skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- language barrier

- culture barrier

- thousand mile separation

- 12 hour schedule difference

Software quality has ultimately always been around requirements and understanding the problems being solved. That's already hard enough with collocated native speakers.

On top of this is the fundamental master/slave or imperialistic nature to first world/"third world" software development. It is of course buried under self-interest, desperation, and "professionalism". This will always lead to a reduced sense of involvement in the code and mission of the project.

There is the educational issues, where India values memorization and and devalues creativity and independent thought. Where those exist in Indian workers, the regimented nature of orgs over there (related to the imperalism vibe) stamp them out, and the rest is lost in other language and culture barriers.

I would also hazard to say that India is much more obsessed with cultural status (echoes of the caste system), and low software developer jobs aren't good enough on the hierarchy. They aren't Brahmin. Brahmins are managers and leaders.

Of course the cultural barrier represents a turf war. Indians want to own sections of code/orgs with just Indians. The managers explicitly scheme this. Of course all middle managers scheme, so I don't want to seem like I'm casting Indian managers as any more sociopathic than US ones. But it is still a turf war that divides along racial lines. The US-side companies expect multicultural cooperative work. Unless there is the owner/master dynamic, you don't see Americans of non-indian descent working in India except as liasons or owners/managers/bosses.

It's all related to the lifespan arc of software. The software is made/architected in the first world, and eventually is handed off for "maintenance" to outsourcing. Eventually that becomes untenable, and a full rewrite or rearchitecture is performed, and the cycle begins anew.

I apologize if anything I wrote offended anyone, I wanted to be as dispassionate as possible.
I'm guessing here based on how they're implemented on Windows, and someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think it's meant to guard against consuming (comparatively expensive) kernel-mode memory. Expensive because they can't be paged to disk [1], and thus actually consume RAM, thus allowing even lowly-privileged applications to completely exhaust physical RAM and thus make the system unusable.

FWIW, I don't think Windows has such a limit, so this makes me wonder if this is really the concern. I'm not aware of a better reason.

[1] AFAIK, on Windows, kernel objects (which the kernel cares about) use the non-paged pool, but handles to them (which user-mode cares about) use the paged pool. So you don't technically need to limit the number of handles per se, but it seems like a convenient proxy.
Due to the paywall I can't read the article, so not sure if this is the case, but I can imagine two things happening simultaneously: the rise of remote in the past couple of years AND the tightening of the belt in tech in the past couple of years --> less promotions in general. This definitely leads to the perception that "because of remote" less promos are happening, which is not my experience (low sample size and local, though).
The video is on TikTok. It is useful to know this is done by Gen Z. While hiring it is important to remember that quitting/fired employees will do something similar. Gen Zs also act like the world owes them an apology for every small issue they encounter and act irrationally. Maybe a Gen Z reading these comments will think twice before posting something that can damage their future job hunting irreparably.
It’s definitely lesser-known and a useful command, since listing the contents of the current directory is very useful :)

It just happens that there are other popular commands that do the same…
Oh, I see. The guy was a tax cheat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
> It turns out that compared to the dedicated nerds of the previous generation, most new people just don't care that much about tech and don't want to go deeper than the bare minimum required by their job.

The average day-to-day work is menial, for example investigating a production issue. That isn't something that people get into as a hobby, that's work in a very unromantic sense. Maybe having good systems background can help in those situations, but it's a little more subtle

I do think though that it works the other way: people who actually care about computers don't care if tech is no longer a money field, they just want to work on computer stuff. And maybe earlier it wasn't as much of a money field. But that doesn't imply that the enthusiasts are better at fulfilling work responsibilities. A lot of work stuff is business specific and not very dependent on systems background

So yeah, I don't think the part about over-hiring is necessarily wrong, but this sort of "I'm better than you" attitude isn't very becoming. Maybe you should give this [0] a read, just to see a different perspective

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963678

related ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38961859
I think about this every time I see my corporate laptop spinning up because of bloated malware detection software, Teams, OneDrive, etc all seemingly unoptimized and burning resources across hundreds of millions of machines worldwide.
She was no longer an employee. It would be difficult to enforce this hypothetical NDA. The conversation didn't expose trade secrets either.
Fired from Cloudflare (stealth layoff) video
This person appears to have been a Cloudflare account exec who was terminated as part of a layoff (which was communicated as individual cut), by HR, and not by manager. She recorded the process and posted it.
The same reason cloud is all the rage. It has its uses, hype is behind it and the marketing ignores its caveats.

