skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your comments more than the parent you are replying to. Inflation is staggering. Those of us, mostly older people, with lots of capital are benefiting by the booming stock prices, etc., but average workers whose income is mostly salary are screwed.

I do think things are generally good right now, and I expect because of the upcoming presidential election the economy will be manipulated to look good, but we will hit an inflection point where the cost of paying interest on government and personal debt will collapse the economy, at least for a while.

I have what is probably a worthless prediction: the many democracies, true democracies, around the world will generally do all right over the next ten years, but I think the US, Russia, and China will all have serious problems. There are exceptions to this: countries like South Korea will also have problems stemming from really low birth rates. So, I am betting most of the world will do quite well over the long term, but a few countries will not.
There is something called forward PE which takes into account the company's estimated growth.
I bought a Ryzen 2600X with no intention of overclocking it, because it had a higher boost clock than a 2600 and it was on sale for almost the same price. I would guess similar lines of reasoning apply to K-SKU intel buyers.
I think it's vastly different depending on where you live. I've not had much trouble tbh. Worse experience in Denmark where I love now, but still not that bad
"nature takes its course" means Kids and old people enjoy interacting with each other, in my experience.

Ignore regulations because regulatory compliance is a significant source of the expenses involved in Senior care, and "just ignore them" is a viable proven strategy for startups.
> I'm not complaining. I am trying to counter FUD that is obscuring documented history.

But you haven't actually shown any proof of your claim. You claim to "explain some history a lot of rich and influential people would prefer was forgotten", while offering no proof. While demanding proof that you aren't wrong.
Or maybe hydro or battery? Gas turbine peakers might be able to hit five minutes, but if they are it's probably because they are not starting from cold.
Methane’s greenhouse effect is 80 times more powerful than that of CO2, so cutting methane right now would have near-immediate effects as it would convert to less potent CO2 in a matter of years. Whereas cutting CO2 would stop things from getting worse, but wouldn’t have an immediate reversal effect like methane would.

It’s a one-off trick that would buy us some time (assuming we can implement it).
I would love them for backups.

We're not going to be using them for storing our media collections the way we did with DVD-R's. Regular hard drives are plenty big now.

But for backups and other niche uses like storing uncompressed/minimally compressed video footage, it would be fantastic.
On interviewers who are asking about "recommended practices", SOLID, etc...:

Had an interview while back with a hiring manager for "Agile Coach" position.
- He couldn't answer basic questions about what goal he wants to achieve. That was a weird question for him.
- He was grilling me on SAFE processes.

This is a "normal" case.
Same here, I loved gnome 3 when it came out and I still love the modern versions of gnome, and use them almost entirely stock, with just a tiling window management extension and an extension to move the overviews search function into a spotlight like pop up in the middle of the screen. I'll never be able to happily use any other window manager then modern gnome to be honest, I've tried to switch to all sorts of tiling window managers, tried to switch to xfce, and none of it felt as good and worked as well for my style of workflow and just got out of the way as easily as gnome does. And I can't even stand looking at kde, because all of its paddings and alignments and font sizes and stuff are just so awkwardly chosen, and no theme can easily fix that.
It’s generally not what it claims. Single purpose is a good idea, but the rest…

The idea that one class changing won’t change others is a pipe dream.

Substitution only matters if you’re using inheritance, but if you’re inheriting, you likely have bigger problems as few real world problems are naturally represented by inheritance.

The interface rule is redundant with the single principle idea. Maybe it should have been SOLD instead.

Dependency injection is a guideline at best. If you actually do what it says, you get enterprise fizzbuzz. It should only be used occasionally and sparingly at specific boundaries otherwise the cure becomes worse than the disease.

More controversially, when you avoid inheritance in favor of composition in a language like Java, you lose polymorphism while keep a leaky abstraction and really bad encapsulation while the language still retains all the mental and syntactic complexity of the inheritance bits.

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Scandals and secrets: On board the most exclusive private residential ship
This is the new startup from George Hotz. I would like him to succeed, but I'm not so optimistic about their chances of selling a $15k box that is most likely less than $10k in parts. Most people would do much better by buying a second-hand 3090 or similar and connecting them into a rig.
The issue is just the opposite: the article is making a value judgment in the absence of objective data. I interpret the comment saying more info and less judgement please
My snarky remark would be that with advances in capitalism, we’ve found ever more ways to generate stress.

The less snarky remark would be that Robert Sapolsky has done plenty of research on stress responses in primates and found that the single largest predictor of high stress responses is inequality, which our modern times do seem to generate in abundance.
This is part of the meaning of mattering I used. How many GUIs actually appeared and were based on GTK because of the lack of Qt, apart from C?

My issue is that I find the argument plausible and seducing, but do we know this is an actual reason or is it just guessing?
I used Qubes a few years ago. I highly agree.

