skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I'm still hung up on about the "promotion then bounce" strategy is wouldn't having a history of launches followed by fizzle-outs actually look bad on your resume?

Sure, they launched Stadia and then went somewhere else before it failed. So the strategy works at least in the first transition. But wouldn't this become a barrier to further growth, when people can see that they have been leading failed projects?
It helps if you are in a place with a lot of sunlight. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_sta...
They'd probably be better searching for sox, not play.
I do not want cloud gaming startups to succeed. I feel like I would own my games even less than I do now, and due to the laws of physics, games would be less responsive than playing locally. I am glad that Stadia has failed.
This is crazy good - most prior text-to-3d models produced weird amorphous blobs that would kind of look like the prompt from some angles, but had no actual spatial consistency.

Blown away by how quickly this stuff is advancing, even as someone who's relatively cynical about AI art.
Money is not infinite, at least for practical purposes, but it is socially constructed, and consequently not a hard constraint. If a nation has the means to obtain the necessary resources and labour, it will be able to build and run nuclear power plants.
Amazing! How long then until we get photorealistic AI generated 3D VR games and experiences in the metaverse?
the better five-year-old explanation is that quantum computers can perform vast numbers of 'computations', but can only report one result

it's a new and tricky mathematical problem to get that 'one result' to be anything useful, but from what i understand they are confident in their algorithms for breaking ECC wide open, given modest quantum hardware
This sounds like something that could be made to work with stable diffusion if someone just implements the code based on the paper.
How wonderfully dystopian. It reminds me of the show Community where for governance reasons, Subway created a "corpohummanoid" to enroll in the school, however they ran into problems because the actor was a real human who wasn't able to pull off being the manifestation of a corporation all his waking hours.
I interviewed for them. Questions were Front End related. One of the questions were "how could you find a node in an hmtl by id", to which I answered "using the DOM api, a querySelector would do a good job". The interviewer started hypothesising that the querySelector is not available, so we had to start discussing a whole binary traversal algorithm. If that's not leetcode I don't know what qualifies as it
Clojure has probably had its heyday, but it's quite far from dead.

The main issue is that there are other JVM languages nowadays that don't suck--that wasn't the case back in 2009. So, if you wanted the Java ecosystem but didn't want Java, your choices were quite limited. You had Scala (just ... no) and Groovy (oh, hell, no) and ... Clojure.

Since then, Java, itself, has gotten a lot better, and there have become a plethora of JVM languages since. In addition, a lot of languages now have "package managers" like lein. They have also adopted "default const-ness". So, a lot of the issue is that things that were unique to Clojure are no longer that unique in this generation of new languages. Finally, the JVM ecosystem doesn't have the same enterprise pull that it did 10 years ago ... enterprise installations back then only had the JVM, while now you can generally count on a version of Python also being installed.

Computer language adoption is slow in spite of what everybody thinks. Pick a language that you can use as a tool for the future, and don't worry too much as long as it isn't actively un-popular. You'll have to learn a new computer language about once every 15 years anyway.
Well I know that it can't reason. But we know two translations and hieroglyphics are the third. So how close could it get to "solving" the hieroglyphics to Greek pattern match?
refresh tokens are a workaround for a problem that wouldn't exist if you chose not to use a JWT.
I recently bought a sensor that detects temp, humidity, PM2.5, PM10, and CO2, and the variance from the equivalent report from the airport's weather station that's only a few minutes away is discouraging even when it's set outdoors. Maybe I should bring it into my alma mater and borrow some lab equipment and test it out.

At least the CO2 says 410 when set outdoors, but the temperature it varies by a few degrees (Celcius). The humidity is even worse, I don't even bother looking at that number anymore.
It depends on the explosives imo. They could have been attached that day, or months back. Personally, I think it was either:

Russia - doing it to try and place blame on US due to Biden comments in order to sow discord amongst NATO.

Poland - they have been really vocal against NS2, they have economic and political interests aligned with its destruction, they are right there .... and my buddy who works on Polish coast said that all the gas to make trimix in that area was bought up / consumed recently. He's a diver, thought it was weird as these are common gases but assumed it was because Ukraine war. Might not be related by the way.. If I was an invrstigative reporter I'd call all the gas supply / blending / diving companies in Poland and see what their oxygen, helium, and nitrogen stock looks like.

US - always possible that US and partners just said "this makes most sense to do this. It's a win worth it". Although honestly, I don't think the current admin has the cojones to do something like this. At least not without all of NATO involved. It's too brazen.

