skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firing the person who happened to be at the wheel when a mistake like this occurs never seems like the right choice to me, especially if their performance to-date had otherwise been good.

Everybody has off days, or just instances where circumstances misalign in just the wrong way. To pretend otherwise is silly; instead, it's the leader's/team's responsibility to ensure that those sort of off days don't lead to massive losses via redundancy & the sort of measures we're talking about here & in the OP. Firing somebody in these circumstances just acts to severely reduce morale, since we all secretly know in our hearts that it very easily could have been us.

Firing in this case just seems retributive. It's not going to bring the lost data back, and you've just eliminated the very person who could have told you most about the chain of events leading to the incident in question to help you guard against it in the future. These incidents usually sound simple at the surface level ("I clicked the button in the wrong window") but often hint at deeper, perhaps even organizational, issues. A lack of team focus on reliability/quality, a lack of communication or trust about decisions made (or not made) by higher ups, or so on.

And they are probably the single least likely person to cause a similar incident again -- that person will now likely be double and triple checking their commands for eternity.
Wow, do I disagree with you.

I have repeatedly had Uber and Lyft pick a driver, I wait tens of minutes, and then the ride is cancelled. If Waymo can avoid that, then I would gladly pay MORE for it. (I waited at a hospital for 2 hours, at 2 am, one time.)

I've also had an Uber driver who had no idea how to drive. My wife had an Uber driver who was convinced the destination was a hundred yards into one of the Great Lakes, and couldn't be convinced to change their mind.

I think you're also underestimating the value of long-haul rides. If I can get a "moving hotel" that drives me over night to an awesome destination, I think that would be awesome. I mean, ideally it's a train. But that takes tons of infrastructure we don't have. If I could pay airline rates, and not have to go through airport security, not have delayed or cancelled flights, and could travel while sleeping? That would be phenomenal. Especially right now, avoiding airports and crowded planes? And post-covid, I think it could really help tourism.

I think you're also under-valuing having a self-driving car from the novelty aspect. Picture you're at a Disneyworld Resort, and you order Lighting McQueen to take you to the Magic Kingdom. He pulls up, it looks like him, sounds like him. You hop in, and you see his face on a display, continuing to talk to you.

Heck, picture the whole car is designed like a movie theater. Nice and dark, great sound.

Also, picture a self-driving car with a liquor license. That's like limo service, at Uber price, right? Hard to do that with an actual human driver, without a limousine license, right?

And we've all seen research that says that once you get enough self-driving cars, traffic jams go away. That alone is worth the cost, and then some.
Decline and fall of Easter Island culture (1995)
In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Are we about to follow their lead?

By Jared Diamond
iOS does not allow apps to be kept alive in background at all. On Android you can (mostly) keep an app open in background, but you should not, as it affects battery life.

Of course, another issue is that no device is always online, so you can't base the system entirely on devices communicating with each other peer-to-peer. You want to at least have supernodes. When you do, it effectively becomes a "dynamic federated network".
Definitely agree. Although maybe the increased dilution of tech workers (roughly same # spread across larger set of cities) will help mitigate this.
There are two kinds of "No-Code."

The kind where the data type you need already has code for it and just needs configuration.

And the kind that needs code to implement the data type you need.
Foundry sale price of $238/chip seems way too high.

See e.g. https://www.cultofmac.com/658650/iphone-11-pro-max-productio...

> Apple A13 processor that (is) supposedly is priced at $64.
What? No. Y'all aren't doctors, please listen to your doctors
The standard version of shogi.

I wonder if the extra space and pieces would increase the length of training polynomially or exponentially.
I was thinking that same thing. They nuked a few great people a few years ago
They have lots of experience making ICE vehicles. Making an EV takes a different set of engineers and different assembly line practices and different suppliers and and and..
Covid Toes, multi system organ damage, 10 year brain aging, evasion of the immune system....the media is really having the field day with this.
Yes. They even had an open source client that you could contribute to and run your own copies of.
https://github.com/LukasBombach/next-super-performance adds partial hydration to next. I was tempted by this some time ago, but ended up leaving it due to concern about straying too far off-piste from next itself.
Thanks frereubu. Sorry, I posted it because the author kadavy wrote the book "design for hackers" and it was big on HN a while ago. I was going to add the "design for hackers author" to the title, but I didn't want to editorialize it.

I thought this community would like it and can relate to it, but I understand if it goes against guidelines.

is this good enough to post or unflag, or is linking directly to Amazon not a good idea. Thank you!
The "conspiracies" are well documented. See, for example, season 1 of the Drilled podcast:

https://www.criticalfrequency.org/drilled

It's all out there in the memos from these companies.
By using the tiny imperfections in an optical fiber, they have invented a way to have a seismic monitor every 2m along a piece of dark fiber, all around cities and along major highways.[0]

[0] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-and-city-pasadena...
yes, 100%! More information available once you click each activity profile.
My understanding from talking to friends who work at Apple and some of the product briefs is a lot of the hardware is used for video and photo processing. Video games take advantage of the extra CPU/GPU power as well.

