skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the industry has foiled itself recently through sheer scale. The number of niche roles has exploded and with it, so too the depth of the software stack. The good talent in any subsection ends up going deeper than they can be trained or evaluated for. The rest tread water and add noise to the pipeline. As a result there is an increasing sense of nobody knowing what's going on and compensation being poorly correlated with talent, meaning many orgs can't handle their technical challenges and don't know it until it blows up.

The actual solution would be to be suspicious of software as an end and relinquish more control of it to the open-source commons so that they can optimize their core business. But that can't happen if your core business is "being a platform," and as we know, platforms are where the big profits lie anyway. So it's going to go on like this until we cycle out of the current software stacks and move into ones with different social arrangements at their core.
See my comment 4 levels up from this one.

"I know what this person's key was when I sold him the car. Here, have a copy."

VS.

"I have full control of this person's car, even though I'm not the owner. Here, let me remotely disable it for you."
IE had ActiveX since 1996, which allowed for things similar to Ajax.
I would like to say federated social networks, but it all depends on how big companies are treated by US antimonopoly rulings
It probably depends on the business. I don't feel like everyone's you-know-what, pretty much the opposite. It gave me lot of freedom to send somebody to hell if they start behaving obnoxiously.

Not that it happens much. Even customers are more respectful if they feel that you aren't too dependent on them.
Whether you have a "coworking facility" or not, if you're simply paid enough money, you can solve the home office problem with it.
Property crime rates in the US since 1960:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...

Or, if you'd rather, here's California's statistics:

https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/cacrime.htm
In the initial years of Google Earth and similar services, a number of military and intelligence facilities were blurred.
Digital ID/health seems dead in the water.
I have a W38 that just bit the dust - worth upgrading to a 48 or should I try fixing what I’ve got?
The parent comment suggested the company was terrible, but didn't say why, the reply gave reasons why, so was useful
What changed? NYC has been pretty unaffordable for a very long time - what changed in LA?
Sure, in theory you are correct. We should seek the more reliable solution. In practice, this is not really a problem for anyone using macOS for small time visuals/performance/presentations, as long as you keep your computer well prepared for those situations. It works 99.9% of the time, which is 100% for most people (even pros) doing it sporadically. Maybe your solution covers a few more 9s, and you need those 9s (I know live broadcasting does), but this is unnecessary for most common folk, and you're dismissing this use case across this thread, which is why I'm answering to you.

I feel like the notifications issue you mention is bit of a red herring, because having too many things running in the background will cause problems regardless of using external gear, regardless of them showing on the screen or not. You can't rely on external gear alone for stability, the computer itself has to be stable. And the computer alone being stable is enough for 90% of people. And even if there are notifications... so what? This is people doing it for art purposes, on parties. They learn a lesson and never have to care again.

If those people are really using Steam on their computers (like you said on another comment), they surely aren't pros worried about performance, reliability, or anything of the sort that warrants a dedicated playback card, so I don't really see this use case (Steam+Blackmagic) existing at all.

Surely the default I/O is nowhere near enough for SNL or even for local broadcast, but it is good enough for a large contingent of people that don't need the same reliability that you or SNL needs. And it does works for them in practice, without notifications, and without OS chrome... except for the new orange dot, which is a nuisance.
It is almost the natural progression I would say. Steve Jobs talked about it with regards to Xerox in a famous interview where technology gets you to a dominant position, but marketing monetizes that position so there will be a natural progression in leadership favoring marketers who become responsible for much of the growth after a certain point over developers.

Just looking at video games, the most profitable games now aren't AAA games with super immersive graphics, worlds, stories and so on, it is the mobile gacha games with simple graphics and simple mechanics that are basically predatory in how they are able to ingrain and establish themselves into a routine while they siphon money away from a certain demographic of their user base. These days AAA games are mostly AAA in their cost to produce, few are innovative, or produce better gameplay or tell better stories than what is being made by smaller indie studios. Most are just pretty to look at if you have a beefy video card that can crank the settings up.
You can diversify your gains into less risky investments and continue on with the side hustle until you reach your level of accepted risk. Also, you can switch jobs to optimize for better income/less hours/more free time.
Some structures were build without any concrete at all. That being said, they've build sea walls that have lasted thousands of years.
The diminishing returns are too large to bother with a 2nd job. Then I might actually be busy with work 5 days a week!
Oh I like this I am going to steal it from now on. I use Debugging human to describe it. But Debugging organisation is just so much better. This also follows Conway's law.

>Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
> You can't be both bulldozery and vetocratic on a topic. If a process is half bulldozer, half vetocratic, the effect would be a policy wash, and external factors will decide.

