skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.

Wonderful essay. Are there any similar quality essays about modern detective fiction?
if you're going that far, why bother with a "next largest" that's more than 1 byte larger? If you're just using it for intermediate values, just uplift that int16 to an int24, or that int64 to an int72, they're only there for as long as the LHS/RHS needs to evaluate: they're not getting stored, no need to use double the memory allocation.
I honestly think they are starting to use a template or a generated text via some kind of service like ChatGPT
> Do companies exist to protect their employees, or to provide something useful for their customers?

Neither. They exist to benefit their shareholders/owners. That's it.
> Not optimism, hope.

What is the difference?
> Do companies exist to protect their employees, or to provide something useful for their customers?

Investors will tell you companies exist to return value to shareholders. The customers and employees are just a means to that end.
> A building which does not learn, its unfortunate inhabitants must adapt to it.

That's one of the most interesting and depressing parts of post-WW2 architecture (it's present in certain "high culture" architecture before, but not as ubiquitous). It seems narcissistic, entirely focused on what the architect thought would look cool, and completely detached from the individuals who would actually be using the space.

There's a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe building near hear, and the usage of space is simply terrible. It's only a few stories tall, and you have to either wait a long time for the slow and unpleasant elevators to arrive, or rummage around several sets of doors behind them to find the hidden stairs. There's another "urban renewal project" nearby designed by I.M. Pei, and it's a huge deadzone in the middle of a bustling area. It feels almost like finding a dead city from a Lovecraft story - you have these empty huge expanses of concrete that seem much too large for humans. Places where people would congregate, like retail, is deliberately placed underground and away from the road, making the whole area feel abandoned.

Say what you will about modern architecture, but I find it much more pleasant than the stuff that was coming out post-war.
A lot of Postmodern architecture is pretty ugly too, and it is typical for people much prefer the older architectural styles found in Europe.

Part of it is the fault of 20th and 21st century architecture, but also big changes in urban design and property development economics happened throughout the 20th century.

I'm pretty on board with the idea that North American urban design and architecture is an abject failure, but lay the blame not so much with the architects but with greater forces of rapid post-war capitalist expansion and Neoliberal capitalist 'optimization'.

NYC is not as nice as Warsaw in a lot of ways, but it's wildly better than most other USA cities.
That site is just about equal parts hilarious and traumatic to browse.
I did not benchmark. This is theoretical and talks about specific conditions: when your training is bottlenecked on communication between GPUs. PCIE 4.0 is exactly 2x bandwidth, and PCIE 5.0 is another 2x more.
Maybe something more basic. Like GOTO's
The problem is in real life your analogy would actually map the alphas to the ceos and the betas to the shareholders/stakeholders. The employees are nowhere in this.

Edit: as the other post said, they would be the sticks, shovels and other assorted tools…
That's the reason why typical Linux (or Unix) filesystem comes with a setting to set reserve some space for root account.

Doesn't help if the disk is filled by processes running as root, of course.
> the news spreads SUPER fast

By that point, rumors likely are already circling. Potentially for days/weeks/months. The layoffs require coordination and a lot of input from the org chart. A lot of atypical behavior ensues, unplanned meetings, finance guys sniffing around, etc.

But agree overall. It's chaos and my point was only that it's usually more humane than reading a blog post on the internet and left to wonder when you'll know if it will impact you. It's seldom anyone is completely blindsided.

I've always been privy to the info (usually helping formulate the list and benefit package) and if I can I just stay home the day it's planned to go down. Nothing good happens on that day.
I don't see how it improves security. Maybe the idea is not well enough expressed.
Yes, Pythagorean ideals of proportion have been around for a long time, but they've also been essentially "debunked" in terms of aesthetic beauty. Kind of the same way that precious little of the music we listen to today follows Bach's prescriptions for counterpoint. They were a historical starting point that we've long since evolved away from, in favor of greater freedom and sophistication.

Which isn't to say that the proportions of windows or columns are always ideal in today's architecture... but for every supposedly perfect historical Gothic cathedral, there are plenty of terribly-proportioned historical examples as well. Overall, I see no evidence of problems of proportion getting worse. Modern architects are just as aware of proportion as they've ever been. But thankfully they're freed from archaic notions such as e.g. exact golden ratios.
Same thing here in Vietnam. But I don’t think it detracts from the point (standardized testing is good for social mobility).

Normally almost everyone know roughly how competitive your own self is, so only people at the margin of admission has to care. There are some majors where everyone is at the margin (sometimes it get to 29.75 out of 30 as the cutoff), but at that point, it really doesn’t matter who you would get among all those people, and the effect is roughly the school pick a subset of very talented and hardworking student at random. Again, doesn’t affect the mobility issue
Capitalism is definitely not the apogee of survival of the fittest from the "evolution theory" side of things, only in the "society we created for ourselves" side.

