skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admire how pilots are able to communicate so concisely and professionally. No one swore at each other or ranted over the radio. Southwest didn’t drag their feet because they didn’t appreciate FedEx’s tone.

I suspect that higher stakes encourage politeness. A much lower stakes example than the OP: politics at a startup vs. at a big company.
> come with the possibility of indirection at every turn due to not having the distinction between dereference and member access

Most managed languages don’t expose the location of an object, only its semantics. With optimizations (escape analysis), an object can be allocated on the stack and thus only effectively make member accesses. This optimization can be done much more deterministically with value types — if an object looses identity then the runtime/compile time doesn’t have to reason about whether it leaves the function/loop, it is free to copy it in/out of functions as often as needed.

As for preferences, it makes sense in low-level languages, but imo hiding it is the correct choice on a higher level — this is a core benefit of GCs, e.g. your public APIs will be much more maintainable/won’t need refactors because they don’t expose low-level implementation details (where should that argument be stored), only its semantics.
You don't, and not many people do, but the fact is that there are lots, and lots, and lots of people without the skill sets necessary to move to higher paying jobs, so it's still based on supply and demand. Of course, good managers should generate a lot more value than a janitor or a cashier, so there should be more available to pay them. Even if hardly anyone wanted those janitor or cashier jobs, there would still be a limit on what they could be paid based on value created (and indeed, the "labor shortage" you hear about all the time now in those lower paying jobs is due to the fact that not that many people want them but in many cases company owners can't afford to pay them more).
> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable.

I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.
So, if it’s not a jet, it has to be even more energetic than normal, right? Or does it not necessarily have to be spherical?
This is called chrome custom tabs, and there are a number of reasons they are better than webview.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/
Definitely brings back memories.

I used to build small networks including supplying 386 boxes that booted LRP from a floppy to share a dialup internet connection for small businesses or university student houses. A lot were 10b2 internal networks since they didn't need to spend extra on a hub.

Later, I remember choosing a Cisco Aironet 350? PCMCIA 802.11b card over the ORiNOCO (probably on price as I think both had wide compatibility and good power output) to use both in my NEC mobilepro and with a few improvised long-range wifi links. I built cantennas and biquads to get remote access to free and fast university internet....

Also remember trying to get my hands on a Senao 200mW PCMCIA card to squeeze out more range.
It's perfectly possible to say when things happened at Alpha Centauri. Relativity doesn't really start messing with the notion of simultaneity until you're in a different reference frame, i.e. moving at a different speed from the observer you're comparing yourself to. But if the only difference is distance, and you know the distance, you really can just run the speed of light backward and get a meaningful time in your own past for a distant event you're just now getting the light from. Think of it this way: since you're moving the same speed, there's no time dilation between your clocks, so you can safely line up ticks between your clock and a hypothetical clock far away on Alpha Centauri or whatever.

I assume things get a little more interesting at big redshifts, because you really are moving at relativistic speeds wrt what you're observing. I don't know off hand how they handle that. I will say I'm pretty sure the reason cosmologists tend to talk in redshifts is that redshifts can be pretty much directly measured and actual distance is... tricky. If you haven't already looked into the "cosmic distance ladder" you're likely to find it interesting.

Source: we covered this stuff in a college class. My math is very rusty, but I did do the math.
Not who you are replying to. I found your example fascinating - would you be able to share one or two concrete examples of this integration you mentioned? I would like a low-level peek or two into how the teaching landscape is changing in light of the rise of LLMs like chatGPT.
> Communism killed more than a hundred million people in the 20th century

Funny how that keeps being thrown out but nobody really has done a full accounting for the deaths due to rapacious capitalism. I've seen figures of 100 million to 150 million from two World Wars, colonial wars, anti-communist campaigns, repressions and mass killings, ethnic conflicts, and victims of famines or malnutrition. Some accounting says 20 million people die every year due to the effects of capitalism, such as starvation, lack of access to clean water, lack of access to shelter, lack of access to medicine, and unchecked disease. Remember when the pandemic wasn't over and businesses said everyone had to go back to work or the economy would break? Credible counts say there are 16 million empty homes in the US[1] and around half a million unhoused [2].

1 https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/16-million...

