skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an actual Native American, I can tell you that one of my first actions after arriving to college was to change my advisor away from the assigned 'Indigenous-focused' advisor to one that was in my major.

I'm sure the Indig advisor was nice and well-meaning but I had things to do and an advisor from my major knew how to get me there.
Linux supports more hardware than either (including tons of legacy stuff) and moves quicker than either.

Their removal of the function row and removal of slots was supposed to be a feature, now they've gone back. In reality they're just changing shit for the sake of it, so the faithful feel compelled to always upgrade.
But people don't like new material.

The top comment mentions people hiding posts from pages they don't follow - alternatively, that's called showing brand new content you haven't seen before.

Opposing material suggests a binary, sure that makes some sense in a US centric political spectrum, but what's the opposing viewpoint to my friends photo from hiking last weekend?

Geographically nearby could mean my neighbor 5 doors down who I don't know anything about and am not friends with. Do you think, if she were a privacy-concerned individual like many people on HN are, she'd be happy to know I saw her post about her new flowers?

It's less narrative control and more human condition - if anything I'm glad they tried this experiment. Chronological feeds are how you end up with news teams spamming posts every three minutes, and you having to hit the hide button every time.
Just noting an alternative use case: When I used to take my laptop (a Dell XPS M1530, later a Dell Studio XPS 13) on my walk between home and university, I'd take it without the battery in as that made it much lighter. There were power points where I was going anyway.
Is that a chart of how much we think there is (model fitting based on observations) or how much we think there should be based on how it is created?

With Neutrinos we know how they are created and have a very good upper limit on how much there should be and it's not nearly enough to explain the observed effects. Same for the CMBR.

I'm not saying there couldn't be much more Dark matter/energy than neutrinos or photons but it's a bit too convenient to introduce a variable that is allowed to take any value and match it to observations without an explanation of what it is (besides having mass) or how it is created.
Ya, it is clearly a lie or the journalist was clueless
This is reassuring.

I have a buddy that is a pure coder -- individual contributor type of guy. He will often share his latest clever idea in some code snippet, and while I understand it abstractly, I feel lost when I focus on the finer details. I definitely couldn't sit alone in a room and come up with it myself at this point.

At the same time, _he_ is a bit lost when I talk the more broad architectural stuff I work on.

Thus, I often go back-and-forth on what I should be focused on, especially as it relates to future opportunities. It's helpful to hear I'm not necessarily abnormal or falling off (as it sometimes can feel).
> given that you need 16 decently high quality microphones...

But... you don't. :) The challenge I find is getting the data into the computer. That's what always costs the most. I've done it with 8x $1 mics and a used $100 sound card.
Why does it increment the count?
>Egyptian national IDs contained a "religion" entry, with only "Christian", "Muslim" and "Jewish" being allowed. Atheists fought for the ability to add a fourth possible value, "-".

I'd expect people to fight to remove that entry entirely, whether one has a religion or not. That's creepy at best, perilous at worst.
> It's not appropriate for a professional device since it requires you to look down and doesn't lend itself to the "mechanical" use of devices that high-paced work requires.

Sure it could; it just has to beat the cost of the lookup. If you could have done some complex operation trivially with it, that couldn’t really be done with some keyboard shortcut, being a dynamic visual field would be fine.

Of course, volume sliders don’t fit that bill, and I don’t think anyone really found something that did… but it’s not some fundamental guarantee that it would be useless.
> We should also count all the lives saved and the billions of people lifted out of abject poverty, largely due to a web of modernity built on fossil fuels

Nuclear could save all those lifes, too, without as disastrous consequences.
Open-source economics is not what you think
I've always been somewhat suspicious of this AI generated code stuff. I get what's happening, but I'm not convinced it's all that fundamentally different than what compilers have been doing for decades.

Isn't a compiler a code generator? And isn't the stuff we humans write simply instructions to a compiler on what code to generate?

Compilers have tons of intelligence in them. At least when I was a CS grad (an ancient time ago) complex sets of heuristics were considered AI. And compilers use complex sets of heuristics to determine things like optimizations.

So I guess what I'm saying is that this news feels over hyped to me.
FBPurity is a browser plugin that lets you decide what to see on FB. You can decide to only see what friends post and not what they like, share, or comment on, etc.
They are terrified someone might end up with an empty news feed for that day
https://archive.md/h98zO
> The USB-C cable situation was and continues to be a nightmare as different cables support different subsets of data, power and video and, worse yet, different versions of each of those.

