skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in a place that was a 30 min drive from a similar sized place (Cambridge, UK). It totally felt like the middle of nowhere. It's not so much about the numbers but about the feeling of a place:

* No transport links means total dependence on car,

* No natural features of any note, in particular no rivers or hills,

* Unknown to people outside of the very small population that lives there,

* Hard to convince people to come and visit you and when they do they're disappointed.
Strava bans user for running in North Korea
Fortunately resistive heating is just about the cheapest possible heating in capital costs and trivial to retrofit as a backup.
> In the absence of credit scores, higher quality borrowers will be charged higher interest rates or require higher collateral, since they are less differentiated from average quality borrowers, and/or access to credit will be restricted to a narrower proportion of the population.

Given we're talking about alternatives here, I think this should be: "In the absence of credit scores, or some other mechanism for comparing potential borrowers". There's lots of ways to compare borrowers, and if you assume credit scores are the only way to do it, all your solutions are going to involve them.
> Unfortunately, C is the only useful programming language.

Not really, plety of software has been written decades before it came to be, and plenty more has not been written in it, after it came to be.

Plus better reach out to something like SICStus if Prolog and performance is something one cares about in the same sentence.
Tesla warns Trump administration it is 'exposed' to retaliatory tariffs
Way too fast to start with. Is it design for phones? Because on desktop it is moving way too fast
Good to have more people expose the greedy, dictatorial, detrimental shitshow that is single individuals having an outsized control over important technology. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Noone should be as big as Zuck, Musk, Altman, Bezos...

I had one moment of eyebrow-raising while reading the article. On the risk of blaming someone who was mind controlled into caring too much about ultimately unimportant, spiritually toxic shit:

> Wynn-Williams’ critiques aren’t limited to Zuckerberg. She describes the working culture under Sandberg as so intense that Wynn-Williams felt pressured to send her talking points while in labor, her feet in stirrups.

My thinking is... can you put this 100% on Sandberg? I mean, I get that the culture is bad, but there's two in this game. Maybe... turn off your phone for a day when you're giving birth?!
Oh okay yes I definitely agree that it would be great to have that:)
Libro.fm rules, been using it for years now. Same price as Amazon, has a vast majority of the books I've been interested in, and you get to pick a local bookstore to support and some portion of your subscription goes to them. Since we're on HN, you can actually download the audio files from Libro.fm as an officially-supported feature also for backups.

https://libro.fm/
Can this insight be applied to human resources or business organization?
There are some advantages also for taking Pi/2 as the circle constant.

The choice between 2xPi and Pi/2 is equivalent with the choice between the cycle and the right angle as the unit of plane angle (the right angle corresponds with the "imaginary" unit, i.e. any point on the unit circle corresponds to i^x, with x in right angles). When extended to 3 dimensions, the corresponding constants for the solid angle become 4xPi and Pi/2, so Pi/2 is more consistent (it corresponds to taking the orthogonal trihedron as the unit of solid angle). The consistency of Pi/2 remains true for higher-dimensional spaces, but that has little practical importance.

"Pi" is by far the worst choice, in all computational applications either 2xPi or Pi/2 are needed, not Pi.

The only case where Pi appears naturally is in measurements, because both the circumference and the diameter are much easier to measure than the radius, and Pi is the relationship between these 2 practical measurements, allowing the conversion of one to the other.

Nowadays, the computational uses of Pi are many orders of magnitude more frequent than the conversions between the practical measurements of diameter and circumference, so the use of Pi is undesirable inside computer programs or in symbolic processing of mathematical formulae.

In general, it is much better to implement trigonometric functions where the argument is either x*Pi/2 or x*2*Pi, instead of traditional trigonometric functions, because the argument reductions are fast and exact. Sadly, the floating-point arithmetic standard defines useless functions of Pi*x, like sinPi, cosPi etc., instead of using any of the 2 better choices.

The only possible advantage of traditional trigonometric functions is at integration or differentiation, where they could save a multiplication, but in almost all applications of this kind the argument of the function is not x, but an expression with at least one multiplication, and the additional multiplication with a constant caused by using x*Pi/2 or x*2*Pi can frequently be done at compile time, or at run time, but only once, not at every computation.
> QEMU

Isn’t it still crippled and unusable for any non ancient platform unless you have a jailbreak?

Seems like you still need to side load AltStore Classic to get the full version.
You are so wrong.

Complex multiyear things are so unique that there is next to 0 chance to find another competent engineer as replacement. Some companies do that, and the only result is the extreme lack of quality and consequently reputation degradation. I witnessed this myself many, many times - great products turning into non-efficient and hard to use BS.

Complex things posses such a big number of moving components that simply iterating over them placing them into context is impossible for anyone except the one that was deep into it for years. Its not possible to "fill in" such person, particularly if that person was lacking in some domains like proper documentation (typical case).

