skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general you cannot cut salaries. You can propose it an employees can obviously refuse.

IMHO, it can work but it is tricky to pull off.

You need everyone to agree. This requires a very good and trusting relationship between leadership and employees, and among employees.

This probably also needs to be-time limited with perhaps a promise to make it up when things improve.

All of the above finally requires that everyone believes in the company and the product enough to bet that it will succeed in1-2 years if they all sacrifice in the short term.

All of this makes it a very tall order to pull off in a startup but it's been done in large, established companies with strong leadership-employees relations (German automakers come to mind).

Lastly, pulling it off does not just mean people accept, it means they accept and they stick around rather than just making a tactical decision to accept to continue getting a salary while they loom for another job...
> intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use

Try browsing the web with JS and/or CSS disabled, you may be surprised to see how common it is to use <body hidden> and equivalents.

Just by disabling JS and occasionally using keyboard navigation, I have personally noticed half of the techniques in the article on major websites.
and/or an email address — would love to reach out!
But I just bought the whole series a couple months ago!

While the first one was fun and engaging, the second was just boring and repetitive. So, I still haven't gotten to Infinite yet.
It has been done in some cases (small startups, for example) - I was involved in one where the boss pay went to $1 and everyone went to minimum wage for a bit until funding came in.

First time it worked and we got back paid, second time boss recommended everyone take the offer but also start looking for work.
It's unenforceable (the author even admits this) but a tonne of game asset artists have had their work stolen and resold as NFTs, and so a lot of them have started including this clause just to make it clear because when the NFT scammers disappear with the cash, the buyers often end up contacting the original artist (and more often than not, start making demands and threats)
This is pretty well explained, and the visualizations make it understandable.

An example of a netcode that does "prediciton" and "rollback" is GGPO, which is used in fighting games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGPO

I believe a version of this is what runs in fightcade2 (see https://www.fightcade.com/), which is the best fighting experience I've ever seen. I can play against people all the way around the world, and it still works. Very impressive, and highly recommend to anyone in Gen X or Y who grew up on street fighter.
First, I should mention that I have seen it happen at small startups, when all members are necessary and they are all also invested in the firm's success (e.g. they profit big-time if the startup pulls through).

Having said that, more commonly it is the case that the headcount is simply more than is needed for the current amount of revenue, so you have two choices:

1) cut all salaries, and see the most valuable employees leave, or...
2) decide for yourself which employees leave

It's kind of brutal, and it's good to avoid it when you can, but it's not often that you can.
He lies incessantly, breaks laws, and treats people badly. Those are not good differences.

I don't claim to do anything. Please don't try to attach your facile identity politics to me because I think a highly public bully/criminal is not someone we should excuse and worship. The richest man in the world is powerful and should be held to high standards.
This is something I've never had the guts to do. Do you mind sharing how did it change your life?
Flatlands or not, it does not mean that cars are the only reasonable mode of transportation. Even if you insist of trying to solve a social problem with technology, it would make more sense for those living in hilly areas to push for electric bikes than self-driving cars.
Well-produced with the exception of the Coinbase one that was a bouncing QR code that took you to an overloaded sever.
Mom’s voice holds a special place in kids’ brains. That changes for teens
Someone will have to explain to me why "C" is so often selected when transliterating the K sound to the latin alphabet.

It's how we get mispronounced words like "cyclops"...
Elon Musk Sees Extinction of Italians on Persisting Low Birth-Rate
Quantity of luck has a bigger role to achieve success.
> This will significantly decrease the waste footprint from a whole filter.. to just a sticker

I don't think I understand which problem this solves. I can turn on my Xiaomi Air Purifier with or without a filter. It's just a fan. Is this about a new version that does not work with an old filter?
Kind of. S3 is the long-term low-cost durability guarantee, while our Safekeepers (3, each in a different zone) provide a high-cost short-term durability guarantee with their local persistent disks.

Latency from PostgreSQL WAL to S3 depends on WAL throughput and the configured pageserver checkpoint distance (default 256MB, and this config field is not equal to that of PostgreSQL).
Just as a note, I drive my completely manual honda in stop and go traffic without my hands on the wheel pretty regularly. You only need to make minor adjustments occasionally if your wheels are properly aligned.
They also load them for a million crap ware to look over employees, monitor software, slow antivirus, malware scans every day etc it's not the hardware it's overzealous IT management the problem and zero trust towards employees.

In addition giving developers the same hardware and permissions as business people who use word and is a big mistake.
AlloyDB is free during its preview phase (not sure how long that is).

https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/pricing#fair-usage-limits
OpenBSD's mascot is a pufferfish. If you're talking about the image at https://www.openbsd.org/71.html, that's a pufferfish on a surfboard under a curling ocean wave. Where are you getting a Trump vibe?
This is really amazing, super excited to try it out.

