skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The metaverse and web3 will make life worse (e.g. gradual loss of body and neuroprivacy, home privacy, financial privacy etc) and have a ridiculously high energy cost
Thanks for the response. I do agree to all of these suggestions, and honestly we can't just make up hypothetical scenario after hypothetical scenario of what the best way to phrase things are. It depends so much on me, the manager, the time of day, the team culture.

I think my point in the article is to say:

I am autistic, and I might not communicate the way you are expecting. If I am asking questions, it is for what I think is a good reason. What I am not doing is rejecting your question and not acknowledging I am wrong. If I wanted to reject your opinion, I would reject it, not mess around asking oblique questions.

It's great that everybody seems to think this is my problem alone to solve, and I'm somehow doing this on purpose. I am not, I am trying very hard to get better, part of which is to share my experiences. Yet, that also seems to be criticized ("who puts so much effort into analyzing these situations?").

I have very productive relationships with other engineers and product managers and business owners, so clearly this can work out just well, but that's not what I wanted to cover here. I will in the future however, and I covered a tiny aspect of "digging deep into business questions, as an engineer" here: https://dev.to/wesen/worse-ux-for-a-better-product-how-to-th...
Why should I care? They're two for-profit companies at an impasse, I'm not going to get mad on behalf of anyone here.
I am actually writing a book saying exactly the opposite to this.

I think we are seeing the development of "Programmable Companies" - where all aspects of the company and its data are accessible (imagine a code API that reaches down to some sane mix of data structure).

So while it is crazy for Zuckerberg to try and optimise some Ad server, what should / could exist is a Jupyter-like notebook with something like

for minion in mycompany:
if minion.timeatwork < 40:
crapminions+= 1

This is mostly done with crappy spreadsheets, but it does not get to the feedback that this sort of platform (I think) enables.

Anyway. The point is CEOs should code. the reason they have stopped is because their job has not been "disrupted" ... yet

Edit: I think there is a further point here. Managers used to (Drucker?) design and build the systems, the factory floor was a battleground of Kanban and command and control. But automation won out. And now the "systems of production" are designed by coders.

All the managers have left is shuffling around people from project to project. But one lever does not a effective d means of control make.

We have learnt from communism that command and control economy falls over at scale. And what is a company but a command and control economy.
And LuaJIT is from another author, Mike Pall from Germany (Lua itself is from Brazil).
Maybe _this_ is the organization that should have been called OpenAI?
Cool except "most requested features from 1Password users on this forum" is not a measure of what proportion of 1password users that is, only that there is a very noisy cohort. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the people filling the forum with these requests represented 100% of users of both Orion and 1Password.

Noisy users != most common and/or largest proportion of users.

[edit: Oh wow, I just went to the website, and it only offers a beta download. So this is a tiny browser that doesn't even have a stable release demanding that they're supported as though they're a major one with a significant number of users?]
Not only just apply, but definitely try to network with people on the team. Works well if they're active on twitter. I got my first internship by building a rapport with someone on twitter and then they worked with their org to find an internship opening for me (still had to interview and stuff) that wasn't on their careers site.
Yeah "serious cyclist" feels so impossible to define that it's meaningless. If I ride to work every day but go to a shop for maintenance instead of buying my own tools am I not serious?
Poll: How long have you been visiting HN?
Since HN started in 2006, I am curious about average browsing age of HN users. I am sure there are lot of people who don't have an account but browse HN but will be nice to hear from those who do have an account. For example, I have just completed 10+ years with HN.
Less than 1 year
As the old adage goes...it takes money to make money.

A couple mill up front to get 500k+/yr means ROI of 5 years.

It's a sustainable model as long as you don't get greedy and I don't think this guys is doing this to be a 'gazillionare' :-)
> The religious person is left with a mystery which is no less than the mystery with which science leaves us

As a Hindu I find this baffling. For the Hindu there is a consistency across science and religion, and sometimes the line between the two isn't clear. They work together harmoniously to form my worldview.

Based on the cursory information I have about the author's background, I am assuming he was exposed to Western Christianity growing up.

I find that this breeds a very narrow minded form of atheism, one that rejects a very specific idea of what God is.

I have a suspicion that if many of the atheists in the West were exposed to the full metaphysical understanding of the Eternal Dharma they may not be atheists, or at least be a different kind of atheist than simply a Not-Christian.

In Hinduism God is not a man or a woman, but instead the energy that is manifest in every atom of every universe. God is the universal wave function.
Greater than 1 Year but less than equal to 3 Years
Maybe I'm out of touch these days but I don't see how Web3 in this scenario is also better than just a standardized API schema that's shared across different games or platforms.

