skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've given examples of warships with tonnage but not power. I don't see any support for your claim.

What claims exactly? That the Chinese Navy outnumbers us by significant margins now?

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33153

Don't forget, USA has lots of missions around the world. China on the other hand, can basically solely focus on Taiwan. Fortunately, Taiwan isn't exactly a pushover (they've got some pretty nice defenses), but Taiwan will absolutely be reliant upon USA (especially our Navy) for defense.

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As far as "capabilities", you know that the USA has no stealth destroyers, or ship-based hypersonic missiles. Remember that Chinese hypersonics can be launched on mobile platforms, meaning every single highway in China within 3000km of Taiwan is a potential hypersonic launch point. And remember that every single Chinese Air Force base will also be in play.

I don't think China will be able to take, say... Hawaii or Guam. My discussion points are hyper-focused upon Taiwan, a particular geographical region that China has _HUGE_ advantages in... while the USA has many disadvantages. Our Navy will only be supplied from Japanese / Philippines (reasonably close, but also small islands that just don't have the capability like Chinese rail or Chinese Highways / Docks will have).

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Worst: USA's "disadvantage" position will only be for a short timeframe. Our upgrade schedule for our ships is public. The world knows that USA's next generation ships / Navy is coming in the years 2030+ or so, which means China has a short... few year window... where they will be stronger / more capable than us.

The political implications are obvious. It is in the best interest of China to strike when their advantage is maximized. IE: Chinese latest-generation ships roll off their dry-docks into service... but before the USA upgrades our Navy in 2030s.

If China chooses peace (and I hope they do), they will lose the opportunity of a lifetime. US Navy obviously will outmatch the Chinese Navy in 2030s and onwards.
Do you know what makes MIT and BSD more complicated for internal tools for these companies?

What about MIT or (two-clause) BSD makes it harder to comply with? Would attribution be an excessive burden for them in case such code ended up in their own products?

My understanding is that BSD and Apache were historically favorable licenses for code that was intended to promote a protocol and make it an industry standard. Easy reuse helped achieving this goal. For example, IIRC FreeBSD's TCP/IP code was repurposed for Windows and MacOS X, and the Apache HTTP server also went a long way toward establishing HTTP as a standard.

Edit: Paragraph on standards.
I hadn't been in 30 years either! Until my daughter attended a birthday party there and I went along. Not sure when the food got good, but I know during the pandemic to stay in business they were selling their food togo for like $5 per pizza. Never tried it and now I'm sad I didn't!

The prices are still sky high but yeah, it's actually edible as an adult, tasty even. At least the one in Cupertino.
The color tone is used by the artists to impart a mood. Sticking with the GoT theme, looking at the drab colors of Winterfell, Castle Black, etc are meant to convey the dreary nature of the cold. The drab colors of Kings Landing vs the vibrant colors of Dorn or High Garden. When done right, they can serve a purpose that helps the story. No story serving purpose comes from the trend following styles.
Yes. One un-damned company thus far is Apple:[1]

> From its fiscal year-end in September 2019 to September 2022, Apple’s workforce grew by about 20% to approximately 164,000 full-time employees. Meanwhile, over roughly the same period, the employee count at Amazon doubled, Microsoft’s rose 53%, Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s increased 57% and Facebook owner Meta’s ballooned 94%.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-apple-has-so-far-avoided-la...
If I had to guess it becomes a question of how easily can you replace/train up new people to be proficient with the engine/maintain it. Fighting game engines are probably the simplest game engines there are to make but new people still need to be onboarded on it, the knowledge will be internal mostly, you can't find people with knowledge in $propietary_engine to hire right off the bat let alone maintain it. Capcom will use I believe their RE engine for sf6, already used it in dmc5 replacing MT Framework so it's not like it isn't happening in some places, but the AA developers where most of fighting games sit probably can't justify the costs to train and maintain a proprietary engine versus the cost of dealing with roadblocks in UE.
UBI just seems like the dumbest idea, and frankly, almost appears to be a psyop meant to distract.

There is so much wrong with many of America's systems like health care and housing, with UBI a bandaid solution. Fix the systems first, then see if you even need UBI to begin with...
Another question I'd ask is: why can't the find something useful to do with these people in the meantime? Downturns are definitionally temporary. Can managers really find no way to prepare for the coming good times? Or is there no way to use those staff to gain ground while everybody else is retreating?

Workers are getting blamed by many for (claimed) low productivity. But why isn't that seen as a managerial failure? Isn't it better to have the same number of people and use them much better than a smaller number of people that are just as poorly used?
Are you talking about something in the official documentation that says, "Here are big companies built with Django"?

