skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two scientific points to bring up about this article:

1. When the author talks about Coke vs. Pepsi, he comes to the conclusion that the reason people prefer Pepsi in blind taste tests but Coke in unblinded ones is "Think of it as the brain combining two sources of input to make a final taste perception: the actual taste of the two sodas and a preconceived notion (probably based on great marketing) that Coke should taste better." I've read elsewhere, though, that the reason for this difference is actually because of the difference between "sip tests" vs. "drinking tests". Pepsi is objectively sweeter than Coke, so if you're just taking a few quick sips (as most taste tests are set up), you may prefer the sweeter taste of Pepsi because it stands out more, but if you're drinking a whole bunch, the sweeter taste of Pepsi can feel cloying.

2. The article includes this quote, "the correlation between price and overall rating is small and negative, suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less." I wonder if this could be due to Berkon's paradox, a statistical paradox that was on the HN front page yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33677781. After all, I'm guessing most truly bad wines may not be rated at all.
>What about people who are already here for decades ?

They need to understand that immigration is a privilege and not a right. If it were a right, then could have successfully sued the US government in a court of law and gotten their green cards ages ago. They forget that and start crying when faced with long wait times. The US didn't invite them , they made the decision to come here.
But posting your opinions online or using a smartphone or even credit card is fine?
How is a non-profit trade-size limited prediction market in any way a competitor for Kalshi?

And predictit will have its day in court [1] where both sides will actually need to present evidence, unlike on an internet forum

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/10/06/253...
Marak: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
Marak, the creator of Faker.js, just released a blog post describing what happened from his perspective.
As a video game player, developer (non-game), bar/restaurant owner, and a person who likes to cook:

I think the distance between them is about the same, as the GP noted. It's not analogous, but they didn't make that claim.

I have only cooked less than 1% of the time the restaurant has been open. Also "enjoying cooking" has nothing to do with enjoying a commercial kitchen. Pretty sure literally at all.

I feel compelled to put out quality food, but I do not enjoy it at all when I'm not cooking at home.
It's Apple. As long as its users have the perception of security and privacy, they may not change anything.
> It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, “Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.” Or, “I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.” Impossible.

Interestingly that is kind of what people have started saying. Perhaps not in those exact words, but in the form of “Jeff, don’t outcompete all the Mom & Pops” and “Jeff, treat your workers better”.
I will try to get to it tomorrow.

Literally:

- found a stick of pine that was the right thickness (3/4")
- cut off a chunk a bit wider than the alpha keys (~12")
- measured the distance from the keys to the edge of the X220 wrist rest (3")
- took off 1/8" for border of the keyboard frame, ymmv
- approximated the curve with a rasp and sandpaper
- after a week or so, Elmer's glued a sheet of soft leather over the whole thing

My current keyboard is a Filco Majestouch 2, but I originally made it for a cheaper Magicforce, very similar geometry. It's too tall for the NuPhy Air60. I'd say the thickness works out fine when the top of the wrist rest is about 1/8" above the bottom of the first row of keys.

Padding isn't really necessary. Laptops don't have it, and there are plenty of wooden wrist rests out there. It's the geometry that matters. That said, soft leather is nice. Neoprene could work, but it gets gross.
Many companies are back in person, sounds like excuse making.
They were going to, but some people flipped out about “their devices spying on them”.

So instead photos are unencrypted and still scanned server-side.
This article wasn't even a strong rebuttal of Hancock, if anything it did the same thing they are accusing him of doing.

Very circular and super focused on Hancock's race, while acknowledging he doesn't even suggest these ideas.

I enjoy Hancock's narrative and it has some plausibility to it. The grand Canyon being a result of the fast melt of the glacier is interesting.

We do know the land mass was super different during the past ice age, which is pretty cool to imagine what that was like to live during
I wonder if IPv6 will ever be the “path of least resistance” vs. NAT punching.
I hear you - I rip the DVD, put it on my media server, and let the TV itself do the decoding and upscaling. It does a pretty good job, I have to say.
I'm not surprised at all. I've reported literal malware in the App Store, with disassembly of the binary, etc. to them and Apple's "security" team did nothing. The inaction wasn't the worst part, it was their complete disinterest and lack of communication.

Google is even worse, you can't contact a human. Their app reporting process insisted I create a Google account and report it from within Android's App Store if I expected them to take action. I have better things to do than jump through unnecessary hoops.
If you are a billionaire you can choose to become a boring old millionaire with $5m net worth, and not have those problems, so the additional benefits must be worthwhile.
This phenomenon is extremely interesting. I other words, the billionaires we know of may be almost drama queens, who might (might!) have paid marketing agencies to capitalize on their personal name and image. They fell into the LinkedIn trap, which is certainly a side effect of having to climb the social ladder yourself. You could be Facebook’s anonymous CEO if you had attracted attention on the board’s characters instead of yourself, but you would have dissolved your power; Unless, of course, your family were already in the business and you had been able to rise collectively.
So you don't have an answer to why you think it's trivial to implement E2EE?
Nice, but it only works for static environments which is a bit unsatisfactory.
The lack of good content from Hollywood lately has been pushing me towards cancelling streaming services and buying used old favorites from a local store (going as low as £0.50 a pop) and buying blu-rays of the new ones I'm interested in.

