a lot here to point out that there are probably competing theories on ideal implementations of crypto as a general and worldwide currency.

3) That the transactions per second (TPS) that a blockchain can handle aren't comparable to systems like VISA. That seems true, for now. Blockchain is still very much in the early stages of development, culturally and technologically. Keep in mind, fiat currencies have been around for nearly a millennia. A technical solution to replace an ancient system needs engineering time and public adoption.

If you have other reasons for thinking blockchain/cryptocurrency is dumb as shit, I'm very interested. And genuinely, I'm not being sardonic or anything else when I say that.
It's not Itanic if it doesn't sink at the end.
> KDE isn't too buggy, GNOME is a complete disaster.

What did the author mean by this? Don't know much about Wayland other than it is window system, replacing x11.

KDE Plasma wiki[1] says, "KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the graphical workspaces environment created by KDE....KDE Plasma 5 uses the X Window System and Wayland."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Plasma_5
Manufactured in China is not a problem for non manufacturing oriented ventures, as I said it's like Apple. Though for EV, non manufacturing oriented EV car venture could be a nonsense.
Everything! Check in your OS's system files! Build a new PC with parts identical to the one you're building on! Build many of them, one for each commit, and put them all in a warehouse!
Can any device ever be intelligent, according to you?
Do you mean this one: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kF1PuDcgMotp91JR7?g_st=ic I am sure I am missing few details never having driven through it, but looks like pretty standard highway interchange. For comparison, here is the one I navigate regularly and would describe as mildly challenging: https://maps.app.goo.gl/S4zX6rXJt8dpBXig6?g_st=ic
Is there anything in the FAQ that isn't in the official documentation? I glanced through both and it seems like all the information is in the docs, in a structured form rather than a loose Q&A format.
Why should we save anything on Itanium?
It looks like something I would build in Cities Skylines - but I'm sure it's not that bad in real life once everybody gets used to it and will make things better in the long term.
Melbourne was designed and sits on a flat pancake of land.

Sydney grew largely organically and is smeared across countless fjord-type bays and stew hills.
I'll wait for software that's not built for Red Hat/IBM/GNOME, thanks.

XDG has gone off the rails with 'portals' and other needless obfuscation of their desktop stack.

If I had the financial security I'd write better alternatives, meant for communities instead of whatever Red Hat wants.
Scorched earth had lost most of its military significance by WW2. The USSR tried it in 1941, but it failed, because trucks had revolutionized warfare. They could transport food over long distances, allowing armies go to places where they previously couldn't and stay there.

In 1812, Napoleon suffered huge losses in the first weeks of the invasion, before fighting a single major battle. His army could not find enough food in Russia. In 1941, the total number of Axis military deaths during Operation Barbarossa was comparable to what Napoleon suffered in those first weeks, despite many battles and much larger scale. When the invasion failed, the troops mostly just stayed there and tried again next year.
Then they'd just get a "signing bonus" of two years salary. You cannot easily legislate around this.
Say the Melbournians as they huddle in their laneways holding flat whites and cursing the terrible weather, while Sydneysiders are out surfing at the beach on yet another glorious sunny day.
Yes, parenthood is intense, both both ways. It intensifies the highs and the lows. There's more strain and there's more joy.

And there's a lot less strain when moving out of nuclear family structures. It all becomes easier for the children and the parents.
Melbourne has more letters in it's name. That's a clear win right there.
> assuming the sample sizes are statistically significant

Nitpick: should read "assuming the sample sizes provide sufficient statistical power"
What a refreshingly honest commit message. The corporate over-professional dribble on work commit messages is so bland by comparison. That being said, I'm still left wondering if Wayland support on one of my projects is a problem.
I suspect that, at least when pitched by GW Bush, the capital costs would have reduced or eliminated profitability. (And maybe not just capital? I wouldn’t be surprised if intermittently operated equipment fouls as or more quickly than continuously operated equipment, so opex may not scale down all the way with utilization.)
The damage from either category pales to comparison to the damage made by smart people - especially smart powerful people with good intentions.
The internet usage that keeps you in shape
impossible to find? we even have suggestions from nutrition orgs. that moving to a plant based diet can save us billions of dollars because health will improve!

apart from health, we already know that plants are more efficient than meat by an order of magnitude, any day, any time & don't cite "places that we can't raise crops" because that doesn't cut our consumption rate... unless you are living at and like a rural Kazakhstan citizen.
there are 20,000 edibles plants so far, why do we need meat and cheese?

