skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that this guy's designs were terrible therefore all modern design is terrible is like saying all children's TV presenters are pedophiles (apologies I know that's an extreme analogy).

The truth is that the guy behind this design agency is not a good designer at all and his career seems to have been driven by confidence, greed and the incompetence of his clients. It's a sample of one. He's the Jimmy Saville of bad design
Something that has helped me tremendously is to care less about the opinion of the interviewer and the company. An engineer provides value through their skills and I'm there to present my value and offer it.

If the interview process is dehumanizing or badly conducted, this is a signal about the company/department itself sharing the same characteristics. If I don't see bad intent, I also assume that the interviewer is trying to do their best for me to succeed. Their aim should be to get the most out of every candidate and not to pressure someone into failing.

This may sound irrelevant to the fact that you are finding it hard to describe your achievements, but I think that the mood of the interview matters a lot. A positive mindset on your part can relieve a lot of the tension and with less tension, there's more bandwidth to think.
Millions or even billions of ants are not comparable to a single human brain. In the same way, billions humans are nothing compared to a single AGI.

AGI is scarier than nukes.
"The picture coming into focus is that of a two-tier university, which educates, side by side in the same classrooms, two large and quite distinct groups of undergraduates: non-transfer students and transfer students.

The former students lead privileged lives: they are very selectively chosen, boast top-notch test scores, tend to hail from the wealthier ranks of society, receive ample financial aid, and turn out very successfully as measured by graduation rates.

The latter students are significantly worse off: they are less selectively chosen, typically have lower test scores (one surmises, although acceptance rates and average test scores for the Combined Plan and General Studies are well-kept secrets),43 tend to come from less prosperous backgrounds (as their higher rate of Pell grants shows), receive much stingier financial aid, and have considerably more difficulty graduating.

No one would design a university this way, but it has been the status quo at Columbia for years. The situation is tolerated only because it is not widely understood. "

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigatio...
Thanks, though please: that's mostly a regurgitation based on a very shallow understanding and quickly checking a few Wikipedia pages and websites.
Glad to help! If you‘ll take another tip, I‘d recommend to get a „no frost“ one (if they are available in your area). We had „low frost“ ones before and had to defrost them every couple months, which can be a real hassle when it’s currently full. The „no frost“ usually really means you never have to defrost.
Damn, imagine if there was some way to actually record all of this menial work that people do in some form of code, and then make that shit public.
>It really depends where you work.

one guy back then at Sun got into 3 layoffs over several years, each time getting as the severance - being a longtimer - a year worth of a very good Senior Staff salary and each time coming back to Sun in a few months (the requirement to repay pro-rated severance in case of being hired back had been already dropped by then :)
By "applies to x" do you mean "grants the freedom of speech to x" or "stops x from taking the freedom of speech away from others"?
Lots of planets, too. Some, with life.
People posting on HN are both the least likely to be impacted by the stuff they're preventing, and the most likely to be able to find ways around it. I don't think the median child is going to be nearly as capable.
Not sure I follow, generated columns are updated on UPDATE, so that's just the same?
>I feel similarly about Windows. Way, way more resource hungry. Tens to hundreds of times, depending on the metric.

You're incorect here as that's not an apples to apples comparison. If you've got the RAM, Windows (and MacOS too I bet) does a lot of caching on boot of frequently used apps and files to RAM, as any sane desktop focused OS should do to give you a good experience, and it frees it back up as it starts to be needed by other apps. If you've got free RAM, why shouldn't the OS put it to good use to improve the UX?

I never understood the obsession of many enthusiasts, to spec PCs with huge amounts of RAM, then smugly compete for the least amount of idle RAM used by their system. That's not the metric of a good desktop OS. What do you gain by just staring at large amounts of RAM that you paid for just sitting idle and unused by anything? RAM is there to be used, and if free RAM is available and the OS is smart about using it and freeing it on the fly to boost the UX, then please by all means go ahead and use as much as you want if that will improve the UX.

