skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are legitimate use cases for delayed close. Especially in gaming. Some games play in ironman mode where closing the game could provide a cheat. To avoid this they need to be able to save on exit. Likewise, if the game is in the process of saving an override close could corrupt a save file which is unlikely to be a wanted behaviour for the user. Unfortunately, many companies abuse this feature and give pop-up dialogs akin to "Are you sure you want to close us?". I think the OS is in a difficult place with finding a balance as the feature itself is necessary for some developers.
Looks like a paywall.

Yes, a calculus formula might have been used somewhere in that process, and was used by the finance person and dev. That doesn't mean I, or any other person, needed to know it.

As a dev at a financial institution, I've never needed to implement calculus formulas. Most calculations and formulas I've dealt with are algebra and stats. These usually are just a matter of using standard libraries too. So most devs aren't implementing formulas themselves, but just utilizing standard libraries.
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We've had several clients ask us to disable their blog comments in the last 3 or so years and the reason was always moderation. Even when the comments generate good conversation or produce something of value SEO or community wise, it's not worth the effort to weed out the bad comments and conversation you don't want happening on the blog.

For our clients, it was almost always turning into a political discussion. Even on posts talking about something as innocuous as an event that was held for the company's employees, people would turn up and start talking about something political and it would eventually devolve into threats and dox attempts. It just wasn't worth the moderation effort anymore.

Spam can be blocked automatically by tools fairly easy but actual conversations unrelated to the topic at hand required too much work. And in one case, threats led to police involvement and that was more than the client was willing to deal with.
Except they are so big it's hard to avoid.

So perhaps the real solution is to split up these giants..?
> I don't actually want to debate on this, because web tech is becoming a cult

Your critique of dynamic languages adding types and failing would be more understandable if you mentioned some examples or explained what Typescript got wrong.
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>will leave cities

wouldn't that be the opposite? Where I live right now, the nearest grocery store is in the next town over and there is zero public infrastructure to get there. There is no uber or taxi or bus. You just don't live here without a car, period.
> Breaking the App store duopoly is the solution.

Not really. We a comparable situation in a lot of different industries; if a large companies serves tens of thousands of customers and get hundreds of thousands of malicious requests, they're going to do some filtering and it will lead to some people getting stuck in the cracks, even if it's just 0.01%. More app stores won't solve this; if enough developers would be burned, the problem would solve itself on its own.

That's not to say that I like the current situation, but from what I see it's likely that the actual number of incidents is low (compared to the number of Google's customers) and a third or fourth store won't change this.
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> Search algorithms for solving a variety of problems (e.g. all NP-hard problems, sudoku, HTNs, scheduling, planning)

I generally use integer linear programming for most discrete optimization. It gets me good results, often optimal ones, if it gives me a result at all, but boy is it a rabbit hole of lost productivity.
Well, that's good to hear at least! I knew there was some back and forth between the kernel maintainers recently due to all these accelerator drivers going in without any usermode support; Habana's case was kind of interesting because they got accepted into accel/ early by Greg, but they wouldn't have passed the merge criteria used later on for most others like Qualcomm.

Frankly I kind of expected the whole result of that kerfuffle to just be that Habana would let the driver get deleted from upstream and go on their merry way shipping drivers to customers, but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
Google doesn't have billions of developers publishing Android apps, not even close. They shouldn't need to make these irreversible, algorithmic decisions on the Play Store. They choose to, and there are engineers and product managers and etc that individually choose to support those efforts.
My kid loved Dora the Explorer. It asks kids to engage with it, so it feel like a more active experience than a show that's meant only to be watched. I used to watch it with her and we'd shout at the TV and jump around and even then it doesn't have that frenetic energy of a lot of other modern shows.
Stratechery is great for general business strategy

Software Stack Investing is targeted towards investors in SaaS companies, but I also find it interesting from a strategy perspective.

AI Weekly is a pretty good recap of all AI related news and research.
Yeah, the "driver" parts of Mac OS X -- the bits that aren't Mach or BSD -- use a restricted subset of C++. It doesn't carry over into userland. Not much, anyway.

I know that C++ is out of vogue, but last time I wrote drivers in linux and OSX (10 years ago) I left with the distinct impression that it was oversold, at least compared to C. C clunks hard and C++ addresses the worst of it. I've never had to corral a bunch of overzealous junior C++ programmers, which I suspect is where the C++ reputation comes from, but Apple went down that path and wound up with something pretty decent.

