skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took a long time to write that engine and porting the whole thing properly also takes time. It just moves goalposts. Why didn’t he spend 80M on a new AAA game? If he spent any less than that, he certainly can’t draw any useful conclusions.

Have you ever looked over the codebase? It’s plenty large enough to draw useful conclusions from for most people let alone someone with his vast game experience.

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/tree/master/WOLFSRC

Meanwhile, you are drawing bay conclusions with no credentials out evidence. As to actual games, setting aside the fact that Wolfenstein still sees play, loads of popular games are written in JS. Lots of others are in Java or C#. None of these make your case as Haskell, Ocaml, and StandardML (SML) are in the same performance range.

As to your argument about the efficiency of objects, what do you think functional languages use? Lets use SML as an example. There’s real arrays and they are also optionally mutable (yes, there’s linked lists too, but those can be used in C++ too).

Records are basically just C structs (they are immutable by default, but can contain refs which are mutable pointers). They can contain functions because functions are first class without the mess that many languages create.

You associate functions with datatypes which gives you the best part about methods. They also give you a kind of implicit interface too due to structural typing. I’d note that closures are mathematically equivalent to objects.

Finally, modules are everything a language like Java tries to get from classes (and more), but without any of the downsides of classes themselves.

People generally like the JS paradigm of factories and object literals (even if they hate the stuff like dynamic typing or type coercion). StandardML offers the same kinds of patterns, but with sound typing, simpler syntax without the warts, more powerful syntax, and performance in the same range as go or Java.

To me, your argument sounds like the people arguing that goto is better and more natural than looping constructs or the procedural guys arguing against OOP. I think if you messed around with StandardML, it would change your mind about what programming could be in the future.
Borg and duplicati definitely do. I use them to push my backups on a local samba share, but I have tested them by backing up just to a local folder.
This is why I like consumable gifts the best. A dinner, a soap, some chocolate or wine.

But even that can trip up people who like to keep stuff in pristine condition. I think there would be a market for products that come in a "open" state - the cover torn off, a fake outer seal broken, 3 chocolate slots empty ("eaten") etc. so they can be more suitable for hoarders.
> Do you think the author's children are not successful?

I believe the definition of success should be questioned.

> standard upper-income white-collar class American aspirations

There's no particular reason to privilege this point of view. The three people I named in my first comment on this post did not meet this standard, but I'd much rather emulate their accomplishments than be the fastest rat in the race.
> And why founding team doesn’t stay long in a successful startup.

Doesn't the founding team get to determine the hiring practices?
It’s a little different when everyone is cutting staff at the same time and there’s lots of competition for a limited number of “good” jobs
I would not be surprised if the issue of accents being a discriminant (positive or negative) was common everywhere.

In France we have a "standard" accent (the one you hear on TV or on the national radio) which corresponds more or less to Paris and the surrounding regions. Someone speaking with this accent is "neutral".

We then have an accent that is not related to a region but to the kind of neighborhood called "cité" with large buildings with working class inhabitants (and immigrants). It puts you either in the "homies" category, or in the "touch luck to find a better job" one. People who come from these places, when they want to move up with jobs, will aggressively work on loosing this accent.

Finally, there are the regional accents that are not very visible outside of the region. The southern one is very distinctive and a northern one has been made famous by the movie "Welcome to the Sticks". They tend to vanish if you come from these regions but live/work away from it because there is a gradual move towards the "neutral" accent. people who use it, however, are not really discriminated (this is rather a folklori accent), but you do not hear it much. there are exceptions such as one of our prime ministers.

Then there is a specific posh accent which has strongly fallen out of fashion and people who were raised with it actively try to use the "neutral" one as well.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) refers to legislation passed by Congress in 1996
>> because we have record unemployment

I inferred that you meant record ^low^ unemployment?
I am imaging a normal long-form blog format but with comments collapsed after each paragraph as a compromise between the two current options.
Grew tx volume 3x since the pandemic, but using the macro environment as an excuse to shave the bottom 14%. Just come out and say it.
What if Google demand every Android devices to support AVIF and not JPEG XL?

This isn't a fight about whether something is technically superior, it is about marketing, cult and ideology. It wont be long before major force of AOM supporters arrives with new PR points to fight back.
And, of course, the leadership aren't suffering their mistakes.
I had a similar experience with Duplicati. I attempted a 2TB backup of my NAS to a cloud storage and it went up to ~500GB and would just hang there.

I switched to restic and recomned it over Duplicati.
Rankings offer no sense of scale
7k total after the cut, so ~1k people let go
I'm not. That is why I went out of my way to qualify my reply with "(in U.S.)" to clarify what jurisdiction I was commenting about.
That was one of the better letters written by execs....also a generous package.

