skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is.

The current generation of neural networks already seem to do pattern recognition better than humans. And that is all that is needed to press the brake in a dangerous situation. All that is needed is to train them on enough examples of different situations that occur on the road.
Indeed. My point is that the “job creator” argument is flip flopped depending on whatever is convenient.
As a new homeowner myself, this is a neat idea! I have a lot of notes of my house, etc but they are scattered everywhere in my almost 2k+ Apple notes, calendar (for logging) and Day One (for additional logging). I need a system.
Yes, extremely easy. ISPC emits objects and header files, which can be directly linked/included from C++. Dynamic dispatching happens automatically and the widest version of the called function gets selected according to the runtime architecture.
> The allocator can choose which part of the address space to fill.

No it can not. The allocator can request which part of the address space to fill, and the OS is completely free to ignore that request.

> It does not have to deal with "whatever the OS wants".

It absolutely does, the OS is ultimately who controls both the physical and virtual address spaces.

> Even if you have a 1:1 memory mapping, you can leave the applications that want small addresses at the start of memory.

Up until it’s all taken and then you can’t do that anymore.
How Many Bathrooms?
A brain teaser inspired by a Carnegie Mellon course on Machine Learning at scale. Give it a shot!
read the Twitter files.

Basicaly the government is embedded in all big tech and media and control the narative.
What stories are told what is suppressed, who get elected, etc.

Exposing it is bringing a lot of heat toward Musk
Well, I don't think I'd be much bothered if I'm honest. Instead of going to the mechanic's it just gets fixed while parked outside? I think I would prefer that to my Subaru.
What a fun story. Thanks for sharing :)
You are allowed to be inefficient with things you own. Again, shouldn't have sold the house if they wanted to keep control of it.
I love this quote! Truly makes sense and definitely encapsulates a lot of wisdom within it.
Snorri uses it in several sagas (given time I might look it up, but not now).

In the christian middle ages it could be used as a translation for the word for pirat. So talking about "the age of the vikings" is really like talking about "the age of the pirats", where the people themselves are norse, danes or swedes etc.
No they apply to Crimea, and Occupied Lughansk and Donbas
Robotaxis will bring down the price of rides. That means the number of rides will go up.

Less people will commute to work. But more people will meet for a coffee and order stuff online which then gets delivered in 30 minutes by a robotaxi.
Somewhat pedantic but relevant. A branch is a single commit. There aren't different commits _in_ a branch to checkout.

Regardless, if you are asking whether you can check out commit that doesn't have a branch pointing at it, yes you can.

You can have a work tree for every commit in your repository if you like.
People lose cash too.
That's why comparing revenue to profits to valuation to GDP doesn't make any sense at all.
I assume it was wired up in series to measure current.
Here the west means white males with a right-wing mindset. Other people don't deserve Elon and don't matter.
Having a monitor is easier than constantly reflashing for every little change. (back in the days of EPROMs, much easier)
Hi devs,

I see a lot more of us love images. The more beautiful and visually appealing they are, the more eye-catching they become.

Especially when we use stock images, we often overlook the size and file format, assuming that the browser will handle the bandwidth and rendering. However, this is not advisable, especially when building an application that will experience a significant amount of traffic in future.

I have noticed that many SaaS apps now keep their images in .webp format. This was new to me because we are all familiar with .jpg, .png, .svg, and .gif formats.

For example, a food delivery app will store all the dish images from restaurants in webP format, considering the large number of images that need to be loaded within the app.

Using the WebP format actually reduces the image size while maintaining the same resolution, resulting in a better visual experience for the users.

How? I have explained in the blog.
Does the algorithm keep a classical reference to the end node? If so, it sounds like that would be an O(sqrt(m)) classical speedup as now you can do a double-ended search which reduces depth by 1/2 -> O(2^(x/2)) in classical performance.
Not OP but mr Munger and Buffet have also held steady course in an increasingly hype driven financial world.

