skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s what I’m gonna be doing!!
the blog authors knew the content was their own responsibility going in.

"quite a take" f u
I asked and you delivered. I wasn't claiming there was an absence, I'm claiming that the general understanding isn't quantifying anything.

Thanks, this looks like a good starting point.
I would be very interested to hear viewpoints from the supposed 'Google' programmers on his team. The fact that he didn't gather feedback from the team makes the whole thing rather suspect.
Here's a question: why do people care so much about what they look like or how the camera displays them? Personally, I care more about the content being delivered than what someone (including the scene) looks like.
Quick update, I've released a video showing off my algorithm to the extreme (path finding 1,000,000 units), as well as other development progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0HCnQqF5K4
Tbf, I agree with you that a lot downvote whining is a lazy attempt to save a bad argument, but regarding this:

> Typically, when people get downvoted, the downvotes are for the tone of the comment - ad hominem attacks

Downvote and their purpose has come up a few times and generally the seems to be a consensus seems to be that downvote=disagree is 100%, legitimate, citing some quote by PG. And if you go to certain a threads (highly political ones), it's not uncommon to see some of the more reasonable comments greyed out if they even remotely challenge the zeitgeist of the current thread inhabitants.

This also works the other way around. You can be a complete dick and violate half the guidelines and end up highly upvoted if enough people agree with you. I know because it's happened to me.
On two occasions, once after skiing for a week and once after playing flight sims an entire Saturday, I had an intense (and very nice) feeling of gliding down a (glide)slope as I fell asleep.
Yes, the universe shall operate on the car's time and speed. Anyone disagreeing with this is a hostile and should be run down and mutilated at the first possible opportunity for being such an angry hater of anything that is good and just in this world.

I think the problem here is there is scare resources, and you cannot understand or deal with this in any other way than to force everyone to live in the universe as you expect them to.

All people shall travel at the speed of the car. This is good and just and non-negotiable.
This is a simplistic reduction of what many senior programmers do. In my experience these so-called "jiggle programmers" are ones who actually ship code and meet business needs. Sometimes that's what we're looking for. We don't always want a fresh grad who is keen on implementing a completely useless system from scratch. We need people who ship.
Although 20k seems quite low, I think it is reasonable given the rise of game subscriptions.

Who would want to jailbreak and leave their ps5 offline to get 5$ games that won’t work once the station is updated. Where on the flip side you could pay 5-15$ Monthly (not sure of PlayStation Nows cost but that amount is for Xbox game pass) to have hundreds of games at your disposal and never have to physically acquire a new disk via black market to play a new game?
Yeah or the ability to subscribe to status/tag updates. I have a few issues I've been tracking and get spammed with meaningful discussion when I mostly just want to know if it gets implemented.
I haven't seen good results with minimum RSSi; if the client has chosen an AP to connect to, denying it's attempts is mostly going to cause delay; maybe it will chose another AP after, but maybe this is the only AP it can see, and low signal is better than nothing. Although, maybe some systems are better at it than the ones I've used.

Reducing Tx power seems to help a lot more. Default high power Tx seems to send beacons farther than most clients can successfully negotiate anyway; some APs get distortion at higher power, so useful signal is strictly lower (but you can see the beacons farther!), and clients seem to be looking at the signal strength (rather than signal quality) as a sign to scan and roam, you want to make sure strength isn't so high that roaming is avoided.
I think their point is that Google is forcing perfectly good hardware into obsolescence unnecessarily.
The 14" M1 is the spiritual successor to the 2015 MBP I think. Ports, magsafe charger (with higher quality cable), larger screen within a marginally larger footprint, keyboard is good unlike the last few years, solidly built, no touch bar, finger print login, performance, etc. No complaints personally.
These effects have been pretty well studied and while there are some small changes the body can make they are not significant. If you eat fewer calories you will lose fat.

"when you lose weight in this mode your body begins to break down fat and eventually muscle. This is not a desired state for your body. "

For the average american this is a highly desirable state. Almost all of us would be much healthier with a reduced calorie diet, with our bodies breaking down our excess fat.

The effect of muscle loss is overstated. There are many obese and out of shape people who paradoxically point to "muscle loss" as a reason for not eating healthy, but people who actually understand muscle -- bodybuilders -- are very familiar with bulking and cutting cycles. This is a very well understood dynamic.
Yes, you are right. I've taught proofs in a college setting for thirty years, both in a Discrete Math class largely for CS majors and in a Math major course (done inquiry style). People often convince themselves that they have things right when they are mistaken. Everyone does it, even the best students. OP, you should try to get someone to work with you.
Don't think this is actually true. We stream high definition video regularly nowadays. It's not a question of resolution, but of other qualities of the recording, the way differences in lighting is handled etc. Those imperfections are not smoothed away by compression.
Eh; I encountered one of these "Google" programmers before. It was exactly as the author described. Fortunately, they did something unrelated that gave us no choice but to fire them.