- colonel mustard with the candlestick. Somebody else
What an odd article. None of the software quoted [at least none of the ones I've ever used] has an 'infinite canvas' in the generally understood sense of the word.
It is an expression, another way of saying "You might feel that way, but I don't"

See https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/speak+for+yourself
I always think of the same question when I talk to someone who goes to work for Meta. High pay, sure, but that's available elsewhere.

Scale, by now, is surely an operations matter. If they're still having to innovate to perform at their current scale, what the hell have they been doing? In other words, aside from the VR distraction, what interesting challenges remain at Meta?

I know they have to rebuild their ad platform since Apple devastated it. But is "convincing people to look at advertisements" really still an interesting challenge? That's the point of view I don't understand, and would like to!
I'm still planning on buying a CO2 monitor, but I'm really not looking forward to it. My plan is to buy them three at a time and if I don't get the same reading (or damn near it) on all three returning them as defective and buying another three from some other random no-name Chinese manufacturer. I'm guessing the whole process is going to take many months and a lot of my time, and in the end it still can't prevent a company from just giving identical but incorrect readings.
They don't ask leetcode questions for Front-end engineers AFAIK. It's mostly practical Javascript/DOM/browser questions.

Funnily enough though, I heard once you join as a Front-end engineer, you are pretty much a regular SWE and can join any team and work on any tech, even backend/systems.
Is it known whether this sort of hiring freeze affects all levels? I have a friend who's in-progress for a staff role at Meta and I had heard in the past that staff was often "immune to hiring freezes."
And habitually written all in upper case because of radio teletypewriter (RTTY) encoding!
Though do any of those do the Stadia model of having you "buy" the game specific to them to be able to stream it?

Other systems I'm aware of mostly piggyback on some other platform so your "ownership" extends to local usage also (like how Nvidia's system works with your Steam library), or are just Netflix-esque subscriptions that give you access to the available library as long as you're subscribed (like PlayStation Now, well, whatever it's now called under Plus, and Game Pass streaming).

Neither of those models has the same type of concern over losing your purchases. Google's track record is obviously a factor too, but the business model is as well.
The credit card companies had a point. By transacting with platforms that openly didn’t care about selling access to content of unwilling, exploited, and underage people, the payment processors opened themselves up to liability and moral guilt. There is a difference between well moderated platforms and platforms that do a halfassed job and pretend that’s ok.
Yeah but Die Hard 6, 7, 314, and so on won't be the same without him.
Oh man were is that guy from the leak who kept insisting that they would never do this, their paud products were perfect and lasted forever.

Paging @sofixa [1], [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485397

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32492932
I'm sure you're a nice person but I don't just trust unsubstantiated claims I read on the internet.
It may be the best time to visit the foliage, but be warned it is the worst time for traffic and crowds.
Time and time again these ML techniques are proving to be wildly modular and pluggable. Maybe sooner or later someone will build a framework for end to end text-to-effective-ML-architecture that will just plug different things together and optimize them.
Germany (along with France and others) supplied military-related stuff to Russia, even after 2014.
How does this compare to Processes in Elixir/Erlang -- is Java now as lightweight and performant?
It's funny that the authors are 'anonymous' but they have access to Imagen so obviously it's by Google.
I guess I am just saying I didn't feel like herded cattle like I did with Amazon's automated leetcode/hackerrank rebranded system.

I mean, now I'm just here to watch the downvotes pile on....
Don't confuse the meme of Germany's "dependence" on Russian gas being "the root" of yhe current "evil inflation" with facts. Not to mention that regardless of all other sanctions, following a war Russia started, the EU, and the West in general, excluded energy. This left a door open for Russia, it also allowed to mitigate the energy markets problems we currently see. Heck, both sides did their best to prevent damage to the gas pipelines in Ukraine. It was Russia, more precisely Putin, that closed that door and caused the clusterfuck on energy markets.

I say energy markets, because global availability of gas doesn't seem to be an issue, prices are. Gas shortages have nothing to do with crazy electricity prices lately. And even then there were no shortages or blackouts anywhere in Europe so far. Energy prices did hurt industry and drove inlfatuon, sure, but this is a global issue not sole caused by the war in Ukraine, COVID, Chinese lockdows and the chip shortage all played a role in that. As did the constant injection of money into the global economy since 2008.
Sometimes I wonder how it keeps getting updates while other stuff dies. Maybe the people responsible for it are on a different career track. I'll probably put my next blog on there. 10+ years of "Blogger is doomed!" haven't amounted to much as the graveyard fills with newer, hotter applications.
> Data stored is optimized for application access patterns, not the application designed to adhere to the database's preferred patterns.

How do you make sure these "application access patterns" are mutually compatible without designing them anyway?
Snapchat is still doing fine considering how much competition they have all over the place e.g. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube etc.