The main issue I have with it is simple: in my experience you cannot really debug some classes of issues ("we had intermittent issues calling endpoint A from function B") and they kinda push on you a certain type of organization model so if it doesn't reflect your organization model (for example, you have centralized infra teams) prepare to be screwed.

At an higher level, it massively encourages atomization of systems, which makes them essentially spaghetti with a network you cannot debug as the sauce. Good luck, hope your company pays for honeycomb.
Knowing what files are and not being afraid how to use the printer are a start.
> There is nothing wrong with buying and liquidating a company.

Um, I disagree—there's a lot wrong with that mindset.
Topological Error Correction
Once content generation has been completely commoditized the platforms relying on user submitted content will collapse under the sheer weight of AI generate trash. Part spam, part DDoS, the bad will drive out the good until we settle at some even lower equilibrium than we are at now. There will be a strong incentive to find solutions with technology and regulation to determine who the actual humans are on the internet.
My understanding (from people who properly learnt Mathematica, and understood the language) is it is a lisp, but it's never taught that way, never explained, you're just searching for the magical function that does the thing you want.
Without the header pins, it takes up less room in the drawer.
Oh fucking please. You were wrong, get over it and stop making irrelevant snipes that have nothing to do with the original topic. The question from the context was, for someone programming Unix like systems, are there systems other than Linux that matter? The answer is yes.

No one started off with a claim that Linux isn't the majority of Unix like systems, how you get that from "The whole world isn't linux" is beyond me.

macOS and iOS are heavily used Unix like systems with significant market share. They're not rounding errors.

> Most computers are not desktops.

Doesn't fucking matter, Mac OS software is still a multi-billion dollar industry.

> Most phones

iOS is about 30% of the market. Yes 70% is a majority, but not an overwhelming majority whatever that is, especially when that 30% pays the bills more than the other 70%

If you're going to pull the irrelevant pedantic shit it helps to be right too, the overwhelming majority of computers are not running Linux since for every crappy Android phone out there, there are dozens of embedded devices running some variety of RTOS. And is a Nintendo Switch a phone or a server?
Look I'm not denying anything you're saying, but I'm arguing against the idea that this woman at the head of Star Wars is the problem! If only she was fired!

That Kathleen Kennedy is in the room for all the important decisions about Spielberg and Lucas' best films in the 80s and 90s is outside the scope of this insane idea that somehow firing her will fix Star Wars. Star Wars itself is the problem. It was underplayed in the early 90s, and is massively overplayed now.

And I should have been clearer about its global reach. Star Wars is not this hallowed franchise outside the anglosphere, and is actually not particularly popular in China.
> Operating under the assumption that companies provide no value to society, maybe.

If the company is going under, it's value to society is questionable.
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That doesn't explain the denials though. My point was that they're apparently doing mass denials and still barely breaking a profit. It suggests the consumer wouldn't be able to afford the insurance that doesn't, if it's not a small piece of the puzzle, otherwise they'd pay more for that.
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It'd be the sweetest schadenfreude imaginable if Disney was working on an LLM and got hit with such a lawsuit. Especially since so many of their lauded works came from using public domain works, which would not have been public domain in time for Disney to use them.
A big part of why Lockheed got out of the airliner business was that they got caught bribing the Japanese prime minister.
The message is clear: stop working from home and come back into the office or we will punish you any way we legally can.
> companies usually are a detriment to society

Companies are all we have for a society in this country; decades of liberalization, mobile work forces, and commodification-as-identification have ensured that.
Definitely in two years it'll be a breeze just to give an LLM instruction on how "you" would chat and set it loose on a chat server without most people noticing.

Discord messages are usually pretty short so it wouldn't need a super-long context either.
That’s been my policy for a few years - if HR drop a meeting in my calendar, no matter what it’s for, ignore it until I’ve spoken to my direct manager.

Most of the time it’s been harmless, but there have been a couple of instances early in my career where I really should have had a legal representative before agreeing to anything.
The minisforums designs (like UM790 Pro etc) are getting increasingly impressive. They have had a bumpy road but they really have finally figured out getting LM to work in a production product. You can't open it but you don't have to - everything that's user-accessible is in a service bay. UM790 Pro is perpetually ~$519-539 or w/e, and they also have a newer version with an oculink in addition to the 2x usb4/thunderbolt ports.

[LM: liquid metal, gallium-indium alloy with high conductivity but liquid at room temperature, and conductive, which makes it tedious and exacting to apply etc, but it's the only way to keep pushing thermal density upwards to that degree. PS5 used it as well, and that's part of how they pushed form factor down a ton in a fairly high-TDP product.]

