skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I don't think this is the case at Apple. I sit in with the product manager as they get grilled by VPs and SVPs. They get damned hard questions - mainly the short ones ("why", "what if" and "how", and to a lesser extent "when" and who") and part of my job there is to provide data for their cover. I've given demos to SVPs before, and it's not a pleasant experience, I'm very happy to leave it to the PM.

Sometimes my job is to gently point out to an SVP that his/her assumptions are wrong, but most of the time I stay out of the way. The PM puts together the slide-deck (usually with help from engineering management) and the PM presents it, though (s)he can call on others for expertise for specific sections.

PM's have to be very good at defending the direction they want to take the company in, and the top brass are scarily good at coming up with the hard questions, even when those questions are very domain-specific.

In any event, (S)VPs at Apple are very invested in what the company does, when it will happen, what the consequences are, and why we're doing X. Directors and Managers are the ones responsible for execution, and the concept of a DRI is very very important in Apple culture.
It looks like Twitter is using SFSafariViewController for their in-app browser. This is the system-recommended way of creating an in-app browser. It prevents the embedding app (Twitter in this case) from reading website data and injecting JavaScript into the view. You can also break out of the session into Safari pretty trivially by hitting the Safari button in the lower right corner.

Apps that implement a custom web browser using WKWebView (e.g. IG) are much worse and can do those nefarious things.
To some, certainly.

But to me it looks like a real skill and tough challenges. Super micro niche, for sure.
One option is to sell them on a marketplace like https://www.grailed.com or even just buy your clothes there in the first place to reduce buying brand new. Its cheaper and honestly you might become a bit more stylish in the process.

For garments you can't sell like underwear you could also look into recycling them through places like https://knickey.com/pages/recycle
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Got news for ya, that’s dead weight. Competent management would make getting rid of you a priority, as that behavior drags everyone else down.
The h264 movie Top Gun is purely information, but it’s also derivative and with information loss, right?

From our perception at least, it seems like Tom and Val were a part of the earliest & highest fidelity information that makes up Top Gun when they were part of shooting it day to day. Or somewhere around there, the movie that the h264 derives from requires daily shots + editing/effects etc. If Tom & Val are in-universe observers, then wtf happened during those shooting days, and in their argument I’d imagine, the ideas & experiences they’d had on how they portrayed their parts?
Corporate dead weight aka corporate welfare. It happens a lot more often than you think.
In seriousness, many in the Jan 6 mob, and in the supporting supremicist militia are terrorists and no doubt also US citizens. At least 10s, possibly hundreds of thousands. Not the colloquial mental model but fit the definition nonetheless.
They also claim to have worked with Porkbun to seize control over the domain. I very much dislike threat actors, but this is way too far.
They are very cool, but when I did a technical comparison I landed on Directus [1].

[1] https://directus.io/
The intermediary is the blockchain, which is more expensive and slower than the trusted centralized database.
If a native app has as much control over the webpage as it seems to, I'd be surprised if it's not able to strip the header. Or point through a proxy that strips it, and ignore the ensuing HTTPS errors, or some other workaround.
I saw this posted a few days ago and was just discussing it with friends and decided to check on algolia and was surprised to find that multiple submissions of this really interesting review by SSC never generated discussion that imho it merits.
>>What you can't do is run a money laundering service with it. And the vast majority of TC transactions seem to have been exactly that - ways of hiding crypto from tax offices.

This is a completely baseless allegation, that seems to rely on nothing more than the assumption that seeking privacy is an indication of criminal intent. It's the kind of logic used to rationalize dragnet surveillance programs that do away with privacy rights.

>>A better comparison is the Phantom Secure sting, where a network that was used for primarily criminal purposes was shutdown.

That's completely incomparable. That was a service to sell bug-proof phones, not the phone itself, and the service was expressly marketed to criminals to avoid police surveillance. The police infiltrated the service and bugged the phones.

The Matrix example, where a generic privacy tool is outright banned, is far more comparable.
Evolution is not a theory, it's a fact, you can see it happening.
If people kept making new accounts to post copyrighted content belonging to a media titan, you know for sure that Instagram would have put a stop to it by now.
They verify them with their lawyers. You know the legal team they have on staff?
I only really buy clothes as needed when I've lost them to wear, but what frustrates me is when that wear is seemingly just washing. Cotton polo shirts seem to shrink like anything; I'm only washing at 30 degC. Something about the looser weave? Cotton shirts last far longer, and I lose them to collar/cuff wear, not shrinkage.

(I do actually have some a few collars and shirts which take detachable collars, before someone points out that's the classic, perhaps bygone solution, but I'm not sure anyone can manage to do that every modern day without drawing attention to it. Nor whether I could be bothered anyway to be honest - not like I have 'a man' to help with it!)

