skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cameras use isochronous mode, which maxes out at less than half the theoretical max USB 2.0 bandwidth, and they use MJPEG compression on each frame rather than something like H.265 that can compress much more by leveraging P/B-frames.
In the UK they are called mini roundabouts, and are sometimes just painted on: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mini-roundabout.jp...
Why NoSQL Deployments Are Failing at Scale
Again, making the false argument that instead of learning a system engineer skillset you need to learn nothing at all. As if instead of spending time on systems, everything will be magically done for you and it costs zero FTE headcount.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. You spend a similar amount of time, but on different knowledge and tasks. And I'm saying I find my skillset more enjoyable and more useful compared to the vendor lock-in and Tower of cloud services of Babylon that is AWS/Azure/Google.
Interesting position that was not expressed before. However please note that the same could be said about writing a solver.
The gnu/linux userspace has absolutely no security whatsoever. It’s a real shame how trivial it is to have even an npm install potentially do literally anything.

Android has an actual, sane, rethought security model that has a good track record in protecting millions of non-tech-savvy people.
Please don't litter HN with LLM spam, it adds nothing of value to the discussion. You even said it yourself, you have no idea if any of the word vomit is true or not.
The way the article is written, it appears that the formula is used as: 1. Observe market parameters (volatility of the underlying and risk free rate) 2. Plug into formula 3. Deduce a price for the option.

My point is that it is used in the opposite way: observe prices to deduce market parameters. You claim my point is obvious, but I'm not sure it would be obvious to a reader unfamiliar with modern finance reading this article, which is the target audience.
DuckDB – State of Project [pdf]
They're schematic but they reflect the shape of the roundabouts to help you follow it. E.g. https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2005/QBlog160705A.html has some examples.
Well yes, PDFs suck for the same reason.
Staff/principal/distinguished etc maybe ?
You can have a pinephone, and it will work fine for like 2 hours, warming like hell, and having you wait for minutes for an app to open. That’s where the linux userspace is. Maybe we should take a look at android and simply re-use the multi-million dollars spent on actually making a working mobile OS?
Tradesman Baker to Systems Admin here :-P
>an excellent indicator of problem-solving ability

And completely devoid of how this works in the workplace. Instead, you are quizzed in a closed environment on a question you have no context for before the interview (i.e. no time to research the problem space). You are given a hard time limit to solve a problem perfectly with a proctor who can range from being a helpful teammate to a stone wall who just says "this is wrong" or "this isn't the solution I wanted". And if you pass that it says nothing about your ability to perform what was actually on the job description. Who wins here?

And the kicker is you may not even get a leetcode question in my domain to begin with. So all that trivia study could be wasted and you fail on some deep C++ deep dive or math questions or any other number of tooling questions. every company is different and they all treat these "problem solving" like we're still in high school and can "cheat" the answer.
> stay away from projects that are going bad

We can’t tag all of them like that! Many times you build reputation by turning failures into successes
One step short of "and the directors of Sable will be paraded around in public in gimp suits"
life is nothing but shaped noise
That sounds more productive than just pumping corn into our cars
My device is physically narrower than a terminal, so it doesn’t make sense to use the same width.
What you're talking about is a market failure, basically admitting that markets don't decrease prices in many cases. Which is a much deeper rabbit hole.

My proposal even doesn't say what the ratio should be. If there wasn't legally defined maximal price margin (say 20%), I don't see what it would change in your argument - the companies would be free to ask for even more. Conversely, there is nothing that prevents the companies from lowering the margin as a result of competitive pressure from consumers.
The preferred measure of information content is simply number of bits as used for instance in Algorithmic Information Theory [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory
Meta didn't stop with that though?

Just a few weeks ago they released new products that actually have a much bigger potential then the Vision Pro for the usecases virgildotcode imagined. I.e. Orion AR. As a person that only knows about it from the presentation/demos it kinda sounded like a crossover of VR headset and Google Glasses

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-firs...

Though I sincerely doubt it will succeed at a wider audience either, even if it's mass market appeal is way higher.

The tech just isn't there yet - we'd need 4-8+k displays per eye with batteries that need to last at least 10 hours for this to become really viable (even if we could probably compromise batteries with a usb-c connection to the laptop for this particular usecase)
#00F on black is really not a color combination anybody should use in any case where accessability matters.
It was the governments that require that certification, and for good reasons.

We can play this “wild west hacker” whatever, but rules are a necessity for a working society, one can’t just start driving on the other side of the road, and neither would we be ahead with random frequencies getting emitted everywhere.
This. I try to collect all that happens weekly in the space at https://linmob.net
That is by design?Bell was broken up by the government. It didn’t become what it is today without that intervention.

The anti trust policies till the early 80s and seeing a revival currently with Lina khan and the FTC is not to have monopolistic companies.

