skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's spoken about it at some length and contextualizes what he means and how when people say it they almost never have anything nuanced to say after the but.
Agreed. My only regret is that I too, fell for the Sealion, which is glaringly obvious in retrospect. You live and you learn.
Life in Russia’s Coldest City
They weren't provably real when proposed.
For me it's less about "find a hobby/enjoy life" or more that we're likely in this field because we want to feel necessary and useful.

I WFH with amazing TC and WLB. I do my hobbies all day and then work just a few hours. But I feel like an absolute piece of shit just coasting at work. Doesn't matter how well my hobbies are going, I'll always have the quiet stress of not contributing what I'm capable of doing. The times I feel good about myself are when I actually ship something cool with my team.
And what percentage of roads paved today do you suspect were done so primarily for the benefit of bicyclists?
https://strangerthings-experience.com/san-francisco/
It would certainly change the dynamic. Not sure about wheat from the chaff - faster != better.
How is that demonstrative of autism? Does not tolerating bullshit make a person autistic?
So principally that the perceived luminance would be dependent on hue so that each hue in the gamut, and each interrelationship has such a relationship perceived intensity as a function of powered intensity. I can only assume that's what they mean by second-order.

Now, is this in equilibrium viewing? What's really gonna cook these guys noodle is the effect of pupillary action, e: and afterimages for that matter
Does anyone know of a Darn Tough Socks equivalent for blue jeans? I only get 6 months - 2 years out of mine.
without knowing specifics, that's kinda what i assumed. i see the same thing near where i live - the "low income rural areas" that get infrastructure subsidies is cottage country or areas with a lot of retirees who've moved to the country.

the actual low income people living in rural areas have to move to a suburb or a trailer park if their region isn't serviced by a utility, they don't get assistance like this.
Ironically people handle this with: link to instagram (because you can break out of browser):

link to insta => link tree in insta => get to link you like => user can click safari button…
Mostly because I forgot it.
I usually write in a quiet place while I’m thinking. Then read again, edit, etc. Then practice out loud what I’ve written a bunch of times
> for every small business that "gets by", there are 2 (probably more) that go out of business due to not having grown sufficiently by the time they face some competition.

If your goal is to fight a monopoly, then the mere existence of competition means that you've accomplished your goal.
When I joined Google, I realized it was the same on the inside as the outside. There's a lack of direction. It's not just chat apps, and it permeates the entire company including Sundar. Maybe it's just too easy to lose focus when nearly all your income comes from one product and none of the others matter.
SFSafariViewController is not banned. It's recommended by Apple for some use cases. It says,

> If your app lets users view websites from anywhere on the Internet, use the SFSafariViewController class. If your app customizes, interacts with, or controls the display of web content, use the WKWebView class.

I'm quoting straight from the documentation. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...
A classic. For those who don't know, this is the Pinboard guy.
Studies looking at WW1 and WW2 show that 40 hours a week is optimal.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262809555_The_Produ...

You can use scihub to get the paper or here's a secondary pop-sci source: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190912-what-wartime-m...
You don’t have to change the cassette out frequently at all if you regularly maintain your chain and replace it when the stretch becomes too great.
Having worked on film sets, they are incredibly wasteful.
“Ambition” is tricky. New grads become a “Senior Engineer” or a “manager” in 5 years these days. And most people don’t climb corporate ladder beyond a Senior Staff Engineer or a director. So you have almost 40 years worth of career left to climb two more levels.

Working your ass off continuously in pursuit of that ambition is pointless. If that’s the only thing in your life, then maybe it’s not, but ambition can be found outside of corporate America.
The Modern Rogue How to Decode Utility Graffiti (Those Spray-Painted Codes on Streets) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6yBXkspLrE
You are right. I apologize for my rude behavior. COVID has been rough on me.
A lot of Disney+ subs are "free" packaged with other mobile deals. I know plenty of people gotten a full year Disney+ free. Give it abother 2-3 years. See how well it sustain giving free subs.
A thing I have learned is that sometimes relationships rely upon facts -- or at least a shared view of facts. If the relationship includes you bearing responsibility for something, being factually correct about details within that sphere of responsibility does matter.
Google has Android, which is a lot better than luck. Apple made iMessage popular just by putting it on every phone. Google did that too, but they did it wrong.
Really, the proposal is to prevent people from implementing alternative web browsers? How about this:
- Want to control the experience? Implement your own app
- Want to be easily accessible to users without them having to install your app? Then accept them using any browser, including one embedded into Twitter
- Want to only support specific web browser? You can try to detect them using various tricks or convince them to support DRM. But, accept that many users will be driven away.
Clickable: Goedecke - Global embedding via coordinate basis vectors; http://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11032-x. I am skeptical of the idea that the need for dark matter can be "conventioned away", but, while I am a mathematician, I'm not even glancingly familiar with the physics.
Are you using old PowerShell or the newer Open Source PowerShell 6/7? Try also running it from Terminal, the official modern terminal app from the store. It's much faster than bare cmd or PowerShell, IIRC it's because of conhost.
> Democracy, means that the political power is not restricted to a subset of the citizens, but all citizens have equal political power.

