skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works as intended to alienate people who can’t keep the commitments they make. Both by actively eliminating them and passively making it a painful place for them to work.

The people who can keep commitments they make would enjoy working there.

I’m sure once they’ve developed a track record of keeping the commitments they make, it won’t be as draconian as it seems.

However this disincentivizes the often productive approach of “throwing your hat over the fence” so to speak and committing to something you may not already know is achievable.

Perhaps clearbit’s business model doesn’t hinge on their employees driving innovation and they need more predictable results at a reliable cadence.

This approach doesn’t work for everyone or every company. This seems to be by design.
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FWIW, I’ve been using the Orion beta on my Mac and it’s great. It’s a WebKit based browser with a built in ad blocker and tree style tabs and can run most Firefox and chrome extensions while having lower resource usage and better battery life than safari.

A nearly perfect browser for me with only a few downsides.

- Not available on windows or Linux yet

- No open tabs sync across apple devices (yet, planned)

- Doesn’t support all extensions (yet, also planned)
BTW, if you do a do-release-upgrade to get to Xubuntu 22.04, you need to also do:

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

or the Firefox snap won't be able to save or upload files, 'cos that lets it use the file picker.

They included that package on the ISO, so fresh installs work - but they forgot to add it as a dependency for xubuntu-meta.

(Dunno if it's fixed yet, wasn't a few days ago.)
I still install Ubuntu 18 LTS, after it falls out of favor I will be moving on to Debian, all to dodge snaps.
China has been doing what the grandparent suggests for 20 years now, building networks to transfer water from the south to the north, and even at full-tilt with cheap access to labor and the political will to displace (so far) hundreds of thousands of people, it's not nearly enough to solve their looming water crisis.

Regions like Arizona are just inimical to large-scale human habitation and agriculture. The good news is that Arizona is projected to get more humid thanks to climate change. The bad news is that Arizona isn't projected to get any less hot, so look forward to an increasing frequency of wet bulb events in the future.
This version is even less personal, divorcing the perpetrators (popigs) from their actions against civilians.
It’s because in real meetings, you know who people are focusing on. In virtual meetings, everyone is staring at you all the time.
I also prefer heavy dialogue in my reading. Books that are primarily world building an be a struggle. I read a lot, averaging about 40 pages a day, every day, but I also indiscriminately put books down and move on, so it helps to keep me engaged in the habit. I have to maintain a large backlog, though, but it's never been an issue.

edit/ I'm also entertaining the idea of getting into graphic novels and seeing how I respond to them.
Not exactly what you asked for but Fedora does package a few extensions [separately] -- uBlock Origin, Noscript, and some others.
I agree rebuking an apology is weird.

I do think it's good to point it out right away. How you do so depends on whether it mattered or not.

If it mattered: I noticed you weren't able to get X done as planned. Marketing will need to postpone campaign Y which will affect our numbers for the quarter. Can you give me a heads up early next time?

If it didn't: I noticed you weren't able to get X done as planned. It's not a big deal, but were there any blockers I can help clear for you? I want you to feel good about being able to deliver on your promises.
I understand the thinking behind it. But I personally prefer following a strict priority list. In this case, whatever was finished at each monthly milestone would be part of that milestone release. The only choice remaining is how to prioritise features. Having a good balance of onboarding, bug fixes, cleanups, and new features seems to work well. The result is that there is something valuable for everybody in each release.
If Apple were cool they would have a boneyard section of the App Store where digital archeologists could sift through every abandoned app.

Maybe they could implement a 20 year policy where it becomes possible for the community to try to fix things that Apple breaks through forced updates.
Coming out of retirement to write Cobol.

s/Cobol/C++/
How close to dingoes were the thylacines, I wonder. There are some physical similarities in their head shapes.

I have wondered in the past whether the thylacines were striped dingoes. (Or alternatively, that dingoes were plain-coated thylacines.) But in the end, I doubt that greatly due to the long lengths of history when the thylacines were separated from the mainland.
See: >The FBI Guide to Internet Slang< : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31079334

Includes: ‘The FBI Guide to Internet Slang’ : https://www.pentagram.com/work/the-fbi-guide-to-internet-sla...

>Pentagram’s latest annual greeting, challenges readers to decipher the cryptic acronyms found on social media.<
I'm guessing the work involves a web-crawler.
SoFi is offering 1.25% but Vanguard's short term treasury fund (VGSH) is at 2.35% if you're ok with mild capital risk.
Hard disagree. At my last company, "people should have the choice" very quickly turned into "I didn't know you had a beard".
I'll flip this back around:

What mechanisms would be part of a sensible programme? What benefits would be required, and to what parties? Delivered in what manner?
From the YouTube comments:
Video carefully avoids to state that the overall efficiency of the system is 1.8%. Input power was 91.2kW at the TX antenna, out of which 1.65kW was produced at the receiving side.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mediastore_new/IEEE/content/medi...
snapd gets purged.
If you can speak for hours I believe you already have some understanding of the issue, but when you start writing something you might tend to underestimate some knowledge as "trivial" so that you would not want to write them down, at all. That significantly reduces the length of writing IMHO.
>Complexity in an oversaturated streaming market doesn't seem wise

This closed the conversation for me on this one. Spot on. This is the bottom truth on why this is a fairly epic business blunder (+commercials?!)

