skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you think Sony did not notice the state of the game for ps4 and nobody in the Sony management did not aware of the problems? For most anticipated game of the year nobody at Sony warned, you kidding me.
As I said in another comment; I don’t want to put Airbus on a pedestal here, but the internal emails from Boeing are incredibly damning towards the company culture. Painting people concerned about breathing in fumes as having an “agenda” is a perfect stereotype of corporate malice, it’s almost beyond parody.

I’ve never seen such emails out of Airbus, although it’s entirely possible that that’s because they’re in another language and therefore they haven’t made it to the English only media I consume.
Kiev is in Ukraine, and is currently a stronghold of a very pro-US president. Who is hiring those security goons again?

So without realizing it, you are actually agreeing with something Russians have been saying for a while now: that the two sides of the standoff in Ukraine are not "freedom fighters" and "evil Russian henchmen" but rather two oligarch clans.
Yeah, started right before the pandi, was 60% travel but before I ever got to travel we went into lock down and it became 100% zoom.

I'm curious if being in person would have helped me, though. I'm not sure how much it it was zoom exacerbating my anxieties or my own anxieties/introversion burning me out.

(or the terrible company)

edit: I was a PSE not really tech sales, I did have to do engineering and got the hard technical questions all day long. It's not your run of the mill sales job, the sales person used me as their tech arm. It was mentally exhausting.
It's actually hard to practice concentrating with a game or active activity. If you truly want to meet your mind, sit down and do nothing, i.e. meditate. You'll notice your mind racing, and you'll see just why it's hard to concentrate on anything. You can then practice letting go of intervening thoughts, without self hate, and just observe the breath, sounds around, but in a passive, calm manner, not reactionary or impulsive with the attention.
Ok. What are they and who's doing them? At a certain point we need to engage with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. In fact, one might argue that AMP would never have taken off if Google did not already serve that gatekeeper role.
Talking about detective stories and unusual narrative structures, I've really liked the American series 'Columbo' with Peter Falk while growing up. It's very popular in my country (Hungary, there's even a statue of him in Budapest), not sure about elsewhere.

It turns the typical detective story to its head. You see the murder and who does it as the first thing in the episode. The rest is how the detective intuits it and then most importantly the psychological battle and clever tricks required to corner the murderer and prove it was him.
IMHO, that's probably a good thing as long as Apple stays small. If a Chromium-based browser took over iOS as well, it would be the only rendering engine anybody targets.
Such as? I agree with the OP, for what it's worth. In the vast majority of cases amp content loads quicker, is presented better, and is less obtrusive, even browsing with an adblocker
Apples AutoLayout already does this — and in a much more elegant way. I’ve been making MacCatalyst apps recently and have been searching hide and wide for a 1:1 UIKit/AutoLayout <> Web front end (aka a rats nest of js, css and html).
I need a PC at some time and was thinking of waiting until the new year to get it but it looks like it might actually be a very long wait even in 2021
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There are so many more possible shapes, I'm a bit dissatisfied with the lack of variation in the infographic

E.g. the Simpsons episode with the Monkey's Paw is a roller coaster of ups and downs
What about “not getting paying customers?”
The CL-AA Algorithm
Doesn't look like it although Alan Kay has expressed admiration for Lisp in many places.

> As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised.

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/50.
It seems to me that PS4 version has to be significantly worse than Xbox version because otherwise I don't see where the issue comes from.

I play it on Xbox one S and don't experience any kind of game breaking bugs. On the other hand at least on XB one S the first loading screen is completely messed up which makes one question how that could possibly pass Microsoft's QA.
Obesity isn’t caused by excess sugar, it’s caused by excess calories. 6% is all sugary drinks, of which soda is a (major) subset. Taxing won’t eliminate consumption but it will reduce it. Say it’s wildly successful and soda consumption is reduced by 30%. If we’re being generous and say soda makes up 80% of the “sugary drink” category, the tax has reduced overall calories by less than 1.5%. I just don’t think that will move the needle of the country’s obesity epidemic. Will it have some impact? Sure, but I think our priorities should be focused on something that actually have a bigger effect. That small effect is what I mean by “feel-good” measures... they allow politicians to put a feather in their cap without having a meaningful impact.

Anecdotally I’ve known people who’ve lost a lot of weight by cutting out soda completely. But success at the individual level can’t be generalized to the population level. Healthcare is nearly 20% of US GDP and nobody doubts obesity is a real contributor. An outright ban on soda would be infinitely more successful and if that would solve the major problem of the industry, I think you’d hear more about it.

