skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty ridiculous scheme done just to copy Chrome, but it also doesn't do much harm in practice. But browser version numbers no longer really have any useful or memorable meaning.
IBM announces z16 with Real-time AI and Quantum Safe
I can't see how you could possibly justify tipping a legal drug dealer but not the illegal one. The illegal drug dealer probably works in worse conditions and for worse pay. Do criminals not deserve tips?

For clarity - I'm trying to compare people buying marijuana in states or times when it was illegal to people buying it from legal dispensaries today. The comment I originally applied to says "pay cash and tip well" which surprised me because I didn't think people tipped those who gave them drugs.
Very nice article. I'm suprised, that nobody mentioned photoprism[1]... It does deduplicate and provide a nice web interface for browsing and searching photos as well as a very powerful AI for object detection...

[1] https://photoprism.app/
Higher Refreshrate is quite useful.
For what it's worth, even outside Android their software is horrible. Check out Samsung Magician, their SSD tool [0]. That UI just doesn't make any sense. Samsung is a hardware company (and they're great at that), can't remember any good software from them, ever.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/lbqdn8i.png
3D was awesome

Around 1990 or 2000, I was able to see how some of the big energy companies in Houston were using SGI machines' 3D capabilities.

They'd have rooms about 10 feet square with projectors hanging from the ceiling that would take seismic data and render it on the walls as colorful images of oil deposits and different strata of rocks and gas and water and such. Using a hand controller, the employees could "walk" through the earth to see where the deposits were and plot the best/most efficient route for the drilling pipes to follow.

Pretty much today's VR gaming headset world. Except, without a headset. And this was almost a quarter of a century ago.

I can't imagine what the energy companies are doing now, with their supercomputers and seemingly limitless budgets.
very insightful, that is 100% your original quote
I added the invent word to clarify that I don't mean "this guy created it, not the folks who wrote the article in the original post". How would you phrase it? :)
> Really makes the M1 Ultra look affordable.

The amount of power you can buy today for under $1000 let alone under $10000 is insane compared to back then. The M1 Ultra is not that expensive compared to mid-range workstations or even high-end PCs of previous eras.
the whole thing was hilarious. the memes that came out if it were also hilarious. at some point i saw a meme with a minion complaining that the Canadians are trying to take over his country’s flag.
There are probably a lot of programs that could be built in a weekend. I imagine any competent full-stack developer could make a Twitter clone in an afternoon.

The challenge is making it scale. That developed-in-an-afternoon Twitter clone probably won't be able to handle an active user count in the 4 digits, let alone the 7+ digits Twitter has now.
How old are you OP? Just because I'd like to compare myself with you ;).

I really struggle with this and have yet to have the "click". I feel maybe I've been doing a bit better as I've gotten older (32 now), but still nowhere close where I want to be - both in terms of mentally letting go and objectively where I want to end up.

The problem I really struggle with is the dichotomy of the two in my head. One part of me wants to be a "success". Professionally for me the score is kept with money. If it's in terms of my hobbies/other pursuits it's becoming somewhat known in those fields.

However mentally success for me means being content...which contradicts those things in most ways and in my head they act as the destination for being content.

If anyone has any advice on how you've managed this I'd greatly appreciate hearing about it
Sadly in Pennsylvania the medical market has steadily dropped the price of a gram to ~$6 average but the consumer price has not reflected this
I am disappointed with the pathetic level of realization on this plane of existence, its forgettable plans, and limited ambition. I spit on these worms, barely worthy of sentience for what they do with it.

There is no unity, sense of purpose, or desire to know the absolute. There is not even meta-science worthy of the name. So, I am holding creation itself hostage until Elder things align with my demands. Demonstrate basic competence or this is it for this experiment called 'being'. Realize what you are, or leave existence to those who are worthy.

To be or not to be, that is the question.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

> I said above, there are no externalities.

A point that you are missing is one that is often overlooked and deserves a proper essay, but to keep it short: the quality of the products is affected by the business model.

I contend that ads themselves are the waste, but it is not just those directly watching the ads that suffer from it. When a service becomes funded by ads, the best metric for quality (customers willing to pay for the product) gets separated from the best metric for its sustainability (revenue and profitability).

This is why a large part of why journalism is horrible today: any news editor has to prioritize what gives them eyeballs over "quality reporting", so no matter how many actual subscribers a newspaper still has, it is still going to be over-polarized, play to outrage culture and more "infotainment" than actual journalism.

More examples?

- Spotify and the Joe Rogan drama. Whether you agree/disagree and support/disapprove of whatever he is talking about on his show, would you agree that this whole thing would be a nothingburger if his audience were limited to the people willing to pay money to hear him?