On what basis do you claim it means that?
Your comment upsets and disappoints me. In large part because it's true: at my previous workplace, I was casually told that CME is a polite fiction and all employees are expected to exceed expectations.
I'm right there with you. I wonder why I even have a smartphone since I'm so app-averse, other than requiring the computing power to run any modern bloated website. I've had arguments with PMs instisting that, for example, a shopper in a supermarket is not going to download an app but they will visit a website that can offer equivalent functionality.
> Everyone on this thread is making a lot of assumptions about my mental state. None of you know whether I am or am not autistic.

I'm sorry that you feel that I have done so, that wasn't my intention. I haven't commented directly on you, but on a common statement that is used in many places around the world. It's something said by the many, which is why I have commented on it within that context - as a cultural norm.

That common statement produces harm, by trivialising the experiences of some, which makes it harder for them to seek or gain accommodations. It produces an assumption of comprehension in some, where they realistically have none. People like those in HR, or team managers, can surreptitiously begin to believe that they fully understand, and so feel justified in denying more things.

That is all that I have sought to point out. Everyone may be on the spectrum, in the same manner that everyone is human, but that's not a helpful distinction.
Or apps that compete with Apple
It inherently doesn't make any sense because the limits, the "bounds of space" of displays is physical. Changing your indexing system doesn't sprout new colors
Isn't the #1 cause of death for everyone heart disease?
Notes from Startup School 2022
I made a short summary of all the talks from startup school 2022. It takes 30-40 minutes to go through the entire notes. Hopefully this serves as a quick refresher for founders on their journey.
I mean I think I care about books and interesting films and things...
Even over doing something awesome like trying to land people on Mars?
Measure the product before measuring productivity.

across the board execs complaining about productivity turn out to be poor at defining product ("its just a website, how long could it take to build, Jeez").

Any productivity comparisons between software and other manufacturing processes should begin with a few minutes spent to compare software specs and the said product's spec, see how hard it is to change its spec ("add a button to accept payments" v/s. "add a knob on the car's dashboard")

provide a technical spec first, then we can talk about productivity.
This seems very 2008. There was this belief in the summer time that everything was going to be fine, the stock market would just keep going up and up. You could tell something was amiss in the housing market, but no one wanted to give you the bad news. The first clue that I had something very bad was happening was the first episode of Planet Money that aired in Sept 2008. It outlined exactly our problems. I don't think anybody right now really wants to consider what inflation is doing, address the corresponding lack of real wage growth, how large institutional real estate investors will be affected by an even small down turn that will happen with increased fed rates, the fact that people are cutting back on spending due to the increased costs of energy. FAANG / Fortune 500s have been sounding the alarm bells. I don't think this will be as bad as '08, but I also think it will be a lot uglier than the general consensus right now.
A point in the color space is determined by 3 numbers.

Given 2 colors, i.e. 2 points in the color space, one can define a distance function from them to a number corresponding to the perceived color difference.

One can try various formulas for the color distance and compare them in experiments with humans who must assess which colors are more similar or more different. Such experiments are extremely time consuming and require many test subjects, to average over individual variability.

The problem is that a formula for a very good approximation of the color differences over the entire color space has not been found yet, even if there are many formulas that give acceptable results in certain cases, usually when the color differences are small.

The Euclidean distance does not give a good approximation, so the color space is not Euclidean. The distances corresponding to various Riemannian spaces (i.e. "curved" spaces) give better approximations, but which are still not good enough.

In fact the color distance is not even a distance in the mathematical sense, i.e. it does not satisfy the triangle axiom, so the color space is not a metric space. Perhaps there exists a non-linear transformation from the color space to a metric space.
VisiCalc and SuperCalc enter the ring ready to do battle without Turing completeness.
Didn't the new EU regulation intend to forbid forcing users to use a specific browser? Embedding your preferred browser into some other app doesn't seem like an acceptable work around?
That is the exact propaganda I don’t buy. My 20 year long career that pays quite well would think either you’re wrong or most of corporate America’s management is not “Competent Management”.
Scaling horizontally is well and good (since my unit of input is large and I get a lot of them, I just use autoscaling groups in AWS to achieve much the same), but I don’t want to pay for 10 systems slowly doing what 1 could do with fast software. Especially, while 1 system has a hard ceiling, there’s a lot of headroom on 1 system when you achieve mechanical sympathy with the cache hierarchy, memory controller, and disk.
Yes, this is precisely my point. I see no obvious reason to believe the claims that were being made and no evidence for them is provided. I'm not saying "that's not the case" I'm saying "you couldn't possibly know that".

