skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reckon this particular objection actually shows the forma mentis of developers. It seems like a lot of them feel like they are temporarily-embarrassed megacorps, worrying about things that will never really apply to them.
> The media have so far concealed the adverse events of vaccine administration, such as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), owing to biased propaganda.

This statement seems completely unnecessary when discussing the vaccine effects based on scientific evidence. Only ends up casting a doubt on the motivations of the author.
The Case for IPv6:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-iab-case-for-ipv...
A second argument is that debugging is harder than writing.
Sleep deprivation is indeed considered a form of psychological torture [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31670701/
You aren’t making an apples to apples comparison though, your assertion is that it costs the system $18 for you to take a trip, but you’re only looking at the fare charges by Uber/Lyft. Uber and Lyft continue to operate at a loss, and are therefore subsidizing their rides as well. Additionally, they are able to maintain a contingent workforce that a public transit agency would likely never be able to get away with. Uber and Lyft are directly subsidized by investor money, in addition to the lower wages earned by drivers who also cover the capital expenditure for vehicles and cover the maintenance costs.

And final point, mass transit demand still hasn’t returned to pre pandemic levels. Obviously, it may be the case that we have seen a long term shift in demand, but the fact remains that the current system was built out/provisioned for a higher level of demand, so it’s not surprising that the cost structure is higher right now than it should be. Pre pandemic it looks like bus/rail cost Marta around $4.50 per trip.
Microsoft launches flight simulator to train drone AI systems
In 6 months time am i going to be able to send a whatsapp message to someone on facebook messenger?
In Chicago you can put your metro card in your apple wallet and it’ll automatically use it on the public transit system even if you have a different default set. Not sure if apple is charging them fees or what, but it works pretty well for me.
> I'm not sympathetic to developers who cry about Apple not letting them run $program

You don't have to be sympathetic to developers. By sympathetic to yourself. Apple stifling competition and charging exorbitant rents absolutely harms you as a consumer.
DoT is simply DNS-over-TLS (never heard of Distributed TLS).

The article linked by this post explains that Android supported DoT since Android 9, but it was problematic because it required frequent TCP handshakes and TLS handshakes. Plus, it could be easily blocked by middle boxes.
Isn't the answer for Apple to provide operating-system level restrictions to apps (regardless of source) that make it so the only way any application on the system can access the identifier is by permission from the user? I wouldn't be surprised if this is how it works right now anyway, just because an app is deployed by an enterprise developer doesn't mean it should be able to bypass the app tracking transparency prompt.

Or does the EU law prevent them from having private APIs/system components period? It seems like many people are making the assumption that this means that every single sideloaded app will be able to bypass all of the privacy/security features on the device, and I don't see why that would be. My understanding is that this is for "fairness", which would mean that apps that are sideloaded would have the same level of access as those on the App Store, meaning they use the same APIs that trigger the same prompts.
It’s also very difficult if not impossible to calculate generally and many people tend to vastly overestimate their personal contribution to value generation.
I take it one step farther and only watch YouTube in a private session and don't log in. When the recommendations get strange, I close the window and open a new one.
from what i remember the uvalde incident wasn't even a student, wasn't hidden in a backpack, and was just openly brought in with no attempt to hide it?

wtf on earth does this even accomplish?
probably not. Bluetooth is encrypted so unless you have NSA level resources or the password/secrets involved you'll be out of luck.
Something I haven’t seen anyone talking about with these huge models: how do future models get trained when more content online is model generated to start with? Presumably you don’t wanna train a model on autogenerated images or text, but you can’t necessarily know which is which.
The time has never been better for a new “game engine” or 3D app framework. Unity is trying to be everything for everyone and hasn’t done a great job of taking care of its core audience: indie game developers.

Unity is the de facto choice for XR developers but it’s a poor application framework. Something like StereoKit that caters to non-game devs and can provide rendering, a flexible interaction model, UI, and a good multi-user app model could really steal Unity’s thunder for multi-platform development.
Judge Kathaleen McCormick granted the social media giant’s request for an expedited hearing. Now, the two sides are gearing up for a trial in October.
Ask HN: How to deal with growth experiments impacting engineering work
Hey everyone,

The company I'm working at has a growth team which basically means in our team of PM + engineers + designers we also have + Growth Manager who's job is basically to design and run a load of experiments to increase some metrics about the product.

But (obviously?) when I say "run experiments" what I mean is "get the engineering team to implement loads of stuff and then track it over the week". This is fine, because usually its pretty simple stuff, but her tickets never seem to get prioritised and so she ends up only running like one experiment a week and I think she's pretty demoralised about the whole thing.