TikTok won't be banned because US will force it to relocate all their relevant servers to US and hand in US citizens' data to US agencies. And realistically speaking TikTok is no different than Microsoft, Google and Facebook; instead all data going to one superpower it flows to another and majority of this data is garbage that's inefficiently used to target you with personalized ads. Personal data is mostly garbage like I said but data about specific groups and overall population might be more valuable and important taking in consideration economic competition and arms race between US and China.
stop being snarky, there are RFC's describing JWS and JWE, people just use the term JWT generically and let the context dictate what they're actually referring to.
You could do it with the helium network now. That's a specific reason to avoid helium - it's the closest to a ubiquitous network that will let people spy on your use of ordinary electrical appliances. Unlike TVs, your next fridge won't need an internet connection to spy on your use.
“Porn” has done a historically awful job of filtering out exploitation and abuse, and made a lot of money from it.
Loon could have made them the ISP for the developing world.
LNG is expensive because you have to outbid the global market to get it. It would have been expensive and damaged the German industry 5 years ago as well. Maybe it would have been better to do it at their pace, but it's not like sacrificing cheap energy and natural resources is an easy step to take.
2020 M1 Air running whatever the latest beta macOS is. Not too shabby all things considered... I mostly do light dev work and music production (primarily live instrumentation so not too much in the way of sample-based plugins) so this kind of makes sense.

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 26 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 21,793,717 [11.1 TB]
Data Units Written: 13,227,049 [6.77 TB]
Host Read Commands: 307,014,870
Host Write Commands: 219,603,100
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 124
Power On Hours: 211
Unsafe Shutdowns: 6
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

Read 1 entries from Error Information Log failed: GetLogPage failed: system=0x38, sub=0x0, code=745
It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

The whole point was to be decentralized, and now we have Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare deciding what we are and are not allowed to see, read and buy. And virtually in lockstep, they are becoming increasingly prudish.

I'm curious if this could be addressed with laws that force companies to either be utilities or publishers. If you're a publisher, you take liability for your content and can edit it at will. If you're a utility, you do not take liability for your services, but you cannot pick and choose which customers you service so long as it's legal.
Can you get your game saves out of stadia and in to a portable format? I have to imagine this is going to wreck a lot of people who like to play games with persistent state over the long term.
Because AAA games aren’t everything.

> a basic OpenGL driver is doable by a single person. I’m optimistic that we’ll have native OpenGL 2.1 in Asahi Linux by the end of the year.

That should be enough to be very useful to a lot of users.
Intentionally manufacturing something with tolerances wide enough to be nearly useless and then selling it as if it was useful sounds malicious enough to me!
My guess is the risk of legal liability. There are laws in many countries that forbid them from (knowingly or unknowingly) financing child pornography or trafficking. The due diligence of verifying every transaction just seems immense and perhaps not worth the risk to them.
The stack for any thread other than the first is just memory like any other allocation. You can free it, resize it, copy it elsewhere, whatever you want to do. Literally just a pointer in a register. People work up weird mythologies about it, but the stack can be anything you want if you're willing to write code to manage it.
u mean like when ukrained was trained by us operative, its leadership selected by us operative and using us weapons . the only country that used nuclear are the usa. i wouldnt trust them not to push for a nuclear attack again
And also Eastern European or ex-USSR countries where highschool STEM curriculum is more difficult than in the west and participation in STEM competitions and olympiads is encouraged for kids.

We had to solve binary and hex division and multiplication on paper for exams and study Dijkstra's algoritm and binary tree traversal in highschool CS. Ugly stuff for a bunch of 16 year olds who just wanted to make Flash games. Really made me hate CS.
Could you calibrate vs outdoor atmosphere CO2 from a local weather station?
I've never gotten a ticket for driving with the flow, even if the flow was speeding. Besides, I prioritize safety over the cost of a ticket. I'd fight a ticket for going with the flow.

If you're resolutely driving at 55, and the flow is 65-70, causing those cars to swerve around you, you are likely to get the ticket for creating a hazardous situation.
The lack of interest in Google projects because they "might" die is a self fulfilling propechy.
Netflix looks shaky as hell. They need a huge bet, like Rings of Power or House of Dragons. The entire programming looks so completely awful cookie cutter at the moment.
Sadly you can't skip to engineering a solution. If you're designing a device getting quality requires rigorous specification and testing, in a feedback loop with design. What you describe might be a solution, but you can't know it's worked without that testing, and it's premature/risks over-engineering unless the testing shows you need it.

