skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The manager themself is likely going to take advantage of it too. Of course, there are enough Salesforce or former-Salesforce people in this thread stating how things actually are there (don't expect most people to be available most of December) that we don't need to speculate about how things could be or how abuse could still happen.
The site appears to be down, and I only have the manual that came with my revision :/

How does it work? Do you have to toggle in a serial boot loader first? I can’t imagine Lee adding all the hardware necessary to implement serial DMA…
That would be latency vs. throughput, i.e. good for things that need a steady supply like food, and bad for one-off low-latency things like mail.
>But this fact – that it is possible to change the world and achieve extraordinary progress for entire societies – is something that everyone should know.

Everyone does know that. That the world changes, gets better or gets worse isn't exactly a hot take. What these 'progress studies' are about is ideological in nature. It's using 'the state of the world' which nobody cares about as a means to re-frame local issues, which people do care about.

I mean the article is even quite explicit at the end that what it's really about is selling 'effective altruism' as a belief system. However instead of pretending that this is some value-neutral question of 'data' as if the average European or American citizen doesn't know that Somalia is poorer than France (or could theoretically be less poor) is kind of silly.
Oh hey, this is my project. What sort of comparison are you looking for? I can maybe shed some light.

The giant difference between the two is that Algolia is a hosted search platform, so there exists a server that you send an API request to that can return the search results. This is pretty quick — they'll probably have a lot of the search data sitting in memory already (which is what you're paying for).

Pagefind isn't a platform, everything required to search a site is static along with the site. As a result, to search through a site you need to load some amount of it into the browser and then query it. Other javascript search libraries load everything up front and give you instant search, but Pagefind prioritizes bandwidth over search — on large sites the existing libraries can take a few MB of bandwidth up front to initialize their data.

With Pagefind, very little is loaded until you type in a search term. Once you start typing, a chunk of the search index is loaded containing your search word(s) and is then queried. This is what drives the performance you're seeing, which is predominantly the time for the data to load after you start typing — the query step itself is near-instant.

The goal is sites that are currently limited to paying for a platform like Algolia now have a path to add search without any infrastructure, but without burdening the end-user with enormous network requests.

If there's anything specific that you're wondering I'm happy to elaborate
Always love reading about performance enhancements to code. This is a great example of how much you can do with such a simple thing.

I can't see that any of this optimisation is actually useful in the real world. Does yes actually need such a high throughput? Would anything suffer if it didn't? Probably not. Still fun though.
Why would you need to solve it? Because the prisoners dilemma suggests everyone should hold out for the holiday.
Hilarious. Those first images have hurt feminism more than the GOP has in 30 years.

http://dailywrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DALL%C2%B7E...

http://dailywrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DALL%C2%B7E...
I think if you dig through GNU coreutils or *BSD world (probably FreeBSD for the “newest and fastest”), you’d be surprised at how complex almost any of the binaries are. That’s just the benefit of 40+ years of constant updates and optimizations on feature-complete software.
It will improve the lives of these projects' financial backers.

Won't somebody think of the investors?
> Yes it's called capitalism, if they could get away with it they would pay us nothing

It's called capitalism because it's the only system where they can't get away with it.
I don't know how it would be possible to work in software and not experience at least a little awe.
A lot. How many non-fiction books written even a few years ago have anything to say? Compare to fiction, which can tell timeless stories that remain interesting, funny, tragic across decades and centuries.

Confining your reading, and therefore your mind, to non-fiction seems very limiting.
Seems like yet another way to force attrition by creating a shitty and depressing work environment. Seems to be all the rage these days so they get out of paying when they lay people off
What's the relative scale of the two?
Has anyone had a good experience with Microsoft's online products?

I tried using Office 365 recently for a small side project after using Google apps for years.

Their email has like 5-10 messages come in every day about hotfixes, updates etc. Even after turning everything off, I still get a few emails from them every few days. Missed important emails in all that noise.

Outlook randomly decided to delete all my emails on my phone for some reason. I had to relogin and resync everything. Did not even realize this had happened and did not realize till a week later that I again missed a few important emails.

Lets not even get into Teams. Works only on Edge on a Desktop. Plus, starting a meeting seems to be rocket science. Still have not figured out how to blur the background in Teams.

Let me not even get started on Onedrive, the 1TB free storage is what drew me to try them out. Problem is 10MB took 1 hour to sync. How hard can syncing be...Google does it, Dropbox does it without any issues on Windows. But Microsoft cannot...

Sorry for the rant, but MS literally made me kill that side project and I am bitter about it. I just cannot figure out how it can be this bad and how MS is still surviving.
I come from a country where you can't walk a single kilometre without running into another damned river or canal. It's difficult to remember that water is a precious resource for most of the world population.
Fairly grim given the Holocene extinction I would say.