I read the docs and I noticed you can run it locally, but has the kubernetes bits been made available? I see https://github.com/neondatabase/helm-charts and https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/main/.circleci/hel... but I think there is some charts missing?
How does UDP work if you're also using delta compression? I would naively expect that the accumulation of lost diff packets over time would cause game state drift among the clients.
It would be nice if certificates didn't arbitrarily expire based on date.
This is axe's acid3 test.
I don't think it is the cause of their problems; immediate prohibition of alcohol wouldn't "fix" them. It's a byproduct of some of the other problems and might even be a mitigation of some of the discipline and behavior issues; its easier to put up with stupid shit when you're drunk.

I have been lectured by a fellow who did serve in active conflicts about the various military traditions he experienced; he analyzed them by unit cohesion. How big can a team in an army be? How long does it take for a new squad of thrown together strangers to become a team? and so on. With no fondness for the American command structure, he still rated the American armed forces as pretty good because real, problem focused teams can be large ("up to several hundreds of people!"), and assemble quickly. Other forces he characterized as "lost individuals with occasional supply drops."
> For a lot of the more rural midwest, there's not charging options that aren't bringing your own cables and hoping there's a plug you can use near where you can park your car.

Sure, so EVs aren't for the rural midwest then. Living in actual rural areas means travelling with jerry cans in case you get stuck, and keeping emergency packs in case you're caught without transit.

> Or I could take a flight, but wouldn't that nearly undo all of the environmental benefit of having driven my EV for the rest of the year?

Unless you're driving a hyper efficient vehicle already, for a drive that long, depending on how many people you're driving, you would be better off flying. It's ~1.3 tonnes of CO2 for a 2500 mile drive and about 0.6kg CO2 per person to fly the same distance. Cars are a remarkably bad way to travel.

> The long drive to see my family again would go from 14 hours to 16+ if I had to work in stops to fully re-charge my EV

That doesn't sound unreasonable to me, to be honest? Driving 14 hours has got to be in the top percentile of non-commercial trips, and it only being ~15% longer on probably the worst case imaginable is pretty good.
MUCs are sadly the absolute worst part of XMPP we see on a day-to-day basis. I don't think mobile notifications in them are actually solveable - while you're not connected, the MUC has absolutely no idea you exist, so why would it send you a push notification.

I'm very hopeful that MIX eventually solves the problems we have with it.
I've read reports that initially Russia had total of 190k troops of which 80k were BTGs, against Ukraine which has the second largest army in Europe after Russia, supported materially by NATO and has active duty of 200k.

The numbers make it look like Russia went in undermanned against a defender and has taken substantial land mass from Ukraine so far. Before the war I assumed Ukraine would win. That they've lost so much land to Russia has been a surprise to me.

So these "Russia is underperforming" ideas seem just weird to me.
I didn't see you blaming a mindset, I see you blaming the people that were leaving.

I would like to hear the mindset you blame.

Personally, I blame the mindset of trying to keep people out, keep people away, and of not welcoming all the infrastructural changes we need in order to accommodate population growth from immigration. To me that means more dense, mixed use housing, in transit corridors. And when I say transit corridor I don't mean freeways, I mean trains and maybe busses. This lack of housing is the direct cause of nearly all our homelessness. We just don't have places for people, so tons and tons of people have commutes longer than they should be (more traffic), and tons of people crowd into homes that are way too small. Homelessness is just the most visible end route of that. The more expensive housing is, the greater flow of people into homelessness. It's not poverty rates that cause this, it's high housing costs. And the only only only way to deal with the high housing costs is to get rid of the idea that we have to keep people out, and start building tons of dense housing.

Dense housing greatly reduces water usage while accommodating more people. Another mindset I blame is giving everything to somebody just because they got their first. So that's why we have farmers, who use 80% of CA water, growing massive amounts of alfalfa, instead of allowing people to use that water.

Drought and wildfire are the consequences of climate change. That is definitely the fault of those with the mindset that everybody has to drive and live in isolated single family homes, to the point that they ban apartment buildings in nearly all of the state.
I think my question with this would be:

How accurate is the filter durability that the normal filter <-> air purifier tracks? If it tracks reasonably well (which, without more info, I have my doubts for the same reason printer ink cartridge capacity tracking is bad), wouldn't using these stickers kind of defeat the purpose of using the filter in the air purifier, since these kinds of filters do have finite durability and after that it isn't purifying the air as well as it could be.
Hardly. These examples are really clear cut and easy to avoid in isolation, however some of them can also be employed by accident or ignorance in larger code bases.
That's very cool. Were you ever obligated to grant one of these ridiculous patents, or were you able to use your discretion?
Tesla does have a track record of delivering things however. It is not as if they are a complete unknown. I think it is reasonably safe to assume that it will exist eventually.
Playing devil’s advocate here.

