skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the pricing for those AWS instance types ("db.t4g.medium" and "r6gd.large.search"), then looking at co-location costs... I wonder if they have enough clusters that it would make sense to move some to co-location?

I guess if their customers are mostly already using AWS, that would be a bad idea because of AWS data transfer fees then applying?
That's probably why it's such a bad article.

Symptoms of a potentially bad article include:

1. Someone writing about something they are interested in, but which is outside their realm of expertise

2. An article which starts with a strawman

3. An article with a "hot take" title

The definition of a color wheel is "an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle". It's meaningless on its face to say that an abstract illustrative organization of anything is "wrong" in any objective sense.
I'd mention the book Blue and Yellow don't make Green, which taught me that my minimum set of paints should be:

* A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange-inclined red (scarlet)

* A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and an orange-inclined yellow ("yellow")

* A purple-inclined blue (ultramarine) and a green-inclined blue (cerulean)

* White to make light tones (don't worry about black)

And these let me get almost all the spectral colors because, I think, the pigment grains don't interfere and don't cause subtractive mixing (there was some sketchy explanation about light bouncing between different pigment particles before bouncing properly back from the canvas). There are gaps due to the lack of any pure primary color, which we basically give up on being able to buy.
It is not really about saving one oscillator, but about two things:

- saving the drive circuitry for the flyback, which is usually combined with horizontal deflection amplifier. Also such a design probably simplifies the output filter for horizontal deflection as the flyback primary is part of that filter.

- synchronizing the main PSU of the display to the horizontal sync as to make various interference artifacts in the image stay in place instead of slowly vandering around, which will make them more distracting and noticable.

It is not that hard to see the whole CRT monitor as essentially being one giant SMPS that produces bunch of really weird voltages with weird waveforms. And in fact is you take apart mid-90's CRT display (without OSD), the actual video circuitry is one IC, few passives and lot of overvoltage protection, rest of the thing is powersupply and the deflection drivers (which are kind of also an power supply, as the required currents are significant).
> The way traditional artists think and thought about colors is definitely not in the shape of color wheels.

Slightly disagree. I find that knowing the location of the pigments on the rtyb wheel is a very useful skill. A color too saturated or too light? add its opposite!
Yeah, I think people turning up with an attitude of entitlement or a presumption that something should be a priority for the project summons at least resistance, if not hostility. I’ve never seen anything from the project that I’d call hostile, if anything, I’ve seen patience.

For that reason, I’m glad adoption is a non-goal [0] as it allows for the explicit exclusion of popular demand and copying other “successful” projects as criteria for decision making.

[0] I wish many more projects and companies would follow suit! Something well crafted to be loved by a small, committed, and sophisticated user base/audience is, almost without fail, so much more valuable and special than something designed for mass appeal (or evolves towards it once someone smells a juicy exit). Sadly, that’s not often where the incentives lie.
> Did we even have hover in windows 95/98?
Hover how? Changing the appearance of a control when the mouse passes over it? Or having a tooltip appearing? Both can definitely be implemented quite easily. For the tooltip, I just checked on Delphi 2 (which I was using on Win95 ages ago) and it had the Hint and ShowHint properties (as the current VCL/LCL).

> Pre-2k UI APIs were extremely limited.
But that was largely enough for most GUIs. Nowadays people are putting a full browser (Electron) to create an interface with a few buttons and a progress bar. I'm thinking of an actual application, a relatively famous SD card writing program which weighs something like 200 MB. Make it with native GUI controls and it takes 50 kB (maybe even less) and will not eat the RAM and CPU of the users.

Moreover, people are doing fancy GUIs, with the result that no two application look the same, totally confusing some users (Windows itself is a mess, since Windows 8).
I don't know if it's the root problem, but it's the first and biggest problem. I earn a comfortable salary in France and although I think I would like to get one (the movie watching experience looks really cool), there's absolutely no way I'll spend more than 1 month of salary in this. I don't even know if I would like the thing, even if I were to buy it, I can't afford to buy it and then not using it because it turns out to be useless.
This reminds me of the argument GE made (from David Gelles book about Welch) that laying off staff is a kindness, as it lets them try and find a new job they’re “better suited for” sooner rather than later
Skill issue ig. The ease of portability and I like Swarm a lot.
Is it because of something inherent to software development, or is it just that software development became a big job category in an environment that was skeptical of unions?
Thank you. I just hope in the end it was not relevant and it was just me looking for something to blame.
> I don't share Van Gogh's politics, yet I don't feel "The Rocks" is political.

