skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No bias against Python but it's an odd suggestion in a thread about performance. I'd imagine devs springing for Go aren't picking it because of its massive ecosystem, but because they want the performance it offers. Especially devs commenting on a thread about its performance benefits.
That shouldn't be supported -- it should all be in one filesystem.
I was curious why they are making the change now so I skipped right to the "benefit to fedora" section. They do not mention mounting /usr RO anywhere. Was this brought up in previous discussions? I do not understand why merging bin and sbin allows for mounting /usr RO.

The two issues seem totally unrelated to me. /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are directories under /usr. Why does making sbin a symlink allow for mounting /usr RO?
Thanks for asking, it is right there in my profile... click on my username.
In the UK, the NHS primarily exists as a mechanism for rationing medical care. If you compare how much every industrialized country spends on medical care, there’s a very strong correlation with GDP—the richer a country is, the more money they spend on medical care, and the higher proportion of GDP goes to medical care. The UK is uniquely below this trendline, indicating a de facto policy of artificial rationing.
Agree, my first thought was “an invoicing platform that has had problems sounds like something I want to avoid…”

And even though it’s about the rough year you’ve had from a personal perspective it highlights the fact that you are a sole developer and that your personal ups and downs got in the way of the product - which makes me cautious about long term viability.
I think I get what you're saying here. I'm rich in that I have access to so many luxuries, and increasingly I see them as such. I can live without coffee, alcohol, videogames, driving frequently, and heating my house to a comfortable temperature (an extra layer works well. We keep the house in the low 60s F in winter, and even that feels like a luxury now. Like other animals, it's best to insulate ourselves rather than our spaces).
People who control the extraction economies are far richer. Is it a pyramid scheme of sorts?
General living circumstances have improved a lot for a lot of countries though. Just look at some of the charts on: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
(2021), not (2001).
And worldwide wages have stagnated over time. Older generations only see that we get paid double or triple "what they earned" but ignore that cost of living has exploded many times more than that. Because they're the ones happy to sell houses for a healthy profit.
It's entirely pedagogical. For many of us, attempting to understand how a specific training system works can be obscured by the complexity of the implementation. This is something you can put in front of smart college students and they can read all the code, appreciate the bits that required some brain surgery, and then understand GPT-2 as an instance of transformers, then go on to use a real framework proficiently with a better understanding of what the framework is doing under the hood.
Its lead. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...

I remember going to elementary school in the 70's, and teachers were always berating us as the worst class they had ever seen. They said that kids behavior was just getting worse and worse.

They were not wrong. Funny thing is that when people tried to ban lead gas, they thought that pc, woke, effort was part of the general decline of western civilization too. Communists trying to weaken the U.S. (there were communists back then).
Excess solar energy in summer can be stored in a synthetic fuel for use in winter, or for export to another countries.
This reads a bit like: I have a circus monkey. If I do such and such it will not do anything. But when I do this and that, then it will ride the bicycle. Most of the time.
the use passphrases that you can easily read from your password manager and type it.
True, I misremembered that, but it's also not the main point.
> Damn, she deserves that $240k more than a lot of us software developers. This is a hard job.

Wow, this is such a nonsense view. Software development may seem easy to you, because you know how to do it and probably have been doing it for a long time. But I can assure you, software development is a hard job. If it was easy, everyone and their dog could do it. Have some respect to your profession!
That feels entirely wrong to me.

sbin's that can be invoked as user need to move to bin instead. And the user PATH may not include sbin. That would be a proper cleanup.
She's giving CEO/COO vibes. I bet she would crush it in either of those roles. It would be amazing if this article catapulted her towards running her own business.

Loved this:

> Hart gets to the front of the store, a product-display area in between banks of registers known as the horseshoe. “So what are you thinking here?” she asks Wright. “Easter or summer toys?”

> Wright suggests summer toys and T-shirts.

> “I think we should go after the eclipse,” says Hart, filling the section with eclipse-themed gear, as well as outdoor chairs and coolers.

