skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you believe that a website should be regulated in how it manages user access? So if I have a forum for betta fish owners and I don't want spammers or trolls then I must justify my bans to some bureaucrat in DC or the state capital? Seriously, this is why I don't buy there's any good faith behind these laws.
Anyone remember that Larry Page guy who used to run Google and created the brilliant culture that's now starting to fade away? He's now currently in a remote island in Fiji and has been since the start of the pandemic. What the hell happened to make him completely drop out of business and tech?
I just imagined the static feeling of touching them with your hand. Damn nostalgic...
> It's hard to classify what it is. It's not a video, because it's generated dynamically. It's not a game, because you just watch. It's not a screensaver, because it's not the 90s. Maybe it's a "demo"?

It's a simulation.
I had to travel for work from London to Ottawa. They put me up in a suite hotel; there was a kitchenette, a huge TV, another huge TV in the bedroom, a second double bedroom, and a bathroom with twin washbasins.

The next day I discovered a utility room with a washer and dryer; and a second bathroom, also with twin washstands. The only problem was that the hotel had no bar; to get booze, I had to go to the hotel next door.

I later learned that there was a major international conference going on in Ottawa at that time, and all the hotel rooms had been taken by politicians and diplomats. They weren't doing me a favour; they were just ensuring as best they could that I didn't jump on the next flight back to London.
We had viable non-porn applications that would have made serious bank: 1) brand name advertising with a celebrity telling you (you're in the video advertisement too) explaining how smart you are for using their brand; 2) film trailers where you're in the action too; 3) educational media for autistic children (serious work here); 4) aspirational/experiential media for psychological therapy; 5) personalized photo-real video game characters.

Basically, every time we formed an investor pool after a while one of them would "suddenly realize" actor replacement applied to porn and then he'd fixate on the idea. He'd talk the other angels into the idea and then they'd insist the company pursue porn. We'd explain the non-porn higher valued applications, and the danger of porn psychologically tainting the public perception of the technology and the creators themselves. Plus, we had VFX Oscar winners in the company, why the hell would they do porn?
> but let’s prioritize by how many lives we can improve instead of lesser reasons that are used as a fundraising platform by the minority political party without regard for the trail of destruction their reckless policies engender

What other enumerated rights shall we remove under the guise of saving lives? Should we remove access to vehicles? Alcohol? Shall we enact a speech control board that if you violate it you lose your enumerated rights? This would open the door for the same abuse gun owners receive for exercising their right.

You're right, I'm a gun rights absolutist. I will not settle for the removal of this right nor the government making it difficult to exercise. They don't do this with any other right why this one? Can other rights not be just as dangerous? (See Democrats stating they needed to misinformation due to the damage caused to democracy).
I kept the backpack google gave me as a noogler for probably 6-7 years and most of my T-shirts are Google gifts. Those gifts made me feel valued as an employee and also acted as free advertising (I no longer wear those shirts in public, as I don't want to advertise for them).
As my siblings are pointing out your error they are not addressing what you are saying. You are absolutely correct. It's conceivable within a few years to fit this much storage in one device (might be a full rack full of disks but still).
In fact, I am certain every inclination of the human heart is evil from birth.
Killing people possibly makes you dirty on the outside too - bodily fluids or getting dirty in potential struggle with the victim.
You can't convince people to spend more money by giving them the same old thing, so you need to invent a better narrative that encourages people to spend money on premium consumption.

Consumers feel better when they reward themselves with something extraordinary, and your narrative makes that old coffee something special.
Fire risks are also much greater at night if you are charging a BEV in your house while asleep. Far safer to charge in an open area preferably away from other vehicles and stuctures.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20210113.as...
This makes sense, you'd be staring at the monitor for hours a day but likely would spend the $500 on <something> and forget about it or more likely it would be direct deposited and just end up washing in with whatever monthly purchases you normally make.
For example, they created a Youtube redesign which relied on a deprecated API that only Chrome implemented. It was deliberate and resulted in a 500% slowdown for Firefox and Edge users. It was and is a systematic campaign to use Google properties to damage the user experience of competing browsers.
Lol I should RTFA ;D
Kind of like how the best candidates for original sea travel came from small islands.
Traveling to conferences allows a person to get OUT of the same old day-in-day , while also allowing to network. This can help fight burn out. Changing up your environment, even temporary, can lead to better problem solving, often during vacation, because you remove the tunnel vision.

Would like to see number of psychology and socially studies around it.

My opinion of why Meta-verse will fail is because you are using their technology in the same environment. A bad environment is a bad environment no mater how expensive the VR/AR tech your using. And also lacks body language communication.
The Joy of Abstraction (Category Theory Book by Eugenia Cheng)
Google made a faux-pas with this one...

