skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD

Oh man, the risk in that is extreme. We are moving away from x86 in general, but wow, that's... a big jump in risk.
We used to have two Burmese cats and although they were from the same litter they had completely different personalities.
Learn from your mistakes and prepare to make plenty. Having a mentor can be invaluable but isn’t a guarantee you won’t still make them. Read. Talk to the senior non-engineer people who work in the field, if possible. Hands-on experience can save your butt.
I had a crack at a solution to this problem recently. It's pretty basic in terms of what it can do and not the most performant.

Code: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/microtype
Demo: https://tdjsnelling.github.io/microtype/test/from-cdn/

Even better, there is the new CSS `hyphens: auto;`. Browser & language support is not yet 100% though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens
Cover the news event.
You forgot China has nuclear weapons, any "plan" to put them in a position where they are "powerless" basically forces them to flex that option
More anecdata; my orange boy also thought he was the family dog. He was rather dumb as a rock, but sweet as pie. Loved every human or animal he ever met.

My current cat is a calico and white and she's...emotional. =)
Not so sure about 3. Wouldn't it be more sensible to be flexible in terms if what you optimize? Some projects need best work, some need a friendly face, some should just die quickly.
It's called bleeding edge for a reason. If execution was guaranteed it wouldn't be worth spending that money.
This comment nails it: "Rich vindictive kids descend on Washington.."
I said impressed, not surprised. Also I don't appreciate being called "a Hackernews".
Because molecular oxygen is a highly reactive species, it would also rapidly deplete.

And its reactivity is what makes it so useful for powering advanced life. It's an abundant and highly energetic fuel.

The fossil fuels that gave rise to our industry and innovation are also something we lucked into. The right decomposition environment, eg. in the Carboniferous, made these massive deposits possible. This has greatly accelerated our innovation as a species.
> When do you snapshot ?

In Durable PHP (an actor system for PHP), it tries to achieve at-most-once processing guarantee (though more often than not, it is exactly-once).

1. commit the current state

2. send outgoing messages

3. ack the original event

If we fail before 1, we simply retry

If we fail between 1-3, we simply rewind and retry
Have you chatted with your manager about expectations and your personal growth goals?
I go through the process as normal. It's not possible to predict how long a potential employer may take, so trying to engineer timelines seems both too error-prone to be worthwhile and of very limited benefit.

I wouldn't recommend accepting an offer and then rescinding later. It's not good for your professional reputation. When you commit, commit.
I think it needs to be on the individual-liability level. Blessing implementations from corporations is an environment for monopolies to grow and corruption to set in.
Maybe this will help you ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243500
Ask HN: Failure in Education/EdTech leadership – anyone else?
How do leaders become leaders? The word “leader” used to mean so much. Think about how important you felt being a line leader in primary school or a team captain in PE. Being a leader was earned—it meant you had exemplary behavior and could guide others effectively.

But is that what leadership means anymore? In my experience, leaders today are often disappointing. My post-grad work life has been disheartening, with supposed “leaders” letting me down repeatedly.

It started during college when I worked as a department assistant. I received no training for my tasks and was scolded when I asked clarifying questions to ensure quality. Why did the ice cream shop I worked at in high school provide more comprehensive training than my university’s admin office? That was my first taste of what the real world is like: leaders who don’t lead and managers who don’t manage.

My first post-grad job was at a bilingual school in Madrid. I met my principal on my first day and barely saw her again. When I struggled with misbehaving students, she dismissed my concerns, insisting things would “settle.” She even admitted she wouldn’t intervene because my English class brought the school extra money. Her priorities weren’t education or proper behavior; they were financial. How did someone so detached from education become a school leader?

Hoping it was a cultural difference, I moved back to the U.S. to teach. But I should’ve learned my lesson. At my new school, I received no curriculum training or guidance materials—my principal didn’t even tell me they existed. I taught the first half of the year without a single check-in. How could a school leader be so indifferent? Shouldn’t leadership mean ensuring that new teachers, and by extension their students, have the tools to succeed?

Frustrated with education’s lack of leadership, I switched to an ed-tech startup, excited to be part of a passionate team. My initial impression of the leaders was positive—they were kind and optimistic. But within three months, they stopped communicating. Meetings were canceled last minute, emails went unanswered, invoices unpaid. These leaders ghosted their own team, leaving us disillusioned despite our hard work. How did such people become leaders of a passionate startup?

Now, I’m starting another job, helping students falling behind. But even here, I haven’t heard from my manager as promised. I had to reach out myself for basic information about my first day, and I still have no clarity. Why is providing guidance and communication so rare in the workplace?