and i can't see much of a flame wars regarding this. the only people defending its practice are those using it.
bad science is everywhere and taking down conclusions by playing the victim of a flame wars is to support absurd practices. like the 21st century psychoanalysis (which couldn't prove itself better than placebo), homeopathy dissolving doses of medicine in bazillions of liters (seriously?) etc.

it feels that socially we are dumb enough (to not know even how to communicate) that less than 100 years ago we throw 2 nuclear bombs on human settlements, we made propaganda of cigarettes with Tour de France cyclists and so on.
~ 500 years ago we reached America rapping people and building churches to talk about heaven
PulseAudio got hate because of the trouble it caused. PipeWire seems less likely to create gigabytes of logging without reporting issues.

There are reasons that things get opposed. It isn't just some irrational juju feeling.
There is no de-facto Wayland software like there is the X.org server. Wayland is just a protocol—KDE and GNOME (through Mutter) both implement it. The author is saying that KDE did so better than GNOME.
Yes. The concentrations of the antibiotics are too low to select for resistance, because they do not significantly affect bacterial growth. (Without selection, no resistance).
> the current decision makers only have power because other people trust them voluntarily.

Not really. Plenty of EU citizens don't trust Microsoft, Google or Apple. But there's no practical alternative. The government of an individual EU country has a lot more accountability than that.
>machine learning platforms

Machine learning platforms become obsolete.

Machine learning algorithms and ideas don't. If learning SVN or Naive Bayes did not teach you things that are useful today, you didn't learn anything.
Quite a lot of techniques in deep learning have stood the test of time at this point. Also new techniques are developed either depending on or trying to solved deficiencies in old techniques. For example Transformers were developed to solve vanishing gradients in LSTMs over long sequences and improve GPU utilization since LSTMs were inherently sequential in the time dimension.
Everybody says this, including stupid ones.

and yes: everybody think the stupids are the others.
If you're concerned about bloating your Git repository with non-unique binary files (as you should be) a trick I've used in the past that worked really well was to have a separate project-dependencies Git repository that all of my dependencies lived in.

I was working with Python, so this was effectively a Git-backed cache of the various .tar.gz and .whl files that my project depended on.

This worked, and it gave me reassurance that I'd still be able to build my project if I couldn't download packages from PyPI... but to be honest these days I don't bother, because PyPI has proven itself robust enough that it doesn't feel worth the extra effort.

I keep meaning to set myself up a simple S3 bucket somewhere with my PyPI dependencies mirrored there, just in case I ever need to deploy a fix in a hurry while PyPI is having an outage.
is this associated with vehicle tracking by license plate, 24x7x365, by any chance? In San Diego County it is, same vendors most likely.
Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories transform RTX cards into AI accelerators
I wonder if using APIs was more of a first to market move
Teaching Javascript as part of a core curriculum (i.e. a course everybody has to take) would be a lost cause, because the syntax makes it completely unapproachable.

And that's before you have to explain how some interactive functionality exists in plain HTML/CSS (accordions, hover states, animations), but in order to attach them to button clicks, you suddenly need a programming language with a largely unforgiving syntax (an errant comma after the final object property) and behaviours (event.preventDefault).

And if you manage to wade through all that, and are ready to build a modern program, you would then be told to learn about React, the shadow DOM and server-side JS, another 3 things that don't look like anything you previously learned.
I wonder if that's due to this bug?

It's definitely possible. Once we get this bug patched I'll definitely be updating the builders.
Are you unfazed by numbers? If you're unfazed by them, please link me to photos of the front and back of your credit cards. If you are fazed by numbers, surely we should be banning them from being displayed at bus kiosks.

If you find states of undress offensive, that's a you problem. Shield your eyes, not ours.
Another data point, the top AskReddit posts of the past year [0].

Zero of the top 25 posts of the last twelve months are younger than five months. Two of the top 50 posts are younger than five months.

Comments (using subredditstats from a sister comment) have gone from around 70k per day to around 12k per day.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/top/?sort=top&t=year
> being written in Rust it's more likely to attract contributions from people doing it in their free time.

Ah, because there are no Rust jobs? duck
Can someone please quantify for me, approx how many minutes from 90-100% for a given Tesla model?
Briefly: it's a big lift for all the different desktop environments (DE) to move from X11 to Wayland. Lots of moving parts; re-implementing and re-factoring is needed.
This is a strawman. You're extending their argument to an extreme so it sounds silly when it's not what has been proposed.