My parents run Windows 10 on my 11 year old 4GB laptop with a spinning rust drive, using Chrome as a browser and it works without ever crashing or needing to kill apps, so IMO, Windows is stellar at managing memory/resources even when in very short supply. Meanwhile on the same laptop, Ubuntu's Gnome would just completely lock up after a long Chrome browsing session, or its OOM would just straight up kill Chrome, both cases yielding a much worse UX than on Windows, making it the far superior desktop OS in this case.

IMHO a better and more realistic metric should be idle CPU usage, and how the OS deals with low memory scenarios, like the one I described above, not by how little idle RAM it uses on PCs with large ammounts of it as that's just pointless.
Complex tasks often contain chunks which can be delegated from more to less qualified members of team (for mutual benefit). It's fine. But selling worktime of absolutely inexperienced people who at times don't even understand that spreadsheets they carry around as experts, and pretending there is some sort of superintellectual efforts were done when charging customers is still looks very much like snake oil business. And "security" industry is full of this stuff
ISO name change for Türkiye
About a week ago the UN approved the decision to change the country's name from Turkey to Türkiye. ISO now follows suit and updated the short and full name of the country.
Obviously, the message doesn’t matter for those incinerated. It applies to the folks in the outer boroughs and suburbs outside the blast radius.
It's not ended though, yes it was a bogus claim, YT realised this and it will be re-enabled within 48 hours.

The titles makes it seem them streamer is gone/ended permenantly.

YouTubes DMCA policy is well documented with abuse and general nonsense sometimes, but credit is due here when they do the right thing and figure it out. Problem is that not everyone is as large as Lo-Fi to send out a reachable tweet.
Something like the Swedish coop Crisp? https://dna.crisp.se/docs/index.html
It would be nice if someone could figure out how to hack these into working without a subscription.
Why do so many rich people scam others? They're rich! It's certainly not because of lack of economic opportunities.

Some said in another reply it was common to say in the USSR if we paid the police more they'd stop being corrupt. To which the response was, if that's so then how come the politicians, being paid ever more, are still corrupt.

Doing bad has nothing to with being poor and everything to do with culture. A culture of entitlement, a culture of selfishness, a culture of lack of responsibility. To see what I mean, go to Japan, notice the poor don't steal. Why? Because it's not part of their culture. (PS: I'm not saying there is no crime in Japan nor am I saying there is no theft. I am saying that the poor general don't steal there, at least no compared to whatever places you're making excuses for).
In Michigan they sold it by saying all the lottery money would go to education. But other funding to education was cut by the same amount, so technically the lottery is funding education even though the revenue increase went somewhere else.
Fish is high on satiety!? I can’t think of anything non-plant based that leaves me hungrier more quickly. Even something oily and tasty like a cod.
That goes against what several of my current & ex meta friends feel during a job search.

No matter what you say about the business, the people are fairly hard working and smart. More hard working than most other FANGs and it shows when they job search.
>It's rather strange that employees are expected to give advanced notice when quitting, but employers are not expected to give advanced notice when firing people.

Well on the flip side I know many people who've received severance pay after being let go, but I don't know anyone who's provided labor to a company for months after leaving.
How does testosterone have protective benefits wrt aging? Bodybuilders who use testosterone get really old looking faces. Wrinkles, rougher skin, deep nasolabial folds etc. Google "roid face"
There is no easy recipe for just making money off the market. To know what to do you have to make finance your life and be super ultra plugged in and have access to information that other people don't, with enough capital to throw around to hedge stuff.
> Will richer EU country and US companies pay you better than your local wage bracket in the EU?

Of course. Competition to find better remote talent.

> How do you find that? This sounds like the best of both worlds. I'm guessing its tricky?

