skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of instances where it's appropriate to use a y-axis that isn't "linear starting at zero." That's why I specified that I was only talking about ways to represent relative differences (i.e. relative to the magnitude of the measurements).

In this case, when we're measuring the latency of requests, without any other context, it's safe to say that relative differences are the important metric and the graph should start at zero.

So while it's true that this isn't universally the correct decision, and it's probably true that people regurgitate the "start at zero" criticism regardless of whether it's appropriate, it does apply to this case.
> needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep going

I'm pretty sure that is not server cost. This is probably the standard approach of companies hiring tons of personal and spending tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands on ads every single day.
I think that's a reasonable enough explanation to change my mind.
If you read my responses to the other two comments that came before you, you probably noticed that that isn't relevant to my point. I don't mean expensive in terms of money either.

What were you trying to say?
> And yet from my perspective your software is malware.

At first I thought exactly this. This app is disclosing what it does, in the open. The product is very direct and clear what it does, and how it does it. One of the hallmarks of malware is that is is doing things without the user knowing, or in many cases wanting. The only way I would install this is if I wanted it to do exactly what it does.

> Do you have safeguards that can 100% rule out the use of your App as spyware ?

I'm not sure that this is really what is needed here. Any app with telemetry, especially screenshots could be used as spyware. In this case, the app is not hidden, is installed by the user, and it is very clear what it does. There's nothing clandestine or spy-ish about it. It is literally marketed saying this app will take and send screenshots to a person you pick.

> I don’t think you have considered the legal ramifications

This is probably where the biggest potential problems really are: truple is collecting evidence that likely would be used against users in court - be it civil court where it could be used to prove you were doing something bad at 10am (you were chatting instead of working) last week or criminal court where the screenshot might be used as direct evidence of a crime.
How do we know this code was written in 2021? GIF support was added to iMessage (I think) in 2016 or 2016; I couldn't find an exact date.
Shout-out to those who remember this TTS as Ivona which was a hit in Poland. Just when YouTube took of it was used and abused to make a crap ton of parody videos, most bad, some good [1] - and then people were so much sick of it that new parody videos promised "No Ivona" in the title [2].

Now you can hear one of the voices "Ewa", "Jacek", "Maja" on most train stations announcing arrivals and departures through the PA [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=przer%C3%B3bka+...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=0+ivony

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMaBZftl2TQ
I feel so gross after looking at that site I think I need to watch some porn.
The Empathy Gap, or Why Good-Seeming Ideas Fail
15 years ago, Circuit City laid off their highest paid retail employees, to be replaced by new hires: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17837882

That is, management was declaring that there was no value in experience whatsoever (until you got to management levels, naturally), and that they could replace anyone with a new hire without loss of performance. (After all, the way you got to be a highly paid retail person was to stick around for a long time and be pretty good at your job.) And while most managers in a retail setting aren't quite as obvious about it, that sure seems to be how they feel: employees are completely fungible, and it isn't worth paying them enough to get them to stay.

(Costco is a notable exception in the US: notice how the standard Costco name badge includes their start year on it, that is one of the ways Costco signals that they do value experience. They are also significantly more profitable per sq/ft than Sams Club, their competitor in the warehouse segment operated by Walmart. I strongly suspect that those two facts are related.)
yeah, I recognize that keyboard.

I purchased and returned a system 76 Pangolin same day. A key cap fell of in less than an hour of use and was not user repairable. I would have had to swap out the entire keyboard module. To System76's credit, they offered to do the work under warranty... but on the other hand - no way in heck am I paying $2.5k for something that literally falls apart in minutes.
Auth0 customer: they kept everything isolated (and promised it will stay like that for a while)
For M1 Macs, isn't it everything but the ARM cores that is not datacenter-friendly - the memory capacity, the IO options, the system form factors?
I agree that it's not a big deal. I am not a Zig developer, but I've written a few thousand lines of Zig code in the last few months that extensively uses allocators all over the place, and it only took me a few minutes to update my code to work with this API change. Also, having seriously played around in Zig for a few months writing high performance pure mathematics and number theory code for fun, I *really, really* like it. Zig is a fantastic language for certain application domains.
Profit ratio is ~450k per employee (which is still a hefty number). Revenue is where you get the ~1m per employee numbers.
> All I'm saying is that as a candidate, putting in effort will help you land a job, precisely because effort is expensive and most folks won't do it.

This can be true, but it doesn't support the idea that high-value signaling is expensive. Putting in effort is expensive. But putting in effort is not necessarily a high-value signal.

