skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Low latency for a single event is never going to have mechanistic sympathy, will be a colossal waste of most of your system.

Excuse me? I maintain a production system that cares about low latency for single events. Declaring that it doesn’t have “mechanistic sympathy” entirely misses the point. Of course I’m not squeezing the most throughput out of every cycle of my CPU. I have a set of design requirements, I understand what the kernel and CPU and IO system do under the hood, and I designed the system to make the most of the resources at hand to achieve the design requirements. Which, in this case, are minimal latency for single events or small groups of events, and io_uring would have no benefit.

(I can steam in events at a very nice rate as measured in events/sec, but I never tried to optimize that, and I should not try to optimize that because it would make the overall system perform worse.)
both products are toxic, but one biodegrades and the other doesn't.
Well, I have the experience of typing in a Pascal interpreter into a ZX Spectrum, in machine code, without leaving much space left, and it wasn't a fully ISO compliant.

Also I only experienced CP/M with 128 KB, and when I used Turbo Pascal 3.0, it was already on MS-DOS 3.3, with 512 KB.

So I don't have any recollection of it working within the limits of 64 KB.
>Support for external QSPI PSRAM

The post claims PSRAM is supported.
Having competitors trying to out do each other is good for the space program. Having only one solution available leads to problems as well.
Startups can use AI/ML to gain a competitive edge, but this requires a clear understanding of how these technologies align with their business goals.
Me too; I had a little trouble with MicroPython lightsleep and deepsleep in the pre-release version I was testing.

I will re-test and try to get better sleep state in my code either today or tomorrow!
Nonsensical answer. I can load my pascal from a floppy into RAM, or I can run from ROM the same way. What does 'own use' even mean here.
When successful, wealthy people die, they usually pass that wealth to more than one person. Those people in turn pass their more modest wealth down to more than one person. So it goes exponentially until the fortune dissipates. With the wealth goes the influence and power. Additionally, most rich people will now set up foundations that get the majority of their wealth, so the kids lose any claim to that pool of money.

The timescale on which this happens today is surprisingly rapid compared to the lifespans that many immortality-lovers want.

For example, the infamous Rothschild family is collectively worth only $1 billion now. That is the whole family, not any one individual. A modern example of the beginning of this process is the Walton family. Going back further, the descendants of many 1600s English barons have middle-class lives, but one person from each family retains the fancy title.

The only societies that keep concentration of wealth are ones with primogeniture and other unequal distributions of wealth to children.
I must have some kind of crazy super powers or something.
I think it's the other way around. Simple, cheap and visible 'solutions' make companies look green without having to actually do anything. That it inconveniences people is just a great benefit, so they can resist future change by saying: we would like to do more, but people don't want that.
Can’t you disable it though or block the connection?
To be fair I think MacOS classic (i.e. MacOS 9 et.al) was well thought out and usable IMHO.
doesn’t usb-c significantly increase the components required? unless you skimp and just replace the connecter only, which won’t always work.
C11 does with _Generic but it is limited in ways that make min/max implementations flaky.
So this may be a dumb question..
Why is a lot of ram needed for running a display? Is it just to be able to save all the pixel data? If you'd be generating your image on the fly then I'm assuming ram wouldn't matter because you wouldn't be storing anything?
I don't understand people's obsession with straws in general. I prefer my drinks without one – the mouthfeel of a glass is so much better than a straw.
Always worth reminding that the political axes tend to be horseshoe shaped rather than linear. Extremists on both sides are more similar to each other in many ways than they are to more average people. But of course each side projects their own vices onto the other and usually are incapable of seeing it in themselves.
I must admit that I haven’t and am going on reviews, summaries, and reactions, all of which seem to paint that picture. Maybe I should give it a read. It’s entirely possible that people are just not understanding it.
I’m sure it’s Costco by Costco, but at every Costco that I’ve been to, you get to customer service and tires by going in at the exit and they don’t check your card if you walk in the exit at all.

You can only order food at the self-pay kiosk that doesn’t check your barcode and there is generally no enforcement of memberships at the food court as no one has ever asked for my card.

Restricting the food court would generally require checking id cards at the exit and/or demanding a membership card at the self-pay kiosk or upon pickup of food. Nothing described in the article actually does this, so I’m not sure this is what’s being described.

Apparently there are some Costco’s on the West Coast or Southwest where the food courts are outside and don’t require a membership check, so my analysis might not apply to the different setups.
Ask HN: When Quality Doesn't Matter
I am tired of the reality of writing code. When I decided to become an engineer, I thought the whole thing would be about the work you do and the results you achieve. However, after working 2 years in the industry, I've realized it's not about the work you produce but rather about relationships and simply showing that tasks are done. Nobody seems to care how the task is accomplished.