I know companies like Amazon AB test everything, so there must be good best practices here? Does anyone know any strategies or products that would help either:
- Her do it herself? (seems unlikely she could get everything done without engineering support, but maybe she could do some simple stuff)
- Us to work more effectively as a team and actually get more experiments shipped.

Thanks!
> You can visualize a “branch” as a series of commits, but the same thing can exist without calling it a branch

You can visualize a "square" as a rectangle with equal sides, but the same thing can exist without calling it a square.
100% agree with that.

Also, obligatory reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
> In France, you retire with a small flat at 70

while working at a FAANG? hardly. sure, you'll be paid 150kE instead of 300k$, but it's still more than enough to be in the top 5% of the country
Not great but I’d cut them some slack. Designing hardware, software, a billing system, a website, production, shipping… I’m part of a two man hardware company and it’s a miracle it’s even possible.

The web is funny tho - an order page is just an order page - if it was built by a trillion dollar company or a startup barely paying rent - we go in with the same expectations.
There's a lot of evidence around hippocampus size in depressed patients. They tend to be smaller than average. After 6 months to a year of treatment with antidepressants the hippocampus grows to a larger size.

It's speculated that hippocampus size might be one of the driving components of depression, but who knows. Mental illness is complex.
I won't excuse Javits: they built it in one of the most inconvenient neighborhoods in Manhattan for public transit (presumably because it's a convention center, meaning that most of the expected traffic is out-of-towners staying at nearby hotels). That being said, the 7 to Hudson Yards is (IME) the best way to get there, and is among the more reliable subway services.

Edit: That being said, 10 city blocks is half a mile. That's an ordinary walk in NYC.
Did Microsoft pull Teams version 1.5.00.17656 and pretend it never happened?
"Usability" of software/hardware is often the biggest barrier for people looking to learn these kinds of skills. I applaud their effort, I would love to see more development and hacking tools take this approach.
After investigating performance issues, we found that the June production version we were pushed in early July still does not appear on the Teams public versioning page. Pretty annoying, especially when you consider admins have no control over version updates.
In the final scoring modal, the moves are linked:

https://lichess.org/J8HKQ0Fy/white

It's at the same point; press the "Play next move" button in the bottom right.
Audacity isn't available on iOS or iPadOS. This browser tool, however, is.
My biggest pain point right now with Bluetooth and my phone is that it's *all* media going through the paired device. I want to be able to pin just my music app audio to go out a speaker and still be able to use my phone speaker for all other apps but that's not possible.
It sounds like you were just going to end up with a mediocre, compromised system anyway. "Light rail" is still bringing us things like the Santa Clara VTA system at best, and the Virginia Beach "Tide" at its worst. Likewise cities with "real" subways include such luminaries as Atlanta and Miami. Have you tried to take the metro system in Miami?
Being immune and having COVID without even noticing are kinda the same thing.

Vaccine+Boosts improve the odds of you not even feeling it. So the news wasn't entirely wrong.
Chinese-made GPS tracker highly vulnerable and used in 169 nations
Crunchbase looks to grow its database of startups with $50M in new cash
You will be extra pleased to learn that the DMA (this law) or it's cousin the DSA also has rules to restrict the formation of monopoly by limiting the ability of gatekeepers to buy out all competition even before the market dominance is established.

(As a side effect it'll probably result in fewer companies with unsustainable business models which are only funded to be bought out)

I'm looking forward to it and hope it'll work out.
That's what I went with. I have implemented this feature now: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1413265/180040056-..., but haven't deployed it yet. Thanks for the suggestions!
It also means there will possibly be another renaissance of fully automated, mass generated NFTs and tons of derivatives and remixes flooding the NFT market in an attempt to pump the NFT hype again.

It doesn't matter, OpenAI wins anyway as these companies will pour hundreds of thousands into generated images.

It seems that the NFT grift is about to be rebooted again, such that it isn't going to die that quickly. But still, eventually 90% of these JPEG NFTs will die anyway.
> Bungie, who were acquired by Sony at a $3.6B valuation in February, seem like a reasonable comparison; not too far off Yuga’s $4B valuation from their raise in March.

This kind of thinking is a problem, especially when the basis for the article is drawing equivalence between the valuation of a longstanding games company, vs. a fly-by-night lifestyle brand that is now dipping its toes into games and movies.

Bungie's valuation is based on the intrinsic value of its assets and the potential cash flow from creating franchises from its IP which goes back 20 years and is supported by hundreds of millions of cumulative unit sales to end-users. Sony would also have done significant due diligence around their financials, skeletons in closets, and other things.

