skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually no. They replaced me with 9 engineers to do the same amount of work and had to delay the project 6 months because they had me working 100 hours a week and renegged on a raise and a vacation.
Me irl :( Every time I'm sent the quarterly email demanding my OKRs I just copy over the couple of single line items like "Support X" and "Maintain Y". I'm sure there's someone I've never met wearing a suit and thinking I'm worthless as a result.
> A quality response to this sort of questionnaire would take at least an hour

Maybe I'm an outlier, but it would take me way longer than that. At least a couple hours.
If we assume that the home-owners have been building equity in their homes for the past 2 years, no, they would be at 0 + equity. This of course stings a little, but still not underwater or filing for bankruptcy.
You might be surprised how little people actually regard the owner's political opinion of the miltibillion dollar corporation from which they just bought a quarter-million dollar car.
I wouldn't even be surprised if a significant percentage of Tesla owners don't even know who owns the company.
A smooth solution : provide sqlite databases for easy browsing with datasette

https://datasette.io/
first sentence. homie rip
" the tooling around it also produces a lot of unnecessarily wrong-by-default behavior."

It does.

What I meant by one company doing something about it was, in realistic terms, no one can do much about the fact that the rest of the world uses a lot of complex systems that aren't as robust as earlier simpler systems. You have to use the current tools and that's just how they are now. You can try to be less stupid as possible, but you can't change the ecosystem you need to live in and interoperate with.
One, or three, carousels of vacation slides used to be an effective way of putting a party to sleep ...
Better for the end-user, not better for administrators and accountants on the side of government services.
Yeah, imagine if users didn't have benevolent Google protecting them, some unscrupulous company full of unethical developers might scan all their personal email, or monitor what websites they visit, or even collect biometric data and then track their every waking movement in the real world.
Are you seriously asking why someone might be frustrated that a thing that used to be free is no longer free?
I've used this identical technique to write hourlong talks -- it works well!

The first sentence is the _core_: you write and rewrite this a lot, because the entire talk builds up to it. Next three sentences are the major supporting ideas for your core. They also get rewritten a lot, because again they're really important, they flesh out your core idea.
Then you write a lot of detail, one chunk per idea.

I'm glad to know the name for this technique, it works really well!
It’s only faster if you have the skills personally to build (which is many, but not all, HN users). If you don’t then vetting is a better place to start.
I'd be more concerned about the other ~$6.3T of holdings in the Fed's ~$9T balance sheet.[a] The Fed has publicly announced it will allow its bond holdings to mature, to the tune of ~$90B/month, without recycling the proceeds back into treasury and agency-sponsored mortgage-backed bonds.

Given that all treasury bonds that mature and most mortgage bonds paid off via home sales are refinanced, private investors -- that is, mutual funds, ETFs, pension plans, individuals, etc. -- will have to buy an additional ~$90B of bonds every month, give or take, going forward.

That's $1T/year that private investors must find to buy treasury and agency bonds newly issued to refinance old ones.

Without a doubt, this will have a large, persistent effect on treasury yields and credit spreads.

[a] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=PlId
There are lots of ways to be creative and keep your life interesting that have nothing to do with being an entrepreneur. You can consume or create any type of art, learn about things unrelated to your career, do outdoors stuff, participate in various communities, do charity work etc etc. And if you're making big money at your "boring" job, you don't have to worry about marketing these skills or even being very good at them, it can just be for your own fulfillment.

Our industry obsesses over successful entrepreneurs, and it's fine if that what you want to do, but don't let it blind you to everything else life has to offer.
Networking falls outside the typical game engine.

The major game engines include networking.

* Unreal Engine, networking section, documentation.[1]

* Unity game engine, networking section, documentation.[2]

My own interest is in metaverse systems, with big, detailed, free-play worlds. Wrangling all that content presents a set of problems that are not well solved yet. Which is why the highly publicized metaverses look so much worse than a typical AAA title. They haven't solved content wrangling, so they have to limit content complexity so severely it looks like 1995. I'm plugging away on that problem. (Demo video: [3]). It seems to be quite solveable, but there's not much written on the subject and I'm having to re-invent too much.

[1] https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/networking-and-multi...

[2] https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UNet.html

[3] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/peBesyAgtzfRWS5FnDQQtn
Where does Drupal lie on the continuum between framework and no-code / CMS, though?

If I'm using Drupal, do I start with code or do I start with a web UI? If I need to tweak something, am I modifying my code or someone else's component?
Why? Excel is fantastic. Just use it right.
C wasn't on that list.
We issue a credit note*

* Except (these aren't the right thing to do, but I've seen it in the wild many times):

- When someone in sales issues an invoice with a negative amount on line 3. Hey, if I take payments with invoices, why not give back?