It's the time and money of testing that is usually being skipped, not the engineering itself. (Although many manufacturers might sacrifice quality to save the cost of what you describe anyway :( )
This is also, I think, a reflection of American values and culture on the internet and so also a failure of other countries to own more of the internet/tech world. Other countries (especially European) are far less bothered by nudity and adult content.
The language really does sound like "pay only if/when you get a job".
It's easy to say this now that they've shitcanned it, but this product was doomed from the start. They simply did not have a market. The people who care enough to play AAA games are the kind of people who already have PCs or consoles, and the notion of paying a subscription fee on top of the actual cost of games is astoundingly stupid. You buy a game and decide to stop paying and suddenly you can no longer play that game (at least in the fidelity you originally played it).

It's such a non starter and I've been saying it for years. For having so many smart people working for them, Google sure makes some absolutely braindead decisions. They lost hundreds of millions if not billions thanks to their own hubris.
The malice is in taking my money in exchange for a product the seller knows to be worthless.
The point is don't connect the tv to the internet, connect with a cheap streaming device you bought where you control what comes through it. You can also replace that device that just plugs in via hdmi with another one if some company goes bad and spams you with ads.
I have a few of the Airthings View Plus units. Can’t speak objectively but when there are fires or something degrading air quality, PM2.5 rises, when all windows and doors are closed, co2 rises and then falls when I open the windows and turn on the fan blowing the air out. VOCs rise can be correlated directly with the nest turning on our old AC unit and then with it turning off and fanning the air out the windows. Radon seems to rise with outdoor temperature when it gets hot out. One per floor of the house and they are all correlated with the things above, and the VOCs in the room with the most air conditioning blowing rise the most, so I feel pretty happy about their efficacy.

I’ve been happy with these units so far after six months.
Ask HN: Is Google's Data Driven Attribution effective, or a money grab?
My wife's small business just got an email from Google that they're switching her ads plan to this Data Driven Attribution thing and I can't tell if it's a good idea based just on what Google says. Given their recent woes, I'm wondering if this is just a cynical effort to get more dollars?

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6394265
Indeed. I'm one of the few who actually does dive into binary/asm on occasion, or at least try to decompile/reverse binaries for the lulz.

These days you probably could sneak something in with a good chance of getting away with it for a while with the complexity explosion and volume of code to go through. That doesn't mean it isn't unrecoverable from though, even if every compiler is infected.

It's just painful is all.
> In locations of significant fall out the Sv./hr could be high enough to induce radiation poisoning.

Yes, but those won’t be the vast red marked areas on the map you posted, it will be much more localized.

> A better example than those bombings is chernobyl which despite it's relatively small sized (compared to actual nuclear weapons) induced significant levels of radiation sickness and long term cancers due to the fallout.

To the contrary, Chernobyl again provides arguments against your theory. First, the number of people who got radiation sickness is rather low (between 100 and 200), and it only affected people who actually worked directly on the site of the disaster. Second, there is in fact very little evidence of increased cancer due to Chernobyl disaster among people other than the few hundred people on site on the day of disaster. One exception is good evidence for few thousand extra thyroid cancers, These are very easily treatable (90%+ success rates) in normal circumstances, so the might cause some problems in the nuclear war scenario, but an easy way to avoid it is to not eat fresh grown food for a few weeks right after the disaster (you can store it and it eat later).

> However, it also isn't something to just hand wave as not a big deal. It hinders your travel, can cause various degrees of sickness, etc.

Of course, but observe how you are backpedaling from your original “everyone is dead” claim. Look, if you think I am arguing that nuclear war is no biggie, you are much mistaken, and you need to read more carefully. All I’m saying is that it is very much false that everyone will die, either directly from bombs or later from fallout. Plenty of people will die, but given the realities of scale, plenty will survive too.
He raised an interesting question, why Twitter and Reddit get away with it, but Tumblr doesn't?
There was no turn to Russia, the USSR was a reliable gas supplier since the 60s and all the way through the Cold War...
Yes Google Takeout actually downloads every data including your save files
> This seems like basically plugging a couple of techniques together that already existed

as with a majority of ML research
I'm just looking for an indoor air quality monitor for temperature, humidity, co2 and ideally pm2.5 and pressure. Can't believe such trivial product is so hard to find.

There is the AirGradient DIY but I don't like the design, I'm worried about temperature accuracy and response time and I wish it was pluggable into a wall plug.

In addition I want to buy an outdoor water-proof temperature and humidity sensor running on a battery and communicating over WiFi or BT. Also can't find anything.
They refused Facebook's acquisition offer but I think their endgame is getting acquired by Google. Facebook offered $3bn but Google will have to offer much more, at least x5 more.
I'm sure that senior leadership will also be held accountable for the over-hiring they mandated and their teams will be among the first to reduce headcount \s