Filtering your job applications based on effort put into the application can easily lower the quality of the candidate you select, because the metric you're focusing has so little to do with performance.
Though not as elegant and concise you can get a similar result by dropping a single marker at log number of steps.
Survival is easy. I mean not easy-easy but I mean survival is a pretty low bar. There are ton of places on the planet that don't benefit from the 'modern economy'. Hell, there are places that are actually getting screwed over the by the 'modern economy' and there are war torn anarchy-ridden places (for real anarchy, not the Fox News take on Seattle) and people still survive, procreate, etc.. if you actually want to talk extremes. Granted they're not developing new mRNA vaccines or something.

This modern economy is the exact religion that preaches the same gospel in the blog post: Maslow's pyramid of needs dictates that you need to work. Which is.. fine, I guess? My problem with that is that the work has become super productive in the past decades and that excess production allows only a fraction of people to stop working. Coupled with replacing the benefits of an actual community with the downgrade which is a workplace to give you that sense of belonging, self-sufficiency propaganda and employer-only provided healthcare, you get a nation of wage slaves.

We don't really need to work. I mean not all of us. A lot of the work done nowadays is bullshit [1]. The pandemic kinda showed us exactly who needs to go work to keep society going. The rest is just the result of:

- inertial protestant ethic

- wealth hoarding by the owners of production

- people tied to their workplace are easier to persuade/manage/manipulate politically

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
I make rather nerdy music and art apps full time, and being shut down by Apple still worries me. What if I said the wrong thing on twitter? Very unlikely but it pisses me off that they can push the cancel button on by business. I didn't really realize this until the past few years, with significant time invested in the platform.
How nice of him. I'd rather he paid his tax though.
In general, good technicians that can interpret nuance are extremely valuable in every domain.
This kind of software is not used by people in healthy relationships.
Yes it is routinely used as a way to humiliate candidates, because it's a perfect brain teaser: Devilishly simple but difficult to conjure unless you've seen it before - "Why couldn't I think of that???" Most undergrad CS curriculums won't cover it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Floyd's_tortoi...
Multiple witnesses saw him approach RFK with a revolver and fire it three times at him. Nobody really denies that. What his son (and others) allege is that one of RFK's bodyguards used the assassination attempt as cover to actually assassinate him.

Nobody argues that Sirhan conspired to kill RFK and shot a revolver at him, and very few people question the leadup to that attempt.

Point taken, however, that RFK's assassination is not an unquestioned case of a single deranged individual.
Educated people generally have fewer kids. Shall we conclude education is a problem?
The actual answer?

In the next 5 calendar years the bottom line will still grow.

However, the brand damage means they permananently lose market share. Which impacts their growth ceiling.
Something like https://github.com/Juniper/libxo is probably the best bet for non-powershell, non-python like things to ever be properly parseable.
It's considered to be impossible. I doubt there is much (if any) serious research going on to mathematically crack RSA or ECC. Besides that is not what OP was talking about. That was about hackers finding standard vulnerabilities in code and exploiting it. Not about any mathematical flaws in crypto.
Fascinating read. Every time I read these sort of old articles, I wonder who the people named in there were. For example:

> was being saved by Marjorie Field, the wife of a prosperous Beverly Hills stockbroker,

Who was Mrs Field? Apparently she had a really large house and a lot of free time. Who was her husband? What was her legacy?
Microsoft employees are sharing their salaries to push for more fairness
It's not just a matter of 'solar is good'. A rational system generates the power it needs on the grid that needs it when its needed. Solar does none of that.

And it seems obvious that a mishmash of solar panels on thousands of roofs pointed in random directions, is nowhere as efficient as a large solar farm.

I've always thought of rooftop solar as 'energy theatre'.
I'm no expert, but I thought a bullet deforms due to hydraulic pressure, not necessarily due to contacting a rigid object like a bone.
Approx 3 years ago, but I was in my late 30s.
On Android, there is "SmartTubeNext" (or so), you may find it via "STN youtube". It just takes out all the crap from YouTube, but keeps all features (at least the ones I know).
Yes we provide a few hundred annual calories from seed. Not nearly enough to survive. But hopefully enough to learn from while foraging or enough to link up with actual experts who might just be lacking in seeds or labor.
Ok, well, there seems to be a bunch of people convinced it's some dude in the Philippines, but for the record there's no actual proof.
A CDN solves those issues and is significantly faster than HTTP3 in your use case... why the hate for them? The centralised aspect?
I know the Englische Garten. You can't go shopping in the nude there. I was talking about nudist camps.
Afaik in the former socialist east Germany, nudist culture was actually a kind of rebellion against the government.
You can't really hyperscale research I think. Throwing more money at a problem isn't a solution. A viable approach is probably to try and remove as many administrative barriers as possible so that researchers can focus on interesting problems instead, which is what they seem to be doing.
And stitching up getting Dyson as one of only two brands of approved air ventilation in state schools. Grifter.
Yeah I don't have an optimal benchmarking setup currently. I have a 16-core CPU that I run everything off (server + benchmarks = not ideal).

