skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the largest part of that, though, and that's what makes your statement incorrect. Apple is not blocking anything that Epic can do with the Unreal Engine. What they're threatening is to revoke the assistance that Apple has always provided Epic as a partner. When WWDC and other presentations roll around, Apple always has presentations from Epic on new games that are coming out. That partnership has, in the past, included early access to dev tools and frameworks (like Metal and ARKit), direct access to engineers at Apple who help Epic optimize their software for Apple hardware, and also a direct feedback channel for licensed developers using the tools that Apple and Epic developed together. Apple is saying that, by violating the terms and losing their developer license, Epic would also be losing this partner access. After all, how can you partner with someone that's actively working against you?

So, to be clear, development for the Unreal Engine would absolutely be impacted but that is not the same thing as "blocking Unreal Engine". Apple can't block the Unreal Engine as a whole since developers license that separately from Epic.
Identifying second-order effects, along with their relative magnitude is hard enough to begin with. Only if your model of the 1st order situation is precise enough, you may come up with adequate 2nd order possibilities, and even then, N-th order thinking becomes exponentially harder as N increases. Each new effect presents a new model, which exponentially increases the area of the plane of outcomes.
>An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech--not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary--six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam--that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each enclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses, making pens with pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it--AFTER WHICH COMES THE VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb--merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out--the writer shovels in "HABEN SIND GEWESEN GEHABT HAVEN GEWORDEN SEIN," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature--not necessary, but pretty. German books are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head--so as to reverse the construction--but I think that to learn to read and understand a German newspaper is a thing which must always remain an impossibility to a foreigner.

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
I completed the interview process at Jane Street last year and received a verbal offer after my on-site which they then proceeded to rescind while we were discussing pay ranges, claiming they had decided instead to fill the position I applied for with internal staff. Their recruiter handled it with a high degree of professionalism but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth nonetheless.
Can you tell me more? How expensive are we talking?

Working for the same sized companies for a while has apparently dulled my senses. At a certain size, the capital that matters is the political capital it takes to get a vendor agreement in place to begin with. The monthly costs of the system are something you only feel through pushback on how big the repo gets, or the rate of traffic (experiencing the latter now with a browser testing SaaS)
google is already trying to retire them. v3 has no challenges, they just generate a score completely transparent to the end user
> everyone is lifted up and made richer over time

Really? In the 1970's in the US it was possible to own a house and support a family of 4 on a single income in the manufacturing sector. It was also possible to work your way through college and exit with a degree and no debt, in a job market which made that worth it.

Yes global poverty has decreased, but the material standard of living has decreased for most people in the working class in the developed world, while wealth has skyrocketed for a select lucky few.

It's more complex than saying "everyone is made richer" - it seems what has happened is that a few people have been made much richer, and everyone else is somehow equalizing somewhere closer to the bottom.
Kindles at one point apparently came with free cellular access

https://xkcd.com/548/
Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet.

He’s actually had a couple of exits which can’t be said for most authors in the space.
In other words, it's more difficult to be precise about the resistance increments. With weights, you know exactly how much you added and how you are manipulating them. With bands, you have infinite variation, but less control over it. You can combine them in steps, but they are very big steps. This makes a lot of sense
Agreed. We are the country that designed, created, and operated the SR-71 Blackbird, put a man on the moon, and built the Hoover Dam, among other incredible feats of organization, engineering, and manufacturing.

I fear as a country we are not capable of that type of thing any more and I am not only frustrated, I'm saddened.

BTW if anyone has any examples of more recent (post-2016) successes of a similar magnitude and impressiveness, I could definitely use a mood boost.
Show HN: Packet crafting and synflood demo with Golang
Just to add to that mental model:

In simple systems, first order effects tend to dominate.

In complex systems, higher order effects tend to dominate.
To help your depression, you can recall you make more than most people could hope to make every 2 years at age 50.

Or than most engineers make at any point in their careers.
Looks similar to a Segway.

The downside of this design is that it has to move in order to stabilize. This means that you can't stabilize near the edge of a cliff.
"We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox."

How ironic.
Or, you know, they did it because that's exactly what it says will happen when someone violates the terms of Apple's developer agreement...
Experimenting with QUIC and WebTransport in Go
If one asked the question of which location in the US the semiconductor industry has the highest footprint in, the answer would definitely be the Bay Area (maybe California, to include San Diego, etc).

