skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between developments like this (and Copilot [Is there a general accepted word for this class of things e.g. "AI Coders"?) and the move toward fully remote, I predict the mean software engineering salary in the United States will be lower in 10 years (in real dollars) than it is today.
If the company hires you for a job and they’re happy with your work, you’re not overpaid. Companies are desperate for engineers that the price has inflated, the value of engineers has gone up because no one wants to make useless apps or websites without being paid.
Offtopic, but I recently realized that table cutlery and ceramics follow similar patterns as fonts: you have families of designs, certain design aspects which repeat across a single family (like the curvature which repeats between a cup and a bowl, or the length of the stem of a fork versus spoon), etc. Yet, it is much easier to find a good font than a good matching set of tableware, even when looking among the more expensive brands.
You know the saying about how majority of users of certain very powerful packages only use a tiny fraction of available functions?

Allegedly Microsoft found out that the problem was that the features covered by that fraction were wildly different in case of MS Office. That is, any cut down, simplification, etc. would result in huge amount of disappointed users, because the used featuresets didn't really overlap outside of certain core. At the same time trying to package it into market segments might just mean you end up with too small niches.
Competitive Programming with AlphaCode [pdf]
Yes, the Unifi OS console they talk about is similar to the Unifi controller that you can run standalone on your desktop. It'll handle the adoption, handoff coordination, everything you need.
I'm curious if in your generalization are there any references to cite? I am in desperate agreement with you, but sources are needed! (Irony unintended)
I think that people here (rightly) dislike advertising and having their privacy invaded to target them, not specifically targeted advertising vs. untargeted.

As an aside, something happened to my instagram ad-targeting profile a few months ago and the ads that I normally get (tech-industry stuff, photography, art shows, books...) were replaced by what I assume were lowest-common-denominator general population ads (replica-of-expensive-items scams, crypto scams, investment scams, sports, populist politicians, pawnshops, wedding services...) for a couple of weeks; it was as if looking in a nightmarish mirror universe.
Can't even find a Raspberry Pi.
FB is going all in on Metaverse for the same reasons Ool companies are going all in on renewables and other ventures
I don't think there is some absolute law of design* that says all users must be supported. If a startup is still struggling to reach profitability, they generally will invest all their efforts into supporting one niche really well, not create universally useful products.

*There are actual laws that say those without disability must be supported, and I think companies should strive to meet those, but that's more of a moral argument
> and no one will say otherwise - because of their tenure and leverage.

Disagree on the last part. Because everything still gets done.

I write code slower than I used to but I throw away a lot less of it. Turns out going slower is faster.
I don't really have much to say here besides "play FFVI", so I'll just sing it's praises: it's one of the most underrated JRPGs ever made, even though it's still pretty well-known. Despite being overshadowed by it's successor, FFVI has always sat in my heart as having one of the most fascinating stories, best music and greatest characters of any SNES RPG, or SNES game in general. I hold it in higher regards than I do Mother 2/Earthbound, Chrono Trigger and all the previous Final Fantasy games. If you're snowed in this weekend, I highly recommend booting it up, or at least listening to it's musical motifs. Kefka's theme and Dancing Mad makes One-Winged Angel sound like a toothlessly sane track in comparison.
It's much more difficult to scale price (user pays more) than it is to scale ad revenue (user sees no difference, more / more-per advertiser).

At the end of the day, that's why Google and Facebook will fight tooth and nail to avoid subscription offerings.

And fundamentally... Facebook's stock should be hammered. They're effectively a legacy platform attempting to milk more revenue from their existing users.

They missed the 2010-2020 opportunity to diversify away from ad-based revenue, and now they look more like 2000s Microsoft, unable to imagine outside their core revenue generator. Which is why their acquisitions have been "new Facebook" instead of "different than Facebook."
I don't use Facebook, but I wont turn down an opportunity to make some $$$
Exactly, so why'd you make it?
Facebook is dying slowly in the developed world, that is true. However it is still growing in emerging markets. And most importantly: FB is still generating tons of cash to fund the other assets.

WhatsApp has basically zero monetization right now but billions of users. Huge potential cash cow.

Instagram still has a ton of potential for further optimized monetization. Think fully embedded 1-click buying for things like fashion, gadgets, accessories. They could take a decent cut of Shopifys business if executed right.
> The new story is that a bunch less people are willing to spend on ads at all, specifically citing broad market constrained budgets due to inflation and supply chain issues

To be fair, Alphabet had a solid top and bottom beat attributed to ads revenue, citing increased spending on ads (mostly in retail, finance, travel)
My Shannon entropy score is still pretty high.
I would be delighted by an absurd amount of compensation.
Facebook has the cash to buy Microsoft?

