skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accurate and stable are relative. He wasn't geocaching or even trying to figure out which of two streets a few dozen meters apart to turn on. He needed to know which direction to go to get back to his car miles away. Any GPS fix would work, even if it was very rough and 50m off which it probably wouldn't be since he was out in the open with only some hills to deal with.

GPS would have been fine. He wasn't even minimally prepared to use it.
The best daily standups I ever had went like this:

Everybody is physically standing up, in a place where there are no computers.
Going around the circle, everybody answers three questions:

1. What did you do yesterday?
2. What will do you today?
3. Any blockers?

Any long discussions were tabled until the standup was finished. It took about 5 minutes to get through a team of 6, and was a great way to kick off the workday. On Zoom, you can't get quite the same kind of effect. But you could still keep it short, and you could leave your ticket-board out of the meeting.

I find that the no-Jira standup is better, because it makes people more honest about what they've actually been doing. They don't feel the pressure to fit some kind of Jira narrative, and will instead just talk freely about whatever's on their mind. Much better from a team collaboration perspective.
I've been on "all" sides of that table, and I've had teams where I had to force daily calls to get people to stay focused, and teams where I could chase people individually, but the aggregate amount of team members time I've needed to spend to stay up to date have tended to stay relatively similar.

Key thing being, if your standup is a large proportion of the time you spend closing those feedback loops, it's likely your standups are much to long or your one on one follow-up may be on the low side. But there are also all kinds of exceptions - a team of very senior people who know each other can often do with less, for example.

Lest you think I like meetings, one of the most effective "meeting killers" I put in place at a past team was a weekly report where I got HR to give me average salary numbers across the different job functions and added up the salary cost per work item, with meetings broken out.

The number of meetings plummeted when people saw the opportunity cost in dollars as a proportion of salaries to put a dozen engineers in a room for an hour. I absolutely loathe pointless meetings. But it's important to be aware of what function a given meeting actually serves before deciding whether or not it's pointless.
Of course you are guilty of putting others at risk of catching your virus, and you seem perfectly aware. Did you tell them that you were possibly infectious? If this is some kind of joke I don't understand it.
The HTTP verbs don’t support RPC unless you violate their specified operations. Add DO to GET, PUT, POST, PATCH and DELETE along with expanded response codes and I’m good.
What to Do When You Get a B2 503 (Or 500) Server Error (2018)
Do you have data on how big or small this problem is? (Not opinion pieces, but data).

I am sure there must be some relatively objective data somewhere on this.

Edit: Ah yes, here come the downvotes as we can’t ask for data on a source of easy virtue signaling :)
EU and the US would not accept a merger in the first place.
chrome on android has a load of crap on it, news item you might be interested in etc
Again, I recognize that this is a "to each their own" situation, but I don't relate to this at all. I know when I'm stuck and I know who to ask (or who to ask who I should ask) and I have good asynchronous communication tools where I can ask people things without immediately interrupting them.
To add to that, while DNS is centralized at the root, that centralization is unavoidable if you want to have human-readable addresses that consistently resolve to the correct recipient. And each TLD is (at least the ccTLDs and the old gTLDs) managed by a government or international organization acting on behalf of governments, which in turn (at least in theory) act on your behalf. While this system is not perfect (see e.g. the US governments history of seizing domains) it is almost infinitely better than most other communication mediums on the internet where the single company operating it can kick you out more or less for arbitrary reasons and without recourse.

That alone makes this system precious enough that any pains from running your own mail server are IMHO worth it if it means that we can preserve Email as we know it - as a federated system not under the control of a single or a small number of corporations. Unfortunately, Email is at risk. For a lot of people it is already synonymous with Gmail and while Gmail is hardly the worst when it comes to deliverability (IME that crown goes to Microsoft) they do control enough accounts that they can pretty much nuke your little server if they want to.
Yea and that's the funny side, in UK you will find people trying to walk up mountains in trainers or crocs.

However in the UK you are less likely to find someone hiking with a crossbow, flares, military rations and some vitamin pills, and still get lost at the car park.
It isn’t clear to me from the different articles on this; does RTO apply even to fully remote employees that live far from any Amazon office? E.g., does an applied scientist in North Dakota have to move near an office or resign? Can a VP make exceptions? And if required to relocate, what is the time period to do so?
He literally said he's white.
You're right, it's about what it conveys to the observer.

Everyone seems to be so focused on art being a matter of hard work, it's not, if it where, a lot of abstract artist wouldn't be selling paintings.
Enterprises would rather stick with Microsoft probably
It might be reasonable if he was overly prepared for every eventuality, but who goes hiking with a machete but not a map and compass?
The article has no information on what this statement means. I'm sure TSMC hasn't just walked away from their other customers like NVidia and AMD.