In fact I noticed the shirt I'm wearing today has a too-worn collar, so it's 'reuse' for it now - trouble is the rags pile grows faster than it's used.
> that's still less elegant than simply performing those requests inline and not having to worry about all the additional moving parts that the jobs entail.

I strongly disagree here. Going through a persisted queue gives you lot of tools to manage that queuing.

If you were to just spawn a goroutine or some similar async construct you lose persistence, lots of control on retries, resiliency by isolation etc. When you have "in process jobs" re-deploying the service become a nightmare as it becomes extremely muddy how long a request can legitimately take.

Whereas if you properly defer these slow IOs to a queue, and only allow fast transactional request, you can then have a very strict request timeout which is really key for reliability of the service.
I run a software consultancy. Demand is up. We’re hiring like crazy. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop but so far the real economy seems sound. The repeated supply shocks seem to have given inflation legs. Raising interest rates will hopefully bring it under control. Seems that the inflation rate dipped recently, still higher than we’d like but going down not up.
Of course this means prices go up more slowly not that they stop going up.
The labor market seems to still be quite strong. That’s a good sign. Watch for falling consumer confidence. That’ll be our harbinger of doom.

Compared to 2008 this seems less terrifying and apocalyptic.
Incredible. I haven't seen a PM that does technical work in years, maybe well over a decade.
Seriously.

One job I was at had four of us working in one room. A guy from a completely different department would wander in with his cup of whatever and talk at us for at least an hour. He was both dodging actual work and interrupting us. Since he didn't report to our manager there was nothing we could do. His boss was a piece of work as well.

It's these useless people that make open plans so toxic. It's bad enough that the general noise and visual distraction decreases your ability to concentrate and get anything done, but the wandering trolls of gossip and sports talk just add an extra booger icing on the shit cake.
Did you use a subaddress (user+sub@email.com) when you registered? Though I can't find whether twitter supports this or not.

Ive encountered websites that don't handle sub address well, sometimes ignoring the extension, other times not
I am not expert, and this might be dated information, but historically there is a "thrashing" introduced between the GIL and OS scheduled threads which has surprising performance implications.

David Beazley does a much better illustrating the nuances than I ever could:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s

Including a wild phenomenon where a threaded Python program's performance can degrade by increasing number of CPU cores available to a system.

Coroutines avoid this by not requiring individual thread scheduling by the OS. So they effectively release the GIL like threads on IO but avoid OS level thread switching.
America's Most Popular Sriracha Maker Confirms 'Unprecedented Shortage'
This proposal seems predicated on a fundamental misunderstanding of the security model of non-web applications.

A WebView is fully under control of the application presenting it. Even if the built-in APIs were extended to respect X-Frame-Options, applications can simply:

- Proxy the network requests on behalf of the webview API, stripping the X-Frame-Options header.

- Modify the behavior of the webview (e.g. via private API or twiddling internal state) to not respect X-Frame-Options.

- Embed their own web view implementation that ignores X-Frame-Options.

Apple and Google cannot guarantee that their code will ever see the X-Frame-Options header, nor can they guarantee that an embedded webview will even be implemented using their platform code.
New study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
I've done a library for vector graphics on the GPU which works pretty well for my uses:

https://github.com/audulus/vger

and a rust version:

https://github.com/audulus/vger-rs

(which powers my rust GUI library: https://github.com/audulus/rui)

Here's the approach for rendering path fills. From the readme:

> The bezier path fill case is somewhat original. To avoid having to solve quadratic equations (which has numerical issues), the fragment function uses a sort-of reverse Loop-Blinn. To determine if a point is inside or outside, vger tests against the lines formed between the endpoints of each bezier curve, flipping inside/outside for each intersection with a +x ray from the point. Then vger tests the point against the area between the bezier segment and the line, flipping inside/outside again if inside. This avoids the pre-computation of Loop-Blinn, and the AA issues of Kokojima.

It works pretty well, and doesn't require as much preprocessing as the code in the article. Also doesn't require any GPU compute (though I do use GPU compute for some things). I think ultimately the approach in the article (essentially Piet-metal, aka tessellating and binning into tiles) will deliver better performance, and support more primitives, but at greater implementation complexity. I've tried the Piet-metal approach myself and it's tricky! I like the simpler Shadertoy/SDF inspired approach :)
Working to rule is the first labor action unions start doing ahead of a strike.

If you want to do piecework/hourly work, you should be a contractor.
Oh hello, that’s my project. Happy to answer questions!
I'd hardly call complying with Turkish law being "happy to be in this position".
Isn't that what the author is saying here? That the old attempt/format for the Semantic Web is dead, but we can support a new one?
Location, Location, Location, that's the real estate mantra that still applies in the virtual world. Somewhere someone is going to create a virtual world where many people (millions?) will spend their time. That's where virtual real estate will have value. Specially if you can get income from it. Virtual real estate is crap now but give it time.

