skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one, and only benchmark, I care about is battery longevity.

Not how long battery lasts before needing charge, but how many years it lasts before dropping to say 80% of original capacity that it needs to be replaced or the phone needs to be updated.

Most, if not all, modern phones are performant enough that I won’t need to update for a long time, if not for the battery issues. At least for my use case.
I wouldn't be surprised if they layed off "bottom 10%" in hopes of replacing them with better when the market for IT workforce is cheaper..
Have you ever tried correcting a "real" article? It's easier to write it in the blog comments then open an email with sources but it's not futile.
Battery life (especially idle battery life) and feeling responsive are all I care about. iOS devices have usually done far better on those fronts while having smaller batteries and weaker hardware compared with Android devices, so, yeah, super don't care about it benchmarking as faster than an Android device.

Can I still put it on my nightstand at 10pm with 15% battery and have my alarm go off at 8AM with 8-9% charge remaining? Cool, don't care how fast it benchmarks.
If you aren't a homeowner the facilities are the hard part. Need a large space where you can have a glass furnace and concrete floors that won't get damaged by molten glass. Lampworking is easier to get started in, but still need a place to run a torch (ideally with a vent hood) and store oxygen/propane cylinders.
> but it's awfully hard to find proof.

> Geekbench began as a benchmark for Mac OS X and Windows and was created by John Poole who ran the now-defunct Geek Patrol website, which reviewed hardware and software designed for Macs, and featured editorials and interviews of interest to the Mac community. [0]

Basically, imagine an Nvidia enthusiast writing a system-agnostic GPU benchmark. I'm not as militant about rejecting Geekbench as some others, but you can't pretend the correlation is hard to make.

Regardless though, it's not hard to see Apple being 1-2 years ahead of Samsung's output. If the iPhone is being manufactured on recent TSMC silicon, it will annihilate anything Samsung's fabs are capable of producing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekbench
No. They're required (at this program) to put on shows that have both men and women. La Cage does have female roles in it, but if it didn't (and were forbidden to change that), they simply wouldn't perform it.

It was a mistake to put it on their schedule without nailing down the rights, but that's a mistake theaters make all the time. (We tried to put on a Zoom production of a play during the pandemic, and were told that the broadcast rights are not available. Fortunately we realized that before we got too far in the process.)

The writers get to make their rules for performances. The theaters get to choose what plays they put on.
> How did "traditional search engines" get conflated with "looking for facts"?

What else are they for? Even searching for designer shoes or celebrity gossip is an attempt to search for "facts". Or better put, a search engine offers you a set of hypotheses that it tries hard to keep closely correlated with reality. There are of course some searches that don't have definitive factual answers that are known, and a search engine ends up giving you references to the most popular discussions about it, i.e.:

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+the+universe+a+simulation...
We use this joke at work all the time, any time a Microsoft service is down we call it “Microsoft 359”. It’s the work equivalent of a dad joke.
As someone who grew up in country with such policies it is easy - it creates bad incentives for school cafeterias. They can push quality of food down, because they have monopoly for government food money. So the food is barely eatable, you could buy much better food over the street (or just eat at home), but then you have to pay the full price.

Also it discriminates against people with strong dietary preferences. E.g. if you are a vegetarian, and school cafeteria does not offer vegetarian food, it is no government food money to you.

Also, fair question is not 'free food in school cafeterias or not', the fair question compares equally expensive alternatives: 'should this government money go to parents as child benefits, or to school cafeterias for free food'.
Working in totally different tech stacks should be spun as a superpower. You're a polyglot, not wed to one technology, but can quickly and easily get up-to-speed on the best tool for the job!
Thought chunks of them already were?
Engineering manager, 10 years experience robotics

I had multiple concurrent interview tracks start pretty quickly, and ended up with 5 competing offers. I was lucky to be able to tolerate that many interviews, and it worked out for me. Though I think I disappointed some employers by being honest about how many I had going concurrently.

I moved back to hands-on work as well, which has been really nice.
Naive question: is reduction in energy loss linear with R-value or is there a different relationship? Improvement of R-value by 35% tells me nothing if the function to calculate energy loss does something strange with the R-value afterwards... :)
All I care about is:

* does javascript execute fast

* which video codecs are hardware accelerated
I bought an iPhone 14 pro. Switched back to my s21 within two weeks.

On apple, the animations are slicker, the hardware much better, and arguably the software stack higher quality. The Bluetooth audio quality was noticeably better on every device I used, from old car to brand new stereo.

But the always on display isnt as good, focus modes didn't work quite like I wanted, widgets are less powerful, the notifications UI is inferior, and accessing system settings is more cumbersome.

Bonus: the lightning port is inferior.