The argument is clearly to keep direct dependencies required for building in source control so that if you have a working build system, you can build the software indefinitely and independently from the internet.

Build systems and operating systems don't disappear overnight. Leftpad does.
Ask HN: What is being a "Scrum Master" like?
Hi crowd!

After 13 years in software development, and more than two decades of working with code, I'm currently considering changing my direction. I get no joy any longer from staring at code eight hours a day. I noticed that I like everything that revolves around team dynamics, though. How people interact with each other. And how communication could work out. How to improve it. Mediate, if necessary. However, I still also love thinking about the product itself.

On the horizon, a scrum master position is appearing. After a brief discussion, it's apparent that my current employer will support me. Currently, it's only about trying things out.

But I wonder what makes being a scrum master a full-time job. Of course I've seen several scrum masters in the past decade. Are there any people here, that made the transition from being a developer to becoming a scrum master? What are your experiences?

Thank you, and please keep it civil in the comments.
All machine learning is Hopf convolution, analogous to renormalization. This should come as no surprise, renormalization can be modeled via the Ising model which itself is closely related to Hopfield networks which are recurrent networks.
For me there’s a big red banner at the top of the page stating that I can even save 84%!
RNNs have "lost the hardware lottery" by being structurally not that efficient to train on the cost-effective hardware that's available. So they're not really used for much right now - though IMHO they are conceptually sufficiently interesting enough to cover in such a course.
No one is smoking?
> Go learn vcpkg and come back to us when you learn why everyone does it this way.

IMO it's mostly because of a culture of laziness among system programmers. They like to kick the ball down the road and make dependency management the distro's problem. Too many embedded engineers not being paid enough. When you are building a product you shouldn't be wasting your time on this sort of "make work" that reinvents the wheel multiple times. Come to the machine learning world and everything including the kitchen sink and graphic drivers are bundled in the build because otherwise your deployment won't work and you can't afford to pay engineers that cost half a mil a year to spend their time fiddling with deployment binaries.
KDE and GNOME roll their own wayland libs for their compositor.

These have varying levels of quality with their own unique quirks and bugs. The "gold standard" for wayland at the moment is wlroots which is what basically every other wayland compositor uses. PCSX2 apparently works perfectly fine on wlroots based compositors but has some quirks with KDE wayland and is nigh unusable with GNOME's super janky wayland implementation.
I switched from social media overall to reading books.
Are we subjecting ourselves to the sunk cost fallacy with Wayland? It's been "almost ready" for 6 or 7 years at this point.
add this to the list https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
IMO the problem isn’t the batteries per se. Those 6kWh or so of batteries should be under $1k wholesale. The balance of the system is egregious markup, packaging, safety certification, the mess that results in no one’s batteries interoperating well with anyone else’s equipment, etc.

Cutting even 50% off the cells won’t help much.

(Hmm. Maybe Na-ion will end up with a nice discharge curve so that one can actually parallel or, better, series-connect a bunch of batteries, use an external BMS without fancy per-cell connections, and get good results. Despite the number of vendors selling two-terminal LiFePO4 batteries with internal BMSes, they really don’t work well. Lead acid, for all its faults, works fine with dumb batteries.)
I'll just wait for the S-1 investor disclosures they put out prior to their IPO.
The vast majority of users today run a hybrid of Wayland and XWayland... Getting the worst of both worlds, and extra bugs to go on top...
The Cygwin issue isn't strings (well, that could be another issue) but that Rust doesn't support Cygwin in the first place, at least according to the comments in the linked thread.
So too, the appreciation of excellence
I still use it daily. It seems the same to me as it was. Maybe some subreddits no longer exist, but as I predicted they were just replaced with other similar subreddits to fill the gap. But realistically they were totally fungible anyways, so it’s not as if I care that I’m seeing videos on “r/video” or r/videos” or something else. I don’t notice any increase in spam, which was a big “you better agree to to our demands or else” point.

Anecdotally scanning the main comments in the all subreddits, I don’t see any change in number of comments anyways. Honestly without quantitative data on comment quality or comment numbers, I’d be skeptical of bias by anyone willing their pet desired outcome from api changes into existence.
At the top of the page:

> Heads up! This data is likely out of date or inaccurate now that Reddit has decided to kill the open ecosystem that existed around Reddit. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing
I mean, if you're the military, this might be the right answer. If you're making a personal web site, probably not.
Slippery slope. Personally I’m okay with no pure, low effort humor posts on here. Besides, one person’s joke is another person’s eye roll.
Redgate Software may fit?

https://www.red-gate.com/

https://www.red-gate.com/our-company/

https://www.red-gate.com/products/

I've known about them for some years. No affiliation, but I check them out now and then out of interest.

