skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot who, but they convinced me the web is occupying the areas the OSes failed to do: interoperable app platform, easy and accessible UI and programming, fine grained access to files (a /home/x is free for all for all processes) etc. Hence the browser will gain features so that few vendors can keep up. Of course, not justifying 2M bundle for a poem page or ad network behavior.
I’m spending some time in Constantinople right now, if anyone wants to spend some time lamenting the fall of the Western Roman Empire together. That is, after the weekend plague curfew. Email transitively in profile.
While that's true, if we take certain basic human values to be universal for the sake of discussion, it's not unreasonable to say that a loaf of bread has intrinsic value in a way that a dollar clearly does not.
I understand you're pretty funny as a dee-jay and, well, comedy is kind of a hobby of mine. Well, actually, it's a little more than just a hobby, Reader's Digest is considering publishing two of my jokes.

Yeah. And perhaps some night we could maybe get together and swap humorous stories, for fun.
Sean Bean. If you want a character to get killed, nobody does a better job of dying heroically.
> The aim is to assist for a fair deal through information, not to extort the capital owners.

This sounds similar to "the aim is to be good, not bad".

Your assertion does not lie on facts but on your personal moral interpretation and even prejudice against a label.

Unions are organizations whose aim is to represent workers and defend their best interests with the company's representatives.

Sometimes the company's goals are in direct opposition to the workers's best interests. How do you expect the negotiations to go if the company plans to strong-arm and coherce their workers into submissions.
It'd be great if you could use something like this for quick-and-dirty 3D asset generation, but is there any way to convert neural radiance fields to meshes? It'd be cool if you could take a photo or two of an object and get a 3d mesh out quickly.
I believe this is a key component to true self driving cars.

Being able to imagine correctly what is behind stuff is a required skill for safe driving.
Stadia disagrees (Doom is actually on there).

You can say what you want about the business model or Google itself, but the UX is impeccable.

I am periodically in disbelief when I think that what I’m playing on the screen is being streamed by a server.
> Nobody wants a phone that doesn't allow them to add a third party app. They tolerate it due to lack of choice because the device still provides exceptional utility.

No, people DO want phones like that. You are in a niche group of users that don’t want it. Most iPhone users and even many developers love the walled garden and the security and quality it brings with it.
Well written, well sourced and very narrow for someone that fashions themselves as 'ethicist'. There are more things in life beyond race and gender as seen through the prism of critical race/gender theory. I heard somewhere of this strange word 'love', something to look into. She's young, smart, capable and possibly well meaning in spite of her unbecoming behavior. Perhaps one day she'll grow to see the struggle common to all born of a woman.
How does this compare on features with alternatives?
Bad naming: "Eth" is mostly a reference to Ethereum. I'm sure quite a number of people will get confused by it.

Edit: downvoted, really? I was just pointing out that the name might confuse people, in my view. You might disagree, but why downvote?
Not defending Google but I believe at least once Google has restored emails for a lot of users from tape backup. I imagine 15 GB for the user is at least three times as much from Google perspective. So sixty cents, not twenty?
Fiat game mechanics force them to "invest" in "productive" assets in order to stay ahead of inflation.

Scare quotes used because a ton of the price of those assets now reflects a monetary premium. I.e. a portion of the price of a house is its value for living or renting out in a given area, but a lot of it is its value as a scarce asset that is somewhat resistant to inflation.

Needless to say, this is not a great allocation of resources and is an incredibly inefficient way for saving to work.
Software already exists for this purpose.

You have to take photos of an object from all angles (more the better), and a mesh is generated.