That kind of page really needs to be kept up to date on a regular basis, by someone who cares to keep track of that kind of information. Most people who help maintain Django care more to spend their time building and maintaining the project than keeping up with what specific companies are doing. It also brings in a lot of potential conflict around implied endorsements, or associations. I'm quite happy not to sea anything associated with NFTs on official Django sites.

If you're curious to know where Django is used, it's not hard to search. Here's a recent post about popular sites that were started on Django, and there are many more posts similar to this: https://djangostars.com/blog/10-popular-sites-made-on-django...
Wizard of Oz is color magic.
DM you how? What's your twitter handle?
> It's about survival for many companies.

Google? Microsoft? Amazon?

Those companies are in no danger of dying.
I disagree that it it is pointless. But clearly asking you to address it is, so I'll tap out here.
If you're a top performer, you're going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair

This is also different too, in that, there was almost deflation at thst time.

Now, there has been great inflation!

So a 10% cut hurt less then, where as now, all workers should be pushing for a 10%, almost yearly pay increase.

Even if inflation is less than 10%, you have a year of extra experience.

Right now, I'd say most workers are 25% behind on 3 years of raises.

So in a sense, everyone already has had a 10% pay cut this year.

edit:

You know, just a thought, all of these companies were caught colluding to suppress wages in the past.

Whether tracking, or any form of behaviour punished by the courts, it never stops.

So if you are looking at inflation, at high increases coming at 25% over three years due to that inflation, why not all lay off people together, even if profits don't require it?

Why not put fear into people during contract renegotiation, during hiring? Why not, over return to office orders?
There is nothing invalid about the observation. (not a strawman)
How do we experience the pain of other people?
We're not in disagreement.
They aren't... from nearby. Cosmic distances are vast and the telltale signs are small. I'm not sure we would have detected an abundance of sealife deep in Titan's oceans or fliers deep in Saturn's clouds.

I once looked into the reach of the Arecibo message; I can't quite remember the numbers but the main point stands: it's indecipherable but detectably artificial after a short distance (guess: 60-100 lightyears), and no longer distinguishable from natural radiation after about 5× that (guess: 250ish-600 lightyears).

The point is that even an intentional message quickly (in cosmic terms) becomes gibberish and, fairly soon after, too faded to even recognise as being a signal. On top of that, the receivers would have to be looking.

Basically, I doubt we would recognise artificial signals intentionally sent to us from further than 15 lightyears out except with much, much luck. That explains why we didn't find any clear non-intentional signals yet.

An interesting take on this is to flip the question: from how far away would we, with our current approaches, be able to unambiguously, definitively detect life on Earth? And intelligent life?

I'm not sure we're able to do even the former from Pluto, let alone from the interstellar medium.
As a top performer, you are more likely to leave after layoffs, especially if layoffs feel indiscriminate. From LinkedIn, some people were let go as their projects failed, not necessarily because of their own performance.
"I suppose this works when it works, and then fails completely when it doesn’t."

"60% of the time, it works every time"
I doubt any Microsoft employees in Davos were affected by the layoffs.
instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

This causes stress to 100% of people which makes the best or on the edge of their income lifestyle to quit.
in a cooperative framework instead of competitive framework, i think this would be the ideal structure.
How is the 'massive' increase in cost of capital affecting Google, a company making 60bln profit a year from mostly services?
Omgosh. This is indeed the article title ("People are shocked") but the full quote from inside.

> "People are shocked at how effective it is,"

Im not sure if I have the stomach to handle 4 days of maggot-patch, but it has very much occured to me that we are really really bad at woundcare, that there is very little to deal well with dead skin (debridement). And that that is a huge limitation of healing.

I have high respect for the old ways here. Trying to figure it out again, make use of this technique, sounds like it could be a major win... just... sedate me heavily please.
This test is using "single" mode -- which is basically RAID0 variant without striping. It is slower than RAID0 in many scenarios, because sequential data goes to one disk at a time, but it has an advantage that in case of disk loss, only fraction of files is damaged.

ZFS does not really have "single" mode equivalent. The closest it has is RAID0 - it gets higher speed but all data will be lost if any drive is damaged, as data is "spread" across all disks.