As an example, I am leading a project that creates a government bank from 0. Just in last 2 years I wrote 1000+ pages of compressed documentation on it besides programming and management. Please replace me. My company and I are trying to do that for last 5 years.
Hackers Are Using ReCAPTCHA
Well even docker only runs on Linux with some magic to make it look local. Probably the closest similar thing would be WASM stuff.
Credit scores often oversimplify risk, ignore nuanced factors, and can worsen financial struggles for those with low scores by pushing them toward higher costs. Countries without credit scores don't have higher interest rates or higher rates of defaulting. If we really want to, creditworthiness can be predicted more accurately and fairly with AI models, although that brings another level of bias.
> But sacrificing functionality and discoverability on the alter of pretty design is, unironically, bad design.

The irony is that it's not even pretty a lot of the time :)
I use Namecheap for most of my domains, it quite sucks. I will admit that the DDNS functionality is nice (even supported by ddclient out of the box, if you ever need that), the selection of domains and everything else is as you'd expect, but the UI feels really clunky and is almost always slow for me.

I did briefly use Porkbun and have to say that the minimalist UI that actually loads fast was a breath of fresh air and was so much less frustrating than Namecheap. I wonder what other good options for domains are out there. No comment on customer service in either case, though.
We have credit scoring in Germany (with the biggest scoring agency being Schufa).
Is it? Even emoji---one of the most controversial additions ever---was fully justified for its possible accessibility issue when it was introduced in Unicode.
There are no "normal" engineers. There are many terrible developers who can't fizzbuzz, a bunch of decent programmers, and a few software engineers who understand what they are doing. And then... the 100xers like Linus. It's pyramid-shaped.
If the author is referring to people who understand what they are doing as "normal" engineers, granted, you can make a great team out of these... but how do you find many of them in the first place without bumping into the others?
My conception of world conquering ambition comes mostly from popular media so trying to imagine Zuckerberg trying to become the world's stenographer through a platform that is 90% boomer-bait AI slop is a bit disorienting.
> ... message tells visitors to press and hold the Windows Key + R, then to press Ctrl + V in the verification window and finally to press Enter to finish.
The myth I’m criticizing is that sloppiness has a stronger correlation with being productive. It doesn’t. Plenty of slow developers who suck.

This is just rationalization.
I often reach for jq to understand what unicode is in a string, e.g.:

[wl-paste|xclip-o|pbpaste] | jq -R --ascii-output

It doesn't provide any per-character explanation, but it is local and I already have jq installed.
you don't become a global ceo without being an absolute killer and not having non-questionable morals. I can make up different stuff about how a ceo can be amoral, and those would still apply to zuck / {{ whoelse }}
book meant to be sold at airports for bored people. non-story.
This book does it well. It can be a heavy slog:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262536431/the-little-typer/

Here is a free book on how type checking can be used to do mathematical proofs:

https://lean-lang.org/functional_programming_in_lean/
You need a few syscalls: to grow your heap size (brk) or to exit your program (exit). I took a quick look at their code and here are the syscalls and arguments implemented: https://github.com/varnish/tinykvm/blob/master/src/functions...

It’s a bit more than running a program under seccomp strict mode, but conceptually similar, so running anything too complicated likely won't work. You certainly won’t be able to sandbox chromium for taking website snapshots for example.
Defending against movie plot threats has been found not a good use of resources already 20 years ago in the war on terrorism.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/09/terrorists_...
I'm curious: would it be a good idea to switch my desktop Linux pc to using huge pages across the board?
Tesla Needs a Better Story
a great resource for mysql:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130218113554/http://www.artful...
that again depends on where you are in Europe... in most of Germany you're right. large parts of Norway Sweden Finland? not so much...
I have a rg35xx to run some old emulators on, but it came with Pico-8 and a few games installed - these are some of the games I enjoy the most. The look great in the screen/size and I really need to seek out some more to install.
I've worked mostly in Silicon Valley. At bigger tech companies I found that the minimum level of competence is a bit higher, maybe because of the aggressive stack ranking and PIP/firing pressure. At small companies either low bar is very high, or it's nonexistent, I've seen both.

The weird thing is, at a high performing organization it's relatively straight forward to get a job: be very good at what you do and practice for their hiring process.

At a dysfunctional organization there's not really a way to get hired (apart from an internal recommendation). This is almost by definition, as their hiring process doesn't measure anything reliably. Being physically attractive or charismatic helps a lot.

Actually this gives me an interesting idea, can you measure the quality of an engineering team purely by how ugly they are? My hypothesis is that a dysfunctional team has a low ability to measure aptitude, and so things like physical attractiveness will have a higher impact on hiring decisions.

