skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's crazy how amazing the service was

It wasn't amazing though. GeForce NOW is so much better, at least for me. Higher resolution, more responsive, better selection of titles.

I'm an early adopter of cloud based GPUs. I've tried them all. Inn the last ~6 months GeForce NOW has finally made it so I can play AAA titles seamlessly. I can't tell the difference between local vs. cloud. Your experience may differ if you play competitive online games, but for single player games -- it's replaced any desire I have for a gaming PC.
A layoff of ~5%, especially if it is the first one in a while, is usually (at large corporations) just a way to get rid of (perceived to be) non-performing staff without having to do as much paperwork as actually firing someone. This isn't to say they are correct about those 5% not performing, and even if they are it may not have been that person's fault, but the real motivation for a layoff of this type (first one in a while, less than 1 in 10) is usually just to get rid of people it would otherwise be too stressful/legally fraught to get rid of.
Why is this good? why are people suddenly down to ban software? I don't use tiktok and never will but seeing all this discussion about how it should be banned is depressing.

If US companies want it to be less popular how about they compete and make a better product? Why are so many people carrying water for social media companies?

To get ahead of the criticism I'll likely get for this comment: I don't think tiktok/china do anything that US companies and every other social media platform have already been doing for years. Why ban tiktok and not every other social media app?
> let's bound our conversation to the article topic please, and stop trying to derail discussion with whataboutism.

There's been no actual discussion about the self-determination of the Taiwanese, because the Taiwanese have not been asked whether they want to be separated from China, and any indication that they don't has been scrupulously ignored.
You would be surprised how little people understand HTTP despite working with it for years.
payout will be in April's paycheck. I was a little surprised about the difference on when the accrual stops (mid Jan) and when balance will be paid out - in April. Laying off people before April payout explains some of this difference (maybe all?).
I’m sure there are plenty of right-wing influencers on TikTok. It’s a service that locks you tightly into an algorithmic bubble once it has an idea of what kind of content turns you on. Alt-right TikTok in Texas must be “interesting.”
Yeah; this part makes no sense.

Anyone in possession of either a geographic sense of the area (or a VFR sectional) who has departed due south from National and is told to "maintain runway heading and follow the river" would not be confused.
> git 2.39.1 is already available on Ubuntu

The updater just gave me 1:2.37.2-1ubuntu1.2 (to replace 1:2.37.2-1ubuntu1.1). It said it addresses the two CVEs in question.

So they (Ubuntu or maybe Debian) are taking the approach of patching a slightly older git version.
I'm not sure the downvoting is warranted. For what it's worth, I use display link every day (with an M2 MacBook Air) and it's fine. The refresh rate really suffers when driving two 4k monitors (as well as the built-in panel), but I've found it to be a reasonable workaround.

Of course, it's also helpful to know that others have had worse experiences.
That was the point I was trying to make-- whatever the name is, assume the intent is the opposite because it's political suicide to be on record decrying the ENDRACISM or CAREBEAR acts. It's statecraft, and obvious to anybody with a brain.

Naming everything "HB-4739-2B" would make the process more opaque, so only those directly involved have any clue what's going on.
Stupid and Lazy
Ideal, ideal, ideal,
Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge,
Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom,
You changed the question at the end from "answer this riddle" to "explain this riddle".

I would bet there is a Q&A thread on this riddle or one similar that is part of the language training model and it has regurgitated that almost verbatim to you.
Goods have to be shipped farther to reach you. You have to drive more than you might if you lived in a dense city (or dense town, but the US doesn't really have such a thing—hell we barely even have dense cities, really) even without the commute. You require far more installed and maintained pavement to maintain your quality of life. Utility runs are longer, so, more ongoing maintenance costs, which means more fuel use and more use of materials (so, also more fuel, ultimately). And so on.