- When someone agrees to settle up by providing free services and throws it on the next bill.
That seems like a non-sequitur to me. When "quantitative easing" occurs, the Fed buys Treasuries not because it lets the government spend more, but to reduce interest rates and encourage lending.
These are debt instruments. If the Fed buys UST, MBS, etc from the market, those assets will be serviced over time and the money will return to the Fed.
I used to know what kind of deck someone was going to play by what they brought to the table. A bag of counters… yeah ok R/G. A box of “extra cards”? Black zombie or rat packs. Absolutely nothing? Mono blue counter burn.
Enzyme dev here, so take everything I say as being a bit biased:

While, by design Enzyme is able to run very fast by operating within the compiler (see https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/9332c513ef44b... for details) -- it aggressively prioritizes correctness. Of course that doesn't mean that there aren't bugs (we're only human and its a large codebase [https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme], especially if you're trying out newly-added features).

Notably, this is where the current rough edges for Julia users are -- Enzyme will throw an error saying it couldn't prove correctness, rather than running (there is a flag for "making a best guess, but that's off by default"). The exception to this is garbage collection, for which you can either run a static analysis, or stick to the "officially supported" subset of Julia that Enzyme specifies.

Incidentally, this is also where being a cross-language tool is really nice -- namely we can see edge cases/bug reports from any LLVM-based language (C/C++, Fortran, Swift, Rust, Python, Julia, etc). So far the biggest code we've handled (and verified correctness for) was O(1million) lines of LLVM from some C++ template hell.

I will also add that while I absolutely love (and will do everything I can to support) Enzyme being used throughout arbitrary Julia code: in addition to exposing a nice user-facing interface for custom rules in the Enzyme Julia bindings like Chris mentioned, some Julia-specific features (such as full garbage collection support) also need handling in Enzyme.jl, before Enzyme can be considered an "all Julia AD" framework. We are of course working on all of these things (and the more the merrier), but there's only a finite amount of time in the day. [^]

[^] Incidentally, this is in contrast to say C++/Fortran/Swift/etc, where Enzyme has much closer to whole-language coverage than Julia -- this isn't anything against GC/Julia/etc, but we just have things on our todo list.

[ps sorry if this ended up as a dup, I meant to reply deeper in the tree, so I deleted the older comment and moved it here].
thats show business
A central database leveraging OLAP connections within Excel may be a good half-measure.
two articles written about plagiarism will invariably have similar contents. Especially information about the origin of the word. The structure only seems loosely similar to me.
Indeed. I'll never work for a company like that again. And it's another reason managers want people back in offices.
Seeing is deceiving: A new way to train deepfake detection improves success
It's very relevant; the current public abortion debate is a direct consequence of the fact that the supreme court doesn't agree with the ruling. You don't have to agree with it to understand it, nor to understand that it is incorrect.

When this future ruling comes down, I highly doubt you'll be citing it as justification for it's own existence and saying that disagreement is irrelevant. Those that are happy with it won't be either, they'll justify it by saying it is the correct one, in their opinion. Whether one agrees or not is at the core of the conversation.
I was very much ball parking the figure assuming 10-20 employees from $2.7M
It's not a fantasy to observe that the right-wing of the American political spectrum spent most of 2020 and 2021 screaming about individual handouts and unemployment benefits, while only raising a token protest about PPP loans, and the firehose of money that the Fed started dumping into the capital markets, starting in March 2020.

In reality, all of those steps were necessary to prevent economic disaster, but now that disaster has been averted, and wages started rising, everyone's clutching their pearls about inflation.
This looks like a reboot of the "Timeful" app by Dan Ariely, which was bought then shut down by Google.
If it detects it’s on the same LAN it’ll route locally, so I find it quite good. The only challenge I’ve had with latency is desync when using it for video but using a desktop mic directly into the PC for audio, as opposed to using the phone for both. However that’s possible to overcome too with delay.
Here is GCP statement: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/exp...

Tl;Dr: "We never use your data for ads targeting."

Disclaimer: Googler, but opinions are my own.
It's not necessarily better for the users. I'm one of the founders of a free and open source service which simplifies the process of sending CCPA/GDPR data deletion requests. A common request from our users is to give them good recommendation on who to opt out from.

A new compatitor has implemented a feature where they use the Gmail API to analyse a user's email exchange (from their servers) in order to recommend who to opt out from. It's very effective, and even though I would never give a 3rd party access to my email account most people do.

Now we thought of implementing a similar feature, but from the client side (which is a bit less effective but much more privacy respecting). Now I'm not sure from what I read if we need a security audit or not, but the risk and the extra work isn't worth it for us. We're a nonprofit.

