skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How else are you going to to create increasingly complex high-level software if not by gluing together pieces that have already been written? Are you going to create your data layer from scratch every time?

No, but I understand why you’d think that. Both the author and commenters make strange conclusions about the situation.

The problem is much easier to phrase than that. We don’t have good building blocks and tools. What does good mean? It means reliable and performant implementations, predictable behavior, well designed API surfaces (does one thing well), ability to debug and inspect, among other things.

The basic tools are already like this. Standard libraries, compilers, unix tools, file systems, certain battle tested databases. They’re all open source & move very slowly.

However, we also have countless proprietary cloud services, dependency hell in languages like JS and Rust, services scattered over different networks, regions and vendors.

So.. how did we end up here? I think it’s a combination of different reasons:

- More data both in total and per time unit. Much more people online. The world also developed towards ad tech, ML and video which demands a lot more than text and images.

- Horizontal scaling is the most cost-effective (due to physics) which prompts orders of magnitude more complex distributed systems.

- Cloud is the only option for many and gets pioneered by massive rent-seeking cynical corporations, so we lost both FOSS and any serious opportunities for standardization and simplicity. The IBM years are back.

- Money is so heavily involved, so ad-tech giants slurp up the talent and use them for market dominance, tech contributions become a side effect.

- Package managers and GitHub makes distribution easy, but results in a ginormous amount of dependencies and vendors.

So how do we fix it? We need to change culture and attitudes. A couple of tricks: Choose your deps carefully. Prefer FOSS, check issues – are these good authors? Is the API surface good? Well documented? Only use what you need, don’t let trendy blog posts FOMO you into using anything. You probably don’t need click metrics, A/B testing frameworks, minification, uglification, code splitting. You probably don’t need microservices either, or 99.999% uptime. Chances are you don’t even need multiple machines, or more than basic monitoring.
> Realistically, how often do you need to install brand-new non-standard software?

Almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day in case of a new project / new embedded hardware (toolchain) / new devkit to "quickly test" / tight deadlines, etc.

> If it is a regular occurrence then you need a process by which you can request it and the IT team can assess how they manage it.

There isn't. It has been attempted to get such a process multiple times over the past years. With and without escalation to higher ups all the way up to the CEO. The IT team promises they'll speed things up, but a software approval for 1 app still takes at least 3 months. Now what?

I'll tell you now what: employees and contractors alike just start using their own fully unlocked (perhaps badly updated) machines out of desperation and transfer files to and from locked-down company machines using email or onedrive or whatever other means possible.

Maybe better companies exist?
Do you have any proof of this or just a gut feeling?

Immediate mode guis do cache stuff, at least Dear ImGUI, one of the most popular Immediate mode guis caches. Further, at least in my mobile usage almost everything I do with my phone re-draws the entire screen. The #1 thing to do is scroll through content. There's very few apps I run where only some tiny thing is getting updated. Maybe my music player.

I don't think it's settled that retained more GUIs are a battery win.
I always thought this colour was named "Crayon" by Porsche? Maybe they use different names in different markets...
They did not claim that "confidence" and "placing women on a pedestal" are polar opposites.

They claimed that "being sexist in front of a woman" and "lacking confidence" are polar opposites.

They also claimed that "being sexist in front of a woman" and "placing women on a pedestal" are polar opposites.

Do you disagree with their actual claims?

Apologies for possible pedantry. I think their actual claims are actually compatible with "confidence" and "pedestal-placing" being different dimensions.
As a tech guy, I would write some web pages with my image and textual explanations of the scam, then SEO optimise them for reverse image search. Hypothetically, of course, since I will never need to do it for myself as I am definitely not handsome enough.

I wonder why the guys didn't want their faces in the article? That way any reverse image lookup could find the story, the victims would know without getting in touch with the guys, and the scammers would move on to other guys' faces. That would solve the problem for those guys at least!
Avoid the Samsung dishwasher. I own one and it is crap. Buy a Bosch instead. There have been a few HN threads about appliances; Samsung is generally regarded as being crap.
Better hurry, then. Looks like your best bets at this point are Korean Air or Lufthansa.
It was in the early 90s. Why would you expect it to make the news?
DriClor seems to have no effect on me at all. Regular anti-perspirant works better for me.
Ahem.

* Cracks fingers, cracks back, readies himself for the battle ahead *

Then remembers not to troll.
When will we see high resolution (say 1080p) FLIR cameras at a prosumer level price point ~$1,000?
Forest for the trees, I already practically doubled my numbers and assumed McDonalds gets all their orders in the same 8 hour period! And even then multiplying them by 100 doesn't get you into the realm of "we couldn't build this on a monolithic horizontally scaling application".

If anything, if you're at McDonalds scale and still can't find the engineering skill to build a monolith that can handle 30k operations per second, you're playing with fire building a distributed system.