Bell labs could be funded because of the monopoly of Ma bell . Larger organizations do not efficiently use capital to really innovate.

Bell labs was really great for research, but Ma bell wasn’t all that successful bringing that research as products to market . Same reason why Google couldn’t get GPTs to market like OpenAI could or GM couldn’t make an electric car successful like Tesla did or SpaceX innovating better than ULA, Boeing et al.

We ideally want companies to grow and die, not become rent seeking models that occasionally throw some scraps for research or CSR activities while returning bulk of the value extracted to shareholders without innovating on their products
In what way is it “an unusable toy”?
It's your comment that's adding nothing

It's very interesting that Claude can at least figure out it's a sudoku solver in K where chatgpt fails
After the ICC decided that evacuation of orphans from the warzone is genocide, I don't think its "guilty" verdicts worth the paper they are printed on.
And that's one of the strongest criticisms of Stallman's Free Software. Instead of providing alternatives, they are just against them.

Of course they tried to provide alternatives, but they are still stuck 30 years behind, they haven't gotten to phones yet. During Covid they had issues getting videoconferences to work.
iFixit has Google Pixel Tablet parts for at-home repair (2023)
No, but "failing" because you didn't use map.emplace instead of map.insert on a test that didn't let you look up documentation and you code in 4 other languages is definitely approaching gatekeeping instead of problem solving.

Nevermind that the parameters for STL maps are convuluted to begin with if you're not using them everyday.
> Like, TherapistGPT isn't going to randomly say you should go kill yourself.

It won't literally do that, the labs are all careful about the obvious stuff.

But consider that Google Gemini's bad instructions almost gave someone botulism*, there's a high chance of something like that in almost every field. I couldn't tell you what that would mean in therapy for the same reason I wouldn't have known Gemini's recipe would lead to culturing botulism.

These are certainly more capable than anything before them, but the Peter Principle still applies, we should treat them as no more than interns for now. That may be OK, may even be an improvement on not having them, but it's easy to misjudge them.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724283
The LoC count and similar metrics have the advantage of an easy calculation.

Ultimately though,they are a proxy to a more relevant but difficult to determine attributes such as

Given a reasonably proficient engineer, the amount of time it would take them to resolve a bug in code written by someone else or alternatively extend its functionality in some way.
> Just without open-source drivers for some freakish reason

Because manufacturers buy random parts from other suppliers, who may or may not own the source code, and they often legally simply can’t share forward that code.
> I'm nowhere near you, but I think it's absurd that someone with 26 years would still need to pass some graph traversal trivia

Two more perspectives to this: 1) it's the ability to learn/prepare/improvise quickly that is being tested (... or have insane recall of past experience.) 2) to be respected by juniors and peers, everyone has to pass through the same gauntlet.

The job itself can be trivial for most candidates, but employees still need to have respect their for job positions and colleagues. It needs to feel like an achievement for everyone.
How do you look for companies? Any indications typical for conpanies, that don't suck?
& Tibshirani
Trying it out. Downloaded the app. Signed in using browser. Unable to get the app authenticated after sign in.
Is there more info on how this "bureaucracy tipline" works?

More often in big companies, the processes keeps getting bigger and more convoluted as time passes by.

Usually the change in process is approved by higher ups, but they might not have full visibility of the process as they're not the ones who are going through these processes (people below them are).
Your post reminds me of the song Rät by Penelope Scott
I guess they have some data when all their other products became subscription-only to see how many people actually walk away. Perhaps it's not many. And I'm not sure how large a business that part actually is.

I got quite annoyed earlier this year that Lightroom 6 couldn't be installed anymore. Have been using it for many years but now it cannot be activated anymore and thus won't work. I'm not happy to pay a subscription for a hobby I only manage to do a few times a year anymore, though. Overall I guess they won't care, as they have a large part of the professional market willing to pay monthly.
I find Firefox's memory usage and dev tooling better than Chrome.
Bringing a high powered radio through Dubai would have raised suspicions even before this. It’s not what they could consider an ordinary hobby and they may assume you have more nefarious motives (the context of that just being that it’s a tense region, I’ve had my garmin handhelds carefully analyzed before) Being able to openly listen to any frequency isn’t exactly a universal right.
We have also published our tool to mirror the WordPress repository. We took a different approach. Our tool, Morpheus, mirrors the exact WordPress API. It fetches and maintains only the latest versions of plugins, themes, and the WordPress core. This limits disk space considerably.

There’s also a plugin that connects to WordPress.org by default but falls back to Morpheus if needed.

We’re still working on improvements. Right now, we only support English-language updates, but we’re adding more languages and features. Our goal is to support the entire API.

https://github.com/blogvault/morpheus
> If you're considering searching for a solution and cutting and pasting it as your answer, know that leetcode has basic tools to detect this. They track your time and keystrokes.