It's still a spectrum. Take driving. The maximally-bulldozery position is that no licensing is required, no traffic regulations exist, the ability to drive is gated solely by the ability to reach the pedals and even that isn't a law. The maximally-vetocratic position is that cars are prohibited. The moderate position is that adults can drive if they pass a basic driving test and there are fines for risky behavior.
Whiteboarding in general? Absolutely.

Writing a java sort function on a white board? Much less so.
As a non ML expert, I never quite understand where you draw the line between feature engineering and the architecture engineering required for Deep Learning to work. Is it just a spectrum or is there some fundamental difference?
I miss the social aspect of work, as someone who took a remote job about 4.5 yrs back, I don't think most people who have only experienced it as a side effect of covid - realize how important it is for mental sanity. Yes, I like being at home too, but I would prefer hybrid, with no more than 1 to 2 days of working in the office.
My "not so gracious" interpretation: "It would invalidate the claim that we wish to make, so... no true scotsman"
Agreed; I was playing with pinwheel tilings [1] today and decided to make some pinwheel art [2] that fits in a signature:

%!PS % -John Tromp http://tromp.github.io/
/t{dup 1 sub gsave dup 0 gt{[.4 .2 -.2 .4 .4 .2]concat t currentgray
.8 mul .2 add setgray -1 1 scale t -1 2 translate t 1 -1 scale t[0 1
1 0 0 2]concat t pop}{0 moveto 1 0 lineto 0 2 lineto closepath clip
fill}ifelse grestore}def 10 10 translate 600 600 scale 5 t showpage

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_tiling

[2] https://tromp.github.io/img/pinwheel.pdf
And as their wealth was staggering, they could afford to build 'strong' more than most ancient civilizations and most of the conquerors just were assimilated rather than wanting to tear it down to the dirt.
what's wrong with SVGTiny?

https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/index.html
But that's just Lithium Ion cells.
Some extra context: those two games were made by entirely different teams. Daikatana was built by John Romero's team, and Deus Ex was made by Warren Spector's team. I don't think there was much collaboration or even communication between the teams. Romero just bankrolled Spector, who happened to have quite a bit more experience, and was likely much better suited to the director role.
Sure, that's something to consider before releasing stuff like this in the wild, especially if it can mutate and start attacking something else.

My point was: whether we use GMO or not, such a thing might happen naturally.

There is also a chance that such a mutation does not offer much competitive advantage if other nutrients are easy to find, and the mutation disappears. I wouldn't bet on it though, given the number of ecological niches that exist.
I sometimes wonder if open worlds have become the norm because, now that they’re possible, they’re easier. Not in a raw effort sense, but in a creative sense. They solve the question of “what will the player do?” by giving the player a carnival of map checkpoints: shoot some targets here, do a scavenger hunt there; it pads out a story that could otherwise be played in 6-8 hours into a game that can be marketed as a 40-60 hour AAA adventure you can “play your way”. They’re not easier for the creatives, but they’re easier for everyone else.

Of course, the continued existence of games like Dark Souls, and the meteoric success of games like Among Us and Phasmophobia tell me that players don’t always want to “play their way.” There’s plenty of demand for games with a finite amount of well-made content with a satisfying gameplay loop.
It's also the case that often there are more legal regulations around aerial imagery compared to satellite imagery.
Yes sorry the second one is supposed to be "exogenous"
Ubisoft have been on my personal veto list for years for a host of reasons. Dreadful launcher, bland padded-out content, lack of after-launch updates, key activation problems. The juice was consistently not worth the squeeze, so I just don't touch anything they're putting out nowadays.
It's a strange article where I start out vigorously nodding my head "yes! yes!" and end up "WTF" when the bulk of the post is about how awesome Remix is (huh?!) and Tailwind has "solved" CSS (lol). I mean, if you like Remix and Tailwind, cool cool—but that really has nothing to do with the overall trajectory of what's generally-speaking possible, easy, or commendable about web development today.

The real success story we should be celebrating is how awesome the specs are in modern web browsers. Vanilla JS, CSS, and even HTML itself have gotten incredibly good. Just having Flexbox and Grid working as native CSS layout engines is tremendous, and soon we'll have container queries (!!). The latest ES versions are lightyears ahead of the JavaScript of yesteryear. HTML now has superpowers when you consider what custom elements/web components are capable of. Developments at the level of HTTP itself, along with in-browser imports, are affording new opportunities to leverage the browser directly to handle dependency graphs rather than requiring everyone to bundle/transpile everything all the time for all seasons.

I wish the article had gone much more into those exciting, web-spec developments—rather than tout an unproven and controversial JS framework (Remix) and a somewhat-proven yet still-controversial CSS framework.
If you 3D print your own, you don't have to pay the shipping ;-)
Great ! Hopefully they can give epic better competition.
Neat, this is impressive!

