skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book 'Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft' is a really great read on Dave Cutler.

I would love more 'tech origin stories'. Next I am planning to read 'Soul of a new machine'. Another one I enjoyed was 'Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing'
From the article:

quantum mechanics is the operating system that other physical theories run on [...] with the exception of general relativity [...]
Not defending it. Just think the parallels with the novel are amusing. John Gray has been arguing for years that humanism and transhumanism grew out of Christian millennialism
How far would error correction go?
Guessing this mostly comes down to exchange rate for you.

As sibling pointed out, the $699 1080 Ti would be $870 today in U.S. dollars.

The 4060 Ti is also a remarkably bad product (for the price). If you swap in the 4070, you're looking at a launch MSRP of $599 which is less than the 1080 Ti even before inflation, and about 50% faster (and over 30% faster than the 4060 Ti.)

Still not mind-blowing given the nearly 7 years between launches. There's a big delta going up to the 4080, both in price and performance. On UserBenchmark it's "135%" faster than a 1080 Ti, but at a mind-boggling $1200.
Form 3 owner here.

- What is the material in each process?

- What is the price per unit when accounting for materials?

- If the material is not a Form proprietary mix, does the cost of the printers include the Open Platform license cost? [0]

- What post-processing is required to wash and cure the printed pieces?

- How many human hours are required in the washing / curing of the pieces from each method?

- What is the dimensional stability over time of pieces from each method? EG, do the Form printed pieces shrink over time when exposed to UV as resin typically does? As such is it appropriate for use outside of the UV protected print chamber?

Frustrated with our Form 3 after a year and having consistently gotten excellent results out of our little Elegoo Mars for five years, we purchased an Elegoo Saturn. It runs between 3 - 5x as fast and has less partially cured resin in our complex lattice (jewelry) pieces. The materials are half the price. And the printer itself was 1/4 the price.

Their proprietary PreForm slicer has -some- features that are better than ChiTuBox.

But all in all, at 1/5th the cost, I wonder how fast you could print the same number of pieces with the equivalent (+/- 20) Saturns. Or, factoring in the $4,499 of the Form 4 and the $6k price of Open Platform for the Form 3, how many you could produce with the 52 Saturns you could by for the same amount...

[0] https://formlabs.com/materials/open-platform/
True! And don't take my statement as an assumption against parenthood. It just requires good planning and maturity, and some people (rightfully) recognize they don't have the maturity needed yet.
> That's all a symptom of the current state of affairs. If citizens would hold their government accountable for their actions on EU-level, the ruling political parties wouldn't send people to the EU who are ill-equipped to communicate/execute.

What I'm saying is that everyone is ill-equipped to communicate, when communications are conducted in 24 languages.

Imagine a Greek newspaper decided to send a team of dedicated EU reporters to Brussels - how are they supposed to talk to the delegates from Sweden and Slovenia and Spain?

(and if you're thinking "they'll just communicate in english" let me remind you that less than 2% of the EU population lives in a country where english is an official language)

> As it turns out, the local governments are much more comfortable to celebrate themselves for everything positive, and blame everything negative on these "EU overlords".

Truth.

But IMO pre-Brexit a big reason the British government had a lot of influence over the British press (and vice-versa) while the EU government didn't was the simple issue of speaking the same language and being in the same city.
Related:

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676647 - Sept 2022 (2 comments)

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30476541 - Feb 2022 (1 comment)

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140539 - Aug 2015 (23 comments)
While I wont argue pointlessly, I am curious what the median values look like for these stats.

In the US, averaging falls short due to said inequality. A smaller group of people have vastly increased wealth, while others stay stagnant. This moves the needle for certain statistics that don't give a full view of the issue.

Its easy to say "hey the average is fine" when you're talking about NYC where stock brokers and high end real estate really drags up that average.

From the 2020 census, the average income was 107k, where the median income was 67k.
Unreal Tournament '99
Enployees need three things to avoid becoming an uninspired cog:

1) Control

2) Responsibility

3) Recognition

Control and responsibility of a project but no recognition will demotivate quickly

Responsibility and recognition with no control means they’re a scapegoat for when things bad

Recognition and control with no responsibility is like a third party who will take credit but has no reason to ensure success

All three need to happen for an employee to care. If an employee is missing one or two of the three, they’ll feel it in their work
Is the injection molding machine just doing one part per shot?
You falsely assume the only 'work' to be done is that immediately aligned with sprint velocity rather than all that done to make someone a valuable contributor in the first place (what your employer is actually paying for). The person who spends ~2 hours a day 'working' and the rest of their day on research, self-education, or more theoretical domains will become exponentially more valuable over time compared the most endurant hamster wheel runner as a function of qualitatively superior capabilities. Smart engineers realize this growth curve and alter their trajectory, benefitting both themselves and their employer long-term.
I can't really fault OP for that. I would absolutely say that store bought tomatoes are garbage, even though I buy and eat them. The quality is so much better with fresh tomatoes that I think it's fair to say that the store bought ones are garbage. I understood OP as meaning the same thing with respect to blueberries.
Either way, this is a big 'ouch' for the fat cats who hold stocks (probably all of them). Moreover, these 1-percenters tend to disproportionately hold higher amounts -- so 10% (very rough guess) of the shares in a typical company could be under this new regime (if it is passed). Result:

1. Bail after law passes, but before the effective date;

2. Hold, and sell, in multi-year allotments so as to stay under the 250,000 triggering criteria (drips and drabs strategy).