I haven’t had much success with it though, that technology certainly has room for improvement.
Wddng – A Wedding with Tech Support
yep, this makes sense, vote with your wallet.
My impression of Postgres development is markedly different. It seems like each release since 8 or 9 has brought significant, exciting new features. I don’t pay close attention, but IIRC, a lot of investment has gone into JSON, window functions, and lots of miscellaneous but important things (e.g., upsert). Meanwhile Go’s language changes have all been minor and boring (not a bad thing!).
Have you done any analysis of the debug symbols provided by Linux distros like Debian or Fedora?
I don’t know how true this is. The moment you take money to do something is when some or all of the fun gets sucked out of it.
Finally ML assisted photogrammetry, requiring a lot less input data, doesn't seem so far fetched anymore.
Is there anything you're passionate about? If so, why not spin up a website on that subject?

Django is pretty easy to learn. Model view Etc in Python instead of Ruby. Not rocket science.

Building something you care about will force you to dig into the details and become enough of an expert in a few weeks to get in the door somewhere where your skills will be appreciated.

That probably won't be Facebook, Google, or the next Silicon Valley unicorn. But there are a lot of other places and other Industries where interesting things are going on.

Good luck
Fingers crossed for World on Fire. Frankenstein didn't pan out - he died.
Or have connections / bribery access to someone who does. In places where corruption is endemic, one can imagine this as a regular side biz for telco employees.
They don't have a source material to go with, and they cannot obviously match the underlying narrative structure.
Ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the only way it could possibly go away for good is database libraries that don’t support dynamic SQL. But you almost always need the flexibility at some point, and SQL is so powerful that taking it off the table is hard to justify.
They’re designed to trick you into acting against your best interests. To push you to spend money you don’t have on shit you don’t need to impress people you don’t like, to quote a witty whoever wrote this.
No one should use us-west-1 unless they have a good reason to: It's more expensive, only two AZs for new customers, frequent capacity issues, and slow to get new services. us-west-2 should almost always be preferred, as it's a flagship region and only a couple light-milliseconds away.

As a user of us-west-2, I've found it to be very reliable. I can only remember a couple minor issues off the top of my head. The region hasn't even made the leaderboard. [1] ;)

Every time us-east-1 goes haywire, I can kick my feet up and relax as the world burns.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/
Pardon my French, but I don't give a flying fuck about how deliverable someone's "campaigns" written by their "creatives" are to the "clients" on their "targeted lists".

I want to know how I, a human being running a mailserver, can consistently ensure that other email users -- most notably Gmail users -- can consistently receive and read the _individual_ emails I send, at a rate of _maybe_ half a dozen on a busy day.

As far as I can tell (admittedly largely from the stories of others, as I have basically given up on this myself at this point), there are lots of guides to deliverability of email marketing campaigns, and Google will work with marketers to ensure that their email gets delivered, but for a small non-commercial mailserver without a full-time staff it's not really practical to expect reliable delivery. Which seems sad and backwards to me.
In my experience "going above and beyond" tends to get you more work and responsibility for roughly the same pay. I did get the occasional 5% annual raise instead of the standard 2-3% that most of my coworkers received. Even then the raises were usually more dependent on how well the company performed vs how well I performed.
Leverage web scraping to protect your brand during the golden quarter
You'd be surprised. That's basically why FizzBuzz test [1] usually works.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
If you look closely at that set, DVR turns everything into sittingware :D
"when you want to test new code with the production data".
Take a snapshot and start a new instance from that snapshot.
I would also encourage everyone to read what this loss means to the local communities in Puerto Rico [0], and most particularly, to the young kids who fell inspired by it.

"Kevin Ortiz Ceballos, a physics student and aspiring astronomer at the University of Puerto Rico, said in an email that it had always been his dream to work at Arecibo.

Now he said, “It feels like the rug has been pulled out from under us and our dreams to work in astronomy in Puerto Rico has vanished.”"

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/science/arecibo-observato...
I keep traveling back to multiple xterms on IBM X Windows terminals accessing a DG/UX server back in 1994, when I see this kind of posts.

I guess it is some people's idea of progress.
A game-changer in dev CVs
As for me: I haven't figured it out yet, sometimes a fractional scale works, sometimes you get vague errors. In any case what I have noticed is that quality drops significantly if you use fractionals.