Leadership today seems to lack its original meaning. When I become a leader one day, I’ll remember these failures and ensure my team feels supported and informed. Leadership isn’t complicated—it’s about clarity, resources, and care. I hope others share this simple goal.
Oh yes, you have a good point, old is always bad.
"This positions OP for long-term success. I'm late in my career and can tell you that engineering skill only really matters in a few places and that what and who you know, as well as how you treat people/circumstances, is 99% of the job."

Correct, if they're just looking to catapult themselves to the upper echelons of "leadership" and "executive" careers. But that has nothing to do with engineering which is what they asked for.
Honestly, I wouldn't put it behind IBM to turn it around with POWER revival. They'd been doing some cool stuff recently with their NorthPole accelerator[1], and using 12nm process while at it, indicating there's much room for improvement. It could eventually become a relatively open, if not super affordable platform. There's precedent with OpenPOWER! And not to mention RISC-V, of course, championed by Jim Keller et al (Tenstorrent) but it's yet to blossom, all the while pppc64el is already there where it matters.

I say, diversity rules!

[1]: https://research.ibm.com/blog/northpole-llm-inference-result...
It’s not live yet

Signups don't make good HN posts but you could post this as a Show HN when it's showhnable, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
fair enough, hence the upvote, but then again, a formal verifier would refuse to follow the erroneous step in your derivation...
Just as reference, LiLyGo is producing a ready-made Capibara for 80 euros: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005007967599411.html

I have not tried yet, so cannot vouche for the quality.
Hi guys, my partner is a bit too shy to post this (ie, in LinkedIn) so she wrote it for herself. I read it and thought it was good to post somewhere. Thanks for reading!
It was a simple mistake. I typed “sq” instead of “cu” in bed after I woke up and fapped.
Adobe presumably also fixes bugs, so hopefully you are getting something better over time. I've in the past wore out a favorite book and since it was in print bought a new copy - and found the same typos that were in the previous copy.
Before anyone points out that trees already handle this, let me clarify:

We need to pursue all available options simultaneously to effectively combat climate change. This includes:

Reducing reliance on carbon-based energy to lower emissions.
Implementing carbon capture and long-term storage solutions to remove excess CO₂ from the atmosphere.
"the remnants of colonialism" include the ability to participate in world markets which create markets for local products. If Kenyans grew coffee (ignoring the fact that Kenyans growing coffee was itself a remnant of colonialism) just for the Kenyan market, the coffee sector in Kenya would be a tiny part of the local economy.

The reason New York City is the biggest city in the US is because when the Erie Canal was built, the agricultural riches of the Midwest had a route to world markets. Where you have a major seaport, you also need major banks and major insurance companies to smooth out the financial needs of traders and shippers, providing the funds right away back to the farmers, instead of them waiting till the voyages were complete. (without the Erie Canal, New Orleans would have become the largest city in the US)

Yes, there is a lot of money in trading, banking, etc. At every step of the transaction pyramid, a %age is added to the price, and the %age fees charged on that go up accordingly. But that measures the true value of the product at each stage; if you have a cheaper way of getting the same product to the same stage cheaper, the (supposed) riches will be yours.

The socialist instinct ("anybody getting rich must be cheating") unfortunately obscures the real problem ("monopolists and cartels controlling supply and setting prices are the true enemies of the people") which hinders solving it; by putting capitalism in your gunsights, you make enemies out of natural allies.
Vulnerability-Lookup facilitates quick correlation of vulnerabilities
>With the discovery that transformers lack reasoning capabilities

The only paper I have seen claiming this studied only lightweight open-source models (<27B, mostly 2B and 8B). The also included o1 and 4o for reference, which kind of broke their hypothesis, but they just left that part out of the conclusion. Not even kidding, their graphs show o1 and 4o having strong performance in their benchmarks, but the conclusion just focuses on 2B and 7B models like gemma and qwen.
I've also tried — out of curiosity rather than necessity — putting legal questions to ChatGPT, and not only did literally every single case law citation I had the means to check not really exist, the statue laws it quoted me didn't apply in my case.

I might have been particularly unlucky, but on the other hand, my understanding of the law is that passing the bar exam (the standard that ChatGPT reached) is for humans just the metaphorical foot in the door to allow on the job training.

