skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are Grannies. Taste pretty good. But there is an option for fries and apples or double fries. So pretty much it's almost always double fries.
That sort of hairsplitting doesn't make much sense to me. It's like saying one gangster isn't as bad as another because one has a shorter wrap sheet. It's a difference that doesn't make a difference. They are evil in the same way, as media institutions of a accelerating surveillance and propaganda regime. Facebook is older and has been at it longer, but Twitter is no slouch when it comes to being a front organization for the secret police state. Twitter is another co-opted tech company whose libertarian minded leadership has long been gelded by institutional power. Assume the management of these companies is seeded with government allies at a minimum, incentivizing, cajoling, sabotaging, or threatening the public leadership of the company, as need be.
Well TSMC's 5nm fab is also obviously a huge factor, but the performance difference is largely due to the ARM vs x86 ISA as well as all the optimizations that Apple has put into running MacOS well on their chips.

Microsoft will certainly continue to put effort into developing the ARM version of Windows, and try to follow Apple's path in getting a version of Rosetta to run the legacy Windows applications.

I'm certain that Dell already has ARM-based laptops and servers in development. Until the Windows version of Rosetta works as well as Apple's, there will likely continue to be a demand for x86 machines, but pretty much every PC vendor can see the transition coming. I'm hoping Framework comes out with something soon.

Not sure that this does much for Google. Their datacenters already run custom CPUs, and web applications should be agnostic to the CPU powering the web browser. Android phones are already running ARM.
Scenario 3: The AI doesn’t care either way and just continues plodding along.
I’ve been writing web apps professionally for lovely browsers like IE6, Android 3.0, and Blackberry. I know when CSS can be hard to get working. 2022 WebViews are a walk in the park.
I'll make sure to check back on this comment in 6 months, certainly hoping that I do so laughing about how much I was overreacting.
>So ban it until the truth comes out.

Okay but given that we have endless studies already, it seems like "until the truth comes out" really means "until my preferred conclusion comes out".
In my mind's eye, these old societies reached a point in time and just went "poof."

But they didn't. There had to be a point when digging into a stone slab became something else, right?
They're mostly modified so that they can handle herbicides.
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Be careful what you wish for. Remote will eventually cause a serious compression in the total comp of US based workers.
So does anybody know from where they are collecting this data?
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There aren't "hundreds of millions" of developers on this planet. The talent pool is small because just a small fraction of the workforce worldwide has the training, skills and capabilities to work as software engineers.
I think how error prone the system is shouldn't matter, even it it was absolutely perfect, this is an dystopian privacy invasion.
The 'lawnmower' is capitalism as a whole, not just Oracle.

It is an incentive system which maximizes on only one kind of efficiency.

Consumers and investors are not capable of making collective / aggregate market decisions on any criterion other than profit.

Moral judgements play no part in it. Explicitly not so, in fact.

The individual agents in this structure are merely transitory carriers of a larger overriding process. Even if as large as Oracle or Google or whatever.

You could make Oracle go away but the logic remains. The hydra has many heads.

And so here we are.
If that's the best answer, I think it tends to show that money didn't buy Brexit. The media doesn't care what circus they're covering, as long as there are plenty of clowns and dancing bears. The people who had the money and motivation to buy public opinion on the issue lost out, and it all happened because some politicians found a message that resonated with voters and kept on it as long as it kept working.
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Start by asking your insurance company?

They are strongly incentivized to cut costs as much as possible.
A great dentist may not be a cheap dentist, you will get the cheapest one.

The procedure you need to have done may have more than one
possible treatment option. Again, they will profit from getting
you to undergo the cheapest treatment, not the one that may be
best for you.

Even if you leave out the profit motive, there is nobody as the
insurance company who is qualified to offer an opinion on the best
treatment and best dentist.

I would suggest doing as much research as possible -before- calling
the insurance company. Preferably with an expert opinionn to go with it.

Obtaining this is not straight forward since it would take finding
someone you trust, a dentist you feel good about to aid you in figuring
it out.

All of which gets into a catch 22 situation.
You want to call the insurance company to find a good dentist,
but before you do that you need to find a good dentist.

A dentist is of course incentivized to make as much profit
as he can from each patient

My approach is to ask people at work and friends who they use and
if they are happy with their dentist.
If they have kept the same one for a number of years that can be
a good indication.
Someone may also have a family member in some part of their extended
family and friends, you could talk to.

so they can give you the information needed to direct
you to the cheapest possible dentists in their portfolio.
Ah yeah, that makes sense. and there's a balance here. IMO, Google puts far too much weight on recent content (and makes it impossible to find that one post you read in 2007 and you remember the vague keywords for), but also staleness of content is also an issue.