I’m about to upgrade from a 2015 MBP and am wondering - is there a usb-c cable I can buy which works with everything guaranteed?
Except that's not what the question I was responding to is implying. It seems to be implying it is OK to be doing harm to species which are not endangered.
Interesting, i am since 2008 on Github and still haven’t been offered to join the Product nor do i know of many professionals who have been.
Meson doesn't depend on anything other than the Python standard library.
Aurory: Solana's Next Big Hit? (108m raise)
Im super confused how they benchmarked that. How do you play the same game across two different OS?
Is there a good way to measure the efficacy of diversity initiatives?

IMO it seems that if there was a good data driven way to measure performance, it would allow adjustments to optimize for positive outcomes. As it stands, it feels like the majority of diversity initiatives are evaluated subjectively instead, so diversity officers effectively act as a political role more than serving the intended purpose.

This NY Post article definitely has a bias they are promoting, and the Heritage Foundation (conservative 'think tank') which ran the study certainly does as well. However, I hope more similar studies are performed - quantifying the effects of diversity initiatives is crucial to evaluating which are productive and which are counterproductive. There is likely a bell curve of outcomes, and we don't know which initiatives fall where.
I suppose it wasn't a cliffhanger, but it just felt a bit like the start of a movie rather than the end. Star Wars has done that a bit, but I felt like Dune did it in more of a suave, almost perfect way, which kind of made me sad there wasn't another 2 and a half hours to watch. I suppose I'll wait for the sequel.

Reflecting back on the movie, I really like the aspect of surviving in a desert, and flowing, becoming one with the Dao, the energy of the universe. It was really well done, and even if that's the only thing the movie provided, that is a sage adage that I will hold in my heart for years to come.
I repeated the count with a chronological feed, which is possible to get in a desktop browser with facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

Shared third-party content: 16

Original text: 5

Promoting own event: 4

Original image/video: 11

Directly-posted image of third-party content: 0

Page promoting product: 1

Page promoting media: 5

Group activity: 8

What would really make Facebook better for me is an algorithm that prefers original content. It might not be enough if that was something I could enable myself because what gets interaction from others affects what people post.
> Having that name and wearing the bikini means that much of her popularity will be because of sex appeal, with relatively little being because of the merits of her actions or her writings.

I think that honestly underestimates the amount of work that goes into being a consistently successful tech-themed content creator: Wearing a bikini isn't enough to brave competition and short-lived attention spans in that space. Being attractive helps in media, for sure, but you can't go on without putting work into the essential content for very long.
That video says: "Since we started, 30% of all code written by early adopters come from copilot suggestions."

That is a far different headline than the one on this post. WTH is wrong with journalists now days? FFS.
Given the repetition I assume you were also responsible for this exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970270.
Fair-minded readers who want to consider both sides might want to read that and decide for themselves.

In addition, there are hundreds (if not thousands by now) of past explanations about every aspect of HN moderation, which people can find via HN search, like this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Since I've answered you repeatedly in the past and at this point you're trolling, I'll stop here.
I'm no historian, so this is a very rough synthesis:

In history there's a handful of cases where there have been what are viewed as probably warless societies. Honestly I wouldn't say they fared any worse than warring states. Indus Valley Civilization, Rapa Nui Civilization, Early Sumeria... I'm sure there's countless others in reality but those are what I recall off the top of my head.

I find it difficult to actually piece together a narrative where war is actually a necessity. Empire itself, abstracted, is really just the displacement of toil which isn't a "necessary evil" by any means. And by far and large that is what virtually all war has been predicated on up to World War 2 which justified itself with teleological underpinnings like Marxism and Fascist ideologies; perhaps a few exceptions being outright hostilities triggered by emotional kings.

Ultimately it's survivorship bias, but the surviving population is selecting for all the worst conceivable parameters, which in turn has perverted our whole understanding of civilization. It's made it seem as if war is necessary, that defense strategies and assets must be in place, etc... I don't think this is really the case, but creating a policy system that is totally forbidding of the powers necessary to conjure the public force is a difficulty in and of itself.

