skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think optimal level of perfectionism depends on impact of the decision and how hard it will be to change in the future. I think it's worth to be perfectionist when it comes to architecture, which is hard to change. So you want to make sure you do things right (or extensibly), and consistently. However, in minor things like method names or code structure, it's OK not to be consistent.

I would also say being able to identify where you should be consistent can be itself a huge productivity enabler.
As always, there's a bunch of people who should seek higher perfection, and a bunch who should seek lower.

And most people are wrong about which group they're in.
>Do you want a source for my assertion that there are benefits to getting from where you are to where you want to be using cars?

Have those made-up sources included externalities, from air and noise pollution, to city planning, commutes, lifestyle changes - include pressure and stress added to the individual by the extra speed of going places?

Have they asked those pesky "walk and/or take the public transport" Europeans living in suitable cities, if they prefer their way?
98% Recovery – Scientists Develop New and Improved Battery Recycling Method
Yeah, that's a big one. In one case I reproduced a bug that had been plaguing us for a decade but could never seem to reproduce when it happened to a customer.

Then the lore came out that the original programmer had slapped it together over a weekend. It worked in the lab, and mostly worked in the field but failed sometimes in weird ways.

Then engineering tried fixing it. They failed three times, so they decided to replace that feature. It took two years to replace that one feature and get it to work right. It didn't kill the company, because it was a less used feature, but it reduced trust in the marketplace so growth took a hit that let other take and keep the lead.
I see no tools in this article for managers who wish to optimize the productivity of their team while taking into account the natural, unfortunate, human tendency towards perfectionism. It’s an unsophisticated and unrevealing analysis.
Faulty Nvidia H100 GPUs and HBM3 memory caused failures during Llama 3 training
https://pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-att-inc-bgw320-500...
> so we are supposed to enable them to wreck mine (ours)?

No, we’re supposed to attack it from a different direction. Whether these people are H1B or outsourced overseas, U.S. corporations will always be able to find people in desperate enough situations (civil war-torn country with a literal famine going on). We can absolutely blame and shame the engineers who have other options for sustenance and medicine for their families, but if you want to solve this problem, it can only be solved through the legislative and executive branches.
I think standards could be higher while perfectionism could be lower. I'd even go as far as to argue that perfectionism is a contraindicator to quality software and high standards.

Perfectionism doesn't necessarily mean better implementations, good practices, or even doing the right thing. Chasing and stacking needless abstractions to make things appear clean is an example of such perfectionism that actually harms the industry and erodes standards.
While this won’t eliminate mining in the near future, it has the potential to greatly reduce the need.
They're great at mechanically mimicking non-mechanical application to fool the easily amused
Cancer of all forms kills 5x more people per year in the US, so could you provide a more clear definition of what you mean by worse?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

Cancer is terrible, Alzheimer's is terrible (and I'm glad I don't have to be the one making the funding allocation)
I’m not sure that you see my point.
A Memoir Is Not a Loose Heap of Personal Anecdotes
More request/advice f you're still reading. On mobile:

- The UI takes like only 25% of the screen. Enlarge it at least 3x.

- Tried to flip to landscape to see if it'll at least make it slightly bigger, nope.
Yeah, I agree that slack is not the best medium for alerts. I think we it has somewhat become the default in teams is that it makes it easy to collaborate while debugging. I don't know a good way to substitute that and share information.

What strategies have you seen work well?
It's kind of needed, see this problem... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41095279
They're not very widespread though. I don't think they had a presence at my prison. I don't think there were any other white gangs there. The mix was about 50% white / 50% black. Didn't see many Hispanics.
Bad requirements are the biggest productive killer.
I truly believe if you were trying to invent the WORST possible way to hire people it would look very close to what they've implemented.
That's not the implication here.
Rent Control Reduces New Development: Bug or Feature?
And said engineers often end up wishing they hadn't. Interacting directly with stakeholders isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Maybe I've just had good luck with product managers, but I tend to enjoy my work the most when someone else is filtering the stakeholders' long and constantly changing wishlist for me and turning it into something coherent and actionable.
I prefer atop, personally. https://www.atoptool.nl/
Full title: "Faulty Nvidia H100 GPUs and HBM3 memory caused half of failures during LLama 3 training — one failure every three hours for Meta's 16,384 GPU training cluster"
It is my understanding that SMT should be beneficial regardless of core count, as SMT should enable two threads that can stall waiting for memory fetches to fully utilize a single ALU, i.e. SMT improves ALU utilization in memory bound applications with multiple threads by interleaving ALU usage when each thread is waiting on memory. Maybe larger caches are reducing the benefits of SMT, but it should be beneficial as long as there are many threads who are generally bound by memory latency.
it's a small point and maybe a different word would have been more clear (because I agree, recidivism commonly refers to committing crimes again after being released from jail), but none of the definitions I found for recidivism were specific to release from jail - the definition seems to be committing offenses again after some type of intervention. in the case of the nutraloaf, you're already in jail and you commit some additional offense (say, starting a food fight). the article seemed to indicate that in most cases, the offender avoided doing the sorts of things that could get them back on nutraloaf - in my opinion, that meets the definition of recidivism.
(2023)

Source: https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-...

