skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to talk about the blandness of the acting in Netflix shows. As part of the young-adultification of everything, they tend to have this po-faced life-and-death fake gravitas. They're full of scenes like "a vampire coven takes a vote on whether to excommunicate, kill, and devour one of their own because she fell in love with a human". But the characters seem like children or young teenagers, despite being played by, and even representing, adults. It's like watching a precocious, somewhat psychotic 10-year-old making her Barbies plot to murder each other.

Contrast that with, say, Beverly Hills, 90210, which aged remarkably well for a 30+ year old series. It too gets rather self-serious at times, but the acting talent was really good and well-directed and they play their parts with a sort of relaxed, open California swagger that makes them seem honest and likable. 90210 has some interesting cinematic choices as well: the colors appear saturated but both the video and audio are soft and fuzzy, for what I guess is sort of a wistful look that seems less like how things actually happened and more like how the main cast's older selves remember it happening.

Some exceptions exist, of course. Stranger Things is incredibly well acted and goes for 80s verisimilitude, right down to authentic Tandy props and making the bedrooms look like they came out of E.T. with the lighting and set decoration. I Am Not Okay With This has a real honest feeling to it as well. They shot on location in Brownsville, PA, and really tried to capture the feel of the town in the background.
The pictures are entertaining but what's interesting is the idea the article raises: how often do we misunderstand old customs because we don't know whether the manuscript was meant as satire or allusion.
The real winners will be the next tier down in the hiring hierarchy. They are starved for talent. While not as high-paying, or glamorous, they've had jobs sitting open for a while.

When developers are needed for growth initiatives that can drive a stock multiple off more than just current earnings, the cycle will begin again.
And tese data aren’t covering the recent Covid-19 deaths.
I took pics at each charging stop, and do plan on doing a write up "soon" :-)
ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam
learn to edit your resume to the positions. and keep your history short and consistent with the edits
CDK is pretty good, the one main painpoint is that some resources are not supported so again you are going to revert to writing cloudformation. I really wish one of AWS’ criteria for “done” when a mew resource is added is that it must be added to the CDK.
Playstation 2 and it's games were designed to look its best on Sony Trinitron TVs. When viewed on modern TVs, the games don't look like they used to, and the games can seem kinda dull in color but jagged in detail (anti-aliasing seems to have been in part the responsibility of the CRT itself). If the console was redesigned for today's TVs they'd look better.

I think the problem today is that the art of cinematography and technology evolved together up until ultra high-def digital came about, and now the art isn't keeping up with the advances in tech.
My guess is millions of people were scammed into these ridiculous leases. People here regularly aren’t $500 to $600 per month for air conditioning. It isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity. Solar companies showed-up and sold people on $200/month leases. In that context it was a deal. Not so if you did the Lon-term math...but people don’t do math...even in conversations here on HN. Rates went up and they got screwed. I bought my system, engineered and installed it myself. Even with that we get true-ups of a few hundred dollars every so often. Some of my neighbors have seen $2,000 true-ups. And it is going to get worse.
I don’t think the math checks out: Salary isn’t the only expense, so you might be looking at a 15% wage cut to keep 10% of the workforce. With stock performance, I’ve already taken a 10% wage cut. Cut another 15% in cash and I’m gonna be super unhappy about my comp.
Sorry, I think you're just missing the point of the article.
Firefox 109 vs. Chrome 109 Browser Benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479686
Context on the author: he is Internet Policy Counsel at TechFreedom, a think-tank which opposes net neutrality. I feel this is relevant because as the article goes on it feels more and more slanted, like a ship listing into libertarian seas.
Because you can't study an unprecedented situation for decades

Because rules derived over the last decades or whatever don't necessarily apply to an unprecedented situation

Because pretty much all the CEOs and employees say that productivity is in the toilet

Because I don't see 20% or whatever more useful products/features coming out of any of these companies
And yet a longtime head of state got assassinated with a gun. No peaceful nation has political assassinations. The people are just as violent but with fewer resources to act on that violence. The sexual assault of women is one notable projection.
Do you have evidence of this claim?

One Protestant ministry I find helpful equips protestants to understand the Christian gospel and contemporary paganism by drawing on the rich heritage of Irenaeus's apologetic defense against the pagans of his day. That particular ministries entire idea was seeing the connection between global paganism and gnostic belief in the first centuries of the church, realizing that Irenaeus had already done the heavy theological lifting, and the current need was to learn from him (and other church fathers) and recontextualize their insights for the church today.

For many protestants I've known, the church fathers and the ecumenical councils are seen as helpful, but never carrying the same authority as the Scriptures. The authority of councils and creeds is derived from the Bible, not the inverse.
They know what we all already had been knowing, nothing new. But were slow to react.

