skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

This is super important. People who don't need accomodation sometimes complain about the ADA rules for buildings but at some point everybody takes advantage of things like crash bars to open a door (when your hands are full, or are just on the phone), ramps (perhaps you're pulling something, have a kid, or are on crutches for a few days), handrails (momentary distraction) etc.

And ditto for the phone. I consider the label on the "accessibility" settings just there to make them easy to find; they aren't there for a small number of people (even if most people change at most one default setting).
This only works if you already have the relevant app focused, which is an additional piece of state that I shouldn't need to keep in my mental stack.
It makes me sad to see these reminders of how fast websites are perfectly capable of being.
Please. Add. SCREENSHOTS!

You lost me at having to watch a video. Just lead with a screenshot. A video is fine as supplemental marketing, but you NEED a screenshot otherwise you’re losing those first impression opportunities.
Sorry to disappoint, but we've changed the URL from https://nitter.net/RyanGartin/status/1306352941964701696#m to the original source, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
They supply a steady stream of spammers and phishing gangs with email addresses to use when signing up for email sending services. We blocked their domains entirely because it is all garbage.
I don't want to befriend people who are different from me for some weird moral reason or because I want the "correct" friends. I just think it's boring to be surrounded entirely by people who are too much like me.
Jailbreaking sadly does not help as much as it could here :(
The 1920s boom was partially global - the U.S, France, and Great Britain boomed, along with non-belligerents like Venezuela. Weimar Germany had one of the worst economic collapses in history. Additionally, the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires disintegrated, with widespread hardship (revolutions, civil war, economic problems) occurring during the early 20s and then subsequent trajectories defined by how stable and how market-friendly the successor states were.

See a pattern there? It's really awesome to win a war, particularly if it was never fought on your territory or you got reparations. It really sucks to lose a war. Over the short term (~10-20 years), this effect dwarfs the normal peacetime business cycle. Over the long term (~50-100 years), it's dwarfed by things like the political-economic system, technological development, alliances, population growth & demographics, etc, which tend to set up the winners of next war.

(The U.S. experienced a similar boom after the end of the Cold War in 1991.)
Agreed. Their reviews are usually to the point, objective statements with tasteful opinions. This article was unlike others and his opinions were in the way of actually hearing about how it was. I am not even in the market for one yet I do not feel informed after that review.
Not going to buy a device run by the most abusive spying company to watch porn on.
We have no evidence that factoring is NP-hard, and some evidence that it probably isn’t: the best known classical algorithms for factoring are much faster than those for NP-complete problems. We have no idea whether NP = BQP, or indeed whether either is contained in the other.
It’s far worse than that I’m afraid, but that’s not really important.

AppStore was about enforcing expanded Human Interface Guidelines to ensure overall product quality while getting some money to the indie devs that had historically starved due to market fragmentation. The combination of overall user experience, apps and Tim Apple’s buying up all the manufacturing capacity in ChYna (to lockout competitors —a lesson they learned from the PC knock-off days) assured ..$2T!
Agreed. The "pointers as integers" model requires (among other things) that unrelated pointers be comparable with < and >, which IIRC is undefined behavior in the C spec because it has trouble with some exotic memory models.
I can always rely on HN for finding out why AWS is broken... Is it time to switch to GCP?
You are correct I mis-remembered.
I can relate, somewhat. One particular training video we were required to watch, not on diversity but microagressions, left me with the takeaway "say nothing to anyone, ever."
I'm only about 8 years into my career and if there is one thing I've come to realise, it's that a good chunk of deadlines are arbitrary dates plucked out of thin air.

We as engineers are horrible at guessing how long something things. I've yet to meet anyone who has been able to accurately guess how long a certain task takes. Rightly so, because engineering wouldn't be engineering if all the problems were already solved.

If you're in a workplace that imposes arbitrary dates on you, you should probably look elsewhere. There are better companies out there.
I agree. I am a little a shocked how many games and VR experiences that I have bought for the Quest. The only other person I know who has one is my stepson (who did a “hard insist” that I buy one, and that was great advice) and he also buys a lot of games for his.

I worked on VR over 30 years ago. I am so happy to finally see great consumer VR gear.
They answered that in the first line of the page

> native Mac code editor

Looks much more native and likely faster than electron based editors like vscode or Atom.
Thank you so much for this. I think you have managed to strike a perfect balance in tone -- no small task.

You are quite direct in your message and do not sugar-coat any of your points but still avoid sounding 'bitter'.

It has been my direct experience that the phenomenon you describe seems to be widely in practice at this point, across many organization of different size and disciplines.
Yes you are. They scrutinise new accounts much more now.
I use sublime though which is native as well.
Well you would probably make $300k, so your income:price ratio would be more favorable.
I wholeheartedly sympathise. My interpretation is slightly different. The working class aren’t giving up earning power as much as the western central banks are inflating it away with endless money printing and support of Wall Street that is supposed to trickle down to Main Street. It seldom does. Instead it’s used for stock buybacks and further entrenchment of inefficient firms that would have long collapsed in genuinely free market conditions.

