skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s moving the data around that is slow… and expensive. Getting the data into the data warehouse, then getting it to the processors then moving it around to filter and transform.

Getting your data to the cloud is expensive, but then you can’t do anything with it because distributing it to process in multiple stages is too expensive and you’re already paying so much to keep all that useless data.
The post-personal cloudified system has so many nice advantages, but undeath it all the sad naked truth that you control nor see nothing; everything about you is far off artifice produced in some data center where you cannot see it, you cannot experimemt with it, you cannot adapt or control it.

The cloud is the new mainframe & it robs us of what made the PC era before it distinctly better & neat; it had been a semi fair shake, albeit one that required us also to operate & orchestrate our own small string of machines. But as we got more devices & had so little mini-administratoe wins, moving to centralized cloud was such an easy out.

Alas for us all. Humanity gave up so much for the convenience we won, from accepting other people's neo-mainframes into our pockets.

This article is long AF but has some real gems to it. I really really struggle to disagree with the article's synopsis that Pluton is, alas, little more than a way that other people can have control & dominion over you when you use you computer. It has legit safeties it enables, but it also looks a lot like a not so veiled way to let the cloud/neomainframe do what it wants on your personal computer that you have no say over. There's enormously veiled enormously large forces at play in the computing universe, & as harsh as it is, this article is good base context setting for where, I dunno, say, 2013-2023 have been at.
When I see someone argue from first-hand experience that this is all no big deal, I feel fairly confident predicting that their politics are more or less aligned with present-day progressivism. And within that context, I can believe that it's no big deal to merely repeat the progressive world view that the interviewers want to hear at that moment.

What would change my view on this is to hear someone who has reasonably strong disagreement with present-day progressive stances on education, and nevertheless felt comfortable stating their true beliefs in a DEI statement and was still hired.

> Applicants who can’t articulate a salient position on real issues they will face on the job are rejected for being unqualified

But that is the whole question right there. What is a salient position? If only one world view is credited as being "salient", then it is a de facto political litmus test.
fr. I'd like to see pg repudiate Facebook as he's said a lot of positive things about them in the past and YC partnered with them when he was still running YC. https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combina...
> This is almost universally my thought when I see these lay off numbers. These companies are choosing to keep 250% of their headcount from 4 years ago heading into a recession. Why?

You had me up until the "heading into a recession" part. How can you speak so definitively/in absolutes?
So it went from “it only supports JSON” to “yeah it supports more. I just don’t know if it will actually work. Because I haven’t looked into it’s capabilities”
Far Cry and Shadow of Mordor immediately come to mind as full priced games with microtransactions.
You only need enough to flag suspect content, and then the teacher calls the student in for a quick oral exam - the fakers will flounder, the reals will pass.
The Google Glass backlash (which may well have happened to any AR glasses) has set back practical use of AR in private life so much. It's frustrating, especially because of the splash damage it's had.

What's particularly odd to me is that many people seem to be sensitive about, specifically, cameras in glasses. I sometimes literally wear a bodycam, not subtle at all, and it's mostly ignored, while with no-camera HUD glasses people get nervous that there's a camera there.

I hope that we can eventually get away with stuff like real-time facial ID as an adaptive technology feature - though the only way that will work is if we can get it pretty much invisible. Or we finally get used to all being recorded all the time anyway and stop freaking out about it.
I'm still recovering from the Smithsonian's presentation on whiteness (which I assume you are referencing) that listed white negative traits as things like:

Planning for the future

Delayed Gratification

Self Reliance

Adherence to the nuclear family

Objective, Rational thinking

Hard work being the key to success
Schools have caused many millions more teenagers to have such disorder, is there no impactful work to be done in schools?

In fact, the same research that likely was used to see such an opinion for you about Instagram in fact showed that it was more likely to improve stuck disorders than to make them worse.
> but you definitely seem to have a grudge

Yup. I guess I do. Perhaps I overstated my feelings, but as an art and design teacher such non-truths are the bane of my life.

Almost all 2D aesthetic images (paintings, art photographs or page layouts) feature a region of interest (ROI) sometimes called the point of focus or the center of attention. Indeed, it is difficult to construct an aesthetic image that does not.

The so-called rule of thirds states that this ROI is best located one third across the vertical and horizontal axis.

However, the actual; truth is more complex and more interesting:

1. The horizontal axis ratio is not 1:2 but closer to 1.618. In other words, the golden ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio [1]. For many purposes, one third is close enough to the golden ratio. However, in practice artists/designers tend to actively avoid exact fractions (third, half, quarter, seventh etc).