Our compatitors on the other hand are a VC backed commercial organization. They make money buy providing a service to the companies they help people opt out of. The whole opt out side is just a way of manufacturing demand, so you can guess where their loyalty lies. But because they are well funded and because sending opt out emails is basically marketing for them, it makes sense for them to pay for an audit.

At the end of the day, the user suffers.
I think a lot of people's introduction to OKRs is John Doerr's book "Measure What Matters". That's where I learned about them.

The book explains how Andy Grove introduced the practice at Intel and it was very effective. The book seems to attribute the success to the practice itself and seems to say "if you adopt OKRs, you will succeed like Intel did".

I suspect that this success is misattributed. I suspect that Andy Grove was probably an excellent manager and I think he could have succeeded with something other than OKRs. I think he understood that what was really important was to get everybody across the organization to focus on essentially one big goal. He needed to make sure that everybody was pulling in the same direction and together, and OKRs provided a tool to do that.

When my organization decided to implement OKRs, my question to my peers was "who is our Andy Grove?"

If the people implementing OKRs focus too much on the practice and not enough on the motivation, I think you just end up with cargo-culting. The setting and tracking of KRs becomes the objective. So people treat it like busywork because OKRs don't really seem to matter - they just gets in the way of the "important" stuff.

As one of my coworkers says, the title of the book is "Measure What Matters", but it's too easy to slide into "What Is Measured Is What Matters".
Though why you would leave it that close is something of a mystery to me. After all, you might have connectivity problems or an unexpected personal emergency or something. It's not like you didn't know the deadline was coming up.... just pay a day or two early and avoid the stress!

(I'm sure there are people who legitimately have to do it at the last moment for some reason. But I don't believe that's the common case.)
Accelerating the Pace of Machine Learning
It has "brainiac" from 1975. It long predated that as the name of one of Superman's super-villians that had a giant brain.
The American A.J. Nock wrote The Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, which you can find on-line at https://mises.org/library/memoirs-superfluous-man. It makes for interesting reading, but I think less so the second time through.
You can't halt a bank collapse, but you can postpone it and attempt to reduce the impact with inflation which is exactly what has happened.

Additionally, if you don't address the lack of regulation that allowed the collapses in 2008, which we absolutely did not, it will keep happening and those future occurrences will grow in severity. Since now, in order to 'make money', the frauds have to be bigger, faster, and more aggressive.
Your questions are answered in the first sentence of the article.

> Zstd or Zstandard (RFC 8478, first released in 2015) is a popular modern compression algorithm. It’s smaller (better compression ratio) and faster than the ubiquitous Zlib/Deflate (RFC 1950 and RFC 1951, first released in 1995).
thats pretty cool! what if no one wants to do devops stuff?
As I mentioned above, my wife works longer hours than I do. I do the laundry, groceries, supply shopping, cook meals, clean, etc.. I have two full time jobs and I do all the housework.
This is the kind of technology that I don't like, too weird
> how independent is it really if they are printing money to buy treasury bonds?

This article is literally about them printing money to buy private assets...
Good things in browser space came out of sparks created by opposing forces' clashes.

When everybody does the same thing, different ideas can't take root and express themselves, and we can't create even better ideas.
Alcohol is one of the few abused substances where the withdrawal effects can kill you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
The reason is that the ISO codes were inherited, via a long winding path, from the postal system. That's why you'll see that the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey have codes as well (even though they are not independent sovereign states). And of course Ireland has a code. But then after the postal codes were created came partition, and the Unionists called themselves British, so wouldn't have wanted a code that made them felt less British, and so whereas they would have been under the Ireland code before partition they joined GB after partition.
4 oracle changing licensing to be more hostile toward virtualization, right around at VMware peak
Looks interesting, is there a non-paywalled version?
> As a result, businesses either have to raise wages, or shut down, or significantly reduce their hours.

If these were your only choices you were on the edge of profitability right before a global pandemic hit. Plenty of reasons for that. Commercial Rent Control is "progressive" and the people who own property like this can afford to let it sit vacant indefinitely and will literally abandon this amount of profit because they feel like it.
If the machines that measured the 2 black holes colliding had to be extra precise and insulated as well as costing millions...what are the chances to detect changes in gravity due to an earthquake?

Does a much much much lower distance compared to the black holes allow for less sensitive and expensive machines?
1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030
SAP and Oracle are always easy targets. Not sure about Oracle but SAP has a relatively newer (10 yr old) subscription and usage billing product - https://www.sap.com/products/subscription-billing.html
Your mentor might think you're boring, but what do your friends and family (and yourself) think? They're the ones that really matter.
this isnt the bbs experience i was promised
> those assets will be serviced over time and the money will return to the Fed

The comment I responded to [1] posited the Fed needing to engage in extraordinary tightening. Waiting for the debt to be repaid would be insufficient in that case. (Also, defaults unbalance the equation.)

