skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mobile PowerVR GPUs had programmable blending last time I've touched those, in fact, it's the only kind of blending they had. Changing blend states on PS Vita was ~1ms, not pretty.
Resolving Enq: TX – Row Lock Contention with Real-Life Scenario Analysis
Whenever Enq: TX - row lock contention wait events occur, many database administrators and consultants typically respond by saying, ‘Oh, that’s an application problem. It’s probably due to a commit or rollback not being executed, and the application design should be revised.‘ I don’t like this kind of response or attitude.

I will explain the issue to all DBA kinds using a real-life scenario and equip them with the necessary skills to detect problematic (uncommitted / rollbacked) SQL statements. From now on, I hope that anyone facing this wait event will no longer say, ‘Oh, that’s an application problem,’ but instead respond with, ‘The application issued this statement, and it has not been committed or rolled back.
I scrolled through the whole thing and I’ll save you time. There’s no pictures just simulations of what pictures might look like.
It’s a shame it seems to come to that about once every hundred years. We’ve won the war against the communists before though, and we’ll do it again.
Enigmatic artifacts that still baffle modern archaeologists
Pretty sure you could just choose an LTS abi and use that.
Technically four servers, because you’ll want a HA LB as well, but yes.

Tech is rife with people who have never set up an old school HA solution proffering advice on how a miasma of cloud services makes theirs better.
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That is not the point of the author. They clarify on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1f5qbhv/rust_s...

> This isn't a great title for the submission. Rust doesn't solve incomplete/missing docs in general (that is still a major problem when it comes to things like how subsystems are engineered and designed, and how they're meant to be used, including rules and patterns that are not encodable in the Rust type system and not related to soundness but rather correctness in other ways). What I meant is that kernel docs are specifically very often (almost always) incomplete in ways that relate to lifetimes, safety, borrowing, object states, error handling, optionality, etc., and Rust solves that.
And do you go back and update all documents whenever something changes? If you’re swapping people around every month I agree that you must keep everything written down, happens a lot in projects that bring consultants in. But if you have a core team of people and you get 2-3 new people per year then you should be more relaxed about it.
Sure, but such extreme use cases are rare and don't need to be constantly brought up.
Thats a pretty strong claim, not wrong, but pretty strong as far as views go.
Right, I'm not arguing against that.

I'm saying that Meta and Amazon and Microsoft are all buying these chips in insane numbers for AI—their usage for all other types of GPU activity is at least an order of magnitude less. That's why Nvidia skyrocketed to become the most valuable company over just a few years.

For Google to be on that short list of whales would either mean that they for some reason have a much larger demand for GPUs for non-AI purposes than any of the others have for AI purposes (doubtful) or that they're using GPUs for AI.
> Perhaps they can, but there’s 0 evidence for it.

Wouldn't this way of thinking prevent any improvement at all?

If I must have accomplished something before believing I may be able to accomplish, how am I even going to try?
Listen to the Lenny’s newsletter podcast episode with him, he goes through what I assume are similar topics - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-...
> most of the US population

You do realize that "most" of the US population lives in cities, right? The "rural" population has remained almost constant since the 1960s, while the "urban" population has grown to roughly 5x the rural population's size. Even just counting the largest 100 cities is more than the rural population. Setting that aside for a moment, how does poor signage affect self-driving cars? They're not like humans expecting to take the third left but miscounting, or turning right at the Dairy Queen (which has shut down). They have GPS and full maps. Those maps might not be perfect, but they'll only ever be wrong once if they're part of a system, which is what's being proposed here.

To be clear, I'm matching your tone here. Normally I'd try to be a little more understanding and tempered.
It is in Sweden too. And everywhere I know of in democratic countries. But here it applies so long as I’m there doing the filming myself.

The law here isn’t about filming but regulation of surveillance, and is only about installing equipment that films public spaces without permit. For example: a ring doorbell can film my driveway and porch but not the street.

The thing about the Tesla is that it counts the same as mounting a camera on a house filming a public street corner, and not as a person filming the same street corner with their smartphone.

I don’t see the connection to freedom of speech since the act of recording anything is unrelated to if and how you can use that recording (which would be when it becomes speech).
Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6k-year-old monument
The Nile.
There's also the concept that companies that succeed, succeed despite themselves.