For my set-up at home (1080 - 4k - 1080) I have a simple script, that really was more of a `write once - use always`-experience. E.g.

xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto --scale 2x2 --pos 0x0+0+0
xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --scale 2x2 --pos 7680x0+0+0
xrandr --output DP1 --auto --mode 3840x2160 --scale 1x1 --pos 3840x0+0+0 --primary

So basically what I do is, I virtually up-scale my other screens up to 4k, such that system-wide zoom settings are (more or less) consistent and enjoyable.
Ethernet has been around just a tiny bit longer and is actually related to this tool.
CapOne’s API snd docs, technical customer support and their easy to use VCC generation has kept me with them long after I had expected. Other than Amex they’re probably the only big “bank” I’d recommend (and Fidelity for checking).
Same for me. Unfortunately, I found it hard to get along with some close relatives after my change in perspective.
That's actually an interesting thought. I don't know how much actual value that would actually add but would be pretty interesting
Because it likely won’t collapse the spin-offs would live and die on their own regardless of how good or bad GoT prime ended.

GoT as a franchise is now big enough to kick off other productions even with all the controversy around the final season or from insert season here.

The outcome of the Targaryen prequel or w/e they working on won’t change if they reshoot the “bad” seasons of GoT.

So if they are gonna invest $100M into the franchise they might as well invest in new material.
> Can someone explain to me why HBO isn’t spending $100M to recut season 7-8 and maybe reshoot a few new dialogue scenes while the actors are all still available?

Because the actors that matter aren't available any more, and neither are the sets, and COVID would complicate production, and because you grossly over estimate the value it would have even if none of that were a problem. It's done, the world has moved on. If there is more money to be made on the franchise, the ROI is going to be in other series based on the property (of which they have one in development), not tweaking the old one.
Do you have a time frame on when it'll be rolled out internationally e.g. UK or Singapore?
> Is Google running out of storage?

I guess is all about money. COVID disrupted ad chains as companies over the world revised their spending budgets. Some brick&mortar closed down for weeks thus they likely canceled ads completely. Ad income is fremium fuel. Cost cuts!
That’s cool, I’d actually enjoy getting this instead of being asked to build yet another production ready app in “two hours but you can spend more if you like hint hint and then we might even get back to you”
so you're just saying that if the system sucks, then instead of talking about it and trying to raise awareness about how bad it is so that we can possibly come up with a solution, your solution is just to "suck it up"?
Plank Mistakes You Should Completely Avoid
Put your functions in a schema e.g. v1, v2 etc.
You get same thing you have with code.
To test on prod data you take a snapshot and start an instance from a snapshot.
It doesn't really matter, is my point. We might need at least 30 billion to fully colonise the Solar System one day, or we might need to become a tiny colony that subsists off heat from the Earth's core hiding from super robots.

Ethically, we would need a pressure great enough to reduce the population for a horrible reason. We would never choose it.
I guess you never did telnet over modem connections.

My RDP connection over VPN works without issues.

When it fails, using ssh wouldn't be much better anyway.
They don't call it a quarter pounder?
Leetcode skills are something you need to do in your free time. That's why it is the most talked about.
Bite-Sized and Mini Snickers Calories
TBH it felt like almost no one on the writing side wanted to deal with this anymore, they’ve could’ve gotten JRRM in to finish the show somehow but I think even he might be in the position where he just doesn’t want too / can’t finish what he started.

It’s not like JRRM doesn’t have the issue of putting in too many strings that don’t pan out, at this point the books are almost too complex to actually finish.

PS I think the “stars” were more responsible for killing their own careers than the show..:
It never is one or two hours though. It might be if you designed the thing and know exactly how to get there and handle all the corner cases. Oh and also we always underestimate.