Yuga's 'valuation' is based on whatever private investors paid for a slice of its equity, hoping that they'll 10X it when the company goes public. The intrinsic value seems to come down to whether they can find a bigger fool to dump their holdings on. Remember that WeWork went from being "valued at $50bn" by insiders, to less than $10bn when they submitted their laughable S-1 for public scrutiny.

I mention WeWork because A16Z, the VC fund that led the Yuga raise, also handed WeWork charlatan Adam Neumann $70m for some blockchain project:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/flowcarbon-wework-adam-neu...
So actual hard talent plus wanting to build business success is enough you think?
We actually are running into this exact problem with running production ML workloads and despite anyone's claims it's not a solved problem. In fact, this log4j mess is a cake walk in comparison.

The issue: ML workloads are very sensitive to the exact version of a framework/library used and these frameworks/libraries are not stable despite what their semantic version says.

So what do you do when you have a python vulnerability? Best case, an update "just works" but in many cases you either need to retrain the model (can be extremely expensive or inconvenient), rewrite it if APIs changed, or hunt down a difference in model output if some downstream dependency broke something. Stability of software in the python world is abysmal.
You mean just generate a single large image with all the stuff you want for the whole story, and then use cropping and inpainting to get only the piece you want for each page?
I don't see why there's any credible reason to expect that DALL-E will do anything at all to help those promoting the NFT silliness. Two separate issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
I think this is serious overkill, like you can get a way with simple stemming.
Very curious coincidence, an article just appeared at OurWorldInData.org - and by very Max Roser:

'The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better - We need to see that [these three statements] are all true to see that a better world is possible'

https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better

Proposed example: "4.3% of children globally - 5.9mil/year - die before the age of 15; BUT: in the past it was 50%; YET: in the EU the current value is 0.45% [HENCE: progress is possible, goals are available]".

...Which is more times relevant: difficulties are increasingly topical, but complications in dealing with them are in public conscience, and an approach to make them increasingly present is explainable in more branches of said conscience.
The work every time...and my hearing is shot so the last 5% worth of fidelity is lost on me.

And my wife experienced their noise cancelling once on a flight and bought a set the next day.

And we can share the audio between two airpod things when watching a movie, but not with non-Apple products.
It's suboptimal and you wouldn't want it for a production interpreter, but it's the lowest friction for leveraging what you get for free with Python to get something working correctly.
I find it amusing that they suggest DALL-E, which typically generates lovecraftian nightmare images, for making children's story illustrations.
Well don't use your credit card. What else are they gonna get? There is nothing illegal about a wifi dev device and they aren't hiding anything. You can order it anywhere if you're willing to pay
Hardware and software? But of course it's not an EU company
How to get the most out of Google Drive
the point is that his winning position was a 64 move convert and he was correct. Lots of players believe they will end up in a winning position, but overlook something while "not bothering with the details".

it's less about how much he calculated in that moment and more about the accuracy of his confidence and the work he had to have put in alongside his talent prior to that moment to achieve that confidence and back it up.
I do. It means that time is not mine to do with as I like. I cannot spontaneously go out of town, nor can I decide to have a few drinks. I cannot start a project that needs to see completion - this includes simply involved dinners, hobby projects, and sometimes home repairs and car maintenance. If it is at night, I have to sacrifice sleep quality for being able to hear the phone.

In other words, they are working hours with some degree of personal freedom during the day. The assignment is to be ready in case things go wrong.
Just got mine a few days ago (EU based). Well built, works as promised. But I find that it mostly works for simple things like controlling lights, tv etc. Most interesting targets use proper encryption (mifare classic for example) so I had no luck accessing my company badge. Mifare Desire data cannot be read properly at the moment it seems, but I'm sure that will be fixed. Fun little tool, will probably end up in a drawer soon.
You're right. We've gone from "This guy's only claim to fame is being born rich and starring in a reality TV show, he's probably not going to be a very good president" to "We had 4 years of this guy as president and he sucked big time".
>but what I know is that I really fucking hate U2.

We can agree on that!
I read the legislation as that still being possible.

There is no need for you to communicate with anybody who you don't want to communicate with.
People aren't like minimax, they can see 64 moves into the future if there's something about them that fits into a simple pattern.
Based on the QA people I've worked with over the years it can be grueling work with an unusually high level of responsibility and, from what I've seen, low pay compared to developer salaries. Seems like an obvious part of tech to be at the forefront of unionization.