(It is actually hard for me to imagine why would one use that "single" mode in practice. If your data is valuable, but a slightly bigger disk and enable proper parity so _no_ data is lost (6tb vs 4tb drive difference is <$30 nowadays). If your data is not valuable, go properly striped RAID0 and enjoy speed advantage. The only reason to go with "single" is if you have a bunch of existing drives that you don't want to use, _and_ you don't care about data integrity. But even then I'd argue that MergerFS that author uses (or mhddfs) would be more robust.)
Used to live a 15 minute walk away with my (now) wife and we would spend every Saturday walking through different routes ending up at The Stag (great pub). Such a wonderful place, really felt like the countryside yet in the city… fond memories.
The only one complaining here is you. Also this is not Reddit, chill.
Of all these layoffs, how many have been executive positions? Or was the irrational exuberance of the last few years miraculously only limited to the lower ranks?
No it doesn’t. Lots of different artistic schools have existed at once all through history. Just because some style was invented doesn’t mean that everyone dropped what they were doing and became surrealists.

There are people painting what would be considered impressionist painting now (literally now, I have a friend who frequently paints on sundays and texted to ask before writing this).
> this is a super-unpopular opinion

The adverse reactions I occasionally receive when I talk about building my own engine are a primary source of my motivation these days.

Let me give you some even-more-unpopular opinions. I think the GPU is a gigantic distraction from fun. Low-level languages are largely a mistake for new engine/game development in 2023+. You can deliver production-quality, interactive experiences on top of GC'd languages that perform better than ASM/C/C++ implementations (both for technical reasons & human reasons).

For me, the best "game engine" on earth right now is .NET7. Nothing gives me as much control over such a broad scope of fundamental primitives. You might be balking at this point, but go look at their System.Numerics implementation. First-party, SIMD-enabled code for projection matrix calculations based upon FPS-style semantics is just the beginning. No royalty bullshit either - I get to keep 100% of the profits I extract.
That really stings…
There is no way to DM on HN, as far as I am aware. I would be interested in talking - I have some Ml/NLP based ideas and some free time... See my profile info for my website/email
It's incredible how this article is trying to portrait her as a victim who just happened to share the apartment of her partner who, himself, just happened to hold bags of cash for someone else.

And then, by chance, that poor innocent woman quickly handed a duffel bag full of cash to her father.

I call bullshit: you don't stumble, by chance, on duffel bags full of cash for a seven digits sum in your appartment and then realize something shady is going on. She's deep in it, just as her husband is. She at the very least fully knew and she likely was part of it.

That's not journalism from spiegel.de. I wonder how much the "journalist" got in cash to write such an article.

P.S: we're also to believe that it's a pure coincidence that that woman was lecturing the European Parliament about how "some believe those saying good thing about Qatar are corrupt people" and things like that... When she would be an innocent victim happening to be the one where the corruption money is located? 100% bullshit article.
Break the back of wfh as well…
Yes. I am worried that over the long term, models which are explainable or justifiable will be pushed aside by models which are nonexplainable and nonjustifiable, because the nonexplainable / nonjustifiable models are cheaper to get running and in the end we are all trapped inside a system that ruthlessly optimizes short-term costs.

I've only done a small amount of statistical work professionally, but I remember that it was basically a nightmare to try and collect the right data and use the right variables to get a useful inference. Other engineers on my team would try to improve the models by throwing more variables at them or increasing the number of parameters in the model and I was always pushing back on this. I felt a bit crazy pushing back on this--surely, using more variables and more parameters will make the model fit historical data more closely, and a model which fits historical data more closely will fit future data more closely, and a model which fits future data more closely will be more useful?

Explaining why this is wrong is really hard. I have deep respect for people who are able to explain the principles of statistics and statistical modeling.
> most of us can observe

Percieve.

Sorry for nitpicking
I have read this claim multiple times, yet it seems there is trending tiktok content all over other western plattforms like instagram or youtube aswell.

To me all those plattforms are mainly optimising for engagement and tiktok seems to have found a better performing format for that metric. Otherwise the major players wouldn't be copying it.

Wouldn't actively interfering withviral content be detrimental to the platform? Is there anything to back the claim that it is actually happening?
I agree. I have no problem focusing on something until my vision blurs.
Pomodoro has helped me take breaks and reduce eye strain.
I would recommend that we rents a desk in a coworking space. Get out of the house every day, cause there's always more to do at home.
I personally found about it in the the book "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" (chapter "maggot paradox")
I recently spent a couple years interviewing hundreds of global F100 executives and all of them said exactly the same stuff about both B2B and B2C demand moving online during the pandemic.
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It's unclear how the fed rate directly affects high revenue high profit giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
HN is not about giving just destructive feedback, but yeah, reading that question just made me full face palm. Why, .. on so many levels. Please stop, and go speculating with yourself a bit.

