skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Semi-related: My wife has the little Fallout 4 fridge they dropped a while back, not a proper fridge but one of those peltier plate ones that's only really good for like, soda and beer. She was quite upset when it died one day and I toss it on the bench, and stab the power socket with my alligator clips and give it 9 volts. Worked perfectly so it just needed a new power supply.

A quick Amazon order, snip the wire off the old, splice it to the new and a little soldering/heatshrink later and we're back in business. Plug it in and... nothing. Turns out, the original power supply had it's polarity reversed. So then I opened the fridge and swapped the connections on the backside of the socket because it was less fuck-about than re-splicing the wire. Fortunately a few confused minutes of reversed polarity didn't damage anything (not that there's really anything to damage, it's a peltier plate and a fan)

Genuinely, why? The standards make things easier. Why go out of your way to not use them?
One person's take.
I use chess to relax after hours of taxing mental work, think programming, meetings or even any stress. While I learned as a child, I didn't really play, as there wasn't anyone to do so, now with chess.com, or any other online service it's super accessible.
Jerry Garcia met Bob Weir at a music store in Palo Alto where Jerry was giving banjo lessons.

Bob Weir’s lyricist, JP Barlow, was a founding member of the EFF.

There’s a lot more than just that, but I got some code to review!
> the vast majority of iPhone/Mac users never thought of buying parts or using non-official channels for repairing the device.

Seriously?

People like that exist?

Now I am tempted to shun anyone carrying a fruit phone.
"circadian rythym peak" can affect your mental performance
New algorithm dramatically cuts unnecessary antibiotic use in kids
Gemini Ultra is not out yet. With the same logic, you could compare an unreleased Mistral model with Gemini Ultra.
Few more details over on: https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-asahi-remix-39...
No buttons, lol. This is a common misunderstanding. Teslas have just the right number of buttons, and that number is not zero.
There's a survivorship bias going on here. You've never heard of the thousands of teams out there that are Mistral's size but AREN'T getting results that compete on the global stage, but they do exist. But you've heard of Google, whether they're getting it right or not.
Whenever my children teach me something, it makes us so happy. They, for teaching their dad. Me, for learning something from such a special little person. It’s just the best.
I'd be happy to even get granted an account.
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings
Also from an operations point of view it's quite easy to manage. I'm not that experienced with Postgresql, but my understanding is that until recently you had to vacuum it every once in a while. Besides, it's also using some kind of threading model that most people handle by putting a proxy in front of Postgres to keep connections open.

Also, Mysql has had native replication for a very long time, including Galera which does two-step commit in a multimaster cluster. Although Postgres is making some headway in this regard, it is my impression that this is only quite recent and not yet fully up to par with Mysql yet.
Heroicons Micro
You'll need a new theory. I've worked with two late millenial/gen-z developers who couldn't hold up a slack conversation to save their lives, so we went to zoom very quickly when they needed anything.
It'll probably be forever available since it was an exhibit in the lawsuit and US federal court proceedings are generally publicly available.

More specifically, it's currently available via RECAP[0], which is a free mirror-ish service for PACER.

[0]: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.88...
> Nobody’s buying property where they think the price will fall.

Regular people do this all the time. Every renter on the planet is "buying property" that will have $0 resale value to them when they leave, for example.

If every house depreciated to exactly $0 upon move out (or even just depreciated at a controlled normal rate, similar to Japan's housing), most regular people would still buy houses. You still have to live somewhere, and plenty of people would prefer to own rather than rent -- even at a zero dollar resale value.
Is there any other capital gains asset that has an inflation indexed tax basis? I'm not aware of any.

Real estate land gains tend to dwarf any inflation effect, so it's a pretty minor tweak to include, anyway.

Tax treatment of depreciation of buildings is also a big factor here.
Heart vest could help predict sudden cardiac death risk
I was raised by the focused type of programmer, and modern startup culture is horrifying to me (and him). I have left that world and now am solo engineer in a non-profit where I'm responsible for a list of results, not a pile of Jira tickets someone made up to look busy.
The rich visual world of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli
Last time I checked, the data on offices vs cubes came down as offices being the same price or even slightly cheaper.

Cubes and open offices enable communication with people which companies value more than absolute productivity. Sure your best people get less done, but they often enable someone else to get more work down - or that is their claim.
Elastane recycling: Stretching the lifespan of textiles
You're being downvoted but you're right.

