skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or music for the bit of the movie where they fast forward through part of someones life
> A good chunk of it wound up getting implemented.

It did?

1) "When we decided to pull Coda from the App Store (due to sandboxing)"

Sandboxing is still required.

2) "we regained our ability to release software the moment we need to"

Nope, nothing has changed there.

3) "we could fill a small book with frustrating and tragicomic App Review anecdotes"

This was written before the Untitled Goose Game rejections.

4) "Reviews are often the dumping ground of the uninformed"

Still painfully true!

5) Refunds: "And when this happens, we can do nothing."

Still true. Developers can't issue their own refunds, and the App Store doesn't even have an official refund policy. I've been seeing more and more people get their App Store refund requests rejected by Apple, for no apparent reason.

6) Low app prices

Still a problem of course!
What are you even talking about? There's nothing "woke"
If you mount it on your regular machine then it's kind of necessary.
What's missing is the limitations on how they will use it. They need some license for all of the things listed, but this is the maximum permissions rather than the minimum
Exec salaries likely
Another day where capitalism ruins everything, what a surprise. /s.
What I'm saying is that there's no amount of money that Google can spend to make v8 5x or 10x faster for these stateful, object- /pointer-rich workloads.

It's not a matter of investment.

The language is the bottleneck, not the runtime. It's better to change the language and get 100%-500% improvement, not eke out 5% from the runtime. That's trying squeeze blood out of a stone.

"proper JIT history" -- this claim doesn't make sense.
No, it's the - the - intellectual capital of the world. I have reasons to think that, but you see here is not a good place for that discussion at the moment, too heated.
In addition to your points, if you go for promo once, you may have an easier time of it the second try (if your manager gets senior leads to back the idea for the next round), but if you try twice and fail both, you may as well leave the company.

+100 to the "revolving door of external hires". I was let go in the January action after almost 8 years of doing the same thing at Google. During that time, I saw 3 Cloud CEOs and I personally had 6 directors and 9 VPs. Change isn't always bad, but Google clearly does not value leadership & management as skills in the same way most large corporations do.
To be honest, I am a bit terrified. I'm not panicking yet, but it's not going to be all milk and honey.

One thing is certain: thousands or millions of people and companies will start creating GPT bots. Some will just download existing weights (like the recently leaked Meta LLAMA weights) and add a wrapper around them. Some will train new GPT bots from scratch. Some will hybridize them. Some will use a corpus of Library of Congress books to understand the world during the American Revolution. Some will use GPT bots to build worlds in Minecraft.

And then some will use GPT bots to scam people out of their life savings (actually they already started). Phishing and social engineering attacks will graduate to a whole new level.

As for propaganda and internet trolling and psy ops, what we've seen so far is absolutely nothing. Dictators around the world are salivating now.

And once bots get into learning how to manipulate humans... Well, if this does not terrify you, ... don't be surprised if you are a target.

Brave new world we're heading to.
wow, that's astonishing and wonderful to hear, thank you

i hope the things you learned from them were mostly true

i was planning to do one in december but i felt like i didn't have much material because i had a pretty unproductive year in 02022, and i'm increasingly dissatisfied with the medium

you're right about matrix
> There’s a specific feeling of knowing that an answer to your question is very simple and exists somewhere on SO, but the mental effort of sifting pages of answers seems unappealing. It seems like Phind is well suited to do this job for you!

That simple act reduces your cognitive load, as a programmer you mind is two steps ahead assuming this trivial solution you know conceptually but do not want to spend the mental cycles and looking for the quick code so your mind can jump to the next step in the flow.
What is "this" that you're referring to as a mental illness?
Ah, so the robes are Turkish, then?
I've heard good reviews of Shapr3d on iPad. Can't vouch for it myself, but I've heard positive sentiment.
Minecraft absolutely supports IPv6. The server doesn't bind to v6 by default but will happily do so and work if you tell it to.
"You have a weird theory that ignores actual history."

Mmm, nope. I've said that 50% of homes would be affordable (or unaffordable) to the median, which was true then and is still true now.

You're the one with a not only historically inaccurate but also mathematically impossible theory, that 100% affordability might be possible. This has never, ever been the case -- nor can it ever be.

"Most of the West was able to offer society affordable housing for much of the post-war period. "

And at that time, pray tell, could median wage earners afford to live in any home they wished? Were median wage earners able to live in mansions? Anywhere they wished?

Of course not. Because it has never, ever been the case in American history that "100% of housing" were affordable to someone with median income.

"And you are, again, confusing a preference "

No, I am not. You, however, seem to be confused as to your own claims. Why don't you slow down and re-read what you wrote -- it's completely ridiculous.
The motors are often knockoffs and the gears are cheap and mostly plastic which lead to sloppy fit which leads to playing at the wrong speed and variations in speed which They also often are only mono tape heads instead of stereo.
Check out techmoan and vwestlife on youtube as they have done better jobs than me of explaining the issues.
I wonder why we don't see more insurance companies banding together to fund that kind of research.
> They were still able to release the game for Mac

Which is why I was asking about regulators.

