skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not going to be this hard. They will land on their feet in weeks, maybe days. Anyone recruiting is hard plugged into layoffs.fyi and while big company recruiting takes months, we (and my other friends in startups) can turn around the whole thing in 3 days if we have to.
Password protected or not, something about that tutorial suggesting to forward ports to an old Android device running a camera software scares me.
Wikipedia has a list of cases where this precise sequence of events occurred:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...
I have no love lost for that company, so while I feel bad for the workers, I would love to see the company as a whole go under and a better alternative emerge.
Ask HN: Reverse Engineered Recipes
Most people search for a dish, find the recipe, gather ingredients, and then prepare. Is there an app or service that accepts available ingredients and returns matching recipes?
FB is also actively making Marketplace worse.

They keep relegating their local pickup products and trying to turn it into a generic online marketplace.
Scientists have extracted usable DNA from from 7000 year old corpses. I imagine the technology exists for a decades old blood sample if it’s stored at least somewhat properly.
Possession of?
For most people I know, they stopped posting when the feed started being filled with suggested crap. We didn't want to post on a feed we hated and where our friends would likely miss it anyway amongst all the garbage.
PayPal and buymeacoffee help to fund Russian nullpro.ru selling pirated content
Paypal and buymeacoffee.com are happily doing business with a russian platform called https://www.nullpro.ru which sells pirated themes, design resources and source codes.

The link to their buymeacoffee page is even implemented in the main menu: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nulled

The Paypal checkout is a bit hidden and only visible to signed in users who can buy points to download pirated content. I tried to inform both Paypal and buymeacoffee.com (YCombinator Startup) about it with no reaction.

The Paypal account used is pay@neasel.com

Is someone here working at either Paypal or buymeacoffee and interested to explain why this passes their fraud filters?
Think of the new people you hire!

It is difficult enough being onboarded to a new company without having to learn two dozen names for random services and libraries. I feel sorry for each batch of Interns that start at companies that do this. Not only were the Interns learning how to build software but they also had to learn random names that they would not be able to use in their next placement.

What is easier to understand at first glance?

Picard stopped responding to Luke. Bilbo is also down!

or

PaymentService stopped responding to UserService. Database-XYZ is down!

It might not be exciting but the cognitive load is much lower.
Everyone wanted to watch and share video clips on their computer directly on the web without and without having to care about codecs, file formats, and hosting.

No one wants to have business meetings wearing VR headsets or give NFTs to virtual panhandlers or any of the other silly usecases for a modernized version of Lawnmower Man.
There's a difference between "someone will lose their livelihood because of this" and "that's entirely the employers fault."

Recognizing the impact of an action does not mean you're entirely responsible for it.
For those annyoyed with ads on Google search, Kagi [1] is worth trying. It's not free, but does not show ads and uses the Google index behind the scenes. I've been using it on desktop for few months and have no complaints.

[1] https://kagi.com/
Here's how the Federal Government defines:

Responsibility

Being responsible means being dependable, keeping promises and honoring our commitments. It is accepting the consequences for what we say and do. It also means developing our potential.

People who are responsible don't make excuses for their actions or blame others when things go wrong. They think things through and use good judgment before they take action. They behave in ways that encourage others to trust them.

People who are responsible take charge of their lives. They make plans and set goals for nurturing their talents and skills. They are resilient in finding ways to overcome adversity. They make decisions, taking into account obligations to family and community.

This guy literally made excuses for his actions: "broader economic slowdown"

"To ensure that we make progress on that roadmap, we are increasing our investment in product, engineering, and design, which means decreasing our spend on other ares[sic] of the company."

So it's not even a money issue. They have the money, they just want to spend it on servers and other people.

And finally, just so we're clear, I don't take umbrage with his decision and his plan for his employees. Hell, it's admirable, frankly. I take umbrage with his words. He's not taking responsibility. Responsibility means he'd cut his pay as much as necessary to keep these people because he misjudged the market and where it's headed post-COVID-19 lockdowns (since there is no such thing as 'post-COVID-19' - it's here forever now).

This is pretty classic example of wanting to have the best of all possible worlds.

"I want to be lauded for my graciousness. I want to be lauded for taking responsibility. I want to be lauded by my investors for a plan that grows the company."

That's why this is a load of horseshit. He's trying to please everyone. I have no doubt he probably agonized over this decision - I really do not; but he made it, and that means there are certain consequences with which he must live, one of those is that it should be clear to his employees that they will always take a backseat when the economic times get tough.
Ukraine has inherent freedom to join NATO.

It needs NATO's permission because that's how NATO works, but it doesn't need Russian permission
I think Chumbawumba would be a good name. Just nickname it Chubby or Chewy. It's not significantly worse than Kubernetes.
"The goal is not to be better than someone else; the goal is to be better than you were yesterday." (to paraphrase the Dalai Lama)
missing in all of this: "the new".

