skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. To my eye Clearview was, ah, clearly better. But I love the fact that they seem to have tested it. My typographic opinion literally means nothing if Clearview was not helping people drive more safely.
See you here next January.
Welp. Had one running for years. ADB'd into it and no sign of an infection despite it being the exact one to be. I don't use anything important on it so I'm considering burning it. OP, do you know of any way to flash a clean OS onto it? If the malware is as deep as it is described maybe a full system reinstall would be best instead of just uninstalling known badware.
Connecting to FTP server with telnet left as exercise for the reader... :)
Like I said, it's not a good title. It will get fixed.
The former surely?
By work I meant the formal arrangement by which goods and services and exchanged for a currency or bartered for other goods and services within the scope of the rule of law. In particular, I was replying to this quote:

>>> "You're gonna want something that other people make or do or do to you. If they're not your parents or lovers or partners, you better have something to give in exchange for that thing you want. Otherwise, why would they give it to you ? Making something others want is work."

With respect to my presumption; yes, I'm responding to the status quo, my point may not be universally true but it also is in no way hypothetical.
Amazing! We should chat :)
Regarding layout, it seems that this is an area where AI could be useful. We’re probably lacking enough training data though.
Really hope they keep a non touchscreen model for the macbook pros unless they can pull it off without compromising anything. I really don't understand the appeal of touchscreen laptops.
This gif explaining aliasing completely intuitively, without any words or symbols: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nyquist_Shannon_theo...
In my experience many Indians are very career oriented (mean that with no criticism). Ie they focus on promotions, career advancements, power consolidation, and not as much on work as the end goal in itself. Again, not criticizing, just an observation. In some cases I wish I was more career oriented too.
I use (and like) D2, although it’s early days and still has a few rough edges. Prefer the syntax versus Mermaid.

It’s open source, though, isn’t it? You can just install locally with brew or whatever, plus the vscode extension and you’re off to the races. You don’t then get the fancy proprietary GUI, though - that’s what you’re referring to?
Removing CTEs from your codebase by replacing them with the creation of a temp table and then using separate queries with as few joins as possible to populate it will give you low-locking performance hundreds of times better nearly every time. No problem with readability.
Inheritance is about providing business logic in all downstream inheritors through a super() chain. If you want shared logic in Rust between several implementors of a trait you will probably end up with duplicate code. There are drawbacks to both.
They don’t hold great tolerances, but if that’s ok then they’re fine.
Swift would never have won, and will never win, while it's so closely associated with Apple. Many people in positions of power believe (correctly) that Apple will always put its own needs above everyone else's. Those are the people who have chosen Rust.
It's a good question as to how long Apple will support calling its APIs from C++ via Objective-C++.

I don't see any good reason for them to deprecate the ObjC-Swift bridge, but I guess they could decide it's too much work to maintain.
While this may be the first for you, it may just be another example on a list over time.

Apple walked away from Nvidia to solely use AMD after enough instances, but I was only personally affected by one model. It was apparently the one (2011 MBP) that broke the camel's back though, so there's that.
Though beautiful (to some of us anyway) and sometimes also fast, most Alfas back then were notoriously lemon-y.

I don't know if this is global, but at least in Uruguay in the 80s (and perhaps earlier too) there was a saying that an Alfa made you happy twice: when you bought it, and when you sold it.
Since defers run during panics for exactly this reason, no. You can in fact guarantee that is not the case.

Runtime-safety "panics" in Go, like concurrently modifying and iterating a map that can lead to other memory being corrupted, tend to abort the whole process immediately and not be suppress-able panics.
Oh right, I assumed it was meant as VPs, like the TV series. I didn’t realise that was a cute way of referring to anyone working at the company.

I was wondering why anyone generally would be caring so much what happened to the Vice Presidents of each division, especially when they’re being laid off.

Now that I know what he actually means by Veeps it sounds even more stupid.
The gotcha of unhandled promise rejections
Then the person who’s job it is to come up with these will need to be laid off too!
> I can't speak to Russian at all, I have zero experience with that language in any context. But I was taught that when speaking Spanish, if you're using a noun with two different gendered variants but you don't know the gender, typically you default to a specific one of the gendered variants that plays double-duty as the gender-neutral term

Yeah, but that doesn't work great in many contexts. If somebody already told you their name is "Maria" and you refer to them as a man, expect confusion or offense.

In Russian, people's gender applies to verbs and adjectives, so that works even less.

> If you're in Russia and you tell a story about a fox you almost hit with your car or something

Funnily enough, foxes are female by default in Russian, while rabbits default to male. If you're making a game, and foxes and rabbits are things you can run over, there are cases that will require you to have both a male and a female version of the conversation.
There often isn’t an “actual” table.
Obviously, it should be "a Google/Alpha...bet :emoji:".
I've always been surprised that Reddit hasn't built meme search into its site search.