I do not want to see that happen
Platforms wouldn’t be using algorithmic feeds (that include content a user did not opt into following) if users didn’t prefer it by their behavior.
Kalra and Paddock's analysis is correct as far as it goes, but it's easy to misuse to claim that we couldn't feasibly demonstrate an autonomous vehicle is acceptably safe.

It never got accepted for publication because the reviewers didn't think it was significant enough, but I wrote a paper presenting an alternative way to analyse autonomous vehicle reliability data (you'll have to take my word for it, but the reviewers didn't quibble about the results presented, just whether it was important):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08901.pdf

The major technical contribution was demonstrating that a class of mathematical models called software reliability growth models are a reasonable way to estimate the "anomalous behaviour" rates of an AV system as bugs are found and fixed.

My second point was that using fatal accidents as a way to measure safety is not necessary; you can use more common events such as non-fatal accidents, or in the case of AV systems in development, even the number of occasions the safety driver overrode the automatic control.
Just because you block ads doesn't mean you are immune to advertisements. How many of your interests are shaped by media campaigns. Even if you go and choose to buy things based on "need" (which I doubt). How do you choose which to buy of the various things that satisfy your needs? Maybe you go to one of many consumer reporting sites? Maybe you look at reviews? How do you know those are truly unbiased, they aren't most of the time.
I guess? Alphabet had a good quarter.
This is definitely something that we'll be looking into more closely in the future. Our old and busted `gptf` tactic was a good start but we can do much better!
I’m going through something very similar with my GF of 6 years, though not married and I’m 28. Super difficult because I care a lot about her but I know I can’t keep going any more for her sake and mine. And I want to live by myself again and discover more of who I am and what it’s like to date as an independent adult and not a drunk college student. I also just am not confident taking the next step… specifically with her, unfortunately. And, I might be open to the next step with someone else, I may just not know myself well enough.

Just working up the courage to talk out loud about this, let alone with her, was so difficult. But dude, it was worth. I told her everything. I’m already feeling better - a bit scared about the next chapter of my life but I feel better.

If you communicate how you feel well enough, your partner will understand. I don’t think many people want to be in a relationship with a partner that isn’t feeling it.

And you might be surprised where the conversation goes. Things might be said that change your mind in subtle ways.

Stop wasting time, gently tell her how you feel.
Maybe… maybe… tools like Copilot will allow us to work at a higher level of abstraction (like optimizing compilers have allowed us to do).

I say maybe because so far the code that Copilot has generated for me has been impressive for what it is, but riddled with obvious and subtle bugs. It’s like outsourcing my function implementations to a C-student undergraduate intern. I definitely wouldn’t use any of its code without close scrutiny.

AI will make some software engineering tasks more efficient and more accessible but human programmers are not going anywhere any time this side of the Singularity.
"Internal dev tools at the worlds largest dev shop"

I'll take 'problems no one else wants to go near' for $500
FBI acknowledges it tested NSO Group’s spyware
Not close to enough money even if you take all of it from them. UBI would be on the back of the middle and upper middle class.
The real trick with Ribbon is that in MS Office it makes it somewhat easier to find functionality (the search interface helps with that) and it tries to expose keyboard shortcuts easier.

AFAIK the research behind the ribbon showed that 1) there was no way to find features easily 2) Main menu was too cluttered and undiscoverable.

Of course if you actually found the features you wanted before that, it was a big negative change.
It is irrelevant from a standpoint of what level 5 autonomy promises. If a human can drive the street, autonomous vehicle should be able too. We all know that this is very hard.
I mean why have a local or State government if you’re just going to treat them as a convenient receptacle for tax money that originated locally with basically no responsibility over the local status quo?
>Why create just for the sake of creation?

Because you can? I don't necessarily disagree that there's too many videogames, but of all the things to get upset about, too many video games is really at the bottom of the list of things to get upset about.
I agree that there are too many video games nowadays that it's impossible for most of them to be financially sustainable

But it's pretty weird to blame crumbling infrastructure on the pursuit of art when in reality suburban sprawl is already financially unsustainable with or without artists
Maybe they'll try launching a Facebook phone that tries to capture Apple's market and it'll fail miserably again.

Never underestimate the blue message bubble y'all. That's real leverage.
Nvidia Omniverse
I noticed the ads got worse on Facebook lately. They used to be more relevant, now they're just totally random amazon products that I only click on because I have no idea what they are. I actually used to like the ads on Facebook because they were pretty relevant.

I think the tracking backlash helps the big consumer goods conglomerates and hurts the startup niche product marketers. Look at Dollar Shave Club and all the other consumer products underdogs that were able to take massive marketshare from Proctor and Gamble and the like through smart ad targeting.
Again, that doesn't mirror my experience around any of those areas at all. I lived in LA and the bay area for almost a decade. Plenty of people wanted different tax structures, reduced regulatory burden on businesses (especially small businesses), reevaluation of existing expenditures over increased taxation, etc.