If you're using a Window Manager (like i3) they are unlikely to come with utilities like this. You need to download another app (lxapperance for Xorg) or write a script to flip the appropriate settings.
I've created a desktop app using QML (the model is written in C++) that looks pretty good in my opinion[1]. I second the out of the box desktop integration, Qt Quick components should look and behave more like native ones. Although they're very easy to customize so it's not too big of a problem. But definitely something to consider if Qt wants better adoption.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com
Hmm right, the ~300B figure may have been for the non-turbo 3.5
The gem of this story is the author is not running unit test in what most folks understand a unit test is. As he also pointed out, he is executing the tests on target so it is more of an integration tests rather than unit tests. In the test that he is doing, it brings in new categories of potential faults. ie scheduling issues, memory constraints, interrupts servicing,
They say that, but how many times do they need to lesson plan if they teach the same subject year after year? And doesn't the curriculum rather decide the plans anyway? We had scantrons and other grading tech way back when I was in school or even just having the kids grade each others work; there are strategies for that as well.

My cousin is a teacher and manages that job plus a couple side businesses plus 3 kids. Somehow he finds the time.
I don't see how Apple is making Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Signal, slower and uglier.
Alice is Missing is a pretty good GMless game. Although very specific in its tone.
Oh man, loving it, I just subscribed, so you better put some Dead covers on YT for me!
Well, wouldn't they then be a dolt with talent?
Be discriminated against, fight five years in court and get a $90K payout. Where's the win exactly?
I would not assume that this fault is not dangerous TBH. May well be a good idea to hassle them some more. If you're renting, you don't need to care who is at fault - your landlord needs to sort it. If you own, you may need a 3rd party electrician to settle the argument.
It has a very high cost in terms of performance.
I've been playing online via the Discord server using their LFG channel. That might sound odd for TTRPG but Enclave is a bit unique in that its played almost exclusively as one-shot missions rather than a campaign. So you can bring your character to various Conduits (GMs) without much issue. I know what you're thinking, what about progression? Enclave does have a progression system that works in this format.
> Again, we are talking about tapping someone on the shoulder _once_, and not doing it again if you explain you don't like it.

I don't think I should be touched in the first place. I have put a clear signal that I am deeply working: headphones. The accepted social norm is NOT to bother somebody when they have indicated they don't want to be bothered. I am, of course, going to answer the questions, but can't you simply wait until I indicate I am ready to accept your questions?

The benefit of remote here is palpable: you simply don't have the option to tap me on the shoulder, and you can only call me (in which case it's important enough to call), write me an email (which forces you to have a coherent point, and I can respond to it later) or slack me (which, again, I can postpone for later).

> You are just a grumpy baby, the existence of other babies will not change that.

I don't know about babies, but do you know who doesn't like being said "NO" to and who throws a fit ever time when somebody expresses a boundary? Bullies! People who gets upset when you express a boundary and expect that you should just submit to THEIR way of answering, those are the real babies!

Occasionally asking questions (for which it doesn't matter whether it's office or remote) is okay, especially when starting your job. On the other hand, expecting others to be readily available for your ad hoc queries repeatedly, day in and out, trying to actively persuade them that it's okay, and guilt trip them to continue doing so because it's "their work duty", and throwing a fit when people express a boundary to you, that's what real babies are made from!

Learn to ask questions like a decent worker, batch them, write them down, and with as little disruption as possible, and don't bother people who are deeply focused. Your question can wait, the world doesn't revolve around you, and value your coworkers time! I won't back down from this!
Emotions are running high in this comment.

I think it doesn't really have much to do with what anyone wants. It's funny that I am inclined to think OP would be annoying, but this comment almost is doing the opposite of what you intended and swaying me the opposite way. Knowledge should be shared, and not under a list of very capricious conditions.

But, I get it, that's how you work and we've all got our things. I've never worked at an office, and I'm just realizing that all the discussions here could be solved by simply having a guy like OP paired with a guy who enjoys sharing their knowledge and unblocking these problems ASAP. A people person, which I get coders tend not to be. A guy whose flow is that, not just being an island out of a krazam sketch.
> In C, Zig, Rust, C++ (hardish) I can sit down with pen and paper and map out the layout of memory and take informed decisions on cache locality, access patterns, etc

s/informed decisions/educated guess at most

Even a seemingly low-level C code can be transformed to such a random code by the compiler that every intuition you have is thrown out the window. Hell, even assembly can be very misleading, even expert compiler writers have to fall back to micro-benchmarks, as it can be very misleading - the longer code might just be faster.
In fact, one of the ways to anger a neoclassical economist is by arguing that inflation is impossible in an equilibrium economy with perfect information, because nobody is dumb enough to accept worthless money.
Gemini Pro API charges you by char instead of by token, I guess it's good news for Chinese/Japanese users and other speakers of less common languages, for example the OpenAI tokenizer needs two tokens to encode a single Georgian letter.
Ah, so e.g. something like a device flipping between “powered” and “not powered” states, which then wears out some part that doesn’t expect that state change to happen so often?
Well, it's a long story, but I tend to have a goal for every one of my projects; even if that goal is to provide a reusable library for other projects.

