skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the problem with a sliding window and the timestamp + count solution? lastTime is the timestamp of the last call. newTime is the timestamp of the incoming call. If newTime - lastTime > 60 seconds then you're good to proceed, set count to 1 change lastTime to newTime and go on. Otherwise, check whether count is less than n and proceed accordingly (incrementing count if so). This accomplishes the sliding window and rounding down to the last whole minute handles the fixed window - right?
Love the NASM syntax, never got used to the Intel style.
This all sounds pretty labor intensive to me. About how many hours per year do you think goes in to this? Like is this something that could be a weekend hobby? Or does it require more substantial lifestyle change?
Are you rubbing our face in it, or are we allowed to comment freely? (I doubt we are allowed to comment freely about this here.)
The leading indicator I'd use to analyze how strong these companies will be in a decade is: how much of their bull market zeitgeist is based around nebulous technology ideas that don't exist, and that investors really don't understand. Its the "hope" factor; if investors are bullish on promises about future tech, it means they aren't bullish about their current tech; and history is the best indicator of the future.

The three big zeitgeists right now are: AR/VR, Metaverse, and Crypto. By this measure:

Amazon is very strong. This is a company that achieved unreal fulfillment numbers during a world-stopping global pandemic that brought their peers to their knees. Yet they only control single-digit percentages of US commerce. They're a company that doesn't just make empty promises about next-gen tech like drone delivery or same-day fulfillment or "supply chain hardening"; they deliver (literally) and are deploying this tech today.

Google is strong. Google is the ghost in the information machine. Ten years ago everyone was so concerned about how competitors could disrupt their control in search, maps, video, etc. No one has. If they have eyes, they will find a way to monetize it. Combine that with their slow but methodical push into B2B, between Workspace & Cloud, and I'm not concerned about them.

Netflix is stable. Piracy will be an issue as these platforms shard more and more good content between different subscriptions, but I also think its a self-fixing problem. We're in a period of striation, and we'll soon enter a period of coalescing; Netflix & Disney+ are very well positioned to survive and continue to do well.

Apple is weak. iPhone is flat. Mac is flat. iPad is flat. Their biggest wins over the past decade have been on the accessory side (Watch & AirPods). AR can either be a "metaverse platform", which will stumble to see "next-iPhone success" because Apple doesn't play well with other children and loves their gardens, or it could be "another accessory", which will also stumble because that's not a trillion dollar business.

Facebook is very weak. The metaverse stuff will probably pay off to some degree, but their biggest gain will be on the hardware side. They just won't be able to produce the same kind of open digital universe that video-game native competitors in this space (like Epic) have spent years preparing for. They aren't a video game company, and that's the skillset this takes.
This is different. Cars could potentially be driven far away from civilization, so their reliability is sometimes critical for their occupants' survival. A car can't disable itself and leave people stranded in the middle of nowhere just because it doesn't have a cellular signal to phone home.

And btw, many web pages do still work if you disable js. I'm saying that as someone who routinely disables js for websites that abuse it.
Considering that the film is more than 55 years old, and the discussion was advanced by discussing the plot point, I don't see a problem with it myself.
Where "normies" == "People who have accumulated wealth during 20+ years and above average savings"? Dunno where you live (in Beverly Hills I guess?), but those "normies" are not the norm anymore. Have you seen how the rest of Americans live outside the big cities?
Gotcha. I typically ask for my background report to be sent to me, I'm always curious what they contain, but I've never actually gotten one... It seemed relatively superficial and mainly focused on big ticket issues like felonies.

I deliberately don't accept promotions (to an extent) or respond to recruitment requests for any high level or management positions for that exact reason. I'm just another cog and I like it that way.

Logistics is tough. I have cycled through a few positions to find the right mix of meeting schedules. I try to work for low touch/low meeting culture companies that let me focus on my work. If there is an occasional meeting overlap I ask to reschedule due to personal conflict and there hasn't been a problem so far. Luckily remote friendly companies are low touch and tend not to micromanage my time.
Another thing is that searching the web is steadily becoming displaced by more structured and localized forms of search, such as videos, nearby restaurants, products, used goods and so on. In some cases keyword search is replaced entirely - by recommendations & personalized simple buttons (gas stations on the way to my destination, the latest episodes of my favorite podcasts, etc etc).

