skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pleasantly surprised a few days ago to find Supermicro sells a 3U chassis that runs 8x Ryzen 7000 series CPUs supporting ECC. If one doesn’t need more than 128GB of RAM per system then they can get much higher clock speeds at a much lower power envelope than an EPYC CPU with an equivalent core count.
The expectation that everyone should reach these career levels is easily dispelled by basic math. L6 and EM can by definition exist at a ratio of, at best, 1:6 to the people at more junior levels. Most engineers might be “stuck” at L5, but most potential EMs are stuck before they even become EMs, due to the same math.

But of the people at L6 on either ladder, who are ready to work at the next level, opportunities are definitely easier to find for ICs, than managers. An L7 IC, after all, doesn’t have to come with a team of 30-50.
SIMD

I wonder if Zed uses SIMD, to read in text from a file or write out text to the display.

Mitchell recently wrote about how he got a massive reduction in latency, by implementing SIMD in his terminal app (which is analogist to an editor)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/111919642467789362
Hacker exposed weakness in German electronic ID, magazine reports
I think he's referring to the justifications Steve Jobs gave to kill Flash. Apparently, it was because he really wanted a complete web standard that didn't revolve a particular framework. Apple then introduced the App Store and forgot all about its desire for (complete) web standards

So apple has killed both Flash and (useful) web standards and we are left with unnecessary, gate-keeping, expensive, price gauging App Stores. Hypocrisy at its finest. But at least it's got an Apple on it, so I guess it's fine

It used to be possible to "grow" stuff online. People made a living from developing Flash games (and websites). Aggregators competed and paid well for content. It's now all going to Apple's shareholders and Wall Street, and it's a complete waste of time to develop anything that needs publishing via the App Store. What a sad state of affairs
Show HN: APIs for quick (1-second) neural network generators
I developed interfaces to call my company’s neural network generator directly from an application. Currently we have C/C++ and MATLAB APIs (and a shell script), and plan to add R and Python APIs soon.

Quick background: C Deeply’s neural network generator is a) parameter-free (it finds the architecture), and b) very fast (1-second computation time). It’s for dummies like myself who want lots of ML modules and don't know how to fiddle all the knobs.
This starts with an Xbox not being able to print, while being able to run computer applications. The correct solution is not to have that. There is no graceful way to recover otherwise, no matter how "inert" you are.
Being a programmer necessarily changes how you approach and interact with computers.

After a while (and not a long one) you develop a serious usability bias since you can intuit what a program is doing and how best to interact with it.

The longer you work in software, the harder it is to accurately imagine how a non programmer uses a computer.

That’s why the classic “only users could cause this error” jokes exist.
All the SD problems go away if you get a RPi Compute Module instead. Well worth the additional cost.
define 'hugely profitable' - PFE is one of the biggest, their stock is at about the same price it was 25 years ago, so inflation already made you lose 50% of your money - with dividends maybe you broke even for a 25 year investment. I would not call that hugely profitable.

Why don't we go after the actual 'hugely profitable' companies if that is the goal.
And codecs and EME were examples of attitude, not about Bluetooth...
Back in the day MSFT bolted IE into the operating system to a greater degree than Apple has done with Safari - a ton of the DLL's relied on IE for a lot of UI components and IE had ActiveX that literally hosted executable content in a browser window. It's almost like they hung out a sign on every PC and Windows server that said "please p0wn this machine" and lots of the bad actors in the world came knocking.

They didn't take security seriously when they were laying down the architecture for Windows because they didn't think they had to. Apple is taking the exact opposite approach. They're fairly obsessed with security and privacy because that's one of the big selling points for the whole iOS ecosystem. They miss things because they (like us) live in the real world but they do pay a lot of attention to it and the number of updates for things like 0day defects that arrive within days of the defects being reported tells me that this continues to this day.

Apple doesn't have a monopoly. Per https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide Android has twice the market share that iOS has. The reason for all of this generated drama is found in https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/. The key bullet points are:

"App Revenue Key Statistics

* Mobile ad spend in 2022 reached $362 billion, a 7.7% increase on the previous year
* Android and iOS app consumer spending increased to $135 billion in 2023
* iOS was responsible for 66% of app consumer spending in 2023
* Games accounted for 60% of consumer app spending in 2023. Google Play contributed 41% of the total amount
* Subscription revenues increased to $45.6 billion in 2023, iOS was responsible for 76% of that revenue"

The real reason for all this foolishness can be found in these bullet points. 66% of $135 billion is $89.1 billion, and lots of people would love to get a piece of that pie without dealing with Apple (who built and owns the stack). It isn't a monopoly, though, and all of that monopoly talk is misdirection.
Listen, what happens if we want to calculate delivery distances in a n-dimensional universe?
I don't know the whole 25 thing seems to be just mainly be something like a meme. You go out and you can meet extremely personable, social, and polite, teens all the time. You can also find the grunters. Sometimes it's just personality. Sometimes it's dealing with puberty. Sometimes it's genuflecting against authority. As long as you support them, give them guidance in a respectful way, and involve yourself in their interests, most teens end up totally well adjusted by the time they finish high-school.

