skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that.

In case anyone is interested, the original Spectator is still worth dipping into. Many editions are available at the Internet Archive. For example:

https://archive.org/details/cu31924013337203/page/n361/mode/...
Tesla of Luxury Campers Will Make Airstreams Blush
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5965WX Performance on Linux
>Maybe consider that you or other authors you’re working with are bad at writing software.

You are making the classic mistake of thinking you aren't also just as bad as everyone else. Chances are you are just as bad or worse.

Taking advantage of tools that make mistakes less likely and accepting that you suck just as much as everyone else are requirements for being good at writing software I think (this applies to anything really).
I don't know how big that minority is, but I'm part of it.

I have an Android phone, and any time a company tries pushing me to use their native app, I start counting my silverware.
What's with everyone playing who-wants-to-be-a-gymnast by saying turn side ways, put a shoe on your head, do a backflip, move out of frame.?

Encrypt/sign the feed, watermark the images with a QR code containing the sig, have an app on your phone with their pubkey and display a big green check when it matches. every pure deepfake attempt is now easily dealt with. Boom.
Why does it only have two wheels? Can it easily see saw to one side?

Can't tell if this is a joke, because there's no solar panels and induction stoves suck.. why do people want this?
I've been reading for a while about LineageOS. If i recall correctly, i felt like the camera didn't work at all.

It was my takeaway that you couldn't have a "full" phone (meaning, calls, sms, camera, full network, etc) if you were planning on migrating away from iOS or Android from the carrier.

Looks like the e phone has the full experience.

I would prefer to buy an older android phone and install my own OS so I'm able to switch away if I want to.

Is there a good option if that's the desire?
> yet we're seeing these highly-respected tech leaders try to convince us that such a brain-dead idea is visionary. Why? Because they stand to make another fortune on it and they have absolutely no problem lying to our faces about it.

They are clearly wrong, but I think much of the time they aren't lying so much as ignorant.

They aren't gamers, and the logic makes sense to them but they are missing the details that actual gamers care about.
UK manufacturer Numatic's "Henry", https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/24/how-hen...

> Modesty permeates Numatic. The campus is more Wernham Hogg than Silicon Valley; the firm never advertises Henry and retains no PR agency. Yet it has a turnover of almost £160m and has now made more than 14m Henry vacuums ... Duncan beams with pride as he tells me almost all of the 75 parts that make up the latest model could be used to repair “Number one”, as he calls the 1981 original; Henrys are made to last – and to be easily repaired – in the landfill age of rapid obsolescence.

https://numatic.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32414066

> I'll mention for the benefit of our American readers that Henry is a dry vacuum, Charles is a wet/dry, and George is a wet/dry with a tank and pump for spraying carpet cleaner.
The app would have to get much larger if they have to bundle most of a browser with it to avoid using the browser components on the phone. But sure, they could do that.

But to be in the app store an app has to comply with the rules. Google could decide to require compliance with that header. It's no loss to them, because the consequence would be that almost all Android users would use Chrome, and the tracking in the browser would still be controlled by Google.
You're right, I think we're using IO/CPU bound in different senses. You're talking about where an average request spends most of its time; I was thinking more in terms of Shopify's scaling bottlenecks. Even though individual requests probably spent a lot of their time in CPU, we didn't really have to worry about CPU as a bottleneck for the larger application. Whereas IO was a different matter, and we had a lot of difficulties ensuring that we had enough capacity for spikes in the IO-heavy stuff. So the overarching Shopify application was "IO bound" in that sense.
Agree! and nothing like a well designed city. For me that comprises of meeting all my needs at biking distance to everything.
You sell them to the rag and bone man, like our great-grandparents did.
I disagree. If it's a link to the web, I want my main, default browser everytime. No exceptions. The context switching is never an issue for me.
App browsers screw up magic links too. I wish they'd go away.
Ask HN: What quality in a person is the most detrimental to success?
> As a South African those early years of the ANC government still have a rosy tint as I still genuinely believe the ANC of that era

I'll argue that Mandela and Mbeki gathered up all that goodwill and did exactly nothing with it. Zuma was more publicly corrupt, but policy-wise, I don't think there was any daylight between him and his predecessors.
Ok, but please don't fulminate, call names, or cross into personal attack on HN.

