skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't. A physical assault is not at all close to saying derogatory things.
10 minutes x everyone on the team x scheduled time for all x disruption and context switch loss

I like in person updates myself, but it's not as obvious of a cost calc as you present. There is definitely a place for async, written updates
Stephen Hawking famously confused gravity for "nothing" when he said “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."

He was an incredible intellect, but not everything he said is going to be a winner.
I've kinda noticed it too. It's one of the downsides of working from home. Personally my productivity has only gone up but I'm worried about my colleagues. Sometimes it's hard to get a hold of them for hours. It's incredibly sad to say but maybe they should introduce some kind of bossware to check that people at least aren't afk for hours.
Starting to wonder if this is a continuation attack from the Okta breach* a while back

* Whether or not you call it a breach depends on perspective I suppose

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762520

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30769537
Sounds like they're finding out why most companies won't fuck around with outbidding competitors for talented employees just so that they can't work for a competitor.
Siege towers, battering rams mostly. The most effective siege technology was probably hunger... crude but quite effective.

Oh and this is another thing they brought to bear on cities unwilling to bend to the Roman boot (or Sandal):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista

and even more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_and_Roman_artillery
Right. Consider how different the profit of a company hiring $300,000/yr software engineers to mow lawns 8 hours per day might be, compared with another company hiring them to... write extremely valuable software 4 hours per day.

The company with (let's say) identically-skilled employees putting in twice as many hours probably won't be the more profitable of the two.

Replace "mow lawns" with "write pointless, doomed-from-the-start messaging apps" and the actual problem starts to become clear.
Didn't Chrome (and probably others) added GPU accelerated CSS and SVG (i.e., vector graphics) 10 years ago? https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-chrome-browser-gpu-...
If you dont already have a leather monger in you climate:

I HIGHLY recommend Carpet covered by Leather.

I cannot describe it - but thick leather, covering carpet, on bare-feet is amazing.

Trust me until you feel it.
I think most of your problem points are for newer Costco shoppers.

I walk in and buy the same stuff every time. I never buy anything I end up tossing anymore. I know where everything is because they don’t change the store much.

Costco isn’t my main grocery store but I’m only in the Costco warehouse 1-2 times per month anyway.

And the lower price of gas makes up for the price of admission for me
I'm no mechanical engineer, but this looks way more complicated than a traditional chain/derailleur drivetrain. Especially the two contraptions, one on each side of the bottom bracket. Instead of a continuous circular motion, the rear hub is constantly having to freewheel, on one side or the other. What's the efficiency loss there? How does the overall weight compare to a traditional drivetrain with the same range of gear ratios? Have they measured the difference in efficiency?
My experience has been that when you go to call in these favors you get to encounter that person's boundaries. Often their boundaries are that they don't like to help in the same way that they ask for help.
Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2022
If you have time to faff around at a FAANG, you have time to be cultivating your network to include some very influential people, you have time to be taking advantage of training resources or learning from the experts there that are completely free that most ordinary developers would have to pay thousands to get access to, you have time to work on side projects either for the company or, if you dare, for your own personal benefit, you have time to be hunting around for internal transfers that will boost your career, etc.

If you want to rest and vest, hey, more power to you but the smart ones are taking advantage of the gigantic cornucopia of opportunity presented to them by merely getting in the door of an obscenely wealthy FAANG to catapult their careers ahead.
Full title of the press release is "Gartner Identifies Key Emerging Technologies Expanding Immersive Experiences, Accelerating AI Automation and Optimizing Technologist Delivery"
It's even worse than that:

1. Nothing you visit gets saved in your history. So many times I'm looking through my history thinking "I could have sworn I read an article about this..." only to eventually discover (if I'm lucky) that it was in Twitter's stupid in-app browser. But oh well, never going to find that article again! The irony of the APP knowing everything you visit but you never getting to remember what you visited.

2. All your logins are gone! I actually pay a bunch of stupid newspapers just to click on links in Twitter and STILL be told I can't read the article because of course I'm not logged-in in the in-app browser. UGH.

You could imagine a world where iOS tried to balance the desire of an app to not bounce you out with a more "integrated experience" by providing an "in-app" browser that was completely controlled by the OS, modifying your history, keeping you logged in, running out of process, and being able to be "adopted" as a tab in Safari, but instead they just made "SFSafariViewController" which does none of these things and instead just makes it really really easy for all apps to incorporate these infuriating in-app browsers.
I believe so. Copyright and TOS of the sites. Copyright also in the sense that content have been changed. This should be on pair with banner swap techs.
"Wrong answers only" is actually a really good format imho.

The best jokes that only folks deep in a particular tech understand come from it.

And understanding those inside jokes means belonging to a tribe.