I know they will always available for a rewatch and I don't have to finance the whole bunch of canned crap they have been putting out.
False - the wage growth and ability to negotiate was born of the US being the only place on earth with functioning production capacity, which quickly eroded due to competition, which eroded the bargaining power of labour.
I don’t think it’s disingenuous to point out that two very different things are being comforted. Most people understand that the App Store is linked to their account because it must be to support billing.

That’s very different from, for example, tracking when/where you use apps or what you do in them.
You could redownload a thousand times before you break even on the waste of plastic and transport required to physically get a disc to you.
> I'd say "caring only about money" is the complete absence of ideology since it just chases personal benefits.

Chasing personal benefits is also an ideology! One in opposition to the ideology that suggests we ought to work for benefit of others as well as ourselves. As is the idea that people's "basic instincts" are to chase personal benefits is too. If you don't believe me, try hanging out with a small child (under 4) and see how selfless and generous they are.
As someone living in an Ontario wine growing region, I can assure you that we bring in plenty of migrant workers every year.
Maybe they are, but the gold returned from the sever isn’t.

When they tried to encrypt photos end-to-end much of HN (and others) flipped out and raised such a fuss they gave up.
Grimrock 2 was probably too hard, I have the same problem with a lot of these games I eventually get to a point where I am aimlessly doing things that may work or things I've missed and after several hours I either give up or check on-line for a cheat. It would be good if there was some code looking for this or a timed thing which drops a hint in-game to make the task more obvious to get to the next step
But you have to be pragmatic, man. I don’t give a damn about titles… unless companies have salary ranges according to them. If company X pays Y for the Senior Engineer I role, and pays Y+Z for the Senior Engineer II role, you bet I’ll sell myself as the latter even if there’s little difference between the two roles from my perspective.

I don’t tell my colleagues/friends
/family that I am a Senior Engineer II, I tell them that I’m a programmer. Now, on my CV and to recruiters I say: Super Senior Software Astronaut III, so pay me more. Obviously in the interviews you have to fake it until you make it, but when you have been in the industry for more than 10 years like me, faking interviews to fit whatever expectations companies have it’s not that hard.
Real would be acknowledging that only women get pregnant, yet here we are.
Michael Saylor, The Id of Web 2.0 (2012)
If you run Steam in a container, you wont need to worry about it touching and messing up your system files.
I work in HFT, and have seen lots of people from India, China, who are traders and quants, do just that. If they're good, they get big bonuses, save them for a few years and apply for an EB-5. With devs it's a longer path to get there, but I will probably be trying that in a few years if I can, till then I can move to Canada on my Canadian residency permit.
LLM chaining seems like it works pretty incredibly - between the newly released Whisper Model and chaining building up a more sophisticated assistant than the current open source ones seems extremely plausible even for smaller teams.

[0] https://twitter.com/hwchase17/status/1589648226449514496
It looks like iCloud for Windows might remote-transcode HEVC down into a format that doesn't ask for a fee to be played back on that platform. In that case it's probably a good idea to stop using iCloud for Windows right now.
How ? Its a downturn already
But in reality the polygons in a scene do move ...
Why does it need to die?

I see products like iota with high potential for product tracing and logistics management at scale.
I've also heard that Pepsi is sweeter than Coke, and that after the initial swig, some people that at first said they liked the Pepsi more were turned off by the sweetness.
you can get great wine for under $60 but not top quality

> Scarcity is the number one factor that determines the price of an expensive wine.

just because something is rare doesn't mean it's good; a random rock on a beach is one of a kind but you couldn't sell it for a penny

> good quality wine from a recent vintage will cost less than an equally desirable wine from an older vintage, simply because people haven't drank most of it yet.

no, if it's less expensive it's because there is work involved in cellaring a wine and that adds value
The article doesn't divulge actual usage details, but Alexa does have incredible market share given that both google and apple probably are counting android/ios users as users. I have never seen anyone use google voice assistant ever.
"10s of equivalent ways to solve every simple problem."

Why doesn't C#, Java, etc have the same problem with perception because they have the same "many ways" to solve problems.