Less-dense housing strongly tends to be less-green than denser housing, commute or no commute. The differences are extreme enough that yeah, it's pretty close to being that cut and dry.
Why should you get a say in what applications americans decide to use?
If you train as a nurse or a physician's assistant, you will have no trouble getting a job and won't have to go through all the rigmarole associated with becoming a doctor. This is not to say that the AMA isn't a cartel and the situation couldn't be improved. But fixing the situation would likely result in lower salaries for doctors... which would require med school to be cheaper... bit of a Catch-22.

Science is oversupplied with labor, but there is absolutely no need for every PhD candidate to have a tenured professorship waiting for them. Better would be to actually fund the sciences by pumping money into national labs while simultaneously creating real teaching stream options at universities and colleges. Could also create more opportunities for people to have careers as research scientists at universities. Hopefully at the same time the number of people languishing in postdocs can be reduced. Ultimately, I don't think the current model of "do it all" professor who is expected to be a rockstar researcher, teacher, and salesperson all at once makes any sense.

Also, curious that you didn't mention K-12 teachers.

At any rate, I strongly disagree that pulling people away from these careers to build websites will have the kind of positive effect you believe it will. The only way to effect these kinds of changes is through labor organizing. And this will only happen if people are in these jobs because they want to be, or because they're a good option among many.
It's "MBA circle jerk" to understand that taking out debt at a lower rate than the ROI you use the debt for is advantageous?
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at.

Looking narrowly at Tiktok, it doesn't really capture any more than what Google/Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin all would. And regulators and orgs are OK with those systems hoovering up all the data they can. But when Tiktok showed up, it's the "China Restaurant Syndrome" all over again, with breathless scares about the evil Chinese stealing our data!

Yes, China is a communist party-led state, according to the CIA world factbook. Yes, they have terrible abuses in their own history. Yes, they tamp down dissent via black-bagging and other abuses. Yes, they have and continue to do a genocide on the Uighurs (Muslims) in the country.

The US peoples (separate from the government) also has a pretty bad case of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment. It was only a few days ago that some 50ish year old white lady stabbed an Asian 18 year old Indiana University student on the city bus, while stating to police “it would be one less person to blow up our country”. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/us/indiana-university-student...

This isn't a case of whataboutism. What the Chinese government are doing to their own people is abhorrent, and likely worthy of being charged with crimes against humanity. AND people who hate Chinese for being Chinese heritage are also just as wrong. (And while we're at it, the USA has done its share of abhorrent stuff that it too should be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.)

It may be simple to color every situation with black or white. But there's a great deal of nuance here. Why isn't UT-Austin also blocking Google or Facebook and related properties? Is that because they're USA based companies? Why only Tiktok? Because where I am, it appears to be founded in Sinophobia, pure and simple.
I don't know about that. I currently need an MRI and the earliest appointment I could get was 4 weeks out, and that's not at the closest facility (they are nearly two months out). Maybe CT scans are faster.
I spent some time this year using Common Lisp. It's expanding my mind and I see all sorts of alternate histories. I'm starting to feel very curious about SmallTalk for that same reason.

There have been a lot of attempts to revitalize Lisp. Clojure is the one that comes to mind, and I do like that language. My personal take CL simply has a marketing problem. The name sounds so stale and boring that I never thought to pick it up. "Common" may have been a word that invoked unity in a fractured ecosystem at some point in time, but today it communicates "Nothing Special".
A job's a job. A DOD spokesperson isn't receiving any confidential information. Their job is political, just as it would be at Facebook, if they chose to work there.
If you're looking for something faster but C++ specific, more compact in serialized size, more efficient in serialization you can try cista: https://github.com/felixguendling/cista
(Disclaimer: I'm the author, always happy for feedback, eg in the GitHub issues)
I don't know what's fueling your vitriol but this ranting would be a lot more relevant if you couldn't hail rides in our vehicles.

