skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Startup life is exciting. All my best and worst experiences.
Tried Corporate life a few times. felt like a slow death.
And folks don't like to be told "I told you so".

(Especially if that comes after say... Solarwinds. Or the insurrection.)
Wimbledon crowds down 7% from 2019; 2nd-lowest since 2007
How do I one-click retweet my favorite two lines of a blog post and get all my friends to do the same?! /s
I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your brain and then due to that your brain creates that ringing noise.
JavaScript doesn't change quickly, new things are just developed often.

HN is a bit skewed towards new things because HN is full of startups, which are building products from scratch, so can relatively easily choose to use new tools and libraries to do it.

Much of the world still keeps rolling on with a few basic jQuery scripts or relatively mature stacks like Angular.
Sure, but the context is that the message wasn't something that the org permanently documents to refer back to, like... an API or a list of deliverables or something. It's just run-of-the-mill workplace interpersonal communications and announcements, like announcing that there's going to be an earthquake drill, or that you're going to be working from home the first week of August. Not documentation. Until a miscommunication occurs and you're suddenly digging for records to piece together how things went wrong.

What communications tool would people use for announcing an earthquake drill? And what does the messaging tool get used for?

Do you send an email to keep the paper trail (with the downsides of email, like that record only being searchable by the people it was sent to at the time)? Or does somebody update the company wiki with records like "2022-07-30: jbay808 absent today due to doctor's appointment"?
> we spend 20% of our GDP to achieve the same results as the 1850s English who got them for next to nothing in comparison.

I have to assume that our lives are overall much easier medically, though. Breaking a limb (or even losing one) is not nearly as big of a deal now than it probably was then, for instance.
Minecraft is not like other games. Ten years ago minecraft was a blooming platform for mods. It has been lying dormant ready for another bloom when MS finally decide to enable the tools to allow it. Dark patterns while this future is still possible is a reason for concern.
Because they are themselves less likely to react permanently with any of the intermediary products or the feedstock. Think of them as 'machinery that doesn't wear out quickly' which would make them a consumable.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961402
Too walled is the issue, not too big. Much is behind things like Facebook etc
You're laughing, but there are popular plugins for doing exactly that.
Good point! If you flew from SF to AU, you’d lose a “day” in much less than 24 hours.
I assume by React you mean React-like libraries. After all, Vue / Vuex / etc. easily matches React.
rest and vest. it’s a good retirement. for the op, probably something interesting first.
You seem to be talking about aid paid to companies.

The furlough scheme allowed companies to keep employees without having to pay them (they were paid by government). If airlines and airports were so short-sighted to still layoff plenty of staff then they should now be made to bear the full cost.
This makes it sound like the low skilled people are the ones changing the ecosystem so much. The developers behind the projects that change the ecosystem are extremely talented and would be proficient in any other language as well.
I think the main reason is JS is by far where most engineering hours in the industry is spent and this makes many smart minds think about possible improvements. People don't get in to JS because its easier than others, they do because it is the language that is required the most for a typical tech company and those job spots need to be filled.
Remember the hypothesis that dementia (at least Alzheimer’s) may be caused by prions transferred during eye surgery and other eye interventions? Good vision means it’s less likely you’ll have to undergo eye surgery.
Right, then why aren't we taught that we don't know why electrons react the way they do from early on? As I've mentioned above, cutting out the complicated details would provide students with a much more comprehensible overview.
F*king hell the ecosystem just never stops growing. Vite, Rollup, HMR? What the f*k is all this? Why does building a frontend have to be a titanic project involving a hundred tools including build systems and tree shakers and compilers and whatever else is going on. Web development is an embarrassment and a blight on computing.
But it's safer to transport and does not require pressurization and it boils off much less.
Maybe that’s the book they were referring to!
I'll check that out!
And I should say, Grim Fandango was great.
Sounds like exactly how gamers use them too.
foreign corrupt practices act lets US officials prosecute behavior that is legal in a foreign country and illegal here

(I'm not saying it applies in this case, but it's an example of applying local law to a locally domiciled company operating abroad).

same with going abroad for sex tourism with minors (PROTECT act)

in US state-vs-state situations, I'm pretty sure some states have public policy exceptions to forum clauses in contracts, though I can't quote you a case
It would seem to be the latter, given the reference to heavy metals (they probably mean noble metals more likely)
But that doesn't happen in a free market because when money and power gets consolidated, monopolies and oligopolies can do whatever they want to dominate that market.

We have regulatory capture, legislation is written by think tanks like ALECS at the behest of corporations to benefit corporations thereby compounding the problem.

We need actual regulation or a reorganization of corporation ownership. Reorganizing corporations to be owned by the people who work for them rather than shareholders would shift incentives.
> Roe vs. Wade showed that laws made and ‘democratic’ decisions settled upon in the USA can be reversed with no warning, no voting, nothing but funding from evil people.