TSMC is still in process of ramping up production of their 3nm process (the article mentions they'll reach 45,000 wafers per month by March), so the only sensible reading of this statement seems to be that Apple are getting first X months (where X is unspecified) of production capacity until capacity has ramped up.

It'd be interesting to try to correlate this 45,000 wafers/month number to Apple sales. The only readily available info I could find is that these are 12" wafers and will cost ~$20,000 each. I'm not sure how many good die Apple are getting out of each wafer. So that's about $1B/month apple is spending on CPUs apparently.
Is anyone aware of a Chrome extension (or other spyware) that uses the macOS system clipboard to steal WhatsApp data?

I recently had an incident where WhatsApp Web was open in a tab in the background in a different browser window to the one I was actively using. I received and replied to a message on my phone. So imagine my surprise when I went to paste what I had previously copied from a web app in one Chrome tab to into a textfield in another, both in the active Window, to find that what was pasted was the second last message that I had sent in WhatsApp on my phone.

I have since deleted my Chrome profile at a system level, and the only extension currently installed is a well known password manager, but it bothers me to think what could have caused this aberrant behaviour, and whether there's something still installed on my system that's stealing data.
Outrageous.

I don't know why they'd follow Ubuntu, as long as the Canonical philosophy exists in this space, Linux will never grow an inch.

I'm thankful to canonical for bringing Ubuntu where it is today but let's be honest, they've constantly been making weird decisions.

Please stop and go take a look at ZorinOS, that's what a mainstream distro should look like!
If iMessage is such a killer feature, why hasn't Google developed their own alternative?
I am Indian-American (born into a brahmin family if that matters) and personally haven't noticed casteism, barring the occasional idiot in our communities. Having said that, we (Indian-Americans) should be open to criticism and scrutiny. We are a very successful lot - arguably the richest immigrant group in America - surely we can be secure enough to confront some of these bad things. We need to stop being defensive and touchy about such charges.
Even though technically, angling your car into a tight space is easier if you do it in reverse, at this point the space is so small that it would be difficult to open my door anyway.

I always go front first into a perpendicular parking space because this offers me the best visibility advantage against the very real possibility of denting my car and others when going in.

Getting out is comparatively easy, just go slow. And I have yet to encounter a situation where other drivers are not extremely careful and easily yielding around potentially backing up parked cars.
Using the logic in this case, wouldn't almost anyone who needs to be rescued have created their own emergency out of negligence or recklessness? I mean, being unprepared for either the conditions or the emergency is pretty much the definition creating your own emergency. Also, WTF does not having a first aid kit have to do with this? It doesn't seem like it would have helped anything in this scenario.

Setting the fire like that was reckless. I wonder if he could claim temporary insanity due to the medical state he was in. Heat injuries can have a mental impact.

"Setting fires was illegal regardless of the circumstances"

I'm not sure this is the whole picute. Isn't there a legal concept that you can break the law to prevent a further harm? Like speeding on the way to the hospital. I'm betting if he set a distress fire in the fire ring, they wouldn't be after him. So that might be misleading.

Anyways, my biggest takeaway is that you can make a mistake and be completely fucked for the rest of your life. It's safer, legally, to just stay inside and not participate in anything due to legal risks. As perverse as it sounds, it almost seems the hiker would have been better off dying and let his estate sue everybody. At least it seems the legal system prefers it that way.
This is like coming up with a criteria for sandwich/non-sandwich. There is a strong social distinction between an anonymous adult person on the internet and a your church's youth pastor. Maybe they both do what they do for the explicit purpose of preying on children, but people would consider one a stranger and the other an acquaintance. No one would call an adult man preying on children online a "friend." Maybe the distinction for an acquaintance is that there is an original relationship between predator and victim that would be appropriate were it not for the abuse. There's nothing appropriate about a grown man messaging little girls online.
Next to Greenwich Park, there's Vanbrugh Park, Vanbrugh Park Road, Vanbrugh Park Road West, Vanbrugh Fields, and Vanbrugh Hill all in ~100m radius.

Also Vanbrugh Castle as a house name within the same radius but, obviously, isn't on any of the aforementioned roads.
You are paying a pretty decent chunk of this for the mac OS too, because you can get similar spec Windows laptop for half the price
At least part of the takeaway here has to be that employees themselves bit as hard on the "Covid=new paradigm" idea as the employers themselves, and that now they are getting burned for it, just like the employers themselves.
If it were, they'd just go for the full 5 days in office. That would be a very easy way to lop off a bunch of folks.
> I only use mail, safari and chat apps so I doubt I can see any difference.

You probably also take photos, where Apple automatically applies some Machine Learning tricks.

And wherever Machine Learning is used, more can be used. One day they could put an entire ChatGPT on the iPhone.
The barriers to entry and constant status maintenance are well worth it and are set up exactly the way they are for good reason. I don't think there are any startups that explicitly address these pain points. It's likely impossible since they are largely policies in or around government.

