skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a class of business leader that is definitely in a recession where that word just means downward financial performance trajectory.

I’d be willing to bet the distinction is how much labor you employ and what kind (pay bands as proxy). Hospitals for example are in a world of hurt post Covid. Labor is their main cost. Rates are down but remain high. Employee satisfaction is low. Revenues do not keep pace with costs and largely uncontrollable.
Libra was opposed by most governments. Diem is Libra.
What are they supposed to do? They said they don't trust the guardian for scientific news because they have read the actual scientific literature and noticed that the guardian engages in clickbait and hyperbole. They seem to understand the situation, they just don't like this particular outlet because in their experience it doesn't do a good job. Should they be typing in all caps about how we're all going to die instead?

Like it or not, a lot of people have lost trust in mainstream media outlets because they have seen said outlets engage in hyperbolic clickbait bullshit.
I ran a load tester at it. It is just nginx and a static site generated with tesla, nothing remarkable. 522 Req/Sec and around 4 MB / Sec bandwidth consumed. 16K pages served in 32 seconds with zero errors. 122 MB total. At least, in its current form it would survive a pretty significant hug of death :)

(stealthgoat.com if anyone is curious, I just started blogging again after many years of meaning to, currently just non-tech stuff.. kind of just my personal notes I felt like sharing with the world) :)
Thanks! The demo is dumb stupid in terms of drawing the equalisers (canvas), but that actually makes it a better stress test.
To be fair, 75% of the problems I saw people have with sendmail.cf over a decade or two was because they didn't know much if anything about M4 and tried to take some template they found and beat it into the shape they needed. Those who I made at least read the O'Reilly M4 book (and the sendmail book) had better success.

The other 25% of the problems I saw people have with sendmail.cf was because it's a horrorshow. Yes, if you need to process an RFC822 email over UUCP and wrap it up and send it over an SNA link to an IBM PROFS email server (for example), sendmail is probably your tool. But who has done that since the 90s?
> I'm sorry, but I don't see how we can lay the blame for corporations cutting corners on completely unrelated legislation.

You mean the same legislation that can enforce USB C can’t enforce a minimum standard for USB C:

- must support USB 3 speeds

- must support video over USB and a certain minimum standard (this is a standard)

- etc?
> Either that side doesn't want to solve the problems, or some combination of individual incentives, incompetence and lack of second-order thinking prevents it from achieving its objectives.

Homelessness cannot ever be solved at the city, or even state, level. Homeless will, very rationally, tend to migrate and cluster in areas where their lives are a little less bad.

Homelessness can only truly be solved with a nation-wide consistent policy. Anything less simply amounts to shuffling them from one location to another.
RTS devlog #4: Collision detection and combat
Indeed, why bother with ensuring our predictions are reasonable at all? Let's just assume the absolute worst, all the time.

If we stop being objective and surrender ourselves to emotion and panic, then it stops being science, and all authority is lost.
Really? This might be true for multiplayer games (though people still play Counter Strike 1.6 I guess) to some extend but for single player games I don't see how they are transient.

Most of the games I play are ten years or older. Admittedly lots of games that I never got around playing as a child. Also, retro gaming is huge.

With gog.com it is pretty easy to play old game⌊. Though many more modern games might get lost forever because they require access to certain servers. We need legislation that forces publishers to open source games including the server-side code once they stop supporting them.
Author here, my bad. There was a DoS attack against this a while ago and I set too strict limits after that. Didn't expect it to hit Hacker News again. Should be fine now.
Java is in the awkward middle ground where a lot of popular companies are using more specialized languages and startups are free to use whatever the founders want.

So, a lot of companies that are older, stable, and risk averse are using Java. This means Java isn't very exciting and it clearly doesn't have the 'pop' on a resume other 'cooler' languages do.

I don't think many people spinning up a new project will use Java. Go and C# are newer, often faster, and are just as full featured, not to mention Node/Python.

This doesn't mean Java is a dead end. I think a lot of Java concepts are pretty transferrable to other OOO languages, and because of the stability and longevity, it's a language you'll be able to find a lot of jobs with.
CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5
"None capturing catch blocks"

Since when do you not need the actual error object in the catch clause? The example is one of a bad habit of making debugging hard by not telling what exactly happened. Maybe it timed out, maybe the connection was refused, or maybe it returned 404 but I guess the author doesn't care what the detail is making it harder to reach the source of the problem.