Newness is what gives art, writing, news articles, discourse in general, its value. stable diffusion, GPT-3, etc are simply generating aimless rehashes of what's already been said and done.

example: check out a daily newspaper, online or off. most every sentence of its news articles are based on new facts personally witnessed by the writer in the past week, expressed with the maximum of economy. where's the room for an AI there?

Or fine contemporary art (the kind people pay for). This category of art inevitably incorporates things like commentary on previous generations of art, rejection of previous forms, questioning what an art form is, etc. None of these things can be done by Stable Diffusion's pastiche of genres and influences.

Quickly artists will begin incorporating Stable Diffusion and its implications into their work - but they will create value only by doing things like commenting on it, questioning it, perverting it and rejecting it. And doing so will quickly become passé after it has generated some eye popping art sales.

Of course nothing ever generated by Stable Diffusion will have a dollar value on its own, what it outputs is the very definition of a worthless commodity.

For an earlier example of this phenomenon, check out the work of 80s artist Mark Kostabi, who created his own Stable Diffusion-esque entity in the form of a studio of hack artists who created an endless conveyor belt of oil paintings based on his whimsical, banal specifications. They were terrible and Kostabi was variously viewed as a genius and a laughingstock.
There's always the floppy thumbdrive

https://www.wired.com/2009/06/floppy-disk-as-usb-thumb-drive...
"All functions async by default and preemptible." Really? I thought functions were sync by default unless you add the 'go' keyword.
That will cause mass exodus to Signal or something
Strong "Death of Perosnality"[1] vibes here! That was about ux, this is more about dx. In that thread I advocated pretty heavily for apps not being special[2], for their best service usually being to get out of the way, to be slim & light, focused less on initial charm & more on enduring usability.

I think most of that applies here. The whimsy & fun is cute at first, but it's rarely long term magic. For new teams & outsiders, it's a pain. I've had to work eith a sync engine where there's 20 subsystems seemingly each named by randomly picking a name from Encyclopedia of Mythology. There's probably something cute & creative & whimsical to the authors, but as someone trying to use the thing, it's merciless & oppressive, a huge turn off.

[1] https://tdarb.org/blog/death-of-personality.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32777411 (79pts, 3d agi, 63 comments)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32791861
Asking the author to provide more context on what domain(s) their blog post is meant to apply to is a reasonable critique.

However, consider whether your original post made that critique clear, or if it got lost amidst the other ... stuff. The first two lines, in particular, will immediately put some readers (myself included) on the defensive. Describing somebody's work as "some web service bs" is a bad start. And if your point had nothing to do with the "hardness" of the problems, only that those particular problems are most relevant to building web services, why not just say that? Instead of the "...somebody who works on some web service bs assumes that that's as hard as the world gets," bit.
Resolution: WON'T FIX. WORKING AS INTENDED.
Well, that's the entire point of "move fast and break things" - especially breaking all the laws and regulations that "get in the way" of money.
It's hard to be more pompeous and recitative than a godard film.

Reminds me of a joke from french comedian Desproges describing the parisian artistic crowd "who would rather die than to be more than 12 having understood the last Godard movie".
> Hahahaha! Probably time to get a padlock for your garbage cans.

How would that even work? Give the garbageman a key?

Probably time to get a shredder, or a firepit, or both.
GameMaker filled a very specific niche by targeting indie devs with little-to-no coding experience and giving them enough support to make a game (similar to Flash). Maddy Thorsen used GameMaker for Jumper all the way back in 2004, which was really an amazing game that has similar game play elements to her phenomenal game Celeste.

I'm not sure exactly what Godot's niche is, making it harder for it to have breakout hits.
I'm not buying the breathless grand statements here. This is the same story as furniture, or fast food, or legal systems. "Superhuman" design is everywhere already, where the cumulative effort put into the product/testing edge cases is a huge multiple of what 1 person is capable of.

Sure, the leverage makes it dazzling and captivating or whatever, but it's still all subject to price constraints and diminishing returns. Youtube is pumping dozens of man-years of content into our eyeballs, has it taken over the world?
Thanks for feedback re: robot emoji. You can also use a backslash command if you want to add a new piece of text to the timeline from Slack.

re: postmortem workflow. The timeline view is built to help postmortems, one of the ways we're doing this is making it easy to paste the info from the timeline as rich text or markdown from the timeline into your post mortem workflow. You'll see that on the top right of the timeline view. We have a lot more ideas in this area and will be investing in this.

Curious if there is specific features you'd like for postmortems?
> Set requests very low for your pods. Look at the minimum CPU/Memory that your pods need go start and set it to that. Limits can be whatever.

Wouldn't this lead to Node Over provisioning?