I feel bad for the folks who have been impacted.
What's the point of `push`ing constants to the stack and `pop`ing them to registers instead of `mov`ing them directly?
Garmin Fenix/Forerunner/Instinct meets all of these, though at a significantly higher cost than the pebble. It's worth it for me because I'm into the fitness tracking but hard to justify otherwise.
I think it was designed as a low-level browser standard, not an authoring language. It is supposed to provide a stable, standardized target for authoring languages to compile to. Think of it as WASM for math markup. It makes sense if languages for authoring math is an unsettled design space where we need diversity and experimentation. As a browser standard, like WASM, MathML should enable people to experiment with new ideas and hopefully evolve a better authoring language than we would have got if we had tried to invent a language and standardize it at the same time.
But it doesn’t prevent it from being pirated at all. You can get any Netflix release you want within minutes of release on any torrent site. Sometimes before the official release even.

It just makes normal people jump through hoops to watch the things they are trying to pay for. That’s a DRM issue in general though, I acknowledge this isn’t just a Netflix thing.
Yikes, that's a huge cut. Hopefully this is part of defaulting alive and they won't have to make another cut like that. Layoffs are painful for everyone involved.

I've been laid off twice, and it's always painful, hurtful and damaging to my mental health. Take care of yourself the best you can, there is a fair amount of research now that says layoffs can have lingering mental health affects for years to come. [1]

Some resources that might be helpful: flexjobs.com is a good curated job board for remote work. teamblind.com is a professional social networking site for engineers, it's generally super toxic, but the community comes together for layoffs and a lot of people will offer referrals.

[1]: https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/06/14/recession-layoff-scars
Fossil Neutra, I think. They have an eink display and 2 week battery life. I don't use one though, been enjoying my citizen ecodrive for the past few years.
You have to register with the hospital. You have to change into a hospital gown. You have to get an IV and labs (which take an hour to come back). You have to do a nursing intake interview (which is surprisingly long).

I'm an anesthesiologist. My wife needed surgery. And the surgeon is a friend of mine from childhood and needed to leave that afternoon. We had a free OR. Even then, it took 2.5 hrs to get her registered, up to the surgical floor, and to the OR.

So, maybe that doctor is a jerk, but realistically, it takes a while even if you have the inside track on everything.
My understanding is that logo'd swag is (usually) marketing expense, not taxable employee gift. If it's a non-cash-equiv gift under $100 in value, it's almost definitely not a taxable income item. If it's more than that, but has the logo on it...
You're not Twitter's customer. Advertisers are.

And they don't want their brands to be associated with unpleasant content.
I believe Opera used to have this feature, although I think it doesn't anymore since switching the browser engine to Blink.
Patreon has issue with uploading attachments to posts
That's definitely expected. I'm fine with that.
I used to think this until several instances of various neighbors getting drunk enough to shed the veil of souther hospitality and reveal how racist they are.

Plenty of people have radical thoughts and opinions, but are smart enough to keep it to themselves IRL
"Why are we trying to stop it when the Chinese clearly want to collaborate with us."

Who is "we"?

Not snark. A deep question.

Answering that will reveal a lot.

I'd love to leave it there as an exercise for the reader, but I can see it would be misinterpreted, or at least potentially so (this isn't about any particular characteristics of our leadership today, either hypothetical or real, my point is much more generic and world-historic than that), so I will expand with this bit: The leadership of the US has for the past several decades essentially been the most powerful leadership in the world. China challenges that now, as does Russia. Of course the leadership wants to stop that. You or I may not care in the slightest, because just because China is a peer force on the world stage or not may not impact our lives greatly, it's not like the only nice place to live in the world is exactly and precisely the most powerful one.But the leadership can care a lot more than the people they lead. This always happens when control and power fades. You can see many instances in history of such leadership of all forms and sources lashing out in rather predictable manners in ways that are oblivious to or even actively negative for the people they lead.

I think the citizenry of the US would generally be better off with a controlled welcome and some space given to these other up-and-coming powers, rather than fighting a war to hold on to power that they can't retain anyhow. I personally think even our military position would be better off, because it's better to retain your force projection ability and not fight, than to expend it uselessly and potentially enter into a situation where you have nothing at all. But a dumbass war on behalf of our leadership at the active expense of our citizenry is likely what we'll get even so.
Mexican superlabs put an end to the shake-and-bake method of making meth. And the biggest problem with shake-and-bake meth was the externalities of people making it at home, including bottles that would burst with caustic chemicals, and properties being condemned from the phosphorous in leaching into the walls.
How to build a Google Keep-like app, lowcode back end
At this point I feel resigned to just being glad I’ll be dead without children burdened with apocalyptic nightmares. Industrialists made Earth literally for bag holders. So dumb.
Do you have a spreadsheet out there with all bluechecks, plus people who applied who were refused a blue check, their political ideologies, notability metrics, to demonstrate this?