Not sure how this feature made its way in.
Glad you’re content. If you’re in the US, As a bonus, just remember that the US gov always does everything it can to keep housing prices stable or up. Of course it’s not an easy problem for them, but you’re in the same boat as millions of other ppl and the govt won’t let you crash out that hard.
You don't want to fuck around with inflation because at a certain point it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (ie. merchants raise prices pre-emptively just because they internalize inflation at a high steady state).
So strange. It’s almost as if they’ve picked a side in the conflict between supporting labor or capital.
You've gotta see that one in person to truly appreciate what Bernini was able to do. Dafne's fingers are turning into leaves and those leaves are thin enough so that you can see light through the marble. If you're ever in Rome make sure you get to the Borghese Gallery it has several of Bernini's best works.
Last commit was two months ago. Why are we talking about this? I don't think Facebook has anything to do with this anymore.
>>There should not be discussion forum on the website...

I would be fine with this, but the cat's out of the bag now.
yes they do. Bill board ads do not.
When you adjust for money supply inflation (peak at around 24%) instead of price inflation (peak at around 9%), every indicators become very red.

I think money supply inflation reflects more the reality and explain the current bearish sentiment.
I personally find the podcasts kinda nice but there should really be a way to turn them off entirely. Soulseek + foobar is allways an option.
Matrix multiplication corresponds to the composition of related linear operators. So, it goes down to the representation of a linear operator by a matrix. But we have freedom here. For example, we could choose to represent a linear operator by the transpose matrix (of the usual). But this requires changing the matrix product rule as well (to have the meaning of composition).
Home prices, not adjusted for inflation, are fairly sticky. You may lose some money due to the loan.

Not every decision we make needs to be pragmatic. Your last comments capture this. Don't worry about it.
In that context, it actually seems a little odd to ask for the Rosetta Stone back in particular.

There are an awful lot of artifacts whose significance to Egyptian history seems greater. The Rosetta Stone was never all that important purely as an Egyptian artifact. Its importance is to 19th century translators, who used it to decipher heiroglyphics into Greek, and then into other European languages. Of all the looted artifacts in the British Museum, that one of all of them perhaps belongs there.

If it should go somewhere else, it would be to France, where the decipherment was done. Its presence in Britain is a result of the Napoleonic wars.

I'm all for returning looted artifacts back to their native countries -- especially sacred objects and especially-especially human remains. I apply that to all museums. I don't know why the British Museum gets singled out when Europe is full of museums of loot, including the Louvre.

But it feels just a little off to have Egypt asking for this one artifact that's famous, but not of more significance to them than the hundreds of thousands of others. Its fame is due to European work on it, not their own.
Believe it or not, Meta is highly regulated. A lot of their engineers work on privacy issues.
Yeah, I remember the YouTube videos. I love abandoned mine exploration videos. You should definitely check out his channel and the many others. People do this all over the world. Some of it's kinda sketchy, real horror movie material at times, kind of the inverse of rooftopping. I enjoyed learning the lingo and reasoning behind everything. Mining had and has its own language just like computers and everything had a purpose and the people who do this kind of thing tend to know what they're talking about and interview a lot of people who really know what they're talking about.
VR and AR will be huge and I do think it was a smart move to shift the company in that direction, especially as legacy social media (like Facebook) is starting to get tired.

However, I really don’t understand their aesthetic choices. The avatars just look odd and childish, not something cutting edge. I also think they would have benefited from focusing on AR first, rather than VR.
Thank you for sharing your story. It definitely resonated with my own imagination for how things might go.

I have my own conflicts regarding what size of role I want to play. Being the humble small person is typically the area I operate in. I also know the rush and miss it. The distinct lack of importance from my current role has been a source of great inner turmoil for a several months now. But its also so very easy for me to see how the chase could lead me seriously astray.

For now, it has been good motivation to create some things in my own time which has been fulfilling in its own way. Not sure what the future holds at this point, but again thank you for sharing.
Sorry what? The price of gas has multiplied by 15 here...
I'm not talking about whether Linux is Unix. I'm talking about the indisputable influence it has on other Unix-like OSs in the modern era. When talking about where a syscall was first introduced, for historical accuracy, Linux should be correctly cited when appropriate.

I also said OpenBSD and NetBSD, but this seemed to escape your multi paragraph rant.

