skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do they do "improvement in speech perception"? I can certainly see that this is the most important quality of life improvement, but did they first do any more basic testing such as hearing sensitivities across frequency? I ask because sometimes I'm not interested in hearing people better than I am in hearing music better. :-)
Maybe his influence would fade away anyway and he sold it at its peak. Just like “Draw Something”.
> You got this entirely backwards.

I did not: I am fully aware of this fact. However, while the majority of people in China may support a war with Taiwan, many will not. What will happen to those that oppose it? Will they be allowed to protest in the streets, or will they be brutally repressed? I know where I'd put my money.

As to everything else, China should be commended for bringing so many people out of poverty. But authoritarian regimes are not sustainable. Give too much power to one man, and he almost invariably gets it in his head that he is the state, and starts repressing, pogromming, and dismantling any person or institution that gets in his way. (Observe that Xi has already eliminated presidential term limits.)

I was born in Russia. The Soviet Union brought many millions out of poverty, including some of my direct ancestors. Was it all worth it in the end, though? I'm not so sure. The sins of the Soviet government ruined millions of lives and lead the country to where it is today: a crippled, fascistic, frothing-at-the-mouth oligarchy. Perhaps that's what's in store for China in the future. I really hope it manages to avoid this fate, but I'm not optimistic.
I'd definitely choose the money there
Not all that much more so than in a substantial proportion of other countries with far more powerful unions, and which often have multiple unions represented in the same companies.

Most places have thresholds to be met before an employer can be forced to recognise a given union. It's not unusual for that threshold to be 50% per unit and for people to still opt to stay members in a minority union, which you can in the US too.

The main way the US distinguishes itself in terms of unionisation is by low union membership, and as such the lack of significant minority union locals in the US is more a factor of few people joining a union unless they'd be paying agency fees anyway.
Always remember to mind the y-axis and scale when looking at and thinking about graphs. They can be deceptive even without meaning to.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=grow+wary&year...
I don't know what GRAD is, but Ben Horowitz [1] said it best:

> Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture.

[1] https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceo-wartime-ceo/

(credit to the person on the other thread who cited this article)
I do think that podcasting is ripe for disruption and a great candidate for a "super app" that can end up being people's go-to to listen to podcasts and be exposed to new ones.

Spotify did literally nothing to actually support podcasting as another vertical--which it 100% is. Podcasting isn't just "music" and it's a profound misunderstanding to believe that it is. It's honestly embarrassing that their biz dev people were like: "just buy out Joe Rogan, that should do the trick." To this day, I mostly listen to podcasts on YouTube. Spotify doesn't have transcripts, scrubbing, chapters, discoverability, "shorts," etc., etc. I run an open source Spotify player[1] and their API doesn't even have a podcast type/category (lol, they are actually "music videos" in the JSON payload). It's like podcasts don't even exist.

[1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/
Brevity is difficult.

It takes me a lot longer to write small code, than big code (CTRL-C -> CTRL-V).

A big part of my refactoring, is looking for copy/pasta, and trying to do things like refine base classes or protocols, and whatnot.
I never understood how companies worth billions can fumble having the most basic features across all of their platforms. For example, Spotify's desktop UI for podcasts: on mobile, I'm able to look at my liked podcasts and have a chronological list of the newest episodes across all of them. On the desktop app, that entire feature is missing. I have to check each individual podcast on the desktop app to find new episodes. It's such a frustrating experience and it's been like this for years.

Also, my understanding is that you cannot purchase podcast subscriptions on Spotify. One of my favorite podcasts "Serious Trouble" (previously All the Presidents' Lawyers) moved to a subscription model to unlock longer episodes, and it seems crazy to me that I cannot just pay to subscribe through Spotify. Instead, they publish those podcasts through Substack, which seems like such a missed opportunity for Spotify.

Separate from podcasts but another Spotify annoyance: Spotify (recently?) added 'enhanced playlists' that auto-adds songs to your Liked Songs. I actually like this feature. But those auto-added songs do not appear on the Desktop app, so I can only use this feature if I exclusively use my phone to stream music. I can't imagine what the internal justification for not prioritizing having the same features across platforms.
Are you implying that "aircraft carrier balloons" had to be long to accommodate a runway on top?

This is not how they worked. Instead, planes were launched and recovered from the bottom of the balloon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_F9C_Sparrowhawk
Compare how often Pakistan is mention in r/India and how often India is mentioned in r/Pakistan.
Juries, perhaps?
You can try some out here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzy

It's even lazier than I imagined. ChatGPT is super popular, I feel like everyone already knows they can just do this themselves without going through Buzzfeed. I don't understand why they think this will be successful.