2. There is a difference between the placement on the vertical axis to that of the horizontal axis. The vertical axis seems to be tighter towards the edge (the bottom edge in a painting, the top edge in a flat design).

3. Mysteriously, there is a slight favoring of the left side over the right. This seems to have something to do with writing direction [2].

My own small-scale field research supports these observations (on 31 art students), as well as the work of a few others (below).

On a personal note... one reason I like lurking in Hacker News is for the precision of thinking that computer and software engineers exhibit. In my own field (fine art) 'received wisdom' is often taken as lore. These non-truths are harder to kill than vampires. Examples:

- Red recedes over blue (in a FG/BG pairing, one will always recede, but which would depend upon which red and blue you employ and how they are used).

- The complementary of red is green (yes it is the perceptual complementary in RYB space, but the mix-to-neutral complementary in RGB space is cyan).

- That the Pointillist painter Seurat employed optical mixing of primaries by placing them in close proximity, like a CMYK printer (he simply did not... there were other reasons he favored small dabs of paint in close proximity).

... I could go on.

[1] Amirshahi, S.A., Hayn - Leichsenring, G.U., Denzler, J., Redies, C.: Evaluating the rule of thirds in photographs and paintings. Art Percept. 2 , 163 – 182 (2014)

[2] Chahboun, S., Flumini, A., Gonzàlez, C. P., McManus, I. C., & Santiago, J.: Reading and
Writing Direction Effects on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Photographs (2016)
The Oldschool Runescape official channel has some lofi mixes and I have been mellowing out to these this past week or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkOMJ7jAjxk
That and the really good managers probably dont much cred at their org since it isnt highly valued.
It doesn’t matter if it adds unneeded complexity as long as it is standardized?

And now you’re suggesting that people use a “simpler” non “standard” implementation?
Only the proportions of the rectangles matter, not their position.
I find it far more plausible that managers are paid more because of the default fiefdom hierarchy that you find in most corporate systems than because of anything inherent to the day-to-day job. CEO doesn’t think people lower on the totem pole should be paid more than them, so they hire people at lower income levels. Same for the VPs and the Directors and the layers of middle management until you get down to the ICs.
As soon as this happens, Google Chrome will be the winner with the other Chromium-derived browsers on phones for iOS. This has also already happened on Android when the user has the choice.

This will just cement the Chromium dominance and the EU has made that worse.

Firefox is no where near competitive enough to unseat Chrome or Safari.
As opposed to "postive". It's the old is-ought dichotomy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem.

Positive claims are about what is true. Normative claims are about what should be true, or rather what decisions we should make. Put another way, positive claims deal only with facts while normative claims deal also with values.

GP is saying that it's the data-scientist's job to give the executive the facts and it's the executive's job to decide what to do about the facts.
> Should all moneys be traceable by the state?

Yes. It has been this way since Babylon. It is a principle of financial civilization.

> should it be possible to transfer 100k to a friend without the government knowing?

Of course not.
If Google Scholar is sunset that would be a great loss for the academic community. When was that feature removed? I have felt reasonably confident in Google Scholar so far because it is already 18 or so years old.
The teapot?

Or, more seriously, Magnetorquers for sat attitude control and stabilization are somewhat obscure given they rely on good knowledge of the earth's geomagnetic field which fluctuates daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer

Maybe Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillators (high precision clocks for gravity and other apps)?

https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/Faculties/Science/Docs/...

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/ipas/our-research/defence-securi...
I wonder. Where were all these detractors, when all the hiring was happening, at record salaries, over the last 2 years?

Did they heap praise on this same CEO, when he hired, provided jobs, record salaries, and more?

Even now, after these layoffs, this same CEO resides over a company worth immensely more, with more employees than 2+ years ago, and at excellent salaries.

So where were the praises before the layoffs? Because that's the logical inverse of the current behaviour. If not, then all these complaints are just immensely hypocritical.
The FAQ https://rs-archive.github.io/faq.html is pretty clear about what they're used for:

> They contain all the various raw assets used in the game (e.g. maps, models, sounds) and the definitions of content like NPCs, Items, and scenery objects.
Ridiculous clickbait title.
I don't think it is an "either/or" here. I suggested market demands as a factor, not as the sole exclusive answer.

Though I think some universities are more susceptible to market demands than others (those with big emphasis on career placement programs or cooperative education internship programs, for instance).

