skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, this should not be...

There it is. You're being prescriptive rather than descriptive. We're talking about the world as it is, you're talking about the world you want to be. Only one of these exists.

As bad as it is here, it's worse everywhere else.
Hell, im a pretty early adopter of instagram along with loads of friends and like 95% of content has become stories.

Turns out Snapchat was what most of us wanted but without a purposefully obtuse interface
As TFA mentions: Plex is a wonderful service, if obtaining your own music isn't a problem for you. It's actually gotten a lot better since the days when the UI would become unresponsive with a mere few thousand songs. And Plexamp's radio features are great, as is the Tidal integration for those songs that I don't yet have locally. I have mine configured to prefer local tags over Plex's data, and I tag/organize everything with MusicBrainz Picard to ensure accuracy.
I figured those certifications were largely useless, but I guess they aren't.
Yandex delivery robots stuck in the snow in Moscow
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Most people under the age of 30 are using Snapchat
That strongly depends on your vantage point. Definitely not from the point of view of the cow.
I think the idea is that ads slip in more easily with an algorithm.
Last time I used FB properly you could get the following kind of news feed:

actual post from friend, friend actively liked a post from a business, ad from a business a friend previously liked

Essentially posts from unknown accounts look less out of place this way
I go for runs and bought a treadmill for the winter. I don't run a ton--only around 10 miles a week, which takes me around 3-4 hours including cool down and shower time.

I've tried a few different things, but running is really good calories / hour. Stuff like hiit, swimming, various work out routines can be better, but running is much less complicated and mostly free. I even do it on vacation, because most cities have iconic runs, which are make things interesting.
> I genuinely don't understand why they do this.

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Pressing the menu button on the post and then hide I got the choice to hide suggested posts. Though in true Facebook fashion only for 30 days and not permanently.
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Zwift was a game changer for me. Can highly recommend it, although the cost of entry is rather expensive.
Its certainly very charming. Although I don't see many people using the rotary dial in the year of our Lord 2021. Knowing the phone numbers has fallen out of fashion almost completely.
Maybe it's time to start selling bridges.
Ask HN: Why isn't there more effort to build highway-bound self-driving cars?
Why isn't there more effort to build highway-bound self-driving cars?

1. Most commuting is on highways. A highway is a controlled environment with very few edge cases--less than existing L4 areas like Arizona and Pittsburgh suburbs.

2. Highway driving captures 90% of the value of a self-driving car, certainly for commuters. Any long trip, where it is valuable to disengage, spends most of its time on the highway.

3. An autonomous highway in a single city would save its commuters an absurd quantity of time and attention.

4. Most new cars can navigate from onramp to offramp. But L4 providers haven't taken the step to let drivers disengage, despite supporting L4 driving in limited non-highway environments.

5. One might claim that it isn't as valuable for ridesharing, but it's is hard to believe that there isn't enough value for commuters, or there isn't enough funding.

6. To handle edge cases, it is always legal to slow, even stop on a highway, and there is always a shoulder to pull over.[1]

7. For rare edge cases, a remote driver can serve as a backstop, as in Waymo's L4 driving.

8. Imagine how much better highway traffic would be if one could disengage and read, work, or think.

I understand that it involves government collaboration, but companies have created significant regulatory change when necessary. For some highways, it requires no government collaboration.

[1] There are rare exceptions, but the geofence could extend only to highways with a shoulder.
I interviewed at Tableau a few years ago; they collected and called my references.
I'm not super familiar with Swift, but I don't see how it could be memory-safe in a multi-threaded context without some sort of borrow checker or gc. So I think it is rejected by question #2.
Okay I'll bite. I just see a flexing cube (agree it looks like a 90s demo). But is this site meant to do anything else? I tried scrolling or tapping and it didn't do anything.
I'm a regular employee but at a professional services org - you basically described how I generate my timesheets.

The main difference is that at the end of the day I try to just stop when I have "enough" hours, since I don't get paid for overtime like I would as a contractor.

To the original topic: roughly 40% of my week is wasted on pointless meetings or inter-meeting dead time. The other time is roughly equally split between useful meetings, actual work, and admin or training tasks.

The issue with the pointless meetings is that they are generally a series, where one 10-minute slot out of every four one-hour meetings is genuinely useful - but you don't know in advance when that slot will occur. The other kind of pointless meetings generally involve customers who are unprepared.
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I would recommend generating an animated .webp for the diff output, which ImageMagick supports. Animated GIFs have color resolution limits.
Can namecheap.com do a package deal for hosting a Gemini site with down the line add-on for VPS? I don't want the Wordpress stuff.
I think fundamentally this confuses "effective" with "good" in a way that seems actually quite incurious and verges towards dangerous.

Sure, to collaboratively build complex technical products, teams must cooperatively form an understanding of various parts, concepts, whatever. And yes, working with a group requires us to be conscientious of the complex and varied factors that impact on the effectiveness of that group.

