skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any of the dozens of other guidelines that should be followed, minus the cloth mask. One not often mentioned but touched on here is getting outdoors in the sunshine.

Locally I often see folks hiking alone in the sun wearing cloth masks and it is clear they don't understand when they are actually useful or not. Anti folks don't appear to either.
Along the last few weeks, Bing's news feed, the one that appears directly on the main page of bing.com, turned into a tabloid cesspool (at least in its French version). Gradually but very quickly, it turned from something reasonable, rather faithful to the range of important events (there could be one 'people' entry here and there, but why not, after all, as long as it remains very minor) into pure clickbait. The titles are clickbait ('incredible', 'exceptional', etc.) and the content behind is crap. It is possible that they put first, the ones that already get more clicks.

If I translate the first entries titles right now:

* Amazing confidences -> an actress

* Big controversy -> a female singer

* Corruption suspicion -> OK, a politician

* Accused of lying -> an actor's wife

* a few trivialities and filler items

* Finally calm -> a dead singer's wife

* Turkish activities -> OK, international news

* from the previous item on, it is only now that you have a regular mix of normally interesting/important news items. You had to click once or twice on the Next arrow to get there, everything or almost everything on what I'd call the front page was clickbait crap.

So, that's a feed, but the content comes from actual newspapers, and if I go to my local newspaper, half of the top content is also oftennational/international 'people' crap.
It's not splitting hairs, you are the only one splitting hairs here.

The vox article clearly shows that they were trying to recruit, even though they say they aren't. It's not a grand conspiracy but it's the same as the military using Hollywood for recruiting.
Selling Technical Debt to the Business
I make it to not need session IDs; for logins, I use the HTTP authentication (no cookies).
> and until recently, the Tor browser also just leaked your window size via Javascript.

Though this was why Tor would always open in the same window size. But ya, that all fell apart if you maximized.

When did they fix “the leak” itself? Wouldn’t that require intercepting the JavaScript call in the same way that the scroll bar size issue could be fixed?
It would be quite a coincidence if Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam all just had different reasons for having lower death totals (by a LOT) per capita than all the nations of western Europe. An explanation that didn't require a different explanation for every nation in east Asia is a lot more convincing, I think.
If what you're comfortable with is Spring or Drupal or Rails and those work for your use case then more power to you

At the same time it's true there are products like roam research that are fundamentally harder to achieve in a cookie cutter environment

This talk kind of eludes to why that is https://youtu.be/rI8tNMsozo0 but it's worth learning there's many mature pieces of tech in this community that are astounding

If you need boring.lib then reach into Java/JavaScript with the easiest interop I've ever used
Agreed. I think that the button gives the implication. I was focusing on the quoted part, but you're right.
> my point was just that in my experience many would consider them 'snuff' even if it doesn't meet the exact technical definition.

And those people would simply be wrong.

I mean, let’s back up a bit. Why is it important whether or not “snuff” films exist? Because many people want to believe the common urban legends about it – i.e. that there exists an (be it ever so small) underground production and market for it, even though, by all accounts, this does not exist, and has never existed. Believing such urban legends helps people feel justifiably horrified and helps validate their cynicism; basically the same reason why many people believe many other urban legends. However, no movies fitting that particular model have ever been found to exist.

If anyone wants to to be picky about the definition and claim that some movie or other fits the definition of “snuff”, or is “considered” to fit even though it doesn’t(!), this is only because they want to be able to say “see, snuff films exist!”, and thereby validate their preexisting belief in the urban legend. But this is a motte-and-bailey fallacy; it tries to defend the urban legend (which is hard) by trying to defend a technical definition of a word to be slightly wider than it really is (which is comparitively easier). Luckily, even though it is easier to defend, this latter position is still demonstrably wrong.
Oh cool we live in a Douglass Adams book. Oh no we live in a Douglass Adams book!
"Linux coming soon". Will buy when it's here. :)
>If you use a counterfactual in which employees meaningfully participate in corporate governance, then you are incorrect.

Can you elaborate on this point? Do you mean that FAANG employees do or do not have a seat at the table?
Ew, I do not like that!

I couldn't tell you why but it greatly bothers me.
If you haven't read the book written by the NYTimes journalist Ian Urbina that much of the original research this article refers to, I highly, highly recommend it [1]. Not only is it illuminating, but the writing and stories within it are extremely compelling on a human level as well. I got a copy of it over the holidays, and literally experienced the trope of having a hard time putting it down.

[1] https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean/

Edited to include author name
It's lightweight, but also looks obscure and will probably be hard to google.
They have a funny notion of what "dicing" is. Dicing isn't "purely downward pressure". Dicing is cutting something into cubes.
As I said below this is something that they will talk a about like every freaking day. They talk about customer’s data as the most important thing to take care of.