I ask because my company's workload is very spiky and usage is very minimal until it isn't. We are looking into ways to optimize it.
If taking over more than 100, extremely high profile accounts with millions upon millions of followers only nets you 100k and puts massive visibility on you, it's basically zero.
Money=power, including political power. Politically active billionaires violate the one-man-one-vote principle, especially after the supreme court ruled that money=speech in Citizen United.
> its very easy to say that the current government in Ukraine is much more democratic than plenty of US Allies in other parts of the world, eg the Middle East.

What makes you think so? What was/is democratic about Ukraine? How Zelensky, for example, crushed all the opposition parties and media, and even arrested some of his opponents after he came to power? Do you know about that?

BTW, here's the video of him before he became president: https://youtu.be/cAfXNbnXwxg
Hilarious, if you understand Russian. It's about so-called Ukrainian democracy. I'm pretty sure it won't exist for long on YouTube, and it won't be ever translated to English.

> If this is so easy to find, why not provide actual sources?

Would you be able to understand without translation? Who would translate it to you?

Can you understand this, for example: https://youtu.be/ofEF5l72sjQ

> Edit: the irony here is the extremely close parallels between this war and hitter’s annexation of the sudentenland.

There are no parallels. Except that Ukraine was pumped with nazi propaganda to the top. They named streets and stadiums after Nazi collaborators that helped Germany exterminate tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine during WWII. If you look at almost any photo/video of Ukainian army personnel, they openly wear Nazi uniform, Nazi tattoos, SS insignia. They even use Nazi salute.

It was especially easy to find before 24.02, they've become more careful since then, but still they fail many times to blur swastika or Hitler tattoo when filming their new propaganda videos.

There're tons of videos like this: https://youtu.be/_eDjtPwC2wY

> US does bad things so other countries should do bad things too.

More like, US does bad things and always gets away with it.
Well, Shelob has no meaning to me. And yes, I know now where it comes from, but I haven't read the books.

The article says "names should make you smile." And really, does anything make a person smile more than Chumbawumba? They get knocked down, and they get up again!
Suboxone, a drug to treat opiate addiction. (According to her reply on Twitter)
I found "NIUB" (New In Unopened Box) floppies at home: 5"1/4 floppies, never used. I've got no idea: are they still as good as new even though they're something like 35 years old?

I found more than that: I found my "time capsule" C128 (safely stored for 30 years+, still working, non polluted by anything modern). I found a "copier" software (Fast Hack'Em II IIRC) still working and managed to use it to copy a still working copy of Commando (chiptune sountrack by Rob Hubbard, the god of SID music back in the days).

But I have no idea: are these NIUB floppies as good as new or do they decay as years passes by?
It's funny how much projection people do when speaking of FB, as if their personal experience offers some deep insight into a platform of 3.5 billion users whose usage varies by user, demography and geography.
>"Ensure that you are fulfilling the expectations of your manager"

"Just tell me what to do" is like the anti-senior developer philosophy, particularly if you report to someone who is non-tech.

If you're senior you should be the one setting the expectations and lay out a (working) plan to fulfill them.
The concept is a bit confusingly named, but that doesn't make it "bogus".

(Period) life expectancy at birth summarizes the current health status of a population, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't make a predictions about what happens in 2078.
That capital doesn't have to be reflected as a percentage of ownership does it? What if they were structured as loans to the company which are paid back with interest separate from dividend payments from ownership? Then people who "invest" financially into the company still get rewarded for it, but they can't just buy up all the profits with an ownership position. I'm not deep into this area, so I don't know what sort of regulatory (or otherwise) hurdles this approach would face.
Not read the book but I believe the notable lack of solar potential compared with similar latitudes in North and East China is due to air pollution.

There was a paper that estimated that China's installed PV could generate 10% more power (up to 30% more regionally) if they cleaned up the air.

Obviously a bit of a virtuous cycle.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-solarpower-pollutio...
Getting a Steam Deck and owning Rimworld has been a very dangerous combination for me... Haven't tried Factorio on my Deck yet partly because I don't think there is an official control scheme for it yet, but I'm worried that when I do it will open that addiction right back up and I will become completely useless in the real world.
Frayhem [1] is an awesome game using Godot with Nim.

Rocket Bot Royale [2] is a game I worked on using Godot. We released it on lots of platforms: Google Play, iOS, mac app store, pc/mac/linux on steam, and several HTML game sites. It has cross platform multiplayer with custom netcode written in c++, and pretty advanced SDF based terrain destruction. I think it's pretty good.

We are currently making a new game using Godot which I'm excited about.

https://rocketbotroyale.winterpixel.io/

https://frayhem.com/en/
Because inflation. If we're all rich, no one is rich.
It is a common misconception with a grain of truth to it.

The Planck length is more than just a unit. It can be derived as the point where quantum mechanics and general relativity conflict. Planck-wavelength light is its own black hole.

