skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you but since the government is not great at managing cost and budgets, and private industry is showing burgeoning capacity to develop orbital vehicles, maybe it would be in the national interest to steward a winding down of the business and transfer of assets to other industry participants.
That is exactly what the "limited dual issue" is - two non-conflicting pre-decoded instructions (either 16b+16b or if a stall has occurred) can be sent down the execution pipe at the same time. I believe that must be a memory op and an ALU op.
These examples are cute, but this isn't a comprehensive collection. Not even close.

Given that PIO's most compelling use case is replacing legacy MCUs, I find it disappointing that they haven't provided PIO boilerplate for the peripherals that keep those archaic architectures relevant. Namely: Ethernet MII and CANbus.

Also, if RP2xxx is ever going to play ball in the wireless space, then they need an out-of-box Bluetooth HCI implementation, and it needs sample code, and integration into Zephyr.

I speak as someone living in this industry: the only reason Nordic has such a firm grip on BLE product dev is because they're the only company providing a bullshit-free Bluetooth stack out of the box. Everything else about nRF sucks. If I could strap a CYW4343 to an RP2350 with some example code as easily as I can get a BT stack up and running on an nRF52840, I'd dump Nordic overnight.
This is a really big deal. Verifying a core is hard, and if the repo doesn't come with a testbench, I'm very suspicious.
May I ask what high school? We did not have a linear algebra course in my New York high school. I would have liked to have been able to take linear algebra then.
And way, way, WAY less expensive than a troubleshooting session
> My kid doesn't turn her nose up at healthy food; she asks for it.

Yeah, so did my kids at that age. In fact, if given the choice, they would choose the healthy food over the candy. Get back to us in a few years.

On that note, there is nothing to me that suggests the ad in question is even trying to convince you that your unruly 3 year old that you are rushing to get off to school is a problem. It clearly portrays older children. You appear to be the exact embodiment of the idea that ads are not likeable when they are not applicable.

What does seem applicable to your preferences is healthy food. Would you be this miffed if you were shown an ad in a similar vein about a new food product that tastes great and has proven to be healthy? Or would you be glad to learn about it?

> She doesn't know things like cereal exist.

Without some kind of advertising, she also wouldn't know anything exists – even healthy food. Seems you're trying to go down the same road as the parallel thread of "advertising is only bad if the product is bad".

Which is hard to deny on some kind of superficial level, sure, but seems to conflate a number of ideas that I'm not sure should be conflated.
This comment laments about the rising prices of cars, but it doesn't offer anything to explain why they're getting more expensive.

"Greed" isn't the answer - we have greedy companies in every area of the economy, yet somehow the prices of phones, computers, desks, large appliances, televisions, and many other types of goods hasn't skyrocketed in the same way as cars.

What makes cars different? I know that the cost of labor has significantly increased (which partially motivates the stratospheric increases in education and healthcare costs), but I thought that cars were mostly manufactured in an automated manner.
RIP Jake.

from https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/...:

August 8, 2024 at 5:17 pm
Hello, this is Sam, Jake’s brother.

He passed away peacefully last night. It was a merciful end to his suffering. Thank you all for your kindness. It meant everything to him.

The Story’s Story will live on, in some fashion, once we are doing picking up the pieces of our shattered hearts.

With love,

Sam

[edit] The 7th update at his GoFundMe page, https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-fight-against-cancer-wit... :

Well, I said I wouldn't write another update, but I feel as though Jake's supporters deserve to know.

He passed away last night, peacefully, in the loving arms of his wife. It was a merciful end to an inhuman amount of suffering.

Jake has detailed his wishes in his final website post here: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/08/04/starting-hospice-the-end/

He wanted me to tell you that your support meant everything to him. It kept him going, it kept him fighting, it kept him able to travel for clinical trials, and inspired him to try to make it for the birth of his daugther.

Unfortunately, the disease had other plans.

Thank you so very much.

- Sam and family
Disingenuous and wrong don’t mean the same thing. Nothing in that comment indicates malicious intent, even though I don’t agree with the opinion.
Which is even more impressive yet :)
Also ‘old girls’ - it shows up in any group with power.
It works, but could simplify it by just running the sendkeys for numlock every 2 minutes and removing everything else.
I visit a /g/ adjacent channel regularly on Rizon. I've also interacted with two software projects on Libera in the last 6 months. So yes, it is still active.
I wouldn't put it in those words, but I think you're describing something real.

I've worked as a software consultant in NYC and more broadly in East Coast tech scenes for most of my career.

The NYC tech scene is fundamentally intertwined with other industries. The founders I know are all technical people, but none of the companies they founded are purely tech: one is an airline-adjacent company, one is doing health insurance, another is doing medical imaging. The companies I worked for in NYC all sold concrete products or services: not once did I work for a company that received their primary income from serving ads because nobody was willing to pay for their product.