So yes. I would love the android software architecture with apple hardware and privacy.
1. Shells are a universal interface from orchestration layers in higher level languages to “do stuff on a Unix node”. Your puppet scripts, dockerfiles, ansible modules, all will benefit from understanding shell.

2. The bash chapter in the Architecture of Open Source Applications is really interesting, one finishes it feeling sympathy for the devs. http://www.aosabook.org/en/bash.html
> Social media has had both good and bad, AI may bring both sides too

AI is nothing more than a bunch of if...else statements so of course it gets things wrong and reveals its weaknesses in unusual ways. It's also mostly a black box where we can't inspect the actual code and dataset used to spit out the answers, so there's no transparency, which is bad.
it's all in the attitude!

"how to fail at something and believe you now understand it"
When the Lusitania sank a) the full-scale world war had been on for the best part of a year, and b) it was two years before the US entered that war.
Ah yes, as if terrorists care about what the law says?
Encryption is illegal guys, let's meet in the cafe/s
There must be something weird about your setup. I have 40k messages in my Inbox & everything is snappy: Mailbox operations complete immediately.
For a company like GitLab, the widespread perception that macro conditions are bad is equivalent to their actually being bad.

The email says that clients are holding off on big software purchases, and that's GitLab's bread and butter. I see no reason to disbelieve Sid on this.

In general this is one of those weird things about the economy, that perception/expectations dictate a lot of terms. It gives me the heebie jeebies sometimes. If enough people suddenly stopped believing that stocks represented real value, we'd be in a lot of trouble.
In a nutshell I think we are in an bubble of climate/CO2 focus.

We look at all the signs that go in that direction(climate apocalypse) and throw out all the ones that that point in the other side.

We are in a feedback loop where more awareness create more funding who find more "evidence" who create more funding.

On the other side, the scientists who express doubts are labeled "deniers" are cast out of their professions, get their funding cut out.

The government get an easy excuse for every problems: climate change ! the media get clicks and headlines, the research get funding, etc.

Going to solar electricity is a good thing, EV too, big fan and investor in all of those. But I think we should focus more on human flourishing and that at the speed of transformation we have (solar panels price) we will be fine with climate.

I like Tony Seba on Solar/Wind/Battery transition of energy and Bjorn Lomberg on the priorities for our world.
Yes, that also. Or it could be an unresolved topic with different possible answers, but how would you know if it just gives you one? If you ask about the measurement problem and it says decoherence has solved it because MWI, then you're getting short changed. There's a lot more to the debate.
> I like the model, but I question long term economic viability of owning that much office space with mostly low utilization and only occasional spikes.

Oh for sure it doesn't make any sense, and is driven solely by the inertia of already having the office space. You'd let it go over time as leases lapse until you're down to just a tiny amount that's facing high utilization.
I'm all for more expensive gas. Oil price doesn't properly factor in externalities and it needs to be much more expensive to incentivize transition away.
It’s disturbing to think that people think human connection is irrational. I guess y’all forgot that that was how labor unions were formed.
Why Qing taxation was so low
> in which I can run my browser engine of choice

Soon on iOS too, to be fair. USB-C to follow most likely.
I wrote a mini tutorial (as a Reddit comment) about how to deal with UID/GID mappings when you run rootless podman and you want a specific container user to write to a bind-mounted directory:

https://www.reddit.com/r/podman/comments/103ut7z/comment/j31...

Short summary:
My best tip is to see if either "--user $uid:$gid" or "--user 0:0" works together with this command:

podman run --rm --user $uid:$gid --volume ./dir:/dir:Z --userns keep-id:uid=$uid,gid=$gid IMAGE

(requires podman > 4.3.0)
In fact there's a potent new theory(1) that human consciousness (and probably all mammalian "consciousness") is just a memory system involving some form of lossy compression. Your sense of awareness happens ~20-50 ms after the memory is created. A lot of life is buffering and filtering, and reading that lossy record is very much who we are. Einstein's brain must have been amazing at throwing away information about the natural world.

(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36178498/
really? a high chance for ALL companies that they are 50% overhired? based on what do you make this call? apart from doom pessimism.
If only the UK had some sort of naval tradition and could send their own ships into the channel to enforce the UK's will, rather than trying to fix the problem by arresting people for saying shit online.

Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the... net. Britons will never be... Hmm, this song will need a lot of changes.
California won’t require Covid vaccine to attend schools
> Uncaught Error: Unsupported operation: Platform._operatingSystem

What in the world does that mean?
I guess if you are used to the security (or lack thereof) and coast-ability of large tech companies, you might be inclined to stick to the big names. However, I've recently discovered how fulfilling startup work is. Ironically, I feel more secure in my current role at a startup than I ever did at big tech. That's thanks a lot to the industry I'm in, but regardless senior devs are missing a lot if they completely discount startup roles.
Building a Lightbox with the Dialog Element
You can have understaffed support dept while having overstaffed other dept. Why someone even needs to explain that to you ?
Government isn't a business. Society is the rules we regularly agree to keep playing. Your parents made the choice to birth you into a society. If you don't like playing by society's rules that everyone else understands results in a better life, then go live in Somalia or an unincorporated territory somewhere.
> Many of these companies ballooned their hiring during covid, increasing at 20%-40% a year (or more!)

Many of these companies grew their hiring at that same rate before Covid too. Only a few (zoom, peloton, etc) really changed behavior due to Covid, and for them it makes more sense.
I legit wish they had any competitors doing the thing they do even almost as well. It's worrisome that there's nowhere to turn if Apple goes to shit (I'm very worried about their growing advertising income) that's not a significant downgrade in overall UX.
They do work together, but I've yet to see anyone in my echo chambers succumb to this.
The main post was about burnout and hype. And I was just trying point out that things really are advancing fast and we are producing amazing things, despite the hype.

Like maybe the hype is not misplaced. There are grifters, and there are companies with products that are basically "IF" statement, and the hype is pretty nutz.

On other hand, some of this stuff is amazing. Don't let the hype and smarmy sales people take away from the amazing advancements that are happening. Just a few years ago some of this would have been considered impossible, only possible in the province of the 'mystery of the human mind'. And yet, here we are, and what it is to be human is being chipped away more every month, and yeah a lot of people want to profit.

Or more to the my main thought, a lot of heads down engineers that are cranking out solutions, do loose sight of how far they are moving. So don't get discouraged by the hype, marketing is in every industry, so why not stay in this cool one that is doing all the amazing things.
> * does javascript execute fast

No, Android phones browser performance is still a joke compared to I phones, which are faster than desktop PCs!(in speedometer)
Researchers operate on money. They write grant proposals to get funded. Those grants typically specify their objectives in such a way that the outcomes are limited to a range that is satisfying to the funder. If you take grant money and come up with results that the grant maker does not like they will not give you anymore grants. This creates a feedback loop in which compliant researchers are fed and independent researchers are starved. The peer review group then gets dominated by those who are good at making the relatively small pool of major grant makers happy.

I work in tech now. I see orders of magnitude more honest debate in software engineering than in academia. On a tech team a Linus or a Steve Jobs can win, even though they may have some personal imperfections, they deliver major products. Winners in academia tend to be those who are best at working the social and administrative game. Questioning the herd is not a viable career strategy.
Years ago I needed to run from time to time a very old version of XCode (2.X while the current one was 3.X). I opened the original icon of the old app in Gimp, turned the blueprint to a red hue, and replaced it. Easy to tell what you have open in the dock!
I feel like Turbo Native has gone under the radar for a while. Would be good to hear more stories of the pros and cons
I've heard it quite explicitly. Acquaintances with diversity/blm/love is love/lgbt yard signs, anti-racist t-shirts, the whole yards will unprompted make blindingly racist statements about Chinese and Indians. E.g. Academic ambition is all "those people" care about...Asians are hoarding all the "best spots" in universities/jobs. "They" must hate their kids. Their kids must be all so unhappy and miserable.

If you present a neutral, non-judgmental, position, it has been surprising me to how so many people will share all their racist views.
This is the more modern insulin analog, insulin aspart (sold branded as "Novolog"). It is fast acting, and has a different treatment approach than traditional human "regular" insulin. Using it incorrectly or recklessly definitely risks a hypoglycemic incident, which can be fatal. Selling this under the ReliOn brand is new, and it is relatively affordable compared to the sticker prices for the branded versions (upwards of $300 for a box of 5 pens, vs. the $73 walmart is offering)

Walmart also sells, and has for a while, "regular" human insulin under their "ReliOn" brand, which is $25/vial. This is an older style of insulin, less flexible and reactive, and requires a more restrictive lifestyle to make it work . Not following this restrictive diet schedule and rules can put you at risk of a hypoglycemic incident, which can be fatal.

There are other kinds of insulin analogs, including a "slow acting" variety called insulin glargine (sold under the brand names Basaglar, Lantus, etc). It serves to smooth the overall curve of blood sugar on a given day. My own treatment regime includes both insulin aspart and insulin glargine. I do not believe Walmart sells any insulin glargine (yet?)