Micro teaching opportunity and giving the employee an opportunity to have input, rather than just "put eclipse-themed gear here"
I'm glad to see there's an alternative to Airthings. The problem with them is they should be calibrated at least every year but they can't be, so they just deny that they ever go wrong and pretend the problem doesn't exist.
More likely that it will bury everyone else who isn’t spamming
I honestly respect companies with that attitude way more than your standard American company culture.
Well you definitely want to use hardcode paths in some scripts. For example those that call sudo.
The Vessel at Hudson Yards to reopen with mesh barriers
Or we could just abolish representative government that was created to work around limitations in the predominant communication tech at the time, horseback.

The corruption does feel inevitable here as we sit and watch the federal gov rob the country blind while shamelessly enriching their families. No, I wouldn't take a rep's job for even $500k/year, and neither will anyone with the moral mettle to make changes, exactly because they can see the impossibility.

More money is not a solution to greed and self-dealing.
> To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition

Damn, that reminds me of the last part of the movie Living... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2L8CP31-14
iCloud's free storage and upgrades compare to the competition
Unfortunately for anyone relying on so-called "full self driving", that it may be capable of doing much of the driving you remain the driver.

It's not even a question of "taking back control". You're expected to be in control of the vehicle.
Wouldn’t you expect higher level jobs to pay less then “grunt” jobs then?
I am a bit confused why I would pay 15 EUR a month for a invoicing API when I can pay less and get an entire invoicing platform that has a GUI to easily make invoices? There does not appear to be a reason for that listed.

There is nothing wrong with the product or idea, but I don't see a reason as to why. Even Stripe offers easy invoice creation.
I don’t really understand your comment.

Personally I thought this was an interesting read - and more interesting because it didn’t contain any massive “WE DID THIS AND IT CHANGED PUR LIVES!!!” style revelations.

It is discursive, thoughtful and not overwritten. I find this kind of content valuable and somewhat rare.
Yes? A large number of the big ticket bugs, such as win32k lockdown, are now fixed.
Quite a difference from all of those "my day as a <cool tech company> employee" TikTok videos, such as

https://www.tiktok.com/@iamitzelromero/video/717157277625860...

https://www.tiktok.com/@miss_alexabel/video/7068404845325143...

https://www.tiktok.com/@suppgorjess/video/708395834045538641...
Depends on the standards for "well"

The stakes are different
No doubt she earns it.

But, we're probably all doing some form of the above in one way or another. A few minor edits may make the list a little more familiar to more software folks:

>worry about short-term and long-term [...] planning; works cross-functionally...;... manage upwards; interacts directly with customers
Well, it did say it was fast and secure, nothing about accuracy...
How come a paywalled content gets to the top of the HN front-page?
I was looking for this too, "site:airgradient.com calibrate" brings a lot of results, so it seems like they support it, but I haven't dug in yet.
Couple it with decreasing our demand for energy and you just might be onto something.
I wrote some shm API wrappers here: https://github.com/rurban/smart/blob/new/source/algos/includ...

Never use /dev/shm directly unless Linux only.
Can you share some examples of CSS features that could be deprecated if it weren’t for legacy websites? I have a use for pretty much every CSS feature I know, but I only know them because I looked them up when I needed them, so maybe I’m missing some features.
> This process is called subrogation and it is out of the control of the injured person.

Absolutely not my experience at all. Even still, the insurance company has no right to press charges.
Let's say I'm a mid-market business that doesn't want to roll out internally and I don't want to shell out for Broadcom (eg. Maybe I compete with their chips division).

I still want a throat to strangle, and Proxmox, while a solid product, doesn't have the headcount needed to support me.

A larger firm like Veeam can provide both Proxmox support and additional management support.

This way I don't have to use Broadcom, Citrix, etc.
PSA for all people who are still being misled by hand-wavy Apple M1 marketing charts[1] implicating total dominance of M-series wondersilicon obsoleting all Intel/NVIDIA PCs:

There are benchmark data showing that an Apple M2 Ultra is 47% and 60% slower against Xeon W9 and RTX 4090, or 0.35% and 2% slower against i9-13900K and RTX 4060 Ti, respectively, in Geekbench 5 Multi-threaded and OpenCL Compute tests.

Apple Silicon Macs are NOT faster than competing desktop computers, nor M1 was massively faster than NVIDIA 3070(Desktop - 2x faster than Laptop variant M1 was compared against) for that matter. They just offer up to 128GB shared RAM/VRAM options in slim desktops and laptops, which is handy for LLM, that's it.