Basically is preferable to get a bullet in the head than to ever reveal or tamper with customer’s data.

I cannot answer your question about who has access or not but I’m telling you what’s the culture when it comes to customer’s data.

At the end of the day I was just another IC doing menial work so probably not a good reference, but that was my experience
Again, I'm making the claim that it's been exaggerated/politicized (to what degree is hard to tell, due to so many bad incentives). I can absolutely cite many cases of missed models, corruption[0] (btw if you disagree on this one, there are many more cases like this) and fear-mongering going from the IPCC to politicians to university research that's all been shown to be anywhere from misleading to outright fudge - but - it's not some single thing. So your desire for "one piece of evidence" is not the right way to discuss this. A case has to be made.

If you want a case, here's one of the books I mentioned [1]. It's not entirely perfect, but an example of how you can absolutely make a very valid, science-based attempt at a world-view that refutes many of the central tenets of modern climate change ideology.

Don't confuse me: carbon emissions are an important problem, one we need to solve. But you have decades of people like Gore to AOC to celebrities to even legit scientists, all on the left, who make claims like "we're X years from Y major catastrophe", and they end up wrong. Then you have corruption scandals, inaccurate models and stories of suppression of non-narrative-fitting data, and the democrats beating it over everyones heads constantly.

All I'm saying is this: it's very understandable that the Average Josephine on the right is skeptical. Any claim that says "the righties are dumb / purposefully ignorant" is missing an important piece of socio-cultural dynamics and rational game theory - having a distrust of an institution thats been intensely politicized is... fairly rational.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_c...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmi...
What are the concrete advantages of gnuplot versus D3?
I also prefer mobile web apps in general (as did Steve Jobs originally: https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2011/10/21/jobs-ori...) that said it's often much easier to create an app with good, consistent UX with the help of UIKit for example. I'm mostly doing backend work these days but whatever happened to "progressive web apps" by the way? Is the (react?) ecosystem still too fractured? Is it just too hard or is it everywhere and I just don't know about it? ;D
They are always equal with my definition, hence the conclusion that active investors, as a whole, perform substantially worse than the market (net of fees). The equation is derived from the fact that there are fundamentally two investing strategies. There's a passive strategy, where an investor holds a representative market index. Anything that deviates from that strategy (with regards to security selection or market timing) is considered an active strategy. "t" is used to denote the share of capital flowing to each strategy, and the total market return is the weighted return (percentage, not absoute) of both.
Edward Wible, CTO at Nubank, actually makes this comparison to other banks (and how small it is) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYYwxgaxB0 (in the first few minutes).
No, not really. It's very rare for a house to depreciate, even if no repairs are being done. Moreover, property taxes are almost always going to be lower than the rise in price of the property.

And speculation and investing are the same thing, except the former is often used in a pejorative way.
There's a ton of problems with empirical studies about software in general. Very hard to conduct reliable experiments. In particular, I think analyzing public GitHub projects is pretty much the worst corpus possible.

For example, almost all of the projects in this study are infrastructure projects (I'm not familiar with all of them so I can't say that it's definitely all). I'm much more interested in application projects, and even if you (general you) aren't, you have to admit that an infrastructure project has a totally different set of characteristics than your average business application.

I think anything we can do to get more empirical data related to software the better, as we have devolved into strong personalities and conviction making pretty much all of the major decisions in our industry, which is really deeply sad. But we have to do better than just mining open source Github projects.
Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test
Security is in the eye of the application. Unauthenticated editing isn't an exploit on Wikipedia but it would be on the CDC's website

In this case the fact that a user is using tor is considered protected information meaning any exposure of that is in fact a info leak vulnerability
This is called "productivity". It's the reason the world isn't full of unemployed horse-and-buggy drivers right now.
Yeah I don’t know. It’s possible that there’s some evil stuff happening. I’m just relating my experience as a pawn employee. They parrot this incessantly.
> I can confidently tell you that Amazon's employees cannot see customers data inside S3 buckets or EC2 instances.

From a technical standpoint, that statement is false.

Every employee might not have the credentials to, but for AWS to function as it does, SOMEONE inside the company has to have those credentials.

If you change 'cannot' to 'don't', well then we've just gotta take you at your word, which is where we started anyway.
The article provides several examples in which many employees have flagged certain content but that Zuck, who was the final decision maker, did not agree or follow through on those flags. As long as he's the one making the final call, he deserves more of the blame.
Well at least one of the reasons is that every 3 to 6 months fashion brands release a new collection. They need fresh photos to advertise that.
The big thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565192

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859489

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927832 from last year
An in depth, three part, article on how Node.js works under the hood
How to build your own Google Meet subdomain
Ask HN: How do I build an efficient Knowledge Management System?
You are a customer service rep that gets thousands of calls from customers daily with nuggets of valuable info

You are a product manager that gets asked the same questions about the product you are building

How do you build an efficient go-to Knowledge Management System for everyone in your organization to get daily answers

This would be a huge cost and time saver it would help the following way

- On-boarding new staff (quickly getting them up to speed)
- Answer daily queries by internal staff
- Quickly answer customer support tickets
Can you explain your reservations about PIA?
> Do they get paid per ARM chip sold, or yearly for the rights to sell ARM chips, etc?

