skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very important not step outside the ivory tower regularly or else one loses touch with non-IT people. The way something is design and how it's used can differ extremely.

My company is selling software for industry automation and the people using it often enough don't even have a PC at home. They learned using a PC at work and anything happening that isn't part of their trained workflow (sometimes even a simple additional optional input field) overwhelms them. Getting to know customers is very, very important for developers.
>The War on Drugs is the mechanism through which an enormous amount of the bad laws and precedents have been created and permitted.

>Add Mandatory Minimums and Three-Strike Laws to your list of reasons to hate it.

But don't forget the economic impact either:

1. We spend Billions on "interdiction" and "enforcement", even though the vast majority of folks who do use drugs that are currently illegal don't have a dependency problem, and treatment on demand for the small number that do would be significantly less expensive;

2. Putting someone in prison costs tens of thousands of dollars a year, and that person isn't contributing to the local economy where they lived, a double negative impact on the economy;

3. The stigma of a felony conviction usually makes most better paying jobs unavailable to folks convicted, further reducing economic output;

4. Building ever larger prisons and hiring more and more prison guards, administrators, etc. takes money away from other, more productive endeavors, often limiting economic growth due to lack of infrastructure, better quality of education and a host of other factors.
That was retaliatory. We're already in a war.
Uggghh, this is a pet peeve of mine. Particularly when dealing with people that are not domain experts. Like why do I even exist, if not to provide a good data point for what the product you're developing for me should look like?
Bubonit plaque is still spread by mice and it's still a pfovkt.
I have a good bunch of squirrels I feed outside my home office... I can attest they are delightful creatures when you get to know them. They’re smart, gentle, engaging, and all have a different and developing personality.

Yes, they’re rodents, but rodents are a big family!
The root cause was an issue in our automated quota management system which reduced capacity for Google's central identity management system, causing it to return errors globally.

.... so much for limiting Blast Radius
Hacking Like it's 1996 – a short history of the stack buffer overflow
Formal methods for your formal methods. And never shipping on Friday.
austin just approved a 7B rail system "to start". It will have 3 lines and a bit underground.
The science is not all sorted out and I can't find anything that's a nice succinct summary, but locally grown, grass-fed beef is very likely much better for the environment than the way beef is typically produced these days. Beef does not have to be some giant environmental disaster.
IMHO it’s only a matter of time until someone blows up a unicorn just for the thrill of it. That’s not something I’d support, but I won’t feel bad for companies that don’t pay adequate bug bounties.
I was very good at competitions, but terrible at rote memorization, including memorizing algorithms and matching them to particular problems. I'd just create the algorithms on the fly. E.g. I was presented with a maze solving problem, never had read about maze solving before, and just created my own version of it.

It's easy to make generalizations that minimize or downplay some of these things. But it's no more knowledge then the original study on too little data was.
TreeRats
> And if you're not, you need to be capable of buffer filling way more than one frame's worth of audio - at least 100ms, preferably much more.

Author addressed this point and agrees with it:

> Why don’t you just copy more data each time the handler is called? This was a fair criticism, but changing this behavior involved deeper changes than I was prepared to make

In general, "real time audio" usually refers to low-latency audio, which uninteractive video playback is not.
If someone has more free PyGame books or any less-known books, please post the linK!
> There are multiple entities here, in agreement with each other. The author links to bug #61502 in GCC, where you'll see the compiler devs agree with the author of that page: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61502#c15

No they don't. The previous comment from that compiler dev explicitly says that this comparison is not undefined behaviour. There is nothing in either the standard or that bug report that supports the claim that you originally posted ("Comparing pointers for equality is defined if both pointers are derived from the same (multidimensional) array object. Thus, if two pointers point to different array objects, then these array objects must be subaggregates of the same multidimensional array object in order to compare them. Otherwise this leads to undefined behavior."). Equality comparisons (not relational comparisons) of pointers to (unrelated) arrays are not and never have been undefined behaviour, and anyone claiming they are is at best confused.
I think Amazon take it less seriously than some of the others. For Netflix, streaming is their entire business. For Disney, HBO and Hulu, it’s the future - they’d probably rather stick with the old school cable TV, movie theatres, etc. model, but they can see the writing on the wall, and they aren’t going to let streaming take them down. But for Amazon ... it’s more just a perk to package with Prime shipping. They want it to be solid, but it’s always going to be very small for them compared to e-commerce, AWS and their platform for 3rd party sellers, fulfilment, etc. Prime Video revenue is similar for them to their co-branded credit cards, I think?