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37664668
I have written that comment from a datacenter tenant, not as an owner. Of course a proper datacenter providing colo services should have fat pipes to backbone carriers. What I meant is this processor is an overkill just for serving webpages. It makes sense as a virtualization host, or an HPC worker node, software defined storage node or any use case which can flex its muscles. Serving HTML files is not one of them, though.
Just an arbitrary metric. We should probably consider the cost to society then base the funding on that. For example, Americans spent $200 billion in care in 2010, and this will increase to $500 billion in 2040. Perhaps as much as $1 trillion by 2050. What do you think is appropriate to invest to “cure the disease“?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-024-00136-6

https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/local-care/memory-care-costs/
The story originally came out in 2001.
https://www.theregister.com/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server...
Both KDE and GNOME started out with components. GNOME was originally the GNU Network Object Model Environment and KDE had KParts.
I think we learned in 2020-2021 that if the medical community doesn't put out an extremely strong statement about something, the general public won't take it seriously at all.

When the ACS recommends avoiding alcohol consumption at any level, they don't think people are actually going to suddenly quit drinking. They're just trying to convince that guy who drinks two six-packs a night to cut down to one six-pack a night.
Does anyone understand this theory? When I read through it and listened to his talk, it sounded like a bunch of different ideas stitched together without an underlying explanation.
Yes, but what if you'd just...finished and started working on something else?

I'll take a 95% solution delivered in 2 weeks over a 99% one delivered in 2 months.
Can you elaborate more on the EU mandates which led to de-inudstrialization. I just want to learn more on this topic so any resources will be helpful.
Obligatory Penn Jillette story:

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/news/...

If you're anything like me, you're now asking "no, really, Penn, where is all that weight? what's the joke?" and you'll be disappointed.
just because you don’t “see” retail jobs as a permanent resting place for anyone doesn’t mean that’s not what has happened and continues to happen across this country. people quite simply do not have the ability geographically, per skill level, or at a certain level of risk, to do what you propose and get a higher paying more skilled job.

EVERY job should be livable and with proper benefits like universal healthcare and paid leave. if the company cannot afford it, it should not exist. people are real, companies are not.
I don't see how the novas (which happened long, long ago) would be stopped by anything happening in any version of the 1980s.
It's the tens of thousands, if not more, of these kind of abandoned internet connected computers that allow decades old viruses and trojans to still survive and send out probes all the time. It's a really fascinating phenomenon that is only going to increase in the decades to come.
OP here, You'd need a GPU and the latest version of chrome to run this.
Try to explain it any way you want, the last republican presidents have all made it part of their platform to slash regulation and let big business do what it wants, and the democrats have not made that part of their platform.
That's how it was in the initial days/years. However those days are long gone.

Now there are these Product Managers who have absolutely no clue how software is built.

Interestingly I'm seeing similar trend in many other fields; 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", same with my house construction. I had to get through 4 layers of people to finally get to the person who is actually doing the electrical wiring to clearly explain what is it that I wanted.
I'm expecting you to not confuse someone informing you with someone forcing you.

I mean, they are very different, unless you have the will of a wet noodle.
This is complicated because it is almost a truism, but my problem is it often gets trotted out when defending the bad.
I hate it when these kids unintentionally mock my childhood stuff.

Centronics for example is such a beautiful word, I would die to have it back.
Which says as much about the state of education for the non-imprisoned as anything else . . .
US Consumers Are Increasingly 'Tapped Out'
How is it real time if you are using tokio? What latency and deadline guarantees are you able to provide?
Here's a simple one, one party has attempted to enshrine voters rights and the other has done its damndest to make sure the smallest number of people vote in elections.

This idea that "they are all the same" is just an entirely bogus farce, the last republican tried to remain a king of america less than four years ago, this argument has no weight anymore.
I think the examples could answer that question. They’re linked at the end of the explanation in the README. However, I think each example ought to have a README.

Here’s the first one I looked at. I’m wondering when to use an event instead of a command. https://github.com/swimos/swim-rust/tree/main/example_apps/v...
"High-risk/high-reward" basically translates 1:1 with increased variance. Seeing it framed that way was a helpful mental model for me.
Well, that and being completely public. I, for one, don't want the whole world to know whom I'm paying for things.
> especially in 2nd/3rd world countries

I'd suggest you read around the threads here to see all the comments about the EU and Japan.
Also the reason we can cross rivers without the bridges collapsing, why we have skyscrapers that withstand earthquakes in Japan, and we were able to launch an international space station into orbit.

