skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Cook was asked about advertising and privacy a couple weeks ago. Here's his answer. Take from it what you will.

"Digital advertising is not a bad thing. We've never said digital advertising is a bad thing. What is not good is vacuuming up people's data when they're not doing so on an informed basis. That's what is bad. And so we try to put the user in the driver seat there to own the data."

https://youtu.be/sdvzYtgmIjs?t=3717
> Well, that depends. Are we talking about your child or my child?

Give it a few generations and it doesn't matter.

Funny enough, in the US, our rich and retired try to move to the EU, while young people from the EU try to move to here.

So if the people flow is to be believed, it's clear which place favors the working class, and which places favor a rentier approach.
Should I feel bad for Amazon?
I suppose it depends on how people use sites like this, but I discover such a wealth of fascinating information here, the most interesting of which is often nothing to do with tech.

I really do think that spending time on HN vs TikTok looking at amusing videos, for example, is time better spent on the whole.
We're building a product to tackle the time to value problem for API integration at Speakeasy (speakeasyapi.dev) . This is the onboarding problem you described but specifically for APIs which have a whole set of special needs and table stakes like dev portals with request logs, client sdks, usage limits, key rotation etc. Lots of companies building partner and public APIs often spend weeks if not months getting new partners to make a successful API call and move the integration into production. We've seen that only the biggest API as product companies have the time to invest in this internally by building out API platform teams. You still need a lot of this dev ex even if you a smaller company so usage of your API grows quickly. If what you are doing is API centric shoot me a note and happy to have you test out the product or just jam on ideas :)
You're re-describing the object in question using oversimplified, generalized terms to make it make it seem less significant/dramatic - the qualifier "random" as used here is a common hallmark of that style of sniping. It's certainly reasonable to disagree with the parent's opinion about the author's behavior, but this is a non-constructive, curt way to express it.

Regardless, I don't think the word "appalled" is totally off base. The author's attitude and actions are highly destructive in our line of work. It has real, concrete consequences and should be rigorously discouraged. "Complaining about a work situation" is a broad category, and it can cover a lot of little cases that don't really matter, but this isn't one of that subset.
Will you laugh last... that's the question. I know it's easy to give the answers I've given and harder to publish; I'm wrestling with similar things myself. But the chances of real infamy are remarkably small; you're far more likely to be hit by a bus, which would be worse.
Control Tower is cool if the problem is “I need lots of AWS accounts.” Substrate [1] is cool if the problem is “I need to accomplish something and I’m cool with using lots of AWS accounts to do it.”

[1] <https://src-bin.com/substrate/>
It's interesting that they don't discuss one easy way to prevent pregnancy complications for both mother and child: don't be obese or overweight

See https://www.nature.com/articles/pr9201134

From the Nature article:

"Obesity is associated with increased risk of almost all pregnancy complications: gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, delivery of large-for-GA infants, and higher incidence of congenital defects all occur more frequently than in women with a normal BMI."
Yeah, I especially like to use CT for reducing configuration parameters or to replace meaningless configuration parameters (requests per second, batch sizes) with more meaningful ones (acceptable latency, acceptable failure rate).
Congrats on the release! I reviewed Javalin lately and it was high on my list. We use quite a bit of Kotlin and look for a framework. I really dislike the magic that annotations bring to most popular Java frameworks (and Hibernate). I prefer most is just code". Kotlin helped us a lot in making our code more type safe, especially the KProperty way of referring to methods made a difference.

Though I ended up leaning towards KTor, with Javalin as a close second.

How would anyone with more knowledge compare the two (Javalin and KTor)?
good to know, I haven't used google maps app in over 5+ years. Maybe I will have to go with a TomTom now s/
Yes, unfortunately the tech community is full of people who cannot see the forest for the trees.
Considering the amount of money we’re talking about here I would think it should be possible to work something out and align the incentives properly. Like the charterer offering a better deal for ships with sails.
> Also, mental health conditions and cardiomyopathy are "preventable"?

They said that the deaths are preventable, not the conditions themselves.
Normies have more negative experiences as they are more susceptible to manipulation to their detriment. So why not reverse them?
Most people will hate it. People generally fear originality. Creativity is often a curse.