Also worth noting that FreeBSD, while technically derived from Unix in a way that Linux cannot claim, still today cannot use the Unix trademark.
The App Store has been basically no better than a flea market for over a decade. I doubt that it could get worse.
I love the name. Jerrica Benton was the true identity of the rock-star title character of Jem and the Holograms. She had an intelligent computer called Synergy who could put on holographic visual effects, manifest Jerrica's Jem stage persona or other holographic disguises, and had other cyber-powers as the plot demanded. And her archenemy was a ruthless record executive named Eric Raymond.

Fitting name, then, for a JavaScript-based music player program. I love geeky references like this.
I wanted to invest but I don't see where it talks about VR, ML and microservices
> who does (and by extension, doesn't) see the ad

Not sure how you get this data if you are not the supplier.

You just mentioned in another comment that the key data needed to measure incrementality is impossible to get, from your perspective. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359741
The data analytic side of oil majors is extremely sophisticated and complex: these are groups dealing with massive sets of all-sensor geologic data and using them to make multi-billion-dollar bets as to what's going to happen thousands of feet under the earth under complex and immense temperature and pressure gradients.

Even outside of those departments, the challenges are significant (though companies underinvest in digital in those areas). Every downstream refinery, for example, is a unique beast full of custom equipment, sensors, and systems, so tying those into digital twins in a scalable, effective, and efficient way is a massively hard problem, and one that has potentially dire real-world consequences. Midstream distribution is full of complex optimization issues from both physical and financial points of view. And upstream E&P, in addition to the geology side mentioned above, is full of literal life-and-death decisions that require sophisticated real-time analytic models that can guide driller behavior.

Leaving aside the moral issues raised by working for carbon-intensive energy industries, the technical challenges are significant, impressive, and fascinating to work on -- more so, I would argue, than trying to slightly increase social media ad click rates.
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> a support person can fob a person off with "thank you for your feedback" and create an internal issue with no context, or I can talk to the customer myself, get a good idea of what problems they're running in to, and discus with them how to best fix it.

As someone who's worked on both support and engineering teams, this bums me out. If your support engineers aren't making useful tickets on their own, maybe the exchange needs to go both ways.
Last time they complained about Apple not supporting Siri integration. Then when Apple added support for that, Spotify never added HomePod Siri support.

The idea has ~5k votes and 137 pages of comments on their forum and yet no action from Spotify.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Na...
Try again, I think there was an unrelated issue. It load for me on Safari now, but runs super slowly in the beginning, so not as a real time clock.
Sure, absolutely, there are people out there who watch women in Iran get murdered for not wearing a Hijab, or watch the people of North Korea starve to death under a totalitarian dictator, and say "Yeah but the US isn't good either" and they're wrong. There is a bright clear line here, the US is a democracy with real institutions for holding the government to account, and the entities on the OFAC list aren't. If you want to support the totalitarian regimes of North Korea and Iran against the interests of the US fine. But let's call it what it is, you're providing aid to the enemies of freedom and democracy.
You probably wouldn't want to have to code in multiple languages even for a thin layer. Somebody could build that thin JS layer once for your language. Sounds like that's happening.
Amazingly little perspective some of these guys have. Appears to have been his first job and he's 8 years in, so we're looking at what? A roughly 30 year-old guy who has worked at all of one employer and he's sitting here talking as if he's an expert on what motivates humans across a lifetime.

Feel free to share your experience and beliefs, but please don't act like this is science and you're some kind of authority. You have no idea if you'll even still agree with yourself in another decade. I know for damn sure I no longer believe life has the same purpose for me I thought it did when I was 30.
This is pretty cool if I do say so myself.

What does the picnic data show?
Replying here, because I cant reply to your comment several levels down.

I can see how you would have that perspective as a third-party analyst of conversion.

It's actually easy to do if you are the exchange/sell-side provider of the advertising space. In your logic, where the advertiser running the incrementality study would have won the auction, just randomly remove their bid from some won auctions, have the second highest bidder win, and then track that user as the "control" for conversion purposes vs. users you did display the ad to. Voilà!

That's not observation. That's statistical inference. I am referring, strictly, to direct, empiricial observation. With any kind of statistical inference, you get into a pissing match about assumptions, model quality, etc... Is the "control" a good stand-in for the behavior of the "test", etc.

Incrementality is able to be estimated, but unobservable. And therein lies the potential for fraud.
> adjust for money supply inflation (spiked at around 24%) instead of price inflation (spiked at around 9%)

The former is a fake metric. Measuring changes in the monetary base [1] is a thing. But it’s seldom accurately reflected in a single figure.