I found a very good looking theme for XFCE back then, but to make it usable I had to edit it myself and add the colored borders. It's been a while so no longer have all the files.

It needs to look good right out of the box to help adoption.
I was thinking of doing something similar, but I am a bit sceptical about how the economics on this works out. On vast.ai renting a 3x3090 rig is $0.6/hour. The electricity price of operating this in e.g. Germany is somewhere about $0.05/hour. If the OP paid 1700 EUR for the cards, the breakeven point would be around (haha) 3090 hours in, or ~128 days, assuming non-stop usage. It's probably cool to do that if you have a specific goal in mind, but to tinker around with LLMs and for unfocused exploration I'd advise folks to just rent.
"assuming no other limiting factors" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting there.
OT but for any Shakespeare fans who would like a fictional rendering derived from records like those in the OP of the supporting players in his story, Maggie O'Farrells Hamnet is a profoundly moving (IMO) imagining of his wife, their relationship, children and grief.
I suppose that not knowing what goal they want to achieve could reasonably lead to them wanting to really scale up agility.
Pretty strong opinions, but they are yours
I think the issue is the grammar of it. “Shoes is” instead of “Shoes are”.
I did say "generally"
> Environmental concerns are selfish.

That's overstating it.

Yes, life will go on. But it's not only us that will die - as you say, much of the marine ecosystem will die off, we're not the only animal that has problems with wet bulb temperature (most don't even sweat), and humanity isn't going to die of starvation before we make everything remotely edible out there extinct first.

Life is going to look extremely different, it's not just us.
If only Italians knew of the mostly American origins of what they consider pizza.
It can be good to criticize knowledge levels when there's some specificity that allows people to improve. But very vague complaints don't contribute much.

And it's interesting what is considered "knowledge" versus "tradition" in the space. Hang out on a forum of grid ops over the last two decades, and you will find that a lot of the "knowledge" about the industry is really just plain wrong, and better understood by a technologist than by a practitioner.

Like the idea of the necessity of spinning reserves. Grid ops know they need reactive power, and lots of spinning turbines to help keep it. But they don't realize the power of solar inverters to perform the same thing, so you hear stories about the entire grid falling apart when you hit 5% solar. Really silly stuff, but it turns out if you think from first principles instead of "common sense" you can envision a much better future.
Ooh I 'member! /. Is filled with stories and comments of people badmouthing Miguel because of his stance of integration between Linux and the Microsoft world. His views appeared always "controversial " to the OpenSource world and the sentiment in /. Was that she was a M$ apologist and that he only wanted to be noticed by M$.

I remember back in the day when he started Gnome with Federico, he got a place in a Time magazine 's list of influential people. I being a kid from the same country, wrote an email telling him I wanted to help building Gnome, and he replied to mee! To me he always appeared a pragmatic person.
A lot of IEEE Spectrum is clickbait, I find. Coupled with aggressive marketing and silly priced subscriptions, mean hype takes top billing on almost every story. Light not worth the candle.
Which is not unreasonable for that amount of hardware.

You have to ask yourself if you want to drop that kind of money on consumer GPUs, which launched late 2022. But then again, with that kind of money you are stuck with consumer GPUs either way, unless you want to buy Ada workstation cards for 6k each and those are just 4090s with p2p memory enabled. Hardly worth the premium, if you don't absolutely have to have that.
Every single new Google product
> Are people not allowed to be looking at other companies at the same time?

Of course. But I think if you can think of some reason that you are interested in this company (beyond "I need a job") that is going to help you stand out.

You don't need to pretend that working for this company is your life's dream, but a reason will show you have done some work and are excited to be a team member.

Examples include:

* I like the variety of consulting (for a consulting company)

* I really want to work more with Ruby on rails, because I have done so in the past and enjoyed it.

* What you are doing in the industry is exciting because I think webhooks are foundational and undifferentiated, but hard to get right (for a webhooks company)

Etc etc.

Don't gush, just show a modicum of interest and research.
Indeed “smart” quotes are a nuisance and it’s a small tragedy that curved quotes go typically unused. I gave myself a dedicated `“` key to make it the default in everyday use.

“ → “
Shift+“ → ”
Option+“ → "
the pine product that shares this SoC (QuartzPro64) has to my knowledge not actually been released officially yet.

The closest would probably be the Quartz64 which uses the RK3566. The RK3566 is pretty well supported but it has some quirks since most products just use its big brother the RK3568 instead so most of the dev efforts come from that model instead.

The RK3588 is already used in a handful of pretty popular SBCs (such as the OrangePi5) so despite being newer and potentially having a bit less mature drivers in some areas, it is almost certainly getting way more development attention.
Bugs found - yes. Maybe not to the team level but to the functional area.

