skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They froze hiring because of risk. That tends to happen when there's uncertainty and/or debt concerns. This happens all the with expensive (but very nice to have) assets.

When problems start to mount the expensive stuff gets jettisoned. It could be very promising and it would still be cut. Now some programs that they see as crucial to their future development/survival might still be kept, but that doesn't mean that because people / projects that are cut necessarily lack promise (though this is often the case).

It could just as easily be that they just don't have the same high likelihood of success, or the payoff could be not worth the risk.

I'd add that the adage "if they are working for you, that's one less worker for your competitor," is a little bit of an unnecessarily negative portrait. At a high level, would you rather your team have a "C+ teammate while your competitor has an A+ teammate", or would you like the opposite? The answer is obvious and you do everything you can to put the balance in your favor... but I see this as different from paying to keep them off the market. This repeats for every team member so you have to try to do this every time to keep that balance.

On the other hand, from the perspective of a smaller company, they have an A+ person that's not available at all, and will go to another high paying big company before you anyway. So that I see as more of the talent hording people refer to. I guess I don't see a small hypothetical company as "competition", but maybe that's a bad idea.

EDIT/PS: I know in the second to last paragraph I do a poor job of describing why it's different from "keeping them off the market".

I see it more like picking players before a game... of course you pick the best players for yourself, and do so to some extent to prevent them from going to the other team, but I don't think the adage fits.
Think mountain passes or similarly difficult terrain. Or lower volume cargo trains, like into and out of industrial areas in the north. Catenary networks not only take a lot of money to set up, the maintenance is huge - especially in rough terrain or over long distances!

ed: Not saying that all trains should be hydrogen, there just are use cases for some when we're talking zero-emission.
Assumed GP was talking about vaccines in general. But the COVID vaccines alone has an order of magnitude impact on body count, before you even look at reducing severity, reducing spread, and the other benefits.

Hard for me to consider that anything other than a wild success. Is it perfect? Of course not. Do I wish it was better? Obviously. But it reduced the risk of COVID significantly for a huge number of people.

Those of us in countries that had successful lockdowns look at the mortality rate of those that were not able or willing to do so & pretty thankful we were able to postpone the virus until the vaccine was deployed.
This seems like survivor bias. The 1950s furniture and tools that still exist are obviously well-made and have been considered worth preserving by decades of people. Karrot_Kream has good points about materials too.
There is plenty of abandonware on the Android world.

Whatever is cool at Google IO XYWX is already abandoned by the time we reach into Google IO XYWX + 1.
You `sl commit` that half-done work anyway and then iterate by running `sl amend` many times until your commit is finished. In case you want to amend just part of changes us `sl amend -i`

https://sapling-scm.com/docs/commands/amend
If anything, cheap electrolysis is a deadly threat to nuclear. Green hydrogen solves the last remaining problems for a 100% renewable grid (the rare dark/calm periods and seasonal leveling.) Cheap electrolysers mean nuclear is defenseless against much lower LCoE renewables.
Dr Strangelove was obviously about the absurdity of trying to plan for nuclear war, but the ending credit scene of nuclear bombs exploding while playing "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynne sounds like it might have influenced "The Atomic Cafe".

Interestingly, the detail in the linked document that made me think of a movie was the improvised lean-to shelter. One of the protagonists in the British film "When The Wind Blows" built one in his house while following a similar guide.
Stop consuming chemical filled tap water.
Stop using dishwashing detergents which are full of horribly toxic and unnecessary chemicals.
Stop consuming foods filled with sugar and preservatives.
Question: Is it further to Saturn or by car?

Answer: To explain, the answer is further to Saturn, but by car.
Zelenskyy?
You’ll have unrealized gain. If, at the same time, some foreign government was sponsoring Facebook to dismantle the democracy, and successfully achieved that, overall, you might be worse off.
It's hard to say from the outside; certainly at Google there were teams similar to Probability that paid their way (Sibyl was a good example) but there were other teams that had lofty missions but zero impact. My guess is this team was probably at the very bottom of the list for ML impact. From looking at their various online literature they look a bit... theoretical?
Think it's wiser for writers to use ghost.org instead (can be self-hosted, extensible, open source, MIT license)
Keep in mind that they're in an artificial environment designed to lead them to that decision. One of the judge's jobs is to ensure experts are appropriately qualified. Another of the judge's jobs is to restrict what the jury is allowed to hear.
> I disagreed with the things that made Facebook fork off in the first place.

Could you elaborate on what these things are and why you disagree with them?
May I suggest you take your ad hominem elsewhere? This was uncalled for.
Reading the documentation quickly, it looks like you can generate a standard pull request, it's just that the PR may not conform to expectations if there are multiple commits.

