skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jane googles topics A,B,C,D

Jane sends unknown message to John

John fits the target profile of topic C

John gets shown ad for topic C

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coincidentally, Janes unknown message was about topic C. Likely because she too believed it to be applicable to John.

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Going further...

Maybe topic A was trending in Janes area. Jane's friend Sally got ads for topic A. sally talked to Jane about topic A. Jane searches topic A

A trend emerged where people who searched topic A, very soon afterwards searched topic E.

Jane is very late to hear the news about topic A. She gets shown ads for topic E. Jane thinks advertisers are reading her mind because she was thinking about topic E but didnt talk to anyone about it.
“An Army of Zombies Is Leading Us to Hell”: Game Developers Leaving Russia
i liked her light dig at the british govt for not having a modem or a policy on the internet. funny how different it is now with all the european regulation of the internet.
The original paper is a masterpiece to read as well, if you haven't read it.

"A Parallel Algorithm for the Efficient Solution of a General Class of Recurrence Equation", by Kogge and Stone.

It proves the result for _all_ associative operations (technically, a class slightly larger than associative. Kogge and Stone called this a "semi-associative" operation).
In case it wasn't clear, I am talk specifically about California high speed rail. The parent was we have tried to connect urban centers with rail.

This is because the US is no longer capable of infrastructure projects. There are number of reasons why and good articles on the topic if you are interested.
She loves banana peels, too!
In the early 80's on a TRS-80 Model III, I was in whatever grade you learn to alphabetize words, and I wrote a Basic program to handle the alphabetization. I input the 20 or so words, it output them in order, and then I transcribed that to my homework assignment. My mom said it was cheating and I couldn't use it, and my dad said that if I could write a program to do it then I illustrated that I could alphabetize word lists and it wasn't cheating.

I have a suspicion that I probably found the code in one of my dads computer magazines, so it probably was cheating since I doubt I actually wrote the program from scratch. Maybe partial credit for being resourceful. :)
May it become an impressive defection force that kills its officers.
> struggling to find decent hotels within their travel budgets

Don't they have a travel department to worry about booking accommodations? I can confirm hotels in some cities (downtown Boston, for example), are crazy pricy these days. It seems like you can't even find a bad hotel under $450 depending on what is happening that week or weekend.
You're right, binary addition isn't super-linear. It is non-constant, though, which is a slightly surprising result if you don't know much about hardware.
Not in places like Cuba, where I know first hand, people who participated in the protest in July 11th where charged based on the apps the police and G2(Cuban FSB) found in their phones.
> Google launched an effort in July called “Simplicity Sprint,” which aimed to solicit ideas from its more than 174,000 employees on how to “get to better results faster” and “eliminate waste.” Earlier this month, Pichai said he hoped to make the company 20% more productive while slowing hiring and investments.

> One of the top-rated questions posed by employees at this week’s meeting asked Pichai to elaborate on his commentary regarding improved productivity and the 20% goal.

> “I think you could be a 20-person team or a 100-person team, we are going to be constrained in our growth in a looking-ahead basis,” Pichai said. “Maybe you were planning on hiring six more people but maybe you are going to have to do with four and how are you going to make that happen? The answers are going to be different with different teams.”

Lol, this reads like Google just got bought by a private-equity firm. Just desperately trying to cut costs any way they can, with little regard to how that will play into the core business

I'm obviously biased here, but imo an engineering organization succeeds by hiring smart engineers, making them happy, giving them agency, and giving them just enough structure so that they're working towards useful goals instead of spinning their wheels. This is what made Google so successful in the earlier days.

The more you constrain with management and process, the more you slash-and-burn costs, the more you kill that energy:

> Pichai admitted that it’s not just the economy that’s caused challenges at Google but also an expanding bureaucracy at Google.

Sounds like Google's on the downhill. Subjectively feels like it started around the time Pichai became CEO- though correlation isn't causation.

> Google has record profits and huge cash reserves

It's clear this is being driven by short-term shareholder demands instead of actual operational desperation. Sad to see Google get strangled like this (though maybe also not sad, given what they've morphed into over the years).
Just one among many other choices. Adding garbage content like suggested stories. Removing one method of customizing the UI without implementing a new one. The pile of flaming garbage that Firefox Mobile became after the transition to Firefox for Android. Continually dropping options out of about:config and userchrome.css. It goes on and on.
> There was 0 increase in electricity here

In France I think the price of electricity for professionals has been multiplied by five in the past few months. The price of electricity for residential customers and small businesses has only increased by 5% because the French state and EDF are shouldering the difference.
Surprisingly, transmission efficiency (grid to motor) does not appear to be lower with inductive methods than conductive. Numbers above 90% should be expected. A bit lower for the dynamic (in-motion) solutions, but not so much that it’s a deal breaker. There seem to be much larger savings/costs elsewhere in the system that make transmission efficiency of less importance.

