skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In many cases, this software doesn't even do anything that is functionally different from 10 or 20 years ago, but it still consumes many more resources.

Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples? Nah, having lived and written code through the last 20 years, I think this often repeated argument just isn’t true at all. I can see why it’s easy to jump to this conclusion and easy to believe, if you don’t know or don’t pay attention what’s under the covers. It’s easy to forget about all the conveniences you’ve gotten used to along the way. You wouldn’t agree the functionality is the same if you tried using software from 20 years ago.

One easy to overlook difference is displays. It’s easy to forget that 20 years ago we had 800x600 screens, 24 bit color was not ubiquitous, and 60hz monitors were practically non-existent. Today 4K is normal, and combined with refresh rates and colors, we’re pushing upwards of 2 orders of magnitude more data to our screens. We have much better compositing, much better text and graphic rendering, better antialiasing, all around higher quality and faster rendering.

YouTube and Netflix didn’t exist 20 years ago. Browsers were incredibly slow and couldn’t support streaming video or anything but the smallest of applications written in JavaScript. Localization didn’t exist, web analytics wasn’t really a thing, browsers didn’t run background tasks.

> A world where some websites still don’t work properly across web browsers

This specious framing might have you believe that web portability hasn’t improved that much, while in reality the difference in support for web standards has changed dramatically in the last 10 years. Supporting IE6 was a real and widespread problem for businesses compared to the few minor corner cases that are left.
It's funny, this is the basis of many Nigerian scams. Make the scam as dumb as possible so you are guaranteed that the people who respond are self selecting as the most oblivious people in society.

Pelton has managed to identify the exact set of people who are rich, oblivious, and like fitness.
For one company? Or a recruiter working for multiple companies that try to find 1000 people in sum?
I've looked before at these high-level things generating Verilog and I don't see what they bring that's so much better than what I can do with well-established VHDL. VHDL is rather verbose but that's nothing a bit of preprocessing/templating can't fix. Does slice offer something more here? I've looked at the readme but nothng jumps out. And I'm not even talking about vhdl-2019, which looks awesome (I can't wait to use in 2039 when it becomes supported in my tools)!
Ironically manager is the ideal job to be replaced with AL. A manager is a proxy for senior leadership wishes. This is easier to replace then the workers below who have physical and varied jobs.
How Does Simius Enhance Hardware Security?
> Furthermore (like SMS) this requires a connection to the cell tower, which some tablets may not have even if they have internet.

Seems like the government just needs to provide RSS feeds per location, so that internet-only devices can receive the alerts too.

I'm actually surprised there is no easy way to access said alerts (whether emergency weather alerts or Amber) over the internet in the US last time I checked. Strange for a system whose sole purpose is to alert as many people as possible, but I bet some scum is rent-seeking by charging exorbitant amounts for these data feeds and certain companies are bound by law to display those alerts and have no choice but to pay that.
But neither of the conditions in the EU pass says you don't have covid now. Vaccinations are not 100% (numbers go down to 70%, and a lot of infections for vaccinated people are asymptomatic, so even worse, because you don't stay at home, and noone tests you), PCR tests don't guarantee you didnt catch it between the test and "now", and having covid 5.5 months ago, does not guarantee you don't have it now.
> It would be silly to buy a premium device who's point is to use the subscription

I think you could have stopped there.

The business model appears to be: sell an expensive hostage, justify ramping up recurring ransoms by threatening to kill the hostage.
Being an introvert does NOT mean having unreadable or negative "resting face" expressions, nor does it mean dreading routine interaction with other humans, and it ESPECIALLY is not anything like "misanthropic".

What some of you people are describing sound more like autism or some kinds of personality disorders. That's very different from introversion--- which roughly half of the population could be categorized as.
And this is a temporary reality - once the system starts operating at full steam again the costs will come down.

Moving production is much more complex and requires long term policies and strategies- something most countries (other than China) seem unable to muster.
No offense kiddo, but that's just sugar. I was passing function pointers and arrays 30 years ago. <old man grumbling ensues>
> particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone

What?

I'm 33, only a few months into my current relationship, and I have to say that dating is so much better at this age than it ever was.
They are pretty great at welding and painting, they not as good at attaching bumpers or trunk lids, and terrible at running wire looms through doors or installing headliners.

Also from my last visit at an assembly plant ~5 years ago, most plants are still on large conveyors vs. driving individual vehicles around the plant, and materials handling is still in the 90's with little stripe-following tugs slowly moving about the place.
Firefox because it runs ublock origin and containers.
The same authors have a 2020 working paper on arxiv, "An Introduction to Rank-polymorphic Programming in Remora" https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13451
Similar for other cities.

