skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
110 points, 85 comments.
I'm not convinced.

According to that page, we had 24.6% growth last year:

1.062 * 1.07 * 1.025 * 1.07 = 1.246..

YoY growth last quarter was 7.3%:

1.025 * 1.07 * 0.994 * 0.984 = 1.0727

The US GDP usually grows 3-4% per year. It's beat that on average since Covid started:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...

So, by any reasonable definition of the terms, we're simultaneously in the middle of an economic boom and a recession.

The last few years broke all sorts of macroeconomic rules of thumb.

shrug
Is there really datacenter demand for these anymore?

In addition to the Nvidia EULA against "datacenter use" they (allegedly) shut down the last dual slot 3090 (with server compatible cooling configuration) because it was eating at higher margin datacenter SKUs[0].

I don't see a lot of datacenters making use of a 3.5U card with challenging power and cooling requirements but I certainly could be wrong.

0 - https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/gigabyte-axe...
There is a way to "freeze" your job data I believe - totally different from freezing your credit. No idea how far it reaches but I have considered it myself. Anybody know how to do it?
Fixed link: https://paperbackrioter.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/avkillsb...
A bit of heresy: what makes you think that the element in question is barium and not some exotic particle with a similar absorption spectrum?
Someone should build this. I'll be customer #1.

Spreedly used to be this, but they went enterprise-only, raised prices 30x, and become so customer-hostile that I recommend avoiding them now.
I feel you may have misunderstood my comment. I wasn't really trying to argue anything, merely stating my belief in light of information conveyed to me by someone. Let me explain.

I don't think I intended to counter anything with what I was saying. I was merely amused by the intersection of the article i was reading with the situation I had - being involved in the hiring of, specifically, an african american woman in Georgia to an engineering role and the turning down of a white dude from Boston. "Literally" was used to emphasize the exactness of the hypothetical to my reality - less analogous than equal.

With that out of the way, the core of my comment was intended to convey the message "I can believe that there is a lot of hidden bias out there in the world, based on the stories someone generally considered to be at risk of many biases has told me."
Being “great” isn’t always necessary, plus I prefer being just great enough to support enjoying the short time I have with people I love.
The could have even credited back more than the withholding (i.e enough to cover the wages). But not sure that would work: company might not have the cash flow to float the payroll, and perhaps it would have invited a different fraud?

There weren’t a lot of tools and time was short. Would be worth thinking through for next time though. And let’s hope there isnt a next time.
Oh wow! This actually might be a good approach to an unrelated problem I've been having recently.

Flux and its successor flux2 are really great tools everyone working with kubernetes should check out!

https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2
Interesting. Entering [ https://ar5iv.org/abs/2111.06963 ] also gives me the HTML render of the paper. Saves one step, since I don't have to fetch the PDF first. :-)
If they can't justify the value of their products compared to their competitors internally, how would they ever convince others it's worth it to switch to their product? I mean, it's practically an acknowledgement it's not worth it to switch to their product, because the value really isn't there.
Ontological Design Has Become Influential in Design Academia – But What Is It?
> an all-time high in terms of people employed

The population goes up over time (and in fact is currently at an all-time high as well; the US population has never shrunk year-over-year), so this is a bum metric. The labor force participation rate is still lower than it was pre-pandemic: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=UOVS

Consumer loans are substantially higher than pre-Covid: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=UOVO (I know this isn't per-capita basis, either, but that's all they have ;-))

So, there are some data points that don't look so rosy, as well. I agree with you that the feeling on the street isn't one that of a recession, though there are hints that we are headed that way.
Yup, eggdrop[1] and expect[2] for me

[1] https://www.eggheads.org/

[2] https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index
Have you seen the one where he tries to teach his children chess? Hilarity ensues.
I still use workflowy till this day.
That process would be biased to those with experience and enough rank to be able to make decisions. It would miss those who are capable but who haven't gotten the chance. There are many, many people who haven't gotten the chance and a diminishing market of those with experience. How would an interview process identify the capable but not experienced?

It's infinitely hard. I mean, you take the same group of people and change the circumstances slightly and have a completely different outcome. Some groups don't gel. It's like last year's Super Bowl team, they're all still good but the circumstances have changed. Nobody knows how to predict who will step up in a situation and past performance is not a good indicator. The circumstances have changed.

Every interview technique has some horrible downside and therefore it's not really possible to correctly assess talent. Just biasing towards experience isn't solving the problem of figuring out who can do the job. Even just knowing who was capable would be a step up from the current state. Figuring out how to moneyball a team together to win the Super Bowl (hit launch goals) is a whole added level. Our 45 minute tell-us-about-your-previous-projects-interview is nowhere good enough.
He’s doing SQLite too, and SQLite uses TCL extensively in its tooling.
Code Review Handbook
> Trying to come up with an innovative idea out of the blue is a fool's errand

Though I agree that all ideas come from somewhere, some of the best ideas come from places completely tangential to the final outcome.

