skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> approximately 3 people set the browser language settings ever

But I'd guess most people select their preferred language when initially setting up their device, which usually informs their browser language, no?

> and nobody respects them

In my experience, many most multilingual sites do respect them! (This sometimes throws me off when the non-English version of a site is automatically/badly translated and I have to manually switch to English, but I can see how it makes sense for most users.)
> How long before Grafana has these capabilities in OSS?

They've already started down that path with Grafana Tempo[0]. It's functional, but their UX and discoverability need a lot of work.

[0]: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/
Are you asking for citations to research papers? It’s briefly explained in context but basically your eyes capture a ton of data and process it quickly (different types of data are processed at different speeds: your brain can react to motion before you recognize color or identify an object). That has millions of years of evolution behind it, and our entire lives are spent training expectations on how that works and especially how it interacts with other senses or what we do.

That leads to several hard problems: you don’t just need to generate a high-quality scene, you need to render it twice because your brain is used to the distance between your eyes (16K==8K per eye) and because your position isn’t static it needs to update very quickly when you move because your brain is very used to how that works in real life. You have a budget measured in single digit milliseconds to that or a fair number of people will get motion sickness and many more will notice the lag and find it detracts from their experience.

Here’s a good overview:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
Maybe in 5 years it’ll be great but I found the Quest 2 to be very blurry and “streaky” compared to a decent monitor. It also still gives me nausea if I play a game for a few hours which I like to do
Science got along fine without sci hub. It’s great but let’s not exaggerate
A Fix-It-Yourself Trend for Appliances (1983)
SQLAlchemy's lightweight SQL wrapping was a revelation when I came across it, but I've come to rely a lot on Django's migration tooling, enough so to choose Django for projects. What do people using SQLAlchemy use for migrations?
I wonder what percentage of kindle book purchases are by people with no kindle. iPhone reader works well enough.
Last I checked a scientist can be anyone that does research.
Sure, but if the kind of science or research you do costs money and you are not independently wealthy, then you will have to have to beg for patronage in the form of grant funding or an endowment. And since it's hard for non-specialists to evaluate the quality of your claims, your record of publications and citations will probably be treated as a proxy for the quality of your ideas.
There's a lot more reasons to diagnose autism than having sensory issues, but enjoying building circuit boards is not one of them.
Ask HN: How is Grammarly Addressing the Impact of GPT / Large Language Models?
I used to use Grammarly[1] all the time, but now I find that I never use it anymore and instead use the OpenAI Playground to correct my spelling, grammar, and readability of written content.

Does anyone know how Grammarly is responding to the threat of these large language models?

I'd be interested to hear, as I think they'd make a great case study of disruption from large language models.

[1] https://www.grammarly.com
Showing modal prompts on an initial page visit is an easy way to annoy users, though. A language selector in some prominent location will do just fine.
Yes voluntarily.

Much the same way you’ll voluntarily do something when someone who holds a position of power over you asks you to do something.

As numerous other people have pointed out, there is no small amount of career advancement riding on the back of being published in a journal. Until the culture of publish-or-perish can be removed from universities and publishers can be removed from their position as rent-seeking parasites, this dynamic will continue.
It’s already a thing. They’ve got mirrors all over the world.
The stressors are mostly things faced by a great number of people.

A few decades back there was the trope of postal workers being the protagonists of attacks but that seems to have been addressed. (either screening better or the work isn’t driving them up a wall any more).

But these new guys. I don’t know. Short of confiscating all arms and other means of violence (knives, pipe bombs, etc.) I think we can drive a different narrative in Hollywood, music, video games, the news, etc. It’s now a culturally learned thing. We’ve always had guns, but the mass shootings seem to be increasing faster than gun ownership (correct me if I’m wrong, not gun sales but ownership -as in one person buying ten isn’t 10 more owners but one, if he’d didn’t previously own one)
Feed everybody’s estimates into a Kalman filter, haha.
Yeah, I'm always worried about the fact that Substack won't let you set up canonical URLs back to your blog, but we aren't really SEO optimized anyway so maybe it doesn't matter that much...
If they are true to form they are recording everything.
What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
I think that also hits the equipment challenge: those kind of situations can have a rack of GPUs plugged into the wall and it still won’t be the most expensive device in the building. The same implies to a lot of the industrial applications - if your product makes a mechanic working on $500k jet engines more productive, you have a much easier design budget than someone trying to convince people to buy another personal entertainment system.
Yeah we're definitely able to do those things, it just seems weird to have the content living in two places and I'm not sure if that will present some sort of other issue for us down the line.
Super cool! It would be great if the description field had a link to the subreddit and a link to the master list.
Many can, and they can also run simulations based on those distributions. Many PMs don't know how to use these tools, choose not to, or answer to managers who want the answer and not a fuzzy answer.
Not sure if your threads contain a lot of images/media, but I find that having images collapsed by default improves performance immensely.
>Some companies have extended the window to as much as 7 years

Niantic did 10 years as far back as 2015.
A very ambitious tackle on the challenge is to Neuralink the optic nerve which might be easier than the visual cortex for lenses and overlay information.
Good luck to them but if there’s one thing we learned during the pandemic as educators it’s that large online lectures are awful and generally ineffective.
> I'm also pretty excited about the next generation Google Glass with real time language translation. That seems like it would be awesome for international travel.

