skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese Nuclear Anti-Satellite Study Highlights Problem of Countering Starlink
Microsoft was a small beat but the stock's currently down, presumably on the slower growth in Azure.
Headcount almost double since the Pandemic.
Dry cleaners are beginning to close as the pandemic drags on(Feb 2022)
The main negative I have is just the opposite: YT’s algorithm persistently pushing crazy alien theories, Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson garbage into my feed, or worse. I wish they would censor that stuff more, because I’m not interested and no matter how many times I say “not interested”, it finds its way back in.
Large-Scale Retrieval for Reinforcement Learning
hi, author here! Thanks for your comment. Which where the parts that are poorly explained? I would love to get some feedback from you. I just started learning about computability theory, so maybe I explained some concepts wrong. Also, english is not my first language, so perhaps I lost something in translation.

Thanks :)
I just answered my own question, since I had the MS report in Word.

I was hoping I'd have to supply a password to edit it, which would be a somewhat reasonable level of security. But no; you just click "edit anyway." Duh.
Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson Palmer's brother Jordan.

Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which should be immediate jail time across the board.
Thanks! I have notes scattered around, but they're not coherent (unlike the RTLs! <rimshot>) and I doubt I'll have time to publish them as once I've written an article I generally have to move on the next thing, which is the downside of being allowed to play with nice toys.
I agree with this. GIMP is powerful and a fine piece of software but it truly needs an enlightened UX despot to come in and clean house.
When will Microsoft disclose Azure revenue?

Borderline absurd omission while competing with AWS, which is on track to have half as much revenue as all of Microsoft in a few quarters (and has disclosed revenue since April 2015)
very much doubt that it's the bootcamp-devs-without-real-experience developping new-gen bundlers and transpilers
There are multiple open-source GPTs, but GPT-3 is absolutely massive - larger than the image models actually! So, unfortunately, text generation is probably even more complex and resource intensive than image generation (especially to train). Additionally, in image generation, we appreciate the creativity of solutions, but in text generation the creative solutions seem like utter nonsense.
Nominal numbers are meaningless. It’s like when people tout $10B in buybacks like it’s a big deal when the market cap is over $1T.

Everything is relative
It’s not made up, a favourite YouTuber was banned so I signed up for Rumble and shift my viewing to alternative platforms as much as possible.
Nothing will change here until Prop 13 is meaningfully dismantled. It makes no sense for a boomer owner of a quadplex rental property to be paying less property tax then a owner of a new studio apartment.
This makes no sense. If anything, "anglosaxon" countries are much less obsessed about prestigious schools than places like say, France. So to portray it as a uniquely anglosaxon trait doesn't make sense.

Also, german higher education is meh at best. Even beyond rankings, german universities are usually well in the middle of pack at best, in almost every quantifiable metric. Though putting the blame on the anglos for that is... very typically german I guess.
Prometheus: The Documentary
Origin story of the open source monitoring project, told through interviews with the creators and other people.
You likely have a browser setting that needs to be changed. It runs fine for me in Firefox.
There is, called "GPT-NeoX", or its TPU-based predecessor GPT-Neo. However, even running inference on these models is much, much harder than Stable Diffusion -- the GPT-NeoX-20B weights for GPT-NeoX requires a minimum of two GPUs with 24 GB of VRAM each to simply run inference, never-mind training or fine-tuning.

I believe there are some tricks for cutting down the VRAM requirements a bit by dropping precision at different points, but the gist is that these big text models are actually quite a bit more resource intensive than the image models.
Most problems Google is trying to solve now outside their core competency and existing offerings are not, fundamentally, software engineering problems.

