skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metaverse is best defined as an interoperable system of systems. Sound familiar?

That's because we already have it today with the web, but it's primarily based on a flat 2D model. WebGPU, WebXR, and WebAssembly are going to replace the photo, text, and video sites you use currently into 3D spatial ones that you can experience and live in. We'll have the ability to shop in virtual storefronts both for our avatars and for real life goods, chat with others in whatever environment we want with customizable surroundings, and of course browse worlds created by others with easy to use tools.

This is the vision my team at Wonder is building, so that any game engine can export complex spatial content to the browser, at near native performance. The web is powerful because it's cross-platform by default, and it "just works everywhere".

No 30% from walled gardens either!

Link to our Discord if you want to learn more or join us:

https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
Going by post doesn't seem to indicate she is former. In the last paragraph she mentions her concerns about escorting in the future given her blog detailing the industry in this detail.
Many jobs are somewhat like that, but it's a matter of degree. Compare the market price of the job to the price that would lead people to want to take the job.

A lot of people would be willing to become a janitor at 3 times the market wages for janitors. A lot of people who are physically able to do construction work would take the job at 3 times the market rate for construction work. Not a lot of people would be willing to become a prostitute at 3 times the market rate for prostitutes.

This means that prostitution is much farther on the scale of "forced into by circumstances" than janitors or construction workers.
Am I right, that functional pipelines substantially decreases the possibilities of the query planner to consider different plans for execution? I am a long-term functional programmer and avid user of advanced PostgreSQL features. But I've always looked at this dichotomy the other way around. How to bring the capability to choose implementations dynamically based on actual statistics to functional programming?

Would you say that the reduced flexibility of the query planner --- if I am right about that --- is not important to the
target use cases of Timescale? I guess typical timeseries data models are a well understood subset of all relational data models. Therefore the set of useful plans is smaller than usual, I guess.
I got high quality progressive eyeglasses some years ago. Hated it at first. It was like swimming in a fish bowl. If you don't position your head correctly things are blurry. Now it's completely natural and I love them. I had to learn.

Hearing aids are the exact same. It's slightly unnatural but once you learn how to use the tool, it's a super power. I can hear conversations in crowded bars when normal people can't. Loud noises compress in a pleasant fashion. I just have to get used to some occasional spatial distortion and subtle flanging
Or just don't buy Pringles.
Seems like a tremendous use of energy and resources for little to no benefit.
In PHP 7.4 PHP can be configured to precache (typically framework) files. Thus with mod_php (as opposed to FPM), Apache and the Zend engine are already warm.
In-N-Out defies San Francisco vaccine mandate
The beloved and overhyped Next.js which I dislike with a passion is of the second type. It goes as deep as the simple examples from its documentation, and no deeper than that.
Yes! You pretty much sum up my own thoughts on this subject too.

I'd add that for doing projects for fun or POC, it still pays to pull in something like TypeScript if it's a JavaScript project, even if you're not overly fussy with the typings -- the benefits will outweigh the drawbacks, and you never know when a POC will turn into something bigger.

Choose some sensible tools with a good balance of structure and pragmatism and write some damn code. Keep it modular. Don't spend weeks obsessing and agonising.
I enjoyed the Three body Problem. It reminded me of post war US science fiction novel. Simplistic aliens who are clearly our foes, heroic male leads, paper thin female characters and a bit of the confident can do swagger that comes with a booming economy.
Ask HN: What do you think about daily standups?
I can realistically do most mediums quite quickly, missing an edge case here and there without a test-fix loop like LC provides. On LC and in Python I find most of the medium problems trivial. This is not my problem.

My problem is I find these interviews dehumanizing, and they reflect on how the work is afterwards.
I like my work, and I like working with people who like their work and are there because they're good at doing what the work is, not because they could do what most second year undergrads could easily do.
I've been historically targeting positions related to certain field, and I'd want to be hired because of what knowledge and experience I've built up.

Still, my feeling is worsened by how long these interview processes take (multiple sessions of the same thing basically), and how you can fail arbitrarily because of slight mistakes.
Which means, even if you know you'll pass 80% (quite good) of your LC medium focused interviews, if you take 5 of them in a row, you have a 32% of not failing one.
It's a numbers game, obviously, but that doesn't mean the human playing it doesn't experience feelings of stress and frustration.
Isn't some of the propeller airplane gasoline still leaded? Isn't it even worse as it's sprayed on top of us?
The point is her experience is niche and unique, it is not indicative of how the industry at large actually operates so making any judgements would not be meaningful as OP was doing.
Many companies have remote adjustment now. They connect online and the user and audiologist talk on video.
Anything regulated just becomes pricey.
> developers thought they were improving code quality by implementing some pattern or architecture but actually made it worse.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-08-25/amateur-restoration-b...
There’s an example of it on HN front page right now, where a terminal application without privileges can trigger a kernel bug.
Not in regards to W3Schools, but in regards to docs in general: i've found those of PHP to be excellent for one simple reason (regardless of what i think of the language).