Perhaps you don't owe billionaire trolls better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, that's a crazy thing to say without explaination.

I think Excel will be unbeatable as an offline spreadsheet application for many years, if a competitor ever appears.

Now, if what you're looking for is not offline spreadsheets, but a tabular interface that can be messed around in JS, with an API integration, Sheets is an excellent product that fills Excel's niche but in a connected system.

disclaimer: I haven't touched much of office 365's online part, but am under the impression scripting with cloud services is not the direction MS is going for.
Yes, from the abstract of the article it is impossible to understand what is new in this study.

The "non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space" has been known for decades.

For example the CIE color difference formulas from 1994 and from 2000 (CIEDE2000) are older attempts to model the color space, taking this into account, i.e. that the color space is not even a metric space (the triangle axiom is not true).

There are various newer attempts to better model the color space. Without being able to read the paper, I assume that it might refer to one such better model, but as I have said, neither the title nor the abstract give any clue about what is novel in it.

They say "Rethinking them outside of a Riemannian setting could provide a path to extending them to large differences". From the "could provide a path" I understand that they have not found yet any formula valid for large color differences, which would have been something novel.
Until fairly recently, I worked as a SWE at a big, unsexy, enterprise corporation where tech is an unrespected cost center. Pay as a senior SWE there (and companies like it) was probably around what a junior or lower midlevel engineer at a FAANG-like company would make.

A lot of people there were working very hard not to go the extra mile or chase after a promotion, but rather to become Professional Leetcoders so that they could jump ship for a better company. I've had friends at other, similar, companies tell stories like this too. And I have to admit, I too was one of their ranks, as were many of my friends. The goal - leave the crufty enterprise world and get into FAANG, or at least a better, Silicon Valley style, tech company where you can go to work in shorts and flipflops instead of dressing up in "business casual" like a bean counter.

The whole tech interview nonsense has probably created legions of similar people. They might be doing a decent job at their current workplaces, but they're certainly not going above and beyond when they can be grinding leetcode instead.

However the context of this thread is Google, Meta, and other FAANG and FAANG-tier companies. I have no insight there, as the second part of this whole Professional Leetcoder thing is that once you get into such an "endgame company", you're supposed to hang up your leetcode gosu badge and work your ass off. Which is what I'm actually doing now.
> I wonder if that wouldn't solve the master link wear issue if you could wipe soft gobs of it on the chain instead of taking it out and submersing it completely.

It wouldn't penetrate as well, and you might end up wasting a lot of it / making a mess. The goal is to get wax inside, and you prefer it to be a liquid for that.
Novel Foods
The plaintiff's law firm looks to be plenty high-powered:

https://milberg.com/about-us/
It pains me greatly that somehow Reddit engulfed just about every forum on earth, because I despise the way they force you onto the app.

Their manipulation of search engines’ “last updated” parameters are also egregious.
Does PVC leach anything into the water, especially when exposed to full sunlight/UV?
It's way beyond my knowledge, but I do enjoy reading writeups like this about reverse engineering.

Thanks for the read.
How long do they last for you, (and what brands) since i'm currently hunting for something solution.
Meta's own chatbot says the company 'exploits people'
1. "annoying and disruptive" is just cortisol, adrenaline and so on. It's the health damaging physiological stress response that's the reason for the ban.