Which in turn signals that a brand "gets" that tribe.
There's definitely a lot of code out there that still does this only on the CPU, but the optimized implementations used in modern OSes, browsers and games won't.
Cool to see this. I'm interested in orthogonal models that provide different types of leverage in the same broad arena of thought. Replacements for "exist", "real", even "dream," "simulation," etc.

IOW words or phrases that skip the rather prominent liabilities of those same (tired?) words/models but also work well at such a global scope and scaffold nicely.

Thanks for posting.
The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress over Product
One of my coworkers also did this but went the cell tower route. Had no idea you could just install a cell tower without mountains of red tape and huge expense but hey. Then all his "customers" (i.e neighbors) have antennas on their house pointed right at it and boom, internet. He only had to front the cost of getting the lines run to one location.
It's pretty strange how all of those metrics start at 1960, no?

When you expand the window, the picture changes.

Droughts and heat waves in the 1800s and 1930s were devastating killers, and some of the most severe in recorded history.
Which companies with similar concerns have actually managed to increase productivity in a way that satisfies the C-suite?

A much older anecdote: I had a friend who worked at Yahoo around the time Marissa Mayer was coming on as CEO. At the time, they were allowing semi-WFH for certain positions.

I literally never saw this guy go to work, or actually do any work. He was part of a stand-up comedy workshop and spent 100% of his time there. He'd figured out how to keep his manager happy enough, pass performance reviews, collect a huge paycheck, and do exactly squat. Somehow during all the "clean house" reviews, he passed. Everyone, including him, were shocked that somehow, nobody seemed to be able to figure out that he was essentially a ghost employee. What finally got him was a "return to office" directive -- no more WFH, which he couldn't comply with.

This all took place a decade ago, and I've thought of it several times post-Covid as all these companies that "discovered" WFH suddenly decided that employees need to return. But none of the extensive attempts to fix Yahoo's culture, management etc came to anything, the company continued to backslide despite all efforts and now basically no longer exists. Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive "some people shouldn't be here" statements feel like a repeat of that whole Yahoo debacle (although I suppose Facebook probably isn't yet as dysfunctional as Yahoo was in 2012).
Consider the overwhelming majority of users are technically illiterate. Everything is just magic scrolling machines people learned to trust from watching people they trust use them.
The laws of physics are true; why do they need to "exist"?
> The difference in divisions/people/tech/resources doesn't explain anything for me. They're both the same company with the same CEO, whether it's one business unit or a dozen.

Then you've not worked in large B2B companies before. Eg Apple pays Google money and Google pays money to Apple, any perceived public rivalry goes out the window as far as business between the two is concerned.

If you're the CEO of Comcast, you've never even heard of this small time ISP, you have far bigger things to spend your time on, and the "upstream" business unit of Comcast really doesn't care what you're doing, so long as your money's green. It's all business. See also: Netflix using AWS despite Amazon having a streaming video service of their own.
Having listened to a dozen YT videos and podcasts on the subject, I am kind of an expert (just kidding). But I can relay one view a few brilliant people invested into the subject have about the issue: that reality is a set of all possible states. Of what states? Well literally anything.

Imagine a wave that can at any point oscillate up or down. If it does both and splits, it eventually will create all possible states of anything imaginable. Some of the waves become more and more complex, until in very rare cases structure and rules form within the wave function itself. Akin to Conway’s Game of Life. So universes with (seemingly) deterministic laws of any kind are just extremely rare sub-trees of this wave of ”every possible wavestate”.

All the peculiarities like dimensions are illusions the same way a multidimensional array to a computer is ultimately just one-dimensional, with logic to treat it as multi-dimensional.

I also like the explanation that concept of nothingness is categorically invalid because there clearly is existence (or is there? Maybe this is the ultimate ”nothing”?), but the theory of all possible states sounds even better.

Definitely not claiming this is true but intuitively feels like the best explanation for this existence… that this universe with all its laws is a rare sub-tree of all possible states of a simple oscillator. Other universes with other laws exist further up the tree in its other branches. In between, voids and vacuums and undeterministic universes
What "hate speech" laws for criticizing police/officials are you referring to in US red states?
You haven't convinced me there's a good substitute for email when it comes to threaded, easy, async, thoughtful communication. Your suggestions all fail one of these.
minimalism and simplicity always bring great joy.

I wonder what is the largest server side system supported by SQLite as its primary data storage.
> Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work

The last time I was at a larger company, I just asked someone else on the team to attend the all hands and let me know if anything interesting was mentioned.

I did bring up not caring about some of the content, and the head of the department even said he appreciated the feedback, but didn't seem to change the content at all.
Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (and mbasic.facebook.com), LinkedIn, etc. are all user hostile.