Success is the result of powering through this early hate and reaching the necessary point of critical adoption rate.
Probably should look into what TVs were using Pis a couple years ago, buy them refurb/2nd-hand and resell the Pis at profit.
>It reads like a parody of tech culture.

I don't know, I feel like this is just a retread of "Office Space" and office employees yearning to do construction work.
I disagree with much of this article.

Package managers should be deterministic when using lockfiles.

Manually updating dependencies in a commit and pushing that is a good idea.

Having automation keyed off a release to push an SBOM for that version is not asking much. The scans are extremely fast.

Deployments should be as immutable as possible, if for no other reason than to know you've tested what's being deployed. I'm astonished this article has been written with this conclusion in mind.

Curious as to what others think, though.
Right. What I’ve learned is that if they aren’t interested in having a conversation with you the day you match (back and forth, chatting for an hour or two) then it’s not going to go anywhere. If they’re not trying to meet up after that first conversation, it’s not going to go anywhere. If they don’t message back within a few hours of the first date, it’s not going to go anywhere.

Chatting for a few days before asking them out isn’t wrong - but you can get to the same natural conclusion much quicker and with less pain by trying to have a good conversation right away and then asking them out the next day.

As for fearing rejection - I managed that by putting myself in the position of being the rejector. I showed up to each first date looking for problems, not trying to see if things could work. If I didn’t feel like there was potential I’d reject them an hour or two after the date ended. If you are not being as picky as they are then you could give off the impression that you have low standards. What person wants to feel like they’ve been picked for their appearance alone?
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>The alternative is to go along with the Russians until the next time, when the next time will be far too late.

Arguably we're already past that. This is what too late looks like.
Whiskey Media tried that though. for a good long while there in the late 00s/early 10s I bought more or less every shirt they put out, in addition to my subscription, because I loved the content they were producing and wanted to support them any way I could. it still wasn't enough though
"And I revealed his true color."

And some of your own.
Whether or not its creating something "new" is debatable, but its clearly not copy pasting. It is basing the artwork on a combination of other sources, nothing is created de novo, but that is very different than copy & pasting
Bad news: US Customs have seized a container with 15k Flippers Zero
Google is hardly the only search engine which exhibits this behaviour, and the information of total possible matches is useful --- it indicates a grossly generic search phrase --- even where all results are not presented.

As I noted recently in a similar thread (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923468>, HN's search through Algolia is similar.

An unqualified search reports (at this writing) somewhat north of 30 million results (30,121,402). It will display only 34 pages' worth of results, I believe 1,000 in total.

See: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...> Final page: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=33&prefix=false&q...>

As discussed recently on HN, the match count is useful information even where all matching results are not displayed as it indicates whether or not a query is generic.

Contrast search: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> (one result as of this writing).

I can understand some confusion on this point, but implying some sort of gross fraud or deception suggests far more wrong with the complainant, not their subject.
I've also noticed a number of fun WASM projects this year. I think the underlying WASM features that enable all this have been around for a while, so the breakthroughs are probably coming from the community and ecosystem growing incrementally and synergistically, building on each other's work and collaborating.
This is a bummer, yes. I haven’t looked but I wonder if that 10% is a soft limit.

At any rate, this is a good reason to use accounts for architectural divisions, not teams, and certainly not individual engineers.
An observation from 2015: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/13/what-incentivizes-profess...
I don't know if my advice is terrible, probably more below average or situational. I do personally believe dating apps are causing a ton of psychological harm to the current generation, but I don't discount the successes.

But the immortal words of Mary Schmidt should always stay with us in terms of dating "Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's."
As a burned out founder with ADHD, I took a break from tech and did a year as a personal trainer at a big box gym. It was such a great difference from tech work: physical movement, human interaction, paper-based, etc. The high levels of accountability (in addition to physical movement) were extremely satisfying.

I dream of a future of tech work that is more similar to the gym, rather than sitting at a desk. Some kind of augmented reality work space where you intentionally add physical friction (reaching, pulling, pushing), physical objects, human interactions, etc and lots of standing. I imagine the mental rewards of this approach would be really interesting, and you might finish the work day feeling physically energized.
IANAL and certainly don't want to defend those laws, but I believe FOSTA/SESTA ban providers from operating services with the intent to promote or facilitate various crimes. In other words, the provider has to knowingly distribute the material. I'm pretty sure that Apple encrypting its photo backup service would not satisfy these criteria, but if it did and the only way to comply with those laws was enforced CSAM scanning, then many CSAM prosecutions based on it would probably be tossed out.
> what's the purpose of retroactively withdrawing?