They have user comments, which oftentimes contain the information and examples that are actually very important in day to day usage, as opposed to a cut and dry description by the language authors.

For example, go to this page and scroll down to "User Contributed Notes": https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

To me, it feels like most of the technologies out there could benefit from user source and user voted content at the bottom of pages like this, the one thing that IDEs also don't provide (though if one were to throw in some fuzzy search from, say, StackOverflow, we could probably get context surrounding a particular bit of code).
> Millions of people in the UK don’t have a passport or driving licence and there’s no magic document that lets everyone prove their identity.

That's why most(all?) EU countries have ID cards which are (usually? sometimes? probably depends on the country) mandatory. Especially the new EU standard version, which will of course take time to be deployed everywhere, is pretty great with a chip containing the biometric and other data allowing for automatic verification ( via an app or device at certain places, like airports).
I'm not familiar with those allegations, but none of that precludes them from innovating in the hearing aid space.
Yes, exactly. I was providing an example.
Seconding this: Poor code quality can eat a business alive.

We cannot change ANYTHING. ANYWHERE with our current stack, due to years of product micro-managing engineering and never having room to re-build or improve things. Also just bad practice from inexperienced engineers with 0 leadership.

We tried to do the "microservice" thing but we never ACTUALLY got the bandwidth in our sprints to do all the work that is needed, and product never backed us up to deprecate old APIs that were too tightly coupled with a ton of other functionality to adequately refactor( Also the code quality was so poor it is hard to reverse-engineer the API ). So we have the new APIs sitting dark.

Here is another fun knock-on effect: Everyone who joins quits as soon as possible, because their job is nothing but fucking around with shitty code written by someone half-way to Tahiti by now.

Heck: I have had to convince myself to stay several times now[0]. I ask myself: Is what I am doing worth my time? Am I growing? What am I going to tell my next employer? Will saying: "I spent a year nursing a dying monolith built on a mountain of bad practices" get me my next job? I hope I can help heal this place and get it to a better position, but better people than I have failed.

0: I had a run of crappy gigs and I don't want to switch since this is tolerable so far.
I just found a timely example of one of these sites that republish GitHub issues as their own content. Trying to understand a fairly specific Tensorflow error. Pasted an exact phrase query and the top result is gitmemory dot com. The content is horribly formatted, obviously just a low-effort scrape job. The author is attributed, but the link links to another page on this site that even says it just pull the data straight from GitHub's API. The footer links to another website, uonfu dot com. It looks even worse, and doesn't even try to attribute the original author of the content.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22%27tensorflow.python.fr...

> If you are wondering where the data of this site comes from, please visit https://api.github.com/users/.../events. GitMemory does not store any data, but only uses NGINX to cache data for a period of time. The idea behind GitMemory is simply to give users a better reading experience.

Better reading experience, my ass.
Can you kindly explain what SWE and TC mean?
Don't leave your functions without calling them
Haha as if that doesn’t happen all the time. Enterprise says ‘well nothing is truly secure’ and just installs the update after a month.
The VA will not co insure with Medicare but will with private insurance companies.
IIUC GDP per capita is roughly the arithmetic mean?

The United States is winding down it’s run as the most productive, innovative, dynamic economic superpower in the recorded history of humanity. That was inevitably going to create the odd Ken Griffin, or Jim Simons, or Jeff Bezos or whatever.

But to the median person, it’s cold fucking comfort that Bezos is dragging the average up via his useful deployment of capital while they are literally cold.
We all do stuff we'd rather not do for money.
This is wrong. If Amazon earns $1bn extra profit the market cap of the companies shares could/should increase at least $1bn (depending on how it was made, and any future prospects for repeating the win).

However, no money is transferred to shareholders unless Amazon do a buy back or issue a dividend, it's just a revaluation. If those shareholders starting selling, only market forces (belief in Amazon) keep the price up. Shareholders can't demand their share of that $1bn in most cases, short of suing the company.

Stocks can and do trade below book value. Companies with net $1bn in the bank can have a market cap below $1bn in inefficient markets.
They used to sell ~ten color-coded The HBR Guide to ABC (with the old logo). From what I see there is now an endless array of these but I'm not sure whether those are reprints or completely new books. They're also avail. as PDF on some special sites.
This makes me wonder if that team discovered HIV despite his contributions, not because of them.
I don't understand why search engines don't fight SEO spam using simple, hardcoded rules for specific keywords. Surely, something like "if the search string contains the word 'python', rank results from 'python.org' above everything else" can't be difficult to implement?