This gets amplified when using ad/tracker blockers at DNS level (NextDNS).
> People who are "questioning immigration" are usually calling for state violence against migrants. How else are they going to reduce immigration?

I believe the popular phrase was something about building a wall, which while it might be xenophobic doesn't seem necessarily violent?
It's not a secret that autistic people have trouble communicating in the workplace. This is not a post about my life's story and me self-diagnosing as autistic. This is me relating my experience explicitly in response to someone saying something about autistic people.

Self-diagnosis is widely accepted in the autistic community for a number of reasons, I am also in the process of pursuing a more "traditional" diagnosis.

It's great that you think this post applies to everybody, it however is very much in response to someone stigmatizing autistic people.
A few of the previous approaches are mentioned in Other work near the end. And from reading a few articles on the topic I got the impression that, yes, drawing a single shape in a shader seems almost trivial, vector graphics in general means mostly what PostScript/PDF/SVG are capable of these days. This means you don't just need filled shapes, but also strokes (and stroking in itself is a quite complicated problem), including dashed lines, line caps, etc. Gradients, image fills, blending modes are probably on the more trivial end, since I think those can all be easily solved in shaders.
https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1557437785815990272?s=21...
We were interns (software engineers) at Deutsche Bank, and unfortunately she didn’t have an ASN back then.

Also some bias shows here - surely the question should be ‘how did you meet your wife with multiple 3 ton excavators’.
This isn't really a gearbox in the traditional sense, they're just using the word because it makes sense to people. What their "gearbox" does is increase/decrease the lever arm acting on the string. This serves the same function, but the frictional losses would be mostly constant across all the "gears".

There will absolutely be some losses due to rope deformation (squish, not stretch) and heat, but I imagine they would be relatively consistent across the lifetime of the rope - there's not any grease to degrade over time, for example.
I'm not convinced this is the case. The big thing that makes telco's such profit making machines is that wires in the ground are generally a large capital expense that doesn't really provide a great marketplace for competition. But once you've got that infrastructure, it's hard to duplicate. The rest of the equipment and employees relatively aren't that expensive.

So the power is on the provider here, there isn't really another choice for customers if the article is to be believed, no matter how good or bad the company is. Sure there might be disputes with vendors, but that's just part of any business.

The biggest threat IMO is probably some sort of competition. Maybe a big telco decides to wire up the area, although then they would be the second player in the market trying to steal customers who may not be interested in switching. Or if this really is a rural area, things like wireless last mile (basically LTE), Starlink, OneWeb, etc may start to be more compelling options if they get the capacity, latency, and price point to the right spot to be competitive.
Not for the participants apparently.
Tl;DR

> Why does anything exist?

> Because necessity requires logical laws; logical laws imply incontrovertible truth; such truth includes mathematical truth; mathematical truth defines numbers; numbers possess number relations; number relations imply equations; equations define computable relations; computable relations define all computations; all computations include algorithmically generated observers; and these observers experience apparent physical realities.

I'm not convinced. Does anyone follow this?
Yes. I assume he uses a SaaS product for customer contact and for scheduling. One of the great things about SaaS is it gives local small businesses access to the latest technologies.
Its significantly less hostile if you use it as an web app, logged in. Even presents a PWA that is basically indistinguishable from the Twitter-Lite app served to data starved localities in Google Play.
Philip Morris' Smoke Protectors (1986)
I have a feeling this extends to several areas in Google. I come from the GDC side of things and have the exact same experience. To keep my job requires very minimal effort on my part. In fact, nowadays I'm punishing myself by trying to do anything "above and beyond." This is mostly due to the rapid growth of committees and the struggle for power that has come out of it (i.e., I'm more likely to be denied by a change control board over political reasons).

Regardless, I'm on my way out despite people's shock that I would leave such a "cushy" job. The fact of the matter is that the lack of challenge has actually caused me to spiral into a deep depression and the best decision for me personally is to move on.
They are internally true; why do ? need to physics laws?
For a longer in-depth video playlist, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoOmvuyo5UAeihlKcWpzVzB51...
I prefer text files, specifically the likes of WikidPad or Obsidian which let you use links to other documents.
From the engineer's perspective, it's hard to take seriously a manager that is completely ignorant of any of your day-to-day work.
SVG paths can be arbitrarily complex. This article really doesn't discuss any of the actual hard cases. For example, imagine the character S rotated 1 degree and added to the path on top of itself in a full rotation. This is one path composed of 360 shapes. These begin and end fill sections (winding order changes) coincide in the same pixels at arbitrary angles (and the order of the hits is not automatically sorted!) but the final color cannot be arrived at correctly if you do not process all of the shapes at the same time. If you do them one at a time, you'll blend tiny (perhaps rounded to zero) bits of color and end up with a mess that looks nothing like what it should. These are often called conflation artifacts IIRC.