2 https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
Technologies develop for different purposes and have different effects. Modern digital technology has a very inhumane origin story, as noted in “New Dark Age” by James Bridle, and other works.
https://jamesbridle.com/books/new-dark-age
A majority of them may be like this, but eventually you’ll meet that one manager that actually seems to care and goes out of their way to help you. Then you’ll realize some people that are looking to be managers are not power hungry narcissists.
Oh my goodness, that pretty much hits every single thing that is wrong with trying to use a Web Browser to do a GUI interface!
Yes. On iOS you can only use the JIT through an out-of-process web browser (WKWebView or SFSafariViewController) so it’s likely Firefox and Chrome would use non-JIT in-process engine (even if that were JSC!) unless the JIT restriction is lifted.
>Do you know of any existing HUD type glasses that could be customized or have an API from a Linux system?

Google Glass, and its many Chinese clones
It's also an extremely niche field, with a very high attrition rate in terms of training, and few people are truly capable of working in that industry. There will be retraining for certain, and a reduction in pay/rank. They certainly do not need to lose their job over a mishap, while an egregious one, it is still a trainable moment.
> measure of usefulness in determining the probability of the Simulation Theory being correct

Based on what? Patterns in language? You have not proven any correlation between your findings and simulation theory whatsoever. You can ignore the scientific method, sure, but without direct evidence of correlation nobody will care. The reason you can't think of a practical way to compute this is because your assumption has no calculable basis.

> but I don't see stuff like this anywhere on the internet

Such a shame the hard, provable sciences are the ones that get traction.

> The logic holds up and the odds of ALL THAT falling into place "just so" by random coincidence

It doesn't fall into place. You put it into place, and you have no deterministic theory of how it works besides "knowing it's right". That's the opposite of logic.

> Please let me know how figuring out the rate of entropy at the edge of the universe affects day-to-day life of the vast majority of people on planet Earth

Science isn't about coming up with the most revolutionary theory of how things work. It's about proving the most feasible answer as correct beyond a shadow of doubt.

> Now what do you have to say?

If I spell "dog" backwards it makes "god". Is it time for a new religion?
And kids had summers off from school not for "vacation", but to work the farms.

Something like 97% of the population worked on the farms in those days trying to raise enough food.

Do you know that women in America use to spend all day in the kitchen managing the wood stove, which was very labor intensive? Any free time they had was spent spinning, weaving, sewing, and mending.

Gas/electric stoves are modern miracles, as are sewing machines, electric refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes washers, dryers, all sorts of liberating machinery. And most especially, indoor plumbing! Who do you think ran out to the town well constantly to pump a pail of water?
A smaller company’s ability to compete is not my problem. But why would I want to give any random web page that I browse to the same access to my computer or phone that I give an app that I choose to download that is much better sandboxed?

And most apps that would be suitable for PWAs are in fact free. How would Apple or Google benefit financially?

Besides most of the App Stores’s revenue comes from games

What happens when either Apple or Google introduce a new feature to their native platform?
I thought I had read something in the past ~6 months implying that performance gap had become less of an issue, but I'd have to dig for a bit to find it. I understand that I should always expect crossing the WASM boundary to be slow.

I'm basically trying to build something that's like a colony sim meets idleRPG. You define a strategy once per day, submit it, and the colony sim chews on the instructions and plays forward. The user can just observe and devise a plan for adjusting their strategy the next day. I think this makes it an especially good candidate for WASM as I can simulate hundreds of semi-intelligent entities and don't ask for responsive user input.

I think there's also benefits with garbage collecting, right? I can avoid GC entirely with WASM but would inherently be subject to it with JS which then pushes me into a more imperative/mutable style of coding in an effort to preserve object lifetimes. I'd really rather stick to a declarative style if I can get away with the performance.
I don’t feel much empathy for Chrome given that they did the exact same embrace/extend strategy with WebKit. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword…
If I invest $100 dollars in very safe investments today, what will it be worth in 50 years? Now, invest in your skills for 50 years, what's that going to be worth?
What do you think US presidents do? It's not that.

(It's mainly foreign policy.)
It's interesting that prompt engineering is such an art right now.

I wonder if these models could be, in the future, be more controlled formally by using the language of maths instead.
The top of the article:

> ‘As bad as it gets without body bags.’

> Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous.

Because the planes almost collided. But the author wants to say more than that. The article covers the “how” things went wrong by analyzing the transcript. The write-up doesn’t answer the key ”why” question —- why are existing procedures and training not suitable?

