skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can totally understand the move fast and break things mentality, but I'd like to stress it's equally important to pay back the occurring tech debts. I am working on a massive spring monolith that's somewhat of a huge pile of spaghetti, and when the higher management decided to enforce code quality in the pipeline, it became a living hell to work on.

I can't even add a logger without having to refactor the whole 2000 line class while writing a whole-ass unit test for it. It's been a full year and I still have to deal with this sort of crap on a weekly basis.

The most ironic part is that most of the devs that cooked the spaghetti are now either in upper management or in the same devOps team that's demanding us to clean the mess up.
> I just said I'd be ordering pizza for anyone interested in staying after work to hack on Linode-related projects. I was willing to pay for the pizza, in part because I didn't want to risk being shut down by asking.

I did this (paid out of pocket, for a refreshments draw) while a poor grad student, for a department-wide interest group meeting series that I started.

There was some silly barrier getting funding, and I didn't have time for silliness, so I just paid.

I made the refreshments theme simply "chocolate", a different form each meeting. Which not only had some novelty appeal, to students accustomed to scavenging free food, but also the cost per person was pretty low.

Remarkably good attendance, and people seemed in a good mood.
Naive civilian question here -- If the drill sergeant is your boss in basic training, I don't understand why telling him info you think is important got you into trouble. After all, "talk to your boss if you have a concern" is the #1 piece of advice given to anyone who has a job.

In healthy work environments, the culture is to assume the best about the intentions of others ... sounds like he wasn't doing that at all.
The guides are pretty poorly paid. The companies are banking people who love the sport will do it for cheap, and they do. It’s similar to a ski instructor setup. Sometimes the position will come with room and board to help offset the meagre wages.

When I was a broke college kid I tipped my tour guide $20 (in 2005 dollars). The guide will tell you on the trip to tip them. It would be hard not to know.

Most places where tipping is greatly appreciated take into account things like “didn’t bring my wallet on the raft” and will do things like make sure to say goodbye to the group after the come out of a locker room at the end (for example).

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an accident. If you were in this situation there are plenty of ways to correct the course.
so you dont sell, you dont develop, you dont finance...what is it that you provide again?
My journaling became a lot more reliable when I started writing on my laptop instead of in a journal. I was hesitant to do this because it didn’t have the same romantic feeling as writing in a book that people could read.

But when I started typing instead of writing by hand, I could get my thoughts out faster. I didn’t worry about planning out how I was going to say something because I could edit it. I could write pages instead of paragraphs (If I wanted to)

I know it’s not for everyone, but off handwriting is slowing you down, try typing. I really love Day One on the Mac. I’m sure there are plenty of similar apps across various platforms.
> Brontosaurus doesn't exist any more

Really? I can’t see anything about this in the wiki?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus
At one given instant sure, but the key thing is that over time the collection of goods and services grows.

Adam, Bob, and Charlie are all shipwrecked on an island. They divy up the ship's goods equally. One day, Charlie decides to build some furniture. Now he has more goods than Adam and Bob. Did he deprive others, to achieve his comparatively greater wealth? If you just looked at one snapshot of time, you'd see Charlie with more wealth than the others, though.
Agreed. It’s easy (and very rarely helpful) to get polemical about the ways people spend their leisure time. This has been true for so much longer than social media (or even the New York Times!) has been around
BMW does a lot of this kind of shenanigans, not just with their heated seats. They also charge extra to unlock the horsepower of their engines. There are several performance levels which have the exact same engine with only a few different parameters tweaked in the firmware in order to limit the horsepower output to the level each customer paid for. Tractor manufacturers do the exact same thing with horsepower output. And it's not just John Deer (famously anti-customer and anti-right-to-repair) but most (or maybe all) of the major brands are doing similar shit.
The article itself is a very fine example of the content that it criticizes.
Hey Lostmsu! Those sound like great recommendations! Gonna try to find them. Haven´t read Dune but it seems worth it. Thanks for sharing them bro!
I’m also looking for similar answers, so I’ll be reading replies here too.
I'm not sure that's the case. I don't think people are responding to the "redneck in a pick-up" stereotypes as much as that "pavement princess" owner trying to "cosplay" truck culture stereotypes.

Sidenote - I'm finding my vocabulary pretty lacking now that so much stereotyping is done in images and memes.
Rare non-erroneous use of "silicone" by journalist.
I expected the AI prompt to be automaticaly generated from the recipe.
> The vast majority of the online content you consume today won't improve your understanding of the world. In fact, it may just do the opposite

This is true and I am thankful to read this article about how the author has coined a new phrase
What brand of connectors do you favor using professionally and for personal projects? I imagine the list of spacecraft certified companies isn’t that long.
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you can reduce the per capita rates of incidents by adding normal people, but even in a city like NYC where most households don't own a car, the subway still has an unacceptable amount of non-violent incidents like the aforementioned one (yeah yeah yeah i know the likelihood of dying on public transit is less per mile than driving)
Yes, I went to a good school with Mormons.