And they've stayed course since the 60s!

For that alone they've become (cult) legends among small time investors. As a small time investor myself born in the 90s it is insane the amount of bullsh*t social media will push onto you regarding finance.

Their annual meetings where they answer questions are some of the only sane financial advice to be found on YouTube.
And just like whoever finds that cash, Starbucks gets to use the gift card money.
The Moccamaster is well built and looks classic, but it’s a _very_ barebones machine. No thermos flask, no programming, minimal controls.
You forgot: the telemetry guy (Leo) didn't mention they had lost Telemetry before the storyteller told him he did a mistake. I mean shouldn't they have cancelled all testing until they have it back?
> Honestly this kind of mindset is a huge problem in the US.

It sounds like less of a problem than its opposite: "Nothing matters but how much money I can make."
Unity apparently had no clue what to do with the toolset when they had the team that built it, you can imagine what they will do with it now without the team. Weta sure isn't re-buying it because they already have it. It's been literally a 1.6B gift to Peter Jackson?
Good idea

The cynic in me, says entropy will destroy your house and your documentation

… but I also read a touching comment on this thread to the contrary, so what do I know :)
The default settlement account, Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund, has incredibly low credit risk because its assets are short-term US Federal gov debt and Federal Reserve repurchase agreements. [1] Neither of those entities have substantial default risk. Further, the global financial chaos of significant defaults from either of those entities would likely render FDIC insurance ineffective because too many banks would fail simultaneously due to their assets in those classes.

[1] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
Someone Has Likely Already Written Your Blog Post
I use reviews because life is too short. There will be more books I don't read than books I do. However, I've found that a mere recommendation from a geek is enough to find good science fiction. I don't have to read long or professional reviews. For films I have to use reviews, though. What the general public recommend tends to be completely crap for some reason.
Completely. You’re messing around and next thing you know you own Twitter.
Text files printed out in an easy to access location. Don't complicate the lives of those coming after you.
> The way we grow silicon crystals is already very efficient and would not be improved by this sort of thing. We grow them by pulling a seed

One interesting remaining unsolved problem is highly homogenous doping. Such silicon is needed for very high-current and high-voltage switching (like invertors on large wind turbines or HVDC power lines).

Creating it is so hard that we have to use FREAKING NUKES.

Seriously, a chunk of pure silicon is irradiated by neutrons in a reactor, transmuting some silicon atoms into phosphorus. It's apparently the only way to do it, which has always seemed wild to me.
There's not even a contradiction there, let alone flip flopping: That businesses create jobs doesn't imply that job creation is their primary purpose, and getting two different answers to two different questions from two different people simply is not flip flopping.
99% as a score of this reproducible ad blocker test. You can see the individual tests on the site. I'm not saying it's a gold standard or anything, just a tool I happen to use. And you're right, passive tracking is a b.tch :)
Great write-up. My two favorite quotes:

> I had learned from countless experiences in this and other projects that bad news doesn’t get better with age

That's so true! We tend to sit on bad news and hope that somehow time will blunt them; but if anything the opposite happens.

And

> I still remember the shock when Project Manager Pete delivered the decision and the follow-on news: ‘These tests will continue. And Chris [the author] will continue to lead them as we have paid for his education. He’s the last person on Earth who would make this mistake again.’

We sometimes think people who made one mistake will make another one, and it's better to go with the person who doesn't make mistakes. But that's not the correct approach. People who don't make mistakes are often people who don't do anything.
Their entire marketing shtick is that you're getting an Apple Card, rather than any random MasterCard or GS card. Just look at this page https://www.apple.com/apple-card/, if they brand it so prominently as their own, they should also own the problems.
“Use CDK”
Thanks, I got excited quite a bit as I tend to like Jetbrains products!
Google and Apple, the Beginning – Asymco
Here's the reason why this is totally wrong advice:

1) Time is important, there's ageism in tech and you need to plan your career wisely - no one is going to do it for you. The best way to learn is to get hired ASAP and get professional experience.