Of course, if you are a lawyer and you have the skill and means to check the output, then it will likely still help you for the same reason someone fresh out of law school would still help you, and for the same reason that I would describe ChatGPT's code as "intern to fresh graduate" and yet still use it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)

It's kind of a moot point anyways, because Humans are highly averse to making sure their actions are logically sound. Take politics for example, not just the silly day today goings on of it, but more importantly the system that underlies it: it is beyond consideration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail_(politics)

"The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."
In the US, salaries are always given as gross (pre-tax). Someone earning $200k gross in California would take home around $130k/year if single and $145k/year if married.
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Yeah, it was really strange when Apple migrated to the niche x86 architecture. Definitely a money grab.
Ah CDD, more misdiagnosed BS.
I am wondering how much of the hate of LaTeX document is due to the default font. Computer Modern seems to be disliked by many users of LaTeX as well. I personally am very conflicted, as I have come to identify it as the "vanilla" option so that I have lost any aesthetic sensitivity to it.
AMD AM5 are also not great at having enough PCIe lanes, hence at most one connected PCIe5 x16 GPU, if you need more it's x8 for 2 GPUs and so on, and that's before we connect fast M2 storage, fast USB4 slots etc. If you need more PCIe lanes, you have to buy a Threadripper or Epyc and that's easily 10 times the price for the whole system.
Here's the license (http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_1.0.1....) and I don't think Gruber mentioned anything about a "trademark"? It seems like it was mostly about the name of his project just being taken unethically. Just like if someone would take a open source project name and makes it look like an official for when it's not. Maybe not a trademark infringement, but certainly not nice or ethical.
Tim Wendelboe (perhaps the greatest coffee roaster) has been talking about this on his latest Q&A podcast. A rigmarole for exports plus climate change are causing issues.

He does a two-episode deep dive into the Kenyan coffee market here, which is worth a listen: https://timwendelboe.no/2024/03/inside-kenyas-coffee-market-...
AWS CloudWatch and AWS OpenSearch launch an integrated analytics experience
> There is so little incentive to move away from x86 right now.

> IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to.

IT departments are buying arm laptops, Apple's.

And there is an incentive to switch, cost. If you are in AWS, you can save a pretty penny by adopting graviton processors.

Further, the only thing stopping handhelds from being arm machines is poor x86 emulation. A solvable problem with a small bit of hardware. (Only non-existent because current ARM vendors can't be bothered to add it and ARM hasn't standardized it).

Really the only reason arm is lagging is because the likes of Qualcomm have tunnel vision on what markets they want to address.
America has a child marriage epidemic
What you’re referring to is called the Swiss cheese model, and the many layers that comprise its design are critical to ensuring safety. It’s precisely due to this design that air travel is so safe. Cars are not designed with nearly as many backup systems.
> If you take the area where you drive into consideration the death numbers change, the same is valid for the drivers behaviour

Source?

> You can't influnce that when you fly

Whether you can influence a variable doesn't change its order of magnitude. Unless you're driving on a closed track at low enough speeds that if you pass out you'll be fine, you're safer flying than driving.
From last year: hot springs, the pipes problem, gears, pulses, range math.. half the problem is turning the text input into the correct data structures to solve it.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113510696930156578
> we can't have bare minimum codified standards

So, functional, imperative or OOP? :)

> Just because there are unanswered questions

The halting problem is undecidable. Not undecided. I.e. it has been solved and the answer is "you can't".
x86 CPUs.
Inhaling Hydrogen-Rich Gas Before Acute Exercise Alleviates Exercise Fatigue
I'd like to speak to life's manager. The human body is full of dumb shit. Who designed these shit ass joints!
And everyone would rush to migrate away from x86.

Having a sole supplier for CPUs is a bad strategy.
manually updating the schema_version can lead to database corruption https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_schema_version

If you are willing to risk corrupting the database, then yes you can trick rust-query
Too bad that flipper didn't upgrade the hardware to include bluetooth and wi-fi at minimum. Makes it really limited. Also, the price for purchasing a device went really high compared to the initial price of 100 euros per unit.

Really a pitty, love my flipper. :-)
The Computer Modern font was designed to incorporate a "blackness" variable that controlled the thickness of its strokes. This provided a way to adjust the design for different printing processes and to accommodate, for example, ink swell or the lack thereof on modern printing devices.

Here are some scans by Raph Levien showing the vector design vs. the offset printing in Knuth’s Digital Typography vs. laser printing:

https://levien.com/type/cmr/gain.html

Presumably, the middle version is how Knuth wanted the font to appear on the page. But the bottom version is what we get when we take the digital outlines and render them on a laser printer.

Fortunately for us, several people have used the adjustable-blackness feature to make blacker renditions of Computer Modern that are designed to look good when laser printed.

MLModern is the one I prefer:

> MLModern is a text and math font family with (La)TeX support, based on the design of Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern and the Latin Modern project. It avoids the spindliness of most other Type 1 versions of Computer Modern.