Safety-critical systems (including procedures and protocols) must be designed to account for wide human variation, including mistakes and miscommunications. Let’s not waste our time pointing fingers at one person.
I don't remember why or how I ever picked up uTorrent, but that's the client I've always used. Thinking about torrenting just now, I realize I used to download torrents much more often than I do these days. I guess that's due to greater availability of video content on the streaming platforms and music on Spotify, etc.? What else do people use torrents for from a consumer perspective? Is there a wider everyday use case that I'm unaware of? Genuinely curious.
I generally agree that humanity is special, or at least unique in its capabilities and desires.

But. We have no ideas what awards octopuses give each other, if any. Their failure to win Pulitzer prizes is no more damning than our failure to win octopus awards.
It appears I did miss a part of the question. My tab count is ∞ because I'm over 99 and tabs are unloaded. At that rate, if I were on a tablet or something, I'd prefer access to TreeStyleTabs or the like anyhow because horizontal becomes a squished mess. I assume the ctrl+tab as well as alt+{1-9} shortcuts still work.
Hear,hear.
Unemployment is at record low levels, that's not indicative of a recession.
It's not just professionalism. It's intentional and codified down to how you pronounce numbers:
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
https://orionfeedback.org/d/2568-noscript-extension-from-fir...
I wonder if you'd apply this same standard to those who criticize politicians.
I wonder how it compares with MicroPython?
I have not done much comparison, as it works fine for me. I could believe that it is slower, but I still wouldn't call in slow. Perhaps my using an adblocker with FF makes it better for me.
I wonder if they're keeping the Keybase team around
> without keying the mic

I’m not following
It will be just called a library then :)
I don't have any particular argument with the sentences you wrote, taken one at a time, but #s 1 & 2 seem to me to be in conflict with 3.

If buybacks are primarily a tax dodge, then any fringe benefits will be lessened as companies return to dividends.

And if we are going to tax similar things equally, then an obvious next target is ETFs versus mutual funds.

But actually reconciling the differences properly isn't on the table, is it? There's just going to be a new tax that sort of goes in that general direction, I assume. Making things even more complicated.
They make desktop-class mobile gpu's, but nothing like the switch. However, they do still make embedded dev kits (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...), with their newest ones running on ampere.

The Jetson nano is the same chip as the nintendo switch, with half the cuda cores iirc.
Even worse AI powered searches? I can't wait to search for something technical.
This just hit the front page https://www.buildt.ai/blog/incorrectusage

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702349
talk to your manager about company culture then instead of campaigning against remote work wholesale then
Let's Speed Up AI
A Limited Interest Article on Employer Value Prop and Hiring
This was a very wordy article that really ignores the true documentary makers that make informative documentaries on a shoestring budget because it's an important topic to them. The corporatization of everything is such a long-tail evil...

If you want just one example, check out this excellent documentary made on a budget of £4k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8&t=1
I like the UI and overall design philosophy, but WebKit seems to be too neglected on Linux to be a reliable experience. The difference in text presentation between GTK/Cairo and WebKit itself was really jarring, and something I'd bet you'd notice on Windows too. That could be fixed with a well-made client, but it's a lot of work that I doubt Apple wants to go through.
I would expect that the "gslp.ps" program included with Ghostscript would be suitable? You can adjust fonts, margins, header/footer, tracking, duplex, and others.
Some combination of social justice and mozilla
I recommend you take a tour of a reconstruction of an 1800-era dwelling and have a good hard look at how people lived.

I toured Mt Vernon recently (George Washington's estate). He was probably the richest man in America at the time. You and I live better than he did.

You seem to think there was all this wealth sloshing around at the time. Nope.
This is so wrong it hurts my eyes.

I encourage you to listen to the Huberman lab podcast - specifically this episode https://hubermanlab.com/dr-andy-galpin-how-to-build-physical...
It adds up quick. I used to feel the same way. But I started going to the sauna-- one hour of that burns 500-600 calories. When you start off it's hard but exercise gets exponentially easier
Yep, that was the aim, I'm just trying to put some stuff out there that helped us out!
wow that tap with us is a cool product

I was thinking about how to make something like that, I'd be curious on its accuracy, will see if there are videos on it

hmm it does not work the way I think it would, I wanted a qwerty layout
'keying the mic' is turning on the microphone

It's very likely they said some less polite words like 'WTF ARE THEY DOING' before turning on the mic and acting all professional
This also seems counterintuitive to a blameless culture. If anything the ATC industry is in need of one.
Without pressing the button that turns on the microphone for transmission
We're only hearing what was broadcast on the radio, but not everything said in each cockpit.
Please consider reading Sidney Dekker's books, The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error[1] and Drift Into Failure[2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...

