skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’ll have to opt in — either at start-up or when you’re browsing your home page. If you do, the usual page upon page of box art and show descriptions disappears. Instead, the Netflix matrix chooses something it thinks you’ll be into and just starts streaming it, along with an onscreen graphic briefly explaining why it chose that title. Don’t like what you see? A quick button press skips ahead to another selection.

This is horrendous. It's bad enough that there is no way to examine further details of a program without it autoplaying, which means that in order to read and evaluate a show I have to

a) Click into the details
b) Let it start autoplaying, or press play myself
c) (I am now watching the show, the details have disappeared)
d) Press pause
e) Press 'back' to get back to the details.

I wish Netflix would just stop 'addressing' this 'problem'. Outside of the US, even if their ML-based recommender system was much better than it is, most catalogues do not have enough content to really get you a great match based on what you have watched.

This latest approach is like YouTube autoplay on steroids, just designed to keep you mindlessly consuming. There is no way to avoid consumer resistance, prevarication and occasional indecision. Steamrollering us into shows NF wants us to watch is not the answer.
I quit Facebook in 2016. I de-activated my account, haven't come around to deleting it though.
I still login to FB 1-2 times in a year. The Big Blue App simply doesn't appeal to me, its a Time sink (any app with unlimited scrolling is). I also deleted my IG account, never used it.
The only FB product I use is Whatsapp. That is due to network effects.
CBN queries First Bank board over removal of Adeduntan, appointment of new CEO
I think the distortion of the video-finish camera should be considered when making these estimates. There's quite a lot of it happening in the shot. Narrowing down the specific camera intrinsic parameters may be a challenge. The EXIF data of the original footage might be fruitful.

It might also be possible to undistort using some assumptions on colinear points in the video (i.e., the finish line and signs should have straight lines).
It’s amazing. You can summon any kind of being you’re interested in for the most depraved sex acts you can imagine. And now you have an audience!

There does seem to be some bias in the training data. Sometimes your partner will turn into a werewolf and start howling and scratching at you.
> - Finding good freelancers who care (yes I pay well but still it is a hit or miss.)

Care to elaborate a bit more on this?
Try to search for "goolge" on Google.

See if any of the top three or ten results contains the word "goolge" or if they have silently rewritten it in the background.

Adding doublequotes used to mean it should search for that exact phrase. Super simple example of one place were it was useful: when you were troubleshooting a weird crash and you saw a mis-spelling in an error message: you copy or type in that exact message in quotes, bam, if there was a match you got it.

Google is always doing lots of experiments on all of us, vut for the last decade this has been broken for me. It just ignores the doublequotes. Same with the verbatim setting, it has been just placebo.
You're right of course, good callout Dan, thanks!
These submissions/threads have been cropping up a bit lately. But I have yet to seen anyone comment on pikchr, https://pikchr.org/ (NOTE: doesn't have as close of a relation to UML as Plant UML)

After what felt like endless googling it is what I decided to spend some time with, haven't had time to do much yet so can't say how it performs for me but the idea and execution really resonates with me.
Haptik AI
How to Measure Code Quality?
The difference in footing is not based on objectives but the means by which funding is obtained. In the case of private companies, the funding can only by obtained by providing services that the market demands. The government obtains its funding by taxing people.
What a shame that this country has come to.
Elon Musk says Starlink should be ‘fully mobile’ by the end of 2021
Nokia had something pretty similar on Maemo / Meego IIRC. It’s still such a shame they never properly pushed it. Elop was a moron.
Exif data is a good suggestion - I'll see what I've got

EDIT: nah nothing interesting there. It may have been stripped when they emailed it to me?
It probably starts the same flamewar either way.
It has to be the highest acquisition-dollar / employee of all time. I doubt anything even comes close. And isn’t it true that they were profitable on their $1 per year subscription scheme?

I’d love to read a book about how it all came together. Especially something that dives into the speculation I’ve had that their relationships and zero-rating contracts with telcos in developing countries and how that could be leveraged into internet.org and establishing FB in emerging markets was a bigger driver for getting the deal done than the idea of owning IM. Does anyone know if there are any interviews with the team that negotiated the zero-rating deals because seems like excellent execution before almost anyone stateside realized what the play was.
I've been running KDE Neon for about a year, and have to say it's about the best put together DE I've experienced in over 15 years. And KDE Connect is the bee's knees. Everything really does just work. I'm totally impressed with you guys. Kudos.
Why do you live 2 hours away?
C and c++ have a ton. Vcpkg, cpm, conan, hunter ...
China launches core module of new space station to orbit
Diffie-Hellman for the layman
With regard to why it wasn't confined to Google etc, I'm under the impression that a lot of it is just fear of media coverage. If you have very progressive activists in the large media companies (or have the large media companies often cover/follow the activists), you'll automatically get corporations wanting to insure themselves against attacks.

