skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I forgot about that incident.

In the NYC office, when I was there, we definitely had to badge in from a lot of stairwells. Also, the bathrooms that weren't completely contained in Google spaces had number pad locks on them.

(I was very annoyed when I worked on a floor that didn't have any dedicated Google-only bathrooms; I asked to have the locks removed just out of principle and was told that "people will wander in from the street and set up camp in there." You had to badge into the building though, so I wondered how true that actually was. I wish for once in my life someone would just tell me the truth instead of making something up to get me to go away. "We don't feel like paying someone to disconnect them, and other tenants in the building will complain if we do." That's totally fair!)
> The fact that a service exists to make you better at interviews implies that interviews don't evaluate competency. If interviews evaluated competency

The only interpretation of this statement I can’t think of is “interviews do not measure competency.” That’s not true. They do, but the bias for high precision instead of high recall. That is, it’s better to pass on a competent person than to hire an incompetent one.

Regarding the guidelines, I’m not sure what you mean. One of the guidelines is to assume good faith, however.
Way off course here
It's the most relatable term I've encountered to describe the concept of reversion to the mean.
I'm not sure if it's the case with this particular app, but with many apps these days you have to seek out and download the version specifically for apple silicon.

IntelliJ was killing me until I figured this out.
Poverty in the US has gone down significantly over the years and continues to
Meta is a monopoly. It doesn't matter that other platforms exist. Those platforms don't make a lot of money (at least in the US) and whether you're a monopoly or not is about money. (You also don't need 100% - essentially if you have a lot and you have the power to distort the market, you're a monopoly.)

The business of social media is ads. In the US the vast majority of social media ad spend goes to Meta. Thus, monopoly.

Google and Meta hold a duopoly over digital ad spending in general.

The FTC agrees and is suing Meta for monopolizing social media and the "metaverse." Anything could happen with these lawsuits but they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think they had a good case.
A related paper by the same lead author:

"MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Space"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08063

Would anyone be able to explain how the two techniques are related?
Los Angeles has “trivially” solved this.

They did two things.

First a large public outreach and education campaign to “don’t do that”.

Second, in the areas where this commonly occurred they halted ammunition sales for, I think, a week before the event (notably New Years and 4th oh July).

I don’t even think the NRA bothered to fight that one.

At the time it had a very notable effect on the volume of gunfire before and after the program went into effect. There was telling news video doing a before and after, and the reduction was significant.

We’re any follow up studies done on the effectiveness? I have no idea. Is it still effective (the was done 30 years ago), I also have no idea. But at the time, it seemed to have some impact.

And as far as solutions go, it was pretty trivial. Fundamentalists will grouse but c’est la vie, but its scope was really limited.
Sample 2, TypeScript -> Common Lisp... might be a recursion joke? :)
I’ll never forget watching the nightly news and seeing a report of a child being killed by a stray bullet that was shot into the air by someone far away. They were being held by their Dad.

Broke my heart.

I wish there were more PSAs about not firing guns into the air. The bullets always have to come down somewhere.
If anything I think it's better now than it was in XP/7.

Unless you're using the same hardware, that's probably all hardware improvement.
The existence of `nonlocal` is an indictment of the local-by-default design.

(Parenthetically, for completeness, I should note that this is a problem only when the language supports mutable variables or, more precisely, mutable captures or "upvalues", which I think are also a bad idea, but that's another bag of worms for another day.)
Haven’t read the paper yet, but based on the videos it likely generates the rotation of each bone in the skeleton, which can then be used to animate a humanoid skeleton. So the videos you see are those poses being applied to a model.
Famously, Microsoft fired their entire QA team and now relies only on telemetry. They similarly fired their technical writing team, and now beg the public to write their documentation through pull-requests.

I do know what Microsoft is or isn't doing.

The evidence is in the pudding: opening a large text file in the new Notepad is orders of magnitude slower than any other editor on my system. This is a common failure mode that is trivially caught by testing. It's a well understood problem space, much like how databases "get slower" as the data volume increases, but the well understood solution is to use indexing to make this not occur.

The fact that the Notepad team spent months (years?) working on a trivial text editor and never tested it with text files speaks volumes.

If they had ever opened a large text file, they would have immediately noticed that a mistake had been made. Much like how if a database developer runs a query over large amounts of data, the missing indexes are immediately obvious.

It takes a minute for Notepad to open a file that isn't even "huge".

A minute isn't slow. It's broken.

They shipped broken software to the public, at the scale of hundreds of millions or even billions of users.

> understanding the motivations of a team, a product manager, or even a single developer within Microsoft.

