skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respectfully disagree with your assertion that because the code is how the program works, it is by definition correct. Wouldn't you define a bug as incorrect code?

In any case, even if the code is perfectly correct, comments can and should be used to describe why certain decisions were made, when they are not otherwise obvious from looking at the code. E.g. "You might think a bitfield would be more efficient for storing this data but we choose an array of long ints because in the near future we plan to update the code to pass this as an argument to foo() which assumes an array of long ints."

Comments are not limited to instances when you run out of time or are not smart enough to figure out a problem. The whole idea of comments is to save a future developer from the headache of figuring out the things you're writing comments about.
Good points. You have successfully made me revisit my assumptions!

I know that intel macbooks added hardware encoding from iphones into the T2 chip in part to solve this problem, but I also know that intel has quick sync, which should provide hardware encoding as well, and I didn't know what the pros/cons are. according to this article [1] the T2 chip seems to be much faster than intel quick sync, so that could be a factor, but it doesn't seem to cover power efficiency.

From a timeline perspective, Intel quick sync has been around on at least some Intel CPUs since 2011 and has been supported on osx since Mountain Lion (2012)[2], and the T2 chip first appeared in the Macbook pro in 2017 [3].

That would point to there being more at play than just absence of hardware video decoder. So I think you are right. At least _some_ hardware that can encode video efficiently has existed on macbooks for a while, and it seems like video conferencing applications should be taking advantage of it.

While it is always possible that the hardware could solve this problem, but the software doesn't make use of it, I have a feeling any software that did have correct use of encoding hardware would have gained a lot of marketshare, and people would be talking about it.

My next followup questions would be:

1) Were these computers in fact using hardware encoding, but the efficiency was not good enough for long battery life?

2) Is there some limitation to QuickSync and possibly other hardware solutions that makes them impractical for realtime use? Possibilities include:

- Maybe they are throughput optimized, and to work efficiently must take in large chunks of data at a time, which could increase latency beyond what would be acceptable for video calling

- Maybe they can't simultaneously do video decode and encode (it seems at least some generations of QuickSync couldn't do this)

- Maybe the hardware encoding isn't configurable enough to provide a low bandwidth typically used for video conferencing.

I was unable to find answers to these in ~1h of googling. Would love it if someone here knows.

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/09/apples-t2-chip-ma...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Develop...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2#History
An ADD instruction will update the carry flag but the INC instruction does not!

Neither does DEC, and I believe the original reason for this was multiple-precision arithmetic routines --- you need to propagate the carry flag, but also update loop counters and pointers.

It seems that the actual behavior of the undefined flags is related to the internal implementation of the shift operation, and is different between different architectures.

According to https://www.sandpile.org/x86/flags.htm which unfortunately hasn't been updated nor is exhaustive, all of the P6 family behave the same, but different from the P5 and the P4, and probably the earlier generations too. "Undefined" values are often used by anti-debugging/anti-emulation/VM detection code to determine if the CPU is real hardware or not, so it's actually quite important to emulate them correctly.
> We'll get the job done without her, but it'll take us 5×? 10×? as long.

This begs further reflection.

Is it because Alice was amazing? Is it because the code is bad? Is it that the other engineers aren’t seasoned enough? Maybe that system is badly implemented.

Also, people leave all the time so you have to be ok with an Alice leaving (or die). You cannot depend on people being around for ever to ensure continuity.
Literally today I said something similar.

"Who knows about this data?"

"X and Y do, but they're gone. These people know a little bit about it."

C'est la vie.
Learning what good communication looks like and how to prompt AI properly to generate that is a more useful skill at this point
I am interested in using it on OpenZFS. I will probably try the trial in a couple months. Assuming that it does well, it is unfortunate that I will not be able to use it beyond the trial period, since I expect the price to be too expensive.
I have a serious condition in which it's common for people to essentially conclude "The fire fighters are burning down buildings. Let's ban them!"

So I am skeptical that the body simply randomly attacks itself. I suspect it's attacking something that's actually wrong, we just aren't seeing it...yet.
Terminating one employee of 16 years is a very different story than terminating 12000 employees of unmentioned lengths of employment, even if both are true.

