skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The phrase "cutting off the supply of gifs to rivals" may be one of the dumbest things I've ever read in my life. I honestly can't believe someone wrote that in a legal opinion.

I would very much doubt that was the actual wording, that's most likely a paraphrasing by the author of this article. The final report is not released yet, but according to the summary pdf linked from https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/facebook-inc-giphy-inc-merger-i... the phrasing is likely to be closer to "On this basis, we consider that Facebook would also have an incentive to foreclose its rivals from access to GIPHY."
There was a half-hearted effort for everyone to go hybrid. After a few months everyone naturally fell back into the individual roles we had before the edict was issued. There was a lot of struggling before this silent return to original duties happened. No one really ever acknowledged the bad course we were on, just went back to the way things worked.

One developer actually found that he liked the business analyst work better and continued on that path.
One thing to watch out for (in roles like the old one you left) is the mentality that all butts in chairs are interchangeable.

In particular, they should have hired a seasoned release manager instead of trying to turn you into one.

(Some Dev Ops proponents have some nonsensical argument about continuous release meaning you don’t need a release manager. Those people are incompetent, and don’t know what a release manager does.)
God what a non-issue.
Curious why is that, what are the pain points specifically? I use it often when presenting and the only downside is that presentation mode forces full screen (on mac)
The thing is, libcamera uses video4linux, because video4linux (together with the rest of the media infrastructure userspace API[1]) is how camera devices are exposed by the kernel. It's just that not all cameras are as simple as "find the /dev/videoX device and throw ioctls at it" anymore; you need to set up the configurable subdevice node graph (also using video4linux APIs), and maybe the frames the device gives you need post-processing, etc. There's nothing in libcamera which you couldn't do with video4linux APIs + userspace code, since libcamera is itself just something which sits in userspace and uses video4linux APIs.

The compatibility layer simply makes applications which use video4linux in the "find the /dev/videoX device and throw ioctls at it" way work even with cameras which are much more complicated to set up and configure. But it just replaces one usage pattern of the video4linux kernel interface with a different, more complex usage pattern of the video4linux kernel interface (and the media controller kernel interface) + potential userspace processing.

So libcamera is absolutely "on top of" video4linux is my point.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/userspace-api/media/i...
API focused podcast from Postman [audio]
Nah. After all, we're in the world of evergreen software now, so there are no release numbers, only happy little surprises when some new feature suddenly pops up on your screen...

/s
Browser extension: https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends
OT: Looking at the Disqus comments below the article made me realize once more how great the discussion and moderation here really is. It's not perfect, but it's so much better than ~80% of the threads being political rants, over-reductionist takes or just plain trolling.
> The entire fucking concept of intellectual property and copyright is flawed from the get go.

Many people are upset because Microsoft is hiding behind copyright and lawyers to enforce it, while at the same time ignoring the concept of intellectual property when it comes to smaller players. I'd imagine that if Microsoft removed copyright on all their code and released it and Copilot as open source, there would be much less outrage.

The issue here, for me at least, isn't centered around copyright as a concept; it's about the asymmetry of the situation. Microsoft is exploiting those without any recourse in order to sell a product.

Your ideas about a new economy and no copyright are interesting, but they will not happen any time soon. In the meantime, in reality, Microsoft is making millions based on an enormous pile of community code while not offering their code back to that community.
The theory is that the US did a Cortez and burned the hypothetical escape route Europe had for its NatGas problem. Now they are committed to the Ukrainian cause because they won’t get their gas either way.
and who's designing and manufacturing and programming the accelerators needed for those algorithms to perform close to real time?
Ask HN: How big companies handle big queues?
I would like to know how big companies handle big queues. For example, if there are 1M users and each sends one message and it all happens almost at the same time within few seconds timeframe.

It means 1M messages need to reach other 1M users and 1M push notifications need to be sent. I presume all those requests go to the queue so the response is returned faster and user experience is better.

But how do those companies handle 1M queue jobs, since most of those messages need to reach other users almost in realtime, without much delay.
>A competing monetary system relative to the Federal Reserve isn't something these interests are all that thrilled about

That is true but honestly cryptocurrency isn't a threat to the Fed at all.
Increasing the pressure levels could not have produced such extensive damage. It was explosives. If Russia wanted to stop the flow, they could simply turn off the valves on their side rather than blow up their own infrastructure they spent billions to build.
And my response to the article is that there are way bigger fish to fry than splitting up a dying social media conglomerate. Google and Amazon are far more powerful and dominant than Meta and you know it.

Sent from my Android phone through Chrome. BRB, I just got a package and I need to check my AWS config.
Okay, but what gives them the right to remove the license from my code when redistributing it?
Agreed. More examples :

- libpipi (why such a boring name for a library that I'm guessing helps you take a piss?)

