skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I also very much hate how people keep trying to turn it into Facebook. Stop it. Get your validation somewhere else.

> It's the first place I go when I look for work. Recruiters will hit you up once you have at least a few years of experience.

I have the exact same experience. I try to ignore the news feed as much as possible because it became a Covid flame war. To me, it is no longer a 'Business oriented social network', I now use it as a glorified job board with resume profiles.
Traditionally we would call that a failed business.
Can they be used exactly like gifs? I have seen a few sites with mp4s but Firefox blocks them.

I do not think even sites like Dribbble have figured it out. I have a lot of issues there with videos.
Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition [video]
For those unfamiliar with Nan-boxing

https://anniecherkaev.com/the-secret-life-of-nan

> One use is NaN-boxing, which is where you stick all the other non-floating point values in a language + their type information into the payload of NaNs. It’s a beautiful hack.
While seeing FB, Twitter, Google,etc. get hit by regulators & governments doesn't really bother me (because these monopolies should be getting attacked, not necessarily for the fact that they're monopolies but because they behave in an anti-competitive, scummy way, to mention only one reason), what i do wonder is how exactly does this pave the way for new emerging platforms that are more secure, less censored and better designed than these ones.Especially when you consider the amount of regulations one has to "obey" when launching a new platform.

While it's certainly easy to cite few companies that have better ethics than these major corporations, the attacks of EU&US regulators&politicians feel like it's just both a money-grab and also political talk in order to restore "trust in institutions"(Which is down-trending in EU since 2015 for example) while degrading the influence of these platforms (which again, it's not a bad thing, just an over-looked fact).
> Instagram was a tool for applying filters to photos and posting them on Facebook.

Incorrect, it could also post to Twitter ;)
It's not working well with Facebook and Youtube, because actual users cannot vote.
I like the demo of each feature, but hate the box of text and video hanging off my mouse cursor. There must be a better implementation then that.
Md-block: Render styleable Markdown in your HTML
Do you know how much money $175kUSD is to a lot of people?
When recruiters search for candidates they definitely see photos. Photos which should have absolutely nothing to with finding a job
Reading NFS at 25GB/s using FIO and libnfs
A 100ms delay is trivially noticeable - I suggest trying to type with that delay. In terms of video people reliably distinguish between a 144hz and 240hz refresh rate which is a difference if just ~3ms.
It's standard operating procedure for the hiring process
Arguably yes, at least by British standards. And according to the Times’ tapes a few years ago of the former Conservative treasurer and now Baron Cruddas you're right about the 6 figures.
> I prefer to walk in to a building and shake hands with CEO/CIO without prior invitation.

Interesting to see how different people can be. I prefer to never meet or see a coworker in person or step foot in an office, which is why the pandemic has been the best time of my life. Even better if the company is so large I'll never meet the CEO or CIO.
Tip: open the "HTML single page" version: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.htm... and press Ctrl+F. Works really well.

(EDIT: it's 4.4MB instead of 200KB though)
Fair use isn't that cut and dry, it depends on how much of the work you're using, what you're using it for, how much you transformed it, etc.

It's really not "well it's only a gif, you can't touch me".
Watching Myself Program
How relevant is the UK mow that it has exited the EU? If I am Facebook I pull out of the UK or at least threaten to do so. The general public will scream at their MPs to fix the problem.
That's what the stock market is for.
But what’s that gonna provide for me? There’s diminishing returns beyond this point, the efficiency gains are in the single digit percentages or often only placebo effects, and I’ve never even seen a bicycle that stopped being used out of old age. A new coat of paint every decade or two, replacing the tires and brake pads every two years, and maybe the chain every decade, and it’ll run forever.

I feel like it’s just like people buying expensive sports cars, purely because they can, not because they actually need any of it.
Collateral Transformation
> The CMA said the acquisition could be used to deny or limit other platforms’ access to Giphy GIFs and drive more traffic to Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It also raised concerns that it could be used to require other platforms to provide more data to access the GIFs. Finally, the CMA also believes that Giphy’s advertising services could have competed with Meta’s, but that these were shuttered as a result of the merger.

Why is this only being realized now? What's so different about the technological or economic landscape from 2 years ago regarding GIF hosting?

And what makes Giphy more valuable than any other image hosting site like Imgur, ImageShack, Photobucket, etc? Surely if Meta did any of that, users would simply migrate to one of many other platforms.
This is fascinating! We've always blamed climate change/warming on man-made activities, but this study is saying Arctic Atlantification predates the industrial revolution (or at least occurs at the same time). Not that I want to see continued use of fossil fuels in place of more sustainable options like nuclear and solar/wind. But what if scientists have been wrong about the causes of global warming?
Sure I meant that when used in prod you'd probably compile your Python to JavaScript on a (CI) server and/or if you wanted to dynamically run Python in the browser using Transcrypt you'd have to send the code to a server to be translated before you could run the resulting code in the browser.

