skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> leadership downplaying the cost to the Google brand of shutting things down all the time. When brought up internally, execs shrug saying that we must be willing to try and see if things stick. This makes sense, but why are people particularly mad at Google for doing this? It must be for a good reason, not merely a meme.

Because it doesn't actually make sense.

* Google has an audience. I suspect everything Google does is a good enough idea for a small subset of people -- or solves a problem for a lot of people but isn't profitable, like Google Reader -- and because it's Google doing it, a lot of people hear about it and use it. So the shutdown of Google's random ideas affects more people than the shutdown of some random startup.

* Google just kills the products completely instead of spinning them off or selling them to interested parties as earlier incarnations of Silicon Valley tech companies would have done. A company not bloated from search advertising revenue would have happily sold something like Google Reader for some money instead of just killing it.
Great, I didn't realise this had moved on so much.
Impressive. Do push notifications work in these kind of apps?
What are the best resources to learn SIMD and intrinsics?
Mainly interested in applications of Machine Learning and Computer Vision algorithms?
> I seriously doubt that people actually give a damn about ISIS videos with a few dozen views or the well-being of pornstars. Rather, they really just trying to raise awareness about evil corporations,

Lizard brain just knows that it likes it when the number in the top right goes up. Lizard brain knows that vapid comments and over the top calls to action make it go up faster.

You get what you incentivize.
Not only would CSP block it, but this type of behavior only strengthens Apple's decision to not allow third party rendering engines. Could you imagine the privacy nightmare that would ensue if Facebook could release a browser that bypassed any and all safeguards implemented by site operators?
I think if you look at the market caps of the companies you listed you’ll have your answer.
I've been using Starlink since March 2021 and am very grateful for it. But the US service has gotten a lot worse since they chose to oversell their capacity. I'm glad to see that has consequences.

Also a little sad; I'd hoped that 100/20 RDOF standard would mean Starlink would have someone keeping them honest. They seem to be in a race to the congestion bottom right now.
The real cost is in the repaving and that's much more a property of weight of the vehicles. Bike infrastructure is significantly cheaper to create and maintain compared to nearly any other vehicle.
Because FAANG is set to become G’DAAM.
Where does energy go during destructive interference?
Their technology advantage disappeared the day MLBAM started doing non-MLB stuff. You saw this most clearly with the HBO Go Game of Thrones season premieres. The first time they did it, it was with an in house solution built by a Microsoft veteran (who for some reason decided to build a team in Seattle), that absolutely failed.

The next season they outsourced to MLBAM and it was flawless.

And would you know it. Disney bought MLBAM.

Although now there are several content producers who can match up with Netflix, with their in house teams.

What I will never understand though was Netflix voluntarily choosing to eliminate the tremendous data collection operation they had in their rating system. One of Amazon's biggest advantages are the reviews. Netflix had that in the media space. They decided to throw it away for a system which has no user input (so no moat) where anything that is presented to you is invariably rated 99%. It makes absolutely no sense.
We need around 50 million household charges, around 15 million parking spot charges and 150k gas stations.

For me thats “a lot more” than 2 mil farms.

Its realism. Consider a situation when 50 cars have to park at the station to charge back to full. The station is out of service for the next 10h…
This is a pretty common situation on highway.

We would need hundreds of those charging spots often with hotels.

Im more excited for Hydrogen cars than EVs. Its a lot cleaner and future proof solution.
Per the talk Mostaque gave today in the discord, it runs on CPU on the M1 at about 4-5 minutes per generation.
This is exactly what my original comment was talking about.
Web2 has given us monopoly platforms built on the industrial advertising complex. Web3 promises to change that and create a democratic, decentralised internet. But will it? To find out, I test the motives of Pearsons, the world's largest publisher to see if it is true.
Often modern rational people are not aware they've surrendered their experience of meaning to the theory of evolution, where in the old days it was surrendered to religion.

Often you hear modern skeptics speak like, we do things to preserve the self, or to preserve the "race".

Theories of evolving are not the same as truths of meaning.

Even though in many senses religion was more restrictive, in the search for meaning it might have given more useful answers.