Extrapolating from our current understanding of civilization and assuming that it will still be capitalism that rules a 1 million year old civilization is not (imho) a valid assumption.

Even now, a mere fraction of that time, we're already kind of predicting a time where, if not for some type of semi-utopian Star Trek'ian society with stuff like basic income, the future of many many jobs (if we agree that jobs/labor are at the core of a capitalistic society) are already at risk with automation and AI.
In theory Firefox in the linked thread did exactly that: They said TrustCor has X number of days to reply to allegations. It sounds like you're proposing a technical solution to a offline solution that already exist.
I've sometimes thought about how, if humanity goes extinct in the future, then some other intelligent species will replace us on earth. And that species would likely be descended from some pair of animals that is alive today.

There could be a couple of elephants in Africa right now who are the ancestors of a future intelligent species on Earth!
I hope it is, because I've been putting off learning Elixir for too long and I want to feel like my procrastination has been justified.
not firing people when profit line goes down somewhat
Not that any time is a good time to be laid off, but being this close to Christmas sucks worse. It'll make shopping and travel and family plans a little more uncomfortable.
"I take full responsibility! But I'll still be keeping my job, pay, and maybe getting a bonus for making this difficult decision to maintain our stock value."
On the flip side that also means that we might flow into a burst travelling through space without any warning (?)
(Disclaimer: physics undergrad.) I honestly wish we could get away from the word "observer" - it's more or less a historical accident and it probably confuses more than it helps.

Talking about coherence and [decoherence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence) is IMO a lot more intuitive. Always keep in mind, if you're reading about quantum physics and there's anything in there about consciousness or subjective experience or whatever, then you're either reading something very fringe, or you've misunderstood what the paper is saying. Quantum physics is weird, but it's not that weird.
The USSR had tons of advertising. Instead of a product, it was pitching the government. Instead of advertising, it was called agitprop.

Instead of 12 kinds of toilet paper, you were lucky to have any to pick from. If you wanted furniture, or a car, or any other big ticket purchase, you'd have a years long wait (I've seen others mention 10 years to get a car) to get your order fulfilled.

I'll be honest, nostalgia for the glories of command economy USSR is not really what I expected to see today when I woke up.
This is really security being misappropriated for privacy invasion.

Everything Google does has privacy invasion baked into it. Lots of people will readily enter their phone number (which positively identifies them personally) or they will enter an email address that Google hasn't collected before --- either of which will further Google's privacy objectives --- not yours.

Just say "no" to Google games.
If used sarcastically this can be great. If anyone uses it genuinely in a serious setting I would feel abused.
I don't know how the Mint cabins fare, but IIRC Jetblue was an LCC that marketed very heavily that they removed seats to increase pitch.

(That was more of a side reason. The real reason is that the FAA requires an additional flight attendant for every 50 seats, so Jetblue just removed enough seats to get to a round multiple of 50 and decrease the amount of labor required.)
Meme Stock Drops, Bitcoin ($BTC) Fall Leave Retail Traders Hurting
Ask HN: Amazon Prime Dark Pattern
I've noticed when searching for an item in the Amazon App the Prime toggle switch will be defaulted to off. Which will not filter based on prime. It easy to turn on and I do. But if you change your search query it's turn off again. If I am a Prime member why wouldn't I WANT to see prime first always. It appears Amazon does not want me to purchase prime items.

The above coupled with the fact that all shipping is 7+ days out when this time last year I was able to still get 2 day delivery. I live within 10 miles of a major distribution center yet it takes a week to get a package?

Anyways, might be the last on to cancel my prime in HN.
You know that wasn't the point. If there wasn't as much investment in browsers and web tech, and as much money-making potential to motivate those investments, do you think the technology would be where it is?
>Suicide is very personal, should be treated as an extremely complex issue that its uniqueness for each cannot be expressed in details correct enough to respect the regretted.

Can you elaborate on what you mean here? Are you saying that every suicide is unique and out of respect for the dead we should not try to understand it?
Perhaps we should add a layoff role-playing game to school programs. Not sure which age group to start with, probably before or after junior high. It’s important for our future kinderflooferistas to be fully prepared for the stark hellscapes they face.
Signed, guy who
- is trying to build a useful product
- thought he might be rich by now
- turns out to be worth nothing until profit turns black
- is facing the downside of a free market economy
- is having one of the worst days of his/her life
- will be forgotten by the internet (again) in about 2 days
That usually only happens when it’s buried. Near east Chicago, for example, or the result of the big dig in Boston.