GPA inflation. Failed O-chem and ruined your chances of a top med school? Not to worry, how about a do-over!
"You need to communicate your expectations and be explicit about them."
this is something that took me a long time to learn
Outside of whatever your employer's policy is, it's a state rather than federal matter. It's perhaps a bit reductive to treat the USA as a whole in terms of healthcare.

I'm about to go on paternity leave in 2 weeks until the end of the year. California will directly pay me some amount for 8 weeks of it due to paying the relevant workers comp taxes. Companies within the state are required to allow at least 12 weeks of unpaid leave. I work for a great, supportive company that will pay whatever the difference is to make my salary whole. In general, I set my own schedule and am able to prioritize my family's well being over work.

My wife's preference is to raise our children, and we're lucky enough to be able to live comfortably on my income alone. Anecdotally, that was the case for our first child as well, and my wife still suffered from rather severe post partum depression a bit less than a year after giving birth.
The first prescription drug commercial aired in 1983. I discard everything after that.
For those that don’t know, the City of London is the ancient Roman core of Metropolitan London.

It has its own separate police force, distinct from the Metropolitan Police that looks after the rest of London.

The City is also governed differently to the rest of England. I’m guessing this document is probably part of the reason why.

It’s the only place in the UK that’s not run on the basis of 1 person 1 vote. Instead it’s run by the City of London Corporation. It’s a city state within a city run as a corporation.

It’s ancient science fiction and weird as fuck. :P

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
> I just don't see it.

Because you've focused on one kind of writing: books. The original article was more broadly scoped.
Controls was indeed a mandatory EE undergrad class at my University (also ABET accredited).
I think that is right. But while some people might hear "hermit" and think of a hermetic monk, "mountain man" connotes more wildness. He might fashion his dev tools from the pelts of whatever animal he slaughtered last winter...
Which is why I always find Service Merchandise the more interesting case study than Sears. Service Merchandise was an "upstart" trying to hit Sears where it lived in the 90s and basically was the American vanguard of what today we tend to call the Ikea model (and which Amazon keeps hinting they might do at some point): (relatively) big just-in-time fulfillment warehouses with attached showrooms.

Service Merchandise hit some weird bad luck in early franchising (and franchising may have been the wrong choice/it's own bad luck) and accidentally got somewhat region-locked into the US South East, but the business model was from today's perspective ahead of its time, directly addressed that "mall shopping need" while still keeping what made catalogs and drop shipping useful (and relatively efficient just-in-time logistics).
As someone who's worked almost the full gamut of work types, from warehouse to sales to manufacturing to software development, even service and call center work, I can say that there's something rewarding about physically demanding work, taxing though it may be, that you just don't get sitting at a desk. And there's something you get building an abstract machine with your mind at a keyboard that you can't get in a warehouse or a factory. These days I try to balance those things, I make sure I do things that are very tactile and physical and alsp sit at my workstation at least a few hours a week to make progress on my projects. I'd say having a bit of both feels pretty good.
California has PFL as part of its state disability insurance.

https://edd.ca.gov/en/disability/Types_of_Claims/
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I think anyone who has both played an IF game and has played with stable diffusion knows there is a world of difference between the two.

The main difference is that coming up with a word SD doesn't know that's not contrived is really difficult. In an IF game, you are constantly guessing the correct word.
It means that Apple's care of user data is surface level. Google is under much more scrutiny than Apple and thus takes better care of your data.
Debatable. Agrawal didn't handle communications well and soured the relationship between himself and Musk as well as Musk <=> Twitter.

Agrawal's lack of tact and social skills is at least somewhat embarrassing.
Given how much got changed, including the room's dimensions, it seems like the "Living Room with a colour scheme inspired by the Oval Office"
It appears to be a language that you compile another language into so that you can get more inception-like while sacrificing performance optimizations of using a native language.
The head of R&D, but he is the only "real brain" who is presented on the show. Could have presented maybe 1 other "real brain".