Consider the saga of Stadia. The tech is rock-solid. That fact did nothing to address developers not wanting to risk a platform that might not have customers, customers not wanting to subscribe to a platform that may not have long-term support, game development itself being the world's biggest game of craps, entire swathes of the world lacking enough internet bandwidth for realtime streaming, and nobody trusting Google to lean into something at an operational loss for more than a few years anymore (with the exception-proving-the-rule of Cloud).
Usually I hear “training a model”
Yeah, I guess where I landed is just subbing and unsubbing when a show I want is on. Sometimes I also watch a movie or two from the service while I'm at it. I follow few enough shows that it's not unmanageable.
YouTube didn't work on Amazon Fire devices for a long time because Amazon removed competing Google products from Amazon.com. It was really frustrating. The consumer always loses in these cases.
My team at work took it out of our product. :( I couldn't make strong arguments that it was providing value, as it had turned into the slow test that always passed, by the time new folks joined. I do think it has a lot of merit, though.
> Why would any company keep more employees than they need?

Well I have an answer to this but it's not related to the conversation.

Employers keep people employed as a bargaining chip with the government.
In the Mid Atlantic region you have to pay 20% over MSRP to buy an ordinary Toyota Corolla off the lot right now, it's not limited to new technology or high demand units.
I wish every subscription service did this. Make it very clear you subbing via Apple so you get charged 100% more. I can't think of a more parasitic rent seeking piece of trash policy then Apple's fucking 30% cut. Google too but you can at-least skip them without them banning you.
At least four dry cleaners have closed shop in my 1/4 million strong city. Now with pandemic and WFH fading, can they come back?

Is this an opportunity to try something different?

This is not an ‘outdated service’ ..clean clothes will never become obsolete(hopefully). So where is the upgrade?
The pixelation on affinity magic wand / bucket combo is ridiculous.
The poor quality of Affinity results makes it unusable for me.

Photopea just works.
Google's corporate culture relies on a high profit margin. The perks, the ability to invest in large bets, all hinge on a high profit margin. If their profit margin shrinks you'll end up loosing the culture. Without the culture, Google would turn into an IBM/Oracle/HP.
Most likely this fix would make a big difference then:
https://github.com/facebook/ktfmt/commit/6ea9e8f461853c32177...
you can't assume that markets are always efficient. i'm sure there's plenty of industrys that won't use labor saving tech even if it could save them a lot of money. and since they don't need to compete, they won't loose market share to those companies that do.

govt for instance isn't going to start laying off employees for AI generated work, even if the AI gen work is better.
That's certainly a design choice they're free to make. Undecidability itself is less of a deal-breaker, although I would argue that a statically-typed language which is unsound defeats the purpose of having static types in the first place.

Ideally, you want type inference to terminate in the amount of time it takes to type a few keystrokes to get realtime assistance, so decidability is still an over-approximation from a tooling standpoint and in practice anything strongly super-linear is not a fun experience to use.
Brazilians average twice a day.

Source: https://www.dailyinfographic.com/world-shower-habits
To correct the above since I think something got deleted as OP was editing themselves:

* 20,500 -> 22,500 : 401K employee contribution limit changes

* 6,000 -> 6,500 : IRA contribution limit changes, for those under age 50

* 6,000 -> 7,500 : IRA contribution limit changes for those age 50 and older (includes $1000 catch-up)
In Turkey cinemas used to have intermissions for every movie. Even in early 2000s. I don't know if it's still the case.
Right, they link to this docs page when referring to the memoization library: https://turbo.build/pack/docs/core-concepts

And the github link at the top of the page links here: https://github.com/vercel/turbo but, despite being called "turbo", that seems to actually be the repo for Turbopack (the webpack alternative) not "Turbo" the library.

Even digging a bit into the crates, I'm not sure where this supposed library lives: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/tree/main/crates
Ford Fiesta car set to be discontinued as model scrapped
By "this" I meant what I linked, not "what you just said". I realize in retrospect that I was unclear. I'm not sure if their approach would imply satisfying the (true, true)/ (false, false) case given that they are separate branches.
When I told a coworker I was visiting Stockholm for the first time a few years back, we had the following conversation:

Him: “You gonna go see the boat museum?”

Me: “The what?”

Him: “The boat museum. It’s a museum with a boat in it.”