The first thing that comes to mind is that it's not very amenable to parallel encoding or decoding, even less so than PNG. The fact that QOI_OP_INDEX could reach arbitrarily far back basically eliminates parallel decompression. But I guess the simplest workaround for that would be to just break up your images into tiles that are each decoded in parallel. You could imagine a simple wrapper format that specifies how to reconstruct a larger image out of such tiles, which would be amenable to parallelism (albeit still not easily implementable on GPU, though I guess you could wring a little bit of parallelism out of it from by using one GPU SIMD lane per RGBA channel).

Of course, it's entirely possible that your decompression goes so fast it doesn't matter that it's sequential and you're bottlenecked on I/O in any reasonable use case…
But there is an official API? Is it bad?

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29627395.json?pri...

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/29630771.json?pri...
'gets acquired', or chooses to go to the US because it sees no future as a european startup?
Until Google stop you from doing what you want because they don't like your content:

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-docs-policy-is-updated-hate...
I don't know if this would work, but Google, FB, Apple, et al should try to build out live/work communities. Yeah, kind of like a company town.

The best part of college is the college campus. I don't know why companies don't want to try to replicate that. It would definitely be more appealing to younger employees, and I be it would get them to stick around much longer.

Imagine being able to walk to work, and having most of your coworkers live close by as well. The social bonds you would form with people would be much stronger. And moving to that campus to start at the company would be less scary knowing that you'd quickly get to know and build good relationships with coworkers/neighbors.

Yeah, it would mean earning more money might not actually get you a nicer living arrangement, since you might not have many choices and pretty much everything would be provided for you. I guess you'd want to try to figure out the correct mixture (maybe 40% on campus 60% off).
or Nano

https://vecta.io/blog/how-nano-compresses-svg/
I think you need to divide by tan(15) instead, which would give 9330 ft.
No one did, but

> highly overpaid higher-ups

is close. CEO's payment and personal consumption that allows is a symptom, not cause.
Having several Cuban and Venezuelan friends and acquaintances (I'm a Chilean living in Florida), it's interesting to become aware of the real dynamics that happen under sanctions in these countries. The sanctions are mostly political in nature but in the case of Cuba it didn't stop imports from operating. I realized this early during flyovers over Cuba and watching the numerous cargo ships and small vessels going in and out of ports and docks. A cousin of one of my colleagues at work in Miami spent his weekends making deliveries of goods that eventually made to the island. He only got in trouble with the Coast Guard when one time he was bringing back some folks that wanted to illegally immigrate to the US using the special laws they have for people fleeing the island. They told him if they ever find out he was doing it again they would confiscate his boat and face prison time. After Obama restrictions have been lifted further.

The sad thing is that only the people related to the party are the ones able to afford most of the stuff traded in the black market, or plainly are the main contacts importing illegal goods. If you are a common citizen your only option is to become something like a bartender in a tourist hotel, which essentially makes you close to products like food, liquor and electronics that have sanction exemptions that you can illegally buy and trade in the black market. BTW, when they explained me this 10 years ago the going entry "price" to become a bartender was over 10k USD, several lifetime salaries of many people in Cuba. Therefore as you can imagine this translates in lots of corruption and the only people that gets affected by sanctions in reality is the common man.

Venezuela is no different. I once met some young Venezuelans whose dad was a military general in the country. All his family was lavishly living and studying in Miami. Somebody else told me that after Chavez there has never been so many high rank officials, all essentially millionaires, that protect that part of Venezuela's ruling class that aligned with the regime. If they used to be rich, like in the Russia after the perestroika now they practically own the country. Just browse in YouTube all the videos of people that visit the Caracas luxury malls, fully stocked supermarkets and fast food restaurants. A common person needs to work a full week to be able to buy a McDonald's meal. To guard critical infrastructure facilities and gas stations they have a special police that in practice has a license to kill.
Nearly all of my short term resistance is because of the environment temperature and low quality of drinking water (bad tasting mineral water and often contaminated by plastic bottles).
Home flipping is getting more competitive – and less profitable
The most shocking thing about this new preference is not the obvious fact that Verizon is blatantly trying to collect even more data about their users in creepy ways (or that it was "opt in" by default, which should probably be illegal), but rather how badly their announcement was written. Sample below from their email. The shocking part is that there is absolutely zero benefit to the user.

"Introducing Verizon Custom Experience. It’s your experience, tailored to your interests. The program uses information about websites you visit and apps you use on your mobile device to help us better understand your interests. This helps us personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product and service recommendations, and develop plans, services and offers that are more appealing to you."
Wait what? “Go to the Capitol and fight like hell” is not inciting? Are you delusional?

Armed with water bottles? Are you high? People bright bombs. Police officers were murdered. One person attempting to break through a door and attack congress was shot and killed.

