skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty funny! The record is from a month after this article was published, and it's held by the previous champ who Lori briefly dethroned, Harry Hong [1].

Watching the gameplay is a trip - it's like watching an i9 crunch numbers when you're used to a Pentium II.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/SuPaSaYaJiN/videos
They don't have to. I have been running ryzen 5 1600 on a stock cooler and have no complaints. The cooler is bulky and completely quiet on idle/desktop work. It can be heard when playing games, but it's noise is drowned by the GPU fan anyway.
I've come to think of an abstraction as a potentially lossy transformation of a model into one better suited to the task at hand.
Yes, passive aggressive:

"Passive-aggressive people regularly exhibit resistance to requests or demands from family and other individuals often by procrastinating, expressing sullenness, or acting stubborn."

"What do we want!?"

"Ending homelessness!"

"When do we want it?"

"It's impossible!"
They should have paid more. Perhaps they could have been useful for once.
At this point, I feel like the “Apple TV remote is hard to use” is an outdated meme. The old remote with the touch surface at the top took some getting used to and is the source of most complaints. But that hasn’t been the standard remote for almost a year now[1]. They’ve moved to a far more “normal” remote that reminds me a lot of the same remote that comes with Samsung TVs.

Plus, with an AppleTV remote, you’re not going to end up with buttons for services that no longer exist or have been rebranded. My parents still have DirectTV Now and Rdio buttons on their Roku remote.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/20/18277449/apple-tv-remote-...
Apple Launches $50M Supplier Employee Development Fund
This is really interesting - I wonder how much the set-up of someone's compensation package correlates with how much someone is willing to go back to the office. Mine's almost exclusively performance based and so I tend to want to work from home. The people going into work getting antsy about other people not being there are people who treat work more like a hobby or have a more basic pay structure.
I actually prefer being in the office but we're in a sort of death spiral of the place having turned into a social hub and me feeling like I'm being left to babysit people at my own expense.
Most of these aren't really productivity multipliers, they just enable you to do the thing you need to do.

It's unlikely that someone is doing task A without any calculus but another person who uses calculus is 10x more productive on the same task.
But the coins in SMB3 did rotate, as they did pretty much in every game since. So it's an easy confusion.
NJ sues woman, 82, for ‘voluminous’ and ‘burdensome’ public records requests
I'm all for utility but in this instance that sidebar really makes me appreciate the care and effort that went into it.
People see this as a waste, but that is how team relationships are formed. Jeff from accounts may be eating up time today talking about Batman, but 3 months down the line you'll be ringing him up saying "hey buddy, I need a favour on those TPS reports" and he'll oblige because you've formed a bond. It's human nature.

I found WFH was great when we all left the office en masse and had already got a close-knit team. Changing jobs during the pandemic and trying to build new relationships remotely was really, really hard because that human-level interaction wasn't there.
It is not so easy. Changing jobs cannot be always the answer. In Europe there are not many "remote friendly" companies and also it's not that you will get a 20% pay rise every time you switch. On top, it is extremely hard to find software development jobs that pay around or above 100K. Most jobs are around 60-80K.

A job change can also mean - inheriting someone else's problematic code base, new office politics and colleagues who may not get along with you. Hardly 0-5% of pay rise really does not justify all this. All in all, one cannot switch jobs easily when the options and benefits of switching are not so good.
If you think Tobacco and Alcohol are as dangerous as MDMA you have no idea about drugs. It can escalate far far far more easily and I hate those comparison. I'm speaking from experience.
> I think the lesson here is that not everyone has a rational, logical, or considerate reason for supporting what they support.

Agree. And a lot of times people just grasp the closest semi-logical explanation for the decisions that makes them look decent, because in their mind of course they're a decent person.

Like some Europeans enthusiastically welcoming Ukranian refugees although they were hostile towards Middle Eastern refugees. So they rationalize by saying these are women and children, and the M.E. refugees were men who should've stayed and faced (fought) their government's bullets...
Interesting. You've made me realize that models (in the scientific sense) are lossy transformations of reality.
This is a fairly common sense notion of abstraction (abstraction as abstracting away the details of something), but I don't think its the whole picture. I'm studying abstraction and the best formulation of this aspect I found was abstraction as the degree of complexity encapsulation.
All of western society wants to censor child porn, fictional animated isn't even legal. I would bet literally nobody will reply to me and say they think it should be legal.

This is pretty successfully done in the western world, you really dont see it. When they bust people for it, it's always TOR or whatever. But it's literally uncensorable. Child porn is explicitly legalized all over africa and asia. What are you going to do? Go to their sovereign country and tell them to stop? What if they tell you no?

Censorship even on this subject is effectively impossible.