Useful in the sense of practical.
I’m Hindu too but why come up with some random bullshit rather than try to figure out what is happening. If you want to call god the universe just say universe. The value of Hinduism is in cultural heritage and providing a pathway for life. It’s in tapping into the mysticism and indulging in the rituals to make life interesting.
My favorite is the PMs who I've never met in my life, apparently they work in my product area, I only hear from them 2x per year only when they're planning some crucial 'team summit' far away from their usual work location (and spouse/children) where they get shitfaced drunk at the company's expense. Nothing actionable ever comes from these 'summits' in case that's not obvious.
This is more akin to the 1991 recession or the weird 1997/1998 not quite recession. 2008 was multiple houses of cards that were built in the belief they were insulated from external risks collapsing due to tight interdependencies which then caused the ensuing recession.
That would be Ozarkland.
It's not just "a bit under". I regularly dip down to 10Mbps download in evenings; last night I couldn't even watch a single TV show reliably.

This collection of speed test data shows the US average has been 66/9 for the last month. At 50ms they're also nowhere near their latency requirement. https://starlinktrack.com/speedtests/region/us
It's people like you who make the world a better place by sharing valuable information. Thank you!
No, dead weight is someone who does little or no work, should be fired, but manages to fly under the radar somehow in order to keep their job.

Someone who does the bare minimum in order to buy get fired is just a... satisfactory employee. Never gonna get big raises, never gonna get promoted, but gets their work done and doesn't go above or beyond.
There have been a series of "give broadband to rural areas" bills starting with the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Generally great sums of money are given, and generally only limited customers get broadband. And then a few years later there is a new bill with similar results.

Given this history, I am inclined to believe that actually not giving money to Starlink for a fairly small performance miss is motivated by something other than just applying the rules.

If in a few years it is clear that policies have changed, and telecoms no longer get the gravy train either, then I'll change my opinion. Ending this corruption would be a welcome change.
'Violates a war crime' is a sentence construction only a Russian would create!.
It's only dead when Microsoft thinks they can make more money on Excel being an e-sport, and start changing it in a way that helps with e-sports but annoys normal users.

This is a common killer of video games.
Totally agree with this.

The challenge I have though is that I don’t know what I will end up wearing loads. If I buy multiples the I risk over buying and creating waste. If I buy one I risk it being discontinued. I try to buy quality so that the chance of resale (not landfill) is higher.
Flyio is bullish on sqlite. They post a lot of tech stuff about it. That helps sqlite, but also keeps Flyio in the news.
Well, the US government got more willing to take more extreme measures. I recall at the time reading that, before Lehman collapsed - I think it was Lehman - there wasn't the political will to do what it would have taken to save Lehman. After it collapsed, everyone realized how big the damage could be, and they decide that they had to do whatever it took to stop the next huge institution from failing.

But I'm reminded of how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, rules were put in place to prevent investment banks from being the same institution as deposit-taking banks, so that bad investments couldn't destroy depositors' money. But time passed, and that whole generation died off, and nothing like the Great Depression happened again, and people forgot why the rules were there, and relaxed or removed them, and we got 2008.

People will remember 2008. They'll remember the sick feeling of fear, wondering if tomorrow (literally the next day) everything would collapse. But the time will come when the people who lived through it are gone, and the people who follow won't remember why the regulations and changes were needed. They may know intellectually, but they won't know at the gut level of having lived through it. And so the guardrails will eventually be removed. And then...

But this isn't that. This is just another dip in the business cycle.
> the power to make unphishable systems is being arbitrarily tied to hardware keys and secure enclaves

Its not though. First of all, windows, android, macos and ios all support being used as platform authenticators. No need to use an external hardware key to get the benefit. This is what most people should use (really most people should use passkeys
tied to your phone once those become widely available).

I don't really understand your complaint that those implementations are tied to secure enclaves and TPMs. Every laptop issued by your company already has one of these in them. Why not use them?

I get that there's a fear that TPMs somehow enable DRM. Given that TPMs have been around for 20 years and haven't been used for DRM applications I think thats a bit overblown. But even if you do believe that, I don't see how you can conclude that using webauthn with a key protected by your TPM somehow enables DRM.

If you are really morally opposed to using a FIDO device that stores keys in protected hardware, go ahead and run a soft FIDO token! I wrote a software authenticator for linux that uses the TPM[1], but it also has a mode where it just uses keys stored in memory. There are other good software FIDO implementations[2]. These authenticators work on basically* every site that supports webauthn. Use them, they are still going to be much better than using SMS or TOTP factors.

*It used to not work on vanguard.com but that changed when they upgraded from the old u2f APIs to the webauthn API. It also doesn't work for one enterprise site I use for my job, which checks attestation certs to ensure the key is one that was issued by the company and is FIPS compliant.

