skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first PPT presentation was a single graph on a slide with large axis titles and labels. It summarized the output of a model we were building.

Manager wanted to add a ton of content that they felt would be helpful. I said sure, and added it to an appendix with arrows, callouts, additional definitions, etc.

I then presented it to the CxO group -- we only discussed that first slide. I emailed the deck, and got comments back saying that the appendix was confusing but they loved how simple and clear the single non-appendix slide was.

I've always tried to follow the 4x4 rule: no more than 4 lines, and no more than 4 words per line. I've found icons and occasionally diagrams can be helpful in explaining more abstract concepts. Also, slide notes are used liberally.

One place I worked was veeery similar to what you describe here. PPT was considered docs of record since no one wanted to make formal memos and have those enter the control system. My approach had friction, since I would be extremely concise and direct people to the slide notes if they had questions. In this org, people were notorious for lifting slides from others decks for their own presentations (hence I would distribute as PDF to discourage this) since people would not field questions those slides might raise.
Why does the web browser allow this?
I would love access! just tried to deploy and it threw me a docker authorization error.
Wait I'm an asshole? For being upset that treating taxi drivers "as a human being" is considered a positive interaction instead of the absolute bare minimum of a respectful member of society?
> But if you don’t assume path dependency, you have a lot more options at your disposal.

This is an important sentence that I haven't seen before in discussions about people-pipelines in the physical sciences. It deserves more visibility.

Academics, simply because they have all come through the same pipeline, may underestimate the management skills that industry experience can bring to modern research. Lord knows we promote accomplished scientists with non-existent management skills all the time -- what about hiring in the occasional faculty with a solid science background but extensive management acumen?
With a few very notable exceptions, most of these people are not my peers, and it is highly unlikely that they will ever manage to become my peers. People here who are my peers are not idiots, so my original statement did not and does not apply to them.

The question in general is, what is one doing on a web site which is supposed to be creme de la creme of Silicon Valley and having to ask why Sun Microsystems was so much better?

My peer would be driven by relentless pursuit of perfection, being the best they can be at whatever they attempt: that would include researching what came before, and why it was so important when so many people say that it was important.

A large portion of people working at Sun Microsystems consisted of highly and formally educated scientists and engineers, inventors in an environment which not only encouraged but inspired innovation. They had people who were capable of designing advanced hardware and people who were capable of designing advanced software, combining both into vertically integrated systems.

For example: did you know that Sun UltraSPARC hardware has a crossbar switch at the core of its architecture? PC bucket turd servers still don't have that, relying instead of North and South "bridges", which are not much more than memory controllers, and certainly nowhere near a crossbar switch in design or capability. And that is just one of many, many examples of what made Sun Microsystems so great.
I think GitLab somehow acts like this: they have a fully open source product, that you could host yourself for free, then you have a lot of extra functionality that works only for paying users. (tho I'm not sure how that works, if you have access to the code or not etc)
>In contrast, Elon Musk functions creatively, an imaginative open mind, and has developed an understanding of first/foundational principles that he works from. Twitter will likely be a good buy once Elon re-lists it.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I think there's more to Musk than this. He's incredibly intelligent, and has radically innovated in two industries (Space and EVs), but I don't think he has the maturity/emotional intelligence or societal vision that's needed for combatting the problems that Twitter (and social media) present to democratic societies.

I'm a massive fan of what he's achieved in many areas - and watch every Falcon 9 landing with the same child-like awe that I did the first one that nailed it, and I watched every Starship test live. But this is the same man who had a battle calling a cave rescuer a 'pedo guy' and I'd be surprised if Twitter goes in a direction which will benefit society in the way that EVs and making life interplanetary will do.
> Does being shy around women make you a bad person? Does being uncomfortable around people who are different than you make you a bad person?

It may not make you a bad person, but it would probably make you a bad hire.

> It's one thing if someone outright ignores an interviewer (that is hugely disrespectful).

If you read the entire twitter thread, you will see that this is exactly what is being discussed. And if you haven't seen this behaviour in person before, you haven't been paying attention.
Maybe 10*log(max({ages})). But really, configurability is usually better.
It's about appreciation of the craft itself.

Those watches have a fundamental cultural value to us.

Keeping time is now very easy and cheap but those watches reflect the history of keeping time.

And there is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in them. Older ones are only handmade and even modern watches from high class manufacturer are still made by watchmakers.

No one buys them if they don't care or don't have the money.

Those watches have a lot of personal skill embedded in them.

It reflects the opposite of mass production.

Feel free to look for good watchmaker docus on yt.
Also stop messing with scroll.

Absolutely everything that isn't default browser zoom is broken. It's the wrong speed, or cuts at the wrong place. Basically it's always surprising in an annoying way.