Examples:

- Richard Feynman's diagrams (which won him a Nobel Prize) came from watching students 'piddle around with plates in the cafeteria; (his words).

- The invention of Teflon was invented by Roy Plunkett whilst he was trying to develop a new kind of refrigerant.

- The invention of the cloud chamber (actually to synthesize clouds, but only by accident discovered to be good at tracking particles).

To quote Einstein: “This combinatory or associative play seems to be the essential
feature in productive thought”

The fact is that this process of accidental discovery can be developed, trained and taught (I teach creativity to art students). It can also be instituted within an organization (e.g. Xerox PARC and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works). Its main ingredient is a mental one, a hyperfunction of one's associative apparatus. Key to getting it to work is a lack of premature judgment at the early stages of the creative process.
They’re not the same devices. The premium terminals support higher data rates up to double those of the basic consumer units. There may be other improvements and advantages as well, there was talk of wider field of view of the sky, multiple simultaneous satellite tracking and redundant connections but I don’t know if those features made it into these devices. Starlink prioritised Ukraine for the latest gear.
Oh hey this was written by Spiderweb Software's dev/founder. I loved the Avernum demo and still remember playing it as a kid, up until the "shareware demon" rebuffed me from playing the rest. I have copies of the games, but sadly only played through all of the first game. But I'll probably get around to the rest of the series eventually, cause it's a fun, customizable tactical RPG experience.

How I deal with harassment, abuse, and Imperials in general? When life gives you cave shrooms, bake shroom flour bread.
This guy has Sitzfleisch, a very useful thing for a mathematician to have.
Feel free to share the better phrasing!
Sorry but I don't see how ToS can override GDPR?

GDPR suggests that you can't make non-essential data processing a requirement for using the service, so it seems to me that ToS that force you to accept tracking would still not be compliant.
That new HTTP server (Deno.serve) is being used

Bun’s http server is single-threaded, single-process right now. I think it’s really important to get single-threaded performance right before concurrency. Bun will eventually support builtin clustering/concurrency but it doesn’t yet
Code density and performance go hand in hand.

Higher code density means higher likeliness that performance-critical code will fit in L1$.
The are removing the bad smell and ejecting it, so the good smell remains.

Same like coffee roasting.

:)
Given how narrow the shortcuts are between the walls I have visions of those airplane tests where everyone gets plugged up in the galley and nobody can get out.
It's faced a bad existence, since ya know Facebook hijacked the name...
Thank you. I couldn’t figure out who they were talking about.
10 years ago I would've agreed with you but now it feels different, also bland and cheap. Like what set it apart from their competitors has eroded.
It’s a Bard college. More likely they learned to play the lyre and sing ballads.
Cloud offering in the context of Azure should be related to GCE...

Stadia isn't related to that.
Learning dynamic 3D geometry and texture for video face swapping
They are sneaky with those hidden paths.

I often go to IKEA to hang out in the upstairs cafe and work on my laptop. Getting back out is really easy. There is a very obvious (but unalarmed!) fire staircase near the cafe.

At the bottom of the stairs, there are obviously-marked and alarmed doors to the outside. But there is a set of unmarked non-alarmed doors that open to the ground floor near the main entrance.

I asked an employee and they said it was no issue as long as I didn’t use the outside doors.
Sprouting startups funded by what? All indications as I read are VCs becoming note risk averse right now.
The sales pitch is near the bottom:

The company sells a product called Talent Report Employment Monitoring so other companies can keep tabs on potential moonlighting by their employees, too.
They are free to go to Bed Bath & Beyond.

For the moment. They are on the brink of bankruptcy. They may yet avoid it but it's gonna be close.
"arguing that intelligence is inherited is itself controversial..."

Haven't numerous twin studies confirmed that it is about 70% inherited?
there's a document mode (shortcut: td) that allows you to write long paragraph
The E/Agoric people have been trying to steer the whole thing in the cryptocurrency direction for about 35 years now, some of them for more than 50 years. If you are enthusiastic about their previous work, consider that possibly they might have been right about this, however unfashionable cryptocurrency might be on HN this year.
Which in the service that has all your salary history? Don't lie about your salary as it'll show up as a discrepancy.
Watching "The NeverEnding Story" movie as an Adult (2013)
Yes. However I have personally benefitted as other ISPs immediately announced competitive pricing and speed tiers when Google fiber was slated to come to my neighborhood. Google never delivered but we’ve benefitted from the other offerings anyway.
anyone who thinks a mathematician proved a result of this magnitude and decided to give credit to someone else does not know mathematicians very well!
We visited Studio Ghibli’s long-awaited theme park
Absolutely this!