Of course, when it comes to github PRs, there are so many different "styles" of pull request, I'm not even sure which one should be considered "standard".
Benchmark Vector Search Databases with One Million Data
She created it, but doesn't own it. She sold the rights away to ABC/Disney/Hulu
An intended one: Super Game Boy is an adapter cart for the SNES that has a GB CPU (Sharp LR35902 - 8080-like) inside.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy
Why do you want to? Not trying to be snarky, but I've been using various source control tools for closer to 20 years than 10 and I can't remember when I've ever needed or would have benefited from revsets. I'm genuinely curious what problem this solves and whether I've just never experienced or have made my own hodge podge solution for it incidentally.
> There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things.

Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying on? How many times are we going to hear this argument? It comes only from a position of privilege. You're only uninteresting to be spied on as long as it's allowed by the security apparatus you depend upon. There's a reason we have sayings like "power corrupts"; dismissing the potential for abuse of a cloud-based unencrypted surveillance system is narrow-mindedness at best and subversion at worst.

Note: the above hardly represents me politically, it is just a counterargument against the perennially repeated "I have nothing to hide."
It's Mastodon-like, so there exist right-wing instances too: https://wolfballs.com/ (possibly NSFW)
Ongoing investigation, good idea to wait before coming to judgements about intent and origin.

From the BBC [0]: Unverified pictures indicate it was from an S-300, used by both Ukraine and Russia.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-63593855
(Not a language or Unicode expert, the following likely has important mistakes.)

> Off the top of my head, I don't know of a terminal that actually implements the entire (very complex) set of Unicode text rendering behaviors

There are at least two reasons for this:

First, nobody actually seems to know how bidirectional text should interact with terminal control sequences, or indeed how it should be typeset on a terminal in the first place (what is the primary direction? where are the reordering boundaries?). There is the pre-Unicode bidirectional support mode (BDSM, I kid you not) in ECMA-48[1] and TR/53[2], which AFAIK nobody implements nor cares about; there are terminal emulators endorsed by bidi-language users[3], which AFAIK nobody has written down the behaviour of; there is the Freedesktop bidi terminal spec[4], which is a draft and AFAIK nobody implements yet either but at least some people care about; finally, there are bidi-language users who say that spec is a mistake[5].

Second, aside from bidi and a smattering of other things such as emoji, there is no detailed “Unicode text rendering behaviour”, only standards specific to font formats—the most recent among them being OpenType, which is dubiously compatible across implementations, decently documented only through painstaking reverse engineering (sometimes in words[6], sometimes only in Freetype library code), and generally full of snakes[7]. And it has no notion of a monospace font—only of a (proportional) font where all Lat/Cyr/Grk characters just happen to have the same advance.

AFAICT that is not negligence or an oversight, but rather a concession to the fact that there are scripts which don’t really have a notion of monospace in the typographic tradition and in fact are written such that it’s extremely unclear what monospace would even mean—certainly not one or two cells per codepoint (e.g. Burmese or Tibetan; apparently there are Arabic monospace fonts[8] but I’ve no idea how the hell they work). Not coincidentally, those are the scripts where you really, really need that shaper, otherwise nothing looks anywhere close to correct.

[This post could have been titled “Contra Muratori on Unicode in terminal emulators”.]

[1] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...

[2] https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086417

[4] https://terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org/bidi/

[5] http://litcave.rudi.ir/

[6] https://github.com/n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents

[7] https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395464
Adventures in making my website: static site generation
Lol. Orrr we could just do things sensibly in the first place.
You get to escape the city if you work residential construction and commute to the suburbs from a more rural area.
Yeah, they've been repurposing those particular surface-to-air missiles for land attacks since around July. [1]

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-now-firing-s-30...
If it is true, doesn’t it follow that there are (very rare) universes where unlikely events happen so often that anyone in such a universe would effectively observe a different probability distribution of events?

The thing is, if the theory is true, how do we know we are not in such a universe? We can say it is extremely unlikely because they are very rare - but we say it is “unlikely” and “rare” because we assume the global (multiverse-wide) probability distribution is similar to the local (this universe) one - but isn’t that assumption effectively equivalent to the assumption that we are not in such a universe? An argument which begins by assuming its conclusion is not much of an argument.

However, if we can’t rely on that assumption, it seems in principle impossible for us to know what the global probability distribution is - how is that not a lethal blow to the entire theory?
To be fair, Flow wasn't abandoned just out of the blue, it was surpassed by Typescript to the point of becoming completely pointless.
I've built this app in about 3 weeks while working full-time.