2. It's banned regardless of who it is targeting.
How do you currently feel about attaching the experience to install or when restoring packages? Various ecosystems do this and some get flak for it because of how many transitive dependencies and known vulnerabilities in comparison to others. I'm mostly curious because I'm working on a similar proposal here:

https://github.com/NuGet/Home/pull/11549

There's definitely a fine balance of noise, but how do you feel about it?
~2 msec (mouse)
8 msec (average time we wait for the input to be processed by the game)
16.6 (game simulation)
16.6 (rendering code)
16.6 (GPU is rendering the previous frame, current frame is cached)
16.6 (GPU rendering)
8 (average for missing the vsync)
16.6 (frame caching inside of the display)
16.6 (redrawing the frame)
5 (pixel switching)

I'm not very familiar with graphics pipelines, but some stuff here seems wrong. If a game is rendering at 60fps, the combined compute time for simulation+rendering should be 16.6 ms. You can't start simulating the next tick while rendering the previous tick unless you try to do some kind of copy-on-write memory management for the entire game state. And with double buffering, the GPU should be writing frame n to the display cable at the same time as it's computing frame n+1., and the display writing the frame to its cache buffer should be happening at the same time as the GPU writes the frame to the cable.

By my count that's a whole 50 ms that shouldn't be there.

From the linked article:

One thread is calculating the physics and logic for frame N while another thread is generating rendering commands based on the simulation results of frame N-1.

Maybe modern games do use CoW memory?

[The GPU] might collect all drawing commands for the whole frame and not start to render anything until all commands are present.

It might, but is this typical behavior? This implies that the GPU would just sit idle if it finished rendering a frame before the CPU finished sending commands to draw the next one — why would it do that?

Most monitors wait until a new frame was completely transferred before they start to display it adding another frame of latency.

Maybe this is what is meant by the "16.6 (frame caching inside of the display)" item? That might be real then.
Kind of smells like blackholes and we're pretty sure that they exist.
You’re literally on the literal wrong path of understanding what dead weight is.

I think you missed the productivity porn thread posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335165
They really would. I feel like kaggle is mostly teams slowly grinding for very small incremental improvements over each other. Adding a time component would really sort the wheat from the chaff.
There are theories with super high levels of supporting evidence, so we treat them as true.

This isn't to say that is a bad thing, it is a great thing.
I must just not mind it, because I've got two 30" monitors, one on an arm and one on the desktop, and another arm that holds my personal laptop above my work laptop -- so a lot of stuff on my desk.

I have the Fully "extended range" model, maybe 6" from the top height.
My experience at Google was that until I decided the company was kinda directionless and started selectively ignoring leadership to get stuff done. Of course avoiding the "insubordination" line. Turns out they're still happy as long as you give them what they want in the end, or if not, what their boss wants. And I'm happy to see things work.
That's not enough to break the causal link.

If you have a culture where everyone hates Jews due to memes propagated by speech, then you get 40 percent of people wanting to vote for a Hitler, who then brings the violence part after he's in power.

Or you get lone wolf terrorists that are motivated by speech that isn't technically incitement.
If you view people as dead weight, that is the problem. Few folks that make a decent salary want to do the bare minimum. Only managers that treat them as such will call them 'dead weight'.

Note that I'm not claiming you to be a manager, however your viewpoint of these employees reflects some of the managers I've dealt with. I once worked at a company who provided zero training, zero documentation, very poor pay, and no possibility of anything despite offering the world when I joined. I was told by my manager that I was dead weight. I was fired by HR. The situation did not end well for them, legally, or in terms of coworkers leaving.

In my experience working in software development, I've encountered only one person who was dead weight, and he ended up leaving on his own. I've been doing this for close to 20 years mind you. I've seen many accused of being dead weight, and sure, some could have tried harder, but most simply struggled with the mess that was the code we were working on. The symptoms were common: no documentation, hostile management demanding tight deadlines, and poor communication.
Just doing the job you are paid to do is called dead weight now? That’s the exact ideology I refuse to follow.
Since "@dbquery" is attacker controlled, isn't that @exfiltrate?

