skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider that to be misleading selective editing. Here's a more faithful representation of that missive:

> For the back-end, Apollo Server absolutely can be beat by tools that don't require you to write any code:

> https://supabase.com/blog/pg-graphql

> https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

> https://hasura.io/

The careful reader will note that I presented three alternatives, with the one provided by my company last. Moreover, what I wrote is in fact a matter of fact. If you wish to have a GraphQL server without having to write server code to do it, as fine a product as Apollo is you cannot use Apollo to do it because that's not what Apollo does.
Some peoples faces are different when they are alone. Some people struggle with themselves just to present a normal looking persona in their everyday lives. For them it is good enough to live as stress free as possible. Their true underlying goal is not to go out of balance. Let them be.
GTA5 still crashes on an i7 with IrisXE graphics, latest Ubuntu, and latest Proton or Experimental. Hope they manage to fix it.
GearVR was not crappy.
Well, from what I have experienced, the people who dare to say “I don’t care” in a corporate settings are usually much trust worthy than those been polite. Also most of time he said that because of the sheet frustration from the enormous BS that surround him.
I’m old enough to remember that people have been predicting hyperinflation and the collapse of the dollar since the 70s. Maybe it will really happen this time, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
This is true. I think a good test for this is that the person making the criticisms also provides alternatives that are reasonable and it's evident that they're trying to make things better and not just arguing for argument's sake.
Every time the government tells anyone that something possibly harmful is happening, with the hope that folks stop that, it's censorship. The government shouldn't be involved at ALL in talking or thinking about what its citizens do or say. Any time the FBI posts a most-wanted list it's clearly an attempt to shut down speech or behavior. This is censorship and is just like a concentration camp.
A company under criminal investigation might have solvency issues?

Someone got a set of pearls I can clutch?

https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/12/binance-investigation-...
It's probably done on the GPU, requiring almost no power at all. As far as 3d graphics goes, it's very very simple.
Why not go all the way and have cash-settled futures that track random numbers?
Many single player games do still phone home or otherwise cause network activity, so it’s not like they are guaranteed a safe bubble in which to run.
A highly successful worker coop leads to a bunch of people with comfortable lives and steady jobs.

A highly successful privately owned company leads to a handful of people with a ton of money and free time, which they can use to found other privately owned companies.
While I completely agree with you. I think it’s important to point out that if it wasn’t sold by Facebook, it would be 2.5x the cost and then most people wouldn’t touch it as it would be too big of an investment.
I just stopped connecting the Kindles and Kobos to WiFi
Funny enough, having everything being designed around cars is actually more expensive for society on the whole. Walkable cities everywhere would actually be cheaper, and then it also wouldn’t be a luxury.
Seems they forgot to pay their hosting provider:

This Account has been suspended.
[Contact your hosting provider](webmaster@atarihotels.com) for more information.

It is rather odd that the "hosting provider" link leads to webmaster@atarihotels.com - is this a web hotel instead of a brick-and-mortar one?
Is Coinbase audited?
I prefer to starve than work in a company that uses a piece of shit software like that.
Experience with ChatGPT hopefully will make us more aware of confident nonsense, even when it comes from humans.
> if they were really toast, then $BNB would be cratering

Why exactly, though? That's what I'm asking.

I promise I'm not trolling, I just don't understand the connection.
Thanks, I'll have to look into it.
Not sure exactly what you mean, but I assume customization in this context is the choice to pick what updates are implemented in your session/device.

I like it in theory but supporting it can be unwieldy, especially for design-led orgs that like to tinker and introduce changes a lot (not dissing, just not my preference). Like how many versions and combinations do you support? I've worked in an app company once, and supporting web, iOS, and Android was somewhat annoying enough. Can't imagine adding in support for old versions.

OTOH it could force more deliberation and discipline on the part of product teams before going all-in on whatever shiny new object caught their eye this month
http://web.archive.org/web/20180319104518/http://www.jewishc...
Ah ok, so you are fine with taking your child to Las Vegas and sitting them in front of the slot machine with a handful of quarters? Maybe just give them a small heroin injection too, there's a chance they wont get addicted.
> Most companies have far too many metrics. Companies might have a dozen dashboards, each with 4-5 metrics, leading to 50-100 metrics being tracked at any given time.

I think it’s important to divide “internal” / operational metrics, which a team monitors but doesn’t expect anyone else to care about (say, error rate of the DB or some internal ops task latency) vs. “external” metrics which are rolling into OKRs / KPIs or otherwise being reported out as health metrics of the team.