[2] - https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=3123581163...
No native Japanese are renovating houses, but we’re talking about foreigners who are vlogging from their vehicles. Gaijin do renovate old Japanese houses.
I suspect it's less about depressing worker compensation than increasing managerial compensation. Average CEO tenure is quite short these days, so the incentive is for execs to maximize short-term gains. Layoffs fit in with what I think of as "market sadism". In economically troubled times, CEOs counter fear of weakness by looking tough. (Tough on other people, of course, never themselves.) That lifts the stock price, putting money in their pockets, and hopefully giving them longer at the trough.
Pressing the button on the microphone so that what they say is transmitted to others.
I mean there are, what, millions of independently run companies in the world.

I suppose it’s possible there!s some totally novel idea nobody has tried but which would be hugely successful and revolutionize corporate practices. But I’m very skeptical there is an objectively more successful model just waiting for some company to stumble on it.
Have you ever wondered why, as productivity increased, the number of children per family decreased? This happens consistently in country after country.
Ask HN: What is the best way to Layoff in a small team?
We have a situation. We are a small team of 4-5 people. We have a person who is clearly not a great fit. As a tech lead, I have never fired a person before. What is the best way to do that?

What are some Pre and Post steps? Esp. with the current economic situation, how would it be perceived by everyone else in the small team?
Man, this is a throwback. Nice to see the project is still alive. Does it support thin client setups?

I might have to get the ol’ seed box going again.
We don't have any plan to build other SDKs at this moment.

But it's VERY EASY to build an SDK for iWF so I would encourage anyone interested to build one. I will provide all the support.

A SDK of iWF is very lightweight. It only need to invoke the two WorkflowState APIs from hosting a REST/HTTP service, based on the worker API schema. https://github.com/indeedeng/iwf-idl/blob/main/iwf.yaml#L215

There is no much tricky things inside the SDK that you have to do. For client APIs to call iWF server(the rest of the API defined in the Open API schema), just need to build a wrapper on top of the generated code from Swagger (and it can be optional but it will just make it easier to use).

As a data point, it only took me a week to build GoSDK, including all the tests, by just opening the IntelliJ IDE and also Goland IDE to translate the Java code into Golang.

The whole community including myself will really appreciate it.
The conversation that we hear off the tape is only when the mic is keyed. There was probably a lot of discussion going on in the cockpit when the microphone was not live.
“Hispanic” isn’t an ethnic category. There are Hispanics of mostly European descent, Hispanics of mainly African descent, etc. It’s a clumsy umbrella term, but is vaguely workable insofar as it gestures in the general direction of a set of nationalities with related cultures.

“Asian” is even worse since it refers to a group of people who share neither ethnicity nor culture. It’s a label that is workable only because these unrelated groups share some common experiences in America due to immigration patterns. Even there, though, Indian immigrants and Vietnamese refugees have little in common.
Had a Dell XPS 13 for couple of years. Terrible machine. Switched back to Macbook.
Do we know that? What we do know is the more free market an economy, the more prosperous it is.
What would he call himself then?
I have comment further down the thread discussing it. Biggest one is suing to stop a ballot initiative over guns.
Not useful for off-grid and no battery options.
You're right, I didn't.

Mea Culpa
What a mess. Why hasn’t the IRS figured it out yet? This is a totally foreseeable problem. California gives out refund payments and the IRS hasn’t decided whether they’re going to take some of it for themselves? Outrageous.
Increasing enrollment, and the fraction of students from out of state. Both have increased quite a bit.
He probably doesn't need more stock borrow against if he has billions of dollars of equity already and a seven digit annual compensation. His stock transfers and sales are public information so you can look that up if you want. A cursory search shows that he sold at least 50 million dollars worth, which should cover some daily expenses
I'm curious in this situation if there was a TCAS warning.
So what does Intel Management Engine do when AMT is disabled or not present?