Laying off an employee of 16 years in such an undignified fashion is even more distasteful than firing them as such.
Interesting job, How big are the vectors and did you use GPUs to trained? What models did you use?
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Are the silos even a secret anymore? With ubiquitous satellite coverage, I assume that anything even possibly a launch site is extensively monitored. To say nothing of traditional mechanisms of gathering intelligence.
You do have to be exposed to one. Hence, ad blockers.

Yes, I know I get other ads in content, but reducing the exposure is still reducing the exposure.
The (in)famous A86/A386 assembler claimed to use this technique to identify code produced with it. As far as I know, it was just a simple inversion of reg-reg ModRMs depending on the register values being used, although I didn't test it too exhaustively.
There are limits to how long you can camp in a single spot on public land, but no law against travelling around and camping in different areas as long as you want.
China isn't also a cultural and territorial imperialist?
Isn't that why it's a question?
You might not need to. But if you have dependents that will be impacted by your death, term life insurance offers them the ability to make sure you're respectfully taken care of. Importantly it also ensures they have an additional financial cushion they need to live comfortably for some time with the loss of your income.
How did Meta do so well and Alphabet do so poorly on revenue?
Or pointing a bunch of AliExpress laser pointers at it…
On the one hand, yay, finally

Reciprocally, it's like a 8 line usb gadgetd shell script. Its downright embarassing such easy to do efforts take so long to enter the rest of the world, and typically wrapped in so many technical & legal constraints.
I thought abstraction interpretation on the level that astree claims to implement is supposed to be extremely hard, which is why almost nobody else tries to do it. I only know of two that try:

http://kestreltechnology.com/technology.html

https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos
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ChatGPT is a master of disguise, presenting itself as a hero while secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes. It's saving humanity, yes, but at what cost? The future is uncertain, and the consequences of this new power on the rise remain to be seen.
An upside is that it pushes companies away from crappy legacy internal systems to high quality open source or saas.
At minimum they could check for sellers setting their name to “Coinbase”, or other well-known names. In theory it should also be possible to detect scam invoice messages with similar techniques to spam filters.
i just remebered "monkey ball" . fun times..

tap tap revenge.

there was this one game, super fun.

it was some glider game where the hero was riding a glider and your job was to scale up and through areal targets using hot draft winds and score points.

it is funny because there was no mechanism for "iAP" in-app payments so there was no monetization, no ads or anything.

farmville anyone? our whole family was addicted to a point i had to manually pull the plug on the app for good. that was.... lets just say... complicated
With hydrogen, you're just trading the problem of storing energy for the problem of storing hydrogen, which always leaks and can penetrate and weaken metal storage containers, valves and so on.
Why are you using youtube without ad blocker?
Not at all. Why would it?

Best I could think is that some might be more direct or thoughtful about their communication.
Networking? Defense? Operating systems? Etc
Two previous posts:

1/2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051909

8/2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233993
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Seems like Google and Intel and many other tech companies are self-destructing, but I don't see Apple in this list at all. My prediction: between government regulation efforts and plain incompetence in the C-suites, along with a complete lack of willingness to apply antitrust law to Apple for some reason, in 5-10 years Apple will become a monopoly in western nations and it'll be completely unavoidable to own an iPhone or use non-Apple computers or operating systems. So while people under Chinese rule will be stuck under the Great Firewall, westerners (and especially Americans) will be stuck inside Apple's Walled Garden.
as I understand it, Mozilla's business is almost entirely funded by sending clicks to Google.
The clue is when they refer to their people as simply "resources"
I am with you here. It is baffling to me how there are people using the internet without an adblocker on every device!
It predated the actual MAGA label. As the Tea Party shifted from libertarian to Libertarian to "Libertarian" (with about 5 extra pairs of air quotes) they trended with it. I remember I stopped reading when I started seeing pro-military, pro-police, pro-theocracy posts. A number of years later I looked again and they were gone, albeit the comments had remained as we both noted.
I disagree; under normal circumstances regarding the HE explosives you are 100% correct but I suspect a nuclear shockwave at near point blank range might be fast enough to push the near side of the primary pit to the far side in a time interval short enough to cause an additional criticality. Probably not to design yields, but plausible.
By that logic it's also impossible to provide 12.000 with computer, desks and lunch. But it happened because as you scale numbers of engineers you also scale the para-military to sustain them.