For what it's worth, as an additional piece of information, a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) is another modern tool in the treatment arsenal. They are also incredibly expensive, especially without insurance, but have saved my life several times when I made mistakes or just had bad luck with a dose of insulin aspart, and went very low. Being able to see myself starting to go low, rather than simply reacting when it is too late and I am already affected, is a significant aid.
Wild guess says you're not paying Amazon/Twitter compensation. And thats fine, they shouldn't be your target

It would not be smart of them to accept a lower paying job immediately. A lot of them have life expenses directly tied to the amount of money they're making. Maybe those who haven't found anything for 3 months can join your company, move to a new place, change their childrens' daycare, and do a lot of life changing decisions based on their new income
It was Barbara Rechter (I think that’s her name) who was CMO that changed the name from Jomax Technologies to GoDaddy and spearheaded the logo and ad campaigns. But Bob threw the best corporate holiday parties. All employees and their +1s flow out for 2 nights to Phoenix. One year they rented out Diamondbacks Stadium, had Daddy Yankee and Pitbull perform, and gave away 10+ cars. Fun times
I've never used VsCode, so I'm pretty sure viable alternatives are around
Oh please fuck not again. It's the only fucking client that works with O365 without fuckery ;/
If you use domain-driven design, then microservices boundaries can be naturally drawn at domain boundaries and that will tend to work out pretty well. They should be as big as they need to be to support the domain.

I've definitely seen systems where the general gist was a microservice per data type, without any consideration of how those data types and the overarching domain were organized. And it turned out pretty terrible -- UI calls that were very coherent from a domain perspective blowing up into a chain of 3 or 4 calls to other services to get all the required data.

In reality, there was a primary data type with a few different types of supporting data. So a single microservice serving that primary data type along with the supporting data would have been quite appropriate.
What you don't like collaborating in the excel web app and wiping your coworker's active cell edit from existence by inserting a row somewhere above it? Next you're going to tell me you don't enjoy powerpoint web app randomly changing formatting in bulleted lists when you do something as complex as hitting enter to add a new line.

You can tell where Microsoft spent their energies (outlook, teams, maybe onenote?) and which web app products feel just about the same as they did when they were sharepoint web apps.
As someone who has no carpentry experience but has spent a lot of time on woodworking as a hobby, I absolutely don't look forward to a carpentry job, even if the tech job market goes further south. Jobs take the fun out of your hobby sooner or later, and I have learned that lesson with software development.
I watched a fair amount of basicball in the 80s. Centers didn't get as much credit as some of the more visible positions. He was one of the best at that position, but positions seemed more formalized back then (I rarely remember centers dribbling up the court). Also Kareem was on a team with another superstar who overshadowed him.

The great basketball teams even with their stars required really solid support players in the other roles. They all were pretty good.

Many less 3 pointers (I think Kareem made 1 his entire career). The scoring record seems a lot like a career longevity thing, I don't think I've heard it talked about alot.

As he states in the article, Kareem was very competitive and fairly serious. Basket ball had some real characters (Rodman, Barkley) As a celtics fan, his skyhook shot he developed was really hard to defend against. Against the celtics McHale had a sort of half hook, but it wasn't like that. I remember with friends trying to do that skyhook on the court.

He seems to have that wisdom now that comes with age.
The overlap between people who need speciality coffee, don’t want to take a coffee shop break from work, and can pay for overpriced coffee delivery seems obviously low. In the home market, you’d probably see a parallel phenomenon where people that love coffee also likely enjoy the ritual of home brewing.
Does anyone have any idea how ChatGPT will actually make money? As novel as it is to use with all the "potential" applications, the possible revenue streams don't seem to prop up the recent investments into OpenAI.

We've already been through enough hype cycles in the past ten years to realize "potential" use-cases or user counts don't necessarily produce a sustainable business model. Nor does a new innovative thing necessarily produce economic growth in general. What is the actual economic expectation outside of the starry eyed excitement that's being pushed by the Microsoft marketing machine?
From what I can see, everything you listed applies to most long lived programming languages. I can certainly say the same things about javascript and python.

Your last paragraph really highlights it. Why take this approach? When I need to use something time and again, I take a little time to write a clean, clear, and robust shell script to automate that task. Instead of the one liner in my history, it will usually be around 20 lines in a file.

A shell script should be written in a verbose manner and include in comments whatever notes and links to docs are useful. A good one will serve you well for a long time. I have some I'm still using unmodified for >20 years.
Just asking any mildly serious barista would have got this answer: «I do not want the coffe I prepare be delivered more than a minute after i prepare it, and i do not want it to be bashed around inside a bag!»
The best I can say of thunderbird is it isn't entirely broken, but I'm still looking to move away from it very soon. I need a stable reliable tool, not what TB has become (realistically, what it's always been - not good). Suggestions welcome.
I use an iPhone X (released 2017) and I wish it kept up with modern app performance requirements. The iPhone X doesn't support built-in OCR in images and apps take 1-2s longer to launch than my iPhone 13.

Faster performance today means longer lasting tomorrow.