Also, there's a lot of peer pressure between universities and from some points of view many parts of that can also be considered market demands though not the market you thought I meant (who is writing and selling the textbooks and other teaching materials? how expensive for lab computers and students are compilers/tools/IDEs? how many other professors at the school know the language for later classes? how easy is it to hire professors that can teach or accept assignments in the language?).
There was (IIRC the Marketplace tab was all RN) and I suspect there still is.
The way it handled branches and merging was an absolute nightmare. IIRC it did this super weird thing that when you put up a diff from the CLI, it made its own little temporary branch for you. And god forbid if you pushed up your branch remotely, it would get all confused and start diffing against that remote branch. Literally couldn't merge via the UI, the CLI was the only way.

To be fair, the review system was better than GitHub. It's insane that even today, there's no way to tag your team and have them stay tagged. If anybody comments or reviews, they're dismissed. This is an issue that's been open for nearly five years. [1]

[1] https://github.com/community/community/discussions/5289
Went into it a little bit here, I call it recursive journaling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686207

The best way to set it up is using Obsidian with the Calendar and Breadcrumbs plugins.
I am happy with Apple keeping WebKit as the only option. Although it might seem counterintuitive, it is good for competition.

If we aren't there already, we are at a real risk of Blink having a complete monopoly like IE had in the early 2000s.

It's good that web developers need to think about other browsers and not just target Chrome.
>>I did several experiments, and noticed that whenever I produced analysis that was in line with what management expected - my analysis was praised and widely disseminated. Nobody would even question data completeness, quality, whatever. They would pick some flashy metric like a percentage and run around with it.

>> Whenever my analysis contradicted - there was so much scrutiny in numbers, data quality, etc, and even after answering all questions and concerns - analysis would be tossed away as non-actionable/useless/etc.

It's a good sign at the company that I run, anytime our analysts/data scientists come up with metrics that say we're killing it, or that our ideas should bear a ton of fruit, the kneejerk reaction is to be extremely skeptical of the results. Usually they're still right.

When the data scientists say we're fucking something up, we tend to pay a lot more attention.

Only the paranoid survive, after all.
My comment will not help the OP based on what they are looking for. For others who don’t like standard gyms there are many types of gyms that have very different vibes. CrossFit, Starting Strength, and Brazilian Jujitsu come to mind quickly. These I have found are much more social and supportive than the standard gym format.
Well you're adding a human to the equation at every step with AI.

Its not like AI are conscious on their own, the way lets say dogs can be.
For Gmail, perhaps — I think that’s one of the best cases for push notifications on the web — but YouTube basically comes down to whether you need large offline storage and search is a non-issue.

One thing I noticed about both Google and Facebook’s apps before deleting them was that in addition to using more battery, both were slower in their apps than using the web site. That was surprising but consistent & a large part of why I ditched them.
‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
It was just a big hand-painted movie poster, which is why it was forgotten. It's not great art. It's not even a great movie poster.
Or, hear me out.. it could be _targeted advertisements._ /s

Seriously though, I'd love to have a wearable adblock. Detect anything that resembles an ad, blank it out. Obviously not while you're doing anything safety critical, but most of the time - good trade.
People forget that games for the N64 retailed for $70+.
Monopolization of WebKit on iOS does not cause competition. You are deluded.
Just ignore it and continue working from home. What are they gonna do - fire you? OK. I only want to WFH anyways so whatever.
Zoomies were impacted.
> many more opportunities for promotion.

Feels like this is generally true in the past few years where org sizes have ballooned.

Is this still true today where hiring freeze and layoffs rule most of these companies? Is the reverse happening?
I recall the same marketing, cable was going to be TV without ads… because you paid for it.
Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses)
I don’t think dropping the lowest 10% of developers is hurting your output. It might even raise it.
FBiOS is almost certainly the biggest and most complicated mobile app in the world (edit: perhaps outside of Asia, whose mobile app landscape I’m not familiar with). There is a truly dizzying amount of features, different types of news feed stories with different behavior, etc.

Everything described in this article (or at least the parts I have direct knowledge of, which is a sizable chunk of it) was essential to force the thing to continue working at all.

It’s not over-engineering, it’s over-producting: Facebook (err… sorry, “Meta”) is politically and culturally incapable of cutting bloat, making engineering solutions like these necessary.
>Facebook's algorithms fueled the genocide in Myanmar. How many muslim lives is FB marketplace worth?
FB marketplace didn't cause those bad things.
FB has done bad things due to perverse incentives, but for individuals working at the company you can't deny that at least some people can have a positive experience making positive impact to the world.
Stick a fork in them: Intel will never be the force it once was
Since when? I’m on iOS 16.3 and it doesnt support webm
If you tuned out of current events, financial and otherwise, five years ago - in early 2018 - and your 401k was entirely on autopilot in an S&P 500 fund, it looks like your average annual return would've been about 11.5%, annual US inflation was 3.7%, and return after inflation 7.5%. Per year. You can't reasonably expect better.