I don’t think that’s all that Apple specific as there are increased ISPs and security chips on other phones as well.
How to Be a Hacker
More power to them, but I would weigh giving anyone a raise until their web page stops being so user-hostile as to be worse than useless. The web site is so bad that I will go back and add "-reddit -site:reddit.com" to my searches if they've SEO'd the terms I'm looking for, and it comes up on the first page of results. The only reason the site exists now is as the world's largest porn aggregator. I'm sure there's enough money in that to continue to prosper, but I have no use for it any more.
Windows XP Startup Sound (slowed 4000%)
You can talk semantics all you want, but at the end of the day, look at your average Robin Hood trader on StockTwits and we can see exactly what the market is.
With all due respect, i think that might just be you. Email has operated as federated for so many years, and while there are certainly large providers like gmail, etc....There are also plenty of non-multi-tenant, non-SaaS instances of email servers (and associated mailboxes).
Being early on the ML hardware acceleration boat is going to pay off astronomically. Embedded inferencing is going to be a society defining technology by the time we hit mid-decade. It's already being used for predictive maintenance of machinery in IIoT with huge payoffs via decrease in unforeseen total machine failure or need of heavy overhauls.
Part of it is that Big Auto does not include Big Auto Dealership, and Big Auto Dealership needs service revenue to continue being as profitable as it has been.

Electric vehicles are projected to have far fewer costs per mile from service compared to ICE vehicles.[0][1]

I really like only having to worry about tires and windshield wipers (and other shared mechanical equipment at the appropriate mileage).

0. https://insideevs.com/news/340365/electric-car-servicing-cos...
1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/12/does-lower-total-cost-o...
Exactly. You should be compensated based on how valuable you are to the company, not based on how much you spend on rent.
> Now if they take away the ability to customize the new tab page, then I'd be bothered...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Oil companies also knew about it by the 70's.

There was then a huge business-run propoganda campaign which has succeeded on convincing many people that climate change is not real.
No problem! This was a group of good ol boys who'd hired each other and no women. Been going on for years apparently. So Charlene was not an issue.
I'm not sure I buy the premise of your argument that middle managers are to blame for everything wrong at corporations (at least that's how I'm interpreting it).

And I definitely don't buy that no executive ever heard this.
Perhaps. I've heard that Reddit engineers still push features to production without PMs in the loop.
The issue is you can't manipulate the EM fields in exclusion to neural activity as they are intrinsically linked to one another.
What is that reason?

e: removed the fluff, see child post
airbnb, blog/content sites, membership sites with a couple of restricted routes (CRUD + confetti on top), landing pages etc
It's coming!
JSX is not HTML, even though its syntax is very similar. It’s a data structure that’s renderer-agnostic. It can be rendered to HTML, or to a live DOM, or to other outputs. IIRC, Netflix uses React to render at least some components on entirely non-web interfaces like smart TVs.

To me, that fact is what makes React (and other libraries like Preact that have a similar interface) more compelling than the template-oriented alternatives. As far as I’m aware, Flutter takes basically the same approach, just with different syntax. I believe the same is true of SwiftUI. And Elm, and the various UI libraries for Clojure.

And as another comment mentioned, you can use a variety of CSS-in-JS approaches, which at least last time I looked is actually the more common approach in the React community.

Add in TypeScript (or whatever static type system in whatever compile to JS language), and you’re basically comparing bike sheds at this point.
Finally the Roman numeral converter I programmed in university will be useful.
Because they're pretending that this next [high-level abstraction] will be replaced by another style of [high-level abstraction] as if [high-level abstraction] is nothing but a scaffold to let us ascend to the true productive glory of [high-level abstraction]. It ignores the fact that it's not unheard of for platforms which started out no-code later REGRESS and introduce coding features such as APIs because as it turns out, no-code is intrinsically limited in a lot of very significant ways.

When I use a "no-code" product it's usually not more than a few months before I start using it's API and adding small bits of code here and there to do things not natively supported by the product. You would have to have a puritanical fervor and a lack of sense to want to eliminate all semblance of code from a product made out of code.