This should be the first entry in How To Get Mugged 101
> I’ve been using copilot for half a year now and it’s helpful, but often wrong.

I wonder if that is because of the training set, us humans are often wrong or different. If given a room of programmers and asked to implement a Fibonacci algorithm would they all get it right, would they all do it via iteration, recursion, dynamic programming. Co-pilot might not replace you, but it just needs to replace some of those programmers. Then add tools like automated AI reviews or integration tests for example and now you removed another population of tech workers.

I am not sure if that is cause for alarm or the fact that such improvements could be rather beneficial. Some tools will replace people, some will be assistive, and as they improve and other layers are added they will reduce the need for people in areas, improving efficiency and productivity. Robots in manufacturing for example, improve productivity and reduce human labor.

And this leads on to this, these tools are narrow to general and have achieved this in a very short period of time. The cost factors have also massively reduced, if you could pay OpenAI $10 a month to make 1000 mistakes and still deliver code, or a human $120k a year to do the same then which one would you target. AI might not be coming for your job soon but it will be taking away your options to get a job. This is not unique to AI it is the basis for any technological improvement vs labor, yes new ideas and opportunities may come out of this but I don't think they will be equal in volume.
Why opt for managed db?
No, it doesn't.

It's very important to distinguish between what is actually required for compliance, and what is being done in the name of compliance, and make sure that "compliance" isn't just abused to shut down discussions easily.

SOC2 does not have any criteria specifically requiring antivirus software.

The actual requirements are more generic; for example CC6.8: "controls to prevent or detect and act upon the introduction of unauthorized or malicious software". That doesn't even sound like an unreasonable requirement to me.

If your company reads "no computer without antivirus" into that, that's on your company (and what they put in their SOC2 Type 1). Of course AV manufacturers will gladly agree that it should be read that way, and auditors will be more familiar with that approach. But if you can achieve the same in a different way, that's ok too - you just have to write it down that way. And the auditors can be reasoned with - their focus is anyway more to verify that you can show evidence (e.g. screenshots) of actually doing what you wrote down.
This is only an acceptable option when speed, torque, weight, and volume aren't a concern.
YMMV. I'm a JPLer. We get plenty done.
Fascinating, thank you. Apparently this means the most I can gain over Xmas week is 2.45kg, which is reassuring.
I bet pet owners can guess pet gestures as well.

On the other hand human gestures don’t always translate from one culture to another; what does that mean?
you cannot sanction the seller of a software, any more than you can sanction the seller of the gun for a murderer.
> If not, how do you reconcile this belief with the right of scientists and publishers to sell their productive labor?

As many others in the thread have said - the profits from the paper paywalls go to the publishers, reviewing is done by volunteers.

As an aside, it's funny how often defenders of intellectual slavery are so dug in to their beliefs while being completely unaware of the mechanisms of what they're defending. I suppose such ignorance is a necessary precondition to support such injustice.
In many fields doing science requires a team and equipment, and in all fields doing science requires being able to sustain yourself while spending most of your time on science. All of that requires funding, which almost universally (not limited to American higher Ed system) requires demonstrating that your science is accepted by being published in respected peer-reviewed venues, and if it's only self-published then it's considered not worthy (and there indeed is a big correlation for that) and results in you being denied the means to continue to do science. In essence, science gets validated by being published in selective places which demonstrably filter out most of the chaff (and a lot of science-like products should get filtered out - even in this domain attention is scarcer than content, so almost nobody wants to read things that haven't passed a certain filter) and if something gets published in a less selective venue, the general assumption (again, strongly correlated with reality) is that it wasn't good enough to get published in a better one.

