skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm still a big fan of Disney+, lately I feel like they're watering down some of their brands (such as Star Wars) by pushing out low-effort storylines coupled with rehashed digital assets. For instance, the animation in the new "Tales of the Jedi" show that was released recently looks very similar to the animated Star Wars shows released 15 years ago. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed the animation and storylines in "Star Wars: Visions", so it's not exactly like they're sinking the ship or anything.
Let's say a company wants to maintain a staff of 100 engineers instead of 150 engineers. And had 2 recruiters on staff. In this example, they hadn't really been growing, just kinda stable.

Lay off 50 engineers and all the recruiters? Sounds great, except... in a given year, a handful of engineers would be expected to leave anyway from attrition. Either leaving for other opportunities, retiring, or getting fired for various reasons, who knows.

In this case, after a layoff, you can often expect a few more to leave for other jobs because they think it's a bad sign, or they miss their friends, or whatever.

So you probably still want to backfill them. You probably also want flexibility in case you realize one team needs some specific skills you didn't have.

So if you're then expecting to hire 5+ people over the next year, the cost of a full-time recruiter vs a contingent fee of ~25% (+/- some) per hire using a third party recruiter still makes sense.
My Reels recommendations are exclusively attractive women doing sexually suggestive things -- is that AI expertise? It's horrible. Does the platform have other content?
> Combat engineers can do it better and faster.

Plus, let's be honest...they really love blowing things up.
> One new possibility that seems exciting to me is building native OS X containers based on chroot

I'd actually like to see macOS support BSD jails.
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure I could sell all my shares of stocks without tanking their prices.
in the final analysis, was he a good boss?
Wasn't FTX a company bailing out other crypto companies?
Sounds like some CEOs are trying to push down salaries and bonuses and convince some younger SWEs to take lowball salary offers.

At some point there may come a real crunch and recession, and things may be a bit hard for a year or two, but it won't be a "New Normal".

People need to give up on this idea that every dip in the market or whatever reflects a permanent change in condition.
Not even that, because that'd be a web of trust, like PGP or Keybase.
that makes FTX a "shadow bank", not merely an exchange.
> for me, containers are just chrooted processes. Sure, they are more than that: Containers have a nice developer experience, an open-source foundation, and a whole ecosystem of cloud-native companies pushing them forward"

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Elon Musk sells another $4B worth of Tesla stock
Chemistry is fundamentally microscopic in a way that machinery is not, and chaotic in a way that electricity is not. (A big part of electronics is wrapping microscopics in friendly abstractions like "batteries" and "resistors".)

Molecules are small and diverse (it takes alkynes to make a world!) and the world is big.
> Didn't they green-light a World Cup in Russia while it was invading Ukraine?

No, Russia hosted the last World Cup. Although the circumstances for FIFA awarding them that World Cup were very suspicious.
Datafrog doesn't use differential dataflow. Datafrog also requires you to do index management and joins manually, but it's very performant. Some of the join strategies are super optimized, but they don't allow for certain things that may be desirable, like negation/anti-join with a dynamic relation.
What makes you say that? Intel, for instance, has IIRC a high 'burst' bandwidth and lower sustained bandwidth for L1. What's improper about discussing it in those terms?`
One missing piece: $1B BTC being auctioned by the IRS soon. This is such a big number that it will almost certainly be bought at a discount by an arbitrageur and liquidated on the market, so this was the impetus for the broad-market crash that killed their leveraged positions.
I mean it depends on your definition of "under performer" but it'd probably be a lot more than 5% by most.
Disney numbers may be larger due to budling with mobile subscription plans in several large countries, including India(where numbers are likely very large).

Also Disney bundles in live sports coverage in some countries.
As a software project I was expecting it to be something like, a NTSC VHS tape emulation tool to do something like run a "modern" video through ffmpeg and output something that looks like a 240p recorded VHS tape.
How to Create Serendipity on Remote Teams
Chemistry is very hard to learn meaningfully/usefully, but it's great at teaching you that and how you can discover what something is and what it can do via indirect observations and interactions, without taking it apart and looking at all its pieces and how they fit together.
This is kind of relevant now: Mastodon is seeing a lot of growth all the sudden, the popular server for it is in Rails, and scaling up quickly is a challenge for server operators used to the levels of traffic from two months ago.

Twitter did rewrite their frontend to JVM languages because it was enough of a bottleneck to be worth it. If you can get Mastodon substantially further by serving some views using something besides Rails, or even going around ActiveRecord in places, that is a pretty different short-term to-do list than if the immediate problems are in the data layer. (Long term you have to scale both of course!)
Netflix should pivot back to physical distribution so that they can list absolutely everything on their catalogue again.