"Fun" story: years ago, I was interviewing for some position at a now-defunct startup that was then a darling of the SF tech scene. Several people worked there who had worked with me, as an engineer, at a prior company. It would have been trivial to verify my engineering ability by asking their existing employees.

Instead, as a screening interview I was given an at-home, timed, leetcode-style test in a UI with an abysmally bad web-based code editor. I quickly noped out of the terrible thing, opened emacs, coded the solution, and pasted it into the editor window. I submitted, the code passed whatever tests, and I was assured a response.

The next day I was summarily rejected, with only a vague comment about "lacking technical ability".
I imagine principal/staff level isn't quite high enough in many orgs to complete drive a project. You will just be arguing half the time with the director/product owner and forced to make compromises that were making the project fail to begin with
If you're going at it this way then it's easy to male it worth it

8 gigabit unmetered symmetric fiber for 50e a month

500e initial one time purchase for a ryzen 6800u in mini desktop factor form with 32 gb of memory and 512 nvme gb drive.

Proxmox installation.

Electricity at 0,017 kwh with a 15w cpu.

You can now hosts dozens of such projects. Upgrades for later include : an UPS for eventual power cut or surge, a small NAS for mass storage, a second mini desktop for Proxmox redondancy and replication.

Since fiber lines have becomes the norm self hosting stuff at home has been a breeze and a joy for small projects.

Extra bonus : jellyfin, pihole, home assistant, and all sort of other goodies can easily get a spot on that proxmox.
FSF's position is restrictive in the sense that it limits the choices you have. On non-mobile, while a lot of people agree with FSF's point of view, in practice they have to make exceptions.

(There's the urban legend that you're always breaking some law even when you try your best not to; probably you're also always running some opaque firmware blob even when you try your best not to).

I don't see mobile users making any compromise like this, unless a gigantic scandal happens.
There are already an unfathomable number of WordPress alternatives.
R/RAG's official resource to help navigate the flood of RAG projects
At the peak of the meaningless hiring frenzy period in tech (when people were just shoveling bodies through interview funnels), I had to learn how to guess what the interviewer knew and thought was the correct answer. There's no greater liability in these type of interviews than actually knowing what you're talking about. If the interviewer corrected me with a wrong answer I learned to quickly apologize and pretend I was humbled and in the wrong.

Thankfully if you're a strong engineer there's more and more small companies out there that are solving real problems and understand technical issues. You'll probably find more success interviewing at one of these. Even most startups today have lost their lost for emulating big corps in interviews.
The Silk Road, but was the ancient trading route just a western invention?
Your questions are proving one of my points. There is a lot of concern over voter fraud, regardless of whether they were dismissed or not, there is diminishing trust in election results.

Dismissing that concern is equivalent to dismissing the concerns of many voters, and that further creates political turmoil around elections.

Why hate on the other side for asking for transparency, when instead both sides could work together to make sure there is absolutely zero doubt on election day? "wasting resources" on this is proof the system is inefficient, which is also a problem. Verifying election results should be instant and transparent, such that literally anyone can look up any record at any time.
I'm sure it would have been cheaper (in the short term) for cloudflare to have just paid off the troll, like everyone else does

It's absolutely a public service for them to have fought them
No one said the strategy was working!
I hadn't heard of the X on the passport thing, that's super cool. I'm guessing it'll cause issues at borders all over even if it's not banned, just from confused border agents. Not to mention on airline websites...
> If Android is fundamentally broken then fork it. My point is, it seem smarter/easier to take Android and make it more linux-like than to take Linux and make it more Android-like.

That's what LineageOS (née CyanogenMod) tries to do, and what this leads to in practice is force them to depend on a heap of proprietary code (downstream kernels and userspace blobs). Outside of that, the work that's "done" on the AOSP/LineageOS UI layers and supporting software/"apps" is relatively easy to port over to Desktop Linux - the GNOME Mobile UX is actually making great progress from that POV. So I'm quite skeptical about your proposed approach.
Much less interesting and DIY, but I discovered cheap USB-C PD to barrel connector cables exist for a variety of different diameters and voltages not so long ago, and they've been great. So convenient to ditch a bunch of wall-warts and plug into a single multi-port GaN charger that can sit on a desk at the end of a normal mains cable.
Is my understanding correct that this would provide version agnostic python bindings? Currently, I am building a version of my bindings separately for each version (e.g. building and linking with python 3.7, 3.8, etc.). While automated, it still makes CI/CD take quite a long time.
While my experience with PinePhone has been significantly better (sounds like you may have had a faulty unit), we have working close-to-mainline ports for a few Qualcomm-powered phones (e.g., Xiaomi Poco F1, OnePlus 6(t), Google Pixel 3a, ...) in OSes like postmarketOS or Mobian. Turns out these work a lot better - having phones build with components for phones makes a significant difference.
> Jevon's Paradox is not a law of nature.

