skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently in Jackson, WY and saw this cool hydroponic farm. The business employs people with various disabilities, which is really cool. While I was not there at a time when I could get a tour, a very nice employee provided some information. It was fun to look through the windows at the equipment.

https://verticalharvestfarms.com/locations/jackson/
As someone who worked for over a decade in post-production, I can tell you this was most likely edited on FCP 7 because it was considered the better tool and not because of cost considerations (FCP 7 was actually much more expensive than the newer version). When Apple released Final Cut Pro X, they re-worked the whole app (I think it was a complete re-write) and based it more on the iMovie interface, which a lot of editors considered less that professional. All the shortcuts and controls were completely changed as well, which made it hard for editors to transition over. A lot of people migrated to Avid or Adobe Premiere. Some just kept using FCP 7 because they considered a superior tool.

In any case it was most likely the offline edit that happened on FCP 7, which could have been done on any working editing station from the last 30 years or more as it just exports the metadata when it gets onlined and mastered.
It looks like they also prioritize health/medical YouTubers, even if they're not doctors if they're big (i.e. with the verified checkmark). Given that this seems to be the case, I think this is a pretty reasonable approach to soft moderating.

I don't want YouTube to purely filter out potential health remedies because layperson experimentation is sometimes how medical "truths" of the day advance (e.g. doctors used to love spouting nonsense about how "diet doesn't affect acne" and with n=1, laypersons pushed back enough that new research showed that to not be the case). I think giving the floor to "credible" YouTubers and institutions is a fair balance.
> I'm using Pinephone as a daily driver

Just in case you're not aware, because you seemingly are trying to convince other people: That fact alone indicates that what you're willing to trade off exceeds by an order of magnitude what the average user requires their main phone to do. And that even extends to the average tech-oriented user.
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution --some genius
Company towns weren't a monopoly either. You could always walk outside town and enjoy your free speech there. But free speech laws applied because they functioned as public places.

Facebook is such a public place.

Additionally, Facebook and the rest did function as a cartel when they coordinated to ban Alex Jones from all platforms, even the ones where he wasn't present.
I've read the book, albeit 15 years ago. That may not be the entire thesis, but it is the primary component of it. From Wikipedia[0]:

> Fukuyama argues that history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of history, in this sense, means that liberal democracy is the final form of government for all nations. According to Fukuyama, since the French Revolution, liberal democracy has repeatedly proven to be a fundamentally better system (ethically, politically, economically) than any of the alternatives, and so there can be no progression from it to an alternative system. Fukuyama claims not that events will stop occurring in the future, but rather that all that will happen in the future (even if totalitarianism returns) is that democracy will become more and more prevalent in the long term.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
I still occasionally cry myself to sleep and I'm nearing 40...
> Meanwhile, your "new customer" database is on fire, swamped with requests. By using a random distribution, you spread the load out.

Great answer.
Thanks for sharing a critical insight.
Our minds can only interpret the universe through a binary model, but that doesn't mean that the universe conforms to our binary interpretation of it.

"Why does anything exist?" becomes a silly question if you're capable of abandoning your rational mind for a minute and humbly accepting that perhaps the universe is an absolute system with no dualistic nature.
It looks like y’all are doing a great job!

How did you hire to make content this good? Is it just a bunch of devs in a slack channel making memes?

How do you make sure you’re not scaring off the serious enterprise buyers by having a meme twitter?

Have you been able to measure any real growth as a result of the success of this twitter account ?
Given her attitude toward WFH, I'd say Marissa Mayer knew. Maybe not about this specific person, but then he was likely not a special case.
I'm going to take a guess and say there were movies cut on Final Cut Pro 6, 5, 4, etc. It takes a lot of skill to be a good editor but I would bet most professional editors could edit a movie on an iPhone with iMovie if they had to.
Getting Started with Vitest
How do you stay at peace? A strong deterrence.
I've been part of 4 commercial project that used the semantic web in one way or another. All these project or at least their semantic web part where a failure. I think that I have a good idea on where the misunderstanding about the semantic web originate. The author does seem to have a good understanding and is right about the semantic web forcing everything into a single schema. Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet but instead you are convicted to a life sentence in prison. Adopting RDF is just too costly because it is never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it. Of course everything can be organised in a hyper graph, there is a reason why Steven Wolfram also uses this structure, they just so flexible. At the end of the day I don't agree with the author opinion of the semantic web having much of a future, I did my best but it didn't work out, time for other things.
Sure it has memory leaks but who cares, it’s a freaking missile
Yeah, wait until you find out that some of your tax dollars go to pay for bridges you never use or to bomb people who never personally insulted you.
> I’m not sure whether it’s my affinity for code golf, but when I see someone bragging about about line count, I don’t expect the use of multi million line nonstandard libraries.