I struggle to believe that most companies with 50-100 metrics are actually using most of them as external metrics.
And if the house depreciates, should the carpenter then help him with the mortgage payments?
Agree with this 100%. Feel for the outdated, sucks to be outmoded, but artificially prolonging the agony is not the way.
> Given that "the electrorate" and "consumers" are two huge groups with huge overlap, one could argue that political action is, in this case and in the ideal case of any representative democracy, an expression of consumers' will.

This is an excellent point. Political forces are market forces.
> menu bars (the greatest invention in IT, bar none

Menu bars are terrible! Visually navigating a tree structure via mousing is a nightmare, especially if the whole thing disappears or radically shifts if you mouse a few pixels off. Visually scanning huge, variable chunks of the screen is inefficient, awkward, and a burden.

Everything that you can do with those nasty, collapsible visual hierarchies can be done way more efficiently and way more accessibly via a nice search interface with fuzzy filtering and autocompletion.

When it's actually fast and unencumbered by bullshit like advertisements, something like Spotlight or the modern Windows start search is infinitely better than crap like the Windows 9x start menu.

If you've ever coached someone through navigating a graphical, hierarchical menu they've never seen before, you know how painfully slow all that mental processing actually is. Even a hunt and peck typist will be faster in most cases, as all they have to type is at most a handful of letters. Menu bars suck in the exact same way, and they ought to be either eliminated or replaced in the same way as ye olde start menu, too.
the building is literally right beside a road, just park your truck where you need to put up the ladder...

not that anyone in Rome would want you to put out a fire there, I'm sure they are all praying an earthquake will relieve them of this brutalist masterpiece
There is something about reading on a screen which just isn't quite as "good" as reading on paper. I don't know what it is.

Is it the reflectance/emission? Perhaps, Kindles are better than iPads; is it the resolution? Perhaps, retina iPads are better than pre/non-retina tablets; is it the tactile sensation? Perhaps, I find matt paper better than the gloss of many magazines, and the new Paperwhite is half way between on that score.

Perhaps I'm just remembering good times from my childhood, and skeuomorphisms are a way to catch that.

But no, a 3D animation like this is not the reason why apps are bloated. Other similar animations were smooth on a 450 MHz G3.
I don't ever entrust any exchange with my crypto. That being said, this episode will be a far better test of Binance's solvency than any audit. The proof is in the pudding. Either they have the reserves to cover the withdrawals or they go belly up.
The books underlying required even more work and they’re just a bunch of bytes that accomplish nothing. Some of them are even about something made up entirely and serve no purpose.
I am a huge fan of index cards! For those curious, I wrote up an example of I use them: https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/

I'm working with a new team and for a while the priorities have been murky. But we got everybody in a room and I broke out the index cards and sharpies, making everybody write down things they care about and put them strict linear order. It was way more effective than any online tool I have ever used.

Since we work remotely I'll be putting those cards into an electronic tool (KanbanFlow if I get my druthers; Jira if I have to). But the level of participation and the speed of getting to consensus via index cards is unmatched.
1. Swift is not slower than objective-c
2. They could keep this in Objective-C if they wanted to
3. It's most likely done on the GPU anyway
I've heard a rumor too that the rpi foundation is having a legal spat about that part with Broadcom right now too. Broadcom is pissed that their chips they were using as a tax right off are being sold for profit. That's why you can get RP2040 boards like the Pico no problem; they don't contain Broadcom IP blocks.
Any firm that survive the current ?recession? will have significantly more chance of surviving and passing the shivers. Maybe the next 6 months or so is critical for Binance or any other central wallet/exchange since people are on the edge.
Blaming it on the consumers is why we have this problem in the first place. Every single phone in the shop is going to have a soldered in battery so how is the consumer supposed to choose? The consumer does not have perfect information either. How are they meant to know the failure modes of a new product line and difficulty of repair. Sure capitalism works if is high competition and all the actors have perfect information but that isn't true. I don't believe in over-regulating but the market isn't exactly working here and car safety standards have shown that it can work if done right.
I haven't tried it, but I can remember people on forums having mixed results with a bindmount. I guess there is no guarantee that it works until Snap has been running for a while without problems.
Ethernet as a networking standard generates huge benefits in interoperability between devices if there is a common standard. These benefits don't exist for an ISA. There are some benefits clearly but holding up Ethernet as the example is convenient but flawed.

Clearly having an open ISA is great news and one that we should support and hope it succeeds.