Are there specific Republican views that you think are anathema?
I don't know Trudeau senior's history very well. If you watch the video however Peckford shares some history - that Justin's father attempted to get his own version of the Charter of Rights passed, because he thought the provinces' leadership was being too unreasonable; trying to just get his own way without consensus. The judge in that case shut him down, and he was forced to go back to the table with the provinces - the judges citing that the provinces have sovereign power, and because the Charter is a Federal document that all provinces must agree to it. Like father like son, not shocking then to see Justin Trudeau promoting hate while violating the Charter itself.
Ah, the other comments implied that it was their staging environment for testing new features or something, but that appears incorrect. Now that I'm matching HN names up with Github names, it all makes sense.

I personally wouldn't register someone else's domain with a 1 on the end, just because of fear of trademark law, but I guess it worked out this time.
Blockchain Bridge Wormhole Suffers Possible Exploit Worth over $326M
Flu Pandemic’s Impact on Movie Theaters
Fuck praise and recognition, you want more of this type of thing to be done? Pay them. Pay them more.
Show HN: Find alternatives to almost any popular GitHub repo
Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more.

In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects.

For example, here are three popular repos:

- https://github.com/rails/rails

- https://github.com/vercel/next.js

- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

To test it out, open any of the examples above and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the browser URL. You can also try with any other repository as long as it's a bit popular.

I'd be more than happy to answer any questions and receive some feedback. Thanks!
The parent post was a parody of a user story in a very common format, possibly intended to highlight how little concrete information "delightful" conveys.
I don't particularly want to be tracked and generally block as much as it pratically possible (browser plugins, piholes etc.), but I occasionally encounter useful ads (for example an interesting temporary exhibition I wouldn't have known about, the reprinting of a book that I had been looking for or a better offer for some service that I'm already paying for).
also combined with -o i.e.

grep -Po "Name:\K\w+"
>Apple vs ad-tech is a really interesting battle. It shows the immense power Apple has in the consumer market today, where they can affect some of the largest businesses in the US unilaterally.

It shows that Facebook positioning itself as a "platform" in the first place is total nonsense. That's why Zuck wanted Oculus to succeed so bad. He knows he is at the mercy of actual platform providers like Apple and Google for everything.
Besides being a founder, I've never had a programming job that's required such outside of mostly rare incident responses.
The shift to Meta is supposed to reset that growth, in a way. Not sure how it will turn out.
It's usually more that the ad results in someone buying something they were already planning to buy from you instead of someone else. There's pretty much 3 types of online advertising, Intent based where you show an add when someone is actively searching for a place to buy the thing, remarketing where you show an add because you were able to detect they were shopping for it recently, and then the window shopping ones which just show you things you might be interested in (these are the lowest converting) Online ads objectively work though. Online ads basically drive the revenue of millions of small and medium sized businesses.
It's a common antipattern to design away settings, and practical usability, with artistic purity. OTOH, providing an endless jumble of uncommon settings is overwhelming to almost everyone.

1. Make things work in the common-most use-cases, for power users and novices. I think there's a lack of respect shown to people who have difficult, edge-case, real problems to solve, like batch receiving orders while being forced into narrow pagination and sparse layouts suitable only for casual customers. Usable search and bulk actions are needed in more contexts than originally assumed.

2. If someone asks for it, there could be 100 who didn't speak-up but also want it.

3. Organize and explain settings succinctly.

4. Have a reset to defaults option.
Being sympathetic to Republican views does not equal also not criticizing democrats. And from what I see in LA everyone loves talking shit about everyone. Bring up the 2 party system and you will get pretty wide consensus from anyone.
I hear the EU is working to make interoperability between platforms a thing.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/eu-parliament-takes-fi...
I've been trying to find a salaried position at a company for a while now. I've been offering 3 days per week for 50% salary and health care. This give a company that couldn't afford an engineer with 16 years of professional Rails experience at Apple, Intuit, and successful startups at the rate of a junior engineer. You get all the mentoring, team building, hiring experience. Still haven't had any serious takers yet, so I started woodworking instead. If anyone is interested in leaving teach to learn woodworking/furniture making, reach out!
Apple has always understood that true power is architecting yourself the ability to substantially harm competitors... without your users noticing.
Alphabet broadly allows Google to continue-on as Google, in the event that Waymo or its other broader subsidiaries fail (and conversely, allows Google to be cut if that part starts to die). Alphabet is probably one of the most tactical "renames" out of the bunch.
Apple didn’t do enough. FB needs to go the way of the dodo and just cease to exist. Democracies everywhere will thank them for it.
I always find people complaining about the UI in libreoffice so weird. It's simple and perfect. Not to mention if you don't like the default, it provides alternatives.