- libcaca (why such a boring name for a library that helps you take a shit?)

- Thunar (what an utterly uninspired name for software that 100% accurately behaves like a Norse god)

- Flameshot (Another fire shooting application with a boring name)

- Zathura (I hate that from the name alone I can tell that I'm gonna be pulled into an intergalactic space adventure. Why not something random?)
As we keep learning more about long Covid, I expect that even if we stopped transmission of the virus today we’d still be seeing excess death and shorter lifespans for a long time. There are a lot of people walking around unaware of the organ damage they are living with due to minor bouts of Covid. Since the effects with subsequent infections seem to be cumulative, and more and more people getting repeated infections the next couple of decades are going to be a massacre with deaths from several different causes going up as people start to succumb to the effects of long Covid.
This is misinformation. COVID-19 vaccines aren't covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [0], but the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) [1]

But wait, there's more!

> Will the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program provide compensation to individuals injured by COVID-19 vaccines? [2]

> ...For a category of vaccines to be covered by the VICP, the category of vaccines must be recommended for routine administration to children or pregnant women by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, subject to an excise tax by federal law, and added to the VICP by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. No COVID-19 vaccines currently meet this criteria.

So, no, there is not a mechanism in place to offset those.

[0] https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation
[1] https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp
[2] https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/faq
That's pretty interesting on the NFT-backed-by-real-estate bit

I RT'd with the following comment: "I don't know how "awesome" this is ... but keeping real estate records on #blockchain is close to the only sane use of the technology"
I straight up refuse to do phone interviews with them and force them to move me directly to an onsite (which I won't study for) just so that I can waste their engineers time and maybe have a tiny chance of stroking my ego by getting a FAANG offer.

No FAANG offer yet, but by my calculations, Amazon has wasted 5 digit sums on assesing me.

Bezos made it personal with how he treated my partner while they worked for him, so I'll have my petty revenge one way or another...
Move to another job. Not all organizations / teams are incompetent.
>people who are already dead won't die again?

Oh look, another chronic-death denier
Intel owns a significant chunk of ASML but it’s always been a fully Dutch company.

That being said, ASML is 100 percent reliant on US Government research for their EUV breakthroughs, which is why the USG can tell them who they can and can’t sell to.
If you need fresh ears/someone to practice on - I'm all yours. I'm not ready to discuss usage on desktop - in my opinion it even more useless than Linux, but on server side, for web services related projects I'm fine.

My upper limit would be ~ 5000 servers in use, 3-500 web related developers for that system/servers.
*misrepresenting :)

But yes, you're otherwise entirely correct. Our country has been lied to for decades in this regard particularly. Well done them, I guess?
"There is a lot of evidence that points to the virus spreading from a wet market in the city"

Spreading, yes. Originating no. Note:

This article uses two preprint papers one of which was changed before publication and the other doesn't support zoonotic origin:

https://www.science.org/content/article/do-three-new-studies...
Second Playwright. Autogenerated code is a mess, still better than nothing though.
> Russia had to do something or their economy would fall apart

Ukraine would solve nothing in the Russian economy.

Ukraine would simply secure two things: Crimea (which is essential to Russia and was strategically exposed), and complete control on all main gas infrastructure towards Europe. It's not a coincidence that the invasion was launched when it became clear that the new gasduct to the North was dead in the water (because of American opposition to it): Putin wanted to make gas furniture to Europe strategically independent from other countries (i.e. completely dependent on Russia), one way or the other. The original calculation was probably "You don't give me Nordstream, so I'll take everything else". Obviously it didn't go as planned.
While true, the obesity issue was always going to force this down eventually anyways. Boomers are probably the oldest generation that will die younger than their parent due to it (statistically speaking). And probably just get worse from there for a good while. Innovative breakthroughs in health science can not keep pace with the wave of obesity related health issues.
I don’t, and here’s why: If libcamera turns out to be a bust, then we’ve burnt that name. Now the next library will have to be called something like libeyeopener, and I’ll have to spend years telling people “although libcamera sounds like the ‘official’ camera library, the one you actually want is libeyeopener.”

“Fanciful” names don’t squat on valuable namespace and allow different approaches to duke it out without one of them getting the advantage of sounding like the “official” one.
I find the section on "syntactic salt" interesting:

> The opposite of syntactic sugar, a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop the programmer must jump through just to prove that he knows what’s going on, rather than to express a program action.

This is perhaps an uncharitable way to describe it, but the concept does ring a bell. Rust's unsafe {}, C++'s reinterpret_cast<>(), etc - all slightly verbose. More important than jumping through hoops, the verbosity helps when reading code to know that something out of the ordinary is going on.
Europe used to buy a lot of natural gas from russia via these pipelines. Now that they're gone, they will have to buy from someone else. The united states has a lot of natural gas to sell them.

edit: nice stealth edit. the original comment was just "what would the motive be?" which imo is a perfectly fine question to ask. the "conspiratorial" line has me wondering though: what would a non conspiratorial theory be?
Librewolf is a running fork of the newest Firefox with some small improvements. Unlike other forks it always has latest security updates.