The examples use Int! for params, so it's unclear how the framework/product deals with interpolation. While looking up the docs <https://stepzen.com/docs/custom-graphql-directives/directive...> I noticed that your blog uses "$1" and the docs uses ordered "?"

Then, I saw this one <https://stepzen.com/docs/custom-graphql-directives/directive...> and wondered what happens if I send `@rest(endpoint="http://169.254.169.254")`
No professional organization that depends on Tool A to make things with real consequences should be using Tool B? /pedantry

An argument could be made that no organization should use Excel/Sheets for anything with "real" consequences.

I agree that Excel is stronger than Sheets in some regards, but Sheets with App Script and a little JavaScript knowledge goes a loooong way towards empowering people to build useful things collaboratively.
I don't follow your economic logic. Are you saying 100,000 customers need 100,000 different satellites which is too many to be used efficiently on the rest of their orbits?
Inability to work with others.
Free will isn't required for a justification for law enforcement.

Deterrence, rehabilitation and other reasons still apply with or without free will.

All that changes is the mindset. You're no longer a perpetrator with agency. You're a broken machine and we need to fix you or isolate you from society so you don't do more damage.
In addition to a surplus of great people, they have lots of mediocre people too, just like everywhere else. There may have been a time where this wasn't true, but now anyone who passes a day of tricky tech interviews is in, and that doesn't always correlate with good performance. At least that's my take having worked at Google.
It depends on your phone. LineageOS works entirely on mine (asus z2 or z3, I don't remember), no compromises needed.

edit: Forgot to mention you have to install microg in addition to LineageOS to get notifications.
Agree that they haven't offered much in terms of how it could make displays more vibrant.

> At the end of the day, colors -- whether in a movie scene or a paint chip -- are ultimately chosen by eye, not by math

Well.... math is involved if you want to do even simple stuff like blending two colors in a paint program. There is subjective stuff, sure, but you aren't going to get very far in computer graphics, display manufacture or camera chip manufacture, if you just conclude that it is 100% subjective and there is no mathematical logic behind it.
> I'm sure i'll be downvoted for this, but I think that this was solved for men many generations ago with the implementation of the a uniform, uniform.

The range of variations in acceptable men's dress may be much narrower, and men may be less likely to be viewed negatively for consistently choosing near-identical points within the range, but there are pretty specific expectations for men which change over time and in different contexts and subcultures, and men are still judged very harshly for not making contextually correct selections.
And I just said it is not only sounds that damage hearing that are banned. If I am stomping on my floor for six hours straight and propagating noise pollution to my downstairs neighbor, I am getting a police visit. No hearing damage perpetrated.
Stupid person here. Couldn't DM just be like gauge bosons (no mass) and also not carry any other force that would "slow down" other matter?
You’ve honestly never made friends with any of your teammates at work? (A friend being someone you’d choose to spend some of your time off with).
Its more than he personally was willing to pay ;-)

>Comcast once told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house—and that he would have gone with Comcast if they only wanted $10,000.

Im guessing being a nerd working at akamai he wont be the one spending ~1-2 days on a Ditch Witch/trencher to make those. He probably wont even hire anyone to work a rental from United Rentals. He will subcontract to same company that does trenches for Comcast.
Now they just need to actually release a refreshed version of the Oasis. It's been 3 years and it's really showing its age in features, connection and battery life.
You can set up groups on Goodreads.

There are groups for Metafilter and Econtalk and things.

Why not set up one there and advertise it on HN and select a book and see how it goes?
Because the title frames it as subscribers; not subscriptions. Disney probably doesn't have more subscribers than Netflix, but it has people paying Disney two or three times, as you say.
I guess because people aren't doing it very thoughtfully.

You can insulate the heck out of a home. In cold places, helpfully, humans are natural 1000W space heaters, and can also put on additional clothing to stay warm. Europeans have refined the art of insulated homes too. Meanwhile, in a crappily built house in a hot place, if you're hot, your only options are to go for a swim or turn on the air conditioner.