The developer still needs to implement how this skin or texture is applied in their specific game, so there's still net additional work per skin or texture. You don't just get it for free as soon as someone else implements it in one game.
The original SFSafariViewController did share cookies with regular Safari. The documentation says

> In iOS 9 and 10, it shares cookies and other website data with Safari.

I was also also disappointed that they removed it in iOS 11. But it's still a step-up from other even more horrible in-app browsers like in Instagram, which are implemented with WKWebView. I refuse to read anything in those in-app browsers; I always manually open them in Safari.
Greater than 3 Years but less than equal to 5 Years
I don't think this figure is accurate, but even so this isn't something I would want to accept - regardless of a convincing calculation that it is a net benefit.
> After that, 510 bytes are used for the SHARED lock. A byte range is used here to accommodate older Windows versions with mandatory locks.

I was curious how old, and... wow, that code is for Windows versions that predate the NT kernel (Win95/98/ME). I'm surprised that it's still around, but the comment does a great job of explaining it.

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/3cf46ee508e97b46736a26...
You can't record _videos_ of a specific window though. You can only record a fixed region of the screen or the whole screen. "Capture selected window" only deals with screenshots, not with video.
It can't be contingent on something necessary within itself. Within means being part of the contingency.
Shouldn't a GPU render (given a correct algorithm implementation) be more correct in environments where zooming and sub-pixel movements are common (eg. browsers)? The GPU runs the mathemarical computations every frame for the exact pixel dimensions while the CPU may often use techniques like upscaling.
Android has two ways of doing that - Chrome Custom Tabs which are secured against this (iirc) and WebView which isnt.

Custom Tabs always have a title bar and a small writing "Powered by <browser>" at the end of the menu.
Neurosis
First, assuming that the universe is an absolute system doesn't mean we can't build models to interpret its nature through binary interpretations.
In the same way that a map is not the territory, a mental model for the universe isn't the universe.

So saying "abandon our rational mind" is just a rhetorical mechanism to establish that perhaps this is the wrong question, and we should reframe what we understand as absolute or relative.

You're incorrectly interpreting my words as a call for irrationality. I'm just saying that our interpretation of the universe and the debates about its origins are often based on ideas that can't be challenged because they are scientific truisms.

The problem is that anything that doesn't comply with our standard interpretation of the universe will be deemed esoteric and unscientific. Therefore, it neuters debates that could yield a valid interpretation of the universe.
I think the clear answer is to only allow local/whitelisted domains that you can prove you own. I work on Capacitor/Cordova apps regularly and only allowing local code would allow for them to continue to work and close this loophole. Anytime I open an external page I do it in SFSafariViewController which doesn't have the ability to inject code or snoop.
I would sympathize with all of the illiterate users. But the person who reported this and the people on HN discussing the article would be considered a little more technologically literate I would assume.
> I question how desirable that even is

I am with you, but I am a bit more cynical after watching my 6-10 year old nephews get into gaming. All they care about are the skins, it's insane to me but they really like it. Knowing that makes me dislike this angle more because I feel like their entire market vertical will be 6-10 years olds with their parents money. Not to mention the whole, creating addicts out of kids in the name of digital consumerism.
No worries, inevitably whatever framework you're using right now will be deprecated and replaced within a few years anyway.
The founder of Orion jumping on what a community support employee has to say to drive publicity is really frustrating. I am willing to bet that the person commenting from 1P -- who likely has limited insight into what is actually going on with the product team -- is dealing with a confluence of corporate drama now.

Before this thread, I hadn't heard of Orion as a browser. I can't find any estimates of its market share. A naive look into search trends finds that it's extremely unpopular:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=orion%20br...

Any sane PM will take this into account. You have a finite amount of resources. Noisy customers aren't indicative of actual customer interests.
I wonder why these FOSS-y projects don't bundle Firefox for Mobile with them. It is a far superior experience with Add-Ons.

In fact, I don't even use most apps anymore, most websites' web versions are more than adequate nowadays. In fact at least in one instance viz. Duolingo, the web experience is far superior than the app.
I live in a small town and the only library we have is school one. Sometimes I visit bigger town but I have not used it even once, most the books I have read is pdf, some of that was bought and some was not. I will try library way next time I have time.

If talking about sending these to me not to library, I do not want anybody to pay for that, also I can pay in crypto or card for some specific books I appreciate and for post inside US. My preferred fields are cryptography, probability theory / statistics, game theory, and anything about old / obsoleted programming langs: Cobol, Fortran, Perl, also compiler design. Moderately desired is anything about electronic design and signal processing. Absolutely super desired is Turing Omnibus, GEB, TAPL and anything about Lisp.
Overfunding via federally-guaranteed loans is what led to bloated administrations and tuition fees in the first place, so yes it ought to be rolled back. A lot of the “woke” stuff comes from diversity equity and inclusion staff who are part and parcel of the bloat, and constantly seeking to justify their own position:

https://www.fox28spokane.com/study-shows-university-diversit...

