skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking further into it (I really want my program to run faster!), looks like 7 produces unoptimized code. Could it be that it decided for me that I want faster startup vs faster code? Can I force it to turn optimizations on somehow?
lots of us read HN, so maybe in one of the usual hiring threads here
MUD/telnet-based MMO’s are very popular with the visually impaired https://mud.fandom.com/wiki/Aardwolf

> Aardwolf has a very strong visually impaired following.

I know there was a survey at some time that showed surprisingly large number of players are VI but I can’t seem to find that now
If what you're writing is related to your professional activity, you're supposed to pay. So for example if you use it (as the article suggests) to record your work achievements at your job, you're supposed to buy a license.
Tech people are delusional, i always said it, this confirms it, specially the ones who earn a lot of money during this bubble
The overlords saw they were losing control with people opting to WFH and great resignation … so they said “What audacity … inflict pain and suffering on the mortals”.
There are a lot of people doing room share to take the cost of rent down or commute long distance. You can definitely balance between price, commute, comfort, privacy, grownupship and self respect. No surprise that many people really, really want to fully work from home so that they can better optimize.

9K is exaggeration of course, that would be quite irresponsible but it would be also the only way to put you in a lifestyle of a person who makes 5K a month.
> My ophthalmologist claimed he didn’t have the equipment to add PD to his prescription.

It's called a PD Ruler and it's literally just a mm ruler. Bald-faced liar indeed.
I replied by editing my original comment. I got flagged, so I thought it appropriate to edit my comment to motivate what I posted.

My comment ‘Sheep commentors everywhere’ was a reply to your post ‘Corporate robots everywhere’, intending to mirror the original comment.

I tried to elaborate this in my edited update of my comment above. I can see why it got flagged, but my intention was different to how it was understood, IMO.
No, he was criticized for using it as publicity on LinkedIn.
Not every opto is always willing to give you your PD. Some like to beat around the bush because they'd rather try to nudge you into buying in store instead.
I'm not sure about courts, but the government over here will definitely recognize that I owned the coins and that I later stopped owning them - by collecting taxes on the transaction.
I have't seen anyone trying to push that on to courts, which indicates that the expectation is that courts have the same idea on coin ownership.
>If they wanted to they could write a check for CloudFlare, I checked their balance sheet. Meta Cloudflare would be a juggernaut; so powerful that I pray the FTC wouldn't allow it.

Why would there be any issue from an FTC standpoint? As far as I can tell, they're in completely separate businesses. I do agree it is a brilliant idea to Microsoft-ize the SMB relationships they already have to sell software services.
It's the risk they take working in a foreign country.

Many Americans have no job security or savings either. Hard to feel bad for foreigners who come here and earn Facebook salaries while sending money home and displacing local citizens and economies.

I am the child of immigrants who did just that, BTW. Global labor is only good for capitalists and owners, not for everyday workers and residents and communities.
" mild recession"

If we're lucky
Very interesting, Thanks for introducing me to are.na.

I like that they've essentially outsourced the computation required to classify the content to real humans.

I understand the value in adding context to the bookmarks, But does it help in any way to recall a bookmark when I need it? Because not using the bookmark is a real problem[1] but I find the suggestions from bookmarks in Firefox address bar quite useful; Integration of in other writing tools which knows the content of the bookmarks could be useful.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/57-i-forget-my-web-bookmarks-qu...
I'd like him to say words that have actual meaning, and not words that resemble meaning after being filtered by a PR consultant.
AWS has the first mover advantage, Microsoft knows enterprise, Google has some awesome tech. I'm not sure what Meta could bring to the table?
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This cannot be done for anywhere near your $8b. You need many times that amount of money just to handle some of the problems.

If you are willing to miss some people this is likely the best solution possible. Establish a very large NGO with offices in every country in the world. You'll need enough people to cover the entire planet at the same time - and then setup desks where everyone can come in, get their dollar, and get their left hand stamped with an ink that cannot be washed off in less than a day. This is what countries do to prevent duplicate votes.

And this won't get everyone, but it should prevent most duplications.
> Businesses usually try to find ways to correct for major failures in decision making.

Which eventually leads to complete stagnation and nobody being willing and/or able to make a decision.
I suspect you meant to omit the `if (c == 'd')` part in the last example
What is interesting is that, "even after weight loss surgery, a formerly obese person would need to eat far fewer calories than a normal-weight person in order to maintain their weight loss."

