skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a lot of sloppiness supported more by attitude than evidence.

> ... there is very little resistance now to the assertion that COVID was manufactured in a biolab. Those responsible for making it are responsible for the millions of deaths it has caused.

This is still very much debated. Based on the two related strains that were cultured from the wet market and the locations of the earliest infections there is good reason to believe the virus came from there. Notably this is what many virologists experienced with identifying outbreak sources are asserting.

> ...forced wearing of masks, etc. show very little evidence of benefit ...

Admit to forgetting the details, but there was one large US State, I think it was Nebraska, which dropped masking for political reasons and had an immediate and sharp increase in COVID cases. There is lots of data with masks and diseases spread through the air. This is why surgeons are required to wear them.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. It's quite striking.
> So I would expect to see countries with higher share of solar generation and less nuclear would have lower wholesale electricity prices than ones with less solar and more nuclear?

The costs for existing tech partly are sunk costs. Electricity will get produced as long as the price paid is above marginal costs.

The market for electricity also is international. There’s no need for an electricity producer in a country to sell its electricity inside that country. In Europe, there’s a single grid stretching from Portugal to Turkey, from Denmark to Algeria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...), with additional DC links to the UK, Scandinavia and the baltics.

And yes, there will be losses for long-distance connections, so electricity will be mostly consumed ‘near’ to where it’s produced, but any effect of different mixes of electricity sources will be diminished.
The AntLab channel on YouTube has a great video on springtails:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXeSnWY6DNc&ab_channel=AntLa...

In general AntLab has awesome content, for instance the slowmo moth and butterfly video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQoRpStF4M&ab_channel=AntLa...
You're going to tend to have unevenness there because you're returning results to recursive DNS servers, not clients; so maybe you get unlucky and return A to more large ISPs; their recursive servers serve more clients per lookup and you've got lumpy results.

Then, if you return both IPs, you're very likely to eventually come across some people who sort multiple returned A/AAAA records and will prefer one that's "closer" to their current IP. Because if you're in 1.0.0.0/8, it's certainly going to be better to connect to 1.2.3.4 instead of 5.6.7.8. Same thing happens in v6 land, of course.
Most of those forks have big companies sponsoring the work.
What a story. I've had to take action against bad clients before when I was working as a consultant. Never a fun process.

Mick's work on the soundtrack is such a huge component of what made these games great. His dedication to the final product and the fans is admirable. I hope he doesn't have to go through something like this again. The stress alone is not worth it.
I think you mean when semantic web was the next Big Thing. Better search would have been a nice side effect of a semantic web.

I was a big enthusiast of all the potential a semantic web could have brought. In my opinion due to the rise of social networks, content got heavily centralized, and it wasn't in the centralized platform's interest to annotate it, or allow others to consume it. For a short period of my time on the internet, when most in my close circle of friends, had WP blogs and blogrolls in the sidebar, you'd get at least some FOAF annotations on those links. I could complain for a whole afternoon about the clunkiness of supporting software and technologies (RDF, triple stores, ontologies, graph databases, etc), as it wasn't easy as a coder to hack on these technologies developed by consortiums.

As far as semantic search goes. I think that due to the heavy SaaS-ification of software, now there isn't even an incentive to create better search tooling. I know the landscape of search systems is huge, and while there is no way for me to assess all existing software, I've just stuck with the the tried and tested Apache Solr (or ElasticSearch) on projects I worked on. And those are not easily tweaked into semantic search engines.

My experience with Google Search for the past few years is that results based on their knowledge graph have been gamed heavily. There's a lot of junk in those results that is very much adjacent to the keywords I'm searching. You'll see the common suggestion on HN as well, when you search for a product review to also include news.ycombinator.com/reddit.com in your query based on the type of product you're looking for.
Absolutely. The Meta campus is sad right now. Philz closed. The woodshop closed. Some of the perks from before the pandemic are gone. People are getting paid a lot less. Unless you actually believe in building the metaverse or can't find something comparable that's not sinking, there just isn't much reason to stay.
I finally started seriously using a M1 work laptop yesterday, and I'm impressed. More than twice as fast on a compute-intensive job as my personal 2015 MBP, with a binary compiled for x86 and with hand-coded SIMD instructions.
You don't think he sold his shares in some of the investment rounds? Adam Neumann of WeWork is still billionaire even though WeWork went bust. These scams won't stop till someone is prosecuted. SBF stated that VTX didn't trade customer assets and that VTX was just a custodian, he committed textbook wire fraud.
I really appreciate Adyashanti's teachings, I've found that he is generally really practical, down to earth, and generally on-the-money (if seemingly nonsensical on some topics...at first. :) ) :)
yes, I hadn't noticed that. I wish I could understand him better.
I watched a presentation in which it was explained that they got Microsoft to create a version of Office for their metaverse and other companies to do similar things. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft is not doing this for free, so generally speaking I think their expenses include all the spending related to this kind of partnerships, which can add up to quite a lot when you have a whole ecosystem to build. This is not just software and hardware engineering. With this in mind, the $10bn figure looks much more reasonable and even disciplined for the goal pursued. Whether or not this goal is the right one is another question. I personally think Meta is misguided here and this aventure will fail miserably.
This is why I’m hopeful that we get over this Republic hump and, like Rome, blossom into Empire. It’s really inevitable. The only question is, do we have a serene God-King with divine grace? Or a Caligula.
The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility
But Illustrator is ruined by a glaring omission that people have been complaining about for years (if not decades): There's no way to select only the objects that are totally within the selection marquee. Every other vector art application offers this critical selection mode (Affinity Designer defaults to it, I think).