Also bus and train ridership is still down, and I believe a lot of the road traffic is single person rides that would have taken public transportation pre-pandemic.
I got told this as a 2010 high school graduate too!

Didn’t listen since I loved programming and computers and it worked out well for me.
Amazon labels millions of unsold products for destruction, investigation finds
I call it the mainframe/desktop cycle.

The 90s was peak desktop. Everything was on the local hard drive.

Now everything is back on the mainframe(cloud) i fully expect it to cycle back to the desktop in some form. (we just won’t call it that)
I think the secret ingredient of "the Swedish submarine that sank an US aircraft carrier" is the Stirling engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine
Yes, x64, X86-64 and amd64 refer basically to the same.
In the late '80s I started studying AI in college, fully expecting it to boom. That did not really happen, until it did. Unfortunately, most of what I learned about AI back then is pretty useless now.

I started with symbolic AI: parsers, tree searches, expert systems, logic. Even then it felt like this approach was stuck in a rut. So I changed lanes and studied early ML: decision trees, genetic algo's, nearest neighbours. When I left college SVM's were all the rage.

All that time, neural networks were deemed interesting but unfeasible for anything realistic. Little did we know.

I feel that if I wanted to get back into this field, I might as well start all over again.
Out of sight out of mind. Imagine if hypocrisy was an export. Boy howdy.
Meanwhile, my Starlink dish is idling at 100 watts, which works out to be about eight percent of my electrical bill.
It targets a similar customer to that obscenely expensive juice squeezer thing.

I'm noticing more and more a trend for people to spend seemingly large amounts of money on completely pointless things. Out of curiosity I checked how much people are spending on custom number plates for their cars in the UK. They are regularly going for tens of thousands of pounds. For a few numbers that other people get to see on their cars.

My theory is, despite the nominal amounts being very high, the opportunity cost to the buyers is very low, but it's not because they are "rich". There is such a huge gulf between being "well off" and being "rich" that it's quite easy for many people to save up a spare ten thousand and just not have anything better to spend it on. To make serious life changes, like a new house, you need hundreds of thousands to millions. Suddenly that ten thousand is a drop in the ocean. Faced with not a chance of ever reaching "rich", people remain "well off" and spend these paradoxically large but tiny amounts of money on pointless things.
Might as well be Blackwater for all the good it's doing the world.
In an emergency situation, an unresponsive and unintuitive GUI may be very dangerous. Especially if pilots forget how to use it because they're using the iPad day to day but right now it's rebooting to install an update.

Like, I get the argument for certification but maybe the requirements should have a minimum level of performance. If that's not possible maybe we should find a different equilibrium.
> no-one was shouted at by police for taking a walk too far from home

I remember my brother and sister-in-law getting shouted at for holding hands in Paris last year... Yeah, covid had been hard on everyone
The Soul Cycle (and copycats) business model boggles my mind.

I can even understand people paying $200+/month for an Equinox gym. At least it's unlimited use.

But paying $35+ for a single one hour spinning class?
How do you make money on the debt? Rent it out?
Thanks for the feedback, I'll update the left panel.

In future versions, I'm thinking of creating templates for different types of system specs, where each template applies a different set of autolayout algorithms.
> "In our ongoing work to ensure our products are even safer ... we released Tread Lock, a four-digit passcode to secure Tread+ against unauthorized access. Unfortunately, Tread Lock is not yet available without a Peloton Membership..."

This is ludicrous. I'm intrigued why it is so difficult to add a 4 digit passcode to a device that regularly receives software updates. It seems that bricking the device was an easier fix than a bit of coding.

One of the benefits of IOT is the ability to provide regular updates & "improvements", however the first benefit of IOT is to earn as much money as possible for the suppliers and that typically steers product decisions.
Because you're not really buying the hardware. Like you are in the sense that the price of the bike covers the hardware cost, and that you own the hunk of metal and plastic so that you're responsible for maintaining it and fixing/replacing it if you break it and it's transferable if you ever want to sell it. But like an iPhone you're buying a client to a larger service hosted by Peleton -- that's their whole business model. If you want an offline bike there are literally hundreds of brands to choose from but you buy a Peleton bike because it's the entry-fee to access Peleton's services.
Know what else we don't know the 2-3 year effects of? Fucking Covid-19. Unlike the vaccine, that one actually has a decent chance of killing you.
I grew up in Australia, thinking Americans were crazy for their obsession with guns. In the past year my opinion changed completely, after seeing the US states with high gun ownership like Florida and Texas are some of the few places in the world where this authoritarianism hasn't taken hold.
It's true. A documentary film should be made of it, as it encapsulates so much about so many topics.
My mid-90's telco experience involved a test deployment of citrix winframe (IIRC) dumb terminals. They worked okay, but not great.