Clearly, performance and quality are never motivations at Microsoft.
Facebook operates in California. It’s users are - by Facebook provided user agreement- bound in their relationship with Facebook by California laws.

Now, the constitution of California provides positive right of speech to it’s citizens: Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. See this dot here? no exception for Zuckerbergs. Or your car.

Then, there is courts’ interpretation of this right. It was as following (by memory): if you created a public forum, then you can’t remove people from it for their speech contents only . That’s why California malls can’t remove beggars soliciting money (you car is ok, it’s not a public forum).

Now, as in now, California becomes a one-party state (feels like home, sometimes). The same Supreme Court (but with nowadays judges) decides: is Facebook a public forum? You can guess the answer.
It is not so hard to delete snap.
> Companies, governments, and politicians

More broadly, this applies to any hierarchical authority system. The amount of agitprop is proportional to the number of levels between you and the person speaking, and the amount of truthful and not misleading information is inversely proportional.
IDK, I’ve seen enough war damage in Panama and Iraq that I know I don’t want to take a tourist trip into a post-combat zone.

Seems somewhat disrespectful to me.
Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to turn off some of those things but not others.
You realize the same politicians who are complaining about censorship from the social networks fought tooth and nail against net neutrality?

While net neutrality is not strictly the same thing, you can easily imagine where ISPs are forced to act as common carriers, but are not forced to prioritize it.
> What if you check in and there is no hidden cultural element that explains the result?

If you've got someone who is a part of that group who participated in the research, you go ahead and publish it.
Maybe basic productivity applications shouldn't try to tackle open research problems and instead just do the thing which has worked fine for the last 30 years which is CPU rendering? Like, do you think notepad is going to burn your battery because it redraws 20x20 pixels on every mouse event ?
> and a good example of this would be his "let's see how many bolts this impact gun can remove in X amount of time" - each time a bolt is screwed on and screwed off, it polishes the threads, changing the amount of resistance.

He's smart enough to know that...

> Channels like his are wildly popular because corporations prefer inexpert entertainers aka "influencers" and "creators" over product/market experts, so they shower the popular ones with free shit to "review."

Does not apply in this case.
Or they could just require 3d secure which iirc lets them say "you did 2fa when you purchased, we know this wasn't a fraudulent transaction, fuck off."
> vector graphics are not rendered directly to the screen.

What difference does it make if you're caching the rasterization or not? You're still rendering vector graphics. And you're not just rasterizing once.

Modern font renderers can't get away with rasterizing glyphs once and reusing them anymore than arbitrary vector graphics renderers can. I sure hope my vector graphics editors cache the rasterizations instead of re-rasterizing needlessly.
I do not understand why so many companies are so intent on getting people back into the office.

I looked at the income statements for a few techs and banks on Yahoo Finance, and for the tech companies their net income is up from 2019 (in some cases doubled), and for the banks it is about the same as 2019 (I picked 2019 because that was before COVID). Companies are doing fine with remote work. I don't get what their problem is.
Probably tells you how little the services were used to be able to issue a refund like that. Finance wouldn't sign off a multi billion refund for sure. It's probably less than $100m, that they can also somehow write off too if the stadia legal entity was based in some tax haven.
Linear Algebra with Applications
Except the journal won’t publish it, because it might stigmatize someone.
> how much of the shot is being extracted after 20 seconds?

Basically zero, maybe one or two drops. You need to grind finer though and you need a grinder capable of that. A decent hand grinder is ok (e.g. 1zpresso jx pro or max) but for electric grinders you're into the $600+ range before you can do it, e.g. a specialita or a niche .
I just relized the actual research paper[0] does not seem to be linked to in the page.

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14916
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Per https://mythresults.com/episode50, Mythbusters found that if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle, it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and is not recommended by the police in the others. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured.

The non-lethal was only if the bullet was fired perfectly straight up using precision alignment. It seems to be a common disinformation tactic to take this section out of context and claim that Mythbusters said shooting up was fine.
First, learn how to run an execution profile[1], like the author did in this article.

Second, try to find out how fast software is written in the domain. These are often architectural decisions. Is this software better written by loading the entire data into memory? Or should I process it sequentially and keep memory usage bounded? What data needs to be kept "hot"?

Third, try to figure out what parts of the OS or libraries you use have potentially unbounded waiting. You don't want that to be in any thread that has to be responsive. Either make it async or run it in another thread. This is the cause of a lot of slowness in software, where it gets tested mainly on a single machine but it is actually a distributed system, or where there is never contention for a file in testing, nor is a database row ever locked by another application.