It's based on stable-diffusion and some fine-tuned models. It's written in React, TailwindCSS using Prisma, tRPC, Next.js

I host on Vercel and Railway.app (db)

Feel free to ask technical questions, as well as the roadmap.

The idea here is to take someone idea of a fashion design and enhance it with AI driven visualisations.

The next steps that we would like to check is how feasible it would be for the visualisations be actually orderable from a tailor.
In Canada my income tax rate is about on par with what I would pay in the states. If I lived in California my taxes would be higher.

Our sales taxes are a little higher than a lot of the states, though.

I’ll take that over the amount of money and time the US healthcare system siphoned off of me when I was healthy.
While they may make above average in the overall assessment of income for a country, they make well below average for the type of work they are doing. Many game companies know they can pay below market wages because of demand for the jobs.

Source: When I quit game dev, I got a 60% raise and I was on the higher end of the pay scale at that game dev job. I know lead developers with nearly 10 years of experience making under 70k in games. I frequently offer them roles that would double their salary and they turn it down because they like working in games.
Desert dust collected from glacier ice helps document climate change
Researchers are using dust trapped in glacier ice in Tibet to document past changes in Earth's intricate climate system -- and maybe one day help predict future changes.
Eventually. But no one is going to keel over dead due to suffocation today because of global CO2 concentration, which is ‘outright’.

Pretty sure global minimum temperatures above 100F would also count as ‘outright’.
The day the dinosaurs died (2019)
BugMeNot Is Gone?
Power cables are an attractive theft target, many places.

An extra insulated car filled with lightweight LH2 would not appreciably increase the cost of operating a train.

Liquified ammonia under low pressure might be more practical, if safety worries don't dominate. We already move tanks of ammonia on trains. And much worse.
“I can’t go for that”
An off-the-record senior US intelligence official and the Latvian Ministry of Defense is enough for me to tentatively jump to this conclusion for the purpose of idle conversation. Obviously Poland is using a higher bar, but I don't see why a random internet should.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this what `git revert` is for?

Harder with an amend due to having to get the difference of commits within the reflog, sure.
It takes literally 0 imagination to avoid nuclear disasters altogether. A handful of people in the entire world need not to do something extremely stupid. They can leave their special keys at home, overwrite the codes with baseball scores in their mind, and no nuclear apocalypse will happen. The fact that this has not happened is not due to a failure of imagination. That doesn't mean the reason is good, obviously, but doesn't the idea that we should be blaming a pdf seem a little silly to you?

The sword of Damocles is indeed hanging over our heads. Morons hung it there, and morons stand around waiting to prevent anyone from taking it down. We should push towards denuclearization, and we shouldn't compromise. But also, we should have better public transportation. Doesn't mean that anyone mentioning seat belts is just a firm believer in the specter of car accidents. If you take the threat of these morons-in-charge and their nukes seriously (as I do), can't you see why someone might want to maximize their and their family's chances of survival? I'll note you haven't presented a solution any single person can work with either- perhaps it is a difficult problem.

Edit: There's an argument to be made that having a fallout shelter would make you more complacent. But I'd expect the average person who is worried enough about nuclear war to dig a bunker is probably more worried with that bunker than the average person is without it. The opposing viewpoints are "nuclear war is potentially possible and very bad" and "nuclear war won't happen". There are probably people who believe in a MAD-style argument for the latter, but my bet is that most of them just don't think through how scared they should be. Things have been fine so far, after all. Nevermind all the warheads just sitting in silos. This silent majority is not thinking about how to survive nuclear war. They, in their heart of hearts, do not think it is a concern.
Aren’t they literally saying the law isn’t on their side?
Question: Is faster than light travel possible?

Answer: To explain, the speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can travel. Objects can travel faster than light.
They have been for a while on HN and has been getting worse, but it's kinda unsurprising that dang and the likes wouldn't sniff them out
Interestingly enough you are spreading word about his work on social media to people (incl. myself) who have not heard about him. I wonder if that makes you an influencer.
My problem is I don't really have an off-season, nearly all year round I go on at least one hike a month that's outside of cell coverage (not too hard around here), which is why I got the InReach in the first place.
Is there some connection to Motörhead or is that just in my brain?
Reasons being the projects that found cool to use git, because Linus made it, and now regardless of my opinion, I have to deal with git.
The admins are literal marxists (I do mean literal, check the admin profiles), and have designed the technology wanting "to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy." https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

This of course is not necessarily a reason to avoid the underlying technology, but it may be something to consider.
Nope, my comment is definitely applicable.
I think it's this place: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dpYkJZwqswhHgeDd8 about 5 miles from the border at the closest.
I learned both in the late 90s. AutoCAD and think JavaScript, might have only been CSS. They were elective courses but still.
I think there is a reasonable explanation for removing OW1. Queue times were already a huge problem (which is a large reason why they moved to one tank, as nobody wanted to play tank). Keeping around OW1 would have fragmented the player base and would have hurt the OW2 launch.

