skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the opportunity to do much much more

I envision clothing & hairstyles being changed in the same video from one year to another, or even customized per viewer demographic. Admins could simply toss some product links over and let the ML do its thing.

Of course, this would require a ton of standardization of product types and categories, which I could see being difficult to get consensus on. Perhaps one company/consortium would corner the market and just use human labor to fill the gaps where automation isn't ready, much as is often done today.
> “I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” he said. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”

Google is not small.
Is too regulated to be scrappy.
And is NOT a startup

It’s an ads monopoly. Working there is all about making money.
I think Meta is reading your messages locally on your device and showing you personalized ads from the messages that are actually on your device. It's not uploaded on Meta's servers and not in anyway breaking the e2ee, because your device is one of the 2 ends. If you don't use Facebook or Instagram on your phone then no personalized ads is shown.

Everything above is supposition from something I vaguely remember but not 100% sure.
I absolutely love Fly. Cannot recommend them enough for the right use cases.
You can't increase his equity without buying back shares and that's going to cost money. But yes the general sentiment is if you are serious about reducing costs, then reducing salary is a major way to get there. The idea is cut costs and the share prices will rise as the company becomes more profitable.
>Particularly when i>t comes to paying any tax if you haven’t earned enough to feed and house yourself.

Looking at it another way: companies pay tax on profits, we pay it on revenue.
They didn't reduce comp, only perks, which affects him as well. If he cuts comp, I'm sure he'll do the same to himself.

And honestly, swag is a great place to cut. It's such a waste of material and money. Most of it ends up in the dumpster.
It's superb! Only needs city lights now. Think of driving up the hill next to a city. And then less cars. That would be soothing.
I had a private family Slack instance, and we observed similar things. A question about buying a particular brand of soap would be spoken in the channel and ads for that exact soap would show up minutes later on Facebook. No searches or other activity, just a text query to a person through Slack.

I prefer to think that some of this is chance, or Facebook just guessing really, creepily well. But after the 3rd or 4th time we observed this same scenario play out, trust has eroded, even if I have no evidence as to how this is happening. It's time to change up the tools.

I now self-host an open source chat application, and we have not had another repeat of this kind of creepy ad invasion.
The wonderful thing about this is how much it still shapes people's minds and politics. There's often a clear division of people who still live in this malthusian mindset.

When productivity boomed during the industrial revolution we shifted from a scarcity situation to an abundance. That's not to say we are post-scarcity, recycling is still important. Look up 'abundance mindset' if you want to know more.

We are living in a time right now where there is technically unlimited food. We could build a highly insulated factory with growlights in the arctic or worst desert and be producing food with robotic arms mounted to vehicles all automatically. Providing cheap renewable food at tremendously low cost in places without food.

In practical reality there's amortization costs and all this to get it built and running. Time, labour etc. These are being built right now and these are operating right now.

We will get to a point in the future where you go grocery shopping and food is a loss leader to bring you to the store. They just give the food away. You know such a thing would be great for society, it's coming.
I am most curious about the ones who worship Evil God (the one who literally hates everything that humans consider good).
I don’t know what the percentages are. All I know is there are many people who can enjoy some aspect of work, and I would much rather work with them than with someone who can’t enjoy anything about the work.

People who are completely apathetic and find no enjoyment in any aspect of work probably are also best off working together.
> Just because that the messages might be sent end-to-end encrypted from Sue to Joe does not mean Meta cannot read them.

so what's the point? just inconvenience. better to use telegram at this point.
Interesting, I wasn't aware (or forgot)! I looked into it though, and it seems like it wasn't anywhere near the minute+ mentioned in the article.

I found a GameFaqs forum thread[1] from shortly after the game launched that claims it was about 20 seconds. And a US Gamer article[2] that says the update that came a couple years later only shaved off about 5 seconds (seems within the ballpark of what I measured)

[1] https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/189707-the-legend-of-ze...

[2] https://www.usgamer.net/articles/breath-of-the-wild-load-tim...
>There could have been rules to decide which users are shed if production is too low (or put differently, prices are too high).

Is that putting it differently? They aren't both sides of the same coin. One is essentially rationing to cap demand, one is pricing to cap demand.

I believe some large energy users are on contracts that allow the suppliers to cut them off when demand is high, that's generally a short term measure though.