Both. Basically at the top end You have licensing that big companies like Apple pay a large one-off sum ( comparatively large from ARM's perspective , but tiny in Apple's view ) for the use of ARMv8. ( i.e You will need to pay again for ARMv9 or ARMv7 ), and do custom design with the Instruction Set as along as it remain compatible with ARMv8. At the bottom end you are simply buying a blueprint from ARM, add some other IP you want and pay per ARM chip.

Anandtech has an article [1] about it and most of it are still relevant.

Since we are taking about business It is also worth mentioning the revenue of ARM before Softbank acquisition was less than the Net profits of Intel.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-h...
I'll stick with my $5 thumbdrive.
Git GUIs: A Tale of Two Source Models
Facebook and WhatsApp crimes on the rise in Cameroon
Compensation is decided by a hierarchy of managers, with each manager giving his subordinates a budget to compensate his subordinate managers, trickling down layer-by-layer to the peons.

If your manager's manager's manager is awesome at self-promotion, you'll make more money.

The End
I would imagine it's common. There was an article on here not too long ago about how the entire Amazon HQ2 fiasco came about because Bezos was jealous that Elon Musk was getting more govt subsidies than him. If one of the most successful people in the world can be so focused on petty grudges, I imagine there are plenty of others doing the same.
Looks like OP has drank the koolaid of the JS bootcamps. Mobile apps can outshine an SPA, and then there are things that JS webapps can only dream of. Want to interface with a IoT device over BTLE? Sorry native’s the only way. Wanna do immersive AR experience in your app? Ditto, JS won’t cut it. How about writing an simple app while following a11y guidelines? Even for simple list based apps, native can run circles around JS apps while using less power, and conserving battery without breaking sweat.

Mobile phones are like a Tesla Model S, and you don’t want to tie it to a bullock and use it as a ox-cart.
Internal surveys are pretty unreliable. Story time (details vague for obvious reasons):

I worked at a company where we were collecting safety compliance data on workers. The data was partially medical in nature, so we were legally bound by HIPAA, meaning we could not share the data with their employers. Some of the data we collected was self-reported, while some of the data was measured objectively via sensors.

Consistently, the self-reported data showed the workers were in compliance with safety standards. Consistently, the sensor data showed them to not be in compliance.

We changed the messaging around the self-reporting, to make it clear that a) we would not share self-reported data with their employers, and b) we were bound by HIPAA, and therefore could not share self-reported data with their employers. The number of workers self-reporting non-compliance increased significantly (more than doubled) but remained lower than 30%, while the sensor data continued to show compliance in single-digit percentages. The only thing we had achieved was objective proof that the self-reported data was unreliable.

The purpose of the self-reported data was to identify faulty sensors, and it was clear we weren't achieving that goal, so we eventually dropped the self-reported data from collection entirely.

Ultimately, there's no personal benefit to expressing discontent in an internal survey. Doing so takes the risk that the data will be used against you.

I do agree, there are some reasons to believe that people DO find satisfaction at FAANG job. It's just that there are reasons to believe the opposite as well, and I don't feel like I can draw a conclusion as confidently as the poster upthread who said, "They work in a field famous for people deriving immense satisfaction from their job". The only thing I'm convinced of at this point is, "I don't know."
This is one of the few "AI will kill X" that I can see (if the article's claims are true). This wouldn't just impact models - it would automate the entire shooting process.

Models are cheap, but the overhead of the process is expensive. Hiring a photographer, lighting person, studio space, model, clothes and backdrop; coordinating with relatively high-paid internal stakeholders (execs, designers, etc.); and developing/touching up photos after... Big processes add up. There's a need.

At the low and medium end, this could totally replace the shoot process. Presumably, designers would have a basic version of the software in their standard toolkit (you can see it in a catalog before it's shot - talk about sales!), so the marginal cost would be 0. There's no differentiator - no friction.

If the software's output is comparable to a shoot for a department store, the there's a real solution.

Why would I ever bother with a physical shoot?
In this case, the man-hours per bridge drop. But how many man-hours were available in the field pre-computer? So now we've got excess man-hours and we've got a choice. Either move those man-hours to higher value tasks OR release the bridgespanneteers from the job.