I don't blame you for wanting a nice stint in one of these dysfunctional companies, I think I could have worked an hour a week and been praised as a top performer at the ones I unfortunately spent time at. I think if you do go this direction you should get 2 or 3 such jobs. It's only a tiny bit more work, and these companies tend to just stop existing some random Tuesday.
Postgres supports Unix sockets when running on the same machine. That’s what I use, for a significant latency improvement over the TCP stack even at 127.0.0.1.
Some comparison websites do not list DeX for the cheaper S20FE -- AFAIK all S models since then offer it?

Discovered it by chance when trying my Thinkpad's Thunderbolt Dock as a power supply.
That was a ridiculously good moment when I had my full setup (mouse, erg. keyboard, 34" screen) available for my phone.
> a true public option that could out-compete every profit-driven money-extraction system by simply not being profit-driven

We can solve pharmaceuticals without bringing in the miasma of the broader healthcare debate.

Three things:

1. Let Medicare directly negotiate pricing on all drugs;

2. Make it easier for generics producers, including foreign manufacturers, to sell into America; and

3. Reform PBMs [1]. Transparency on pricing. Spun out of monoliths.

While we’re at it, maybe someone can figure out how to cut the $1bn it costs to get a drug to approval to something lower.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/297...
Not really surprised. It's good to have more people talking about how these people act out of the public eye. But all of this makes me a little less optimistic, and just reminds me that powerful people are rarely held accountable for all the messed up stuff they do.
I’ve tested this before and Postgres is measurably faster over Unix socket than over local network.
Hi guys, it's me again

It's a fun little mini game, but hopefully you all like to play it.

My goal with posting here is to meet some nice people who can wants to give some feedback, so let me know what you think!
> Then people tried to prove that it is indeed an existing English idiom ... Then they failed during this process, which made me more confident in my opinion.

This is a very arrogant statement.

...

> Okay, I can accept this.

LOL. And indeed LMAO.

This method is producing poor results for you, maybe re-evaluate it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358412
Propaganda doesn't mean something you have to disagree with or that is somehow wrong. Rights are a political and ideological component of a society, and trying to persuade other countries to adopt those social positions is most certainly propaganda.

Whatever you want to define it as, it is not science in any way, shape, or fashion. And funding intended to further science could certainly be far more well spent.
The C++ testing framework Catch2 enables this kind of testing. The first time I saw it I couldn't figure out how some of the tests would even pass.

It turns out that using some evil macro magic, each test re-runs from the start for each inner section [1]. It also makes deduplicating setup code completely painless and natural.

You just have to get over the completely non-standard control flow. It's a good standard bearer for why metaprogramming is great, even if you're forced to do it in C/C++'s awful macro system.

[1] https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/blob/devel/docs/tutorial....
It's not ambitious enough. This 'solution' would be someone else's problem to be avoided at all cost.
In Germany people are asked to provide their Schufa score at their own expense when looking for an apartment to rent.
"Joel Kaplan, had sexually harassed her. ... and Kaplan, the company’s newly appointed president of global affairs;"

Nominative determinism?

--

On a different note, Obama, the ex-president with theoretically no official power, is calling up CEOs privately to get them to behave differently?

Seems like the Twitter files weren't the only corporate being influenced
Nah, one day we'll just have flat societies with AIs to replace the beaurocracy and elites and manage everything for us. Nothing could go wrong with that! </sarcasm>.
Great blog!

Interesting fact that memory decay also is inherently logarithmic/exponential.

Learning logs with SRS is so meta.
only really 'controversial' if yiu are a far left zealot. Everyone else is totally fine with it.
> I don't think this is a polite way to have a conversation, so I'm out.

Indeed, everything that I feel needs saying is already in this thread somewhere, including the 2nd para of that comment. Sometimes it's said more than once.

There's no more. You taking meaning from it is in now up to you; as I am not paid to teach, there are strict limits to the effort that I will put into it, especially when unwillingness is demonstrated and lived experience dismissed.
There was hi5 as well
this is really cool if it works for your use cases.

Some notes from the post

> I found that TinyKVM ran at 99.7% native speed

> As long as they are static and don’t need file or network access, they might just run out-of-the box.

> The TinyKVM guest has a tiny kernel which cannot be modified
https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
>Noone should be as big as Zuck, Musk, Altman, Bezos...

What should be the maximum of how big someone should be?

Humans are not perfect, whether "big" or "small".
Those were quite some claims about 10x engineers, made with zero evidence.

