skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got my Technicians license about a year ago but have struggled to find much to do with it. I check into my local nets every once and a while, but the repeaters are nearly silent otherwise. The CW privileges are ok but hard to use. Seems you need a General to do all the cool stuff. Any other technicians here who have found a great use for the license?
Curious about the max frequencies on the GPIO pins since I believe it drives them with an RP2040. Not actually sure how the RP2040 interfaces with the Intel chip though.
C#7 is the name of a chord not a pitch and not Roman Numeral Analysis. [0]

The Roman Numeral analysis would be V7/#IV if you are modulating in C. And something else if you aren't in C. Roman Numeral Analysis is independent of key or tonal center. The Roman Numeral Analysis would be bII if you are not modulating because that's how Roman Numeral Analysis communicates.

Thinking about Phrygian mode. The two is always a bII.

{0} As an aside, in The Common Practice the bII is often notated N6 (for Neapolitan 6th) to set up a perfect cadence, i.e. I-N6-V-I.
It should be okay if you edit the base prompt properly.
The way I heard it from a corporate counsel is "The E in E-mail stands for Evidence."
This is exactly the analysis that is missing from the article and any facile, absolutist statement decrying “perfectionism”. Productivity is an optimization problem. There are tradeoffs which have to be managed. Depending on the context (e.g. prototype phase vs mature, widely used software) you manage those tradeoffs differently.
Right, this is why a bad PM is worse than no PM. "Just build this one use case, and since it's so simple, I promised it by nex week". Instead of digging deeper, as you suggest.
Yep. But it was a mess either way. On the other hand, if there was some sort of Central Europe superpower building, Poland would probably have abused that. As it did anyway eventually occupying lands of 3 of its neighbors before being taken down by 4th…

In any case, some sort of Intermarium probably was the only thing that could have prevented WWII in one shape or another.
This fails to explain how they had such a shoddy system in the first place, only possible due to the opposite of perfectionism.
Many of the example applications are corresponding code to our developer website which contains guides for them: https://www.swimos.org/server/rust/ We will get this updated as it isn't clear
Back of the napkin graphs that are not based on any collected data have grown to aggravate me. Although it shows the mental model of the author, it adds an air of empiricism that gives it more authority.

In this case, how do we know it is an exponential chart at all or there is not discontinuous jumps in value at “perfect”?
100%

Even if you don’t agree with the policies, the democratic tent requires people to vote for them.

The reactionary position is getting people to say “no” to third rail policies. Hence the GOP focus on suppressing the vote.
Yeah, no. Most software is cludged together with little design and grows organically. Overall, putting on the time to do it right -- if possible -- parts give dividends.

Software done right from 30+ years ago is still in broad use. There is huge value in that

Doing things right involves prototypes, iterations, and experiments, so high velocity is good. However, if a prototype ships, you often get on trouble.
How would you a neural network ever be faster than a closed form solution for fabric rendering?

Neural network is the big hammer.
I haven't seen a postmortem or RCA from Crowdstrike yet. Do you work there?
It still not 100% accurate but it should be useful for baseline annotations.
My apologies. Your points are well-taken.

I confess I failed to properly familiarize myself with the HN guidelines. I absolutely did not intend to violate them. I will review and avoid violations in the future.

I have made some mistakes as a result of this semi-manic phase and I've taken steps to calm myself so they don't happen again.

All that said, I hope the material I shared is interesting regardless. It is ultimately just some interesting ideas, not a guaranteed way to become super powerful or anything silly like that.

This test should be subjected to rigorous scientific validation to make any objective claims about its utility. One place we want to start is a basic smell check of the Barnum effect. If that doesn't pan out, I believe that we (myself, the test creator, and any other individuals promoting the test) will own up to it. We are happy to be wrong and learn from it.
It's complicated. It can become an excuse too: "if only they (waves in the general direction of customer relations) could give us good requirements". Some stuff is just difficult to figure out.
Something to consider is that if you cut quality to the point that your colleagues believe you are pushing a half-baked product, or they have to spend even a small amount of time fixing what they know could have never been a problem in the first place, their morale is going to tank - and the brightest are going to leave first.
>This means that I was able to grab the Windows 11 ISO and install it. I was able to go to Debian’s homepage, grab the latest ISO and just, well, install it?