Otherwise I think there's too much counter-evidence to your anecdote.
I think's actually required to set unrealistic OKRs, but they're called "stretch" goals, like if only you'd try a leetle bit harder...
> by producing a lot of false, semi-false and nonsense content to drown out the signal in the noise.

This is the natural state anyway because most people are idiots about most things.
> We were much too optimistic about the internet economy’s near-term growth in 2022 and 2023 and underestimated both the likelihood and impact of a broader slowdown.

This is one of the most interesting statements ever written. If you ran a 'Idea Fourier' on this signal, so many things fall out: cheap interest rates pushes crazy valuations and estimations, believing the low interest fantasy was a requirement to getting their funding in the first place, now how easy is it to just say 'oops, no take back-sies'

Interesting time to be alive.
The Argentine Ant (1) is quite invasive "ranked among the world's 100 worst invasive animal species", and has firmly established itself in the area of Cape Town, South Africa, where Antarctica-bound supply ships do leave from.

However I see no record of these ants in Antarctica: "They have since spread to all continents except Antarctica"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_ant
use restic. It's like git but for backups.

Many years ago I was a happy user of CrashPlan as the data was also easily accessible, but when they stopped their private user plans I looked into several solutions (Duplicati, duplicacy, and some others too). restic was the only one light enough for me to use consistently, which is a critical thing about backups.
API first personalized content in 50ms with edge computing and jamstack
The best part is that doing analytics via the command line often means that you're doing analytics locally, which often gets you performance superior to a small computing cluster.
I had a very similar experience with Duplicati on a small (disk space wise) backup set but a very large number of files bloating the sqlite data store.

I use Urbackup to back up Windows and Linux hosts to a server on my home network and then use Borg to back that up for DR. I'm currently in the process of testing Restic now that it has compression and may switch Borg out for that.
I have a Fossil Hybrid HR Collider that allows this.

Real watch hands, buttons and an e-ink display. 7-10 days battery life.

It's a really nice watch.
Does this replace Mimir and Cortex? Or does it replace Tempo?

It's impossible to keep track of all the moving parts of the modern observability stack.

And what's with those names? Are they picking the names so they can work toward a nice acronym, like they did with Loki+Grafana+Tempo+Mimir (LGTM)?
You'll need web scrapping abilities :)

The point is:
You always use the same gadgets to browse the internet. There are a lot of parameters that can be used to identify you. A few are

Browser window dimensions

Language set to standard

Resolution of your screen

History of visited pages (as much it can be used to

Agent Version

Installed add-ons ....

...

So, that's one point where you can start to act at. With python + Selenium it's possible to have a browser with modifiable User Agent, with head, headless, different window dimensions, languages and and and.. this can be automated.

Also, if you're at web scraping, you usually use proxy servers with different IPs. That could be useful.

On the other side, you have your accounts at the service providers. For example google.
Google knows what you searching for and what you visit, how long, if it's a revisiting.. and so on..
To poison that you'll need to make it impossible for Google to filter out what you really need.. but for that you need to log in to your account.

So with web scraping it's possible to poison the IPs, the search terms, the identification of you by utilizing the browser properties.

But I ask myself, what does it bring you? You poison your accounts with all the web services you use. You need a lot of time to setup your "poisoning" Workflow. But the yield is equal to nothing.

And, google wants to end the tracking of individuals (ye ye... Who believes that???) by having grouped cohorts.

That has to be implemented as a plug-in used by a lot of people. If it's only you, then it won't change anything on the tracking/interpretation by trackers.

To much work for an individual :)
There's some progress on GitHub, so I guess work is still ongoing.
> Doing well at interviews has low correlation with being good at the job, simple as that.

That's true, but only because companies are bad at interviewing. It is possible to do much better than companies typically do at this. It's just a really hard skill to master, and involves more than just standardised testing.
1) Any Stripers looking for work we have plenty (https://publicdomaincompany.com/) and it's as meaningful as it gets. breck7@gmail.com or 1-415-937-1984

2) Saving this in case I ever need to tell a portfolio company how to do a layoff.
Teachers aren't on close to minimum wage where I'm at. Try high 5 and more often than not 6 figure incomes.

Like I said, no profession has done as much to discredit their importance during the pandemic as teachers. Where im at the effect students has been catastrophic and still they endlessly bitch.
I didn’t even know he circled around back to the topic. I split when I got to “TREES!” and wondering “that’s it?”

After this comment I went back to read the rest.
CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) is a model cybersecurity process managed and controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). Business bidding for and delivering DoD contracts with controlled unclassified information (CUI) require certification under CMMC 2.0. for and delivering DoD contracts require certification under CMMC 2.0.
Tech interviews are optimised for big tech. Those devs won't care so much when you slap 3x total compensation on their ass.
I feel you are exactly missing the point of what Eternal September means.