From an ad-pipeline perspective, Google isn't entirely left behind in this new world, they still have YouTube, Google maps, Gmail, etc. However, they missed most of social and e-commerce, which feels irrecoverable at this point.
Ask HN: At what point in your engineering career did you feel respected?
Was it after a big achievement? A promotion? A level of seniority? Or simply the passage of time?
I think what you're doing is better because it's more explicit. I feel like Dura is yet another tool for people that don't know, and don't want to learn, Git.
Because relaxed zoning increases the price of land and decreases the price of interior space. In the most expensive cities, it's the value of land that's going up. The houses themselves are often the same structures that housed the working class in the 50s.
Why’s he not building it now, then? He has the means.
You could almost consider this to be a version of a vaccine, but acquired via natural contact with other carriers rather than injected into your body.
On the plus side, I've found that HDR-enabled UHD streaming services cope fine with 4K/SDR. I imagine they send an entirely different (SDR) stream in that case.
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Apparently not. Meat prices are going up because of collusion by corporate meat packers not because the price of meat is going up.
I usually commit often locally and push to remote right away. Then when I want to open up my PR, I use `git reset --soft <target>` where target is the local version of the target branch in my PR. That resets all the commits, but keeps all the changes in the staging area, and then I can clean up my history. Then I force push to override what's there.

This works well for my workflow because we squash all commits into target branches and don't really rely on commit history auditing during review. I understand that's not the case everywhere, but works for me.
I'm not clever enough!
I would like to go this approach. I simply forget to commit until I’ve wrapped up something big, but I’d like to submit more frequently so others can see my work. Is there something that will remind me to commit? Esp. In VSCode
Thanks for that. Chortled.
What reduces consolidation ultimately is a real recession. Not these fake ones we have had in recent times which get propped up with QE, but a real recession. The type that kills big companies.

Then in the ashes you will get a verdant crop of new companies started by fresh people and a new period of massive growth with follow.

Might not be a cost that people actually want to pay though.
They seem to be having tech talent issues as well. In that regard, the repeat AWS outages, plus the state of the Amazon catalog could be seen canaries in the coalmine.
That may be because many "grass-fed" farmers do a 120 day corn finish which adds weight quickly. This makes the beef more like what is produces commercially.
One thing I could never figure out about the Matrix is why they would write all the code on top-to-bottom lines. You'd think it would be left-to-right or right-to-left even if it's all written by machines!
Then what was your point? So, now there is such a thing as reverse racism? I think you just wanted to pick a fight. Be gone. It's reverse racism because they're being punished for their perceived or real superiority as I pointed out. If you can't at least understand that distinction in good faith, you're just arguing for the sake of it.
> Google often seems to no longer support mandatory include/exclude search parameters

I've noticed this, and it's frustrating. I have assumed it's intentional. I am left to guess as to what a change in this behavior would accomplish.
Tldr we are paid well because there is a lot of demand. Thanks to the disaster that was 2000-era outsourcing, there was the mistaken belief that supply is fundamentally limited to local offices. The pandemic has revealed that this is not true, so effective supply has exploded.

I expect that the glory days of making hundreds of thousands of USD per year as a bit-laying chicken in an enterprise software farm are likely over. This is good for "remote" workers, superb for the capital class and horrible for us.

It feels to me like we are the factory workers of the 1960s and are about to go through a similar explosion.

I feel bad for the kids studying CS and information systems now and dreaming of.. basically my job today.
It may seem that way, but I think that's because right wing media does a stellar job of surfacing extreme examples. Plus, right wing media fosters a collective sense of grievance, which I see in some of the comments here.
I'm still trying to figure out how thinking mind and body perception integrates with that model. :)
>Just like people with hard-to-pronounce foreign names. And if someone else refuses, you know, just don't be friends with that guy - be professional, to-the-point and spend your free time with the people that share your values.

I'd argue it's the person refusing to refer to someone how they'd prefer to be referred to as being unprofessional. It's odd you use foreign names as an analogy, when refusing to pronounce someone's name correctly would probably get you a call from HR.
> Comparing the number of available beds with the number of unsheltered homeless people does not disprove parent's argument that there is a bed for everyone who wants a bed.

It does, because the claim was not that there's a bed for everyone who wants one. The claim was exactly this:

> There are shelters for every homeless person already. The homeless prefer the street.