Still the biggest advantage x86 has over ARM in my opinion. I hope one day common ARM processors become as flexible.

Either way its amazing to see x86 processors so cheap, low power, and still rather powerful. I hope to see more devices using these N100's
It isn't a reality though.

It's absolutely a biased piece of advice because it has subsidized American industrial players at the expense of players across Europe - which is why the EU has been in the process of lobbying against American deficit spending that is primarily being used for subsidizing industrial policy.

Western European austerity has clearly hobbled France and Germany while the US was able to weather the GFC and COVID recsssion by using it's deficit.

> And France isnt in a position anyway to do that, since they have the exact same problem as the US.

Yet they are as Macron's lobbying blitz in 2022-23, the French Govt's Institue Montagaine has pointed out, and the French govt supported CEAP has been lobbying against.
Payments are a representation of trust. That is the opposite of crypto and blockchains. People want fast, cheap or free instant payments and if there is an exception, they want their government or legal framework to be able to step in for them, hence why no crypto payment system will ever grow beyond illegal/illicit transactions attempting to avoid the legal payment systems, or speculation (bitcoin, eth, etc). FedNow, for example, will allow you to move up to $100k-$500k (depending on your institutional limits) within 20 seconds (max SLA) for ~5 cents (whether the bank charges you for this is up to your bank). If there is an exception, your bank or the government will step in with Regulation E. Your monies in a demand deposit account are insured up to at least $250k USD (depending on titling). Hard to beat without getting into ideology territory. Crypto likely has a use case where you cannot trust your government and need to stash value somewhere that isn't a reserve currency, but those are edge cases, not the norm. There are even some startups in that space offering more secure deposit accounts to folks in places who need access to secure fiat storage, which is really a regulation/AML/KYC/customer identity play [1].

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nsave | https://www.nsave.com/ ("nsave is a fintech that provides trusted $€£ accounts abroad for people from countries where inflation is high and banking is broken.")
The startup culture celebrates an even lower bar, "not viable but appears to be minimum viable". Think of the fireside stories about launching e.g. an AI image recognizer, while secretly using humans to do the recognition.
Are you really complaining that limited list of autocomplete does not contain one item you would have expected? This sounds bit like paranoia.

Btw I do not have it in Bing. Maybe they are shilling for John Lennon, Kennedy and Reagan.
It's like string theory - a framework with tons of free parameters which will never produce a coherent physical theory, but you can always write a paper that contains a promise of explaining any observation with the right fine-tuning of some parameters (the promise will never be fulfilled, of course).
Is there any cliche in this industry that sets up a strawman faster than "productivity over perfection"?

Half the nation's personal data is breached every week and we're over here talking about how we need more productivity and less perfection.
> Conversely, we’ve hired many ex meta people, and they’ve always almost all unanimously said how much they NOW like having pride in the products they create, after jumping ship.

Just curious, did the ethics of their prior projects ever come up during the interview? I think I would have a problem hiring someone who worked on a product despite having ethical misgivings about how the product affected end users. Unless they could explain the extenuating circumstances that forced them to work on that product (sick family to care for, work visa being held hostage, and so on). If their response was simply, "I made metric X go up and got paid Y to do it," I don't think I could hire them in good conscience.
Basically the US now is approching WW2 level debt. Just outside of a war. Without all the growth. Without all the other destroyed countries in desprate need of rebuilding. Without the young population. With massive unfunded liabilities in its social programs. With massive amounts of crumbling infrastructure.