Technically, of course, you can be a scientist without involving yourself with all that, if you're independently wealthy and/or doing it as a hobby in addition to your main job. Science used to be done that way (e.g. by bored educated aristocrats), but I think we have a strong consensus that the world would be worse than the current situation if there would be a de facto limitation to doing science only by those who can self-fund it.
I wonder how many people have quit the convenient streaming services that became not-so-convenient and returned to sailing the high seas.
That may be true, but submitting to a paid journal isn’t necessary, still. Scientists can and do cite and publish independent of the large publications. Arxiv being an example.
And research got along just fine without Wikipedia. Yet having a comprehensive, easily accessible and free knowledge base is just so damn convenient.
Alembic is the most common tool paired with SQLAlchemy.
We use Datadog at the medium sized unicorn I work at. People often don’t understand how important correlating timestamps is. I wish Datadog was just opinionated as hell and said everything you see is UTC by default. Or even less dramatic than that, literally just slap the time zone on whatever it is that you’re viewing. It’s so insanely critical when you’re viewing logs on a prod outage that people immediately see and understand that the logs they are looking at are PST, CST, UTC or whatever. It’s insane that software designed to help people unfuck production systems doesn’t display that by default.

As-is we go through a song and dance whenever we look at logs and metrics “oh, this happened at X time which is Y time for most people.
Just because MS Teams is an even worse train wreck does not automatically make Slack brilliant. The whataboutism when people criticize a program that they happen to like is wild. The complaints in the GP are exact complaints I have. I'd even add having to type a space before using a slash character when all you want to do is type a path to something.

Yes, MS Teams might actually suck worse, but don't try to diminish valid complaints about something else that also sucks
I do not necessarily disagree, but it stands that you don’t have to involve yourself with academia or journals to be a scientist.

Clearly there are pros and cons to the current system as you’ve pointed out.
False, if you intend to sell. Modules do not provide full-device certification
Sure, but that's not how they rationalize it to themselves. They really believe they're going to get every dollar back in resale value, and then some. With ever-increasing house prices until recently, it seemed to be true to them.
Many fewer than that, since people will buy more than one book. Number of kindles sold is between 20 million and 90 million (same source). Meanwhile the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S have each sold about 10 million: https://gamerant.com/ps5-xbox-series-xs-estimated-sales-clos...

But those are fairly new, so take the last generation. The PS4 sold about 100 million, and Xbox One about 50 million: https://www.theshortcut.com/p/how-many-xbox-one-consoles-mic...

So the leading game consoles outpace the leading ebook reader, but not by all that much. There are other gaming platforms, but there are also other reading platforms. Some people read kindle books on their phones, kindle books are 72% of the ebook market, and ebooks overall are a third of the book market.
I looked up why Costco has that policy, and their stated reason is to be a second factor checking that the cashier correctly counted all items. They say they don't want to overcharge customers, but it probably goes both ways. It'd be interesting to hear from a Costco employee about what they're told to look for during training. (I'm not the parent, and this doesn't answer your question).
On the contrary, the immersion still amazes me every day. The quest 2 screens are not beautiful, the blacks are a milky grey and the colors aren't particularly popping.

But wow who cares, when I'm playing a third-party VR mod of half-life 2 from 2004, it seems so real. Despite the low-poly meshes and blocky textures that come with games of that era. Blown away by the feeling of actually being there. I get vertigo balancing on the de support beams of the huge bridge I have to climb, disgusted at the howling zombies attacking me while I hurriedly try to stuff shells into my shotgun.

Those too-big and underwhelming pixels? I really don't have time to notice them.

I bought this headset for only $50 more than the $300 you mention (yes now it costs more). For desktop work yes I prefer my $220 4K monitor hands down. But wow this is something else and it's only getting better.
I was wrong about "Another Night in Tunisia" -- the solo Jon sings starting around 1:40 actually has lyrics. I think the melody scatting for most of the rest of the song is actually Bobby McFerrin.

Oh, there we go, the scat solo starting at 2:30 in "Ray's Rockhouse" is Jon.
> Authors Guild v Google and then present evidence of significant non-infringing commercial use.

The problem as I understand it is in all the likely "precedent" cases for this, what was being done with the scraped data was in some identifiable way different than the purpose of the source data itself. Authors Guild v Google for instance, the argument was that Google wasn't reproducing whole texts, it just used that data to make the texts searchable. Meaning the purpose of the consumption of the text by Google was to essentially make a searchable index, rather than to reproduce a book, and thus that isn't harming the authors.

In this case, it would seem a very key difference is that this is Art being consumed and Art being produced, with no different purpose.
Or people can be scientists with day jobs and fund themselves. Clearly there are pros and cons with either approach.

Fundamentally there’s no difference than say bootstrapping a company or seeking investment.
Yes, protection rackets can be described as “voluntary”.
I’m a firm believer that there exists communication archetypes that span across species and millennia, so archetypal that they may be universal.
In my example of a voice assistant the lifetime fees are present valued into the upfront costs. These cloud enabled devices incorporate a portfolio effect pricing model for service usage.

Google can charge advertisers more if they can somehow figure out how to extract more personal information from you and shove ads in your face posing as information.
I think a common misunderstanding, often held on HN/Reddit, is that the academia themselves also hate journal publishing industry as much.