Yes, there is some knowledge for some internet savvy types who grew up with the internet, but a lot of people are casual users. Many people still feel anonymity gives them carte blanche to be a jerk, or worse.

The amount of effort to be online is zero, but the amount of effort of people to behave is sometimes also zero (or low), of course depending on context. HN is a lot more civilized, but if it stopped being moderated it would in time be a nasty place as well.
Around here the just went into the dealership and cut them off the new cars in the lot. Then brazenly did it with another dealership a few days later!
I've been playing around with crystal for years, and absolutely love it (I'm a full-time ruby dev using Sequel as an ORM). I wish I had more time to spend with crystal. Kemal (referenced above) is really good, and excellent with websockets.

That said, I started playing around with the Marten framework and while it's really new, it's an amazingly good start. I absolutely love the way that models automatically create migrations. Using Sqlite as a default is good for probably 99% of uses cases, and absolutely good for learning the framework (Sqlite itself is amazingly powerful).

I've been wondering what new shiny toys I was going to play around with over vacation during the holidays, and I now have my answer :).
AMD has cut prices on desktop Ryzen 5000 processors on Zen 3 architecture in its official online store.

VideoCardz notes that the price of individual models has dropped by $250.
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet. Hardware wise the closest is probably the Pine Time from Pine64. Software and services wise this isn't on pebbles level though. https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

As others mention hybrid watches are probably the closest alternative.
Unsubscribing after this spam didn't seem to work. I still received their follow-up apology.
In many of London's more upscale boroughs, such as Westminster, there are council tax penalties which apply to properties that are unoccupied for more than 2 years:

2-5 Years - 100% Premium
5-10 Years - 200% Premium
10 Years + - 300% Premium

Of course, even paying 4X council tax is nothing if you're a billionaire oligarch.
I've had the same question over the entire span of my career. "Giving back" is difficult if we want to apply our skills.

Given your situation, though, you might consider a trip back to school to pick up a teaching certificate. There is a shortage of teachers and I imagine you could leverage a CS degree (I'm assuming that's what you have) and a teaching certificate into a nice job in a high school. I know you don't _need_ a job but, with 3+ months off per year, it wouldn't hurt.
That first point is key, and I think they're being... less than honest.

The reality is there's very little evidence for an actual "broader slowdown". GDP growth in the US was decent in the last quarter despite a huge decline in home sales and headwinds from inflation, and unemployment remains at record lows. There's certainly some signs for concern, but the only real, persistent decline has been in the stock market (which, honestly, is why this whole period is kinda weird).

The truth, when I look at these stories, is many of these tech companies expected the major changes during COVID, which lead to huge boosts in revenue for a lot of tech companies, to persist post-COVID, and that simply didn't pan out. The result is a lot of businesses with bloated workforces predicated on long-term financial projections that haven't panned out.

But, Stripe can't admit they made a major strategic blunder--the exact same blunder made by companies like Peloton--so they have to blame it on "a broader slowdown" since then they have an exogenous factor they can point to rather than admitting they were just caught up in the techno-optimism of a transformed post-COVID society.
Try fasting, for every bad thought; there is a damaged cell that needs to be repaired
Wait, really? Then why do we say 'government censorship' ... that would be redundant.

I don't think that definition works.
As it is sad news for those who have been impacted, severance packages seems quite generous, with 14 weeks of pay and vesting acceleration.
At the moment, yes. In a year, no.

So this is a MS OneNote/Apple Notes mashup, right? I'm sure some subset of their user base will love it.
Just to balance this. I use duplicati for both my web server where I host client websites, and my personal home nas.

I've had to use it to restore multiple times, and have never had an issue with it. It's saved my ass multiple times. It's always been a set it and forget it until I remember I need it.
Because before the Eternal September, it was HARD to participate. So, virtually nobody did it, and those that did tended to all resemble each other. Post Eternal September, it's so easy little children are doing it before they can do basic math. So now the 'great unwashed masses' come in and, like any other commons, 'ruin it'.
> compared to Linux at the time

Do you consider that not to still be the case?
i hate this trend of ceos saying they take responsibility. Reminds me of lord farquuad, "some of you may die, but that is a price i'm willing to pay"
If you use restic/kopia, how are you managing scheduling and failure/success reporting together?

That's one thing I can't seem to quite figure out with those solutions. I know there are scripts out there (or I could try my own), but that seems error-prone and could result in failed backups.
Joel Schreiber, WeWork’s first investor, under fire on multiple fronts
I personally gave up on Reddit, they are too trigger happy. Gave up on anything political 9 years ago, but 3 years ago gave up on practical things like credit card miles, traveling with US phone, etc. It's at best read-only for me.
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