I actually think they have some great content, and a pretty decent app. Their “originals” especially are pretty great - Fleabag, the Boys, the Expanse, all excellent. But yeah, the quality of the app is a bit lower than some of the others, and they have a lot less content than Netflix, because Prime is really not a main focus of their company, more of a nice add-on.
Out of curiosity, are the audio APIs any better on iOS? Core audio seemed to work pretty well the last time I used it on OS X, so I assume it does, but I'd be curious to hear your take on it.
> So he knew what was right but intentionally allowed that only after he could be assured it wouldn't cause any hardship to him or his spouse. That feels more evil then just being a creature of the time. That's knowing better but making a conscious decision to embrace evil because it makes your life easier.

I'm pretty sure Washington's will freed his slaves on Martha's death because he didn't want to break up slave families (her slaves were part of her dowry and as such could not be manumitted so easily at will). Manumission law was quite complicated, and IIRC Washington himself lobbied to liberalize Virginia's law somewhat so that it was not as difficult to free slaves.

One of the most appalling aspects of US slavery was that it did break up families quite often. Washington doing this to keep the families together is hardly evil compared to what the alternative would have been.

EDIT: The parent post has grated on me a bit more. Why are we so arrogant to assume we know the whole context of what was going on two or three centuries ago? Every time I review the literature of historical situations, the richness and complexity is remarkable. We tend to think of our time as "more complex," but I think we are comparing the complex reality we experience with the simple stories we have been told (and continue to tell ourselves) about the past. In reality, much of the past was comparably complex to our own lives today.
As Tony Hsieh is memorialized in Vegas, fingers point at the 'Park City Crew'
Important rebuttal:

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Scaling Stranger-to-Stranger Services
I make my money by doing internal projects for companies. These organizations run their own app store, or just force-download their apps onto all of their iOS devices. It's lovely to focus on one platform.
I don't need to donate them my time, they are also saving the same 15 minutes per trip. Do I also have to invent time donation to propose other time-savers like dishwashers?

> "my 5 min is so important, I'm willing to risk someone's 60 years" (scaled to thousands of people).

The scaling matters! Boston has 1.8 million drivers losing 150 hours in traffic per year, according to https://inrix.com/press-releases/2019-traffic-scorecard-us/. Imagine that all of that traffic was caused by our desire to save a single human baby. 270 million hours lost to save 700,000. Would you agree that's not worth it? That probably those 270 million hours would produce enough economic output to save a different baby instead?

To me, a 75% increase in travel time is high enough and 35 mph is slow enough that I think everyone's 15 minutes is, in fact, worth risking someone's 60 years, once every couple of years. I could be proved wrong about the math, but it seems to me it's mostly an argument about risk tolerance.
To me, as a regular john, this is really mind boggling. What a fucking shit show.
A 1% death rate due to prescription opioids in a high-school age population sounds utterly unprecedented.

If true, it's interesting, and genuinely disturbing. I'd like to learn more about how something like that can happen at that scale.

If not true, it belongs on some other site where people don't care about what's true and not true.
Yes, because I thought the review title was so apropos that it was funny.
It has been starkly noticeable since my company has moved from doing phone-in conference calls to using Teams just how compressed normal phone line conversations are. Combined with a couple of our members having piss poor mobile coverage where they were (but much faster internet) our meetings became a lot higher quality.

On the phone-line side I wonder if that is a degradation due to digital switchovers & compression, a lack of allocated resources, or just pure rose tinted glasses.
Even Google!
He also could jump almost a foot and a half higher off the ground than the average NBA player, who in turn can jump almost a foot higher than the average man of the same age.

What proportion of people out there can learn to jump so high, even with extensive training/practice?
One thing that matters is that cigars (and some other tobacco products e.g. snuff) generally cause mouth and throat cancer instead of lung cancer, because they are used differently. So it's worth verifying what exactly the studies compare, as a result about a difference in lung cancer does not imply an equivalent difference in cancer as such.
For those who handles video streaming, which software do you use in production to segmented the video?

I've already tinkered around with ffmpeg including throwing around any movflags I could find and it will never be able to stream it properly in chunks.

My current working solution is using MP4Box with this command

MP4Box -dash 1000 -rap -frag-rap test.mp4
It's not simply practical to burn the enterprise down at Facebook scale. They likely aessed what they felt was compromised, updated that, then went about. The erred in either having proper auditing to detect how much was done, or did an improper assessment of what could be accessed.
Just add the graphics-drivers ppa in Ubuntu and nvidia drivers install fine with an apt-get.
There are actually a fair amount of scientific studies on good interview practices. The book "Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager" gives a nice summary of many of them.