I do also suspect that people who do tow the line of government aren't self-contained individuals, they do themselves require laws, governance, and espouse things like inevitable war are exactly those predisposed to causing it, and they're projecting themselves.
> Kevin Scott is a CTO. He's in charge of top level product technical decisions

Then it's probably fair to blame him for some high-level decisions. But technical decisions go well beyond design, and microsoft has so many products, so it's harder to say how much you can point at him.

> The top priority of his job is those few dozen decisions.

I honestly have no idea which few dozen you mean. Across all of microsoft? I could list a bunch for "apple product design", like the way airpods fit, the decision to have no holes in airtags, the keyboard and touch bar choices in macbooks, etc.

Maybe the start menu location? You could probably blame him for the choice of xbox models too. I'm not singling out Apple in saying that executives should be considered responsible for certain high-level decisions.

> Be a little less stuck on the word "Director".

I'm stuck on the word "design". He's the design guy.

> The fact is, when you're one of the main people in charge of allowing decisions, it's not the same as personally championing them.

If it's one of the top few most important decisions under your job purview, the difference is so minor as to not matter outside the company.

> Does that sound like personally assigning blame to Johnny Ive for something? It'd be one thing if it said Ive's team or something, but it's the common refrain parroted on this site

Assigning him blame is not the same as saying he 'pushed' it. The buck stops here for design. He gets the blame because he strongly approved it and he could have easily spent entire days on the decision because that's the core of his job, and spending enough time on the decision is also his job.

> If John manages Joe and Joe deletes a database in prod, do you say "John's subordinate deleted a database in prod" or do you say "John deleted a database in prod".

John decided to delete a database in prod. Ive decided to go with this keyboard.

Assuming the delete wasn't accidental, because the keyboard definitely wasn't accidental! If it was an accident this analogy isn't relevant.
> I know that I'm more than competent enough to hold down the positions I'm applying for

Lots of good advice in this thread. I just wanted to add, if you know the above to be true then don't give up. Maybe your first job won't be FAANG or a US company, but you can get your foot in the door somewhere and prove yourself.
Quickly optimizing Python code with FunctionTrace
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Exactly! While others stare at their code with their old eyes, we came back from HN with a pair of fresh ones.
I sometimes think it isn't that I want old-school paginated, hierarchical forums. It is that Discourse's graphics, layout are badly designed. There are quite a few non paginated, JS front end forums which I enjoy. They dont have similar problem as Discourse.

I think this problem has been raised a few times. But the response was theme it the way you like. Discourse is flexible. I generally dont think this is a good argument because most people just use it the way by default.

Really wish they hire some design guy to work on it.
I buy ads to the arxiv link to a paper I wrote.

I tried Twitter (the paper is about Twitter) but seems like the minimum spend is $50 per day. Also got the feeling that they weren't targeted enough based on who followed me.

I've had a small promo running on Google search ads for a few years (disclaimer I now work at Google). The keywords are roughly what's in the title. I don't know if it's leading to citations.

I don't know if anyone else has done this.
Its open source, you could look at git log (of course not all changes are wmf sponsored, but a significant portion are): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/status:merged

There is also a short weekly news letter of more breaking changes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News

And of course, they also publish annual reports, although those tend to be a bit more pr-ish.

p.s. i'm not sure what you mean by semantic context? Do you mean structured data/semantic web type stuff, or do you mean some sort of thing that tries to add context to articles you are reading, or something else?
What's the difference in this case? Doesn't seem too different from how camouflaged eggs would have developed (maybe just faster because the selection mechanism is so strong).

When I think of selective breeding I think of humans picking out which animals (cows/dogs/wheat/etc) get to reproduce.
Yes, I would say this is normal and OK as you gain more expertise in your craft.

Anecdotally, I have moved twice from higher engineering management roles (VP / Director) to Senior / Principal level IC roles and I am a bit older than you. It does take a bit of work to find the right IC position to shift into at the right company when you are ~recovering~ moving from management/architect roles.