Which is a plainly incorrect statement, if for no other reason than the fact that 'the homeless' aren't a monolithic group with the identical goals.
I don't see this as saying to put hobbies on a resume. Rather, he was asking about hobbies and considering that someone who had none wasn't going to be a good fit.

Someone can be very good at their job but in a startup situation you need to be flexible--and he's saying someone with no hobbies isn't going to be flexible enough.
I have seen several google alternative search engine projects being posted in HN every other week. You have your privacy focused open source google alternative search engine for "insert niche here" with big hopes of disruption.

I will give you my two cents. I have used duckduckgo, bing, searx etc. for extended periods of time and hated every one of those things. The problem is that what you search seem to be essentially the gateway to wild west of internet. I understand the proposition of spam control in search engines, but atleast to me I think the early days of google without DMCA and copyright bans made google the best.

I fear SEO spam control will only bring the worst of the moderated internet. It will not be the first time big tech tried to douse a gasoline fire with more gasoline because they taught the more fire meant the previous fire will get suffocated by the lack of oxygen(?). Rather than using "AI" as a crutch to solve SEO as a problem, I want to see an option that is true to 2005 era google.
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I keep hearing this from people, so I must be in the minority.

But I actually like the fact that they do limited run or self contained shows.

Not only does it mean that the show doesn't drag on for 10 seasons slowly reducing in quality until it's axed due to waning viewership.

But I've found their limited series runs to be more engaging since the writers and director are able to tell a self contained and complete story since they know the duration of the series and can pace out the story from start to end.

Also on a personal note, seeing a show has more than 5 seasons just feels like an exhausting time commitment to me at this point.
The Brazilian Portuguese model is a bit of an extreme showcase (and thus really cool!), as it was trained on a single speaker (entirely recorded by the main author of the paper, Edresson Casanova, who's Brazilian).

The fact that it can do multi-lingual voice cloning at all in that case is already surprising. You can find more details in the project page [0] and paper [1]. And here's the corpus. [2]

[0] https://edresson.github.io/YourTTS/

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02418

[2] https://edresson.github.io/TTS-Portuguese-Corpus/
Reminds me of James Jeans, another idealist physicist, which I feel like is becoming slightly more popular again of a view.

"The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter."
The fascinating aspect of this is what happens when Apple launches its VR / AR hardware. At that point there is going to be an absolutely tremendous hype and re-orienting of the tech view of AR/VR and people will look for the obvious "number 2" which will default to Meta as the only viable player for mass market.

So it means Meta has the chance to be the Android to Apple's iPhone in the VR/AR space. The main challenge to me looks like that nobody can match Apple's silicon for this kind of application so Meta simply won't be able to compete in the same league as far as on-device computing power. Then, philisophically, I don't think Zuckerberg will be able to stomache opening up the Oculus/Quest ecosystem to become the open "yin" to Apple's closed ecosystem "yang". I don't think offering a second ecosystem that is just as closed is going to cut it if they want to get anywhere near what Apple's market share will be. So there's a strong risk this turns out more like Apple Watch vs Android Wear rather than iPhone vs Android.

Whatever happens, it will be pretty interesting to observe.
Agree with others about Netflix not being appropriate for this list. Their success or failure in the marketplace will have little to do with the factors affecting the others on this list.

FWIW today is my last day at Google (after 10 years), so maybe that's informing what I'm about to write...

I don't have any particular pick from any of this list which is dominant over any other, but...

People keep bringing up Google Search still being leading and dominant... but Ads is Google's revenue source and product ... and that's only partially driven by search traffic. Even without Search, Google would still be the strongest presence in online advertising.

Google's share price is buoyed quarter after quarter by Google coming in with growth in ads revenue quarter after quarter.

I don't think it's controversial to speculate that some day that has to stop. It's just taking a long time to stop. All markets have a saturation.

When it does, that will have some kind of cascading effect on Google as a whole. Engineering retention, vulnerability to competition, etc.

I think a similar kind of dynamic applies to Facebook as well, with some differences around market segment etc.