(if you're a nascent startup, then by all means stand on the shoulder of giants and don't sweat that you don't have a full blown cloud engineering org, but that's definitely not where McDonalds should be...)
Nix would be a good solution to this. Have a corporate cache for all installed software with approved versions that folks can pin their environments to.

Ticketing still needs to be in place, but it can also be a managed repository that can be audited/reviewed by IT team as well - tickets could be as simple as a Pull request.
The point with chess is to illustrate that relative ability follows a power law. If humanity was relatively normally distributed then of course there'd still be a top, but people in this top would all be roughly equal. And so, like you're implicitly stating, any sort of achievement would largely come down to throwing darts and seeing who, largely by chance, ends up being the first to hit the bullseye.

But in reality the top is not approximately equal. In chess there are hundreds of thousands of rated players. The #1 player is rated 50 points higher than the #2 player. The #1 player is rated 2859. Think about the implications of those three facts! And this is likely precisely the case with Einstein, and also the reason for his success.

Back to current times/domain I'd also argue this is why having exponentially more scientists than ever before has not really led to what somebody who assumed a normal distribution would expect to see.
I wonder how much training on degraded/radio encoded samples would be needed to improve performance in this area. You’re probably not the only person who wants to monitor police radios in their city.
This date format works for just as much of the year as DD/MM/YYYY though, and is just as ambiguous as the other format is if you don't know who the author is.
>“‘Can I meet you? Can I FaceTime you?’”

also

>even after he convinced them that they had been scammed, they sometimes wanted to strike up a friendship with him. “I can’t even tell you. I would spend an hour on the phone sometimes talking to these women

So: "Sure. Here's my 900 number".
Location: Cincinnati, OH, US
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML/CSS, JS/TS, SQL, Node.js/AngularJS/ReactJS, C++/Java/Python (full list on linkedin/resume)

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-presley/

Email: preslews (at) mail (dot) uc (dot) edu

I am looking for a web development position that uses technologies (or similar) to the ones listed above. I am open to learning new technologies if not a perfect match.
It is sort of weird that dates aren’t universally parsed user-side according to localization settings, here in year 2768.
Is it safe to say that this video was, at minimum, approved by the Amazon PR department?
can't wait till these chassis start getting the RV treatment
Infinite patterns appear in numbers described as moving systems
Is this this? https://theeffortfuleducator.com/2020/06/22/confidence-weigh...

Found with the following Google query: "multiple choice" "school" "confidence" "blog"
It seems you could possibly apply this same logic to exclude any subgroup.

For example, you must sample the mall-goer population. Some people "seem approachable"/etc. ("respond to your first email"), and you approach them. You are worried that others will be annoyed if you approach. If this assumption is true (which it may not be), their responses could be biased and confounding.

Should you still survey them? I believe the stats textbooks would say yes, since it will result in a more representative sample.

I assume it would be a detriment to the survey if you exclude some groups merely because they aren't compatible with your survey-taking techniques. All surveys have some inherent measurement error, and there are some techniques to detect biases/inconsistencies without excluding entire groups.
>Actual disposable batteries

they have the same form factor, and they have not changed much over decades in capability and certainly not size.

Phone batteries do not do this - they are designed to fit in a certain (few) phones, and market change on phone sizes mean there is no standard size.

When phone batteries get higher density, then it's likely a readeoff between adding more other features and keeping the same battery size - and as other features change, so do battery needs. The rapid evolution of phone tech, in every aspect, makes it cheaper (and wiser) to re-eval each piece quickly, or you get beat in the market place.

Maybe in decades this will settle down, like it took for the disposable batteries to standardize over decades...
what you do is pick none of them. whoever thinks that running a ~8-15 year old kernel with a couple thousand back-ported patches is somehow "stable" in a good way is full of it.

pick ANYTHING not in the RHEL family. Pick Debian. Pick Ubuntu. Arch. Suse, etc.

unless you want Windows (R) Server 2008 packaged in a linux form, you don't want RHEL.
Apply this line of thought to most societal and social norms and it gets rather ugly.
I saw one up close and personal for the first time recently, and was caught off guard by just how genuinely huge it is. I kind of expect things like "famously huge X" to be a disappointment in real life, but no, I was viscerally reminded that it's (at least!) a three-story building on wheels, and that's not even counting the extra story or so of space beneath it as it rolls. My younger airplane-obsessed self would have been pleased. Hopefully an air museum or three picks one up before they all go out of service.
Hmm, the article seems to suggest that perhaps Bain put up the majority of that round.
Then you recall incorrectly. Stable diffusion models are capable of running on laptops with even modest discrete GPUs. I'm running it using the automatic GitHub repo on a laptop that's over four years old and a 50 step iteration only takes about 15 seconds.