- The whole of the sports industry. Remove "broadcast rights" and all the advertising that comes with it, and there would not be NBA kowtowing to China, or FIFA pushing a World Cup built in Qatar on the back of slave labor, or F-1 in bed with the Saudis, etc, etc.

Streaming services are already bad in the sense that they rather cater to quantity over quality, but at least the fact that people have to pay something is some kind of filter on "minimum quality". With an ad-funded model this filter is completely removed and everything starts getting produced for the lowest common denominator.
What about it is a real phenomenon at this point?
Enforcement is happening. For example: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-m...

But yes, I'd like it to be happening faster.
What part of the parent comment incited this response from you? The 'they want a government job' part or the 'they want employment security'?

Seems a bit dumb to tick others as dumb for not being all-in on the ANCAP dream or 'settling'.
Here's a question that goes out to everybody: what happens if what you love can't bring you money? Either because it's not lucrative in the capitalist world, or because you won't be able to get good enough at it (e.g. you fell in love with the violin at age 45)...
The point being, those who "will watch" won't be able to, because TikTok actively suppresses those videos even in direct searches, as article alleges.

If Ukrainian side being awash with war videos is "propaganda" and is "not normal for TikTok" (GP's claim), then is this normal?
I wasn't aware of the idea of using art as a form of insurance, maybe my brain isn't criminal enough.
True, a for a good part it is that "maybe" that makes me (and others) do it, but I can see how it's akin to choosing not to make a choice. There's a tangible cost to this however… which is manifested quite clearly in this very comment thread.

All I am saying — to myself mostly — is that to learn to be OK with skipping a few beats when it comes to archiving digital artefacts is just as important as the archival strategy.
I think that https://ceres.georgetown.edu/research/student-projects/geopo... is a fair assessment. I would add https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/dec/13/russia.germany, also. It is plainly clear that the current Russian leadership is expansionist in nature, because they are killing thousands of people in a former satellite state to reestablish prior borders.

This is definitely a less than zero-sum environment. Russia would have been better off not invading Ukraine, along with Europe and the US. A peaceful and international law abiding Russia would be a stronger and richer Russia.
This. Judging what engineers are like somewhere based on enthusiasm of one of their recruiters feels like doing the same based on enthusiasm of their HR people.

Just think about your current company and how representative recruiters are of the engineers you work with. It is worlds of difference. Their jobs are to sell/advertise/source roles, engineering jobs are to produce/organize. If two roles don't overlap in function/interaction and goals much, I wouldn't compare them.

However, if you hear the same koolaid drivel from engineers interviewing you, that would definitely be somewhat of a red flag. Especially if every single engineer interviewing you separately tries to make you chug that koolaid. Awkward one-offs could happen accidentally, and they do fairly commonly, but a chain of them is worrysome and serves as a warning sign to me. Not a "instantly run away" sign, mostly because it could be that they are just going by the script provided to them. But once you dig deeper and start paying attention to that explicitly, it usually gets more obvious which one it is.
Venturing off-topic a bit here, but what exactly makes a "workstation" GPU? What's the difference between an RTX A6000 and an RTX 3090?
Thanks for sharing this. About how much do they cost?
This is intentional, they are filtering out employees they don't want out of the gate. FAANGs want young, single engineers who will eat, sleep, and breathe the corporate brand and do way over their 40 hrs a week.
Never trust, always verify (Zero Trust Security)
Nothing 10M Community Investment
Tangent: this thought experiment reminds me a bit of Dennett’s “Where Am I?”.

https://www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-WhereAmI.pdf
The NVIDIA DGX Station A100 has a list price of $149k, I believe. It's a workstation that's advertised as an "AI data center in a box":

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-station-a100/
I'm not a Erlang guru by any stretch of the imagination. But I would have thought that the privacy that matters the most in Erlang would be the privacy of being able to control what messages you respond to.

That being said, I thought the article was interesting in a pure hacker ethos sense. Like, the article isn't really about function visibility. It's about someone who knows how to do some esoteric things with an esoteric language.

Finally, with respect to Erlang itself. The language feels like it has everything you could possibly want (and this article is an example of that). However, I have always felt that discoverability of these Erlang capabilities has always been not that great. I was trying to do something with Erlang once upon a time (I honestly can't remember what it was) and I was having some trouble. Only to find that, apparently, there was a library that did exactly what I wanted included in the standard libs. With some sort of less than descriptive name. Great times.
IIRC, Sprint was just increasing the bass somewhere in their connection. But you can't really think that a POTS call sounds better than a modern VOIP call? Maybe the super-compressed crap you get when you dial a number, but apps use way better sounding codecs.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by sweet spot.

I think all of the folks you mention really don't give a crap about what people think of them.
>Does anyone know why their software is just so so bad?

Is Samsung "good at software" at all?