(What would be funny if this is an AI trying to get learning material (: )
Honestly it’s just a job guys. People want these companies to act like your parents and coddle you. No it’s freakin Micro gd soft.

You’re paid to work while the company believes it is worth paying you.

I’m so tired of seeing these layoff news. DUDE WE ARE IN TECH. I make a ton of money, maybe not as much as some super elite tech workers but enough to live in SF and have six years runway to maintain my lifestyle without a job.

I feel bad for people who make 12/her and get fired without 4 months plus severance, without health insurance extension, etc.

Seriously, stop complaining. End of the day life is not fair and you have to set yourself up to SURVIVE. As a fellow tech worker, realize we are playing a capitalist game and when capital is expensive our jobs are at risk.

It’s work. It’s business. You are exchanging time and skills for money willingly.
No, they clearly have access to the private key, otherwise they couldn’t copy it onto the path where the password is normally stored.

Also, they don’t need any password to encrypt the file, pass uses gpg encryption so they can just use the public key which will be sitting somewhere nearby.
I don't like that. If the user cannot be held liable for whatever reason it needs to fall on the site. I don't like that people can be harmed without recourse. There is little incentive for the site to run communities that aren't toxic.
I'm not doubting you, just asking: what are your sources? Any articles/videos/podcasts?
Tried it. Switched back to ToMighty.
Too many bells and whistles.
>some of the fastest lenses available at the time

?? more like ever. are you suggesting that we have lenses widely available that are faster today?
It's called falloff, I think.

And yeah, it's the effect of some anamorphic lenses.
Contra common stereotype, as far as air pollution is concerned, Europeans are much less 'green' than the US - see dieselgate and diesel use in general.
If you thought your accountant was about to become an informant, bubble him up.

Catch your crime boss enemy with his pants down? Bubble him and watch his empire unravel.

Someone sleeping with your wife? Bubble.
If you are a top performer, you're gonna leave one way or another. Because you have options.
then do them better.

It's pretty common for the first iteration of something to be terrible.

Early surgery killed most of its patients. Think of current DEI as basically 18th-century medicine.

The correct response, as with surgery, is not to abandon the work, but rather do it in a way that yields better results.

One thing I saw at a large tech corporation that was very DEI-focused (circa 2020) was that several of the interventions primarily addressed the need to feel that something could be done at all, which is a fascinating psychological need, fundamental to normally-functioning humans, and almost always overlooked.

During 2020, this was important both to the employer, which wanted to be seen as though they were on the correct side of history, and diverse hires (like me,) who wanted to have a feeling like management was not abandoning or ignoring us during a fraught period.

What happened, though, was that we were sort of encouraged to really take up a lot of space. While this may have helped the progressive movement (an outcome I am incidentally fine with,) it wound up doing so at the expense of several careers (an outcome I am not fine with.)

This reminds me of the early days of what was then called the 'gay lib' movement, as captured in e.g. the film _Milk_. Group pressure to come out, and show your support for your people, often ignored the (often extremely serious) consequences gay men experienced when they did what their community asked.

That the strategy *worked* for the gay mens' community does not mean it was without ethical blemish, and a similar moral hazard is not something I want from my HR department.

The balance that a marginalized person must seek between personal advancement and communal advancement is irreducibly and overwhelmingly personal, intimate, and, in a workplace, where you are *trying to do work*, probably not a great thing for HR to dig into, unless it wants to start offering career insurance to people who are coaxed into expressing something private, in the wrong room, to the wrong audience, and are never seen the same way again.

As a trans woman, Singal is one of my least-favourite writers, so I am at pains to express my disagreement with him on any point other than this: current DEI efforts are naive and often have perverse effects.

The solution I'd propose is: in HR, hire anthropologists, not activists. Get people who spend as much time observing and attempting to understand without judgment as they spend making slide decks about Bringing Your Whole Self to Work, and other terrible ideas. At least some of DEI's goals are achievable. But we can't get there from here.
> With stock performance, I’ve already taken a 10% wage cut

This is such a weird attitude to me. If it goes up you expect the gains, if it goes down the company is letting you down.

Stock is supposed to involve some risk. It's not cash, and you will only be disappointed if you build your lifestyle around it being a certain price.
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One specific example you agree isn’t even a good comparison does not make a case.
You can push to a folder too. So you can just do the same thing. Clone the remote into a folder and push into it.
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