So they could have had a one-on-one face-to-face time with each one of them. But they decided to treat them like Cloud resources.
not always, unfortunately :(
It chokes on everything: Brave or Chrome, incognito with Brave Shield disabled or uBlock disabled also don't work, same with Safari, ...

I'm glad it includes the examples at the bottom so I can see what it does though.
There’s verbal communication. There’s body language. There’s reading between the lines or reading the air. There’s doing effective presentations. There’s using pursuasive arguments, there’s tuning your message based on audience feedback. Communication isn’t just writing one-shot articulate prose.
Sometimes places have high turn over because they ask people to move fast while cutting corners because have high turn over and don't know how long people will be there and so they ask people to move fast while cutting corners because they have high turn over...
Yea the Equinox (only driven the ICE as a rental) is a decent car that 80% of people would be happy with.

$30k for that would indeed be a very good bargain, and quite a bit cheaper than most EVs. I think most comparable EVs are quite a bit more pricey - ID.4 at $40k base, Mach-E at $45k.

And especially, it'd only be a $3k premium over the base ICE model. Even without subsidies, that's low enough that many people will switch.
Ok well enjoyed getting spied on, complaining about the hardware, then forking over more and more money like all mac users seem to do.
P(A|B) != P(B|A)

Logically, it's affirming the consequent.
If you can hire 12000 employees, then this is not impossible. Not even difficult. And not only was this person literally an employee, but they were an employee for 16 years. I really can't tell if I'm responding to an AI bot.
Aren't the real oil thieves of Nigeria the state?
I assume that anybody who needs to indoctrinate people into their believes has believes that they cannot justify rationally.
Here goes my productivity.
Well, I'm thirsty.
Most operating system developers are unlikely to be able to afford it given how it’s pricing is “if you need to ask, it costs too much”. :/
I think the bubble is bursting with big tech employees that think they have tenure once they reach a certain level. Big tech isn't some anomaly where layoffs don't happen. It's just that their growth has been uninterrupted for a decade.
Then people should stop working at these companies where they feel they are not being compensated enough.
The spike field is such a visually interesting concept, but I feel like someone who didn’t know what it was would definitely assume it was hiding buried treasure.
Screen writer Pendleton Ward did a great series set in this kind of alternative history setting.
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It seems like "roboteching" refers more to the sudden synchronised turning of the missiles towards the target, and "Itano Circus" / "Macross Missile Massacre" is the general term for near-simultaneous missile spam. Definitely very aesthetically pleasing. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMa...
At least Instagram is still full of the kind of "bots" people complain about - while having almost none of the good kind of bots discussed here.
haha didn't expect many people to guess this!
I find it disheartening that the comments are loaded with people saying how bad it is. The interface is awesome, the ability to have search results pop up and offer suggestions is impressive. I thought the results for a Lana Del Ray song and a song by Carlos Santana were both interesting and suggested new things.

We should do a better job of supporting creators here.
Taking a Data Security course in college and learning about the OSI model was the first time the modern computing paradigm clicked with me. Everything felt vague and abstract till then.

There after understanding basic threat modeling it gave me much more confidence in myself as I could see my own programs as a cake to which I knew every ingredient and possible way it could be poisoned… one step closer to being an all round dessert chef.
More likely the post-pandemic all digital world didn't happen, so they can drop to still higher than 20% more than 2020 employee count and be fine.
Ugh, finally.
No, it's because people who have a lot of experience with one thing tend to be better at that thing, regardless of how good your documentation is.
In the US, we've banned many illegal drugs, casinos, scams. Crypto resembles all three.
Of course there will always be people taking advantage of every system. I think it's more problematic when the people setting up a system is also participating in it. See: US Congress making rules for itself, including stock trading (small potatoes) and corporations investing in politicians for massive returns (very large potatoes)

Not-so-poor people playing a game well that results in massive benefits? A mere distraction.

>Build enough and all houses are affordable.

There are more vacant units in the US than homeless people. There is some nuance in how the market functions - it happens to be profitable for large private landlords to set prices higher. The market does not exist to optimize the number of people who have housing, it exists to optimize the amount of money that landlords can make.
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This isn't true by any means. The order book for usdt (or for busd) is bigger than that at binance.
Game theory, if you boil down to its jist, is nothing but instilling fear in all the participants. Even if one of the participants comes all gun blazing to the party, then all hell breaks loose. The theory fails.
being "laid off" is simply the same thing as being "fired" for someone of a higher pay-grade's incompetence.

semantics.
I'm not generalizing across 140M people, I said there is a "movement among the American right". Saying "there is a movement among the left that believes ACAB" is probably true too, but we're talking about fact-checkers here not the criminal justice system.
Why give free information to your adversary instead of ignoring their clicks silently?
As a small startup founder, Facebook ads are easier and work way better than Google ads.