Cars that are stationary most of the time are a pretty good reason to put charging infrastructure on the only land they actually share - the roads.
That will be part of the Enterprise Edition.
ElasticSearch the software certainly “supports embedded”. It’s relatively easy to do. Although the documentation could be better.

Elastic the company “supports embedded” the same way it “supports self hosted”. It’s left as an exercise to the user.
Let's get rid of bosses?
Why should I subsidise book shipping?
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is the absolute worst mindset to have! I've seen systems that are literally garbage because of it.
tl;dr continually test, continually deploy.
From my admittedly limited understanding, the failure of the semantic web is one of mankind's biggest missed opportunities. Now the knowledge graph is just locked behind Google's neural network layers and only being used for ads.
Works for thermostats shedding AC loads on hot days for consumers who have opted in.
Someone already mentioned it: it is my first time as CTO. I had experience with startups before - worked on couple of projects (some of them are in production, some of them not), tried to find investor(s), met a lot of people, had a lot of discussions, etc.

Before,I worked as a developer (senior and teamlead) and when this opportunity came for even lower money than was my salary at that time I wanted to try it. Wanted to know if I am able to lead people at this level. Wanted to know if my experience can help that company.

I think (and also based on the feedback I got) everything is going well. Lot of problems were solved and many decisions comes as very good and effective (of course there were also many bad ones). But last couple of months I just cannot get rid of this bad feeling, that it is not as it should be...
> What if I read the code, understand its concepts, and re-implements another library that provide similar functionality without directly linking to the original repository, that is not an infringement

It might be… which is why famously wine developers don't look at leaked windows code.
I miss slack at work
TV ads were skippable too if you used a DVR, and also, they are a lot easier to ignore. I used to only watch things live when I really wanted to be part of the shared experience of having seen the premiere (and the associated discussions). By virtue of being further from the device, it seems like TV ads are less onerous on attention than youtube ads.
The problem is how do we actually implement this? For example you used the word "profit", but what if the best move for the company during a period is to reinvest profits and then contributor x leaves having contributed significantly to growth (but little profits).

An idea that I find interesting is that all employees get voting shares which convert to nonvoting when they quit. And for non-employees, only investors at key capital raising offerings get to get voting shares, which also converts to non-voting on sales of the shares.
Also / instead: would I want to coparent with this partner?
> Don’t iPhone have an indicator when the mic is recording?

No.

Just tested this out, zero indication that the mic is hot on a recent iPhone with up-to-date software when recording a voice memo.

Edit: There ya go... downvotes for saying the iPhone has no indicator when you record audio.
> I was raised that two wrongs don't make right.

You'll likely make a terrible politician[1] then, because that is a terrible approach in game theory when facing an opponent who defects consistently.

I was being descriptive - not prescriptive. This is now our political reality regardless of how we feel about it: politicians hold entire hearings to get 10-second sound-bites, and political operatives focus-group effective language which tends to be pithy and evocative (which gets called "misinformation" on HN when it's the other side doing it). Talking heads get coached on which phrases to use and the meme (in the original sense) gets spread and repeated by viewers/listeners. Asking people to stop using a specific term which was selected for being catchy is a losing battle - Pandora's box was opened on what are effectively PsyOps by political parties.

1. Jimmy Carter was a terrible politician in the same vein - he gave an honest answer when asked by the press if he had lusted after any woman who's not his wife. He is a good man, but that's not good politics.
The repository gets 500 commits per day. Assume the average engineer manages about 1 commit per day. Thats about 500 engineers working on it... [very rough, but ballpark correct].

And remember some people might be working on experiments/research/ideas that never make it into the repo.

And there are lots of libraries in other repos that kinda only exist for Chromium that Google also works on - eg. the Skia graphics library.

But... on top of those engineers will be UX designers, managers, HR, finance, chefs, and all the other people who make an organisation work.

I think 1000 is a good guess - maybe even 2000.
Despite common knowledge you should not shake a Polaroid picture while it's developing.

It's a heritage from the pack film era during the 60s.
This is a very ignorant take. Energy prices have increased substantially, and inflation has impacted goods and services across the board.
(I think it would be strcat() → strlcat(), since strncat() is not really safer / newer.)
On a related note: Is there anyone working on a faster tsc? I know there's esbuild and swc, but those only transpile, they don't type-check.
Centralized coordination complexity v/s decentralized FF rollout complexity. The bigger the team contributing to a deploy, the better the latter gets because engineers rolling out their FF have all the context they need.
I wonder how feasible it would be to construct an elastic air filter. When it's full you could take it outside, stretch it out, and blow all the crap out with a leaf blower.
That doesn't really matter. If you own a resource, and I utilize it, are you going to let me do so without compensating you in some fashion? If so I'll take you up on that offer.