I'm wondering if maybe Samsung's skill set as a company just doesn't include software / they don't have the people who know how to manage software development / products / teams and etc?

I remember ages ago I had a Samsung phone and their software started to trickle out and I thought "woah they're just getting started it seems, but they've got the money to get better". A few years later they hadn't improved at all, and were clearly going to push their own software and at that point I decided I was out...
I am going to make it last as long as I can get the battery replaced and lineage OS keeps pushing updates, after that I’m not sure. Maybe a fairphone that I would carry much less often.
I used to drive this route regularly a decade ago - as a closeted av-dork, I always loved it. This streetview angle just gave me one of those memory-powered dopamine dumps. Thanks :)
He writes about the present in the same way that a winemaker deals in grape juice.
Check out Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever.

It's about a leper from the modern day who finds himself in a fantasy world he doesn't believe in, and rejects the power he has. That's pretty original.
The strongest case for urban density isn’t aesthetics, it’s math
I think we tend to overestimate how "good" those people were. Yes they were definitely good professionals, but they happened to be in a very special place at a special time with very few constraints compared to how we work now. It was a lot easier for them to innovate than for any of us now.
Can confirm, recently doubled my income. Still dead inside.
this sounds like a good system design question.

how would you build r/place?
What are some good resources for learning to develop using Pharo? Anything others would recommend?
it happen a couple of years ago, the national lottery of my country was rigged https://www.reddit.com/r/uruguay/comments/9kcuve/se_pusieron...
I enjoy making things - whether it be software or music. My day-to-day life choices are such that maximize my time I may engage in these activities.

With regards to being scared/worried about things - there's absolutely no point worrying about things that are outside of your control. None. All that can do is produce anxiety. Will Putin decide to start WWIII? I don't know. Will it impact my life if he does? Yes! Absolutely! Is there anything I can do about it? No! So I don't worry about it. That's an extreme example, but you'll find there's lots of things that are completely outside of your control. So don't worry about them.
Perhaps it was just a forlorn hope but an announcement of the UE4 tech demo of Unreal Tournament 4 updated for UE5 would have been nice.
One UI is pretty good. Probably the best version of android especially w.r.t consistency. But yes the camera software is... okay at best. The sensors are great but the software processing makes it impossible to have iPhone-tier pictures. The only other problem with One UI is that it often has one google app and one samsung app for doing the same thing, but I guess that's just necessary due to google policy.

The galaxy store is useless too, but the new optional samsung apps that you can get from there can be awesome. The Sound Assistant app has been a game changer and it's only available on the galaxy store
Then you to see the reality of misery with limited money.
That's a potential objection that didn't occur to me. I think the reason why is that the vast majority of home break-ins and burglaries aren't premeditated. They are addicts seeking stuff they can quickly sell for cash or random crimes of opportunity. Not criminal masterminds or international jewel thieves.

If it is a common concern I imagine the company could offer an encrypted option where the cloud data is never plaintext.
Alas I still haven't figured out that one thing in my life and I'm already one leg in my sarcophagus. Guess I won't be able to solve it but whatever.
Been using AgGrid but looking for a replacement. I tried to load a CSV of 100k items here and got a "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded."

https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/import-csv-data
That's wild, although it seems to be server parts in a workstation case. I guess none of Intel's "desktop" chips support a dual/quad CPU configuration though, so that's your only choice. Quad 8 TB NVMe drives is definitely one way to get to $30K of parts pretty quickly.
Instantly reminded of Steve Jobs’ commencement speech <https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc>
they were doing 256 colors and sampled audio at a time when x86 was still pushing 16 colors

4,096 colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
Also hundreds of thousands human accounts as well to be fair. Whether they will stick around remains to be seen.
that's not how it works. the step 4 should be more like: the continue button forwards the client with temporary code (usually in query string), that can be used to request token, with combination of additional secret token (that should remain private/secret), by backend application.

the client never sees the final token, unless the SiteA returns the token to the client, or the exchange of the code happens on the client side. in both cases these are the definitions of incorrect implementation, as the exchange should take place in the backend.

in most implementation you can/should send additional parameters like `nonce` or `state`, which can/should be used to protect against reply/forgery attacks.
Suspicion: Samsung sees itself as a hardware and component company first, and doesn't prioritize the quality of these user-facing apps.
> a copy of your code the environment does some extra epicycles to copy it outside

Iceberg https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg is the Git/etc. integration built into Pharo and works extremely well. You don't need to "file out" code if that's what you meant.
another list: https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1511344343243755538

details on the 1971 numbers:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/27/britain-expels...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Lyalin
Fast 3D Shooter in Browser
Do you really want to carry around yet another gadget with you all the time? How about remembering to charge yet another gadget ~daily?
https://archive.ph/60Mbg
That "tumultuous meeting last summer" was the one from which I shared the youtube video?