I interpret the “capitalists are screwing the working class” as a) erroneous b) long-term dangerous c) convenient way for those bureaucrats to divide and conquer. Meanwhile they take risks with our economy without accountability.
I'm a little offput by diversity training that, to me at least, essentially challenges folks on a spiritual and moral level. I think everyone should challenge themselves spiritually and morally, but I think the power imbalances inherent in work and academic training contexts make that kind of content patronizing or even inappropriate. I could see it being counterproductive in many cases.

It's probably true that employees, faculty, and some kinds of student leadership should be aware of ethical and legal obligations when it comes to diversity, though. So I think it would be hard to argue against all categories of diversity content.

It's just many (most?) recent forms of anti-racism content crosses the line from "meet these expectations about professional conduct" and into "proactively improve yourself as a person". I don't think it's appropriate for superiors to mandate the latter. A spiritual advisor, counselor, mentor, or mental health professional? Absolutely.

To be fair, I do think it's appropriate for employees to face consequences of their own racist behavior. Even, in many cases, when that behavior is unintended.
I want to work on a diverse team and company.

The training commonly in place today seem to hurt that goal and this is backed up by research.

However any discussion about this is extremely difficult to have. To be honest it feels like no one cares about making a welcoming work environment.
Is IntelliJ generally considered ugly?
Yes, which is why I phrased all of this as "hypothetical relations ..."
In what language is it defined behaviour to grab a thread and start playing with its memory? The compiler can only know what the standard says and in this case it would be fair game
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9146034
You must try Quest. Standalone device provides completely different experience.
I develop avatars for the Quest in VRChat. The Quest is using very underwhelming hardware compared to PC, as it can only handle very strict standards, such as 10,000 Polygons to a character. While PC can handle significantly more.

As a quest user in vrchat you're significantly limited on your experience because your hardare cannot handle anything more than the bare minimum of avatars. We don't consider it a real VR experience.

This is of course very understandable if you know hardware benchmarks. VR is taxing on even the most expensive of PC hardware. Trying to put an Android phone in the same category as an RTX 2070 just isn't possible.

VR titles as in Skyrim VR, Half Life: Alyx, Counter Strike, basically anything that's a VR title for PC.
The wishlist reminds me a lot of VMS clusters. He forgot to add that he wanted version control built into the filesystem, and then it would read like the OpenVMS product sales training.

But VMS clusters were much smaller, so the complexity of the distributed key stores were much simpler.
This poor clown carries the surname of a Once beloved AI founder who turned out to have paedophilic tendencies on the pedophile island.
The fact that a status page is not reachable would itself imply the status of the service whose status it reports, no? Especially since visiting the status page is not normally done unless someone is having problems with the service.
Dividing people based on immutable characteristics, fomenting resentments based on these characteristics and establishing a hierarchy of victimhood is un-American.
Thanks for that walk through. Again since I'm not an app dev, I have no insight into this process.

Do certain vendors get pre-release access that smaller vendors do not? Does Twitter/Facebook/etc have to do the same thing you just described? If it was truly as bad as you are making it out to be, how in the world does the eco-system survive? There's no way Apple could expect to be able to handle reviewing every single app in this manner. Surely something is missing?
Relevant thread (with you) from the nearby past:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20849454

The yaml monster in k8s is quite unpleasant. It's always been surprising to me how we somehow ended up with executable BUILD files but totally static deploy files.
Jesus wept, who downvotes legit questions?

I'm more than happy to answer, but it might sound sociopathic in isolation and without context. Also I used "service workers" as an example of people I interact with daily, but it can be anyone really and my point was more general.

Regarding my service worker friends specifically (usually they work at my local food places): if I go places more than once I'll ask how things are that day, if it was busy, if there's any time that is overly annoying, basic small talk stuff.

Maybe another day I'll ask their name, but I must have already asked a question on another day, so that a question like this doesn't come out of the blue.. it's a natural progression, and this is so that I can greet them by name next time I see them.

After I'm talking with names then I'll ask weird questions like if they had a favourite customer, maybe make a cheesy joke about it not being me because I'm annoying with questions.

Maybe later I'll ask if they have any family in the area, or something stupid about star signs. If their birth month is coming up I'll comment on it and make a mental note to bring it up later to figure out their birthday and get them some small gift.

Even later, if I have an event planned or something I'll invite them out- I always offer 2 or 3 different times/things before I stop offering, when/if they reject it can be a reason to ask more pointed questions about what they normally do as activity; the last time you offer you can suggest that they show you what they're interested in or something.