And that's the conundrum we face with automation where we remove bottlenecks, and we can't retask the capacity.
As someone very early in my career at a large company, I am bookmarking this, thanks!
The engineer just posted the video themselves to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBQ1_a70KI
When using the address bar in Chrome, ads appear in autocomplete
Just today I noticed when searching about "building <something>" upon typing in "bu" 'burger king' showed up in autocomplete. Has nothing to do with my search history, this happens on any google account from what I can tell?

https://imgur.com/a/t4mLBEt

Ads in search results, ads in maps, ads in email, ads in autocomplete.
Inuit people have terrible life outcomes with disease, alcoholism, and suicide, and while there might be a lot of reasons for this, I would still take any of their examples with a grain of salt.
SIREN, a novel activation function, outperforms ReLU
DeleteMe has been around a long time and I have used their service for several years. They get excellent reviews. If you are looking for a truly tested, legit service I would recommend them.
How relevant is ARM in the long run if Apple is pursuing its own design / CPU architecture ("Apple Silicon") and the Chinese lead by Huawei are forced by US sanctions also to create their own design / architecture?
Hopelessly editorialized title to make the post sound more racist than it actually is. The quotation is "To understand what’s wrong with our public education system, you have to look at what’s arguably the most powerful force in our schools: White parents."
>I think the problem is vendors see FPGA tooling as a cost center and a necessary evil

Yes to a degree, but another part of the problem is the "physical constraints" you mention. FPGA tooling has to solve multiple hard problems, on the fly, at large scale (some of the latest chips are edging up to 10M logic elements). Unfortunately for the FPGA industry, I think that this is unavoidable - though a lot of interesting work is being done around partial reconfiguration, which should allow for users to work with smaller designs on a large chip.
What is the advantage of sharing that information?
I am a huge RISC-V fan, like Cathy Bates level, but there is so much that ARM can do over the next 5,10,15 years but it looks like they are incapable of the required transformations. Everything that is good about RISC-V is already at ARM's disposal.

Currently it looks like SiFive was borne out of a solution for the organizational issues that plague innovator's dilemma companies. I am envious of SiFive's position right now. I hope they don't get swallowed by a dinosaur.

The only reason NVidia wants ARM is because they can't have an x86 license.

Apple doesn't care because they probably have an escape/hedge clause on their ARM license and they will soon be shipping an IR. They have ISA hopped so many times it is old hat to them.
We (Nubank) actually acqui-hired Plataformatec earlier this year: https://www.contxto.com/en/startups/fintech-nubank-acqui-hir...
Is there an easy way to make this work with NextDNS.io? I don't want to lose the filtering/analytics on my devices, but would also like to have access to a VPN...
The cascade is not inheritance. The cascade is deciding the order to apply rules/stylesheets in, and which rule applies here:

html:

<div><a>Blah</a></div>

css:

a { color: red; }
div a { color: blue; }

Where the font color ends up being blue because `div a` is more specific than `a`.
Making time to save you time: How Heroku sped up time related syscalls on Dynos
Yeah. True. I guess what I meant is that just a handful of employees have access to that and they need to have legitimate reasons.
Agree, but aren't they a five eyes company?
Good point. But it's missed on a lot of people.
For some of the "clever tricks" at higher levels, Hacker's Delight is a great treasure trove - it's not x86-64 specific, as a lot of the tricks are applicable to many CPUs, but it helps understand some of the seemingly bizarre tricks.

https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Henry-Warren/dp/0...
I'm curious if ARM sees RISC-V as serious competition. I'm under the impression that the instruction set makes efficient and performant implementations rather difficult.
I have no knowledge of the skill involved in (real life) modelling, but I do know the skill involved in professional photography is a lot higher than I fully understand.

For most of us, photography is just point the phone and tap the screen, without really giving much thought to lighting (colour/s, fill/spot combinations), scene composition, lenses, and probably a lot of things I don’t even have names for given the stuff I’ve listed is stuff I only know about from 3D modelling.

And conversely, the end users of a future AI synth of a model won’t be paying directly for expensive AI developers, any more than the average visitor of thispersondoesnotexist.com
> cannot take a bitstream compiled for one FPGA and program it to any other FPGA.

Like considering dumping memory content on a PC and reinject it on another with different RAM layout and devices and complaining the OS and programs can't continue running? Is that a sane expectation?

There are upstream formats targeting FPGAs that can be shared, although yes redoing place and route is slow.

Should manufacturers provide new formats closer to final form yet would allow binaries that can be adjusted, kind of like .a .so or even llvm?

Alternatively, would building whole images for many families of FPGA make sense?
Feels like programs distributed as binaries for p OS variants times q hardware architectures, each producing a different binary... random example https://github.com/krallin/tini/releases/tag/v0.19.0 has 114 assets.