The fact that no one bats an eye that GitHub is used to store proprietary source code is so surprising to me.
Conversely if that is what it is meant for, why does it default to autocompleting to all users globally instead of my org (even on the enterprise version.) why hasn’t this been fixed for years.
The restaurant is a trick too.

You can immediately enter ikea and go to the restaurant to eat reasonably priced food.

However, you can't go there to eat and then just leave.

The route from the entrance to the restaurant is a trap. The escalator is one-way, and the elevator has no button to get back down.

The only way out of the restaurant is down the stairs to the long shopping maze.
https://archive.ph/kfgtk
I look forward to another class action lawsuit against Equifax which will surely result in those harmed receiving a cash settlement/s
I spend too much time watching live scratch cards!

tiktok is TOO good at micro-optimizing. it's so far above at recognizing the content of a video and then serving it to that specific individual.

It's crazy that videos with 100 views, from a poster I've never seen before, fit into the niche of something i'd like.

and super telling that I haven't seen like half of the things people are listing in this thread!!!!!
As a coder/designer, I've recently started a PHD in Design and am seeking to position my work around the climate crisis, was very interested to discover the concept of the Pluriverse and of a conception of "a world where many worlds(views) fit".

My recent takeaway is that all this effort going into debating and arguing for which approach is 'right' is actually missing the point and that it's the neoliberal/colonial conception of 'one right way' or one true worldview which is a big part of the problem we face.

In other words a move away from "What's right?" to "What's right for _______?", and spending more time unpacking the regularly unstated "_______" part.

If nothing else it does neatly explain discussions on inclusion, as a shift to inclusive spaces and approaches fits more easily with a conception that there is always multiple valid ways.

The huge quantity and variation of available programming languages speaks to a Pluriverse. The arguments over which is the best one speak into the one-world world conception.

Interested in if anyone else has been exploring these sorts of concepts.

I can see the broader design profession has clearly been moving in new directions: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/skills-learning/to...
In my experience hacking Linux on laptops can be a painful experience. WiFi, ACPI, GPU, etc can all be a source of pain and wasted effort. I'd much rather use a desktop and with BSD unless you have specific need to use Linux.

As a further issue with hacking, I find it best to use sacrificial desktop(s) and maintain a separate desktop for all core and admin work. There's no point in breaking my production system* because I've tried something new.

Most of my sacrificial systems are either my older systems or systems I've rescued from clients' dumpsters.
One of my first jobs was in Tcl and I still wake up with night sweats about it. Some languages were just meant to die. I have no idea why anyone would be interested in using it in 2022.
YMMV. I’ve had nothing but trouble with both pickup and delivery from both Home Depot and Lowes, the last time I ordered from Lowe’s they told me “oh, you can’t believe the website when they say that we have it and it will be there tomorrow, you have to call in to make sure.” Home Depot took four hours to pick my order after I showed up because I got an email saying it was ready, I ended up having to follow them around to make sure they did it.
I remember something a math teacher gave me in middle school as extra work. It was a packet of patterns and it gave you the first few items in the sequence and you needed to write a formula that expresses the value for the nth term. Something like this: https://corbettmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/nth-term...
You can go straight to the checkout from the bottom of the food stairs, secret shortcut
the food is subsidized by the odds that you'll buy something on your way out?
Maybe, maybe. It's not like solar power becomes utterly useless if you cut out a single digit percent of the input light, whereas that percentage probably would reduce planetary temperature a great degree.

NERV did JetAlone dirty. Robro just wanted to help.
I like Ben Dickson's stuff, but this article is from 2019! Shouldn't the title reflect that?
No closed form solution means we can't write out the solution cleanly using standard algebraic operations. You can still write iterative algorithms that converge on the solution, such as by solving for the eigenvalues of a matrix.
But when you access files on Windows from WSL2 (e.g., under /mnt/c), the same 9P protocol is being used
The CoffeeScript of TypeScript
Not really, there is a big difference between having a hard time finding one of 100k items in a big store, versus traversing a deliberate maze.
What's wrong with it?

If you rent a home, you pay monthly despite the contact lasting a year or longer. If are employed you probably get paid monthly, even with a fixed contract duration of 6 months or a year.

Auto-renewing yearly contracts, on the other hand, are definitely a dark pattern. Luckily many places are outlawing it, so as an alternative a 12-month contract will often automatically convert to a monthly one at the end.
Sorry if it sounds convoluted, but just trying to convey the actual rationale for the GDP equation (which is ignored or forgotten in most media reports). You understand GDP (It's not adding up all the things that were made, it's measuring the value an economy produced.). Imports clearly don't count as value an economy produced, and should not be in GDP.

But if I import something, that increases GDP (spending is positive to GDP). That starts to mess up the GDP numbers, because that spending is not value an economy produced. You have two choices, try to break down every purchase into domestic or import (impossibly complicated), or just leave it all in, and subtract out total imports at the end to nullify all the import spending (or foreign investment).

