skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hen it is faster to open Chrome than turn the ad blocking off and then back on.

Hah, so I’m not the only one doing that :D On Desktop I’m fine to fiddle, but on mobile those issues just make me start Chrome
I wonder who makes more in a hospital - the doctor or surgeon, or their managers?
I highly recommend the Deeplearning.AI courses by Andrew Ng.
Can you comment on how you got that job?
Honestly, hire a personal trainer to help you stay on track. Keep with it for at least 6 months. I started this back in December and it has been great!

Left to my own devices I would have done one or two sessions and then quit. Now I do two strength sessions per week and long walks one or two days per week. It's not a lot but I can feel the change. I might stick with it for 12 months but it costs a decent amount.

My trainer drives out to where I live and we do exercises using body weight and basic equipment (dumbbells and boxes). It also helps since I can make note of the exercises and copy the routine once I kick into my own training. They can give you lots of useful tips for how to build muscle and stick with it too!

I was treating it more like a course in how to stay in shape for the rest of my life. I'll probably do strength training and walks from here on out until I die of old age. (early 30s btw)
The software industry took off in the US because of government funding into silicon valley more than anything else.

Get the best people in one place and good stuff will happen
It seems Nintendo profits were 4B+ last year. It has ~7000 employees, working out to 500k+ per head in profit (not revenue). I can't readily find compensation data but given the low pay in Japan I'd be surprised if the average annual compensation is substantially higher than 100k. They definitely have a lot of room to increase pay despite whatever risk you mean. And it's not like past profits are necessarily going to help "weather the storm".
The learjet flights were "unrealized flights"
Or on Windows.
You don't even need to "disable" Chrome. Just set Firefox as the default browser. I haven't noticed any Google apps that wouldn't respect the setting.
What Netflix Thinks Your Family Is
I understand the save icon might be out dated since no one uses floppy disks anymore, but what icon would you use instead?
Safari (WebKit) is the one that is the last remaining serious competitor against Chromium.

Firefox has already lost years ago and is so useless to counter Chrome that they have to be funded by Google in order to survive. Mozilla's competitiveness for Firefox is close to zero.

The EU Digital Markets Act will just further solidify Chrome's dominance.
If you seriously believe that remark described a rhetorical strategy that Marx only used in that one particular context, I think you are the one who needs to stop digging. But obviously we're not going to come to agreement, so I'll bow out at this point.
It's funny to read this now given I was a mod on RuneLocus during what I would consider RSPS's heyday (2006-2012ish range). It felt like the scene died off a bit especially when Jagex finally brought back OSRS in 2013.

That said it doesn't surprise me that certain servers have continued to grow and thrive over the years.
Yes, but there's no use discussing it.
As long as it pushes the students into mental effort I have no problem with changes in education. The world changes, it’s normal to have changes. But there’s nothing wrong to compare against prior models, sometimes we revisit abandoned ideas, artworks, models etc
I think you’re off by one. M1 is not an IC6.
> That is simply untrue.

Sorry, you are simply misrepresenting the facts and the economics at this point.
Chrome for iOS switching to Blink from WebKit will have next to zero effect on Safari’s share of iOS browsing.
I mean, it seems like the stock price would go
up too if they laid off 20

We laid off 20% on Jan 31st, and our stock price...

...or, uh, I should say their stock price, because I was one of the 20%...

...did go up.

If you lay off too many, it starts to look like panic and/or it starts to look like you were running your business in an clueless way, with tons of dead weight and/or bad hires.

10-20% seems "safe" to me. It doesn't spook investors too much. Generally, if you look at almost any team, at least 1 in 5 are not performing amazingly. IMO this happens even in well run companies and is often purely a fit issue and is not necessarily an indictment of either employer or employee. It also means you're not necessarily destroying any particular team

(Example: you have a talented front end engineer, but they've been pressed into more of a "full stack" role and they're forced to do a bunch of backend work that is far from their strengths. No, I'm not describing myself. Not a front end guy.)

This wave of 10-20% cuts feels like an opportunistic version of the notorious "stack ranking" that Microsoft used to do.

I'm not defending any of this. I'm not really criticizing it either. It's just my strong impression of what it is. I'm f'ing numb to this industry at this point, honestly.
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> > > (y) As is always pointed out when this comes up, the luddites broke machines as a strategic move to resist the undermining of their class interests and livelihood by workshop owners.