I wouldn't say the headline is "misleading" - no one is about to be fooled into thinking 300 lines of C++ could be capable of state-of-the-art speech recognition. The headline is squarely in the territory of "complete nonsense, but you can tell that without having to read further than the headline".
There is a known old argument in St. Anslem, Leibnitz and Gödel for that in a pantheistic picture. Gödel adopted higher order modal logic, and factors the question via the axiom 'if possible then actual' (god/reality existence). I'm now pleased to discover that in 2017 someone has went through the pains of porting the thing to a proof verifier, Isabelle/HOL (they start from Melvin Fitting reconstruction of the idea in 1999).

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317956529_Types_Tab...
> Relay does not allow UDP traffic (applications that attempt to use UDP will find their traffic blocked on the device itself). Eventually it will allow UDP traffic to certain destination port numbers, such as 443.

This is a very weird restriction that I've never seen before. Can you explain where it emanates from? I can only assume that this is motivated by logging.

Do you reject ICMP as well?

What happens if I tunnel UDP inside of headers that make the packet look like a TCP SYN+ACK packet? This would be IPv6 to avoid CGNAT of course.

PS, your blog is missing the RSS/ATOM feed.
>Or maybe, just maybe, interviewing based on esoteric computer science problems isn’t the best way to identify high performing builders

The interview process at FAANGs isn't designed to hire the "best" people. It's designed to hire people who are "good enough" in a consistent manner. Any form of standardized interview can be gamed. More personalized interviews can be better in theory, but they also open the door to nepotism and discrimination.

Admittedly, I'm biased because I'm unusually good at Leetcode and a rather lousy in terms of development velocity. With that disclaimer out of the way, I think the last thing that FAANGs need are more "high performing builders". In my experience, a lot of them tend to create a lot of useless passion projects that work their way into being dependencies and end up causing more harm than good. I may be a rest'n'vester, but at least I make sure the work I get done creates positive value for the company.
That's how I think of it. You pay firemen for their ability to solve a problem quickly and efficiently, and for being able to execute when called upon.

Giant companies making money hand over fist pay a lot of "don't fuck this up" salaries. The primary goal for everyone is to keep the money printer running smoothly; everything else is secondary.
It's an NFT representing early participation on the Internet.
Yeah its been wild seeing my grocery budget max out before the end of the month, despite having a good buffer a year before. YNAB has a great "cover overspending from" feature that got a good workout this year. Fortunately I got a raise so I used that to bump my food budget.

Anybody who doesn't demand a raise in this environment is a fool.
I see how your response makes sense in terms of questions like "why does an electron exist", but what about the general notion of existence? It seems self-evident that there is something, even just experience. I interpreted the question as more "why something rather than nothing" which seems coherent.
Thank you!

What we have seen done in the past is use things like pybind11 to expose C++ APIs in Python, which I guess is a similar concept to SWIG. If you are using build tools such as Bazel, you can even get the C++ compiled at run-time when submitting your pipeline.

Regarding i/o artifacts, Sematic lets user choose how they are serialized. We offer reasonable baseline defaults, but certain artifacts require serialization formats that are cross-language (e.g. ROS messages since you mention robotics).

As a last resort, users are free to serialize and persist artifacts by hand as part of their pipeline functions (e.g. storing in a cloud bucket) and only returning a reference to said artifact (e.g. a Python dataclass with artifact location and metadata).
Their recruiting reach is high, but it doesn't have that much to do with desperation, and their actual interviewing standards aren't low.

The recruiting reach is high because every single sub-group of teams within amazon has their own recruiters, and none of them communicate with recruiters from outside of that. Sometimes i get multiple emails from different AWS sub-group recruiters per day, but it isn't because AWS is desperate for me. It is simply because for them, the existence of the other ones reaching out at the same time is completely immaterial, just like if they were recruiters from other companies.

And while yes, Amazon's interviewing bar might not be as high as Meta/Google/Dropbox/etc, it isn't far behind at all, and it is pretty much on par with Microsoft.

Disclosure: never worked at Amazon, but interviewed with them and the rest of the companies mentioned, and worked at (or got offers from) some of them.
Time is one cost, but ignorance is the other;

"Smart People" (and the above is an example) often are not only knowledgable, but actionable, across a variety of subjects.

Leading to unhappiness is frustration that others choose not to or are otherwise incapable of this knowledge or action.