But if you ask the question of which sectors the Bay Area has the largest investment and footprint in, then semiconductors would (unfortunately) be only a small part of that. That uncomfortable truth (which is exactly what I'm trying to point out in the above comment) is that market valuations today seem to be driven by the things built on top (in particular, the "data economy" and the effectiveness of personalization-driven consumption increases), rather than (for eg.) the semiconductor engg which is crucial to build those platforms.

An analogue of this is when the Ford CEO speculated in 2018 to the effect that it might be more profitable to sell customer data derived by selling cars, than from selling cars in the first place.
How Silicon Valley chip pioneer MIPS landed in China
Thank you for the feedback! You can check for a response and continue a conversation any time.
Imagine bowing to others demands because they are incapable of understanding your personal experience and preference.
They're cheap because China can afford to dump, which is a CCP strategy. All Chinese manufacturers are state-bound, and the article is not to blame if the CCP long term goal of erasing the citizen and conflating party, state, and country has been largely successful. It is absolutely relevant they're coming from China if no other manufacturing country is doing the same. It has nothing to do with race, but the insistence is telling.
> Political tension is nothing more than the rise of news entertainment.

I would agree with that but still think the effects of it can't simply be ignored.

A significant part of people worldwide get their basic understanding of what's going on in the world from news media - and then go on making all kinds of day-to-day descisions with that knowledge - and in the case of US citizens may go on to vote.

News media show a cropped and distorted version of reality, but they can also pull the actual reality closer to their distorted version.
They did not threaten to block Unreal Engine. Read it again.
Also this one: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/mini-raspberry-pi-boston-dy...
Also worth noting that Jane Street interns are amongst the highest paid at $83.65 / hour: https://www.levels.fyi/internships/
From what I gather from the article linked above, he privately gave his expert opinion as a linguist regarding a passage of legal text. To make the claim that he "absolutely assisted", you'd have to presume it wasn't something he'd do for anyone else, that he expected it to be used (apparently he claimed otherwise?), and that it actually helped, despite seeming completely off-the-wall. Did I miss anything?

And even so, any one of us can hire an expert witness to make a statement like that. Especially big-shot professors. They aren't cheap I bet, but they surely don't cost 6 million bucks per line.
I had something similar and failed and thought it was the dumbest thing ever.

I'm not an automaton. You didn't tell me at the beginning that the point was to follow every single thing exactly to the letter. Of course I could play that game, but you spend my entire career as a student telling me to happily skip problems and go on the next and then you want to act as if it's a problem with me that I engaged in the test in good faith.
I’m struggling to understand if you’re serious. You’re telling me that the nomadic tribes of the Native Americans, who never built a single city nor developed any appreciable technology somehow tended to the vast millions of acres of California’s forests?
The 10 Essentials of a Venture Scale Business
How to get feedback from your manager, and vice versa
I’m just not good enough at that kind of stuff to do it full-time.

Like everything in parenting, you'd grow into it.
Wow. Now that’s an innovative and brilliant way to improve one our oldest tools. Certainly could by relevant in a general sense for much more than browsing
No, I simply make a claim that your claim is false.
Nice work! Looks like a great way to get an idea up quickly that can be tested and iterated based on feedback.
Oh, I fully agree. I even did that for a while early on. I was simply saying why I didn’t switch away from a kindle.
>One can remove DRM for amazon's ebook format (.azw3 ?) via some python scripts. You didn't hear it from me though.

Not for the new KFX format. Only way to get around that is to use an older version of the kindle desktop app that downloads the azw format. Workaround won't last long though. And won't work on newer macs because the old version is a 32bit app .
This is a good and interesting report, thank you. As you implied, this is about averages, which is useful though incomplete.

"Global Warming"/"Climate Change" is, to state something pretty obvious, about additional energy in an active system. That means, of course, more total heat across the entire system.

However, I think a far more important aspect is how much more active the system as a whole gets. I don't have time to get into it in detail here, but overall that means there will be more and more extremes. More droughts. More floods. More severe winds. More heat waves. More freezing storms. We're already seeing that in action and the rate at which the number of extremes increase will tend to increase as more energy is sent into a somewhat chaotic system.
Yeah, at least they don't bug you to use collections as much as they used too. But I haven't figured out why I would use them.
Remote Code Execution in Akamai Zero Trust Architecture EAA Client
Although it's point is good, I hate this test because--at least in most versions I have seen--nothing tells you to skip questions 1-9. The directions say, "Read all the questions first." OK fine. Then question 10 says, "Just write your name on the paper and turn it over."

But why should question 10 be the only one you follow?