I feel it is very helpful to be up front right away when you interview and express that you want to be more in the trenches with hands on coding. There are a lot of companies that want IC developers to have architect-like "spacial awareness" experience on their engineering teams. It's a valuable skill. Lean into it.
FBPurity is a browser plugin that lets you do those things.
‘Collapse of Civilisation Is the Most Likely Outcome (2020)
This is going to be highly dependent on the operating system, system architecture as well as the compiler and linker. But you could instrument your code to measure the time difference with and without. The malloc should result in shorter access times?
I think it's a stretch to call what the NYT did in the run up to the Iraq war merely "quoting the president."
Because only free software respects its users: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.
Code is just a tool to shape your idea. I have 16 yr into CS career and I still code everyday (I can code in many languages based on task requirement). There are couple of companies where the work is boring and you can get away by not coding. But if you want to do innovation and build something new, you need to code.
Some things have changed https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage
Hazing or 'Paying Dues'?
I've made a similar observation before

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28865174
What keyboard do you have with a trackball?
Humans or no, environments can change quickly and drastically, causing certain genetic characteristics to quickly become favored for survival and reproduction. Evolution is all about generational adaptation to changing environments. When the environment changes quickly, evolution can happen quickly. Populations simply disappear if the necessary adaptations cannot occur quickly enough.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409095414.h...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/rapid-evolutio...
Don't open source your code then.
I have a friend who about 10 years in moved to a director/manager role. Absolutely hated it. Both not coding and having to deal with people's BS. Eventually he was able to put up a big enough fuss that they moved him back to a sole coder job. I, on the other hand, am 20 years in and have refused every effort to promote me to more of an architect/manager role. I'm still coding every day and loving it.
Are you saying that hibernate works fine with hardware designed for linux?? If so I'd look into it.

But the beauty of Linux is that you can take an old machine that barely performs with windows and give it life again under linux
Yep! I was just watching how clang-tidy can now automatically apply code fixes in realtime. Is this AI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfYMKOMc738
Redis has the INCR command that does this in redis without the additional round-trips (and race conditions). It also sets the value to 0 if the key doesn't exist.

So, I actually consider this to be exactly the bad behavior that people accuse Copilot of.
Menu always overwrites status icons if not enough space for both. Nothing new other than slightly less menu space causing this old behavior to occur on wider screen than it did before with apps having lots of menus.

Status icons being able to go under the notch would be bug they should flow around notch just like menu items.
No, software isn't bridges. When bridges fail, people die. When reddit crashes, people take a piss and pet the cat.

I don't know the relevant details about reddit but the assumption that the early reddit people could have easily built something more scalable yet there are tech reasons why the later people, with far more resources, can't.

As to the assumption that one knows the important bottlenecks 2-3 orders of magnitude in advance, that's just wrong.

"late answers are wrong answers" isn't just for real-time. That applies to products as well as signals.

Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.
Is there an article that's not quite so snarky and obviously biased?
No, it's not. People are not choosing pairs of elephants to breed.
I still remember when you didn't even have to open up the "MBP" and could replace the battery directly from the bottom. Even had green led indicator to show how much charge it had directly on the battery case.
What about cross compiling Windows binaries from Linux with MinGW or the like?
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009249
Thanks, I was actually interested in understanding how Kubernetes own API gets extended at runtime when you create a CRD
It helps to remember that every time you see a giant multinational corporation promoting diversity that they are talking about other rich people who think just like they do and are working to protect the status quo, but who have a few cosmetic differences that magically insulate their oligarchic activities from public critique.

The poor and working class are already quite diverse.
> "Did we hide our science? Absolutely not. Did we join some of these 'shadow groups' to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that's true. But there's nothing illegal about that. You know, we were looking out for our investments. We were looking out for our shareholders."

They were looking for their own bonuses, it's laughable that so much egoistic behavior is sold as "we are just doing our work"

> Two names likely to come up at the hearing are Charles and David Koch, the conservative petrochemical magnates. They have poured millions of dollars into efforts to discredit the science of climate change.

People like these would be held accountable for their in bad faith actions. They damaged all the world just for profit, thieves in the streets get ready more for much much less.
Legally, it needs to be opt-in in order to protect downstream consumers of code written by Copilot.

Copilot sometimes reproduces code verbatim. You can't use open source code except under the terms of the license. Authors whose code may be reproduced by Copilot need to grant a license to downstream consumers, and republishers of Copilot-generated code need to adhere to the terms of that license.

Copilot is inserting ticking time-bombs into its users' codebases.
Yes I may have formulated that part a bit clumsily. What I mean to convey is that the time zone changes between CEST and CET. And this in turn means different UTC offsets.

The Europe/Oslo identifier from the time zone databases was meant for context, but may have made what I tried to say less clear, sorry about that.