skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know lots of design folks that contribute to FOSS projects-- they just contribute as developers. The "unicorn" moniker for hybrid designers/developers is bullshit. You might not get a designer that's going to rewrite your embedded system firmware, but I'm a college-trained designer that was a full time web developer for 10 years.

None of the other designers + experienced coders I know contributes design to FOSS projects because the process is just so miserable. You constantly have to justify the very basic value of design contributions only to have it rejected, or completely chopped up by someone else who has no understanding of what you conceptually contributed. It's completely demoralizing.

And as a long-time developer, I get the frustration with design. Sometimes design choices seem completely arbitrary or superfluous to developers... though the root of that is developers often a) assume they know enough about design to critique it, and b) assume that design is purely aesthetic when UI/UX designers often don't even consider aesthetic concerns even if they have related training-- it's all about workflows, telling users what they need to know to solve their problems while keeping the cognitive and visual load low enough to not slow them down, and giving them the appropriate controls to do what they need to do. If your crowd is developers, then the interfaces might even look like what the developers would make-- their mental model essentially equates the GUI to a thin wrapper around a back-end API which actually does the work. To the 95% of other potential users, the interface is the tool. Interfaces are all about communication, and much the same way technical writers are way better at making end-user tutorials than developers are, designers are way better at figuring out how to communicate functionality, intent, and information to non-technical users.
You can make a reference oscillator almost as precise as an atomic clock with a temperature compensated crystal oscillator. They cost tens of dollars.

We've also been synchronizing grid generation since long before spaceflight. It seems that the core problems here have been solved a long time ago.

Then again, I don't know much about the grid at this scale. I very much doubt that a few PPM phase difference would actually matter, but I don't really know.

Either way, it still seems insane to rely on GPS for your sole source of truth, even with its remarkable reliability.
It's not. As explained in the article, big dogs'short lifespan is an anomaly brought on by breeding for one trait (size). This has no application whatsoever to human lifespan.
Sorry, I have to counter you. Because someone close to me has always been about countering survivorship bias. And they have absolutely ruined their life. It's an easy out that people who are sharing their successes with you and the world have a survivorship bias. This is a fairly recent idea and quite a poison in itself.

What it actually preaches is don't look and emulate the successful people in your environment and society as this is all based on luck. Can't disagree more
What narrative is that?
> bboygravity is right.

So you're saying I (or whoever) can can buy shares for less in one of the "dark pools" and sell them on the market and make free money?
The nuclear deaths, unlike all the other sources, also ignores rest of system deaths (e.g. mining, enrichment, transport, construction and decommissioning accidents). Once you include those it looks far more like gas and oil than wind and solar (which invariably include the kitchen sink on the death toll). If you wanted to put solar on a level field with nuclear you'd only include deaths from skin cancer directly attributable to installation.
The bank was insolvent because of bad debts, so the grandfather put the bad debts on his books and some of his good debts on the bank's books so that the bank was solvent.
Learning, Leading, and Growing with Dan Moore [audio]
The material is not new but the design very obviously is.

Please tell me which other car has a steel gigacasted frame.
> Customer with expectations that are difficult to match. e.g., using xorg modesetting you had tearing, which is not acceptable for e.g. digital signage. Intel-drv driver had tearfree, but then new hw didn't work. Solving took more than 2 months. This is standarized in Wayland.

I'd like to know more about this one.

I mean, suppose the digital signage hardware/software supported OpenGL GPU-accelerated rendering. In that case how would Xorg tearing/tearfree matter? The software is just rendering using OpenGL so Xorg vs. Wayland shouldn't make any difference. IIRC some game dev mentioned this once, how their game is just using a toolkit doing full-screen accelerated rendering-- the underlying display server didn't really make a difference.

If I'm right, then the signage hardware must have been using non-accelerated path under Xorg.

That leaves me wondering:

* is most modern digital signage running without any GPU acceleration?

* does software rendering work well enough under Wayland to deliver smooth animation for professional use cases on underpowered hardware?

I'm just having trouble thinking of digital signage constraints that need high-enough framerate that Xorg was a problem, but also low enough that software rendering was feasible.
Santa Barbara is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world. Therefore students should not have housing.
>two weeks of QA,

What he said was, a couple of weeks of QA, per stack, per hardware enablement.

Given that new hardware is constantly being released every couple of months, that adds up to a lot of QA. And as they said in a followup, that's "a couple of weeks" for a team of people and not just one or two.