Don’t try to gaslight and don’t try to minimize. That won’t work here.
The CPU in the PlayStation is nowhere near a 90 MHz Pentium.

The CPUs in the Saturn, PlayStation, and N64 were single issue, and could execute at most one instruction per clock. The Pentium was superscalar and could execute two instructions per clock. The Pentium would likely average, for integer operations, more than four or five times the performance. Much higher for floating point.

The MIPS CPU in the PlayStation is much closer to a 486 in performance-per-clock for general purpose code. A similarly clocked 486 might win some G.P. code competitions due to better caches, but the PSX's CPU would smoke the 486 in transform and lighting, thanks to it's DSP coprocessor, and the MIPS would still have much better performance-per-dollar than the 486.
Ubisoft crap is another kind of crap compared to Daikatana crap. Ubisoft essentially produces shovelware, from their flagship AAA-titles down to their obscure NDS titles.

It's all sure bets with low creative risk, which makes every sense if you are primarily pandering to shareholders.
Working for US compagny with not HQ in Canada can be a lot of problems. You have to pay for everything, insurance etc ... it's a lot of complications.
It all depends on what your agreement with either employer is. If you are contracted for 8 hours of butt-in-seat work, with zero on-call, and zero expectation of stepping up to handle urgent problems, there might be no ethical problems.

But I have never had a software job where that was the case.
5 MWh = 370 tesla powerwalls - for a grid energy storage this is a small POC
Instead of the grey goo apocalypse everyone worried about with nanites, we'll have a green apocalypse.
The odds that employers will offer employees below the executive or managerial level private or even semi-private offices is extremely low. Personally, I think the odds of such a thing happening are lower than WFH becoming mainstream.
Yeah, unfettered corporate greed is endemic indeed. :(
But why? I thought one of the chief advantages of flow batteries was a lower cost per kWh at scale, as the expensive electrodes can be sized for peak power, while the cheaper electrolyte can be sized for capacity. Perhaps the economies of scale in lithium-ion batteries have had a bigger impact on cost than this clever split, so lion is actually cheaper per kwh?
I'd come to the office on a daily basis if companies began subsidizing my commute. I used to spend nearly 2 hours every day sitting in traffic, uncompensated, to get to/from the office. That's a _very_ large % of my life doing absolutely nothing of value to anyone, pumping emissions into the air.
If the full reject is easy and I am not logged in to a website then personally I like it if the website does not remember my choices: I asked not to be tracked and now they are not tracking me.
Nintendo is that company, so it seems like the concept can exist and satisfy investors. Satoru Iwata was big on this mindset. I guess he’s been gone for 6 years now (good lord, how could it be so long ago?), but I think they still do a good job in this area.
Ask HN: Rejecting client work at last minute
I’m a junior dev ( < 1 year ) and I was doing some work for a company, I vibe with the team and mostly do CSS ( which I love and they badly need it ), today they offered me a work contract for a year...the problem is I never thought they would give me a contract and started interviewing for another gig.

Despite the red flag of the junior profile the guys from the new gig chose me ( but no contract was signed ).

Problem is I signed today with the team I currently work with as I feel I need more stability and take my time to grow. But I can’t stop to think that I let the others down ( even if we speaking about a big 400 people company ).

I know it is just business and I shouldnt feel bad about it but how do you guys usually deal with situations like this ?
Would you send a large amount of cash through the U.S. postal service? Just curious.
I have a full description of the benchmarking process on https://tinyvg.tech/benchmark.htm

tl;dr: The input svg is pushed through svgo, so we have a very compact format already
Fire extinguisher. We call it the budget halon system. ;)
I once put together a blockchain-like solution that was actually running on top of a distributed database.
Because it was using db's native replication, it was much faster and more efficient to distribute the blockchain among the participating nodes.
There were some drawbacks too, for example the system required n/2+1 for quorum which is a bit more than than 51% for small clusters.
So back to basics: I would start with the use case, problem to solve and then see if something like blockchain is the correct solution for the problem (as opposed to searching for some magic blockchain-like tech that is magically better than others for all types of problems)
I don't understand the difference between esbuild and swc.
At first I thought “$4.5 million for a JavaScript library!”

But I agree this focus is really compelling:

We are designing it to serve the unique needs of people who make web interactives, namely:
- They require an especially close collaboration between highly talented artists and engineers
- They routinely involve members of other disciplines like scientists, data storytellers, or educators
- Their output requires uncompromising performance, and high graphical fidelity

These exceptionally challenging requirements inform the design of Theatre.js. Instead of building a “design tool” or a “dev tool,” we intend for Theatre.js to enable artists and engineers to collaborate on the same thing, fully own their tech stack, and build domain-specific tools on top. Our motion editor is one such example, with more domain-specific tools on the way.