Here are the red flags:
- Lack of context. Why is all of the evidence hidden/deleted/tucked away?

- Speak for “everyone”. Was it really consensus? Why not take direct ownership of a decision, instead of hiding behind a collective?

- Pulling in a snippet of private conversation as a evidence of being reasonable.

- Naming and shaming.

It may well be that the OP deserved the ban, but a single snippet of a measured response doesn’t address the questions that said action raises. Without more evidence, I say it suggests there’s more to this.
They’ve been giving away games for a very long time. One every week. Usually just a niche indie title. But it’s a special sale week so the games are big. I’m 100% sold. Epic Games has bought my customer loyalty and I have no qualms about it.

Edit: it’s a mix between promoting newer titles and drawing users to their platform.
The IT department should know better and offer the right hardware and software for each job. Unfortunately IT departments prefer conformity for easiest management instead of high performing and happy engineers.
This isn't an addon though, it's a node based material shader in a blend file.
I have wondered in the past what kind of monitoring / data harvesting google is doing with colab. I don't use them for anything nontrivial or work related precisely because I worry about google stealing my stuff or that I would be violating agreements with my customers by exposing their data to google. This story reinforces that they are snooping.

That aside, I don't think I find this too upsetting. They don't let people e.g. mine cryptocurrency either, I think it's fine that they limit how you can use their free (or cheap) "service".
It doesn't solve the problem, in fact, it limits your options. And I may be wrong but x264 doesn't seem to have the lowest latency codecs.

There are essentially two ways of dealing with latency : input lag (wait until we know everything before showing player actions) and prediction/rollback (respond immediately trying to guess what we don't know yet and fix it later, what is shown in the article). Games often do a mix of both, like a bit of input lag for stability and prediction to deal with latency spikes. With video streaming, you limit your prediction options.
Yeah that's okay. Some of the job is getting students excited and inspired so they know why they're studying. Admittedly a weak-minded western concept but it does work after its fashion (source: many of my teachers were kind, intelligent professionals who were good at their job)
This is really interesting. Are there restrictions or limitations on the PageServer + Safekeeper design when running OLAP queries on larger datasets?

Phrased another way, would a query that needs to access a relatively large amount of data (10-100 GB) ever need to read from s3, incurring extra latency?
I don't trust online IQ tests because the scores I get on them range from 110ish to 180ish and despite my robust self-esteem I don't see a score of 160+ as especially credible. :P

Real (ie. official medical) IQ scores seem to be heavily skewed around age and speed. So the same performance would get you a super high score in a 5-year-old and a mediocre score in a 10-year-old, which is weird because the questions are explicitly trying not to test language/knowledge type stuff that would change a lot between those ages. And the same answers would get a far higher score if you bashed them out in 15 minutes than if you took 2 hours on them. I haven't gone back to re-examine it but I remember thinking that you were way better off smashing through the questions as fast as possible and getting a few right than carefully considering the questions... which is an odd way to define intelligence.
IMVHO the whole point is that someone have badly misunderstood Toyoda method and have hoped we can do creative work like an industrial production in the assembly line, so someone have adapted assembly line methods from '900 mechanical industry to modern IT and made much of the mess we see around with crap layered on crap layered on other crap and no one have a clue of what's up in general.

That's is. SCRUM is an emergency mode operation technique that might work to sort out standard things, definitively not creating something new.
If daddy’s name is on a building you will find that you get admitted to Berkeley (and most other “no legacy preference” state or private schools).
Most of my teachers were unremarkable. The consensus among my high school clique was that about half of our teachers were visibly insane.

The teacher who I remember with love and respect to this day was one Mr. E who taught at the elementary school I attended. He had such a dignity and gravitas. I don't recall ever seeing him smile, nor did he ever raise his voice in anger, yet he commanded universal obedience and respect, not out of fear of him, but out of love and a fear of disappointing him.

Here's what I mean: One day some kids were running around in the hall goofing off. A visiting parent was there and told them to stop. The kids ignored her. She says, "I'll tell your teacher." they keep running and yelling. "I'll tell the principal." Nothing, they keep playing. "I'll tell Mr. E." snap! As though a switch were thrown the kids immediately stop running and shouting, straighten up (literally), and transform into little angels. Mr E wasn't even anywhere around. The invocation of his name alone was enough to remind the kids to behave properly.

Decades later, I've still never met anyone like him. I hear he's retired, gone into farming, and still visits the school from time to time.
> In those days the channels of discovery were so few and privileged that a common man couldn't even imagine something like publishing.

Isaac Newton was a fellow at Trinity (which required a special exemption by King Charles II concerning legal religious restrictions) and a fellow of the Royal Society for several decades before he published his work. He was not a "common man".
What a great article!

For those of you interested in cognition, our brains have almost precisely the same problem of temporal delay and prediction.