> On iOS if Apple's store rejects you, that's game over.

Everyone knows this, it doesn't need to be said. But fewer people are familiar with the Mac situation.
To be clear, your response to someone calling you out was to ... double-down on your sexism by being pedantic?
I've just started using Render and it's great!

Goodbye Heroku. :(
Correct. If I talk to service A and I see an address that’s in the same /64 as service B, it’s unlikely there’s a firewall between the two. Two different /56 or /48? Probably a different site.
interesting, i'll have to check it out

i still haven't finished russo's book you recommended me, which was another huge mind bomb for me
The "friend" of Taiwan, USA, put a stop to it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39252502
"There is an expectation of growth to L5"

This is out of date. "Up or out" from L4 was dropped around 2015 or 2016 or so. It was considered "fine" to stay at L4.
Don't forget the horrible misshapen human monstrosities used by all the brands who have turned to shit at the same time
Folks on HN sometimes have very unusual beliefs but that was definitely eyebrow raising.
Microsoft Edge is getting a video upscaler to make blurry old videos look better
The list of top sites lacking support IPv6 is enormous.

https://whynoipv6.com
There's a huge set of potentially politically fraught middle grounds that exist between Einstein -> Newton and random quack -> some modern distinguished scientist. And by politically fraught I mean career politics that directly impact the scientific landscape, not "politics".

It is my impression that back in the day it was more common for academics with differing opinions to banter or at times straight up disrespect each other semi-publicly. This could be historical survivorship bias, but it is a fact that aspiring scientists had a much greater likelihood of becoming a tenured PI in previous generations, and usually reached that status much earlier in their lives.

I fear that with the state of the academic job market along with present cultural norms, it is less common now for an early career investigator to question the quality of an established PI's work, or even for PIs to meaningfully criticize each other in scientifically accessible formats.

Besides, questioning the work of past scientists is implicitly questioning the research of many modern scientists, at least if that questioning is to be considered remotely novel. There are socially acceptable avenues to question past science, but there are also cases where modern PIs of influence have built so much on an assumption from prior results, such that the impact of their work would indeed be threatened by questions of the foundation.

It is important that the latter situation is handled in a manner consistent with scientific ideals. I don't know what Feynman was exactly referring to with his quote, but I'd be surprised if he was focused on the behavior of random lay people. Someone immersed in science is probably going to be most concerned with the behavior of fellow scientists and emerging trainees.
Around here the most horrific accidents are with big rig trucks. These are the last vehicles that need to get confused by a construction zone and jump a lane or suddenly brake.
You having a fancy drive that could write more data isn't super useful unless other drives are likely to be able to read it. Looks like there was some softwarw [1] to jam more data onto disks, and Microsoft used an advanced format for software distribution on floppies as well.

I felt like there was a pretty good amount of time between when cd-rom was widely available and when cd burning was reasonably priced. And the 80/90 minute cds came several years later.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2M_(DOS)
People don't trust it any more, because Salesforce have been under-investing in it for years and recently rug-pulled on everyone who had ever used the free tier (after providing that free tier for 15 years already - long enough for people to reasonably expect it to continue).
"Look at how men are portrayed in commercials" feels like a 20-years-out-of-date stereotype that immediately lets you know the person who said it hasn't watched live TV in decades.

Wanna link all those ads you think are running all the time? Cause I haven't seen many. I remember the nice man with the electric car saving the poor robot dog with low batteries, though...

(Ironically, a dishwasher detergent commercial just ran on my TV here, featuring both men and women extolling how great their new pods were, without any different roles by gender or anything...)
I did a set up where one of the tools I gave the LLM agent was a "human expert" (which was just a wrapper around Python's input() method). And lo and behold, the LLM would use the "human" tool when it was stumped.

So yes, science has definitely gone too far.
Oftentimes the ancient world did not distinguish between manuscripts of a couple pages and books. If that number is not made up then that must be what’s happening here.
I never released it, as there were plenty of others already available at the time. It was written in pure Win32, and a single portable .exe of <32KB.

We never had any trouble from the MSN team.

Judging by the huge number of other thirdparty clients, I don't think Microsoft bothered to do anything about them, and almost treated it like they did Windows piracy --- they would rather you use a thirdparty client with MSN than a competitor's network; I suspect the fact that this was also not long after their antitrust lawsuit also had some influence.
Um...for those of us who were using Macs back when it wasn't clear how much longer Apple would be around—and especially for those of us involved with web stuff—Panic is nothing short of iconic. They're one of the few indie Mac devs who've managed to keep it going for decades, and their work has been consistently excellent.