So yeah, "two (additional) weeks of QA" wouldn't be that bad, but really it's more like "two (additional) weeks of QA, multiple times a year, for a team of multiple people". And that's not insubstantial given the meager revenue opportunities in the desktop linux market.
> There are a many number of people that don't adopt a victim mentality, work hard, and try to get ahead and just don't.

Yes, but so what. We're on HN, we're supposed to be well aware that 90% if not 99% of all ventures will fail miserably. (In fact, the main benefits of 'working hard' in startup culture are arguably ancillary ones, such as the chance of networking socially with successful folks. To some extent, success is beside the point.)
Yeah especially for this community. Won't have to swap blood with a blood boy anymore!
The same people who designed the transputer founded Xmos. The high-speed links, determinism, etc are very reminiscent, even if it’s not Occam (though i recall doing some stuff on a meiko surface in parallel C)
I feel like the only actually cool feature of it is the way tabs are organized, but you can get the same thing (even better, actually) by using the Sidebery extension in Firefox. The only difference is that it doesn't look as pretty by default, but both Sidebery and Firefox support custom CSS so you can make it look like Arc if you really need to.
Well you see, Langchain rolls of the tongue better so it has more broad appeal despite being a pile of crap.
Sure, co-opting a revolution is a common and effective tactic, but so is "fall in line" (or "don't worry about it" or "focus on yourself" -- all identical from a political action perspective). Revolutions can be actually revolutionary. Often they are not, but they can be. "Fall in line" can never be revolutionary.
I think the end point is that if more people were able to admit when they're a victim, instead of being shamed for it; then change could occur.
"There are no windows except in common areas, thus it's not a dorm without windows" is such a strange hill to try and die on.

> I went to college long ago, but there wasn't any need to have architecture diving our community

Ah, that explains it.
Always love to see TC mentioned. Very informative and entertaining videos on a variety of technology.
OpenAI doesn't plan to offer a board seat to Microsoft or other investors
UCD in AI Design and Development
Nvidia. You think if you purchased some a100 or h100 GPUs you are entitled to some firmware for them. But no, the NVIDIA enterprise support will tell you to contact the vendor through which you purchased the servers, and the vendor is as clueless as me.

I suspect the newer VBIOS for the 4-way H100 SXM5 exists (do not confuse with a H100 model designed to work with nvswitches). If someone knows its whereabouts please send it to me
Until you’ve actually failed hard for a very long time - over a decade - and then get a solid kick in the teeth for your efforts, and power through that shit with an optimistic attitude to succeed beyond your own expectations, it’s hard to buy into what Charlie is saying, but I can assure you it’s the absolute truth. You can’t change the hand your dealt or what life continues to deal you, but you can keep working smart and hard to solve it and that’s going to give you a pretty damn good shot.
The "avoid thinking like you're a victim" is a tool to help motivation and attitude but not sufficient for success. You have to be smart enough to know the meta-model of inputs and outputs in the world to maximize your chance of ending up where you want to be.

You could work as hard as possible flipping burgers, it won't make you a billionaire, and even a very dumb person could see that.

You have to merely understand the paths people take in life that lead to where you want to be, evaluate the stochastic horizons, and act in accordance to your best bet on what would work. Whether or not, in this process, you consider yourself the ultimate master of your circumstances or a helpless victim flailing at the machinery of a cruel system makes no difference. All that matters is what affects how you think and what you do, and all the feedback loops therein.
Author here, sorry - it should read that his management chain was replaced (resigned or fired) within the week.
Super cool! I really appreciate the fast turnaround on this blog post.
self-blame is not the same as taking responsibility. Only one person can change you: you. Taking responsibility for yourself is the only way I know how that works.
What do you think I can't say here?

And why was my colleague fired? Surely his speech was protected?
See, this is exactly what I mean.
Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005)
There is little incentive to publish since it rarely does better than XGBoost.
The author addresses this misunderstanding in a comment at https://mastodon.social/@csoriano/111490414205548053

The tl;dr is that the comment on one engineer's tasks and the QA that one of the chores takes weren't intended to communicate that the team was 1 person big (or, presumably, that there's only one QA chore).

FWIW, my read of the wording around QA was that when a each new hardware platform is enabled, it takes 2 weeks for the whole team to work through their test cases. I assume, though I don't know, there's a lot of other QA done, such as when a new feature is added or something.
> poor grandfather

> only judge in a town

> enough money to send all nephews to college

> enough money to literary "save the bank" with nothing but his amateur money lending hobby

checks out the background of everyone who tells others to just "pick themselves up by their bootstraps". Rest in peace.
I don't like the particular focus he puts on customers not tipping well. He mentioned feeling like he's being nickel and dimed to access his tips, but that's precisely the same feeling we customers have now about tipping. I can understand why customers don't leave a big tip at a movie theater too - the ticket for the movie already paid for access to the theater, and the food prices inside are also highly marked up as is. Asking for tips on top of that is exhausting and annoying for the customers.