Their stated goal is to improve the performance of the web request blocking API.

Their (unstated but suspected) goal is to neuter adblocking chrome extensions.

They should have made extensions get auto-disabled if they 'slow down web page loading too much'. Set the threshold for that to be say more than a 20% increase in page load time, but make the threshold decrease with time - eg. 10% in 2023, 5% in 2024, 2% in 2025, to finally 1% in 2026 etc.

Eventually, that would achieve both of Googles goals - since adblockers would be forced to shorten their lists of regex'es, neutering them, and performance would increase at the same time. Extension developers would have a hard time complaining, because critics will always argue they just have bloated inefficient code.
Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
Regan's analysis works, in part, the way you suggest is better. He looks for tricky moves with non-obvious consequences and looks at one's success rate in those. For the Niemann-Carlsen game, he identified two such moves and Niemann chose suboptimally for both of them. For one is those, Niemann played a nice that could have cost him a tempo. Definitely an inaccuracy.
When you are #2 in the world at something you are allowed to be a bit arrogant about it.

(down to #8 now, I suppose)
"Gotten shares" - well it is not like he should get shares for free when they hired him. He should buy into company with money and they should offer him decent price.

Asking if he can buy in with cash seems straight forward - getting shares "just because he works there" not possible.
I'm trans and sexually active. I was raised evangelical, amongst the Pokemon-promotes-evolution, Satan-left-bones-in-the-earth-to-trick-us variety. This gives me the willies. It reminds me of being six years old and questioning whether everything I saw that wasn't church was evil.

I dealt with suicidal thoughts for many years, largely because my rearing amounted to being shoved in a box and told not to come out.

Also, "Covenant Eyes" sounds like it came straight out of The Handmaid's Tale.
Would it be less entitled to choose companies on the basis of salary?
That is also true of Mozilla and Facebook, and probably others...
Tech workers became too cocky and this is basically a message from the ones in charge, the billionaire class to say “know your place”.

Your money and privilege can be taken from you at any moment.

This is not about economy or things slowing down. It is about showing the tech workers they are just cogs in the machine, the laborers that should focus on work and not talk back to their employers.
If I were one of these managers I would be reluctant to take on the person because they’ve been designated as low performing already. Wouldn’t you just hold out for a stronger external candidate? Or is that the point?
They've already been demystified by many, from Snowden over Greenwald to Trump.
Turns out the sun is out during the day.
Those are data types, not pointer values or filesystem offsets. Totally different thing.
Well, you can built a new internet! Just find some more computers to connect to!
Some of the answer to your question is also a factor of whether you can get another job for more money or better compensation. If not, you've maxed out your market potential where you are and based on what you are capable of "pulling".

You can negotiate and provide a counter-offer, but be prepared to be rejected, possibly fired or placed in an uncomfortable position.

Unless you have a good relationship with the owner (sounds like you may not, otherwise you would have more confidence in your potential where you are) and can enter into a good faith improvement of your compensation package, you're better off learning more about your market value and finding a new position. Doesn't have to be an immediate change.
Would having a few days of bad air a year due to forest fires be worse than camping a few days a year sitting next to a big campfire? Depends on if the fires are burning things other than trees?
I sure do! The more esoteric a script is, the fewer people are around to tell you you're using it wrong.

If you're tired of the standard fare and want fresh weird alphabet, might I recommend the scripts Johannes Trithemius pulled out of thin air in his book posthumously published Polygraphiae before he died in shame in 1516? I like this chunky one:

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb11272589?page=...
Preferably also provide assistance to people using the old things, in the form of making the old API a wrapper for the new API where possible, adding warnings for the old API, adding migration tools etc.
I don't know why Google isn't recognized widely as an IBM. They're a huge company that consistently has neat ideas that they cripple with mismanagement and are slowly looking to squeeze what they have harder and harder with time to keep up profit growth.

As they squeeze they will keep getting more hatred until something finally rises to fully replace them.

YouTube is slowly turning into an almost television like experience in terms of ad counts.

Google search barely works anymore.

Their AI division doesn't release much of anything on the back of morality concerns.

Their phones have all been pretty buggy. They have their place but total quality of their software has been crazy lackluster and nowhere close to competing with apple.

Google cloud is third fiddle to aws and azure

In the absence of growth they'll squeeze everything they can. Their customers and their employees, and they will slowly die.
Unfortunately I'm in the Houston area, where there isn't much support for renewables or sustainability on a level larger than the individual. The best I was able to do was find a grid provider that claims to be 100% renewable.
This has always been my intuition as well. The employer gets free advertising and the employee gets free stuff. Ideally, the employee gets a bit extra to offer to friends and family for bonus marketing.

Maybe Google thinks they don’t have to market anymore?
No.

