skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was young I thought photographers just took like one photo and by sheer willpower and skill, they sometimes captured beautiful scenes. I then found out that they actually sit there and click the shutter thousands of times, then they go somewhere else to sit and scour through the "generated art" to find the gems. Then they polish the gems. Then they publish those.

My novice AI-art workflow involved a similar pattern. I come up with some topic or thing I want to see, then I iterate on the wording of the prompt and all the little variables the tool takes. I end up with dozens of crap pictures, but sometimes cool stuff comes out. If I keep working on this, alongside increased generation speed, I could see myself "creating" really good art.

To me it is about the process. It's the human input that makes art valuable. I mean, if AI becomes sentient then those judgements would be a valuable input in themselves too.
MultiMC Linux support for Microsoft logins is... weird, which has been my reason for putting off the migration.

The MultiMC dev has since been hired as the official Minecraft launcher dev, and I guess that means they don't want to just be publishing their Microsoft SDK key for the Minecraft logins. But it means they've been on a bit of a war on linux distros packagng MultiMC or Linux users using anything other than his published binaries.

I've recently switched to GDLauncher, so will have to see how their MS account support story is, though it's got more of a "modern"/flat/big pictures UI feel to it and is clunkier to use
I’ve interviewed at four of the five FAANGs, and got offers from three of them, including one of them twice. I’ve interviewed at I don’t know how many startups and midsized companies as well. All the technical interviews are the same. You might get some better interviewers at the bigger companies, but that’s more due to practice on their part. They just have interviewed more people overall, and have asked this question enough times they know the common mistakes.

There’s this belief that FAANG interviews are somehow harder, and you need to study for months to prepare, and it’s not really true. It’s the same MO as the test prep business, but with less obvious metrics for success. (You don’t get standardized test scores to compare, you just get an offer… eventually. Did the interview prep business help? Who knows?)

The interview prep businesses push the specious idea that FAANGs are tougher, and people believe it. (eg Less than 1% of FAANG applicants get an offer! Well, yeah. Do you know how many people apply? A lot. Do you know how many are nowhere near qualified for the job they’re applying for? Probably more than half.) They keep repeating these claims, they end up scaring people into paying for something that’s not needed. That’s the manufacturing demand part.

The low effort part is that technical interview questions and programming puzzles are a penny for two dozen. You give the question and the solution in maybe three different languages (say, JavaScript, Python, and Java) and you’re done. Charge $500 for ten questions, give them a HackerRank link, and you’re done. You’ll spend more on advertising and paid testimonials than anything else.

The interview prep companies don’t focus on the noncoding interviews, because they’re harder to find questions for, and harder to grade. When it comes to personal interviews, you have work with each student one on one to help them talk about their experiences most effectively. That’s high touch. If you’re trying to maximize volume, you don’t do that.
> I wish that more companies could be like this and skip the corporate BS, it shows that they really have something outstanding to offer.

The nature of the blog typically cater towards the intended audience.

The CIO of Disney doesn't give a sh*t if the protocol is called WireGuard or OpenVPN or that if it uses AES-256 encryption - he/she wants someone to tell them that their developers are securely accessing their infrastructure. Full stop. If/when Fly gets to that level (let's say $500M in revenue) their blog tone will likely change - their audience is almost primarily developers and startup CTOs...for now.
> Wouldn’t Twitter, Facebook etc in turn demand that those third-party apps be taken down from the App Store?

No? Why would they? Third-party clients are alive and well on the App Store today, and have been for years.

> And even if they didn’t, how is any third party going to keep up with Twitter/Facebook/etc API changes.

They've done a fine job of it so far.

> And what about push notifications? Those would not work with a third-party app installed via the App Store unless Twitter/Facebook/etc explicitly made it so that they supported that on their end.

It does? Check out Tweetbot or Apollo for Reddit. Both have push notifications that work fine.
A note on fitness. Any pressure I've had to lose weight or whatnot has come from me. All female partners have said that they don't care about my weight, and some actually like some belly to rest on. That said, they have commented favourably on other physical features, and I'm not particularly overweight.

I say all this just to try and fight the idea that crops up that if you're male and don't fit some jacked or "Chad" ideal that there's no one out there for you (who you'd have an awesome time with). When I look at the incel subculture, it's doubly sad because these boys are being fed a model of how attraction, sex, and dating works that is just flat out wrong. It's like a self-harm club based on false premises.
> Most people accept that their houses are accessible via a single physical key that - in reality - is mostly security theater as 10 minutes of lock picking lawyer will yeild favourable results depending on your motivation.