I have yet to see a 1–2h take home test actually be doable in that amount of time. It’s more like 8–10h to get going, have something meaningful, and code that isn’t inscrutable.
Sounds like a talent agent. Sectors that utilize talent agents often still have strong collective bargaining agreements and unions in place. Part of the power of a union is the ability to deprive a business or industry of labor. A talent agent alone does not provide such leverage.
Show HN: Remote Compilation for Instant Build
Do same for webapp and saas
I want to find a good way to preview pdf files in a terminal environment. Basically, browse through them to find the right one. Showing first page would be sufficient. Have not found the right solution yet.
Deposits from giant floods and their implications for climate of early Mars
I wonder where the stereotype of scantily-clad leather-fetish armor for barbarians actually comes from, given its extreme prevalence in modern culture and complete absence in actual historical cultures. Some other ahistorical stereotypes are easy to understand [1], but I don't see how both leather acquires an ahistorical importance and less armor becomes better-armored.

One point to call out that the author doesn't emphasize is that steppe cultures (both in North America and Eurasia) were integral parts of vast trading networks. One of the noted features of pre-Columbian North America [2] was the extent and speed with which trade goods moved all along it. So steppe cultures would absolutely have access to all the fine luxuries of the "civilized" world. Indeed, it should be noted that marrying off royalty to steppe elites was a common strategy for keeping steppe raiding at bay. This is fairly evident to anyone who does even a modicum of research on steppe peoples, or ancient people in general (people trade! all the time!), so the notion that steppe people are inherently austere is clearly the mark of someone who does not believe in research.

[1] e.g., colorless white Greco-Roman temples: all the paint faded away, leaving the underlying white stone. When the Renaissance kicks off a shift in Greco-Roman historiography to putting them at the pinnacle of human civilization, the extant white ruins were taken as reflective of what they actually looked liked and became the archetypes of modern attempts to re-summit civilization's pinnacle.

[2] Although it should be noted that the steppe cultures of the US--such as the Cheyenne, Apache, Sioux--don't exist in their modern form before the introduction of the horse around about the 18th century, with the Siouan peoples not even living on the plains until pushed out there during migrations in the 17th century.
Some of the thread can be a bit depressing, so I want to try to cheer it up a bit by enpowering us :-)

I’ve been building tech hiring processes for a bit now, and here is one far-fetched corollary of Conway’s law I believe in: tech hiring processes reflect the value and internal behaviour of companies.
So pick the process you get recruited by wisely.

You have to go through a whole slew of leetcode questions and double-indirection array inverting tricky loops to get a foot in? Expect the same mindset to apply to mentoring, promotion and getting any big thing done.
At the opposite side of the spectrum: if you’re hired no question asked with a 3to5 letter language in your CV and blabbing about having done some HTML at some point, expect some very fuzzy internal politics and decision making flow...

Here is the thing though: in most countries I recruit in, tech people are in demand.

Pick the process that reflect the type of company you want to work in.

Maybe there’s a tech job crisis I don’t know about, but we, as recruiters and recruitee, dont have to accept this state of affairs.
If people stop applying to some type of interview, or gently refuse to participate in the p*ssing-contest part of the flow (pun intended), company will adapt ...or die.
Tell them, no sorry, you won’t be doing whiteboard-coding with comma validation.

And if mediocre candidate learn rote leet-answers and spit them out to go and crash down BigCompanyX every 2-weeks, I can assure you the the company will soon learn and change (Google did, I believe MS did too). Or go bankrupt. Or outsource to a more sound-minded company.

Build the world you want to live in!
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I don't think so.

Other orgs don't have recruiting problems that FAANGs do. They can do better than imitating FAANG processes. They can afford to go wrong and self correct more. They can find a strategy that works for them which can combine whiteboarding, pairing, casual conversations, references, real life problems, letting the candidate showcase their work.

The problem isn't that they don't work and they gave up, problem is they aren't trying.
I was really surprised at how well Timescales compression worked. It was pretty much comparable to best in class columnstores. Only the row-by-row query execution engine was holding it back. Perhaps something that future versions of postgres can help with.