I use it these days and I am considering to start chipping in too (I am at my limits currently so I will have to stop something else though).

But I really really want something like my old Firefox back...!
> I've personally found unexpected exceptions being thrown to be one of the main causes of unreliability in production applications I've worked on.

Python has a serious problems with this. Not only are exceptions not documented, they are also thrown by normal execution, so you can't just say "something serious happened here, go to the recovery".
> It doesn't though. Firstly, Occam's razor is not about simplicity but about "parsimony". Parsimony is calculated in information theory via Kolmogorov complexity

In theory perhaps, but in practice it is firstly calculated by the mind of the person who plays the Occam's Razor card, and then subsequently by people who ingest the claim, and typically all participants are performing their calculations using biased heuristics and flawed logic, and have negative interest in what is actually true, or if truth is even reachable.
Teaching Accidental and Essential Complexity
In the voice of superintendent Chalmers: A rare novel bat Coronavirus

Emerged in Wuhan.

Down the street from a virology institute

That was studying coronaviruses

That was studying novel bat Coronaviruses

That had multiple breaches of safety protocol in the years leading up to it

Is not where the virus originated?

Skinner: Um yes

"Can we inspect the site freely?"

"No"

"CCP a global pandemic is destroying the world."

"That's just misinformation mother"
Life expectancy is a weird one, not going to lie.

All the numbers are wrong from some perspective.

You mention a good one. The fact that life expectancy was so low in the past was due to infant mortality. If you lived to like 15 (IIRC), your life expectancy got much longer. Like 60s to 70s (once again, IIRC).

And that even holds today. The longer you live, the longer you can expect to live. If you're 70, you have a life expectancy of 14 (male) to 17 (female) years. If you're 80, you have a life expectancy of 7 (m) to 9 (f) years. If you're 90, you have a life expectancy of about 4 years.

And all of that seems kind of weird on the face. If I'm 70, I can expect to live 14 years on average. Which takes me to 84, which is greater than 80. But if I'm 80, I can expect to live to 87, which is greater than 84.

But it's the nature of averages. When I'm 70, I'm being average with other 70 year olds. Some of them die at 71, some at 93. Every year, more and more people drop off. If you make it to 80, all those who didn't make are no longer relevant.
Don't worry about having failed. Just try to learn some lessons so you can avoid similar problems next time.

If it's truly getting to the point where it's affecting your mental health, the job is no longer what you should prioritize.
Always be earning or learning, ideally both.
OP did.

>"With all humility I admit it may be me that failed."
The current pandemic was probably caused by such research. But even if you don’t believe that it was probably caused by it, a reasonable person and can admit it was possibly by it. Multiply that “possibly” out by 6.5M deaths or so and that’s your research death toll.

So 1% chance of lab escape? 65,000 deaths. Weigh that against your hypothetical benefits of performing the research and I think it’s hard to conclude that such research is wise.
COIVD killed and kills mostly the aged, infirm, obese, or otherwise health compromised people. So the survivors are more healthy than average and less susceptible to normal causes of death.
>> Is he?

Yeah, Biden himself recently said that Putin is a rational actor who grossly miscalculated, because he was basically fed very bad and flawed intel. He may be blustering about nukes now, but the only way he would do that is if Ukraine turns the tables and invades Russia, or something similar.
Keep in mind that original nordstream was destroyed while Russia offered to supply gas via nordstream II which is repairable. If only EU and US would lift sanctions.

Great excuse to get NS2 going! How convenient for Russia, huh?
> If there were intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe, they'd share certain truths in common with us. For example, I think we'd share the principle that a controlled experiment testing some hypothesis entitles us to have proportionally increased belief in it.

I was thinking more "triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones", but you do you!
Yellow is a real issue for sure. My reaction after many years is to just trust feedback from user testing more than the ratio, because users are seeing the UI in context on real screens, and in the end it's their experience that matters to me, not the calculator.
'Ask for forgiveness, not permission' is really not something we want in biotech.
-Eliminate any leverage Russia had with Germany and EU.
-Supply more LNG from US
One strand of the Nordstream 2 pipeline is still functional, and Russia offered to send gas via that one recently. Just as a counterpoint to everyone claiming that Russia has no motive because they would harm themselves. This attack didn't remove all pipeline capacity, only 3 out of 4 strands of the two pipelines. So it did not remove the ability for Russia to sell gas to Germany.
This is extra dangerous because it can result in you losing confidence which can lead to you developing patterns that make it seem like you are falling which in turn feeds a downward spiral. This older HBR article on "Set up to fail syndrome" should be read by everyone who is a manager or feels like they are struggling: https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-set-up-to-fail-syndrome
>Why on God's green earth was this done instead of