I’ll try to put a finer point on it. You can’t (shouldn’t) just increase the cost if access to alternatives is also part of the problem. If you don’t increase the access to high quality, affordable alternatives you will just make things worse. There’s a lot of discussion in this thread that is only looking at one part of the problem (consumption of unhealthy food) and ignoring the other aspects (like access to higher quality alternatives)
.. and IntelliJ Ultimate has plugins that brings all the features of all of their IDEs(PHP, GO, Android, RUST, JS...) except CLion.
The attorneys general case led by Texas [1] asserts that Google created AMP so that Google could stop "header bidding" (which subjects them to competition):

> To respond to the threat of header bidding, Google created Accelerated Mobile Pages (“AMP”), a framework for developing mobile web pages, and made AMP essentially incompatible with JavaScript and header bidding.

1.https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
Perhaps have a look at Profitbricks. They are an interesting small alternative to AWS for a niche market.
I thought the whole game play is to distract you so to relax your mind so it can rest. It may run all those non-game serious thing in the background. Like sleeping.

Unless you want to be pro. Most of us are not.

I played GO. Still remember must have hot tea as the blood go all to the brain the whole body feel very cold even in hot summer.
The writing of a deeply sane person. I’m ready to go now (spiritually/financially) but planning on leaving after another year. Too much money on the table to leave of my own accord now, though if they fired me I’d be alright either way.
>Anyway personal opinion - all forms of income tax is plain theft.

By that rational, your using the infrastructure paid by those taxes is also theft right?
(disclosure: I am not religious). Yes. Ecclesiastes has some great and often quoted lines: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die…” “…There is nothing new under the sun”. It’s not a typical old testament book, which I think is why I finished it.

(going really off topic here)

I was inspired to look at the Biblical version after reading the awesome “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” by Roger Zelazny, in which a poet on a mission to Mars uses it as a basis for communicating with the ancient Martian elders. Incidentally, a copy of Zelazny’s 1969 story was landed on Mars in 2008 on a DVD carried by the Phoenix probe [0]. If 'The Martian' was the perfect story of engineering on Mars, 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' is perhaps the perfect poetic look at the planet, at least on a par with "The Silver Locusts".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spacecraft)#Phoenix_D...
Can You Keep a Secret?
Seems like you wont accept any answer other than total obedience. I watched most conspiracy theories come true this year so. How you are still peddling hysteria is beyond me. Please kill yourself.
This sounds like every big company ever, more or less. As a principal engineer your role is more political than technical. The title is prestigious but if you want to be happy, there's nothing wrong with topping out as a senior engineer with no direct reports or broad architectural responsibility. The pay at that level is already (for me) more than my parents ever made on two incomes, plus equity. And i don't have to worry about the politics and the infighting. Just build things until the weekend
With an added caveat that this is an indirect path to that knowledge, but perhaps a more job-compatible one.
So far the only way I've seen people get one is by standing outside microcenter before they open. My friend is doing that just this moment. He snagged me a 3060ti, he's probably about to get another GPU for himself. The bots online have been ridiculous and scalpers see blood in the water.
Calling it mediocre is just calling it common or average and lacking in special insight not that it’s false. It’s good advice that anyone in the industry would give to people trying to break in.
Yup, left AAA a long time ago. Way more money, work-life balance, and job opportunities available when you leave the game industry. It exploits developers who are initially passionate about the field, and then leaves them in a state where it's very difficult to leave (because it's very specific skills that don't easily transfer to other industries)
At the time of the intro of 64 bit ARM, the conventional wisdom was, "Pooh pooh, this'll just bloat your code and not offer any performance advantage whatsoever. How pointlessly stupid!"
The phrase means the same as "be sceptical".

Vaccine contains microchips? Yeah you're going to want to take that with a major grain (pinch in the UK!) of salt / be highly sceptical about it.

https://thesaurus.plus/related/pinch_of_salt/scepticism
yes, what is novel here is that the exoplanet was detected using radio (in other words the discovery of the planet is what is significant, not the signal)
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It’s an interesting question. For one, I know that the Photos app on Macs and iPhones tends to spend loads of time going through your photos and recognizing everyone’s faces. Due to Apple’s stance on privacy, they’ve emphasized that this task should be performed on device, not in the cloud.