He should have perhaps spent more time on the topic of corporate profits.
I think he lived his own advice.

"At 31 years old, Charlie Munger was divorced, broke, and burying his 9 year old son, who had died from cancer"

But he persevered to become one of the most successful people on the planet.

No doubt he was a brilliant human and that helped tremendously, but he didn't think of himself as a victim.
Yeah this is very much the bad kind of DIY crypto.
I think they're saying the interaction effect of doing drugs, drinking and considering oneself a victim is negligible on overall success.

It doesn't seem like a bold claim to me. I've known plenty of poor, struggling working class people. The only impact drinking or claiming they're a victim have is influencing how much fun they have at parties.

I've happen to know plenty of wildly successful people who also drink and/or think they're victims. Again, primary effect I've noticed seems to be how much fun they are at parties.
Fetching the data should be the bottleneck (by far), so why is the naive approach 2x slower than this smarter approach?

Sounds like the CPU should be designed in a smarter way, not the code.
> What would make government censorship a story in your opinion?

A single damning report too ugly to cover up, corroborated by a major source (either journalistic or investigative). The Twitter files were not Snowden-level, and the drip-feed release schedule tired everyone out real fast. It was written with dramatic intent, and that exhausted his credibility in my eyes. I don't read news for the eye candy, I read it to get a fair and level-headed understanding of the situation at hand.

Even the FBI managed a reasonable response:

> The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.
having to babysit incompetent colleagues who have no pursuit for work greatness, they just want to leverage my free labor.
The page you linked says very little, if anything, about Taibbi's reliability. Taibbi is not a member of the Grayzone.
Better designs exist, but they are rare, often due to circumstances like costs.

I too would have welcomed a private windowless dorm room versus having a forced roommate with no privacy. I specifically chose to commute an hour+ from my parents home because I couldn’t stand the lack of privacy offered by any of my school’s dorm options.
X was pretty much W, but async.

Wayland is a fundamental rethink of the entire graphics stack -- much needed for modern systems.
Not only are they prone to genetic disorders, a lot of purebred dogs (frenchies) get stolen at gunpoint here in Los Angeles, because people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for them.
In Goldman's case, Goldman was literally sending out options orders with as ask price of $0. I don't recall if it was the exchange or regulators that decided "If you bought below $x, you knew you were trading against a broken algorithm and shouldn't have expected the trade to last".

I'm not sure if any of the orders Knight was sending out were clearly so erroneous. It's also possible that only after the Knight incident is when it was made clear to market participants that they should expect clearly erroneous trades to be broken.

In any case, Knight was a major liquidity provider, and it wasn't in the market's best interest for them to go bankrupt, but it also sets a very bad precedent if plausible orders get broken.
They already are. And not just deep in the Harry Potter fandom, but in bitter, highly public schisms over the meaning.
That's the accepted method in c to do well-defined type-punning.
http://archive.today/rc5lk
Ooh, this is interesting. Thanks for the tip. The rest of the project is well-tested but I've been cowboy developing the REPL.
It depends on how the index is constructed. A market cap index cannot be value investing. A market sector index is almost surely not value investing (unless that entire sector is undervalued).

An index constructed specifically using value measures as the criteria for inclusion can be (at least arguably so).

Click on "value indexes" here: https://www.crsp.org/indexes/ to see some underlying value indexes, and funds like this one track the Large Cap version of it: https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/92290... (perhaps not surprising, the fund's largest holding is Berkshire B shares)
I can and do dismiss non-constructive criticism, based on HN guidelines.

Literally the first two lines about comment etiquete:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agreed, as someone that isn't very familiar with C, but has used many C-like languages, the names "as_str" and "as_int" threw me off.
I like this is a pun of Metatron.
You are missing the point. It is not about misfortune. Yes there are millions of people like your parents who worked hard and struggled to provide. But did they choose to be victims ? No. You can have misfortune and still choose not be a victim and blame others. Also, turns out that they did a decent job raising you where you are able to be a software engineer (from your HN profile). So I would say they won. Wouldn't you ?
> The combination of working this front-line service industry job and my last gig running a state labor department has led to some interesting observations.