I do believe that it sorts itself out in the long run, as more and more consumers will drop activist media products and they lose their relevance (who's afraid of having a hit piece about their multinational corporation published in a local school paper vs the New York Times).
Are you also adjusting the overall color? Your images have now strong pinkish cast instead of the more natural orangeish tones.

For parts where viking data is not usable, maybe filling in the color information based upon surrounding area would make at least prettier end result.
Yeah, this seems like it was a real bad idea on his part. If AI Dungeon get pissed by this, it could be bad for him. He clearly has gone past what is considered reasonable by extracting all this data to shame them into fixing it.
Fortran has a lot of interesting current compiler work leveraging MLIR, a subproject of LLVM: Flang [0] and CIL for C/C++/Fortran [1]. It seems like Fortran tooling is making somewhat of a comeback.

[0]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/flang

[1]: https://llvm.org/devmtg/2020-09/slides/CIL_Common_MLIR_Abstr...
> Losing weight.

I have had great success with the alternate day fasting method (I'm on it right now in fact). Probably because it doesn't require me to _do_ anything - no calorie counting, no tedious exercises.
"The specific sizes and formats for integers and floats in GLSL are only for GLSL 1.30 and above. Lower versions of GLSL may not use these exact specifications." Pre-1.3.0 was a truly dark era. Lots of really nasty driver and hardware issues lurking around.
No, if we consider UML a visual programming language, there are the languages that everyone hates and those that no one uses.

I consider these UML hate articles as valuable as those anti-OOP ones, while all OS GUIs and mainstream languages have some kind of OOP support in them.
Wealth is finite, despite how much some like to claim it's not zero-sum. Not everyone can be wealthy, so by definition there will be those who aren't. Inherited wealth allows the inheritors to start further along in wealth accumulation and widens the gap between the wealthy and those who aren't. That then locks up wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.
How far is it if you assume a flat earth?
Nissan Leaf E+ in Australia
Neat article but completely unnecessary scrolljacking. If you pinch zoom in, you can't even pan around normally. Scroll down a bit and then tap the (also completely unnecessary) arrow in the bottom right, and it'll ever.. so.. slowly.. scroll you back to the top.

The web gives bad designers too much rope to hang everyone with.
During early WWII, prior to Pearl Harbour, the US used to place supplies on the US side of the Canadian/US border.

We'd then "steal" those supplies, thus allowing the US to avoid breaking non-aggression treaties, and (as you mentioned) the ire of some of its citizenry.

Not much profit in theft.
Hurrrdurrr php bad, go, rust good.
Well, in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL (and JESUS is INTEGER, but that's not as funny). Even modern fortran has to maintain this feature for legacy reasons, leading one to add 'implicit none' to the beginning of each module etc.
Yeah the UCI rules for photo finish seem very vague, and also don't seem enforced. I haven't used a photo-finish camera myself but it seems to me the tech behind these is quite dated, the shots from the 1960s are almost as good except for the frame rate and number of pixels. Perhaps there is a better way.
I think it's the difference between an individualist and collectivist culture. I'd guess that especially the kind of people that would come to hackernews will have a hard time seeing the upside of collectivism and the downside of individualism (subservient having a strong negative connotation), but I think it's really mostly a tradeoff. Yes individualism is probably better for generating entrepreneurs. But you don't see things like people refusing to wear masks in Japan. There's lots of stories of things like Japanese people taking a long trip to return a lost wallet or picking up after each other at sports stadiums. I would say that in general there are more social obligations but also as a result more social trust. Probably if you grew up in a collectivist society then a lot of the things that you can see happening in the West will seem dysfunctional. Also I doubt more people are lonely in Japan than America, and some brief skimming the internet, research seems to support this.
First of all, nobody knows who built them, how they were built, nor why they were built. We only have vague guesses at this point.

No bodies were ever found in any of the Pyramids on the Giza plateau - and despite the Egyptians documenting everything, there are no claims by them that Khufu or anyone else in their documented history built the Pyramids. Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Kings
How do you determine promising leads among hundreds?

Let’s say for example you send someone to UMinnesota or UMD.

What’s the process here to get leads for internships or new grad roles?
Is it just about muscular contraction, or does any kind of motion have positive effect on the lymph system? Say a rollercoaster or jumping on trampoline.
While I think it’s wrong for people to be generally afraid of being penalized for their political beliefs, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with a lack of “viewpoint diversity” at the workplace. By “viewpoint” I’m taking them to mean political and political beliefs just aren’t very relevant to the majority of jobs.
I agree. I flagged the whole thread for that reason.

It sucks that reality has become so politicized, but I appreciate your moderation that mostly keeps it off the site.
Governance, Risk and Compliance with Kubernetes
How? Most people who ride a train didn't also build that train.
On Creative Coding (2018)
The “finish line” could be thought of as a two dimensional plane. The winner is the first person to touch or pass through the plane.