Granted, it's not a silver bullet for search engine spam in general, but even a few dozen rules like that would dramatically improve the quality of search results for a huge number of queries in practice.
> A framework with strong primitives makes it easy to create custom
> functionality that is still consistent with the framework's conventions.
> But a framework thatrelies too much on magic makes this much harder.

This is what Laravel got right. It uses "Facades" (which differ from the Facade pattern) for the magic, but you don't have to use them. So socpers (Stack Overflow Copy-Pasters) can copy and paste their Facades without understanding them, but when I need to fix some edge case or write some functionality the framework designers did not anticipate, I can do it by reaching for the lower-level objects.

I've got tons of criticism of Laravel, but this is one thing that was done really really well.
Le stagioni in Giappone e Roku Gin
Wages and salaries are only relevant if they are adjusted for purchase power.
LiveView 0.17-dev. Slots, JS.add_class, LiveApps
Facebook is going to buy Epic Games, mark my words. It would be north of a $60B acquisition even if they purchase them at twice their current valuation. It would be poetic justice because Epic and FB both have a common enemy - Apple.

Facebook does not have a game engine and it is not currently a 3D-first company, and it makes sense that it will need one to underpin all of the content that will need to be made for the metaverse, by creators.
I won't be working with software houses if it can be helped. Sure, some of them place you in companies that actually produce software used and sold to people.

But whenever I've built internal-facing software, it's always been a mix of politics, budget constraints and disingenious requirements that often frustrates me.
it's not a "bit":

Weight and Dimension
169g,
148 x 68.5 x 8.9 mm

thats a full cm longer than the 2020 SE, which is already bigger than the mini. it might be "an answer to the mini" in features and spirit but not in size by far.
The less formal, the best. Because that's exactly what the intent behind it is: the equivalent of a team's gathering about a cup of coffee/tea/water/anything to discuss/chat about the mood of everyone, and the quick status of their work.

Alas... in most of the companies I met, it's become a rigidified strictly business ritual.
> Wages and prices have even picked up modestly in Japan.

That's interesting since today it was just released that 2020 is the second year in Japan where salaries fell:

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01131/

In fact doing some research for a course, I was totally surprised when I found that since last year, both Italy and Spain have higher average salary than Japan. I guess partly it's my big bias (coming from the 3rd city in Spain and now living in the biggest one in Japan, so ofc salaries are higher here) but I found it very surprising nonetheless. This is basically because Spain has been picking up the pace bit by bit, while Japan has stagnated for the last 10-20 years.
Understatement but water makes life possible on earth.
Water's properties of ice floating and heat latency etc etc which otherwise would have made life impossible.
Yes, this is why I've mentioned "in the context of the country/culture". Surely in the country you mention, or I suppose others (e.g. Netherlands) there is no social stigma, but in the USA, there is, and it needs to be taken into account.
How would such "pressure" look in practice? Seems to me that every industry on the planet is at Google's mercy, not the other way round.
SWE = Software Engineer

TC = Total Compensation
Can you run banking apps on custom roms? The Barclays app refused to run on mine a few years ago, but maybe something changed since.
The real concern is: what are we going to do with all the dihydrogen monoxide that has been repeatedly found in our water supply? At certain dosages this chemical is toxic to humans, and in some chemical states it can even cause severe burns.
Philip Morris --> Altria
It is hard to do good work when you don’t have a team you trust.
Employers don't need zealots or evangelists, they need realists, and people ready to work.

Not prattle on endlessly about the latest fad.

Rust has some pluses. Yet the evangelism, with the "it fixes everything" lunacy circulating, taints rust, makes legitimate and sane advocates look like nutjobs.

I don't have the time to sort the wheat from the chaff, so when I see a big deal made about rust on a resume, odds are it's a zealot, and into the bin with 'em.
We're in an interesting point: there is so much we don't know but in order to learn more everything we do must fit in the already immense amount of knowledge that we accumulated so far. In the vast majority of cases this requires that the people who want to nudge the frontier a bit further must first dedicate a good portion of their life's studying what we know, and as the result sounding a bit arrogant when they explain to a layperson that actually they know what they're talking about. Yes, in some cases, they may be erring on the side of too confidence, but in many many cases is the layperson who doesn't fully grasp the ramifications of the innocent looking alternatives.
The explanation was shallow at best, omitting key definitions, coming up with Newton-style "infinitesmall" hand waiving.

They mostly made sure we were familiar with relevant notation. This somewhat helped in early uni physics-related courses, until calculus caught up.