I think we're seeing what happens when FOMO meets "missed out". It'd just be more humorous if you weren't projecting your anger onto me.
Could you elaborate? I know little about this tech, but suspect there may be size/performance trade-offs.
Which is exactly the point of GC enabled systems programming languages since the Xerox PARC days.

Provide all the required features to write a full OS, while having the convenience of a GC for most of the code.
Sell it on an auction site with a base price with which you’re comfortable.
Apple's trade-in prices have always been lowballed, but they aren't normally this extreme. Usually you get just enough that you might choose to take the loss instead of dealing with Ebay or something

But I wouldn't be surprised if this one is just a weird edge-case in their formula with no eyes on it (and one that probably serves a vanishingly small number of customers, who would want to casually trade-in their $50k machine instead of finding the best price they can get on the open market)

For reference:

The OP is looking at a 1.8% trade-in value on a 3 year old machine

Whereas I can currently get 16% trade-in value on my 4.5-year-old iPhone XS
I'm pretty sure that article is talking about the feature where, if MacOS realizes that you always plug in your laptop at night, and unplug it every day at 7 am, it will pause charging at 80% until like 5:30 or whatever time it needs to, such that it will reach 100% exactly at 7 am.
Is the content-blocking model tied to the manifest version, or can you mix and match?

Or, rephrased: could gorhill conceivably upgrade uBlock Origin's manifest.json to v3, while still using the v2 content blocking APIs?
How would conquest benefit the PRC, other than vague symbolism of "uniting the country" and depriving the U.S. of a potential base? Yes, there's power in the rally-round-the-flag effect, but that only goes so far from distracting citizens of the matters of survival.

Also, the world is exponentially more economically interdependent than it was a century ago. Was the trade between the Central Powers and the Entente really comparable to that between the PRC and the rest of the world today? Or even between modern Russia's trade with the world and China's trade with the world? I suspect these are all different cases that need to be examined in full, not brushed away with rhetorical flourishes.

An immense amount of consumer electronics are manufactured in China. But also, most of China's energy is imported by sea. Don't think their Belt and Road projects have managed to substitute those naval routes yet. So in the case of war, both China and its trading partners are at the risk of slitting each others' throats in a jiffy. Is that comparable to Russia, an energy exporter?
It is projection 100%. After all they are the Gaslight Obstruct and Project party.
Depending on how far away the display might be, a USB cable can be extremely inconvenient. Does the USB spec allow for 13" (4m) cables for playin on a TV?
the interface you mentioned reminds me of how people in the movie "Her" interact with their futuristic devices

they still use a smaller display they keep in their pocket for visual content, but it exists as an accessory to view things queued up by the voice interface

I love the idea and the approach, I wish there was a way I can use this on a real subway (in the movie there seemed to be a lot more distance between people/users)
It makes for strict left-to-right evaluation/execution.
V2G = vehicle to grid. It’s quite possible for this to operate as a backup battery, but like a Powerwall it requires extra “gateway” hardware to ensure that your house is isolated from the grid when the battery is discharging.

V2L (vehicle to load) is a simpler form that lets you power 115/230V appliances directly from the vehicle. Quite a few EVs (Hyundai, Ford, etc) already support V2L.
Those conventions are held indoors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMRmuyy9f_w&t=30s
Reminds me of customers these would “invest” huge amounts of capex into servers in the early 2000s when processor speed was going up exponentially.

One guy was complaining that their mail server — the size of half a rack — was slow.

I pointed out that the Blackberry phone he was syncing to it was faster.

“But the server cost over a hundred thousand dollars!”

Yes… and now it’s worthless.
TIL, Bankruptcy or chapter 11 is called administration in the UK. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administration_in_United_Kin...
It is absolutely a valid contract - if both parties are in the US it shouldn't be too hard to enforce.
> frustrating to get be part of a 5% cut when there's so much free cash sitting around. I know, it's a narrow view of corporate finance, and I don't have the 'big picture', but... still doesn't sit right with me.

nobody is entitled to be an employee, the purpose of corporations isn't to print employment numbers, these observations you made should be unrelated
Is it possible to say anything positive or even neutral about China without a comment like this? Do you respond to every mention of the US with links of all the war crimes?

