skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you suggesting that an American city could socialize a large chunk of its private real estate with the stroke of a pen or that landlords are waiting for some legal change to turn their office/retail space into homeless shelters and needle exchanges?
> I believe that math is universal

The only thing that is "universal" is Nature itself. Mathematics, on the other hand, is a reflection of Nature in the human mind; or, put differently, it's Nature's language we humans are capable of understanding. It is therefore conceivable that other creatures, far removed from us, could "hear" a language that is just as far removed from ours.
Thank you @powerbroker! Cheers
Apple announces new iPad Pro with M2 chip and Wi-Fi 6E
What do you think makes live/work housing more desirable than just live? I haven’t seen live work spaces and I’m not sure what the allure would be.

I used to be in the city, in essentially a shoe box that cost 5k a month, but with a fancy gym and common area. I moved to Marin during COVID and while I miss the food and walking distance/public transit activities I could do, I don’t think I can go back to the extremely small for the money living area. I’m hopeful a glut of new housing, hopefully spacious, will change that calculus.
It's sufficient to identify you since there is still all other tracking data any browser supplies as part of the HTTPs connection handshake [1].

It's also not necessary to have Mozilla be the bad actor. Anyone who has access to the information in the future is a possible bad actor as they might be able to cross-reference the allegedly "innocuous" information with some future, more-pervasive data.

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[1] - https://github.com/salesforce/ja3
Disney being the artists whose labor and skill they labelled their own and claimed ownership of in perpetuity.

Sure, it's "Disney's" artwork.
> real number, complex numbers, calculus, etc

Some humans believe that the prominence of real numbers is a historical accident. It seems quite plausible to me that a human society, much less an alien one, would go down a mathematical evolutionary path based on the constructable numbers and the computable numbers.

Regardless of whether we eventually find the same structures, there are things that we might consider basic which they find esoteric and vice-versa.

Heaven forbid we encounter an alien civilization that discovered an O(log n) algorithm for integer factorization before they invented steam power.
Open-source alternative to Retool and Power Apps
Compared to pretty much every other country it is.
Not if they can flip it to a bigger fool.
It's a miscommunication/misalignment of expectations. Private windows have privacy (more than non-private windows, at least), but they do not have privacy or isolation from each other. Unless you use add-ons, the isolation boundary is the profile. You need multiple profiles to keep them from sharing with each other.

The main problem then, IMO, is that it is not well-supported for a user to use template profiles or automation to manage or create multiple profiles with common settings. Copying profile directories to a separate user account (on platforms that allow that kind of thing) is the closest strong approach I can think of.
Wait it doesn't work on my laptop. Oh wait, yes it does! Whoa I never knew this existed
Very interesting. What LiDAR are you using? Does it happen if the sun shines directly into the LiDAR from the front?
> TOTP is not much better than SMS-based 2FA. It's still vulnerable to phishing, local device malware (that attacks your TOTP in your password manager), etc.

It's still massively better than SMS-bases 2FA. Those vulnerabilities you list are all things that involve you or your device. You can take care to avoid them.

With SMS there are also vulnerabilities that don't involve you or your device, such as someone convincing your carrier to transfer your phone number to them.
I'm suggesting a change JEDEC could have made when incrementing the DDR number, basically.

Especially since the ECC overhead on DDR5 is so high.
A bit of a complicated read. Not sure what you're trying to say here and I don't even completely understand it. But anything that gets into bayesians and frequentists ends in a fundamental divide in humanity. Humans don't agree on which interpretation is correct. Which is the point of everything I wrote.

So why would aliens hold this "principle" the same if humans don't even agree on it? PG is wrong. His own principles upended not even by aliens, but by humanity, thus how accurate can his assumptions about universal principles even be? No that accurate imho.
I was a pretty mid to lower performer in my last role. Now I'm a top performer. A lot of times its just how your work is valued and the support you may/may not have.
It seems to me that your boss was more than understanding. Coaching and long runway. I'm glad you see the realty as it is and not go into passive-aggressive mode.

I disagree that growth can only come from strength. Like many coders, I was bad at communications, particularly in public speaking space. My boss needed an engineer that can present work at company meetings, he basically tasked me (mainly because I knew the system and business very well). It was 6 months of absolute terror as some of you might know. In the end, I succeeded. I learned more than about me than before, while my technical skills didn't improve, my soft skill improved leaps and bounds. My career also has improved significantly.

What I'm trying to say is, change is hard, especially if it impact the core of who you are. But like everything else in life, stepping out of your comfort zone is important for growth if that's something you desire.
Does it keep working when files get overwritten by moving another over it, like some Linux text editors do?
In Dutch we call it orange.
In most of the controversies posted on HN they usually end up with a feeling that nothing would change, because only us, the tech community knows about details of an issue and we are too few to have an impact.