I have heard about "the 2 times lazered tin droplet to generate "enough" EUV light" already in an older ASML documentary (years ago).
I assumed that it was a reference to D&G's Anti-Oedipus, that definition seems to make a bit more sense.
I think he's pointing to the hypocrisy of political agendas that value the life of a baby more before it's born than after.
The convenience of having RPis in brick-and-mortar locations near me has been one of my favorite things about the Pi. It was like being able to stop at a local Radio Shack or Frys and pick up ICs back in the day.
Everyone likes to think that their project or solution meets a humongous need that everyone should be clamoring for; but it is far harder than you think. People become entrenched in the status-quo and will often resist change, even in the tech field where innovation is the watchword.

I have been working for years on a new kind of data management system. I was convinced that once I proved that it could organize files better than file systems and find things based off tags thousands of times faster; that people would adopt it. I was also convinced that if I could make it do relational table queries twice as fast as the competition, that it would likewise spur mass adoption.

In spite of making it do those things, it remains an uphill battle to get people to try it out.
First of all, it's the appropriate price for the service provided. Full stop. Publishers don't create anything; they facilitate. Facilitation is not WORTH the lion's share, even if publishing isn't possible without the lion's share. But that takes us to the second point, which is that the research I've done shows working models of the hosting service operating with as little as 2%, given appropriate volume, technology (bleeding edge video codecs and image compression; that's your expense so it gets the research), and scope (youtube serves the globe; targeting is the startup's best friend). But there is also another option of content creators hosting their own content and providing it to the site via a stream api that can handle content dynamically (for working with CDNs, and whatnot). This would, incidentally, prevent content creators from tying up all of their online value in a single platform that can unilaterally shut them down (even if it is a burden; at least it's an option).

But I think the answer you're looking for is that the publisher gets to make money as a facilitator, rather than a program scheduler. The model doesn't make users the customers, it makes content creators AND advertisers (together; doesn't work without both) the customers. If advertisers want to work with a content creator on your network, and they want that content viewed with your network, then they will have to make a deal to join the network. That's passive revenue for the site, on top of the percentage of the ad buys. Essentially, you put the "no free rides" subscription model on the advertisers, and then let content creators decide who gets free rides for THEIR subscription models.

On top of that, there's a whole other revenue stream in developing "networks" and selling "social" functionality to advertisers and content creators that get value out of interactivity (ex: monetizing the inclusion of advertisers in "best value" ad-buy deals that target a "content creator type" like "these ads go well if you provide cooking content") . And we haven't even talked about "whales" and monetizing the customer base with twitch-like engagement mechanisms. I cringe at the thought of some of it, but if the creators can make money off of it, more power to them! And a little percentage of their windfall to the site! ;)

Of course, there's always a new way to make a buck, and there's some very deep pockets in advertising, so I don't fear for the innovation that could go on, in a site run as described.
Would be curious to here, too, as far ad networks go.

There are many affiliates for online casinos, crypto exchanges etc, they usually have a cpa + revshare deal.

They scrap the non converting audience, its vastly more expensive, but I imagine converting an impression from an add somewhere on an app or such to a paying depositor with life time values north of 200usd is just not going to be economically viable.

So far, all I have spoken to ended up a cpm model slightly shuffled.
Deodorant became popular after advertisements started emotionally negging people by implying that they were stinky and everybody around them were laughing behind their back.

Connecting products to interested customers often involve manipulating the customer into being interested. Think about sugary cereals targeted at kids with songs and colors.
tl;dr:

Meta is open sourcing AITemplate, an inference engine for both Nvidia and AMD GPUs. Code: https://github.com/facebookincubator/AITemplate.

AITemplate delivers much better perf (1.9x ~ 12.8x) compared to PyTorch eager on SOTA models, including Bert, ResNet, VIT and StableDiffusion.

AITemplate also delivers high perf numbers using AMD GPUs (MI-250). With AITemplate, MI-250 achieves 80% ~ 96% A100 perf on various ResNet / Bert / VIT models.

AITemplate uses sophisticated fusion techniques to optimize perf, including vertical, horizontal, and memory fusions.

btw, I'm one of the authors of AITemplate, happy to answer any questions.
> Genuine question: in this case, what is in fact the disorder?

To quote from Appendix B of the Jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html):

"Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. [...] [T]hus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’."