If it was me (I'm not a Canadian citizen), I would sell half my holdings (as a fat cat) ahead of the effective date, and pay the lowered taxes early. I'm sure there are tax pros who have a few other tricks up their sleeves to minimize the 'hits' in future years.

Full disclosure: I'm an American holding a CA stock.
> The meaning of “midrange” seems to be creeping upward.

That has been the case since before I touched my first computer. The first mainframe I touched had 16 megabytes of memory, and my first desktop had 48 kilobytes. Both were midrange in their respective categories (although the mainframe was in the top in memory, it was only average in processing power - the Apple II+ was better than a VIC-20 and performed a little better than a C-64, but was slower than most of the "professional" personal computers).

My work laptop is midrange today and is many, many orders of magnitude more powerful than the supercomputers of that period.

To put things into perspective, my phone runs Unix on a RISC CPU closely coupled with an array processor.

That's Moore's law. It has slowed down a bit, in part from the difficulty of doubling density every couple years, but also from the fact even a 5th generation Intel i3 is vastly more capable than what the average user needs. In GPUs it's a little bit different, with games requiring increasingly ludicrous amounts of compute power, pushing the "good enough" range upwards every year.

If you really like to play Pac-Man, an 8-bit CPU and a simple CRTC should suffice.
It does, but at least on iOS, turning on incognito mode also turns off the YT premium features that you're paying for.
> I mean, it's standard to be presented a contract that heavily favors the party that wrote the first draft.

I'd argue that may be "common" but the "standard" should be to expect a contract that slightly favors the party that wrote the first draft while still sticking to what's market for the vast majority of the terms
Do gamers actually want ray tracing? Or is this something like bloom/post effects/motion blur where is computationally expensive and gamers who care about their k/d shut it off anyway to see the other team easier?
I'm convinced that this is why every recipe on Youtube now suddenly involves "delicious" Almond milk (which is not delicious and not milk).

If you are going to be shilling for the vegan processed food industry, at least use oat milk (which you can make at home) or soy milk (which is actually delicious - at least the processed versions I had in Japan).
> doesn't seem to be that big of a deal.

Ok, it's a medium type of a deal, so? Why do you insist a worse way is better just because you personally don't care?

> straight grid of numbers for touchscreens not one heavily skewed to the side.

Why would it be skewed? You use fingers completely different on a phone, so why would you expect the same form?

> Also, the number pad keyboard means larger hitboxes for numbers to type them faster.

And alpha keys are closer to your fingers so you can type those 4 numbers faster

> There's also no real "home row" on a phone keyboard.

There is, check where your thumb(s) "rest" when you type on your phone

> instead of ensuring I'm on a keyboard or OS configuration

This topic is about website input forms, what OS configuration do you need to visit a website?
Related:

Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064128
The forgotten war on beepers
Recent similar discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011438 (98 points | 5 days ago | 19 comments)
This feels remarkably similar to the Humane Pin
Design constraints aren't an issue for prototype runs, since you'll have the same constraints for the production mold. Actually, now that I'm writing this out.... the constraints issue is a plus, since it's a dry run of how the actual production parts will be produced. Doing the 1000pc run on a 3d printer won't expose an 'oops' that can't actually be made in a molded part.
I'm very well aware of it. It's mostly attention-seeking bait taking Miguel de Icaza's already critical posts (the only kind shared by his twitter/mastodon persona) even further out of context.

You are not arguing this from PoV of evaluating .NET as a technology or seeking to better the software ecosystem, you just found a convenient content for the arguments of your messages. It's known, solved, not new, and people carry on using Rider and VSC as usual.
...stating that the laser tech was particularly sensitive topic.

Perhaps it's my jaded view seasoned by the observation of decades of tech bullshit, but that could go one of two ways:

1. The laser tech is full of trade secrets that we dare not reveal just yet.

2. We don't want anyone to find out that we bought these laser things off AliExpress.

(Or maybe it's tech you could buy off Amazon ten years ago, who knows? https://www.amazon.com/Brookstone-FBA_mp-796246-Projection-V...)
This would prove P = NP. The catch being that only positive weights are allowed.
Much more training data (videos) available for bipedal organisms performing useful tasks...
I was playing it on a 486 DX-2 66 Mhz, which probably is why I am having such a hard time believing it.
The feature part of it is to allow JS code in a browser sandbox to compute stuff faster. Possibly even render it.