I've built native support for RSS and JSON feeds for discovery on high-quality sites, and I'm also tracking estimated content refresh rate to know when to re-fetch.

(I'm at a point where I've given myself too many signals to flag against, and finding the right tuning while starting to build an index, where I'm also actively evolving the schema and figuring out how to prioritize content I return in SERPs, is a problem. My current thinking is just a series of differentiated set of rules that populate the crawl queue for different reasons—seeking appropriate breadth—but then I'll definitely hit the re-crawl issue, particularly around sites I'm scoring as high quality.)
...it's not even a good, or properly aged, film!

HN, you're getting weird.
Good.

My friend grew up with a hatred for apples because her school cafeteria served only Red Delicious.

Best apple I ever had was a Pippin.
In my personal opinion, if we just stopped doing this, and people at work experienced their first "breakup" (in the form of being told "you screwed up" or having to say "I am sorry that I screwed up") we would all be able to be more honest with each other. Just like dating, some people would go through an emotional trauma, but everyone would learn to get over it. Similarly, each manager would learn how to say "this project went poorly" or "you screwed up" in an empathetic way.

However, that is just not the culture, and it takes a very long time to change a culture. To make matters worse, the presence of the linguistic emotional barriers makes their removal a lot more painful. The people fighting against this oppressive language would be labeled "mean" (or worse, "non-inclusive"), and unfortunately that is a much worse label than "bad programmer."

I think this culture is dangerous, and normalizes both weasel-talk and lies. It has already infected media and politics. I just don't know how to stop it.
Companies could hire and replace workers outside of American borders for the last... century at least? Video chat and conference calls have been a thing for decades at this point.

Why does remote change this equation? If American real estate and salaries are expensive, businesses could always just open an office in a cheaper country, somewhere in Eastern Europe, India, or Asia, etc.

I'm a little confused how the bullet points you provided lead to the outcome in your final paragraph. Could you clarify?
Nothing prevents you from making plans to meet up with coworkers, once every few months. That is a very different thing, from a sense-of-belonging perspective, from having a group that you share meals with day after day.

The only thing besides work that could be comparable is a family. That's it's own challenge, though: easy to get cabin fever locked in with the same small group of people all the time.
No mention of the Terraform CDK? Maybe do your homework and a fair comparison. Author obviously likes Pulumi, which btw builds on TF...

Also note that Pulumi is now supporting Yaml (TF like) inputs. Turns out, when you write these things in one language, they are not useable from another language, which means you may have to duplicate functionality.

Biased piece, no need to read

https://www.terraform.io/cdktf

My approach is to write in CUE and then eject as JSON for TF to consume. The idea that writing in a procedural language is a bad idea.

"Wrap code with config, not config with code"
Funny, I have always seen “work as community” to offer an illusory connection at best. At its worst it is exploited by employers.

My coworkers are my colleagues. I don’t mind sharing a beer with them once in a while, but apart from “work” we have different interests, values, and experiences. That doesn’t lead to community, it leads to having acquaintances. And if you doubt that, ask yourself how many of your “work friends” from a job you’ve had more than a year ago do you still interact with?

The pandemic has been a joy for me because it’s let me separate my parasocial interactions from my true friends.
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What is the difference between Lineage and /e/os? Both seem to be a de-Google Android?

I've tried Lineage before but it simply stopped working with some apps.
> That's not a law of nature. It's a result of deliberate choices made by city governments to restrict the supply of housing over the last few decades

Is it even possible to build new housing when the population density is already at 20k people per square kilometre, like in the cities mentioned?

> Also the fact that it's so expensive and people keep moving there shows that it's an attractive way to live.

Did you consider that not everyone has a choice in the matter and the alternative is often unemployment? There's a trend towards urbanization because people move to where the jobs are. That alone doesn't make any place more livable.
You can find this but the tech isn't always the sexiest. Look for manufacturing or infrastructure companies. Be prepared for legacy systems, dated IT practices, and being your own QA or DevOps.

Edit: if this doesn't sound great to you, look into robotics; a lot of startups are constantly looking for good engineers willing to work in person. Often times they settle for remote, so stress in any interviews that you're willing to be in person.
The plus side of solar water heater is that the materials are much cheaper. In countries where there's no frost in winter it's a nobrainer.
Also depends on what kind of worker you want to be. I want to just clear Jira tickets. Anything that requires cross department collaboration, I neglect until someone else takes.