Every tech or bigco job i've had there's at least one mainframe codger doing the Kinge George "You'll be back" number from hamilton. Don't think they anticipated the non-MF cloud. Almost always among the best engineers though in the joint though, IME.

I miss genuine differences in hardware. Happy hour discussions about alpha vs sparc vs intel etc. I'm hopeful that diversity will come back around as a thing.
Then Europe should start making their own apps.
I generally agree with what you wrote. However:

> It would presumably not be a problem for people to regenerate their QR code when they replace their ID card. They have to regenerate it every day or so anyway. (The QR code in the article expires after 48 hours.)

A not small number of those 115k people per week are elders without a smartphone or no digital abilities except video calling their children and nephews.

Luckily it seems that in my country we'll be able to get a permanent QR code (paper or plastic, don't know.) I'm thinking about getting that one instead of the digital certificate: one less app, no worries about batteries and if it worked for my passport, id card and driver license it will be OK for my covid pass too.
I don't work or use Bumble, but a quick search says they have 3 weeks of vacation and 12 holidays. Which is at or above average for US.

My company gives 3 weeks to new hires plus another week around Christmas. They gave us an extra Covid week and everyone sure appreciates it.
I'm curious what the probability of contracting the allergy is from a single tick bite? Is it the sort of thing where the chances are low, but if you live in an area or engage in activities where you're getting a lot of bites, your risk is elevated? Or is it the sort of thing where any bite at all carries significant risk?
Before people go on a reddit like hate trail, it should be noted is in parallel with a full recall and reimbursement of all the treadmills
Not actually owning anything is part of it, but the whole autopay push is a little more basic than that--it's eliminating the conscious decision to buy and turning customers into a passive income stream. My phone bill is significantly cheaper if I let it get autobilled to my debit card instead of actually paying it every month. Heating/cooling companies in my area push a monthly subscription that includes annual furnace inspections for the same price as the inspections themselves. Both of those are genuinely services, and not things I would have otherwise owned.
I never really engaged with the arguments about Facebook, Whatsapp privacy update etc. Mainly because I thought they were just trying to sell us ads.

Maybe I made a mistake as I certainly care about data privacy now. These passes are an absolute tragedy for society as far as I can see.
I'm one of those happily married people and my heart has been going out to people like you the whole time.

It's an incredible blessing to have been locked-in and had 24/7 support from someone I love and I wish you had it too.

Sorry you had to face this alone.
Degree over Skills or Skills over Degree?
switching to a new project (or job) is generally the best thing for burnout as a dev.

But a vacation is good for other reasons.
There's a gas station store that does this in Portland OR. They have a facial recognition camera at the door that scans each person to enter the store after sundown.
Why? The article seemed to focus more on the "what" and "how".
>I'm 33, only a few months into my current relationship, and I have to say that dating is so much better at this age than it ever was.

You can get lucky. There are certainly unicorns out there. Or you can date younger, if you're ok with that. But by and large, women and men work on different timelines. And you don't realize this as a man until it hits. The vast majority of women are out of the dating pool by 30. And by this age, you've both ossified into separate individuals with rigid expectations and assumptions about life, which makes the flexibility needed to build a real lasting connection infinitely harder.
A browser based hex viewer? I guess Linux people jump from the command line to the browser because there's no standard GUI on Linux?

Seems a bit complicated, would love to see better binary visualization tools on desktop.
Fasm is a dotnet tool running a watcher to observe what asm/il will be generated from a F# snippet. As an example of usage, its author use it to add an optimization in the F# compiler: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11414
Speaking from personal experience, this happens to male humans as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting_bitch_face: "Using a type of facial recognition system, they found that the phenomenon is real and the condition is as common in males as in females, despite the gendered word bitch that is used to name the concept."
There was also OLE before ActiveX/COM and later DCOM. But the DLL’s were always a constant.
A possible explanation is that they need/want to address th safety issue quickly, and the way to do that is a software change to something that is subscription only.
They may well break out the PIN/safety feature later to not require a subscription.
We do, it's basically Google and Apple's business model with Android [1] and iOS -- they're just better at hiding the monthly fee.

[1] Yes you can have non-Google subscribed Android devices, doesn't mean that Google is banking on all but an insignificant portion of users doing that.
They really are one of the most ripe for replacement, given their role and duties.
> Given how high profile the Chinese trade imbalances are it does make one wonder what other lopsided trade deals the US has outstanding.