> > > (y) So the comparison is correct, but not in the way you mean, and as the luddites were right to break machines then so we are now.

> > They were not right to break the machines. Sometimes the wheels of progress will roll and grind over the bones of those underneath in order to move forward. You just have to hope you get out of the way in time, and cling on as the whole apparatus moves forward.

> (y) This is one of the most inhuman takes I've seen on HN and that's a damn high bar.

The "inhumanity" that's being opposed here is the overall increase in production & accessibility of what was once a luxury item that we now take for granted as a modern basic good.

The "human" take that's being championed here, giraffe_lady, is the supposed moral "goodness" that these machines should never exist at all, with the downstream idea being that there SHOULD be masses of people that toil their lives away in repetitive work.
So does David Shor. Unsuccessfully, obviously, in both cases!
Neither have been lynched. Words mean things.
Edge does occasionally nag you about "using the recommended defaults" (i.e. Bing) after updating.
> That's "You were used" with extra steps. Why are you trying to rebrand this?

Of course you were "used". You were used to get work done in exchange for a paycheck.

That's how work ... works. I am confused by the outrage ... did engineers think signing on to a company meant they were set for life? That once they were onboarded they were sheltered from future storms?

The tides turn, and right now the tide is going out. Eventually, this process will reverse and the cycle begins anew.
Some comments seem to be optimistic about the potential change from Apple. But once Apple relax webkit requirement from app store, it will mean all "do not track" cookie enforcement would be easily worked around.
It's RadWagon 4 with white paint job, upgraded brakes/power controller, and solar panel at the top of the stock roof.

Not quite what I expected when I read the title.

Btw, the panel is 50W, and I assume the battery is stock, 672 Wh. That's 14+ hours of best-case sunlight to recharge fully. I wonder how practical is it.
> I meant they do implement what the owners of the company want.

This is circular. You are claiming this but haven’t shown any evidence.

You ignore the fact that you’re just wrong about who chose the CEOs of Apple and Google.

And, you don’t seem to know anything about who owns these companies either. What percentage of Apple do you imagine Blackrock owns?
> incompatible with most projects.

Most native UI projects on desktop OSes are not OSS.
What’s great is that you can use this same technique with your friend that got real deep into improv.

* Act as a medical expert on the topic of appendix resections, and well-respected educator. The audience for your presentation are third graders. Provide a comprehensive overview of how they can remove an infected organ. Perform it in the style of Sanjay Gupta. Provide three different strategies using tools that might be available in the kitchen.*

Except your improv buddy will play up that it’s all bullshit because they know what they don’t know, and ChatGPT will earnestly explain how to fix your appendicitis with a corkscrew and some oven mitts.
> If you aren't a communist, there's a good chance that you don't think that skills are capital

The post I responded to (GGP of this one) said "skills are not capital in the communist vocabulary". Did you mean that if you are a communist, there's a good chance you don't think that skills are capital?
Any suggestions? I've been looking for any to play on the side while I grind the main game but all the popular ones seem sketchy in terms of monetizations and stuff.
Speeding up Rust semver-checking by over 2000x
Google originally developed Transformers in 2017, and then proceeded to deploy them to enhance the results on a dead end of search they were already on. [1]

It could be argued that nobody saw what will happen 6 years later. When we wrote the "Age of Page Rank is Over" article [2] just 4 months ago, many people did not understand what we talked about in the second part of the article although GPT3 was already a thing.

[1] https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understa...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537513
See my answer above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702479
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers richly earned its Pulitzer. Highest possible recommendation.
you do not get to travel free while carrying tuberculosis, and while turning down treatment.

her rights do not extend to the point where she has the right to infect others with tuberculosis. common cold, sure, fine, it isn't especially dangerous. tuberculosis IS especially dangerous.

her rights extend to the point where she impedes the rights of others, and no further. this means she can't walk around and spread tuberculosis because of "travel right". travel right is not applicable in certain situations and her situation is one of them.

people do not have unabridgable rights. if you kill someone, and you are found guilty, you lose a lot of rights, including travel right. are you arguing that the 5th amendment applies to everyone, no matter what? that the 2nd amendment applies to everyone, no matter what? you violate the freedoms of others, you get your rights taken away. that's what judicial punishments are.

if you are saying that you can go into a school and kill everyone then walk out and continue to exist freely with your 2nd and 5th amendment rights intact, you may be a sociopath. if you are not saying that, then state what you are saying more clearly, because it sounds like you want complete freedom for people who have tuberculosis and refuse treatment.

spreading tuberculosis is potentially no different than shooting a bunch of people. it's just as lethal, but over a longer period. so if you're saying that she should be allowed to spread tuberculosis wherever she wants, and never be confined because of that, then it sounds like you think you're free to do anything you want to others without any changes to your own freedoms.

if I'm wrong, please explain how I'm wrong.
We all “have the data”.

