skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect a few reasons, some of which are shared by all of the tech companies that over-hired:

- Prestige. There are a lot of companies (especially VC funded startups) that have massively over-hired because a large headcount of high-end engineers is a signal to the market (and importantly, VCs) as to your seriousness.

- Talent denial to competitors. If you don't want anyone to catch up in a space (say, VR) you can get a long way by simply hiring the entire talent pool dry. This is however an incredibly expensive strategy that presumes you have a gargantuan amount of cashflow. I suspect this was a large part of FB's strategy, but they are no longer in a financial position to sustain it. Google has done this to a large extent for AI, and do not appear to be letting up.

- Just like code, forming new teams is easier than refactoring old teams. In big companies every part of the product feels essential (until the crisis moment, where every cut is on the table and a more sober accounting occurs), and so the default inclination in good times is to keep every team but add more teams/headcount in order to take on additional work. In bad times one is much more inclined to exchange one initiative for another, rather than simply accumulating initiatives.
> The Alphabet Inc. unit has been working with publishers, marketers and regulators on its plan to replace cookies, the software marketers use to track people’s online activity and tailor ads accordingly, through an initiative known as the Privacy Sandbox.

How about not fumbling around, not "working with" anyone, but just flipping the damn third-party cookies setting to "disabled" by default without providing any replacement at all? It takes less than a minute to make that change in the code.
>hijacked by crypto bros shilling ponzis on steroids

wat?
On the Intel side, Debian will not run on anything without the i686 instruction set. In theory this should include the Pentium II Pro and up.

You can try it for yourself without the hardware, grab https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/index.html, set it up for a Pentium II with contemporary hardware and see if it works. It'll be slow as molasses but it should boot!
> death-in-40-million-years

This sounds like a bold claim. Everything that I'd read before predicted about ~1 billion years before the surface of earth is functionally dead - 600 million years before there's not enough carbon for trees, and by at about billion years from now we'd be looking at extinction of eukaryotic life, the beginnings of runaway evaporation of the oceans etc.

40 million years is small enough period on a geological (or solar!) timescale that I would think it would be a lot more obvious if we were already living in the end times.
Card games. e.g. MtG or LoR.

You've got to deal X damage to win.

You could directly cast spells at an opponent each turn.

Or instead you can play units or destroy enemy units to affect the amount of damage being done each turn.

Certain cards even increase the amount you can increase your damage each turn, e.g. by reducing costs, drawing cards on future turns, or improving deck contents.
It's been a while, but if I recall, the classic Mac OS Apple menu was not a general purpose "start menu." IIRC, it provided access to limited functionality, like desk accessories and recent documents.
uhhh yeah? I don't know another company doing more VR research than Meta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc
Read up on the two Minsk Agreements that Kiev refused to follow.
> KDE is one of the biggest softwares out there. It was the first SVN repository to reach 1 million commits, etc etc

Doesn't KDE use a monorepo to store each and every project under the sun whose name starts with a K?

I vaguely recalled from way way back that even the most basic of development tasks, such as building kmail, forced developers to checkout all other projects.

This doesn't look like something to brag about.
> I would be extremely cautious about using any consumer grade TLC or quad-level-cell SSD in a "NAS" for serious purposes because of well known write lifespan issues.

How many full-drive writes does your average video editing server need? I would expect a pretty small number. The average source file is sitting there for weeks or months.
I always wonder what specifically marked the turning point for web usability. Too many dark UX patterns, popups, ads and extremely heavy frameworks for extremely simple sites.

I feel that we got to a point where the community put out a couple recipes for deploying websites and everyone just jumped on it irrespective of the problem, mimicked the same patterns (email newsletter popups, ads, google analytics, 30 million external assets, etc) and called it a day.

While I think your opinion is a bit extreme, I agree that there are so many things that we don’t need, but companies are hiring and new devs are copying the recipes.
I love jquery. Nothing else needs to be said.
Both short-term and long-term inflation are relevant for different purposes.

It matters a lot whether the expected average inflation rate in the future is ±½%, 4%, or 25% when you get a 30-year mortgage on a house, sign a 99-year lease, save money for retirement 45 years in the future, buy a life insurance policy that probably won't pay off for 50 years, or rent an apartment to someone under rent-control laws that can hold the rent fixed until they die (perhaps 60 years from now).

±½% compounded over 30, 45, 50, 60, or 99 years is -14%–+16%, -21%–+25%, -23%–+29%, -16%–+35%, or -39–+64%.

4% compounded over 30, 45, 50, 60, or 99 years is -71%, -84%, -87%, -91%, and -98%. So in an environment where inflation averages 4% per year, like the current US environment, such contracts are unviable even if the inflation is fairly predictable. Rent control becomes politically impossible because renting an apartment amounts to selling it. Saving for retirement requires gambling on the stock market and subsidizing the Fortune 500 with your savings.