It's almost as if after seeing you could add images to Microsoft word documents you saw an article coming out about how Written English was going to be replaced by Hieroglyphics and soon we could communicate with nothing but Emoji and talking about how the next generation won't be literate. The sentiment in this thread is mostly a reaction to irritating and implausible clickbait.
old.reddit.com still works, and if you make an account, you can set old as your default so //reddit.com uses that layout instead

You can only change "Opt out of the redesign" setting on the new site though, which is super annoying, and a pretty big signal https://new.reddit.com/settings/
And create-react-app would be all I would ever need except that SEO on single page apps that don't have data loaded upon load really sucks compared to server side rendered pages. Is there a way to build a site using create-react-app and enable server side rendering without implementing a whole other framework like Nextjs?
Somebody has to do it and Apple has the cash, I think they can afford to.
It was taught in schools at least 35 years ago.

Edit: 30-35 years ago.
Pro tip: if you're trying to expose your kids to foreign languages, change the language of games to that language (in the same vain as "watch cartoons in that language)
By what metric is Reddit a startup?
Not if you start juggling several streams of 4k video, it's not.

Also, one can play games on an iPad, and games will soak up arbitrary amounts of CPU and GPU power.
>we are eliminating geographic compensation zones in the US

I am worried about the precedent this sets and the long term consequences. I can certainly imagine a scenario that plays out like the following:

Step 1 - Eliminate geographic considerations for salary.

Step 2 - Scale all salaries to expensive markets.

Step 3 - Slowly allow salaries to stagnate until employees in expensive markets are no longer receiving fair pay.

Step 4 - Employees in expensive markets leave for other jobs.

Step 5 - Allow steps 3 and 4 to repeat themselves as many times as you like.

Step 6 - Company has now decreased employee salaries and physical expenses like office space.

Step 7 - Profit.
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. A little harsh and hyperbolic , sure, but their website has become an unusable joke in recent years.
From what I've gathered this has as much to do with for the Xbox One and PS4 the discs are only "installers" these days (and sometimes worse, just "activation tokens"), and for various reasons both the Xbox One and the PS4 have some very interesting heuristics of what they bother to pull from the disc versus what they just grab from the internet. The Blu-Ray discs on those consoles are slower than people tend to think they are and I get the impression a lot of times the consoles this generation themselves just think it is faster to fetch everything from the internet than to bother trying to pull it from the drive.
Nobody has proven consciousness is even real. It’s like people assuming they have free will.
It's not like there's a lack of historical precedent for a profit motive causing them to work against the interests of the general population. See also: Streetcars[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
I agree the statement in the article regarding amyloid strikes me more as journalistic framing and makes me think the author isn't quite up to speed on AD research today. The paper in question [0] states front and center that they do not see a change in beta amyloid accumulation in this study.

[0] https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdf/S2211-1247(20)31158-X....
I had an extremely bad flu once. Set me back for about 2 weeks. I do believe that it reduced my intelligence. Always hard to say with this stuff, but I was in university and the difficulty level seemed to take a significant step up after I recovered... but math is hard! Had a significant concussion about a decade later, and experienced a similar drop in apparent intelligence and motivation -- which reinforces my belief that the impact was real (with the concussion, I experienced some tangible recovery as well).

But... just because this can happen as a result of an extreme flu, doesn't mean that we should take these risks lightly just because they're familiar. I think I'd be a better person, and a more productive member of society, without those injuries.
I think this lack of awareness or straight up apathy is just another example of the dearth of "attention energy" available to the average person today. When there's so much vying for peoples' attention on a daily basis, stimulating a concerted response (e.g. political will) is much more difficult. I'm not sure how we solve this at this point, because I don't see it naturally getting better.
That sounds amazing, thanks for the update!

I stopped using Julia because it was very frustrating that I payed thousands of dollars for a laptop with GeForce RTX 2070 card and the I couldn't make use of it, it felt like I wasted a lot of money...that was my main decision for moving to PyTorch. I know that Julia as a language should be able to beat it easily, but it felt to me that the community was prioritizing CPU over GPU for a long time. I'm happy that it's changing now.
That Special:LongPages list is a perfect example of Wikipedia's biggest weakness, in that crowdsourcing is a bad way to do curation.

Ideally, the length of an encyclopedia's article about a subject would be proportional to the subject's importance and to the amount of information available to the subject, not proportional to the contentiousness, propaganda value, or recency bias of that article.
It would not be popular mostly; these are departmental apps in big corps built on top of subsets of the 1000s of tables. They can contain some business logic, but that can be ‘no code’ as well (flow chart kind of stuff); these systems are usually not the nicest to use, however much (!) nicer than the systems the tables originally belong to. So see it as a small team/person needs to enter certain type of data; they can learn to wade through miles of SAP menus, or someone clicks together a little crud (web) app that does exactly that and cannot do anything else. There are many 1000s of these cases, but they do not get popular as they stay inside the companies (departments) they are created in.
Because salaries are based off not just demand but also supply?
Oil has historically been inexpensive and abundant and mainstream environmental concerns are relatively nascent. Further, no one knew how viable battery tech would become, and a big driver of this viability has been the booming consumer electronics market which is itself a relatively recent development. Basically the auto industry didn't have your benefit of hindsight.
Considering this news:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-now-ordering-chips-tsmc...