It helps that I genuinely care for the people I interact with, I really consider everyone a friend I haven't gotten to know yet.

I know it sounds formulaic, but it's not and I'm just recollecting.

As for hanging out, maybe once every 2 weeks? not sure, certainly not often. I have a girlfriend who is very demanding of my time.

And, for context, I live in Sweden, so- also not US. :)
Oh for sure, I don't think just anyone should go building one... there are reasons we have building codes, but there's a lot of valuable knowledge there that gets discredited because of how these things look to "normal" people.
Loads fine for me an hour later. Nice site! I love the design and idea behind it.
Many do, but they are afraid of getting cancelled.
It also doesn't really make sense in abstract consideration - is one address "bigger" than the other one?
Honest question from a heavy python user who would switch if it made sense:

Are there any comprehensive benchmarks that show Julia outperforming Pandas or PyTorch or SciKit?

Obviously pure Python is terrible. But the library algorithms written in C seem fairly competitive.

I’m a fairly boring user who doesn’t do new science, and is fine just composing existing boring algorithms to solve problems in my subject matter domain.
Everything I have seen from Autodesk, this was what I expected from day one I learned of Fusion 360. I hoped I would be wrong, but no.
What is the author's model then? I agree everything-can-randomly-change-anything interpretation is uncharitable, but then I am confused what the model is. (As you pointed out, that's the literal interpretation.)

I think there is no model, and the author is just vaguely complaining they are not satisfied with status quo. But then the tone is unbelievably arrogant and deserves all the derision.

By the way, I am of the opinion C's pointer model can be greatly improved to be programmer friendly, beyond getting rid of strict aliasing rule. For example, I think comparing two unrelated pointers (for sorting, lock ordering, etc.) should be well defined and not UB. But claiming "pointers are easy" is not the way to go.
Or eschew config files altogether and write operators in golang . . . https://sdk.operatorframework.io/
How about forcing mom and pops to close while huge multinationals are allowed to stay open and eat up their market share? It's borderline fascist.
I do not believe they distributed the GM build of Xcode to anybody early. This is the first time they've ever pulled "also tomorrow it's out" -- they usually give 1 week to get app submissions in.

I also believe that, right now, they're just rubber stamping all app reviews. They cannot handle this volume.
When I went full time remote (last year, before COVID), I had comfort and strain issues. I attribute them to 2 main causes, that I've since mitigated:

1. I replaced my commute with more screen time. This was a net increase in my daily time spent at a computer.
2. My screen time was more contiguous. I didn't have to walk to my coworkers' desks for a quick chat (whether casual or work related). Meetings kept me at my desk instead of moving. My work day transitioned directly into my personal hobby time (video games).
I am legitimately delighted to see prices go up. At $60, many AAA titles basically had to rely on micro-transactions in order to be profitable, which ultimately incentivizes game designers to create worse experiences. I'd much rather just pay what the game costs to create.

I realize it's very possible publishers will continue to expand the use of microtransactions anyway, but, well, at least now they'll have the ability to not do that. Before, it was basically a lost cause.

Also... game prices drop so quickly that if you're actually budget-constrained, there's a pretty easy solution, which is to buy everything on a ~3 year delay. This will of course likely require getting the version of the PS5 with a disc drive, which everyone should do, for exactly this reason.

(Note also here that $60 now is not equal to $60 fifteen years ago, due to inflation.)
GoPro Hero 9
Lol. I don’t know why you got downvoted, that email is definitely from their candidate rejection letter template.

“We have chosen to go with another beta tester that better aligns with our needs at this time”.
The game regularly crashed for me 4 months after release, to the point where I stopped playing it.
There is, but I would assume it's having to use software decode, which is battery draining, and you have to have good wifi. This is a solved problem, the Steam Link had been doing H264 hardware decode to do streaming across networks. But you need that hardware support to make it polished and well useable. Android phones currently have chips for hardware H264, so they really could do this as an official features if they wanted to, it's just very dissapointing that they don't.
Yes, that is cool. I had just come back from an internship in Wireline at Schlumberger where I was exposed to tools like one that did nuclear magnetic resonance, NMR, thousands of metres below. Pretty sweet tech. Transitioned to ECT for that project, then ECG for anomaly detection on anonymized hospital patient data. I never will underestimate the effect hair and sweat have on data. That was a cool year with lessons that served well later.
Azure. The web panel is a bazillion times better and they know AD... pretty well.
How often the "____ is down" threads show up on HN is a function of the popularity and mission-critical-ness of the service. I wouldn't use it as a metric for choosing a cloud provider unless you control for popularity.
The 0.1% passed those laws.

Then they blamed robots, immigrants, demographics and boomers.

