skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes, we know just the word we want. And we know how to spell it. But we fat-finger it. Or our fingers trip. Or our brains just get the finger-tapping order a bit off.

None of these things requires an education in using the incorrect word. “Irregardless”? Give ‘em what for! Their/there/they’re? A nice reminder. Swapped a couple letters is a plausible explanation? A simple correct spelling followed with a * would suffice.

rogue*
My best managers did code! They didn't close tons of tickets but they did do small things, and by keeping active in the codebase they were very cognizant of the state of documentation and technical debt, and could make informed decisions without relying on second-hand reports. It kept their understanding of the codebase grounded in reality. They knew which features were held together with duct tape, what areas needed attention, and planned timelines and expectations accordingly.
You mean like how real pianists suffered when the automated piano came, or how live music died when the record player came?

Actually, noise that sounds like music is some of the best music there is: electroacoustic music.

A lot better than most music on the radio. ;-)
What an incredibly elitist, smug attitude. You're basically saying people only have the right to hear the music that professionals think they should hear.
> Do code reviews. Don't just skim PRs (sorry, reader!), but really dig into them: run the branch locally, test it, think critically about the design and the implementation, and provide feedback. Record a video of your review to highlight things that could be better.

Please no! Most managers want to increase output and engineers are aware of that. It is exceptionally frustrating when your manager tells you during your 1:1 that they want to help move things along and then does quite literally the opposite in a PR.

If you must dive deep into a PR, get the PR unblocked and then follow up with the change. Or stop telling your direct reports that you want to help unblock them.
Is AI Causing Cognitive Erosion or Cognitive Evolution?
Unlike the wmd lie which was generated completely by the USA, all of Europe seems pretty concerned to the point they just approved another 650 billion in debt TODAY, something Europe REFUSED to do for what 40 years?

Because X happened in the past does not mean that Y is X. Only people reaching hard to push an agenda would claim any similarity.
That’s how I see it myself.

Obviously being a good manager is first and foremost, but
I’ve always had more respect for managers that I know can (even if they never do) do my job as well as bring a manager. Early in my career at a startup I had a manager that was both and excellent manager and right there in the trenches with you when issues arose or business deadlines were approaching. The amount of respect I still have for that individual is immeasurable and I’d go work for them again in a heartbeat if they asked.
You conveniently left out the job for life part which is a huge part of why most professors want a TT job.

Also, age makes you better at doing jobs but worse at getting them. You do not want to be on the open labor market after 50, especially if you’re specialized and probably (possibly undiagnosed) neurodivergent.
None of those services would exist without Apples hardware business though.

So you can't exactly look at the margins in insolation.
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Were they happy with it or did they become miserable after a while?
Here's some more Recreational Statistics (a branch of Recreation Mathematics):

There are about 11.1 million residential properties in Australia, 30% of which, some 3.25 million residential properties, are held by investors.[1]

There are 25 million people in Australia, about 17.5 million of those are adults aged 25 years or older, of which about 12.8%, or 2.25 million, own one or more investment properties.[1,2]

Let's assume the majority of investment property owners also own their own home.

So, about 13% of Australian adults own about 60% of the housing.

Does that sound reasonable? I don't know if there's some alternate timeline where housing is more evenly distributed and life is better, or how to get there if we think that's a good idea.

1. https://realtyai.com.au/inside-australias-property-boom-how-...

2. https://realtyai.com.au/inside-australias-property-boom-how-...
IMO if an EM is taking the fun stuff, or the high-profile promo packet stuff, that's a symptom of a lot of very bad things. My boss is an upper-level EM and has at least a few PRs in a couple projects every sprint, and it's almost entirely boring-but-blocking stuff, or stuff that nobody wants to figure out, or stuff that is important but not sexy and not likely to get anyone noticed. He's not writing new features or writing UIs that are getting put in pitch decks or anything.

If I were an IC and my boss was picking the sexy work I would leave. If I was a director and one of my EMs was picking the sexy work I would fire them.
Nobody being open about how deterrence works? Probably because no one thought it needed to be explained.
Bingo. Very few organizations have petabytes of data on which they are trying to efficiently process for machine learning. Such organizations already have personnel and technology in place offering some kind of solution. Maybe this is an improvement, but it is quite unlikely to be offering new capabilities to such teams.
rap producers are running out of samples to use for new tracks. Everything vintage that can be used has been used, sampling real estate is pretty much dried up. Why would you take away a project that brings a net benefit to humanity?
Worse than that: other than Apple and the clones, there were hardly any PPC OEMs at all, and Old World Power Mac hardware wasn't PReP (which is why it couldn't run it). Largely only IBM's hardware could, like the rare as hen's teeth Power Series ThinkPads, or the unobtainium Power Series workstations, and some of Motorola's equally rare stuff. Those landed with a thud in the market and were extremely expensive, and it made sense for Microsoft to jettison it.