You are not alone. I'm starting to think something is wrong with me because I don't give an iota of a damn about any of this. I have watched people just get sucked into the rabbit hole of browsing for themes for the their browser while accomplishing exactly nothing after being overwhelmed and paralyzed by the choices. (Kinda like trying to find something to watch on streaming platforms)

Me, I have the default desktops from the OS, mobile OS, etc. I have too many windows covering my desktop to even care what it looks like. Yes, that's me, and I'm not even close to being everyone else. If this is the thing that convinces people to stop using Chrome, then fine. Spend time making the UI customizable to the point it looks like a MySpace background because that's what 99.9999% of people not me want. I'll do me, you do you.
> The theory is that the US did a Cortez and burned the hypothetical escape route Europe had for its NatGas problem. Now they are committed to the Ukrainian cause because they won’t get their gas either way.

That's pure bollocks because the pipelines through Poland/Belarus and Austria/Hungary/Ukraine still exist and work. They were able to handle the entire European gas supply before Germany decided to build NordStream to reduce the leverage of these transit countries.
The idea is more like russia is sending the message "we are suicidal and ready to do really expensive, stupid stuff, maybe even go nuclear, are you too?"
I’ve worked at Meta and I can imagine that other companies have worse security in general yeah. I think people here have a glamorous idea of how companies run security. Most companies don’t even have security teams.
thanks for saying that! people are pretty skeptical about localstack when they hear about it for the first time, and don't understand how we could ever emulate something remotely resembling AWS. tbh sometimes i'm baffled myself, it's pretty crazy what it can already do (i work there).
Come on. The only way to destroy 50 meters of pipeline is with explosives/weapons. Even if someone increased the pressure to a breaking point, it would cause a much smaller failure at a seam and the pressure would then stabilize.

This is Putin playing power games. He wants so strike fear in the German public and cause public support for aiding Ukraine to falter.

By failing to correctly attribute the actor behind this act of terror and spreading conspiracy theories you are only playing to the hand of that war-mongering dictator.
Did you read the part of the article where it states that it has been shown that Copilot copies verbatim large sections of copyrighted code, stripped of all attribution, depending on the prompt provided?
Yeah, this is the real problem. Allowing non-technical managers to dabble in the SDLC is Jira's greatest sin.
The dollars per hour worked ratio is trash at Amazon though.

All amazonians would jump to Google if they could. The reverse is quite rare.
The elite is lying to you and always have been. I know this first hand as my company is heavily invested in the travel industry and we have been bleeding money during the pandemic like crazy AND YET we have also been hiring like crazy.

All of this is just to tell the pesky employees to know their place.
> instead of spending any effort getting a SINGLE bit of unity among the Bookmarks, Downloads and Add-ons panels

One thing I'd actually like is a reasonably powerful history browser/manager. I want to look for websites I visited in a custom time period, how many times I visited a website last month, or in January, or whatever.

It's all very poor as it stands: a very simple interface with no power-features whatsover, a fixed set of time periods to view (today, yesterday, last month), and a simple total visit count and timestamp of most recent visit.
Sorry to be explaining the joke, but I think GP (deliberately) misunderstood what was meant by the term "crypto".
This is a fascinating mystery. There's at least 4 parties that you can make arguments for/against:

Russia

For: Plunge Europe into an energy crisis to force concessions in Ukraine

Against: It looks a lot like a glass cannon to me. Meaning, Europe will now change their behavior to remove dependence on Russian energy.

USA

For: They've been against the Nords from the beginning and could pull something like this off

Against: Big escalation, huge potential blow back from Europe, and economic fallout is bad for the midterm elections

Ukraine

For: Removes a large source of Russian leverage over Europe

Against: Doesn't seem like they could pull it off and it risks the support from Europe they do have

Random European Country

For: Lots of them don't like the dependence on Russian energy and many of them have the means

Against: Huge escalation with Russia and risks discord amongst the EU
Bringing Europe to heel.

Ask the British and French what sort of ally the US was during the Suez Crisis.

Since people don't seem to get it: Europe will now be an energy subsidiary of the US. When the next US president says that they need to contribute 4% of GDP to Nato it will come with the promise of an unpleasant winter if they don't.
Disrupting Nord Stream 1/2, which the US has wanted and been very explicit and vocal about since day one. Why? The theory goes that they want to sell gas to Europe rather instead of Russia. That seems plausible if not obvious, but what's definitely true in any case is they did not want Europe buying gas from Russia. The official propaganda is that it was for Europe's own security (which we see now is not completely invalid.)
> See also: halting problem.

The one that can be solved for the overwhelming majority of code people write on real life?