"The can kicks back" wasn't bankrolled by a millenial, after all.
I think you are taking an overly strong reading, I highly doubt the author would say that writing to stack memory is reasonable unless the address has explicitly been taken with &x
Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019
Ah it looks to be aws-iso (c2s.ic.gov, top secret) and aws-iso-b (sc2s.sgov.gov, secret)?
The subtext was of course that Apple would implement it on their phones for free but charge 30% for any competitors to do it for you.

For Apple, everything is either a feature or a product you can skim 30% of.
Running homebrew, although I don't know if there's much of a homebrew scene for the ps4.

Also you can get a second hand ps4 pretty cheap nowadays relative to it's hardware and power consumption - could make a decent home server if you chucked some variety of linux on there (is there much support for the hardware?)
I've done a number of diversity & inclusion trainings and I'm always confused by the opposition to them. Being more aware is generally useful.

As a hiring manager, it's been helpful for me to be thoughtful about asking things like, "how did you get here, car, train?" - as this implies socioeconomic status, and if you reflect on why you asked that, what you wanted to know about it, and how it affected your thinking in general, and were honest, there's a chance it might have affected your opinion of the person in a way that has nothing to do with their ability to do the job. This opinion could be either good or bad, and isn't necessarily dependent on whether the person you're interviewing is from a marginalized class.

I still have bias, everyone does, these trainings do not aim to eliminate bias, they aim to inform people that it exists, and to offer them tools to be thoughtful about those biases, and to challenge folks to question the biases that potentially harm others, even if unintentionally.
Donate ( to a charity) or pay?
My dad did have a dishwasher and smoke detectors... Actually, I'm less likely to have a dishwasher than he was, because of space constraints.
FB allows only one real-name account.
It's no longer wireless at that point is the problem. It is nice, but it misses the point of a wireless headest.
> using a Raspberry Pi and 5G

For anyone else wondering, he used a Raspberry Pi and a mobile internet connection. Any number of G's will do.
Where "close enough" means that you would need to be within about one-and-a-half-thousand kilometres of a ground station (using words not numbers because it's a bit hand-wavy).
Then you need multiple pages of apps. I keep 15 top apps in thumb hotspots and 11 folders in (mostly) more tucked away spots. One page, all apps. The apps in each folder are alphabetized. The folders definitely go into 3+ pages in some categories, but I often search if it feels like hunting down an app in a folder is more work.
Every single limitation you mentioned will apply to Nova and other editors as well. It would be great to write and run code on an iPad, but that's simply not happening. Cloud-backed is the best we can do, and VS Code already excels at that.
India’s Richest Man Wants You to Invest in Retail
If you ask around I think you will discover that non-engineers DO NOT relate to this topic at all the same way engineers do.

That's all the evidence that I need to take the view that this phenomenon is wide-spread and pervasive in engineering and does not usually reach the same level of pathology in other professions -- a level where people are forced into 'playing a game' with regard to estimates and deadlines.

In short this is really UNHEALTHY behavior and whether it occurs in all industries or just engineering seems beside the point.
Maybe your sarcasm detector is broken.
Don't forget it's an RGB display with 3 subpixels per pixel. Quest 1 was 2 subpixels per pixel (pentile). You'll definitely see much more of an improvement than 27%.

Pentile is not bad when the pixels are so small you can't see them. Under a magnifying glass which a VR headset basically is, not so much.
Pretty dense report with lots of interesting statistics.

These got my attention:

The 2019 poverty rate of 10.5 percent is the lowest rate observed since estimates were initially published in 1959

The 2019 real median incomes of White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic households all increased from their 2018 medians [between 5.7% (Blacks) and 10.6% (Asians)]

Percentage change in share of aggregate income was highest for the lowest income quintile (+1.8%). High income quintile saw decrease in share of aggregate income (-0.6%)
No. Go to this website. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totalcases

Do you see how many people have died? That's right. over 195,000 people.

It's not convenient for anyone that this is happening. There are a lot of people barely holding on right now. And you're in here complaining about some perceived loss of freedom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books_(Jung)
I expect that buying only Oculus Quest 2 64GB without accessories/apps won't support FB's finance much.
If you are London based, you should also factor in that London real estate’s qualitative transformation in the last 40 years. It used to be real estate, you know, local people buying homes to live in. Now it’s one of the best performing asset classes in the world. You aren’t competing for property with your mates with a big inheritance. You are competing with dodgy oil money that needs to be laundered and more honest international investors told to diversify. The rule of law is a precious and rare component of legal infrastructure, so a lot of money is diversified into jurisdictions with strong guarantees.

I’m generally a pro-market person. In the case of UK real estate, I support a ban on non-residents buying property similar to what Canada have.
It happens regularly with Ubisoft's Uplay. Like the launcher can't access the Internet so you can't access your games.