The typical SF startup I've interviewed for isn't actually solving a problem. They might have some success because they put a slick interface over a shoddy backend, like Robinhood making a nice UI while farming out the actual clearing house work to a third party because they don't understand it. Or they might make short-term success by bypassing regulation, like AirBnB or Uber bypassing zoning and taxi medallion systems, respectively. But clearing houses are performing a real, complex service, and failing to understand that leads to problems like the GME fiasco. And when you bypass regulations, you end up causing the harms those regulations were meant to prevent, like driver exploitation and homelessness. And sure, those regulations weren't perfect, but these companies certainly don't fix the problems because they're more interested in stuffing their pockets than solving a problem they don't even understand. SF loves to disrupt because they can't solve. Sometimes they luck into a profitable business but almost universally at the expense of doing harm. I generally find it distasteful.

NYC startups in constrast, generally start with someone working at a company, and then seeing how a technology they understand can solve a problem that company has. It starts from understanding an industry and the needs it meets. While SF startups have solutions in search of problems, NYC startups have problems and hypothesized solutions. Sometimes NYC startups fail because, as it turns out, problems are pretty hard to solve. But I have a lot more respect for that than what I've come to expect from SF startups.
The senate has plenty of representativity. Is China or India any less represented at the UN because they have the same number of votes as Cuba and Micronesia? Surely there are a few "popular" items China or Russia might like to see passed that are blocked by "a small minority in the rural states" of Europe?

Beyond that, the states themselves can petition for a constitutional convention. 2/3s of the state legislatures would be all it takes to kick that process off, no senate "representativity" required (unless I suppose the senate wanted to argue that "congress shall call a convention" does not obligate congress to do so. But I suspect that's a constitutional crisis even the most obstructionist senators would be reluctant to take on in the face of 2/3s of the states actually petitioning congress.
And that's why we pay AWS the big bucks.
I think the point of Linux is to run it on non-Intel CPUs. Once you have to buy Intel CPUs what's the point.
I was a chemistry major in college. I dated a girl who was also a chem major. Her senior year, she took a women's studies class on Women in Science.

She did not have a lot of positive things to say about that class. Of note, she was the only science major in the class.
https://archive.is/W45PZ

> The device will be far smaller than its predecessor, approaching the size of an Apple TV set-top box
https://archive.md/Jx0vF
Ah, the naïveté.

You can end up with mountains of liability while doing nothing wrong. And doing plenty of things wrong while having no practical liability (due to leverage).

Frankly, it’s so common that lawyers often don’t even care about what actually happened, rather what can be spun/alluded to/proven.
As an IC, you don't really get a say in what your metrics are though.
> Why would the average distance a neutron has to travel to strike a nucleus increase?

Because if the problem is that neutrons are escaping the object before hitting a nucleus, and we are adding more nuclei so the likelihood that they hit something increases, the new collision candidates will be further away than the old ones.

In other words, adding material to the edge of the object does not affect the per distance probability of collision. It only affects the overall probability of collision. Since the per distance probability does not change while the overall probability does, the probability increase must lie outside of the average path length of a neutron through the original object.
I started as a swe at a startup and then just made my job fixing our AWS and deployments going from hand deploys on EC2 to docker containers on some of the first versions of rancher.

After that I was hired at a FANG company and worked on automating data centers and service deployments as well as a ton of other stuff. Now I pretty much just go setup infra teams for people I used to work with who are at various small to medium startups.

So I don’t have a great answer for you but I would say staying away from anything where all they can tell you is “k8s” “terraform” and stuff that boils down to writing yaml or some config language all day. Additionally if you can’t get a good idea of where the company is today in the interview and where they would like to go it’s going to be sys admin stuff. In all my interviews i lay out where we currently are and all the issues that causes and go over where we want to be in a year from now and what things need to be done to get there. At the end you should feel like you fit into some part of that.

It is amazing how many hiring managers can’t give you a coherent picture of that. If all they can say is we need k8s, docker, infra as code and other buzz words without a plan the team is setup to fail.

The other way is just apply for platform eng or sre jobs at FANG and friends which will almost never be sys admin stuff although it can happen sometimes if they are listed for a team that works on the corporate side of the business.
Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
Nice list. You came well prepared.