I mean, of course none of us like them, and everyone hates the pressure that you have to publish papers to keep your job or to be promoted. But all these are independent to how the industry makes money and especially very irrelevant to the fact that most of journals aren't open-access.

Almost all universities/institutions have subscriptions of majority of journals. And most "proper" journals don't charge you (the authors) a fee to publish. Yes, they usually don't pay you when they asked you to review, which sucks. But the whole thing isn't as bad from a practical perspective. Again it's still a annoyance from time to time, just not that bad.

Furthermore, unfortunately, a way to judge how good you're at research would be needed anyway. If the journal publishing industry died overnight, there would be other metric coming up and as toxic.

TL;DR: scientific publishing industry is a leech but they leech on the fact scientists/researchers needing a way to build their prestige. Not on them directly. That's why most don't have a too strong opinion or act on it.
That is a lot of money for one creator to command per month. I can’t imagine spending $120/yr just for one YouTubers content.
If you type into Google “why does everyone hate” it will autosuggest “nickelback”.

I watched a doco once on why everyone hates them. It was interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever heard their music.
I will always stand behind SQLAlchemy being one of the best designed ORMs around. It generates some of the best backend SQL for the chosen dialect and it’s separation behind low level “core” concepts and high level ORM concepts makes for the cleanest separation of concerns. Even if it can’t generate the best SQL for you, it’s bog-simple to fiddle with the core components to hint it in the proper direction.
Twitter's Trust and Safety Head Ditches Protocol for Musk Whims
What is a zip tree, and how does it work?
one company i worked with was horrible with the amount of GIFs littered throughout the threads. it was like a light shining down from heaven with a chorus of angels when i found the disable anims feature.
I think he's saying he quit Spotify for YouTube Premium which includes YouTube Music and has the benefit of no YouTube ads
How do you feel now compared to before?
If you work for a company that has cybersecurity insurance, they ask, point-blank, if all employee desktops have antivirus before they quote your premium. You just have to use it. It’s not a subject for religious dogma.
Possible reasons (non-exhaustive):

- Flerovia is a rival, and diplomatic relations are rocky. They could cut off your critical widget supply, or raise the price, at any time. You want protection against this scenario.

- Slebovistan is a poor and undeveloped country. All your domestic manufacturing industries are terrible compared to rivals. If you don't build up at least a few of them, you will remain poor and undeveloped forever.

- Scientists believe that with sufficent R&D, they will be able to create new widget technology called "blidgets" that will revolutionize the world economy. Whoever gets there first is guaranteed endless riches. You want to win the blidget race.

- etc…
https://hypeevents.app/ - work in progress but a social event search engine.

Our goal is to find, and display events based on the user’s interest regardless of the platform the event is hosted on.
It's a great article. However, it omits that Matthew Ball, VC (venture capitalist, not Victoria Cross) was all metaverse real soon now in late 2021 - early 2022. He created a "metaverse fund", which did not do well.

He's really echoing John Carmack, who said, around the time he quit Oculus/Facebook/Meta, that the headgear had to get down to swim goggle size to get any traction, and eyeglass size to go mainstream. You can just about do that now if you're willing to have a wire connecting you to the game console. Sony is doing that with their "VR2" headset. It connects to a Playstation 5.[1]

But standalone, wear all the time is still a ways off. A lot of hardware has to be crammed into the headgear.

[1] https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-vr2/
https://archive.ph/haV3A
Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse [pdf]
It would be terrible for the company.

Every single competent person would leave immediately and no employee would ever trust them again.
I like this comment. At the end you wrote: <<my coworkers don't enjoy doing hiring stuff>> Can you clarify something for me? Are you a hiring manager? If yes, the "ROI" comment makes a lot of sense. And do "co-workers" mean other hiring managers... or non-managers? As a non-manager, putting effort into hiring doesn't have good ROI for me personally.

My CV and LinkedIn profile had links to open source projects for more than 10 years. I am someone who interviews a lot -- I like to move from company to company for diverse experience. Only once in ten years has anyone asked about my open source work. They are generalist libraries (Java and Python) that I "import" at every new job. They give me a real edge over my teammates. My point: Interviewing seems like a total gamble. My best strategy is to figure out what the hiring manager wants and pretend to be that person. In most teams, the hiring manager calls the shots nearly 100%. If they like you, you will be hired. I've had crap tech interviews with the "teammates" and still gotten offers because I transformed (during the interview!) into exactly what the hiring manager wanted. Bizarre.
The way I understand it, journals are essentially grading agencies. Good journals try to only publish good papers, the best journal are the best at this. So, to show that your papers are good, you show that they have been published in good journals.
Eliminating violence implies eliminating people. Good luck digging ditches with an all-female society.
Very cool! Next step - live display to a screen :)