Every time I am forced to use MS Word, on the other hand, I lose the will to live.
It’s kinda the same way the military or firemen works.
I used to use Grav. If you want similar more mature and “zen” try Kirby CMS. I am not afiliated but ive been loving it for years. It’s commercial product but i think of it as high-end Grav. More polished and with better admin interface. Actually since Kirby is older i believe Grav was inspired by it a lot.
I like most of GNOME as well.

I love how they spread out the UI and using whitespace, makes things a lot clearer and it's easier to focus your attention on the right thing.

I love not having minimize, there really is no need for it.

However I do feel that some apps should have more features (tree style navigation & double/multiple panes in files/nautilus, evince actually should have proper annotating tools). Stuff that KDE manages much better, albeit in a sea of completely flat and borderless buttons with cramped intefaces in a quest of maximizing information shown.

edit: I think that really the thing to manage in an interface is how & how much info should be shown & how to make it (kind of) intuitive/discoverable. I honestly don't think that the second part has been well addressed by any UI (not MacOS, not Windows, not Linux DEs), for the first part I think GNOME is a lot closer to how it should be, than say KDE or Windows (I don't really use MacOS, don't know).
> No offense but why would I care at all what a non-American thinks?

As a non American who doesn’t live in US, I agree with you on this.

I guess most of the non-Americans also don’t care that deeply about your gun laws.

Sometimes we see the incidents and perceive the loss of life to be painful. But this is human nature and it exists in me and you alike.

Sometimes non-Americans might express their opinions on this matter which I believe is fine. Just an opinion. :)
It still higher than it was in early 2020 after covid.

the stock had gone up so much since then that expectations had gotten too high.

FB/Meta still makes a crapload of money, just not as much as some analysts had expected.
This is a neat idea. Didn't work when I tried it. Here's something similar I built last year: https://speakeasy.co/hacker-news
> Most Cars volvo produced is not as safe simply because Volvo is still making most of the money on Gasoline car

That's... quite a leap.

> Do we need to create a screaming article "Vovlo is deliberately making money on old tech that kills people"?

That would be just that: a screaming article.

> so they don't want to invest more in EV to make your car more safe.

Ah, yes. Because the only way to make a car safe is to make it electric.

1. I was responding to the ridiculous claim of "if you care about safety it's hard to match with what Tesla offers".

This claim is bullshit, and Volvo easily matches what Tesla offers when it comes to car safety

2. Volvo XC40 Recharge, C40 Recharge are the cars that exist, but you chose to ignore them

> Naming of an optional feature is so much more important compares to real tech, crash tests etc.

I tried to parse this sentense, and I couldn't. Are you saying that Volvo doesn't do real tech, or doesn't do crash tests etc.? If so, are you delusional?

BTW, here's Volvo's purpose-built crash-test laboratory: https://www.media.volvocars.com/se/sv-se/media/videos/154740...
I wonder if a such a feature can be added in Chrome/Firefox with an extension.
You can, but the energy efficiency of this would be horrible. You'd lose a ton of energy to waste heat. Trying to collect that waste heat and turn it into useful energy would have a horrible Carnot efficiency.
Didn't Zuck even say he expects to take a hit as they invest heavily on evolving Metaverse technologies?
Being sympathetic to Republicans and being critical of Democrats are not the same thing.
Alphabet isn't quite the same thing, though. They kept the Google name around, and created Alphabet as a kind of holding company. This way they retained the value of their brand while also getting to have a kooky company with a fun name.
Revenues for the quarter jumped 20 percent to $33.67 billion from $28.07 billion last year. Analysts had a consensus revenue estimate of $33.41 billion for the quarter.

> It’s a slight earnings miss. The price will rebound in the morning and it’ll be back up in a week or two.
> naturalistic driving study of 28 vehicles

The study seems to extrapolate from this. Tesla has something like 10 billion miles total driven on Autopilot, on a fleet of a million cars.
I was saying it tongue in cheek, but you're right. It just got more attention because of the pandemic, and it's only gotten worse over time.
But how are their fundamentals? Their potential for future growth?

Google is a behemoth, and I wouldn't bet against them. I wouldnt buy their stock either
This is true.

I don’t doubt that they could move the money but their bigger problem is a single misstep between the wallet and a bank account immediately putting an end to the scheme.
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No it isn't, Google is still a company under the holding company Alphabet. Facebook is not a company.
Sounds a lot like smoking cigarettes. Phasing out of the developed world and not the business is shifting to the innocent to milk the cow.