(Also, I bet your teens would agree that your efforts are "inhumane")
Analog Computers May Work Better Using Spin Than Light
The first 50 episodes of the Indie Hackers podcast had a big influence on how I approached bootstrapping. The episodes that stood out in particular are:

- Pieter Levels: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-no...

- Tracy Osborn: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/029-tracy-osborn-of-hel...

Josh Pigford (who sold Baremetrics for $4M) has also documented all of his failed ventures:

https://joshpigford.com/projects
The Thorny Ethics of Making Alien Planets Habitable
But travel between the islands is still something one would think is worth it. And if it is just to prevent incest.
I tried Zed, and it felt similar to VSCode. I know there are multiplayer features that are better than live share, but on the surface, I needed convincing to switch.

I would be more inclined to use Zed if it could displace XCode. It pains me to use it from deleting derived data or cleaning the build folder to random crashes.

Contrasting the DX to Android Studio, it's night and day. I always wanted an Android studio-like experience for iOS development.
How to use the real-time clock functionality in Raspberry Pi 5
That 3 in your first example is definitely a magic number that should be either dynamically calculated from the number of elements being averaged, or defined as a const NUMBER_ELEMENTS_AVERAGED.
What has been, in your experience, a repeatable process for quality engineering? How much does it depend on the kind of software one is engineering, or is it applicable to any kind of software with any kind of constraints?
"If someone gets angry with you, laugh at them and tell them you are immune to their attempt to control you with anger."

Yep, this was how it was at my home. My mom would get angry at everything, and then I was the one who had to regulate her emotions. And if I failed, she'd be even more mad.
Look what happens to University tuition when the government gets involved with funding. Not saying it would be the same model but I have doubts this could completely take over R&D funding.
You can code on it, design, edit photos, write books, sketch, edit videos... and a lot more with ease. For 3 years, I used only an iPad for work. Can you expand on your problems? Or was that a "it works differently on my beloved OS" kind of thing?
The entire computing industry is based on trading-off the probability & effects of failure with cost. Why would you even bother with ECC when practically no one except maybe server farms with tens of 24h-on servers would notice a thing? Even a single micro-cent per device spent on improving testing would have a much more felt-through effect on the entire computing landscape.
I'm a co-founder of a small startup, and my co-founder keeps telling me that we need to hire more people because (beyond helping with the company's tasks) "the more employees you have, the more valuable the company is" (in the eyes of investors).

I never believed that was the case, am I wrong?

Which is more valuable: a company with a thousand employees that generates 100 million in profit, or a company with 5 employees that generates the same amount? Beyond the question, I understand it's very simplistic and that the value of a company goes far beyond the number of employees, but I'd like to understand how investors view employees.
Seems a poor compromise for a 1.0 product that will certainly be obsolete in the next 5 years
And get ready for macOS 14.4 where apparently Apple's decided that we're no longer allowed to kickstart coreaudiod (or any other LaunchDaemons)

$ sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod
Could not kickstart service "com.apple.audio.coreaudiod": 1: Operation not permitted
One of the orgs that Elon cut the hardest was the trust and safety and spam team. He had strong condemnation for their "suppression" of "free speech".

Maybe he had a point. Maybe he didn't. But what is clear is that spam and fraudulent traffic on Twitter has exploded in the past year, to the point where it's causing serious problems.
>Anger is selfish (road rage) and selfless (protesting a war half a world away).

Thought that was a pretty weak example of selfless… couldn’t be something happening in front of you?
Wegovy, the weight loss indication for the same drug as Ozempic, has people titrate up to 2.4 mg/week. Ozempic is generally titrated up to 2 mg/week for T2D. The study you’re looking at used doses lower than is typical today.
is someone forcing you to buy apple products?
They definitely spot signals that shoudn't be there, even AM radio stations.

I think no one at the FCC cared, the broadcaster knew the tower was gone and also didn't care since their main concern was apparently running the FM station.

> Elmore explained that they were alerted to the theft on Friday when a bush hog crew arrived at the WJLX tower site in Jasper to clean up the property, only to find it completely cleared out by the thieves.

You don't get alerted that the tower and the transmitter are gone by bush crew. You get alerted by the signal being gone. He should have been paged 2 seconds after the signal stopped.