In terms of waitlists and queues increasing, which is what has essentially been a lack of control and adoption to an ever growing number, I don't think a startup could feasibly rise as a business in order to address these pain points. If anything offering a system solution to a publicly unknown problem that could be adopted at scale is a great challenge and one that could and should be invested into. But the root problem isn't known publicly and/or is too complicated and entirely not software/tech solvable.

I think this is also why the rise of companies aimed at efficiency that are in some way related to these immigration pain points like Flexport(logistics), Rippling(HR), deel(HR/PEO), Stripe/Modern Treasury/Adyen(finance), Exec (coaching),Replit(edu/dev tool) and others I'm missing, continue to gain prominence, funding, and adoption.
Exactly, I hate the policy of paying based on region (I won’t work for those companies)

You’re providing X value, and the company needs to make >X, often by some multiple mX profit so to speak.

My costs are my business, and I shouldn’t be punished for making different life choices.

If remote employees tend to produce a lower multiple, that’s fine. Just provide a salary at the reduced rate. Should be the same everywhere though, imo this is unfair hiring practices

I should add, it’s up to the employee what they’d accept. I had a few awesome job offers from Europe, but they couldn’t even come close on salary. That’s fine, didn’t work out, still respect them as it was the same salary everywhere
It is interesting that Intel suddenly announced that they would be delaying their orders of this exact chip.
I find it depends heavily onto the task. Some let's say "organizational" work (moving stuff around, adding new machines to cluster etcetera) that just requires to be done but not "hard"? Can do for hours, will get a bit slower just coz of boredom. So the first 4 hours are still more effective than next 4 hours but not as much so, especially when I take break in the middle (bless WFH)

Programming or designing something complex to program ? Way shorter. So I usually mix and match
couldn't it do that before they hired them for more in SV?
GNOME's Mutter Drops Legacy OpenGL Driver Support
The question at hand is whether GPT can create new/original ideas, not whether natural language is most suited to model the physical world and its logic. It is sufficiently suited to create a model suitable for communication, to generate new ideas, and to reason logically about the world, as we do without math or other more formal languages every day.

That being said, GPT is also able to generate working code and correct mathematics so there is some evidence he has an internal model of those languages too, and some evidence that those capacities do not strictly require a distinct architecture.
Aren't wildfires very good for forests? There's a bunch of dead matter on top soil and fires clear all that stuff away and let green grow again. I think I read that somewhere.

In Bolivia farmers "chakean" so that sugar cane can grow every season.
ML would have advanced faster if another front-end language had been adopted?
It's not, but it's a corporation not a workers' co-operative.

They'll get someone to do the same thing from Islamabad like Digital Ocean.
Never used LinkedIn.

They started spamming me relentlessly in the early noughties, and I never talk to spammers. They were a seedy, manipulative platform, almost as seedy as Where Are You Now? (WAYN), which was a ghastly sewer.
Section 8 "Heap allocations":

> Heap allocations are moderately expensive. The exact details depend on which allocator is in use, but each allocation (and deallocation) typically involves acquiring a global lock, doing some non-trivial data structure manipulation, and possibly executing a system call.

One sure hopes it doesn't take a global lock for each allocation; I don't think jemalloc does.
I’m curious why not? Apple Silicon so far has improved performance, and reduced power consumption. Does that mean that it’s a larger chip than the others that came before it?
The FTC would likely block the transaction precisely because of this. If they didn't block it, Apple would - upon doing the above - immediately subject themselves to anti-trust litigation from a lot of parties with a lot of money. Really hard to see this working out well for them.
I was like that, now it kinda only works for something I'm really passionate about
It seems that's more or less what happened with G and what MS is trying to capitalize on.
>I don't know why they'd follow Ubuntu

Literally the first line of the article says they are official Ubuntu flavors:

>Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors.
I've been a fan of Queal[0] for numerous years now. When these meals became popular I tried out a handful, and ended up liking Queal the most. Have stuck with it ever since.

A couple years back I tried out Huel, but I didn't quite get used to the flavoring. I find Queal's to be much less artificial-feeling and subtler. But it's probably all subjective.

- [0] https://queal.com/
How about considering the danger that starting that fire and walking away from it stands to expose other people to? Maybe we look at things differently, but saving my own life is not worth risking the lives of a bunch of firefighters or regular folks.

Particularly not if I'm almost wholly to blame for being at risk because of my own spectacular level of stupidity.

The monetary cost of a mere $300,000 is a very poor proxy for putting the risk back on the shoulders of the person it rightly belongs on.
>Dark energy is known to make up 70% of the mass-energy of the universe, whereas black holes are a mere fraction of the ordinary matter, which constitutes less than 5% of the universe.