IMO today it's a shrug and 25 years ago it was forward looking.
I'm not sure this is a cultural divide so much as a political city planning one, at least today. Mixed-use zoning is a debated topic in my city. That being said, I absolutely despise the separate residential/commercial zoning and how spread out things are here (mostly because of individual car-culture).
Has FB met any kids? "Mom say TikTok will corrupt my morals" is recruiting campaign, not a destructive attack.
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Wouldn't Google associate personal and work accounts by IP address?
Always use different accounts for every Google Service.

One "bad" Youtube comment can ban your Gmail account.
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Sitting out means those who do reach out have a louder voice with policymakers. You can't not participate and also be upset by the outcomes due to your lack of participation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
I also attended it for grad school only. Nobody was even close to failing out. I don't think MIT did a lot of grade inflation and generally regard it as a very strong academic institution.

That's not incompatible with weaker students being able to pass by with lower grades. Getting bare minimum grades just isn't that difficult.

edit: teammwork also seemed to be strongly encouraged. It wasn't a place that wanted you to fail. It wanted to help you succeed, which is by all means a good thing.
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Is that their fault? There's other operating systems one can install on mobile, they can even argue Android is open source and no one is stopping you from installing a different OS on your phone.
Original 'weasel word' guy here.

I intended nothing personal, and indeed my point was to elevate the level of discourse. I would call out 'ad hominem', 'no true Scotsman' or 'motte and bailey' as easily as I would 'weasel words'.

I assure you I too have been guilty in the past and I'm sure I will slip in the future.

Let's let this die.
Paying a company to spread dirt on your competitor is not bribery.
I think the common term for gold poisioning is greed.
> We own all three buildings and land, and have always been proud of that for some reason

Many businesses -- despite whatever their mission statement may be -- are not-so-thinly veiled real estate vehicles. Even businesses with a healthy income from whatever good or service they provide will often have another 25%+ in income from real estate gains. McDonald's is probably a good example of this.

I learned this pitching a business plan where an executive thought the "occupant mission" was compelling, but that we needed more expertise on the types of properties we could add value to.
What previous email? It seems you did not read the post, the first email we received was "your account has been terminated" (from a noreply address) with the screenshot in the post, we sent an appeal afterwards and that was their response which you see.
He's saying that heels and basketball shoes are great because they do not adhere to minimalism. If they strictly adhered to just doing their job they would be less decorative than they are. We want these objects to also be expressive, and so we design them to be so. He's suggesting this expression is good, and shouldn't be constrained by an adherence to minimalistic design.
inb4 "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
Nope. You can tell by how it is implemented.
Even a mugger didn’t want my old Nokia. So why are people turning to dumbphones?
This is exacerbated by the incredibly cheap construction of all modern apartment buildings. We are talking single layer sheet rock sound insulation with wood flooring that lets me hear even the cat upstairs walking around.

I’m staying for 10 days in a hurricane zone where structures are all concrete and I cannot express how much better it is.
Profit margin is about 10% so it was more like 1/10,000 revenue
I see a lot of disenfrachised, highly skilled software engineers in this thread that I think would be very well welcomed into the electronics industry if they spent a few weeks trying their hand at using those skills for embedded systems.

Although I work for a big tech company now (the fun kind for me at least, making hardware platforms), in a previous life I made consumer products. Hair dryers, hoover's, ovens, lamp's, etc. It's amazing how much more your average person's eyes light up when you say that you helped design their kettle, compared to the chip in their phone or the backend of their social media, and there really is a certain amount of joy in that.
Appreciate your digging.
I'm not an expert either, but my understanding from listening to the experts is exactly the opposite of yours. That toddlers are just soaking up information, including behaviors and how to communicate, and if there is ever a time to not sit them in front of TV, it is those years.

That being said, everything needs a balance and has its place. TV as an occasional helper won't be the end of the world. We didn't give our kids much TV, but when we did, it was Pingu.
> Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.

Stories not about politics, crimes, or disasters ... are not news?

But I would add corporate malfeasance to the list of "politics, crimes, or disasters" (or does that count as crime?).
Technically sure, but in reality that's not the case. I've personally seen people lose their GCP account for weeks over amazingly stupid stuff- if that same stuff happened at AWS I'd get a phone call from an account manager to clarify things and humans would be involved in the decision to shut things down.