It's not security theatre. You have to think in terms if threat models. Majority of breakins happen because someone opened the door or left it unlocked. Like computers, even if the door was 2ft stell that is very hard to open, most houses you can just cut through the wall with a mediocre investment at homedepot. The security of the door isn't a good comparison because having a lock and a keypad for second factor auth won't change much. A pry bar or battering ram away either way. The threat model of locks for regular people exclude threat actors that will go to that length to break in because of various factors including the value of what is behind the doors,etc... your typical crackhead or habitual criminal isn't looking to pick locks or break doors because it takes time, people have doorcams these days and they are too lazy, there are easier targets where people leave keys under a rock, open up if you knock with a pizza box in hand,etc... like cybercrime irl attackers tend to go after the easiest most valuable target.

> And 2FA does not represent the real world. If you lose your house key, you may need a new door, or perhaps a skilled locksmith can make your day a lot less worse.

There are 2FA locks with pin/key/bluetooth/app combinations.

> Yet, in the digital sphere, if you lose your 2FA (or backup codes) your account is lost, forever.

Arguably, a locksmith replacing your lock is the same as you having to create a new account. If an online service refuses to reset your credential it is only because you agreed to the Tos, otherwise you have legal means to obtain anything of value behind that account just like IRL. Also, I know people that were robbed and lost all their documentation and it took years to get it all back during which they couldn't get a driver license and most employers couldn't hire them.

> The terms and conditions state if you ever lose your keys you will be locked out, without recourse, forever.

You keep using strawman arguments. Crappy Tos and company have nothing to do with the discussion regarding authentication mechanisms. A service can always verify your ID and when you are locked out require another id verification to allow credential reset which some cryptowallet providers do.

Stop using shitty services by companies like Google. I haven't needed a personal google account in over half a year after cutting out android from my life.

Also, security can be good without being strict. And strict security can be bad.
It’s an important number for the CEO and CFO, but it means nothing about the business or it’s success. “Funding raised” is completely uncorrelated with how successful the company is.
Wow, that's really cool. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. I didn't realize how physically precise modern hard drives were! I suppose if it makes sense if you think about how much information they are storing in a small space.
I think late 20s is when most people lose touch w/ remnants of their college social circle if they're not naturally outgoing. Usually everyone has moved away or married off at this point. It's fairly normal.
> An SSTable will consist of multiple sorted files called segments. [---] Recall that LSM trees only perform sequential writes.

Assuming either that you only have one table, or file systems are magic things that don't make that argument moot.

> Once the compaction process has written a new segment for the input segments, the old segment files are deleted.

... and the assumption of only a single table isn't enough! Thank you, file system developers, for making SSTables sound so easy.

> Bloom filter

I did some research a couple of weeks ago about Approximate member query data structures. Bloom filters are from 1970, Quotient filters arrived in 1984, then Pagh improved Bloom filters in 2004, and we got Cuckoo filters in 2014 [1]. Has there been progress since? Did I miss any key achievement in-between?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_filter
Wine is not an emulator, it's a PE loader and a Win32 API for Unix. And XTerm is more like a terminal simulator.
There is no "ultimate stack" - if you settle on one thing you'll never expand and that is the way anyone stays at the top of their field. Ability to learn and apply new technologies in logical ays is the only way you'd be considered top tier - not the version of is or laptop you use
Microsoft locked me out of my Skype account by enabling an old phone number as two factor out of the blue. I hadn't used that number for 10 years.

So disappointing since it was my only point of contact with lots of old friends.
One of my former coworkers who's an absolutely huge Apple guy recently left for another job. When I asked him whether he could use a Mac he told me he didn't know and hadn't asked ... he must've really wanted that job. Or really hated his old one.

I'd take a job that let me use Linux, but I too am a Mac guy at heart. I had a short stint on Windows not long ago and hated it. Where I work now they'll give developers Macs by default, though getting blanket approval for data scientists has been an uphill battle, stupidly enough.
> Many Priuses integrate parts of the power train into the radio. I suspect they'd have serious issues too.

I’m sorry, they do what now? Why would you even do that?
So, I think the main reasons are -

- Lark is already very fast. It's a lot easier to optimize something that takes 3 minutes :)

- There is still some Python code that is being run. For example, in the tree constructor. That can be solved in future versions.

- I'm not yet taking full advantage of Cython. For example, I'm still keeping the lookup map as a dictionary instead of an array. Also I'm still mostly working with CPython objects instead of native objects (like char*).
The difference is that most western countries allow private organizations to have a significantly higher degree of autonomy from executive action and checks-and-balances to back it up.

The process can sometimes result in some of the same things happening, but the fact that they are not being done unilaterally is a major differentiator in multiple ways.