I build private models scraping the web. I’m iterating on my own virtual world generator using prompts, open source Vulkan renderer. Velocities, positions, color gradients; trivial to for loop your way to a massive DB with open libs.

Technologists are “screwing up” ogling Google/MS like passive consumer drones not seeing doing what Google and MS are doing is do-able at home with curl and open ML libs.
impressive work! i suppose it implements a subset and not the full language? would be nice to see some benchmarks. everyone claims super fast nowadays. i have no doubt though, since it's cpp.
Less a fundamental issue and more a receding of the wave post pandemic. I’m going to guess they assumed that growth would last and hired against it.
Docker Without Docker
The problem is that the less popular they are, the more websites ignore them and optimize for Blink and WebKit.
No, we perceive it. It's just the other species to us are food. It's a different perspective to be the diner or the meal.
Your preference is actually well reflected in the higher level IC roles at Meta/Google. You can get there by direct eng work with significant impact, but it’s more likely you are a person the company can trust with managing delivery of high complexity, high value projects while bringing other teams along the way.
Tbf my comment was phrased a bit ambiguously, but I couldn't think of anything less ambiguous.
I'm curious if there are technical benefits to interfacing with WebGPU via JS or via WASM (Rust, specifically)?

I am currently teaching myself Rust + Bevy with the intent of shipping some proof-of-concept game following the ECS paradigm rendered using WebGPU. This is going fine and I am excited to learn the tech, but my bread-and-butter is JavaScript and I only desire targeting the web. At time of writing, Bevy's (WebGL) examples don't run on Android devices which is a bit concerning.

There is some compelling JS tooling out there for rendering - Babylon, AFrame, UseGPU, etc, but they all have their issues.

Babylon: not designed with ECS in mind, same as ThreeJS, declarative programming can be achieved through plugins, but it's fragile and significantly less performant than if built natively into the framework.

AFrame: powered by Three, but ECS-first and I assume it does a good job at it. Not practical for 2D rendering and really intends to be VR-first with a nod to non-VR 3d.

UseGPU: truly what I would like to be using as it's declarative by design, but it's so new that 2D Sprite is still on the TODO list. I'm not skillful enough in low-level graphics programming (yet!) to assist in the development.

I really want to be ready for this technological shift. I fully intend to build something as complex as RimWorld that runs in your browser. I'm taking baby steps, as quickly as I can, to get there, but am not sure what tools to be adopting to best prepare.

At the moment I'm betting on Bevy because it has a lot of wind behind its sails, its all-in on ECS, and I suspect avoiding GC for compute-heavy gaming will be beneficial. I don't know what interfacing to WebGPU via JS gets me aside from a potentially more rapid prototyping environment. I'd love to hear others' takes on this to ensure I don't burn months looking in the wrong direction.
> Why would I do it?

Because the investors want you to [1]. Companies are using this as an excuse to cut unprofitable projects (e.g., Alexa). They over-hired before interest rates went up, when borrowing money was essentially free.

> This doesn’t really make sense to me from a game theory POV

Assume company leadership only cares about short-term stock price, and recompute your game theory POV. The outcome is exactly what's happening right now.

[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-layoffs-investor-told...
MIT has done just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152.
Otterkit COBOL Compiler on the .NET Community Standup
Hi, I'm the lead developer of Otterkit, a new free and open source COBOL compiler.

We've been recently invited by the awesome .NET team to appear live on their Languages & Runtime Community Standup. We'll be talking about the project, showcase an example of COBOL generics, and talk about our plans for the future of the project (and more COBOL-related things if we have time).

We hope to help improve the COBOL ecosystem and help change the language's "outdated and not suitable for modern development" reputation, because it is much more capable and powerful than most people realize.

Modern COBOL with the 2023 standard is a very powerful and capable language that can do so much more than just legacy banking and financial systems.

With its OOP syntax which includes generics, auto-implemented properties, method overloading and type safety, together with its excellent error and exception handling, async messaging, and overall how reliable it is makes it a pretty awesome language for modern backends that need to be secure and stable.