/SadFace
Actually it's only 1.8% efficient.

From the YouTube comments:
Video carefully avoids to state that the overall efficiency of the system is 1.8%. Input power was 91.2kW at the TX antenna, out of which 1.65kW was produced at the receiving side.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mediastore_new/IEEE/content/medi...
To be clear, wordplay seems to be all the author's doing.

From the README:

> When you simply open thisaidoesnotexist.com, the model names you'll see are hand curated and pre-generated by me.
I agree with everything you said here. I'm not saying we should stick to bare metal programming even if we aren't doing embedded. There may be a problem that could be solved easily with inline assembly or there may be a bug that can't be understood if the programmer doesn't understand what is going on at the CPU level. Assembler is a tool in my kit, but not everybody needs to use it. I like to understand my computer from top to bottom, but sticking to higher level abstractions is where I spend most of my time.
I always thought they used some kind of infrared tech for the endpoint to receive the power boost. Good piece. I love good information. Thank you!
Maybe for the same reason why gasoline in U.S. is usually priced in increments of $0.10 as the performance rating goes up (although that seems to be less of a rigid rule lately where I live)?

Or maybe for ease of predictability? After all it is much easier to make a binary choice between two numbers with a fixed interval between them, than to choose an intermediate value to the Nth degree.
Linux Kernel Module: Forge Socket
It certainly sound like a server that could be managed a little better.
War in Ukraine Roiled Facebook and Instagram
Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
In the PNW you would kill salmon runs.

Don’t think that one will fly.
> Brexit (loss of an economy 4x larger than Russia's) is not having a terrible effect on the EU.

By Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) the GDP of Russia (4,365,443 $MM) is larger than the GDP of UK (3,751,845 $MM) [1]. Stating that UK economy is 4x of Russia's does not seem to have a basic in reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
If you have to be "next to the router" than it's a problem with your infrastructure, not then NBN
The U.S. would airdrop soldiers and artillery into an area. If the VC wanted to engage, they attacked. If they didn't want to engage, they ran away and came back when U.S. soldiers were eventually air-lifted out. The VC knew that U.S. forces were highly unlikely to move out of range of their support artillery, so they only had to retreat that far. It was argued that this was how things had to be done because the jungle was too difficult to move around in on the ground, but this tactic made it extremely hard for U.S. forces to gain initiative.
Inventory causes problems if you're not moving product.
A few? 4'33" is well known enough that I've heard it brought up in conversation a few times in my life. Is this meant to be a round-about "your friends aren't sophisticated" putdown?
> Because it is difficult to do.

No, at this point I think the vast majority of people just use streaming services.

The second biggest group, but probably much smaller, it’s people like me who both have a library and a streaming service.

After that, smaller again, I would assume it’s people who have just a library. The majority of these are probably files bought from Apple and Microsoft and Amazon. Those are all formats that the iPhone can play.

In last place is people who use more unique formats like FLAC. I understand why you would want it over the other formats. But I think it’s by far the least common case.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549856
Thanks for the suggestion Bud. I didn't realize he was a writer too. I'd like to know what his real intentions are with his work.
Edit: I attempted to make some calculations of pipe diameter and got it wrong and am going to bed instead of fixing it.
That sounds exactly like how search works today. Anyone can make a payment to promote their site for a topic which is equivalent to demoting someone else's. Crypto isn't necessary. The ability to anonymize up and down weights probably will make spammy results worse. Unless one is purchasing ads to drive traffic to one's site, what would be the motivation to help maintain indices that help some one else's web search business?
Please link to a metabolic ward study showing ethanol observably being converted into bodyfat through a glycogenesis to lipogenesis pathway. I only found ones saying it never happened, so I’m very interested in any counter example.
Your comment could have gone without the first line.
> Now if you want treestyle tabs to actually hide top tabs you need to figure out the weirdness of firefox profile dirs where its in ~/.mozilla/firefox/my-cat-walked-right-over-my-keyboard-and-had-a-fight-with-my-other-cat. Create a folder called chrome and inside it userChrome.css and either understand css or just blindly paste in some css someone else provided.