This all sounds pedantic but it's because not all "python in browser" implementations work like this.
James Webb Space Telescope cleared for launch on December 22
Keyboards and mice are nice because they require relatively small, efficient movements.

The only thing that would improve mice is to make them disappear. Replace the physical puck with some kind of image capture or accurate position sensing system that tracks all fingers for pressure and position, and you'll be able to make even smaller movements on any surface while keeping your wrist rested.

Keyboards need some physical travel, and modern designs have reduced that as far as it can go. Some people prefer Cherry-type clacker keyboards, some people prefer Apple-style micromovements, and some prefer something in between. Pick whatever works for you. There are choices.

I suspect there are flat touch keyboards in Apple and MS labs somewhere, and I also suspect they'll stay there. It's a perennial idea, but it's not happening until a technology is invented that can emulate key travel in any location(s) on a lightweight programmable display surface. That would be amazing - like the app-dependent touch bar, but both comfortable and useful.

Gestural interfaces look sexy in movies, but I really don't believe days of waving your hands and arms around and talking are going to be easier on your body than a modern keyboard+mouse mix.
I do this, but I don't use Docker; I just create a .tar.gz file for each layer, run them through the `sha256sum` command to get a digest, and generate a JSON config file (via builtins.toJSON). The result can be run by anything that supports OCI containers (e.g. AWS ECS).
You mean fair use, and not necessarily. Also "fair use" is not a law in the U.K.
I actually just got out of a period where I was looking for a new job. 66% of the offers I got originated from a message I passively received from a recruiter in LinkedIn, including the offer I accepted.

So I would say using LinkedIn in this way seems to be working well: setting up your profile as well as you can, that should make it so you receive endless messages from recruiters. Then when you're looking for a job, just respond to the last messages you got.
> A good example would be a tree inspection application where jobs can be pushed out to mobile inspectors who might not have phone signal but can still collect the data. Once synchronised, views are simply additive. More data can be added to cases simply by adding events.

This isn't a great use case for Event Souring either. An inspector must be in front of the tree to inspect it, right? And they can see each other inspecting the tree.... Why would several inspectors inspect the same tree?

Assuming they inspect the same tree at different times, you can sync offline data at the row level, and let the last update win, provided that they're entering the same data.
Oh, I forgot all about those little drawings! Seeing this now brings back a flood of memories. Thanks!
I recently switched companies. The answer for me was “Anywhere that has the jobs you’re looking for.” I was finding roles that I wanted across a bunch of different places.
Have you considered moving to literally anywhere but the US? Even Canada would solve this issue for you afaik
> I think the real issue is that for most people, ergonomic keyboards do not offer a real benefit.

Or they are not aware of the benefit until RSI strikes, which is arguably too late.
A lot of money is spent on useless things. This would be completely worth doing and may be the change in corporate law that we need.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption at the speed of light
It objectively is not. I'm baffled at how you arrive at that conclusion.
I guess it is kinda similar as:

"After 150 years, we should finally redesign the transportation system". I mean the writing is on the wall - public transportation is the future. Electric, sustainable public transportation.

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” (Frank Zappa, musician)

Now let's communicate the idea to all the public starting with car manufacturers.
True, but perhaps big tech shouldn't be so big. If Facebook's mergers had been under this much scrutiny in the past, the web would probably be a better place today.

It's too little too late, but it's not exactly a witch hunt.
This feels like a wilful misunderstanding.

FB doesn't claim selling the company is the only reason to start one.

But it is a top 3 "exit strategy" for startups, so limiting it would have a chilling effect on startup formation. How big that effect would be is probably a better avenue for counter arguments.
Spacemacs leader key setup is very nice (I'm sure you could achieve it without needing Spacemacs) as nearly every command you do begins from the spacebar, and thus your thumb. Haven't gotten a sore pinky since. Well, actually, I never used the normal Emacs keybindings. I learned my Emacs knowledge starting with Spacemacs, but I never cared to learn the default bindings anyways.
>It even works on mobile!

Recently I've been having trouble pinpointing sarcasm on the web. That can't be real, can it? Mobile traffic has been larger than desktop for over a decade. We've been hammering mobile-first for almost that long. If that was a joke, sorry it passed right over my head.

Also, GIFs… in 2021? We've had <video>, <canvas>, <svg> for what, 15 years?
"That just sound like slavery with extra steps"

Morty Smith
Were Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam threats to the US? That was my point precisely, the US is perfectly capable of starting wars, and many people up top were gearing up for war with Iran a few years ago under the Trump and Obama administrations.
>In her decision Monday, the labor board’s regional director for the Atlanta region agreed, writing that Amazon “gave a strong impression that it controlled the process” by arranging the installation of the box. “This dangerous and improper message to employees destroys trust in the board’s processes and in the credibility of the election results,” the director, Lisa Y. Henderson, concluded.