But this is solely affecting a product where we are the target audience, where if we oppose, thing should change. Now I wonder if it will show that we are actually caring that much to action or we are just as regular consumers as non-tech people in all other cases.
Innovative Spreadsheet Editor for Product Catalogs
We're a small team of product developers seeking feedback on a new tool that we've been working on for editing product catalogs. It's designed to cater for people struggling with editing their product catalog manually on traditional spreadsheet editors (like excel).

Here are a few feature highlights:
1. Bulk image upload with a special wizard to automatically match a large directory of images to individual products
2. Special keyboard/mouse shortcuts and various editing accelerators
3. Easy-to-use product data validation
4. A built-in rich text editor (for things like product descriptions)
LOL, once spent a few days on SWE salary (along with a few other guys) physically moving server racks from one facility to another. Yes, small company. As a one-off that sort of stuff is fine.
I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems
A very insightful thread by Hillel Wayne on content tagging systems and their challenges.

Their ubiquitous use (in library and information sciences, and popular social networks like Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest), their deceptive ease of implementation, and "obvious advantages" over hierarchies/folders, means that almost every developer has (or will) run into them at one point or another..

Feel free to comment with good theory and case studies on tagging systems. (It's especially interesting with good case studies for how to model an advanced tag system in a graph database).
> we should definitely bet against the proposition that "all intelligent beings" understand it

Hey, we can always claim that those who disagree with us are not intelligent.

I'm only partially joking. Lots of today's "justices" have so many internal contradictions that I feel like we should separate them into their own category.
> After a year of trying, coaching, assuming I’m the problem, talking to my skip level, hard convos with my boss, and much more etc

Seems like OP did all these things.
Precisely ^

Strive for excellence, not perfection, in everything you do.
another factor - lockdown decreasing social ties, which in turns increases mortality. Loneliness kills.
What happens upon contact with aliens? I believe that to be an important question, and one look at the warfaring, fearful history of humankind makes it clear, as best said from the most reprehensible book on philosophy I have ever read:

"477. "If intelligent entities from other parts of the universe exist at similar or superior technological levels to ours, would they draw the same or at least similar philosophical conclusions to us?" That is a very good question. And my answer is this. They better f#%*ing do if they want to have any hope of withstanding our relentless, merciless onslaught."
You mean the stroke of a pen and a massive amount of money (to buy the buildings, convert them to the legal standards for such spaces, manage the buildings, manage the programs, etc, etc.).
I'm neither. But basically designing a Virus would mean composing a 30k long string of RNA (in this case) which creates the proteins and RNA molecules which do all the things a Virus does. And it does more than you'd think. It makes the cell copy the Virus, make the proteins, often interferes with other processes in the cell.

Copying the genome is easy. Making specific modifications isn't even that hard, as long as you don't have the illusion to know the result beforehand. But for the Virus to change its behavior in a meaningful/useful way requires multiple changes. The best someone could do is recombine changed parts from multiple variants. But they don't necessarily fit together. And the recombination also happens in nature, probably a lot more often than in the lab.
We've tried to convert offices to homes in the UK, and there's something particularly dystopian about the result. I think they have to make strange trade-offs to make the space useful, and its ends up being not very nice. I'm sure it's better than being on the street, but it isn't nice.
The aesthetics of a traffic light...
1. I took placement exams, but found them to be wildly inaccurate, or just downright meaningless. For instance, I scored in the penultimate top range for back-end, front-end, architecture. Top 80-90% IIRC. I took the JS placement exam (the language I use daily to build and solo-maintain an entire microservice-oriented project I produced from scratch) but couldn’t even muster a “proficient” placement. Like are you kidding me? What a joke.

2. I was under the impression that Triplebyte was designed to skip the technical interview, but basically the placement exams were pointless, because I ended up doing a tech interview for each and every single company.

3. I started realizing that every message I received on the website was a bulk message. I got messages to be a technical cofounder at an AI joint once, which is an absurd mismatch. I was looking for senior SE roles.

4. Nobody reads the resume on the website, because every company expects me to send a hard copy over.

5. The final straw was that one company was clearly just a scam. I reached out to Triplebyte about it and they straight up ignored me. I ended up just deleting my account.

Clearly I’m not Triplebyte’s target demographic of prodigious rockstar coders that implemented his/her first Trie at age 7, which means Im basically just another datapoint for the company to sell and jump through the same old hoops. I might as well use LinkedIn or Indeed.
It was on Libera in a public channel. It wasn't humor. I'm very used to the IRC crowd and recognizing even the cringiest of humor tactics. There's also another person on this thread now who Drew reacted similarly on a mailing list.

I will be very surprised if Drew isn't called in by his communities at some point.
>I think you misunderstand DAI. Saying the point of DAI is to accumulate crypto is like saying the point of a car is to accumulate oil.