Back on topic though:

> The range of colours an animal sees depends on the combination of colour-sensitive pigments in their eye and the processing by the brain.

I take it the images here account mostly for the colour as it is detected and not so much the image that the animal brain perceives. Is that correct?
Eh you're asking the wrong question - training sets are not made of gold, it might be hard to make good ones, but faking a training set with a program like this, resource intensive but possible.
QA working when everyone else has off is efficient, if not pleasant for those QA workers.
Dang, I was expecting this article to be more related to haiku than tiktok. Not sure the author makes a great case for short form content being “unappreciated” as much as addicting
With an attitude like that I'm not surprised
The DNS servers for sunrise-ev.com are not responding at the moment. Here the site at archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220721014008/http://www.sunris...
registered Nurse. There are several levels of nursing certification which determine what things you are allowed to do at a hospital. CNA and LPN are lower in rank than a RN. Nurses that get paid more than RNs are specialized like surgical or labor and delivery nurses
It's cool, you can find the speed dial without looking and talk with people without using cpu cycles, internet bandwidth or battery. It also has this cultural vibe to it with people expecting you to get to the point, answer the query and terminate the connection.
I don't consider the reputation a positive.
Vesting is golden handcuffs. Severance is golden parachute.
“T63.81 -Toxic effect of contact with venomous frog”

There are no venomous frogs.
Dan Grossman isn’t dang.
Discovering new worlds... That's just my kind of thing. I try my best to align my endeavours with that in mind. :)

Thanks so much for the thorough and helpful response! especially the note on the classics being more difficult. A lot to chew on and explore, that's for sure!

And thanks for the article on Einstein and music; coincidentally I've been trying to appreciate music more as well. hmmm

:)
I meant open source software licenses that requires attribution.
Of those, I can only agree with le Guin, Lem, Asimov, Camus, Vonnegut, Banks, and Vinge.

Overall that's a very narrowly-focused list, and I doubt I'd find more than a couple of dozen from all of them.
I’m a big fan of the Mozilla MDN web docs; alas am not fluent with postgresql
Should they have ever existed in the first place, given that Usenet exists?
Tproxy, a CLI tool to proxy and analyze TCP connections
I don't see how that could be true. The thinnest ever iPhone was the 6, and it had a headphone jack. The phones since then have been 3-20% thicker.

Some searching suggests that 5mm is about the point where it won't fit, and iPhones are comfortably 7+. One of these phones is 5.6mm thick with a headphone jack and has near-zero bezels.
It took Adjani years to recover from the emotional toll of that movie. If you’re ever thinking of watching a Gaper Noé film, don’t waste your time on that poser hack. Watch Possession instead. That subway tunnel scene… sheesh.

Oh man, there’s a new 4K restoration. I don’t know if I can handle a second watch.

The Polish film I’d recommend is Kieślowski‘s The Double Life of Veronique.
Both Netflix and Spotify are having mounting problems with user retention and growth. Pulling their apps off of the official, most highly-trafficked, App Store is literally suicide for them. Not to mention the inherent difficulty of creating and maintaining their own app stores, of which trying to convince users to sign up for would be a hurdle on its own.

Perhaps they could team up with Facebook and create a rival app store of those who don’t want to pay the 30% tax. Of which they can all hemorrhage users together- it should be noted that FB is also having issues maintaining and growing DAU.
https://archive.ph/3EQKB
> The world is going to be much awful-er as climate change unfolds. Climate change is not being addressed seriously currently, at all. And the trend is towards it not being addressed.

The world has been getting better, and continues to get better. Unfortunately, I don't have a reference to it, but I recall attending a talk that charted out some kind of measure of wealth/welfare/well-off-ness based on various climate change scenarios. The thing that stood out to me was that even on the worse climate change predictions, future generations will STILL be better off than us. Just not as better off as they would be with better climate change action.

Whether or not the data used in that talk was accurate, I'm optimistic about the future, and I think it will be better, with peaks and troughs on the way there. I'm glad to have been born no earlier than I was, and would prefer to have been born later than I was! The main thing that concerns me is that it's going to be the poorest people in the world that will suffer as a result of climate change. I think that's where climate action should be directed primarily -- aimed at either preventing the great harms that will affect the poorest, or compensating them for the harms that can't be prevented, so that the harms of climate change are spread more fairly among us.
There's also WDL / iPlug2

https://www.cockos.com/wdl/

https://iplug2.github.io/
>They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program

"too many cooks spoil the broth" is a saying for a reason. If hiring more people would solve every problem we'd have fewer problems. Every team trying to bolt their random features on software suites like this is usually why they end up in their bloated states to begin with.