The vast majority of my projects are reusable libraries and SDKs (Swift Packages, for the most part).

I do every one of my projects as if I were delivering to a Fortune 50 corporation.

I write a bit about how I do stuff, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
Insurance won't cover if you knew there was a fault and didn't fix it!
unless and until Intel scraps the hyperthreading architecture i cant see how they expect to leapfrog players like arm and amd. its been a sinking ship held together by PR for almost a decade now.
>This is so obvious, you can only shake your head in disbelief the current state of affairs ever was allowed to be.

But a lot of the disbelief and dismay people have is based on them imagining, with horror, things that are not actually the case.
Leetcode so you can get big bucks working as a programmer? Teachers put in extra hours because they see a kid in their class who will suffer through life if they don’t intervene. Compare your motivations to those of teachers, and leave the comparison at that.
GitLab is fine-I-guess, we use it at work--but at home I use GitHub and self-hosted runners because GitHub Actions is great and GitLab CI isn't nearly as comfortable to use. And I don't want to host GitLab and another CI, which also involves learning a third CI platform other than the one I use for work and the one I like.

GitHub Actions turns out to be maybe the best CI out there these days for low-friction, get-it-out-there stuff, and there's probably a lesson or three to be learned in there too.
Mistral.AI was founded by three people from Deepmind, they're beating Google because Google no longer has them.
Slashdot's moderation system didn't depend on CmdrTaco, that was famously the point of it. The userbase moderated itself. Slashdot never really made money and got kicked around between different companies a lot. There were some website redesigns that upset people and the visual design limited the number of stories that could be posted.

Moderation can be done in a decentralized way. Email spam filters are an example of that.
That's a great rule of thumb.
I used to go sometimes when there were a number of adjacent conferences. I wouldn't fly over from the US for just FOSDEM. Yeah, it's sort of a crappy time of year in general for that area of Europe.

And, yeah, I latterly settled on a camp out in devroom strategy. It was much more pleasant than trying to move from full room to full room.
The hosts of the All In podcast have used it, but they're billionaires. They think highly of Ultra. Early on they just talk about the paper that's released, but then they drop that they've used Ultra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKUcpU5-Xk&t=3667s
This is very much a basic misunderstanding with telescopes. Most people expect magnification. The amount of photons absorbed is something of a very esoteric concept to the uninitiated.
It's not "just" him. Just (yes, just) because you know some people who wear their headphones all day, doesn't make it the standard.

Lots of people (including me) don't like to wear headphones all day.
I’ve debated a solution to this, at least with respect to podcasts.
I have: there are not many people between Nevada and Utah.
Banks in the US are still happy to make business loans (to established businesses with existing revenue and assets), though a lot of that business is shifting to private credit. What they are definitely not willing to do is fund risk ventures with no collateral. I don't know that they've ever really done that, but some of these rose tinted stories from midcentury suggest maybe they did? I honestly don't know. The MITS case in particular seems borderline: this is an established mail-order model rocket business, but also the loan is for an unproven scheme in a barely-related business. Maybe that's replicable in today's business environment, maybe not.
Yeah, and many of these techniques require assistance from the new .NET Core runtime, e.g. Span is not reckognised as a intrisic by the .NET Framework Jit.

I also applied similar techniques with C++/CLI on .NET Framework, for a RPC framework, network packet processing optimization, and they surely helped.
I wish I could argue with you, but the highly successful early years of MongoDB proves your point nicely.
It's not power dip, it's voltage dip. An appliance will often draw the same power at the lower voltage, so increase current, which can cause overheating and damage.
Game theory predicts the “race to biggest” vehicles. The only way to stop it is through regulation and disincentives.

However, it’s important to consider future trends in automotive technology. Eventually, every new car sold will be an EV - so the pollution issue becomes much less of a concern, with a few pedantic caveats. Cars will also become self-driving.

Solve for the equilibrium. People will want rooms on the road - a self-driving, self-charging boat of a car that you can sleep in while it takes you from LA to Lake Tahoe overnight. It’ll even reach into the drive-thru window at McDonald’s and put your breakfast on a table for you to eat while facing your family members on a comfy sofa. Cars will become like miniature, smart, electric RVs minus the bathroom and ugly clunkiness. And since people won’t be driving them, and theoretically they can achieve super-human reaction time and sensing, maybe pedestrian safety will become less of an issue.

So regulation is tricky. I do think there should be an extra tax to price in the negative externality of large vehicles, but the government shouldn’t go too far with that and it shouldn’t preempt innovation in vehicle format.
I see, I suppose that kind of makes sense and is good enough. Maybe it would be nice to be able to mark fields / variables with critical invariants as unsafe, so that only unsafe code change them?
> "What you see as vibrant is really your employees shooting the shit and not getting any actual work done."