I still don't buy it.
Thanks! I’ve been using OSMs free Nominatim for testing but need to move off it to support a higher query volume - I had no idea it was going to be so expensive, so this comes at the perfect time!
You use cancer as an example, but what about other meds? Is it ok to profit off ED meds or ADHD meds? Note, just cherry picking a few that are arguably not life saving for most.
Businesses will do what is most profitable for them. If we want pharma companies to spend more on R&D, we either need to make R&D more lucrative (which would likely require higher drug prices, higher approval rates from FDA, or higher consumption of drugs, all of which seem undesirable) or make “spending billions on executives and stockholders” less lucrative.

The problem is the stock market has become Monopoly money as a result of a decade of ZIRP and the huge amount of excess liquidity in the system. Furthermore, stock buybacks are incredibly efficient from a tax standpoint. And IIRC, there are tax incentives to paying executives in copious sums of shares. We shouldn’t blame companies for doing what’s financially best for them; we should change the rules to align what’s best for them with what’s best for the rest of us.
So is OpenMediaVault basically a software layer that emulates other protocols and APIs? I see SSH, Photoprism, S3, OneDrive listed on the plugins page. Or it emulates some, and syncs with the others listed?
Native apps have tendency to linger more because of how auto update mechanisms etc will reinstall them after you forgot about them.

They have also way more permissions and ways to be exploited against you.

Additionally, it's the heavyweight process of installing but also distributing etc of native apps Vs PWAs
Your kids are going to model your behaviour so be the person you want them to be and just make sure they feel loved and accepted.
Like a Windows-focused copy of the the Self Operating Computer Framework. There's clearly something here with this approach if it's popping up in multiple open source frameworks
How do you attract, recruit, engage, and retain rockstars?
Vacuum Fluorescent Displays
It might be different this time, if we are looking at accelerating higher order change.

I choose to be worried about things that are clearly in motion already (the world descending into war, climate catastrophe, or the potential of the US becoming an autocracy) than a big maybe.

I have been using code assistants for a while now (including those based on GPT-4) and the trivial syntax, semantic, and algorithmic mistakes make it clear that there is not yet much reasoning happening. Sure, it can write a lot of boilerplate code, but once you go into domain-specific algorithmic code or even somewhat less-used languages (like Rust), it spectacularly fails all the time.

IMO the current trajectory is that the current LLM revolution will result in tools that will be great for productivity, but will also need to be guided by wetware.
> Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples' livelihoods with plasticized fingers.

I don’t think people realize just how far we have to go before a literal robot can replace a human for even common trade tasks.

ChatGPT can generate convincing text and images, but that doesn’t mean the next step is robots doing your construction jobs or plumbing.

> How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.

The melodramatic Sam Altman takes are getting out of control. What does “How pretty his offices” even mean?
Framework BIOS password complexity rules and expiry
AI Is Like Water
maybe if someone is hungry, farmers and supermarkets shouldn't profit? maybe if someone needs a place to live, builders and realtors shouldn't profit? maybe if my gas tank is empty, oil companies shouldn't profit.

Where do you draw the line?
How fast exactly is DuckDB-Wasm for filtering for interactive coordinated views? Could the inputs be a brush selector range (x0, x1) from a time-series chart and then when you brush it the other components would re-render within… milliseconds? There used to be a cool JS library for this called crossfilter. Not sure if this could be a replacement for it?
is it not chromium, because Chromium browser, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex, Samsung etc... (and Google Chrome) all use the open source chromium engine

only safari and firefox did not implement it according to:
https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20bluetooth

which might be great because you have the choice...

and you can use open source chromium or brave (like the jvm to run cross platform java) to run web apps seemlessly that need web bluetooth or such but use safari or firefox for personal use if you find them more secure

I mean using chromium engine as the running environment where chromium only ever runs special trusted web domains and never goes to other "malicious" web domains that may fuck up iOS as Apple claims would be still a secure choice

like you will not download spyware from Apple Store because you are an adult not because Apple can protect you there
Ads are still visible when you aren’t logged on, in fact they take a fare greater real estate of the screen now so Elon’s antics aside as far as advertisers go they get a better deal now.

Before the change you could scroll down past the ads for the rest of the thread, now you only see the linked tweet and then ads.
For Hundreds of Years, People Thought California Was an Island
Does it do anything that the UEFI can't? Isn't it just a compact, feature-limited veneer for OC settings?
Using the name rather than the symbol is just the Reuters house style for non-USD currencies in headlines.
I second this, really nice to be a webinar participant on a sunny park lawn with a cinema sized zoom window in front of you.
Somehow I managed to read the title as "From engine to engineer".

I moved from engineer to manager some years ago hoping I would get access to new tools to be able to push forward some necessary innovations, but it seems like I was constrained even more.
Currently moving back to engineering and thinking that I should probably start my own thing soon.
When things keep changing without good reasons, you

- tell the client to get their shit together

- fire the client

- walk away
I envy you. A life with zero problems.... I think you're probably the only person in the universe so fortunate.