The current problem isn't really one of supply in the traditional sense though, that's the issue. The market has been designed to deal with spikes when the England game finishes and everyone puts the kettle on, not multi month periods of high prices. It could no doubt be changed so that not everything is priced at the most expensive option, but there are probably reasons why that hasn't already been done.
I do not believe Hans Niemann is cheating. I used to play competitive chess, and while I never got above an ELO of 1100, I think Carlsen has made a tremendous blunder.
Before I start working on a project, I spend a couple of minutes to read and understand the logic of the current code base related to the change. By doing this, it naturally reminds me about the language syntax, the framework, the project convention, and the team's best practice. If you do it regularly, you will feel it more natural. Most of the modern languages' projects are easy to identified the scope of changes. Don't pay too much attention to the languages syntax, but rather to the logic.
I Don’t Love OKRs
"Move Fast and Break Things" at maximum speed!
Hmm, multiple GPU chips on the same board? Could this be where did Nvidia came up with the idea?
Does it really have to be said again:

FLATTEN THE CURVE

Nobody disputed that over time almost everyone would be exposed to COVID-19. The issue was how rapidly that happened, because if it happened too fast, public health systems would be overwhelmed, and then completely treatable injuries and conditions (under normal circumstances) would become potentially fatal.
FYI Such memory tagging has a rich history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_architecture
Oh, yeah. Those are vile to use for long periods of high airflow.

Get a 3M half face painter's mask, some of the new-style P100 filters (white with a pink hashing over it, not the older style full pink ones), and you'll be a lot happier. Not only do they filter far better, they're much more comfortable to wear for sustained outdoor work. You'll still sweat some, but they won't disintegrate, and I find them not at all annoying like the paper ones I've used in the past. I use mine for just about everything in the summer - even mowing and firebreak cutting are far improved with the filters.
Isn’t that because they can read sender and recipient? So if you write someone who do a lot of renting stuff they believe you might like it, too? Just a guess.
And the people that rightfully told from the begging that prohibiting outdoor gathering is pointless? That social distance rules were also as idiotic? The people that doubted that ventilators were effective? The people that pointed the complete lack of logic and consistency in mask rules? The people that took the lab leak hypothesis seriously? (which turned from racist to impossible to absolutely plausible with time?)

Were they dangerous idiots?

Dangerous
Animal Crossing has some pretty long load times on startup or coming back from islands, but I'd still expect it's under a minute.

On the other hand, factorio is a load once and play for hours type game compared to something like mario which incurs loads on each level
I guess this might be hard to believe, but lots of people DO like it. It just depends on what kind of person you are.

Eg. lots of people love those forced team building things.

Different people like different things. For a large company though, it's hard to distinguish who wants what, so they default to just sending it to everyone.
>and if china goes RISC-V

Not an if. They're already deeply invested in RISC-V there.
I have a couple of 12-bit machines upstairs. There were also 36-bit systems once upon a time.
I could be wrong as I never worked in the hyper-optimized space, but I don't think that's necessarily a boring problem to work on. It's highly scientific and I'm sure a lot of talented engineers are interested in A/B testing. It's not much different than compiler optimizations that squeeze out tiny efficiencies that are not noticeable and irrelevant to 99.9% of use cases. If you can make red button blue and quantify its effects in terms of UX (people being able to find the button or make reality more aligned with expectations of the user), I think that could be interesting. But I would love to hear from someone that has labored over such a task.

If I were hiring someone to figure out which buttons to turn from red to blue, I would at least try to find people curious and serious about the task. I wouldn't just accept that its monkey work, throw some money at it and hope for the best.
Ask HN: Is the tech party over? End of crazy salary and benefits
I see every tech companies are cutting down on their expenses...
We can do the upload first and figure out lightspeed travel while in there.

Chances of figuring out the upload before we do the extinction are higher imo. This whole AI boom may make it happen sooner than we think. It won't be the upload we all expect ("Am I me in there?") but it'll have human-like thoughts and consume the data we've produced so it'll be us/human in as fluffy a way as we define consciousness right now.
Can I not train a text classifier on encrypted text?

Basically, let the AI figure out what ads get clicked the most for a given string of encrypted 24h window of chat history. Eventually, the AI is going to hit on its “Rosetta Stone”, even without ever formally decrypting the text, much less any human reading it.

With millions of conversations happening on WhatsApp, why shouldn’t that be possible?

And it’s not even a breach, technically, because nothing ever got decrypted, and the similarity vector generated by the AI have, per se, nothing to do with the content of the conversation or the individual that sent them. Run the same training algorithm again and they’d look completely different! Hence they can’t possibly be “personal data” in the sense of the law.
Is it possible that Carlsen himself is cheating, and the reason he's angry is because he's cheating, and still gets beat, so the other guy MUST be cheating?
Without a shadow of a doubt, if you are a C level employee, you should have equity. Full stop.
> the reactors we built previously work cheaper than any renewable

This is generally false, depending on region PV is the single cheapest source of electricity right now by a significant margin.

Don't get me wrong, I value nuclear even if only for diversity of supply, but it isn't cheap.
I love the Feynman reference. Thank you. And this may be right.