So flipside, how about subjective political issues. Age of consent isn't much further from this subject and there's literally no correct answer. Middle east sometimes has 6-8 year old girls in arranged marriages. Africa and Asia age of consent is somewhere around 10-12 often. So can we censor this subject?

How about other hot topics? Gender roles, gender identity? Again big differential in the world. You literally can't censor the subject but boy do we ever.

What does this censorship do? Make people think that the issue is solved or unified? No. Clearly the censorship doesnt work, and instead shines a light on the issue and radicalizes people on the subject on both sides. Often making things much worse.
Spam is killing the blog comments.
That isn't censorship at all though. Both of those people still have wikipedia pages and it's fairly easy to find their writings. Calling this "censorship" is like saying it's "censorship" to kick someone out of a zoom meeting for being disruptive.

What seems to be actually happening is everybody who tries to do business with those people knows what they're trying to do and finds it objectionable. At what point will you consider that if nobody wants what they're selling, what they're selling might actually be bad? How many times do they have to fail before we can collectively accept this? If you keep getting kicked out of zoom meetings for being disruptive, at some point shouldn't you accept that you are at fault? I get the feeling that some entrepreneurs get sucked up into this idea that we can create a world where no one is ever wrong, without realizing that's a horrible idea. That's another form of toxic positivity.
> if you ignore the noise

That seems to be the problem with all the Dyson products. I don't think it will work for headphones!
If it's like a browser wrapper, does it have virtualization? Ha eg. Capyloon runs Capyloon. Anyway I'd be curious the PPP is pretty powerful so far from what I have experienced eg. able to run VS Code Arm pretty well.

Tangent
I'd also be curious on C++/GTK vs. Python/Kirigami performance regarding Phosh vs. KDE PM.
also forums were notorious for this, there was a program called xRumer or something that used to mass spam, solve captchas on blogs, forums to engage in short term SERP boosts and sell viagras.
You can just start looking at offers and applying to them "purely as a hobby". What do you have to lose? What do you fear could happen if you got a new job? And why do you fear it? (After answering, try repeating the last question a few times to go deeper.) The answer to those questions could help you understand why the current job maybe is important to you, or alternatively that your fear is not really something you want to be afraid of, and thus can go and start the adventure of applying!
The GNU activist is claiming a moral, not legal, right
Yeah, this is how I think about Newtonian Mechanics -- a useful abstraction.
I can list a ton of tools I use daily that are incredibly slow, but don't even need the network most of the time.

By "incredibly slow" I mean comparing what it does versus how fast it could be on an average machine.

Network and other I/O latency is often used as an excuse and sweeping generalization. It's never that easy. You need to actually look at a running process and gather data about it before you can make claims about what the bottlenecks are. Also even if there are constant factors that you cannot optimize it doesn't absolve a program from being slow in every other aspect, secondly there are techniques to mitigate and isolate latency bottlenecks.
Thank you! With questions it generally does pretty well with factually oriented or specific questions, but it will try with subjective topics to provide a summary of the "hive mind consensus" or zeitgeist of the top results.

When the questions are more complex, adding more detail and specifics can help too.

Thanks for the kind words about the way the results are presented too. It is a big change from a page of links, but we've had a great response to the different views of results, and we really appreciate your encouragement about the formatting :)
It already does. I spoke to several trainees that don't want companies like Facebook or Shell on their resume.

Problem is those companies start to attract people that thrive in toxic cultures, worsening the problem.
We (the software industry) have royally screwed up computers. Users used to be in control and now they are the ones being controlled or at least “influenced.”

I think we naively believed that an increase of human technical capability would lead to such abundance that we'd achieve post-scarcity (at which point, whether we call it socialism or pretend it is liberalized capitalism, it doesn't matter) and permanent democracy... not the corporatized nightmare we actually got. The capitalists are right about very little, but they got this right: human nature can be shit. Most people are decent or want to be, but the ones who gain power in human organizations, especially organizations without purpose such as private corporations, are cancerous. We thought that problem would magically solve itself if we just made the world (in aggregate terms) richer, and we were wrong.

It's like a martial arts instructor who earnestly but unaccountably believes he's teaching good kids how to fight back against bullies. He may be. Or, he may be teaching the bullies. In our case, though, we weren't training... we were arming... and we didn't always know we were building weapons, but that's absolutely what we were doing... all of our "data science" got turned into decisions that hurt workers and enriched executives.

I'm speaking in past tense because we, as technologists, are no longer relevant. We've sold our souls. Capitalist hogs and their managerial thugs have won. Our moral credibility is deep in the negative territory. Power will either stay with those who currently have it, who have evil intentions, or move toward the set of people who work up the courage to overthrow the current system, who may or may not--it's impossible to know, as it hasn't happened yet--have ugly intentions.
Monocausal thinking doesn’t suit a complex system.