Also, even the output is not very good. I did this rom-com one (https://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/ai-romcom-quiz), and it seemed to get confused and treat my romantic interest's most attractive feature as my endearing flaw. I don't think they've tested these prompts very much.
Musk and SpaceX parting ways would be great, imo.
TurboTLS: TLS connection establishment with 1 less round trip
The barrier is very low. If I have to go to Spotify to get your podcast, unless I’m a huge fan of you specifically, there are hundreds of others on the same topic. I suspect many people open their podcast app and just add some popular ones, or search for topics they’re interested in, and go from there.
Hyundai, Kia to update security on millions of vehicles after TikTok challenge
> is even Fox News reporting on that?

There was a segment by Hannity and Tucker Carlson about this yesterday which I found on Youtube.
I used to think commit messages were important. Now I don't, or more specifically I believe the importance should be shifted to ticket titles.

In the workflow I was introduced to all commits backing a PR get squashed and merged with the commit message for that merge being the ticket number and title of the ticket the PR resolves.

This creates an incredibly clean commit history that is easy to trace back to tickets and their associated work items (like product docs). It also frees coders from any burden of writing good messages as they progress.
Then why did Twitter displace RSS readers for the Web?
You touched on something else I wanted to mention - that there is nothing wrong with a peacetime general as long as you're not at war. Your point about Patton is spot on, he needs a war or his style is too much.

I see this in startups. The people/leadership you need to go from 0->1 are often not the same people to go from 1->N.

To bring this back around to Google. People are talking about the CEO, but does Google have the rank and file ready to go to war?
A nice video review of KDE Plasma 5.27 by Nick from The Linux Experiment https://tilvids.com/w/cca9c89d-4c21-499a-aa3f-08fb8af0a4c6
This is an extremely flawed way to structure a society. In what messed up world does the CEO of a company have more responsibility to some armchair drugged suit-people eating Michelin food on high-rises in Manhattan than the actual billions of people who use the product on a day to day basis, and the tens of thousands of people who work half of their lives to deliver that?
>I wonder why?

Some guesses.

People didn't historically pay for talk radio. (OK, Serius in part. But that was always a pretty narrow slice.)

A lot of podcast content is pretty niche and not especially mainstream. Not sure how easy to monetize outside of advertising/sponsorships.

It started out very grass roots.
> .NET 6 seems to be different to .NET Framework and different to .NET Core in the way it handles even simple things like namespaces, using declarations and other language features.

Those are C# language features, not necessarily .NET 6 features:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...

"global using" is a code readability regression, so I wish it had not been added and I'd recommend against using it.
> It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens.

Borrowing from the world of Finance: past performance is not a guarantee of future results :-)
Ok, yes, people said both of these things, but `Sundar doesn't react fast enough` is the correct take. That's the side Google's institutions heavily skew it towards. In fact, the "it's no where close to perfect" take is exactly those institutions in action pushing against Google shipping quickly.
Allegedly North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
This is my current list of complaints. If I'm wrong about anything and there are settings that I can change, enlighten me.

Copy + Paste sucks and isn't consistent. On my machine, if you copy a message, it includes a header, indicating who said it and when. I can't change this behavior in settings, and, infuriatingly, this doesn't happen on other people's machines in my organization.

My biggest complaint is that the screen sharing functionality is broken in surprising and interesting ways. Let me count them.
One: I cannot always reliably control another person's machine.
Two: When I type on another person's machine, the input is in the controlled machine's keyboard.
Three: when I hit a hotkey (ctrl+n in Excel for a new workbook) when I am controlling another person's machine, the hotkey fires twice: once in the controlled application, and once in Teams itself. Again, there is no setting for this.
Four: I have at least one person in my organization whose Teams freezes when you try to remotely control his machine.

Lastly, I have Teams on my phone and on my work laptop. Calls ring on both devices. I have no desire to ring on my phone and AFAIK there isn't a setting to force it to ring only on certain devices.
> Would you say all optimizations are worthless because they're not guaranteed?

Context is relevant, the context here is language semantics, not things going faster.

TCO is fine to make things go faster, like inlining, unrolling, LICM, ....

TCO is hot garbage when you rely on it for program correctness.
I made something similar here:

https://github.com/programmarchy/git-gpt

Hardest part is writing the correct prompt. Your prompt looks better!
Better to be a labelled conspiracy wingnut, as someone who maintains justified suspicion of those who hold power in our society (media, corporate barons, politicians), than to be too trusting and assuming all is well.
i think if you export to a bitmap then you at least have a fighting chance. The bitmap format is simple enough that you could probably use a hex editor to read the header segment and be reasonably sure you understand what is tagging along with the file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format
But something something blockchain.
Of all news outlets that shouldn't have access to AI, it's the Buzzfeeds of the world.
Microsoft had a launch and that's what counts
I did a similar project for League of Legends: it uses AI (davinci-003) to act like a dynamic in-game announcer that talks to you you based on your performance in-game. [0]

As someone who made this as a sideproject, I can totally see how if you have a team of people behind a project for a game like Morrowind you could go deeper and create whole narratives and quest systems around these "ideas" - without the need for 10s of voice actors and game-modders

Quite fun for those who like, have been playing the same game for 10+ years!