Your data in the US is much more likely to be abused when corporate interests voluntarily want to make money off it, than any abuse by executive power.
People work 10% fewer hours now than in the 1960s, but the obesity rate has gone up from 13% in that time period to 36%. The obesity crisis is IMO more related to what we eat, and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AVHWPEUSA065NRUG
There used to be a “web” link in the header that gave you a Google referrer for paywalled articles like this, has it been removed?
I attempted to learn French at one point and one thing I realized is that fancy words in English are frequently their direct translation in French. I assume this comes from royalty generally speaking both English and French. If there's a French user here, do you know if the reverse happened too?
Regardless of where your opinion stands, the way the Chinese government, WHO scientists, and even some American scientists handled (and continue to handle) the search for the origin of Covid is despicable.

Contrast to the incredible lab work of African scientists when Omicron first came out.
This is a really polarizing theory for a lot of folks, but it's completely precedented. SARS-CoV-1 leaked out of [edit](three separate labs (one in China, one in Singapore and one in Taiwan)) in the early 2000s - and these leaks were acknowledged by their respective governments, including the PRC. [1] And a whole bunch of other diseases from a whole bunch of other labs over like a hundred years. [2]

It could have happened. I'm not sure it did, but it certainly could have. This isn't some fringe crackpot theory - and it shouldn't ever have been treated as such.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC403836/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
I pivoted a Physics undergrad into an accelerated CS masters and my employability spiked accordingly.

Really I only did the masters because I realized I should have done a CS undergrad but didn’t want to spend 4 more years and even more 10s of K.
I wish I could run two separate Tailscale networks on a single device, one for business and one for personal (for example). Would make it tremendously more useful.
I would love to see what folks in the 90s would've made of this, for example: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-sk...
The timeline seems like an unknowable due to the nature of technological progress: discontinuous jumps that usually require discover manufacturing techniques in secret.

Not as a UFO or conspiracy theory, but as a realization that there are some technologies intentionally kept secret to maintain military, political, or economic advantages.

When that distance between in-the-pipeline reaches a magnitude delta of 2, then I'd be concerned about what's already being designed or kept in secret.

Scaling QC is a difficult, unsolved problem of manufacturing.
Multigenerational households are the default in many countries/cultures with many young adults - even high earning ones like doctors, hedge funders, or FAANG SWEs -continuing to live with their parents until marriage. They manage to get in relationships and date just fine. The logistics can be different of course.
Well it's not about who is more clever. I think the research shows that its pretty even between men and women after all is said and done. It's about what naturally interests us and there are differences there.
The people drawn to these places tend to be materialistic as well. People dump their social connections to move, in pursuit of wealth. Not going to be the best people socially, on average.
TLDR we should cancel him because he’s not 100 a true team blue believer
All that means is that they have $12 million in funding. Assuming anything else is a logical fallacy; there is no more information available in that number.
This is probably just a personal thing, but that just defines which areas of our industry I probably don't want to work in. And WSL isn't helpful, because the goal for me isn't "run Linux", but "don't run Windows"; WSL won't save you from MS forcing updates down your throat, changing your browser to edge, spying on you, and sticking ads all over the system.
I'm dead serious. These are CS 101 mistakes! I hope nobody is actually using this project.
Yes, if you completely minimize the level of bulk data collection the NSA and the US does through its partners, it’s completely different. You’ve left out all of the prism program, wherein the government had direct access to telecom and tech company servers.

What China does inside of China doesn’t have any bearing on the western internet. The topic at hand is the data collection that tic tok is engaging in, which already has plenty of precedent in the west, unfortunately.

It’s completely contrary to the values enshrined in the US constitution to make arguments like, “ah well but that person/group/country is bad and we aren’t” the entire political theory our nation is supposed to be built on is the notion that people with too much power will do bad things.
> In a similar vein, I think it's cool to see Sony take a more repair friendly approach with the PS5. Taking the sides off for cleaning or replacement is super easy and as a bonus creates an extra revenue stream for new accessories.

Too bad Sony was so anti-competetive and sued Dbrand (and others?) for making custom side panels.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdqwz/custom-ps5-plate-comp...
> This isn't relevant to DRM. DRM for broadcast media requires that there be many protected copies of the same decrypt key. This thing is for unique keys only.

Game consoles. Game consoles encrypt their boot disks with device-specific keys. They also have device-specific client certificates for authorizing access to game CDN servers (allowing console vendors to ban consoles by revoking those certificates.)
> seeing when an app is reading from the clipboard

I expect that to be a operating system feature that works regardless of how the application was developed or installed.
At least in the US, most schools practice either explicitly or implicitly (through adjusted admissions criteria) affirmative action towards women for STEM subjects. That's the case even for subjects like Biology where the gender ratio is already balanced or tipped towards women.