Most of the skills you mention (business requirements, task management, spelunking legacy crap, etc) only really matter in large organizations, where human coordination costs and tech debt management dwarf actual development costs.

In a well-run small org, ICs can get by without them by having an occasional coffee/lunch/beer with the CEO/CTO/Sales head.
Green-field projects help a lot for getting over this mindset. Having to figure out the right patterns and approaches by myself then live with those decisions and have to improve them down the line taught me much more than extending existing patterns in a mature codebase.
> It’s sort of like when you play a lot of Tetris and you can’t stop seeing the falling bricks as you fall asleep.

Never noticed this from any single-threaded activity. But once I played two games in parallel for a few hours (two instances of wow) that had a direct impact on trying to fall asleep. The task-switching tried to check my other self, but there was no other instance to switch to.
Don't dodge the question. Define slavery.
Japan’s Blurred Vision for the Future of Capitalism
You think CB is going to make it through this current massacre?
I don’t know, but I don’t see any reason to be skeptical that the future can’t improve, given history. You could have made the same argument about most medical treatments 400 years ago, and it’d turn out to be more or less completely wrong.
Not sure what you want to test, though I'd bet that if you post questions on forum.nim-lang.org then you will get good help.

Anyway, to maybe get you started, Nim compile speed is usually best with a tcc backend (nim c --cc:tcc or set that in config.nims/nim.cfg). Meanwhile, run-time speed is usually best with gcc PGO.
Well lady, too bad, you have a conflict of interest with the news writers. What you care about is the news, what they care about is how much traffic they get.
There is a reason that for hundreds of years painters and (later) photographers have preferred working in spaces with North-facing windows[0], and that is because it's a simple way of ensuring neutral, even light. My home office is (by design) in a room with one North-facing window.

I use a Logitech C920. Many people have told me how good my webcam feed is. I don't think it's that the C920 is particularly brilliant, it's that if you know even a little about photography, you can do an awful lot to help ensure a good picture.

[0] assuming they were in the Northern Hemisphere, of course
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Webcams feel like a deadend technology like self-rewinding cassettes on the eve of the release of the compact disc.

The fidelity is garbage relative to something like a DSLR inside an Errol Box[1] and miles away from Starline style holography[2]. Eye contact is poor. Putting in a software filter to fix eye contact should be universal practice at this point. Hell even getting basic ring light next to your lens is universal amongst gen-z streamers and completely absent from gen-x remote workers.

With the chip shortage mostly over I'm amused how many people working at MANGA, nominally our most proficient tech workers bringing in half a million dollar salaries, are just phoning it in with garbage setups, trivially fixed by watching a 15 minute youtube video on how to position your desk to capture natural light, use a wired microphone that you already have in your drawer somewhere, and check three boxes under settings.

I'm not proposing to get a studio, just maybe give your fellow humans the decency of picking up your emotional nuance if you're transitioning to not seeing them in person.

[1] https://ma.tt/2020/05/ceo-video-streaming

[2] https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
If the only non determinism is in the message passing, then recording and replaying the receive buffer should look exactly the same between your system and city bound, without forcing an ordering — replaying is itself eliminating the source of non-determinism. So testing should look exactly the same.

Rand() and friends obviously needs to be handled appropriately but as long as you have only one owner of data (and thus one writer), by passing messages of the form “try to add 1 to x” rather than “x=5” or “add 1 to x” message-queues have a strict ordering by nature.
And use the so-called "Bash unofficial strict mode", as described elsewhere.

I prefer this summary of it, because the original includes stuff like changing IFS (the fields separators) which I agree with the Gist author to not include, because it is a Bad Idea to blindly suggest it universally.

EDIT: This gist:

https://gist.github.com/robin-a-meade/58d60124b88b60816e8349...
Consciousness Is Not Computation
We started at "not supported", talking about making symlinks inside projects.

We backed off to "not supported on normal systems", which is a reasonable change to me.

You mentioning junctions is not even close to a solution, and I am not moving the goalposts. If junctions worked, the complaint wouldn't have been needed from the start. No, this is about actual symlinks, not a similar feature that can do 5% of what symlinks can do.
Honestly, this reply is well-written but detached from reality.

Google uses your IP, fingerprinting, geolocation and more for personalization, at least if you're not logged in.

Anything else would be a huge surprise given Google's business model.

There also seems to be correlation to previously used accounts if you mainly use YouTube without logging in, but use a Google account on the same device.

I experience this myself and, despite always leaning towards psychological explanations in such cases, calling this a "conspiracy theory" seems very off.

I mainly use YouTube in incognito and rarely log in, but I heavily use my Google account, dating back to 2006 or so.