In particular, this is a valid concern. In anything to do with workers organizing, Management etc Al reaching out and doing something like that is definitely a bit sus. Maybe not enough to convince me in isolation, but combined with

>Ms. Henderson also found that Amazon had improperly “polled” employees — that is, it attempted to determine how they would vote — by notifying workers at mandatory meetings that they could take “vote no” items such as pins that were laid out in full view of human resources officials.

this clinches it for me. process is there for a reason, and in a company where data mining is possible, and things like facial recognition have been a controversial sell in the past, I can see the Big Brother is watching effect playing a potentially bigger role in shifting around how people voted.

To be frank, the best move is to just let things go organically without interference. If it was an accurate vote, going from 70% to <51% against is highly unlikely. If it does happen to swing that much, serious questions need to be asked about some of the "soft" practices involved with employee monitoring I think may be worth reassessing.
> so local labor rates which ppp approximates

This is a short run comparison. See the article I mentioned earlier. There is little evidence that PPP comparisons, over a short period of time, are meaningful.

PPP is calculated by a basket of goods. There are valid reasons for why the price of, e.g., flour costs X in one country and Y in another country that have little to do with the purchasing power of their respective currencies. This is why there are a disproportionate number of island nations that have high price level ratios - it is expensive to import 'stuff', and this inadvertently increases how much this 'stuff' and what it is eventually processed into costs.
> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

Just cause its easily duplicated doesn't mean others can compete. You can easily duplicate Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. But unless you are as big as Facebook, you will not be about to compete. Its called network effect.
Ipe
You can't deallocate part of a frame buffer, it's a single allocation. Unless every pixel is individually allocated, which would clearly be insane.
Show HN: I was tired of a mileage registration subscription
Quite a few people use Nix.
Elon Musk writes that Starship engine crisis is creating a ‘risk of bankruptcy’
If Twitter was worth paying for, they wouldn't have used an ad-supported model to begin with (because people would have found it valuable enough to pay for in the first place). In some ways, Twitter has the "news" problem in that people just aren't willing to pay for it. As this says, Internet advertising really isn't that effective, especially on a site that is the equivalent of standing in town square with a megaphone. I think Twitter is tapped out on how much money it can make and drastic changes will just drive users to other places. If you're looking for higher returns a different company might be a better idea.
> We are, in this very thread, discussing a reason why Apple's phones are worse

Right now, in this very thread I see no such discussion.

> They are also worse for privacy

> They are worse for security

Worse than what?

> The shoe fits.

It doesn't fit, not really. It's gross incompetence and ignorance to explain everything by marketing and people being stupid.

Because what you're saying, is that a good chunk of people on HN are stupid and are "duped by marketing". That I am stupid and am duped by marketing. However, I've seen and tried the alternatives, and I found them lacking.
Yes, video codecs are way better at generating smaller file sizes. GIFs are literally like flip-books of images.

You can also autoplay videos without controls and loop them, but you have to mute them.

Most "GIF" hosting websites actually use videos. Especially when it's "GIFs with sound".
Am I the only one who keeps my wrists straight while typing on a regular keyboard? Always have. You don't have to make the mistakes depicted in the article, regardless of which direction the keys are facing. And I hate "ergonomic" split keyboards, since there is an overlap between the keys I press with each hand, depending on how they're sequenced, meaning such keyboards decrease my typing performance.

Mouse distance while using keyboards with numpad is a real problem, though, and I've suffered from tennis elbow associated with mouse use.
The difference is that "customer" is usually diversified, while "employee" is usually a completely concentrated dependency.

Of course, there are many (in absolute numbers) exceptions, they are very rare on the "employee" side, and not too common on the "customer" side.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29389518
I am currently looking at a new iteration of our product that uses an event log as the principal data store. I agree that if we start from "zero" and don't even provide the option to build things the wrong way it would go smoothly. "everything is an event" is very powerful if its not just some add-on policy.

For us, the entire working set would be able to live in memory. Larger objects would be left as pointers to the actual data in the log. Snapshots of working set would be taken on a daily basis in hopes of keeping recovery under ~5 minutes during service restarts or updates.
Spike: Artificial intelligence scheduling for Hubble space telescope
While the shape of keyboards is not ergonomic by itself, my experience is that cheap keyboards (especially the ubiquitious rubber dome/membrane variety) are much, much, much harder on the body than a semi-decent "mechanical" board.