The motherboard and then 1 or 2 expansion sockets, for a total of 3.

3 x 450W for GPU (Nvidia says 4090 draws 450W-- I think they're lying and will wait for reviews to see the truth) and 500W for rest of system. Though that might be a bit low, the 11900K has been measured at what, 300W under load? And you'd need a budget for USB-C power, multiple NVMe, fans, and whatnot. Maybe the spec would accommodate high-core-count enterprise processors so 600W+ would be wiser.

Even in euroland 2KW, which is what a maxed out system would be at the wall socket, is a bit much. They don't even allow vacuum cleaners over 900W to be sold.
What does waffling mean in this context?
Actually, Florida doesn't own the property of the private citizens whether its the network fiber, routers, or buildings which contain these items. If you can't justify such a capricious law then maybe your intention is malicious?
Right from your first sentence I was thinking "I bet this is JobMine"

It still blows me away a school filled with CS people had such a god-awful system. Then again we are CS people and not UI/UX designers.
> Another MD with an opinion

He shares some facts on dairy, that's all.

> The last 200.000 years we've evolved to eat 60-90% of our kcals diet of animal based food.

Evolution is not that fast. We can "adapt" in that time (like the lactose tolerance), but not evolve to live of different foods. Evolutionists seems to agree.

> Overall the body seems to be very good at processing different kinds of food. From meat, dairy, eggs to plants. So people engrained too much in these debate resort to very complicated logic that doesn't.

Short term yes. Long term no. Primates are already omnivores. They eat bugs and rarely hunt. So its not far off. Dairy after weaning stage is a new thing.

> It's the vegans & vegetarians that need to supplement

Source? B12 is already discussed in this thread. Apart from that D maybe? Because we left our original sunny habitat. Otehr than that I dunno. See what the keto fans are recommending in supplements :)
Insert the obligatory USAF General Jack T. Ripper quote, about the Soviets fluoridating our water supplies, to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of American men. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Plot ]

(No, I am not a public health professional, to know if their study's design or other research would rule out paternal exposure to fluorine as a cause. However, I have a very strong impression that both public opinion and most medical professionals are strongly sexist about problems with pregnancy and young children - "anything wrong is the mother's fault".)
This is simple.

Musk just needs to throw 1% of his AI talent at optimizing charging times via realtime grid negotiating and nobody will need to even think about this. Cars will turn into one of our most valuable assets as they help stabalize the grid by being both sinks when energy is plentiful and sources when it's not.

There are certain problems we all need to think about, but this is not one of them. It will effectively solve itself because all the incentives are aligned.
And in cold climates there is a greater need for heating at night.
Because people like free stuff.

More seriously, it's a way to build a "clique" organically, same as for sports teams. It's a non mandatory uniform in a way.
I don't care if my leads try to surveil me (or if they do right now), they couldn't act on it anyway. We can't even monitor our services and applications properly, how could they possibly interpret the noisy signals I'm generating.
Creating great (dev rel) talks
You know that saying, "good friends are the family you choose"? If you surround yourself with ladder-climbers, you can't help but inherit a bit of that mentality. But you don't HAVE to hang out with people who make wealth their primary objective in life, or who make you uncomfortable with their lifestyles.

Most of my good friends are working-class to lower-middle-class, and it's generally the case that the people who make just a bit more than needed (i.e., not impoverished, but steadily employed and just not earning much above minimum wage, but has stable shelter, food, occasional vacations, etc.) that are the happiest. They end up being the ones who chase their dreams and hobbies instead of a soul-crushing, burnout-inducing techbro career, who befriend and partner with well-balanced, interesting people with diverse hobbies, who love their pets and families and children and neighbors and communities... all the OTHER things outside of work that make life worth living.

Sure, a satisfying work life is important, but that can come in so many forms and not just compensation (i.e., being able to work on interesting problems, or having a great team/coworkers, good work-life balance)... as long as you get paid ENOUGH, amounts beyond that don't really add to happiness.

By contrast, as a rule, all the most miserable people I know (outside of severe addicts) are, well, rich. In a way, they are addicts too -- of capitalism. They get completely blinded by their pursuit of material wealth, big empty mansions, luxury cars with no coziness, manicured landscapes with no life. It's like they spent all that time (and more importantly, emotional energy) earning money that they don't really know what's worthwhile to spend it on, how to use it to actually pay for experiences of happiness (it's not automatic), or contribute to local communities. They just sit isolated in their designer castles, wondering why they have everything and nothing at the same time. It's lonely at the top...