That is better than getting work on the wrong thing done. People who sit in their office and never interact with others tend to work on projects the company thought was canceled months ago.
Thankfully the meteorite will end all programming language wars.
Hopefully it is a societal win, discouraging companies from age discrimination in the future. For us old guys, that feels like a win.
From Learning to Code at 13 to Being a Startup Founder at 15
You actually can float the gears if you're good, no double clutching required.

I learned how to drive a stick in a semi-truck - no synchros there - it makes it hard for me to drive a synchronized one.
These days I have less time, and more obligations and side projects than time.

Doesn't hurt to ask, though. :-)
Utanus (and Neptune) are more accurately ice giants than gas giants.
Private office with doors? I don't need an office at all, I WFH!
> If Intel shipped 100,000 20A SoC in the first half of 2025. And 1M SoC in total in 2025.

Where did you get these numbers from because it seems like you just made them up.
> They never really had proper access as far as I know

Yeah we did. So long as you had AOL connected, normal socket-y stuff worked fine. It's how I learned.
I was there! He was definitely riding Obama’s coattails!

The joke here is the year after this speech, Bill Clinton was Knox’s commencement speaker. So on the Colbert Report, he says Bill was riding his coattails. But then he acknowledges that the year before he spoke (my graduating class) was Barack Obama. Well no, he didn’t “steal his thunder,” he claims, he rightfully returned it right back to him. (Sure thing Stephen…)
Yup! See https://jepsen.io/analyses/mysql-8.0.34#list-append, which also has a link to the code: https://github.com/jepsen-io/mysql/blob/4c239cb5c66a7f1a55fa...

This isn't CONCAT-specific, BTW--we just use CONCAT because it allows us to infer anomalies in linear, rather than exponential time. Same kinds of behaviors manifest with plain old read/write registers.
No. Unless you enjoy it.
It is discuused here: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2023-De... - the HPN-SSH maintainer says "I do have an issue with [the OpenSSH 9.6] release in that it breaks interaction with HPN-SSH. The client seems to be window limited to 2MB sending regardless of what is being advertised by the receiver."
Is there any measurement of the impact you could point at?

For example, I imagine that it depends on the workload. If the workload isn't contentious SERIALIZABLE might not make a big difference? Then again if the workload isn't contentious maybe it doesn't matter?

Either way, I'd love to see numbers. Not because I don't believe anyone but I'm just curious what ballpark we're talking about.

Edit: Also, SQLite and Cockroach only allow SERIALIZABLE transactions so the unviability of SERIALIZABLE seems questionable.
When will I stop giggling at headlines mentioning "Uranus"? Maybe never?

Gorgeous images tho, everything seemed perfectly angled for a glamour shot.
Your memory is failing you maybe you don't remember not too long ago when PG did not have any replications built-in.
That's why the third rule exists.
Standards can be enforced through government mandates. We've seen that in the US health IT space where CMS/ONC now mandate that payers, providers, and vendors implement certain HL7, X12, and DirectTrust open interoperability standards. Compliance is fairly high.

But there are also drawbacks to government mandates in terms of slowing down the pace of innovation and raising compliance costs.
With my eyes, when I look at a light source I see light refractions (rays) coming from the source that people without astigmatism do not see.

I do get what you are trying to say here and I know I'm taking your argument to the extreme, but... bear in mind that even 2 randomly selected humans would see different things looking at the same object.

Even though no human can see the light that JWST is capturing doesn't mean it is not there.
The colors are false indeed (compared to what a typical human would perceive as color), but then we also would get absolutely no pictures from JWST to look at.
One thing this doesn't cover is speed/latency of response.
Some of the things I'm doing on ChatGPT could probably work on a 90% capable GPT3.5 and other factors become more of an issue.

If I was already using GCP and they reduced their price (>10%) and offered tight integration with rest of GCP services it would still be appealing.
> did they predate zones in Solaris?

Yes.

I wrote a history of this stuff in 2011:

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2011/07/18/brief_history_o...

FreeBSD jails first, then Solaris Zones, then Linux containers.

Linux VServer came first but is not really a normal container implementation, although it has similarities.

HP-UX 10.24 seems to be 1996:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/9000_hpux/HPUX_Versions.txt

I know next to nothing about it though.

> That doesn't refute my statement that BSD pioneered containers with jails

I'd say that was a fair call.

> I had thought IBM did VMs rather than OS-level virtualization

It does both.

AIX calls its containers WPARs:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=tips-o...

> (wasn't Gene Amdahl the one who came up with the rules for classically virtualizable architectures?)

No, Popek and Goldberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualizat...

FWIW I wrote a history of that, too:

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2011/07/14/brief_history_o...