That said, there are plenty of more cynical reasons why Blizzard removed OW1 which are likely also true…
Are you actually suggesting that abused employees should just get a different job?

I'm trying to figure out how else to interpret "move to other areas of the industry".
Can't we just have a place where we discuss things without bringing in the latest political talking point? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, maybe it's rose-tinted glasses, but I honestly can't remember it being like this on forums back in the day.

I don't remember _any_ political discuss on the various warez forums I was on (nxsecure anyone?). Flame wars were a thing, no doubt, but it wasn't this already formed opinion where you've picked a side and now anyone on the other side is a bad guy. It is completely bizarre.
At least those people probably need to be rescued. The more annoying examples are people who are not lost or in danger, but just decided they were tired and did not want to walk back out.
you changed it to "internet meme"; he meant "meme" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meme
I use Multi-Account Containers all the time, in every profile, on every machine.

So I wonder: what features do you use, which are broken by this extension, and which I am therefore missing out on?

(Aside from GP's searching tabs with %, which I didn't know was broken but does have a workaround in Sidebery)
This came in handy when that meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk a few years ago. A teacher remembered the training and had everyone hide under desks, and they were spared laceration from the blown-in windows.
Phabricator has a fork which is still developed: https://phorge.it/
Yeah, that's clear given the context of who replied to whom. I somehow missed that summm was replying to SubzeroCarnage; in light of the context, what was meant to be me being lightheartedly pedantic comes across as a weird and preachy derail. (Shame Hacker News doesn't let one delete things.)
Because a natural thing is to breath regularly in and out in the same pace stabilising pulse variability, not forcing 4 arbitrary phases disrupting natural cycle.
I think that for a deeper syncing even better is to try to follow these intuitive tops and bottoms - it's like prolonging breath and filling a specific sensation. But it's more for relaxation as breath becomes slower & longer then nearly using only stomach/diaphragm.
Just returning the pointer doesn't keep the value that it points to live, unless the calling function does something with the pointer.

The following toy example doesn't leak memory. Are you thinking of some other pattern that would leak memory? If so, what is it? I can only think of patterns where a logic error is also involved. That is, where the meaningless value of 'val' is used in code paths where err != nil.

func alwaysError() (*int, error) {
var dummy int

// We return &dummy even though it's a meaningless value.
// Will this cause a memory leak?

return &dummy, fmt.Errorf("An error")
}

func caller() {
val, err := alwaysError()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Error\n")

// It won't! Because the value pointed to by 'val'
// can be GCed from this point on.
return
}

// never get here

fmt.Printf("Value %v\n", val)
//
// ...lots of code that uses *val...
//
}

You might think that you'd get a leak if the error branch was also long-lived, but Go's GC seems to be precise with respect to conditional branching (as far as I can tell by experimenting with runtime.SetFinalizer). That is, as long as the error branch doesn't refer to 'val', then the value pointed to by 'val' can be collected once the error branch is entered (and before 'caller' returns).
> It looks like your account is using HN primarily if not exclusively to post about this one cause.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=akolbe

Looking at akolbe's contributions with the strongest plausible interpretation of what they've said, and assuming good faith, it doesn't look that way to me.

Also looking at akolbe's profile we see that they are deeply connected with Wikipedia, so it makes sense that some of their posts would involve stories about Wikipedia (presumably, they'd have more insight about what's happening at Wikipedia than the average reader).
from SBF perspective Alameda & FTX are the same. Yeah yeah they are separate legal entities, but in actual practise, one market-made for the other, and he treated them like one is left hand, the other is right hand So yeah Alameda gambled, overleverated and lost money just like nearly every other financial crises in history, SBF then fraudulently moved money from FTX to cover Alameda's gambling losses. I won't be shocked if FTX has alway been the source of funding for Alameda's gambling, just that Alameda was winning when everything was rosy. then the crypto market turned
An everyday citizen author, Walter Isaacson, doing an Everyday Astronaut covering the goings on in transition at Twitter using Twitter changes as they are released makes sense to dispell the unreliable negativity cloud placed over Elon M by detractors wheeling their crypto-agendas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson
That’s actually not what git revert does, hence the poor usability of its API.
The Worst Part About FTX? The Shameless Self-Promotion
Thank you rmason! (Calling you by your uid to not dox you here)

Happy to answer any questions
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