But especially when you hear "I wish I could do what you do" from people who have had more impetus, more opportunity, or have invested more than you.
Greek and Roman catapults were lighter than medieval trebuchets, using tension or torsion springs rather than heavy weights, but were reasonably capable of hurling rocks well enough to take down a wall eventually. I don't have an example offhand, but the Romans were more than happy to build thick walls to resist sieges if they needed to. My impression is that, fortification-wise, Romans preferred walls and ditches rather than single highly-fortified buildings like castles.

On the other hand, Roman architecture was such that they did not need very thick stone walls to support high buildings.
Not getting rid of "legacy" stuff that doesn't work is a, IMHO, a version of throwing good moneybafter bad money. Instead of acknowledging that the unusable code, or whatever, was a crucial part of understanding the problem, and throw it out once the problem was understood, people tend to build upon those not fit for purpose things...
Are we really at the point where letting a corporation decide what we can/cannot do on our own hardware is a good thing now?

Though the more I think about it the more I realize that we are indeed already at that point, and people really think that's a good thing. That's really sad to me.
This is literally exactly what would happen. It need not be blood thirst motivation; simple profit dynamics are enough to ensure this outcome.
Hint: You don't need to work (anymore) when you 're a monopoly or two
This is a lot of ground to cover to get to what is, in my opinion, a very bizarre conclusion which is epistemologically extremely lugubrious: that all structures expressible mathematically also exist and we are (obviously) a subset of those structures.

Frankly, this doesn't even feel like any kind of knowledge to me. Its operationally meaningless! In any case, I think the author has the cart before the horse: numbers (and other sorts of mathematics) do not pre-exist reality. Numbers are abstractions of regularities we see in nature.

Mathematics is nothing but the observation of regularities in certain sorts of elaborate rituals involving making markings on paper. Many of those rituals are inspired by and correlated with regularities which exist in the world, but its difficult to me to see any reason to believe that they have an independent existence.
>isn’t it obvious that every app does this?

Not if you never have/ don't use them.
Yeah that sounds pretty familiar to my experience! Right now I'm in an infra team and work on the CI pipelines, testing frameworks for devs, testing infra, etc... So more time dealing with docker/k8s than a unit testing framework that's for sure!
All the Apple billboards in SF on 280/101 tout their Privacy right now.
the left-aligned does look much better! you've also got too many 'u's in 'Oppourtunity Magnet'
Is that really an accurate way of measuring anyways? Company A may just have a more complex product and need more developers. Doesn't mean Company A should just remove developers since Company B doesn't need that amount for their unrelated product.
Does it still make sense to use GDI or WinAPI to build GUI if the app is not large? I wonder what library did Bioware use to build the Aurora Toolset for NWN.
Stephen Wolfram actually wrote an article suggesting that that's basically it although he frames it as the set of all possible formal rules interacting with each other:

"So how does this help us understand why the universe exists? We’re starting from all possible rules. And basically we’re saying that having a universe that operates in the way we perceive ours to operate is an inevitable consequence of there being all these possible rules. Or, in other words, if these rules “exist” then it follows that so will our universe.

But what does it mean for rules to “exist”, and in particular for all possible rules to exist? The key point, I believe, is that it’s in a sense an abstract necessity. The set of all possible rules is something purely formal. It can be represented in an infinite number of ways. But it’s always there, existing as an abstract thing, completely independent of any particular instantiation.

It’s crucial that we’re talking about all possible rules. If we were talking about particular rules, then we’d need to specify which rules those are, and we’d need a whole language and structure for doing that. But that’s not our situation. We’re talking about all possible rules. We can construct some explicit symbolic representation for these rules, but the deductions we make ultimately won’t depend on this; they would work the same whatever representation we chose to construct.

We might have assumed that to get our universe we’d need some definite input, some specific information. But what we’re discovering is that our universe is in some sense like a tautology; it’s something that has to be the way it is just because of the definition of terms. In effect, it exists because it has to, or in a sense because everything about it is a “logical inevitability”, with no choice about anything."

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/why-does-the-uni...
What he implied with the term "conspiracy theory" in relation to inflation is that there's a vast mismatch between reported CPI and experienced CPI, hence the reported CPI is a conspiracy theory or corrupted.

Typically statements like "this increased 100-150%" are used to support the theory. The only thing I'm saying is that individual price hikes are meaningless without any information about the total expense breakdown.

That said, I do agree that CPI is typically slightly optimistic.
It’s really painful to see all of these encryption holes in every product we use daily. Apple claims privacy, yet your whole phone sits unencrypted on their server ready to be served to anyone who asks (assuming you back up your phone to iCloud)
You don't need to read the article to be triggered by "smart people" articles. It really brings out the anecdotes.
The Case for Degrowth
So that's 160k pa total.
I'm in London myself

I would be surprised to see someone
whose job is coding getting that.