There’s not much toxic individualism and narcissism in British state schools. Our education culture is a bit more inclusive and outward-looking.

Homeschooling is unusual here simply because people don’t feel (with good reason) schools are poisoning their kids or risking getting them shot.

But I would concede that the culture of homeschooling may be more fringe here precisely because of that.
Such a weird & cruel modernity, where these releases are purely in the abstract. No, you still won't be able to buy a MI300X in Q4 2024. The enhanced edition will absolutely not be available.

(I miss the old PC era where the world at large was benefiting in tandem from new things happening (or falling behind from not adapting)).
What’s TFA?
It requires NVIDIA
I’m working on a prototype now but I deliberately made it run entirely in the browser (indexeddb) to avoid the problem that I might be asked to put it in production!
Also check out the YouTube videos of eigenchris, especially his series on tensor calculus and relativity. Probably the clearest explanations I’ve seen on these subjects.
> If you have many independent small businesses, NOT all of them will be good. It will be a mixed bag what you get in your area. OP has felt so fortunate with his local highly-skilled asian-owned small business that he felt compelled to write about it on the internet. Not everyone will be this lucky.

I don't really agree with this. Unlike big corporations that stick around despite bad service, small businesses have a reputation to maintain. The only bad small businesses that can remain long enough are ones in high density, high turn-over areas (ie: high tourism, fast changing populations like NYC). For sleepier places, these businesses rely on word of mouth and repeat customers.

The reason why people buy a sofa from a generic corp rather than this kind of shop is price.
Intel provides bit-accurate code. In older chips it used a faithful bipartite ROM:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120124193536id_/http://www.acs...
Thanks @anonzzzies !
They are all pointy metal tubes with wings and (an) engine(s), filled with fuel that go boom to make them fly, carrying some sort of payload.

Their only difference is to what purpose they are used. Some are used to destroy, some are used to kill, some are used to defend, some are used to throw stuff into space.

But they are all pointy metal tubes filled with boom powder.
"Being richer beyond a certain wealth doesn't make you better off" is a common, and perhaps the standard, argument for aggressively taxing the wealthy. The logic being, which I think is sound, $1 given to a millionaire doesn't improve the millionaire's life at all, while $1 given to someone destitute impacts their life a lot. And related, $1 taken from a millionaire does not impact the millionaire's quality of life at the same way $1 taken from a waged employee. The comparative impact is very different for different levels of wealth.

By that pattern, the more wealthy you are then the more risk, and higher risks, you can take on without impacting your quality of life, your better off-ness. A billionaire can take on more risk than a millionaire, and a millionaire can take on more risk than waged employee.

And further in that pattern, wealth over a certain amount translates into increasing risk tolerance. And leveraging that tolerance to take on risk, and it paying off, leads to more wealth. But the only thing you can use the increased wealth, since it's beyond whatever the threshold for comparative impact is, for is taking on even more risk.

I suppose we need to have an understanding of what "better off" is and how it is measured.
This and Rapids.ai is the single reason that NVIDIA is the leader in AI.

They made GPU processing at scale accessible to everyone, I have been a long term user of Rapids and found that even as a data engineer I can do things on an old consumer GPU that would otherwise require a 20+ node cluster to do in the same time.
> Or are you suggesting that the system claims to be instilling some level of competency in various subjects?

I am. Otherwise why would there be standardized tests to attempt to measure this?

There's use in the education as a public babysitting service/meal delivery for young children, but that its it's main benefit, we should radically alter the way it's all set up. It could be radically cheaper as well as destroy way fewer children's love of learning.
What do you think wealth is? A big part of wealth generation is finding new technologies and applying them to build better things.
> put queries on an allow list, control max query depth, and/or throttle on query cost.

All of which are features which give you some way to respond to the performance issues you avoid by planning your API up-front.
The fucking article
Flow-Matic
The genius that made the transatlantic telegraph cable possible!
Reminds me of this old con idea. Get a mailing list of 1024 people, send half an email that the market will go up, and half that it will go down.

The next day, half of them will see you got the prediction correct. Of those, send a further half a prediction that it will go up, and the other half that it will go down.

After 7 total rounds you’ll have 16 people that have seen you consistently predict the market for 7 days.

Sell them your next prediction.
window curtains will do the job, as it has done so for centuries.
Jackson's the standard here in Spain (undergrad), after working through a course based off of Griffith's.
Negation is not all that well understood even in formal settings.