Can you address the content of the comment you're responding to? Can you demonstrate that TikTok causes more harm than MSG?
Have you tried ultrawide monitors? I don’t think I could go back to multiple individual monitors.
2050 (2049 actually) is the 100yr anniversary of the CCP's takever of China and the founding of the PRC. That's why it's the target date, they want to complete reunification before then.

However, there is some speculation that the CCP observed from the 1989 Tienneman massacre that the West takes roughly 20yrs to forget stuff like that, so the CCP actually wants to reunify Taiwan by 2030, so it will be forgotten by 2050. Hence the rapid military buildup happening now.
That Pentagon shaped pool really caught my eye, then the long covered building, had to look it up. Now I know all about the David Taylor Model Basin and the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Explosive Test Pond.

https://www.navalgazing.net/David-Taylor-Model-Basin

https://www7430.nrlssc.navy.mil/bblp/mine/carderock01.htm
If you bought a $50k Silicon Graphics O2 workstation in 1997, it probably was worth that much in 2000.
Pretty narrow vector. Could identify low level employee in another team to run it to exfiltrate info in a high secure env maybe.
People sticking to their good intentions for the new year, maybe? Common Lisp is a pretty great language, though (especially with defstar and alexandria).
Doubtful. Those statements aren’t false, but they won’t hold up to the fact that the Chinese demand for oil is growing too.
The GOP is anti anything that might be construed as a COVID-19 mitigation measure.
So with readjustment PRC is 2-3% from high income, another year or two. Gap is closing faster than income group adjustment even with zero covid GDP.
Fun fact: communist Chinese is the most SUCCESSFUL chinese by virtue of developing every major sector under adverse geopolitical conditions (active US containment), so much so that in the words of state department, "China is the only country with the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge" US order. That's, you know, the actual measure of comprehensive power, not some dummy measurement like per capita GDP. Otherwise we'd all be scared of Qatar or Luxembourg. The Other Sinosphere countries did well on easy mode (often with active US support at height of hegemony, i.e. daddy's credit card), meanwhile PRC aced it on hard mode. Like US / TW wouldn't be banning semi talent from working in PRC if conditions in mainland didn't enable Chinese to succeed. Nor Chinese researchers wouldn't be flooding back to PRC for opportunities in the last few years.
> I feel Rust had a chance to fix this

Don't see how. Given the hardware Rust is designed to program you have to compromise some or all of efficiency, memory usage and complexity to solve overflow.
Here's an interesting article about how I began writing Python books for fun and profit!
I come from a funny-coloured-currency country but lived in the USA for a while. And, yes, it's very confusing dealing with the money there. You'd think you had loads of money in you wallet because it was straining your pocket, but it was just 25 one-dollar bills. With coloured bills, a person naturally tends to organize them a bit so you can tell at a glance whether you have enough money for lunch or not.

The other thing is that bills feel sort of greasy or dirty. I'm not sure I can quite describe that, though.

We used to have paper bills where I live but now it's plastic ones. They took a while to get used to because they are stiff and hard to organize. Then again, I almost never use actual currency anymore. It's all payment by phone or card.

(Edit: spelling)
Who actually pays well for good-condition used computers these days? I have a 2019 MacBook Pro that could serve somebody well in a second life. I mean like companies, not some sketchy craigslist trade where somebody just tries to rob me of it. Last time I sold a laptop on Ebay, it ended up at some freight forwarders address with the recipient claiming they didn't get it. Thankfully Ebay sided with me then, but still, no telling if they will in the future.