[0] https://youtu.be/tdONZF9iktY
Some anecdatum: I stopped listening to Rogan's full podcasts when he moved to Spotify because I'm sometimes interested to listen but not enough to download a new app, sign up for a new account, etc. Bootleg (and official, I think?) accounts post his clips which I watch sometimes, I notice they have 100s of thousands or millions of views. I assume Spotify was expecting to capture all those views. If Rogan clips disappeared from YouTube I just wouldn't watch it.
A bit of extra context, that's $8.8/hr for the 40GB A100's

The 80GB A100's will run you $12.0/hr for 8 of them.
I am also confused about the "spatial disorientation" argument, I'm not a pilot but I know there's a good reason there's a primary flight display with an abundance of information(including vertical speed, indicated airspeed and pitch) on the 777 which should've given pilots enough indication about what's going on.
I think of this a lot whenever I hear people complain the world is too luxurious. I mean really people do have the option to live in more squalid conditions but they seem like they'd rather wax poetic behind their keyboards. It smacks of insincerity.
this is kinda true, but only if you say, "In the short term". In the long term, things are recursive - poor employee morale loses productivity and product quality suffers and customers leave and shareholders lose. And that is only one of many loops.

A CEO may appear to be rewarded in the short term, and may make short term choices, but, rest assured that they must please all 3 constituencies or they will not have a long run timeframe to worry about. (of course, boards and ceos make mistakes and act poorly and suffer the consequences, too).
You can’t single out moving to Spotify as the cause because there are two other confounding factors - moving to Texas and his reaction to everything around Covid.

And even if it was because of Spotify… well, that’s what the money is for - they paid him enough to be okay with it.
> Well, your example is not a generic closure, since inside `adder`, you already have a generic type `T`; it's introduced by the `fn` keyword. If we try to do the same for a closure, we would face a type error. This issue has been discussed on SO [1].

Of course it's generic. If you were to write the type out for the closure, it would be generic over 'T'. (Whether that type ever actually gets written out that way or not is a different matter.) As far as I can tell, what you're saying is that Rust doesn't support higher-rank polymorphism. Which is true (for types, but not for lifetimes). But that's not the same as "generics don't work with closures."

> I haven't claimed that closures are not working

You've said:

> Closures in Rust are fundamentally broken.

(which was completely unqualified and not to a "very limited set of circumstances")

and (emphasis mine)

> But I can basically demonstrate other language features that are not working with closures, such as generics
The author doesn't endorse the diagram, he presents it as an example of the globalist idealism that he believes events have discredited
I'm not sure this statistic tells us much. It'd be more interesting to compare something like teen alcoholism rates vs legal drinking age. For all we know an age requirement may very well lower alcohol abuse rates. Besides, I really don't see a reason not to restrict it - should we just legalize alcohol for all ages? I think not, because what we have right now most likely does not hurt. Same logic for porn.
Plus, what kind of strategy is it to antagonise every single large player in the industry.

Apple and Amazon are friendly to each other. Microsoft and Facebook have been longtime partners despite Microsoft owning Linkedin. but Google manages to enter everybody’s industry and fail.
Good for managers, bad for engineers. Maybe good for the company, I don't know.
A combination of churning the app constantly and focusing on analytics, I think. “Well, not many of our users use the desktop app, and only 15% of the users make use of the feature.” In a vacuum that looks great, but many long-lived products are successful precisely because they cater to every possible need you could have.
My experience is that AI is generally better than humans at _syntax_. Leaving a word out seems to be exclusive to (rushed) humans.
You can download the official .NET debugger but its license only permits you to use it with VS and VSCode.

Luckily, there are various third-party debuggers available. E.g. from Samsung (MIT licensed) and Jetbrains (proprietary for their IDEs).

https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg
HN comments on this article (7 days ago, 127 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34683545
It worked for SiriusXM, paying a handful of celebrities big money to stream exclusively on their platform. So replace live radio with radio recording, it should still work

The fact it didn't for Spotify doesn't say anything about the potential of recorded radio making big $$$, it just means they didn't sign the right deals
Even though Windows 98 was an overall long-term success, the blue screen that popped up during their live demo left a memorable impression, and arguably led to a significantly slower adoption.

Wikipedia that describes this as such [0]:

> ...when presentation assistant Chris Capossela plugged a USB scanner in, the operating system crashed, displaying a Blue Screen of Death. Bill Gates remarked after derisive applause and cheering from the audience, "That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet." Video footage of this event became a popular Internet phenomenon.