It's probably related to the nature of human desire.
I think the reason is clear - they suspect that there might be still devices in circulation that didn't go off and can risk a flight.

This is similar to the spontaneous igniting Samsung devices story from few years ago.
They gave us a completely free version of Unix! What more do you want?! Do you even contribute to the FSF?
I play sudoku almost exclusively on the plane. It's a good way to lose 5-15min.
We are too (major enterprise). It's a shame. It was a good product. They don't even seem to be interested in sustaining it. Just trying to extract maximum value as quickly as possible before they kill it.
Nokia had a device on the market, the 770, before iPhone 1 release, and launched a successor, the 800 around the same time. However, for internal political reasons the devices didn’t have a GSM chip. The 800 was comparable to the iPhone: the touchscreen was much worse, but had a keyboard and could multitask.

So, from the technical standpoint they could have adapted much faster. However, the Maemo team didn’t stand a chance against allpowerful Symbian internally. The team was tiny (50ish people on the software side if I recall correctly?), wasn’t given neither the resources nor the goahead to try and build the smartphone on the platform.

It took years for the executive to realize Symbian’s not going to cut it and devote more resources to Maemo. Finally, with the launch of N900 Nokia two years later had a capable horse in the race.

It promptly went to kneecap it by announcing, in the same announcement speech that introduced the N900, that the platform is obsolete and the new version will use a different platform (qt instead of gtk, rh instead of deb, etc etc). It was the worst ever act of self sabotage I have ever seen and to this day I don’t believe it wasn’t a malicious act by some executives, nobody could be that stupid.

Anyways, Nokia proceeded to rewrite the entire platform, tied up with Intel in the process, and just wasted time until Elop told everyone to jump off.

In 2007-2008 Nokia stood a fighting chance, but internal power struggles, short sightedness and politics killed it.

(when I say Nokia I mean the smartphone division)
I don't know if it's due to my familiarity with Rust, but I find none of the examples cursed or surprising, except the "&* is useful" one. Even for that one, I think the use case of "turning a raw pointer to a reference" actually requires unsafe, and so it's imo a bit misleading to omit that fact.

All this is unlike a language i work with in my day job (and hence one would expect that I'd not find surprising), and yet I find so much behavior utterly baffling: https://dev.to/ben/what-is-the-oddest-javascript-behavior-4d...
Maybe you refer to [1]? These are the two options I like to show students who first get in touch with data visualization.

[1] https://www.data-to-viz.com/

Note: In the about page, they provide an extensive list of historical chart classification schemes :).
Last I checked California was part of the United States and the comparison I made was not about the US as a whole.
Seems to me we improved things by developing a vaccine so we don't have to wear masks
The thing is, this asset wouldn't have depreciated so much if it weren't for broadcom.
FSRS-based simulator could help user regulate the number of new cards they need to learn per day. The simulator will be integrated into Anki natively in the next release. But it's still an experimental feature. If the simulator is accurate enough, I plan to make it more automatically to support the idea that let the algorithm choose many new cards the user should have.
These USB-C PD trigger boards [0] are just great for purposes like this. They are cheap and available with either a preset voltage like the author seems to use, or semi-fixed voltage selection (by putting solder-bridges on number of open connections/pads) or - very useful for tinkering - with a set of tiny switches that allow to change the voltage in a few seconds.

I think they are very recommended to have in your parts drawer if you like playing with electronics.

[0] “trigger boards” because they don’t do anything directly with the voltages and power. They only negotiate with the power supply which combination of voltage and maximum current (and therefore power) it should provide.
Most of my recent gigs have come through friends working on interesting problems, but those places have done plenty of hiring so I know this is not the only way to find these.

My recommendation is to start looking for teams doing interesting work out there and reach out to them directly (especially if they're smaller startups). Technically curious people reaching out to teams working on hard problems is a strong signal for those teams. But the key is, don't present yourself as looking for work, show you're interested in the same problem and have skills that will help.

One caveat: if you're expected in FAANG style TC, then you won't be able to find great teams. You can still get paid well and work on interesting stuff, but if you are addicted to very high TC then you're going to have to fight it out at large companies still.
The devices would still be subject to FCC certification just like your WiFi chipsets are.

Beyond that, the people developing chipsets generally have better tests for compliance than the carriers, themselves. You should be able to drop one of those chipsets in your phone, plug in a SIM, and get on with life. However, the carriers make you spend a couple of megabucks of bribes and then they will deign to allow your phone on their oh-so-fragile network.

Effectively, the current cellular carriers are acting exactly like Bell System prior to the Hush-A-Phone lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S...