We also need to decide what we mean by a “10x engineer”. Many people here are describing engineers who “appear to be productive, spewing out shitty code that makes things worse”. The infamous industrious incompetent. This is not a useful definition of a 10x engineer. There is a reasonable definition of a 10x engineer: a 10x engineer creates 10x the value of a 1x engineer over the same period of time. This is the only meaningfully useful definition. Anyone who wants to understand 10x as “damaging spew” is choosing an unproductive definition. I assume such people are 1x engineers. To be a 10x engineer is to be the kind of person who believes that some engineers can be 10x, and then goes about find out how to be that themselves. 1x engineers get caught up misidentifying bad engineers as “10x engineers who are shit” so they can continue to be mediocre.
Yeah, I'm sure Y Combinator is not biased hahahaha (sarcasm of course)
Like trying to “reduce the deficit” by firing 20% of all people employed by the IRS (which is already underfunded)? That alone will probably offset any benefits of their other cuts.
> My thinking is... can you put this 100% on Sandberg? I mean, I get that the culture is bad, but there's two in this game. Maybe... turn off your phone for a day when you're giving birth?!

Sure, but you can look at this in one of two ways. One is the way you seem to be angling for, where we have an employee who is so disturbingly eager to please that she continues to do work at absurd times when no one should ever expect to be working. The other way is of an employee who has seen how her boss treats employees, and believes that her position, career, and livelihood would be in jeopardy if she wasn't working even in situations where no one should be expected to be working.

I think the second take is more likely. And even if we think it's bizarre that someone could get to the point where they believe that kind of devotion to their job is necessary, it's still alarming and raises red flags that a company culture could cause someone to get to the point that they'd feel that way.
My local amazon shows 5 offers at least after simple "m-disc" search. And they work, got them twice recently.

It's not a grocery store buy but it's there.
How is that not racism
Brave wants court to endorse scraping of News Corp content
Tokyo isn't; and that's not why living here is (relatively) cheap.
NVMe is just a protocol. There are drives that are absolute shit and others that cost as much as luxury automobiles. In either case not quite DRAM latency because it is expansion bus attached.
> End-to-end (e2e) tests are slow and flaky.

If they are slow, it means your application is slow. Good thing your tests make you realize it so you can work on it.

If they are flaky either your application is flaky or your UI is hard to use. Anyway that's something your tests tell you you have to fix.

And last: if your tests are all independents, why not run them all in parallel? With IaC you should be able to provision one instance of your architecture per test (or maybe dozen tests) easily.
NIPs feels a lot like XMPP XEPs )
Certainly the "maximum big level" is something that reasonable people could disagree about, but I don't think a society is healthy when people can get as big as Zuckerberg, Musk, Altman, and Bezos have gotten.

Individuals should not have that much power. It's not healthy.
They as others are making the point that racism is bad, you keep justifying it because Swedish people are white
Does anyone know if Prolog is useful for creating a schedule for workers with many constraints? I have a comment somewhere where I included the constraints but I have forgotten most of it by now. Constraints like minimum of 2 workers for both morning and night shifts, all workers must have 2 days off at least in a week, so no consecutive 3 days work, etc. The number of workers would be defined with names as well, etc. The goal would be to create a monthly schedule. I tried to come up with one but I may have messed up the constraints because it took too long (it got stuck, actually), maybe the constraints were too tight, I don't remember. If not Prolog, then what would be the best way to do this? I am interested in FOSS.

I wish there was a way to search for my comments, it sucks that I would have to paginate. I left a lot of comments.
This seems not correct at all. There are very useful ML patterns that don't exist at all.

Rust feels like taking an imperative language and adding ML features till you cannot anymore.
Wow, I thought it was just some random guy, but was then quite surprised to see this was being authored by none other than the legendary Charles Petzold. I'd buy this book - just to put it next to my copy of "Programming Windows 95" (who remembers?) :)
None of the people you mentioned's companies sell products your life depends on. If you don't like them, don't use or buy their products. I'm of the opinion that AWS, facebook and tesla cars are genuine trash. I don't know why people use that stuff.
Thank you, I respect the effort put into this. The free time and skills that I did not have.

I'm at this point more interested the Psychology of the readers who insisted "I don't know the phrase, and drew a blank, therefor it's wrong, broken, bad writing, how dare they not write for me". And refuse to listen to the contrary, indeed "refute" it (hah).

It's something - entitled? Arrogant? Leaning into ignorance? Fixed mindset? Whatever it is, it's best viewed at a distance, like car crash.
The “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” (its official name) would like a word.
This is probably true if you look at all big tech companies, but before Windows, MacOS, Oracle Databases or IBM computers did not have the responsibility of dealing with the communication and shaping of world view of billions of people world wide.

It's the same as owning a large share of news papers or TV channels. You own the public discourse.

If Larry Ellison is a greedy immoral bastard I switch to MS SQL Server, or something open source. When Zuckerberg or Musk became greedy immoral bastards, they started to shape the information fed to the world. You can decide not to buy a Tesla, but you cannot escape the results of brainwashing of other people that vote.

Bill Gates had serious trouble for including a free Internet Browser in his Operating System, because he was not able to influence the public discourse. The new internet mass communication companies do. Google never really got into much trouble while their monopoly was stronger.