I consider Illustrator unusable as a result. It's also essentially abandonware.
> How does a modern website operate under this law?

As someone who has seen the web evolve from basic pages to the apps of today, the way “modern websites” are currently built is absolutely horrific.

Web developers don’t seem to have any qualms about pulling in random crap from random places, and those random places can pull in more crap. It makes it impossible to get a simple baseline for security without an army of people reviewing code, and the web devs just shrug and say “that’s how everyone does it now”.

If these laws pour cold water on some of this and force web devs to shape up, that’s fine with me.
I have seen a previous manager at a company cannot compensate for FANG levels say for interview candidates "Don't put a high bar, besides we won't get that kind of talent because... you know... FANG".

But i don't see that being necessarily true and largely depends on type of software you build and the culture of the company. A lot of people are decent engineers and are not interviewing for FANG for a variety of reasons are for no reason in companies that may or may not deserve them. I think its hard to build street cred to get people to work for less, but interviews should always have a good bar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532121
> Apple Private Relay makes law enforcement’s life much harder when looking at who’s visiting certain dodgy websites

Good

> but also potentially reduces the resilience of mobile networks because it messes with the caching strategies in place today and makes diagnosing problems harder.

This is a lie because the vast majority of internet traffic is already encrypted and hence un-cachable. Even if it is true, I don't care, we can trade caching for privacy, we did it with HTTP and the sky didn't fall.

> It also makes it impossible for those networks not to charge for certain data traffic because they can’t see which sites a phone is trying to visit.

Again, good.

Seriously. Fuck this guy and everything he stands for.
Sad but completely unsurprising. People should realise by now that when a company starts a massive hiring boom, it will inevitably bust. Why? Because as many have said already, if you have tonnes of cash, it is easier to hire loads of people rather than hire appropriate and effective people.

The fact that we are talking about such an enormous number just shows how many people are part of the hive but probably not really contributing much to the company overall.

The worst part is that some people who are really effective will get caught up in the layoffs paying for the inefficiency of corporate structures.
If the employer I worked for started micro-managing the way I use my tools (that affects nobody else) I would consider leaving, honestly. If I rebase on a branch that hadn't been shared with someone else, why does it matter what my boss or team thinks about that approach?

Code styles are one thing, what I type into my terminal is another.
As a curiosity, how many people in this thread are home buyers that sat on the sidelines over the past year or two and are now waiting for prices to drop?

Waiting for a price drop doesn't really work.

Firstly, when prices start to drop people stop selling. You might want a cheaper house but the supply will be severely limited so you probably won't get what you really want.

Secondly, when prices drop it usually comes with other changes in the market. Mortgage lenders are weirdly skittish at the moment, and they stop lending the instant anything looks bad. If you need a high loan-to-value mortgage (eg 90% of the purchase price) you probably won't get it in a downturn.

I bought a place about 18 months ago and got a 5 year fixed interest mortgage because I figured we're going into a period of inflation and maybe recession so interest rates will probably go up. My timing was off a bit but it's going to save me a fortune over the next few years (and then I get a huge shock when the fix rate ends... yay!)
> even if you want to get back to them right away it requires some delicate git surgery.

The reflog tracks rebase commit history. No surgery required.

>This is why you can't generally share work using a rebase workflow.

Rebase of public facing commits is not discouraged due to data loss. It is discouraged due to the possibility of someone creating change sets off the published work, and then the update re-writing the history to change the merge-base, requiring a re-merge of their changes.
Is that any faster than modern versions of Photoshop today?

I think you all may be missing the invisible sarcasm tag here. I am reading this more as a jab at Photoshop for not “feeling” faster on a contemporary multicore GPU-enhanced machine.

Which, honestly, in my distant memory, Photoshop doesn’t feel faster today. Oh, I know it objectively is much faster — you can rip through 40+ megapixel images with GPU-powered filters like it’s nothing. But whatever hideous custom interface kit Adobe uses make it feel perceptually pokey.