I've been working on adding multiprocessing to FastWSGI (only works on Linux at the moment). The RPS almost scales linearly with the number of workers. At 4 processes it hits +260k RPS with decent CPU utilization.

I can definitely add more details to the benchmarks. Thanks for the feedback!
The current-production "HEMI" engine heads are flatter and more complex than the 1950s–'70s Hemi V8 chamber. The combustion chambers are no longer truly hemispherical. It uses a coil-on-plug distributor-less ignition system and two spark plugs per cylinder to shorten flame travel leading to more consistent combustion and reduced emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi_engine#Third_gen...

As the engineering involved in new engines has improved and evolved, the true hemispherical chamber has morphed and twisted into more sophisticated and complex designs that are meant to extract more power, with lower emissions, from any given combustion event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherical_combustion_chamb...
With regards to the last point. Truple offers end-to-end encryption. We also permanently delete all accountability data once it's 15 days old. Not saying it's without risk, just that I've done everything I can to mitigate the risks of data getting into hands it shouldn't.

Competitors currently allowed by Apple don't offer end-to-end encryption. Most delete data eventually, but 15 days is the shortest retention I'm aware of.
> Feels weird that a private company can target individuals for a price. How was this legal? Isn’t it illegal to hack the phone of a private individual? Or do they simply say here’s the tool, here’s the manual, do what you want just don’t tell us?

It's only illegal if you get caught. And then find someone to prosecute you.
I'd assume they're using the Erik Prince/Constellis business model, taking some time off and getting the band back together under a different name to do the same work.
This is going to sound facetious, but at what point do you have to create an entirely new identity for yourself? Change your name, perhaps get a passport from another nation that legally sells citizenship, perhaps get a new SSN, just to get around issues like this?

I guess an alternative would be to rent the identity of a homeless person, or perhaps the ID of someone on death row?
FastAPI is an entire web framework using ASGI, whereas this is just a WSGI server.

You could compare FastAPI vs FastWSGI+Flask or any other WSGI framework.
So many angry people here using any excuse they can to shit-talk this guy.
It's almost like I'm on Reddit and someone has made the mistaking of expressing a shred of admiration for Elon Musk.
I'm not going to fill out a Captcha just to see your website.
lol right i forgot how much experience RDJ has accelerating technical projects to scale globally. thank god we can access his expertise.
Actual title: "Leaked Salary Spreadsheet Reveals Microsoft Employee Earnings for a Second Year"
I think that's a valid point. Does their managed network do monitoring? Isn't that as bad as this app?
Would love to see uwsgi added to the benchmarks. It used to be much faster than gunicorn.
Cisco Duo SSO/MFA was also out this morning during the AWS outage. I guess usable redundancy for these services is a difficult problem.
There is no double indirection and allocation here, it stores the FILE* directly, not as a pointer to a FILE*.
Which isn't peak sunshine. That's at around noon?

At 2PM your solar panels are producing about half of what they could.
Organizing billions of people is not a simple problem in either case.
Here a story. I got BB RIM 850 when I was 15ish years old, it was my first communication pre-smartphone device. I stupidly set up to wipe my blackberry if input incorrectly after a few times, and I did this within minutes of first time using it. You can imagine what happened in the next 10 minutes... Yes, I forgot my complicated password and it got wiped. And that rendered my brand-new RIM 850 useless. So, I have to wait 10 days to get a new one.
Do you have any evidence of the software being used without the end user's consent?
That’s great news, but… where is it?
Thanks for your response. I did echo, lung CT, cardiac stress test but neither of these shown any anomalies. One doctor suggested angiocardiography "just in case" but it requires taking pills for a few days to lower heart rate. I'm still not sure lowering my heart rate with meds is a good idea.
Halo Infinite actually works pretty well on my MBP via xCloud. The only hassle was that you need to do a workaround (chrome extension) if you want to play with mouse+keyboard. There's some quality drop when there's lots of explosions on the screen, but it's probably still better quality then you'd get running the Windows version on the same hardware
I love my Dyson SV10. Bought it 3 years ago and it's still working like a champ. I don't use it to vacuum a whole room but more for rugs or clean up jobs. I've got a Roomba S9+ for whole floor jobs. Swiffer wet jet for mopping/dust/hard floor.
You definitely want the Jetson. Great support, decent hardware, CUDA, Linux, etc. I was called a shill for being sad that ARM and Nvidia didn’t merge but I think this is the best quality device, and has tons of support.
Targeted advertising is by definition about you. Aggregated information that reports on targeted ads is about you and others like you.

Personally, I'm willing to pay for a Browser that does not also need an ad network to support it.

To quote Brave "The goal is to show you privacy respecting ads that are relevant to the user in the right context. This is done by "matching" an ad that is (ideally) catered to you based on your browsing activity". https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055013431-Why...

