skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought a bit about "sessile robots" that appear on a screen that watch you with machine vision and can make eye contact and look like somebody on the other side of the mirror who is sharing the space with you.

It's obviously beyond state of the art but it's easier than making a physical machine with 16+ joints.

For a few years I've wanted to build something that creates this illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

There have been many musical performances with that sort of character but I'd like to do a sketch comedy routine with

https://hyperdimensionneptunia.fandom.com/wiki/Neptune

or barring that with some generic Unreal Engine character but for it to be any good you still need a voice actor, of course all the dialog is written ahead of time, it's probably enough working building the projection system that I'll give up on using machine vision to cue it so I'll have to cue it with a clicker... and what really dooms the project is that I'm just not funny.
Companies are slowing down hiring and the startups and recently public companies are laying off people and freezing hiring.

I’m older (48) and fell into BigTech via the cloud consulting division - cloud application development. I never had to go through the leetcode grind. But my path was very narrow and I recommend that people go through the leetcode grind.
[Citation needed]

Step-up cost basis is useless for a middle class estate because below $11.2M you don't pay an estate tax. [1]

Propublica has done a lot of research of this which you should read. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017#...
[2]: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Looks like the login is not “taking” in my valid username and password.

You supply the username/password, click SUBMIT button and they all return back to the same login page, but still not logged in.
No:

-ism

a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory
Last Call BBS: the last game to be released by Zachtronics
I read this as a strategic move. As their main goal is to get your name, company, title and email to download the report. So they were showing you snippets of interesting charts and then quickly covering it up.
It’s common knowledge how important race is in prison. That has nothing to do with you bringing it up as you did. Nor does me bringing it up mean I don’t know how important it is in circumstances like prison and jail.

I believe in not having an oppressive society that then cruelly punishes people unnecessarily. Recidivism is quite high in the US. I want to focus on Lowering that. not punishing people. I don’t have contempt for people.

You don’t know the things I’ve gone thru. I’ve lived a privileged life, but not a perfect one. You remarked before how I’m probably well paid in the tech industry. I’m not. Never have been. Haven’t always had food or roof over my head. My skin color didn’t do me favors in run ins with authority when I had not done anything wrong enough to warrant time and attention.

> whole idea that it is in fact justified to condemn someone to time behind bars for the very serious crimes they commit of their own free will, which I assert they definitely have.

Nothing will change me to believe this. I view humans as equals. I want to help people. Not throw them into the barbarism you have talked about and when a lot of them end up not being able to improve their lives enough, blame them. I find it cruel and unusual. I don’t have any bloodlust, as it were.
I guess they make the information on the site unusable to obtain your work e-mail for downloading the pdf.
Wealthsimple to lay off 13% of staff
I looked at it, but there is very little ecosystem support for other UIs beyond Material. There are partial Macos/Windows (fluent) libs but everything still seems quite immature. I do think it gets better rapidly though.
Christianity started as a cult. Protestantism after it.

(You are right of course, Brahmanism is not a cult, but my point is many mainstream religions at one point counted as such before they became well established as their own thing)
Url changed from https://twitter.com/alphabetworkers/status/15373969466917724..., which points to this.
Well he was ignored for promotion
I've had mixed experiences with their recruiters, and their interviewers. Some recruiters were on the ball and pushed things forward; others just disappeared. Some interviewers were great, clearly wanted it to be a collaborative thing, so were responsive to the questions I asked and helpful in rubber ducking as I talked through it (I'm thinking here especially of an algorithm session)...others clearly didn't care, were cold and didn't seek to answer anything in a way I could move forward (here I'm thinking of a system design session; exactly where you -need- answers to scope anything out).

I happily never particularly cared one way or the other about working for Google (and only once or twice did their recruiters reach out/get back to me when I was actually looking; I am sufficiently ambivalent that most of the times their recruiters have reached out have been "I'm not currently looking"), but their cachet has only dropped since I started my career, and their remote-as-second-class-citizen approach currently makes it a non-starter for me. I'm not going back to the office.
It does have a JavaScript VM, just slower (QuickJS as compared to electron's V8).
I built a tool for educators ~7 years ago at my previous employer. That employer shut down and I bought the tool then sold it to my current employer. This year, my employer decided to pivot and we are no longer serving software services. I now have ownership again with multiple clients paying $5k a year for the tool. I was restricted on my time spent on the tool while it belonged to my employer, but now that it's mine again, I can start working on needed improvements and seeking out more clients.

I also have a fairly large YouTube back catalogue of ~1,650 videos. While most of my videos get less than 50 views, I still generate ~$500 a year in AdSense.
Cults do illegal things though, and are generally considered harmful to members.
Graviton3 on AWS is better for most applications on a cost/performance basis, and in some cases also on straight latency.