Severity is also tracked, as a grammar error is not as bad as blue screen.

This should be used to identify where more resources need to go to prevent future problems. If it is used to punish then you will get other issues of the blame game.
A GUI itself was hard to develop Im sure but no one is patenting "gui for an operating system".

Can I patent a steering wheel?

Its wild. Where does the line start and stop.
A few papers I found when trying to actually look into this:

Software engineers give substantially less code review feedback when not colocated (either remote or just in different buildings);

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31880

People are less productive WFH, and those who self select into remote work take an even bigger hit than those who prefer the office:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515

Previous pre-pandemic papers that I didn't save links to also found negative selection effects into WFH were significant.

If you believe the mythical man month, which all software engineers seem to, then productivity hits to engineers are very bad for the project since outcomes are not linear in inputs.

Anecdotally, CTOs I have talked to were all uniformly negative about remote work at their companies, basically all feeling that their teams were less productive than before the pandemic.
I found it astounding that the judge accepted the lawyer's excuse that two recent law graduates were responsible for the AI citations. No recent graduate would use AI in this manner. Everyone deserves a second chance, but I would have increased the fine to $10,000 for this clear failure to accept responsibility.
Hey, c'mon now. Just being playful about the "magic" string used in GGUF files to detect that it is in-fact a GGUF file.
Why are you ignoring the quaternion roots? 3x3 matrix roots?
SOLID, TDD, etc is a noise from simpleton uncle. I tried hard to see if he has anything of value to say. He doesn't really. That doesn't stop him from selling simplistic slogans to get attention.
B&W Image with Weird Patterns
I think the tests select exactly what the c suite wants - people with credentials. The more, and fancier, the better. Some of the bias is conscious, but most probably isn't.
I do think a lot of people have a concept of “the environment” not so much as it being our singular shared home, but as some sort of vague notion of National Parks and sea turtles, that are nice to protect but not especially relevant to day-to-day life. Given the way many people treat their own private homes, however, I’m not entirely convinced that the distinction is relevant to behavior, though.
I found the best approach is to search LinkedIn for someone at the vendor that's closely connected to me, then compose a cheery message to that person introducing myself as a fellow developer and parent of a user, ask the best way to inject a bug report etc. This actually worked. Ymmv of course.
Can we stop call AIs giving incorrect information ”hallucinations”, please? It’s just a clever PR stunt to sweep the glaring issues under a carpet.
...it absolutely would, yes. Tables are used everywhere, including for positioning stuff.
Found here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2367423-the-quantum-wor...
I asked gpt about the STAR format.
The answer:

The STAR format is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing. Here's what each component stands for:

1. *Situation*: Set the context for your story. Describe the event or situation that you were in. This could be from a previous job, from a volunteer experience, or any relevant event.

2. *Task*: After describing the situation, you talk about the actual task or challenge that was involved. This is the problem or issue that you were confronted with.

3. *Action*: Explain the actions you took to address the situation or task. This should be a detailed account of how you tackled the problem.

4. *Result*: Share the outcomes or results of the actions you took. Ideally, this should be a positive outcome that demonstrates how you effectively handled the situation.

Using the STAR format in a career document helps to clearly and effectively convey your accomplishments in a way that highlights your problem-solving and task management skills.
Potholer54 posts well notated videos on youtube where he explains (among other things) climate science and mostly debunks false information. He is a geologist by degree, but has spent his career in science communication. Videos are infrequent but well done, and he makes no money from them. He sites his sources and does a great job of tracking down primary sources, all of which are linked.

One of his oft repeated ideas is: "Why should you believe what some guy on youtube is saying about climate change? You shouldn't! But if an idiot like me (potholer54) can read and understand the source material, you can too." Not only does he provide sources, he is very good about following up when people point out mistakes in his videos.

Anyway, here is a two parter where he responds to the attitude that CO2 is good for plant growth and so it is good for us.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/ZqA4bDVmBB8?si=TjwFJFR4QzFCXfGR
Part 2: https://youtu.be/VJoijPh2i-A?si=wUc0gfnQynZXWdHJ

One of the key points is that yes: if you hold everything else equal and increase CO2, it does increase plant growth -- but in the real world, climate change isn't just increasing CO2, it affects temperatures and rainfall too. Also, some plants use "C3" photosynthesis and benefit significantly from increasing CO2 while "C4" photosynthesis crops (like corn) don't. But there is a lot more in there.
The learning curve is pretty steep on GIS stuff in general. But, I found maplibre to work well both pulling out events and pumping in data via PMTiles or GeoJson on my django+htmx stack.