As for the companies fighting tooth and nail against unionization attempts, I don't blame them any more than I blame a dog for eating food I drop on the floor. It's just what they do. If we want a more equitable playing field for unionization we need to support policies and politicians to make that happen. Waving fists at for-profit enterprises accomplishes nothing.
The fact that this is such a common phenomenon supports the argument that programming is pop culture, and it validates the complaints of so many of us curmudgeons.
Silk offers an alternative to some microplastics
The advantage of being able to build to a binary is that you can then distribute the binary directly instead of distributing source and forcing people to rebuild it.

When 98% of your users only have the binary and not the source code it means 98% of your users won't even be aware that they need a new version that isn't vulnerable.

Remember the vulnerability disclosure will be something like "Log4Go has a vulnerability!!", not that the binary apps you've downloaded have a vulnerability. So if it affects 200 projects, every one of those projects will also have to publish vulnerability notifications independently.

And frankly 80% of those projects will likely be abandoned or at least neglected after a couple of years, leaving many people with vulnerable binaries they don't even know to check for vulnerabilities.

In other words, they very advantage of Go (easy to distribute binaries directly!) is a security disadvantage. If you instead installed the app using a package manager, the package manager could at least notify you that you have a package with a security issue. But that's nothing new; security and ease-of-use are often at odds.
> features the first Arm-based dedicated servers in Europe

Not sure in what context these are "first" but Equinix Metal has had ARM servers for...definitely many years.

https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/c3-large-arm64/
There's this certain mentality that's been deeply culturally embedded by anti-union propoganda, especially in tech, that unions are a sort of blue collar organization designed strictly for appeazing underperforming and lazy.

What people forget in their arrogance is that unions also just bring more leverage back to the table to fight off abuse, setup better conditions, etc. Yes, they can be abused and yes, they can lead to stagnation but without collective bargaining power your only leverage is how easy/difficult you are to replace and how abundant acceptable (e.g., do I need to uproot my life?) competitive or acceptable openings are at any given point of time so you can vote with your feet.

It's perfectly OK to embed your idealistic meritocracy within a union as part of your negotiations. You don't have to appease the lazy and 'medicore' if that's your great fear, you can negotiate and codify fair evaluations for these things if your union so wishes this. At the same time you also can negotiate nifty things like: not being on call, not working overtime, making sure theres adequate number of engineers on a project, improving the type of work you do, etc. Unless you're leading a startup where you're on the other side of the table, I don't see how these ideas aren't appealing to you--the opposite is very appealing to your employers.

In general, labor has been on the losing side for decades and there's this degree of condescension that "I am professional making great TC, I don't need those piddly unions" mentality that does nothing but props up continued erosion of standards and expectations of work and compensation in this industry. I've been working in software and tech for quite awhile (my mentor who shared their experiences of such declines since the 60s), and I can assure you it's gotten worse over the years for workers. This industry has been mostly fortunate because of growth outstripping supply that continues to give some leverage, but that may not be the case indefinitely and if that happens, unless you are near the absolute top of the field, you too will continue to see declines in working conditions in this field indefinitely.
Felt the same way. Some off the shelf algorithms would do wonders here. More sophisticated ML to tag (image and themes) would be awesomely overkill.
System level libraries are a huge risk. It makes updating much harder leading to many developers just foregoing updates unless absolutely necessary. Libraries your software uses should be decoupled as much as possible from system level libs.
these projects not pulling their weight from launch are able to sustain that based on the hopium of ongoing competitive edge / bigger value being delivered based on current potential. the coins are worth that much mostly based on speculation that the project will pull off bigger wins with their investment into it, even if it seems there's value (however questionable to you) coming from a few directions already for holders.

so when the bigger studios, better independent teams, and big platforms that aren't rushing to market this early, even regardless of whether or not these studios are involved in nfts, i expect coin value will drop if they become obviously behind these adjacent products/experiences

sustained shitcoins that play their cards early on delivery of half baked projects will see their hopium veil evaporate

i think some studios can pull this off though, the aaa metaverses suffer from a blandness that comes as a cost of having so many players involved in one shared world. and it's easy for a shitcoin to buy a studio
SVG exports would only be meaningful if the model is generating vector images, which are then converted to bitmaps. I highly doubt that's the case, but perhaps someone who has actually looked at the model structure can confirm?
Makes me think of Ouroboros

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
Sorry, what was the humorous writing there? Seemed like a pretty direct statement of the facts of their case. The fact that underlying events are funny doesn't say anything about the style of writing, and I don't see any stylistic choices that were going for "deliberately humorous writing", let alone ones that show a gift (though of course the poster might show it in other contexts!).
If we were on Twitter, Chris Dixon at A16Z would have popped into the comment section to remind you that akshually, play-to-earn garbage like Axie Infinity is solving poverty in the Philippines.