Roe vs. Wade wasn't a law, or really a democratic decision -- it's decision in the first place was pretty much an example of overturning those democratic decisions with no warning or voting (e.g. the texan laws that were placed by those democratically elected members of texan legislature).
Again, what's the issue with that? How is organization suffering from it?
I concur, recruiting now and everyone wants to use swift ui, but uikit, horrible as it is, is the only option for our complex ui
GitHub full of copy/pasted bad code?
I was looking for a Baby-step giant-step algorithm implementation in python, and came across this tight function. It works, but it's not great because of obvious performance pitfalls (left as an exercise to the reader) & it could be more general. Furthermore, it's an algorithm that is meant to be "a faster version" of the naive implementation to discrete log, so performance is probably at least somewhat important to a user.

Anyway, I looked for a unique string from the code, "you shouldn't use BSGS anyway", and found 23 more instances of this code, copy-pasted with slight modifications. None of them address the performance or generality issues.
Stoichiometric mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen are terrifying to work with. No thanks.
Were their answers wrong, or were the questions completely unnecessary? How do you know it's "not for everyone's benefit"? I don't announce to the world when I consult the documentation. Are you measuring the reach of these answers or is it just a gut feeling?

I really fail to see how this is a negative thing. If anything, it's the people not doing it that caused the whole project to fail.
Well put, but im not sure what the incentive is for content recommendation algorithms to scale down :/
In a way it's a streak that's more meaningful for you, because you know yourself and what you can and can't do, and you know what innocent things (dinner with friends, meetings at work) might be fair enough for you to skip a day for, and that way you can control it and not let it control you.

There's also the fact that your lower brain systems don't care that you "know that is is meaningless" -- they still see that number getting bigger and give you that dopamine hit, which is what will really keep you coming back for more.
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Understanding how others relate to you
It's probably less sinister than it reads. One instance where it really benefits the game to "share data with third parties" is online Age of Empires II (DE). There is a lot of cool content on Twitch and YouTube and there are tournaments, and I think this makes the game more interesting than it would be otherwise. It's only possible because people can spectate ranked online games. Also, there are pages like aoe2insights.com which provide leaderboards, and analyze public ranked games.

I think this is probably some catch-all legalese they "have" to write there, and this is a case of the EULA becoming so stupidly nondescript that it allows everything and explains nothing. It would be probably better though if they said in each game "hey, we will share your score and recordings of ranked games with other players, if you don't want that click here".
God help anyone still getting grants for molecular electronics.
But I figured a lot of people did buy USB dongles for their desktop, i. e. "set up the old PC for the kids to do schoolwork in another room nowhere near the router." There should be bags full of them everywhere.

I actually have an 802.11b PCMCIA card sitting around. I bought it in 2003 because my university was rolling out a wireless network, accessible in about 1/6 of its surface area, and I was rocking a used Pentium II Thinkpad. Getting Slackware to handle 802.11 in those days was an amusing thing.
Hi, I'm the original author of this article, though I have left Pinterest since this article was published.

Many customers with large AWS footprints, Pinterest included, have enterprise plans with highly custom pricing. It is often the case that general public pricing isn't directly comparable to enterprise pricing on an individual component level.

On the topic of network transfer, many of our highest network bandwidth memcached clusters are replicated with an egress routing policy that exercises an availability zone affinity [0]. For the most efficient clusters, this means that 99.9+% of network bandwidth remains in the client-colocated AZ (within the same region and VPC), which is free [1].

[0] https://pin.it/scaling-cache-infrastructure

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/overview-of-data-t...
I think Rust solved that pretty well, where no-return functions can be declared by letting it return the 'never' type:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.never.html

There is no way where you can say: this function returns a string and is no-return.
CI isn’t going anywhere, and is the best thing to happen to teams in terms of collaborative efficiency, even if you dislike the fact that you need to write tests. Write less, more important tests and write smaller, more composable scripts.
Would be nice if XBox was inserted into the title.... "...that xbox game activity..."
We're talking about MSFT here - what did they build in the past 5 years that did not have a dark pattern built in?

Windows nags you about Microsoft account and won't let you install without it unless you know the magic CMD incantations.

Xbox games that are physical are nothing more than a "license key" that is used to download games from the MSFT servers, so if they ever go down, your DVDs are useless.

MSN being showed in Windows under the guise of "weather" and "widgets" while they promote trash tabloid content.

Logging in with an Outlook account in Edge hooks it to sync with Edge and you have to then explicitly go and opt out.

Shoveling third-party adware into Edge in the form of "credit payments".

Blocking custom browser settings.