Imagine if Facebook sold a specific area in their website. Let's say it's the upper right inch of every user's screen. What's that real estate worth? Now apply that idea to a virtual world. Ya, you can add real estate forever but only certain areas will have value.

It's the same situation in the real world. You can buy an acre of land in New York city that will cost millions. You can also buy an acre in the middle of the Mojave desert that will cost a tiny fraction of that. They are both real estate. Only New York will be worth millions now and for however long New York keeps it's popularity.
6 figure salary? That's not enough to watch that damn second season!

It's fun when your spending hundreds of USD each month and still can't watch the second season even if you're willing to spend millions, just because there is no legal way to watch the thing in your location.

The whole "this can be watched at this location, during this time period, in this specific way" - thing is absurd.
Sure, but until Apple and Google starts caring, what can we do?
Yea right. Zuckerberg probably means not enough people are overworking themselves. I feel this whole not working then is newspeak for we arn't getting employees to work 80 hr weeks any more.
That's not bad. Rough back-of-the envelope has that as a 30x slowdown compared to the times on Discord but then I've got no idea how fast it will be on my own kit.

I get in the region 2-3 minutes from Disco Diffusion etc on a mobile 3080.
Yea - in-app browsers are just more code... so Google could modify webkit mobile distros to adhere to this behavior but if Facebook was willing to compile their own library (which, honestly, they probably do already anyways) they would need to voluntarily comply with respecting such headers... right now I think this is do-able, app store controllers have a firm enough grasp on the market they could boot any apps that refuse to play nice - but it will require enforcement efforts.

Another option is to force these browser plugins to be shared objects that the app store has more control over but then you'll wander into the territory of how to enforce it on every fork of firefox and the like.

Editing to add: Oh legacy apps are a huge can of worms here - most businesses don't bother updating out of date app versions so folks with older phones will probably be stuck with perpetually insecure apps. But legacy apps and the "tight" control Google & Apple have are sort of perpetual issues to any sort of security.
I regularly get this and I live just a few blocks from one of their centers

Granted I'm sure my center doesn't have most of what I buy - it's not large - but still it's confounding
> There are plenty of people who would love to be dead weight just to float around in a company.

Very true. It's an unfortunate occurrence at many larger companies (not just in tech).
Came here to say this. Custom webviews like Facebook likes to use are another matter but SFSafariViewController is for all intents and purposes real Safari with per-app cookies, storage, etc to bust tracking.

And I have to say, I would be pretty irritated if every site demanded to open in my main browser. Many if not most links I tap are quick one and dones I’d prefer to not clutter up my tabs.
Looks like the British Empire was proven right when you look at what's happening in Iraq now. The artifacts predate the people in the regions in many cases.
Soil is as heavy as almost any construction material and being underground, you're paying for potential energy.

It's expensive in fuel and in the cost and maintenance of machinery designed to deliver the most energy. It's like paying for GPU compute time.
Complain.

Call our congressfolk.

Pretty much all we can ever do when faced with a monopoly (or duopoly in this case).
High court denies Coinbase effort to pause user suits
Looks like it's been temporarily suspended, but worth mentioning: The Cambridge Semantic Web meetup, which I attended frequently around 2010-2013. It was cofounded by Tim Berners-Lee, and I got to meet him there a couple times. In fact, I think its earliest iteration was Berners-Lee and Aaron Swartz.

Met once a month in the STAR room at MIT. The best part was staying after to schmooze and drink with older programmers at the Stata Center bar down the hall from the STAR room. What a cool building, the Stata Center! And what cool topics we would discuss every week. Since Cambridge has so many pharma companies, a lot of the talks were regarding practical ontologies for pharmacology.

edit, a spandrel: Isn't w3c based out of MIT? And Swartz and Berners-Lee were in Boston at the same time.

https://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Gro...
You rightly point out that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
But then neither is it evidence. Which leaves both sides at: we don't really know.

Anecdotes are worth crap all, because people will bring up examples for either side thus cancelling each other out.

But your last sentence irked me.

If you side with liberty and tolerance and advise friends and family not to do "bad thing", they can say they appreciate your advice, tell you to GTFO and do it anyway.

Once government steps in and makes such things illegal, there are much bigger stakes at play.

To me, that is a big difference.
And, IMO, a total waste of time for a bunch of cargo cult nonsense.