Apple was going to get NT on at least the Apple Network Server (Ellen Hancock once claimed there would be upgrade ROMs that could boot it), but that never happened.

Alpha, at least, had vendors, and existed in some numbers. My AlphaPC 164LX [0] was made by Samsung.

[0] http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/refurb-weekend-dec-alphap...
Thanks for elaborating, I guess I got the TB4 version of the same one, it arrived DOA so will see if a replacement has those issues
Apologies, but what is “BIMI” in this context? I am unfamiliar with this acronym.
Not sure if you're familiar with it, but Glove80 which the parent comment you were replying to is very similar to Kinesis boards (concave keywell, staggered columnar layout, etc.) but leverages a lot of the open source stuff like ZMK firmware that Kinesis doesn't support https://www.moergo.com/

Edit: nevermind, I just learned that the advantage360 pro uses ZMK as well. Either way, they both seem like great options for people who prioritize the ergonomics over aesthetics :)
Anecdotally, I use rideshare every workday for last-mile transit from the train station, and I’ll pick the $13 Waymo over the $7 Uber every time. There are some inherent advantages to the self-driving, like improved safety [0] and not having to talk to the driver, but the main benefits are that it’s just a consistent experience with nice quiet cars, ~90%-ile driving quality, and much more accurate time estimates.

I look forward to competition bringing prices down, but on pure quality and willingness to pay, the premium price seems to make sense.

[0] https://waymo.com/research/do-autonomous-vehicles-outperform...
I've watched a lot of Aircraft investigation stories, with incidents like this happening, sadly, rarely there are people who are interested in an intersection of the both technologies to be able to find a proper functioning solution and I think this is pretty interesting stuff you guys are doing, if you'd been working on re-inventing the wheel with new software to automate flight trajectory management, I'd not be as amazed, I think you guys have really taken out the time to understand the problem and worked on a potential solution, that could have a major impact.

> This system is completely parallel to existing infrastructure, requires zero permission, and zero integration. It’s an extra safety net over existing systems (no replacement required). All the data we need is open-source and unencrypted.

The part where you explain that it is integrable in the existing chain of command at Airports is proof enough.

Wishing you all the best for your venture.
The Barbary Coast [1] has a wild story about this (now) nature sanctuary back in the Gold Rush era. There was a lot of money to be made feeding and housing the gold miners flooding into SF. That's literally where the whole "don't look for gold, sell pickaxes to the miners" business idea comes from. Some people found out that you could eat the huge eggs of some bird that lived on the islands. Maybe the murres. It was a pretty lucrative business selling the eggs in SF. There was a fight over rights to collect eggs on the island resulting in 2 deaths. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_War

[1] Can't find the reference now, maybe it was a different book
Of course, there is https://koeln.ccc.de/ in Cologne.
No actual profits yet, I've just been back-testing as well as forward-testing various strategies. It looks like writing the trading engine was the easy part.
Is that other product Nudge?
> The library is something like 15 years old.

It's not clear from the docs, but, yeah, I suspected that might be the case. Thanks.

> I'm not sure what you mean by this - they're signed integers. Maybe you just mean that there aren't unsigned ints in the stdlib?

Yes, that's what I mean. And doesn't that mean that it's fully unsuitable for systems programming, as this entire topic is focused on?

> The "one bit is reserved" is only true for the `int` type (which varies in size depending on the runtime between 31 and 63 bits).

I don't get it. What is it reserved for then, if the int size is determined when the runtime is built? How can that possibly affect the runtime use of ints? Or is any build of an OCaml program able to target (at compile-time) either 32- or 64-bit targets, or does it mean that an OCaml program build result is always a single format that will adapt at runtime to being in either environment?

Once again, I don't see how any of this is suitable for systems programming. Knowing one's runtime details is intrinsic at design-time for dealing with systems-level semantics, by my understanding.

> Building OCaml without a proper build system

But I don't want to build the programming language, I want to use it. Sure, I can recompile gcc if I need to, but that shouldn't be a part of my dev process for building software that uses gcc, IMO.