I don't want to give it up for $200 or whatever Apple is offering, for that lowball offer, I'll just keep the laptop to travel with.
It's relevant because you are assessing value.
ELI5 Why can't Japan just route its ships around Taiwan, into the open ocean?
Yup, most mass layoffs are done without consulting the directly/skip managers who actually know who the strong performers are.
It depends on how layoffs function. "Hey, every line manager chooses their least productive report and fires them" is one approach, but the situation often doesn't seem to get pushed down that far. Directors axe entire teams not necessarily through some analysis of productivity.
I don't have a dog in the fight but I imagine that the question comes down to paint.

Not in the literal sense, but in this scenario it would be like taking indistinguishable copies all of H.R. Geiger's art, painted from the same paint that H.R. Geiger used, washing the canvases clean, and then using those same paints to paint something new in H.R. Geiger's style from memory.

There is something indefinable that has been transgressed. The style, the ownership of the paints themselves are undeniably H.R. Geiger's.

Here's the receipt.

But, what was painted with them was not actually H.R. Geiger's. The originals were not destroyed or damaged in any way. H.R. Geiger lost nothing and if enough people saw the new art it might even profit the estate of the originator by increased attention and sales, heck, even the paint was free.

This result would have been impossible without H.R. Geiger's paints and how he used them. The question is, was this theft? Did this take something from someone? Are they damaged?

I think the answer is yes it is theft, but that nothing was taken and there is no damage, but that's just me.
And of course, because those oil field workers can't do it, we should make the knowledge worker's lives worse.

Wait no, we shouldn't do that because it's childish and stupid.
> It's great, I promise.

It's not just great, it's hardcore:

https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...

Woo! FSD! FSD!
Read-only access would still be enough to launch DDOS attacks. I've never heard of any social media service offering read-only access to logged in users.
Do you want your government to behave the same way as the CCP?
I’m not entirely sure of that to be honest with you. I seem to remember than counterintuitively you can embed a flat torus in 3D but it goes further than my knowledge.

It means it’s not a “small” hypersphere, that’s for sure.
The river visual is a published approach for DCA. P-56 (the restricted airspace the pilot almost penetrated) is VERY well known and would top of mind for anyone flying in that airspace - not to mention highlighted on paper charts, EFBs, and panel-mount GPSes.

This is basic preflight planning. The pilot didn't adequately prepare, given the complexity of the airspace they were flying in.

ATC isn't there to micromanage your flight. They don't need to tell you to avoid restricted airspace, it's implied.
I love this so much, thanks for sharing it! We have been thinking about similar concepts at Shopify. Mocapped performances convey so much more emotion than images or videos.
Writing (Serializing) a Book on Substack
> many companies have adopted a policy of just generally not firing anyone for performance reasons

Not sure if that's true. For example, out of FANNG afaik only G would be least likely to fire ppl, they gave very generous chance to employees to improve and would only do 'piping' as the last option. But all the others have various forms of stack ranking and aggressive piping mechanism.

I would assume many other companies do the same
To say that somebody’s success at tasks that are highly correlated with a separate task is irrelevant is simply wrong.

And people who tend to succeed at most things they do, tend to do so for a reason. It’s effectively statistically impossible for it to be sheer coincidence/luck.

Or should I just pick random “logical fallacy” links to put in my replies instead?
Polls are clearly trending in a specific direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_Taiwanese_i...
They are also "too big to fall" - any economic sanctions against China would hurt the West equally (if not more) than them. China produces half of everything you buy.
You can describe any 2d shape using 3 dimensions, just imagine that it's set askew or bent. From the perspective of the inhabitant of such a flatland, it's undetectable and irrelevant. So is it from the perspective of the topology of the shape.

Describing the universe's shape is similarly done from within, so we can't see the outside and don't need any "outside" to see that the Universe is expanding. It's a description of how our 3d world is behaving, seen from within, and not relying on any "outside".

The word "expand" is not describing the exact same physical phenomenon as what we are used to seeing, because when we expand something, we typically cause it from the outside. That's why it can't be satisfying: it's a similar but different thing.