In that case, the Fed would need to sell assets to draw cash out of the economy. My point was that if the Fed ran its balance sheet to zero, it would still have unlimited firepower in the form of slashing interest on reserves through zero, borrowing through repos and potentially even raising the reserve requirement. These are powerful tools. Too powerful for regular use, which is why the more-precise open market operations are preferred.

TL; DR Running out of room to tighten is not a problem for a central bank.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31428385
Steroid hormones of the octopus self-destruct system
> CDOs did not blow up the housing market. The housing market blew up the CDO market.

Both statements are correct because there was a feedback loop.
Whenever someone asks that question I tell them my personal goal is to make more money. Ironically this sometimes leads to productive conversations.
Ask HN: Have you ever implemented a feature flags service?
I'm looking for tips on how to implement feature flags. I'm at a point now where, due to the large number of branches and separate environments, the lack of feature flags is making it difficult to merge from one branch of work to another because some features are available in one branch but shouldn't be operating/on in a certain environment. Effectively we are using merging or not merging as the case may be as a way to control which features are available in which environment.

The correct way to handle this, I think, is to rely on feature flags. So, for example, I could say that feature X is not available in production, feature Y is available in staging, etc.

Implementing this as static flags using configuration files and settings is easy enough, but what I would like is something along the lines of what Launch Darkly (and other services, I assume..) provides, which is the ability to dynamically flip features on and off in such a manner that running services will respect the changes to those flags live.

Does anyone have any tips on how to go about implementing this? I can think of a few relatively simple ways with a couple pieces of infrastructure in AWS or any other cloud provider to make this possible, but I'm wondering if people have already implemented something along these lines.

Thanks in advance.
Will they include this additive in the ingredients list?
The past decade of social media has proven that that isn't how the world works in practice. Lies fly all round the world before the truth even gets out of bed.
Long-Term Building in Japan
I'm doubly wary of unsuccessful people telling me it's (nearly) impossible to be successful. Can't never could.
> Is some point being made there?

Yes! That everything is fine, everyone is happy and if you're not happy, then the only sane conclusion is that there's something wrong with you.
Fountain is pretty cool.

I used Highland, the writing app developed by the same fellow (John August), to work on a screenplay a couple years ago. It's good, but quirky, especially for non-screenplay applications. The advantage of Fountain, of course, is that it goes anywhere plain text does.
Higham there adds the condition that X, Y be well-conditioned (as they are in the SVD, for example). That's a problem with the Jordan decomposition A = X J X^-1: the X is non-singular in theory, but can be ill-conditioned, and thus the Jordan decomposition is not stable and not really used in practice (as highlighted in the original article).
I've been hearing this for 20 years.

I assume nothing will happen while this "news" will be used by fossil fuel companies to virtue signal "technological progress" in the plastic problem.
GIMP is my goto image editor for over a decade. Tried other things and didn't see the appeal.
> $1T/year that private investors must find to buy newly issued treasury and agency bonds

Yes.

> this will have a large, persistent effect on treasury yields and credit spreads

That's the point.
It's the only way, and it usually doesn't work.

Lies win, because reality is fighting with one hand tied behind its back. Truth is nearly always boring because it's forced to be consistent. Lies have no such limitations.

Truth does have the advantage that it appeals to people who aren't complete dumbfucks. Which is to say, a tiny minority.
Energy was never free. Oil and coal are quite expensive to extract and handle, just less than other alternatives at the time. Fortunately, renewables are now cheaper than those ever were.
250k Tesla? The top of the range Plaid is ~130k
Cheese and Trackers.

A timeless match.
I didn't check myself, but in the link from the other comment regex is the one thing where python wins!

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Of course this is testing two native implementations of regex parsing, not the higher level scripting language handling.
AI 100: The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2022
If you print things that you'd buy anyway the packaging would make up for a good bit of waste plastic.
It's ironic that each page of Merriam-Webster's site tells you how to properly cite it so references to its definitions are properly attributed ... yet it does not cite its sources for these "first time used in print" dates. It would be a lot easier to verify their accuracy if the site told you WHERE each term was first used in print.
Results are not meaningless if in the real world, everybody is skimming anyways.
> For every beautiful, artisinal website experience out there that takes UX seriously, there's an equally horrible one

more like 10 equally horrible ones
Nuclear fuel must first be mined, correct? That's not renewable and could offset the benefits somewhat. That said I imagine it may be better as a base load than dirty coal.
Or those of us who don't like microplatics in our fish, water, and bodies
Yup. You and I are 100% in agreement. :-(
I absolutely would buy a cheese printer and download off The Cheese Bay if I could.