In other words the MF didn't change even after reducing adipose tissue!
Why do you devalue this course with shitty AI-generated images? They give off a horror vibe and since the details are all wrong, I get the impression that details don't matter in your course. But in coding, it's all about the details (edge cases).
Or simply:

- Stop mandated yearly releases

- Stop mandated "release must have new features or else"

- Stop superfluous changes that take away time and focus. Examples: all the recent redesigns (attempt to butcher Safari, and System Preferences being the biggest ones)

Boom. You have enough people to focus on improving things instead of always scrambling to meet deadlines with random changes.
What would him taking responsibility in practice look like to you?
The "born within the same 12 months" part was, historically, far less a part of America's school system. My grandmother taught grades 1-8 in a one-room small-town schoolhouse. My mother taught both in that little town schoolhouse...and also in a large, modern high school in an industrialized city. There was one h*ll of a difference between the two.

Mom did not mince words about which one she thought was far better for the students - in spite of having a vastly lower per-student budget.
I think the overhead of proving individuals don’t get more than a dollar would wind up costing more than the money itself.

I think the lowest overhead way would be to set up a couple thousand booths around the world simultaneously where people could come to get their dollar in exchange for staining their fingers with “election ink”. Would make it pretty difficult though not impossible to double dip.
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Payment has much higher multiple especially compared to FB. It’s quite literally the closest thing to printing money.
Hmm, I bought it about…a couple weeks ago? And they sent me an email with two discount codes: a free copy of Affinity Photo 2, and a heavy discount on the all-apps-all-platforms license.
In many developed and developing countries, you could likely work with the state and build it into their taxation schemes.
Using these generators as tools to find inspiration seems like the best case scenario. I think people are assigning too little probability to the potential future scenario that current systems are about as good as we're going to get with current ML methods, though some refinements will marginally improve them. Without a major breakthrough, I don't see any AI systems replacing professional artists on video games, e.g., unless it's a very low effort, low quality game.
They will have peers outside of a seemingly prison like environment, it has never been easier to home school.
Both TikTok and Google (Tensorflow etc) would beg to differ on that.
Thanks, I will check it out. Btw, Others in Obsidian forums have mentioned DEVONthink as well.
Do you think that great, world-changing, folks go to Facebook to sit on a big salary? if they were going to do something awesome they probably wouldn't have been working there.

now, if google lay off a lot of people... that would be different
That's not firing on performance, though, it's just nonsense. Some layoffs are _actually_ performance-based, but assuming the thing about the twitter lines of code is true, that's firing based on leadership incompetence, and it would hardly count against people (unless they're applying to IBM in the 1980s, which actually _did_ use line counts for performance management...)
You also need to account for exchange rate and processing fees. Some recipients may not receive 1 dollar.

Edit0: Also, I just realised, many poor people do not have means to exchange dollar into their local currency. So sending them 1 dollar through post is going to be a waste.

Edit1: Most countries will not allow this due to hawala which creates black money.
"Managing" wasn't meant to imply "direct reports." I don't think I've ever met anyone with 100 direct reports (although I can see completely routine roles where that might happen -- Uber/Turk/etc. can exist with zero human management).
If you want to earn <€70k, interviews in the EU seem to be much, much simpler.
It’s helpful to remember that we’re collectively doing about 1% of what we theoretically could be accomplishing.

If you somehow forced someone to sit and practice drawing a hand for eight hours a day, they would get surprisingly far as an artist.

Being a founder isn’t too dissimilar. Determination tends to be decisive.

If you spent eight hours a day trying to make a small group of users love you, you’d get surprisingly far.

I think that’s what they mean about potential founders at Stripe. There’s a lot of potential energy that a layoff might release.
Have you tried the Excalidraw plugin?
How surprising is this? Think of a thin person and a large one of the same height. Consider they're both sitting normally dressed at room temperature. The body will dissipate heat over its surface area.

Surface area is proportional to linear measure squared, volume to linear measure cubed. But given constant height, surface area varies with linear measure, and volume to linear measure squared.

So a quadrupling of volume/weight results in a doubling of surface area. Now if maintaining body temperature above room temperature is a significant expenditure of energy, it would be expected that larger people are more energy efficient and thus less 'efficient' at burning calories per unit weight.
Apple's HIGs were carefully researched and validated. The original HIGs from the 80s even had an extensive bibliography linking to and citing extensive user research.

What are the current changes except "we don't understand how desktop OSes work, and we've only worked with iOS, so there"?
Such a need for a service like z-library, the outside world sales prices does not make sense in my country, where the price of an ebook is equal to my half a month salary.
Depends how you look at it. I think they are well aware of their reputation and probably does not want to make it any worse.
Hey Fabian!

To quote a fellow HN-er:

"No offense but do make a shareware version. Demo if you're younger. No way I'm paying for something like this based only on marketing copy."