You have catch the wave; otherwise you do a lot of paddling.
Yea, i also wonder how people feel about Nebula [1] as an alternative;

It seems the problem is, with YouTubes monopoly, other services have almost no chance to succeed because of the "Network Effect"...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_(streaming_service)
That is an excellent way of putting it. Abstractions makes you think you’ve got a handle on things, but when they break, now you have two problems – neither of which you’re probably equipped to solve.
Because it's not about avoiding SQL (although that's a benefit), it's that you also get forms for free, view classes, easy APIs, validation, a free admin, free docs and a large pool of potential employees who all understand the foundations of your app.
Only for iOS sadly. Because it sounds good.
Your take is as profound as claiming there’s no life without oxygen, but it serves very little actual utility in observing the world.
yeah for sure he invented a premise to then write an article about something thats rhetorical. how does that thinking make sense.

Airbnb struggled for a while (in his opinion) until he changed his management style organized the whole company around a release cylce (and other bits I cant remember) and taking on much bigger responsibility for design (UI UX). its super interesting stuff. its not new actually and I saw him speaking about multiple times on youtube. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/brian-chesky-interview-orga...
So you're okay with police having access to facial recognition cameras on every public street in order to better track down violent criminals?
"We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies [...] hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we're paying them all this money; their job is to figure out what to do and tell us."

-- Steve Jobs
He talks about some of these things on Lennys podcast from a few months back here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ef0juAMqoE
I don't think the requirements for your specific programming niche should influence the language like that. Your requirements are valid, but they should be served by a bottom of the barrel microcontroller compiler rather than the language spec.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you have to invent the universe.
> I don't think it's debatable in the least

That’s not up to you to decide. It is demonstrably and unambiguously debatable because, well, psychologists are debating it and disagreeing on what is true.

It’s your prerogative to firmly believe one side of the debate. If you’re a psychologist it’s also your prerogative to research and actively contribute to that side. But there is no question that we don’t have proven consensus at the moment.
As I just replied, counting just the largest 100 cities covers more people than the rural population.
It is important to teach students about these great Indian mathematicians. I’d never heard of them and feel like I’m missing a big piece of history, mainly due to British imperialism and subjugation.
Steve Jobs scaled it. Brian Chesky, maybe the Zuck and Elon? There are multiple examples.
I'm not in favor of telling people what to do, in general. As long as what they're doing doesn't cause undue harm to others, it's better than what most governments do nowadays.
I struggle to see this different from the manager vs. leadership discussion. Founders need to give direction and shape where the company is going. This is not new e.g. the situational leadership model advices a more directive style during the initial phase and even competent, experienced newcomers to a team start at low performance and require help.

One systemic problem in the more mature parts of the industry seems to me the layering of management over leadership. Maybe one needs more of the former than the latter but without the latter in each layer it is impossible to turn a larger ship on a new course or adjust speed.
I'm not sure but often in such scenarios you want to work under a slight vacuum so in case there is a leak, air goes in instead of beryllium vapor shooting out.
Saying “hire good people and give them room to do good work” is bad advice is the same as judging a dish while using half a recipe. It’s execution centric and execution alone is never enough, you need direction. A strategy, a vision, a need. Without a need from a customer it’s nothing.
The formula is displaying an emotional trauma inducing anecdote on mass media coupled with a narrative suggesting action that must be taken to prevent future trauma to the viewer, and then inflicting that trauma and followup narrative repeatedly that as many times as possible through all available media channels. There are hundred of thousands of things that occur on a daily basis all over the world that would induce trauma by viewing or even knowing about them, but if you own TikTok, you can show violent civilian deaths in Gaza instead of Xinjiang prison camps, or Sudan or wherever.

This formula can switch people from fearing to go outside to rioting in the streets in a weekend with enough media power. Anyone who explains what's going on with data and statistics, and doesn't almost involuntarily go along with the trauma conditioning, for better or for worse, is considered to be defective emotionally and an outcast.
Great tool well done! I am moving this to my favs
Gaza is not just about the suffering but also the fact that the suffering is directly caused by a rich Western nation enabled by all other rich Western nations.

As far as I can tell the US is not supplying the army of Sudan with billions of cash, munition, weapons and unconditionally political backing.
Hmm, it is something I would use Elixir for.
Swaping models isn't the hard part. The prompts are.
Is this supposed to be some insight? The very definition of "alliance" says: groups or people who work together because of shared interests. You ally because you share interests, e.g. a specific goal.
Before the 2020 election, troll farms controlled by the Internet Research Agency ran almost half of the largest BLM and conservative Christian Facebook groups in America, serving impressions to more than 140 million per month.