Like, I just opened the Libraries panel for the first time on this new computer, and there was a noticeable wait as it rendered the “rich toolip” thing they have. The default New Document interface has lurching slowness as well. The interface just always feels a teeeeny bit behind your actions.
With EVs, you lose
I thought the median home price has been pegged to the median salary of the given area for the last 50 years? How can prices fall if salaries don't?
I installed iode onto my FP3, and I could relock the bootloader.
Does it get tiring being this cynical all the time? Admit it, nothing he could have said would have satisfied folks like you.

This was a tactful announcement and a generous severance after providing a job with pay and benefits in the top 0.1% for potentially many years.
> Presumably they are judged on their ability to perform their jobs instead of trying to read their minds and determine whether they're acting in "good faith."

1. One example of not acting in good-faith would be spending more effort on looking like they are performing their job well than actually performing their job well. This makes it harder for a manager to judge people's ability to do their jobs

2. Another example would be spending effort to make it look like ones peers are doing #1, thus making it harder for a manager to properly detect #1.

3. Criticizing the term "subortinates" in a reply to my comment is a bit of a non-sequitur considering it was taken directly from the GP post.
the other thing is that this likely doesn't work over ssh
Who gives a shit about press when you have a quasi monopoly and people are dependent on your products.
They could buy Second Life i guess :)
> And their careers have been more disrupted than some random software engineer's career.

Were they really? Did they just lose their jobs and are they now underwater on mortgages that their families can no longer afford without that income? How many executives lives were "disrupted" worse than that? Because I'm talking about a significant fraction of 11k people that you're dismissing as "some random software engineer."
Google's portfolio is a bit more diversified than FB. Besides, Google services have some value, they offer some essential services. FB not so much.

Besides, Google is trying 50 different things but it didn't go full throttle on any idea like FB did for Metaverse. Huge difference.
Elon Musk kills the “official” label hours after Twitter introduced it
As far as I know, Binance is doing just fine (for now). The bailout was an attempt to take over a large competitor for pennies on the dollar.
He wasn’t criticized for having empathy, he was criticized for the narcissistic attempt to make the layoffs all about how his emotions.
Trying to read TFA but it resemebles every SEO page that comes up with any question-based request submitted to Google.
The question is if binance has the $$. They're doing the same exact thing FTX did, but using tether instead. They truly might not have the money to plug that hole.

My guess is that binance just wants to take down a competitor. They publicly started the FTX bank run by announcing they were going to dump FTT, after all.
Yes. What happened here is a business took on risk, lost and failed. Let it fail.
Connectivity in the human hippocampus using in vivo quantitative fibre tracking
I used both a 1Ghz iMac G4 and 2Ghz iMac G5 (ALS model) in the 2000s for a lot of Photoshop work and remember them performing similarly. Both were excellent machines for that particular use case and zipped through anything I threw at them in PS, especially the G5 which I put 2GB of RAM in.

The PS versions I used were chiefly 7.0 and CS1, with some CS2 mixed in towards the end of the G5’s lifespan. I miss those versions so much because they sat at nearly a perfect nexus of features, responsiveness, and resource consumption. Such a stark contrast to PS CC.
Didn't say that it was solely them. But they absolutely got carved up.
They're also very distracting while driving, especially if you're relying on maps since they cover the entire screen.
RU was banking on a big GOP midterm win in the USA as their last hope, this pointless bloodbath needs to end
Your post is full of great information but didn't need the heading. Odds are really good that the poster you are replying to isn't actually lying. Instead they just aren't as familiar with DT as you are. You could have imparted the same information beginning with an opening that educated the user instead of insisting they were lying and a demand for proof.

Firstly calling someone a liar basically shuts down all discussion in most cases and secondly after you have provided the proof you needn't demand it of them. You can instead wait for them to absorb the data you have provided.

Example:

> Darktable in fact has the features you mentioned and more. I enjoy using it for professional work myself so let me tell you a little bit about the features that make it competitive.

This would refute the position without directly engaging in negativity which is more likely to be read especially by poster but I think we are all a bit tired of people calling each other liars on the internet at this point.
> Work starts late because of no fault of mine

Yes, but apparently in Mick's case your name is on the product, and your reputation gets ruined if you don't play ball. A big software company can pay lawyers much longer than you can keep food on the table without pay.
If the dumbest of the rumors was actually true, it may be prudent not to doubt the others.
I interviewed at Meta more recently than that, and the engineers I spoke with mentioned the same thing.
Toyota had 9 recalls in 2022, for reference.
Not really, this is just what happens when you use copper for 40gbps. Consider that 1 meter QSFP DACs are also $30.