Now that the prevailing school of thought is that shipping crap is OK we have a checks notes Boeing Starliner.
> I'll take a 95% solution delivered in 2 weeks over a 99% one delivered in 2 months.

This depends a lot on the context. If I deliver the 95% in 2 weeks can I ship an update in 2 months that delivers the 99%, or are we stuck forever at 95% (due to technical limitations or business reality)?

If I'll be able to deliver the 99% soon, then sure, let's ship the 95% sooner rather than later.

But if for whatever reason I realistically cannot do that, then you have to consider the context. What is left out in the 95%? How soon will it be a problem that we're missing that remaining 4%? Who will notice the missing pieces? Will they be able to work around their absence?

Many times you may still come to the conclusion that the 95% is the right move, but sometimes it's better to not offer the two-week plan as an option if the fallout from that missing 4% is going to be high.
SSID Confusion: Making Wi-Fi Clients Connect to the Wrong Network [pdf]
lately Gary's been ranting non-stop about US elections and how evil Trump and his supporters were and why Kamala Harris is a better candidate.

I'm like wth does this have to do with AI? If anything having such political bias throws shade into his views about AI and cannot be trusted.
>Bernhard Riemann, the head of mathematics at Göttingen from 1859 to 1866, invented Riemannian geometry, which paved the way for Einstein’s future work on relativity. Felix Klein, the chair of mathematics from 1886 to 1913, was the first to describe the Klein bottle,...

...paving the way for Cliff Stoll!
>It is my understanding that sugar alcohols have been popular in Japan far longer than in the USA and EU, and Japan is the longest living population to my knowledge.

Would it illuminate much? Seeing that Japan also has much different dietary habbits and much less obesity than the US, so it's not like there's "everything else being equal".
Literally every payment is used for illegal crap. I fail to see the relevance of that point.
Neural Nets from Scratch in Julia [video]
I recently finished making a video tutorial series called "Neural Nets from Scratch in Julia." It's pretty much what it sounds like -- building a neural network completely from scratch, using the Julia programming language.

Personally I enjoy this style of learning and find that building something from scratch is the best way to understand how it works. My hope is that this series will be useful and fun for people who also like learning this way.
If we had a professional association for software engineers that was nationally recognized one benefit of this would be around standards and practices being set industry wide and having a professional association that advocates on behalf of engineers to have them enforced.

Other engineering professions do have precedent shown for this.
Transmit the key via radio wave, from a point source located x light years from earth. The key will reach earth after x years.
Source: https://www.top10vpn.com/research/wifi-vulnerability-ssid/
Spain's antitrust watchdog opens investigation into Apple's app store
Hopefully LLMs will replace all of the "I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to" folks
How do you know perfectionism didn’t cause the issue? Perhaps some team has been laboring for months or years on an actual rollout system to replace what they’ve got, but have never shipped because things took too long.
The enemy of good is not perfect but "good enough".
Or FluxEngine.

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/

Just stick a pin header directly on an off the shelf fpga dev board and that's the hardware done.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/aDKggy7UAHsyLj717

Although half of the awsomeness is that lack of hardware, I did make up some PCBs to adapt FluxEngine to various 8" floppies. Mostly not tested yet. I have some of each of the different kinds of drives but haven't finished the project of fabricating nice drive enclosures and power supply hookups, and of course getting the drives to work at all.

github.com/bkw777/FluxEngine_Kit
> The debt to GDP levels are fairly middling against other developing countries

Doom is about the future, not the present. Why are you looking at present levels instead of where the trend is taking us in the future?
Your argument fails completely, because "FOSS != made by unpaid work". Pretty much all FOSS SW that I use daily and consider high quality is heavily supported by developers working on it for some commercial company. I don't consider those volunteers.

Generic FOSS mobile UI has little to no commercial value, as opposed to say PHP, PostgreSQL, nodejs, Linux kernel itself, etc. Nobody will even ask for your skills or try to buy them even if you've been "semi-prominent" mobile Linux developer for 5 years, whatever that may be.

And stuff I consider high quality and very useful, which is made by enthusiasts, like eg. i3wm - is poopooed by most commenters here just by how its wayland rewrite looks on a small screen, lol. :)
Mental Wellbeing at Work: Perspectives of Software Engineers (2023)
This is so rich in detail and nuanced, and gives me such a real portrait of ones experience.

What would you say the governments posture toward easing immigration looks like?
Why should I pay, via my taxes, to build stadiums that lead to profits for private team owners and other corporations.

> Remember that while the stadium might be paid for publicly there are still many other costs which aren’t.