If you wanted to fix software like this the only solution is usually to get rid of people and have some madman with a wrecking ball knock it over and rebuild it and that never happens at large oganisations.
> but I think it's irresponsible of the Internet Archive to play so fast and loose with it

I don’t think that they did. But for the sake of discussion, I also don’t think it’s irresponsible. If copyright law is horribly broken (I agree), the most likely remedy is in court. You can’t get to that remedy with a case which has a reasonable chance of success if you don’t take that chance.
If Salesforce has unlimited PTO, won't everyone who used to have this benefit just take time off?
Well it doesn't advertise on billboards, it adverises on websites and search results.
Yeah! This site is what gave me the idea for sidewalk chalking tax rates on the neighborhood sidewalks.
This isn't entirely true.

Blackrock has a lot more influence over the companies they hold. They threaten to dump stock of companies if those companies won't adhere to their ESG scores, which will crash the companies. They threaten not to be buyers of companies if they don't adhere to their will. Market fundamentals don't matter.

More info here:

- "How BlackRock Has RIGGED the Climate Crisis": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDEGMU6sIEk

- Blackrock buying up single family homes at a record clip (timestamped), this short video on Blackrock's "Aladdin" AI: https://youtu.be/AWBRldjVzuM?t=363

- "BlackRock: The Most Evil Business In The World
": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAIcet1mQwg
https://clubtechnical.com/brayton-cycle

If you look at the TS diagram state 1 is the intake. 2 is after the compressor. 3 is after the burners. 4 is the exit from the turbine. Temperature is decent proxy for total energy. You can see the vertical lines of constant entropy. That means the energy is being extracted as work. Note real compressors and turbines the lines are angled slightly which reflects inefficiency.

You'll note the difference between 3->4 is larger than 1->2. The turbine expanding the hot gas produces more power than the compressor does compressing the cold air.
On average, zero. Lots of software gets replaced or tossed before the debt comes due. Having to listen to that one person on the team stress about tech debt takes a toll, though.
IRC works extremely well and has the best clients of any chat protocol. I also use XMPP and Matrix, but they always feel rough by comparison and have issues. Crashing, message delays, no good way to look through logs locally and quickly, etc. IRC is of course simpler, but it really sticks out how polished irssi and weechat are.
Why does the M1/M2 only support one external display?
"Imagine there was no such thing as a library, and that members of the current neoliberal policy consensus were to sit down today and invent it. They might create complicated tax expenditures to subsidize the poor purchasing and reselling books, like the wage support of the earned income tax credit. They might require people to rent books from approved private libraries, with penalties for those who don’t and vouchers for those who can’t afford it, like the individual mandate in the latest expansion of health care. They might come up with a program where they take on liability for books that go missing from private libraries and thereby boost profits for lenders themselves, like federally backed private student loans. Or maybe they’d create means-tested libraries only accessible to the poor, with a requirement that patrons document how impoverished they are month after month to keep their library card. Maybe they’d exempt the cost of private library cards from payroll taxes, or let anything calling itself a library pay nothing in taxes."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/citizen-coup...
Studies, studies, every where,

And nor the apes did think,

Studies, studies, every where

But naught to drop a link.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!

Instead of lolz, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.
> Slack said controlling screens was too difficult

....wait, what?? Teams, Webex, Zoom... Every other teleconference app can do it, so isn't this like admitting they're either not smart or lazy?

I would be totally fine with them removing video altogether and just keeping Huddles, but doing video without the remote control (and their video calls take an eternity to load, wtf?) is real weird
Infinite scrolling — can be annoying, I think, especially when trying to scroll down and click some footer links. Meetup .com recently made that impossible: When moving the mouse down towards the footer, instead they did more infinite scrolling, pushing the footer downwards even further, making it impossible to click. (Seems they've fixed this now)

There's a hybrid approach: One can scroll down a bit, maybe 1 page's worth of content, and thereafter, there's a Show More ... or Next button.

> classic one where there was category that stored forums

Forums inside categories? Where's that? Hmm I'm used to the opposite (categories inside a forum).

> Link to prototype

Interesting with categories to the left in their own column :- ) I've been thinking about doing that, on wide screens, in the software I'm developing

What motivates you to create Misago? / What made you start the project?
> No, public transit systems can only be good on paper. Then they get implemented, the fares are held artificially low for equity reasons, bums move in, polite society abandons the system and it turns into a rolling cesspool. Every time.

Have you been to London? Paris? Zurich?