Don't you see the contradiction?

I know people often complain that everything has become political. I understand because I do it too. The main problem in this discussion is the loss of nuance in the different usages and meanings of the word "political." In everyday usage, it refers to views being part of the policy-making process, especially when more pressing matters exist. What we really mean and criticize is divisive politics.

However, in the extended view of politics, which is a very common view, designating something as art involves politics. It's a political process. This doesn't degrade art or make it inherently divisive. It certainly doesn't make art a subset of politics.
Show HN: Unblock.work – Simple project management for everyone
After having worked on countless projects using many of the industry-standard tools for managing them, I came to realize that I only wanted one thing: less. All of the tools I had been using got in the way of my work and over complicated the process of tracking tasks and communicating updates or decisions. To fix this I built unblock.work, an extremely simple project management tool designed for individuals, teams, and small to medium size companies.

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And they were proven right as EV companies went bankrupt or required government money to prop them up.
Mazeppa: A modern supercompiler for call-by-value functional languages
Executives are not like regular employees, they have a huge freedom to set their own pay at any level the shareholders will accept. The limit case of this is the Musk deal: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/13/tes...
I'm afraid this is probably another word that will get accepted with new uses. I didn't actually know it was only a verb and the title made perfect sense in my head. I imagine that's true for most people who read it.
Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green by Michael Wilcox covers the mechanisms behind subtractive colours (paints) pretty well. Also explains why it will never make a really bright green.
You’re not wrong, but in Australia where I work only 12.5% of all workers are in unions. We have some moderately union-hostile legislation (strikes are hard to pull off lawfully) but nothing preventing union organisation in principle for most workers. So evidently it’s not only software developers who think this way.
Guessing the benchmark results are for number of runs? Over what time period?
> Which would completely invalidate the entire purpose of the SCIF, no?

Yes. But if you belong in there, nobody is going to second guess you.
Yeah in my decades I've only once heard of an employer going the extra mile to keep a guy at a company.

Boss drove to his house in a Bentley and gave him the keys.

Of course the dude was making far more than a Bentley for the company, in a role where your value is pretty much visible on the screen at any time.
> * A purple-inclined red (crimson) and an orange-inclined red (scarlet)

> * A green-inclined yellow (practically speaking, "spring green") and an orange-inclined yellow ("yellow")

> * A purple-inclined blue (ultramarine) and a green-inclined blue (cerulean)

> * White to make light tones (don't worry about black)

This is excellent advice for a painter, though I would not exclude black.

The six color you describe are, in essence, a warm/cool pairing of the three primaries. When I painted in color I used:

Cadmium red/alizarin crimson, lemon yellow/cadmium yellow, cobalt blue/Prussian blue
| The main reason supersonic flight is dead is the sonic boom

Is it? The Concorde would fly at subsonic speeds over land and move to supersonic over the Atlantic. Given the reduced flight time at supersonic speeds I thought economic considerations prevailed.
well, ssj and ms10/21 were attempts at partially outsourcing, yes.

204/214 are no longer built I think.

but the PS90 turbofan is still the mainstay along with D30 derivatives.

avionics is a separate question ofc
Yea doesn't sound dysfunctional at all... lol. Apply that for marriage for example:

> Given the chance, both parties would expect the other party be loyal while they optimize for something better than what they have.

Peachy.
> As developers, IMHO you should always push for open sourcing as much as you can, ideally with a copyleft license and no CLA. Because it is beneficial for you personally: it means that you can reuse your code after you leave, and if you manage to make it copyleft and accept external contributions, it will force your employer to keep distributing the sources after you leave.

How many people have had this work? Am I unusual in working at places that take an extremely restrictive attitude to their IP?
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Hey guys! We just published our little open source project on GitHub and would love to get some feedback. It's a very early release (alpha) but we thought it would be better to do it earlier so that we could get direct feedback.

Over the last 10 years we have built small to large web-projects of all kind. Almost every project involved managing images and files in one way or another. How do we manage our images and where? What happens if an image or logo changes, does it get updated across all sites? Which Host/CDN to choose? Is everything we do GDPR-compliant? With Daminik, we are trying to build a simple solution to solve these problems. One DAM with an integrated CDN. That’s it.

