skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually disagree with the premise & ironically so did Henry Ford.

Ford learned, as everyone does in manufacturing, that the “1,000 things” an intrinsically motivated, long term employee does are not interchangeable.

It was Taylor (of Taylorism) who proposed companies should work this way. It has never been proven to work & often disproven.

In every org, that I’ve personally seen the inside of, the concept of interchangeable talent has been an utter fiction.

Even at franchises, one key employee is often the difference between success & disaster.

However, our leadership class has both a social and educated POV that is articulated in this post.

While I don’t disagree that a shareholder-return driven entity can never properly appreciate the value of individual team members, Henry Ford took the case all the way to the Supreme Court to fight against that. He lost.

The preternatural rise of the entrepreneurial spirit - wherever it occurs - rarely devalues loyal, thoughtful team members. Those that do are sending up a flare gun that they are pushing to an exit with little concern for what happens after they cash out.

Unfortunately we’ve hit the zenith where finance philosophies (which is what they are, not facts) have become so ubiquitous it’s career suicide to say otherwise.

I’m so grateful founding is still a viable alternative path.
It's more complicated than that. The reason for the raid in the first place was because the FBI suspected (correctly) that the owners of this lockbox company knowingly facilitated money laundering.

The company was setup to maintain privacy. By it's nature, who owned what was ambiguous. There was none or no identifying information.

What's at issue is if the FBI could use the contents of these boxes to further prosecute previously unknown crimes. The lower court said yes, the upper court no.

The initial taking was legal, it's how the property was handled after the fact that ran afowl the law.
Have you ever considered designing a steam deck / handheld form factor that could take old motherboards from FW laptops?

Unsure how viable that would be, but it would help justify that proof of concept (imho).

Would be really cool if the GPU could serve multiple devices across generations like that somehow, eventually. Buy one FW laptop, upgrade it, use the old parts for a new handheld, use the old GPU as a dock for that handheld when you get a new one for the laptop.
You’re preaching to the choir but the issue is that a lot of people “reject” it, and it is still an active part of American jurisprudence.
Offtopic, but I noticed that this website uses the SF Mono font on their code blocks, is that fine? And no, I don't work for Apple (or anytone, for that matter), I just checked because I'm searching for a (preferably FOSS) free font that looks like SF Mono.
"a. Strategies used in literacy education can be helpful for teaching children how to code.

b. Coding projects can provide opportunities for children’s sense-making and expression.

c. Problem solving can serve as a means toward self-expression and communication.

d. Coding activities can engage children in thinking about powerful ideas from
computer science, as well as other domains."

Solid on paper, but I do wonder (a) as we are increasingly failing to teach literacy per se.
Depends on the makeup of those roles. Often it's not core engineering or infrastructure that's cut, but things like Innovation Evangelists, dev rel, swag diversity procurement specialists, TPS Report Format Change Control specialists, etc.
It's hard because there's rarely one single correct solution, design, answer, etc. It's hard in the same way as any other open-ended research work is hard. It will never not be hard in that sense.
Turn out HP itself is the virus.

Sad day.
It actually is in living memory: the 13th amendment expressly grants the government the right to use slavery as punishment for a crime.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/
I used to work on an ML research team. In addition to what the author mentions, there is an entirely separate issue: whether or not what you're attempting to do is possible with the approach you've chosen. Consider making an iOS app. For the most part, an experienced software engineer can tell you if making a given app is possible, and they'll have a relatively clear idea about the steps required to realize the idea. Compare this to ML problems: you don't often know if your data or model selection can produce the results you want. On top of that, you don't know if you're not getting results because of a bug (i.e. the debugging issues mentioned by the author) or if because you have fundamental blocks elsewhere in the pipeline.
I got to ride as passenger in someone's new Camaro at about that time, and I fully agree: the visibility was absolutely horrendous. I couldn't believe it. How is such a vehicle legal to drive? Does the US not have any kind of auto regulations governing visibility at all?
Los Angeles Times to lay off 20% of newsroom
> And the supercharger network is no longer an advantage as almost all EVs will now be using them.

Having more demand for the network means the network can grow and expand at a much faster rate and make it cheaper. That's good for Tesla drivers in the long term. And Tesla itself. Tesla making more $$ also filters back to the consumers through R&D and new products.

If EV is truly going to be everywhere then charging needs to be generic and everywhere like today's gas stations. Currently it's still very much a luxury type thing when you consider a lower-middle class person living in a skyscraper in a city (which is a ton of people these days). In urban areas you don't have the luxury of multiple separate gas station services, given the limited real estate. Having to drive longer distances to use one near your apartment for ex. The more the better.

The network was always going to become a commodity anyway. Why not establish yourself as the leader ahead of time?
> In our unrolled code, the dependencies between multiply instructions are removed, enabling the CPU to take more advantage of pipelining. This increases our throughput by 37% compared to our naive implementation.