$/m gets a lot cheaper with longer fiber cables. They're more flexible too
The problem is who decides who is a fascist tormentor.
Also related, An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630675#32635785
It is both true that it not impossible that a fork of React could be succesful; and that there is a reason React "would be impacted" by layoffs.

For the second, the question "Why would React be impacted by layoffs if it's open source", the answer is obviously: It would be impacted if people who were getting paid to work on it have been laid off. Seems straightforward. Bigger impact depending on number and roles of such people.
If updating to current code was required, a lot of homes would have to be torn down.
When you have no time you are more likely to accidently press that button.
How does it relate to him being accountable? As the user up thread stated he is literally not accountable because he answers to no one
For me, those two points make it clear that it would be possible for Apple to port to RISC-V. But it's still not clear what advantages they would gain from doing so, given that their ARM license appears to let them do whatever they want with CPUs that they design themselves.
This is why they're only trying to buy non-US operations. Binance is a fraud too; they invented the "I can use my exchange to create infinite long leverage" business model of apparently every crypto exchange.
Damn I won't give ID any more money. What pieces of shit. Complete incompetence by marty
Similar here. Over the summer my country of 3m people, reached its yearly immigration quota in tech jobs of 16,000. And that doesn't include people moving inside the EU or refugees from Ukraine.
I am particularly sad about current state of Meta. Regardless of what people think of Facebook and Zuck, he was unapologetically a hacker. I visited FB campus few times and emphasis on hacker culture everywhere was just immensely delightful. He knew the value of good hacker and raised bar for the compensation across the entire industry. Ship your code today was absolutely refreshing. Number of open source projects that has came out of Meta is unparalleled for number of employees. MetaAI had been well protected and is one of the strongest engine for progress in AI. I always viewed it as a company run by a hacker for hackers.
Ask HN: How do I find my “purpose”?
(This is a serious question, despite my username)

There are plenty of studies that show that having a "purpose" and working after it is correlated with higher happiness or well being. "Purpose" is vague enough, so to make things worse I am going to conflate it with "life meaning", "calling" or "personal values". I recently came across the Japanese "Ikigai" which seems related.

Ok, I buy this, however, what is this "purpose/ meaning/ calling/ value" thing? What does it mean, really? How do I find mine?

I think this is the kind of thing a fair amount of people here in HN have thought about, so I thought of asking.

Is there any research that goes into what is "purpose" and how to figure it out? I've come across plenty that talks about how good it is, but nothing that goes into how to find it. Any serious books that you may recommend?
I am a gray/grey beard and have seen this cycle time and time before and it boils down to this - Mega-Corp announces lay-offs which means a short-term profit gain over the next few quarters.

Hedge funds hop on the rise because why not? and the mega rich throw their weight behind it to bolster their own head-count reduction drive because after all, what looks better on your CV when jumping a sinking ship than saying something like 'I drove a profitability increase of X%' with scant regard for the fall-out afterwards once the systems and staff are driven in to the ground especially when other companies are trying to increase revenues during a down turn and are desperately seeking Cxx people to come up with ideas.

Time and time again, rinse and repeat. I honestly can’t understand why people fall for this play again and again. It’s almost as if those old enough either develop amnesia or have committed suicide so that the collective wisdom is forgotten.
Salary requirements aside, what else are you looking for in your next career? i.e. are you most interested in learning something new, connecting with others, doing something meaningful, etc.

You probably have a decent network, so if you wanted you could contract part-time and use the rest of your time to explore new ventures. That's how I handled a similar transition. I used the time I freed up to explore new skills, reflect deeply (journaling and on walks through nature), and meet new people from different walks of life.
If masking was ineffective, why was the 2020 influenza season virtually non-existent in both northern and South hemispheres where masking was required?
I mentally categorise `commit --amend` right there next to rebase personally. When people debate about rebasing and rewrite of history, I include `--amend`. Maybe I'm unique there though.
I spent the first 10 years of my career paying off student debt. The last 5 have been catching up on the retirement savings I missed out on over the first 10 years. As long as I don't have a major medical event maybe I can turn down a job and "build something cool" when I'm 50.
yeah didn't they precipitate the crash by posting that they were doing thing similar to Luna, and then once the thing is crashing they say they'll buy it, and now they might not even buy it, I'm sure there's a lot of shit going on lol
Zuck made it very clear in the last earnings call that he's committed to the metaverse. The stock price is up a lot of the layoffs, but I don't think it's sunk in that that they cut elsewhere.
That's limited to $10k per SSN per year. That's not viable for any material investment.
pre-tax most of the time, but of course varies per country
The Curry-Howard correspondence suggests the analogy of computation with lambda calculus and logical proof systems. As a non-expert it seems that same analogy extends roughly to lambda calculus and a lisp system