Minisforum also had a laptop CPU on a mITX board which frankly is also an underexplored niche, why is that one chinese company (edit: erying) the only ones putting tiger lake onto a socket etc? Atoms etc aren't the only way that low-end market can be tapped, and big chipsets with tons of IO don't make sense on that kind of product anyway. Even the ryzen desktop chips provide a "SOC platform" that can do USB, ethernet, and a few other things iirc - it's used in things like the DeskMini/Deskmeet X300 series, look at the addons they need, it does pull the mobo cost way down.

(AMD does not allow X300 to be used in this way, X300 mobos cannot be sold standalone, has to be integrated into a product which is licensed separately, can't lose the bundled sale. Imagine if those firewall appliances etc could run a 5700X3D or 7940HS instead of a 1165G7 or 1125G4 or whatever. that would be awful.)

Long-term support is not great (things fall off pretty quickly from what I've heard) and really ideally I'd also like to see them support ECC (7940HS supports it) to open up the homelab market a little more. Because they're doing these really zany powerful things, they crammed a 7940HS into a NUC formfactor and routed it out efficiently into things for people who want to expand, etc. They're cooking, and as the oculink and MCIO and other breakout ecosystems start to mature things are gonna get interesting for the NUC market. And they're already interesting for GENOAD8X-2T and so on too. People are realizing the need for this to be more modular than PCIe edge card/ATX allow in a regular tower form factor. The children yearn for PCIe lanes, they just don't know why or how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu-GKq58Og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfArhUdAm8

(this can be extended to an interleaved network of 5 nodes, where with only 2 links per node you are tolerant to no more than 1 node failing yet only 2 hops to any other node) https://i.imgur.com/i56PdsC.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08LG64fvqI

https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-genoad8x-2t-bcm-rev...
People get far too much up in arms over some movies.
That's a 1080 (8GB), not a 1080 Ti (11GB).

But, I believe you that they're out there.
This will change the way cat flap business: https://towardsdatascience.com/keep-your-home-mouse-free-wit...
Yes, this would be the optimal vulcan way to take this. In the human world, peoples stake a chunk of their identity with the company they work for, and when they get fired, that part of their identity is lost. The right, human way to deal with this as the employer is to say that you're sorry and to truly empathize with the people they're firing. Unfortunately, HR doesn't want to do this anymore, maybe for legal reasons, or maybe because they're just emotionally lazy.
Sad. Microsoft, after advancing the state of consumer-oriented computing more than anyone else through the '90s, is now a despicable anti-customer troll.

Nothing epitomizes that more than the reduction of all users to a goddamned "Microsoft account" that nobody wants. You can't use or even install Windows now unless you do so as a "Microsoft account," lest you be hounded day and night to log in, log IN, LOG IN WITH YOUR "MICROSOFT ACCOUNT!!!!"

Office365 is subscription trash with hopelessly inept UI. Windows itself is a depressing shitshow of UI defects and... I was going to say half-baked... but in reality NO ideas.

I was a professional developer on Windows from the days of separate 16- and 32-bit versions of Visual C++, eventually leading what was (according to Microsoft, as far as they knew) the largest Visual C++ project of the early/mid-'90s. You could have called me an evangelist for most of their products. I continued using Visual Studio until the mid-2000s, even while working at Apple.

Today I don't have a single installation of Windows running in my home (which is also my business). I'm a pilot, and I want to use MS Flight Simulator, but not even that is enough to get me to buy an Intel box and tolerate the disgusting abuse that is being a Microsoft Windows user. There's simply no excuse for the execrable state of Windows, Microsoft's other product offerings, and the way they treat users. Fuck Microsoft.
I heard so much about GEOS but never used it. Did anyone here ever use it a lot? I would be interested to hear about their experience
Yes same experience here, it'll perform well for the first 3 keystrokes after a rest, then start lagging, compounding lag to the point where the screen is 5 characters behind of what I am typing, then I have to wait 10-15 seconds for it to rest and report all the errors. It's terrible but there's no alternative for the features.
They don’t offer exemptions on human rights if you have the right motive. Human rights are supposed to be kept regardless of past wrongs. So what happened to Israel prior to their violations of international agreements is irrelevant. The double standard here is that both Russia and Israel are guilty of breaking human rights but instead of ordering sanctions against Israel, many nations offered them more weapons to double down on their atrocities. And in fact Israel’s crimes against humanity far exceed those of Russia. So the double standard is even amplified.

EDIT: Executive’s director of Human Rights Watch on the international double standard https://aje.io/ussvy1?update=2613047
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I think some people haven’t quite realised that the low interest rate days are gone.
The location I rented from didn't have a fast charger, and the first time I rented, my car had just been dropped off a few hours earlier and was still charging.