Please stop taking Apple marketing materials at full face value or above. Thank you.

1: https://i.extremetech.com/imagery/content-types/03ekiQwNudC75iOK4AMuEkw/images-2.jpg
2: screenshot from[4]: https://www.igorslab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Apple-M2-ULtra-SoC-Geekbench-5-Multi-Threaded.jpg
3: screenshot from[4]: https://www.igorslab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Apple-M2-ULtra-SoC-Geekbench-5-OpenCL-Compute.jpg
4: https://wccftech.com/apple-m2-ultra-soc-isnt-faster-than-amd-intel-last-year-desktop-cpus-50-slower-than-nvidia-rtx-4080/
At some point, people will realize that companies without a physical EU footprint can just ignore it. Has anyone _ever_ been extradited over cookie banners?
Having worked around a particular system of Walmart I have to say they are brutally efficient and typically hire good people to run their internal systems. This would be at the corporate level and not store level, can't say much about that myself.

When working with them in measuring the efficiency of the software they were using they were getting significantly higher throughput at significantly lower hardware cost than the average large customer that uses this software. All of it because just a few well learned employees understand how the all systems work together in this workflow and optimize the process.
CockroachDB has a similar feature built in. It takes existing queries which are slow and then analyzes hypothetical indexes for better query plans and suggests them. You can add them in the console ui with one click. It’s pretty useful.
Unreliable? Non-deterministic? Hidden variables? Undocumented behaviour? C'mon fellow programmers who got their start in the Win-95 era! It's our time to shine!
> I’m not sure how often it’s posted here but Benno Rice formerly of FreeBSD Core Team has an excellent and amusing discussion of systemd’s technical merits.

IMO he makes a couple good points (and a couple poor ones), but it’s about everything except technical merits. It’s more about social and philosophical aspects.
I’m interested by your comment that you can “use GPT4 to create your golden dataset”.

Would you be willing to expand a little and give a brief example please? It would be really helpful for me to understand this a little better!
I had a great manager that did similar things. His education was the navy and he ran a store like a ship, and everyone loved it.
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AWS covers every kind of customer.
I worked at a SaaS company that did a fairly significant price hike that priced out the smaller guys.

They did the math beforehand: something like 90% of our support budget went to companies that were contributing 5% of our revenue. Why not focus on the larger contracts that return much higher margins, and eliminate that high support burden that came with the smaller contracts?
machines lack the ability to 'grok'.
That is not always true for Daytime Running Lights.
Not to detract from her performance (I've made a top comment about how she's giving CEO vibes), but we software engineers worry about short-term and long-term, do planning, work cross-functionally, manage upwards, focus on the customer's requirements. And way more.
Thank you for the balanced take. Stopping oil cold turkey would be a disaster for our civilization. Some think of oil merely as fuel for our cars and trucks, maybe for heating homes and businesses. Stopping all that would be relatively easy! But we've built our entire agricultural system, our entire infrastructure, our entire medical system on non-fuel applications of oil - plastics, fertilizer, synthetics, tar, steel and so many other industrial materials that require fossilized carbon, with no viable substitutes in sight. We need oil now, to build technology that will eventually replace oil! EV, electrified cities, solar panels, wind farms, nuclear and hydro power, food hubs, 15 minute city infrastructure, public transport... all require fossil fuels to bootstrap them.

I think the most helpful framing is to look out ~100 years. In 2124, will humanity be using fossil fuels? No, highly unlikely. Oil is done: either through depletion, or EROI descent, or explicit measures to cap CO2 pollution, or a combination. We will see a world without oil soon, one way or the other. The question is how gracefully can we make this transition without causing massive human suffering? Part of that graceful transition involves the responsible use of our remaining fossil hydrocarbons.

"Just stop oil" gives us zero chance of pulling off a smooth transition and plunges us straight into economic collapse with no regard for human well-being. "Drill-baby-drill" raises the risk of catastrophic climate crises with no regard for human well-being. Neither is a good mental framework if you care about helping humanity deal with this predicament.
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I like the idea but I have doubts about the price
Creative flash websites that dominated web design at the turn of the millennium
They definitely are, but they took EVs from a dream to a product that every car maker is looking at.

