skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the phrase "Lightning connectors work with most iPhone models." really strange as the latest incompatible iphone would be the iphone 5, is this them foreshadowing a usb-c iphone?
Stack ranking guarantees that the process isn't actually measuring if people are meeting expectations or not.
...and the ability to synthetize both into a response to a question it has never encountered before
Aren't we all concerned with spacetime, technically?
Do you have strong opinions on national policy? I see.

And are you currently running for national office?

Hmm.
>Which is to say, it suffers from the same fallacy as when people complain about Hacker News' collective opinion as though a collective anything with voluntary participation is going to be in anyway consistent.

It might not be consistent but even Ray Charles can tell you where the bell curve roughly centers for any given topic.
The idea is that this is a last-ditch situation where breaking windows leads to a long-term net positive.
Were you going to https://they rule.net ?

It should work on Android Chrome
Watching the movie I felt like I had Journeyed to the Center of the Earth.
{{citation needed}}

This is quite shoddy and misleading work, but it does confirm your priors. For one specific example, while Sakharov is called "the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb", I can't possibly believe the Soviets taught that they invented the atomic bomb before the Americans (who used it as an ally of the Soviets in WWII).
One fears that by 2038, AI will (barely) be able to handle the "Y2xxx" crisis.
Those are not the only rules though... you can have low credit for not taking out enough loans and not having debt. You get dinged for opening and closing credit card accounts too quickly, even if you've never missed a payment.

Your score goes down if you simply inquire about loans a bit too often...

All of these are "rules" made up unilaterally by the credit bureaus.
I tried feeding it an LSAT logic game which has multiple explanations on the internet. It got 2/5 correct, and for one answer it said “E, none of the above”

E does not say none of the above on this logic game. Though many other different standardized tests do use E as none of the above. So it was pattern matching to that and not the text in front of it. And it wasn’t using explanations
>I'm glad to see that they not only support, but require the use of multiple keys.

Yes, and also that they support up to 6 of them. That's a very solid number enabling a lot of decent (if basic) backup practices. A number of keys for regular use, a few put in a safe deposit box or safe or the like. Or if (as I'd assume) keys can be reused between accounts, then a family could each have a key, with all keys registered to all accounts, and then 1 or 2 in a safe spot as backup. Everyone still is protected by their password, but if they lose keys/devices then any other family member could be their live backup (and having the majority of keys constantly under control and in active use is good in terms of immediately noticing if one is lost or breaks and so on).

While I know it's definitely not Apple to add extra complexity, if anything it'd be cool if they leveraged this a bit farther even. Would be neat for example to support m of n restore, where if key/password are lost (somebody dies in an accident for example) then any 4 of 6 (or 3 of 6 or whatever) remaining keys can be used to get access. That would be a useful hedge, while not needing to offer unlimited trust to any single person (there could also be a few other safety measures like it taking a week and sending the account owner alerts in the mean time).

>During set up, you're signed out of inactive devices, which are devices associated with your Apple ID that you haven't used or unlocked in more than 90 days. To sign back into these devices, update to compatible software and use a security key. If your device can't be updated to compatible software, you won't be able to sign back in.

My only real disappointment with this is that Apple didn't implement some sort of "Purchases Only"/"iCloud Lite" functionality for old devices. I've still got an iPhone 6 and a few others because a lot of cool apps (both productivity and games) I love were dropped by iOS quite a long time ago. The devices are dedicated app runners, no communications, no syncing needed, but not having them attached to the same Apple ID means the old purchases would all be gone which kinda negates the point. And you can't transfer purchases between IDs, nor purchase now gone apps, so there isn't anyway to just setup a new one not even for money. Maybe it's possible to remove them from the iCloud side while they have WiFi disabled and then keep them offline forever? Still, kinda shitty :(. Though perhaps that's more a symptom of continued from-the-start weaknesses in the Apple ID system. Not being able to move and consolidate purchases has been a huge damn stupid thorn in people's sides almost since it became possible to start purchasing stuff with them.
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VALIS is real, that’s all.
Hopefully your hiring processes suck so you can keep refreshing a new batch of people to get fired!
> ...companies still use it ?

Yep, Currently working for an absolute horror show of an employer who proudly uses stack ranking during yearly and half yearly reviews.

Cant wait to move on from this place.
> There is a belief that if they are just persistent enough, their target will see their attempts as affection and fall head over heals for them.