"fun"

brainfuck is fun too and no one uses it.
I remember the USSR during Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign - you could walk out onto the balcony of a large apartment building, and see hands waving at you from most other balconies. Not people's hands, mind you - it was rubber gloves, used as a one-way seal on top of large glass bottles used to brew fruit wine. The fruit itself varied depending on what people had access to and the season - I've seen apple, plum, cherry, blackcurrant etc.
What are you talking about blurry? Upscaled DVD is perfectly fine. For most movies from the 80s and 90s it's not like you're going to notice a difference going to Blu Ray or UHD streaming.
Do not trust your gut. You're new to the industry and full of insecurities, doubt, impostor syndrome etc. Many people are. Your gut is telling you all sorts of things that are completely false. Do not trust your gut.
There's a difference between temporary and sudden. Knowing you can stay only for 6 years is temporary. Finding out that you could theoretically be here for a long time but your life could be yanked away any minute is sudden and an uprooting that no one deserves.
A lot of us still have older laptops.
If you're using them for unguessable random strings then yeah, they're not ideal.

If you're using them for providing a unique id in a distributed system, with very little chance of collision & fitting them in a db column, then they are great.
I think ultimately the problem is that Wikipedia assumes journalists should be treated by default with a degree of respect above “professional gossip monkeys”.
Brotli-G: An open-source compressor/decompressor compatible with GPU hardware
look at gypsy wagons, [expensive] custom campers and [high end] small sail boats. Not having a lot of space allows for an almost infinite budget per m2.
That was solved by making employees pee in bottles. Need a restroom? Think outside the box, pee inside the bottle.
Then Google Photos. Now iCloud Photos. When Onedrive Photos?

I'm currently using Onedrive (with Office 365) as my main data backup...
It's not about being responsible for the company. It's about having the ability to make the decisions to guide your own work without endless bikeshedding, internal politics, red tape, conflicting messages from different layers of management, and constant meetings that go nowhere.

> Being a code monkey is fine if one embraces that position with its economic and ambition consequences.

It's perfectly fine. It can also lead to burnout.
This was a concern in the mid-to-late aughts very early into the format's debut, but not so much anymore, if at all. I have Pioneer Elite Blu-ray players running pre-2010 firmware that have never had any playback issues with new releases for 13 some years now.
Or late night radio ads asking people to snail mail a resume with a specific job reference code. The chances that someone qualified for the job both hears the ad and is in a position to write down an address and reference code are basically nil.
I read this in a rush as I was so surprised by the post title.

Arduino has not absorbed MicroPython in any way.
Why is this different than the massive sports-merchandising part of a teams business, where they sell more stuff depending on whether they win or lose? I imagine they'd want to bet.. err i mean hedge to provide real value to their business.

(despite the snark, I'm also curious how the situation is different)
What a strange response. The point is, repetitive usage shows the difference between fun, or just novel.

A rotary phone could be novel. Yet it became tedious with common use, especially when compared to tone dialing.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481298
I added an edit, indicating that this thread already has quite a bit of it.
I am a wine enthusiast for about 10 years. On an average week I am tasting 2-3 wines. I can definitely tell good wine from bad and more or less guess grape variety and geography in blind tasting.

Saying all that, I am mostly buying wines in $20-$30 price range, because most of the times I can't tell difference between good $20 and good $50 wine in blind tasting. I strongly beleive that $100+ wines are nothing but a marketing, except really old (30+ years) vintages. Those are just pricing for their rarity, not their taste, and mostly used as an expensive presents.

There are also things like favorite regions (mine is Tuscany and South Italy), vintages (2006 and 2010 in Italy were mostly golden, 2016 is very promising) and innumerable hacks like buying wine across the road from that prestigious chateaus and terroirs, or tasting non-Champagne sparkling from France - same quality for half the price. It's funny and tasty game, I like it.
I don't even know how to process this. It doesn't jibe with my experience at all. Obviously almost anyone can tell the difference between red and white wine, they are completely dissimilar, like orange juice and apple juice. It's very hard to believe that anyone that had both will confuse them.

And even I, who have no expertise at all, no real interest even, can mostly tell if a wine is from France or Italy for example, and most of the time if it's cheap or not.
Building makemore Part 5: Building a WaveNet
Is there anywhere that this community tends to hang out/collaborate? Sounds super cool, but a quick Google of "lisp-machine-punk" doesn't bring up much :(
Not to be confused with density-functional theory, which is also DFT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory
Very impressive. I only played EoB II: Darkmoon growing up, but the engines looked pretty similar.

Was there a DOS source leaked somewhere, or was this completely reverse-engineered from scratch?
Many of us are familiar with the “unhelpful valley” where an incompetent assistant is way more of a drain on your time than having no assistant and simply doing everything yourself. We are decades away from when a computer algorithm can do the job.