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/pro...
GitHub is now owned by Microsoft. Just saying.
That's not what their ethics statement says.

You are putting words in their mouths and then condemning them for it. You want to keep beating up a strawman, go ahead.
Really shows how little thought people put into the consequences of their actions. Literally half a second of thinking would reveal it is a stupid and dangerous thing to do, yet here we are. The selfishness is the most galling part.
You've missed my point entirely.

Games (generally speaking) do not involve allowing the user to interact in arbitrary user-defined ways with every object represented on the screen. The interactions that do happen are part of the physics engine not the "user clicked that and dragged it to the left" engine.
The location on Asahi's GitHub profile: https://github.com/asahilina
Is there any way to force a vote before Jan 2025?
> Why would anyone buy a game for a specific cloud service?

Isn't that what people do when they buy games on Steam?
I'm in the same boat. I would be pretty insulted if they reneged on remote work and used that as the primary decision criteria on who to keep or let go. Especially since I took a pay cut to go remote and most of the folks I work with are in other offices anyway.
Forget background threads. People don’t know basic programming principles. The thought of debouncing user input didn’t even occur to them.
Ah so. I had a colleague who would say "I suspect I shall have to think about this."

In retrospect, I realise it was his code phrase for not doing anything at all.
> Apple makes more in mobile from Google than google makes from Android more than likely.

Oh, I'm absolutely sure that's the case. But basically every business on earth is less profitable than the iPhone. Are you saying that every other product is a miserable failure due to that?

Note they're totally different businesses. Apple primarily sells premium hardware, Google primarily licenses an OS to other phone manufacturers.

> Amazon was a low margin retail company and was spending billions on infrastructure.

So? Your argument is that Android is some kind of a product failure because it "only" made $26 billion in profit in its first six years. But what you're ignoring is that that is an absurd level of success. It's 8 times all of Amazon in the timeframe. What Amazon product had that kind of a growth curve from zero, ever? I would bet literally nothing.

If you applied this logic consistently, you should be ripping into Amazon's decades-long failure at creating a hit product. But instead you're making excuses about "low margins".

> Has Apple or any other BigTech company had to pay a direct competitor for placement?

Yes, like all the time? E.g. I'm sure that all of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have bought ads on Google and YouTube. It's not some kind of indication of business failure on their part [0]; they've determined that those ads have a positive ROI.

[0] Though obviously Amazon's search engine did fail before being killed, like so many other Amazon products.

> That number came from Google in court and wasn’t redacted.

Ok, I'll stand corrected then. But I still have no idea of anyone could argue that's a failure.
iCloud Private Relay Linked to High CPU Usage When Using VPNs
I don't know how it did it, but the old DOS version of MS word actually displayed bold/italic/underline in the DOS terminal. It wasn't WYSIWYG but the display was a bit nicer than Wordstar.
I agree Workers are a great feature, but what benefit are you thinking about for "static webpage deployment"?
VLink: A versatile and portable multi file format linker
Could individuals run a public internet gateway that doesn't keep logs with something similar to mosh but running the equivalent of an SSH tunnel? Think a SOCKS proxy on one end, but running as a public web application/forward proxy on the other end.

The ISP would still be able to see any traffic to the gateway, but if you had enough links outside of government monitored net infrastructure to the gateway (hard lines you take down or obfuscate when the patrol does their rounds, wireless point to point connections), the risk would be on the gateway operator.

(Please do not take my advice without evaluation. This is speculation from a SWE, not advice for life or death situations.)

Edit: I suppose if your ingress traffic is over links not monitored by government anyway, it doesn't matter if you use SSH or a web application forwarding traffic to a SOCKS proxy behind the scenes. Not sure if the idea presented above would be useful in other scenarios.

Edit2: I guess usability is a benefit, even without security benefits. "Plug in this cable and type this URL into your browser" is easier than "open a terminal and establish an SSH connection."
How is "a huge portion of the population will strongly resist the change" (your words) any different from "you don't want it solved" (mine) except that you're projecting the opinion onto someone else?

I understand and agree with the rest of your point (even if you're needlessly and insultingly calling me "ideological" when I think my desires are entirely practical ones). But that's still not the same thing as saying that "there is no solution" or that the problem is "unsolvable". Doing that is making an excuse.