I have no interest in doing one damn extra meeting to deal with org politics.
They aren't growing significant calories and hydroponics do not currently have the ability to do so in a way that competes with soil cropping
Given the films you're comfortable judging people on not having memorized, I'm glad you're self-selecting yourself away from people too!
There are negative sides of it and also positive sides. I find the more niche communities are genuinely helpful and insightful. A lot of the rest is echo chamber and meme sharing.

For example, subs for specific car models, bike models, locations (cities, towns, etc), homebrewing, will be full of people willing to help or provide information to help others out.
> what point will there be a tipping point where the pitchforks come out and the general public's "patience" with regulation catching up to this crap begins to unravel and actual violence or "direct action" begins to occur against these actors?

There is no public consensus on this. American voters are fine with free, ad-supported software. They’re fine with surveillance in exchange for convenience.

They likely don’t understand the cost. Personally or systemically. But a combination of digital-privacy thought leaders (a) overlapping with communities embracing political nihilism, (b) experiencing a filter bubble where popular support is perceived where there is none and (c) having been corrupted (politically speaking) by crypto has stymied policy progress.

There are no pitchforks. There is no angry mob. To the degree there is consensus overseas, it arises from nationalism with respect to security (India) or competitiveness (Europe).
> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers

Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.
It's the opposite of a garden, it's a rural lot next to several million acres of wilderness forest. Everything growing here is a volunteer, there is no lawn, I've planted nothing.

And there's plenty of wind constantly bringing more volunteers. This time of year I can almost see them growing.

Should that change my weeding strategy?
> lingerie for the opposite gender

There is... there is lingerie for men ??
Why do you believe this? I think some workers prefer in-office work. But just as many likely prefer no commute at all. Just like some people love crazy expensive cities, but just as many love cheaper cities and rural areas.
People who work at companies tend to keep working at companies. You don't get as much movement going from McDonalds to Google, but tons of folks migrate among tech companies. So the culture naturally spreads.
It's a neurotoxin... according to whom? A search for "neuro" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate turns up 0 matches. However, the same wikipedia article does mention the mechanism of action

>It inhibits a plant enzyme involved in the synthesis of three aromatic amino acids: tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine

which seems decidedly not a neurotoxin.
I'm sorry you had to have any involvement in that morass of a mess too. I've had more friendly interactions with the police in the new state I live in, 1500 miles away--although before that incident I never had any run-ins with the law in Wichita after living there 25 years off and on. Here, my wife and I wave back at them when they drive by.

This isn't the America I grew up in, the one where my parents taught me to trust, but verify authority. It seems like everything in our society is "upside down" these days--I really do want to trust our institutions, we have them for a reason--but the cracks are now canyons and it's easy to slip through. I guess it's trite to say it, but "When they came for the oddball, nebbish computer nerds, I did nothing because I wasn't a..."

Thank you for your sympathetic comments, they did make me feel better for sure, and best wishes.
It absolutely is, they just need to know how to write code. Same applies to H1B holders. They get sold on stories of the US, move there, and then they are on the 40+ hour treadmill. They get paid probably twice what I get paid, but the US is extremely expensive, so they give most of it right back by the end of the month. Most stay renters forever, especially if they live in a big city. If they just got my job, they could play my game and never leave home.
Add to that exporting too. Europe has a grid that makes trading electricity between countries possible.

There are plenty of opportunities for interconnectivity resulting in better efficiency.
Jack Dorsey's not there anymore, and the current executives clearly have a different view. So I think the question of "why now and why like this" is still open. Given how many savvy technologists use HN, I'd bet we could put together a list of thousands of companies with concerning-to-reckless security practices. But for better or worse, most of us don't end up getting our concerns on CNN.
> America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.

I specifically make a point to not ask the dreaded "what do you do?" question. In my experience, that question is an absolute energy killer. Most people do not like what they do for a living, so asking them to talk about it brings the mood down. Plus there's the whole "sizing up" aspect of that question that's very off-putting to me, as if we need to know how much money people make before we decide how we feel about them.

I'd much rather talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc. - the things that people are actually excited to talk about.
> you're supposed to be tax where you live to finance the public infrastructure you use, pension schemes of locals,

The problem exists only because the cost for most of these services is socialized via general taxes. One possible solution is to pay a flat tax for local services in the place you live for as long as you are there. The pension scheme solution is to select a pension scheme and pay there, no matter where you are located. The problem with these solutions is you cannot have a Bismark pension scheme, lime most of Europe, and the local administrations need to deal with deductions for people with low income, but it is nothing that cannot be solved.
Right, my base assumption is betting a lot of the other employees don’t feel the same. There are a core group of work friends that maybe stick around after leaving a job as friends, the rest are evenings you’re taking from me, my family, and my time at a pub b/c those pub nights are ultimately important for career management and matter little for meaningful socialization.