And practically speaking, the tax avoidance means that's considerably better than 11% in a non-retirement account, but it was too much effort to do the math.

Despite all the pestilence, war, earthquakes, and stuff like that, doing nothing was the smart move again, with $1 or $1 million.

I don't think it makes sense to prepare for a global collapse of civilization because in the event whatever you will reap won't make hardly any difference in how much things suck. You can't eat money, much less use it as a shelter from a global rain of molten rock.

So on principle, regardless of the probability of Armageddon, I don't think one should give up much to try to hedge the end of the world.
there's no fine! all she has to do is stay home and wait to die.

why would she even want to be around other people, when she knows she has an extremely serious and contagious disease?

she is a literal menace to society and that all but voids her individual rights to freedom from fines, punishment, or excessive bail. she had her chance to play according to the rules. she chose not to. now she must pay the penalties. if she infected anyone and they die from it, she must be treated, against her will or not, and then put in prison for an appropriate amount of time.

you can't go around infecting others with tuberculosis and expect to keep your rights, no matter what "excessive" means to you. court opinion is valid and one does not get to say that legal precedent on interpretation of the bill of rights is invalid because you personally disagree with it.

how's that? please think more. not everything is an attack against you.
> nature and technology are not in opposition

No, nature and the "new" man are in opposition. This is precisely why "AI" is seen as a threat in the modern world: because the people who wield it can't be trusted (by others).

This comes down to our philosophical roots: everyone in the world today, more or less, are Christian (or more broadly, Abrahamic) in thinking, with the unshaken belief of a body-restricted self aka "soul". The rigid rules of religion are required for this particular reason: selfish-ness in this understanding does indeed becomes a curse to society.

Classical(1) Indian (and perhaps Egypt-Greece) philosophies have long understood the limitations of this thinking and destruction (and strangely, also prosperity) it leads to. More than this, the 'ditya' thinking is very obviously wrong, in much the same way that economics' usage of homo-economicus is.

(1) "Classical" because most Indians (and Asians broadly) are epistemically closer to the West than to their ancestors. The West mostly uses Indian traditions superficially for the inflation of their already inflated egos.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here but that last part is only if you trust the model and data coming out of the AI. Many of the conspiracy minded people I know would flat out say that it is obviously programmed to say what the goverment wants it to (or whatever flavour of argument it is this week)

In short, while individuals in our community might understand more about the underlying process, I'm not sure it would be accepted as more credible to those already skeptical of anything that goes against their opinion?
¥8M is common now and I know plenty of people with salaries going for over ¥10M, but very few go over ¥20M and even less for ¥30M.

I would suggest you to re-evaluate your market opportunities if you are an Engineer getting paid ¥5M in Japan.
The ballon is gonna times person of the year
Or they could put on their work boots and go walk around the field and kick a few dirt clods, or science forbid! put a hand in the soil to check the moisture content.
thanks, I wondered that, too. I actually did a find on "year" and of course came up empty.
Relative Affordability of U.S. New Homes Holds Near Record Low
What? It is an excellent system. If you do not optimize as such, then the company implodes and dies.

How is this a "terrible system"? What is the replacement system, if so?

Should companies ... what? Provide make work projects? Build things the market will not support?

Or should companies just sell shares, then use the money as a form of welfare. Turn companies into a way for people to donate, so engineers can make 10x what the average employee does?
Me too, I'm still using one and it's great.

I think my last three phones have been Samsung, and all of them have been good.

I won't be with them for my next phone however, unless they return the headphone jack.
Basically every JIT javascript engine now use W^X protection by default. So it is probably a non-issue. I think the problem is 'does apple even allow you to toggle the w and x bit?'.
> I didn't know that there was a FreeCAD Day!

Being the first one, and with some concern about limited space, we did not broadcast it super-widely. With good reason, too, since it was packed.
All my daydreams are disasters.
To be fair even ancient Romans used to meddle around with reducing gold and silver content in their physical coinage, resulting in the crisis of the 3rd century. And Spanish silver bullion was too bad...

But yes. Much better than limitless fiat being summoned from the void.
That's going the wrong direction. Cash should be eliminated as it is a flawed method of accounting for credit/debt.
A Nintendo-owned company does.

Game Freak develops them.
I worked for a company that made customers send units in for an ‘upgrade’.

The upgrade consisted of popping open the case to pull an SD card out and update a text file with a list of enabled features. Could be a few grand in new features after the ‘upgrade’.

I can only imagine a few technicians figured this trick out on their own.
Typed-Untyped Interactions: A Comparative Analysis
I got to #2 with https://epub.to

It got tweeted a bit by some people, and used quite a bit.