> Email shenanigans — for example, some mail clients click verification links automatically to check them for spam and then even interact with the page

What is the technical workaround for this issue? Do you check user agent?
I'm not sure they necessarily need to know it cold at the start, but they do need to have access to someone who knows the business cold, and they need to care a lot and be willing to dive into the business details.
Why wouldn’t they qualify? There is no income cap or anything like that.
They certainly can, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_escape_probability. The all-important number in nuclear reactions is "k", the average number of child neutrons a single neutron will produce. The neutron population follows an equation something like N = exp((k - 1) * t). For k<1, you get exponential decay, and for k>1, you get exponential growth (until everything becomes a plasma and k changes). Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_factor_formula.
Oh - you're so right. I see this probably around 20-25% of the time. Schedules slipping because you can't get time with the main SME.
This is a great HN anecdote. Can you share more about why Auth0 was frustrating? I would like to learn more.
Crazy that I haven't heard of this one before. Just installed it and after forcibly putting all the tabs in all my windows to sleep my machine's memory usage dropped from 60% to 30%.
> (“No one ever gets fired for buying IBM,” was a common refrain through the 2000s).

Oh you sweet sweet child. This is a phrase of long before the 2000s. It probably pre-dates the 1970s. I first heard it at work in the early 80s.
I rather suspected that compiler toolchains had this level of insight into processor architecture when doing instruction scheduling. Back in the 686 era, one could just about carry a model of the execution architecture in your head, and just maybe occasionally wring an extra 3 to 5% performance using hand-crafted assembler without having to bring in heavy-duty Intel profilers to search for instruction stalls. And, pleasantly, 686 architecture lasted for a long time, so it was actually a worthwhile investment to understand instruction scheduling on the 686.

Nowadays, compilers seem to produce code that beats my hand-crafted assembler pretty much every time. Sure, it's still possible to optimize C/C++ code so it makes better use of caches, or tweak code to allow the compiler to make better use of available registers. But now I know why compilers do better instruction scheduling than I can, especially with the proliferation of execution architectures. I can't imagine a human competing with that level of insight into instruction throughput anymore.

Thanks for the insight.
>And then we end up in the same situation where there's some new thing that should probably be regulated at the federal level but can't be since it's not explicitly listed in the constitution.

Which is sort of the point of the structure of the US government. A government of a United collection of States, whose power is derived not from holy writ or mandate but from the people of those states granting powers to that government. If they don't grant the power, the government can't do it.

>You simply can't leave that up to the states because everyone is going to have a different standard for who can own one such that all you would need to do is travel to the least regulated state, buy a teleporter, and teleport back home. Having 50 different laws saying who can and can't own one would simply not be feasible based on how easy people can travel across the country.

And yet we do this all the time. Cars and their ownership are regulated on a per-state level, marijuana (ironically because the federal government has overstepped too far and the states and their people fought back) is legal or not in various forms on a per state level (and this as I note, despite being federally illegal). Guns, knives and indeed pepper spray are similarly regulated on a state by state basis. As are radar detectors. So much of people's day to day lives are regulated at the state levels and it works plenty fine most of the time. This need for everything to be uniform across the country is tempting, but like all things in life is full of trade offs. One shouldn't have to cast their memory too far back in time to imagine what it might be like for a federal administration run amok to have absolute authority over too many things.
He does! I guess I wasn't clear, he's got an XBox for minecraft and stuff, but I ignore it because I'm not interested in those games. So he plays that by himself, with his friends, or with his mom.

I just happen to have a NES classic for myself, and that's what he chooses to play with me.

I think having three consoles is crazy, but I have promised him the third when/if he completes Mario.
Shhh, you're ruining the party!
I have a "why don’t they just" question: if they're going to rely on compiler intrinsics anyway, why don't they just implement the whole darn thing in the compiler and do whatever they want there? If you're going to marry your code to the compiler, at least take full advantage of it?
My only experience with unemployment was in the great recession. I was not paid any severance, but had 2 weeks vacation time saved up that they paid me on final check.

The UE office made me wait 2 weeks because of the "severance". Back then, like today, the interest rates were still earning me a decent amount. They also made me report interest as income and subtracted it out of my total.

So if you earned more than UE benefits in dividends and interest I would think you would not qualify. Maybe varies from state to state though.
Agreed, completely different games.

When he plays minecraft he alternates between trying to build things he knows, or just wandering around and placing dynamite everywhere to blow things up.
> Kubernetes isn't even that complicated

I’ve been struggling to square this sentiment as well. I spend all day in AWS and k8s and k8s is at least an order of magnitude simpler than AWS.

What are all the people who think operating k8s is too complicated operating on? Surely not AWS…
Are they Better Than some of these other bands? Any connection to Ezra Miller?

Why do I think they're Better Than Ezra? Or possibly Candlebox? That feels about right. Probably more Better Than Ezra because Candlebox feels a little out of the Mouse's wheelhouse.

They were/are solid.
i think the respect of your peers is one of the best rewards
the latest iMacs are a sight to behold so I'm sure the M4 mini will be quite elegant. thing is though, stick computers have a thing since, like, right after the first Chromecast. the biggest thing on my desktop is the monitor itself. and they can get quite large these days!
> The person in question is Tim Peters.