In the last month, I started writing really poor code, and everything has gotten better for me - better Jira efforts and performance metrics. But nobody knows how terrible the code I write is or how bad the existing codebase has become.

Another sad thing I'm really tired of is seeing mediocre engineers write subpar code and then easily become 'senior' in startup companies. The code I've seen in my current company's codebase is something I wouldn't even submit for my college assignments. I don't understand why this is happening, but I hate it. Coding was my hobby, the thing I liked most in my life, but now I'm starting to hate seeing or writing code.

I no longer think about design or clean code; I just try to finish the task. I think that's enough for my company. I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but I suspect the conditions are similar. Nobody cares about what they do - it's just poor code and moving on. Then we have a term called "technical debt."

I'm not talking about premature optimization; sometimes we need to be fast. But this isn't just about speed - it's about consistently poor code quality.
At the very real risk of "talk is cheap," my understanding is that is part of why Jepsen publishes the test suites (e.g. https://github.com/jepsen-io/etcd ) so it's not "take my word for it" but rather "lein run test-all" and watch the fireworks. So, a sufficiently motivated actor, say for example one of the deep-pocketed stewards of the Kubernetes project could run the tests themselves

Between my indescribable hatred for etcd and my long-held lust for a pluggable KV backend (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/1957 et al) it'd be awesome if any provable KV safety violations were finally the evidence required for them to take that request seriously
Maybe when on treatment, otherwise superinfections are a thing and associated with poorer outcomes.
I see. "I don't have any recollection..." means "it never happened". Got it.
> doesn't hand every shopper a wheelchair

> DO offer wheelchairs

You see the difference, right? We can do that for straws.
They've already added a toggle to disable horizontal tabs.
Do you know about exponential growth? If birth and death rates are not about the same, it means the population will double every X years. You’ll need a major breakthrough in food production every X years. For ever.

Even if we achieve that, at some point there just won’t be enough square meters on earth. But I guess it’s okay to you since we’ll have solved space travel and we’ll just send billions of people to Mars? Then other planetary systems? Then other galaxies?

In any case, as I don’t buy we’ll ever be able to send billions of people to other planets, let alone make them habitable, this is exponential growth with finite ressources. Doesn’t sound sustainable to me.
But they are not the default, and that's OP and OOOP's point. There's no reason 99% of the population needs to be served their drinks with a straw. Straws should be available for the 1% who need them for accessibility reasons and some (probably very small) group who prefer to use them for whatever reason. But they should not be the default.
> if you are putting people's lives at risk for the sake of economic value when they have trusted you with their lives then you don't deserve that trust.

That happens all the time. If you drive your car to work, you are putting your lives and those of others at risk for economic value. There's no way around it.
Some jurisdictions also require that alchohol sales can’t be members only and if you tell them at the enterance you are only there to buy alcohol, they have to let you in and if you buy only alcohol, they have to let you purchase it. I did this at Sam’s club once.
This is better accomplished by adding keyboard shortcuts to the browser for popping out a tab into a separate window, and then you can use the window manager’s shortcuts to arrange side-by-side, or however you want.

It’s preferable to have such building blocks of functionality, which one can then combine in many ways.
Rust HAL for RP2350
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/split-screen-tab-in-tab...
Maybe? But Cancer isn't a single disease, it's a class of diseases, it has a lot more causes and symptoms and treatments than HIV.
They have to undock either Dragon (Crew 8) or Starliner to dock the next Dragon (Crew 9).
Back in the early 90s I used a Noritsu printer. We had reference negatives on all the different film stocks, or at least all the ones we regularly saw there. We would group the jobs by film type. Set the calibration by the calibration negative and judge exposure and basic color correction by direct viewing of the negative. Another person would check the prints and flag any that needed to be redone for color, dust, exposure, etc. Then we’d change film types.

The next time I touched a photofinishing machine in the early 2000s you looked at a screen to make adjustments and we offered digital services like scanning and printing from digital files. I still used my negative reading skills to talk to customers when we were troubleshooting results. Putting the negative on the light table to show them how thin they were or how wildly the color changed when you switched what kind of light the picture was shot in was the quickest way to resolve quality complaints.
> And still no USB C on the official devboard.

Do you live in a universe where micro-USB cables are not available, or something? There's gonna be something or other that needs micro-USB for the next decade, so just buy a few and move on. They're not expensive.

[later edit: I bet it has to do with backwards compatibility. They don't want people to need to rework case designs to use something that is meant as a drop-in replacement for the Pi Pico 1.]
Didnt stop Russia. More than enough countries willing to go against the US for oil. China alone would buy as much as Venezuela can produce.
All of the stainless steel straws I've seen come with removable silicone tips. Just use one with an angled tip if you're that scared of them.
Google DeepMind develops a 'solidly amateur' table tennis robot
That might be a problem for state-level reporting but I'm not sure it really maps on to the city of San Francisco very well, tbf
I spent some 13 years working for a manufacturing firm writing custom management software for a similar sized manufacturing company. I now work for a SaSS firm in a different industry with a few hundred clients.