You can check it out at:
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New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilities
Edge and samsung internet are basically the same as chrome, so there are only 3 browsers to check. Especially that most stuff just works fine across the browsers, it’s not like cross-platform across OSs, it really is a bare minimum.
I have worked long. And I can think of many, many examples of people quitting suddenly and leaving everything hanging, in companies of various sizes.

These days I run a solo business. I do not want to have any employees. I've been burned too many times in the past — and my experience (generalizing horribly) is that most programmers think they are the cream of the crop, superstars that deserve salary, benefits, perks, bonuses, vacations, and fantastic treatment. But then it turns out that a) they don't perform as superstars, and b) the company deserves absolutely nothing in return, so people leave suddenly and without warning.

In the businesses I've seen, the relationship was very asymmetric, heavily biased towards the comfort of employees.
> Installing/maintaining mysql or the others is a pain in the ass

Koel provides a docker-compose file for them, should make it trivial to spin it up.
I thought this was a joke at first.
>I really don't get why developers sometimes go out of their way to help their employer keep their code proprietary

I don't do it because I am helpful, but because I'm paid to do so.
I'm not sure if that is the whole story. It is as much a case of where the person writing is from. According to Wikipedia both are used. I, as a non-USAnian, would definitely not spell it Whiskey, but Whisky, unless I'm talking about a brand name, no matter if it is from the US or not. It would be like me writing Color instead of Colour when writing in English. One is English, one is not.
I can't take this language seriously. No enums, letter cases defining if something is "public" or "private", generics as an after-thought. To name just a few
Whether family names are more differentiated depends on where you live.

The USA has a wide variety, but there are also places like Vietnam where only a handful of family names are in common use and more than 30% of people are Nguyens.
This AND you get to read about the great financial position company is in, dividends and stock buyback planned and scheduled, rounds of bonuses for the hardworking executives, who toil in anonymity to ensure good returns for shareholders by culling dead weight.

What? You want your salary to match inflation? On the list you go.
Tragedy of the commons. You're right though, saying 'take 10% of my pay check, invest it, and get as high a return as possible' is at odds with 'pay me more'.
Just FYI, the ideogram.ai link is behind a login.
What I love about this is the narrative around loyalty like we are some kind of samurai.
A company gets all the benefit to call itself "a family" and to push employees to be loyal to the company as there's a high cost in offboarding and onboarding people (knowledge, morale, the fact that new joiners aren't really contributing at their best capacity for the first 3/6 months at least depending on seniority etc). Even during resume screening there's always a lot of questions on why people "jump" from a place to another if they have changed jobs every two years.

But a company makes mistakes (over hire, product line that don't work, market expansions that don't bring the expected results, overspending etc) and never talk about this openly (the responsibility is always on the market, the situation etc) and often they have obligations towards the investors or the market (if they are public).

There's also a psychological burden in changing jobs (impostor syndrome, fear of something unknown, new domain etcetc) and companies use this to convince people to stay. Most of the job of a people manager is to convince people that they are in the best place they could be and focus them on new challenges so they don't have time to think.

Don't be fooled by any company, if they think they have to fire you because some spreadsheet calculation told them it is the best thing to do, they will.

tldr; Decide what's best for you (and your family if you have one) and never feel bad about it. Loyalty is not a thing in the workplace.

ps i have personally witnessed and went through horrible situations where managers had to openly lie about people performance and fired a bunch because the company made bad predictions over their expected revenue and had to fire people to "prove they were doing something about it" and show some cost reduction to the investors.
Once a ceo literally cried on hangouts while communicating the decision to fire a whole department, and the day after (while those people were still part of the company) did a whole motivational speech about how that was going to be the best year for the company and we had a lot to look forward to.
Did you read to the end? He givers a physiology-based argument for a color wheel with four primary colors.
Suddenly taste much better!
As Spain is part of the EU, it should at least be good for the EU.
When life is working out for folks and they make a decent income, they tend not to complain or want to rock the boat so as not to risk things. Can’t think of anything that would risk ones income capability more than being seen by companies as a union organizer - retribution is illegal but can’t be enforced, so it is de facto legal. See: starbucks suddenly closing all the stores that decided to unionize.