However, I also am reminded of Nassim Taleb's Fat Tony, who when asked 'what are the odds of flipping a coin heads 10 times in a row?' responds with 'fuggehdabowdit. it's a hustle.' There's a scientific response, which can be very naive in some ways, and there's the Fat Tony street analysis. As I've gotten older, I tend to value the latter.
> I mean, at the rate they occur, businesses would all be out of business if it cost $1B every time.

Yes. That’s _the point_ of punitive damages.

And most people aren’t entitled to these damages because most people haven’t suffered this tort, have they?
> Try adjusting for population instead of using raw numbers.

World population has grown by a factor of 2.3 since 1968. That would suggest a "population adjusted" death count of 230,000 for the 1968 "equivalent pandemic", a number less than 1/4 of COVID-19's US numbers.

US population has grown by a factor of 1.65 since 1968.That would suggest a "population adjusted" death count of 165,000 for the 1968 "equivalent pandemic", a number less than 17% of COVID-19's US numbers
CICO often makes the assumption that we metabolize food in the same way that a bomb calorimeter burns it. Calorie numbers on labels refers to the latter.
I definitely think many do, and a lot more compared to any other industry. Many of us are fortunate to be able to have our hobby (programming) be our day job.

Do all of us enjoy it? Of course not. Do more than any other industry? I would honestly highly suspect so, yeah.

Of all the colleagues I have worked with, the ones that I enjoy to work with are the ones that enjoy their work and are curious and passionate about their craft.

EDIT: There's actually a pretty big generational shift in how work is perceived. Newer generations both bring more of themselves into work, but also expect much more from it. These days, work being a simple 9-17 is simply not good enough anymore, given the alternatives. If you find no enjoyment in any type of work at all, I feel bad for you, because we spend such an enormous portion of our waking hours in the work at work :(
Of note is that you and peers moved to more enriching work after making above your needs for a time.

Those choices are easier when you have a nice cushion.
> you need to buy a paid plugin to make it work for anything that's not a Home Theatre system.

You need to buy a license if you want things Atmos-ified (so HRTF) for your stereo headphones. It's basically worthless.

You don't need to buy anything if your media player can decode and downmix Atmos to surround (like Windows Movies & TV).

Home Theatre systems just get Atmos passed through to them if compatible, so they can then decode and downmix the positional audio according to your configuration.

> Windows games will still prefer outputting 5.1 / 7.1 PCM and mixing 3D effects by themselves).

I wish. If games have surround at all, it's usually only analog 5.1/7.1. You need Dolby Digital Live for a digital surround output in most cases (and that can be a PITA to arrange, e.g. patched Realtek drivers). DDL basically provides a fake analog output for software and then sends a compressed digital signal to your decoder.
I mean, I'm already showing up with a sidecar, most of the time. I don't think much will make me look weirder. But I was thinking of just sealing up the neck with some variety of stretchy thing, injecting filtered air down there, and seeing what happened. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with the reduced visibility of anything that went over the helmet.
C Tutorial: Polymorphism in C
that's not the point. The point is, we don't have voting by mail in Russia and I think it help to observe how fraudulent the elections are.
The only mention of it not raising taxes for residence came from DeSantis without anything to back it up.

This isn’t something I’m just hearing about from the national news. I bought a second home/investment property in Orange County that will become my legal residence once my wife and I start doing the digital nomad thing later this year.

People locally do not want this. No Republican or Democratic governor has ever complained about Disney’s special tax district until DeSantis brought it up specifically because Disney spoke up. DeSantis is not interested in “protecting free speech”.

Does this sound like anything but retribution:

“You’re a corporation based in Burbank, California, and you’re going to martial your economic might to attack the parents of my state? We view that as a provocation, and we’re going to fight back against that,” DeSantis said during an event at a Hialeah Gardens charter school.
The only real fix is to tax business owner income at the same (or, ideally, higher) rate as employees.

If the government enforced a higher tax on people who didn't speak with received pronunciation I wouldn't begrudge those who faked it.

I don't doubt that there would an outcry from some corners - both non-earnest and earnest - about the "illegitimate tax dodgers seeking an unfair advantage" who did though.
The meaning of the operation is not the same, because it is not an operation in Safe Rust.
> There was never anything on any radio that was like that. There couldn't be.

I'd claim that there were some (and are) some comparable things on BBC Radio 4, but that's probably an exception as it's not commercially funded.
CheriBSD might be the first unix-like with 128 bit pointers
This morning I saw a Google Cloud executive post on their LinkedIn page that they had an offsite where they made custom Nike shoes that looked like Noogler hats.

Um, maybe you should start your cuts there.
Most of Google comp is stock, so wouldn't that bode well for employees as well? At my current position my base is about 20% of my TC.
1. I don't believe there was "censorship of dissident views" - this is a framing I reject

2. I followed up the mockery with a serious point that you have not responded to.
A running nuke needs its steam turbine maintained, a periodically expensive proposition.