There's a clear history here of reverse-Midas-ing quite a few things, and I genuinely feel bad for folks that want to build a great product within that environment. But the pattern is clear - your data and usage of their products will be tracked and monetized. The only winning move is not to play.
Or maybe I don't want my kid's chat and gameplay analyzed and sold by Microsoft, to be used against them in the future.
I loved how compact Tegel terminal A was, it was like London City Airport rolled into a ring. The other terminals I used (I never bothered memorising which ones) were generic and forgettable.
How does this work? If I won't be able to Duo for a few days, it will allow me to keep it still?
Is this something like being in a completely dark room, then suddenly there is a random noise pattern in your vision.
Last time I checked NPM the weekly downloads were still heavily slanted in favour of version 4. I wonder if that plays into perception of it.

At work, an engineer in a different team recently recommended we switch to Vite because it’s “so much faster”. Warm builds are 700ms with our very uninteresting Webpack 5 config. It’s hard to imagine that the cost of reconfiguring our entire build would be worth it.
I predict that Apple will reinvent personal computing with their XR product ( XROS replacing macOS, faster and better pro and consumer user experience via virtual screens and controls), google/samsung will imitate. I can see Apple allowing WASM apps to be sold. Ultimately the best user experience wins and in general it was iPhone/iPad so far
> The properties of communication in remote work seem very hard to crack

Many good replies here about what Slack is good for and what it’s not good for, but I wanted to take a moment to reflect on this part of the premise. The properties of in-person communication have always been hard to crack, and having everyone remote makes it that much harder. This is not an easy problem, regardless of the tools. But if people aren’t getting what they need out of Slack, it’s up to the team and the leads especially and the whole org to identify, discuss, and solve communication problems. This might be educating ICs about what to do when they don’t get responses, it might be about providing a system to escalate questions as needed, it might be about picking and choosing different communication tools.

In addition to some of the Slack problems others have listed, in the last two years, I’ve experienced a lot of: 1- new hires being very afraid to speak up in larger groups, they prefer to DM someone who’s friendly and receptive to interruptions, and especially prefer to steer away from asking questions in channels that their boss/manager is in. 2- Slack is pretty terrible for retention and searchability of info after a couple of weeks, it’s just kind of a void when it comes to keeping or tracking important information.

It’s great that you’re thinking about it a lot, because most people have reflexive opinions without a lot of careful thought. Communication is a hard problem, and it’s worth internalizing this and realizing that there aren’t easy answers to this nor single tools that will magically solve it.
Let the user now about "...where it really benefits the game" and let them opt in
>For a second there I thought you were talking about EDS. Wouldn't surprise me if it was some other HP acquisition though.

No on both counts, but not bad guesses. :)
Hydrogen is not the answer.

This decision will eventually be seen as a colossal mistake.

If they plan to use solar photovoltaic to make hydrogen, then it's much more efficient to just use the electricity directly, without going through hydrogen.

They will end up making brown hydrogen and won't admit it, doing absolutely nothing to help the climate catastrophe--but they will be able to claim in public that they are.
It's certainly not good for newborn babies - look up retinopathy of prematurity.
Would you please provide some "recipes".

Also, is it possible to create a "packet load" which was dependant on rules such as phase to deliver intact?

e.g. If I can assign text as the data packet - and then I need to find a way to get it there ungarbled/100% and see how perhaps a phase change results in packet losses -- but then how to as Dwave puts it "reach into different dimensions to pull data out" (He seriously made this claim, so obviously this whould be feature #1 - ;-)
It's not a security concern, it'll end up as WONTFIX
Americans Have Had It with Inflation
Damn you, tinnitus, you're a cruel mistress! But seriously, do you not hear that?
Most chemical synthesis steps produce side products. More steps means more %yield loss.

If it's possible you go from A->B at 80% efficiency. If we compare this with A->C then C->B need to be nearly twice as efficient to provide a better yield.

Remember these steps include losses due to non chemical reasons. You might have issues with your reactors or transferring the solution to a new reaction chamber might incur losses, etc.

In most complex organic synth situations, the full synthesis will be 8-20 steps or so, so we're talking about yields of %efficiency^x. Lowering X helps a ton.

In short, the alternate route needs to be really good to justify additional steps.
It's an... interesting paper, but I wish it was served over https :-)

Most of the tools I've seen were CLI only or poorly maintained, so definitely useful work.

Did the author follow through on their plan to make a GUI? This seems more like a project description than a full on whitepaper.
Really nice, I haven't heard of pygraphistry, looks like something that would have made our lives a lot easier!
Upgrading to Vue 3 and Vite soon, is there a danger in having different dev vs production build tools?
If you had to choose between the wars brought on by a degenerate financial system pursuing fossil fuels, or fossil fuel powered deflationary assets for longer term global wealth storage - which would you pick?
But it does raise the difficulty of grandstanding, which is the point.
How long until these satellites have enough precision to identify who farted?
Here's 10 hours of prorcedurally generated djent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52SRWJ2pMXI
Slack is for real-time stuff, not for plans and decisions. Make that distinction clear to everyone and complex questions can simply be put into complex meetings instead.