You have less bargaining power because you are competing in a bigger pool of remote workers. There is a little problem with timezones. But you can get $100K+. If you're good and got connections you can get SF/NY wage wherever you are.
> This is the dark side of liberty where we see that people do not always choose the best options

Most evil in the world is done by people who know what is best for everyone else, and forces it on them.
The vast majority of wealthy people got wealthy by winning the birth lottery.
Can you elaborate on the logic behind that? Also when you say "most" do you really think it's a percentage of 50%?
The only problem I have with this document (which is quite good), is that it basically is a reflection of the mentality that we have to answer all these questions because commercial proprietary software is the "normal" path and we need all these justifications / answers for OSS.

For many things (or in an alternate universe), you would hope the opposite had been the default, and commercial proprietary software had to justify why it should be adopted.
the merchant must be spending enough on Google Adwords to bury bad reviews, just like Yelp
>Similar to how a poorly done layoff, (such-as coinbase)

Coinbase offered 3.5 months' severance pay minimum, plus additional severance pay based on employee tenure. If that's a poorly done layoff, what's a well-done one?
Probably parallel construction, right?
> receiving stolen property

Being in possession of stolen property is not necessarily a crime. If you buy something on eBay that was stolen without your knowledge you're not going to get charged. You may have to return it and be out of pocket probably, but not crime.

As for soliciting murder that's a crime. There is an intent there.

> He is a direct beneficiary though.

What if instead of his lief today he was forced into the sex slave ? Would you still consider him a beneficiary ?
Pakistan looks to be next. There will likely be some debt renegotiation and a bailout, attached with some pretty onerous terms I'm sure. A possible bad path is if the US decides to make an example out of Sri Lanka because it went all in on China's debt trap diplomacy. Does Sri Lanka occupy a strategic location on the busiest sea lanes? If so, then there may be some competition between China and the Quad that may play out in an interesting way.
We use Contentful. We did an evaluation of a load of headless CMS and found that Contentful was the only one that matched our needs and (for cloud hosted versions) didn't have bugs that were easy to run into. We also make use of its content management APIs to improve automation of certain tasks not supported by functionality already in the product.
So, to start with, 1920x1080x4 -- even if the alpha channel isn't used, we align to pixels 4-byte words for performance (if you want to trigger panic quickly in a crowded room full of Linux graphics developers, say "Cirrus 24-bit shadowfb" out loud and see how quickly you get thrown out of the room).

But not only that -- for compositing, we need to store the full window pixmap contents for each window. That's what's necessary for things like the blur-behind effect, or antialiased window corners.

But you probably want to also have tiny previews of these windows, so you're going to need mipmap'd versions of them stored. The mip chain for a texture is just the successive power-2s-down summed together, roughly an extra 33% of memory.

And we haven't even counted things like double- or triple-buffering! In order to not see tears as the GPU draws to a framebuffer, it needs a framebuffer to scan out, and a different framebuffer to draw to. So take all of the above, and multiply it again.

This is not counting all the additional bookkeeping that apps can provide. Shoutouts to SDL for only uploading a 256x256 version of window icons -- even when the game provides a 16x16 variant, SDL will internally upscale it to 256x256 before handing it to the window manager. And you probably want to display it back down at 16x16 or maybe 64x64 for your alt-tab, so that's a full mip chain on a 256x256 texture.

Oh, and window frames! On a reparenting WM under X11, you wrap the window in a slightly larger window, and draw the window frame in the larger one. So if you have a maximized window that's using OpenGL to draw, the app has its own pair of backbuffers, then you have a window frame in its own window pixmap, which the compositor then draws to its 1920x1080 backbuffer.

You probably also want a window title on that window frame, so that means a font glyph texture, but that probably fits in a single 1024x1024 R8 texture without mips.