Also, the 2.6% is real GDP growth. Current-dollar growth was 6.7% annualised [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_base

[2] https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-third-q...
Sure feels like it...
sigh, nothing wrong with ad blockers and I've got nothing against them.

But, if you want to support the websites you use you should think about what you are doing. What is frustrating here is the lack of respect for people who create a lot of the web you use, and then you don't pay them. Ads are a way to fund websites, not all of them, but a lot.
Normally you run storage facilities neither all the way full nor all the way empty: you want to be able to smooth out fluctuations in supply and demand. Because of the war Europe is running gas storage near its upper limit, which means we should expect less flexibility and more price volatility: they won't want to draw them way down if we get a serious cold snap, and they have nowhere to put extra gas if it's warmer than usual. The latter happened, there's nowhere to put incoming gas, so spot prices fell below zero.
Also this works for products with "few" teams? Typically in big co products I have seen (working in cloud Saas offerings) development is broken into a dozen teams (observability, ux, service A, service B etc). It gets worse with higher revenue products (org building is norm). Customer support rotations though infrequent need you to understand a lot of things fully across the stack. While the odd eng enjoys the breadth most folks I've seen get burnt out as they are wading through a gazillion playbooks only to have tickets cross over to the "next" support rotations:(
Sure, but it's still broken.
I don't buy it. VR will always, by definition, be a race to feature parity with things in the real world. And escapism is often more about not replicating real life, such that all of the tactical feedback that goes into the majority of what folks thing will work in VR is as likely to be the reason to avoid it.

Think about it, even the amazing open world games like Zelda will be nigh inaccessible in a VR world where you have to actually climb. Yes, you can get some sweeping visuals where you can turn your head to see the landscape, but a large TV already goes a long way to getting that, with much much better controls for the movement. So, you can get enhanced "you can turn your head to look around," but at the tremendous cost of "everything else about moving and interacting is completely broken. You will still need obviously untenable item management. Want to have many weapons? It will be hilariously off looking compared to everything else in the world.

Can it help with some desktop management and such for work? I mean, maybe? It will definitely be a good aide. I'd wager the high level workers are already "retreating into their brain" for a lot of their work, such that I don't expect miracles out of AR assistance.

Robotics and control do have a lot of promise, of course. But, again, I'm more questioning gaming and entertainment.
Absolutely. If Apple would've switched to USB-C without an EU mandate, they would've received mountains of bad press about the unprecedented amount of e-waste and confusion that will result because of this switch. So they pressured the EU to mandate the change to a standard that Apple helped pioneer, so that Apple's environmentally-friendly record would remain unblemished.
We bought our home last month, past the peak but prices will probably drop below what we bought it for. We did buy all cash and are in this place for the long term so I don’t feel too bad besides the fact that we could have probably afforded more house for the amount we paid if we waited six more months.
Yes this idea is interesting.

Short of US-government sanctions, there is very little that can be done to tear down a permanent contract.

Even Tornado Cash still works and can be accessed and analyzed[1][2], the US government could not remove it or secretly embed a back door so their only option was to criminalize anybody who touches it, even honest users, something that is now being challenged in courts[3].

[1] https://twitter.com/liamzebedee/status/1578127982173908992

[2] https://dune.com/poma/tornado-cash_1

[3] https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-is-suing-ofac-over-it...
They don't manipulate, they sell. Huge difference.

Fox news manipulates... ads sell.
If you're trying to forge a diamond to bypass this particular technique, one can use methane extracted from the earth.
> Most recent IPCC commentary on predictions to underscore that current estimates land in a range, and that the Guardian-cited source is not in the middle of it

Could you quote which part you are referring to?

If you look at the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, it predicts for Shared Socioeconomic Pathway SSP2-4.5 (the middle of the options presented, "CO2 emissions around current levels until 2050, then falling but not reaching net zero by 2100") warming of 2.7C by 2100.

2.9C is not an extreme prediction at all.
Incredible work bringing so many moving parts together to make such a seamless, immersive experience. Online museums have been an aspiration since the early days of the web, and this exhibit sets a new bar.

One slight hiccup I noticed: The guided tour frequently clips through the geometry, which breaks the immersion a bit. I don't know if the Matterport SDK has any facilities for following paths rather than a straight line when automatically navigating, but if it's possible, it would be a nice addition.
Bought this for my wife, and she absolutely loves it for taking notes
> Did the fed actually say this?

No [1].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
I don't need someone "official" to tell me a recession is happening. It's rather self-evident for those who are observant. Thanks, though.