> I don't think there's a big difference between a social conservative (who typically want to use government force to restrict access to "bad things") and someone who sides with liberty and tolerance but would advise friends and family not to do "bad thing."

The socially conservative part is baselessly attributing various ills to porn. Admittedly anyone can commit such an error in logical reasoning but (in my personal experience) this particular one exhibits a very high correlation with being socially conservative.
I was at Yahoo during the Marissa Mayer era.

I think the thing with Yahoo was that it tried do too much, and it never really had any focus on any particular vertical. Its legacy has always been that it was the place you would go for anything, and I think that hurt it more later on because the company itself was unfocused, and it didn't have a money-printing machine like Google's ads to fund the experimental work.

When Marissa Mayer was on board, the focus was "mobile and emerging products", which was absolutely the right call in 2012, but it was still too general to rally a company around. It had a lot of great small things, but none of them had enough investment to turn into a multi-billion dollar business on its own, as well as a lot of legacy things that still needed to be maintained.
Indeed, this feels a bit like saying “Any serious programmer always carries a thumbdrive with a bootable Linux ISO on it”…
I've heard that American fast food chains in general have not done well in Italy. Is that correct?
On the topic of low-noise bikes, why do some riders insist on having a loud freewheel? The clicking noise is unbearable in my opinion.

Source: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/4606/what-cause....
The article starts with historical anecdote from 1996, and talks about later frame-busting JS. At the time, you could also bust out of frames before JS was widely supported, simply by setting your HTML `A` element `target` attributes to `_top`.

If you were already generating your HTML back then, including having a function to generate a link, this was possibly a one-line change.

If you did this HTML-only frame-busting, you'd still appear within whatever questionable frames setup some other side had going, but as soon as someone tried to follow a link-- bam, now the site you host has either taken over the window, or are in an all-new window.

Frames initially seemed like a godsend, for arguably useful purposes, like keeping a floating table-of-contents sidebar on a large document (before CSS). My once employer, Electronic Book Technologies (EBT), makers DynaText that TBL considered, jumped on frames for this purpose, and were able to convert DynaWeb to leverage frames "overnight" from the same SGML source.

But frames did have some downsides even within a site, even if you didn't mess up the HTML (e.g., bookmarking of individual pages wasn't as usable/possible, and you could also somehow land on a page intended to be in a frameset but outside the frameset navigation UI context).

Besides the TotalNews example the article mentions, there were a lot of sites putting other sites inside frames, maybe as often due to misunderstanding or not realizing, rather than aggressively trying to freeload.

(At the same time as TotalNews, I'd built a fuzzy Web scraper in Java, and a prototype "personalized newspaper" that used it to get news articles and weather from other sides. I didn't know what to do about ads, which were brand new and image banners, so I just captured them while I was scraping, and re-presented them in the UI, at the bottom of the page whenever presenting data from the pages they were on. Such were the clumsy days of young Web innocence. :)
No Ifs, Ands, or Buts (2015)
Not everything need to scale. A good way to handle this kind of project is keep it at a certain community size, and if people want in, beyond a certain threshold, they need to build their own. This is how federated internet providers work usually.
So if DM is falsified and MOND is unworkable, what should scientists do? Just admit that they have no idea what's going on, but it looks a lot like missing mass?

Oh wait, that's the definition of dark matter.
"But that's not how it is on my team!" is the dumbest and yet most common response you hear from Amazon employees when they hear about Amazon's horrible business practices. The whole company is in fact a team. You are part of the exact same team.
If you were early at Google it means more as going through that hypergrowth was very difficult and there was less dead weight. But for the last 10 years Google means essentially two things from a hiring manager's perspective: 1) you have decent floor of basic technical ability as no one stupid or a complete faker makes it through the technical interviews (but note it's a low floor as anybody with 100 IQ and reasonably technical mind can probably brute force their way to passing if they want it bad enough) and 2) if you were successful there you can deal well with large-scale system complexity and (likely) the politics of working with many partner teams and stakeholders. It's not foolproof as any given individual, role or team could get lucky in terms of having relatively high agency and fewer dependencies, but on balance anyone L5+ is going to have to deal with a fair amount of that.

Given the 15 years of essentially unconstrained growth and moats from any real competition, I think your assessment is largely correct though. The name brand reputation of Google far outweighs the likely strength of any given candidate, especially if you expect execution without limitless resources and industry-leading technical mentors/gatekeepers at every critical juncture.
If you know my social and this netcom passwd, you may know my secrets...
You also said:

> despite not being a successful physical theory.