The thing that I learned from this is you either buy off the shelf software and run your company the way that the software company thinks you should run your business. You can, like some of our clients, fight the software and figure out all the janky work arounds you want, but ultimately you are bound by that software.

Or, you can write your own software and run your company the way you want it to run, with all the weird quirks of your business.

I get why smaller companies/firms buy software instead of rolling their own. It's a huge amount of overhead for little apparent benefit. It's worse when the software vendor isn't helpful or attentive to your needs.

My gut would be to say find a few software engineers you trust, hopefully with experience doing EDIFACT files (I've done this myself and the specs are a bear to dig through). I have this feeling mostly due to the unresponsive software vendor and your operating in a small niche.

For attracting talent, pay them well, and make them feel appreciated, and listened to. You'll be running a tight ship with very few points of failure (the bus factor), just one or two people leaving could paralyze your operation. You don't want the software people to start looking for jobs elsewhere in such a small department.
My previous employer did not do well in that department and lost 90% of their software staff in a 3 year time span. And when your department is 4-5 people that's devastating.
I assumed I guess incorrectly they were storing the energy from the blocks in batteries otherwise once cables stop everyone loses the added power or power offset. Doing this without some type of capacitive storage suggests in my mind a Rube Goldberg machine of sorts. I guess I will wait to see what this complex beast looks like.
Cloudflare Introduces Automatic SSL/TLS
Right. Some want to work on the hard safety issues because they do care about it.
In the article they say that for positive film (slides, at least) white light is generally better than rgb, but it would be nice to test it.
How did that end up happening? Did you define addition recursively or something?
Saturn's moon Mimas may hide a surprisingly young ocean
Future air conditioner might act like a battery
I'll print a QR code of this on a T-shirt and wear it at every establishment ever that serves you paper straws. They're terrible.
But getting funded & having it spent is 100% success, if you have fun burning it!
Adaptive hierarchical origami-based metastructures
>Each and every step you've outlined is utterly insane to me.

Absolutely agreed; however, all it takes it that one "doesn't care why should you?!" -brother / genetic relative... to get your partial genetic information into the hands of profiteering geneticists / admen.

The fuck?! Why, dearest brother James..?
The MilkV Duo also has this feature I believe... https://milkv.io/duo
IMO spinning off comes with it's own complexities in terms of product - If you are writing it for 'in house' you are writing bespoke software to your own requirements, but there are players out there in the logistics software market (across most verticals) that are making products designed to support different configurations / businesses / processes by default (i.e. the business logic isn't as rigid as you would build it for your own in-house software, and you build the software differently if you are designing it to be used as configured software rather than just to support your own requirements).

Would be interested to know the industry and any specific requirements that are very unique!
> Moreover, while longer lifespans may drive calcification, they would also promote long-term thinking. How would we vote about the climate differently if we knew we'd be around for a couple hundred years?

Would we act more in favor of the general long-term good, or would we scramble even more to get ours now in order to secure our own future? I'm not so sure cooperation would win.
Excavating a Language at the End of the World
I'm a bit surprised by the RISC-V cores. I thought the ARM investment would kill any such aspirations.

The investment was made nine months ago. Is a hardware design locked in at this point? We will see what happens in the future and whether we will get more RISC-V cores.
I dont see how that is the case. How does one farmer using monsanto seeds mean another needs to as well? Each farmers seed choice has no effect on others choices. If the monsanto seeds cost more than they were worth farmers wouldnt use them. In fact saying that you need to use their seeds to be competitive makes it clear that you understand that the seeds are worth it, you just wish they were free or cheaper. But in order to create these seeds monsanto needs to be paid.
Yes, also no one considered the negative externalities in terms of public sentiment. Drinking through a floppy paper straw is unpleasant and it leads to snarky comments and negative sentiment about environmentalism.

The effect is not measurable and it was a knee-jerk reaction to a viral video rather than data driven. It acts as evidence that environmentalism has become mostly political rather than scientific.
> I think, most people who want to be immortal are actually motivated by either the fear of death...

How are you not afraid of death? How is anyone not afraid of death? This baffles me. I mean, I don't spend my days agonizing over the fact that I will die someday, mainly because it has no use. Chronic anxiety won't help me as long as I take the necessary actions. But I'm sure as hell scared shitless of dying overall.

If I were 100 years old and every day was a struggle, sure, I'd want to just get it over with. But I have a really hard time understanding why people won't want to stay 30 years old forever. You, your conscience, the only thing that matters, will cease to exist. If that doesn't strike fear in a person, I don't know what will.
Boiling and filtering can remove microplastics from drinking water: study
I do think there are some geniuses working on the Chromium code base, and I would imagine there are really good reasons for doing it their way. I would imagine also Ladybird over time will face the same problems, and come up with similar solutions as Chromium team.