If you are willing to tolerate people being hurt and killed by stray gunfire, then just admit that you are willing to tolerate it and unwilling to see it solved.
> it's possible the GPU might not have ever really emerged as a major consumer product

I’m really skeptical about this take, the gains from the GPU architecture are too large to pass up on
Uh, no. You cannot e.g. listen to a Radiohead song and "look at the approach and simply rewrite it" for instance if you want to be entirely clear of copyright liability - same applies for software.
It’s just shitty licensure at this point. A service like this is no different than a exam prep course, in spirit. Except unlike other professions, we get to take our medical boards / bar exam every time we talk to another company.
Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
Abella: A System for Reasoning about Relational Specifications (2014)
What does AI STE refer to? (AI software engineer?)
The Russians were also attacking from other directions, resulting in Kyiv being partly surrounded for quite some time.

And as close the Russians got, the fog of war made it seem like they were even closer. One the night of February 25th - one day into the war - the New York Times had the headline: "RUSSIAN TROOPS ENTER KYIV"[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220225122446/https://www.nytim...
> A problem I see with FB is that they don't control anything on which they run. They run on stuff from their competitors: it's either Google (Chrome / Android), Microsot (Windows / Edge) or Apple (OS X / Safari / iOS).

You do realize you just described the vast majority of all tech companies that exist today, right?
but I don't know enough to make it fast

I'd say that in the vast majority of cases, you don't actually need to; what you need to instead focus on is how to make it not slow, and to do so is really not that difficult. In a word, it's (total) simplicity. The less code there is in total that the CPU has to execute, the faster it'll be. Thus, don't add unnecessary abstractions/indirections unless necessary, pull in huge libraries and use a tiny fraction of their functionality, etc.

I'm of the opinion that you don't need to know about cycle counting and such to write decently efficient software. You don't need to specifically optimise if you start off with a sane and simple design.
There is some reason to think the Little Ice Age was an effect of Europeans invading the Americas.

In particular, of bringing Eurasian diseases. Story is, plagues made civilization collapse on two continents, and trees grew back where they lived, farmed and ranched. All that carbon going into tree trunks came out of the air, cutting greenhouse effect and cooling the Earth.

A good plague might achieve that today. Or civilization collapsing.
It sounds like a warzone here in the Los Angeles area every New Years Eve.
> it’s doing a lot more work than 1982-era MS Word was.

That's the point of gp's comment. The software is doing a lot of "work" that it does not need to do, thanks to poor programming.

Work is activity that helps to achieve a goal. Whatever Win11's Notepad is doing, it is not that.
> If they want to provide a safe space for white supremacists/conspiracy theorists/whatever, I don’t care. I won’t use it.

So, you will use only a platform that does not provide a safe space for white supremacists/conspiracy theorists/whatever ?
My text editor (a version of MicroEmacs) is 55Kb in size, and opens instantly. Of course, it was designed to be performant under DOS.
How do you fit 4 billion people in your car?
Yes, he has trouble getting his message out. Obviously - that was the whole point.

Rallies? Trump had like a hundred million Twitter followers. The total number of people who even can go to a rally is like 30,000 at extreme scale. Even if he had a massive rally daily (impossible) with no repeat visitors (absurd) in a year he still wouldn't get to 1/10 of the people he could reach via Twitter. And he'd be able to reach them each once. Plus he'd never get any casuals or outsiders like me - people who go to rallies are already committed. Rallies are not a substitute for the entire edifice of modern social media.

A hundred million twitter followers isn't worthless or meaningless. If someone you liked was ever silenced like that, you'd be up in arms and rightly so.
I wish writers would wiki the basics of their story before publishing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

It could be aphasia from a neurodegenerative disease.
So shocked. I am just surprised it lasted this long
I have projects lovingly maintained for a decade (and responding to genuine issues with bug fixes within days) that have under five stars. Not a good metric.
the author used to ship latency sensitive software with -fPIC... great that they're advocating for this now, but major stalls were very common with their implementations.
Your liabilities only decrease in the interest exceeds the payouts, but I doubt that's happening even as they're raising interest rates. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Pray for the central bank to raise interest rates while your liabilities accrue?
Because the lawyers haven't caught up with Copilot yet. Legal has been hounding developers for decades at this point.
Because the rich get to borrow and buy assets and assets go up in prices.

The haves benefit way more from cheap debt than have nots who can't take out debt or have appreciating assets to begin with.
Some people convince themselves that Lebron isn't that good, that the guy at the high school across town was almost as good. Or that they can hit a 90 mph fast ball. Or that they could take Mike Tyson. There are all these funny stories of guys wanting to fight Mike, race Michael Johnson etc. They really just can't see how far they are away from the really freakishly talented folks.

Folks like Jeff Dean at Google are really out there. He built a number of systems that very few people were capable of. But you have to be at a certain level to even see it.
> Hate speech is not speech, banning it is not censorship.

What on Earth makes you think so??