Everyone had been believing that there will be a huge surge in economic activity post-covid, aka starting from 2022. Therefore over hired in the pandemic to catch the market.

We know that didn't happen. Rather Ukraine war has dampened it further. Now they are hurrying to correct it. They were dragging feet initially, but Musk's successful Twitter layoff triggered another avalanche.
GSuite is either underpriced or underfeatured.

Most real enterprise still happens on Office, and lots of consumers happy give Apple $100/year for iCloud.

Cloud services - aren't they basically 3rd behind AMZN/MSFT now, by A LOT? They are basically competing for 3rd against IBM/Oracle/etc, and some quarters they are #4.
I just gave some examples. Tech is early, and the businesses around this new environment still have to be built. It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.

It's very early, as I stated in another answer on the same comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=philippz#34479955
Given a constant fertility rate over time any inverted pyramid would eventually straighten out.
Solving protein folding?
Also note that a lot of these government programs come with some amount of bureaucratic entanglement, where the person needs to fill out a bunch of forms repeatedly, visit government offices, be scrutinized by the government, and so on, all of which can detract from their efforts to better themselves and find employment.

Separate thought: with so much focus on the oppressed and downtrodden in our politics these days, how is it that obvious problems like the parent commenter mentions are not being fixed?

Why aren't reasonable people of both parties trying to create the right incentive structures for the poor at least in areas where they both agree?
> but the best algorithm we have (Djikstra’s) runs in exponential time in the worst case

Dijkstra doesn't handle negative weights so in that case you can use Ford-Bellman. It's slower than Dijkstra but far from exponential - O(VE) or something like that.
The professor recommends across the board pay cuts as an alternative to layoffs.

> One thing that Lincoln Electric, which is a famous manufacturer of arc welding equipment, did well is instead of laying off 10% of their workforce, they had everybody take a 10% wage cut except for senior management, which took a larger cut. So instead of giving 100% of the pain to 10% of the people, they give 100% of the people 10% of the pain.

Curious if there is research here on how this impacts the company? Seems like it would also increase stress and encourage top performers to seek new opportunities.

He also recommends hiring during a recession:

> He actually hired during the 2000 recession and saw it as an opportunity to gain ground on the competition and gain market share when everybody was cutting jobs and stopped innovating.

I suppose this works when it works, and then fails completely when it doesn’t. In essence, this increases the risk profile on the company which seems problematic too. Would be curious if there are studies that show the outcomes of these strategies.

Perhaps there are no “good” strategies- just those that favor employees or those that favor investors.
The Dawn of Everything challenges a mainstream telling of prehistory
The AAA games industry has found a way to keep its product premium priced, and so when they have millions of people go out and buy the latest thing, they're not paying $15, they're paying $70 (and the long tail of discounts starts at that high price point). That yields enormous day one revenues.

On top of this companies have increasingly leveraged paid expansion Downloadable Content releases to both add value, which provides a supportive floor to the core product, and to yield further revenue from current players.
24 FPS looks like garbage. Panning shots are a stuttery mess.

100% that's your TV, or media player making the mess, not 24fps.
One of the first things I asked it to do was to "write a program to compute the rise and set times of a star". It got a couple of pieces right, but was way off the mark. I asked it a few other astronomy related questions, and it would try to use a library like Astropy, but make API calls that don't exist. I tried things like "don't use Astropy", and it would just switch to a different library.

It seems to do OK on things like the instructions for Fizz-Buzz.
Information shaping has resulted in most not even knowing Davos exists.
No, I don't believe that they greatly improved their crystal ball performance since July, when the now-infamous pay packages were still being doled out. Amazon started to tighten the belt a little earlier when it realized that it had too much FC capacity, but it was still rushing to add capacity as recently as July 2021.[1]

[1]: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/amazon-earnings-logisti...
Deleting the post, I no longer wish to discuss this.
The irony is that the whole alpha thing in wolves is itself a myth.
> There's probably selection bias in your experience.

Is there any argument at all that would convince you? A foreigner is unconvincing because he/she is a foreigner, and locals are unconvincing because of selection bias. So what would convince you?
Siri makes a lot of mistakes.

It keeps mishearing "a lamp" as "alarm", and goes into alarm setting mode even if the rest of the query makes no sense.

When told to turn of specific lights, it sometimes ignores the room/qualifier, and turns all lights off in the whole house.

Many other queries end up "I can't find <what you said> in your Music library".

Siri is three regexes in a trench coat.
Perhaps, but a lot of discussions around EVs seems to focus on the state of technology today, while discussing the impact at some point in the future. The implication that cars and the grid won't improve is disingenuous.
This is one of the things that made The Breakfast Club such a great example for low budget filmmakers. Very small number of people on camera, low number of locations, yet it does not feel weird within the context of the script.