You need zero technical acumen to be able to install it, just the ability to follow basic instructions. Maybe you should ask ChatGPT to help you.
I don't understand why everyone is acting like replacement batteries are unavailable.

Here's an amazon link to a variety of options:

https://www.amazon.com/CAT-S60-Cell-Phone-Replacement-Batter...
## Better Sources About Anomaly Six

- Official site: https://www.anomalysix.com/ (practically nothing here)

- (The Intercept) https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracki...

- (Court Case Filed against Anomaly Six by Babel Street) https://techinquiry.org/docs/A6-Babel-MoFo.pdf

- (WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-contractor-embed... (article hidden behind paywall, explainer video at top of page is not)

- (Vice) https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vjxj/anomaly-6-six-special... (credit to OP for posting this in a comment)

Vice:

> Anomaly Six software lets its customers browse all of this data in a convenient and intuitive Google Maps-style satellite view of Earth. Users need only find a location of interest and draw a box around it, and A6 fills that boundary with dots denoting smartphones that passed through that area. Clicking a dot will provide you with lines representing the device’s — and its owner’s — movements around a neighborhood, city, or indeed the entire world.

WSJ:

> Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based company founded by two U.S. military veterans with a background in intelligence, said in marketing material it is able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications, in part through its own software development kit, or SDK, that is embedded directly in some of the apps. An SDK allows the company to obtain the phone’s location if consumers have allowed the app containing the software to access the phone’s GPS coordinates.

## Why The Grayzone may not be the best source:

- (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2020/08/11/grayzone-max-blumenthal-chi...

- (.coda) https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/grayzone-xinjiang-d...

- (The Grayzone top 12 stories in 2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20210129111336/https:/thegrayzon...

- (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2021-03/Stra...

Quotes from above article by ASPI (page 8):

> The Grayzone is one fringe news source, and its reach has been amplified by Chinese and Russian state-affiliated entities. Between
December 2019 and February 2021, The Grayzone was cited in English at least 252 times in Chinese state-owned news outlets
(the Global Times, CGTN and Xinhua) and a further 61 times in People’s Daily Online articles. Before December 2019, we could find
no mentions of The Grayzone by Chinese media outlets in either English or Chinese. Peak total shares of The Grayzone articles on
Twitter and Facebook also coincided with their amplification by Chinese state media outlets (Figure 6).

> The Grayzone’s top 12 stories of 2020 include accusations that Xinjiang forced labour stories are falsified by the US Government
and the military–intelligence complex to drive a new Cold War (note: this included criticism of ASPI and the Center for Strategic and
International Studies). The founders of The Grayzone have been interviewed by Chinese state media outlets, including the Global
Times and CGTN, and have been featured on Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik Radio.
Imagine a smartphone designed to use AAA batteries. That would be something. Would be cool to see.
Yes. He's switched from LKML to TikTok
I've played around with both generations of the Lepton sensor and the 3.5 is really nice: factory calibrated so you can directly measure temp without elaborate external calibration and a built-in shutter.

Thermal sensors of this type are huge and expensive. At work I also have a Flir with 1024x768 sensor, super expensive with a massive germanium (or something) lens. One of the problems for handheld applications is that you always need two separate optical paths since the lensing is totally incompatible. So you end up having to register the two images to each other, which can fail when it's darkish or the image doesn't have a lot of edges.
A veritable tricoder in the making! Interesting times ahead.
Good thing they will be flying for the next 25 years!
Except the I-beam isn't only owned by a single company and is interoperable. (Unlike modern clouds and SaaS, which are neither of these things.)
He has a lot of videos about delivering for Amazon on his YT channel. Some are a year old.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcYFjn42AQIX76shX1qW...
Given the topic is "student life, academics, and athletics", would you care about the non-responses? If the topics correlate well to non-responses then you'd have a reason to care about the missing results. The best answer here is D, because there is always attrition when doing surveys and getting 100% responses isn't usually a goal for this type of experiment.
I agree with the general point you're making, but a 1997 computer would not be able to render even just a basic loading spinner at 1170x2532 at 60 FPS. Software rendering would be impossible even with an infinitely fast CPU as it would exceed the bandwidth limit of AGP 1.0, which itself only came out that year. The graphics hardware at the time simply did not support that resolution at any speed.
I'm a whore and the recruiters are my pimps. They only like me because the johns hire me. The world makes more sense through that lens.
applied.
There is also functional reactive programming, virtual time in TimeWarp, hmm, some other things. You can see the related work of our managed time paper.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/program...
I flew on the second floor of a 747. It felt posh for some reason. Also the flight was super smooth. I suppose its weight and sheer size helps with that.
As a slightly above average height 6’1”, I’m finding it harder and harder to fit in most planes lately. Are they putting the seats closer together or something?
Architecture reflects organization structure more often than not. What I see is not an attempt to handle requests rates, but an attempt to service a widely distributed set of applications and handle the inevitable churn of client applications requirements.