One reason is that rubber dome/membrane keyboards require bottoming out to register keystrokes. Most mechanical mechanisms/switches can register before the key is fully depressed.
If the business has a value more than you put into it then you haven’t failed.
for reference, here's a look at what co2 emissions were 120 years ago ... https://skepticalscience.com/EmmissionsAcceleration.html
Right, they're hiding complexity. If you look at my recent comments in a related thread - everyone was arguing against me for even attempting to compare Nix and Docker ("you're comparing things that aren't meant to be compared" basically). Now those same people are commenting in this thread in favor of Nix as a solution. Such dishonesty & delusion!
Nero Wolfe made a feature of that, using a repertory cast for all the roles except the leads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_(2001_TV_series)
Fantastic only because you have Graphql environment few second?
Good catch! :)

But I would say count it out, since else the UK statistic would be 0 for some time :D. So it's "historical GDP of the current EU"
You don't need to update the config if you have the latest version of mpv (0.34) released one month ago.
> Many people suggest the merit is all that's needed, and that's not true, you need both. Honest insightful and successful people recognise how important opportunity was in their success, and when the world is viewed with this perspective you realise meritocracy is not enough

The whole point of meritocracy is to give opportunity to those with talent. If you think that is what we need to do, then you are pro meritocracy, that is its main strength. The opposite of meritocracy is nepotism where opportunity goes to the friends and family of those in power.
LinkedIn I've found a bit of success with. Be careful with job sites though. I uploaded my resume on monster dot com and have gotten so much spam that it became difficult to pick out anything worth my time. I was contacted for job roles that were way above my experience level or even outside my field of work. I maybe got one call I even considered.
I think for many tech-savvy users, video = long-winded, annoying, work to scrub through for the good parts, etc. Whereas these brief animations are a helpful visual teaser of exactly what the feature is.

It's not unlike a modern Assassins Creed game, where the skill tree shows a little silent video of what the move you're about to unlock looks like in action. You feel more confident that you know exactly what you're getting for your doubloons.
I talked with a friend about a phenomenon I see more often in recent family photos which is a mouth-only smile while the with rest of their face the subject appears to be wishing they were somewhere else, or that they would like the camera-person to tell them whether they have broccoli in their teeth. My friend suggested (correctly, I think) that it's because when we were kids our parents weren't taking our pictures literally hundreds of times per day. It's not just that they're having their pictures taken, but that they're being asked to light up the room with a smile every time, and it's tiring.

However, your comment made me wonder whether that uncanny, dead-eyed smile might become more normal or even something to strive for. I don't really think it'll happen but imagine a group of friends being like, "hey, Suzn, why's your smile so over-the-top all the time in our selfies?"
Chat with the crypto bros ... they've got some ideas ...
All I did was try to put some helper methods on data classes. :D But yeah clearly I'm going against the grain.
Why would you like to have the Auth system in the database?
This is a catchy take, but a silly one. The quote didn't say that the only purpose of a new company is to get acquired, it just said that it's chilling to have one option less available, which isn't wrong.
Or ya know, that startups talk about having an exit that's either getting bought by someone or an IPO. Nobody in the startup world seems terribly interested in building a lifestyle business.
I was around for Web1 and remember it being kind of awful beyond giving great hope for what it would be like in the future when the sorted it out. Pages taking minutes to load, almost no decent content. Most of that stuff seems better now.

Web3 seems a bit like that now in that the payment and distributed bits don't work very well but may in the future.
> But what if scientists have been wrong about the causes of global warming?

I’m not sure we can realistically go down that road, politically speaking. Look at everything that’s happened with covid- what we said wasn’t wrong, you just misheard us. If anything, climate change is even more entrenched politically.
Not for screen recordings, unless you're doing a screen recording of photos or videos a GIF will typically be more bandwidth efficient (as there will be large areas of single colours and few changes between frames which GIF is good at).
US Regulators: ok

EU Regulators: ok

UK Regulators: waaaaait a minute

Honestly, I don't mind the UK's rationale here, but I would still tell them to pound sand, or "sod off". Fairly decent sized market but I would consider denying them service and seeing what happens next. Sure, gives room for a competitor to come in but also breaks their internet in the near term.
I swore off Stripe after seeing how they treated a former coworker of mine: https://twitter.com/jennleaver/status/1402972896184586244?s=... Your experience with interviewing there does not surprise me after hearing similar stories about them.
That's what I do. It definitely helps. Heavy vi(m) users tend to map it to Escape, but I find that:

- I use Control a lot more than Escape (especially in the shell, where I spend a lot of time); and

- Escape is already not in a horrible position, and it's not a modifier key so I don't need to twist and curl my wrist and fingers in order to type a combination of keys.
Works used for satirical work are allowed. Seems like what these are being used for.
Probably less in aggregate than is currently spent on lawyers figuring out how to structure these deals.
They will as soon as they get RSI. This is the other side of the problem, people is reactive, not preventive, towards RSI problems. IT needs to get the into the mindset that not using an ergonomic keyboard is a problem.