Each of many sensory-motor systems has about 50 to 150 milliseconds of jitter and offset. And the jitter and offset in timing depends on many factors—-intensity of the stimulus and your state of mind for example.

How does the brain help “consciousness” create an apparently smooth pseudo-reality for us from a noisy temporal smear of sensory (sensory-motor) input spread out over 100 milliseconds or more?

It is damn hard, but the CNS plays the same games (and more) as in this great Medium article—interpolation, smoothers, and dynamic forward prediction.

Just consider input to your human visual system: color-encoding cone photoreceptors are relatively fast to respond—under 30 msec. In contrast, the rod photoreceptors are much slower integrators of photons—up to 100 msec latencies. So even at one spot of the retina we have a serious temporal smear between two visual subsystems (two mosaics). It gets much worse—the far periphery of your retina is over a centimeter from the optic nerve head. Activity from this periphery connects slowly over unmyelinated fibers. That add even more temporal smear relative to the center or your eye.

And then we have the very long conduction delays of action potentials going from retina, to first base—the dorsal thalamus—, and then finally to second base—the primary visual cortex at the very back of your head. That is a long distance and the nerve fibers have conduction velocities ranging 100-fold: from 0.3 meters/sec to 30 meters/sec.

The resulting input to layer four of your visual cortex should be a complete temporal mess ;-) But it isn’t.

What mechanisms “reimpose” some semblance of temporal coherence to your perception of what is going on “out there”?

Neuroscientist do not spend much time thinking about this problem because they cannot record from millions of neurons at different levels of the brain.

But here is a good guess: the obvious locus to interpolate and smooth out noise is the feedback loop from visual cortex to dorsal thalamus. I mentioned the dorsal thalamus (formally the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus) as “first bade” to visual system input. Actually it get 3X more descending input from the visual cortex itself—a massive feedback loop that puzzles neuroscientists.

This huge descending recurrent projection is the perfect Bayesian arbiter of what makes temporal sense. In other worlds the “perceiver”, the visual cortex, provides a descending feedback to its own input that tweak synaptic latencies in dorsal thalamus to smooth out the visual world for your operational game playing efficacy. This feedback obviously cannot remove all of the latency differences, but it can clean up jitter and make the latencies highly predictable and dynamically tunable, via top-down control.

Quite a few illusions expose this circuitry.

for more @robwilliamsiii or labwilliams@gmail.com
What is Marginalia? Feels like a links database.
> did anyone even try this, ever?

I think it depends on the granularity.

Coarse-grained parallelism is already common: some things like AI (like your example), Physics, Resource Management, Shader Compilation, Audio and even Netcode are already commonly run in separate threads.

However you won't see the updateInputs(), all the updateState() and sometimes even render() running in parallel for two reasons: first because it's often cheaper and easier/simpler to run in the main thread than dispatching async jobs anyway. Second because each operation often depends on the previous ones, and you can't wait until the next frame to take it into account: you often want instant feedback.

However these things can in theory be run in parallel without becoming chaos. ECS is often very parallelizable: you can run multiple Systems in different threads, as long as the output of one System is not a dependency of another running at the same time. You could also process multiple components of a system in multiple threads, but that would negate ECS main advantage: being cache-friendly by virtue of running in a single thread.
Add support for OAuth 2.0 (Gmail) by cketti · Pull Request #6082 · k9mail/k-9
It is their right to ban any use they want. Colab is an awesome service, so much so that I seldom use my at-home GPU rig.

As consumers we can use or not use platforms like Google, Twitter, etc. as we like, or not.

Colab’s ban will be good for small 3rd party GPU cloud providers and that is a good thing. Same thing with Twitter: in the last month there is now better material on Mastodon.
You have the burden of proof exactly backwards.
This is great, I was just thinking of a similar setup for the wireguard VPN I had created for work.

We use multiple WG interfaces with its own IPv6 subnet for access control so will be keeping an eye on the following issue.
https://github.com/firezone/firezone/issues/549
Use a different SOCKS proxy for each container.
They once gave away GTA V for free if you set up MFA. They also did the new Tomb Raider Triology a while back.
> It also misses that most games are made with frameworks/libs now that give the dev no control over what things require round trips to the server (I assume this is the explanation for that; Fortnite took 2 years to fix weapon switch lag and LoL still has round trip bugs).

League of Legends is using a custom game engine built from the ground up, it's always been a really buggy mess though.
I asked Walter about this when I was a grad student at University of Hawaii. He and his wife Mary Ellen would visit regularly and I was attempting to make small talk at a pau hana party. He said he made an effort to find the shortest proofs of all the basic theorems so students could get to the more interesting results quicker.
Because all of those don't or can't have both low-latency reads and regional persistence guarantees, which is what we're after.
Countries with mandatory vaccines had the worst mortality.