People who own companies are not known for being nice but the best way to get the full force and fury of a billion dollars arrayed against you is to suggest unionization.
The point is that they are types supported by most other sql databases and supported as input/output by sqlite functions, but you can't validate that stored data is the correct type.
Yes, it works on any process that makes a SYS_getrandom call.
> postmarketOS undoubtedly serves a niche that includes many non-phone use cases

The author should also have mentioned convergence: connecting a screen and keyboard and turning the phone into a desktop with actual desktop apps (and not up-sized mobile apps).
There is projection and there is also reverse projection. This seems like the latter.

I wonder how many slave owners said "look, I can't leave this plantation either"?
Unions are for miners and factory workers - software developers are highly paid, special people (just ask one and they will tell you all about it).
Or they can just totally ignore the lawsuit with absolutely no repercussions.
Chances this is a shonky attempt to drag new training data from private users?
There are only 3 browsers these days pretty much:

Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

It really shouldn’t be hard to test.
> I am not a huge fan of go:generate and similar projects. They add a level of unknown that goes against the core Golang design values.

I'm not sure I would agree with that. go:generate is a core part of Go since v1.4 and the enum generators are the kind of thing that was intended. https://go.dev/blog/generate

That said, enums would be a welcome improvement to the language. But even then, I think go:generate has a place.
I'm reading here and else comments suggesting things like "don't get overly attached" or "don't define yourself by the role you fill" or "don't base your identity on your job"

But how do you "not" do these things?

It seems like I am doing these things automatically and I don't even know how the alternative world where I'm not doing these things looks like.
> Am I unusual in working at places that take an extremely restrictive attitude to their IP?

No.
I witnessed this first hand this spring when a pair of magpies were building a nest in the tree outside my apartment. The tree still didn't have leaves so I could track the progress they made each day. They had a least a couple of anti-bird spikes in their construction (amongst other non-organic materials I couldn't quite make out), but the thing I was most surprised by was the size of the nest, it was huge
The pandemic has probably changed a lot. Virtually no foreigners have been there after 2019, so I guess the best we know is that we don't know.
Alignment? I suppose the type of alignment needed for superintelligence is to plead with it for mercy, on some level.
> When I painted in color

I gather you've moved beyond that now. Probably wise, it's a lot of fuss.
Actively. You can however consider it when choosing a location (although obviously, the mobile network providers can make changes outside your control which might change your 'USP').
> What? You want your salary to match inflation?

We dont have the money for that; we just hired a junior for your team that interned at a FAANG and had to pay them 2x your salary.
I buy music on Bandcamp, and copy the files over with SMB/Samba/network share.
> How many people have had this work?

Statistically, almost nobody.
Which issues? Have you considered that maybe those issues from 1995 have been fixed in 2024?
yeah, anyone that paints will care the most about other things, like which colors they actually have available, and the quality of the pigments. If you take, say, most single pigment reds that aren't very toxic, you'll see that they have relatively low coverage: Lay it over a dark color, and you aren't really getting red, but filtering the darker color with some red on top. Pure pigments however kind of mix into reasonable colors that more or less resemble what a color wheel will tell you, but many paints are reached through mixes, and mixing mixes is often not getting you the colors the wheel would predict: Chances are you are getting something pretty brown, with very low intensity. You can make fun tricks for students, like showing them two pairs of almost indistinguishable blobs of paint, but that mix to something different, because two of the colors were pure pigments, and the others a carefully made mess.

And then there's not just color, but finishes, and the body of the paint.

So yes, once actually talking colors in a real piece, while the color wheel is a very useful tool for determining pleasant schemes, just like in a website, your real primary colors you think about are never a bright yellow, a bright red, and a bright blue.
Sounds like somebody who never had a mortgage payment overdue and the bank calling and threatening to confiscate the house / apartment, and with two pre-school kids constantly introducing unexpected expenses.

But then again, I never expected the ruling class to be empathetic.
How will the Spanish court enforce their decision abroad? I know there are agreements between te countries, but what happens practically after a decision? Who gets activated in the US to enforce the decision?
"Work for yourself, not for your employer. Your employer will fire you the second it is profitable for them, that's how it is."

Maybe that's true for your employer. But it's bold to generalize. Certainly not true for the company where I work. And a quite sad view.
I've always thought that if you were to plot your disposability it would be some function of the size of the company you work at. In a small company or startup you are more "valuable" than in a large organization.
> If it wasn't that way, we'd all be running SQLite for our web services, but we're not.

Noting that every interactive site run under the Hwaci[^1] umbrella does, e.g. sqlite's own forum and source control system.

[1]: The company behind sqlite.