Also it's not just "understand CSS" - if you want to do it yourself you have to enable a special firefox debug mode to be able to inspect its UI and find the right IDs/etc.
My impression of it is that it’s about discouraging attrition using remote work as a scapegoat. Therefore totally pro-business, at least for the subset that commands Fox.
Ah! Good answer. Hadn't thought of that.
I will be interested if this increases or decreases subscription numbers. In theory it should increase revenue and adoption by it might also be the final straw that gets people to quit
Unsolicited at 3am in drunk info dump texts
Sort of. If using Ethereum for example, you could run your own ETH node and frontrun any transactions trying to transfer ETH out of one of your wallets.

The attacker wouldn't lose money because they're using that wallet to pay the fees, so you'd be the only one paying the transaction fee. Also, if this became a standard, it's possible that attackers would find ways around it (it kind of becomes an arms race to see who can bribe miners the most).

If your wallet contains no ETH, but contains for example, USDC, then they have to transfer their own ETH in to make a transaction to extract the USDC. This would work in theory, but it's such a common way to scam/hack people already that most attackers would be able to sniff out the honeypot.

The typical scam is "leaking" the private key for a wallet that has, say, $30 of some valuable token in it (e.g. on reddit, discord, anywhere that less technical users congregate). When users import the key and realize they can transfer the token out, they only need to deposit some ETH to the wallet first to pay for gas fees. But when they do that, a script automatically sends the ETH somewhere else.

Personally I see this being a potentially valuable way to manage servers, and also pay a non-critical bug bounty to black-hats. Each server can have its own crypto wallet, and the amount you fund it with varies based on how critical it is. If a compromise of one system occurs, you know immediately where the compromise occurred based on the address.

The attacker gets a payday, and you get a lead on something you need to patch.
Wait, what? So this isn’t a problem because you can just make a container for your containers that preserves the original API? Then what do you depend on for that container?

It’s like Office Space, “what would you say it is you do here?”
To put this in perspective, a car going highway speeds of 60 mi/h that travels for 24 hours will travel 1,440 miles, or approximately 500,000 times the car's length.

By contrast, this molecule is 3 nm long and traveled 1 micron in 24 hours, or approximately 300 times the molecule's length -- that is, about four orders of magnitude slower than the car given its length.
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>In a 12 foot diameter pipe that water would be moving at about 56 miles per hour. In a 24 foot diameter pipe, 28 mp

That isn't right. Doubling diameter should drop flow rate to 1/4. Area scales with the square of the diameter.
>but they'd actually lose money

What do you mean? The only outcome is that the company loses money due to giving it to miners.
Not true because I've opened an account with an online-only US bank. There are no physical branches to visit.
Since when? The last 3 or 4 bank accounts I’ve opened have been done entirely virtually.
Sets isn’t just “a branch of mathematics”. Sets is the foundation of traditional mathematics. However it has problems (paradoxes). Type theory was invented to solve those problem. And most modern proof assistants are based on some variation of type theory. Type theory is in many ways much simpler than Sets: The Set axioms are built on logic. While the (Martin Loff) type theory axioms aren’t. In other words, Type theory is much simpler than Set theory. The two theories look similar at the surface level. However they are fundamentally different. Values in type theory always comes with a type. That is not the case in Set theory. It makes a huge difference to how you use the two to prove things.
That’s an interesting comparison, since that’s basically the game commodities traders are playing. Guess the price of oil (of this specific type for delivery at this specific place and time that generally - but not necessarily - align with an idealized “price of oil).

I suspect deep understanding and clever interpretations of those specifics in crypto will be rewarded. Though crypto has the added excitement that, as here, poor understanding and interpretation result not just in loss of value but it’s destruction!
Ah. Then it was the Buddhist swastika Kipling used.
What, no Tesla (the original one) FTW?
I measure companies success/failure like I measure humans' :

How many lives are gonna be disrupted if a company/human disappeared overnight? And how much the quality of life of the population is gonna go down the sink?

In each and every case as the companies you mentioned the answer is a lot on both counts.

Tesla, Porsche (35B) , the brands I have in my handle (Ferrari , McLaren) , Lamborghini, Gulfstream, Bombardier, Gucci, Sea-Ray....the answer is: not a much on both counts for all of them.

Nobody cries for the toys of the rich, not even the rich because they can easily pivot towards other toys
I don’t know how to find this but I would be interested to see a graph of iOS versus Android for high-end phones only. Say $429+ since that’s what a new SE starts at.

Samsung obviously sells a lot of high-end phones, but so many Android makers have trouble competing in the high end I wonder if there’s much left to go around after Apple.

Or maybe I’m just totally wrong.

But the numbers we see are usually overall, including whether you paid $100 or $1500.
A decent, humane manager.

At my company, all the ICs I respect have camera off meetings. Only managers, obnoxious ladder climbers, and outside consultants are constantly pushing face time.
Oh right my bad. Hopefully I still provided something helpful.
Oops yeah you're right I typo'd in my calculations
I’m pretty amazed it was self hosting. I’m sure it was faster to iterate that way but it seems like it would be so much more efficient to use assembly. Kilobytes were so precious.