Here's the basic set of problems:

1) ECC is almost free if done at scale (e.g. every computer). The only reason it costs extra is that it is only done for high-paying customers and in limited volume.

2) Computer crashes cost lives. If e.g. your doctor's device has an issue mid-surgery, you potentially pay.

3) It's good for the economy. In either case, the cost savings of not having a call center rep say "Wait a minute. My computer just crashed." far outweighs the costs.

4) It's critical for resilience. Disasters (solar flares, EMP, etc.) are rare, but if every computer destroys data, we have a systemic problem.

5) The issue primarily is one of transparency. Most people don't realize it's an issue, and don't shop on it.

6) That's not to mention dual-market uses. E.g. if we need to ramp up military production, medical production, etc. next crisis, our infrastructure should be ready for it.

Classical economic theory states government interventions do well for disaster resilience, for externalized costs, and for lack of transparency. Those are all places where markets fail. That means this should be regulated. We should have error correction in all storage and in all computation.

Best intervention, though, isn't a ban but a tax. Sales tax should be on a sliding scale from 1-10%, with:

- 1% for parts / support / service manuals being available for some extended period

- 1% for all software being open-source

- 1% for all hardware being open

- 1% for use of standard, interchangeable parts (e.g. batteries, power connectors, etc.)

- 1% for environmental factors (CO2, toxic materials, etc.)

- 1% for reusable infrastructure (e.g. being able to repurpose manufacturing equipment for crisis use)

- 1% for workplace factors (e.g reasonable benefits, audits/compliance, non-discrimination for target populations like ex-convicts, etc.)

... and so on

Those sorts of gentle incentives accomplish the same thing via market mechanisms without limiting freedom. For a commodity product, a 10% edge far outweighs costs. If Apple wants to make a proprietary magnetic screen connector and save 1mm of space, a 1% extra tax won't even slow them down.
Platformatic (https://platformatic.dev) deserves a mention here!:)
He hasn’t been charged yet but as we’ve seen with the January 6th cases federal prosecutors are very conservative about making sure they have an airtight case first, and they’re often willing to bring lower charges which have a greater chance of success rather than risk losing a bigger charge. This is especially true for charges which require proving that someone consciously intended a particular illegal outcome. One of his 4 criminal cases currently in progress covers the election tampering because the evidence for those is very clear cut and doesn’t require proving his intention:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656604/united-states-...
A fresh impression of Freud's 'mystic writing-pad'
Not an exact substitute but mentioning it because people might be interested: esphome added support for wireguard some what recently.
They very much are! Retatrutide and (semaglutide + cagrilintide) and danuglipron seem to be the ones to watch
Port it? What's different with the hardware on this device that requires ports of existing software? Is it a completely new CPU with new architecture?
I've been trying (and failing) to get my ansible playbooks to work for about 2 hours - so definitely not a perfect solution by any stretch. This reminds me why I don't daily drive a linux machine! I don't know why I'm encountering so many errors around installing docker-compose, pip, apt packages etc.

I suspect ansible may be a better solution for when you're using it to build machines from scratch very frequently, and you'd have more of a chance to maintain and ensure they're working over time vs once every couple of years.

The other annoying thing with ansible is that while it may install the software, it can't log me in. So still having to manually sign in to syncthing/tailscale etc even after the software is installed.
Well, I'm glad to be proven wrong. That still looks to be a downsampling method rather than just not applying the scale and using Xft.dpi though, but that can have advantages in multi-dpi setups I guess.
For desktop computers most of the value of ECC comes from not corrupting your hard disk when a ram stick spontaneously goes bad, rather than protecting against once in a blue moon bit flips
23andme

(drei­und­zwanzig und mich)
Had a look at the About page, and the live coding feature does sound useful. I'm sure the guys are excited; it's a fun project. You get to write algorithms, optimise performance, and do GPU programming. But who needs another text editor that will probably never reach feature parity with Vim and a terminal multiplexer.
The “whatever the fuck they want” part is what I’ve always wondered about. What would a non-biological (super?) intelligence, stripped of any physiological desires, even want? Would they experience anything like emotion? Would they care to preserve themselves, or would they find this meaningless existence boring and simply decide to exit 0?

All I can do is agree with the other commenters that it’s clear that no one knows where anything is headed.
Sure, here is gist for generating the data and the images:
https://gist.github.com/tzador/ec9c14dd20f0ba1be243727b4f9ae...
Some manual filtering was required of the generated images, since some where looking like mutants.
I ran out of space on NixOS with tmpfs, they run all builds in /tmp so my swap ran out.
Donny and Marie Osmond Spoof Star Wars [video]
What does passion have to do with anything in this context?

Nobody is talking about AI replacing people’s passion projects. The discussion was about jobs and economy.

The notion that people’s jobs are their passion isn’t true for the vast majority of the world.