25% annual inflation is the average we've experienced during the time I've lived in Argentina, most of my adult life. At 25% annual inflation even renting an apartment to live in becomes a major problem. The US had 24+% inflation with commodity money for two years during the Civil War; Argentina has been averaging 25% for decades now, thanks to fiat money.

The vast devaluation of silver was a quite manageable problem by comparison, except perhaps for Spain.

But it's true that volatility is a real problem for a currency.

The bigger problem often ascribed to commodity money in a growing economy is the incentive to hoard: if the economy grows 3% per year, but gold or silver (or Bitcoin) is mined at a much smaller rate, maybe the price of gold will rise in tandem with the economy. And then you can earn a 3% return just by buying gold jewelry, so maybe you won't be tempted to take the risk of investing in productive ventures (or lending to them) by buying stock and hoping for a 5% return.

My review of the Warren–Pearson index data in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258172 makes me wonder if this problem in fact exists, because it seems like gold did not appreciate significantly over the period 01776–01932, compared to their changing basket of goods. But maybe it existed in other places (maybe the US is atypical) or maybe its apparent nonexistence is an artifact of Warren and Pearson's methodology?
The best approach is bash + cmake + ninja + github actions with a single main.c /s
"Just don't have an affair". Righto, that'll fix it, because nobody who has an affair currently knows it's wrong /sarc
Bezier curves.

Cubic bezier curves (generally the most common type) are represented by cubic polynomials x(t) and y(t) (or just one polynomial P(t) where the coefficients are vectors). The first derivative gives you the tangent and normal. The second derivative gives you the direction the normal will gradually become as t increases. The third derivative gives you the change in this change (the fourth derivative is zero). Curvature is also computed from the first and second derivatives: K = det(P', P'')/||P'||^3

Other kinds of bezier curves are similar. In quadratic ones the first and second derivatives are normal and normal change but the third derivative is zero. In higher-polynomial bezier curves the third derivative changes over time as the fourth is non-zero, and so on.

Source is a really interesting video on bezier curves which I highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw.
What do codecs have to do with grep?
Related:

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199521 - May 2020 (11 comments)

The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828725 - Dec 2019 (49 comments)

The man who made 'the worst video game in history' (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19414594 - March 2019 (2 comments)

The World's Worst Video Game? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456911 - June 2017 (23 comments)

The man who made 'the worst video game in history' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11148093 - Feb 2016 (209 comments)

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668734 - June 2015 (20 comments)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Atari 2600 Source Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679503 - May 2014 (2 comments)

Long-Buried E.T. Cartridges Unearthed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654240 - April 2014 (1 comment)

E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652473 - April 2014 (46 comments)

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994180 - Jan 2014 (12 comments)

Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 using a hex editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502356 - April 2013 (1 comment)

Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 to make it better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470446 - March 2013 (1 comment)

What is considered to be the worst video game ever? This one is. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528256 - March 2009 (3 comments)

Competition:

Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6023484 - July 2013 (65 comments)
How to sue a spammer and get $1200
IMO the best replacement for third-party cookies is nothing. It should not be technically possible to track a user across sites.
It doesn't. Lot's of tech companies over-hired, over-invested both in 1999 and 2021. Can companies be conservative? Yes, but people were also predicting a tech crash in 2010, 2011, 2012....
How is WhatsApp embedded in business?
Inflation affects the availability of essentials. I'm not saying this is a bad deal just that it's possibly a big trade off doing it right now. It's also conceivable that increased production will alleviate some supply bottlenecks making this neutral on inflation.
I think that's why I'm skeptical of the notability requirements. I know plenty of colleagues with Wikipedia pages where the notability aspect is sort of suspect, at least relative to many others I know. Sometimes it seems intuitive that someone would have a page, but other times it's just another form of marketing and SEO.

In my opinion, notability better be clearly defined with a high bar, akin to encyclopedias of old, or not be used as a criterion at all.
I had just watched that one!

Literally yesterday... small world I guess. He seemed like such an amazing person.
> not a really winnable game

It’s totally winnable! The player almost always has a chance to avoid death. Deaths are usually due to missing knowledge or laziness/impatience. The knowledge is really really hard to gain without wikis, and I absolutely wouldn’t have ascended without wikis, but reading them added another layer of fun for me.
He believes in climate change: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/billionaire-ray-dalio-on-why...

You can see how he quantifies carbon emissions.
https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/sustainabl...