2) College degree is very important. In this market, people are struggling to get jobs with experience & degrees. You just have much less likelier chance of success without a degree. This appears all the time, even actual prodigies like George Hotz are overcompensating and always appear eager to prove that they have the fundamentals down like a CS grad.

3) Moving fast into building things which generate hype is the best course of action for young people

I know a friend that got to interview stage with a FAANG they told him the position was for university degree holders. This is an old essay and I'd always take with a grain of salt what people say versus how the reality is. It's very easy to get wrong advice that's no longer applicable.
Agreed. That goes for a lot of things. Around here there's a huge film festival once a year, thousands of visitors plus the town's population will fill the streets and watch movies all day and late night. What I've found is that it's pointless to read the daily updates by critics in the newspapers. It's like they're nearly always completely disconnected from what's actually good, for most people. As I'll have to shotgun-shop tickets during the festival week it's a good idea to have some indication of what I'll choose - as these are almost always totally unknown movies (and in general no Hollywood movies).

What works, for me and many others, is to simply listen to what people are telling each other while hanging around in a cafe or walking in the streets. Then pick movies from that. If they recommend a movie, get a ticket. I've watched astounding movies that way. In contrast, the critics.. meh. Most of the time.

One more thing about critics.. occasionally there's a little introduction by someone before the movie starts. If that person happens to be a critic then there's only one thing to do: Plug your ears and sing "nananana" to yourself until he or she is done. EVERY critic seems to have this extreme urge to reveal crucial parts of the plot. Only the critics do this, other people don't.
Me too. I did this for Lord of the Rings. It didn't spoil anything!
There must be more people like you in those major airlines, as those sites go down all the damn time. 6 hours..??? The lufthansa desktop site didn't allow anyone book anything for like 3 weeks straight, you had to use the app instead.
You‘re points are fair. What I respect about Buffett and Munger is that they seem to do the best they can with the money they have made. They could have bought multiple yaughts, but instead spend their time reading and trying to make the world a better place. Munger, for example, has bought a ranch and donated it to a university so that students have cheap living for the next 100 years [1]. As far as I know, he doesn’t brag about this. Also, what I respect about Munger is that he was a flawed human, but he clearly did his best, pointed out fraud when he saw it, and didn’t spend his money on look-at-me-now purchases.

[1]: https://www.independent.com/2018/12/12/ucsb-gifted-las-varas...
I think, as Cruise found out, you can't have priors for everything (eg. don't drag a pedestrian you ran over down the road).
> They want to be doing higher value networking

Same as any ISP or telco, and all we want is for them to be a dumb pipe.
They are planning a new cheaper model which will allow them to offer a car to a lower priced market. Also, Tesla buyers are very loyal so they will get a lot of sales when existing owners get new cars https://jalopnik.com/tesla-buyers-are-remarkably-loyal-to-th.... And BEVs are still the fastest growing segment of the market, but not even 10% share yet, so there is the other 90% of the market to go after.

Not sure why you bring up interest rates as a weakness when Tesla is the least dependent on debt of all the major car companies. High interest rates will be much more of a burden on their leveraged competitors. Same thing with the price deflation. Yes, that will hurt Tesla's profits, but it will hurt competitors that are selling BEVs at a loss even more.
Hell, I used to worry about down time for my tiny blog. Didn't want to let down my readers.

Everything can be a guilt trip if you try hard enough.

Then I met a guy, now a good friend, that made me do my first "pull the plug migration" on his most important website. He lived on this.

I looked at the site going down, horified. He mocked me, then proceeded with the udate. It didn't work. The site stayed offline for hours.

Then it worked again. And nobody cared. It had zero consequences on traffic.