Basically after WW2, as soon as the war was over debt started dropping. Before the great societ stuff, the US didnt have so many future liabilities. Debt was dropping during Korean War.
The Russians used a simple, standard ballpoint pen, so the story is not true
That may be true in the abstract but has not been really demonstrated in this thread.

I spent the rest of my comment detailing the ways in which everything I ever liked about Minecraft is still available—do you have anything to add in support of the idea that something has been lost, or just this abstract observation?
It depends entirely on how you define perfectionism. The article unfortunately doesn't explain well what they meant.

Assuming it is following, paradigms, design patterns and making the code "cleaner", then I would agree with the article 100%.

However if it was about actual engineering concerns like better error handling, performance, test coverage, nailing down invariants/validation/parsing, etc. Then I would say that we should probably be more diligent rather than less.

The issue is that the former gets too much attention and the latter too little.
> (a) With EU energy prices, a 5 W difference translates to 20-35 EUR per year on the electricity bill.

0.45 - 0.80 €/kWh is surely on the high-end? In most countries it seem to be less than ~0.25 (pr at least 0.3)

https://qery.no/consumer-energy-prices-in-europe/
My experience with software is 80% or more is slop that could have used more perfectionism. Most engineers couldn’t create a perfect piece of software even if they wanted to. Get to the point where you have that ability and then dial it back as needed. Don’t spend your entire life writing slop that users hate but makes your managers look good because they hit some arbitrary shipping KPI.
lol isn’t that basically what happened with lobster?

Used to be inhumane to give that to prisoners too often, and now it’s delicacy?

https://historyofyesterday.com/lobster-used-to-be-a-poor-man...
So we need to do more Good Old Fashioned AI, and get off my lawn.

He has a good point that model-less LLMs have serious trouble with problems that require a model.
But predicate calculus hasn't worked out well as that model.

Many years ago, I took John McCarthy's "Epistemological problems in artificial intelligence" class. He laid out the missionary and cannibals problem informally, then wrote it up in a predicate-calculus notation, and then applied his "circumscription logic"[1]. As he wrote it up in his formulation, I thought "and then a miracle occurs".[2] As with most story problems, it's getting the problem into the correct formalism that's hard. Turning the crank on the formalism is usually straightforward.

Much of the AI community spent the 1980s beating on this problem. A large number of very smart people tried to solve it. Many things were tried that were less rigid than predicate calculus - probabilistic logic, Markov chains, fuzzy logic, etc. All mostly failed. The AI Winter followed.

The classic critique in this area is "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity", by Drew McDermott.[3] That's from 1976, and still relevant to this argument.

LLMs, though, might be able to use such models. Something to try: put a story problem into an LLM, and ask it what formal methods might help solve this problem. Then ask it to convert the problem into each of those formal methods. Then use something like Mathematica on each formal method. LLMs can't do logic problems, but they can sort of write code and translate between languages. So maybe they can do the miracle part. Anybody working on this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumscription_(logic)

[2] https://trevor-hopkins.com/fiction/miracle2.jpg

[3] file:///home/john/Downloads/Artificial_Intelligence_meets_natural_stupidity-2.pdf
EU's problems are the EU's to solve.

Doesn't mean Americans should undermine our Industrial Policy because French and German players are nowhere near as competitive.

At least Eastern European allies help cover and support American defense spending in Europe, while Western European players like France and Germany are opposed to Atlanticism unless SHTF
I presume it would just be attached over USB internally. That would make using it with the official SDK and other tooling as easy as a Pico attached to any other computer.
Yep. And that deception is presented as wisdom! We are supposed to admire how cunning they are with their fakery.

And what do they all say? “We should have launched sooner.”

That’s what happens when the goal of the vast majority of startups is not to build an actual business. Their goal is to “get funded”. It just feels rotten.
It seems like "banana" could become the modern version of "rubber duck."

Engineers used to supposedly put some ridiculous feature into a design. A manager would then, supposedly, see the feature, question it, and order that it be removed. The manager would feel useful, and the design team could get on with their work without further molestation.