The real replacement that slack is, is for crappy emails and crappy phone calls and crappy meetings about nothing. Not a replacement for communication as a whole.
Images optimized. Thanks for the tip.
Yeah, 36k per instance (especially on an xlarge or 2xlarge EC2 instance) is well within the serving capacity of memcached. While it depends a lot on the workload profile for a specific cluster, some clusters serve on the order of ~5k/instance while others are as high as ~100k/instance. We've done a lot of experimentation with extstore as well; it certainly eats up more compute cycles on average than an equivalent in-memory only cluster, but is still quite efficient.
I still think it would be cool to have zeppelins again. I am sure they could improve the safety of them today.
The passengers having lost the confidence of the airport, the airport has decided to dissolve them and elect others.
Also just a slower version of Slack so it doesn't really solve much.
Somebody already did.
I'm actually working on something to solve the slow test problem. We go down the massively parallel route. We run everything pre git commit by syncing your project directory to our servers and parallelizing the runs. Here is a demo https://brisktest.com/demos running against the react test suite.
Here's a video (with not so great audio) that shows the declarative and imperative styles being used. Not much about the details, of each though, sadly.

http://web.archive.org/web/20201014024057if_/https://www.you...
Wait, they actually have only one terminal open but call a separate airport "terminal 5"? That's clever ..
I have been wondering the same, and then I stumbled upon one possible answer. There's never any good in generalizing from a single data point, but it offers something I didn't see in other comments.

A Senior frontend engineer at $FAANG I have been talking to recently is struggling with growing into a Staff engineer. They don't want to move away away from user-facing stuff. At the same time, the organization tends to recognize only broad, foundational, cross-team work as Staff-worthy. They are now at a junction: 1) Work on features and stay at current level and in a few years get the "you've been here long enough" promo 2) Build common set of libraries and tools that will be used across multiple teams and get the promo much sooner. Latter is much more aligned with organization's view of "Staff". Although many factors are at play, it's interesting to note that Platform/Infra teams in these companies often more top-heavy than say frontend teams, meaning they have more Staff+ people.

Combining this with what others have been mentioning (stack being approachable, and many people starting their careers in this space) and one can see how anyone with more than a few years of experience in the field is strongly incentivized to build guardrails, and libraries, and whatnot.

Being someone who started as a frontend dev 10 or so years ago and quickly transitioned to backend and finally infra, I will say that fundamental technical challenges on the frontend are little easier to comprehend than the ones in say backend / distributed systems / databases / infra. Combined with huge influx of people, it might just mean there's not enough true problems to solve, so we (re)invent some.
Your guess is as good as mine
I don't know about Slack, but I have a weekly teams meeting where I go around and give everyone a chance to say something.
The argument is a ton weaker in the frontend space. Even if you got into React early and stayed there there has been numerous upheavals in "the correct way to do react" from class style to functional style and a ton of different ways to do state (redux and friends) etc, hooks, bleh.

It's insanely dishonest to try palm off bundling as infra, it has absolutely nothing to do with infra just like Java build systems have essentially zero to do with infra. All of the churn in Webpack/esbuild/vite/whatever is entirely on the frontend space and they have no one to blame but themselves for the mess they have created.

The proper solutions have been known for a long time but for various political reasons they have remained untenable to implement. Namely NaCL, WASM and friends. Everyone knows JS is a poor language but it's the only available web runtime (hence why we have so much transpilation) but because of the fractured web engine ecosystem and no standards body with backbone it can't be reasonably fixed right now.

Failing that the least the JS community could do would be find a way to work reasonably with real build systems like Bazel, Pants, Buck etc instead of continually trying to poorly implement build systems themselves that just plain suck (looking at you nx).
Unsurprising this happened in industry. This happens places like CERT too, it's why you need to take this type of data seriously, secure it, and thoroughly vet the employees who have access.
Links to DRM-free content (scroll down): https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v12/.
> JS is moving in the _opposite_ direction with the sheer number frameworks that are being released daily

Release dates of the current frameworks:

- angular 2010

- react 2013

- vue 2014

- svelte 2016
I don’t recognize the article’s definition of blue hydrogen, which I believe is normally used to refer to hydrogen derived from natural gas, not “from water”
Those things have a single truth, on which social consensus converges on.

PoS doesn't have this single truth, and thus it's incapable of converging on it. "call a friend"-consensus fails when there are disputes.