Basically, the plot of every '80s and '90s Romantic Comedy. Entertainment of that decade left entire generations with warped views of courting and consent!
Good. They're so dominant now, they can be choosy about their clients knowing they can't go elsewhere and have to comply with their ridiculous requirements.
Reassuring that in 2023 cyberpunk seems to have outlived esr.
Because I doubt that the ranking system will be objective or even closely tied to any real measure of skill, performance, merit.
Nicotine is still available to the younger generation in the form of vapes. It isn't a strict prohibition, it's an effort at harm reduction by turning people away from the worst method of ingestion. And, yeah, time will tell.
The zdoom/gzdoom port has a ton of programmability including the original ACS (action code script) from Hexen and a newer scripting language called zscript. It's basically a fully scriptable doom engine--enemies/actors, events in the level, etc. can all do custom stuff.
Feature-wise?

- Streaming downloads; you don't have to wait for the upload to finish

- Fast uploads; there's a mini benchmark in the background that picks the best upload location

- Verified upload integrity on each file chunk

- Photobooks
> You will realize that running a business is extremely hard and a bunch of antagonistic employees are unhelpful

No one [0] denies this. The problem with stack ranking is that you are forced to find problematic employees even when there are none.

I do agree with the overall point you are making, but I think that option two could be formulated in a less inciting way. Sometimes it might make sense for a company to do worker-hostile actions, but stack ranking just seems like a generally bad idea and not really related to getting rid of antagonistic employees; at worst, it probably helps making them.

[0] Figuratively, not literally.
> is this them foreshadowing a usb-c iPhone?

Apple confirmed that USB-C is coming to the iPhone last fall [1].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/26/23423977/iphone-usb-c-eu...
It seems weird not to name Experian. Aren't there only three?
> Else it's a bigger problem than you might realise

Then talking about it or protesting may be the way. When the climate where we all can start our business and make a significant change in this landscape will come that will be the best solution. But right now it’ll barely do a dent, if that. I sense that what we are facing are systemic problems
Peak Oil itself (which has almost certainly been reached) was never going to be the problem .. it's the downhill run that follows, and there's every reason to think that will bring problems and conflict, all the more reason to shift to non fossil fuels.

For interest; Predicting the timing of peak oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_...
I'm hesitant to rely on security keys after two of my Yubikey 5cs broke in the same month after ~3 years of ownership. Do we understand the lifetimes and and stability of these devices?

I think hardware security make a ton of sense for an enterprise environment, where you can go to IT and prove your identity to regain access. But, for something like Apple or Google - I'm sure the recovery process is not as easy.

For a hardware crypto wallets, people go to extremes - safety deposit boxes, fire-proof recovery phrases, etc. But, for me - losing access to my core online accounts would be more destabilizing than losing money on a hardware wallet. Yet, we don't have the ultra-reliable backup methods in place for web auth like we do for crypto wallets.
> this now requires the thief to not only steal your Yubikey but also have the skills required to reproduce your fingerprint.

Or the thief can “steal” a couple of your fingers too and have unlimited access to your fingerprints. Oh, wait, is that just a movie thing?
That could be survivor bias.
I am a game dev, so work in Windows for the majority of my time. I wanted something that would show the current working directory of my windows terminal in the title bar of the window so I could see which one was which on the taskbar and during alt-tabs, so I cobbled together a combination of publicly available doskey macros to do it.
I just received a text with the exact message saying to click the “ http://metro-tmo.com/CustInfo” website. I reported it as junk text on my phone but itd be nice to see these people get shut down.
Science as a belief, not a process of learning?
The notion that a native-Chinese company isn't trying to steal every ounce of IP it can from foreign businesses is naive at best. One should start with the assumption that theft of IP is a primary goal of these companies and work from there.
I use docker on my m1 and have 0 issues. Docker on Mac already runs in a VM so I’m not sure why there’d be a difference once the underlying VM works?
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the issue is plainly that nobody is paying them to protest or sabotage the company
>Variations of this concept are frequently used by drug addicts to justify continued behavior. "It's not my fault, it's society's fault!". Taking ownership of actions and consequences is one of the key pivot points in helping people get control.

I feel like the use of this argument should depend on the scope of the person who is speaking.

Law-makers and society-enablers should consider things in the far-scope of "society's fault", whereas this consideration is less useful on a personal scale other than for the purposes of blame-redirection.
It’s not a credit card.
It’s just a debit or prepaid programme with Visa or MasterCard.
Twitter sued by landlord at S.F. HQ after alleged $6.8MM in missed rent payments
I don't think you can get the Hahn-Banach theorem with just countable choice. So you have to re-do a whole lot of functional analysis that depends on it.
It's also funny how they try to wrap it so that it almost sounds like they're doing it for the benefit of the employee:

> "ensure employees who don't meet performance expectations receive more honest feedback, differentiated compensation, and a plan on how best to improve their own performance."