At least a couple of these companies' success depends on their ability not so much to innovate or produce a better product but to retain the right talent to stop other people from innovating or producing a better product. And to continue to do what they're already doing at scale. A failure to hand out hundreds of thousands in RSUs per engineer every year and an end to siphoning talent straight out of universities and into their payroll.. and all of that will start to crumble.
What do you think their advantage comes from? Most regulatory compliance is a fixed cost. Amazon's lawyers get paid the same hourly rate to read the same regulations as yours, but they can amortize the cost over a billion customers. The more regulations there are, the larger the advantage to big corporations.

Half their advantage comes from the complexity and stupidity of financial regulations that make it so small businesses have to subject themselves to the caprice of PayPal et al to accept payment for anything, when PayPal's business model is screwing over small businesses. The biggest reason third parties sell on Amazon is so they can use Amazon as a payment service.
You are right that newspapers lean capital C Conservative [1] in Canada. It is mostly due to Postmedia. Ownership by Postmedia is quite conspicuous in the list.

CBC is really woke though. You don't need to suffer them too much to notice that. Randomly turn on the radio while driving a few times, and you will see.

[1]: Which in its current form looks like a bland, toothless, uninspiring, "big tent" party. Roughly speaking, they only seem to win if you use irrelevant metrics like popular vote (https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/erin-otoole-conservatives-p...)
I agree. But its a hard sell to management types.

Especially that those systems can usually be "proven to work" because they succeed in millions of cases a day.
I'm nor sure - does the big mirror have to be cooled all the way, or just a bit, and what needs to be cooled are the more compact fiddly bits in the middle ?

Also, I wonder since the L2 spot is theoretically (partly) shaded by the earth, how much Watts/m^2 do you avoid ?
Yeah I think the "fuck it" crowd just adds new code and doesn't touch existing code.

That or they advocate doing a from-scratch rewrite.
The real problem here is that many overseas governments and airlines don't hire pilots based on competence, but on their coziness with the ruling class.

Events like this are not Boeing's fault and will continue until foreign airlines can get rid of corruption.
Why is all the pasture raised, permaculture, organic blah blah stuff all so expensive if it’s not profitable? If I’m paying $12 for a dozen eggs when I can get non-sustainable, conventionally raised eggs from some megacorp for $3 then where is all the money going? Any consumer paying $12 for eggs certainly wouldn’t mind $13, which could then be profit.
I only have Netflix disc rental (blu-ray, one disc out at a time, costs about $10/month).

The library is huge and goes back decades. There are usually good user reviews at the Netflix web site for guidance. I suspect there are thousands of theatrically released movies that Netflix only offers on disc, not streaming.

In the last ten years, I've rented almost 900 movies (including a few TV shows like Breaking Bad) on disc, so that's well below $2/rental. I live about 50 miles from the nearest distribution center, so turnaround is almost always just two days, because the post office scans the returned disk when I post it, so Netflix sends out the new one the next day, even before they receive my return. They did pull a fast one a few years back by silently stopping outgoing shipments on Saturdays, but I live with it.

Discs have great resolution, often have bonus features, and almost always have closed captioning, which I appreciate more and more as I age. And the credits don't get reduced to a thumbnail on screen so the next show can be promoted. And I don't have to log in, or enable wi-fi on my TV.

I use an old PS3 as my blu ray player, works great with a Logitech remote control, supports HDMI output. I also have a blu-ray external disk drive for my laptop if I'm on the road (only about $100 as I recall).

Since Netflix is primarily responsible for putting Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and various local video stores out of business, I'd be really pissed if they ended the disc rental service.
How would that work.

Whether you take money out of the market or make a sale of an NFT, both are taxed income, no?
> It's sad. Makes it harder to navigate the web.

Some would even say it killed the web by centralizing all the content in the hands of a few [0].

Which is the direct consequence of everybody optimizing to better show up on Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft and ultimately even migrating all their hosting to these companies.

[0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
Any thoughts on Mobile Slaughter Units?

Your focus on being less cruel to your cows is pretty admirable, but I don't really see how average consumers could evaluate whether their local farm is:

* Putting in the sort of extra effort that you are

* Following safety protocols more generally

I dunno. I'm not super attached to meat, so I'd probably quit eating it before putting in the effort to eat it ethically. Actually when I put it that way, I should probably quit it...
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> It’s not a problem of doing the review, it’s that there’s not much of a market for written reviews, most people would rather watch a video instead.

I'd say it's more that YouTube offers a clearer path to content monetization than text does. YT is a much more lucrative platform for the same level of effort as SEO for their text blogs.