I wish that Atlanta would cover the downtown connector and make the city contiguous.
I can't tell from the summary and have not read IMDB to follow the timelines, but it appears that the Deer Hunter had already been made, but flopped in initial screenings, so they held it back and instead of an initial wide release they showed it to critics who loved it and got it nominated. In other words it wasn't initially made-to-order to cater to an Oscar, but ex-post did it that way because initial audiences hated it.
Exactly. It's also particularly concerning to see them increasingly adopt the esoteric, syncretic style of reactionary writing.
How does focusing on one's input improve security?

If I type my credentials incorrectly but really focus on each key press... the service will not accept the login... because the credentials are wrong.
Funny, this website struck me as profoundly ugly.

Ugly beige and muted browns and grays.

Misaligned header and side columns.

Don't get me started on the "ugliness" of the homepage... :/
afaik jool is the currently-recommended foss nat64 (since tayga is apparently unmaintained)

alot of commercial vendors have mature nat64 implementations tho
You are still intentionally ignoring any and all spillover effects of an herbicide into other types of -cides.
But the employees are faaaaaaaamily …

…until they’re inconvenient. Then we give them some supplies and dump them at the local fire station.
I didn't consider that because it's nonfiction but I can see that now. Thanks for the recommendation!
They all hire the same consultants to coordinate their layoffs. That's why the narrative and pr sounds similar across tech companies.
Also scheme and prolog

The problem you can then run into is that a mathematical operation can OOM
You use copper? These kids today...
These days EMDR is a synecdoche for bilateral stimulation techniques. Eye movements aren't actually integral to EMDR.
Uberers ?
Ask HN: What Goes in Dockerfile vs. Dotfiles?
Our team's development environments is based on a Dockerfile which creates VM-like containers. I'm always torn though, when should I request to add something to the Dockerfile vs add it to my dotfiles scripts?

A couple examples that came up this week:
- pnpm
- neovim (unstable version)

Thoughts?
A lot of us who’ve done this long enough know what the reality is, but companies always like to pretend “we’re a family” to manipulate their employees into working harder. Especially in tech where there’s a long history of company’s saying their values are lofty goals like “don’t be evil” when it’s really “make me, the founder, fabulously wealthy”.

You shouldn’t be surprised at people being legitimately angry everytime this type of hypocrisy comes up
"smuggle Big Macs into North Korea using unmanned submersibles"

FishyFeast.com
It might be doable in an a350.

The only reason it's never been tried in an a380 is because people already can't fill those up, so what would be the point of more seats?
Zoom this chart in from about 2016 to now.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

The tide of capital is going way out after being at high tide for a very long time.
It's complicated :) . While it was indeed made in the 9th century for writing Old Bulgarian (aka Old Church Slavonic), Russia, or rather Russia importing the printing press, imposed letterform changes to make the letters closer to Latin ones - so you wouldn't need to manufacture too many Cyrillic-specific slugs. There is also the orthographic (spelling) reform that happened under socialist rule. Of course, they ought to have mentioned the origin of the alphabet, considering how often countries' contributions to world history are forgotten or ascribed to their larger, more powerful neighbours, especially given how important Cyrillic was for Bulgaria and the region as a whole.
i would no recommend them. They are ok but battery is empty pretty fast and the software is pure ... (why does it need GPS and Bluetooth on?).

The nice thing is that you can run them from desktop with tool https://source.dpin.de/nica/flir-gtk
I'm pretty sure it's a subtle union-busting doublethink. When the Starbucks employees started unionising, they said things like "if you're going to call us partners [the Starbucks name for 'employee'], then start treating us like partners."
Ha and yes: and why build beautiful things at all if all you're going to do is speed past it in a blur at 75mph? The futurists preoccupation with speed. I never thought of it like that.
MSFT provides a method to repackage .EXE into a deployable package (named: Intunewin).

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Win32-Content-Prep-To...
Instead of being outraged, I suggest you read the comments again. No one said it is ugly or that it isn't beautiful, just that it's not typically thought of as an example of "a beautiful thing." People think of it as a symbol of Paris, not an exemplar of beauty. Especially people that live in Paris and see it everyday.
> Im seriously asking for legit solutions.

A few months of director+ level pay cut before layoffs.

A few C-level folks taking pay and stock cut to retain employees before layoffs.

When layoffs come, fire the bad decision makers before rank and file.
It isn't about if they are needed, or not. If there are financial incentives and efficiencies to be gained, they will be created.
laid off + paid off = Plaid off
It's not like Netflix productions are distinguishable from one another.

But in this case I guess they didn't want to get sued.
Regarding being snarky: I guess, you've observed the ";-)" annotation… ;-)

(Conventional meaning: this is irony/a joke and the author doesn't actually believe in this.)
Math whiz Caroline Ellison was bound for success. Then she got into crypto
In the words of Gavin Belson:

“Make no mistake, though they are the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and endure the heavy burden of their failure.”
> Brutalism, for example, is talentless nonsense.