I am on team monolith, but I also don't see any issue with this approach if you are happy accepting it's caveats and vendor lock in, which they it seems they were.
They haven't gone anywhere. ANA has a bunch of them.
Just a clarification, it's not "thousands of dollars" to deploy a smart contract to Ethereum, though a defi application might be comprised of a group of related contracts.

There's a limit on the size of a contract, and the largest contract one can deploy to Ethereum would cost about $120 at today's gas price and ETH price. For example, this transaction from a couple of hours ago deploys a contract that is at the contract size limit: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5ed0c6d517fa0bf7c5074bf49ae0f73633...

You can see they spent $120 in gas fees to deploy it.

When the network is incredibly busy, of course, this could be much higher (but when it's dead, it could also be as cheap as $40)

At the peak of the bubble (ETH price around $5000), you're right, contracts this size would have been "thousands of dollars to deploy" when the network was congested. Even then, most contracts would have been cheaper, and you could still deploy contracts for $100-200

If ETH (the token) continues to appreciate in price then it's entirely possible "thousands of dollars" for a contract could become the norm, but that's obviously not a certainty, and if that does happen (before network improvements which may also decrease fees), there are always alternative blockchains and L2s that you could deploy Solidity contracts to.
The one and only time I've used the app was when I thought it would help them during the pandemic when drive thru's were actually slammed with demand while they didn't have enough workers. After waiting in the parking lot for 30 minutes while literally dozens of cars went through the drive through I went in to check on the order and the employees literally couldn't look up the status of my order without an order number which the app didn't give me at the time. An incredibly frustrating experience which turned me off to the concept altogether.
Huh? This is re-shoring by political influence (probably pressuring Taiwan/TSMC) and financial incentives. Both TSMC and Samsung[1] are buildings Fabs in the US. Both Taiwan and South Korea are dependent on US military for their own existence. This is anti-competitiveness at its best.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16483/samsung-in-the-usa-a-17...
errr by wild you mean grossly domesticated.
Probably not for a long time. The individual microbolometer pixels are huge and use an expensive process so just the size of the sensor and the effort of getting reasonable yield is enormous.
$334 + tax, not bad at all
The A380 is better, and they're still in service as passenger aircraft.
I said that's the societal paradigm, not the healthcare professional opinion. Doctors recognized the legitimacy of gender dysphoria long before society at large did. There are large numbers of self-diagnosed people and not an insignificant number of them are taking improvised or illicit hormone medications. In addition, many jurisdictions such as the UK are moving to make hormone therapy medications available over the counter or after a brief consultation.
Should the author have been clear that the 10 nouns and 10 verbs it asked chatGPT to make up should all be unique?

I immediately see two made up verbs which are also made up nouns. Granted many human languages have this issue, but that's not necessarily a positive thing nor a goal.
Yes, it's cross-platform and the app is quite polished. Keychain doesn't even have a proper app on the iPhone, never mind other platforms.
The topic for this questionnaire is "student life, academics, athletics", which is an important part of the question when determining if non-responses are important. In this case ChatGPT gets it correct, but explains the reason very poorly.
why did michael kives (k5) get $300M from alameda?
Kyle's video touches on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
Definitely a different scenario there. GP is only proposing messing with Earth's atmosphere, not the sun itself. ;)
Given that there's always going to be demand for a non-digital currency outside of the control of a central government (which I believe is good for many perspectives although the demand for something like this is far below what most crypto bros will try to convince you of), I do wonder how people are going to transact in those situations. Gold? Monero? US Dollars or other currencies?
You might want to change the title of the post. The article's title is very interesting but just saying "Quant Magazie" in the title isn't interesting
Machines will always be inferior to humans, we've just reached the point in our first world laziness to accept the mediocrity of machines.

All technology these days is broken, buggy, intrusive, slow, etc. and yet people are still hyped up for the future run by robots. To me, it's dystopian. Let's make the technology we already have actually good instead of steaming forward with the next new thing (that is likely yet another useless broken mess) while leaving everything a broken mess. I'm hoping with the end of the era of free money, that companies will focus on quality rather than cheap growth.
Not explicitly but part of their 30 percent cut is handling currency risk, yes.
This is called "diarization"
There is a lot that I can’t get past in this, otherwise well written and interesting article, article.

- Spelling “your” as “yr”

- “people” as “ppl”

- “sh*t” all over the place (“Have you clocked these s*ts??”)

- using ampersands in the middle of the article

- “regs-painted”

Etc.
The genetic work actually does include those people, namely those whose descendents have been sampled.