Honest feedback? Great! A plan for how to improve my performance? Sure, sounds good [if you don't know what the social realities of a PIP are]. Differentiated compensation? Wait a second...
I’ve used an IDE to CF adapter successfully.
this is a bizarre straw man to stand up in response to GP, especially given the context of the post we're discussing.

in my experience, the framing and rhetorical style that you're using is often used to make excuses or apologies for business practices that diminish the power employees have in the workplace.

we'e not talking about some nebulous "they" that "always wants more", we're talking about the specific case of Blizzard utilizing stack ranking and then firing a manager who is unwilling to be opaque about the capricious evaluation they are being asked to do to their direct reports.
Ok, today I learned something. This giant teapot in West Virginia has a window for "pop": https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=xMaHmC

Growing up as a Michigander, that's the term I learned for carbonated soft drinks. E.g., redpop: https://heartofmich.com/products/faygo-redpop

But I thought that was a pretty midwestern phenomenon. I thought the rest of the US was in the "soda" camp, except for the south, where I was horrified to learn that "coke" is the generic term.

And an extremely enterprising soul, Alan McConchie, has produced an excellent map confirming this: https://popvssoda.com/

So why is West Virginia talking about pop? It looks like WV is a linguistic battleground, with all three words having influence. But this particular thing is in an area I didn't know existed, WV's "Northern Panhandle", a territorial incursion which creeps up between Columbus and Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Panhandle_of_West_Vir...

And it turns out that goes back to the Revolutionary War, where Virginia, Connecticut, and Massachusetts all tried to claim parts of the Midwest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_County,_Virginia
Probably a lot more? Part of it is we don’t have a definition of intelligence, so the best we can do is measure machines against our tests since passing tests is a thing intelligent people can do. This kind of performance (even if it’s less glamorous upon closer inspection) puts symbolic AI folks from the 80s to shame.

That’s the whole point of Attention is All You Need, the paper that opened the door to web-scale language models. No, you don’t need a brittle and cumbersome knowledge base, at least not for this. MBA professors are perfectly happy accepting an autocomplete on steroids.
Backpropagating Through Reasoning
I don't think so

I know WoW in china operated under a completely different business model where you pay by the hour instead of a expansion packs and a monthly subscription

(no idea about their other games)
This blurs the real issue. You can still have different compensation and PIPs and everything else without stack rankings.

The real issue is that stack rankings compel managers to meet a quota for low performers. Even if the team is full of top tier engineers, one or more get dealt the short straw every review period.
Heck, my parents and I still get great comedy mileage from Poseidon Adventure memes.
I found an old Disneyland ashtray at a garage sale once. I think this is amusing https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vintage+Disneyland+asht...
Just received a text not even 5 mins ago. The exact message as above. I’m going to report it everywhere I can in hopes to help maybe we can all get these people shut down!
Head on a pike move for the other managers.
There's actually 4. Innovis
Working remotely for Bay Area companies from elsewhere was a huge move for my career years ago. Pin that salary up.
> [...] am I understanding correctly that nix could be used instead of packer to generate a vm image/template for proxmox(or whatever hypervisor)?

That's correct, although as you mention later, it's limited to NixOS. It's an unfortunate constraint given how tremendously powerful it is, but the limitation makes sense. nixos-generators is literally a nix function that accepts a NixOS configuration and operates on the nix value in order to construct the VM image, so it wouldn't work quite the same without nix at the core.

Because nix "knows" about the total definition of the system, nixos-generators can do wonderful things like construct an AMI image or VMWare image without talking to any hypervisor APIs or cloud APIs at all - it knows how to construct the system from the "ground up" and you just end up with a big disk image file after the appropriate `nix build ...` command, no AWS keys or running Proxmox API required.

It's a tradeoff, to be sure. But if the use case fits - which for us, it does quite well - you can be outrageously productive. Adding an entirely new image format takes as long as typing a new line in `flake.nix`, and I leverage a common NixOS module between all the image types to invoke a quick and easy local qemu VM when I'd like to experiment locally.

It's become hard to imagine what managing a "normal" system would be like with the features I get by baking it all into a NixOS configuration.
Use whatever you want!
>The main advantage of microcode is that it turns design of control circuitry into a programming task instead of a difficult logic design task.

But then you need circuitry to process the microcode. Why is that desirable?

Is microcode basically an abstraction layer to allow a larger machine code instruction set be supported on a smaller native instruction set - and if it is why is that better than just using the smaller instruction set directly?
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Watch.ly is something I started building around 2018 or so and put it on the back burner because I couldn't figure out the marketing and design stuff. It was going to be a big analytics platform. I "gave up" and pivoted to FastComments in 2019, which is now past 100 paying customers.

I decided to return to Watch.ly and just remove everything from the platform except the Daily. So now it's a daily analytics report, which is really useful for sites big and small. I have been using the Daily by itself for my own projects for a couple years.