That was in a math school back in post-soviet lithuania, so russian approach to math schooling implied.
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Why care about money supply if it is just sitting on a banks' balance sheet without ever entering the real economy?
The cemetery in Oakland was so popular during the pandemic they had to close it down to public use.
Classic car as in pre 1980s or so?

Because an engine change on a modern ICE car is far from easy. In major part because of the same bullshit with electronics incompatibility caused by manufacturers.

Wrong serial numbers on injectors/ECU/sensors? Welp, fuck you, buy compatible original parts or swap the whole engine, every little wire and all.

It's like needing to swap the battery+controller+motors on an EV.

Then again, government regulations play a part here, at least in Europe. Can't just have you riding around in your now "custom" car.
> Are there cultures that do something different

# Unfortunately tzdb records only Western clock time in use in Ethiopia,
# as the tzdb format is not up to properly recording a common Ethiopian
# timekeeping practice that is based on solar time. See:
# Mortada D. If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double
# check the time. PRI's The World. 2015-01-30 15:15 -05.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-e...
What I want from a grandparent mode is for the app to not show an sign-up announcement screen with every update or at least have that X (close) prominently; Adobe Acrobat Reader is notorious in that regard as they showcase their graphics prowess with fancy 'Sign-up' screen with every update and almost invisible (X) button; Old people who are just trying to open a pdf from the email shouldn't have to put up with this.
Explosions in space.
I found an Amazon folder with thousands of audio recordings from my home gadgets
You were the one comparing the energy expenditure of Bitcoin with the entire banking system. I was merely pointing out why that comparison is irrelevant.
Global poverty has improved mostly due to China, which is total opposite of neoliberal policy (privatisation, deregulation, austerity [allowing rich to pay less taxes while taking the necessary tax money via cuts to social programs] etc).

And if there is any improvement in neoliberal poor countries it is because of the definition of "extreme poverty" used is based on nominal dollar value disconnected from material reality.
If you're building a new type of anything, a concrete description of what's special with screenshots will go a long way. I'm not about to sign up for anything without any idea of what it's like and what's different about it.
Go to Web Summit 2021
> React does one thing. It’s arguably not a framework at all.

But that's React's failure, too. The lack of officially-supported libraries for common things such as routing leads to the horrible situation of having multiple competing, each-with-different-inconsistencies implementations of routing and moving from one React project to another transfers very little skills compared to other libraries such as Vue.
Software engineer and total compensation, respectively.
The thing is, it seems like there are multiple factors at play here.

What you're talking about is the distribution of funds within an organization. I.e. if company X has a certain total revenue, can they afford to re-distribute a greater percentage of that number & towards employee compensation vs. stock buybacks. From that standpoint, for many successful firms the answer is probably yes.

But another factor at play here is market forces, and scarcity in particular. So for instance, amidst the chip shortage, the price of new and used cars increases because it's not possible to produce enough cars to meet demand. So firms that can afford to pay more do so to afford top talent, because working at company X will mean you can afford to have the lifestyle you want. This incentivizes company Y, which can not simply redistribute profits toward wages, to increase prices so they can afford to compete in the labour market, which farther contributes to the increase in demand for higher-wage jobs, contributing to the cycle of inflation.

So I don't think it's as simple as having super profitable companies take a haircut to increase wages. In an environment of greater-than-average scarcity, the market should perform its role in price discovery of scarce goods. But in an environment where capital itself is not scarce, you risk that price discovery mechanism being broken, and prices just increasing indefinitely.

Disclaimer: I'm not an economist, I'm just someone who's been thinking about inflation a lot lately, so I am happy to be corrected.
“Vers is a new type of social network that values your mental health and well-being over engagement and mindless scrolling. While other social networks are engineered to keep you online as long as possible; Vers encourages you to log off and experience the real world. Whether you realize it or not a social network is a very intimate tool that most of us use daily, and we here at Vers don't take that responsibility lightly.” - Currently in beta but I would love for you to test it out. Posted this on here last week but my listing was flagged because I didn’t have a homepage and privacy policy (a little excessive in my opinion but here I am posting one more time), all legal documents are complete now. Welcome to Vers
Ask HN: Best free password manager when you're on different machines and OSes?
Hypothetical situation (disclaimer: close to my situation).

OS: Linux, Windows, OS X (all native on different laptops)

Phone: Android and iOS

Tablet: Android and iOS

I have a strong preference for not paying for a password manager as my financial situation has always been very unstable [1] and I can't guarantee subscription payment always in perpetuity for the rest of my life.

[1] Storing my tech equipment and having constant access to it is virtually a guarantee though.