No, I understand it perfectly. The only purpose of stablecoins is to provide liquidity in the crypto markets for these defi apps where all the trading action happens. They don't have any other purpose and there isn't any other reason to hold them. If it wasn't for the crypto markets you would just be using USD and trading against that directly. Seriously, if you go to the DAI website and you click the big "Use DAI" button it literally just takes you to another crypto investing app.

In the future please avoid falling for this trap that web3 tech pushers set. They claim there is "innovation" in the space but almost all of it is just clones of existing financial services with crypto instead of real money. The fact that there's even something call "stablecoins" should demonstrate to you how bogus this all is. The rest of cryptos are so volatile the only way they can make anything resembling a market out of it is by pegging other cryptos to the USD and doing all their trading against that. It's just adding more middlemen to reach the ultimate goal which, as always, is to eventually cash out into USD. Because everybody knows cryptos by themselves are useless for anything besides speculative gambling.

>“Centralized into a [decentralized] protocol” is an oxymoron. The benefit of ENS over DNS is that there is no centralized actor that can control, censor and manipulate the namespace.

Nope, you're wrong about this in the context of most things implemented in smart contracts. You should be extremely wary of anyone making these claims. Since the "smart contract" is actually just a piece of code, typically the smart contract will have an update mechanism that only a centralized actor can use to upload patches and updates to the code. IIRC this is still how ENS works last time I checked. Like almost everything in crypto, it's a centralized service that the authors lie about and masquerade it as decentralized.

Sometimes they'll do an even worse thing by having "governance tokens" that grant you powers to update the smart contract, and someone with a lot of money can just come in and buy all the tokens and take it over. So these "smart contracts" are not really decentralized in any sense. If anyone says "we are making this thing that can't be controlled, censored or manipulated" then that's a massive red flag.

There's also the question of why anyone actually wants that. What other industry would this be ok in? If someone had a company that made self-driving cars advertised as being "uncontrollable and uncensorable by driving laws", nobody would want that. We'd recognize that company is actually just selling unstoppable killing machines. So why do people for some bizarre reason think this is a good thing in financial markets where the super-rich already have extreme power consolidation? It makes absolutely no sense at all.
Relatively cheap, abundant labor is required for businesses to be open late, and that is not something SF has.
The issue will definitely still be yellow, and now your design system has to deal with "and do everything a second time, but now for dark mode" because dark mode has a completely different set of equally annoying problems.
I'm holding out for when they make one with a translucent case.
One of the languages I've designed is called SLANG (https://github.com/sonarsource/slang) when I was working at Sonar.

The ideia is to have a common IR representation from multiple input programming languages to perform static analysis on top of.

This is useful because it's very expensive to write dedicated backend analysers when you have to support 25+ programming languages.

This is specially true when analysers share a subset of the checks (e.g. cyclomatic complexity, identical conditions check). You can check the full list at: https://github.com/SonarSource/slang/tree/master/slang-check....
Understood you need PD for alt modes, that's a given. I never thought about the scenario where you have a powered USB hub and you switch from powering it via a brick to powering it via your laptop... interesting, and actually very reasonable scenario. I guess given you have PD already built-in, it's not too hard to integrate that functionality either.
Funny enough, it's not quite the same, but Huawei has a Linux distribution that is certified to conform to the Unix 03 standard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EulerOS
> Windows was demoted to one section of the company’s Surface announcements held as a precursor to the main event.

We see this with Windows and with MacOS. MacOS's downfall is the more visible one.

The OS is no longer prioritized except where it needs to be somewhat presentable in screenshots. The OS becomes a vehicle to sell company goods. The OS rots to the point that there's no one left at the company with even the most basic competence to create first-party apps for it.

Because the money is elsewhere.

I wonder at which point this neglect makes the OS so unusable that it actively hurts the development of the money-making machines.

Though strangely enough MS would survive this better than Apple.
The narrative was that Snapchat and Roku were worth those previous validations, this is just back to reality.
> i had to lie down for 30 min after having played half life 2 with an occulus for an hour.

Honestly, this sort of game is probably a worst-case scenario for motion sickness. Like most FPS games, it's designed around unrealistically fast player movement, which is a recipe for nausea -- and the janky physics and low-resolution models and textures of a nearly 20-year-old game don't help, either.
So back in the '30s our economy was strong as hell too, by that measure.
> Russia spent billions building these pipes

Exactly. And where do you think at least half those billions of government money has ended? In the pockets of all involved in the building them. And no new pipes are being build now. Not very profitable for the oligarchs, isn't it?

Why these unknowns didn't blew second pipe of NS2? It is moderately possible that it was done to pressure Germany to open NS2 (and it may happen next year, nobody knows how future will be shaped). This will legalize NS2 and then Russia can repair 3 other pipes (and repair corp will pocket half of the funds, again).