My YouTube suggestions when not logged in are "personalized", although I use YouTube almost exclusively in incognito mode.

They are not personalized as aggresively as when I am logged in — since I mainly use YouTube in incognito, my suggestions when logged in tend to be very repetitious and boring.

But there is definitely some personalization going on based on IP, geolocation and browser fingerprinting.

> The big-media narrative on tech really isn't doing us any good.

HN narratives tend to be similarly distorted, see any thread on environmental change, dependence on fossil fuels or advertising exponential economic growth based on burning fossil fuels and trashing other natural resources.
Camo is fine, but is there a third party app that I can just buy without a subscription?
> Now that you know my definition there should be nothing more for us to discuss.

I disagree. The reason I disagree is the impact of the different definitions on the original statement I was challenging:

> if a body could run itself more efficiently then it would by default.

Using my definition of "efficiency", this statement strikes me as self-evidently true.

Using your definition of "efficiency", this statement strikes me as probably false and strongly contradicts my priors. After all, every system in the face of input energy restrictions must do less total work.

So, if I accept your definition (which I'm happy to do for the conversation, since it's just a semantic difference), I think this statement is much less likely to be accurate, and certainly isn't self-evident.
By default, there is only web browsers and no Linux. Which is nice because by default there can be no malware and it's a good OS for non technical users.

But with one click it installs and makes available Linux. It appears to the user as a debain variant. You can install anything and when you run apps they seamlessly work with the window manager. I've used VScode for software development and it works great. Steam is even available for games, but I haven't tried it.

Window manager is the right balance of powerful and simple. Great at manipulating web browser windows (has virtual desktops if you want them), but works fine interacting with Linux apps as well.
I did! But that’s likely how it made its way onto me
It's not the employees' fault that the people running their country have decided to wage war.
Docker compose on VPS sounds much better than going straight to Azure/AWS
Townscaper is a wonderful toy! I have a five year old who absolutely loves it. But she is constantly asking me how she can add people to her town. I tell her its a world with no people, and she then says, why am I building a town then?
+1. People seem to think that, since they had to suffer through diet and exercise to lose weight, everyone else should have to suffer equally; for some reason people think it's "unfair" to lose weight through e.g. medications. This makes no sense, and it isn't consistent with how we treat any other illness.
I've had similar results! At first when I tried monitoring my diet, I assumed that 2600 calories/day with exercise would be good enough, but I was only losing ~1lb/month. It did make it way easier for me to transition to 1.5-2k calories though, I'm not sure I could've done that from the start.

And it's definitely easier to feel satisfied off low cal food if it's nutritious - smoothies with protein powder and greens? Filling and diet friendly (esp if no milk). Water? Low cal, but you'll definitely still feel cravings.
Thanks! I already glanced at my options and this one seemed like overkill, but yeah it does sound like the go-to solution that everyone uses. Will be installing this some time soon, thanks for confirming this is the way to go :) (Also to the sibling comment)
Have not read the article.

Could someone who has please confirm to me whether one of those "stops" consists of a veiled promise of increased probability of mating with attractive females, or is the chosen image simply news by association / framing effect on the part of Der Spiegel?
If your Google programmers were delivering until the bloody pandemic, there's nothing wrong with them.

Sure, maybe they're not experts in every API - but they proved for months their productivity, in easy and hard tasks (by your admission).

As an engineering manager I've dealt with covid performance issues in three different companies (two of which were already remote pre pandemic).

Incidentally I've dealt with performance problems for depressed people a few times in my career and COVID performance issues felt exactly like those. It just happened to the majority of people.

Turns out that if you do everything possible to remove everything that's good out of people' lives, their performance suffer!

I really don't understand how you can go from what happened to you to "my engineers know to code only with Google" but you should really rethink that.

I wish you and your teams well.
For a REALLY good webcam just get a Pi Zero (v1), Pi HQ camera, a good C-mount lens, and flash this firmware: https://piwebcam.github.io/
which makes the Pi Zero appear as a regular USB webcam when plugged in, and also gives you a telnet thing to control camera parameters.

It's particularly nice because it doesn't mount any filesystems in RW mode, so you can just plug and unplug it as needed.