"This is not your grandparents' COBOL"
Yeah, exactly -- if you're curious, here are the 1:1.5 ratio 6-rectangle dissections after disabling all the code that removes duplicates: https://i.imgur.com/jbZcpFT.png
What's off with Nintendo is that they're getting old. Unlike US software companies with high turnover, a lot of Nintendo people are lifers (Japanese business culture).

Nintendo's well-known for taking risks with gameplay (Mario, Metroid, and Zelda were all new genres). But, as people get older, they get more conservative. The company is very heavily invested in their franchises and they seem to be taking a lot fewer risks in terms of gameplay innovation and new IP.
maybe it uses stable diffusion to upscale?
zero.

This whole thing feels like a lobbying push, and to be frank, I am more worried about the monied interests who might have bought this kind of lawmaking and what their end game is.
> Does SendCutSend have a water jet?

From their homepage:

Laser Cutting,
CNC Routing,
Waterjet Cutting,
Anodizing,
CNC Bending,
Countersinking,
Hardware,
Powder Coating,
Plating,
Tapping,
Deburring

> Do they ship overseas?

Also literally answered on their homepage.

> What would the air freight cost on that large package?

What large package?
> Some web haters counter with the idea that if we had a common runtime / sandbox

I remember when that was called "Java". :-) It didn't work out on the desktop.
Caligula is a fantastic album! And for something entirely different than that, check out Hildegard von Blingin'.
> This is the pavement of the road to totalitarianism.

no, it isn't. telling someone that they are not allowed to freely spread a lethal disease is the exact same as telling someone that they can't freely assault anyone they choose.

> What if the doctors are just... wrong?

all of them? over time? all of whom have reached false positive diagnoses for tuberculosis, for which there are good, reliable tests?

unlikely to the point of virtual impossibility. winning the lottery while being bitten by a shark is probably more likely.
Running a relay (non-exit node) has been a rewarding and educational experience.
I’m Agonizing over My Naive Realism
"I don’t think dropping the lowest 10% of developers is hurting your output. It might even raise it."

I have seen a few mass layoffs while I was contractor at different companies. Most of these big layoffs weren't performance based but they axed whole departments. Another group at danger were managers that didn't actually manage anybody. they were either demoted or let go. But in general I didn't get the impression that the layoffs were about performance. It was more about being lucky and being at the right place at the right time.
I burned an hour with chat gpt insisting an AddOrUpdate function existed in microsoft entity framework. When I called bullshit it hallucinated that another library contained it. Then it hallucinated versions... Then I gave up...

A week later I noticed that Update in the new version does an Upsert... by reading the f*cking docs... google also didn't know this answer nor did SO.

Thius has been my experience with ChatGPT and code,it hallucinates a lot of stuff.
Your pay is defined by your colleagues and potential colleagues, and unrelated to the value you provide
Cool to see our site show up on HN! Thanks for the kind words :)
No idea how many people are paying for it, but there is https://www.ge-tracker.com/ for $2/month. I did the free trial a while back, but it was more fun to write a similar app that just uses data from the OSRS Wiki API (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:Real-time_Price...).
Cherry Picker
That's not quite correct.

First of all, take a look at the map [1] of Perl Harbor from wikipedia. The oil storage tanks are listed as A, and you'll notice that they formed two different groups. By my count each had 27 tanks. If you take a look at [2], you'll see that these tanks were well separated, with an earth wall between them. It is clear that when they were built precautions were taken to prevent the spread of (accidental of intentional) fire.

So, taking out the oil tanks was not as simple as dropping one bomb. You probably needed multiple passes. After the first successful pass, all others had to deal with the smoke, and more or less guess where their targets were. Of course, they would have to deal with the anti-air defenses. The second wave already took quite heavy losses, the third wave was guaranteed to incur much heavier ones.

Let's say in the best case scenario, the hypothetical third Japanese wave would have destroyed half of the 54 oil tanks. It would not have made a difference. Only a success rate of 90% would have, maybe.

In any case, that third wave was never planned. See [4] (written by one of hte co-authors of Shattered Sword) for convincing evidence that only 2 waves were planned, and Admiral Nagumo carried them as per the plan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#/media/...

[2] https://pearlharbor.org/pearl-harbors-third-strike-what-coul...

[3] https://medium.com/war-stories/the-one-key-thing-not-destroy...

[4] https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Please, link to the source code of the latest Safari build.