Honeycomb has some great blogs about it: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-gravito...
We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/alphabetworkers/status/15373969466917724..., which points to this.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Commenters: please don't post shallow/unsubstantive/flamey things to this thread—or any HN thread, but this one seems to have been unusually triggery. Probably the submitted title "Cults at Google" contributed to that.
> So, I essentially do need to own a mac if I want to target macs along with other platforms.

If you want to target other platforms than the one you are currently running, then you need to compile and run on that target machine as well. It is not a hard requirement that you need a Mac to develop Flutter applications. The Flutter SDK is also on Windows and Linux machines as well.

It is exactly the same thing for Tauri. [0] This is why they tell developers to use GitHub Actions or CIs to do it for them. Again, the same can be done for Flutter.

Electron on the other hand, does not need any of that.

[0] https://tauri.studio/v1/guides/building/cross-platform
You can detect the location but no, you can't change the position of the pointer using Javascript.
I mean, if I felt lonely, talking to a bot would probably only exacerbate that
Getting Started with Client VPN
I mean Miguel de Icaza chose the bed he lies in. I knew this from day one of ".NET" and I'm sure Miguel knew it too.
That all distinctions are arbitrary except with respect to a goal.
I have fairly capable machines that can handle Chrome. I don’t have several apps running in the background and prefer to just have a browser open so I can focus. 32GB RAM is sufficient, plus a fast SSD. You don’t get to complain when you have the right hardware. I can see why running Chrome on a Raspberry Pi would be a problem though.
When I see that figure I think "that's all? That's what these business owners are complaining about, a month of a living wage salary? What crybabies."
The ever popular MPU6050 IMU from Invensense (Now TDK) contains a processor for fusing the output of the gyroscope and the accelerometer into an attitude estimate. Like the STxP70, this processor's firmware is a blob that's loaded over SPI/I2C on startup.

There are a few versions of the blob floating around the internet and its features are anything but well-documented. Example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66324744/setting-initial...
It also gives the state a stick to make sure people do what they want. Fight us and we revoke your license. It goes from protecting the consumer from scams, but often grows into a way to exercise power.
Who is claiming that imagery of drugs is illegal?
Log-ins works under Edge/iOS, Firefox iOS, Chrome/iOS, Safari, Firefox Focus, Tor+VPN/iOS, Aloha/iOS, DuckDuckGo/iOS, and Orion/iOS.
I got steadymouse several years ago for my father when he developed parkinsons. It's been a huge benefit in his life. Thank you.
I am a PM with LinkedIn. DM me and I can try to funnel this to the right channels. I'll be the first to say that there are a lot of problems with LinkedIn, but the company's "heart" is generally in the right place.
What may matter most is how these barriers are negotiated.

Do people really need to be protected from barbers with limited training or could that be handled with disclosures? And how are violations discovered and resolved. In my case I started cleaning houses for money and had completed hundreds of cleanings by the time the city found out and let me know that license fees were due for that activity. The city insisted on full back payment of all licensing along with late fees and there was no option for negotiation, just the requirement that someone who was cleaning houses for money should suddenly cough up a couple of thousand dollars. Not only was a large payment required but records needed to be sorted out which ended up generating two long and tense visits to offices downtown.

Of course some regulations are needed on businesses, but these regulations should be put in place for robust reasons, regularly reviewed, and enforced with care and compassion and options for forgiving unpaid fees in return for present and future compliance.
> is a typical dog whistle for a lot of people who are racist

How do you know this? Do you associate with racists? Or did somebody tell you that racists profess basic unitarian universalist values? If so, why were they telling you?
Kotlin 1.7 Unveils New Compiler
Please do not take HN threads into religious flamewar. This is a classic generic flamewar tangent, exactly the sort of thing the site guidelines ask you not to do here. If you'd please review them and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to other threads to. Could you please stop? We ban accounts that do this kind of thing because we're trying for a different sort of forum here.
Indeed.

And even very intelligent, competent AND benevolent MS employees downplay this: https://twitter.com/bitecode_dev/status/1537357261554733056

Steve cannot see how it will lead to attrition or vendor lock in.

It's not that there are no good people at MS, but the internal marketting is strong as well.
> but IMHO it's pretty fair to solve the problem by using smaller font if the complaint is about the number of pages

How could that possibly be fair, when it clearly violates the intent of the request? If anything that move just shows the maliciousness of the regulators.
Can we just go back to good old days and stop with animations to bring the content from all directions which is even slow enough I get blank screen for a few seconds as I scroll down which really reduces the readability.
Given Google is probably one of the most woke organizations, I find this hilarious.
Yes, and the difference is the maturity of the engine. For example, to execute JS files Sciter uses QuickJS which runs ~20-30x slower than V8 JIT [1] and has no support for Intl [2]. Sciter's spin on HTML/CSS is also different [3], which might even be better than the standard DOM/CSS, but different means you're coding specifically against the internals of this packaging/distribution method.