Me: “…just one boat?”

Him: “Trust me. Go see the boat.”

He was right. One of the coolest museums I’ve ever visited in my life.
I don’t foresee a massive surge in unemployment, but the Bay Area is particularly expose to tech jobs and salaries, so an acute cut in the cost structure of a handful of large tech firms could have a huge impact on the local housing market.
Friendly advice: As a current googler, you should refrain from posts like this, even with the “opinions are my own” disclaimer. You have access to internal info that shapes your opinion, etc. Even an innocent post such as this is potentially a breach of your employment contract.
I recently switched back to using Ubuntu as my desktop OS, and was intrigued to see that Photopea was the default app to open many file types, including PDF.

I thought that was odd because while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not completely open source [1].

[1] https://github.com/photopea/photopea
Sonali Bag
More like game over. When you are competing with the best of the best, with an org overloaded with mediocre to useless people there is no hope of reaching previous highs.
It was a green wax pepper.
No, but we're talking about a company, not individual people.
Yeah, and value is relative?

Who cares if there’s a consumer staple company with 5% margins out there? Companies are evaluated against their own results and valuation.
Sorry but the creators have such a disdain for any form user experience enhancements that I cannot give them a pass.
I guess my intuition is based on the file size of text being so much smaller than images, but I guess that doesn't really map to the complexity of generating it. Fascinating!
True. If that happens it would be really bad.
That has ceased to be true in vast tracts of the company. Cloud, for example, is chasing feature parity with its competitors and engineers are told to implement things because AWS or Azure have them, not because they organically grew out of the architecture of the existing system. In fact, quite a few features annealed poorly onto the existing architecture (which users of Google Cloud may have memory of).
Thank you for sharing your alternative approach. I checked it out and image dimming looks like a fitting addition to dark mode and late-night browsing.
> a database and a webserver

Well I have this native app fetish. I mean why pay for 4 G ram for each electron app?

No, there is more legacy code than you list there.
Read the “learn more” to learn more. (I had the same question.) First create an account and then setup the passkey.
Photopea's killer feature is the fact that it, for the most part, directly copies Photoshop's implementations of features. There's no learning curve because it's basically the same. On the other hand, GIMP still doesn't have Smart Objects or Adjustment Layers.
Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're bursting into actual flames
Show HN: Regfmt – generate control register-style diagrams in SVG
regfmt is a Python command line utility to generate SVG diagrams for control register-style data formats.
Or check it beforehand, and remember when you can go pee?
Yes.

At a previous gig we had alarms that would fire when we were making too much money, because it probably meant something had gone wrong and we were over-serving ads, which was bad for long term user engagement.
> Profitability is inevitable.

This comment is worth saving ;-)
This is a pretty vague addition to the conversation. What cool stuff are they doing?

I see them:

* Purposely crippling the web experience on desktop or mobile web

* Implementing a SPA badly. Clicking on some posts loads entirely different posts. Comments don't work sometimes.

* Purposely crippling the logged out experience
$15 to $23.

A bit insulting, TBH.
They're down to $369k of revenue per employee, down from $434k in Q3 of last year.

Which is still insanely good.
There are definite tax advantages to being self employed, but I think for most countries your total tax rate for most people would end up being around 25% to 35%.

For you to end up taking home more money whilst earning only half as much - you would need to some how end up paying a negative amount of tax as an entrepreneur.
One subtle deception in such reports is that dollar v22 is 30% smaller than dollar v21, so $14B x USDv22 is way worse than $19B x USDv21, about 2x worse I'd say.
As one of the Jews who controls all media, I pray for the Philosopher King's recovery, and may he one day find some peace and genuine love for all humanity.
I don't think the site suggests serious businesses would do that.

P.S. Yet it is not like "serious businesses" do not partake in fraud: Enron, cough cough some/most banks(creating of unauthorized accounts, mortgage fraud, investor fraud, etc).
Ah of course, the stimulus check story. Indeed, 1200$ one-off checks caused this recession. /s
I don't know the details of your skillset, but maybe you can try launching a product that doesn't need investors and employees. So make your daydream about a product, not a product company.