If you’re painting a line then the “finish line” is where that plane touches the ground. For other races it might be a piece of tape held at chest height — the part of the body that usually goes through the plane first.

When the competitors are bicycles then they all the same height — the middles of the front wheels are all the same height off the ground, something on the order of 400mm. The finish line is floating about a foot off the ground.

The specialist streak camera photographs objects passing through a 2D plane. Ideally you would have that plane aligned vertically so that the finish plane and the camera plane were the same.

If for some reason you couldn’t do that — let’s say the camera could only be placed a few feet in front of the finish line so as to see around an object — then you would have to arbitrarily angle the camera plane to intersect the finish plane.

The intersection of these two planes will give you the “finish line”. For a bicycle race, do you set it up so that the finish line is on the ground, or floating 400mm above the ground? If you do the latter then the projection of the camera plane into the road will indeed give a line that stops short of the finish plane, but that’s irrelevant — the actual finish line at the
middle of the front wheel is in the correct place.

I think the article assumes the former when the organisers did the latter?
Database Load Balancing Completes the 3-Tiered Architecture – DevGraph
In London there are "protected vistas" - it's the reason why the shard and the walkie-talkie buildings are odd shapes.

https://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/londons-protected-vistas/
Great research! But van Aart is the right winner. The photo finish picture is stated s the official result. Every athlete knows that, despite alignment errors of the equipment.
Typically it’s a rule introduced by naive politicians who say you have to take the lowest bid. In Britain this came top down from central government in the 1980s, previously it was more typical to take the bid closest to the average across of a minimum of three bids.
A Discussion with Clare Liguori from AWS Container Services
Only the Sith deal in absolutes
I broadly agree, but I think it's not exactly the problem here.

In this case, one "side" would be a government (assuming this was done at govt request), which means it is literally censorship to silence the other side -- regardless of where the truth lies.

If FB did it proactively to appease a govt (which they did/do in the US), then it's a lot murkier of an issue. It's almost like "soft" censorship.
I haven't researched much about this but India seems like a better fit for tech workers? There I'll find folks who share my interest and the culture is good too.
I can bet that $1B won't get distributed through salaries, but rather some managers get hefty bonuses and the rest will be reinvested into perfecting manipulation techniques to make us buy products we don't need or want.
there's no problem with inheritance.

What matters is the turnover of inheritance.

If you have the same 200 families holding all the wealth for 500 years, you have a problem (like several countries in europe).

There is nothing wrong with a hardworking person to reach wealth, and for heirs to keep it, if its properly managed. The issue is they should be able to lose it thru squander. Bail outs, lobbying, regulatory capture, prevent that natural ineptitude from taking place (securing thru connections what heirs couldn't do like their predecessors....that is, satisfying customers or creating shrewd innovation).
Accenture is but one of many, already mentioned, such consulting firms. The particulars of their unique evolution are unimportant.
They bill $43B per year so being "worth" $140B is essentially three years billing. Prospective buyers who want to sell their own by-products more exclusively (say, Oracle, Microsoft, Alphabet,...) look at the price tag as an opportunity to lock in big ticket clients for decades of migration, integration, and insider green-field, money-sink projects.

Yes, consultancies like Accenture are copy-cat enterprises. A few decades ago they truly provided the brightest and the best of off-shore, inexpensive technical labor. But that changed with the H-1B tsunami that followed. The meme that America's social strengths could be used against it were not lost on these now global software powerhouses.

Many of the initial H-1B waves of individuals worked their way into America's corporate C-Suites. The technical waves were followed by well-to-do, class entitlement waves of individuals who co-opted the POC cohort required to satisfy equal opportunity hiring laws.

More recently, HR departments themselves have been out-sourced within the enterprises. The combination of the gutting of full-time technical staff AND the tight coupling of off-shoring to onshore expat cohorts completes the cycle of how Western enterprises were carved out of any capability to develop projects internally. They've been gutted.

In America, citizen POC were left on the outside looking in (aaaaaaaand, here we are in social crisis) in addition to bearing witness to the soft takeover of the corporate management ranks.

The Powerpoint slides are perfunctory. Our corporations are now as technically proficient as many dysfunctional outsourcing countries are at a functional level. The onshore benches represent the warehousing of local candidates to make way for politically and legally correct outsiders.
It has some custom... sloooow... smooth scrolling implementation.