I think the jury is still out on that, and, like I said, it has actually made predictions which is more than what you can say about LCDM, which as far as I can tell has only made post-hoc rationalizations.
That narrative (affiliating the collapse of Sri Lanka with ESG, Degrowth) has been getting pushed primarily by people on the other side of the planet with their own political biases (libertarians, preppers, bitcoin maximalists, etc.).

Yes it was a terrible policy to issue an immediate ban on fertilizers, and don't think organizations/ngos associated with the policy should be absolved, but there also has to be a look into where we are in terms of 'planetary boundaries' (Google it) and what it means.
The Car-Replacement Bicycle (The Bakfiets)
Was curious what they say about it but the link didn't seem to have anything on custom headers.
Time will tell...
In distributed system terms, this is a byzantine failure which most consensus mechanisms are not equipped to handle.
On top of that, Starlink was just adjudged to NOT QUALIFY for this type of service. [1]

You cannot simply assume as you stated, that just because something looks like a viable solution, it is.

Again, the people that decided are doing the WORK of figuring out how to make the system work, in contrast to taking random potshots in an internet forum.

From the article:
>> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink's application to receive $885.51 million in broadband funding

>>The FCC said that both Starlink and LTD "failed to meet program requirements," submitted "risky proposals," and that their "applications failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service."

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/fcc-rejects-star...
For comparison an hour of car mechanics time is <$30 in Romania, but ~$150 in US.
Issue trackers create an alternate reality where code quality and organization doesn't matter. This makes leaders seek for insights in the issue tracker instead of diving into the code base.

The result? all developers try to game the system by closing tickets faster at the expense of burying the project into tech debt. The endgame of late JIRA-based development is having an army of thousands of developers checking 2 lines of code per month.

Meanwhile the competition clones the best selling aspects of your product and before you know it nobody wants to buy your bloated, slow, unstable and expensive solution is slowly replaced by cheaper alternatives.

Product managers as owners of project backlogs is the ruin of software.
But do they adjust down to market rate? Hard to tell if they aren't hiring new people in Cheap Town.
Depends who wants it.
That seems like a better application for Python concurrency than trying to eke out more performance.

I don’t particularly like Go, but it might be worth a look for this since it’s somewhat easier to learn and may be more accessible for others to learn and maintain. I wouldn’t do a full implementation, just an exploratory project for the sake of seeing whether you’re stuck on a local maxima with Python.
> TOS, not changable and required on signup

Companies that regularly deal with large companies usually have the general TOS, and the TOS they'll agree to with large companies (or when reasonable sized companies check the terms w/ counsel before agreeing).

If I'm working with an easily replaceable supplier and they use my logo without explicit permission, it might be reason enough to replace that supplier. I remember being in someone's S-1 filing and getting a little bit upset (I can't remember if they notified us or not), but I can't really blame people for disclosing their largest customer by name is > 10% of revenue.
Right because “neurotypical” people acknowledge when they’re wrong all the time.
True, they live from selling the equipment to first timers. The thing is, most games work like that. They need new players otherwise they don't make more money, as players just pay to buy the game.
It is precisely shareholders and executives. 11% profit margin but huge share buybacks, bonuses and acquisitions.
Don't use web inside of an app, desktop or mobile for anything other than pure content. Use native for UI. Electron is doing it wrong and {NS,UI}WebView are abused too often to provide an entire app using a website.
A strong sense of entitlement.
Last time I checked how much I'd lose, it was between 10k and 15k, which is not much compared to my total comp.
Comparing "rigid formal grammar-based models" (whatever that might actually mean for now) to machine learning is like comparing apples to bananas. The former one is a rigorous syntactical formalization, aimed at being readable by machine and humans alike. The latter one is a learned interpolation of a probability distribution function. I do not see a single way to compare these two "things". Nevertheless, I may guess, what you actually are trying to say: Annotating data by hand (the syntax is completely irrelevant) is inferior to annotating data by machine learning. And this claim is at least debatable and domain-dependent. There are domains where even a 3% false-positive rate translates to "death of a human being in 3 out of 100 identified cases", and there are domains where it's to much work to formalize every bits and pieces of the domain and extracting (i.e. learning) knowledge is a feasible endeavor. I have experience in both fields, and I dare to say, that extracting concepts and relations out of text in a way that it can be further processed and used for some kind of decision process is way more complicated than you might imagine, and GPT-3 et al. do not achieve that.
They're already more than half way to a billion a year in revenue from only ~2500 of 12000 satellites so far in orbit. Hopefully this will make its continued support financially plausible.
How do you not understand?

We know 2+2=4. We do not know that dark matter exists.