[1] https://bellard.org/quickjs/bench.html

[2] https://test262.report/?engines=v8%2Cqjs

[3] https://sciter.com/tutorial-learn-sciters-html-components-in...
This is very similar to my experience. TBH, being able to not talk through what I’m coding the _whole_ time, unlike what it shown in the official “What to expect” Google videos, was a relief. Unfortunately, that change in expectation sort of threw me off; there became uncertainty in what was expected of me. This uncertainty hindered my creative juices while problem-solving but nowhere near as bad as the interview prior, which I won’t go into since I am paranoid about the interviewer seeing this comment :)
I created an online market for a game that sold in-game items with revenue at its peak of over $300k USD per month. Initially it just used eBay affiliate links, but since I would track the sellers in my database, I reached out to the big wholesalers and encouraged them to go nearly exclusive on my market for a similar cut. It was all built over a few years and it runs mostly on autopilot, all marketing, hosting, and code built by me. Never discussed it on any forum before.
> The invasion of the Sea Peoples from the direction of the Atlantic, and the establishment of cities by the remnants of these times.

The Sea Peoples (at least, those involved in the ravaging of the Hittites and the Egyptians) appear to have come from the vicinity of the Aegean Sea, although the Mycenaean collapse would suggest that they do not originate there. (At the same time, there's no actual written documentary evidence of Mycenaean collapse; that it was caused by the invasion of the Sea Peoples is informed by archaeological evidence of a discontinuity in material culture that happens at about the same time the Egyptians and Hittites are reeling from the Sea Peoples. It's actually consistent with the evidence that displaced Mycenaean peoples are the Sea Peoples as recorded in Egyptian stelae. There is 0 evidence that the Sea Peoples came from the Atlantic or anywhere other than the Eastern Mediterranean.

It's also worth remembering that the Younger Dryas occurred c. 10,000 BC, while the invasion of the Sea Peoples happens c. 1,200 BC. That is, the Sea Peoples happened closer in time to the present than it did to the Younger Dryas.
“Success” means that the VCs get their money back and maybe make a decent profit and even the founders might make some money. It says nothing about you as an employee making money.

I wouldn’t want to spend years of my life on a 1 out of 10 chance.
Wonder how cockroach is doing these days with all the competition in the space.
In some Southern European countries (Greece or Turkey IIRC), photographers with long lenses will be arrested if they are caught near an airport that hosts any sort of military aircraft.
Which flag should you use for the English language?

Union Jack? English Flag? USA Flag? Some horrible hybrid between them?

None of them is a perfect fit. As a techie I'd say ISO codes ('en', 'en-gb', 'fr', 'de') but I'm not sure how much those are understood, and probably not so hot for non-latin scripts.
"OK Table, Ill get the caloni the lemoncello and the veal"

"Anyway, like I was saying, Tommy Two Times gotsa go. Kapish. You send that fat fuck a message from me. Make sure he dont rat me out. Got it?"

"Yes boss"
This is usually what they add, though the Nintendo Gamecube used a DVD-similar format at a different size to make it harder to copy. They also ran at CAV (constant angular velocity) instead of constant linear velocity (CLV) which lead to the rumor that they "spin backwards".
Neural net for soft porn (tasteful nudes). Android app, 5 years old:

http://driftwheeler.com

More than 860 users per day, on average. Continuously growing user base. Profit through Met-Art affiliation: https://partners.metartmoney.com
Every company gives refresher grants. If you only got 1 grant over 4 years, then the company doesn't care about retaining you.
chill, these people were not stealing baby formula
In the 90's there was a small app called "InfoCourier" which was an "HTML Compiler" which allowed you to create a local website in HTML and then turn it into a windows exe file.
You're welcome to whatever opinion you have, but as an archaeologist cremation or not doesn't really change the amount of fuss given to the dead. I've excavated huge burial mounds with both. The cremated remains are usually a lot easier to deal with though.
My first job out of college at Atari in 1982, writing game cartridges for the 400/800 computers, paid $25K a year. My first raise after a year was to $30K.

There were programmers in other divisions making royalties off of their games. Tod Frye famously got $700K or so for his terrible version of 2600 Pac-Man (it was terrible not because he was a bad programmer, but because marketing decided that 2K of ROM had to be enough, and he was smart enough to pull off a miracle . . . of sorts).

Also, the OP apparently doesn't know how to unroll loops, which is the first thing you do to your game's hot spots. (Never had to resort to self-modifying code).
there's standardized tooling you can use to do this from git, or you can just use `hugo deploy` from your workstation.