Regardless of how well I think they've executed against the vision, I think that they are a good example.
The news is the problem. Crime gets reported and published in newspapers and on news sites. A peaceful day without crime is inherently not news worthy. This clouds people's perception more than any biases do.
you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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Just let people make their own mind up about the quality of the slides. Half the audience will probably think they are fine, and it won't be the first time the other half has seen mediocre slides.
Yes SW development is a hard job but she is doing a lot more than one job and the skill set required (not just knowledge but also behavior) to cover so many roles is a lot broader than most developers and also many managers in the software industry require to do their job.
There's only so many "improvements" that can be done to a product and so much increase in price hikes even the enterprise customers can accept.

However, there's no end to the continous requirement of revenue growth. Isn't that why certain products are hated and how they eventually decline.

The duration and timeline may change depending on the product but it is most likely the eventual outcome of this strategy.

Is this factored in into the pricing or is there a plan to deal with it if/when that happens.
Correct, but will Linux? Pottering?
Qt uses what is almost exactly CSS: https://stackabuse.com/styling-pyqt6-applications-default-an...
> “I love my job,” says Hart, but “it doesn’t turn off. That is one of the hard things about it.”

I'm lucky that in my industry I can make a good living as an individual contributor, because having to actually think about my job when I'm not at my job sounds like a living nightmare.
> I put a few thousand into index funds each month. I could easily buy a house with cash in a place where I'm not excited to live.
But why would I? I don't want a house. I like my cheap small shitty apartment because it's in a great neighborhood. My money's growing just fine. I have enough.

Because you’re not lighting rent money on fire every month. I’m sorry you can’t understand this, and all I wanted to do was help you understand. But it isn’t my money so keep the delusion, I don’t care anymore.
What a great comment. Thank you. :-)
I don't know but I guess they don't intend to leak a lot from their own device/tank and once they have sold it to the pipeline they consider it "consumed". The idea is to capture the same amount of CO2 from the air as is in the methane that is consumed.
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There was a fair bit of civil rights activity, vigilantism, defund the police initiatives, and riots that coincided with this period that almost certainly was exacerbated by Covid mandates. We also lack social services other Western nations have and homelessness spiked in big cities coinciding with loss of employment.

I hid out in the Denver Lodo area by the main train station in a luxury building doing my cushy remote software gig while right outside my building were bands of homeless teens doing hard drugs in broad daylight. Occasionally assaults happened, sometimes for seemingly no reason. There was a citizen patrol group formed by homeowners to help keep the area safe by working with the police until permanent encampments were set up. Some homeowners were irate about what police would and wouldn’t do. It was a weird time.

I hate saying this as I’m firmly on the left and this stuff is a bogeyman of the right, but I imagine it must play a role if we’re trying to ask what was unique about US culture during this period.
Programming is already the capricious djinn, only it's completely upfront as to how literally it interprets your commands. The guise of AI being able to infer your actual intent, which is impossible to do accurately, even for humans, is distracting tech folks from one of the main blessings of programming: forcing people to think before they speak and hone their intention.
You are right I don't have an indication of the full consumption of the build, I will measure and update the post.

Thanks for the feedback
Yeah, i agree. Whatever the number it was definitely higher than it should be (or at least what we thought is needed).

But there are so many variables I prefer to just look at the actual outcome. Some
Minor damage to an airfield and one injury. That could be due to an amazing air defense. Or it could be due to Iran broadcasting how, where, and when these attacks would come in back channels. I don’t think we’d ever know the exact reasons because both actors have an incentive not to divulge: Iran to make people think they calibrated this right, Israel to make it look like they have an impressive defense.

The only way this gets worse is by Israel escalating (which seems to be the only conclusion everyone agrees with).
This is not a normal human, less then probably .5% of 340 million Americans are like this.

It's called being an attention-whore and hoping to strike it big by filming a non-controversy and making it into one on Tik-Tok. You can thank social media (and regular media) for the profiting off clicks/algorithms/non-controversies and driving this nonsense. This isn't filming a cop making an arrest to keep them accountable, it's filming a store manager hoping to create controversy and rid her of her job because she 'said or did the wrong thing' on film. It's no different then filming a fat/alt-lifestyle/whomever person on the bus without them knowing and then making fun of them to drive clicks to your video.