For those who don't know, Tim Peters is the inventor of Timsort [1], the built-in sorting algorithm used in Python, Java, JavaScript (V8), and Swift.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort
My experience as well. Anaconda users have weird problems nobody else has when it comes to running perfectly reasonable python code, and especially struggle when it comes to integrating outside the anaconda ecosystem. I tell people to avoid it if at all possible.
Are there any layperson accessible books that explain these systems concepts? I’m curious if there’s a crossover application to organizational systems.
Well the article says she's alleging retaliation, which seems like a bit more than just negligence.
The other side of this coin is maybe if there was less uniformity and less federal law pre-empting state authority, massive multi-state corporations wouldn't have as much power and control. We can take the EPA vs CARB as an instructive example. EPA regulations pre-empt federal law, and California gets a specific, expiring exemption to have stronger regulations. But maybe emissions regulation could be even better if more states with like minded people were able to pass stronger regulations like California. Certainly one wonders why only California has such an exemption given the apparent popularity of stronger regulations.
I use Edge on my work PC, and one thing that keeps me sane when dealing with a lot of tabs is using the "tab groups" feature it inherited from Chromium. It ain't quite as powerful as an actual tree, but having at least one level of grouping is nice for things like "I want to keep all the tabs for this ticket together".
Reminds me of the cause of the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosions:

"The high temperature emptied the tank, but also resulted in serious damage to the teflon insulation on the electrical wires to the power fans within the tank. The exposed fan wires shorted and the teflon insulation caught fire in the pure oxygen environment."

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ap13acc.html
I did this. It’s not easier than k8s, GKE, EKS, etc…. It’s harder cause you have to roll it yourself.

If you do this just use GKE autopilot. It’s cheaper and done for you.
I think you misread what I wrote: consumer electronic device

Dev boards or niche specialized hardware are about the only thing I've willingly bought with Micro USB in 4+ years. As much as I try to avoid it given my preference for USB-C, sometimes I don't have a good alternative available.

> So why are you complaining about something you aren’t going to use?

Because it looks like a great upgrade to my RP2040-Zero boards that I would like to buy but I really dislike the choice of connector? What is wrong with that?
There is no such thing as a standard extension cord - USB A extension cords are forbidden by the USB standard. That's why it's "not USB", because making it USB would ironically make it not allowed to be branded as USB.
It is, for the same reasons that it's a relief that the "unelected, unaccountable judges" interpret highly technical implementations of vague criminal statutes instead of the police. Because the police by their nature are biases towards the interpretations that make their jobs easier and give them the powers they want regardless of if they actually have it.
Hmm. Am I the only one who immediately jumps to the thought that any VC backed "open source" tool is just using open source as a cost of customer acquisition, and will soon find a way to pay-wall necessary features? The majority of the effort will be in the paid SaaS product, not the open source stuff.

Maybe I'm getting old and jaded, but that's not really the spirit of open source.
> English, so weird

Borrowed from just-as-weird French "piquer" - to stab or jab.
After playing too much Zelda, I had the thought to make a todo app that was organized by Main Story and Side Quests.

The Main Story section would be projects, and those bigger more aspersions goals to move the story of life forward. Side Quests would be those little things along the way, that are usually one and done.

I ended up realizing building the app would really just be procrastination, and simply make a couple Lists in Apple Reminders for Main Story and Side Quests. Good enough.

Functionally, but I guess it’s not much different than Projects and Random, but I find it slightly more assuming.
Assuming the article is reporting it faithfully, before.

Doesn't meet any definition of "protective". I don't know the details here, but if the person did such thing claimed and deserves punishment, it's for society via the criminal justice system to decide and hand out.
What a beautiful thing to say. I'm happy you decided to come up for your birthday, and that you left with such a positive vibe <3
When you use OEIS you find that many sequences have generating source only in Mathematica.
This is kinda bullshit. He’s basing everything in his “analysis” on having a “hit.” There are many working musicians who sell seats and make a good living, and many stars who have toured their way to success without ever having a Billboard hit.
Tar Pits Are a Death Trap. Except for This Fly. [video]
I'm late to the game on this thread, but I am a lead SWE at a medium size logistics company. Been in logistics SWE since 2015. I'd be interested to hear how your company fits into the industry, who your service provider is, which no code platform you're using, etc and at the very least give you a sounding board based on my experience. Shoot me a DM if you're interested!
'ADD' does seem more likely to be used in that flippant way by people who don't have it, but IME ADHDers who self-describe with the term 'ADD' are just older, and for whatever reason have some kind of identity attachment to the nomenclature that was current when they were diagnosed.