At the "largest" level, you should accept 1-2 hours of minor setup/fiddling at least.
> I found Finnegans Wake utterly baffling. Some people love the humor they find in it, but it requires effort to understand the basic language the Joyce is inventing.

Most people do. I have an english prof who did his dissertation on it because, as he told me, he was pretty sure no one on his committee would be able to challenge anything because no one had actually read it.

the first "chapter" in Finnagan's Wake is the densest, hardest to read part of the book (not that the rest is easy..) so it stops most people in their tracks. One think I discovered is it makes a little more sense when you hear it spoken, because (as was somewhat common at the time) much of the book is phonetic so what is incomprehensible on the page sounds almost like real speach when you hear it.

Its also fun to read the commented version (there is a work for that type of edition that escapes me at themoment.) Basically a version where the text of the book only occupies the center of the page, then outside the text is all sorts of references and footnotes with lines pointing to blocks of text in the body. 90% of all the references go over my head. I remember seeing a phrase highlighted and note pointed out that the same phrase was a play on words (or pun, I forget) in two different languages at the same time.

Not really a book to read, but a fascinating thing to study.
Super annoying as well. The first thing that will happen is it will look at what you're talking about (and eating) and suggest what you should spend money on.

Someone will make a restaurant with free food that's monetised by advertisements. They'll sell your data and robots will chase you around town with offers.
We need a browser extension to delete these stupid cookie consent popups
It's not a dumb question. Consider the value in moving calculations from paper to a spreadsheet.

That's _about_ what it was like in the early computing days in terms of overall amount of data and the types of general processing that were done with it. Incredibly useful but only applicable to a narrow range of tasks.
If anything the NYtimes article is less original. The unions twitter thread and the linked medium post is closer to the story.
What if the diggers are instead descendants of Celtic tribes, or Pictish or Jutes?
Hi Elon!
So you're a ticket scalper?

That's nothing something to be proud of.

You say your friends detest resale sites but it sounds like you just became one yourself unless I'm misunderstanding what was happening here.
Notes on maintaining an internal React component library
Ah yeah I was not sure if that’s what you meant. I’m older relative to college grads or graduate students.

I’m switching to programming as a full time career now after coding on my own for a long time.

I’m now trying to pivot to getting any meh job and then grind through leetcode in spare time. Vs do the grinding and possibly find myself unable to get a decent job.

Of course I’m not necessarily going for big tech for either first career job. Just as close as possible with the leetcode and hope to be in there after the 1st.

—

Will you have to do the leetcode grind if you switch job and want to “level up” as it were to an even better job and company?
I’ve tried the log in effort under

- Brave Shields Up
- Shields Up, all 16 combination
- Shields Down

So because shield is down and login does not work, I’ve stopped all testing with Shield-related effort.

Version 1.38 (22.5.13.17)
There was a restaurant in ~2006/7? in dowtown Mountain View that was all electronic ordering at your table...

It didnt last very long.
The concept of infinity. I believe the Universe was a collision of two older Universes that slammed together. Two Universes among an infinite number of them.
Samsung Wallet will merge your ID, car key, credit cards, and more in one app
Bro I’m still rockin’ jQuery. I did some projects using React, then stepped back for a bit and asked why, then never used it again.
IIRC they backed down but it was too late already. Competitors such as Event Brite had already eaten their lunch.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as with flamebait posts, ideological battle, and personal attacks? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We ban that sort of account, and you've unfortunately been doing a lot of this already.

(Incidentally, this doesn't have to do with your views—I don't even know what they are. You've just clearly not been using HN as intended, and that's already a problem.)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It is Google so it gets that much publicity which is good for that particular case because it will be investigated and sorted out. Sexual abuse and discrimination enablers will be investigated. Good.

Too bad for the other large size company where similar things happen which won't get similar publicity and won't ever be investigated.

Not working at GOOG, but I don't get the hate in the comments or the idea that it is a google thing. The tough interviews that everyone is very critical about are actually a good edge against that sort of system (recruiting members of your cult). Too bad the process/interviews aren't that hard for contractors?
Changing the URL to a paywalled article no one can read isn't very helpful though.
Idk if you are referring to Severance, the tv show in Apple TV, but I haven’t seen a show so powerful as that one!
I think we lack a "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach here. Just create a way to fund lots of individual researchers and teams with small grants to study whatever they find interesting, with no crazy deadlines, credential requirements, publish-or-perish demands, administrative overhead, etc. It doesn't matter if 999/1000 just produce garbage, if the one remaining hits something big. I suspect modern science is like a gold rush, with lots of people flocking around a few fad areas, and o lot of the search space uninhabited, because if you stray out of the fad-topics, you get no advisor, no funding, no lab, nothing.
If they really cared, they'd do something more exact than asking for date of birth; it's just a "formality" to comply with some law somewhere.