Then there's the "frustratingly slow scroll to navigate". E.g. go to https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing and click on the last nav on the left.
It's specially painful when the zoom is disabled, and then a pop up comes up with a teeny tiny X close button.

I agree I have fat fingers but 8 our of 10 times, I end up opening up the ad. :(
> github will give you backup codes you can print out and use in case somthing bad happens.

The backup codes have a "nearly never used" issue: since they're nearly never used, it's easy to forget where you put that piece of paper (I vaguely know where mine might be located, but I'd have to lose some time searching for it if I ever needed it).

And there's also the risk that the "something bad" affects both the TOTP device and the backup codes. If your home is flooded, for instance, you might lose to water damage both the piece of paper where the backup codes are and your mobile phone.
Is it gauche to offer my own counterpoint?

Another possibility is that the requirement to "drop to C" is a virtue by de-democratizing access to serious performance. In other words, let the commoners eat Python, while the anointed manage their own memory.

I personally find this argument a bit distasteful / disagree with it, but there was a thread the other day that talked about the, uh, variable quality of code in the Julia ecosystem (Julia being another language where dropping to C isn't important for performance). In Julia, the academics can just write their code and get on with their work—the horror!
See WebVM
Lol, i thought this is the video streaming software Zoom.
There are some software tokens (Wear OS watch, Android phone), but they are purposely not exportable from the Android Keystore.

https://github.com/herrjemand/awesome-webauthn#software-auth...

There was mention of a secure backup proposal, but it doesn't appear to have been touched after being a draft for a year:

https://github.com/Yubico/webauthn-recovery-extension
I don't think the average router would be able to run much of anything, not to mention how insecure the average router is since people don't update them.

Mastodon is very resource heavy, I couldn't get it to run on a raspberry pi 3b. Pleroma is an alternative to mastodon that is very light on resources, I'd recommend that personally.
Recently--going longer without food (fasting) is helping me change my relationship with food; I'm more aware of how I feel after eating certain foods, more aware of my impulses to treat stress with food (to escape emotions, responsibilities, and I'm sure there's more--this habit goes way back), and I no longer feel compelled to always have food with me on outings. The latter is liberating--not only food-wise, but in other ways I need fewer and fewer "safety blankets" and can focus on doing one thing at a time. I feel like I'm making better use of the food I eat now, rather than rushing it through my system (I used to eat "early and often" and now I'm aiming to approach the asymptote from the other side).
I would add to that list, that I can easily get by with zero plugins on a Craft install, it's impossible for me to do that on Wordpress. The over-reliance on Wordpress plugins and their often terrible security is my nightmare.
And that is why many of us moved from Crashplan to Backblaze and never looked back.
"Safari seems to ignore maximum-scale=1 and user-scalable=no"

This is somewhat ironic because, if memory serves, the original reason people started adding this to their HTML was because of some dubious scaling behaviour on iOS Safari (I think, if you didn't disable zooming, Safari responded to rotation by zooming the page to fill the new width, rather than laying out the page again).
> prevents right-click operations

In Firefox, Shift-right always presents the browser context menu. It's one of the few distinguishing features they haven't screwed up yet.
A 26 page research report with a clear conclusion:

> The results show that the number of insects sampled on vehicle number plates in the UK decreased by 58.5% between 2004 and 2021, and that these differences were statistically significant. A comparison of the 2004 national data with the 2019 data from Kent showed a 53.7% decrease. The greatest decreases in splat rate between 2004 and 2021 occurred in England (65%) whilst journeys in Scotland recorded a comparably smaller decrease (27.9%), with intermediate decreases in Wales (55%).
You need some oversight on your candidate evaluation practices, for the sake of that organization.

Very few of your frontend candidates will be privileged enough to optimize for what you think is relevant. They exchange time for money, you know? Or do you know that.
Free egress is wild.

Imgur was created to be "an image hosting provider that doesn't suck", but that didn't last long. I always figured the reason why Imgur turned to shit was because they needed to drive traffic to their front page so they can serve ads to pay the bills, but I imagine egress was their biggest cost.

If egress was free, it could massively reduce their costs.
i am only using github infrequently. the risk of getting locked out scares me. the likelihood of me forgetting which device i used to enable 2FA and maybe breaking/loosing/reinstalling said device (while forgetting to back up the 2FA to another device, and never mind remembering where i put the backup codes that were created 10 years ago) is much greater than anyone breaking into my account.

the end result will be that i won't be contributing code on github anymore but rather copy the project elsewhere and tell the developers where to pull my patches from.
Its not what we have in academia.