Two hour drone shipping! :)
For me it was only once I realized chemistry is just a specialization of physics that I really started to understand and care about it more. I learned way more about chemistry from a couple college physics classes than the chem class and lab I was required to take.
Didn't gab do this exact thing years ago and it caused a major uproar?
what exactly does Dare do? he always seems to have a take on every little thing in tech. is he a fulltime commentator?
Any words on what's new in F# domain?
This happened to me with Metromile and they cancelled my policy without me even knowing after years of no late or missed charges. American Express said they never attempted any charges and Metromile claimed the problem was American Express. If I had been in a collision, I would have been fucked. Now I pay for my insurance one year at a time from a different vendor.
There will be a new LTS version available for 1 out of those 1.5 years. Plenty of time to upgrade. Plus, the advantage of shorter release cycles is that there are fewer breaking changes from one version to next. As long as there is decent test coverage it could be as simple as updating the build target in your CI tooling and calling it a day.
I thought that you had to verify your email work address for blind; so doesn't this mean not "anyone" can post false rumours, only meta staff?
User designs potion art game assets using Stable Diffusion
It’s an AI mirror…
If you have been Star Wars fan since 70s with detail knowledge, then Andor and Obi-Wan were sub-par at best. She-Hulk is quite terrible if you know the comics background. As new age of PC-ness with emphasis on wokeness these days, it is quite good especially the 4th wall breakout in last episode. Fear Street, Escape, Koreans and anime such as Castlevania on Netlifx are very refreshing as compare to westernized-only content on Disney+. By the way, my Disney+ is free from some local popular deal. Mamy I know also on free. Plus multiple subscription to Espn and Hulu. So the number of subscribers are likely heavy double or triple counted.
Like I know ratings aren't everything... but She-Hulk is so bad it's below Matrix Revolutions and almost close to the kinds of ratings that Neil Breen movies would get.
Bloomberg is reporting this too: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/meta-plat...
It’s mentioned elsewhere, but Prazosin is commonly prescribed for this and can make a significant difference for some people.
What on earth did you like about Andre, Obi-wan, and especially She-Hulk? I didn’t even get through the first episode of any of them. So I guess they might pick up but I don’t have much hope.

Not that I watched much Netflix original content either, but it’s at least got some variety to it.
Funny, I left art for tech. Making art is intrinsically rewarding but doing it for money can be absolute hell. Best of luck to op.
I think what the comment is missing is that the class of linear f(z)'s is much larger than you might expect. Partly because it just is, and partly because we like it that way.

In the land of analog signal processing: any combination of capacitors, inductors, and resistors [https://soundcertified.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/speake...] is linear.

In the land of math abstractions of signal processing: differentiation, integration, finite-impulse-response (FIR) filters, IIR filters, frequency-domain equalization, etc. All linear. Remember, linearity is with respect to the full time history, so f(z) = z(t) - z(t-1) + z(t-2) is still linear.

So we already know the eigenvectors of that whole arbitrary pile of componentry! Given any box of the above components, we can exactly characterize its response to any input -- for all time -- by knowing a list of that system's eigenvalues -- one for each of the already-known eigenvectors.

That's the "frequency response" -- the eigenvectors are sinusoids, and the frequency response is the eigenvalue corresponding to each eigenvector (sinusoid). And of course the Fourier transform takes you back and forth from the time domain to the eigen-domain.

We liked this analytical framework so much that when we could fabricate nonlinear devices (transistors) easily, we purposefully arranged things so these devices were only used in a linear part of their response curve. Hence, amplifiers: f(z) = 11 z.

And then the musicians introduced distortion and f*cked it all up -- our system isn't in a linear regime, our old eigenvectors are meaningless, and we can't predict what will come out. Pure chaos.
This is super cool! Where does the data come from?
If so, I can’t believe anyone would sign up for that knowing your employer then directly knows you’re on blind (and in the worst possible scenario, do a password reset and potentially see your activity). I assume blind keeps your own history; I’ve never actually used it so per speculation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging
My young kid used to love Alexa, because it would play their favorite songs for them. Now, I'm dealing with a screaming child that doesn't understand how Alexa could be such a jerk. They and I certainly don't think this an improvement.
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Why not get Eigen Steve to weigh in?
https://youtu.be/ZSGrJBS_qtc
Got any more information on what you're doing with your washing machine? I have this[1] running for the past four years with Telegram without a hitch but I'm curious on what you're doing!

[1]https://github.com/jebeaudet/time-to-fold-alerter
Sleeping with headphones listening to a loop of ocean sounds, or wind in a forest, etc. can be helpful. Exceptionally vivid dreams can get disrupted this way, anecdotally speaking. It seems a little like what this Nightware app is supposed to do. I'd find vivid dreams getting literally washed away by ocean waves using this method, i.e. you might be having a nightmare, and then ocean surf from nowhere sweeps through, and everything gets swept away, and I'd end up in a peaceful dream of floating on the ocean etc.
What kind of addon you making? WoW addons were what got me started coding ~10 years ago, after several false starts and burnouts in the quicksand of Dreamweaver and the like.