I have no problems with encouraging people to charge at certain times. Using personal batteries for energy storage and draw without any compensation however seems to cross a line.

Your argument seems to me like justifying petty theft because in the end it doesn't really affect the store owner.
Yeah, and that answers nothing about my question: what work have they done to create revenue?

I don't care that they own the company, that's meaningless for my question...
You probably have room to set some boundaries with work here but I don't believe everybody is capable of "disengaged worker bee". Like you said, it's too many hours out of your day/week/year/life.

Some tips that might or not be helpful depending on how similar our brains are:

- Stick to a routine - start your day with an activity of your choice instead of diving into your inbox (slow coffee, short walk, read for 20min, etc.) - laptop open and closed at specific times - no "popping on just to do a little" after your cutoff - turn off phone notifications (unless on-call) - if something doesn't get done by the end of the work day then it becomes a tomorrow work problem

It takes a while but you'll slowly build more of a door in your mind where you're able to step away from work and move on to other activities

- Make an effort to build relationships and activities outside of work so that work becomes a smaller piece of your overall life

- Reflect on how emotionally invested you're getting (in work issues) and catch yourself when this happens. It's just work.

- Brainstorm your larger career or personal development arc and walk it back to things you need to learn to get from here to there. Figure out how to work these into the projects you take on or request. If you can't check out then make your current work part of your journey and be intentional about your activities.
Sorry you had to go through that. Christianity is so fucked up. I was raised Catholic and wasn't allowed to have long hair or dress myself or play flute in band etc. because it would turn me gay, heavily physically abused on a near-nightly basis, yada yada. No Pokemon or Harry Potter. Solidarity, friend.
Holy shit, I just realized that tax cuts are basically stock buybacks at a national level. It's basically just a fiscal way to self cannibalize an entity to the benefit of those already within it at the expense of it's long term health.

Also, it's nice to know that bad fiscal policy actually has demonstrable repercussions on an international stage, even if currency value is a very neoliberal indicator.
Lest you think you are safe outside of the west there were wildfires in Massachusetts this year…
Former browser engineer here: Thank you for that second sentence. So many people forget that part!
Show HN: Inside A High School Hackathon – Assemble, August 2022
Hi HN, I want to share this short documentary on a 183 person hackathon that I (age 17) ran with my friends this summer.

Coding changed my life. However, I've always struggled to find a space with folks my age who also find joy in coding, especially since the pandemic begun. My friends & I wanted to run an amazing in-person hackathon as soon as it was safe to do so, and Assemble was that event.

To try and help other teenagers organise their own hackathons, we’ve open sourced all of our planning documents - including finances, marketing emails, website code, run-of-show, etc - at https://github.com/hackclub/assemble.

Hoping that Assemble will resonate with people here, and happy to answer any questions about the organising process!
I wonder whether the mention of swag in the reporting was a red herring.

I would've liked to see the full question, and all the other questions, and whatever could be learned from their absolute and relative votings.

Questions on my mind:

1. How many people are concerned about loss of swag, and if so, why? (Is it because they want the swag, or see it as a canary, or because they simply don't understand the belt-tightening when they think the company is doing well, or something else?)

2. If some people are concerned about travel, is it because the travel was fun, or effective for project success, or effective for personal advancement, or something else?

3. How concerned are people about possible layoffs, possible declining TC, and/or possible changing nature of the work lifestyle?

4. Are there any pre-existing concerns that talks of belt-tightening are adding to? (For example, were some people already feeling like they were overextending themselves, or stressed over pursuing a promotion, and now they're wondering whether changes will make make that situation harder?)

(I'd like to understand how different organizations are feeling, and how that changes with circumstances, and the news article's mention of swag might be confusing things. And also, I've always had a soft spot for Google, and I want it to be its best self.)
FreeBSD Cope: writing drivers is boring, just install Linuxator for everything.
That kind of work doesn't satisfy many people. Especially not people who manage to get a job at Google. I went crazy resting and vesting once I realized that 5 -> 6 would be nearly impossible in the position I had.
Probably due to that provocative movie on cable TV by the same name.