Setting max charge to 80% is fine, but I think it would be nice to add a paid option to start at 100%. Most folks won't need it, but for those who are road-tripping (me), it makes a difference. Happy to pay a little extra in that case.
That doesn’t make any sense at all. The point of storing H2 is to use it as a way to store energy. If you store it as H2O, you’re not storing energy any more, it’s just water.

It’s like saying, “It’s easy to ship fragile glass sculptures. You just smash them into little bits and put the bits in an envelope, I don’t see why people use all that styrofoam.”
One thing that springs to mind is a monitor for predator (pest animal) traps in remote bush regions. The system spends most of its time asleep, and is woken and starts consuming power only when a PIR sensor is triggered from a visiting animal's body heat.

Then the battery-sapping stuff happens to analyse video and differentiate between target and non-target species and finally trigger the trap or go back to sleep.

A system like this would be an ecological game changer in my country.
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I can respect that, but then the question that arises whether you should be developing a product for something you don't grasp the mechanics of
Love the idea. Underwhelmed by the hardware choices.

Only two nics, and only one is 2.5Gbe. Wifi6 while 6E now and 7 is soon. What will probably be travel router level.
If you want to really make your head hurt, read their article on their legal basis for formation: https://www.principality-hutt-river.com/PHR_The_Formation_of...

Makes the "sovereign citizens" look well-adjusted.
Gobble gobble.
I don't know. Maybe artists who have been underpaid for decades to power billion dollar empires? This isn't new ground for them.

You may not be able to own knowledge, but people sure don't want to take the time to accrue such knowledge to learn how to draw themselves. Easier to throw scraps at those who did.
Who's they? There were thousands of shcooters with swappable batteries riding around Taiwan when I was there in November.
This is quite bad advice, coming from an old guy.
Google Cloud cuts egress and promotes cloud exits
I used to think this, but my car adds about 300km range in 20-30 mins on one of the many plentiful 300kW chargers in my area. A whole chain of gas stations now has 6-8 high-speed chargers on the forecourt. I plug in, take a break in the heated seat and call a friend, unplug and drive away.

On long trips stopping for 20-30 mins every few hours is ~normal anyway. Stretch my legs, use a restroom, have a drink, get back on the road.

Newer cars charge even faster. I don't think battery swapping is going to be important in the end.
Lectures on Topological Codes and Quantum Computation (2014)
That's an absurdly vague declaration. What do you want them to do "in the cloud space?"
The rather obvious statistically implied probability we can infer from the number of accidentally packed guns that were detected is that a record number of accidentally packed guns also passed undetected through TSA checkpoints and safely flew on airplanes to their destinations.
Show HN: A GPT using CV to detect counterfeit medicine
“It’s a problem” is not the same as “it is impossible.”

Likewise, “It’s possible to ship and store H2” is not the same thing as “it’s not a problem to ship and store H2”.
Is it true people won’t even use alcohol as disinfectant?
What’s that supposed to mean?
That is one of the least efficient solutions possible - making hydrogen gas from water is at best 50% efficiency, and then you get to burn that hydrogen in a thermal engine with 30% efficiency.
Worth noting that if you like ansible, Kubespray has had documented air-gap installation since 2018 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/commit/963c3479...
Why are you comparing to Vega? These new chips have RDNA iGPUs.

While I agree that buying a used GPU will be probably net you better performance per dollar, the 1050Ti is significantly slower than the 780M and even 760M and uses significantly more power.

Some benchmarks can be seen here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Cjnep8j-o
I've had a Steam Deck for about 1.5 years now, and I've been running SteamOS via HoloISO for 8 months now on my ITX lounge PC and it's amazing.

It's easy enough that the kids and wife can pick up the Deck or power on the PC and get a gaming environment that's nicer to use than the PlayStation's.

Hogwarts gave a bit of a problem on the Deck, but the desktop was fine and luckily none of use want to play any of the online crap that requires anti-cheat. Couch co-op and competitive is much more fun.
I stopped reading when I got to the camera resolution... 324x324 px. Are they serious? Either it should run at 1k fps or the board should cost $10.

Also the whole Edge TPU, the implied promise was that this is a beginning. That there will be more powerfull "TPUs" available in future as well as the current Edge TPU was supposed to be available as a generic electronic component one can buy and incorporate in ones own designs for cheap. I never saw one in stock.
I'd call the charging market far from nature. Installing random apps, practically per charging point? Or requiring a second wallet for all the 'network' cards?

Wake me up when I need nothing more than the payment card I already carry.