Memes are a core part of the Reddit experience, yet it's difficult to find something I know I saw before.
Well, if you have multiple queries, you'd still have to write the cte multiple times. You could also use views for the same thing, and those are much more reusable.
Microsoft is giving US employees unlimited paid time off, ditching 4-week policy
To me, compiled means fast with static types only, interpreted means slower and with possibly dynamic types. Most people will probably agree that C is compiled and Python is interpreted. I know there are some counterpoints that break that, but I don't care, cause the designation is still useful.

The author has identified that "compiled" and "interpreted" don't mean much about how the code technically runs. What really makes the difference is the intended use case. Same reason tomatoes aren't fruits in layman's terms.
It’s also breaking the guideline against editorialising in the title
Perhaps. Or perhaps it's 1% of reference models. But it is, according to AMD, a knowable, countable, and therefore recallable number that AMD is electing not to issue a recall for.

If they did, the both the consumer market and the investor market would know how big a problem this is. Which AMD is very clearly shying away from.
As a cynic, it makes me suspect that the number is on the larger end of the spectrum.
FTX Has Recovered 'Over $5B' in Assets, Bankruptcy
Implicit main in Swift means you don't need "public static void main..." or other boilerplate.

No reason why Java and C++ couldn't do something similar though.
Learning iOS (Swift) could be a gateway to the next-generation of platforms: carOS, realityOS (AR/VR). Or both of these efforts could be complete duds!
I am not sure what to think about China. Dropping the zero-covid policy feels like just the start. They still might go through a couple of waves of covid before things get back to normal. Or things could snap back fairly quick, hard to predict.

Another factor working its way through the system is the "reshoring" of manufacturing. A lot of companies gave up on China and are moving their manufacturing to other countries or closer to home. This probably creates inflationary pressures as the development of the manufacturing facilities create s a fair bit of demand, but also staffing the facility creates more demand for the local workforce. So if this trend continues I could seeing this being a long term inflationary pressure.
>The Display protocol is the only sensible place to negotiate access to GPU resources.

No, GPU resources can come from any number of other places. That's literally the purpose of direct rendering. Any applications using GPU compute can produce them without requiring a connection to the display server. There's no reason to put that in Wayland or restrict it to the compositor. There's already a much better protocol for sharing GPU buffers: Pipewire. Dbus is only there to act as the glue between a Wayland compositor and Pipewire.
Distribution of power in DAGs and blockchains
Summary: in blockchains, the power is concentrated in a few centers, while in DAGs it is more evenly distributed among users. That's because blockchain users only create transactions but have to rely on block producers to add them to the ledger, while DAG users both create transactions and add them to the ledger with no middlemen involved.
https://archive.is/UdrgC
That is fair. Emacs does have a CUA mode[1] for more standard shortcuts. But the OS dialogs will not look native, and it makes sense if that experience does not work for you.

I see that in your professional capacity, you're an engineer on VS Code, so I bet that you know it well enough to make it work for you for Common Lisp, too. For all the oft-cited reasons, I cannot use VS Code. But it is great if it works for you.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CU...
How exactly does one go about signing this pledge?
The “I wan to run an agile project” animation https://youtu.be/4u5N00ApR_k Nothing comes close to this, sums up the whole idea from bottom to the top perfectly
> Remember that movies are HIGHLY produced works, each item in a scene...

Your comment makes me think of the movie "Dark Star" where the crewmen sitting in front of these crappy prop control consoles flail away "working" by mashing all the buttons at random. hilarious!
It’s important to understand: “unlimited time off” and variations is a mechanism companies in the US use to avoid paying earned income, or meeting statutory minimums.

By not having a vacation “balance”, when you leave the company they don’t have to pay out the vacation time you earned while employed by them. It also means that they can reject/delay any vacation plans without worrying about having to pay it becoming expensive to pay it off in future, because again there’s no balance recorded of earned income.

They then work to ensure that you do not/cannot actually use that unlimited vacation time in any way that would imply that it is unlimited.
Better just apple than apple + hackers. Not ideal but incremental progress is still progress.
in many companies managers and directors are getting thrown out as well, looking at my linkedin feed
>These are all really bad things which should never survive to production code. It is not difficult to detect and prevent them.

This is equivalent to saying "out of bounds memory writes are not difficult to detect and prevent in C code". Like actually equivalent (possibly worse), not just "well if you squint they look similar".

Of course it's not hard most of the time. Being perfect is beyond hard though. And if you're not perfect, you might open the door to anything in C, or cluster-destroying rolling crashes in Go.