If he was only concerned with making money, you'd think he'd have jumped into digital currencies.
I don't think anyone can create the metaverse. The technology that needs to be built is a brain-computer interface, but humanity is currently incapable of anything even close to that. No amount of money or political power can make it happen, at least not in the next 50 years.
Oh, sure: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Save_scumming I wrote "nhsave" and "nhload" scripts when I was a kid and didn't know you weren't supposed to do this ("they didn't include a save/load function? how dumb").

Edit: If you really want this, you can always enter explore mode (e.g. with `nethack -X`), which makes death optional. It doesn't make the rest of the game any easier, though.
I see, you're looking at "Daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people" which has a 7-day rolling average.

So, basically, during the last week or so, NZ had roughly 25 deaths per day whereas AUS had 50-70 per day in that week.

My apologies for not interpreting the data correctly.

The data still disproves your narrative. That one graph does have AUS at 2x NZ in a few key dates but overall no.

I'm going to stop arguing about this. I think the utility of further discussion has already diminished to the point of minimal reward.
Related:

Mitsuba – A physically based renderer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096737 - Aug 2015 (8 comments)
I feel there might be some subtle difference between awareness and awakeness. :)
My secret questions have nonsensical answers but are all unique per app/website which are recorded.

Makes social engineering nearly impossible.
Web pages don't need javascript? Get real. You have to use javascript for your web app if you want to deliver a reasonable product experience. This is a dead argument I wish people would just stop making. The ship sailed over a decade ago.
I hadn't read the username and took the comment as a typical low effort HN troll but coming from Miguel, "This is nonsense" is a complete statement that stands on its own.
Indeed, the point is to create jobs in the US and to, in the long run, lower the risk of a complete takeover of TSMC in case China invades Taiwan.
Yeah, GNOME's great. It's coherent (doesn't feel like a kit of parts cobbled together) and gets out of the way. It makes it easier to focus.
Sholley di daal, ya hindi ch Kaale Chaney di Daal. Horse Gram.
I do. My time is valuable. And text is also much easier to archive for future reference.

It's also much easier to skip through parts in a written document because you can see the context before and after easily on a written text. Whereas with video you have this kind of catch up every time you skip.
With a good population of Marine customers, even without laser links, they could hopscotch packets down to another terminal, up to another bird, down again, as many times as needed to get to shore.

Probably not more than a half-dozen extra hops, usually. And, better than no service at all.

But with, what, 4k birds up, and speed below 50Mbps? More birds won't help data rate much if licensed RF bandwidth is saturating.
I'd rather not throw the cool internet baby out with the ad tech bathwater, thanks.
The era of big-tech exceptionalism may be over
I thought the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis only predicted that the difficulty in understanding certain things would be language dependent, not that it would be impossible per se. To make an apt analogy, some languages force you to declare a whole bunch of factory methods and boilerplate bloat before you can express a program that prints "hello world", others simply let you write print("hello world").
There were plenty of UX studies showing that Win8 was awesome. Same story for VS 2012, another famous (at least among VS users) example - you can read the original blog post announcing it for explanations of why they thought it a good idea: http://web.archive.org/web/20140813025825/http://blogs.msdn....

It just turns out that it's very easy to bend such studies into showing what you want to see.
Interesting, I never saw (or knew) that Gnome 2 received the same treatment. It's heyday was before my time though.
carbon taxes are the exact kind of roundabout measure that creates distortions and unintended consequences[0] rather than directly tackling the core issue. we need to tax pollution directly, as happened with CFCs in the 80s, because what we want to get rid of is pollution and that's how you directly internalize externalities while minimizing gaming potential (and we should use the funds for further clean-up efforts). carbon by itself is not a pollutant[1], but rather an essential component of life. things like dioxins, lead and other heavy metals, particulate matter, ammonium, radon, microplastics, pesticides, VOCs, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, radiation (coal/fly ash surpasses nuclear waste, but both are relatively small), and yes, even a number of hydrocarbons, are directly pollutants, so let's target those things directly.

[0]: cap-and-trade is another oft-mentioned approach, but suffers from the same gaming potential as carbon taxes. in the ideal, it should work, but practically they've been shown to become regulatorily captured, just like most bureaucratic measures.

[1]: you could even argue that carbon dioxide is not necessarily a pollutant because it's essential to the cycle of life on earth. it becomes a critical problem when we have something like an order of magnitude more of it than we do currently, but so can anything be poisonous in high enough doses.
>Honestly even if he isn’t famous why can’t Wikipedia keep his entry?

The answer is Deletionists, people who are unable to contribute with actual knowledge and information, so they have decided that their contribution is destruction of knowledge and information.

The Wikipedia bureaucracy, as it exists, is unfortunately not equipped to handle these types of book burners…
Great idea! Definitely something I could see being useful in industry.