There have been others that are great examples of it being odd. The TV show The Good Guys was shot on empty streets in a dead part of town because of low budgets, and it comes across that way. Was the crew so small that they couldn't send a couple of the grips or PAs to walk down the side walk? Another of the low-budget examples I like is in Queen of the South's first season, they used the production's grip truck as the bad guy vehicle in an episode. Maybe it was the pilot? It was just one of those hung head in shame moments for me
be born wealthy.
There are pretty well understood macroeconomic causes of the hiring binge as well as of the employee purge.

The former was primarily caused by the fed throwing massive money at tech companies and the latter was caused by the fed stopping.
It depends on what you want to achieve. If you just want to hit focus then setting a 15 minute timer and ignoring it will likely do it. I find significant value in the breaks - I use them to take a walk/grab coffee for my desk, and feel that those regular little breaks are enough that I can keep the pace for an entire day, day on day.
"Search hasn't gotten worse, the web has" is like the Simpsons meme "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong."

The only score that matters is the one in real life, in the game you choose to play. If it gets harder, you need to get better.
I, Libertine
The requirements are on the official web site:
http://legacy.3drealms.com/wolf3d/index.html

You need to decrease the window size a bit if want it to be playable on a 286, though. At full size, I tend to get a headache.
Why should either one start automatically? The one I'm using is manual in both cases, and that seems fine to me. Sometimes if I'm in the middle of something I go longer. That's good by me, as for me pomodoros are more about overcoming resistance to starting/continuing.
That's smart, make them glad they're being fired.
> If someone steals my credit card, I’ll likely lose nothing other than some mild inconvenience updating numbers

You might not lose money when someone steals your credit card, but someone does: either your bank or the merchant will suffer a fraud loss.

Consumer fraud protections with regards to credit cards are necessary because credit cards are fundamentally insecure technology and would be unusable if issuers didn't take on so much of the fraud risk themselves.

> and I don’t even need to do that with the modern systems like Apple Pay which use unique per-merchant identifiers.

Apple Pay is a big improvement over standard credit card technology. It's also closed and proprietary, and requires special equipment to use, on both the merchant side and the consumer side.

> spend your time unbreaking the system instead of marketing it.

Are you criticizing me for writing this comment on HN because I am not at this very moment writing code? In your mind, people can't even talk about a project they may be interested in or working on until the project is finished?

> If you want people to buy your random hashes

Are you sure you are not confusing stablecoins and cryptocurrencies? These are very different things. Stablecoins are transferrable sovereign currency obligations the balances of which are recorded on a blockchain.
Stablecoin tech can be used to allow consumers and merchants to interact with any type of monetary account as might otherwise be embodied by a debit or credit card, with similar business terms.

> That makes quite the contrast with the large sums routinely and irrecoverably stolen from blockchain users.

No doubt blockchain security needs to be substantially improved. It will happen, though!
Every email operator considers their classification features to be trade secrets. The closest you will get to advice from Google on this topic is https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en

But anyway it sounds like you intend to send spam. I recommend doing literally anything else.
More popular than Hibernate and Entity Framework (both free)?

I doubt it.
Are you arguing that productivity, however defined, isn't down at these companies?
How much of that is googles fault and how much of that is that it’s hard to have a good idea for a personal project and follow through with it?

When I was in my 20s all my friends (young single kid less, so plenty of free time) would often TALK about wanting to do a project but few ever did.

I wouldn’t be surprised if for most people the marginal sense of accomplishment and meaning is just higher by working on their day job (which is already cush) than trying to hack a random idea together.
I guess. Imagine you're an artist, and you've created your career based around your unique art style. It gets you jobs as a concept artist, or whatnot (idk). Now, imagine there's a tool someone "trained" in a few hours to do what you you do, but withi seconds instead of hour or days. Is there any reason to pay you, ever again? Your hourly rate is surely going to be higher than their electricity bill for running the algorithm.

So, how do we protect you (as the artist) from this? Copyright, even if flawed, currently protects you from that
It seems that many of these articles would apply just as well to the excessive hiring that was going on ~2 years ago. "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of situations.
I would love to see the capitalists held accountable for the way they treat their workers, but I believe their decisions are primarily dictated by profits, regardless of what they say.

Hard questions can surely be asked, but once you weed through all of the empty narrative, you pretty much end up with the reason: extracting profits.
Likewise - like for 8 years.

Now I'm on 2016, and actually just today started to investigate where to go from here. Probably will stick with Windows (2022) as host OS for my VMs.
How do 52 heads of state and 600+ CEOs of the world's largest companies not have "any control or vision of what's going to happen?"
In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990 book "Pacific Edge" (part of the California Trilogy) he envisions a utopian future where company sizes are legally limited to stop the formation of huge, multi-national corporations so that control and profits stay in the local community. I forget the exact number and some quick Googling doesn't help. I remember being really inspired by the book though.
I made a fortune predicting the last crisis. I fear for what’s about to unfold
> I’m no AI or machine learning expert so I don’t know how it works. But I am also worried that spammers could use ChatGPT to get around Gmail and Outlook’s spam filters.