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/tpm-fido
[2]: https://github.com/danstiner/rust-u2f
Meanwhile, let's make it impossible to click on a button to obtain support from Google when you need it (and are willing to pay for it).
There's tons of stuff to do, the problem is management creates enormous hurdles for anyone to do anything within Google. The amount of red tape and disorganization is hard to believe if not witnessed first hand.
What happens if you refuse?
Without specific countermeasures, the path to AI leads to AI takeover
also important for context is, what are you building that is more popular there?
The new Netflix of course provides more content - the key here is content people want to consume. I would argue that the Netflix today provides less of that than the old Netflix (I am referring to “old Netflix” as the Netflix that existed before licenses started to get yanked and the massive flood of Netflix funded content on the platform).

I don’t recall the old Netflix being worse in terms of UX than the new Netflix, except perhaps more buffering in the early days. I would argue that the new UX is worse because it promotes more shovelware than the old UX did.

Content recommendation seems to be improved though over the old Netflix. That is one area that they have gotten really good at over the years.
>I see this argument all the time, but I can't find any other place that it comes from other than disappointment from those that didn't or can't pass those interviews.

I have passed these interviews. Had offers from multiple FAANGs, worked at G. The algorithms interview is idiotic. It is a way for them to gate the jobs to people who have CS degrees while being able to say they do not require CS degrees.

I rarely come to the to the optimal solution on my own for a leetcode problem. It is about learning the techniques so you know how to speak about the solutions, then basically learning (by reading) the right answers to different problem types.

This isn't from being hurt, I pass these interviews. I've worked there. It is a horrible selection criteria for what you actually do at the jobs - design docs, meetings, tickets, tests, and code reviews. It creates a ton of false expectations too, you do not need to know advanced algorithms to work on some internal user interface, close maintenance tickets, or to write 10 lines of test code for a 2 line change. You get in there and realize none of the work you are doing is as clever as the interview.

The tasks described above are the reality of working in a large organization. They shouldn't be, but they are. The interview should more closely match that.
> pay exorbitant salaries

Did you miss the Covid-inspired pay cuts for remote workers?
The expansion into lower-cost tech hubs like North Carolina?

> falling revenue

Yet still huge profits

> blaming the employees.

Bad play, since employees make the revenues.
They’re all so overpriced though for really no increase in value.
And I think that's exactly the original commenter's point: if the company he works for ever decides that "enough" isn't sufficient to satisfy his boss, he's he'll move on.
> Top Gun will continue to exist even if you break every Blu Ray of it into tiny pieces

If you destroy every recording of Top Gun, it will cease to exist.

> The bit sequence doesn't stop existing just because we delete every
manifestation

Yes it does.

And Top Gun didn't exist before 1986.
Why are you framing it as double or triple counting? If I’m subscribing to Disney+ and ESPN+, I’m paying Disney twice. Unless you’re suggesting that paying for the Disney bundle is being counted as 3 separate subscriptions?
Gotta love the downvotes by the people that don't read the article.

Tl;dr Dark matter model simulation can't explain bullet cluster, and MOND can.

> Either way, the Bullet Cluster remained a stunningly unlikely event to happen in the theory of particle dark matter. It was, in contrast, easy to accommodate in theories of modified gravity, in which collisions with high relative velocity occur much more frequently.
That socialblade earnings range is so wide it hilarious and completely useless.
Buy dark earthy tones that don’t stain easily?
It seems to me that you have created a one-time exception that gets yourself out of the infinite regress that this line of thought leads to. All it does, however, is to raise another question to replace the original one: why is God necessary?
"If somebody wants to pay me $300k to work 4 hours a week, I'll happily take the deal."

Oh, you're bucking for CEO!

A lot of companies could have cut out four to eight hours of meetings a week and still maintained the same level of productivity.
Tesla publishes details about accidents per million miles driven and compares that with Autopilot active and without.
https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

In the 4th quarter, we recorded one crash for every 4.31 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology (Autosteer and active safety features). For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology (no Autosteer and active safety features), we recorded one crash for every 1.59 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they split out numbers for FSD, which is important to understand in this context.