But ... do those things make you "good people"? What if your team is working really great as a group to build a guidance system for a deadly weapon? What if your team is sense-making in the process of building tools to deliver disinformation in a highly targeted way in the lead up to an election? What if you're really great as a group at building tools to let the state find and censor dissenting speech? Something's clearly missing here.

And the failure to seriously consider what might be good or bad is also present in the author's sweeping claims about everything else that we collectively imagine into being:

> In humanity, participatory sense-making is how we find shared reality in the different pieces of the world that each of us see. We build new concepts that exist only among our minds: money, economy, justice, law, music, conservation, fashion. These are real things that have causal effects on the physical world because we collectively create them.

Is money "good"? Is "justice" good? Is law "good"?

Maybe. There's another lens which might say that all of these are mechanisms by which powerful people and institutions reinforce their own power. The law is good if you get to help write the law. Money is good especially if you get to use taxes to get a population to feed and supply your army. Justice is good if it lets you punish anyone who attempts to subvert your authority. Maybe an example of the trifecta of these would be the "participatory sense-making" that introduced the encomienda system? What if "sense-making" itself can be a weapon?

Sure, let's all try to have healthy communication and collaboration practices in our teams. But let's not delude ourselves that this makes us good.
> Resizing our image to 1000x1152 shrinks our PNG down to 1.5MB, and finally running cwebp to convert it to a webp we're down to 49KB.

That seems like a lot. What's going on here? Surely the compression level is changing drastically, right?
Did he turned out to be good for the job/faked it ´til he made it or did it all come crushing down?
I've been using Copilot for 3 weeks in a typical web project: typescript, react, css. Feedback:

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Chain also has some weird connotations, but Coin might have worked.
You've presented a group home as a possible solution for the severely mentally handicapped. Presumably great for the few who can get it.

What you have not addressed is the extreme imbalance in power for many employers at the expense of employees. If there is no floor on what someone can get away with paying, then it is reasonable to expect the marginalized or powerless to be fully taken advantage of. Even today, some employers try to get away with not paying by having employees work "off the clock". At least with the minimum wage, litigious employees can eventually expect something for their lost time.
Mind sharing the link for such small camera sensors and lenses?
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They fired all of their employees who worked on Rust as their job, but that was a very small percentage of the overall Rust team, to be clear. Like, one or two percent.

They are still members of the Rust Foundation though.
> If you have nude on your phone, severity is high.

Incorrect, for societal reasons.

For women, the severity of nudes being stolen is very high, regardless of social stature. The majority of nudes published without consent are of women, and the majority of 'revenge porn' nudes published explicitly to demean are of women, and the majority of societal outrage excluding public figures is directed at women. The long-term impacts of nudes being published without consent never fade, and is nearly as likely to result in loss of employment and social stature years later.

For men, the severity of nudes being stolen directly correlates with whether they perceive their career or social stature to be at risk if nudes are stolen are shared, as in the majority of cases men are blackmailed for payment before stolen nudes are published. The long-term impacts of nudes being published without consent fades rapidly for private individuals, hinges on their career and social profiles rather than being effectively universal across their gender, and is often disregarded altogether.

For public figures, the employment and societal circumstances vary wildly, and the overall risk of permanent harm to men increases considerably; however, the risk of permanent harm to women decreases only slightly, and typically only for women who already publish nudity of their own accord, and thus have already factored in the societal harm of doing so.

My time is limited, so here's one contributing citation only:

Intimate image abuse in adults and under 18s (2019) https://swgfl.org.uk/assets/documents/intimate-image-abuse-i...
how large are those random write?
For video editing something like XFS perform very well.
The reason is because you usually read a whole image at once and each image are very big.
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Not the case at all.
I believe this also only works if your devices are on the same LAN at some point in time to sync locally.
Oh, that’s super interesting! I see the setting and I’ll check if it solves my issue (it sounds like it does). I wonder if this setting got introduced or changed in the last year or two, because I don’t remember having the problem before that.
Give it a year or two and I bet there will be unskippable ads between the stories.
I'm reading a lot of posts here of people who have just decided to drop Instagram. As someone who deleted Facebook only two months ago, and never looked back, I am really hoping this is the beginning of the end for Meta/Facebook/whatever stupid name they call themselves.
I think a fun/useful question would be along the lines of tell me one of the biggest mistakes you’ve made in X language that shows up quite a bit on the resume.
Yes, it's the title - but not the filename.

WAV/PCM files don't have metadata.

There is no id3/tag data. They do not have a "title" nor do they have anything else. That's a problem if your music library predates iTunes and iDevices.
Database vs database server?
A big Fintech company asked me to go to wikipedia and look up k-means squared algorithm. Implement it with tests, from scratch. No sample data etc. In about 45 minutes. I was applying for an Android position. Still sticks with me to this day how cold the interviewer was. It's a great learning experience and has made me a better interviewer

This should be an entertaining thread.
Is there an easy way to get that list for a package?
Ask HN: Is working at Amazon worth it?
I got an offer from Amazon, and I am trying to decide if moving to a FAANG is a good idea.