You're also begging the question by implying ideological coercion is just "abstract learning."
You look at the biggest games of the year: God of War, Elden Ring, Stray, etc. Shoehorning in NFT-style assets into these games is just a ridiculous proposal, especially ones with any kind of "marketplace" that you would have to support. All of the time and effort and maintenance and customer service, all of that would hit the bottom line of the game. The better studios -- that is, the ones who make game-of-the-year candidates -- just won't bother when they can be spending their finite development time on the game itself.

And the idea that they'd buy into a cross-game shared-asset economy is just ludicrous and is a fundamental misunderstanding of P&L at a studio level. There is absolutely zero chance of, say, EA and Activision collaborating on a spec to share assets across brands. Zero, no matter how much you could spin it to executives. "So a BF player could use COD skins?" would get you laughed out of your pitch.
> Intelligence can help you climb to the highest positions in business and academia

I don't really think that's true. Some of the smartest people I know are nowhere near the highest positions of business and academia.
I know this is a troll, but I'll respond anyway. If someone can prove he's discriminating against institutions on the basis of religion, he can be sued. Whether he takes money from the government or not doesn't matter in the slightest.
That's a fair point, thanks for shedding light on it from a closer perspective.
There is no incentive to stop terrorists beyond doing the bare minimum to cover one's ass. It's not like anything bad happens for the government. They just get more power every time.
The most likely outcome is that neither side surrenders or loses. Instead the conflict will just grind on indefinitely as a slow war of attrition. While some western leaders are distancing themselves from Ukraine, others will continue to support Ukraine as a way to bleed Russia to death and discourage future invasions of other countries.

Putin won't live forever. So the goal is just containment until he's replaced by someone less aggressive.
They aren't more protein, but I eat beans and rice all the time. They are great.

I also love beef, tuna, shrimp and many other meats.

I like having a variety in my diet and to eat what I prefer.

See how quickly you hate beans and rice if you only have beans and rice.
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If you're doing .Net Core you could also take a look at LiteDB. Use SQL queries in a local (optionally encrypted) file using a single embedded nuget package. Also creates schemas on the fly when you first persist collection types as per traditional NoSQL systems.

I'm using it to create an embeddable out of the box passwordless auth system that has no external dependencies. Works great.

Admittedly I've not tried it under extreme load yet, but I'm happy to migrate it onwards if something I create goes massive.

(Edit: to be clear it is NoSQL, but you can query it using almost standard SQL which is what I do).
I have a better question: Why does everything move, forever? Newton's first law is bewildering when you stop to think about it.

From the smallest subatomic particle on up, matter and energy are always moving, both through the universe, as well as within matter itself. Gluons are constantly bopping back and forth among the quarks that make up nucleons, electrons zip around from atom to atom, photons fly off on infinite voyages. The Voyager space probes will never stop unless something stops it.

Why? Seems like a fundamental question. Imagine if we discovered the Ultimate Frame Of Reference and were able to lock an atom in 3D space, completely removing its momentum? The first discovery might blow a hole in the side of a mountain as a single stopped atom suddenly gets hit by the Earth at whatever insane speed it's moving through the universe. It'd be the ultimate kinetic energy weapon.
Thanks! I wish you the best. Being bitter is something I hate, and it's very non-productive. The best way to move forward when I disagree with say, architectural decisions or tech stack decisions (because it's very valid to disagree here, they're just really unknowns that we can try our best to sketch out), is to have us all write down the pros and cons, and depending on the project, timebox it and revisit certain decisions at a latter date. This is acknowledging that either opinion can be right, wrong, in between, and we might never find out, yet a decision needs to be made.

In a way, it's a way to do a team-wide "we told us so, so what now?"
I don't understand either; especially the fact that no one seemed to have done any research on any existing usage of /e/. The only explanation that makes sense is they were deliberately referencing the 4chan board, which is indeed a place best visited with privacy.

At least they didn't call it /b/.
First, the "I'm a 10x dev" personality type is not a 10x dev. Arrogance is a sign of insecurity.

Second, I don't think a team of ten 1.5x programmers will beat out a 10x programmer. You either have the depth of understanding and imagination or you don't. Take Linus Torvalds, for instance -- I would say he is a 100x programmer, or perhaps a 10,000x programmer, since he is the author of both Git and Linux -- good luck trying to replicate that contribution with a "well managed team". It is similar in many areas -- 10 guys with Math PhDs do not make one Einstein.