Alexa barely understands semantic English. I don’t have time for an illiterate assistant to “help” me with anything more than setting timers or reciting the weather.
Throw away the cell phone and get a break.
Do you have any statement from Apple themselves or any indication that this was their line of thought? As far as I know, the on-device iMessage image scanning for CSAM (presumably what you are referring to) is a shipped feature live on all recent iOS builds, and I don't ever recall seeing any sort of public debate regarding whether iCloud photos should be encrypted or not (to be fair, before this thread, I assumed that they were).
> It baffles my mind why anyone would immigrate here legally, considering how laughably easy it is to overstay (or cross one of our multi-thousand mile borders or coasts).

It’s not easy - and not an easy life compared to having a valid work visa
If you're digitizing them anyway, could you play the record at whatever RPM your turntable supports, then resample?
The chuck is the "delight"
Gocomics Is Down – Where to Find Your Funnies
Some people have hypersensitivity to some particular taste. I'm oversensitive to bitterness, and basically can't drink beer at all, and only the sweetest wines (late harvest, icewine and similar) are actually enjoyable.
As AWS asked, what part of that needs a blockchain?
Thanks throwboi123
Even though wine snobbery might be fake, that shouldn't minder your enjoyment of wine! Drink what's tasty and have a good time enjoying wine together (or alone if that's your jam)!
> A third thing is that I really enjoy planning my life with a kanban, and executing my day from a todo list (scheduled). That’s hard to nail.

I feel exactly the same, and haven't been able to figure out how to make it work using any combination of Notion, Todoist or Trello.

Todoist with project sub-groups of "backlog", "in-progress", "blocked" and "recurring" is about the best I've managed, but I think I've just gotten too habituated to giving every task a date and managing things from the "upcoming/this week" view. Making better use of sub-tasks might help, but then you end up needing to have a kanban board within a task for managing the sub-tasks...
Ah gotcha. This would be a cool area of research! Not sure if I know of many people working on that right now
Yeah I don't really get the point of this article, if you need random values of a specific size don't use uuid, it's literally specified to be one exact length and format.
What isn’t journalistic clickbait these days
Very true, comp is likely the most level-set comparison (at least within the same geographic area and industry).
Python has first-class type objects. That's not the same thing as writing:

pickle._getattribute(__import__(package), path)

everywhere, which is basically how Java reflection works half the time. In Python, you'd have something like copyreg.dispatch_table, and have plugin modules that register themselves in the table at load-time – limiting your attack surface to the modules you expect to be attack surface, rather than every single package accessible to the JVM.
I'm not sure if it is what it seems. That is, they maybe didn't lose $10 billion last year, the year before that, and the year before that, etc.

In accounting there is all sorts of wiggle room. They can "write off" losses that haven't been yet been realized, claim that they are paying the same rates AWS would charge you to run the back end service, add some what you spend licensing music as an expense, not give it credit for me keeping Prime or ordering another thing on Amazon (Alexa's notifications it gave when I received Amazon packages were really welcome given that I have a 1/8 mile long driveway)

The motive of overstatement is murder.

Alexa is a beloved brand, it's a bit like Disney killing off Mickey Mouse or Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV killing off Budweiser. Google doesn't care if they look heartless, but Amazon is laying out the business case to maintain the image they are in control.
Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month
I recently picked up exactly this, not caring much what I got since it was destined for a pot of mulled wine. I had some of it and was pretty surprised how delicious it was untainted by spices and honey and brandy
SBF, FTX, and Me
And 8 euro wine at Monoprix is better than some >$20 I’ve had in the US. My guess is in France competition is so high and it’s easily sourced that prices don’t necessarily correlate as closely to quality as it does in some other markets.
Wine is always required.
Microscale
The title is misleading. This article argues that you should not use a UUID for a _session cookie or access token_, which was never the intended purpose of a UUID.
Probably because people lose keys, forget password, and lose their treasured family photos.

That said, the option should at least be available to those who know the benefits and accept the risks.
I've also heard that if the coffee is too hot, the flavours don't come out completely (heard it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iNAyu-ejo), so maybe that plays into it too?
There's nothing in what you wrote that suggests that you could be fired / laid off. Of course anyone could be fired / laid off even without much of a warning but you're making a big leap from "workload is decreasing" to "am I being fired".
I think the author forgets that while you may (potentially) be able to generate quintillions of UUID’s per second, there is no way you’ll be able to validate that they’re correct at the same speed.

At least, I don’t feel bad saying my server would melt if it had to serve that many requests.
I’m wondering whether the extremely careful GNSS part is really needed. A microsecond of offset between two servers in the same datacenter could easily matter, but I suspect that, if an entire datacenter were off by a microsecond, everything would be fine — communicating from that datacenter to anywhere else will take well over a microsecond, so an offset of this type would be a bit like the datacenter wiggling around in space a bit.

On a different note, there’s an Intel feature called the Always Running Timer. In theory one ought to be able to directly determine the TSC <-> NIC clock offset using the ART. I’m not sure anyone has gotten this to work, though.