Capex, of course, is on top of that. Decommissioning is part of capex, though probably taxpayers will mostly end up on the hook for that. Does it cost less to keep running than for decommission?
> I'm sure some would, but that seems like a losing proposition.

Many do, and it is a losing proposition. Incredibly short-term thinking that just leads to attrition of some of the absolute most valuable hires.
How to be the ideal security team? I guess they need to code
I think the article's introduction is unhelpful. If it made it clearer early on who the intended audience is, it would do better.

(I think the intended audience is something like "people who want to read about things they already sort-of-know, set out as a nice story to help everything fit into place". The apparent audience of "people who are comfortable reading C but don't know that C strings are null-terminated" is presumably a rather small one.)
So, medicated water for children?

10 years ago I chose to have my kids in a community that does not fluoridate the water because there has LONG been an association with IQ and ingesting fluoride.

But, MOST insanely, fluoride is by all account a medicine, we are one of the ONLY countries in the world that medicates our water supply. Just think about it, why do we medicate our ENTIRE water supply?

There is something terrible behind the fluoridation of the American water supply, I have no idea what but I do know that as a scientist what we are doing makes no sense and is VASTLY more harmful then beneficial.
I’m kind of surprised (and bummed) that they ported it to the Switch and not the iPad. The Switch is a bit slow (can’t imagine big bases performing well) and I’m not convinced using a game pad will work well. By contrast, modern iPads are smoking fast and I bet an iPad touch interface would suit the game fairly well. Ah well, maybe some day.
Whatsapp isn't open source. How do you know that the messages are actually e2e encrypted?
GraphQL Trades Complexity
The social web is no problem. We can choose what we visit like the author's father chose to buy those books.

What is missing is a beacon of light in the desert of choice. There is no lack of knowledge anymore but a lack of orientation. The author's father knew that he could buy knowledge in a bookstore. Where do we go to find orientation on the web?

People don't know. That's why they are stuck in the social net with its memes.
The roaring 20s...
I can imagine cryptocurrencies can make exploitation less severe, e.g. if there is choice between salary in USD and BTC, salary in USD would tend to be lower due to more regulation and better reputation for lower volatility.
You can't expect things to output 100% 100% of the time. Things will fail and if you make plans on 100% always being there, you will then have catastrophic failures. That is if your plan is to rely on your ducks always being in a row, you will fail because systems being systems will have ducks that stray resulting in failure. So yeah maybe we can sustain 100MM people in the west if all things work perfectly, but when they fail, then there will be pain and suffering because there is no surplus to play with.
Sure, both “big” and “top”. Some commenters seem to expect institutions like Caltech (“top” but not “big”) to have a presence in a demographic survey like this.
I just opt out, or more often don't opt-in for a lot of the swag things that come my way if they're not something I'm interested in
> as if the author has any insight into God's design or conceptions

Does anybody? Assuming the Abrahamic God exists, the last information we have about them is over 2000 years old. What if they've changed their mind on stuff like murder or mixing fabrics?
Why do you think you would have done much better? I find the format distracting and the speech sometimes inaudible from the post-processing.
I believe they're asking, "what are you implying?"
Some standard about unified chargers.
The main distinction I'd draw is whether you'd doing formal or informal reasoning. In the formal reasoning world, undefined behavior is mostly a good thing. On one side of the contract, it's a set of proof obligations for the code, and not especially onerous in the grand scheme of things - correct programs won't do UB. On the other side, it's a clear statement of what the compiler is and is not allowed to optimize. The more UB, the more opportunities to optimize.

When you're doing informal reasoning, the calculus changes. There's all kinds of stuff that can go wrong that is not motivated by what the machine is actually doing. In fact, it's something of a nightmare. Doing a memcpy of a struct that has padding in it? What are the exact semantics of restrict? And threading. Benign data races used to be a thing, but in an undefined behavior world, it's game over. C makes things worse than they need to be with its wonky integer rules (left shift of a negative integer and wrapping multiplication of two unsigned shorts are both UB), but a lot of that is potentially fixable and those mistakes won't be repeated in new languages.

In the context of Rust, more undefined behavior makes sense, and Ralf's work takes us much closer to a solid spec. But when you're doing mostly informal reasoning, I can see why people are so emotionally against it, and decisions such as turning off strict aliasing might be justified.
All about that grain
Personally I'd split it into two eras. The first is "Chrome arises as a faster browser and then gimps performance of Google services like Youtube on non-Chrome browsers" which lost Firefox half its market share. The second era is "Mozilla waters-down the essence of Firefox by vainly trying to recapture Chrome's market share while ignoring what its core userbase actually liked about Firefox."
Info is in paper and supplementals, but in short, the protocol was that participants did the spu's for either 130 or 270 minutes each day, with 50 contractions a minute. It's a work out.
Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.