User were pissed off for a few hours, and life goes on.
You still don't get it. If a product requires so many fuxes after being shipped, it was not fully developed when shipped, and defective in tip of it. Hardware ain't software, and those recalls are just the peak of the iceberg, because a lot smaller issues come along withbsaid bad engineering that cannot be fixed with a recall: suspension, power train...

And the latter already shows in data published by the German TÜV (cars here get an official road safety check every two years, the results of which are being aggregated by brand and model and published regularly): Teslas are among the cars with the highest failure rates for cars older then three years.
Who’s bullish or bearish on Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)?
The degree of singular outrage this guy produces is something else. It's like a switch flips in peoples' brains and they go through a two-minutes (or maybe two hours in this article's case) hate session when they comment about him. Who else has gone from such adoration from the general internet to such revulsion?
I remember when the ID.3 was announced it was promised at that price point.
> His words reflect an ancient Jewish figure of speech for the impossible

The article claims that the Gospels are the oldest known use of the figure of speech.
I wonder why Prometheus/Grafana are so popular in the monitoring stack. They seem to promote a culture of 'Hang a screen over there and stare at it'. I always have to do a lot of work finetuning them, and some important metric will be missing.

My experience with zabbix was just the opposite, BTW. Ugly, but practical. The defaults let you quickly set up monitoring, and then nagstamon or other alerting allows you to forget it exists until bad things happen. Then you browse trough the templated graphs where a spartan but interesting indicator of what happens will exist somewhere
This guy asserts that Google has the best code development process in the world but I don't think it is true.
The problems with the title claim as others have commented aside, this is actually a good article about how the "vikings" were called and conceived in the various parts of the world where they became known - primarily for their barbaric violence and war prowess.

The vikings are probably the closest thing we have to understanding the nature of the Yamnaya culture rapid expansion in Europe some millennia prior, where the preexisting male lineages in the conquered lands all but disappeared.
There's one CEO, and n employees. The one will always receive preferred treatment, over the many. Is it pretty fucked up that 1+1=2? Both are constants in the universe.

Whether he did a good job is irrelevant, he did a job and got paid for it. It'd be pretty fucked up if the board hired him, then didn't pay him per contract.
Thanks. I detest that guy's stuff, but didn't know how to say so as nicely as you did.
> Fwiw, Without detail, your comment is automatically presumed in category 2

I presume only by people who don't know what yellow journalism is as I was quite clear as to why I believe the guardian to be a failing rag.
No, it only implies that the budget is currently structured to offload the costs of running the prison onto the prisoners.
Linux was NEVER a fork of MINIX. That is just false. Linus developed Linux in response to the experience he had with MINIX - but there is no MINIX code in Linux and never was.
Actually true in a technical sense. At least for Starbucks, their gift cards don't expire anywhere globally. In accounting terms though, the company still reduces the value of its gift card liability every year by about 10-15% [1], and claims that this is based on historical data.

Now clearly, there are circumstances in which banks do something similar and close accounts of account holders that are unknown. However, if that occurred at even one hundredth of the Starbucks breakage rate, all regulatory hell would break loose on the bank.

[1] Starbucks reports breakage of around $212.7m in FY22 ($181.1m in FY21). Their liabilities to Stored Value Cards are $1,641m and $1,596m respectively, coming out to a breakage ratio of 13.0% and 11.4% respectively.
And those people deserve to be rid of their money.
PgAdmin 4 v8.0
I am not from USA, so what is the difference between prison and jail?
3 is not required. Multiple steps with no negatives is sufficient.
> The ‘rope’ theory is one of a couple of tactics for softening Jesus’ condemnation of wealth-hoarding.

I don’t see that the message is particularly changed either way. It seems like if I hyperbolically said I had a million things to do or a billion, either way it’s not really like you’d assume one meant I wasn’t all that busy.
Absolutely. They are in the cloud.
No, there's around 500 known asteroids with moons, according to the article. This is just the 2nd main-belt asteroid with moon discovered using the occultation method used here.
The ability to scale is independent from the cost to build / change that thing.
Natural light, fresh air, second means of egress, bla bla.