If imports went up in Q2, that means spending on imports went up. Those two cancel out for no net change to GDP.

--

My best shot at not being convoluted:

Why do we subtract imports in the GDP equation? It is not because imports reduce domestic production, it is because those imports inadvertently get added in the GDP equation as spending/investment. So to remove the effect of imports entirely, we need to subtract total imports.

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Last edit. :)

From the fed:

GDP measures domestic production of final goods and services. The expenditure approach calculates GDP using total spending on domestic goods; but the equation, as stated, can lead to a misunderstanding of how imports affect GDP. More specifically, the expenditure equation seems to imply that imports reduce economic output. For example, in nearly every quarter since 1976, net exports (X – M) have been negative (see the graph and Table 1), which seems to imply that trade reduces domestic output and growth. This can influence people's perspective on trade. This essay explains that the imports variable (M) corrects for the value of imports that have already been counted as personal consumption (C), gross private investment (I), or government purchases (G). And remember, the purchase of domestic goods and services should increase GDP, but the purchase of imported goods and services should have no direct impact on GDP.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2018...
You've basically described the difference between how Windows handles memory allocation and how Linux handles memory allocation, each of which has its pros and cons. Not doing overcommit has it's own serious drawbacks, especially if you make use of fork().
The National Science Foundation Won’t Rebuild the Arecibo Observatory Telescope
The objective of the law is to put an end to the current "Wild West" attitude when it comes to data privacy, and the only reason it hasn't (yet?) had the desired effects is because enforcement is significantly lacking, so you're seeing the downsides without significant upsides.

There is tremendous value in having the GDPR enforced properly though. Imagine a world where you can actually talk to someone or buy something or without Google or Facebook knowing about it, webpages no longer embedding dozens of third-party trackers, "data brokers" going out of business, etc.

IMO it's actually quite insane that we let the situation deteriorate so badly that something like the GDPR was needed, both from a "do the right thing" perspective (smearing your PII over tons of third-parties with dubious or outright malicious business models is a sign of disrespect for your users, not to mention security liability) as well as legal perspective (some countries already had existing legislation around electronic data processing that predates the GDPR).
You're being overly pedantic. Cloud is cloud. I'm 100% certain Stadia ran atop GCP.

It is a cloud offering in every sense that matters.
I don't love IKEA, but I feel the opposite. Whereas before I thought of them as "the disposable-furniture store," now I'm less dismissive of some of their options as they have gone ever so slightly "middlescale" and offer some middling furniture.
The store I go to has very obvious fire exits on all the outside walls. The ones on the upper level have windows so you can see they go outside.

You’re always a section or two away from a set of doors. And they have the required red exit signs everywhere.

I was actually there when the alarm went off. The nearest evacuation route actually went into the back offices. Didn’t have any trouble finding my way out.
The fair credit reporting act (FCRA) does not care about 'reasons'. Every company I have dealt with trying to go down that road has found themselves in a rather nasty end. Chex Systems, "WeWork", even a dating site. If you record data and then present it to others as factual history, you have to abide by the FCRA.
Oracle’s own marketing has repeatedly used variations of the slogan “Oracle on Oracle”, to highlight various instances of Oracle moving internal business function X to run on Oracle product Y. [0] I don’t think it has ever been their primary message, just one among many, but it’s been there. Obviously it doesn’t make any impact on some customers, such as yourself. On the other hand, it must work sometimes, or else they surely would have dropped it.

[0] Recent example - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/oracle-at-oracle/ - although they were saying similar things 15 years ago, albeit minus the cloud part
The real lunatics are the ones claiming you can shut down production of internal combustion engines and the use of fossil fuels overnight and long before equivalent alternatives are available without causing societal collapse and the humanitarian disasters that will entail.
That sounded plausible to me initially, but then other news came in (as well as continued reports of issues with starlink).
But it is possible that there is nothing sinister here.
Some context:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/29/world/asia/sh...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/ch...

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/09/ch...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-08/shangh...
Even if it were taken to mean regulate, in terms of rule setting, you still have to deal with the fact that the right is assigned to "the people", and not the state militias.

The unamended Constitution and the Bill of Rights
use the phrase “right of the people” two other times, in the
First Amendment’s Assembly-and-Petition Clause and in
the Fourth Amendment’s Search-and-Seizure Clause.

These instances unambiguously refer to individual rights, not “collective” rights, or rights that may be exercised only through participation in some
corporate body.

As the SCOTUS found in Heller, The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but
does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative
clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it
connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Sounds like a terrible company to work for.
Does this mean it can run an eggdrop? Otherwise, in my eyes, it's not real Tcl.
Go to job fairs at schools.