I have smooth scrolling turned off because it makes me impatient. You can't continue reading while everything is moving. Now slow smooth scrolling...
Doctor Yellow (HSR Test Train)
> girlfriend who got neutered

Not just censors, but transphobic censors to boot.
5000km
What is the modern way to design (and maintain) things?
DPA blocks facial recognition system in Italy and MP proposes moratorium
Carrying The Fire is my favourite astronaut memoir and I've read a few, it reads beautifully. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest.
I meant the photo-finish cameras, but nevermind, I forgot how these things worked. But I would expect high-speed 2D cameras being available today at the finish line as well.
First of all thank you for writing so many useful open-source software.

Anyway since you are here is there any reason why Vite won't run with Vue 2.x? I tried Vue 3 with Vite and I was blown away how much dev time it saves. No startup time, no compile time.. but we have thousand and thousands of line of Vue 2 that isn't going to be ported to V3 anytime soon and it kills me that I have to waste so much time looking at webpack compiling all the vue files everytime I load it.

Is this technically impossible to make Vite work with Vue 2 or is it because the community has moved away from V2 and don't want to spend any time on V2 tooling? Thanks.
The claim is usually that people are more productive in the office. Assuming that's true, then what's actually more expensive: having existing employees commute, or employing, say, 10% more people? Even if you only care about carbon costs, what are the carbon costs of raising, educating, training, and giving healthcare and everything else to 10% more people?
Some Specifics of ‘Transitory’
In princible, the progressive left supports free speach.

In practice, disagreement is met with explanations and accusations of ”shifting overton window”, ”new normal” and ”normalization”.

Meaning that, Yes, you do have the right of free speach, but No, you should not be saying the wrong things.
Ah this is an interesting thought though I don't think this is what the organisers were trying to do. Or if they are, it does not match up with what they are meant to do as per the UCI specs (the UCI is the international cycling governing body).

In another comment I was discussing the tech being somewhat outdated - perhaps your suggestion is part of the solution. Would two cameras on different planes result in more accurate results?
For me it's slacking of at the office without feeling guilty. Taking 10 minute coffee breaks, walking 5 minutes to the next toilet. At home I have far less interruptions and feel the need to be constantly available in Teams.
This is a very thorough and methodical analysis. Is this what library science is?
When's the last time you went to one? I had three different reasons to go to one in the last 3 years and each time I was in and out in under 30 minutes with almost no wait time. This meme is garbage.
It was a Core 2 Duo white plastic macbook (or were they still iBooks?). I don't remember the exact GPU, but I do remember that it was the very early "wild west" days of GPGPU. Getting GPUs to do things other than draw textured polygons was a strange, crazy, cool idea. It would be years until transcoding and media editing tools managed to make it work. My PPC mac still absolutely smoked the new intel mac at those tasks, even with vector extensions, but of course the transition was underway and there would be no going back.

The language was GLSL. I'm glad to see that sometime in the last decade and a half they decided to mandate float32. Pulling out the float8s to win a benchmark these days would be... something!
It's the post-Soviet Russian way of doing things, comrade. First claim fake news, then quietly fix the vaccine and deny accountability. Some vaccine scientists are due to accidentally fall off their apratment windows while doing Easter cleaning, with a helping hand from the FSB.
Author of vite-plugin-ssr [1] here. Let me know if you have any question about doing SSR with Vite.

(vite-plugin-ssr provides a similar DX than Nuxt/Next.js but as a simple do-one-thing-do-it-well Vite plugin. Vite has a powerful SSR native API which makes not only vite-plugin-ssr's source code lean & small but also enables you to easily implement your custom SSR solution.)

[1]: https://github.com/brillout/vite-plugin-ssr
The question of what matters to a society and why certainly is interesting. The value of value sinks for example like art or Bitcoin.

I’m a lot less worried about automaton than I used to be. There’s just zero evidence that it actually leads to any systemic unemployment in practice. Absorbing China into the labour market has been hard on low end wages, but that effect seems to over already. Increasing capacity and efficiency grows the pie for everybody and humans are very adaptable. When there’s under utilised labour, as long as the economy as a whole is healthy somebody will find a way to take commercial advantage of it and all of a sudden you’ve got full employment again. Sure there can be pain, I remember 3m unemployment here in the UK in the early 80s but we’re already back up to near full employment.
protocols design would have been a step up already, but I find sequence diagram barely adequate here, better than nothing but really a disgrace compared to a lot of tools we use (property based testing for instance, or state space like proofs, instead of ad-hoc manual drawing you know)
That's the case if the majority of people hold progressive views. I've encountered enough conservative companies where people had no problem sharing openly conservative views (some to an extreme that led to open racism).

In those companies, no one would've dared voicing progressive views. Doing that was the easiest way to become an outsider.
GraphQL is just a standardised API model to access data, similar to REST. How you choose to implement the API is up to you.

The fact that one developer was negligent in their implementation of a GraphQL type API does not really say anything about GraphQL itself.

Many REST APIs have developed vulnerabilities over the years, but we should not draw the conclusion that REST itself is insecure or is a bad idea.