The egregious thing is it tries to solve a complex problem by overweighting a single aspect. It’s like if you wanted to make a safer car by building it out of 500mm thick concrete. Oh, it’d be safe alright, but slow, wallowy, dangerous for others, poor gas mileage. Fast downhill, I guess. Wouldn’t be any better as an EV. It might be good for a few people, apparently.
The more Elon talks about something you know about, the more you realise he's not a tech genius, far from it, but he is a powerful momentum guy. By that I mean that he seems to have a compulsive need to constantly push himself and his companies forward as aggressively as possible, regardless of methods & outcome. That's definitely a skillset that CEOs need but I'd never want to be anywhere near Elon's version of it. Other CEOs manage to do the same without causing the same level of damage that Elon leaves in his wake.
Said another way the risk/reward of Musk is out the ordinary.

We are too afraid and slow, he is pushing forward faster (and breaking things too)

I still can't believe were we are with NASA in 2023 having gone to the moon in 1969 with tech soo far away from what we have now.

Without people pushing things we are falling backward in almost all areas beside informatics.
If you want to go fancy, get a bigger node and self-host GitLab.
exactly my point ;)
glad to see PipeWire declaring itself production-ready, and I mostly agree:

Lack of S/PDIF was one of the many reasons I switched away from Fedora to Windows for a year (the others include power management, Nvidia, a few USB-C devices, MSVC, HDR, wireless game controllers, and audio equipment that doesn't run so well via Wine). I never noticed echo cancellation, but that's because I switched to using a USB lav mic years ago.

It's good to see rapid progress in these areas, although I wish there was a more intuitive and likely graphical setup for Pipewire/Wireplumber. (I haven't checked for the last year, maybe it's happened?)

Yesterday, I plugged in a single-sink, single-source USB audio device---the Shure MVX2U---using an up-to-date Fedora 39. It's an XLR/USB adapter that basically lets you plug in any standard professional microphone into a USB port. While there are two USB endpoints---one for config and the other for class-compliant audio---it's a really simple device.

On my Android phone? Works. On Windows? Works. On Linux? Fail.

No matter what audio driver I use, the sample frequency is off by 2x causing stuttering and playback that is an octave higher than recorded. Beyond that, the configuration software running in Wine doesn't detect the USB endpoint used to set gain, EQ, compression, monitor volume, etc. (I've already captured all of the config packets and hope to one day get around to writing a Python-based config client.)

So ... back to the regular grind of figuring out which group is actually responsible for unexpected device behavior, submitting bug reports, researching which workaround or conf file or udev rule or group membership is responsible for improperly matching sample rate and passing config data to the interface, and more complaining about how desktop Linux still falls short of expectations despite near-universal (albeit well deserved) praise of Pipewire, Wayland, Flatpak, Wine, and other modern improvements, and then getting chastised for not doing my part to contribute---despite the aforementioned USB capture and chipping away at each part in my spare time: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2595361#note_1620254493

P.S. while it would be nice to pin this on Shure, they're slow enough to release software and firmware upgrades for PC/Mac that would affect all end users (hanging software, audio distortion, high noise floor that's probably filterable, making the monitor sink disable-able, porting this adapter to their existing Android app). No one else makes an inline XLR-to-USB device. I guess it's on me or some other poor chap to get this device working on Linux until Shure gets caught by the competition (probably Behringer---yuck)
I Pick up the book in the book store, open the middle and start reading. If I'm still reading it 5 minutes later, I'm buying.

It really is that easy.
While technically correct, I wish everyone would stop calling DDoS attacks "cyberattack". When I saw the headline I envisioned a supply-chain attack and was half-expecting that I'd need to reinstall my machine and rotate all credentials.

In 99% of cases, a DDoS is much less concerning than most other kinds of attacks.