I sincerely doubt Intel will ever disclose it.
A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
That is apparently the price to assure that Apple is the only purveyor in town with a 5nm process chip.

Worth it? Apple thinks so.
My life got significantly better when I managed to switch from working 5 days and resting 2 (37.5 hours/week), to working 4 days and resting 3 (30 hours/week).
Big oil is valuable only if someone burns it. Automobiles were the perfect consumer for the stuff. I presume there are connections from the oil companies to the car manufacturers.
> anti-scientific sentiment

Anti-scientific sentiment is at high levels because you don't get someone to personally explain basic statistical concepts that you could have googled yourself?
I'm sure Apple consider the iPad Pro as a testing ground for these chips.
Excellent!

I've never though it made much sense to tie compensation so tightly to geography. If I'm providing enough value for you to pay me $X, and I move somewhere cheaper but provide the same value, you'll either pay me $X or I'll find someone else that will. If you think you can find a suitable replacement for cheaper, you should be doing that anyway.
The theoretical maximum density is probably based on some type of physical law or just a simplified model.
That is often what people talk about when they talk about theoretical maximums/minimums.

Like if you have a box of dimensions 10x10x10cm the theoretical maximum number of dice of dimension 1x1x1cm you can fit in the box is 1000 dices.
Chances are you won’t get 1000 dices in to the box as the world is more complex than the theoretical model we used for the scenario.
Why bother having fun?
Why bother reading?
Why bother doing anything but maximizing your human potential?
Because it is exhausting. We eat fruit not just for the nutrition and dietary fiber. It is also delicious and inspires joy.

And joy might be the best thing we can have.
It all starts with celebrating people getting paid the same. Then you realise that when Reddit starts doing pay cuts, everybody across the board will get them and SF/NYC become even more unaffordable.
Even though i've never been a fan of centralized services, i never hated meetup.com that much...Or, rather, i never hated the concept of what meetup.com represents (or could represent). But over the years, i really have always disliked the overall experience. And as years pass by, i seem to dislike the meetup.com experience more and more.
Definitely a good idea. In the subject of the analogy (software incidents) I think both should be done -- a regular and habitual focus on important/high risk commands via procedure, and preparations for the time when the inevitable still happens because people are people and it's impossible to fully predict all potential sources of unintended consequences. A lack of habitual focus when important consequences are at stake could lead to an over-reliance on the safety nets, and you really don't want your safety nets becoming routine. Otherwise you'll need safety nets for the safety nets.
> Much of the web is hosted on AWS.

Fair enough. I'm sure I use some web sites that are hosted on AWS, I did not consider that.

> Same with Facebook and their trackers, unless you block them.

That may be (though I block at least some of them), but that's hardly equivalent. I don't depend in any way on Facebook tracking me. If they stopped, I would certainly not suffer from it.
Everything you mentioned is directly related to your physical location. Your state taxes you a certain amount, and (hopefully) spends it on services. Different states have different laws/politics/philosophies, so they tax you differently.

Whether you work for Google from SF or Chicago makes no difference to the company as long as you are doing the same work. I'd argue that someone working for Google in the UK should also be paid the same.
OpenShift does this by forcing you to write the name of the project you are about to delete. It was something that used to annoy me but reading this I understand it is a good call from their side.
I do like this idea, this is I assume why github makes you type the repo name out in full. I wish AWS followed suit, when deleting any RDS (database) instance on AWS all you have to type is "delete me"... very easy to copy and paste as well as just know what you need to type and be on autopilot. I have even poked support about it and their response was underwhelming.
Planning makes everything perfect.
You have to find a good app or use a notebook. First, start with establishing your main task. Next, divide it to steps (smaller thing you need to do). So, step by step, you'll manange to complete everything you needed to do.
Slawek Kierner on AI and simulations in health care
Media is complicit in this, not the victim. By presenting "both sides" equally in many contexts, they give the false impression that the case of the denialists is equally strong.

Just because there are two sides does not mean there are two equally valid sides. And presenting them as such is a form of bias. Quite a pernicious one.

This is common practice in all sorts of stories. Journalists are trained to solicit / include some counterpoint or naysaying voice, no matter the topic. Even if the story is otherwise uncontroversial.
Considering all the middle managers I know of are desperately trying to get the workforce back into offices because they seemingly have bugger-all to do now, I'd say you can cut out a fair few of them if you need to balance out a new cost.

Without being overworked, can a remote manager manage more people than an on-site manager? I don't know any remote managers