The explicit anti-feature is the ability to do yet another side-channel attack. Also out-of-spec is the incredibly power-inefficient IPC mechanism. And I doubt a probabilistic querying of what kind of code the rest of the system is running was ever part of the spec either.
Lewis Road have some truly great products - the salted butter is obviously different due to the visible salt crystals.
and then every react site stops rendering entirely?

that suggestion isn't even viable on Tor websites
Tex. hack may be first disruption of U.S. water system by Russia
For those interested enough to read the comments, there are some other fun ZX Spectrum projects you can play with: https://github.blog/2022-04-23-zx-spectrum-40-year-anniversa...
If nobody notices massive technical internal improvements, that tells me that what was improved wasn't of great importance to the user in the first place. Perhaps those technical improvements were a waste of time, but perhaps those technical improvements benefited development without adversely impacting users. That would be an enormous "win" in my book.

> Anyway, my point is that—whether you like it or not—if you don’t change the UI, nobody notices. That’s why so much effort is spent on new UI.

I think this is wrong on two counts. First, if the change you made to the business logic really improved the things that users value, they'll absolutely notice even if the UI doesn't change.

Second, that comment implies that one way or another, a user-noticeable change must happen. It could very well be that the software is ideal for its user base as-is and no change at all is preferable to change for change's sake.
Curved spacetime is a mathematical model Einstein used to model gravity. Einstein advised to be careful to not confuse the model with reality. To wit, GR doesn't explain how mass/energy curves spacetime, it merely(!) provides the tensor needed to explain gravity as the result of such a curvature.

Consider this: you have two massless particles that are motionless with respect to one another. Suddenly both particles acquire mass at the same time (let's set aside this is physically impossible - this is a thought experiment). How does curved spacetime explain the sudden gravitational attraction between those two particles and how they're accelerating toward one another? It doesn't.

These problems are how we know GR is wrong, the problem is it's not flat-out wrong! Einstein's field equations are better than what Newton had provided and explains more observed phenomena - they even predict phenomena we have since observed! GR is a very good theory (model) for gravity, but it's not the whole picture - and we know it. We simply don't know how to improve upon it and I personally think that believing curved spacetime is actual "reality" is a big part of why we haven't made much progress. Well, that and some other issues QFT has when attempting to model a graviton, but this comment is already long!

EDIT: merely(!) - this isn't to understate Einstein's contribution to the matter which was quite considerable! But when the old genius himself is warning you to not get too caught up in the model, I suggest we take heed.

EDIT 2: QFT has issues modeling a graviton, not a gluon.
Desktop Linux. It stays out of my way and just works.

Apple has almost never been an option for me because I like being able to run software on diverse hardware.

Windows gets more inscrutable and annoying every time I'm asked to do family tech support. I can't believe how many ads are baked into the current version of the OS.

I'm not a gamer, so the lure to tolerate Windows for a single app has never been strong for me.
He’s now resigned: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/business/media/uri-berlin...
I don't know about Mexico, but Canada's rules seem pretty chill:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

You need a passport and can't stay for more than 6 months.
Okay :-)

Thanks for your answer. Yep, sounds like a good idea. Or links could be automatically expanded like this when they appear on their own lines, possibly with a "[...]" footnote prefix.
The Incompleteness theorem is a about formal theories, so why does the particular ground truth of observation hold as a sound, complete metatheory?
TIL, fossils exist from < O(1M+)ya

Also TIL, (from tangential reading) even dinosaur fossils contain original bone material from the organism, not just rock in the shape of the original bones.

Of course it makes complete sense in retrospect.
If it so happens that that company was wrong in what they did, you run the risk of optimizing for the wrong things based on one bad observation. The company doesn’t care. The negatives only affect your career.
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
This puts the cart before the horse. In reality, the biggest source of untapped potential, at least anecdotally as an engineer, is that corporations tend to give grease to squeaky wheels. So, the upper quadrants in the article.

If you have even a few years of industry experience, modulo being intentionally naive, you've noticed that work begets work. The 'skilled pragmatists' quietly do their jobs well. Their reward is even more work to do, without much recognition.

It's analogous to software quality. It's fleetingly rare that a consumer of software writes in to let you know how great, zippy and bug-free it is. You only ever hear about how terrible things are. When things are 'good' -- that's just the expected status quo. So no reward for steadily doing good things.

I'm also sure after a few years in industry you've also noticed that the Do-Nothing (TM) guy who sprints around with their head on fire gets managerial recognition, promotions, bonuses.

You know the kind. They wander from meeting to meeting, initiative to initiative, never actually accomplishing anything concrete, but showing their face to management and saying a lot of nice words.