Advocating for that single ISA to crowd out all other ISAs and render them unviable isn't in my view for a number of reasons.
Related. Others?

Obedience to Authority: The Experiments by Stanley Milgram - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25900430 - Jan 2021 (53 comments)

Milgram Experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386531 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Analysis suggests Milgram participants realised experiments not really dangerous - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16282267 - Feb 2018 (1 comment)

Why do we keep repeating the Milgram experiments? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420292 - Oct 2014 (58 comments)

Half of Milgram’s subjects told him to take a hike - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881551 - Nov 2010 (44 comments)

Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1202618 - March 2010 (41 comments)

The Milgram Experiment Today? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224131 - June 2008 (2 comments)

Milgram experiment participant who refused to administer shocks (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183466 - May 2008 (9 comments)

Stanley Milgram: The Perils of Obedience (1973) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37977 - July 2007 (1 comment)

Revisit the Milgram Experiment by shooting a live Iraqi over the internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23217 - May 2007 (2 comments)
Joy and delight are ultimately liabilities, and humans will be better off if we remove the need for them.
Work health care professional hard suggested I go to ER for a thing and I reluctantly went. Shit got way real only couple hours later to a point where I was in so much pain I hardly could walk. Luckily I was already in the ER and got emergency surgery done.

Yeah probably not the kind of advice OP was looking for but definitely the best I have gotten for multiple years.
> downvoted for suggesting a company might be solvent

The comment said they are solvent. Not that they might be. Given the present facts and circumstances, that’s unfounded. (EDIT: Never mind.)
Why would I use Linux Desktop over Windows Desktop? Because it's FOSS, because of price, UX? I don't get it.
You can export a purchased book from Books on your Mac by dragging it out of the app

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7967098
Only if that's what they were trying to say. Merely performant is good, but not that interesting.
> All this data and interoperability talk makes this project seem aimed more at the Google Maps API rather than the consumer-level navigation app.

This is rather disappointing, for me google maps is still the only thing I can't find a good replacement for.
OSM is extremely out of date, its search is basically useless for anything other than public parks, as no one bothers to put their places outside google maps.

Even using google maps offline is better than osmand and others.

My current flow is to search on google map web then copy the open location code into the app.
Don't know. They're not popular over here.

Edit: the web browser thing can be pretty spotty in my experience and to my memory I almost feel like Klarna predates it?
Not sucking a river dry isn't protectionism. Or now protectionism means protecting a river, which it should.
On the contrary it's very, very easy, in both directions. They made integration very simple and powerful
http://web.archive.org/web/20150905234626/http://aeon.co/mag...
Remember that the Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6), a trade organization; it's the same sort of organization as RIAA.
private property is deprecated
I think so. Twitter has gotten more press in the past few months than in the past couple years. I’m sure it’s driven up their MAUs (bots and otherwise).

I think most people partake in Twitter for the drama anyway. More drama, more eyeballs, higher rent for advertisers. The new CEO certainly understands that and can certainly generate drama.
If you don’t mind my asking, how has your life unfolded as a result of following that advice?
While I agree with the idea, I think John Carmack illustrated he was capable as more than an IC but also a team leader for several projects while at Id.

So, probably a very able leader of a small-ish team. Which is OK and can still lead to huge impact and I wish he'd stayed in that zone in anything he was doing (probably started that way at Occulus?).

Some of us can't acquire (or haven't acquired yet) the skillset and daily gumption of leading bigger orgs and I guess it's fine.

I hope his next endeavour gets him back to a manageable high-impact I-decide-most-things job. I just want to see what a happy and free Carmack can still do.
> And it’s I think why people appreciate him, because he gets specific

But he is not specific. As you write the specific problem he has is with the efficiency of the organisation. He is not quitting Meta because someone shipped a build with 5% GPU utilisation. The gpu utilisation thing is an example and the number is pulled out of thin air. And as an example it doesn't do a good job. It confuses people instead of illuminating what he is trying to say.

> I really don’t understand how it can be unclear that 5% is bad.

Because it is not bad? I'm writing here this comment, and my browser is barely utilising a single percentage of my GPU. Should the browser's developers rewrite their code to burn more GPU? Obviously not.

But there is a bigger problem with the analogy. It tries to explain something quite simple (Carmack sees the organisation is inefficient. He has a dislike to inefficiency because his job is to make computers more efficient.) And to illustrate this simple concept he brings in the vocabulary of a specialist field. (performance optimisation, and graphics programming) Thus reducing the audience who can understand his point for no good reason whatsoever.