Something similar is happening here. The goal being twofold, to create divisions and infighting within the rival, and to undermine the rival's soft power on the world stage.
The famine in Gaza generates a lot of outrage because there was a line of trucks loaded with food rotting outside, as there is an apartheid system in place actively withholding food to generate said famine. We have even instances were soldiers were caught in camera gunning down starving people trying to get food, like the infamous flour massacre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre
Is the task of terraforming the arid land a farmer or government responsibility? I’m confused as to why California just seems to adore droughts and now I’m hearing it’s possibly avoidable?
For anyone wondering:

> A dynamic recompiler is a type of software that translates code from one instruction set architecture (ISA) to another at runtime, rather than ahead of time. This process allows programs written for one platform to be executed on another platform without needing to modify the original code. Dynamic recompilation is often used in emulators, virtual machines, and just-in-time (JIT) compilation systems.

Is this what Dolphin does most of the time, or is all handcrafted at the assembly level?
Spelunky 64
Reminds me of this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ycombinator/comments/1eu574f/got_fu...
I used to use this frequently, but unfortunately at some point my /8 IP range was blocked from uploading files. Most likely because bot traffic outweighs legitimate traffic, since I live in a third-world non-english-speaking country.
Letting your employees tell you what you need to do is not the same as giving them room to do what they want.

In the former, you are immediately aware of what they're doing and why, because they're telling you! You can ask questions if their reasoning doesn't sound convincing, intervene early if there's disagreement as to what should be done, and decide whose project takes priority. Steve Jobs was a very active CEO in this regard. Bullshitters will not survive long in such an organization.

The latter, on the other hand, is often taken to imply that you should not intervene unless absolutely necessary -- which often means, until it's too late.
I like his tone. For me as a non-native speaker, I never had any trouble understanding him.
Very interesting, but I can't help but wonder: are developers really interested in working on an iPad? I feel like this is exactly the kind of job where a laptop is more efficient, for a couple reasons: 1/ Physical keyboard 2/ Over extended periods of time, even though more intuitive, touchscreen feels more exhausting to use than touchpad because you can't easily rest your hands.

And if the targeted usage is "iPad with a keyboard on a desk" well, at this point it's mostly a laptop anyway so as a developer why even bother getting a tablet in the first place?
> This kind of sensational event is what social media was designed for

I agree with you!
It's much harder to do viral tictoks with harmed israelis, because they built a marvelous defense system, so palestinian rockets (or terrorists) just don't get through.
Nice conclusions but remarkably devoid of any useful advice
I assume this detects "new devices" by its MAC address?

Seems unreliable, with modern devices changing to a new random MAC address frequently.

Then your data would be spammed with new devices constantly?
Prompting is different than programming. Auto-testing your prompts is good practice and helps during a migration. But it doesn't change the fact that the prompts won't work the same in a different model.

It's like saying having Python tests eliminates bugs when rewriting a codebase into JavaScript.
How to sync Mac and Linux /home
This should work perfectly fine in WSL2 as it has access to a GPU. Do remember to install the Cuda toolkit, NVidia has one for WSL2 specifically.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&...
Interesting read.

It's quite intriguing that x86-64 processors of different microarchitectures and from different vendors basically all have similar non-determinsm for retired instruction counters but — at least in the authors’ brief review — IA64 (Itanium), POWER, and SPARC appear to be too deterministic.

I can't really see any good explanation for why this would be hard to get right specifically on x86-64. Can anyone else?

(And are there any more recent or thorough results on other archs, particularly arm64?)
Because the media shapes perceptions and creates narratives
My initial thoughts were that these issues were showing how things look on a non-retina display, or a display with non-default scaling. That does seem to be the case, but not entirely.

I took some screenshots and I do not see the misaligned numbers at retina or non-retina resolutions, but I do see the odd bevelled edges on the 8/10/16 "tabs": https://imgur.com/a/PqqkWai

Apple have pretty much given up on making things look correct on non-retina displays, so many things are positioned at what turn out to be half pixel steps. Depending on whether we're talking fonts or shapes things can jump by a pixel or become blurry. I wrote about this here: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/01/25/running-modern-ma...
Nice writeup. This explains why I have issues trying paste with/without formatting on Firefox on my Mac in Google Docs. It’s interesting that Google is using a deprecated API to add their own content type format to the clipboard.
Not me but a friend. Things like making electronics for singing birthday cards and toys that make noise.