Google has a history of excluding humans from their processes, with no recourse for when their automation breaks except to complain online and hope someone important enough hears you. That's not something people can trust.
If your webcam is on and is in use as part of the call and you have positioned it in such a way that they can see what you type on your keyboard. Then yes otherwise no.
A few days ago there's this report about citizens reporting idling trucks in NY: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/19/nyregion/clean-air-idle-c...
There is no way to overestimate the impact of Dr. Dongarra and LINPACK. If you're active in the high performance computing world you know them both quite well. Well done Jack!
Nice UX! I have a similar project I'm open sourcing (the data, too!).

On that note, does anyone have a feature or request they'd like to see in a remote job/content site? No matter how crazy.
That sounds really fun
I think the idea of the participatory web came at a time when people who were participating in the web were a lot kinder and a lot more curios and open about the web in general. I remember being able to scroll through a few forums on which I spent time and being able to engage in conversations with complete strangers with relative ease (late 90s early 00s). At this point, even a somewhat harmless comment on here can result in abuse very quickly or in a swift escalation towards uncivilized behavior. It's still vastly better to a lot of the other arenas of discussion though.

Which says firstly something about the quality of the discourse that can occur within the comments section and the tone of these comments.

Comments have also devolved into a collection of memes and one-liners that don't add anything to the discussion in the best case scenario. At worst, they lead to my previous point. As gregdoesit said in the top comment, a lot of comments have evolved into straight up spam and, similarly, on my blog, I added my contact email address if someone wants to follow up or inquire about anything I post there.

So I think that the participatory internet is dead to some extent. I never got this "comment on a news article" thing either. If a bomb goes off and tragically kills 5 people your "thoughts and prayers + praying-emoji" doesn't add anything. Commenting "fake news" also doesn't add anything. A team losing a game 2-0 or 38-0 also doesn't need a comment section "no, they didn't!".

What I think I'm trying to say is that there is little to be gained, it ads additional maintenance overhead and it can also become toxic very quickly. An older page I had use to provide comments but most of my time was deleting the 10-15 comments posted every day by bots.

Also, the irony of me posting a comment about being anti-comment isn't lost on me.
It's coming but from the EU.
Every day I'm more thankful to live in the EU.
Everyone here is commenting about overautomation, but this isn't an overautomation problem. It's a secondary sanctions problem. The developer isn't being banned for breaking Google's rules, he's being banned for having hired someone else who later broke those rules; and then that ban was transitively applied to their personal account as well.

This is beyond the pale. Google should not have the power to decide who you are and are not allowed to hire. It both goes against the basic concept of a limited-liability corporation, and harms worker rights.
I have worked at four large scale mobile app companies [10 million downloads+]. All four were thrown out of the Apple store for various reasons. The real killer is the time between getting thrown out and finishing appeals. It's a real corrupt system too - like dealing with Russian oligarchs. You need to know the right people, know the right things to say, etc. If you don't you sort of play Russian roulette with the reviewer. That time between appeal and getting back in is usually enough to destroy all momentum - two of the companies just closed afterwards. I am still in mobile but in education teaching children to read [20+ million downloads]. I sleep well at night knowing we cannot be thrown out.... but any "phone call" from apple [they don't put anything in writing] I would probably throw up and have a full blown panic attack.
Pixelmator Pro uses it for some of its ML functionality. Image scaling can use it, and it provides a cleaner image when upscaling, removing some compression artifacts and just smoothing it out more naturally. I’ve found it can work well downsizing too, although less of an effect. They also have an ML auto-crop tool and ML denoiser. All of these will hit the Neural Engine pretty good.
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BigQuery really leading the way in the Nordics/Sweden. Also interesting to see that Luigi still has some adoption - albeit expect it to be gone if this data is gathered in 12 months.
Larger forums like HN and Reddit have the economies of scale on their side. They have a lot more time and money to throw on solving the problem than a blogger or someone who runs a phpBB-forum as a hobby.
> It's simply not economical for many companies to deal with the long tail of false positives, so they don't.

This happens everywhere, not just Big Tech. Even as humans, we try to handle the 99% and ignore the 1%.

I still don’t understand what anyone is proposing - force companies to provide support against their will?
My point is really that what Americans mostly heard on the radio - Elvis and Buddy Holly etc. - were _products_ of the R&B canon. Owing to the particulars of how R&B was appreciated in the UK, which was quite unique to the UK, the Beatles had deeper access to the source material.
There's only two options on mobile and both are terrible.
If intelligent life developed D + D fusion it could live independently of stars since a high fraction of the mass of outer solar system, cometary, and interstellar objects is water, water which is a bit more D-rich than terrestrial water.