It is clearly about you.
> provides users with an ultra-fast WSGI server that they can run their WSGI applications on (Flask, Django, uWSGI etc)

I thought this was an equivalent to uWSGI, what's the benefit of running uWSGI on top of FastWSGI?
This is not a fair historical summary.

The smallpox vaccine causes roughly comparable rates of myocarditis, but that didn’t stop us from undertaking a worldwide vaccination campaign to eradicate the disease.

* * *

If there were like 100x more common serious side effects, we should maybe have a conversation about whether certain populations with low Covid risk or heightened vaccine risk should pick which vaccine to take based on potential side effects. But we are so far away from that kind of risk that it is hard to see the commentary from the anti-vax side as any kind of good faith conversation, compared to grasping at whatever straws they can find to spread FUD.

The basic summary is: these vaccines are extremely safe and extremely effective for people of every age. Please everyone get vaccinated. If you have had 2 doses >4 months ago, get boosted. Anyone who tells you that the vaccine is unsafe compared to catching Covid is either grossly misinformed or lying.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, the benchmarks just highlight higher numbers in very simple tests. They should definitely be taken with a grain of salt. I can try add some more practical highlights.
The Millions of tons of carbon emissions that don't officially exist
> As a framework for society at scale, Christianity gave us the western world as we know it.

Is Christianity the dominant or even a significant factor which made the western world better?

> Atheism gave us eugenics, communist horrors, etc.

Are you sure you're not throwing out the baby with the bath water?

Racial 'purity' goes back at least to the Torah. Eugenics and other horrors aren't any more the result of atheism than Judaism or Capitalism.
> But for a cordless stick vacuum, nobody else is comparable.

I own one; if it is better than the rest then the whole genre of stick vacuum cleaners should be taken out back and shot.

Core function (sucking things up from my carpet and disposing of the content): charitably I would say it is poor for the half a room that the battery charge lasts for.
Build quality: terrible cheap brittle cheap shattering cheap plastic.
Price: extremely expensive, 2x anything else.

I have had some shitty appliances over the years, but those tend to at least be so cheap that the only guilt you feel throwing them in the bin is that you are destroying the planet and not your finances.
>Like this one distributed to ALL 737MAX crews:

...after their poorly designed system caused a plane crash.

If you have a 737 type rating and can speak to type-specific training standards I would love to be educated, but the defining characteristic of runaway trim failures that I've experienced is that the trim keeps going in one continuous motion until it can't go any further or you manually shut off the system. A momentary, uncommanded attitude change would initially make me want to troubleshoot the autopilot, rather than the trim system. This is exactly why you have to describe new systems and their failure modes in detail, even if they have elements in common with and use the same emergency procedures as existing failures.
Just because "society" is doing something doesn't mean that you have to. Society lies, steals, murders, rapes, but I don't have to.
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That could be it, I suppose. Sorry, I'm not trying to make this a personal attack on the team (I don't know any of them), and I'm not personally invested in their success or failure (I haven't purchased any of their stuff or invested in them). I just think that it would be cool to have an easy-to-use, hackable home assistant that does most of its computation locally, and that's what they're (supposed to be) building.

In a lot of ways, it doesn't really matter why they're not producing results, so much as the fact that they're not producing them. I mean, check out the list of remaining action items in their last "Production Update"[1]. This came over 8 months since shipping what were supposed to be the Mark II devkits, and almost four years(!) after they announced work on the Mark II in early 2018 [2], which has since gone through about a zillion different design changes. I won't claim to be an expert, but having had even a bit of experience with product development of this kind, this is not the happy path to getting consumer electronics shipped.

[1] https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-manufacturing-and-product-up...

[2] https://mycroft.ai/blog/specs-new-voice-assistant-device-see...
I find it repulsive that his first recommendation to “inventors” is to file for a patent. Really, the most valuable piece of advice you have is “make sure you secure legal protection in case other people rip you off”? By all means, that's probably a thing you have to think about at some point, but surely there is more important advice for creatives than “lawyer up”.
Yeah, had no idea there was this much bitterness and hatred for Dyson of all people!
"Despite sustainable agricultural development being one of the key focus areas for his nonprofit Gates Foundation, the Microsoft co-founder claims that his farmland investments are not tied to climate. But while Gates might be solely focused on returns, one should not overlook farmland investing’s potential to drive sustainability on a massive scale."

how is a non-profit able to make farmland investments at all? What exactly is the difference between an investment vehicle and a non-profit?

But... these guys care for us!
Art, entertainment, and communication are not new human creations. These jobs are the result of psychological needs that humans have. Maslow's Hierarchy is more than a cave, nuts, and berries.

Furthermore, not everyone can survive without specialization of labor. Prior to specialization of labor, it was much more common for people to die young, and the world's population reflected this.