"Read all the questions" is the only direction you have. There is never a "skip 1-9", except in number 10, but why would you start with that one?

It's a decent idea, but needs better execution.
I wrote a single blog post before I started working. https://tianyi.io/post/chicago1/
Facebook is big into it via tooling and compilers. It's also big on the Messanger team ala Reason.

Ahrefs is another one I know of.

And hopefully (maybe?) my company soon.
Sure but if there wasn't a buy-side prices wouldn't be increasing.
But it is pretty ironic accountant firms sell technology consulting to their customers while they haven't automated their own core business. Audits start at 100k for SME's because it is still billed by the hour. On top of this even the CIO doesn't understand IAM.
> Over the past few years, I've been hoping to run into an 80s soviet movie with heavily armed evil american antagonists. The soviet ideological indoctrination and censorship game must've been strong, because so far everything I've seen either has pirates/hooligans/etc. as antagonists or fails to even have a "man vs. man" plot at all.

Not 80s, but Wolf Warrior is China vs. evil American mercenaries.
So, HotSpot then?
Remember, the entire life support environment and space for the pilot and cockpit are gone. Lots more room for a higher power to weight ratio.
Because, let's be honest, Apple doesn't want to set a precedent that they'll do that without first trying to resolve issues with developers. It's a super bad look for them to just immediately terminate any agreement they have issue with and would just push developers away from attempting development on the platform. Apple has all the leverage in this situation and a ton of good will built up among developers. They want to give Epic a chance to admit wrongdoing and resolve the issue.
and yet can still be bypassed by captcha solving services
Unfortunately FF's PDF viewer is easily the worst, performance-wise. Whenever I view a brutally overcomplicated PDF (like a map or something) in Firefox it just trainwrecks, and I have to download it and view it in something else.

Maybe they've improved it since last year or so, but I've gotten into the habit of working around pdf.js.
Where are the profiles gathered from?

Did they just render the alexa top 1M sites and generate a profile from that? It would seem some bits of the codebase might only be exercised by real users (eg. touch input during a mobile game).

Did they instead gather PGO information from real users? If so, how did they do that in a way to not degrade performance too much while profiling, and maintaining user privacy (sequences and addresses of branches in some cases will reveal user data)?
Big thumbs up for xfs!

It's just... Snapshot thing and replication (zfs send) are so damn easy in zfs...
>How did software and features ever get done before telemetry?

IMHO, The software today is miles better at UX.
I suppose the long term view is - what's the economic health of the organization responsible for ongoing maintenance as well as R&D, features, engineering of the software? And also what's the risk of Firefox being "orphaned" or falling behind technologically to Chrome/Webkit. although the comment below is true; there is a time and place for long term strategic comments, vs. technical release notes...
I wonder how far we can take this sort of effort -- collect exact usage statistics for users and optimize software exactly for known usage patterns. Of course some statistical technique would be needed to deal with the long tail of usage patterns -- surely some program branches are used extremely rarely (or not even seen in collected samples), but you still wouldn't want them to be extremely slow (slower than necessary) or crash just because they're rarely used. The cumulative usage of many of those long tail events can be large.

Either (regularized) statistical inference of branches or something like assuming a baseline usage for every branch would be necessary.

This is all significantly complex of course, so for anything that are not the consumer megaprojects of software (browsers and operating systems?), I wonder if those tools could be used as well. Perhaps there could be some automated, anonymized usage reporting that does all this work?
Physicists, have you guys talked to marketing ppl who spend day and night studying massive datasets of humans colliding on that super collider called social media?

Man I am scared (not even sure why) that there will be convergence between both toolkits.
I cant...
> why not?

Easy: a link off their site doesn't earn them any money. They want to you stay on their domain.
NLP Performance Benchmark – Alexa, Google and Siri
since you seem to base your self-worth to some extent on your total compensation, what concrete steps (to include interviewing, working with recruiters, consulting, etc.) have you taken to increase your total comp either immediately or in the future?
Tesla's Musk hints of battery capacity jump ahead of industry event
Alright, I'll bite.

In my (large, Canadian) city they're predicting 50% or more of the local businesses failing by the end of summer / early-fall -- which isnt' far away. If the current trends continue that number may be closer to 55-60%.

Many of the business that re-opened (food, gyms, retail) are getting terrible levels of foot traffic, and several have shuttered after a couple of months of struggling. At first it was mostly local places that were already kind of marginal -- RIP my greasy local pizza place -- but now we've been seeing Starbucks Red Robin, and other chains shutting down their branches.