D + D fusion isn't that much harder than D + T fusion and it's imaginable that a scaled up version of a D + T reactor would work for D + D. (By "scaled up" imagine a large space colony with a closed ecosystem which uses D + D energy to replace sunlight.)

D + D fusion produces copious amounts of T and He3. These isotopes would burn up quickly in such a reactor but certainly some could be extracted. The He3 can be captured and used directly for fuel. The T decays with a 12 year half life. It could either be fed into D + T reactors or allowed to decay to produce more He 3.

The best use for D + He3 imagined yet is something like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

which might be realizable with heavy ion ignition but the ignition system would be physically large which would scale the whole spacecraft up to "manned interstellar colonizer" as opposed to "very long range Voyager."

Now a D + D culture would already be "interstellar" in that it could support large populations in the spaces between the stars. A civilization like that would be able to cross from one star to another in 10,000 years or so but they might not care at all because they can live their lifestyle just fine without stars. Thus they might not be that motivated to develop in-a-human-lifetime interstellar travel.

Note a D + T fusion economy also could produce large amounts of He3 if that was wanted because a D + T economy is going to breed large amounts of T from lithium. If some of that is allowed to decay you get He3 which can be diverted to whatever use people have for it.

Adding up those options I think the trace quantities of He3 that might turn up away from Earth don't move the needle.
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>>I feel our product suffers due to lack of collaboration.

Is there a way to measure the loss in productivity or product quality?

>>I have never seen a more disengaged engineering staff.

How does the perceived lack of engagement by your team members (by choice, for the most part) impact the mystical, (un)measurable "collaboration" factor?

It might help managers and/or senior leadership to better argue points for hybrid in-office arrangements if data points could be brought to bear to counteract the very real benefits (for some) of WFH combined with varying individual social preferences.

The suggestions in the last paragraph of the article are so simple to articulate, yet difficult for (especially lder) managers across most levels to crisply quantify.
This kind of thing is why I would never try to build a company where the business model depended on being able to sell through Apple or Google's app stores, which is a shame because it ends up excluding several large categories of possibilities.

I think there's probably a connection between the "bloat" and complexity of the modern web that the Gemini crowd rails against, and the draconian and wildly inconsistent gatekeeping that is applied to native apps for mobile platforms. It puts the Web platform in tight competition with native apps, because it is the only viable alternative; this causes developers to exert pressure to add more and more capabilities to browsers so that they can match native experiences without having to pass review or pay commissions. I wonder if browsers would have evolved in the same way if mobile devices were more open platforms.
There are quite a few factors, I'd encourage checking out the following videos by Not Just Bikes and Climate Towns that cover a broad range of city planning and zoning in the US.

Strong Towns Play List by Not Just Bikes (This heavily covers city planning issues in the US):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN...

The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry by Climate Towns (This covers zoning):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfsCniN7Nsc

How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream (This covers the auto industries impact on US cities.):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo

Dutch Cities are Better for the Climate (and my sanity) by Not Just Bikes (Not super relevant to zoning, but it's part 1 of The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry so I figured I'd link it.):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6txCZpbsQ

These are pretty snarky, but fun videos and the authors list their sources. Their video descriptions are worth checking out just to find a ton of reading material on each topic.
I opened two accounts (different emails, credit cards, billing address) in the span over two years from Colombia. First one worked perfectly fine, but for the second one they wanted me to provide id before spinning up anything. So not sure if this was introduced recently or if they have some system that flags accounts under certain conditions to provide additional info that I tripped the second time.
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Seconded. While I like the idea of Grafana, and use it for some projects, it lacks features in the graphing and dashboarding part. I too presumed this is because they are spending more on backends, pipelines and collection..

I don't need more backends, pipelines or collections. I need a frontend to display the data that I have (in backends) already.

I need to:

* Be able to pipe KPIs into a storage. Doesn't need big-data, high-volume, or extreme granularity. OR

* Have grafana grab data from an API/HTTP endpoint. It does this with prometheus just fine.

* Have a way to insert some of my own figures. Currently I wire up some google-sheet to grafana and fill that. I always have some data that I cannot or will not (yet) grab automatically. Like "amount of hours spent working on project" or "MRR" or such.

Its possible with Grafana. But the experience is subpar, the tweaking and wiggling is big and the outcome is an OK-ish, but not too convincing dashboard. I'm convinced an alternative that tackles this better (for niches) will eat into grafana.