And please show me where do we have a functioning web of trust
Dude, you blogged about being super thrilled about your garage door opener. Don't let the rest of us drag you down, but also don't presume to have figured the exact mental attitude that leads to successful outcomes. Not everything is peachy keen.
If the (important/compelling/disturbing) science content wasn't enough, definitely open the article for terms like "Splatometer" and "Splats-per-mile".
> normally sighted people or even people with "normal" nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.

Makes me think of the oxo good grips kitchen utensils. They were designed designed for people with poor dexterity and as a result have become easier for everyone, this has made them extent l extremely popular
Why would the professor be willing to stay in such a position without getting more in other ways (aka privilege, prestige, ability to not do certain things, do certain other things, etc.)?

If it’s the same for their graduates but they make 3x, then what forces are keeping them there?

For some it’s idealism - but few tenured professors are idealists in my experience.
> this is something I’ve never witnessed

Ask the women in your life if they have.
Conservatives would assert that the Constitution says what it says and means what it was intended to mean, and that what the EU does,[1] or what the polls say,[2] don't matter.

But given that nobody seriously argues that Roe has a foundation in the text or original intent of the Constitution, it's certainly fair for them to point out that Roe can't be defended by saying, as liberals usually do, that we have a "Living Constitution" that incorporates "evolving social norms." Because what the EU does and what the polls say are certainly evidence of what those "evolving social norms are."

Roe raises the question of "where exactly do those 'evolving social norms' come from anyway?" And I suspect the honest answer is "the opinions of highly educated lawyers."

[1] Just two EU countries, comprising 6% of the EU population, allow elective abortions after 14 weeks: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268439/legal-abortion-t...

[2] 65% of Americans think abortion should generally be illegal after the first trimester: https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abort...
Is it doublespeak? It seems to me that we have Black pride but not White pride for the same reason we have Black history month but not White history month.

We don't have White history month because every month in the US is White history month. Same for Gay pride month but no Straight pride month. Or National American Indian Heritage Month, National Deaf History Month, and many others.
Yeah, I'm primarily an AppKit developer, and honestly the circle drawing task seems a bit easier than the CRUD task to me.
One (big) limitation though with Terraform CDK is that it's limited to AWS only. Pulumi gives you access to more than 60 providers. Also testing which a big step forward for Iaac.
Yeah, anecdotally, all of my European/UK friends with PhDs had a much shorter experience. The UK system, in particular, seems far more sane: 3 years is a pretty common duration, vs the 5-7 that's typical in the US.
> We are what we consume - food or content. That said, imagine being young and looking back 20+ yrs. Tech bubble burst, 9/11, housing bubble burst, an unproductive gov, an unsupportive social infrastructure, etc.

When I was young and without social media, with NATO bombing a neighboring country, I heard a couple of times from some concerned adults about the entire situation. Now, I'd be flooded with images of the destruction, probably blamed for it somehow, told I'm not doing enough to stop it. They feel like vastly different worlds.
The specification states that cloning should merely be included in the service's underlying threat model. E.g. you might well be able to log in from an authenticator that fails the "signature counting" step if it's expected that the authenticator would allow for backing up and restoring its stored credentials.
Anyone know if Activity diagrams can be made in this way? (Note activity diagrams are not exactly flow charts, they have some rules)
Astro: Amazon’s first household robot
We give the benefit of a safe life to dogs because beating them offers no benefit (and I should note that we _do_ allow putting them down when they're causing excessive harm).

The same doesn't hold for aborting a fetus, because that can be key to the mother's wellbeing. Whether the scale tips toward that of the mother or that of the fetus is the debate, and since it's not cut and dry, individual choice makes sense.
The Free Edition doesn't support most use cases so it's not really free. According to the article, iirc, it supports less than a quarter of tax returns.
>As a user, you can force allow zooming:

>In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website”
>In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”

OMFG, thank you.
The Assange case seems relevant and topical. And regardless, what side of the fence would you expect somebody writing an article about press freedom and censorship to be on? To support extraditing to the US somebody who has never lived or worked there, after it was revealed US officials literally planned to kidnap and/or assassinate him? [1]. And only for the charge of revealing war crimes (apart from some trumped up “hacking” charges that the key witness now admitted lying about? [2]).

I really do think somebody would have to be either hopelessly, desperately naive or deliberately lying to themselves to believe Assange could receive a fair trial in the US, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to assert that the US has any kind of jurisdiction over him.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696436/cia-kidnap-julia...

2. https://stundin.is/grein/13627/
> Those languages, the lisps, schemes, smalltalks, etc.

The main reason those languages got fast despite being highly dynamic is because of very complex JIT VM implementations. (See also: JavaScript.)

The cost of that is that a complex VM is much less hackable and makes it harder to evolve the language. (See also: JavaScript.)