"What's that?"

"Oh that's our 'rubber duck.' It'll be gone after the review."

...

"What's that?"

"Oh, that's our 'banana.' ..."

Pure speculation: the term "rubber duck" may have come from the its application to fakes and decoys:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_(disambiguation)
The reason why integrated graphics usually sucks is because the people putting the GPU on the chip expect you to put a dedicated card in anyway.

An integrated GPU has to compete with the CPU cores for power budget, memory access[0], and die area. Intel doesn't want to risk half the die on a GPU nobody will use when they could sell more cores or cache instead. AMD instead manufactures separate "APU" product lines for people who want integrated graphics[1], and those have smaller core counts as a result. E.g. a Ryzen 8700G, the top of the APU stack, only has 8 cores while Ryzen 7950X3D will go up to 16. Apple's M-series chips[2] have similar core counts. The Steam Deck is even more graphics-specialized, having only 4 CPU cores in total.

Intel would be wise to copy AMD's strategy and just completely omit the GPU from their desktop chips, save for a separate integrated graphics SKU. I suspect OEMs wouldn't like that, though, because it would require putting a bunch of e-waste GPUs[3] into high-end general-purpose systems. AMD traditionally has made a lot of enthusiast and system builder sales but I wonder if that will change in the future.

The kinds of applications N100 is built for is going to be more graphics-heavy. I expect these chips to find their way into a lot of weird industrial shit, e.g. digital signage controllers, touchscreen kiosks, etc. where CPU performance doesn't matter but you need a display output and some graphics acceleration. The CPU is absolutely going to be bottom of the barrel anyway, so it's not hogging as many resources from the GPU.

[0] CPUs want low memory latency since they run latency-sensitive code. GPUs want more memory channels and bandwidth since they run everything in extreme levels of batch processing and turn-around times don't matter.

[1] AM5 Ryzen CPUs do have display outputs now, but AFAIK there's no hardware acceleration on it, you need a dedicated GPU anyway.

[2] Excluding Pro/Max/Ultra. They are unique in that they are very large workstation chips with integrated graphics. They basically don't have any competition, everyone else just wires separate dies together at this scale, even in mobile workstations where this would make sense to do. Apple is so married to the integrated everything mentality that they even configured their MMUs and PCIe controllers to forbid external GPU access.

[3] Anything in the $40-100 range. If you just need a display output you can buy cheaper and if you want to play games anything even slightly more expensive is a dramatically better value.
What’s the bottleneck? Once I’ve got the model and data onto the GPU my only cost is launching CUDA kernels right?

Not sure if that blog post is relevant, but even if it is it shows a 3060 gets //way// faster throughout than the igpu it is testing. I suppose I can test this myself by plugging my 3070 into the NVME on my desktop.
This article is fluff trying to fill up their blog so they can sell paid subscriptions and have "engagement". They even link to one of their paid blog posts.
Is it not possible to avoid the cable passing through the chest, by using induction to pass currents between circuits inside and outside the body?
SDcard wear leveling and translation layers (2014)
This feels a little like confusing early career learning with perfectionism. The stories involve their own junior career where they were learning what good code should be and trying to apply it. Later, as they write better code without needing to learn they are shipping higher quality code faster.
Legal immigration has already been reduced to almost nothing anyway.

> If an army forced their way in to an embassy so that their pregnant battalion

Most people prefer to live in the real world rather then in absurdist fantasy land.
In most countries, the advanced class (or equivalent) is a licence to design, construct, and operate your own radio transmitter for experimental purposes. (Just about anyone with a serious interest in electronics has thought about building their own transmitter, I imagine.)
Not from US so I'm not sure but I think you can access the 10 metre band with technician? If so, doing Parks on the Air or Summits on the Air could possibly be something you might like.

Even with Technician you may be able to do POTA or SOTA successfully on VHF.
Big fan of this direction. The architecture resonates! The base lining is interesting, I'm curious how you think about that, esp for bootstrapping initially + ongoing.