I think it's something like all of them. Being a superpower isn't free. Besides the lopsided defense commitments, IIRC, the US deliberately negotiated domestically disadvantageous trade deals in order to shape of the first world/international economic order.
I've tried Cue, it gives you a type system for static JSON, but the support for functions seems either absent or very, very convoluted. I want to expose this configuration language as an interface to my tools, so the configuration language needs to be somewhat familiar (no need to reinvent functions poorly).
Microsoft has been testing the concept with Office 365...just you wait.
Land is rarely made.

It happens naturally occasionally and man made at great expense, like in the UAE
That's beyond the point of GDPR, even if they collect the data illegally the value would be to reach the person (to give them promotional content, advertising, custom experience, what ever...)

Basically even if they collected the data they wouldn't be able to use it. If they just collected your name to personalize your experience they'd be literally in deep shit if someone asked: "where did you get this information from?" - which to you may sound a weird question, but since 2018, at least in my country, more and more people ask this question.

When in doubt, report. They'd need to show to authorities that the person gave explicit consent to store that data and to be used for personalized experiences.

It's about consent. If the user didn't give consent you have no use for the data, and you'll be storing toxic material to get you fined.
Show HN: Brisqi, an offline-first personal Kanban app
Maybe the Aliens Are Here
If you actually read the study, you'd see with ad blocking enabled that Google was the least pervasive, widespread and insidious. If anything, this study shows that although that Google may be the most widespread, again thanks to the sites that you're visiting without an adblocker that you refuse to hold accountable, that they are the least invasive and insidious.
"OS" is not specified. Page mentions "COM objects" which suggests OS is Windows.
The supermarket network I usually shop at lets one chose 5 product categories (out of about 30 or so) that they will get cashback from. Recently, they've decided to split categories "Tea, Coffee, Cocoa" and "Fruits & vegetables" into two new categories each: "Tea", "Coffee & Cocoa", "Fruits", and "Vegetables", — with the stated reason "to improve your shopping experience". No idea how that would improve my shopping experience, but hey, they probably know better than I do, right?
For Agile role (assuming you mean a role like SCRUM master), it works way better if it's a productive team member (either developer, QA, doc writer...) that works part-time as the SCRUM master for the team, rather than a agile person who does only that, which usually feel disconnected from the actual concerns of the team.
Yes, I speak from repeat personal experience in both Africa and South America. That checking of the certificate in South America has dwindled is well known. Sure, some people may have bad luck, but there is a reason that many holidaymakers are no longer even aware that there is a rule on the books.

The certificate is commonly checked in Africa, but as I said, often the official on the border checking it is not capable of understanding the details – they just look for the paper with the familiar color and logo. Also, it has been common for travelers unable to get the yellow fever vaccine in their home country (historically supplies in Eastern Europe have been scarce, for instance) to simply forge the certificate, which is easily done. The WHO is aware that some amount of certificates will be forgeries, but nevertheless believes that the policy of requiring vaccination will be enough to reduce the risk of outbreaks.
Awacs: Open-source alternative to Mixpanel and Amplitude for mobile apps
Credit scores are already privatized so why not? Citizen and Palantir could get in on it with Equifax. They'd just need to incentivize others to do the reporting of good/bad social actions.
Wow, so woke. Carriers certainly are offensive weapons, but by far their heaviest use was in the Pacific theater in WWII -- would you call imperial Japan a weak country that needed plundering?
> As a reminder, under the terms of our voluntary recall, Tread+ owners can return their Tread+ for a full refund by contacting Member support

I really don’t see the problem. You don’t have to like it, you can just return it (presumably getting the purchase money back). Vote with your wallet!
The question was about the specific hairstyle ('friar tuck'-like) being done at all and not why the surgeon did it in this story.
The J&J/Janssen vaccine requires only one dose as well, and you can get the green certificate after the single dose. Since the format encodes 'doses received' and 'total number of doses' separately, I would guess that people with prior illness can similarly get the total dose number set to 1 there.
Erlang is completely tied to its runtime. Making a distinction is not really important. The point is Erlang gives you the best parts of much more complex solutions in a simple easy to use package.
37% of all gold minded each year is used in electronics despite it’s current price. Which means if gold stopped being used as a currency or jewelry it’s value would crash in the short term, but still remain high long term.

In a very real way it’s inherently worth more than copper or steel. Though that only makes it valuable as a hedge not an investment.
That's also the case at Amazon. And likely most large organizations. It's not a strict stack rank but an expectation that over a certain population size, there is a certain percentage of under-performers. It's also used as a method of calibration. Performance evaluations are hard.