I'd add to this: give me why reason anyone would buy something like this based only on marketing copy. Personally I'd consider such a person extremely gullible.
How many $1 bills are even in circulation?
I don't see it, I used to get a few emails from recruiters every day. The other day I got 1, and it made me realize it's been literally weeks since I had one. Lots of companies froze their hiring. The music is stopping, and there's a lot less chairs. Not everyone is going to find a new seat.
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Why on earth are these in C++23 and not C++11? There are a ton of things that should’ve been standardized over a decade ago but only show up in C++20 or later. `std::span<T>` is a huge one. The mind boggles.
Yeah, not sure hiding your campaign behind a sign up form is exactly a good idea...
They are indeed investing into groups, but ultimately the marginal gain there is marginal. The metaverse stuff also complements (i.e. it isn't a complete pivoting away from traditional social networking) all of the other connectivity (e.g. imagine a unique and persistent VRChat instance per group; you can have a meta-localverse) but also gives Meta its own platform. Mark is obviously incredibly pissed at the amount of leverage Apple has over him.
Are you trolling? that would be worse for literally everyone involved. Have you held yourself to this standard in your professional life? it seems so absurd
1200 a day is severely limited, though. 2200/day is a normal amount for a normal man to get by on, more around 1600-1800 if actively trying to lose weight. You're talking about eating nearly half as much as people normally would just to maintain?
>Will this over flood the market and bring expectations and salaries down?

Well I predict two things:

One, the days of $200-500k TC being common and widespread are going to end. If you're in this bracket, or about to break into it, yeah be worried, it's probably going to evaporate.

Two, the CV value of Meta, Snap, Stripe, etc. is also going to end. I don't think they will command the same premium in the jobs market from now(ish) onward.
How far do I have to move?
I'm saying that there are already many worthwhile projects out there, and not enough time or money to support them all. Rather than asking in vague terms to make the world better, can you be more specific? What projects are you thinking of, what problems are you trying to solve, what skills do you need, etc.?

Your ask is too vague to evaluate. The signal to noise ratio of these things is incredibly low. Maybe your project is different in some significant way. But I can't tell what you're looking for.
> Has anyone switched to Affinity Designer from Illustrator for vector work (logos, svg, icons, etc) and liked it?

I found v1 frustrating. They’ve been touting their “precision” from the get go, but in my experience it was anything but precise. And I mean going into the transform panel, inserting exact values by hand, and then the software moves it 0.1 points to the right.

Making separate shapes then connecting them was also a fool’s errand. When it works at all, it often leaves two connected points in the same location, as opposed to merging them. Even if you insert their locations manually and exactly. I’ve wasted many many hours due to their imprecision.

With all that out of the way, I’m trialing v2 and am cautiously optimistic. I haven’t been able to trigger any of the bugs so far. Doesn’t mean they’re not there, but maybe they’re fixed.
There are a few gaming based resources:

* https://www.codingame.com/start

* https://checkio.org/

* https://codepip.com/

* https://codingfantasy.com/games

There are also interactive ones that are project based, for example: https://scrimba.com/learn/htmlandcss

Good luck for your course!
No subscription is a big deal. Been using Affinity tools since Adobe introduced their cloud bloatware and subscription model.

I'm praying to the design gods that Adobe won't acquire Affinity - surely this must eat into their revenue.
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Is my understanding correct that Affinity Photo doesn't have any photo management capability? If you want to edit a series of images similarly, do you create a custom preset that you then apply to the other images and just reopen the editor for every image?
I use Joplin with the personal server; I migrated my notes away from Evernote and Notion to Joplin for my personal use. I really like it; it is fast, open source, simple plugin system and very stable (something I cannot say of notion or Evernote).
I'm talking about the "use blockchain to prove ownership of a domain" or whatever else people are talking about. Money is different as the non-fungible part of money already exists. It's called cash, and even ownership of that is able to be adjudicated. They can sue you for back taxes and you can sue to say you do not own certain taxes.
That is one way to interpret it, another is “it won’t be hard to do this”. You do not have to leap to the conclusion that something is a personal attack.
Well, yes. But if all the corporates only want to hire people at that price it’s still a shortage. It’s just a shortage of shrubs.
I wish people understood the dangers of introducing FOMO too early in childhood development.

We have the data now. It’s better to structure entertainment in a socialized way. Too many people share stories tinged with survivorship bias.
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How does the cost of living compare? The wage in SV might be higher, but with astronomical rents etc, you might actually be better off in real terms with the German 10 months.
Scapegoating. Replace "signal loss" with "TikTok" and "Most of our products suck" and you're a lot closer to the truth.
Yeah. A bunch of interesting points. You also seem to describe a sort of future trendwatchers.

In Star Trek there still seem to be writers and creators of holo deck programs, even though you could probably have the computer serve a blend of different stories. Perhaps “a craft” will still be seen as admirable.
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I understand that. I think you are likely missing some context and what is motivating comments like the one I responded to. Long story short a cult developed around gamestock bag holders that didn't manage to sell the top and now they're shitting up every discussion on the internet related to finance or investing. It's starting to really annoy me now that it's escaped reddit
> There are Chinese companies, but those companies largely exist thanks to their state barring competition from the outside, and I don't see it being super likely that that is a real threat, especially because if Chinese companies really start taking off the United States government will clamp down on them hard.