So if I were Tim Apple, I would be a little worried by someone like Sasser saying "we tried to launch our crazy popular game on your App Store and ultimately didn't because one of your idiot reviewers gave us the runaround." That's a little like, I don't know, some record label passing on Nirvana because a junior talent scout thought that "the guys looked kind of greasy and the name sounds stupid."
Same. There was a thread on HN a while back about Samsung’s reliability issues. They seem to focus on feature set and specs over reliability and it has worked for them. I don’t but Samsung products anymore, but obviously a lot of people do.
It's not clear why you're citing my own blog post back to me.

As I mentioned, Mac developers can independently distribute their own apps, signed with a Developer ID certificate.

It's annoying to be sure, but not a major hurdle for professional Mac developers, such as Panic.
You might also be interested in my State of the Bird presentations as well that happen quarterly. https://pidgin.im/posts/2023-01-state-of-the-bird-2022-q4/
The leadership churn you mention is very real. The joke at Google even when I worked there (2017) was every few months you'd get an email saying your manager's manager's manager's manager now reports to a new manager. You didn't know nor had ever met any of these people.

I have a theory about this: middle management likes churn because it makes you immune to the consequences of their actions. You can't fail if none of your decisions are permanent and you constantly shift responsibilities. That's not an accident. It's by design.

My experience at Google was this was a huge problem.

Sorry you were let go.
Twitter thread with Elon Musk about whether an employee still is employed
When I lived in the Los Angeles area, I commuted to work three miles—six miles round trip—as a pedestrian. I certainly buy the data shown here, though it feels like it may merely reflect the number of people walking versus the number of drivers. I suspect in the central-northern part of the country, there just aren't a whole lot of pedestrians out and about to be injured in the first place.

Back in Los Angeles, I was most surprised by the resistance I received from the local city council when I asked for additional protections for pedestrians at obviously-problematic intersections. There was one crossing on my route where the cross-traffic speed limit was 40 MPH, meaning the real-world speed was 45 to 50 MPH, sometimes lower depending on traffic congestion. Only the intersecting street I was followjng had a stop, and as a result, the 45 MPH opposing traffic also had essentially zero expectation of having to stop for a pedestrian.

I asked the city to consider modifying the intersection into an all-way stop.

They promptly rejected the idea and instead simply painted thicker lines on the crosswalk. Thicker lines. That was what the city thought would save me and other pedestrians from cars traveling ~45 MPH on a street where no one ever expects a pedestrian to be crossing. Needless to say, I avoided crossing there for all the years I walked to work, even though doing so made my route less convenient. They claimed it had something to do with nearby train tracks, but that argument did not hold any water.

So it comes as no surprise that California has high pedestrian traffic fatalities.
> In principle a home assistant should maintain a ring-buffer that listens for its "wake word" and then immediately discards any audio that doesn't match the trigger.

Should this be easy to verify with network monitoring? audio data is quite heavy. I'm assuming if audio information gets uploaded, it will be quite obvious on the data. We haven't heard about it, and I'm for that reason I don't think it actually does not do it (i.e. the ring buffer hypothesis is likely correct).
Based on that reasoning, why wouldn't an economy or a corporation have subjective experience?
You can change your handle on Twitter, but it's not recommended if you have any "follow me on Twitter @soAndSo" links out in the wild, because it opens people to handle squatters taking your old handle.
Samsung’s panels may be fine, but their fully assembled monitors and TVs are unreliable and break at a high rate.
Historically sieges also tend work if conditions become existential, which it will if TW is denied energy and food imports which doesn't even touch on effects of taking out electricity or water infra. UKR can be resupplied via ample land routes and be comfortably defiant. TW's reduced to below subsistence defiance which tend to come with biological timer.
It's charged plasma in the upper atmosphere being ripped away by fluctuations in the magnetosphere. The upper atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium, so it's that after it gets ionized.
Waymo is doing trucking too. It's probably a 98% overlap with the skills their driver (the Waymo software) needs for driving passenger vehicles. Automating driving is so difficult, it's a mystery why anyone thought all but the largest, most advanced, and best funded software companies could succeed.
You may or may not have seen Technology Connections' many, many videos on the subject of dishwashers.

The tl; dr is:

* use the basic powder stuff
* put some of the basic powder stuff in the "pre wash" section
* if your washer doesn't have a prewash, sprinkle a little on the inside
* turn the sink water on hot until it's producing hot water before starting the dishwasher
* if your dishwasher has a filter for food, check that it's empty
* you're probably using too much detergent

https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/search?query=...
Sorry, can you speak up? Hard to hear you from way up here on THE MOON
The JVM is better for these workloads than JITted runtimes for dynamic languages, but I'd still stay Go, Rust, and C++ are better -- both in a practical sense of what tool to use, and in theory (AoT compilation, static types, and language control over memory layout).