Eventually, the skilled pragmatist notices this dichotomy and mentally clocks out. I've heard this anecdote many times, both in online circles and IRL.
The Tweet that started a debate on YT tech reviewers and their responsibility
That’s how salesforce did it. One way you can tell how terribly uninformed the layoff choices were is that there were people who were actually rehired immediately.
To be clear, I feel the author is describing me, and the loneliness and alienation I have felt too often at work tells me he’s using a lot of hyperbole.

If we form a lunch group to complain about our frustrations, it’s never been more than about four people, even in a team of dozens or more. Three is more common.

That said, he may be telling the truth with lies - this sort of untapped resource can have outsized impacts on a business, for good or ill.
Dwarf Fortress's Adventure Mode brings the SIM's chaotic spirit to CRPGs
That's their choice. Sick and tired of developers dumbing everything down to protect this special breed of idiot.
It is just me or is the writing style of that article a bit... off? Eg:

> “Anything can be tested. That’s the nature of reality. There must be a relatively objective method available.”
>
> Of course he had a point but I was curious to see what he thought would work. “Lie detector test? Perhaps we can torture him to get him to admit his motivations? I’m sure…”

Reading the above genuinely gives me the same vibes I get from reading bad fanfiction. It's hard to put my finger exactly on what is off, but it kept nagging me throughout the article.
As a moderator of a major technical community on Reddit, I (and the other mods) probably spend more effort on squashing astroturfing campaigns than anything else related to moderation. Removing astroturf posts and banning associated accounts is a daily task. Some vendors are so aggressive about this that we've had to institute automod rules to nuke any post that includes certain brand or product names.

Thankfully most vendors or their marketing agency affiliates that engage in this sort of thing aren't particularly clever about it, so identification of puppet accounts to ban isn't too difficult.
The City and the Limiting Virtues
The Higgs mechanism was always only needed to explain the mass of the elementary particles. It was always known that the mass of protons and neutrons, which account for 99.999% of the mass of atoms, is itself explained mostly by E=mc² from the energy of the strong force (interactions between the quarks which make up the proton & neutron).

However, the mass of the electron is measurable, and the mass of a mole of water for example would be measurably different if the electron had 0 mass. And since the electron is not made up of anything, its mass can't be explained by the same mass-energy equivalence. The same is true for the mass of quarks, which do account for a tiny but measurable fraction of the mass of the proton and neutron.

There were also other possible explanations for these masses. The Higgs was not the only candidate theory for this. So, the LLC achieved a monumental task: it confirmed which theory accurately accounts for the mass of these particles, and proved that the final piece of the Standard Model puzzle is now known.
> "investigated for murder"

Seriously overestimating the willingness of police to give a shit about what are clearly _really old_ remains.

The CYA part about talking to authorities (whoever applicable in your jurisdiction, not necessarily police) still applies. There are often laws about human remains. THOSE would show on your record if this is mishandled.
Resend founder here - thanks for the shoutout @richin13!

a lot of people have been migrating off Sendgrid to Resend for this exact same reason.

happy to answer any questions you may have.
Russia is running an information campaign against the US. That's not news.

If you wonder why things are so strange, why the news makes no sense, why everyone thinks everything is terrible, why political polarization is so high, and why we're at each other's throats... this is part of why.

It's not just Russia. There are other information campaigns going on. China and Iran are running them. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are running them. But Russia's is one of the big ones.
One of my acquaintances wrote this piece a couple of years back, asking if Meta/FB's use of product engagement metrics as a signal for IC performance was a case of the McNamara fallacy:

https://4qbits.com/posts/2022-02-04-the-meta-fb-downturn-as-...
Oh yeah the difference in quality is incredible. I can't grow tomatoes to save my life, but I love to get them from my local farmers market in the summer. They have so much more flavor that it's hard to believe they come from the same species of plant.

Strawberries are the same thing, like I mentioned in my post. I encourage everyone to go pick strawberries at least once in their life. I like strawberries well enough normally. When you get them fully ripe, fresh from the plant, they are heavenly. It's something everyone should experience.
judging from how i've read other people describe him, Dave Cutler's personality seems antithecal to memoirs or biographies, from what I've read he seems to be very much like John Carmack in his total lack of sentimentality. Thankfully some enterprising people have managed to get him to sit infront of a camera, but its pretty light on the nitty gritty technical aspects:

- Computer history museum interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29RkHH-psrY
- David Plummer's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE
Would that be this guy? I was laughing at his tweet yesterday where he asserts that all the negativity around their bad product is our lack of "optimism"

https://twitter.com/samsheffer/status/1779854070372561184

edit: not sure if the previous comment was edited or I imagined it said it was their marketing guy before, but I'm editing his name out of the comment to not potentially tarnish his search engine results