It would be my second job out of school. My current one is a no name company that pays 50-60th percentile. But, it’s not that stressful, I’m fast I would characterize it as pretty chill.

Amazon offer, would almost double my salary, and I don’t have to explain to anyone what Amazon does.
Seems like a no brainer, but I have heard some pretty bad things about Amazon, their PIP program and so on, Blind is full of the stories.

So, is it worth moving from a relaxed position to something much more intense ? Will it pay in the long run having Amazon on my resume even if I get PIPed or leave after a year ?
Currently I’m “over performing” in my current position, and I’m getting raises and all the good stuff, but they would not be able to match FAANG on $ and brand anytime soon.

SDE1 position, just to be clear.
I think this shows how difficult interpretations can be. The interviewer was probably just kidding around, but given the stakes and the unfamiliar environment, it was probaboy a rough comment.

It's a good lesson in behavior. Even professional adults screw up and have foot-in-mouth moments.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29391726

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29395518

Two examples here -- When I read both titles and took a min to realize "OH FACEBOOK!"
I mean, if you don't care about efficiency, then you don't need any fancy mitigations: just use Boehm GC and call it a day. Performance is the reason why nobody does that.
Thanks for the shoutout Koch! Appreciated :)
At least Google Docs hast Syntax Highlighting ... Oh wait.
I see you have run out of goalposts to move and rebuttals to offer and have, as expected, degenerated into personal attacks.

When I encounter someone who won't use a 5g phone or get vaccinated because "the government" or "it is new" or "news max told me not to", rather than my head exploding I wonder how we got to a place where political loyalty trumps reason and how otherwise reasonable people can be so easy duped by conspiracy theories.

But hey go ahead and get buy best you can without getting vaccinated. Just don't complain about the ramifications as there are safe solutions. Hell go get infected and get an antibodies based passport if you really fear a flu shot based on 90 years of safe and effective delivery.
"Sure, Mr. Wright, but the craft isn't reliable and easy to fly..."
San Francisco agency opposes Cruise robotaxi application, citing safety
I started a management consulting job during pandemic, and quickly realized that this Big 4 firm did nothing but meetings. I had my assistant color code any non client meeting with more than 10 people.

Very quickly I got 15-20 hours a week back.

(And my hourly billing rate was in the 4 figures.)
So why was google more effective before? Is this is product of the financial struggle of our society, or do you believe it is an inevitable consequence of a dominant search engine?
Bad thing is that with a sufficiently large battery, he can probably skip a lot of days. They don't take much power.

Its the right choice, though.
One of the things I like about Zig is that it takes the memory allocator as a kind of “you will supply the correct model for this for your needs/architecture” as a first principle, and then gives you tooling to provide guarantees downstream. You’re not stuck with any assumptions about malloc like you might be with C libs.

On the one hand, you might need to care more about what allocators you use for a given use case. On the other hand, you can make the allocator “conform” to a set of constrictions, and as long as it conforms at `comptime`, you can make guarantees downstream to any libraries, with the a sort of fundamental “dependency injection” effect that flows through your code at compile time.
As a Young People™, this is not entirely true.

Stories are only partly chronological. The stories are grouped per user and in these groups they are chronological. However these groups are not chronological.

Secondly, posts are not for old people. Posts serve a different purpose than stories. The barrier to post is a lot higher, and they are definitely not used (anymore) to share that you are going to a restaurant/movie/etc, because stories took over that niche. However something like a (single!) post with (multiple) photos of your last holiday (with at least the first one including you) and some fun caption is still totally done.
Create an extremely detailed checklist of your tasks for a given month, then bucket then into what you do and don’t want to do.

Finally, post a job opening (or 2) of the don’ts and delegate:)
I don't understand how this (LEO satellites reflecting light and disrupting astronomy) can be true except during astronomical twilight, which isn't a great time for astronomy anyway. Can someone explain?
Where does this actually run?

Can I run this on prem.

Can it search though a whole project and tell what I'm doing?
For Instagram to become Facebook they'd need to become entirely dominated by right-wing content[1]. They're nowhere close.

[1] https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10
That makes sense in a Brand pitch meeting, but there are so many things called Block in this space I think they could have been more unique. I thought this was about The Block (the news site) at first glance.
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Time spent tethered to the computer or in the office looking busy isn't as valuable as real free time though, assuming this fully efficient job market a given dev might take $300 for real work + busywork or $250 for just the actual work
This is what happens when you put the product designers in charge of the rebrand
Munich WW2 bomb blows up near station, wounding four
Well I guess there is a market opening for ChronoPic then, a new photosharing platform with comments, tags and likes... In chronological order!

Because if Instagram acts like Facebook, it's ruined.

I had noticed the last few months (and I'm not a heavy user at all), that literally every 4-5 pictures was an advert video. It made me sick to my gut to use it.

What also makes me sick is the amount of people just doomscrolling this thing non stop, they actually don't even stop, the scrolling is like in perpetual movement, and when they like something it's a double tap and instant scroll. What kind of consumption is that?