Also legalizing NS2 will pave the way to building 3rd and 4th pipes in the Turkey system, which Kremlin want very much. And builders of these potential southern pipes will do what? Correct, they will pocket half of the money.

There are a lot of moderately probably arguments for Russia doing it, and all involved can profit from this - Germany, Turkey, Kremlin, Russian builders and gas oligarchs. Sure, Russian people will be poorer, but when it was ever a consideration of Kremlin? :)
Ask HN: Are Voice Notes Useless?
Would you use Voice Notes (speech-to-text transcribing) in note-taking app of your choice?

I'm curious why popular note-taking apps still didn't add it. Is it useless or what?

On the other hand I see some popular apps built exactly for Voice Notes, but there's not much combined apps for text and voice notes...
One can only dream, but mid-market price expectations cannot be met. Just read in the article the price for the space, it is huge.
Can anyone suggest a way to read this without the gifs? I tried my phone's reader mode but it shows the gifs too.
Meaning taxes
You need a critical mass of nutters to achieve any traction. I don't know of any case where someone successfully did that in reality.
libcamera uses v4l2 (among others). I don't understand what you mean.
I only said "I'm always surprised". I am wondering about this topic, and the replies are helpful
AI-Assisted Object Editing with Google’s Imagic and Runway’s ‘Erase and Replace’
counterpoint: the place where I usually order my pizza (without an account, nice) has an optional field for phone number and they even write "in case something goes wrong". If this was an ecommerce order then yes, I'd rather be contacted by mail. If they have a new delivery person that can't find the building, I'd prefer to be called. But making it mandatory is also bad. What if I only had internet at a building but no phone number? Am I not allowed to order pizza?
You reminded me about a big company I used to work where they had these personal development plans. They were insisting on people to do them, but the allocated time was mostly "on paper". The consequence of that was that people started to pick small/trivial goals just to show something in reviews.
Here you go: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

> What I found were dozens of requests, which loaded nearly 16 MB in data. Lets break down what I saw.

> I also reviewed Google Chrome, for those interested: When I launched Google Chrome for the first time (and let it sit for a minute), 32 requests were made, and 7.26 MB of data downloaded.

Presumably Chromium would ping even less than Google Chrome.
I dont know. I've taken a few jobs for growth. But I made sure they also benefited me in other ways. Want me to take a really hard role where I'm going to learn and grow a lot? Pay me more than if I was taking a less difficult role with less growth.
Well it's useable, I use it as well, but definitely worse then before this "new" version. And I want the extension support back.
Are we GUI, CUDA and SYSCL yet?

Don't forget that to contribute to Rust backends on their present forms, some C++ is required.
With just a little initiative, the whole city could be like the TL.
Shameless plug for my hybrid visual/text pl, Pickcode, which matches what you're talking about

Demo programs: https://app.pickcode.io/playground
I feel so much better that China’s state sponsored social media platform is what constitutes “competition”. Clearly no regulation needed here.
In my opinion a computer wiz has enough talent and knowledge about tech that he can very quickly learn how to do all these things. And I don’t doubt for a second that Linus would be able to learn Wireguard, systemd or any networking system within a few days to a level far exceeding most people, insofar he doesn’t already know.

Linus didn’t just build the most used kernel on the planet, he also built the most used revision control system on the planet and has proven to be an effective project manager, whatever people think about his style. You’d probably be short sighted to dismiss any of his abilities.
This sort of setup would cross my mind while in college. The allure is that it would be similar to college - young people enthusiastic for learning but having fun too, no commuting, etc. As I got older it seems more like a nightmare since I hate my job and require more space/independence for my lifestyle/hobbies/family.
For me this is one of those announcements that I'm excited to see the new version, so that I can maybe buy the previous version ;)

That's not a knock on the new version in any way, just a reflection of how much I value this particular type of device / where I feel I need more power and etc.
So very human of us to think our truths are some other beings truths. Maybe they proved math isn't true? Maybe they don't think in any way like we do.
Thinking of countries as singular, cohesive entities might be over simplified in this case.
Tags are extremely useful for people who want to ignore arguments based solely on who is making them. I really am not a fan of how popular they are getting.
Killer drones vie for supremacy over Ukraine
People have heard the competing claims. The idea that deniers haven’t been able to make their case is just nonsense.
If you think these things are written with second order effects in mind you should look into why you can't buy a light truck in America anymore.
They, like all companies, were hiring speculatively based on growth projections. No growth equals no work for those new people to do. This seems to be the 100% logical reaction so I’m not sure where you see the disconnect.
How long does the battery last? Comparing to the MacBook Air?
Also me. Albeit probably not as experienced as OP, I still would like to help.