In a subsequent paragraph about the sales Wikipedia says:

>In the first year of its release, Windows 98 ... had a market share of 17.2 percent, compared to Windows 95's 57.4 percent

And it's definitely not just me who still remembers this. There's for example an article from the Register reviewing it 20 years after [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98?wprov=sfla1

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/20/windows_98_comdex_bso...
I got a rewrite for Matrix3x2, Matrix4x4, Quaternion, and Plane in for .NET 8 as well.

It should provide up to 48x perf improvements as compared to .NET 7
> Programmers want to write fast apps. But the market doesn’t care.

That's partly because Moore's Law, Dennard Scaling, ... meant that our apps were going to get faster next year regardless. Intel had better marketing than Joe Programmer. So Intel got paid.
In the Indian public discourse Pakistan does not get much airtime as it used to even 15 years ago, there aren’t simply that many border tensions or terror attacks as there used to be and people care lot less, few enough remember the partition or have close relatives on the other side still alive, the emotional connections are all gone .

Pakistan enjoys more political stability in the last decade not withstanding recent drama with Imran khan compared to how it was for most of the last century under military control.

The junta was in power till late 2010s , they still hold a lot of influence over politics of course but don’t really fully control it as they did last century .
As a user, I'm pretty irritated by Spotify's "Let's shove podcasts down your throat, whether you like it or not" approach. I can't turn them off. I just want music. It is actively harmful to spam podcasts to those with AD(H)D-like tendencies.
It’s just Hyper-V itself deleting and recreating switches & vNICs. It’s the same root cause as that issue where your Ethernet adapter gets a “(2)” or “(3)” tacked on, like in this (3rd) issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/326293/h...
As I understand it, licensing music in Spain is very different in the UK - in Spain you need to license individual songs, whereas in the UK you pay the Performing Rights Society for a single licence to play any recorded music. Which is why, with all due respect to the Spanish side of my family, Spanish discos tend to be wall-to-wall chunda chunda, whereas UK discos generally play pretty decent music (depending on the individual taste of the DJ...)
What numbers are you referring to?
> Physics never does an about face. Whatever new physics is out there must be compatible with the physics that we know and use today.

According to who? How is that compatible with the history of physics?
M1/M2 chips

Moving to a completely different architecture is a big deal, launching their own architecture is an even bigger one. I am astonished at how readily it was accepted, how well it seems to have delivered (I don't own any of their newer products yet), and how smooth the transition seems to have been for OS users and software vendors.

It's a huge deal, far more interesting than individual products like the watch or earbuds (successful though those are, they're not paradigm shifts).
That's not important and this ain't the place to ask otherwise they'd have told us.
Usually just replacing capacitors
"Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge" is the original title. i did my best to preserve it.

one thing that irritates me about this is the keyword "forced". This issue started in 2020, with numbers going up to nearly 20 cars stolen per day. Seems like a very slow and labored response to such a terrible problem with their cars.
> It seems to constantly follow the pattern of people saying "It's not that bad" and then only years later do we actually see the horrific health and environmental effects

Yeah but most of the time the panic spread on social media actually does get it wrong.

I am familiar with nuclear matter and the amount of insane social media post about any little nuclear thing is pretty crazy and have no scientific bases.
Twitter is a different thing.
Ideally a US-Canada or a France-Germany kind of coexistence, but realistically probably more like Nepal, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka (close but tense relations due to local level political populism).
Oops, I’m sorry. I was thinking of Daniel Chandler[1] not David Chapman.

[1]:http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/tecdet/
Has anyone encountered a performance review system they did like? It seems like they are a huge time suck and don't do what they are meant to do.
tears up your degree for your comments being against "professional ethics"
Agreed! the move from 2.x to 3.x was pretty easy, but going to 6.x was painful, and why have a LTS that lasts only slightly longer than the follow-on 7.x version? Half of each cycle we don't know if we should update, to which version, or just wait.
I guess information processing has tipping points similar to matter.
IMO it's unfair to blame the developers. Almost every developer I know loves working on performance stories. It's one of the few times we get to use our deeper technical and algorithmic skills and get a clear metric to optimize for. However, businesses are reluctant to prioritize that work and get impatient when they don't see new "features". I worked on a project where PMs would constantly complain to me about a particular admin page being slow. I wrote a ticket for them that would implement some optimizations (simple pagination and SQL optimizations) and asked them to prioritize it. They had time to complain every chance they got, but the ticket never got prioritized. I eventually got so sick of the complaining that I just took a Saturday morning and did it.
I was so annoyed by them forcing podcasts down my throat that I left the platform. Sample size of one, but give me a break people! Make it a separate tab in the app at least. Makes you wonder if this tested well with a bunch of users that aren't me or if they didn't even test with a user!