There may be crypto paying silly amounts or lucky start ups.

Either that or I need to brush up my CV
Really embarrassing level of blatant copying of iOS icons and design language, here.
Telcos aren't really that great of profit making machines. It's a capital intensive business that requires a lot of scale before making money.

Look at what this guy is doing. Many millions to get 600 customers paying <$100 a month.
I guess you are right. Maybe it’s more of a way to get in sane terms with the question.

On that note though it definitely feels more logical and harmonious concept than ”God did it”. But I do get your point
Whole orange, they'd cut themselves a porthole. No pics, alas.
>because the country is so large that the build out cost is expensive

Nah, that's just their excuse; most of the country's population lives in urban areas and they don't even bother running fiber or setting up cell towers in more rural areas aside from maybe along the main highways.

Remember, SaskTel (and MTS, before the government sold it to Bell) doesn't have a problem with charging reasonable rates or building out fiber (and turning a profit at the same time) and those are the lowest-density parts of the country. So no, the telcos aren't telling the truth.
Is there a clear distinction in English between "why" and "what for" ? In french it's literally the same words ("pourquoi" vs "pour quoi")

My 5yo daughter asked me "why do we exist". I answered the why as in some events that happened that led to our existence, but finding a reason is a bit tougher :)
There's a lot of pointing fingers here. At the risk of sounding crass, any company with more than 1000 employees (pick a number) has high performers and low performers. Yes, culture, management, and process all basically move the sides of the bell curve, but nothing "fixes" human nature and organizational inefficiencies as companies grow.

This is why companies rate and rank employees and low performers find their way to the door and/or go through [bi]annual RIF processes to clean up the org. It's the natural growth process.
This is basically what life is like in South Florida half the year. We have the benefit of ubiquitous air conditioning, but going outside feels gross from April to October.
Android launchers are like Linux desktop environments. There are plenty of options, and everyone can pick the one that works best for them. It's easy to install another launcher and set it as the default.

/e/'s Bliss Launcher is going to feel more familiar for people who are coming from iOS. For a more traditional Android experience, Lawnchair* would be a better fit. It's just like how GNOME and KDE are closer in design to the desktop environments of macOS and Windows, respectively.

Every Android distribution has to pick a default launcher. /e/ choosing an iOS-like launcher by default is their way of attracting users who want a simpler user experience.

* Lawnchair: https://lawnchair.app
My house is built in the 1950s as well, probably with comparable amounts of insulation.

My electric bill has never been higher than $150, and maybe $175 this summer.

Stop putting your AC on 68 and you'll have a lower bill.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.08.10-151410/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Use of such themes and terms is increasingly mandatory for academics, even in the hard sciences:

https://unherd.com/thepost/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-is...

What happened to Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College (before he became a pundit speaking far outside his subject area) is now happening to everyone. There is less and less room for a Weinstein or a Thomas Sowell in American academia.

It’s my belief that this coerced monoculture of identity politics and ideology will significantly degrade the quality of American universities, to say nothing of K-12 education. The long term effects on American economic competitiveness and the ability to attract foreign students will be severe.

Given the perverse incentives of US university funding, this ride only ends when Chinese and Indian grad students look elsewhere and the federal government turns off the guaranteed loans faucet. I don’t see the latter happening without dramatic political upheaval. Until then, colleges will continue not caring whether they’re preparing students well for the workforce or merely puffing them full of the latest political buzzwords.
Does "cause" exist?

I didn't spend the hours reading the entire article, but after 10-15min I realized that the author has adopted a "caused" vs. "uncaused" taxonomy, without really defining what "caused" means.

Does causality exist or is it simply an observational phenomenon that is a side effect of our limited perception of space-time? Kind of like "centrifugal force" is an observational phenomenon.

Maybe there is no such thing as causality, and we can never know "why stuff exists" because we are incapable of perceiving the answer.
Careful, your powerlevel is showing.
exactly, so when we attempt to put general relativity into practice at the limit of its predictive capability, we may see something is very wrong, then extrapolate a better model, and a few decades later everyone will look back on general relativity as an example of science's ability to carry us away from grossly false beliefs. as with epicycles. and maybe dark matter.
I find the Yahoo Finance News to be awful. So many ads are mixed in with news stories that vary from recent to days old, with no rhyme or reason as to the order. Marketwatch is better in this regard.

The specific financial information from /quote, etc. are quite good, but the news specific for an equity are filled with useless automated news from Zacks, Investor's Business Daily, and (sadly) Motley Fool (gone so downhill over the past 5 years).