Assuming FSD is currently as good as a human driver (Tesla suggests it is better), how much better does FSD have to be than a person to be accepted as a safer way to drive?
I’m not sure this is either/or though. I have a secure/locked down device with iMessage and an open not-as-nice device for my playground as a programmer and hardware hacker.
Can you point to where I told you you're a bad person for not using Facebook?
I do, too, for websites, although I try to avoid dependencies like a snowflake the fire. But doing nothing more than using gevent server and putting

from gevent import monkey
monkey.patch_all()

at the top of the main module was such a game changer.
Oh for sure, I'm talking quality not quantity here though.
The NT kernel is older than you think and predates Windows 95. NT 3.1 was released way back in 93!
What I'd really like is for all OSM apps to agree on a place to store the offline OSM data.

I don't mind having multiple navigation apps with different strengths/weaknesses but I don't want to download several gigs of offline maps for each app I might use.
I’ve had someone unironically tell me SREs are just people who are too dumb to be SWE so there’s probably more to the gatekeeping than just on-call lol
Historically, quilts were exactly how one used clothes too old and too worn to continue as clothes. One takes the less worn parts and makes a quilt with those.

For example, this fact plays an important part in Alice Walkers's short story, "Everyday Use"

https://www.lonestar.edu/13778.htm

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These quilts were “pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee “(76), both figures in family history who, unlike the present Dee, took charge in teaching their culture and heritage to their offspring. The quilts themselves are made up of fragments of history, of scraps of dresses, shirts, and uniforms, each of which represents those people who forged the family’s culture, its heritage, and its values.
Most importantly, however, these fragments of the past are not simply representations in the sense of art objects; they are not removed from daily life. What is most crucial about these quilts—and what Dee does not understand—is that they are made up of daily life, from materials that were lived in.
I seriously doubt there are more than 1000 potential terrorists that are US citizens. Any list with far more than that on it is suspect.
Interesting. Some questions I'd ask if I was evaluating a product like this …

- Do you make it in colors other than black? Very little in my house is black …

- What's the "usable area?" (excluding the charging slots)

- What's the back look like, in case I have this in an open room? Is there a lip to prevent things from sliding off the back?

- Why a glass surface? Glass is a poor writing surface, retains heat/cold, generally works poorly for optical mice.

- How do the widgets differ from the ones on my computer?

- How do I interact with the widgets?

- Can I move the screen's viewable area … if I work with my keyboard close to the base of the monitor, will the keyboard cover the widgets?

- If I spill, will it fry the all-over wireless charging? (and will it flow in to the AC ports in the back?)

- Is there any harm (to me, other devices) in working on top of a wireless charging surface?

- Can I place the back flush against the wall, or do I need to allow a clearance for the power cover to open?

I see some nice details: the extra space in the power bank area for hubs, drives, raspberry pis, etc and the horizontal slots under the desktop surface for hanging/attaching things.

I like the idea of all-over charging, and like the aesthetic choices as well.

The core requirements of "Desk" are largely unchanged, so you'll have to nail the small quality-of-life details if you want people to pony up 2-3x the "Minimum Viable (adjustable) Desk" amount of ~$600 … while avoiding people's divergent personal preferences on what a workspace must be.

Good luck …

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We couldn't access anything but the browser window in fullscreen, only using the mouse. No start menu, tray icons, keyboard shortcuts, etc.

I'm sure there's like 100 different ways to break these bad Windows kiosks so that you'd eventually end up being able to access the accessibility settings, but it wasn't directly accessible to us.
"sorry we couldn't find that page"...
Nonsense, with hepa filters (which aren’t all that expensive) there isn’t really all that much different between the brands.
> What about Python and e.g. Pandas or https://www.pola.rs/ ?

I think it is safe to assume that only Microsoft Excel is allowed. The features they listed are all built in features.

Kaggle speed runs as a sport would be interesting.
Fixing the 'select all' hang doesn't get anyone promoted, and managers can't parade it around as a win before they springboard to some other org.
Interesting - I was just having a discussion with my son the other day about the term "horsepower". Quick research showed that the average human can generate 1.2 HP in a burst, or 0.1 HP sustained. Is 0.5 HP the accepted measure for sustained output while riding a bike?
Sure: but the point is that whatever tricks you can pull, you're just slightly bumping the capacity of what is fundamentally a shared channel.

We already have ubiquitous wireless internet: it's wifi. And it gets faster every year, provided we deploy a base station every 10m with fiver backhaul (aka your regular home internet connection).
>Can you learn how to play the piano with Spaced Repetition? No.

care to back up this claim?
So this is being rejected in 2022, for service in 2028 (which others will not provide until 2028) based on a speed test in 2022?

Follow the money and the politics.