This will not only increase the spam-problem, but will most likely be used to scale and do targeted phishing attack as well. I wrote an extensive article[0] where I analyzed this. And to no surprise, GPT-3 can be used to generate dynamic phishing campaigns on the fly in multiple languages, classify email responses, improve email thread hijacking attacks etc.

[0] https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/why-ai-powered-phishing-will-...
No, now I'm finally the master of my computing experience. I happen to like Apple's taste in this regard, and am happy to outsource many small decisions to them at a fee.

With Microsoft, I never enjoy their defaults, and they'll shove it down your throat. With Linux, there are no defaults, and I have to invest a lot of my limited time setting everything up.
I like Davos and the WEF. Most people against them these days are far-right nutjobs and some don't even know they are becoming like that. Populism is a hell of a drug.
I’m in a similar boat in re to launching company. I don’t have any solid connections because I didn’t go to Stanford (went to a ranked 100+ school) and nobody in my family has ever started a business. My dad constantly worries about me taking risks for example as all he knows is working 12 hours a day and not go on vacations or out to eat.

Regardless, I am attempting to move forward by setting up calls with people who are my target audience (in my case director or higher level people) to discuss my product/idea and get their feedback and pain points.

I decided I want to try entrepreneurship last year after teaching myself how to code six years ago and quickly rising up the ranks to a top performer and leading teams.

I think for people like us who don’t have connections or come from lower class, our best bet is to keep grinding and learning until it works out. If it doesn’t well that sucks the world isn’t fair.

I’ve already accepted that is the situation, so now I have to make the world work for me otherwise the worst thing is I stay in the situation I’m familiar with.

Ten years ago I was taking the train and then walking to work (1 hour commute) to make 12 dollars an hour. I struggled in school because I didn’t understand a lot of the topics and life events that made it difficult to focus or care about school. So I know life is a wave like journey with peaks and valleys. I didn’t realize I would like software development until I was 25.

If it works out great. If not at least we tried and built up ourselves to be the best version on our own.

Sorry for ramble maybe it doesn’t help. But don’t be too hard on yourself friend.
Apologies. I mistook you as someone looking to engage with the substance of the argument. Take Care.
I'm very happy to fundamentally misunderstand GIT's internals because I want to do a finite (and small) set of operations with it, not HOW it operates under the covers.

Conflating the two, like you do, is elitism.

"If you just stopped and read to understand...", a-ha, sure, I'll do that for every one of the no less than 500 tools I've used over the course of my career and will never get anything done on time.

There's no time. We got real work to do and no we can't switch to a company that gives us this time. There's a big world outside the Silicon Valley.

GIT is a huge UX failure and seeing people pretend otherwise makes me question my -- or their -- sanity.
> What's Django, then?

Pretty rare compared to data work, at least among python projects I've worked on.

> Python can only call C code. The fact that Rust itself (or Fortran, btw) has good C ABI is on Rust, not Python. Also, by calling Rust's C ABI, you are making a double indirection, thus severely reducing performance.

That's a bit of an implementation detail, but fair. There is some overhead. But every language since C has shied away from committing to a stable abi (or at least the C ecosystem is willing to commit to one, the standard mentions nothing about it).

That's only overhead at the boundaries though, and the common pattern of using python as an orchestrator with the vast majority of logic happening inside native code really does minimize the overhead you actually experience. At least you can architect an application that way (same pattern works with things like pyspark as well).

> That's why I said we need to optimize Python

By all means, optimize python. I think you'll run into the GIL pretty fast, but I wasn't objecting to that. I was objecting to making things like pyspark or tensorflow second class citizens. Doing that is going to destroy python.
>>Are there any proponents of the idea that we are the first who can convince me otherwise?

There are Prof Kippling’s arguments.

Why we might be alone

https://youtu.be/zcInt58juL4

Bayesian analysis of existence of intelligent life

https://youtu.be/iLbbpRYRW5Y
I'm going to finally try to start my own company. Will it be a "startup"? I don't know. But it will be technical and it will go from 0-1 (or from 0-0).

After years of lurking here, watching on the sidelines, working for larger companies, having kids, buying a house, I'm finally going to take the dive. I'm excited, nervous, lost, all at the same time. But I have enough savings and an accommodating spouse, so I don't have to work for a while.

I'm a long-time academic, turned ML-practitioner. I have no major online presence. I don't have a brand. But if anyone is interested in talking, DM me, I have lots of time and am still in the divergent phase of entrepreneurship.

Edit: Added email address to profile. Excuse the confusion, I have been a lurker too long.