Without the neural engine, the processing of tens of thousands of photos can be a real burden on a typical MacBook. Apple has tried to throttle the process so that it doesn’t peg the CPU, but then it takes a lot longer to complete. The neural engine lets the process run full out without consuming a ton of power.
Just wanted to comment and say you have some top-quality content. Your information about running a website in Germany[0] was an enlightening read (especially the part about the Impressum)

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/website-compliance-germany
Gotta be something like "(but it's probably not aliens)", right?
I love the apple music as drones fly in formation through heavy foliage, their probable only future application being the hunt of humans.
FlatDraw – minimalistic 2D CAD app
Upvote 100x; I completely agree.

As a counter-example look at Sencha, who have long alienated developers using their ExtJS toolkit, and this has deepened since the takeover by Idera.
Well are you getting a full night's sleep? If so that seems fine. You can still get sufficient light exposure in the daytime to better anchor your circadian rhythm, and increased vitamin D3 intake helps to this end (in the day).

If you're intent on shifting your circadian rhythm backwards, you'd have to get up earlier in the morning at a consistent time and try to eschew what might delay your onset, i.e. blue light emitting electronics, before bed. You can use a blue light filter like flux for that in the evening to help. more on that here - https://insomniasos.net/
The ABF thing is fascinating actually.

The company behind it Ajinomoto has for the last century since its existence built a business in food products: seasoning, oils, beverages, dairy products and chemicals. ABF came about through internal innovation. There's a really good (perhaps unintentionally funny) video of it here:

https://players.brightcove.net/6050660078001/default_default...
Interesting, even general-purpose chip makers like ST, NXP and Infineon experience shortage.

> Other components make things even more complicated: The small additional chips (controller, supervisor, etc.) from ST Micro, NXP or Infineon are also missing due to another deficiency: silicon wafers with 8 inch diameter. Many products then suffer from this, such as PC power supplies, but also consoles of the PS5 and Xbox series X and the graphics cards. Flash memory and DRAMs, on the other hand, do not seem to be in real short supply [...]
This committee is window-dressing. AMP is about Google revenue alone, remaking the web as a consumer portal, not an open platform for information exchange and creativity.

The premise that the web ought to compete with native app experience is flawed to begin with. Executing that goal through a corporate gateway is perverse.
From a footnote:

By the way, high quality specs should have intermediate test cases, not just test cases for the whole algorithm. There are two reasons: first, in cryptography when you get something wrong it can be extremely hard to narrow down where the mistake is, all you know is that you wrote 300 lines and the result is wrong, great; second, you get to more easily write test cases for edge cases that are hard to hit from the high-level API.

It also encourages clearer, more functional, const-correct code; things reference implementations are often lacking in.
It is also used for Siri, for automatically making albums for Photos, finding people in Photos.

I think the NPU is not as power hungry for inference than the GPU is for the same job.
What exactly does that involve? How did you make that transition?
Yes. And also transactions are interesting because of their explicit nature. Including STM. They lead you to think at least a bit about all the concurrent traffic.
The Father of Handwashing
The open web has a well worn and growing alternative: subscriptions.

This article is on Substack which has been exploding lately, not to mention Medium and other platforms... almost a Renaissance of 2006 era blogging.

Unfortunately centralized unlike the RSS years but no one has figured out the economic and UX incentive model to bring decentralization back.

This seems to be the architectural challenge of our time: the interop of the “read” side of the web - HTTP GET - allowed Google to build its empire.

evolving the “write” side of the web - HTTP POST and data - was supposed to be the Semantic Web’s job, which it failed at in terms of adoption and comprehension if not the actual tech. We need a replacement or reinvestment.
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Patches have to go through certification as well. Day one patches aren’t literally pushed out hot on day one. They’ll have gone through testing and cert.
What? Big Sur supports hardware that is at least 7 years old. Catalina goes back to 2012 (and still gets security updates). For an OS vendor that has yearly updates, they do a pretty good job of supporting older hardware.

https://eshop.macsales.com/guides/Mac_OS_X_Compatibility
ESA report on loss of Vega VV17 mission blames poor procedures
They need to be exposed to real information. Try to make a bet with them so they can watch CNN or MSNBC for one week, while you watch FoxNews. Pretend that you're both willing to "understand" the other side. And hope that some of the real info sinks into their head.
I’ve seen many stretch the term over the years, but many in the scientific community know it’s watered down enough to mean “something was emitted”
I'm doing some development on AWS currently on g4dn instance with T4 accelerator. With pings lower than 50ms and remote VS Code it gets really efficient. The biggest issue of course is additional mental burden on being remote + you can't simply print image in ssh console...