I'm trying to understand the basis for your absolutism and pessimism. In those cities, polite society definitely hasn't abandoned the public transit systems; at least not when I had been.
This is sick! A few weeks back I made a very, very crude unreal engine AR-camera client to record mixed reality marketing footage for a VR game on a mobile iPad. It was a pain in the butt, I had to rebuild the whole app on every map change and had like no features. It was disheartening to realize that while the tech was there, it seemed like no tools really existed to easily do this (easily and affordably) for small filmmakers. Super happy to see the barrier is being significantly lowered!
Sweeping generalizations ?
Yes they start out with that, but then argue against something the article never claims.
I still don't believe any of what you said would make people hate streetcars. Maybe if the ride was ruff, but that's obviously been remedied since.

People didn't have air conditioning in their cars back then, so their cars were hot and cold.

People had very rough suspension in cars back then too, I don't think the ride would've been dramatically better.
First, the Yammer Communities (inside the Teams app) disappeared, but the rest of Teams was unaffected. Then I was able to access the communities through a native Yammer app, but then Yammer objected to my access as being forbidden, it shut me out, and after my second failed login attempt, it locked my account so now I can't access any part of Teams or Yammer.

This was about 9 PM EDT today, outside Philadelphia.

Should I count myself LUCKY?
Imagine if Snapchat said "if you download the sideload version your snaps will continue to auto delete, but if you download the Official App Store version, every snap you send will be stored forever and never deleted from our servers".

I can tell you right now which one, Kristie, the 17 year old High Schooler is going to download. She'll then unknowingly be giving away all sorts or privacy away on the sideloaded version, under the guise of a marketed, more "in your face" privacy feature.
Isn't that just software though? If you fix bugs in your code, you'll introduce new bugs. If you don't fix bugs, you'll have bugs.
The property assessors are either elected or appointed by elected officials. I have yet to see a single property where the tax assessment is remotely close to the asking price. Can you give some zillow/redfin links?
What are the things you like about it the most?
Doing the opposite works too. If there are people in your org you don't like, insinuate that you make a lot.

Of course doing such a thing is incredibly petty and should only be reserved for special cases, as it were.
With pipewire you have all the AptX/LDAC/mSBC codecs. Same quality as under MacOS

As for "reduced", as in, worse than simply monoplex stereo headphones (no headset/microphone support), true, but it's a bandwidth-related limitation, not software impmentation limit, AFAIK
Think you might be overestimating the average intelligence of engineers and doctors and underestimating the average intelligence of people in the trades if you think there is a (new, novel, exceptional) brain drain going on.
Been taking UX Academy Foundations course from Design Lab.

It's already been well worth the cost and effort.

https://designlab.com/
Don't they usually stack containers two high on trains?
Yuletide predates Christianity significantly
I got to a point where I back out on interviews where hr tries to book an interview with ms teams. Jesus christ.
When I was there about 10 years ago there were still plenty of people left who had worked on core features like tables in Word and pivot tables in Excel.

Granted a decade is a long time and most of them are probably retired at this point but it's pretty reasonable that engineers working on those teams today worked directly with the people who built a lot of the original features for these applications.

So probably closer to something like 2.5 years removed in a lot of cases.

Microsoft, again 10 years ago, had more engineers spending their entire career at the company than I've seen at anywhere else by a fairly large margin. Especially a large tech one (maybe Google is getting there?).
If you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface for an application I might use 12hrs/day.

Teams/OneDrive is hot garbage.
I think they're probably using Azure.
You look at it again, you again scream inside your head: So, what is the user actually trying to do? Then you hate on your previous solution until you are convinced it is terrible. The only thing it has going for it self is that people are now used to your terrible thing. If you are going to change it it better be dramatically better. You have 100 ideas that should all be considered bad. You prototype a few of them and try to convince yourself you've made it worse. If this fails you try to convince yourself the improvement is not big enough. If this fails you make more prototypes. If you are going to screw with peoples muscle memory you want larger gains out of the mistake.

Then you put it live, if enough people hate it you revert it back to the original version. If more people complaint how the new version was actually better you go back to the drawing board.

If no one cares however, then you've done a good job.

Listen to feedback but don't involve the users outside live testing, they don't have the hate one can project on ones own work. If they could give useful feedback it is something obvious that you convince yourself you should have seen.

edit: Dogfooding is good but mind the learning curve. Dogfooding might actually be required to approach perfection.
You’re not the 80%+ of consumers that eat up the cheap stuff and love it.
How to Make a Model Roller Coaster Without Any Moving Parts
Capitalism can work and has worked well for the last few decades but I personally think we are in "late stage" capitalism or whatever you wanna call a system that starts to crush the middle class and younger generations, create unsustainable debt and wreak havoc on the environment. We'll see how it all plays out, will be interesting for sure...