All I know is most of the large scale C/C++ code bases eventually become these monolithic giant code bases that require some really specialised software tools to compile and link.
Woah an on-chip switch mode power supply? How does that work? I've put together these before on a PCB and they require an inductor and a bunch of other supporting passive elements. How does all that fit onto a chip?
I love using Sidebery, because I can define a container profile for each group of tabs, which is then applied automatically for new tabs.
While a lot straws get used at sit down restaurants that have real glasses. I suspect far more are used at fast food restaurants/drive throughs that use plastic or styrofoam cups
Is the issue that they don’t provide a platform to Nazis—sometimes literally Nazis or descendants of Nazi collaborators, as we see here in mainland Europe?

I’ve seen him retweet a false narrative from a local known guy deep in the Blood, Soil, Honour, and Loyalty scene, who has made headlines for posting the most vile content imaginable even going to camps in East-Europe to "train for the race war". And when people makes him aware, he doesn't care one bit.

But that’s not even the main problem. If he claims to be a free speech absolutist, why does Twitter overlook racial slurs and violent threats but deem the word 'cisgender' problematic?
The tech court case of the decade just concluded, and the DOJ defeated Google
Or just choose not to use straws. I haven't needed to drink through a straw since I was 3 and couldn't hold a cup straight up-and-down. Who are these grown-ass adults who need to suck their drink through a straw like an uncoordinated child?

I can see if you are elderly or disabled or require extra assistance, then a straw would be essential, but for 99% of able-bodied adults? Why do restaurants even bother?
Drinking your typical summer cocktail without a straw is not a lot of fun.
I have a Samsung fridge that has an integrated water pitcher setup (keeps it full inside the door). It's actually pretty cool. Nice pitcher too.

However, I made the mistake of putting it in the dishwasher on a Sanitize cycle (normal cycle is meant to/should be okay).

The heat deformed the pitcher (just plastic).

I did some various heating myself to make the top sit right again, but it just never did, and it being very slightly off-kilter was enough to not trip the fill mechanism.

So I went to buy a new one.

Holy hell.

One hundred and twenty dollars.

For this:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-DA97-17395A-Refrigerator-Rese...

And this is not someone on Amazon gouging. Indeed Samsung themselves want $140.

https://samsungpartsusa.com/products/da97-17395a

for a plastic water pitcher.

> I paid over $60 for that pilot light wire.

Not Samsung, but I had a double oven whose circuit board died. The manufacturer wanted more than the cost of the oven for a new circuit board (was an older oven). That one thankfully ended up being a fairly common and simple fix (some capacitors and some other things - there was someone on eBay selling repair service - "$59, send me your board, and I'll send it back in three days repaired").
I wish ChromeOS's desktop environment gets ported and reimplemented across mainstream Linux and we're all freed from the GNOME/KDE GTK/Qt hell. It's just sad that Google's Linuxes (Android and ChromeOS) can do things like HDR, VRR, decent fractional scaling, decent font rendering, etc. but desktop Linux is still starved for these things to this day.
Vivaldi does this also.
One-photon three-dimensional printed fused silica glass with sub-micron features
Back in the day we mostly did it to cheat in Halo 2 online multiplayer.
I remember being 13 and would stick a butter knife into my Xbox DVD drive so the "old maps" (on the disc) would fail to load, forcing the game to load a "new map" on the hard drive which I patched via soft modding the console allowing FTP to edit the maps on the hard drive.
That link literally starts by describing how the idea of flashing a frame of Coca-Cola was a hoax. It completely supports what I said.

Like I said, test it yourself in a video editor. You'll immediately see how implausible it is.
Nobody would buy something without an understanding of it being beneficial.

I'll grant you that understandings can be faulty. One may learn that there was no benefit. But that's outside of the ad itself. Invalidating your hypotheseses is an important part of the scientific method.
You might not be in the intersection that desires it. Some of my women friends use it to not mess up their makeup (lip stick, lip gloss) or transfer to their containers by accident. Others have sensitive teeth and can’t drink cold or ice water without it hurting, straws bypass the teeth. Boba is a particularly straw oriented beverage.

While I think it’s reasonable to actively try and reduce straw usage, I’ve found many people who would reasonably continue to use them. -shrug-
If you ignore the fact that it looks much better than Mate, maybe.

The sentiment of "looks don't matter" seems to be very common among Linux users. Or maybe they don't see the difference, but it would be like not seeing the difference between a beaten Lada car and a modern Toyota Camry.
The risk of partisanship is in every profession on earth, not just career epa people.