Have you thought about making this work for more things than ArXiv? Could be interesting to prepend Smort to any URL and create “rooms” for annotating the web (other static content like Wikipedia, or even temporal content like Youtube videos). But maybe that’s too wide of a scope, just got me thinking :)
That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.
I hope, so that a source of so many of the worlds problems and suffering will be available for future generations to see and learn from.
Bing maps had that for many years (birds eye view they called it) but I think that they removed it
It's perfectly fair. Merely unforgivingly difficult (I've never quite gotten my hands on the actual amulet). You can always read the source.
At first I did not believe this could possibly be true but you're right, there's been a case and everything.

I don't think you have gdpr obligations if your private cameras are just capturing your own grounds and home.

But it DOES apply if your private cameras capture footage of public places.

Interestingly, it looks like it must apply to all cameras in and around AirBNBs.
> The player can be killed at any moment without allowing a single defensive move.

Technically true, but there are always moves you could have done prior to avoid being in that situation. Part of the game is knowing what protections you need to have before advancing deeper into the dungeon.
Over the last decade, Safari has been innovating in areas that people aren't calling for, and are trailing years behind in areas that people want to use.

Thank god for the collective effort of the Epic v Apple lawsuit, the recently approved EU regulations designed to allow other browsers on iOS devices while allowing users to uninstall Safari, and Jen Simmons' user and developer advocacy, giving the kick in the pants to force Apple to start catching up with the other browsers.
Yep, I also just left Meta/Facebook after 4 years working there. I did spend some of my time trying to see where Nim could fit (together with a few other folks that liked Nim at FB), the best area we could come up with was CLI tools that interfaced with many internal C++ libraries. Nim would be a great replacement for Python here (it's fast and typed) and its ability to compile to C++ makes interfacing with C++ super simple (at least in theory).

It is true that Nim has the same problem as D to a certain extent: the ecosystem is limited and the benefit it brings over C++ just doesn't overcome that. A great example of this is why I said "in theory" above, in practice interfacing with C++ in Nim just hasn't been done enough to be mature. Multiple teams in a FAANG aren't going to take a risk adopting that.
Are you implying that it is impossible to be carbon neutral? Or are you saying something else?
DNA Vaccines?
I use both for different spheres of communication. I like Mattermost more than rocket chat, as a user, an admin, and for the Mobile notifications Mattermost still does and rocket chat doesn't.
ive seen a few only allow their resolver to be used to resolve specific A records, like just enough to pay/check out.
They don't necessarily have to get it right. They just have to be geared up enough to fast follow whoever does get it right, or be an enticing M&A partner. My bellwether is how they respond to TikTok.

Now with all that said, I think there's a snowball's chance in hell that VR headsets become as ubiquitous as cell phones. It won't happen until AR. It's like TiVo and Netflix.
>not a really winnable game

Um, it's quite winnable. It's much easier to win once you've been thoroughly spoiled (either via investing a large amount of playtime or reading spoilers), but it's quite possible to Ascend (win) through extensive preparation and brute force. The number of truly unavoidable, single-move deaths, particularly in the mid-to-late game is a very tiny part of the whole gamespace (as witnessed by the many, many players who win without anything more than knowledge of the game). And wearing an Amulet of Life Protection will save you from most of those.

Veteran players (at least, back when there was Usenet), would regularly refer to Yet Another Stupid Death (YASD), called such not because it was unavoidable, but because it was avoidable if the player had not made an easily avoidable mistake.
In a way you can also explain it as standing in the shoulders of giants. Get the stuff that was already done shared out of the way and encourage more to be built on top.
Would you consider candidates outside the US? e.g. in Canada?
It is funny that so many engineers in the valley argued that (1) was essential for tech companies, and at the same time bash FB and Zuckerberg's potentially forward looking (but unprofitable for a long time) bet (2) on the metaverse. Some bean counters would never do that, and they basically want the bean counters to control FB instead of Zuckerberg.
It also takes you less than a minute to change the "disable all cookies" settings to true in your browser. Then tell us how you feel about not being able to connect on any websites, and how long until you revert the setting.

Cookies allow marketers to identify you - which is bad. They also allow all your tools to identify you - which is good. It's not like cookies are this inherently evil thing that has no legitimate use. They serve a real purpose but are also being abused. And as it turns out, it's not that simple to keep their usefulness while addressing their abuse. Because ultimately, both marketers and tools use the cookies in the exact same way, it's what they do after that is the issue.

Edit: hadn't seen you were talking about third-party cookies specifically. I fully agree with that. I have personally disabled them since safari disables them by default, and I have little to no impact on my day to day.
Incidentally, both happen to be two of the most satisfying wonders to build in Civilization VI