This is why I also said close to free. I’ll accept if Box seats and some other close seats are paid with, say at least 50-60% being free and distributed via lottery.

Ads, concessions, TV rights etc are more than enough to pay for operational costs. If not, I’d like to see the financials and we can discuss how to cover the deficit.
> Remember, this isn’t really a moral judgement. It’s a “we get way too many chargebacks on these categories to make it worth it” judgement

I think it can be both

In fact, I think if it weren't for the moral aspect, they wouldn't really get away with it. Imagine if they suddenly got a large problem of charge backs for groceries, gas or prescriptions. They might want to stop accepting payments for those things but the backlash would be astronomical against them

I've also never actually seen any concrete numbers about how many more chargebacks they get for adult content versus other categories. Is it possible they really don't get that many more chargebacks, but since it's a category they feel comfortable going after they decide not to accept those payments anymore?
What’s the problem with nationalism? Coming from Central Europe, here nationalism is anti-imperialist and about nations self governing themselves to promote native cultures. And as far as I know Scandinavian nationalism is pretty similar with no imperialist ambitions.
it’s not 30%— in almost all cases it’s 15%. and by all means, if you think all the services and support for payments and returns and refunds and customer support are doable in 3%, you can have apple not do that too.
Re: serpentine traversal, this has to do with the .reuse suffix applied to register operands as mentioned in your link. We don’t really have control over it because it’s happening inside of ptxas during SASS generation, but when CUTLASS does serpentine traversal they’re suggesting an order of MMA instruction issues that would result in at least one operand being reused from one instruction to the next— clever stuff.

I’d be so happy if SASS were documented and ptxas were open source, sometimes I spend entire days going through whitepapers and various sources of online documentation to get more hardware details…
An interesting idea! So - is my query dependant on the latest scrape date for <whatever> AI? If yes, then this has an obvious problem in that cadence for AI scraping is vague at best. If the answer is 'no' -- where are your sourcing the answer to the question I am asking?
The differential nugget is that LLMs and similar tech are auditable. You can audit the models, test for bias etc in a way that scales.
I was thinking the same thing. The state of software is generally so poor, lacking any attention to detail and showing a disregard for the customer (who has been reduced to a single “revenue” line item in a financial analysis).

There’s an epidemic of “minimum viable” when it comes to software, and that results in flying really close to “not viable”.
"real time" as in figma multiplayer not as in control system for a car (I'm assuming, never used SwimOS)
Better then a 3rd world country in a civial war isnt the goal most people aspire too.

Servicing the exisiting debt already cost the US a whole militaries worth of budget. And that is after decades of low interest rates. If interest rates go up even slightly, you have to refinance all the debt with a higher rate. And if the private market ever decide to lower the rating on US debt, or starts to expect higher inflation. The debt servicing alone could consume pretty much the whole discretionary budget.

And remember the are massive budget issue on town and state level in the US too. And they expect the federal government to fund all the massive infrastructure spending they need. Plus all the federal infrastructure.All that infrastructure from the 60-70 is falling apart.

The backlog is already huge and getting bigger, that from the discretionary budget.

So debt absolutly matters, it has mattered to every government for at least 5000 years.

A societ that is stable can be made unstable, and debt is usually involved. France just had massive demostrations because they wanted to increase retierment age. And that was a drop in the bucket compared to what France needs. That has lead to massive victory for outright nazi party in France, and the far left who want to ignore this problem has also won.

And this is in normal peacful times. What if another finacial crisis happen?

Lets see how stable everything is once taxes double or social services get cut massively. That how you get people elected with programs that are the opposite of a stable political envoirment.
I’m not saying it’s a lie but that chart is buried on their website.

Generally I find the Purism website lacking. How much data does the unlimited AweSIM provide? Some pages say 20gb, some say 22gb, some say 22gb+.

I’ve only ever ordered one product from Purism (laptop back in 2018) it took a while to ship and was generally underwhelming. I gave it to an Inkscape developer a year or so ago and went back to using a ThinkPad for the next few years.
I've rebuilt my PC for Proxmox. 7950X3D, X670E, 96G, 18TBx4.

I run TrueNAS with my storage. Give a GPU to a main system (Bazzite/Fedora/NixOS). Distro hopping is one VM away.

I don't run Windows guests.
You are a fool, if you think it is a “a mostly tribal distinction”. You would have said same about alchemy vs chemistry, or genes as proteins vs genes as DNA. In science, the details matter.
> and let them interact with the stakeholders

There are several reasons why this is not a good idea. And those reasons show itself usually quickly once that is tried.
I hear what you're saying - though I've had good luck (i.e. haven't had to give it a thought in two years) with Syncthing pumping my vaults (and all business files for that matter) to phone, laptop, and backup nas.