Which does not mean that the Planck length is a fundamental unit, but it's the starting point for some beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. Most popularly, Loop Quantum Gravity (the main alternative to string theory) does use the Planck length as its fundamental granularity of space-time.

The fact is that most people have no business having an opinion on String Theory vs Loop Quantum Gravity. But it makes good copy to play it as a David-vs-Goliath story in popular science publications. And those publications are a double-edged sword. For a few, they are a crucial stepping-stone into deciding on science as a career (even though vanishingly few will do fundamental physics). For the many, they are entertainment, and leave them squarely at the top of Mount Stupid[1].

Munroe is well past Mount Stupid, and knows everything I've just said. But it's a trope he'll play with on his way to some other educational/entertainment end. He's explicitly referring to "quantum foam", a property of Loop Quantum Gravity, which does include P_l as a fundamental unit.

As I said, I'm always wary of that kind of popular science. It's hard for me to tell whether it's a net benefit, whether it informs more than it misinforms. But I can say that I would not have gone into science without starting there, even though I was told an awful lot of lies in my early science education.

[1] https://www.ascpsychological.com/blog/mount-stupid/
The issue is that mobile devices (phones, tablets) are not really designed to run continuously like that. At a minimum, you'd want to remove the battery and connect a separate power source. And even then, the electronics inside might still overheat and degrade.
any large market has segments - it is naive or worse to paint "every farmer" with a single brush; unconstructive
Buprenorphine, which is an opioid and a Schedule III controlled substance.
I hope they do this purely because that means controller support will be improved enough to play it on Steam Deck.
With all due respect, further tests, research, and outcome analysis on the people impacted by our choices will be how we understand our response and what we should have done differently.

You are lumping every response to the pandemic together and appear to be saying "you can't judge this, would you rather millions have died??" - well no, but thats not the question either. Instead "We did things to respond to the pandemic, some good some bad. What was good and what was bad."

This will happen. Saying "NO NO NO" is not going to stop that or help it.
Fixing Over-Committed Discounts on AWS
I think every human has a right to have some opinions. His statements are extraordinary but he clearly segregates that from rest of the work and always tells that this is his opinion. I do not going to criticize the developer or his work because he just wrote something in his github, I do not feel a needness to go deeper. Maybe not the best place for sharing such statements, but not the worst as well. Maybe, if to make the calculations he is talking about, something really interesting will expose, but this is not I am going to do, despite I have some interest in learning cryptographic hash functions.

To tell the truth, that part of his work which I call decent seams to be much more interesting/promising for me than just the opinion, and I recommend everybody to spend more time on learning something decent - like cryptographic hash-functions and unlike somebody's opinions.
> I do condemn both invasions!

So does many Americans politicians. Indeed a vocal minority opposed the US invasion at the time (they weren't prosecuted).

IMO, the way the US negotiates and works with allies makes these wars incomparable.
I am not a user or an employee of Patreon, still I appreciate Patreon being generous about equity vesting.
> You might make the argument that managers don’t deserve higher pay than an individual contributor, but it’s clear enough that a manager has much higher potential impact than an IC — if you manage 100 resources, making them 10% more efficient than otherwise, you’re doing the effective work of 10 ICs

Maybe. Supply and demand is always at play. If any manager can make 100 developers more 10% more efficient, but only a few people who have any ability to be a developer at all, then the developers are worth more. Numbers are relative to supply - my company has discovered we have to get ICs better raises than their manager at the lower levels as our great developers were becoming managers. We can get managers from lots of different entry level areas, but not enough engineers.
Just a VKB stick isn't actually as functional as a cheaper T16000M HOTAS with separate stick and throttle quadrant, so I'm not sure I'd recommend VKB unless you're getting the rest as well.

A VKB setup is about $800 (dual THQ+SEM+FSM+stick+rudders) so... don't look at VKB until you've flown with a <$200 HOTAS for a while and actually know what you enjoy flying (and whether that kind of flying even justifies buying into the whole "real controller" thing =)
This is a great project and the developer is really responsive on his Slack.
Apparently all 5 of them.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/09/patreon-security-layoffs/
I'm not denigrating any country - I'm just the messenger shining the spotlight on how every profit seeking large business operates. So I'm glad your mind was blown - this was educational! Secondly, your outrage is meaningless and you are an elite - very few people in the world have the privilege to travel with a working mobile phone across continents burning huge amounts of fossil fuels and you are one of them. Lastly it hypocritical for non-elites to complain about a not released elite phone they don't intend to buy, especially when there is the option to buy another phone or an older cheaper iPhone with a sim slot.

All this said, I do find Apple's stance on removing every last vestige of a physical connector inconvenient (headphone jack being one). Sadly, I just accept these inconveniences and move on with the rest of my life.