Anyway, these things quickly add up! I've done memory profiling like this before. There's still many, many gains left on the floor, absolutely, but I've had people plug in 3 1920x1080 monitors and then complain that the window manager was using 20MB of GPU VRAM.
Possible, but it could also be that the reviewing system considers them a high-signal user: very few reviews most/all negative would be a person who doesn’t care for reviewing but had such horrendous experience they were pushed to warn others.
> This is futile.

I will pop by and rob you later, I assume you have no windows, doors or locks and wont call the police after I clean you out because it would be futile.
Yes, the leverage employers can have over immigrants is a big problem. An illegal immigrant who goes to the authorities with a wage theft claim risks being arrested and deported herself. Even a highly educated tech worker at Facebook cannot switch to Google without jeopardizing his family's status in the United States.

The harsher the climate towards immigrants in laws and officialdom, the easier they are to exploit. The anti-immigration voters who demand this harshness are shooting themselves in the foot a bit, and should reconsider.
Airplanes do not flap their wings.
So is this just NYC or is there a general concern?

I feel like the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament is a total failure of global management.

Maybe I should stock up on fresh water reserves or something.
Just because something doesn't hold your hand and you're incapable of using Google, or Wikipedia to supplement the information, doesn't mean it is nonsense.
That's the kind of short-sighted thinking that makes the difference between high performers actually wanting or not wanting to work for you.

(In more detail, the two reasons my sibling comment gave.)
Uber paid 6 figure sums for academic research as lobby fodder
From why I understand of VHS (and I could be wrong here since I’ve not written software to read VHS tapes) is that they don’t have a separate audio track. They just encode NTSC or PAL signals as it would be broadcast over the airwaves. That means audio will be encoded in the signal after the video frame. It also means Teletext is also recorded too (which has been useful for Teletext achievers / historians).

Stereo audio, like colour video, was an advancement that came after broadcasting had already been standardised. Which means they had to find room in the signal to squeeze that additional information in (this is why TV sets that aren’t sync with the broadcasting feed go black and white). Stereo was a relatively recent addition, maybe late 80s or early 90s (I remember really clearly when the technology was turned on but can’t recall how old I was) so it wouldn’t surprise me if stereo audio was subject to the same syncing issues as colour video.

VHS HiFi seems to be a different format entirely but which also used the same storage media (like how CDs have a few different storage formats supported by the same hardware optical discs)
Because they are harmful.
It's failed in the sense that poverty rates stopped declining in 1968, when welfare started.
Just a little riff, but I like to read both positive and negative reviews. Too many generic positive reviews count as a negative, clearly enraged negative reviews count as a positive (talking entitled, clearly in the wrong reviews).
“Anyone upset about glyphosphate contamination is mad at the wrong people”

“They are literally poisoning you to make the post-harvest process cheaper”

Not to take anything away from your comment, but shouldn’t we also point the finger at corporate supermarkets that choke profit margins for producers?
There are thousands of separate paywalls out there, so if the HN front page is full of paywalled links, most of us won’t be able to read any of them. This might make sense if there were a tech wire service we agreed on using.
Started watching this the other night and gave up after a few minutes. It's yet another so-called YouTube documentary that consists of nothing more than the summary of a Wikipedia article overlaid on a poor quality slide-show of publicly available photos. Often poorly compressed and a hodge-podge of different aspect ratios.

If you're interested in this subject, do yourself a favour and find a 'proper' article to read.
Its kind of sad what unemployment can do to people. India's unemployment rate has always been high and has kept going up post COVID.

On the flip side, not all Indians are bad. I've got multiple chances to work with some of them in the past and they are just a refreshing change to work with.
While "see" seems like the obvious default sensory analogy to use for "detect" with a SQUID, now that I think about it, maybe it's more a synaesthestic blend of seeing, feeling and hearing.
Well, the EU itself adheres to law very selectively itself. For example for surveillance. They retroactively legalized mass surveillance by European authorities to make the impression that the law is more relevant than it actually is.
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Layoffs are nothing to be surprised or enraged about. That's how free market works. Companies were there just for the money. All the time.