My only major snag was debugging some nonsensical errors when I was testing pmtiles with maplibre on a webserver that didn’t support ranged requests.
The objective data is the greenness of the earth measured by satellites.

the article offers multiple possible explanations for this and what their effects might be. it acknowledges those derivative outcomes are speculative.
Gemma (and Gemini) are heavily nerfed. Why are they on the news lately?

Also, Gemma is a +9B model. I think it's not okay that Google compared it with Mistral and Llama 2 (7B) models.

Google also took llama.cpp and used it in one of their Github repos without giving credit. Again, not cool.

All this hype seems to be backed by Google to boost their models whereas in practice, the models are not that good.

Google also made a big claim about Gemini 1.5 1M context window, but at the end of their article they said they'll limit it to 128K. So all that 1M flex was for nothing?

Not to mention their absurd approach in alignment in image creation.
And most current optical disks rot - the layer written is usually in an organic coating and beyond that the glue holding the data layer(s) can break down over time. Magnetic storage has been the most reliable stuff I personally have used. Given I haven't sought out the 100 gold disks or anything.
I keep getting automated spam from recruiters and companies. I'm pretty sure if I was ever searching for a job, I'd return the favor ;)

And yes, LLMs are probably good enough to generate cover letters for most large companies. It already is not worth to read most job application emails. Instead, you post a public profile for legal reasons and then hire someone from your personal network.
Had a very similar feel when I discovered Domine as a teenager… the temes are also very varied. You can see what the band was reading (in terms of fantasy novels) through the years :)
Killing people to take their organs would be one perverse incentive. Reducing costs to the state would be another.

Canada has been taking the lead with euthanasia. They propose it as a solution for such things as depression and poverty, or anything else that would make life unbearable for you (regardless of whether it's reasonable). See:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/another-case-of-a-sick-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-r...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christine-...

https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/canada-considers-expanding-eut...

On the other hand, the medical establishment currently has incentives to keep people alive. That can certainly lead to perverse incentives too.
There were coupons before apps.
"The Earth is fine": of course, it's a giant ball of rock. A few degrees isn't going to affect it.

"~90% of species are fucked": it's not the magnitude of the change, it's the speed. The climate is changing on a decades-long time scale, and that's too fast for most species and ecosystems to adapt.

The corollary there is that ~10% of species will be fine, and thrive. Like every mass extinction event the world will look a lot different pre and post-extinction but it will "survive".

Humans aren't fucked. We had pre-industrial humans living in both the Arctic and the Sahara. We adapt the environment to us, and we migrate quickly. If we destroy the environment we can grow food in greenhouses. It'll be crazy expensive, but we'll survive. The speed at which India is currently adopting A/C shows how all but the bottom billion of humans are already adapting to climate change. The bottom billion is fucked, unless the top billion stops whining and starts doing something.

The status quo is fucked. We're a bunch of spoiled brats that think 10% inflation and the end of the world are calamities of similar magnitude. If you want to get a good handle on what true hardship is like, talk to a refugee or a member of the greatest generation. (Do it quick, that means somebody ~100 years old).

Is civilization fucked? It depends on how well it adapts, and what your definition of "fucked" is. (see above).
The quick answer of the question "Why this project makes a sense ?" is following:

Nix is solving the principal problems of software building, distribution, deployment, configuration, supply chain security and many others in very elegant but unique way. It also comes with plenty of other unique features which doesn't exist anywhere else. The cost of this is quite steep learning and adoption curve.

geospatial-nix.today is lowering those bariers to minimum.

Why we narrowed our scope to geospatial software and services ?

Nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. You can use any of those packages via geospatial-nix, but geo software and services gets additional level of QA and maintenance. Also, we want to provide other extra features which make a sense if you are geo user or developer. I believe that we can provide higher added value if we concentrate our effort to one domain.
Ruat Developers Concerned About Complexity, Low Usage
just ordered a 15k thread ripper platform because it's the only way to cheaply maximize the pcie16x bottleneck. the mining rigs are neat because the space you need for consumer GPU is a big issue.

those rigs need pcie riser slots that are also limited.

looks like the primary value is the rig and the cards. they'll need another 1-2k for a thread ripper and then the riser slots.
What happens to your sensitive data when a data broker gets founded?

The game is over long before bankruptcy.
I don't know about this. I have found a few places with great bosses/owners that deserved my loyalty. They proved it by investing in the team, making hard choices to cut their salary rather than lay people off, and in general being loyal first.

When you find a place like this, I advise hanging around for a while.
For profit prisons are the minority of all prisons.
Fines for lawyers are set at slap-on-the-wrist levels. Violating legal ethics almost always carries higher expected benefit than expected penalty, which is why most lawyers are crooks (even ones who don't want to be). It's impossible to be a competitive lawyer in many domains while still following legal ethics.

In this case, 10% odds of getting caught · $2000 = $200 per violation, generously, so less than one billable hour.