Brutalism is a perfectly serviceable form of art. The problem is that architecture has more practical purposes than pure art, as its goal is to create inviting living spaces. It needs to exist within this constraint, with the ultimate judges being the people that dwell in it, and the architect as their servant. Imposing architecture on people is just plain rude, and brutalism can be quite imposing and oppressive.

So in general I agree, brutalist architecture is terrible.
"Natural materials such as wood or stone feel so much nicer than concrete or glass."

To you. But not to me, which is why I choose to live in a house with glass and metal as the primary aesthetic. But stating opinions as fact is a nice way to generate engagement, especially if they are unpopular, hence the article we're all discussing.
This may come as a surprise, but in most western countries, to a first approximation, people can change the name they use when interacting with the state to whatever they want, whenever they want. The process does involve a small bit of tedium, but really isn't particularly onerous or expensive.

I've had multiple names over the course of my life (and notes linking them together in various documents should I ever need to prove to someone that the person with name A is the same as the person with name B; to date, I never have). It's pretty common.

Moreover, people can use whatever name they want in whatever places they want on the internet, and don't have to be obvious about it when it's not the same name they use in other places online or offline. If I tell someone my name is John Smith, 99.9% of the time all they need that information for is to know that I am the same person they interacted with previously; they don't need to know or care what my bank or my family call me, nor is there any reason for me to tell them.
It seems like you're not at all understanding what I've been saying. The measure of teacher performance was based on student improvement over time on standardized tests. It is incredibly valuable to measure a teacher's capability in actually helping students learn and improve. After all, isn't that the sole purpose of teaching?

> That's because I didn't understand what your argument was. The usual argument is "teachers unions mean teachers are bad at their jobs so we can't trust their judgement and GPA. Instead, we need to look to standardized tests." That's the argument I thought you were making.

Yes, and we've also gone pretty far off-topic from what I was originally talking about at this point.

> No, it doesn't. It does give the citation:

Then why not lead with that citation and not the very weak conference paper that you chose to lead with?

Anyways, you may be right about GPA currently being a better predictor of academic success than the ACT. But, as this article explains: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/02/gpa-or-sat-two-measu...

"In an extended version of their essay, Kuncel and Sackett acknowledge that GPA is the best predictor of student success, but they add: “Even better prediction is obtained by the combination of test scores and high school grade point average.” “Human behavior is notoriously difficult to forecast,” they write, “it would be strange for a single predictor to be the only one that matters. So it is also valuable to consider, whenever possible, how predictors combine in foretelling student success.”

If I were to further research this subject, I'd probably start with this book: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Success-Testing-College-Adm...

"Although the test-optional movement has received ample attention, its claims have rarely been subjected to empirical scrutiny. This volume provides a much-needed evaluation of the use and value of standardized admissions tests in an era of widespread grade inflation. It will be of great value to those seeking to strike the proper balance between uniformity and fairness in higher education."

Edit: also found this article interesting: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-22/grades-v...

One person is quoted as pointing out that an advantage using the SAT is that it can help combat grade inflation because it looks bad to have a really high GPA but really low SAT score. It's also been shown over time that the average GPA keeps going up while SAT scores are flat or declining. Grade inflation is a major problem, and the use of standardized test does help with it.
I wish East Slavic languages were more consistently transliterated into something like Czech. I don’t understand the trend to transliterate into English, where you end up with hard to parse compounds like “shzh” and idiosyncratic mixes of Ys, Is, Js, not to even mention the various acutes and apostrophes…
Absolutely tragic news.

I met Chris at a couple of local Ruby meetups in Bristol when he gave talks. He was an extremely smart, but also very personable guy. He seemed to really love what he was doing and relished the opportunity to explain it to people and share what he knew. He had a knack for explaining things really well in a way that never patronised when talking to people who were not experts in his domain. He had a real love of communicating what he knew to other people and his passion for his projects was infectious and inspiring.

He was younger than me (mid 30s?), but managed to pack an immense amount into that time. He was one of those people I've met who I've immediately thought "I need to be more like that". Genuinely inspirational. His death is a real loss to the community.
Fun fact: Qatar's world cup football stadia were designed by Albert Speer & Partners. This Albert was the son of the Nazi.
If you think this is a sign that plaid is anywhere near their last valuation of $13bn, then I have news for you.

The real problem is inequality. Zach is facing consequences, but the drop from $1bn to $100mn (a 10x decline in wealth) is so much less impactful than $250k to $25k (illustrative of what an employee is more likely facing).
Instead of readers having to guess, it might be better to improve the original claim of better security.
> (1.2.3.4 can be referred as 0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4).

Which would need translation support at the edges between devices speaking only old-IPv4 and the superset-IPv4. Just as is done with IPv6.
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