All hail Pylus the creator of GHI, and his custom scripting environment :)
I’ve ridden about 7,000km so far this year (about 5,000km on the sram disc brakes). Most of that is in the mountains, so I use the brakes quite a bit. I’m also not the lightest rider in the world. As mentioned elsewhere, I get about 2000km on the front brake pads, whereas I’d estimate I got double that on rim brakes. I’m curious how many miles have you put into your brake pads, and in what sort of conditions?

Also as mentioned in another comment, there’s a video of Chris Froome complaining about pretty much the same alignment issues that I’ve experienced. So I don’t think it’s just me. I believe he was on Shimano at the time.

I would have preferred Shimano but at the time we were in the midst of a bikepocalypse and SRAM was all that was available in my size/target budget.
Let me try. Let’s say you have some operator F = crazyweirdblackbox. Like, it exponentiates and does a bunch more complicated things. You can apply this operator to some input function and transform it into some output function. The programming analogy would be some piece of code that works on a lambda and spits out another lambda. The finite-dimensional linear algebra equivalent is a matrix. You would ideally want F to be invertible (or undoable) for all inputs. Just in case.

If g(x) is an eigenfunction of F, then h(x) = F(g(x)) is actually just a rescaled of g(x): h(x) = ag(x), for some constant a. No matter how complicated and hard-to-compute F is, it boils down to just one number a, when acting on some special function g(x).

So what? This only applies to special g(x), and not any choice for g. Let’s say that I have some special function y(x) that isn’t necessarily g(x). But I have a whole bunch of eigenfunctions of F called g_k(x). If I knew that F was linear (kind of a prerequisite for computing eigenfunctions anyway), then I can decompose some output function y(x) into a weighted sum of g_k: y(x) = sum([w_k g_k(x) for k in range(infinity)]).

Some abuse of Python list comprehension there.

So instead of evaluating F, which might be very hard computationally or numerically, we can instead do a for-loop over potentially easier functions g_k. And store some weights w_k that essentially describe how F transformed an input function into y. Easy-peasy.

And maybe I don’t want to evaluate the entire sum. So I could choose to evaluate only the “important” terms in the sum to approximate y(x).

The entirety of signal processing, much of quantum mechanics, much of electromagnetism, and many other partial differential equations can fit into this framework. And we use PDEs to describe F when we really have no idea how to even to write it down. But we can still compute eigenfunctions and therefore make progress in evaluating F since we know the effect of F on certain special functions.

Does that help?
I am looking to learn C# coming from Javascript/Typescript. It just looks so complex to me and I feel I do not know what is going on. Everywhere I look I see strange examples seeing it change over time. What would you give as guidance to someone looking to pickup C#?
This reminds me of the old shadow run rpg books. They had in character comments throughout the books. There were whole subplots and narrative arcs just in the comments. It was great.
Not alone, but I'm kinda amazed how many people discount all the good prime originals that are available.
> It's run, line-by-line through an interpreter, and turned into byte-code, which is executed by the VM.

Just a small technical correction: you can pre-complie to .py source files to .pyc bytecode files without waiting for the interpreter to do it line by line, many distro package managers already perform this step automatically when a package is installed. Though you're right in the sense that it doesn't really improve performance, CPython itself is the slowest part, not bytecode generation.

> There's no compilation, and in CPython, very little optimisation.

+1. This was actually a deliberate design choice [0]. Guido van Rossum himself said, "Python is about having the simplest, dumbest compiler imaginable." CPython was designed for ease of learning and use, it was never designed to be a high-performance language. Pure Python code (without C extensions like NumPy) can never be good at number-crunching tasks.

[0] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/02/24/
you're looking for what? my personal million dollar website or my billion dollar startup?
I do watch Netflix content, and I like it?

On the other hand, I have zero interest in superhero or starwars content. Disney is basically for children.
I am open now. Can we chat?
Have to protect the house prices somehow. Making new construction inherently inferior and also more expensive helps
There have been a bunch of submissions about this, but for practical purposes, stories about a pending announcement fall in the "announcement of an announcement" category.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Let's wait for the thing itself. On HN, there's no harm in waiting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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The mysterious rise Robert Chamberlain, one of the richest Australians under 40
So they send you an email with an activation code but you don't need to click on any links or otherwise interact with the email. Theoretically, someone else who knows your email could have registered you... Probably not too believable, but you could send the email to your coworkers too to improve your anonymity set
If Meta disappeared tomorrow, would anyone care or would they just move on to the next fad?