Sometimes shutting down every piece of your software if that happens is the correct choice, and sometimes it's so far beyond reasonable that it's ludicrous to argue in favor of "every panic is an abort".
What gp is also leaving out is that employment in leisure and hospitality cratered. No-one was going to restaurants or hotels.
TCP Windowing
> I've lived in a lot of places in the US, and almost none of them outside of a couple of major cities in New England had the equivalent of a NY slice.

https://www.gawker.com/the-pizza-belt-the-most-important-piz...

This has a (in)formal name, The Pizza Belt.

Also I totally agree, North East or bust pizza-wise.
Fractal branching increasing surface area while reducing sub unit cross sections for increased heat exchange efficiency was obvious to practitioners in the field in the 1980s.

That's when the Mandelbrot book(s) hit the mainstream in mathematics and engineering following his coining of the word in 1975.

As an undergraduate at the time I can attest such ideas were extensively discussed, there are many people with notebooks from the time sketching out notions of practical and impractical applications and further study in multiple dimensions.

Relationships between fractal branching, leafs and fluid exchange (be the fluid heat or CO2 or reactants) have been sketched out diagrammatically and analytically ad nauseam in the time since.
I spent a long time working at Amazon. Pretty clear to me many people were right place right time. True world changing meritocratic talent is rare and the opportunities for it to even matter even rarer
Increased calorie consumption is the offender, there is little doubt about that. By carefully measuring food, one loses and gains weight accordingly (taking into account age, physical activity, etc.).

The social acceptability of being fat leads to psychologically easier consumption of calories. Personally, if it were not for the shame I would feel, I would eat 1 kg of ice cream every night. I have a great appetite, but also a great capacity for restraint.

The "mysterious weight gain" not explained by calories is, at this point, rather speculative.
The “flying geese” model of Asian economic development
The sole reason companies have “unlimited time off” is to save them money, by not having to cover your earned timed off.

That’s it.

There is no magical “the company is on my side” nonsense.
In German (maybe some other languages too?) it's common to use "the" to refer to a 3rd person, so if Bob's sister Charlotte came home from school but not Bob, she could say "The Bob went to the mall".

Seems like it's the same way in Finnish, Finnish F1 driver Mika Häkkinen referred to Michael Schumacher as "The Michael".
This thread is making me hungry.
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long
> Kris Hansen, a lawyer for the unsecured creditors committee, said in Wednesday’s hearing that a “reboot” of the exchanges is under discussion and could unlock “incredible value” for customers if realized.

Who in the world would put money into a FTX reboot?
It’s left over resentment over Indians being cheaper for the sake of being cheaper. It’s a more economic resentment than a racial one.

I personally don’t think this dynamic is as true anymore because Indians can command market rate globally and are going to have to compete less on undercutting price.
If your observability tools aren't firing alarms when that panic happens, you have other problems besides the panic. I would much rather find out about a bug that way vs reports from people that the service is down.
My gods. It’s managers all the way down
Should we allow patents for something AI designed?
Reminds me of the fractal vice grip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWU

I'm sure there are going to be many applications for fractal geometry found as computer aided design becomes more AI supported.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conurbation
There is no group culture fit at tech companies. It’s always a company culture fit, ie “groupless” in theory.
"Another approach is to follow that word, heresy. In every period of history, there seem to have been labels that got applied to statements to shoot them down before anyone had a chance to ask if they were true or not. "Blasphemy", "sacrilege", and "heresy" were such labels for a good part of western history, as in more recent times "indecent", "improper", and "unamerican" have been. By now these labels have lost their sting. They always do. By now they're mostly used ironically. But in their time, they had real force.

The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now. But in Germany in 1917 it was a weapon, used by Ludendorff in a purge of those who favored a negotiated peace. At the start of World War II it was used extensively by Churchill and his supporters to silence their opponents. In 1940, any argument against Churchill's aggressive policy was "defeatist". Was it right or wrong? Ideally, no one got far enough to ask that.

We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.

So another way to figure out which of our taboos future generations will laugh at is to start with the labels. Take a label — "sexist", for example — and try to think of some ideas that would be called that. Then for each ask, might this be true?

Just start listing ideas at random? Yes, because they won't really be random. The ideas that come to mind first will be the most plausible ones. They'll be things you've already noticed but didn't let yourself think."

Anyway - if you cannot steelman the "many people obsessed with pronouns are narcissists" phrase you are probably not the best person to ask other people to steelman anything.
Yet again we have a layoff email from the CEO calling their staff a cutesy demonym.

> Dear Flooferboofer, you've been fired! You're still a Flooferboofer though because we're a team and a family.
Seems weird to make unique someone else’s work. How does that work from an IP standpoint?
Wow this is just like my product BenkoBot only better! Nicely done
I'm referring to their layout engine, tala [1].