That's how it got to the press: Trump is against NATO. When you watch the video you see it's more about the US is being upset that they pay for Europe's security while Germany pumps billions into Russia's gas every year.

He was right. And btw, he was not the first US president to try this (and they all failed).

But to base the whole "Trump wanted out of NATO" on some leaks from unnamed aids, while all his actions and policies were opposed to that, it just shows you want to hate Trump no matter what.

He was in power for 4 years, he didn't do 1 step to remove US from NATO, he made NATO stronger. He deployed more troops and bases in Eastern Europe, and conducted more exercises than ever before.
It is very hard to keep people in the cult if you aren't surrounding them. Google works by pushing employees to build their entire identity and social circle around the company. Eat and relax on campus, find yourself a spouse in the company, sure. Work way over full time and have way too many ties to ever, ever leave.

Doesn't work if people are at home and can go do stuff outside the campus.
If you allow yourself to do this work offline, that's one thing, but keep in mind that 2D realtime graphics are a requirement. People still need to render SVGs, HTML5 canvas, the CSS drawing model, etc. Grid fitting might eventually go out of favor for fonts, but that's something that means you need different outlines for different sizes of fonts. See Behdad's excellent document on the difficulties of text subpixel rendering and layout [0]. Also, there's things like variable fonts which we might want to support.

The work to break a number of region tiles such that each tile has at most one region might be too fine-grained (think about tiger.svg), and probably equivalent in work compared to rasterizing on the CPU, so not much of a gain there. That said, tiled options are very popular, so you're definitely on to something, though tiles often contain multiple elements.

Going down this way lies ideas like Pathfinder 3, Massively Parallel Vector Graphics (Gan et Al), and my personal favorite, the work of adamjsimmons. I have to read this comment [1] a bit between the lines, but I think it's basically that a quadtree or other form of BVH is computed on the CPU containing which curves are in which parts of the glyph, and then the pixel shader only evaluates the curves it knows are necessary for that pixel. Similar in a lot of ways to Behdad's GLyphy.

I have my own ideas I eventually want to try on top of this as well, but I think using a BVH is my preferred way to solve this problem.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpzgGMqXgit6FBVaO76epnnF...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18260138

EDIT: You changed this comment between when I was writing and when I posted it, so it's not a reply to the new scheme. The new scheme doesn't seem particularly helpful for me. If you want to talk about this further to learn why, contact information is in my HN profile.
What? It was a fantastic game that spent a lot of time ruminating on topics like transhumanism, sex, and corporate power. It let players explore heterosexual and homosexual romantic relationships in first person and uncensored. Character writing is for the most part top-notch. The universe is unfailingly coherent and incredibly fleshed out. Few games have moved me to the point of tears in the credits, but this one did.

If you're one of those folks inexplicably bitter about prerelease trailers then maybe I can understand your stance. But dismissing the monumental amount of effort that it has taken to deliver what some of us perceive as one of the highest works of art in the genre, is ridiculous.
"Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" or "The Dragon Book" as it is informally known was always recommended on compsci courses I have taken. It has a section within "Syntax Analysis" which covers context-free grammars.
> I was honestly underwhelmed by Neuromancer.

Same. No doubt it was an influential book. But I didn't find it well written or that interesting to be honest. I've read neuromancer once. I've read Dune maybe a dozen times. Also, other two books in the trilogy were even worse.

Maybe the hype was so great that nothing could live up to such expectations. I remember being so excited to finally read neuromancer only to be let down.
Manual for a worldwide manuke revolt [2013; trans. 2021]
Do it on your free time because you love it. What's wrong with playing the violin at 45? Find a job with a good work life balance and make the most out of your free time.
I did play a game similar to that called Ingress (I think it was by Google, and they were presumably collecting GPS data to improve their pedestrian mapping).

I'll check out turfgame when I get a chance!
I find it funny that things like this are still controversial. And people keep censoring each other on the internet in _every_ place. It's like it's illegal to be wrong because you could influence others to be wrong too and that is dangerous.

What better way to make paranoid people more paranoid than to censor what they say? It sure worked for flat earthers but at least they could test their theories at home.
Not sure why his future share is capped. Is this part of a compromise of giving him a board seat?
Most of your comment is about other bad actors which I don’t disagree with in the slightest. The majority of tech companies cause harm, Facebook is one of them. It also happens to be a really big company, so I don’t think the disproportionate hate on FB is wholly undeserved.

Also, what’s wrong with moralization of a company? All companies cause some good and some harm, it’s worth determining what the net is and judging the company appropriately. I don’t think it’s too far off to call a company (subjectively) “bad” if their net impact is (subjectively) “bad”.
I think you underestimate how many games people play on their phones.