There's way more to this than drawing circles and rectangles, and these hard cases are why much of path / vector graphics filling still ends up being better on CPU where you can accumulate, sort, etc which takes a lot of the work away. CPU does basically per-Y whereas this is GPU per-pixel so perhaps they're almost equal if the GPU has the square of a CPU power. Obv this isn't quite right but gives you an idea.

Video discussing path filling on CPU (super sampling and trapezoid): https://youtu.be/Did21OYIrGI?t=318 We don't talk about the complex cases but this at least may help explain the simple stuff on CPU for those curious.
Some Ridgid tools are made by TTI, which is based in Hong Kong, founded by a German, and owns both US and German brands, https://www.ridgidforum.com/forum/power-tools/power-tool-dis...

> Ridgid is owned by Emerson Electric and has licensed the Ridgid brand name to TTI for the manufacture of woodworking stationary and portable power tools. Ridgid (the Ridge Tool company, a subsidiary of Emerson Electric) also makes plumbing and electrical tools that have nothing to do with TTI. These are generally made here in the U.S. Same is true of the Ridgid shop vacs, which I believe are made by Emerson Electric. These are not manufactured or warranted by TTI either.

> Also noted in a post somewhere else on the site recently was a statement that Ridgid was owned by Home Depot. Again, this is NOT true. The fact that both Home Depot and Ridgid use the color "orange" is strictly a coincidence. Home Depot does have an exclusive retail agreement for the Ridgid-brand and Ryobi-brand tools made by TTI. But Ridgid plumbing and electrical tools are not part of this agreement. Also, TTI-owned Milwaukee tools are not part of Home Depot's exclusive retail agreement either.
I think the only weakness with Yosemite bowline is if tied wrong. Bowline backed by a double overhand is about as fast to tie and easier to check IMO, but if you are used to Yosemite then maybe it's the opposite for you.
C# is closer to Java than C++. It’s a garbage collector language and nowhere near the performance of C++
I do not understand the concept. I imagine this would be like walking on a leather sofa? If the goal is to make the leather floor soft, then I would think the same soft padding under carpets would be better than carpet itself.
> The explanation I arrived at was that such perqs were the necessary counterpart to an expectation that your employees have no life other than work.

{soapbox}

I believe a lot of companies are trying to establish a third place ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place and https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/02/28/20030228/ ) to help transition new grads and young adults from a college atmosphere to a professional atmosphere... but putting a lot of emphasis on having that third place. Having it _also_ means that employees tend to stay later at work.

Things like https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/custom-woodworking/cabine...

These are ways to use excess money in a way that rewards employees and makes some of the aspects hard to leave ("I could switch companies but then I'd lose the woodshop!") but it also sets up another set of problems in the nature of the third place - that its not work. The coffee shop that you show up to outside of work shouldn't have a manager / employee relationship between the patrons, but the coffee shop on the campus of a big company - that's harder.

It is those third space encroachments where the company is sponsoring it and yet the company wanting to not be political / social / getting into those HR issues, but yet the invariably show up there that lead to articles about how the company is going to be not political, or that half the staff is leaving because the company took a certain stance in a not-3rd space.

These third space encroachments where company life is used as a substitute for one's own hobbies and stepping beyond the college life atmosphere is where companies have social problems.

{/soapbox}
That is not the traditional definition of a social graph, which is connecting people who know each other in real life.
> lapel stickers saying "Smoking: A Great American Right" and "Smokers Need Lo

Meta: this appears to be a transcription error, and my best guess is that it should say "Smokers Need Love Too".
What have you done to stop being unattractive? Unlike the common copes I think attractiveness is one of the most important attributes for a person in determining how the world treats them. Depending on how much money you have there are a lot of options for changing it
I think software is just an immature profession — so we don’t have a good idea of what a day looks like.

Looking at my day as a carpenter, then:

- 30 minutes break

- 30 minutes startup/cleanup

- 1 hour moving stuff/between jobs

- 6 hours ostensibly working; 4-5 hours focused

And what I expect of SDEs, now:

- 1 hour breaks

- 1-2 hours communicate (email, CRs, meetings, etc)

- 1 hour continuing education/corporate overhead

- 4-5 hours writing code/tasks

I’m always skeptical when I hear people are doing more than around 4 hours of coding a day — and start to wonder what’s being skipped.
I wonder if the first part of the statement is true actually. What if the laws of interaction between space, energy and matter were poured in along with the space, energy and matter itself?
Is it Opposite Day already?

Kidding aside, the Iranians don't lack for technical expertise. It's just interesting to see the usual situation reversed when it comes to arms sales.