When PROLOG introduced negation-as-failure, many logicians (Girard) were repulsed: how can failure to find a proof for a proposition P be considered a proof of the negation (not P)? Yet there are theories where this just "works" because P is about some inherently finite set of observations (not (John Doe is an employee)) is very much the failure of finding a record after consulting the employee database.

The different treatment of negation in intuitionistic logic and classical logic is another example. Intuitionistic logic is more precise than classical: a statement of classical logic logic can be translated into one of intuitionistic logic (eg Gödel-Gentzen) that is provable if and only if the original statement was provable.

Things like identity, equality, negation in real life reasoning seem to often be "good enough"/ fuzzy rather than rigorous applications of logic.
Err... there's a share button although the URL is super long, without shortening it looks very awkward to share elsewhere. If you open copilot's URL [1] you can just paste and URL without asking anything, and it will return a summary.

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1: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
Ask HN: Vulkan vs. WGPU which one should I learn first?
I have be working with openGL for the past two years. So, I wanted to learn something new. My choice fell on Vulkan and WGPU both of which look pretty nice and have cross platform support.
Which would be better among these two?
Am a software engineer who fell into salsa dancing many years ago - originally went to meet women, but found I really enjoyed salsa - yes, agreed partner dancing is very difficult, especially for the lead (as you probably heard, it takes something like 3x the amount of time to become a good lead as it does a good follower). Such a difficult art to master (am a musician and I still found it extremely hard, especially at first).

One thing you may want to try is becoming a master at the beat. You've probably already heard this, but still even so, seems like leads (and followers) don't realize just how truly important it is to taking the next step. Yeah, a good way to practice is to do a very clean and confident basic step to the beat of any song you hear.

And if you've already got this down, more power to you :-)
btop might be measuring the wrong thing here, but alacritty on my box shows 93M using the same interface. I remember benchmarking foot and alacritty (also kitty) pretty extensively a few years ago, and settled on foot.

Though of course, the memory usage on modern machines is really not a major issue, but the configuration update, along with the tmux session death was annoying..

EDIT: Some timing metrics..

foot -s &
hyperfine --warmup 8 'alacritty -e true' 'foot -e true' 'footclient -e true'
Benchmark 1: alacritty -e true
Time (mean ± σ): 99.0 ms ± 14.2 ms [User: 58.5 ms, System: 33.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 82.7 ms … 148.3 ms 32 runs

Benchmark 2: foot -e true
Time (mean ± σ): 37.2 ms ± 2.3 ms [User: 40.3 ms, System: 9.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 33.8 ms … 43.7 ms 83 runs

Benchmark 3: footclient -e true
Time (mean ± σ): 22.8 ms ± 4.3 ms [User: 0.9 ms, System: 0.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 18.2 ms … 63.6 ms 133 runs

Summary
footclient -e true ran
1.63 ± 0.32 times faster than foot -e true
4.35 ± 1.03 times faster than alacritty -e true
weird to play without a crosshair, did the original quake not have one?
I sort of feel this. I’m not 100% sure on the analogy. Obesity is bad, of course because it makes your life more difficult, but also due to the negative feedback loop. It’s hard to start exercising if you are already in bad health.

I don’t see a similar feedback look with information. If anything it is like being an information gym fanatic that always skips leg day—my brain is strong I think (well, I hope at least), but no cardio.

I didn’t love his specific examples.

> A typical example on social media would be a photo of a freshly cooked burger, captioned with “Look what I just made!” but posted without a recipe so you can't even recreate it.

> e.g. “feeling tired, might go to sleep, lol”

These are sort of very obvious trivialities. I don’t think they scratch the itch for anybody. They aren’t dangerous, IMO.

Politics and tech stuff seem more dangerous to me. They are legitimately important and useful. But, for politics, you can only read so many stories before your mind is made up. There’s important stuff going on, but reading a dozen stories about one thing and then listening to the podcast just amps up the anxiety.

Tech stuff, I could waste ages reading about stacks and algorithms I’ll never use…
Is that how you'd describe the wealth of Bezos?

Better shopping, or is it more about capturing shopping and taking a slice from all transactions?
In the past record store employees.

Also, to this day, some clothing store employees if you don't fit what they want as their 'look'.

But it is rare.

Some professors regarded their courses as being for weeding out people who would not become academics.
> but the US is a very large country.

Indeed - the US is a very large country, and consists of over 50 different jurisdictions, each with their own slightly different laws. An answer to a legal question which is correct in one state will often be subtly incorrect in another, and completely wrong in yet another.
I bristle a little bit at the characterization of "antivax, sovereign citizen, fear of radio frequencies, or extreme religion" as intellectual abuse.