I tried to just reuse what I had, to get it launched quickly, and it was fun seeing all the bad engineering from years ago. There aren't even any queues, the Nginx and Node event loops are my buffers at the moment. Luckily it is all horizontally scalable (websockets are scaled horizontally via nginx and client side load balancing, event handler is stateless/easy to horizontally scale, DB is Mongo and I have operational experience sharding, if need be).

If it ever takes off I would probably replace Nginx and NodeJS with just a horizontally scalable service in Rust and use local on-disk queues, so I don't have to mess with Kafka (no kafka plz). I have considered replacing Mongo with ClickHouse but really not sure of the value at the moment, since I can easily scale Mongo to several MM ARR (hundreds of millions of events a day) before it's an issue, and I doubt it will get that big.

One cool thing about Watch.ly is it watches the time on each page and reports on that. This is really cool because you can see oh, users only spend a couple seconds on my pricing page, I must be doing something really bad etc.

It was fun to return to it, and put the domain/services to use again. Enjoy!
I happen to know the person who first came up with that when Flickr was looking for a name. He feels bad about it, so I try to keep my teasing down to once every few years.
You read it right. The global experiment of widespread mRNA injections starting in April 2021 is "worth looking into" as the cause of excess deaths observed in many countries starting around April 2021.

And if you disagree it's even worth considering as a factor, then I assume you'll be getting your booster every four to six months, and that you've already had five doses of the mRNA concoction injected into your arm. Because after all, it's safe. And effective? Well, maybe not so much, but it's safe! So why not keep boosting?
Just move somewhere people are incompetent and you'll be safe and the best programmmer. Unfortunately when you hit a new crossroad, you'll need to reach out to outside peers to get moving in the right direction and spend a lot more time on self study.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts reviewing the 'see also' section of the goalposts wikipage is like looking at a syllabus for PR. People are terrible.
Good luck with this. Looks interesting.
How far Blizzard has fallen.
> Are you not also “diluting” the responsibility by not taking into account all of the energy you use by being on your computer? By being on the internet?

No, I am accepting the responsibility for all of these actions (at least insofar as I am aware of their consequences) – which are not nearly in the same ballpark as flying in terms of energy expenditure, but again, you're the one counting/comparing, not me.

> Or do you set the bar right above “the things I don’t do”?

Like what, taking airplanes? You seem to be intentionally ignoring the fact that I have repeatedly stated that I do. I just don't engage in ridiculous logical acrobatics in trying to rationalize away the consequences of doing so.
I followed the story with mild interest a couple months ago. According to insiders Blizzard (1) wanted a very substantial increase to their cut; (2) demanded that NetEase develop more of those money sucking mobile games like Diablo Immortal for them but NetEase wouldn’t see any profit from the international market. On mobile now so won’t dig up links; also some of the reporting might be in Chinese.

Given gp’s post history I doubt they are privy to details, more likely a knee jerk shot given the chance.
You could use something like https://privacy.com/. In fact, I’ve been using a Privacy credit card (connected directly to my bank account) for GitHub sponsors since I signed up.
This article is about 1355 Market Street, Twitter's HQ.

There are older posts about Twitter being sued, earlier this month, for missed rent payments at 650 California Street, where Twitter leases one floor. That was covered in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206993
If there's anything I know about 1998, it's that Steven Tyler was dreaming of me, and didn't want to miss a thing. I can't think of the last time a movie moved the cultural dial the way they used to in the 90s. I guess Frozen? It seems to be a lot rarer nowadays.

For me at least, a movie just isn't a spectacle the way it used to be. Going out to see Top Gun: Maverick, and seeing The Batman at a drive-in cinema is probably the closest I've been to that feeling since the original Avatar. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the Avengers movies.
It sends a message to the other middle managers who might also be considering protesting or trying to organize a larger protest.
Alternatively, tell Windows the RTC is in UTC: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsof...
The dinos lubricated the dyno.
omg how did I not know about these?!?
I have a few credit cards that I no longer use. If I cancel them my score would go down because the average age/length credit history would go down.

Not by that much, but it is surprising that leaving these cards open is incentivized whereas the more secure and less risky thing to do would be to close those accounts.
That’a a lot to ask of folks who are spending a third of their waking lives on a shared endeavor.

May as well ask family to stop having opinions on my cooking.
Good to know, I use the chrome add on Dr. FLARE (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drflare/pibckhncbj...) to see cached images on sites,
Quite duly noted! I'd love to provide other formats and will investigate this very soon. I can't guarantee that I'll come up with a solution given how vast and variegated the space is, but it's worth trying.
Group FaceTime is really unstable in iOS 16. I hoped fixing that would have been a priority, I guess not.
If you have a hiring process that results in only a 4% bad hire rate, create a business right now because every business in the world will want to pay you massive sums of money for the secret to such an amazing process.

from my own experience, a bad hire rate of 15-20% is what I usually see accepted across the industry.