TikTok is a Chinese company and is major competition for Facebook
The profession and the state have to choose between freedom and regulation - or some hybrid compromise. For computer types, the profession and the state have opted for freedom. I'd say that on balance it was the right decision. For other professions (doctors, layers, accountants) that balance has been achieved and codified over may generations.

For egregious ethical violations, the whistleblower act provides a remedy.
At least the last sentence reminds me of "The hard thing about hard things".
I get it. I’m a fan of starting strength (though not really of mark riptoe). But the background context of the book is a precovid world where “sedentary” had a much different connotation than it does today.
At the risk of been downvoted: you cant. It is impossible.

Even if you had $30 billion, and your goal was to guarantee the distribution of only $1 to everyone, it still wouldnt occur with all the excess.

When you factor in corruption, fraud, inadequate infrastructure, and vague defining of the parameters.

Just think of the edge cases to understand why this couldnt be achieved:

1. A subset of the population will ACTIVELY reject your attempt to give them $1, as they will consider it spam, anti-god, conspiracy or one of hundreds of other reasons (look at recent world events to see that there is always a % of the pop on the other side)

2. A subset of the population will ACTIVELY attempt to fraud you for extra money. Claim multiple times, or claim on behalf of other people (their dead grandmother)

3. A subset of the population will ACTIVELY use corruption for extra money. Consider state actors such as North Korera, or third world countries with poor controls

I could go on - but those 3 reasons alone are enough edge cases to start with.
Flash as in raw flash (e.g. connected via SPI).
An SSD has many abstraction layers (and usually a file system) between the application and the flash.
This is just history repeating itself. Happened with Second Life, too, nearly 20 years ago: https://www.zdnet.com/article/reality-pricks-the-second-life...
> the sentiment is to improve the life and livelihood of the average person

Policies based on good sentiment almost always result in hidden costs that run counter to those sentiments. Strong employees' rights in Europe mean that companies are much more reluctant to hire, since poor performers cannot be let go easily. This is especially devastating to young people who cannot find a foothold in an entry-level job to develop their careers; see youth employment rates in Spain (over a third) or France (one-fifth).

Same with rent control and other tenant protections, which is another sentimental policy that results in poor real-world outcomes. Sweden famously has a national average waitlist nearing a decade for rent-controlled housing, but this problem is by no means limited to Europe; if you compare states in the US with strong tenant rights vs. strong landlord rights, you'll find that the latter has much lower rents at comparable population densities.

> I take these quality of life improvements over all the tech unicorns any time

There has been more immigration from Europe to the US than the other way around for decades, so a lot of people do value the factors that enable those tech unicorns to flourish in the US.
coastal.com redirects to eyebuydirect.com. Is that the same one you are talking about?
softbank vision fund lmao, this fund is a joke that throws money at any "radical sounding" idea
> That's an interesting idea.

That's a crazy idea, if original. What do Facebook know about building and selling general cloud services?
You can have both without OOP (at least not in the sense of a hierarchy of classes, or any C++/Java style), so...
I think your confusng pessimism with scepticism.

Either his claim to take responsibility means something, in terms of it actually leading to consequnces and/or actions, or it doesn't. If it's the former, then what are they? If it's the latter, then why?

For example: do shareholders hold him to his responsibility? And if so, how? If they don't, who improves Meta's corporate governance to ensure that this self-admitted mistake doesnt reoccur and sexure their investment?

I've never worked at a BigCorp. How does this stuff work?
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This decision is correct, given all the incorrect strategic decisions he made leading up to it. The markets have clearly lost a lot of confidence in his leadership, and I would have to imagine the remaining employees have too. Stepping down would be a drastic step, but merely stating “I take responsibility” is unlikely on its own to restore confidence in his ability to right the ship either.
Completely unrelated to the thread, but I had to google this. This seems to be the source https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-...

Reading the notes at the bottom, it seems like the number might be somewhat realistic, but should really be called the cost of shipping fuel and securing it to Afghanistan, some of which was probably used for aircon.
If we want to treat the numbers as meaningful and make low effort quips about wealth inequality being bad for society when they go up then we must also concede that it is meaningfully bad for him when the numbers go down if we are to be logically consistent.

Personally I think beyond a couple billion it serves no purpose for quality of life for anyone and we only care in order to crudely "keep score" of who's in charge of more "stuff" since it can't really be liquidated or repurposed other endeavors efficiently and these people are de-factor world leaders in some capacity (a private industry analogue to GDP if you will).