I feel like people get this or not. The relationships at work are more for career advancement than friendship (or I’m a sociopath).
This has been a thing forever, Office Space was a hit for a reason.
That's a joke, but real time capsules often aren't as interesting as they could be because the makers of them put things that they think are important (like a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt if he was President of the US at the time) rather than details of what their daily lives were like which they didn't think of including.
I have to take it at face value to a degree otherwise Monsanto can fire cannons of money at scientists and yell “the science isn’t settled!” until the end of humanity even if roundup really did cause cancer.

At the same time I think there is a limit to how bad roundup can be to have fought off criticism in EVERY country and remain on the market.
Why are Kindle ebooks so expensive?
This is a pretty common one I see:

https://www.pdf-tools.com/en/products/pdf-optimizer/

When I mean optimized I mean maintaining the page quality too. Obviously you can make the PDF look like crap but that's not very useful.
Why can't they both be normal?
I'm struggling to find the bit where I demand all the remote-first or hybrid companies changes their ways and conform to my preferences.

No, I'm looking for companies that fit my preferences. Which is making my job search much harder, but I know what I need.
Show HN: iPhone Orientation from Images and Sensors
In this project I compare orientation of iPhone estimated from sensors with orientation from image segmentation of video.
The outrage would only be temporary (again). And then things would go back to 'normal'
What war? 6 months ago maybe there was a war, now layoffs are more common than shortages.
Below is the direct link to that chart. I thought the small surge of brown cars starting in 2010 was interesting.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37001/this-graph-shows-how-car...
That reminds me of AdNauseam: adnauseam.io
No, he’s looking for a job where his coworkers have similar desires. I don’t see the problem with this.
Like I said before, the time to IPO was in 2019.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062658
I get your point and I don't have an objective answer to it. We believe that internet is an open medium and there's immense value for humankind waiting to be discovered and unlocked in all its data. After all, many of the big tech companies in the world utilize web scraping heavily.

Rate limits can be applied for different reasons. If they protect the website from being overloaded, they are good in our opinion. If they protect it from competition, research or building new non-competitive, but valuable products that are not harmful to the original website, they are not ideal.

We leave that to the user to decide the ethics of their project and just provide the tools.
The theory proposed earlier is that you will self-select to work with other workers who choose to work in offices, if that's your preference, so it can remain a 100% remote situation where the preferred remote location is the office.

There is an implication as well, though, that there is an additional self-selection towards having dictation on how to live your life from a greater power among those who prefer working in offices, seeing those people self-select businesses that have mandated location requirements. That is what we are exploring here.
It's sometimes referred to as "not shitting where you eat". My coworkers are not my friends or people I want socialize with outside of a work settings. I keep it like that on purpose. That doesn't mean I won't treat my coworkers with the utmost respect while being friendly and kind, or that they aren't awesome people, it just means I like to keep my personal life separate from my work life.
this was my reaction, too. and I'd add: the legal requirement is basically to have 'industry standard' security; no more and no less. there is no legal requirement to have air tight security (which probably isn't even technically possible at a company of this scale anyway).
There is the metric learning problem to learn a hash for similarity https://github.com/tensorflow/similarity

That said, I don't see many good models available for download on tfhub or huggingface optimized for it, but you can always programmatically modify your images (if you truly mean identical to humans) - change white balance, crop, rotate, select adjacent frames from videos, etc. and optimize a network that is small enough for you to be satisfied and see if that works, as a possible alternative.
It just depends on what you buy. Read the label, as it's what the law requires anyway.

Roundups active ingredient is glyphosate and they have added or removed other supplementary ingredients over the years for different reasons. Some are emulsifiers. Others are additional herbicides which may cause quicker "browning" to please the customer
>If you’ve been following any of my articles about the performance of the cores in M1 series chips, you’ll have come across the term Quality of Service (QoS), which can have major impact on how fast code runs on processors under macOS.

In addition to each process being given a priority, a number that can be changed using the command tool renice, some years ago Apple introduced another setting, the QoS. This is set for each process, and can be one of four discrete values from 9 (the lowest, for background tasks) to 33 (the highest, for tasks involving user interaction).

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/07/how-macos-controls-perfo...