For a typeset example of it in use: https://blog.moertel.com/images/public_html/blog/pix-2024060...
Agree with OP that Intel was probably too deep into its downward spiral. While it seems Pat tried to make changes, including expanding into GPUs, it either wasn't enough or too much for the Intel board.

Splitting Intel is necessary but probably infeasible at this point in the game. Simple fact is that Intel Foundry Services has nothing to offer against the likes of TSMC and Samsung - perhaps only cheaper prices and even then it's unproven to fab any non-Intel chips. So the only way to keep it afloat is by continuing to fab Intel's own designs, until 18A node becomes viable/ready.
I have, for example, a "rule" that I only go on FB on Sundays. I occasionally break it, but the longer I have it, the less tempting it is to do so. The number one thing that helps with this is that I keep all social media apps off of my phone.

In order to do this, I never use social media apps for business/career communication. This also helps with keeping non-work hours as non-work.
> profoundly misleading.

> Watson’s reductive and erroneous presentation.

These descriptions are silly, and a huge exaggeration. The traditional succinct formulation (from Watson) DNA => RNA => Protein is used in an educational context (whether of the general public or students). As such it does a great job! If students can get and retain that idea, then the educator is winning.

And if the student goes further into molecular biology they may discover that reverse transcription exists. Great.

But simple-to-understand formulations that capture the key idea are pedagogically essential, and the attacks in this article are completely unnecessary. It's easy to wonder whether they are irrational, i.e. sociopolitically motivated by (perfectly reasonable) distaste for Watson's (deeply unpleasant) comments made later in life, and they lessen the attraction of the author's forthcoming biography of Crick.
But people generally don't take airplanes for groceries or commuting.

If you are going on holiday, you have a time budget for reaching that particular destination. With a car you would maybe choose places within a drive of 3 to 11 hours (at highway speeds), whereas a plane would maybe be between 1 hour and 16 hours. But then a longer road trip might also be more dangerous.
I do not at all think it will happen, nor does it make any sense at all but the rumours of Apple seemingly being interested in buying out Intel dont seem to be going away.

I can see them wanting certain parts of the business (GPU mainly) but on a whole it doesn't make a lot of sense.

I don't see Intel as a single entity being valuable to any US business really. You're essentially buying last years fall line, theres very little use for Intel's fabs without a huge amount being spent on them to get them up to modern standards.

It'll all come down to IP and people that'll be the true value.
Not a clone, but at least reuse some of the more useful apps and techniques.
Sounds like they need a futures market. This allows producers to sell their crop to traders earlier so they don’t have to wait for final export. In addition more law and order to protect those markets from the mills that are skimming.
They dont need to merge with intel to get the entire x86 market, they'll be getting that anyway if Intel folds.

Even if Intel gets bought out, it'll be in pieces. Nobody wants to enter the x86 market, but there may be smaller segmenrs of the business that can help an ARM based business, or someone looking to get into GPU's.
DDD advocates for creating a shared lingo across everyone involved, including customers if they are highly embedded in the design process. This I agree with.

Ultimately DDD attempts to create real-world analogies in code; you know, dog inherits from pet inherits from mammal etc. In my opinion, this approach to OOP easily ends up creating code that is difficult to reason about. Probably because real-world things often have many responsibilities. Code becomes especially confusing when you have dozens of methods on domain objects that interact across several domains: the system-wide control flow becomes extremely complex. Now add outlier code/hacks, likely written to meet an unrealistic deadlines, and things rapidly become completely incomprehensible.

And there's more that's hard to put to words. I code for the love of it, and I truly hated every moment working in DDD code. That was I completely novel experience for me: I'm fine with boring work (it has to happen), but DDD just hit very differently.
+ it can be worked out based on photosynthesis efficiency and available surface area that we would need ~4 earths of trees to handle current human CO2 production rate

Planting trees is nice and should be done but isn’t a solution for drawdown
humans share the vast majority of our genes with other mammals; are a cat's genes for fur the same genes humans have for body hair? does this orange gene for cats bear any resemblance to ginger genes in humans?
The psychological impact of nuclear war
Sure, let's create a monopoly around one of the most valuable commodities in the world.

What could go wrong?
So? I feel like that backs up my point. Sure it may slow down development but it encodes useful information for reading and understanding the code later on, and preventing the most pernicious sorts of bugs (data races, UB, memory unsafety) from creeping in in the first place - and thus less need to spend time doing non-development tasks later.
> IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to.

Plenty of them are buying Macbooks. It's definitely a small percentage of the worldwide market, but not entirely insignificant either.