There are also some enclosures you can 3D print for this combination.
I avoid these. Anyone who hopes to solve problems and make actual new advances in thier field of expertise should look at these once then quickly surpass them unto something new like flying cars or faster than light travel. I am sick of this best practice bs. Solve the problem quickly and move on. Stop shackling devs with this bs.
In the 1990s Microsoft was heavily criticized, and litigated against, for the deep integration of internet explorer with windows, and their monopoly on operating systems and web browsing. Stunning to think that people are willingly installing chrome the browsers, and chrome the os in 2022.
Ah well I wasn’t going by assumptions I was going by the authors actual words. Thank you for clarifying
I think the big differentiating factor will probably be that "jiggle programmers" don't really know what they're copying or why something works. I'd hope senior programmers do.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment of the article. But it really does seem to be dependent on the type of work you’re doing. In 2000, I started writing plugins for Final Cut Pro. You could write “real time” plugins for it! That meant you were working in YCbCr 4:2:2 at 320x240 and 30 frames per second (so quarter-sized frame, with 2/3rds the data that an RGB frame would carry and half as often). 22 years later, I’m still writing such plugins, but on the top-end systems you get multiple streams of 8K uncompressed RGB video at 60fps and you can play back in real time. Some things really have gotten significantly faster. But yeah, using a web browser to do normal tasks like display emails is insanity and very very wasteful.
On your first point about uncertainty, I think both scientists and non-scientists struggle with how to have a meaningful conversation where real world decisions and policies have to be made in the face of material uncertainty.

I generally see two ways of dealing with this on the ley side, which is to either ignore it altogether or to write if the finding or result completely. Neither is really appropriate and I think it's due to humans not being well wired to appreciate how uncertain everything that we don't have uncertainty parameters for actually is. Establishing a probable interval doesn't actually affect the probability of a thing.

On the academic side, the problem is that most academic are cowards. They see a disproportionate cost to being wrong, and culturally, are trained to always be able to give a 'right' answer, even if that answer is useless. Theres a kind of automoton language that is used by researchers that allows them to escape any real consequences that might extend from having an opinion. It's a kind of aloofness that pretends that the science is happening in some kind of white tower vacuum of pure intellectualism. And they aren't wrong from a social perspective, in that academia will enforce a serious cost to them for being wrong.

To sum up, my broader point is that both journalists and academics tiptoe around and hide behind uncertainty far too much. Any issue worth having a conversation on is one where decisions will need to be made inspite of uncertainty. As well, everything is uncertain, and just because we haven't/ can't get an uncertainty on something, it shouldn't give you more confidence than something we can establish an uncertainty for.
This is a symptom of the race to the bottom in the digital camera industry. Most webcams are built around low cost modules running firmware developed by an OEM who made it good enough to ship and nothing more. They don't have any incentive to improve the features beyond banner specs and their buyers have little influence.
State of emergency The four ways your state might be wrong
That’s what Lord Kelvin thought. Then Roentgen discovered X-rays.
If I was looking for a junior / student / internship position at a FAANG (most likely Google), what should I focus on? Personal projects on my resume? Open source personal projects on my Github? Contributions to big and established OSS projects? If so, should I dive deeply into a single project, or would smaller contributions to a few projects be more advantageous? Are there any specific projects / subject areas that I should focus on? What about commercial work experience (or the lack thereof)? How does all that compare to actual leetcode knowledge / algorithmic problem-solving skills? Any great resources for acquiring those?
I wish there was a program that allowed you to draw some input pictures/shapes, and the program takes that input and creates a picture in a given style. That would be a gamechanger for storytelling.
You're welcome. Good to see that you are going about it the right way. People in their community would likely be more accepting and appreciative.
Because politicians and lobbies get away with leveraging laws to create moats and red tape.

Economic policy is just a charade.

Less interference would be ideal, but a government is still a necessary evil. It’s just too large in most cases.
The particular stacks advocated by that site aren’t particularly good (though they’re not all that bad either). It was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31543054 a few weeks ago.

I would scrap at least Avenir Next, Avenir, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Ubuntu, Roboto, Noto, Arial, Apple Garamond, Times New Roman, Droid Serif, Times, Source Serif Pro, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Monaco, Liberation Mono and Lucida Console, and probably a couple more, for one of three reasons: that the family is superfluous, for an obsolete platform, or inferior.
China, Huawei propose internet protocol with a built-in killswitch (2020)
I guess I was too broad and pessimistic. By "code does not matter" I meant that it's not worth it to micro-optimize and dig into unnecessary details. It's fine if it's not perfect and has its rough edges, as long as it works correctly and looks as intended.

And I agree that programming is the art! I love it and I haven't given up on it. I just decided that it's better to focus on new and interesting problems.
I can see why most on HN (and actually outside of HN too) would say a larger trackpad is great, so I think you might indeed be in the minority opinion on this one. Even mainstream reviewers tended to list it as a positive.

But butterfly keyboard had been pretty much universally decried as a terrible mistake almost everywhere, including HN.
Why does that mean 'always'? i.e. rephrase GP you quoted: 'just use a lot bigger of a cam in the laptop'.
I think there's currently some barriers in doing that:

1. OpenAI claim ownership of the content produced.

2. The content policy forbids what you're describing. (commercial use is ruled out)

Content policy: https://labs.openai.com/policies/content-policy

Sharing & publication policy: https://openai.com/api/policies/sharing-publication/