Is there some cosmological constraint that says dark energy compressed into a small volume would exhibit gravitational pull and therefore contribute to our measurements of black hole masses? If not then it feels like this is a weak counterargument that makes a pretty big assumption that dark energy must have the same mass-energy equivalence behaviour as regular energy from a general relativity perspective. If black holes somehow are the origin of dark energy, then surely this is driven by physics at energies far beyond our understanding from either particle physics or cosmology. In that case aren't basically all bets off in terms of what you'd expect to observe in terms of apparent black hole masses?
Correct me if I'm wrong (please), but don't we still lack any kind of fundamental definition of what dark energy/matter is other than..."the cause of the difference between what is calculated, and what is observed"? To the point that we aren't even really sure that there is such a "thing" as dark matter (in that it exists in any conventional sense)?

From Wikipedia: "Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe...The primary evidence for dark matter comes from calculations showing that many galaxies would behave quite differently if they did not contain a large amount of unseen matter. Some galaxies would not have formed at all and others would not move as they currently do."

85% is kind of a lot of "stuff" to be missing...

I find it kind of funny that humans are so confident that our models of reality are correct that we truly think it's more likely there's just hidden "stuff" than there's just something hugely wrong with our idea of what the universe really is, and how it works. Our physics works great in a lot of circumstances, but to be missing 85% of the damn universe might imply we are wildly off base when it comes down to the true nature of things.

Obviously, I don't have an explanation myself, and I understand that we can only work with the evidence we have, but I think it's a sign we need to radically rework our basic assumptions about reality, and not just look for our missing keys...

Perhaps black holes are the right place to look, but not as a cubby hole for our missing stuff - rather, as a path to transforming our assumptions about reality.
I remember reading a news item about a guy who rushed through the airport (I think LAX) to catch his flight to Oakland, ended up on a flight to Aukland instead. Realized something was wrong 4 hours later and they hadn't arrived. This was in the 1990s.
Not exactly genetic engineering, but there's actually a huge community dedicated to bringing back the American chestnut. I participated in an orchard planting of 432 seedlings last year in MA.

https://acf.org/
Patent claims are AND. IANAL, but my understanding is if what you built doesn't match the claims exactly, it's not infringing. So, in this case, using a non-belt-driven linear actuator, or using a square rail, or using a two piece base would all be ways of avoiding infringement.
M2 was a skip generation for me, looking forward to M3.

Maybe the same with iPhone.

I generally care about process node as the main feature of a computer.
Western firms continued Russia presence offers a reality check on divestment
They just choose to do it now?
Sometimes I wonder if there are bot accounts on HN.
It's interesting to see the epistemological differences at the frontiers of knowledge.
The problem is the bar for quality has fallen through the floor and it has nothing to do with the amount of time it takes to develop something. If anything, it's likely to be of lesser quality the longer you wait because more web developers will have infused their shitty code by then.
Lowest resolution takeaway perhaps
Would like to see some data on this. I don’t know of anyone who’s gotten Covid since… summer or so?
Is a soldier guilty for shooting towards the enemy? Office authoritarians know they're causing this kind of risk in an abstract sense, I say let them reap what they sow.
It’s less likely that the parking spot itself is occupied by a pedestrian (and it’s easier to verify that before reversing into it) than for the area you drive out of it into to have pedestrians heading in and out of their vehicles, and going forward out of the parking spot gives you better visibility to see the pedestrians (and other cars) appearing from behind adjacent cars.
That is the opening question leading to "why hire anyone in USA or Western Europe when Asia exists?"
Where I work, we all use MacBooks and deploy our services on Linux boxes. .NET has been cross-platform for years now.
I take the Amtrak from NY Penn to Baltimore Penn and back again to visit friends. The first time I was booking that route I was a bit confused.
After using Ubuntu for 15 years, I moved to Pop!_Os (it uses Flatpak and no snap crap). Have been very happy with it.
A bunch of dogs just seems like you're going to have otherwise well behaved dogs getting 'yappy' and annoyed at each other. Or worse.

I calculate my comfort level in an office with N dogs would decrease at a rate of N*(N-1)
It's called a stock swap, and Apple could easily accomplish it if from a financial perspective.

They could never achieve it with governments and regulators, however. Like 0.00% chance. Even if the government of Taiwan allowed it, there would be a long line of other governments and regulators blocking it.
Newsflash-- the "market" is becoming less constrained by geography.
Yes, they should have expected shitty behavior from Bezos and Co.

My take is that this is a cover mass layoff. Amazon is enforcing this now in the hopes that people like these folks resign voluntarily. Another mass layoff would make their share price drop again.
A few days ago I wanted to update an Ubuntu laptop that hasn't been turned on for over a year. I had steam and brave browser installed using snap. Updating these two took as much time as updating everything else in the system (1.6Gb of downloads). Then I uninstalled brave, which took about 6-8 minutes. The laptop has NixOS today.

NixOS has official GUI installer now https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso