skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is reasonable, though on the flipside, the commenter could also become stuck in a role at a large corporation where either the work is repetitive, or the skills are non-transferable to other companies (i.e. the work is highly specific to internal tools not used elsewhere), with no on-the-job time to improve one’s skills.

You’re right that conditions could be far better for skill improvement, though having paid free time is also a great environment (e.g. for potentially earning a graduate degree online from a reputable institution).
>I feel like we need to revisit the whole idea of telemetry in mobile apps, like start over from scratch.

Also the operating systems. You get a new Android phone, Google Maps randomly comes up and tells you "Hey you're at this location, want to do this check-in bullshit?" even though it wasn't previously open. And yet, the app list button only shows a few things that have viewable windows, no easy way to see every background task that's running adn presumably spying on you. It's designed like this deliberately.
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From what I’ve seen of recent products, they should probably close up shop and just license patents and collect dues. Dead company.
> not to mention the huge cost and environmental impact of the fuel, the emissions, and the additional roads that needed to be built to support these commutes.

Plus a decent chunk of the 43,000 road deaths a third of all spinal injuries and a million days spent in the hospital every year from collisions.
Pfah, if my wishes were so simple I'd barely need the man page.
For people who are having problem with the "hilton@domain.com" situation, consider using ROT13 or some other similar scheme (hilton becomes uvygba).

Other alternatives include:

1. shorten it so much that it's not revealing anymore (hil@domain.com)

2. use another language if you're multilingual (hiruton@domain.com for Japanese)
I had the exact same experience! Almost verbatim. Nowadays, after one very long weekend spent changing my email address across dozens of different websites and services, I just use name@name.red instead of anything service-specific. Even now, though, the fact that it's a ".red" rather than a ".com" is too much for some people (e.g., my student loan servicer doesn't support .red domains at all). It's fun being special until it isn't.
Postgraphile allows for user roles,etv
There's no other place to park cash right now. Central banks have zero and some negative interest rates. Having cash on bank is very expensive so the stock market is the new bank.
It's not necessarily wrong to add disparate units like this. It's implicitly weighting one unit to the other. Changing to nanoseconds just gives more weight to the time metric in the unified benchmark. You could instead explicitly weight them without changing units, if you cared about the size more you could add a multiplier to it.
Related:

The Web from 1989 to 1994 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27928020 - July 2021 (22 comments)
I concur completely. But I think we live in such a world where success is attributed to the CEO and failure to anyone else.
The article title is not precisely misleading, but given that the article appears in the "Church Life Journal" published by a roman catholic private university, the honesty comes from a particular ideology.

Looking at the nd.edu articles submitted to Hacker News, I believe that if the Texas forced speech law takes effect, Hacker News should anticipate carrying a tidal wave of off topic, ideological articles like this.
Nuking the actual email was of limited benefit over time.

For whatever reason I started to get spam on my real non-aliased email address and at that point it was all bets off.

Shortly after I gave up on the tagged addresses I just moved to gmail.
Non-disableable typing indicators is one of the few things I very much dislike about Slack. I don't want people to see whether I'm typing, and this means I have to use an external editor. (The big other thing is @here/@channel notifications by default being on. No fucking thanks -- I turn that shit off on almost every channel.)
> Their audience just got older and rather than abandon them they acquired companies more suited to younger generations e.g. Instagram, Oculus instead.

This strategy has run it's course. Regulators are keen to weaken FB and will obstruct further acquisitions. Acquisition targets know they can beat FB in the long run and will no longer agree to be purchased.
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Re: comment aging poorly - somewhere on this site there's a really old comment of mine saying I couldn't believe Facebook didn't accept the Microsoft buy-out offer. I correctly predicted the then-soon coming backlash against Facebook and that they would become "uncool", but I failed to predict that that wouldn't impede Facebook much as a business nor lead to the mass exodus of users.
You wanna believe that your data is safe with your donut chain of choice. Everyone wants to believe that.
The time for an online people-directory was ripe. There can only be one such (for normal people), and Facebook made some fortuitous strategic decisions early on (minimize ads, real name policy, target university students, and more). Once Facebook achieved critical mass then they just had to avoid silly mistakes in order to succeed.
Meh.

Some people might want to be the name-and-shame type, but, that's not me.
This looks cool, I've been looking at time series DBs lately and mostly landed with timescale because of the ability to have complete freedom querying the dataset with postgres kitchen sink.

The post here really focuses on one query and that is weirdly without a time sort.
Would similar queries be also fast? - What about a join, aggregates, lag()-over, subqueries, unions, etc queries
> I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse.

You actually have to try VR to better understand. Google Cardboard doesn’t count

Rec Room and VR chat are good places to start
This is a question for a lawyer rather than the internet
> You can't just discount the psychological impact of having to force yourself to do the activity instead of it being an integral part of your daily life.

You're talking about your own subjective preferences and motivations like they're universal constants of the human condition that apply to everyone.
Tim Horton's was bought by RBI, which also includes Burger King and Popeye's. They run things super lean, though quality at the restaurant is going to be mostly up to the franchisee. For Tim's, I got the feeling that they don't really understand the customer; business seems to be doing fine since the acquisition, though the grumbling doesn't stop.
This happens all the time. Leadership wants us to keep developing new features while ignoring the foundational issues that cause us to keep taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back. My condolences; it's a frustrating experience for sure, but we'll get through it.
So an outstanding job just requires business to flourish, doesn't matter the means? I really don't agree with that.
Fully agree on both issues.
I've been aggressively filtering and purging my Reddit feed for a couple of years, and at first it was enough, but only at first. I finally bit the bullet and deleted my account after ten years. I only go back to Reddit when I know there will be a particular thread that I want to read. So far, I'm not missing it.
> How's the death penalty working to disincentivize murder?

We can't really know unless we can compare the results to those under another system.
I concur that the tweeter is being pedantic.

This is largely some embedding of semantics that we currently do not fully have a mapping for, precisely because it was generated stochastically.

Saying it was "not true" seems like clickbait.
I think that K8s _could_ make the process of maintaining CI/build/deployment tasks much more hands-off and automated. But in practice we often use this new "power" as an opportunity to invent more fancy/smart things to do, taking advantage of it to the point where it requires as much if not more maintenance as whatever came before.
“The Red Violin” is a late 90’s movie about a famous and beautiful-sounding violin (clearly based on a Strad) that is passed down through the ages, which has a unique varnish on it.
that's interesting.

i've never used chat that does this, but i have seen a lot of claims it was a misfeature in google wave back in the day.

but still, i could see it being ok, more like verbal conversation.

i defnly agree w/ the linked article that the middle ground of "<soandso> is typing" is a misfeature. the only possible response to that information is to sit there waiting, which is annoying/pointless.

(but nothing beats verbal comms, still. downside of course is that it is "extremely synchronous" and does not archive well.)
This graph of M2 and the Wilshire 5000 might be of some interest: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Q311
> No one said you're supposed to contact anyone about the spam.

Considering that, as far as I knew at the time, nobody was doing this at all, nobody told me any of what I was "supposed" to do. Even if they had told me what i was "supposed" to do, I generally am not good at following directions or doing what i'm supposed to do.

> Btw 90+5+5+5=105%.

Case in point.
Now if only I could limit the amount of memory a browser would consume! The fact that desktop browsers grind a 16GB machine to a halt, while on mobile devices having 1000s of tabs is a non-issue is plain wrong. Since I can't limit a process' memory on Mac OS (any OS?), why not give me a setting in preferences to do so? After all the browser is really just a VM at this stage. I'm quite certain I don't need 100 tabs in active memory at once.

While at it, why can't we hibernate tabs? Write the JSC heap and DOM state to disk, the way VMs do it?

What's taking up the majority of my memory anyway - the graphics / gpu side or the JS VM?

There's a whole spectrum of startups trying to solve the webkit memory consumption issues crudely, such as https://www.mightyapp.com
> Today the global community of technologists sent a letter to Congress

Bullshit. As a member of the "global community of technologists", I sent no such letter to Congress nor did I appoint anyone to send a letter on my behalf.

I don't even see a point in addressing the same old anti-crypto arguments contained in the letter. The real story here is the presumption of these self-appointed "respected scholars and technologists".
The actual detailed report can be found here: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investig...

Essentially, both Android and iOS apps were collecting data. Also interesting to note, that Ontario accounted for 54% of purchases in May 2020, of people that used this app. I wonder how close it to actual sales.

Full disclosure, I just used this app today in Ottawa. Doh!
This ruling did not survive on appeal: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=542088572460013...
You're the one who seems to get what I'm saying exactly. It's like a big snowball that the more you feed it the more it grows as it rolls.

I can't tell if this is good or bad or not. Because it seems like funny money to me.
This is Woit’s blog post about the (just-released) memoir, and while he’s respectful and graceful, he spends most of it rehashing his strong and long-standing disagreements with the (now-dead) author and the field he had worked in. Those are worth talking about, but maybe a link that discussed the book’s actual content in more depth would be better?
Never heard of Cardinal either, and I like that they don't show typing status. If I see someone is typing in a Slack channel, or typing to me privately, it takes all my focus away until it is complete. Interesting though that they don't show their pricing on the website. Why's that?
Unreal Engine 4.27 demo running on WebGL 2.0
This ^ - being forced to use an external editor to type you response then copy/paste defeats the purpose. Plus Slack is such a POS anyway. I also hate the distraction of the crap notifications. Humans are not interrupt-driven creatures.
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That higher report of errors from Linux users is most likely to be because we are more used to reporting errors not because the game is often buggier under Linux
I think Sheryl Sandberg might go down as the Thomas Midgley Jr[0] of the 21st century; the single person most responsible for internet pollution and toxicity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
There's an additional 5% chance that I did that intentionally to be funny. Does it add up now?
I don't feel that the realities of rent/utilities/snacks get nearly enough attention in conversations like this. If you have more than a handful of employees with office space in a major metro area, rent is easily equal to (or more) than the cost of multiple people. If you are looking to trim costs in a bad economy, or on the flip side - grow your company efficiently, rent seems like an easy spot to compromise on.

The FAANGs have spent millions of dollars building or leasing their current offices, it's not hard to see the Finance/Accounting folks escalating that those investments should to be utilized. (Not saying that it's a primary driver here - but surely it's a factor.)
The iql tool is pretty amazing for coding up a query and intro.
Isn't that only relevant because you're using -c copy? Without transcoding, ffmpeg will just copy the stream from that start-time. But because video codecs store data as incremental updates to a keyframe, without transcoding, those first few seconds will be useless data. -noaccurate_seek looks for the keyframe so you do not have that useless data.

Proper terms are i-frame and p-frame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression_picture_type...

Though according to the ffmpeg docs on -ss, it should be doing noaccurate_seeks if you're doing stream copy.

Also I'm unsure about this, but I think the audio stream can be cut at a different location than the video stream, leading to the frozen frame, and different video players seem to handle it differently. I've got a clip I've made, with transcoded video stream but copied audio stream, that is 1:06 on Firefox with the extra audio at the beginning, but 1:03 on VLC, MPC, Chrome, and desynced in Edge. Extracting the audio with ffmpeg again gives a time of 1:04.02 compared to a video stream of 1:03.
I agree.
Adding to a point about privacy coins - zk-SNARKS or zk-STARKS can be implemented on Ethereum via L2 rollups for those who need privacy/non-traceability. But probably not on a base layer.
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> In this case, taking an order from a consumer and collecting a payment comes to mind.

all of this can be done in a web app, including the payment (apple pay).
You can go back to the office… but what if your teammates don’t? You’ll be in the same situation.
I’m strongly considering it
> but it really seems like they’re on constant defense now and have a very tough lift to actually get something truly mass market

What about the metaverse ? :) Isn't it something not defensing and mass market ?