We are working on a variant being used more by investigative teams than IT ops - so think IR, fraud, misinfo, etc - which has similarities but also domain differences. If of interest to someone with an operational infosec background (hunt, IR, secops) , and esp US-based, the Louie.AI team is hiring an SE + principal here.
Yep, it would almost be easier to:

- check to see if the search query contains more than one word

- spin up a more modestly sized LLM, such as mistral 7b

- ask the LLM to try to condense / find single word synonym for the user query

- send to sgrep
I would advise to keep at it and not overcomplicate things.

There was a recent video on creating generative trees [0] and the hack was to just let the cylinders intersect, so even hacky tricks can work and produce good results. As you say, CSG can work but might be overly complicated. Another trick is to create a tree skeleton and then do lofting, maybe even combined with CSG, to create the trunk and bark.

For me, a good library is enabling and finding a good 3d geometry library, maybe to do boolean operations, like joining cylinders or subtracting geometry out, helps enable a lot of new ideas. I've played with a few geometry libraries and the only one I even vaguely like is JSCAD [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/8zMbJmuwEUc?si=KQclrVPeSrIRmsbA

[1] https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org
> I haven't seen a postmortem or RCA from Crowdstrike yet.

I got you! It’s relatively new, published four days ago. The relevant section is called “what went wrong and why”:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediatio...
> my car goes to servicing and there's some dude who just knows jargons interfacing with me, for the minutest of my questions he will "get back to me after consulting the line workers"

That's because he's not there to explain what they are doing. He likely doesn't know a spark plug from a fuel injector. He's there to sell you more services.
And yet you instead of honestly saying 'yes, post-2014 Ukraine glorifies Nazi collaborators, but it doesn't matter to me' go to the great lengths to deny it or weasel around.
Corporate disdain for quality of craft is the death of humanity.
OEF != ISAF https://web.archive.org/web/20220120001326/http://www.nato.i...

OEF is an NATO Operation, Austrias policy is not to join any International primary Military Organization.
I’m more of a 75-80% perfect guy at most Fortune 500 companies. That 90-95% perfectionism is very hard to achieve and honestly not worth the effort.

Nothing wrong with “perfectionism” but it should be achieved as a team and that requires getting good people around you. Unfortunately, in my experience, that’s where it usually falls apart.

Clueless management continues to think hiring at the bottom of the barrel and “training” them is the right way to go. There’s a reason why they are taking the lowest possible bid…
https://repository.hou.usra.edu/handle/20.500.11753/1254
Also often times the customer does not know what they want, they only know that what they have isn't it.
OP is just showing a cool thing. You are on hacker news, expect to see people hack on stuff just for the sake of tinkering and having fun.
My favorite quote on perfectionism and one I often think about,

"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism — The perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in … It’s actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is." - David Foster Wallace

Anyone that has built and shipped something has likely struggled with it. You have a great idea. You build it and it's never as great as it was in your head. You need to ship it anyway, but doing so means getting over that perfectionism. Some can. Most can't.
Clean code leads to more testable code leads to more tests leads to better products.
Don't be so quick to dismiss "clean code" as some BS.

I've seen first hand how someone writing a 500 line function struggles to test it. But splitting it up into more manageable chunks of functionality makes it easier to write a test.

Imo perfectionism is chasing that last 5% performance.

Clean code, design patterns etc are just good engineering practices... Not perfectionism ....
What makes it obvious or astroturfing at all? Your accusation doesn’t seem in line with HN guidelines.
Apple claims that the latest Mac minis draw 7 W at idle:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/103253

E.g., Apple M2 Pro chip, 32GB unified memory, 8TB SSD.
Cancer is worse by deathrate. I would say alzheimer is much worse in terms of human suffering. Cancer doesn't slowly hollow your soul out but Alzheimer does. That to me makes Alzheimer much worse.