But there are plenty of other similar things - like making the code that determines the flashing pattern of a bicycle light or flashlight. Or the code that does the countdown timer on a microwave. Or the code that makes the 'ding' sound on a non-smart doorbell. Or the code that makes a hotel safe open when the right combination is entered. Or the code that measures the battery voltage on a USB battery bank and puts 1-4 indicator LED's on so you know how full it is.

You don't tend to hear about it because the design of most of this stuff doesn't happen in the USA anymore - the software devs are now in China for all except high-end stuff.
The article also alludes to this, but doesn’t make it specific:

It doesn’t necessarily say much if a paper cites a paper that has since been retracted.

> Unlike (retracted, 2015) we found …

Or

> While (retracted, 2021) focused on … the present study concerns …

You’d need to do much more in depth analysis to determine to what purpose a retracted study was cited before you can establish whether there is a problem or not.
It's a bit like asking why we still blame lead for lead poisoning 70 years after it was painted on the wall...
Using Dunbar number as an indicator for the conpany growth and how to use this number to form better org structire is a valid idea
> Did the famine in Sudan suddenly get worse, or do social media networks not properly represent world issues?

This thread is going nowhere pretty. But if you want an honest answer to this, the answer is obviously no social networks don’t properly represent world issues.

There are a myriad of reasons for this in the case of the Gaza famine some legitimate and some illegitimate, but one I would call fairly legitimate is that the US provides vast support to one side of the conflict as an ally so it is very natural for it to be a hotter talking point than the famine in Sudan. People feel they are complicit in what happens in Gaza.
>It is official: for only the third time in the past 20 years, the un has declared a full-blown famine.

Looking into this, it's because the UN will only declare a famine if there's no functioning government. If there is one, they have the government declare a famine.

Presumably that's why the UN declared a famine at the refugee camp, not the country or region.

This story from last month discusses this aspect. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/08/21/g-s1-...
CS-E4595 Competitive Programming
It is AGPL that most people will have an issue with. Perhaps you can select a different license for the automatic switch.
> His version of being a free speech absolutist is that people who agree with him should absolutely have the right to free speech.

So he's merely an equal and opposite reaction to what the other tribe have been doing for ages?

He didn't fundamentally change Twitter. He bought a powerful propaganda tool/weapon and aimed it in the opposite direction.

(I suppose he's also using it as his own personal megaphone, whereas the previous owners would merely ensure that chosen voices were amplified/suppressed rather than using their own voices directly)

Not sure how we start to approach some sort of disarmament process when it comes to these propaganda weapons, though.
Nationalism did lot in this regard. But really when you consider it Ukraine is just continuation of European nations conquering lands from each other. Which has been going on for well probably before Romans...
"writing, reading, and maintaining documentation could get much smoother" - something we've been trying to do over at Komment. CI/CD approach to docs so they don't drift from code and a single portal where all the generated docs are available for anyone in the company. Check it out https://www.komment.ai
When a company is successful, by which I mean it turns a healthy profit and eventually even enough to go public, it ends up sustaining a lot more employees doing a lot less than a smaller, leaner company that can’t afford inefficiency.

That doesn’t matter much to the successful company, it makes more than enough money to cover the inefficiency, and the inefficiency isn’t causing any real trouble - it just means that a lot of people are being paid either to not produce very much or to produce things that will end up being thrown away.

Most executives and high level managers are used to this environment. You don’t actually need to be lean or very effective, you just need to pretend to be and know that whatever the company’s main revenue source is will cover you whatever you do. As long as you can tell a good story internally to justify your position.

Turns out that doesn’t transfer well to startups that actually need value out of every dollar spent.
Revealed preference at play again, and everyone knows that whats the whole communist thing really is about anyway - crippling jealousy and wishing to kill off the people who've put more effort in their life than you.
They’ve had endless civil war essentially for 70 years. Maybe “Sudan” isn’t a real place and the people inhabiting those lands need to sort it out and figure out who rules what. The UN should stop recognizing Sudan as a state as it’s obviously failed. Remove itself from the region and let the people there figure out borders. Rip the Bandai’s off instead of prolonging this idea of Sudan that obviously isn’t real.
When I first joined the corporate world, I finished some tasks for my team and immediately went to other teams to ask if they needed help with anything. Astonishingly, this was met with backlash. This was at a heavily culture driven company with a core value of "self employed mentality" and "breaking down silos". I don't blame my manager, it probably made him look bad in that environment. The corporate world has done its darnedest to beat the founder out of me.