Americans tend to build junky wooden homes with poor insulation in the middle of the desert and consider European staples like double glazing as novel. Australia isn't much better, except they use bricks and concrete more, but still have atrocious attitudes to windows, and dark gray roofing is in vogue too, meaning houses get that much hotter in summer for no reason.

On a side note, ever tried to organize an energy recovery ventilator for an air conditioning setup? It conditions fresh air from outside with the temperature of air from inside as an exchange is performed, so that energy isn't wasted. People act like you're shopping for a T14 hyperdrive. People need to get smarter about insulation and energy efficiency.
I agree. I’d prefer the exploit choice to have the link open in my default browser.
IBM's 4690 point-of-sale controllers ran an OS derived from CP/M, so even in the early 2000s, CP/M was running in a lot of Fortune 500 retail stores.
Aether seemed to be necessary conceptually because the theory of electromagnetism was a theory of waves, and no would could conceive of waves except in some medium, hence aether. Einstein's breakthrough was to show that the concept of aether was not necessary to explain empirical observations about electromagnetism and the speed of light.

Dark matter, on the other hand, is not a conceptual necessity but an empirical one. Whereas aether was something people clung to because they couldn't imagine a world without it, dark matter is something scientists have been forced into even though the world would be more conceptually elegant without it.
Ah, I thought I'd caught a whiff of Sealion, but I wasn't certain. I'll be more vigilant next time
As another poster has noted, that's not a solution, that's just exporting problem to another country.

What happens when due to immigration or rising standards the immigration tap runs dry?
Input + display lag is a decent chunk of that, at least.
If people want a feature so bad doesn't it make sense to add it?
> Where to load infomation in a sentance and then paragraphs is crucial. Like if it's a joke keep the key piece of info at the end, that is like how jokes work. If it's a story, pepper info throughout to keep interest. If it's work and you're trying to communicate big ideas, cover key topics at the start and build on them.

Do you have any books or articles on this topic? I feel like this skill is missing from my communication.
hahaha .... umm you know they still will over provision them its a business after all limited bandwidth lots of potential customers...
Those terminals were a huge upgrade over the 300-1200 baud modem connections in the 80s...
wow, that's amazing that it could be done so efficiently that we get such a fluid animation, thanks for explaining!
Michaelson-Morley didn't falsify aether. At the time, their results were interpreted within the aether framework in terms of compression of the aether yielding the Lorentz transformations.
Eat Like the Animals: The science-based diet book about protein leverage
I have never really looked up the details. But I watch MotoGP and figure if something was better they'd be using it. So chain it is.
I have worked in one of those companies. Most were lazy and did barely any work. They were there for a paycheck and it showed. Not everyone works in a mission driven startup where the employees are intrinsically motivated to contribute. Many are just free riders and hide under a middle manager hoping they don't get noticed. Such B teamers need to be weeded out quick.

Then I switched companies and everyone was motivated and hard working. The leader there hired better (less stragglers to begin with) and fired better (fired stragglers within 3 months).
“How to build a Sex room” - now as a 4D experience!
To people saying the Dark Matter sounds like aether, phlogiston, or miasma, I have to wonder. Dark Matter is simply something that isn't affected by electromagnetic fields. We already have particles that don't interact with one or more forces. The weak interaction only affects fermions and antifermions. The strong force only affects quarks, photos are massless, etc. What's so hard to accept about a particle that doesn't interact with electromagnetism, and thus neither absorbs nor emits light?
DreamWorks will open source their MCRT renderer, MoonRay
I get back at it by getting paid as much as I can for as little work I can do. Like I said, I’m not doing nothing, but I’ll never sell my soul for marginal increases in wages and that occasional promotion.

I get back by having a life after 5 pm, Never going in to work on a weekend, taking time off to spend it with family and never letting stress and bs from corporate world affect my private life.