It's always funny when I'm acutely reminded how disconnected well-to-do people can be.
Headless CMS Components for React
It's research, not meant for commercialization. The main point is in the process, not necessarily the output.
I doubt you are making a quarter of what you would make at Amazon. Even I as a standard CRUD developer working in Atlanta was making about 2/3rds of what mid level developers make at AWS and maybe half of what senior developers make.

I specialize in enterprise app dev + AWS. The logical place for me to at least have on my resume is AWS Professional Services. It was the quickest , easiest method to get into BigTech.

There was no coding interview, it was fully remote and there was a never a return to office mandate.

One fortunate thing about AWS is they have a very easy approval process for ProServe consultants to sanitize their work and publish it to the open source AWS organization on GitHub and its MIT licensed.

https://github.com/aws-samples

I open sourced everything and forked it to my private profile. It gave me a nice open source portfolio that I could say was used in real world projects and I was able to use 5 of the 8 projects at my current job. Two of the others were using now deprecated techniques.

The pay increase wasn’t that dramatic. It was about a 35% pay difference than what I was being offered pre-Covid.

It was about a 20% pay cut to leave and work for a smaller consulting company full time.

You would absolutely hate yourself trying to survive at AWS for five years. I knew after the first year I wasn’t going to be able to take more than my initial four year offer and I planned according.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969302

As far as enjoying my life, I would never satisfy my current work life balance for working at any large company.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36767599
Ask HN: Git hosting sites that do not require 2FA?
Today I had a big ugly banner on top of Github: Use 2FA or your account will be disabled in January.

I don't want to use 2FA. It may be better security but I don't care, I don't want to use it for anything except my bank accounts.

I have my password manager and can login with 1 click to all my sites. 2FA is always a pain in the ass and always extra effort on something my password manager already protects me from.

What's a good alternative that does not require 2FA to sign in and use it?
I would read it as "My choices have caused me to be here, and I must rely on my choices not to keep me here"

That obviously has limits; anything taken literally to an extreme does. For instance, Munger lost a nine year old son to cancer; I doubt he thought "This is my fault, I did this, if only I had acted differently".

The central point of the quote is to believe you have agency. That if you are in a situation you do not like, you can act to get out of it. There are times when this isn't true, but if you act as if it is you'll be more likely to get out of such situations.

And then you have to use human common sense to know when something is literally impossible.

So, back to the example of someone abusive, you might think "it is my fault I am dealing with this person/situation" and consider what actions can get you out. I would distinguish this from victim blaming: First, you are doing it, not an outsider. Second, the point is not to feel shame for yourself, but consider positive actions.
By many measures, drip coffee comes out of the machine pre-ruined, so I don't see the real problem with ruining it further when you have to drown it in heavy cream and sugar to make it palatable in the first place.

But I'm probably a different person, I like the ritual of making my morning hot beverage of choice. It takes some time, sure, maybe even time that could be spent sleeping, but it also makes my day better to kick my sleep addled mind into gear doing a task it's done a thousand times instead of something actually challenging or important.
I mean if we're playing analogies...

What if all the shops that sold chocolate near you bar one decided to shut down? This chocolate shop (ChocStix) keeps selling, but says you need to keep eating it in the store or in an authorised location to ensure you don't share or give away the chocolate.

You can at this stage give up chocolate all together, or find an alternative. The manufacturer isn't at fault here. However if they've signed an exclusive deal to only sell chocolate to ChocFlix in your area, it's not unreasonable to buy your chocolate from a dodgey looking dude selling it out the back of a van.

The big issue is exclusive rights over media on broad scales here, not some niche demand for a specific use case.
You have to go back 1881 to tsar Alexander II to find an assassinated Russian leader.
RIP. He would have turned 100 on New Year’s Day.
Also responsible for the windowless college dorm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038356
Mistakes happen. Bad processes and bad governance are what turn mistakes into disasters.
Ok, now I'm curious :)

Can I ask why a 'single binary stream' view of a file would cause problems when dealing with something from a 'file is actually a bunch of records' system?

Like, if the FTP program sends an identical sequence of bits to the destination machine, how could the destination have problems deciphering the (identical) file?

I don't have any experience with VMS, but I'm assuming that there's information in the file (somehow, somewhere) that tells you where the records start and stop (whether it's a terminating character or a set size of each record, etc) because otherwise how would VMS know where to find each record. Is this not true? Is there information about the file that's stored outside the file?
Another example are the 4680 battery cells.
I’ve never been fond of this line of reasoning because some people actually are victims and deluding yourself rarely has great outcomes. I think a truthful and accurate self-perception is loads better than just insisting you are never a victim.