Maybe they could reduce someones seniority level and wage? But that seems just strange and probably nobody would agree on that.
exactly, I've dreamed about cataloguing a bunch of low res images of all my belongings just or inventory sake. So much junk to manage.
Satiety index is normalised by calories rather than weight [1]. If it were normalised by weight, calorie density would dominate any satiety effect.

[1] http://www.ernaehrungsdenkwerkstatt.de/fileadmin/user_upload...
If you don't engage with the system whose regulation is being discussed at all, and don't care one way or the other, then volunteering this information in a discussion of the regulation and how it relates to the problems you don't have is the lowest effort form of decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio of the conversation.
Question 19...

... Burst through the window/28, enter 16a isn't an answer :(

Just skim read - interesting, thanks for sharing!
Meanwhile in Japan

https://www.bousai.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/book/pdf/en/02_Lets_Get...

https://www.bousai.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/book/pdf/en/03_Other_Di...

https://www.bousai.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/book/pdf/en/04_Survival...

https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/guide/bosai/index.html
Indeed it does, hence why if you're not wearing chainsaw chaps (that work by clogging the chain with fibres), you're really asking to open up your femoral artery if/when the chainsaw kicks back.
Just because both Mac and Linux are "unix based" with terminals doesn't mean that they allow for the same use cases. The OS are structured very differently.

Linux is core os on top of which you can use a UI of your choosing. If you have something like Ubuntu server installed with just a terminal interface, that system will most likely never lock up from user input unless all the stuff in the background becomes resource constrained.

MacOS has the UI, the kernel, and the programs all tightly coupled together to where you have zero choice on a lot of things in the OS.
> This does what it claims, appears well built

Sounds like an ISO certification. ISO 22000 already exists for food safety, so it's not too far fetched to propose a voluntary service-based certification. But it would add cost and risk, with probably little value added for the business.
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Population Texas: 29 million

Population Germany: 80+ million
I'm sure there is an OOP joke here but it's probably private.
I pay nearly 50% income taxes between federal and state. And we have sales tax and other taxes. I’m not sure you really do pay more in taxes.
The writer of this post should have read a few entries at twitter’s engineering blog (https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us) before making this outrageous claim
I think the economic situation globally has been deteriorating for years. And the countries that are not as well connected to centers of power or favor or just were on rockier ground, disputed, etc. to start with suffer more obviously at first.
There's a difference between a complaint and a reality. British working class citizens likely wouldn't wish to pick fruits, at the wages that British farmers wish to pay them.

Actually, that's sort of the point. British working class labour being undercut by foreign labour.
The cited memo seems entirely reasonable for any for-profit company..

> “If a direct report is coasting or is a low performer, they are not who we need; they are failing this company,” Saba wrote. “As a manager, you cannot allow someone to be net neutral or negative for Meta.”

Companies exist, after all, to generate a profit for their owners.. One may or may not agree with the ethics of that being the case, but that is why they exist at this moment in time.
Yep, scrolled down to the answer key looking for a twist.
grain of sand is what like 100um, arm is about a meter so tan-1 0.0001/1 ~ 0.0001 (lim x->0 tan x = x). 360 deg, 60 min in a degree so that's about 2 arc min. Does that make sense?
That would be a good idea, if rust actually would implement memory safety, type safety and concurrency safety. the first goal is stated in the docs, but violated by its implementation, the other two are not even fulfilled by their specs.

what's missing is concurrency safety for lisp. and enforcing compile-time type safety in the proposed lisp kernel. not just the usual run-time type safeties.

lisp can ignore the unsafe POSIX architecture (esp. blocking IO), so there's a chance.
It's the bait to keep us subdued until he expires.
Closeup Comparision Image of the James Webb Space Telescope vs. Hubble
Why do people still think that the platform is the "cause" of things like "misinformation"

You think that just shutting down the communication medium really makes all of that go away"?