> The thing that was actually unclear was people not understanding it was analogy for organizational effectiveness.

Yes. And it is the direct result of his writing being confusing.
A lot more than I expected. What I liked is that I could easily connect thoughts written down on separate notes. Lots of “oh hey…I could use this approach I outlined over there”, connecting sometimes 6 separate ideas under a new roof.

I was skeptical bc I’m huge on pen and paper, but one morning I just said screw it and put Obsidian on my phone. That alone unleashed a torrent of thought, I think always having something you can take notes on is the key. Paper isn’t always on you when an idea strikes. A phone typically is
Unfortunately, no. I was hired as a WordPress developer on a team that did a lot of Drupal work, so I was able to gently ease into doing small projects. Understanding the Drupal render pipeline will help you immensely, but it is complicated. Merely being able to understand entity types, fields, and views will put you leagues ahead of what WordPress can do for data-heavy sites. The majority of what I do with Drupal is configuring entities, fields, view, modes, and views. After that, it’s basically just learning to twig syntax (not my favorite part of Drupal) and the various pre-process hooks to make data available to the theme. Once you have the core functionality pretty well understood, it’s easy to extend it because basically everything in Drupal already extends Symfony.
I don't know any pro traders who use Binance but there might be some. Binance is popular with crypto kiddies, small time traders and they're also very strong in less developed countries that aren't served by any other major exchanges. People buying cryptocurrencies to escape high inflation or political risk. Basically a lot of newbies who aren't too aware that Binance is shady despite its size. But it's a diverse user base, they're not all active traders.
In my reading I have read of several such occurrences, and experienced one myself. On 2 Feb 1990 I fell asleep in front of the TV and dreamed I was a journalist in Cape Town, South Africa. There was buzz about a possible speech by F.W. de Klerk in front of Parliament. I was concerned that I needed a snack on the way, and hoped that the gov't would provide donuts. Then I woke up and CNN was nagging me that de Klerk was about to address Parliament. The subject was South Africa transitioning out of apartheid.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones. Unless you mean that Apple has a monopoly on iPhones, to which I will respond that John Deere has a monopoly on John Deere tractors.
Added it in an edit.
As a developer of a couple GTK apps I really like the direction the project has gone in. Its a more flexible and performant toolkit than ever before.
Many people find long hot showers relaxing.

Mental health is more important than conserving "scarce resources" like water and energy. The ocean is literally full of water. The sun is very bright. Research will eventually help us make better use of these "scarce resources" without burning (gasp!) any fossil fuels.

Until then, I'm going to continue enjoying my 20-minute daily routine.

But thanks for caring.
I don't doubt he speaks like an engineer because is basically is THE uber-engineer. He should be treated more as an oracle than an engineer. There aren't many people I would say that about in the world of computing, but Carmack definitely is that.
> Full GAAP audit or we all assume you're broke.

FTX passed a GAAP audit and was still broke. Safer just to take custody of your coins while your still can.

2021-08-27: "Both FTX and FTX.US have completed requirements to pass the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) audit" https://blockworks.co/news/ftx-joins-coinbase-kraken-with-us...
I like it. Not only do I think it looks pretty nice, it makes sense visually since it would be weird to scroll away the book title only to scroll it back in for the next page.
After using Drupal 7 and 8 I was hoping it would die when I left it. The word drupal and little blue icon brings me so much pain and fear.

Every drupal programmer I even met only knew how to click and install, they never knew how to actually write code. My experience may be varied.
Because they get the same talking point, and sort of repeat it.
I listened to this when it came out and it's a good one. Nothing new for people who have been following, it, but a great explainer suited for a general audience.
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Detroit. It was a place where a high school diploma could get you a secure job that would support a middle class family. It’s all changed and Detroit is now half the size it once was while cities like Houston and Austin have grown tremendously.

Why did that happen? Did corrupt unions kill the goose that laid the golden eggs? Or was it poor management of the automotive giants that allowed overseas companies to take market share. Did wages across the board fall behind inflation or was the automotive fundamentally changed by automation.

I wish I understood what happened since I actually lived through that period.
It feels like I was looking at a pile of cards, and then magical scissors cut a window out of the top one just before it moves.

But then the window doesn't move with the card that it was cut from, so I realize I was mistaken. There is no window or magical scissors. Instead, I have momentarily acquired x-ray vision but it only works on part of the card.
I'm not familiar with all CMSs you mentioned but aren't they also monolithic (compared to microservices)?