I thought it would be horrible, but after a brief adjustment period it turned out to be okay-ish for my current work.
This model has been bitterly fought since the beginning. Problem is the underdogs have never had the money, and governmental support to manufacture consent in the masses.
I'd ask the opposite instead, what is it that leads people to AMP over "the original"? I have never been directed to an AMP page except in case someone shares AMP urls. And I use a lot of browsers and search engines, just not chrome or google.
Considering one of the lawsuits specifically cites AMP as part of the project to wall in the web, it's now public information that there is no real effort on Google's part to be a good steward of web technologies here.

I've followed your participation from time to time, and appreciate the lengths you've gone to keep an eye on them and push them in the right direction, but it's pretty clear what their goals were from the start.
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter Versus Facebook
The fumes come from the engine, there's nothing the bleed system can do to mitigate that. All bleed components already don't use any lubricant, they don't add any fume. Also all bleed systems across the whole industry have an extremely similar architecture.

So in the end the component that really matters for this is the engine. And both Airbus and Boeing use very similar engines from the same suppliers. And the engine manufacturer defines the maintenance tasks for it.
I would argue AutoLayout has a way easier job: There are less backward-compatibility concerns, everyone is using the same GUI-based editor and there are many less device configurations to account for. It is also arguably less flexible than the Web in terms of the range of UIs that you could create.
I think an alternative to the reddit OP, since he loves coding and has so much experience is to try and create his own product on some niche.

He would get back the joy of coding and still be a programmer, without having to deal with any of the corporate system.

I can fully understand where he is coming from, it's not the job itself, it's the whole system that makes it unbearable after a while.

This is the reason also why there aren't many people over 40 in tech. They have usually by then accumulated enough money and found an exit strategy.
"Obtain as much money as possible" isn't the goal of everyone at every time, especially when one already has all the money and resources they need.

Not everyone believes life is a game where the goal is to die with the highest score, above all else. Some do, but not everyone.

You're able to control pretty much every aspect within a private company with no shareholders to answer to and no public disclosures. You're free to use the assets of your company to implement your personal values.
Google is the disease itself. Clicks are a terrible way to incentivize, and this has been shaking the foundations of our democracies in the last decade.

You will note that Wikipedia, for example, doesn’t have the type of bloat that an online newspaper article does. Why is that? The question is one of incentives.
I remain skeptical that they're really going to want to do that in the competition with China era
I think some of us genetically are more sensitive to the impact of light, caffeine, etc on the circadian rhythm. There's also other factors like work. Cortisol levels are higher coming off of work and it takes time to wind down.

Think of it this way: there's nothing special about a time zone, and yet we know that if we moved several time zones away, we'd shift. The differences are in light patterns, timing of work and social life, food intake, etc. Incidentally, many of these factors are within our control.
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It seems that we expect an alien civilization, if it exists, to follow a similar discovery path as we did. As such we listen for radio signals as a way of communication, because that's what we are doing.

How likely is it for another civilization to follow the same path? Some of our breakthrough scientific advances happened by accident. What are the odds that we missed some big new technologies because we haven't happened upon the accident yet, even though it was right here all the time?
> when it comes to country like Kazakhstan or any other smaller country, everyone seem to become powerful and create sanctions.

It's because Kazakhstan tries to man-in-the-middle attack all their citizens by making them install a government-issued root certificate, which is easy to defend against. (Just don't trust the certificate.) If they used an IP-based blocklist to filter all traffic (like China), that would be much harder to counter.

As for sanctions, I haven't seen any proposed against Kazakhstan over their human-rights record (including suppression of their own Uyghur minority).
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Ultimately I think the rushed launch will turn out to have been a correct decision, or at least not as horrible as it seems. The holiday season, especially during a pandemic when millions are stuck at home, is simply a financial opportunity too good to pass up. Launching in a few months would have lost those sales, while delaying the game (again) until holiday season 2021 would have destroyed a lot of hype and anticipation. From what I’ve seen, the game is still doing well in terms of sales.

Tough situation, but considering the options, an understandable move. It’s a classic example of being forced to choose between two bad decisions because you failed to make an adequate plan in the first place.