It looks to me like JaneStreet has taken over OCaml and added a ton of apparatus to facilitate their various uses of it. Of course, I admit that I am very specific and focused on small, tightly-defined software, so multi-target, 3rd-party utilizing software systems are not of interest to me.

It looks to me like OCaml's intrinsic install is designed to facilitate far more advanced features than I care to use, and that looks like those features make it a very ill-suited choice for a systems programming language, where concise, straightforward semantics will win the day for long-term success.

Once again, it looks like we're all basically forced to fall back to C for systems code, even if our bright-eyed bushy tails can dream of nicer ways of getting the job done.

Thanks for your patient and excellent help on this topic.
Trump met with the Russia in Saudi for 'peace talks'. I doubt lowering oil prices was the concern there.
^ THIS

As an amateur musician, I'd like tools that help me be more productive musically - those that complement my skills (whatever they may be).
All the things you mentioned above, namely, ability to score a melody via a simple hum, transfer to various instruments, generate proper responses to calls, generate melodies within a framework, etc., all these would be super valuable to me.

I'm an OK guitar + bass + keyboard player, I'd LOVE to have an AI assistant that accompanies along. That would make my own jammin' so much richer.

I dont think we have seen the end of AI-driven tools in music-tech yet. I'm cautiously hopeful.
My two recommendations are easily Nim and Zig.

If you want something that is essentially just a modernized C, go with Zig. The concept of compile-time programming having the same appearance as runtime programming is very cool in my opinion. My only major complaint at the moment is that duck typing is fairly prevalent. Sometimes function arguments are declared `anytype` and you occasionally have to dive down multiple function calls to figure out what's going on, though that's not too much of a hindrance in practice, in my experience.

My personal favorite language is Nim. Efficient, but simple, memory management (drawing from C++/Rust). You rarely have to think too hard about it, yet making fast programs is not complicated. You can stick to the stack when you want to. The flexibility at compile-time gives you great power (but it requires great responsibility -- easy to abuse in a bad way). The type system is awesome. The only downside for me is the tooling. The LSP needs much optimization, for example.
Model Context Protocol GitHub Repo
Ya everyone derives different value from their stuff. Is that how you're judging value for price or just the quality of the folding bit? I do quite like the Galaxy Fold, but I think my needs from any kind of smartphone pretty much could top out at a Pixel 2, rocking a 7 atm.
This sounds awesome. As a GA pilot and software developer, I can tell you that voice comms and the need to work with them will be around for a long time. Just look at all the feet dragging just to get ADSB adopted. I'd love to find out more and possibly get involved. Are you looking for help?
That seems ridiculous, since the context is a centuries old ally and formerly friendly neighbor that the US has threatened to violently annex for no reason. America could just apologize for its terrible behavior and there's no need for any kind of conflict at all. America unilaterally started this, and can unilaterally end it.

Unfortunately, that won't happen because a group is consciously and intentionally following a program to permanently reduce US soft power and ability to project force globally. They have succeeded, and continue to succeed.
>self-driving lanes where cars could safely go 100+ mph

Japan is building a bunch of these! They're called rails.
This isn’t an abstract comparison. CCP mostly overthrew the existing government and Taiwan was a continuation of that existing system. So for that system be quantifiably better is an issue independent of things like elections.

It’s a clear demonstration that failures like the great Chinese famine simply wouldn’t have happened if the communist revolution failed. That’s a significant political issue, because people from that time period are still alive so they can’t simply erase the memory of it.
Wait, does that mean there's a risc-v version of windows?
Honestly, for mine it was because I didn't know what I wanted the keys to do when I was making it. It took a few months to settle on a layout, and even now I might still change it with usage.
I'm in the queue, this is so cool! Which view is the best?
So happy to read this because I don't see it mentioned often enough.

I have a ErgoDox EZ, and I still prefer using my Framework 13 (with Kanata![0]) because having my thumbs navigate the trackpad is so convenient even with a keyboard-driven setup.

[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
It's not all about TSMC. The CCP has been very vocal about wanting to conquer Taiwan since long before TSMC even existed.

Also, the longer they wait, the more tech gets transferred to the US, so even if it were all about TSMC, they would still be incentivized to act as soon as possible.
Ask HN: Usql[0]/ODBC database modality of Python/treesitter[1]?
[0] : usql : http://github.com/xo/usql

[1] : treesitter : https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
The difference between today and the hypothetical case of not one artist making ends meet from their music is what, 0.1%? 0.01%?