I'll spoil a bit of the book though. Free form "coffee interviews" or lunch interviews are the worst possible types. They introduce a ton of bias into the process that's not related to job performance.
Not sure about the US, but Canada had such a mixed cellular & push-to-talk network in the 90s called MIKE, and it was quite popular in some industries (e.g. trades). I don’t think it was actually a walk-in-talkie, but the user experience was identical.
I haven't used it, to be quite honest, the games I worked on had the Mac/iOS ports done by a different team, but since I was usually called in to help diagnose customer issues in live and never had to touch the Mac/iOS audio stuff, it probably worked well enough!
A Stimulus Dollar Is Only a Dollar
pigeons are rats that can fly
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suppressors are not legal, 10+ round magazines banned, very complex rules around "assault weapons", guns are registered, many new pistols are banned, defacto no issue concealed carry, red flag laws, background check required to purchase ammunition. no peer to peer sales, etc etc.
After you’ve used SwiftUI you wouldn’t want to work with any other framework.

Even with all the rough edges currently SwiftUI+Combine is how I want all my programming to be done from the day they were announced.
That’s actually a behavioral task used in neuroscience experiments as well. Pasta eating is a surprisingly complex skill involving dexterous manipulation and complexity sensory and motor signaling throughout the brain.
being excellent at algorithms and mathematics is the base to solve unsolved computer science problems. though most companies just need to implement projects, top ones will try to push the boundaries. all projects and companies will eventually die someday, algorithms and mathematics will stay.
Alex's response is no longer available. (His link to his Facebook post is dead.) Anyone have a mirror?
It's probably easier to keep the audio and video in sync with a simple implementation. They can't really drift out of sync if all that's being one is handling one frame at a time.
2017:

“We know exactly where the gene should go, and we put it in its exact location,” Recombinetics executives told Bloomberg in 2017. “We have all the scientific data that proves that there are no off-target effects.”

2020:

“As genome-editing technology evolves, so does our understanding of the unintended alterations it produces,” wrote the FDA scientists, led by Alexis Norris and Heather Lombardi, in a paper they released in July. They think gene-editing errors “are under reported” and a “blind spot” for scientists.
“ My job is to build web sites. My company is in healthcare. that means this web dev has been literally hands-on with actual customers. Actual patients. And their children.
It really changes your view once you're back in the office in front of a keyboard. You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren't on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They're on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage that they bought at 7-Eleven and share with other members of their family. A phone you and I would use as a weekend burner is all the internet access some people will ever have.”

That perspective must be awesome in every aspect of the word: hope inducing and inspiring but also instilling a bit of fear in that real people, possibly sick or terminal people, will be using your work. I guess this is the mantle of “mission critical”.
And then you get the most toxic slack trope: premptive read receipt.

> hi edmundsauto

(silence until you reply)
I know Reason/Rescript was to make OCaml's type system available to the JS devs and is an excellent alternative to typescript but its quite hard to follow. I'm a JS developer with no experience in statically typed languages. I'm not able to figure out what exactly is the way to do things we usually do in JS ecosystem. I mean things like a package manager, build system. These things are confusing. I'm pretty sure that there are tons of people turned away from Reason for this very same reason.

Also OCaml in Windows was hard to configure and get right. The barrier to entry into the ecosystem is huge and it has to be resolved. The language is beautiful but anyone needs to be able to get productive in it very quickly.
A benefit of "Harmonious society" I see.
Northern flying squirrel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_flying_squirrel
Not in Messenger too?
I think it's a side effect of America's culture war and more recently intensified political war. Fly over vs coasts. And some of misery loves company. And jealousy, California is just kind of cool, not everyone is brave enough to take the chance and move or has the resources. So it's comforting to see oh they're miserable over there.

Though, NY media writes negative stuff about sf too, I think they're jealous that the bay area might be cooler than NYC. When NY has been the one of the ideal places to be for while lol
Ah, I remember hearing this from you in person in 2011 and have repeated it occasionally since. Thanks for the update!
Slack super power is that you can search on other people's "email". So it kinda of make up but don't for the worse search
> Meanwhile, I've only met one person who has been able to use cigarettes occasionally

Well, there is also selection bias: you assume people like this just don’t smoke. I enjoy smoking, but I don’t smoke, and there was no problem for me to stop. There was some research that some percentage of population genetically is not pre-disposed for smoking addiction.
HTML context menus to be removed from Firefox
LOL. Better off as slaves... An actual slavery apologist in the comments.
True. It needs to be traded against the cost of doing all that research for yourself, though. It all depends on how much you enjoy researching a subject vs. how important the conclusion is to you vs. how much you trust others to get it right.
Mg – Emacs-like text editor (BSD)
Exactly the same as in the as-is rule or optimisations explicitly allowed by the standard?
Growth at geriatric tech companies like IBM, HP, Oracle, etc. is largely inorganic, driven by well-negotiated acquisitions of smaller B2B software companies.