Can this 37% truly be attributed to loop unrolling? One really notable difference is the loop only compares against len(a) instead of both len(a) and len(b) in the unrolled version. I don't know enough about Go to know whether the compiler can optimize the comparison away, but in some other languages it would be significant.

> Also, getting my hands dirty with some assembly sounds fun, so that's what I'm going to do.

I'd have loved to see the comparison between the asm that the compiler was generating and the bespoke asm written here. I'd bet that simply gussying up the generated asm results in a pretty sizable improvement (but obviously less impressive than by switching to SIMD).
Is there a "drag canoe" option?
But does it target switch? Or does a company offer porting to switch with potential issues?
Replace banking with any other popular site. It was just an example.
Your lawyer's bank vault is still okay. Beyond that, you're pretty much screwed.
Even "random" reads from "Random Access Memory" are slower than sequential reads - nearly everything in a computer is designed to exploit sequential locality

"truly random" went the way of the dinosaur with the first CPU cache and memory bus wider than the size of read operations.
Yeah came here to say that. I've never been part of a highly senior team. The BEST i've seen is a 1 sr to 2 jr ratio. And I've seen engs who have like 2 years of experience, clearly upper jr but talented, get sr titles.
> “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Margret Atwood

> The quote is usually presented as inherently true, capturing the asymmetrical nature of the neverending war between the sexes. And I think that aspect is basically correct. But, if you’ll forgive me for being a pedantic male, it’s incomplete. Yes, men are afraid women will laugh at them; yes, women are afraid men will kill them. But do you know what else men are afraid of?

> Men.

> Men are also afraid other men will kill them.

https://verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-eraserhead-guide...

TFA fits the pattern. Men feel the need to quickly establish a hierarchy with a modest putdown.
In my testing [1] that doesn't eliminate bound checks. Instead, it avoids a computation of otherwise unused `cap(a[i:i+4]) = len(a) - i` value if my reading is correct.

[1] https://go.godbolt.org/z/63n6hTGGq (original) vs. https://go.godbolt.org/z/YYPrzjxP5 (capacity not limited)

> Well I had never seen that "full slice" expression syntax before.

Go's notion of capacity is somewhat pragmatic but at the same time confusing as well. I learned the hard way that the excess capacity is always available for the sake of optimization:

a := []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
lo, hi := a[:2], a[2:]
lo = append(lo, 6, 7, 8) // Oops, it tries to reuse `lo[2:5]`!
fmt.Printf("%v %v\n", lo, hi) // Prints `[1 2 6 7 8] [6 7 8]`

While I do understand the rationale, it is too unintuitive because there is no indication of the excess capacity in this code. I would prefer `a[x:y]` to be a shorthand for `a[x:y:y]` instead. The `a[x:y:len(a)]` case is of course useful though, so maybe a different shorthand like `a[x:y:$]` can be added.
Tesla's P/E with a market cap of 55B would be 5.5. How is that overvalued?
Correlation between people who have almost been killed by something, and start caring, a little late?
Wells Fargo still offers them. FWIW.
Anyone start singing/reciting the song “Daisy Bell” at you?
I love how douche baggie all these letters are. They always describe canning people as “change that brings opportunities.”
I am unable to use Google SSO:

> proseable.com has not completed the Google verification process. The app is currently being tested, and can only be accessed by developer-approved testers. If you think you should have access, contact the developer.
If you are a developer of proseable.com, see error details.
Error 403: access_denied
How do we know it's a bad idea? Companies may have overhired (esp. during the pandemic).
I get a similar experience with my recumbent tricycle, including surprisingly consistently positive reactions from other road-users.

Now I’m curious how the reactions would be for a tandem recumbent tricycle. (Yes, they’re a thing.)
It's been gone for close to a year now for me.
If we can optimize existing processes or are able to utilize otherwise wasted energy I‘m all for it. This process seems to be limited by the MOF catalyst and how much sun can reach it. Would also be interesting if impurities lead to problems. I‘m not familiar enough with this process to judge if it is viable or a net positive however.
> Does anyone else feel this way?

Since the mid 2000s.

I worked very hard trying to figure out how to protect patient data.

To do so requires translucent database techniques.

Which means encrypting all potential PII data at rest at the field level. Exactly like how passwords are stored, extended to all PII.

Which requires globally unique identifiers issued by CAs. Just like RealID.

Nothing will improve until people accept this fundamental technical truth.