Eventually this is going to start cutting into real estate, ad revenue, and other white collar gigs -- some of the stories I've seen on HN reflect that.

There may not be a gigantic explosion in the stock market a la 1929 or 2008, it may just be slowly withering on the vine until you look around and realize everyone is broke. Stocks are still soaring, but 1/4-1/3 of my apartment complex neighbors are unemployed.
Wolves help reverse Yellowstone degradation
I would add lithoguru.vom and the related courses (Chris Mack) as well as semiengineering.com
Interesting idea for sure. I wasn't able to understand much from the demo image, though. The animation is fast, and all I can see about the result is that the word "lower" is highlighted/matched. I was hoping to get an idea of what results it finds and how relevant they are to the search.
Isn't being a coastal city below sea level in a hurricane-prone region just a recipe for disaster? It seems like it would take an absurd about of infrastructure to protect the city.
Offices are going to make it. The day will come when they're close to full occupancy again in my opinion.

Until then, the demand for square feet paradoxically won't be any less. If you're rotating in half the workforce at a time, but require them to space 2x apart, you end up needing the same amount of floor space.
I've seen the Starship robots rolling around, always with a human watcher following along.
Get $100 Google Play Gift Card
Based on the attempts of my parents and my in-laws to give my wife and I "valuable stuff", either it's going to goodwill now, or it is sitting unused and unloved in a garage.

We cannot seem to get it through our parent's heads that we don't want any valuable antiques that will need to be taken care of and the fact that it belonged to great-great-aunt Thelma who none of us have ever met or heard of except in connection to this roll top desk does not give the desk in question sentimental value.

Hopefully it goes to someone who will actually appreciate it and enjoy it, but that someone is neither of us.
What do these profiles consist of? Simply which branches are taken vs not taken? Or do they include a history (eg. if this branch is taken then that one will not be)?

Do they depend on the stack? Ie. when called from this function, that branch is always taken. That could encourage the compiler to inline the function so it can have a faster path on the branch.
This is the main point most people just refuse to accept out of blind religion: zfs was production stable 10 years ago and is production stable TODAY.

With btrfs you're still waiting for stuff to be properly implemented.
"... and we wish them well in their future endeavors."
Maybe I am not too familiar with it (although I have heard interns negotiating for pay with Akuna).

I thought intern compensation is pretty much set. Did you have counter offers to negotiate?
This isn’t buried in a tos or legalese

https://www.groundctl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/csm_IMG...

Apple prompts you for each piece of data collection during the setup of an iOS device (and lets you choose if you want to share).
"infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.
TIL:

Apparently the navy considers scouting to be roughly equivalent to an AA.

"Scouting
Provide evidence of successful completion of Eagle Scout or the Girl Scout Gold Award requirements and you are entitled to be enlisted in pay-grade E-3."
> Who has a better story to tell

Basecamp’s story is irrelevant if they’re forced into bankruptcy before they get the chance to tell it where it makes a difference.

We’re not watching a feel good movie where the righteous little guy prevails. They’d get squashed and tossed aside, and they know it.
> A true leader would have gotten on the phone with all of his counterparts in all of our allied countries and given notice to China that the new laws to curtail freedoms are a red line. And come up together with a list of collective sanctions (including banking) to threaten China with

This is literally, exactly what the White House did.

It isn't enough, we need to do a lot more.
I’ve worked remote for the last ~10 years and have had such moments with a team, so I’m skeptical that this requires in person collaboration to achieve these shared flow states (for lack of a better description).

Please forgive the bluntness of my opinion. First the business world made excuses that remote work just wasn’t as productive as in person work, and then a pandemic forced an experiment that proved that assertion to be untrue. Now the excuse is, “well, remote just isn’t as good as in person for building team bonds and collaboration” even when teams at billion dollar orgs (both young and old) are able to do so.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but facts and data are not negotiable, and this is important distinction when large scale presence decisions are being made for workforces.
Where do you expect them to get the money to fund an effort like fillable forms?
This assertion is about funds that are open to the general public. No one doubts e.g. Renaissance’s Medallion fund.
I've been running zfs on a 2gb machine with little I/O (it mostly receives snapshots) and had no issue so far.

Generally speaking, I will go with lower specs machines until I run into some actual problem. Haven't so far.
I think it’s the base salary that is being reported.
Firefox has done this since forever. It's why official builds will generally be faster than compiling from scratch yourself. I'm surprised Chrome wasn't already taking advantage of PGO.
Nope, feed it a modestly complex PDF and it will chew through all 16GB of RAM on my system and crash.