Maybe it didn’t matter as much since it was a compiler and not a runtime environment.
They didn’t eat Cadbury cream eggs and drink extra large sodas.
Google Pixel Watch leaks in real-life images after being left at a restaurant
You're right. As sibling comment says, in many cases, the attacker would attempt to pay the fee with funds from the address they were robbing. Though some token transfers might require the attacker to add their own funds. I was mistaken about that part.
What isp are you referencing?
Covering inflation is greed?
We don’t have a democracy. We have a private sector that has a government that it masquerades as a democracy.
What it means to be a “systems” programming language is a matter of some debate, but there is at least one definition that’s only coherent in a resource management model isomorphic to RAII/ARC.
“Political correctness is America's newest form of intolerance, and it is especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people's language with strict codes and rigid rules. I'm not sure that's the way to fight discrimination. I'm not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
It might be worth considering why that is ....
> If they apologize, you respond that apologies are not needed, and all that is required is that they only make agreements that they can commit to and that they meet all the agreements they make. If the person continues to fail at these, there is only one consequence that makes sense: they can no longer be part of the company.”

Ugh. "Your apology is irrelevant. Just never make this mistake or we will fire you."

Strongly dislike this quietly, creepily hostile communication style.
It’s hard to remember back now but when I was probably about 8 or 9 years old my first family computer, a Commodore 64, had this program where it would “simulate” all sorts of catastrophic errors. Formatting disks, exploding, etc. As a child I was totally convinced and man that was scary. Funny to think back how silly that was now.
It's way easier to move electric. There's a decent chance desalination on the west coast would be cheaper than building pipelines and canals to move water 1500 miles. Moving water from the Pacific Northwest would be easier, but that would be an Alaska Pipeline-level endeavor (likely more since you'll want more water than oil) for something that's worth cents per gallon, not dollars.
The closest good candidates for stellar black holes are thousands of light-years away from Earth. There is one possible candidate at about 1.1 kly, but there are good reasons to think that it (QV Telescopii) will turn out to be something else, as seems to be the case for LB-1 *. V616 Monocerotis at ~ 3.3 kly <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A0620-00> is the closest thing that is virtually certain to be a black hole.

Given measurements of the Local Standard of Rest and star surveys of the LSR neighbourhood, it is unlikely that there are any stellar-mass black holes at all within about 300 light-years of Earth (and X-Ray astronomy and microlensing/MACHO-hunting surveys each gives even more pessimistic nearby black hole numbers) so the prospects of getting a signal from an Earth probe dispatched to close to a black hole within a millennium is, pardon the pun, faint. There could be only some thousands up to a few (~10) million in the Milky Way, a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars at this point in its evolution. There may be as many as ten billion stellar black holes in and around Milky-Andromeda five or so billion years in our future.

I note you also say "creating ones experimentally", but that is in the realm of science fiction at this stage, barely hard s.f. even for microscopic masses, and it gets decidedly soft as one climbs up the mass scale from nanograms.
PDF/X is just a PDF with interactivity/JavaScript/forms removed and the layout instructions rationalized and colorspace for RIP fir commercial printers
It sounds like there's some other cultural problems at your company :)
I've been a very happy Ubuntu/Kubuntu user since more than a decade, but I'm seriously considering switching distros because the encroachment of snap, which I feel is not ready yet for such critical applications like Firefox.

I'm going to try 22.04 before deciding, but I'm eyeing Manjaro or Endeavor OS in case I jump ship. I'm also eyeing Qubes OS, but it looks needy and resource heavy.
Only management sufficiently divorced from reality can forget that "reality has a surprising amount of detail"

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital...

> suggests that half of all large IT projects—defined as those with initial price tags exceeding $15 million—massively blow their budgets. On average, large IT projects run 45 percent over budget and 7 percent over time, while delivering 56 percent less value than predicted. Software projects run the highest risk of cost and schedule overruns.

So, either this clearbit management magic makes all the normal scaling and estimation problems go away magically, or it is a really toxic management approach.
I am an electron microscopist and I am thoroughly confused by what I am looking at. The article simply labels it as "the worlds largest electron microscope" which is confusing because size is not really a measure of electron microscopy as far as I'm aware. Perhaps voltage or resolution? The contest took place at NIMS which is well known for EM but I've never seen any photos like that one:

https://www.nims.go.jp/eng/research/group/electron-microscop...

Anyways, if that's a TEM my guess is the contraption at the top is more about the source (providing high voltage to the emitter) than the optics. Optics don't require much power, a single electron is not difficult to manipulate at all. What's harder is getting a coherent electron beam at the voltage you need (i.e. 300 kV+).