Python and Ruby have, I think, reasonably chosen to have slower simpler implementations so that they are able to nimbly respond to user needs and evolve the language without needing massive funding from giant corporations in order to support an implementation. (See also: JavaScript.)

There are other effects at play, too, of course.

Once your implementation's strategy for speed is "drop to C and use FFI", then it gets much harder to optimize the core language with stuff like a JIT and inlining because the FFI system itself gets in the way. Not having an FFI for JS on the web essentially forced JavaScript users to push to make the core language itself faster.
> It can seem like the game I’m playing is The Game.

I just lost the game.
I ended up replying in a different thread on Python Performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272681#31275210
It needs a uC with some special hardware anyways to do demosaic or else it would require special drivers that would peg some people's crappy laptop CPUs.

Also the raw YUV 4:2:0 is 1.5 bytes per pixel so that's doing half of the "compression" work for you.
I expect we will get more of these headlines in the coming weeks. I know of one other major tech company that is freezing hiring
But...the whole nation doesn't use their product
Would you be able to share the GitHub to GitLab backup script?
The CMF being the California Math Framework
In each one of my PCs and also on my key-ring is how I do it.
Show HN: Tetris, but silly
Hello HN!

You can read this [1] blog post if you want to know more about some ideas that I have for this thing.
This is just an experiment right now, there isn't any real game (yet).
Any feedback would be appreciated, do you think this could become something that would be fun to play?

[1] https://unit520.net/posts/dead-trees-an-absurdist-block-layi...
I love websites which also set element scaling using vw and vh in addition to the tricks described in the article, meaning that not only pinch-zoom doesn't work, even the good old ctrl-scroll does nothing. It gets even funnier if your screen size is larger than a MacBook's.
If this was the cause I would have expected this trend to start when cable news started, not in the 2010s. How do you account for the delay?
The types of diversity that is celebrated includes culture, race, sexuality.

What's an example of diversity that you are punished for?
They are objecting to the zero-sum aspect, not the competition.

IF you need to make your married partner feel worse to make yourself happier, you are absolutely doing it wrong.
In addition to what the other comment mentioned, there's also at least Snapchat, Netflix, Super Mario Run, and Pokemon Go.
Just for fun, I timed myself doing the first one in both AppKit and SwiftUI. I started with Xcode running but no project created yet, and hit stop when the app was launched and I had clicked the count button. It took me 1m57s to do it in AppKit, and 3m16s in SwiftUI. (I'm far more experienced with AppKit than SwiftUI).
Does this provide any benefit over a (properly used) password manager?

I’d be happy with just:

- an “alphabet”, “minlength” and “maxlength” attributes on password fields so password managers generate perfect passwords every time

- a well-known URI for password managers to do zero-touch password rotation.

- actual elements for login components to close the confused deputy attack for password managers.

All these things would be much easier changes for crufty old sites to make, which would aid adoption.
You need to talk with people and come up to an agreement, in situations like that conflict is inevitable.
Demo is a bit old (2 months ago), I need to reshoot it.

It has some resemblances with Airflow but one aim is to make it accessible to less technical users that can treat modules like blackbox. Similar to Zapier but the code is inspectable and editable at any point. At the core, it is a scheduler/orchestrator of script execution, so it's similar to Airflow in that sense, but the product is really not meant for the same usage.

I picked the name a bit randomly because it is retro and one of the first automation humans have created. I did not think too much about it but now I love it :)
Brands should force Twitter to uphold content policies, advocacy groups say
Are there any downsides to security keys as 2FA? Are they using a single standard that shouldn't accidentally change or be deprecated for some reason? Is it possible to use them on mobile devices? Are there any risks they might break? Any issues with Linux support? Which particular security key would you recommend and why?
I was emotionally and psychically abused in cub scouts, led by the pack leader because I did not buy into her specific image of evangelical Christianity. This was in a suburb outside of NYC in the 90s. the lack of oversight and vetting allowed this to proceed and turned more than a few kids off Boy scouting.

I would send my kids to Baden-Powell scouting if that was an option.
I haven't had the chance to watch the video but it seems increasingly realistic that there is no housing crisis. The actual crisis is much larger and far worse. Which hey, kind of would rather have a housing crisis.

It also is unclear what the fix is.
> And hopefully that doesn't raise eyebrows.

I fully expect it to raise many eyebrows. Anything dependent on context on the internet will be used against you.

But yes, I don't even expect an European to describe race in terms of "white" or "black". Those are contextual to the American continent.
I hate websites that don’t allow zoom, I have to screenshot and zoom on that…
So ridiculous. Really hurts for smaller startups.
The problem is in much more mundane ICs than cutting EUV stuff. Power regulators, converters, microcontrollers from a year back or 10 years back, everything.