While there are other free layout engines, tala kicks ass.

There's just no separate pricing tier for people that want tala for use on the command line without the fancy proprietary GUI.

[1]: https://terrastruct.com/tala/
> Why should they be allowed to profiteer off of life-saving vaccines in the middle of a pandemic? If any other business price gouged essential supplies to the degree these pharmaceutical companies are doing, they would likely end up in prison.

Endemic. Pandemic implies an end. They also make money off flu vaccines and measles vaccines. What’s the difference? That they can make money at all doing it is why they continue to do so and why governments don’t have to try and figure out supply and demand themselves.

> If there is a credible risk of vaccines not being developed, as you say, perhaps it's time to think about either: a) nationalizing the key players in pharmaceutical industry, or b) introducing laws (if none already exist) that allow governments to compel these companies to allocate resources to work on specific projects.

It’s not just about developing vaccines in the middle of pandemics; it’s about having an incentive to develop every type of vaccine we could possibly need, eventually, finding new applications for vaccine technology and improving the development and manufacturing processes. You need smart people, smart people want money and not just the thanks of their neighbors, ergo profits. Sure the government is a cushy job, but private sector pays more and as long as there’s profits, the “key players” as you call them aren’t limited to the ones that exist today.

> Vaccines are not a luxury item sold on a free market

I don’t know about “luxury” but they are sold on a free market.

> and we shouldn't have to rely on profit-seeking companies to develop and appropriately distribute them in the most beneficial way, it's simply incompatible with what's best for humanity during a pandemic.

The COVID vaccines set a record for research, development and dispersal and those profit seeking corporations pulled that off both because they could and they had an incentive to.

> We've seen this play out, US & EU countries created massive stockpiles of vaccines because they had dozens of billions of taxpayer money to pay for extortionate prices while poorer countries still had 1% vaccination rates.

Would you feel better about the US, UK, EU, and Israel putting themselves at the front of the line as long as they had nationalized their pharmaceuticals companies first?
I get you, the problem is that CSS in JS is simply not possible for the vast majority of web developers out there that work on a site render framework that is not JS ;)

I think this is the main reason why Tailwind took off so fast. The frontend tooling world forgot the majority of its users.
At most non-fancy corner stores they're still under $4. Usually under $3 if you just want egg & cheese. And they're always made to order - ketchup, mayo, salt/pepper, hot sauce, on a roll or bagel, 50 cents extra for a tomato. I know New Yorkers can be a little insufferable about their bodegas, but I've lived in a few other major cities and none of them have provided me with this much access to a cheap breakfast.

It's true though, good breakfast burritos are still hard to come by here.
Oh, I see. Then I agree with you, an isolated model can't do any world modelling on its own. No matter how large it is, the real world is more complex.

It might be connected to the world, of course. And it might even use toys such as simulators, code execution, math verification and fact checking to further ground itself. I was thinking about the second scenario.
End goal seems to be the eradication of newly emerging middle class, and to tilt the scale to workers' disadvantage.

Huzzah. /s
Oh yeah, I'm not expecting Sonic to become EV friendly any time soon, I'm just thinking it's funny that they almost have a business model setup to be EV friendly since they already wire their parking lots with all those intercoms putting a charger along with that almost makes too much sense. It would be a funny way for a relic of a weirder era of ICE car culture to be more relevant in the EV era but I'm sure that irony escapes most of their current executives.
A Man Who Filed More Than 180 Disability Lawsuits (2021)
Why Academics Are Writing Junk That Nobody Reads
> assuming panics are normal will take you down some paths that make it basically impossible to write reliable software

Na, citation needed. Assuming "panics are normal" is just extrapolating from "errors are normal". It makes reliable software more reliable.
Yup this is exactly why when we set our benefits package, even though we are big about work life balance, I insisted we track PTO and give people a finite amount.

Because I worked at a place with “unlimited” vacation and nobody ever took any. And when I left, since there wasn’t any PTO granted, there was nothing to pay out.

I don’t want to stiff my staff that way.
Maybe bloat wasn't the right term (was thinking that it bloats the code, not the resulting program), but when you're in a scenario where you're doing one thing more often than the default, it feels like boilerplate to have to continually say `String::from("some string ref")` (as an example) just to take ownership when that's what you want every single time. Or, at least something like an "owning assignment" or "owning deref" operator that automatically adds the `to_owned()` call would help reduce boilerplate.

Maybe it was a mistake to conflate lifetimes and generics. It wouldn't be so bad to deal with references in Rust if you didn't have to include lifetime parameters when building APIs. It seems silly that (in my experience) people gravitate toward structs with owned fields just to avoid specifying the lifetime of a borrowed field.