But I seem to have the same opinion as you do about homeschooling. I am biased by a small sample size of people I know who have homeschooled. Too many of them did so because it was too hard to get their kids up, fed, dressed, and on the bus each morning. Or because one of the public school teachers voted for a particular politician. I have seen very few parents who I felt were competent to teach any subject at a high school level. I have seen a few homeschoolers who wisely depend on co-ops with subject experts. But mostly I have seen what I consider to be failures.

To be fair, the failures I have seen in homeschool are not particularly worse than the failures I have seen in public school. I can't say if the two realities would be different if they swapped. It's just that I have seen great successes in public school and not so much from homeschools.

My own children have been successful in public school. To achieve the same level of success in homeschool would have taken a personal effort from their parents that I am skeptical would have occurred. As it is, they got two bright, well-educated parents to help them understand what the public schools were teaching and to explain dissenting opinions about antivaxing, radio frequencies, extreme religion, etc. :-) In my experience, public school education with active, involved parents is better than active, involved parents alone. At least in the schools my children attended. I admit ignorance to all but a handful of pretty decent public schools. But it is awesome that my children can spend five hours a week learning propaganda about Jefferson and Marx and then I can spend another three hours over dinners to add in John Locke and our local city council. And I lack the structure of the curriculum the school provides. So we can critique and disagree and agree and reinforce and still move through a complete semester of topics because we aren't depending on me to provide the framework and the 95% of things we actually agree on. It's ok if we rabbit hole a bit because the professional teacher will change the subject tomorrow and keep things moving.
How do you verify that the "humans" are humans? (and not bots or sockpuppets)
As a shareholder, why do you want to be so diluted?
I personally think that the psychoactive effects are symptoms, not causes of the brain plasticity which permits therapy to make lasting changes in ideation.

ie, it's not the mood, or the visuals: its the underlying changes in brain connectivity and how they persist.
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Fascinating comment, that articulates the point of TFA better than TFA did.

I've always been highly articulate, and also frustrated by the limitations of spoken language. This is a common (maybe even the dominant?) theme in 20th century theatrical writing. People like Ibsen, Chekhov, Pinter, Genet, and Churchill all struggle with it in their own ways. People like Beckett and LePage and Sarah Kane ultimately kind of abandon language altogether.

Or, though poetry's not as much my field as theatre, you could go back to TS Eliot:

... Words strain,
Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

My own speculation, along your lines, is that it's because sound is transient, hearing imperfect, and memory fallible. Even apart from ambiguity, two people will never quite agree on what was said. (Most of my arguments with my wife begin this way!) Even court transcripts, intended to eliminate this limitation, don't capture non-verbal cues.

As someone who's been marinated in the written and spoken word for all my life, research like this is fascinating, and slightly creepy: will all of the ghosts in the machine be exorcised? If those are blown away, and the bare mechanism of language exposed, what comes next?
Would be curious to hear any feedback from folks using Grain.

I've been following a similar WASM-first language, Moonbit (https://www.moonbitlang.com/), which was created by the creator of Rescript. I'm excited by the design decisions they've made and think there is a lot of promise on the AI story for these fully typed "low resource" functional languages due to their expressiveness. My bet is that coding agents will start to really benefit from the type inference they provide.
They are confidentially incorrect, the best kind of incorrect, even cars with servo controlled throttle bodies (like mine) the pedal (largely) controls the position of the throttle plate. The ECU will then control the timing of the fuel injectors to achieve optimal combustion and cylinder pressures based on expected air intake.

The ECU will also take inputs directly from the pedal, but only because that provides instaneous information, rather then waiting for sensors in the intake manifold, and eventually the exhaust manifold, to catch up.

It always comes down to pedal controls air, air controls fuel.

Edit, I'm a dirty liar: It doesn't ALWAYS come down to pedal -> Air -> Fuel. On engines with turbochargers it's possible for the ECU to delay fuel injection reducing the amount of power in the cylinder and increasing the temperature/pressure of the exhaust. This causes more power to be generated by the turbine which then accelerates. This then results in the linked compressor accelerating increasing pressure in the intake manifold which means the engine can burn even more fuel generating more power.

All without the throttle plate changing position or the engine RPMs increasing.

This trick isn't used in any meaningful way in production cars to the best of my knowledge, it is used in race cars to keep the turbo spoiled up at its optimal point prior to the start of the race.

Also if your engine happens to be a turbojet instead of a reciprocating piston engine (all turbocharger, no cylinder), it's the only way you can control power.
I wonder if this coating would help solar cells avoid issues with small shadows causing the array to sag, by dispersing the shadow.