I haven't published the benchmarking results anywhere yet, but I will probably do some conference talks on it once that is a thing again.

Didn't look into Druid in detail, but did try out Hive. Both of them look more suitable for cases where there is significant engineering effort in developing the data ingest and structuring pipeline. I wouldn't recommend either to a small team. With a measly triple digit TB database size both seemed overkill.
PHP unit testing on .NET, naturally
Sure it can work, but it’s certainly not for me since I believe it’s a poor choice of default screen size for anything but primarily watching movies, as the aspect ratio limits the vertical viewing area significantly.

I like the way one blogger describes a 1440p vs a 1080p: “A 1440p monitor will give you 3x code windows side by side and 76 lines of code. This is a pretty big deal. You might not realize it until you’ve tried it for a while but being able to comfortably have 3 editor files open and being able to view about 50% more vertical lines of code at a glance is huge.” ( https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-good-monitor-fo... )

Though someone else mentioned they have 4K version, not just a 1080 version! That can work better with the right scaling. The rest of the laptop looks nice.
I don't specialize in InfoSec work, but I was recently asked to do some pentesting/auditing for a mobile app without being given a debug build where I could add MITM certs, etc.

I wasn't familiar with the latest tooling, but I was able to accomplish this by running an Android Emulator on a low-ish version (5 I think) and using Burp suite.

This method seems like it will quickly become obsolete. Going forward will the only way to accomplish this type of work be via rooting the device?
One-stop shops rarely succeed. Most just end up doing a little of everything and being mediocre. Microsoft Office, arguably the world's most popular toolbox, is made of several smaller parts, and not one big one.

Slack is also effectively a replacement for email; my team doesn't use email to send documents anymore. We use Slack because it's all in one channel and easy to search. You can share snippets, APKs, documents, links to tickets and Trello cards. You can acknowledge someone's message without having to send a spammy "noted".
I couldn't find the direct quote, so they may have adjusted the sentence you're referring to. It's clearer now:

> If you're inactive in one or more of these services for two years (24 months), Google may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive.
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274808654227619840
Right, I'm aware of the structure from motion stuff that's already out there and its large view requirement. I've had a similar experience. Hence my question about using something like PixelNeRF instead.
The Raspberry Pi 4 has been supported for quite a while. I have a colocated Pi 4 running NetBSD happily. On earlier Pis, Wifi works fine, BTW. I haven't tried bluetooth.

Perhaps the problem is that you forgot to read about it before you posted?
You don't have to do it. Depends on how desperate you are for it. I've had a successful 10+ year career in web dev in the UK. I've always avoided places that had a technical interview, it's a phobia of mine.

I've landed multiple contracts without any technical interview, a couple of them from just an informal chat. I once kept rejecting an interview for a company that specified a tech test, then 6 months after they first contacted, the recruiter said they'd dropped the tech test, I phone interviewed then went in and got the job.

Granted these are not the FAANG type places that Americans seem to be so obsessed over, but they look good on a UK CV and every contract I worked on was >£100k pa. I have never had any desire for prestige-type positions, what matters to me is an interesting project where I can develop skills, good rate, and good working environment. Ultimately the high rates of these contracts allowed me to work less and ultimately enjoy freedom which is my main goal.
I would probably agree, but what do you think a better terminal would be like, compared to the traditional ones?
It takes a talented bullshitter to convince themselves that a 30 minute whiteboarding session can determine anything of worth about a person’s first month at a company, let alone year or two. “We only hire the best” is just marketing.
India farmers: The viral image that defines a protest
Why would they if AMD's x86-64bit offering remaining competitive, affordable, will offer easy backwards compatibility and easy PC game porting for developers?

Sony and Microsoft are going nowhere but back to AMD/x86 if the next generation of console remain to same and the whole concept doesn't change drastically.