Scrum is waterfall micromanagement dressed in the verbiage of worker empowerment, and merely shortens the time between death marches.
Yeah, I have one for my Canon camera. I wish it existed for older phones too.
True, I misspoke; I was clumsily trying to describe the time before the NT kernel was used in consumer versions of Windows.
Clever but I wonder if the dynamic content also gets spam checked again in the context of original email and only displayed if it passes.
WT...?!?!

How the h... did my simple comment, based on my PERSONAL opinion on the subject got into this witch-hunt?!

Enough with the torches and forks!

This is not propaganda! It's MY PERSONAL conclusion on everything I've read! - the word -PERSONAL- is the key here.

If any of you think I don't like electric vehicles you are wrong! Anything that does not pollute is welcome(to try to undo the shirt we all did)!

But I have to say it: ATM - personal view, again - to me, electric vehicles based on batteries S-U-C-K!!! And they SUCK big time!!!
I don't see them as decent alternative!!!

Sure! Environment-friendly it's the best we have! But they suck!
And hydrogen has much more promise!
Not developed enough? Yeah! It's not. But then again... Let me say it again: electric vehicles based on batteries suck.

And unless they get at least the first 3 points fixed you won't be changing my mind!
50.000 for a car that takes 25 min to charge and that if, for some reason, the battery goes the way of the Dodo I can expand ALMOST another 50.000?

Sorry, I'm not payed enough for that.

You guys must all have big pay checks every month...
But I don't!
Interesting, what's the license for this library?
"If you object to the government making shoes, he'll accuse you of making everyone go barefoot."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
More charitably, there was a pretty good probability that the manager was asking a variant of that question. So the reasonable and respectful response is to invite them to say more about what they are thinking.
Yes I'm surprised that Disney hasn't built a third park somewhere in Texas yet. It seems like they're leaving money on the table. I understand they want to keep the parks somewhat special and aspirational, but the market has grown a lot. There's a huge group of customers in Mexico who would love to visit.
Why is that? Glyphs can be cached in a texture. That's what nanovg does and it works quite well. That's what my little library does too (https://github.com/audulus/vger)
I've long felt that there's a relatively simple formula for productivity:

Productivity = (Time * Effort)^Talent

People like Buckminster Fuller come to mind. Especially because of this quote of his:

>“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
> Heating wax up is slow. I use a $12 crockpot and it takes a couple hours. Obviously, it's not like it takes any effort on your part, but there's some built in latency. ("Low" heat is about right in the steady state, but it melts faster if you use "high.")

It's a bit silly, but I've used a simple ESP8266 board with a relay and a DS18B20 temperature sensor controlled by some Arduino code to make a simple temperature controller. It runs a Telegram Bot so I can start/stop the Crockpot and it notifies me when it reaches the desired temperature and when when lubrication is done.

Over the top, but it was interesting to implement. I might release it one day.

> Again for bicycles, some kinds of quick link / master link wear quite quickly and can only be reused a handful of times (e.g., Shimano 11 speed). So one surprising expense in repeatedly removing chains to hot wax is the consumption of quick links. Can be mitigated with different brands of quick link, and/or using drip-on wax a few times between hot waxes.

Whipperman makes the Connex Link. It does not require tools and can be reused as many time as you'd like. No 12 speed version yet, for some reason, though.

https://www.connexchain.com/en/connectors/detail/connex-link
I watched one of these a few months ago - VBA was allowed, but the whole thing was very clearly about Excel specifically and all of the competitors came from the finance world. Honestly, I saw way less cool use of formulas than I was expecting - a ton of competitors had an approach of "make a big data table and use Goal Seek". Maybe the All-Star is different?
I’ve not had good luck with sugru. I’ve used it to repair a couple cables that started fraying near one end… the weird lump of sugru covered where i put it, but didn’t stop the fraying - bought me maybe another couple months of use.
Clothing shrinkage typically comes from the dryer, not the washer.
Glad to learn we're gonna see this top tier talent hit the market in the coming future. Having perfected ad slinging web tech who knows what they'll solve next. Climate change, interstellar travel, or the cure for cancer? Bright future ahead for us all.
> unlike security/phishing training for employees

Per the article, only three of 76 targetted employees were fooled by what can reasonably be described as a best-in-class phishing attack. That's actually pretty good[1], and implies that someone trained them pretty well.

[1] Though surely Cloudflare employees are, by the nature of their business area, going to be a ton more sophisticated about this than median corporate folks.
Stop trying to ruin his life. Saying random things around the capitol doesn't make someone a terrorist. He's just trying to live his best life now no thanks to people like you
> “There are real concerns that our productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the head count we have. [We need to] create a culture that is more mission-focused, more focused on our products, more customer-focused,” [Pichai] said.

When you direct a huge amount of your company’s resources toward ESG initiatives, should you be surprised when your employees are not particularly focused on the real work at hand? Are these CEOs really so blind?
DDoSed before any comments even?