In the context of hiring for a business that is developing a CRUD app, you're usually trying to differentiate between 1x programmers and 0.1x programmers, however -- 10x programmers aren't often looking for work.
I see, thanks for clarifying that. Makes sense.

Relatedly, I still don't understand why people are upset at these companies' hiring practices.
But blockchain only has "cultural momentum" because of the lure of profits. Is there an example of a popular blockchain project that isn't based on "early buys can get rich by selling to latecomers"?

I guess the argument boils down to "it's web3 because it has blockchain, and it has blockchain because that's a good marketing buzzword." Which, fair enough, I guess. That could be right.

Blockchain-backed or not, I think it's pretty unlikely that a bunch of competing game companies are going to come up with a system that lets you share items between games. That sounds technically and politically very hard, and for not a lot of benefit.
Biglaw clients aren’t suckers. They don’t pay $800/hr for agile ceremonies. They go over their bills with a fine tooth comb and have ML systems to detect padding.
Happens a lot.

It's also a problem with the Navy.

More, smaller, near-coast ("littoral") ships would be much more effective tools for wartime and for maintaining peace on the seas. There are some. Acquisitions has been fraught with problems and weighty opinions of captains and admirals who want to feel important on enormous ships. Enormous ships which aren't as useful in the day to day operations in the Navy and would be extremely vulnerable at war with modern weaponry.

A lot of what gets done around the world is heavily influenced by how a decision will influence the feelings of people in power.
This assumes supply is perfectly inelastic. Even assuming, it also ignores the fact that the money is only dumped in one nation.
Jsmn: A minimalistic JSON parser in C
the article actually seems a surprisingly reasonable complaint about being hard to get funding for trying to develop better alternative models which explain observations better

But let's be careful to not overgeneralize here. The author is working out of Bonn, Germany. I have no idea how German research gets funded or what their priorities are. More importantly, I have no idea for how that funding model compares with the funding model being used by other countries. All I can reasonably ascertain after reading this article is Germany isn't funding research to develop better alternative models. I have no knowledge for what other countries are funding.
> company calendar is 80% filled with meetings

The typical expectation on salaried employees is that you spend your 8-5 in meetings and then you 5-midnight actually doing programming work.
U.S. rejects broadband subsidies for SpaceX's Starlink, LTD
While I love the semantic web I see two major issues with it:

1. Standardization in regards of (globally) unique identifiers and ontologies. Most things un the semantic web have multiple identifiers and, based on personal preferences, attributes linked to different ontologies. There's several projects that try to gather data for the same thing from various ontologies, but sometimes the same attributes have differing values because of conversions or simply extracting data points from different publications where different methods have been used to measure stuff.

2. Performance of large datasets gets really bad since distributing graphs is still a problem that lacks good solutions. One of the solutions is to store data in distributed column stores. But there's still a ton of unsolved graph traversal performance issues.

I strongly believe that the technological batriers need to be solved first. Until then there will always be the person in meetings, asking why not use relational or NoSql tech because of performance...
At a FAANG and I can tell you it's not nearly so positive as this.

It was shocking coming from startup world.

It's not so much "gee I only have 4 hours of work to do this week"

It's...well, it's impossible to say how long it takes to do anything in particular, so I shouldn't feel stressed trying to get it done...

oh there's actually no real management style/pressure to get things done here?

Promo is seniority-based?

There's silly unspoken rules like after you get promoted, you're _guaranteed_ a middling performance rating because its an easy horsetrade to do?

Your manager doesn't have to argue $X was super important and strategic and this newly promoted character needs a better rating, and the other manager doesn't need to argue $Y needs to keep a high rating to show continued momentum in his growth, they just do it.

There's no way to rebel against this system, or work within it, other than transfer companies?

It's a rather horrific situation and I don't think it's helping anyone or anyone is particularly satisfied with it. The problem is, any other solution is worse and will hurt The Vibes in the short run. Interesting to see Zuck move towards Dark Zuck and say things I've never heard at FAANG
While good advice in general, these sort of products are designed for professionals with 40 hours of exposure a week to hazardous materials. Vacuuming up small quantities on an infrequent basis isn't going to create an elevated risk.
Are average users allowed to vote?
No I'm not. The current fixed deal with Octopus here in UK is 18.53p/kWh + 48p/day as standing charge.
Glad it looks interesting to you! Regarding running a Kubernetes cluster, that's only required if you want the steps in your pipeline to all execute in their own containers. If your workflow is such that everything can run on a single machine, you can still use Sematic to track your experiments. One advantage here is that if you ever do need to scale up to containerized workflows, you can do so without changing the code for your pipeline.
More context in an axios piece: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/10/fcc-spacex-nearly-900m-fund...
ill try anything !