Not all companies have to be big, and maybe you don't even need to create a company to create something helpful / beautiful / profitable / whatever floats your boat.
There is fascinating science and technology associated with earthquakes, as well as interesting stories and history (though fewer of those in this thread)
> Profitability is inevitable.

Unless the rise of many viable competitors drives cloud computing down to a commodity service with razor thin margins.

There's no guarantee that the AWS gravy chain is going to materialize for other companies.
I do think there's a good chance this stuff will have that level of impact, I just don't think it has yet.

(Though I'm not convinced it will. If you wanted to be a skeptic, you could argue that we're already in a huge content glut; there's basically infinite content available for almost free. So does radically lower the cost matter that much?

(Maybe in low-level ways, like it'll increase the abilities of small indie studio to produce high-level content. But to your average consumer, maybe it's not noticable.)
Right, but I think that is what the original poster meant. There is a "path" through my example that hits both "doA()" and "doB()." And having 100% branch coverage doesn't necessarily get you there. Even under the stricter rule that they are using.
No adjustment layers? That is like photoshop 101. That's pretty embarrassing for GIMP.
Nice find!

Jevko is the evolved version of that (I'm the author).
True, but doing it "right" (especially considering 1990ies hardware) isn't easy. And Windows has the option, to just pass it to the system, if you don't have complex needs (only copying plain text etc.)
Same... I went to build from source and can't even find it in their source files. I didn't realize alpha releases meant build from branch tip.
Bored people open apps before they browse to URLs.
> Do you really think the amount of work at Google has declined?

Yes I do. The pandemic changed everything for tech companies. Now it's over. It's not that there are less things to do, but there is less urgency, so there's less to do right now.
It's worth pointing out that Google Cloud here is not just GCP but also includes Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs), maps API, and probably also enterprise Chromebook sales. The growth rate is not necessarily indicative of GCP adoption.
WebAssembly only helps to a small degree here. SIMD support is still too limited and real multithreading will probably never be possible due to spectre vulnerability, so you are leaving about two orders of magnitude of performance on the table.

WebGL 2.0 could be a band aid fix, but it is quite limited compared to CUDA. I'd also expect a bunch of compatibility issues.

As a side note, Photopea already uses WebAssembly.
This is different from pre-2020 when they were in their underwear in the office.

(... I've heard stories. ;) )
Build your brand like Linus with a bit of marketing insight
US citizens were given secret Covid “decree violation” scores
> so they could arguably charge $50 a month and retain most of their iOS customers.

Source?
To be honest, this is more of a question about how best to handle errors in asynchronous event handlers (not handlers marked as async, I mean like send an email at xyz time). Imo best way to solve this is to get notified of an error in sentry, be it an NPE or validation error.

In a case where the client expects an immediate response (http GET) getting “400 validation error: foo is not allowed to be null” is a lot more meaningful than “500 Null pointer”.

In general I try not to model invalid states - less mental overhead (no one has to tell you xyz can’t be null it just cannot be null).

Ofc this is a matter of opinion and the lines get blurred as soon ad you move stuff to runtime.
wow.....nothing I want....and lots I don't like.....good job......:/
Yep, we're on the same page.
Or: what part of this isn't attributable to inflation?
JavaScript is basically a Game of Thrones spin off by now.
> Now, we are having inflation due to all those stimulus checks that forced central banks to hike interest rates.

Stimulus checks are not causing inflation. Corporations raising prices to increase profits are causing inflation.
Multiple friends reported that it didn't give an alert. On the lookout for a reliable app - does any of you have suggestions?
Their servers are probably getting hammered. Try again tomorrow or in a few days.
> ah. so he was a billionaire

No, not even in USD; he and his wife[1] combined would have been a billionaire in better exchange days but he's got a long way, even at $2:£1 before he's any kind of billionaire.