Earlier they may have been only for MS SQL Server, but now, on a quick look, seem to have Oracle related products too.

Earlier
Reddit opened up a world of computer programming to me back in 2007. I read blogs and books I'd never of heard of otherwise. It expanded my world view. I wish I'd been reading it when I was 14 instead of 25 after I finished university (I scrapped by in a shitty IT degree). I would have focused on maths and programming. It expanded my world view and opened me up to a lot of good influences.

Yeah it has an addictive dark side. Also most of the user comments went to shit years ago. But overall a net win for me.
And for those who are also on Emacs but on the Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel side of the fence, there's counsel-rg.

I use it since before burntsushi (who's here on HN btw)'s ripgrep was shipped with Debian stable!

> search your whole project with ripgrep and get a live preview of every matching candidate all inside of Emacs

I'm sometimes searching not just my project but my entire user dir or my entire shared drive, from Emacs. A NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (I'm using a WD SN850X which someone here recommended to me when I assembled my PC) is that fast and ripgrep too.
I guess I was expecting things like the wheel, lever, and pulley.
For me at least, it gave me the motivation to launch. I had been working on a Reddit-like platform for several years, and didn't really have pressure to launch. There was always "one more thing" to build. I was pretty stunned with the positive response to it on HN[0]. With Apollo going down as well, I've since been creating an iOS app for the site fairly heavily inspired by it[1], and hired a dev as well.

Traffic has since died down heavily (I'm down to 40 subscribers from a peak of 120 during the HN launch), but it still motivates me knowing there's at least a desire for something similar (and hopefully better).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695

[1] https://non.io/Nonio-ios-app-designs-November-update
This subject was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38287095
Are there any good apps that allow you to add bookmarks to zotero from a phone? For example, I would like to easily bookmark websites that I come across in a HN app. I found Zoo for Zotero but it is pretty clunky in this respect.
Is it going to be a problem for your Windows/Linux developers that someone committed a node_modules with macOS-only binaries inside?
Nix (https://nix.dev/) can provide all of this, although in a smarter way than just through dumping everything in the VCS. Some projects use it already to provide a reproducible development environment and if done right a clean build is just a `nix-build` away.
Because for some reason, Intel still made Itanium chips for the niche of the niche market all the way to 2020. Credit to Intel I suppose - even when the platform died early, they didn’t leave the few people who bought in high and dry.

But even then, why would you care when Linux 6.1 from December 2022 is a SLTS release (Super LTS), with support until 2033…
> If there only was a system that could automatically disconnect

Or just use wireless charging, then there are no cables.

Wireless charging for EVs can be efficient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1gaNO9nj0

And wired charging is not as efficient as you might think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmIIe9N_aI
>Or get into a more specialized of software engineering that requires more skill (which is of course not that easy!)

IMHO, be of a mindset that you're willing to specialize virtually anywhere, with the awareness that specialization can itself be a double-edged sword. AI if used correctly can help you learn faster and be more productive.

Right now humans are the glue for AI. That's probably not changing any time soon; software as a whole was a mess prior and it's even messier now. If it does change and the industry ends up wholesale unemployed, then you can probably expect most white collar jobs to follow suit, with everything shortly thereafter once general purpose robotics are fully online.

I don't think that's happening any time soon, and if it does society as a whole may have a huge problem on its hands (or everyone's quality of life gets better, who knows).
Well not like ALL animals, since not all animals act the same way. I don't expect we are like fish, that (some?many?most?) are abandoned as eggs to make it on our own, or like sharks that have two wombs and the mama-shark keeps generating eggs to feed the two stronger babies (one in each womb).

I assume that those who "group" us based on similarities on the behavior and manner we raise our offspring must have use some logic to the process.
I have to say, that's pretty darn amazing because I thought surely it couldn't possibly get any worse, but then somehow it still did.
if diversity makes them uncomfortable maybe they deserve to be left behind
The problem isn't the regular drivers getting used to it over time. It's the inexperienced drivers using this junction for the first time that are at risk of getting confused and cause an accident.

Road infra should require zero "getting used to" and should be as boring and unsurprising as possible. Anything else is an accident waiting to happen.