I do think people would care about WhatsApp.

Of course, someone with deep pockets would snap that up. Google comes to mind—what’s one more messaging strategy?
This made me wonder, what are the odds of a CSS "security best practices for style directives" document emerging as CSS itself changes via various pressures over say the coming decade?
great point. I've never had need to attempt their standards but I've still learned useful things there, even for bodge level work. often i recall those lessons in the form of "if I had remembered to do that thing I read about, I wouldn't have this problem now. and the fire would've been smaller"
Something Instagram’s algorithm doesn’t get that Tik tok’s does is that just because I watch something doesn’t always mean I want more of it. Because I am pathetic, I may watch a few loops of a thirst trap short, but I do not want more of it in my feed. Tik Tok understands this; but Instagram sees the “increased engagement number” go up and fills my explore page with it.
Damn you Markov!
Technically 50% are at or below the median ... though in my experience the actual low performers aren't that high in number, at least where I've been employed.
what do you mean by "pixel exact". svg definitely renders differing amounts of pixels on my different devices. one with dpr 2.0, one with dpr 3.0, one with dpr 1.25
Sales guy here.

The way I sell against top tier names is to use attunement to my advantage. Sure the other company has a huge name - but they're not like you and will never be like you; instead they'll expect you to be like them. Are you ready for your organization to make a shift like that? What would that mean for you?

Us on the other hand - we're also a similar sized company, we also have do not have monopoly pricing power, we also don't have a war chest of money to invest in some flashing thing...and we've built a product for companies like us.

...

Think about that in the context of hiring. No one wants someone to say "well this is how we did it at Twitter/Facebook/Stripe" 10,000 times and undermine + slow down their entire process.

I would emphasize exactly what makes you different and how that experience translates to who you're interviewing with (that is, how you understand their problems better and can address them better) than a dev whose entire view is from a world of basically unlimited cash/growth/speculation. And how you are therefore a much less risky hire for their org.

gl
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Musk sells Tesla stock worth about $4B
don't buy your glasses from your optometrist, buy it from online sources. Most states require them to provide you with your prescription after an eye examination. I get mine for roughly 1/4-1/3 (I could probably get them cheaper if I wasn't sticking with a vendor that has been great for me) the price online and they're fine.
Technically, Cozo is using something called "Datalog with stratified negation, stratified aggregation, and function symbols", allowing aggregations to be auto-recursive when they form a semi-lattice, together with built-in algorithms which are black boxes taking in relations and giving you back another relation. Your example is taken care of by the "stratified negation" part.

I believe "Datalog with function symbols" is already Turing complete, but you are right, what they call "Datalog" without any qualification in academic papers is not.
That’s assuming it actually worked.

Bad recommendation engines often get stuck displaying stuff that has generic appeal.
I've not watched a single Netflix show the past half year and possibly more. I've only glanced over them as I walk by the living room when my family members are watching them.

There's really nothing that interesting in these streaming platforms anymore.
The Ryzen 7 5800X3D has been a huge hit in the flight sim community since it launched earlier this year, owing entirely to its massive cache.[0]

Flight sims (especially DCS) tend to be built on archaic engines that rely heavily on non-parallel workloads, so the stacked cache approach can yield some crazy performance gains. I'm excited for the upcoming Zen 4 version of their X3D part.

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d
He's done selling really for real this time, no lie. And FSD, Cybertruck, Roadster, Semi, dojo in 2023 for sure!
I agree. I’m not a professional developer, but I sometimes make bots/daily scripts, as well as scripts for work that are beyond Excel, and I always use ruby. My colleagues use python for similar work scripts, but to me they are painfully difficult to read and understand.
Veterans are the most discussed, but women are the largest subpopulation https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_women.asp
It was practically dripping wasn't it? :)
Building your modern crud app is still incredibly hard to get right while still being performant in any language. IMO, neither ruby nor the database are at fault.

- Materialization pipelines are hard, especially ones that need transactional constraints.

- Passing async connections from the http request all the way through to the database is hard.

- Data distributions can change which can impact indexes, join ordering, and the optimal materialization pipeline.
I assume/hope it doesn't let you have the video on while you're driving.
Scientists Finally Discover the Cause of a Rare Brain Disease
I’m a Rails developer by trade, been doing it for over a decade. Bad indexing and lazy N+1 are 90% of the performance problems in a typical rails application. The other 10% is when people do aggregates or joins in application code instead of sql. I absolutely despise ActiveRecord because it makes non-trivial aggregates a pain to write. Sequel is a much better ORM but good luck getting a team on board.
I mean the person who took the photo still has it and you can still ask for it if you like it? If anything stories make you likely to see more photos of your friends, not less.
Yea, it wasn’t ideal. Luckily I choose better afterwards.
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