One obvious example of this is the fact that CMU admits 50% women into its CS program, even though their applicant pool and similar caliber schools have around a 20-30% ratio. So if you believe that women and men in the applicant pool are equally qualified, women have a 2x higher chance of getting in. That's just basic statistics.
The purpose of a man's life is meaning and the search for it. For years, centuries even, this meaning in a man's life was provided by being a provider. This order was enforced through society. And you can use society and religion interchangeably here because the distinction between the two is only a century or two old. And this order enforced the role of a child-bearer and nurturer to women. Obviously, such an order was very restrictive (especially to women) and that people would rebel against is easy to comprehend.

This state of affairs continued till the 1980s. Since then, multiple forces have led to a perfect storm - where men have no meaning/purpose in their life, and the desire to have meaning often signals that you want to go back to that older society.

But that's wrong. The people who desire to go back are actually who are rebelling; the rest of the men are either locked up in prison, or overdosing on opioids, or being incels or numbing themselves with video games. The failure of modern liberalism to acknowledge this is basically being an ostrich while the forest is on fire.
> I asked her if I was being old fashioned and she said yes.

Google Ngram seems to agree: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=data+is%2Cdata...
People who have strong social skills will tend to do well. The premise seems very doubtful.
I tend to agree with you. Side loading on iOS would be much more lucrative for, say, Facebook who reportedly just lost $200B due to Apple's privacy restrictions. They're likely more happy with Android's play store than Apple's.
How's the food?

What do you do for fun after work?
> One example is the ability to cancel subscriptions from one source

You pay 40% extra for that. The creator gets $100, Apple gets 40, you see $140 sticker price. It is a nice feature, but how many would pay 40% extra for that? And if many wanted to pay 40% extra for subscriptions to have them cancellable, I'm sure there would already be companies doing that.
I made a mashup of this essay to some ambient:
https://soundcloud.com/juicycanvas/thebox
enjoy!
Teaching Others
Apple’s App Store has very strict privacy rules. Last year Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency requirements, which Facebook says will cost them $10B in lost revenue this year [0]. If sideloading becomes a thing, I can definitely see Facebook requiring it in order to get around these privacy rules.

[0]: https://hothardware.com/news/facebook-claims-10b-revenue-hit...
Tails or any other Amnesia OS
The company I worked for (a consultancy) started touting a “hybrid working model” (I.e. we’ll need you in the office more and more as we see fit) so I quit and got a full-remote job with another company who are based as far from me as possible (so even if they decide to vary my contract and go office based I’m well outside the area they could reasonably expect me to travel).

I’ll never go back to commuting.
Have others found issues with the heat? From the reviews I've seen they kept it away from the user's hands.
Go: A no-code, no-bloat landing page builder for indie-hackers and hobbyists
I am sure that it's just a case of people having read the word and never heard it spoken.
Heh, yeah, I don't like the slur aspect, but regular straight dudes (especially if they have even a slight inclination towards nonstraight) seem tremendously preoccupied with their masculinity or lack thereof. I thought it was a sign of that and not necessarily interest, but interest is fine!
Netflix is the instagram of the tv streaming services, 95% of the content is crap and they are creating lots of it.
Same with my spouse, non-binary, regular anime watcher / video game player, so "katana" they knew, but not "strafe". (I should get them into TF2...)
There's a huge body of education research about this, this has been the case for of years.

There's even data from the pre-1900s, especially in the primary school years.

Only recently have we stripped away a lot of the sexism however, providing a successful transition to higher education.

It all boils down to:

Girls are more likely to do their damn homework when the teacher tells them.

Therefore they out-perform in formal education.
I agree, I enjoyed the movie for what it was but I found the story pretty lacking compared to some of the other recent Disney (and Pixar) animated features. It kind of felt like the powers were chosen for the sake of pretty animation and/or good songs, with much less thought to how they work in the core story.

The sister that can hear everything is especially bad for the internal consistency of the story. Perhaps with a different personality it could have been pulled off, but it made no sense that she couldn't contain her excitement over the Bruno vision gossip, then later on casually mentions she always knew Bruno was living in the walls of the house.
Windows with WSL2 is great. Have you tried that?

VSCode can run from WSL2 and have access to its file system
There's three types:

Minecraft account: pre-2015-ish, you sign in with a username and password. I believe these still work until the deadline in this post.

Mojang account: 2015-2019, you sign in with an email and password. You could migrate a Minecraft account to this. Goes away in the deadline in this post.

Microsoft account: 2020+, you sign in with an email and password in a microsoft branded web view. You could migrate a Mojang account to it, but I think Minecraft accounts are a two step migration.
I agree we are in an unstable situation and it will equal out over time. My main concern is the burden it places on us all in the meantime. Those most vulnerable are going to be hit the hardest.