Also, on the policy side, PII needs be be changed from an asset to a liability. And ban data hoarding stuff like targeted ads and relevant search.
The Town Without Television: The last remaining Canadian town without TV
I don't really see the issue with rip offs, as long as it's better. In fact it's a prime opportunity to innovate on an existing product. Tons of stuff we use nowadays are rip offs. Oreos, Android OS, Chief Wiggums...
Sometimes waterway maps include calculated flowlines. These are algorithmically derived from digital elevation data and more accurately represent where water would flow were there water flowing. That's really important not just for New Mexico arroyos but for most of the surface of the earth; there are a lot more flowlines than perennial streams.

I don't know the provenance of this data though. It's pretty spotty, I don't think someone just imported the NHD flowlines dataset or something.
If you can't get aid for it, I don't think it's classified a disability. What if they get rid of it later? I registered for adhd in my old school and I don't even mention it anymore since I didn't need the extra time for exams.
Keynote Speech by Executive Vice-President Šefčovič
json5 is pretty good, if you can use it
who's this we you're speaking about?
This is the kind of basement sorcery that makes the world go round. Nicely done.
The idea of having your car replaced on the spot because it has a minor problem that can't be fixed quickly does sound nice.
There's the whole civil asset forfeiture angle to this: they may have been ostensibly planning to have people defend their deposit box in court, only to get charged with a litany of crimes related to its contents. They didn't keep any of the articles separate, though, which makes me think this was just a legal robbery.
What ever would our beloved boards of directors do if they found out we weren't working fast? ;)
The employees involved in that incident were all fired in 2019.
Military fears over Playstation 2 (2000)
Well mistakes happen. I wouldn't assume that my main supplier is malicious, because then you have much bigger issues than just a single defective part. The issue isn't that a part was defective here, the thing I have a hard time believing is that the part was not just defective, but that spirit just didn't do the job, knowingly. They didn't have the parts that an actual legit repair/rebuild would have required so they didn't do it. To me that makes very little sense, especially since they apparently tried to just lie about it first too, and then no systems or QA did anything about it.

Raw meat can happen, you catch it before you start eating it. In this case, it's more like you got a pack of used needles instead (pretty much equivalent to a non installed door in an airplane) because the chef didn't want to wait 5mins for the meat to cook, you basically just acknowledge the needles and start eating. That what is hard for me to believe. The original 737max controversy made sense, shortcuts were taken, and it made sense why that sort of disfunction would slowly creep into the design process. It also makes sense that some believed that the redesign would still work since hey, pilots just have to handle the errors if they happen! But in this case? The motivations don't make sense, especially since it apparently wasn't just a mishap or a failure, but intentional fraud.
There have been a few occasions in the last decade when I would have if only Android supported it.
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Isn’t the rankings mostly supposed to be about research quality? Or do metrics such as undergrad admission rates also play a part? Maybe there are multiple rankings out there?
> But yeah, I think Helm will be the death of Kubernetes. Some competing computer allocator container runner thingie will have some decent language for configuration, and it will just take over overnight. Mark my words!

I want to believe this.

Everywhere I've worked we're still rawdogging tf/hcl and helm though, because change is scary.

At least I get some relief in my personal projects. :')
I mean, we do have for profit prisons and use our immense prison population as slaves.
Why not use SSD space as RAM?
The couple of filesystems whose guts I was familiar with used to perform sequential read detection to conditionally enable prefetching. Random reads did not suffer, and neither did sequential reads.
That BYD U8 is $150k. Who can afford that shit?
My hypothesis is that there is some objective definition of these phase changes such that the precise definitions of life etc doesn't matter.

My personal stab at an objective defintion: There is a sudden emergence of many more pathways for decay of the universe through entropy. The mechanisms that accelerate the creation of these new pathways is the set that includes "life".

Now with that base definition, we can talk about various forms of life - ones that involve DNA for example. But also others that do not.
I meant in the ideal sense, not practical—every bit of tape essentially corresponds to a timestamp because the medium is essentially one-dimensional.

Of course the physical reality of tape is much more complex, but when considering something like an archival data format you need to take into account which aspects of physical reality to preserve and which aspects to drop.

The advantage of the QuickTime container format is that it allows for a straightforward representation of all of the aspects of tape that matter for archival purposes—including subtleties like inter-block gaps, tape mark sequences, leader lengths, bad blocks, and so on—in addition to allowing straightforward and efficient storage of data blocks of varying sizes and open-ended metadata, as well as allowing for the possibility of non-destructive editing.

Most attempts to represent tape for archival to this point simply haven’t handled any of this, and have instead have just treated tapes as fixed sequences of files containing blocks, often without even recording the sizes of those blocks.
One of the comments in the thread links to a useful writeup for the AWS side:

https://www.knowmatic.app/how-to-migrate-aws-ec2-instance-fr...

I didn't find such great docs on the Cloudflare part, but some of these were useful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14d16lt/if_i_on...

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/the-page-isn-t-redirectin...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4616521/nginx-configurat...