We would be better off if the other 99.9% didn't have worry about making ends meet, than if we do whatever it takes to keep the status quo of the 0.1% intact. That does not only go for artists.
Yeah I wasn't trying to be insulting or anything. It's a common mistake and I haven't seen a clever mnemonic for it yet.
It really only works in orgs that are large enough to accept a bit of bloat, mature enough to have good managerial practices and invest in growing managers, and where the new manager has only a couple reports (2 is the perfect number). So you take a very good, senior IC who wants to be a manager, you cut their IC duties by 25-50% and you give them 2, maybe 3 direct reports. This is after doing some sort of formal managerial training, internal or external, and with the acknowledgement from their director/senior manager that they're going to be spending more time with them for the next 2-6 months and having skip 1:1s to make sure everything is going ok.

How many organizations do you think check all those boxes and are willing to do that? It's not many.
Suffering and joy are very subjective. While interpolating from you onto others might work out most of the times, sometimes it doesn't and you'll accidentally do something you might regret later.
If Apple did not take over that market, then who is the biggest player of journal apps?
But who would analyze the AI for bias?
Stop. Dude isn't interested in a real answer, he's concern trolling. He propogandizes his position over and over on this site.
"I don’t want anyone to see our address and opening hours without also reading through our values, our mission statement, and board of directors"
Research is, engineering less so.
Sadly, my crystal ball is out of commission due to Heartbleed 2.
A case for QLC SSDs in the data center
Neat, I'm looking forward to the Differential Cryptanalysis portion! It's something I've tried to learn in the past but I've been struggling to find approachable resources.
They use that telemetry to understand how users in aggregate use the product so they can prioritize maintenance and improvements. Like any other software.

Anyway, you can disable that telemetry in the prefs UI with a single click.
House and Senate Democratic Boycott Grows Against Trump Address
I agree with you, and I support archive.org, but let's be clear.

The US gov could shut them down tomorrow. Illegally, but that's not stopping them elsewhere right now.

So support archive.org, and support backups elsewhere.
That's a strange comparison; the Framework laptop is for people who want a machine they can reconfigure and upgrade. It's not even trying to compete on price, any more than the Macbook is competing in terms of modularity.

One of my coworkers has a Framework laptop, uses it daily, and loves it. I'll probably look into getting one myself someday, if my Thinkpad ever gets around to dying.

The Macbook would not be an option for me, as Linux support is a firm requirement; I lost my stomach for Apple's paternalism years ago.
I feel like hydrogen is the answer to fossil fuels, not biofuels. Battery electric vehicles (BEV) are great for personal vehicles. But for heavy transport, batteries just don’t work. They are too heavy and can’t be “refueled” quickly for continuous operations. We are already having issues with having too much solar power and not enough demand. We could be load shedding that by using it to create hydrogen.

We have gas stations everywhere because individuals need that kind of convenience to operate comfortably. BEVs have the same infrastructure in that every outlet is a charging station. While the barrier to entry for hydrogen is too high for personal vehicles, the logistic hub nature of heavy transport would be much easier to convert, using hydrogen storage/filling stations at strategic location to support hydrogen powered semi-trucks, local delivery trucks, busses, etc.
How this works is pretty common knowledge. The world has been using peacekeepers for quite a while. But you know that and you know you are just concern trolling.
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The 4 sides of the Great Pyramid are a bit concave and consisting of 8 flat parts, not 4. You can see this for example in the pictures here: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=12343...

The linked paper argues, that this is for stability, but it might also be intentional and it might close the error to Phi as you calculated.
or accuracy?
Fertilizer Flat is fun. Seems like each of those specks is a bird! Hence the "fertilizer" reference.

It's too foggy to get a nice view of Sutro or the Golden Gate

The close-up view of the cove is pretty satisfying
PSA: Lego turned evil, unfortunately. There are much better alternatives on the market these days.
The better argument against archive.org is that they have put themselves in a legally precarious position that may result in the destruction of the organization.

I’d love to see it stay around, but maybe we should have competing archivists in different regions
I’m not anti-religion in any way, but this left a really bad taste in my mouth. Loch’s nephew (the pastor who led the service) kept saying that Loch wasn’t religious. Then he’d go straight back to talking about Christ, and reminiscing about times when Loch had participated in Christian ritual!

It’s one thing to volunteer your religious organization as a venue for a memorial, even for someone who wasn’t religious. It’s another to memorialize the person with an explicitly religious service.
Yeah, hopefully they'd let it slide