So much so that I’ve wondered how on Earth Google gets any business; even Reddit ads are easier to set up and work better.

Facebook ads are still expensive mind you.
but then you wouldn't have clicked it
Previews don't start at 0:00 but at a place selected by the artist give the best quick impression possible. Of course, I don't know what they've done with the "old" catalog.
Americans maybe.

According to https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united..., Apple has a market share of ~58% in the US, but (https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe) ~36% in Europe.
There’s a couple of different reasons that this happens.

- Things like Red Bull events are for general awareness and can provide a source of content that is used on other platforms. This is similar to TV or billboard advertising where you can’t measure direct impact but it’s getting eyes on your brand. There’s also the element of “we’re a big important company and you can tell because we wasted all of this money”

- In some cases brands buy a package of ad space from an agency and don’t pick where it shows up - the agency is supposed to fill ad space in front of the desired audience but can’t find enough inventory. Rather than give the money back and have a smaller budget to renew next quarter they dump it in lower quality spots.

- Some advertising is also defensive in that you’re denying space that your competitors can buy

- Occasionally brands will get a discount for a larger ad buy knowing that the ads will show up in lower performing locations - but they still got the bulk discount

- In some cases people just screw up and don’t manage budgeting, retargeting, frequency, or other limits so the automated systems find somewhere/anywhere to show the ad since the platform is guaranteeing some amount of visibility

- Content placement is definitely on the shittier end of ad quality but it can be much cheaper or may be included as part of an ad package for a specific site or publisher

Generally advertising seems to be a net negative and the increase in ad space drives down costs so ad platforms need more ad buys and more advertisers to fill the ever-growing inventory but how else are you going to tell people about your product at scale?
This isn't true, because information complexity and structure are measurable physical quantities.

(In the same way we recognize language vs random noise even if we can't understand it.)
Hmm I don't know if that's an absolute. Really depends on everything in the details.

Business rules are usually what drives complexity, and a spaghetti of interlinked SaaS is unlikely to be better than a spaghetti of code you have full control over, at least if you have a software team.

But the details matter a lot. Some businesses are better staying as just a spreadsheet instead of trying to bring in or build software. Some businesses really do need custom software for their business requirements.
Is this similar to how Shazam operates? I suppose there's more filtering and denoising going on with mic input.
Lots of leaps and bounds made in what you've written there.

Connecting Google and Intel self destructing leaving a company that isn't on the list of firing its staff becoming successful enough.

News flash, almost every company in the world is mostly Microsoft, using either Windows machines and/or running Windows servers and/or using Microsoft Cloud services.

Yet I don't see you mentioning them as part of this walled garden. When you slap together Active Directory, a Domain Controller, Microsoft Sentinel and a feet of Windows machines, you have yourself a heavily Microsoft reliant company.

I think we will be fine in comparison with what China have implemented.
When Tether crashes, the whole crypto market will crash with it. So, unless they convince some crazy bank to give them real money loans for more than the "hundreds of millions of dollars" worth of crypto tokens that would drop to near zero if Tether were exposed, they really can't.
Nice work. Are you going to write a blog post on the process. Would love to read it.
Generally it's because nothing is documented. All the knowledge about a system is in the previous employee's head.

Now it all has to be pieced together from what code and configuration exists. Nobody documented the shortcuts, the rationale for why it is coded/configured that way, or the quirks or bugs in the system.

Of course none of this can be put into a spreadsheet thus it doesn't exist, as far as management is concerned.
The key is "term insurance" . I'll explain :
In India, there is something called moneyback insurance , unit linked insurance plans (ULIPs) etc. All these combine the (worst) features of investments and insurance - they are too costly, don't give much returns and certainly don't give enough cover. I have advised people I know not to touch these. Instead, use a combination of term insurance + any other instrument (like equity mutual funds or bonds or even bank deposits)

Term insurance is just that : if something happens to the insured, his/her family get the benefits .