It had that girl from the bus.
I would. I live in a progressive town that is great for cycling both weather-wise and road-wise. Among the childless, woke 20-some and 30-some, of which there are a lot, walking and cycling could not be less popular. It has only gotten worse in the last 20 years. Likely for the same reason dietary, consumer choices, and political engagement have not reflected what seems to be popular opinion; because people actually value convenience and entertainment much more.
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Failure for the company, but great for the industry!
It was an iPhone, and there is no indication from the phone when the mic is recording.
I think you're conflating two separate markets; there can be as many subsidies or taxes added to buying an EV as you want, but the "what time do I charge my car" problem is an electricity market problem, not a car market problem.
It is very easy to keep up expanding renewable energy with the ramp up of electric cars. In Germany (which is pretty far north), about 10 solar panels are enough to cover one cars electric needs.

And it is not true, that batteries are non-recyclable. Currently, they can be recycled to about 95% and of course this is cheaper than to mine the minerals for a new battery and also saves a lot of energy. It is just that it will quite a few more years before we need much recycling capacity, as the bulk of the batteries will live at least 10 to 15 years.
Molly Russell inquest: Online life was 'the bleakest of worlds'
"I assume they also have teams hedging power prices to keep those costs reasonable"

How can hedging keep costs reasonable? It can help insulate you from short term price volatility, but you pay for that (as your counterparty will want to be paid for assuming the risk).

What am I missing?
I've not met a CTO that does not own shares in the company.
It would... on the other hand, iPads also cost a lot more.
> It needs a two dimensional array that represents the pixel values.

That's an image…

Are you saying that if I shut down the screen and the image isn't shown, I can copy it and send it around because it isn't an image but some numbers?
I don't see the 60% drop in popularity between 2015 and 2017 as you claim (see https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index). C has never not been in the top 5 languages used since the index was created 35 years ago. There have been numerous cycles where it's been #1. There's been very little volatility in the top 10 for the past 10 years, as opposed to the 25-50 ranked languages where Rust resides which has considerably more volatility in their rankings. That's why a lot of people consider anything beyond the top 25 to be just noise.
Who fact checks the fact checkers ?

Once you read something totally unreasonable in a fact check, why should you go there as a source of truth anymore?

Wikipedia is probably a better bet - at least you have history of edits and sources.
The idea behind semantic web was inspiring and great, however it required considerable work on the part of people creating stuff for the web and that was never going to happen. Maybe it could have happened in some things like academia based or knowledge based websites, but on the larger scale it was doomed.
Former Mozilla employee here: A subset, yes, but also a majority. And it isn't enough.
Brave will probably be the only remaining chromium-based browser to have a solid adblock system that's low level enough to not be affected by the manifest changes.

Vivaldi is great and all but they suck at privacy.

Source: https://privacytests.org
This article[1] claims Crash Team Racing takes advantage of boost mode, so seemingly it's available to third-party developers.

Perhaps they don't get to mess with the clock "willy nilly" and it's more like an API that enables a higher - but fixed - clock speed?

[1] https://www.shacknews.com/article/112895/crash-team-racing-n...
Doesn't the Facebook app drain your battery?
I am not talking about the current situation, I am talking about the times when gas was cheapest ever around 10 years ago. People were building resistive electric heating because it still came out cheaper than using gas.

Currently our state is net-exporter and probably always will be since the states around us are refusing nuclear altogether. And Germany nor Austria has never ever offered electricity cheaper than our own.
Remember this quote

"“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway"

You will always feel shitty if you compare yourself with others. Question is: are you better off personally/professionally compared to yourself from last year/5/10 years ago ? If that answer is Yes, you are good. If not, then yea act on it.

There is ALWAYS someone richer/smarter/successful/accomplished than you. Just the way life is. Imagine if someone worth $50 Million looks at Bill gates and goes, man I wish I could afford what he does. THere is never a limit.

So, start comparing your past to your present/future and make sure you are incrementally creating a better life for yourself and family.
Kogge-stone's O(Log2(n)) latency complexity might as well be constant. The difference between 64-bit and 128-bit is the difference between 6 and 7.

There's going to be no issues implementing a 128-bit adder. None at all.
Probably because they started to enforce more the new Vercel's brand identity
It is not monkey work. But A/B testing can often be more a trapping of scientific than the real thing. Google UXR is hit or miss. They have done a number of poorly run studies on what shade of blue to color buttons without thinking about multiple comparison corrections, seasonality or evolution in display technologies. I am increasingly unconvinced that these efficiencies are meaningful for UX. Compilers are different and those optimizations are real and matter for both the bottom line and UX.
I didn't say they were completely eliminated. I'm saying that is the inevitable conclusion if they are allowed to continue on the track they're on.
I don’t think it is their choice, but putting my opinion out there just so they know there’s a potential pool of applicants if this is dealt with.
Rome (written in Rust) is trying to be a faster tsc (amongst other things, like a faster webpack, babel, prettier, etc)

https://rome.tools/#development-status
Or smoked at 24 occasions. The formulation is unclear.