It takes MBAs to do this sort of work, and while it isn't for me, I don't think it's the worst business model out there.
Is drop rates publishing really matter? I suspect that those games aren't targeting China for different reason (hard regulation).
I agree with this (Haven't tried HBO though).

Disney streaming is pretty good, but the UI isn't as good as Netflix for use across the room. Why do they make the title cards have second level text that is so small it can't be read, and then not have the continually updated preview that Netflix does?

I agree Amazon is pretty disappointing. It seems more like a dodgy pirate video player than a major competitor.
every smart person i know in SF is moving to Austin and they all hate the CA dems now.
When I told that governments happily trade lives for money up to a certain point in one if the discussions on HN I was downvoted to oblivion.
Google almost does not show results for “coronavirus”
I rarely use Google nowadays, but I was a bit surprised that I could hardly find search results anymore. 90% of the page does not contain actual results, and I have to scroll down for a long time to actually see it.

Has it become common for Google? Do you know any other search that looks like this?
H. Upmann The Banker series is a favorite of mine right now. The green box are the best, then the grey. Henry Clay stalk cut and the Brevas. Buy a single of every RoMaCraft and take notes on what you like. Any Olivia Melanio. Any Crowned Heads is worth trying. H. Upmann by AJ Fernandez Toro is a perfect cigar.
> as I said, Netflix isn't a real-time app

I honestly had a tough time parsing the sentence when you said that due to the triple negative, so it's possible that others might have misunderstood it.
Nothing. I work with a bunch of parents, like myself with families and little time for amusement. Then again I've never been one for multiplayer games. So, maybe it's just me.
I remember reading something about Google interview ratings being uncorrelated to job performance, but that's clearly a conditional correlation based on the person being hired. For all we know, the ratings might be highly correlated with job performance up until the hire/no-hire cutoff. After all, their primary purpose is to make that binary hire/no-hire decision. Hopefully, the scoring system is hyper-optimized to be a good signal right around the hire/no-hire boundary, as the scores themselves aren't that useful for obvious hires and obvious no-hires: the scores are a decision-making tool.

In order to really get a good assessment of if the interview ratings were effective, they'd need to also hire some random unbiased sample of those who fail the interview process. There are alternative ways of slicing the data to help give insight, such as looking at only those who barely passed the interview process, or looking only at the bottom 10% of performers. However, when you're looking at such a highly biased sample (only the small-ish percentage of people hired), it's hard to say what the correlation is across the entire interview population.

At the risk of repeating myself, we don't particularly care the predictive power of the scores across the whole range, only their predictive power across those who aren't obvious no-hires and those who aren't obvious hires. That's the range where the power of the interview scores as a decision-making tool is most important.

Also, if two metrics disagree, it's not clear which one is problematic. It's possible that a poor correlation indicates that there's a problem with the performance rating system.
More historical context:

http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/windoze/OpenGLvsDirect3D.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(graphics_API)#Hi...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6054...

There was another blog with a detailed rundown on the politics behind the Fahrenheit drama but the site wend down 10 years ago and I can't remember what the link was.
Defining roles and responsibilities for cloud cost optimization
> Dr. Gebru also provides essentially no facts or evidence for her claims

Your quote of hers contains two facts right there in the answer.

Also in the interview, she argues that she's being fired in contrast to "complicated" white male colleagues are usually encouraged to leave quietly (E.g. Andy Rubin).
DTD is the devil spawn. Devil here being massive security vulnerabilities.
> Having devs on level 1 support is a good way to have high turnover imo.

I pretty much agree with rblatz comment. From my opinion it's a good way to have high turnover of people I don't want on my team anyway.

Note I don't think developers are bad if they don't want to do customer support, but I am particularly interested in hiring product focused developers. That is, developers who really care not just about difficult technical problems, but who care about how solving those problems actually affect the customers for whom we're building the product.

I have found that, on the contrary, product-focused developers love doing customer support (some small portion of the time). They like to see how their features and fixes affect the customer experience, and they get a kick out of fixing small annoyances that overall build a more polished product, but might get just "triaged away" if it went through multiple levels of CS -> product manager -> engineers.