[1] who has ~£500M, largely from the family business, I believe.
Because here the private key totally inaccessible, stored on the user's authenticator device, which is analogous to a certificate authority in this case. Part of the WebAuthn spec provides for methods for trusting (or distrusting) authenticator apps, and presumably browsers themselves will assist in blocking untrusted authenticators as they do with CAs.
This is a friendly reminder that the only well run companies are led by Satya Nadella and Tim Cook. Alphabet and Meta are like two spoiled children that got rich quick and don't know what it's like to go through an existential crisis.
Really? I heard Affinity Photo was great, though I haven't really used it.
"Taking a report" doesn't do anything to solve the crime; it's simply paperwork for things like insurance, to prove that a crime happened.

The complaint is exactly that they "don't prioritize investigating it", because that is the point where police are actually providing a useful service.
Exactly. So your claim that:

> So you can remove the ones that do not halt by inspecting them one by one and developing a specific algorithm for each one that determines if it halts or not.

Is impossible. You can’t, in general, inspect Turing machines one-by-one to determine if they halt.
This sort of flies in the face of how many people reject lisp systems, though. I could almost see that python is doing this, but the number of python users I have met that don't know how to use "help()" is... impressive.
Congrats, fast compile speed is a requirement nowadays, any language that is slow to compile puts you at a risk of not being able to fix important prod issues quick enough, hence why i use Go for my backend, i can't imagine using anything else

Tests, deployment, up to restarting the service in prod, the language should empower me to not loose time

I'm not talking about memory bugs, i'm talking about typo issues, API issues, comment/uncomment, renaming, missing a semicolon (that one should go imo), refactoring etc, a fast compiler allows me to be more productive

Having to recompile due to typos is the main contributor of wasting my time, if it takes 10+ seconds, then the language sucks, it should be instant up to 1 second

Glad that you understand that and you made sure you built the foundation that enables it, that's game changer
> Shareholders, who ultimately foot the bill

What bill, exactly, and how?
Great. What portion of apps would you say still run on iOS 12? Because most of the top 10... don't.
And (especially in the case of the top tech companies, like Google, MS, and Amazon) as a hedge against the competition.

Employee X may be under-performing relative to their peers, but if they're still going to perform 1.2X the average of your closest competition were they to change companies, you pay them to keep their ass out of the other guy's seat.
Ivan did an AMA earlier this year which is also worth a read:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_a_free_...
How to Build a Blog with Fresh
Passkeys are indeed similar to that approach. There's no CA infrastructure, so they can be considered "self-signed certificates" (though they do not present as certificates, and currently cannot be used for TLS to my understanding, though I don't think there are technical reasons you couldn't wrap them in x509 metadata and use them as such it's just not a core use case), generated per-service, and enrolled as they are created. Passkeys add a couple enterprise features back in than just "raw self-signed certificates" in the form of optional "attestations" designed in a somewhat privacy-preserving way to prove the type of device that owns the key and in deeper enterprise modes the serial number of the device.
That comes pretty close to what I would suggest.

For me, melatonin supplements didn't make a difference.

Instead, I drink a cup of kefir before bed, along with essential amino acids and a table spoon of MCT oil.
My dad is an accountant who took some punch card FORTRAN programming classes in the early 70's as well. After 3 semesters he told his professor he wouldn't be returning to the computing department - his professor was shocked, for he was a star pupil! - for much the same reason. He and my mother still tell stories of Saturdays and Sundays spent organizing his punch cards and applying patches (literal in those days!) in the campus computer labs so he could have a more rapid debug cycle than was available during the week.
Huh, citation? :) I'm not saying you're wrong, but as a GCP engineer I have never seen us (well, my org) implementing something because of "AWS or Azure has it".
Author here: yep.
> dollar v22 is 30% smaller

They seem to be using the same font size for both years.

Or by smaller, do you mean that there was a 30% inflation from 2021 to 2022?