IMO I don't think your lack of overwhelming material wealth is necessarily a problem. It's our toxic definition of "success" -- equating greed with happiness, when they are totally different -- that makes people feel "less than" when in reality they have so much and could have so much more. Don't chase the dollars that add up to nothing in the end, chase the moments and memories you'll remember well into your 90s. Just my 2 cents.
I have horrid memories of debugging I had to do to get some god-awful fourier transform to calculate with 15 digits of precision to fit a spec. It's right at the boundary where double-precision stops being deterministic. Worst debugging week of my life.
I was using the phrase “turning the red button blue” as a description of the fundamental toil that goes into maintaining complex systems. There might be thousands of people who find that work interesting, but there are millions of buttons.
> according to audio obtained by CNBC.

Was this audio provided by Google intentionally, or was it a leak?
I wonder how many years of swag and travel cuts it will take to pay for the decades of miss-managed product development.

Take Google's discontinued messaging products for instance. Is it five now? That all basically did the same thing?

We're going to be here a while if the payment plan for is travel and swag.
No, because smaller planets cannot hold an O2/CO2/N2 atmosphere like ours.
Didn't Europe, with their combined industry and government coordinated plan, leap frog US connection speeds, where things were left only to the market?
Storage and interconnect specs are getting a lot faster. I could see a world where you treated an S3 scale storage system as a giant tiered addressable memory space. AS/400 systems sort of did something like that at a small scale.
This is a very California problem caused by very California policies
Security clearances seem like the biggest issue here. Back when I was in college they needed them even for internships which was a deal breaker since you effectively had to apply for the internship a year earlier than other ones so that you could get clearance.
> greybeard of the highest order

Yes.

> I use daily like settings a status, having a profile picture, editing messages, pining messages, and other very basic stuff.

These are client side. I got by for a long time without any of this. I continue to get by without it today. I use about 2% of slack's features and remain as productive and "available" as needed. Slack is a complete waste of time and space to me. The only people who seem to REALLY like it are normies. Which is the market anyway.
Uh oh, is it broken in Safari again?

Seems to work in Safari 15.6.1, may I ask what version of Safari you've got? I'd love it if you filed an issue.
What exactly is your requirement for ‘the web’ catching on?

It’s used very often on ycombinator in submission titles and comments. I see it used by millennials and gen z on Discord, though more commonly as an adjective, eg ‘oh is it just web or is there an app?’

Sometimes they drop ‘the’ and it becomes “hey i saw this on web.” Online Korean comics are usually just called webtoons instead of manhwa. It’s used on corporate sites, ads, hotel amenities descriptions and in references to ‘the dark web.’

What more do you need?
The small blue adchoices triangle logo in the corner of some ads, if clicked, will sometimes tell you some of that information. Like who served the ad, if they targeting was from the content of the page or an audience segment, etc.
> and drastically increased his equity stake

But he also to roll a critical three times in a row on a D20 to get a payout. Just to make it have the same feeling as small and scrappy, you know.
Setting Up a Git Server
Energy demand is concentrated in population centers. In practice, renewables result more remote generation: https://www.vox.com/videos/22685707/climate-change-clean-ene...

I'm always amused when people talk about a decentralized grid as though it's a positive. It's a liability, since energy demand is centralized.
So electric car owners need to just cover all the battery wear out of their own pockets? Wouldn't that make electric cars even more expensive since battery replacement will be needed more often?
Perhaps necessary in an economic slowdown when you're a paper company with 2% margins... Let's be honest, Google does not "have" to do anything. They're just trying to grab some pennies.

The interesting part is that they felt the pennies nearest at hand were in their employee perks, rather than in expanding their business. That is always a bad sign even if the company we're talking about is as profitable as Google.

Not every business needs the best people working there, nor does every business need its employees to be highly motivated - it's a valid move in the extreme for Google to transition to being like SAP, but I can't believe all of the people in this thread that are defending that they have a right to do it without asking what their executives know that makes it seem so appealing.
Factorio Friday Facts: The Journey to Nintendo Switch
I remember a quote from the papers about Opal, an experimental OS that was intended to use h/w protection rather than virtual memory, so that all processes share the same address space and can just exchange pointers to share data.

"A 64 bit memory space is large enough that if a process allocated 1MB every second, it could continue doing this until significantly past the expected lifetime of the sun before it ran into problems"
Only claim it back on company expenses.

I think what the parent is referring to is that individuals get taxed twice - once when they acquire the money (whether NI via employment, or dividend tax via limited-company self-employment) and then a second time when they spend it because most of what they spend it on includes VAT.
It's possible that the value you bring is not that of a CTO, but rather of a senior developer.
Break it often and don't fix it.
As a counter to some of the responses here, I would wager that in most small companies, zero employees have equity. Experiences from people on this forum are probably skewed, for obvious reasons.

That being said, if equity isn't an option and you feel you are underpaid, then ask for a raise. As a key employee at my company I knew I wasn't going to get equity and negotiated a ridiculous salary. I don't think about equity anymore.