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/cl...
We never learn.
Sure, the comment I was responding to ("fired") wasn't grounded in how things actually are either. The point is if we're talking about what ought to be, then let's aim for actual reform and actual justice rather than some token firings.
It’s a really solid book for engineers who just want to focus on the backend but need a good enough front end.

Several of my less front end focused engineering friends just love it.
That doesn’t make all of us slaves
Yes.

I've always wondered if a larger vehicle hit a smaller vehicle, can they sue the larger vehicle for knowing that it could possibly inflict more damage to the smaller car? In other words, more care to avoid collisions?
This is only relevant if you allow code to define config.

If you use conditionals and loops to create config, and then view the final json, it quickly becomes annoying when you know the thing you want to change in the final json, but have to trace backwards through the code to figure out where to change it.

So programmatic configs only work if you have this "value tracing" capability. Which nothing really does.
Id assume the people switching to local ownership are just pirating, but i suppose that means there aren’t analytics to use.
Since techbros are stupid: "Note that people could always do these kinds of repurposing, and it was never a problem from a copyright perspective. We have a problem now because those things are being done (1) in an automated way (2) at a billionfold greater scale (3) by companies that have vastly more power in the market than artists, writers, publishers, etc. Incidentally, these three reasons are also why AI apologists are wrong when claiming that training image generators on art is just like artists taking inspiration from prior works."

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/generative-ais-end-run-around-c...
> the comment claims that Boeing's systems clearly show that the bolts were never installed.

As I read it, it's kind of the opposite. The records show a repair that required removal of the bolts, but there is no record of replacement of the bolts. And there is a record of discussion of if the repair required a formal inspection, which (I think) would have involved recording the status of the bolts.

This is taken as clear evidence that the bolts were not there, but IMHO, if the bolts were missing, that's where they went, but it might not be enough to show they were missing. Also, there's some clear process problems.

I'd sure like to know about the inspections on the other plug doors.
Related today:

Netflix adds 13.1M subscribers, tops revenue estimates

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111287
The good parts of Amsterdam and Paris come from undoing previous bad ideas, and Paris is still too expensive because of height limits, so I don't think it's an impressive showing yet.

Good Asian cities' planning efforts are mostly making illegal to let NIMBYs have input on anything.
Awesome dream. I've pitched / currently attempting to pull it off for an Australian news org (scoped to their stories). But a radio.garden x gdelt is where it's at!
This argument is a classic case of "Yeah, sure, I mean, if you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad, Morty."
Scrum is the equivalent of top-level management needing a baby rattle or else they'll start crying for metrics because they're lost without them. Trusting their engineers and seeing their progress for themselves, rather than an abstract bastardization of that progress, would destroy their er... productivity.
If you have an idea for a process that could deal with the potential significant extra load caused by many optional updates on the general case, feel free to share.

It can work well and easily when the features are relatively distinct, but as they start to interact it can become a huge burden.
What makes you think those bugs are correlated?
Heartily agree. The idea of loaded unicycle touring as being practical would be easy to dismiss were it not for Ed Pratt.
I thought the same, that it could be used to either mint new coins or test existing coins were the correct dimensions.

My next thought was that each side held a face-plate, maybe painted wood, that could be pressed in to the face, the knobs would help there. The holes underneath the panels could have been used to just make it weigh less, which could explain the differences in hole sizes found.
Related today:

Netflix is turning into cable TV

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/23/24047817/netflix-is-turni... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111600)
> * the whole idea hinges on the compiler being able to figure out the correct instruction schedule ahead of time. While feasible for Intel's/HP's in house compiler team, the authors of other toolchains largely did not bother, instead opting for more conventional code generation that did not performed all too well.

Was Intel's compiler actually able to get good performance on Itanium? How much less screwed would Itanium have been if other toolchains matched the performance on Intel's compiler?

Also, I vaguely remember reading that Itanium also had a different page table structure (like a hash table?). Did that cause problems too?
There was a beautiful period before the fragmentation happened where there was good content on Netflix, discovery was still solid, and competitors hadn't caught up yet so lots of studios were licensing to Netflix. That is when I paid for it. But now every network has their own streaming service for $20/m and we don't subscribe to any of them.
And nobody at the FBI who authorized this illegal seizure will be charged with a crime or even be fired.
I imagine the Vision Pro is more like the Newton of the 21st Century. (Or perhaps the Pippin?)

I feel like Apple was double-dared into developing Vision Pro.

Back when there was a weird collective craze for VR: Oculus Rift, Ready Player One, Nintendo, Facebook paying $2B... "WTF is going on?" asks Apple.

Imagine then having spent years and billions of your R&D budget only to watch the whole VR craze go the way of the Pet Rock.

Still, you kinda have to show something for all that R&D.

iPod was the Next Big Thing, iPhone was the Next Big Thing. This VR headset is not.