I feel like you are reproaching Meta to not do exactly what they do. They are having a massive innovative bet on how people will spend their time in the future.
True young people are naive and overestimate their chance at success, it's why they can be so charming some times, and clueless other times.
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Based on my surveys of people in the US, 97-99% of people with handsets are location tracked nearly 24/7. I am in the 1% with my hardened phone free of Goople and on airplane mode 99% of the time. I hope these companies continue to be exposed and help people choose where to buy our coffee and not give up their freedom for coupons.
Seems like everyone including Zuckerberg's most loyal lieutenants are abandoning this sinking ship.
It can't even do that for long, as the difficulty adjusts downward to compensate.
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I suppose. I mostly did it as a fun experiment and stopped when it ceased to be fun.

I don't resent it or regret it, I had a lot of fun writing the software which powered it.
Agree. Maybe it's me, but everyone is starved for employees, from coffee shops to data science companies. Good time to switch
The data has temporal component, yes. But how would I packetize it in the first place? I have the high-level concept that I need to take each of my data chunks and put them into some kind of timestamped container/page/atom and feed them into the stream, but I have no idea how to actually emit those packets. Like let's say each time step I emit a binary blob of msgpack-encoded data. How do I wrap that with a timestamp/sequence number container?
Sorry, you think I was making a comment in support of Starlink? What are you saying is false? Do you think that I believe Starlink's PR spin (what is confusing about those words?) to paint satellites black would fix the problem they created? Do you think that I belive the FAA/FCC have told SpaceX that they could no longer go ahead with their plans until a solution was in place? Where's the disconnect?
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Having been in many managerial discussions where we try to figure out how to sugarcoat the real message, I'd much rather prefer the Elon version. I do agree that some level of empathy in the email would be nice but still hate th corp version. Atleast this way, there is no ambiguity about the seriousness of his ask.
Having come from a poor rural background - I have no intention of going back. The brain rot that exists in those communities is beyond toxic.

At least there's a chance in cities of interacting with someone reasonable. I have no intention of putting my kids through the hell that is the extremely xenophobic racism that exists in rural areas either. But - no - I'm just intolerant because I won't tolerate intolerance.
Everyone needs to chill, they are just market testing their new Chocolate Frosted With Chocolate Sprinkles Tracking Donut
> I still don't understand what's the difference between MMOs and Metaverse

Lack of mundane grinding for exp, rep and mats?
What do you mean by "your"? English is not my native language

I just believe that learning so popular language like english brings so many benefits, that it'd be interesting to see what would happen if whole world used one language
I'm worried about a complete crash that would plummet everything. Imagine if every year the stock market represented real industry and work and value. It would be strong and sturdy. But with this money being so loose. It's similar to if I just gave you decks of cards year after year and said build, build, build. That house of cards is not going to be great and can collapse.

What happens in 80 years when milk is $34 a gallon?
Great job and everything to get so far!

I like that you actually mine the stuff in the style of mines you use and the stuff is getting removed visually.

What i find disappointing is the trucks/vehicles not needing any streets. I'm not sure if it would make the game more interesting or not though but that i have to build a bridge over a pipe for the trucks but the trucks just drive through each other... not liking it :D
I've been thinking recently. We are at near 4 years inflation in 1 year based on the fed's 2% gold standard. This question is mostly rhetorical, but is the target going to be negative to get us back on track? What do we do when we are this far off target, forgive and forget? I say mostly rhetorical because I think that rapid deflation would only be possible with an implosion.
I think that if Stadivari were alive today making violins using the same materials and techniques, the instrument would not sound the same as those cherished over the centuries.

New wood stringed instruments do not sound as good as old, well-played instruments. I think the reason Stradivari violins sound so good is that they are so old and have been played for centuries.

Over time, vibrating wood with oscillating strings, it changes the wood, the atoms in the wood will literally eventually align in such a way that the wooden pieces themselves become tuned to specific complimentary frequencies, increasing sustain and improving timbre.
That’s a godsend for me. I just really want to do my job and call it a day. No more no less. I’m a mercenary.
If it helps, I did like 2 easy leetcode exercises and still got into Amazon lol. I've done nothing but business applications for my entire career, so I don't know jack about data-structures nor algorithms. Most of the interview is about your work history and "leadership" questions.

EDIT: btw Amazon is NOT a good place for busy parents IMO. The on-call rotation can be brutal. YMMV based on where you land in the company, but if they will try to sell you hard on the positive aspects of the company and downplay the negatives, so beware.