It's not like people have been ignoring them on purpose. Plenty of code has been written in those languages, but the point of my post is that these pointer-rich workloads are even harder for them.

Java seems to lack value types on the stack, which results in a lot of extra garbage for language processors (something I learned the hard way)

(IIRC Guy Steele's famous "growing a language" talk over 20 years ago specifically advocated for value types in Java.)

Speed isn't the only important dimension -- they often trade speed for memory usage and startup time, and those become issues. As well as the weight/size/complexity/deployment of the runtime (i.e. Go is managed, but there's no separate runtime to deploy or configure). Also IIRC Java bytecode is untyped, so the JIT has do a lot of work to recover the types again, which is weird.

I think the JVM / CLR make a lot of sense for many server-side workloads. They haven't caught on much for tools deployed to people's desktops, I think for good reasons.
Slow dishwasher is a huge pain.

When relatives visit and join dinner (and they do so often) I end up with more dishes than I can fit in the dishwasher.

I can wash the remaining dishes the next morning, but this wastes energy and water because the dishwasher is not full.

I can also "preventatively" turn on the dishes in the afternoon, to wash the breakfast and lunch dishes, so that it's completely empty for the dinner dishes. But this too wastes resources (not full, but better than the "wash remainders next morning" scenario), and I have to turn it on early enough in the afternoon so that it finishes before people start cooking (around 16.00).

It's a pain to have to wait for 3 hours. I would absolutely want a dishwasher that finishes in 1 hour.
There is no "business need" like this at Google. This is a company swimming in cash for where most individuals' work has little relevance to revenue bottom lines or business success.

They'll kill or promote entire products because a given product area's position shifted in position on an org chart, or because some set of people involved don't feel they can get promotions or corporate success anymore from it.

The drive is political success. The criterion is openly about ability to promote and politic one's work. ("Demonstrating impact", key emphasis on "demonstrating". Written PRDs and design docs, name prominently placed, recognition from peers. Esp if they're on other teams, etc.)

It's frankly what you get when you have a company founded by academics who never worked in industry (but know all about defending your thesis to a committee, or "publish or perish") combined with unbounded revenue and seemingly infinite growth.
For those interested in his plan this is what he said last week: "I'd get Zelenskyy and Putin in a room together and tell them to knock it off"
Oracle in shambles.
This just reinforces what I've been saying for years: seeking promotion is for chumps.

You'll make far more money and advance far quicker from job-hopping between companies than you will trying to seek internal promotion.

Google, and pretty much big tech as a whole, is completely aimless at this point and has no real plan to provide new value to customers. They just jump from shiny thing to shiny new thing. Big tech has only been able to maintain it's recent dominance through monopolistic practices, and now they've mismanaged themselves into decline. Good.
As portrayed in the film (and who knows in real life), he only knew there was a flaw in the reactor design; he didn't know – with certainty – that the flaw would lead to an explosion. Under those circumstances, with that kind of uncertainty as well as the classified nature of his knowledge, I consider his answer is even more impressively measured. Anyone savvy about the KGB and the Soviet nuclear power industry would see the red flags go up and drop the line of questioning immediately.
SLAAC can advertise the DNS server. Why would you call stateful DHCP bad?
Yup. The one in my home got unplugged years ago due to general un-utility and constant listening. So I never got to the point of pushy salesperson impersonation — that just seems like a perfect example of enshittification... (the tech version of Jumping The Shark).

Ugh
True, but in turn when we do hear about the Indian contributions, we tend to think they were all Hindus, rather than recognizing the great contributions of the Buddhists at Nalanda. While Buddhism has little presence in India today, that's where it started.
Your margins are going to end up being a lot better than any other PaaS that's built on top of the big cloud providers.
That sounds like you're claiming that scientists must be ignorant in all things. That can't be productive.

A scientist must be incredibly knowledgeable in some things so that they can advance the world's understanding in things that they're ignorant about.

They also must be willing to uproot their assumptions, if the evidence points that way. But they still must be experts in their assumptions.
There is a world of difference between the tone and content of that Fly post and the tone and content that most people expect from cover-your-ass corporate blog posts.

Sure, both are examples of "self-serving corporate communication" - but it's clear that the way Fly communicate here is more valuable and trustworthy than so many other examples of this kind of thing handled poorly.
Yeah, basically that. One of the servers in our Vault cluster failed and prevented Vault agents from receiving secrets. For Nomad apps, this showed up as "allocation failures" and failed deploys. Machine based apps took an abnormally long time to start and caused other issues.
Ah sure, that could be confusing -- though I believe Twitter allows you to change your handle as well. We could probably try to let people know when a handle changes, but we'll wait to see if it causes a problem before we get into it.
I don't understand who held a gun to their head to make them spend this money. OPNsense is free and so is hurricane's tunnel broker. https://tunnelbroker.net