HFCS increases obesity. But you have increasing obesity in regions without it, and have people who eat it who aren’t obese. It’s neither necessary nor sufficient and your comment contributes nothing to evaluating the role of microplastics.
I'm amazed how fast Serenity has been gaining momentum lately. How easy is it to port applications from Linux and what bindings are available for this?
Disclose: I'm a founder of a commenting system

I have worked with bloggers and news sites over the last 2 years, and are some things I have learned:

* Comments give a better sense of the your audience. Take Youtube for example. When you see comments in a video, you know what kind of audience that channel has, and what the audience like. Same for blogs.
* Comments give new visitors an idea how good/bad your blog post is. For example, take a programming tutorial. When there are comments about the article, you can make a better decision whether you should use the code examples in your application. Don't forget that stackoverflow is built on user comments. People are not going to search the article you shared on Twitter to find out comments. (If you only share on Twitter/HN, make sure to link the Twitter/HN discussion at the bottom, like Cloudflare blog does)
* Comments let you build your own audience, which you own. Just think, what happens when Twitter bans you?

However,

* When new bloggers do not get comments from their audience, they become discouraged. I have seen people really excited about starting their new blog and adding our commenting system, and they just say after a few weeks, they just remove comments from their blog because they don't get comments. The fact is that getting comments on your blog is harder than getting a comment on social media. The obvious reason is that the user has to "signup".

Okay, so what if make commenting easier? For example, just with username. So, we make commenting public. It works fine until you are flooded with spam comments. Tools like Akismet do a good job on detecting spam. The real problem comes when people start to publish non-spam but not-so-good comments on your blog. This is when you need moderating... manual moderating. It requires time.

Finally, to answer your question: Are blog comments a thing of the past? It is a decision of the blogger. Some like to have public discussions, but some like to have it in Twitter DMs or emails. Some don't care about moderating but some do. From my experience, most news sites I worked with REALLY care about their commenting section, and they invest a lot in software and moderation teams to have nice, engaging conversations on their websites.
Article a reminder of why CSS is so difficult to work with.
Turns out I knew all these precedence rules, however when time comes to look at an element and figure out how to make it, say, wider, figuring out WHERE to add that rule is a challenge.
The 'who is hiring' threads will run in two days.
Try 32,768 bytes (plus 8,192 bytes of graphics data).
Moreover, the point of a model is to be lossy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
I sometimes think someone has left that program running since back then because the spam comments I have seen - they all look the same from 15 years ago.
I'm not talking about GPT-3, I'm discussing the theoretical question raised by the grandparent of my comment: How is predicting the output of a function fundamentally different from executing the code?

We call computers deterministic despite the fact that they don't with perfect reliability perform the calculations we set them. The probability that they'll be correct is very high, but it's not 1. So the requirement we have for something to be considered deterministic is certainly not "perfectly a hundred percent of the time", as the parent to my comment suggested.
It’s not hard to fire people for non-performance. You have to document it and give them time to improve (or find something clear it - thinking of a guy whose timesheet included leaving early for happy hour, who was out pronto) but it’s mostly a question of whether the managers feel like they can back up their claims.
Moto Edge 30 Pro is the cheapest phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Posted three days ago, funnily enough:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30820685

I've never had much faith in 2000s-era Twin Galaxies scorekeeping, ever since I saw their recorded scores for Pokemon Pinball in the first Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition and realised that they were lower than my own (not especially good) scores.

In this particular case, it turns out that if you count unofficial records, Japanese player Koryan (who incidentally is still active) recorded over 5000 lines in 2001 [1]; compare the TG verified record of 4988 set by Harry Hong one month after this article in 2007 and the current TG record of 5164 set by Tao Kitamoto in 2016 [2]. It's likely that Harry Hong could have beaten his previous record at any time if someone had contested it earlier.

[1] http://www.din.or.jp/~koryan/tetris/sco.htm

[2] https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/154227
> HFCS isn't used much in Europe,

Maybe in the past, but these days when I do grocery shopping in Poland, most products have it
"Get in touch" for signup does not seem like a rival to AWS.
Choosing to pay electronically is great, when it's your choice. It's convenient. Eliminating cash is terrible, it means every single transaction is tracked by private and government entities. It's incompatible with freedom.

Also if it wasn't for drug dealers we wouldn't have drugs, and parties would be far less fun.
If there is anything happening around you which influences, it is staged and driven by someone.
You could try paddle [1] for payment handling. They take care of VAT and other fees. (Note: you have to be a registered business, which is unfortunate for small side projects)

I also found this guide [2] helpful for deciding how to price things.

[1] https://www.paddle.com/
[2] https://neildavidson.com/downloads/dont-just-roll-the-dice-2...
Thank you! This made me really happy! We're trying to include more good sources that don't show up well in traditional search, and there's a lot more to do here. But for some types of technical searches it is already doing well at this.

Thanks for trying out Andi, and for letting us know that it did well here!
In my company managers were just given a free pass on difficulty with WFH managment. It was never treated as a "performance issue" by the corporate system. People are still measured the the world that existed 10 years ago. What is particularly galling is that they are now promoting agile hot desk offices as being exciting and new.
I’m sure the 3 developers from Iran/Iraq who don’t know English and would be offended by that are fine.
Not all government are the same. Where I live is almost imposible to get fired from a government job.
Not a Christian here so I don’t know lol
And now we discovered they used similar tactics for the whole Europe: we sell you cheap gas so that you develop total dependence on us and disregard supply chain diversification as it makes no economic sense... until it's too late.
> It's actually pretty easy to fire people in government jobs

I suppose it depends on the government, but my experience is that it’s extremely difficult to fire people. I spoke with HR at a US federal organization that said their termination rate is .1% of employees and half of those are during the 1-year probation period.

That’s extremely low and I think an indicator of how hard it is to fire people in government.

I do have people say funny things like “It’s easy to fire people, you just fill out this paperwork and spend 20% of your time tracking a performance plan for two years.” Even though theyve never successfully fired anyone. While pointing to their group’s lack of firing as an example of their great management.

I think this is an example where theoretically it is possible, but practically it is very difficult. As evidenced by very few being fired.
Lower down the tree people want to get promotions and that transition won’t happen abruptly but gradually. I agree with the overall sentiment, though. My experience is 80% of time in office on zoom or hybrid zoom/in person meetings, which does make it purely only worth it for the 20% impromptu discussions. The result is even worse exhaustion not only from commute but also from completely drowning the schedule to manage and do both. We need to rethink work and this will take some time. I would love 1 week retreats on an island every qtr for the impromptu collaboration needs and satellite offices in neighbourhoods where people can meet for specific tasks. I think I am not imaginative enough and who knows how things will change as online literate generations take the helm.
https://digilent.com/shop/news/
You may want to NOT underestimate one's ability to add TONS of if/elseif/else (or switch/case) statemens in order to put things on track...

There are various cases of „programming hoorrors” stories where you have a calculator implementation that, instead of doing the ... you know, math, will actually go through all X combinations.
In Norway? Do you have a source?
I’m curious how long they can afford to focus on other endeavors. I’ve been a massive fan of their vacuums, but after 7 years it just wasn’t preforming anymore. I 100% intended to get another Dyson, but I’m not going to spend that kind of money without some research first. The Dyson vacuum was largely unchanged. The shark vacuum can pickup larger items and has tangle free rollers. I’m quite pleased with the Shark so far, only time will tell if it lasts 7+ years or not. Dyson isn’t innovating the vacuum anymore and instead is apparently working in headphones.
I think we're misunderstanding each other. I'd expect an official UK government site hosted on netlify to have a custom .gov.uk domain and to use that to refer to the site. Same as most large commercial enterprises probably do, right? Instead of using the netlify subdomain as the public host.

Am I misunderstanding something?
It will still produce neutrons via the (alpha,n) reaction on 11B. And it will produce very energetic gammas by the (p,gamma) reaction. These gammas are energetic enough to cause photonuclear reactions in the surrounding materials, including production of photoneutrons.

While the amount of neutrons would be so low that materials could handle them, they'd still make the reactor hot enough that hands-on maintenance would not be possible (it would make it easier on remotely operated repair machines, though.)

It's a shame none of the p-11B schemes appear to be workable. Helion's approach seems more realistic (if still a stretch) and would also greatly ease neutron levels, if not to the same extent p-11B would.
You’re right. But when 37% of the workforce can move out of the city, that means there’s more housing available for the 63%. I think that’s what’s happening when people moving out of cities lately!
What you're saying is right. I still fail to understand whether "restorative justice" actually comes from love or from some desire to watch the world burn. But you're describing what I've seen with my own eyes in the past few years in PDX. A slow self-immolation. What's sort of nuts to me is: I'm an extremist for personal freedom and individual rights, I loathe authority but I believe in collaborative action, and I'm a leftist in terms of helping people get off the bottom and on their feet. I guess that's what "liberal" used to mean. But I'm morally offended by what progressivism stands for now. I can't see the reason in justifying terrorism against working people by people who refuse to work, and worse, clothing it in some kind of bullshit moral superiority. Because that's what it's become.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/research/research-round-up/behin...

At least in the UK, we consume very little HFCS, but we are one of the European nations closest behind the US on the obesity scale.

No idea how much HFCS you have in Poland, but you're relatively thin compared to us, so if you have more HFCS.. possibly points the finger at something other than HFCS content.

Also it's interesting that pets, lab animals and city wildlife are getting fat globally too on a similar curve to humans.