skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“I need to not only block all ads on YouTube but all sponsor reads too. They’re sooooo annoying!” Grow up. Content makers need to be reimbursed. YouTube Premium subscribers and sideloading enthusiasts have very little overlap.

In Europe, there are gambling sites constantly running their youtube ads, tagging them as "Family" category so you can't disable them in your Google ad settings. Not to mention outright pornography sometimes.

Not going to pay for the privilege of disabling gambling and pornographic ads being shoved down my throat, it is a very low bar.
Once Google actually starts monitoring what ads they show it becomes a non issue.
We (the US) bought most of the stuff they were willing to sell. We then remanufactured it into fuel that could not be (easily) reprocessed back into materials suitable for nuclear bombs. Russia stopped when they got paranoid about the US purchasing all of the nuclear material and tightened up their handling of the stuff.

If Russia decides to start selling nuclear material again, the US will buy it. Again. And will pay far more than any other nation is willing to pay for the stuff.
I'm very curious about this. Amazon appears to be squeezing more profitability from existing, very successful parts of the organization. In particular, AWS, Advertising, and Twitch are not loss leaders. I'm not really quite sure what "PXT" is as a lay person, but is Amazon essentially making a serious bet on slowing growth to squeeze profit?
This is not the first time, it won't be the last time. The next hype round is only a matter of time because rich people need somewhere to put their money.

Until you solve the problem of middle management status being based on the number of people you manage, you will keep getting bloated organizations. Until an organization figures out a better way to manage their dependencies on each other, every new thing an organization wants to do will require an n log n number of people. (In bad organizations, it's n^2.)

Organizations are just committing on "not growing" in terms of product offerings in the next period of time. The stock market, after some time, will reward growth and the cycle will start again.
It’s a bit sad that in 2023, with dirt cheap SSDs and gigabit internet at home, we still default to using some third party hosting for transferring files.
I've seen someone on one of those e-scooters going like 40km/h. It looked terrifying. I'd be worried doing that much on bicycle but on tiny scooter wheels anything bad and you're catapulted into pavement.
The saying isn't "only cars are loud" smartass.

And I've lived across from from an elevated transit line in an otherwise carless city center and it was quieter than any north american subwayless city I've lived in so this isn't even true lol.
The era of the $600k (and more via stock value, if you joined 2-3 years or more before the bubble popped) line manager is over.

There is still plenty of work to find, but it all depends on how much people built their lives around their income level
Yoko Ono notoriously stole a cookie from George Harrison. So either she thought the cookies belonged to everyone or the Beatles breaking up really was her fault.
Pxt from what I gathered is like HR
I'm currently in uni and most courses are 3-credits meaning 45 hours of lectures per semester + 90 hours of tutorials, assignments, and studying.

Those 45 hours of lectures are usually condensed material with little to no time to practice. It's expected that you practice during the other 90 hours (and on your own time if you plan on having straight A's).

While you may get more hands-on experience in a few months of working full-time, you usually learn much fewer concepts.
(Shrug) There are two careers to avoid if you prefer things to stay the same over time: 1) technology; and 2) art.

A rising tide really does lift all boats, whether you believe it or not. History furnishes no exceptions to this rule.
There is no the metaverse currently, but there are many metaverses. The definition itself is shaky and contradictory across sources. But to summarize, a metaverse is a "set of digital spaces that you can move seamlessly between", it will include "familiar 2D experiences, as well as ones projected into the physical world and fully immersive 3D ones too". It can be accessed via your phone or computer, or a VR reset for "full immersion". Fortnite is a metaverse, but some say Roblox and Minecraft aren't. I couldn't tell you how that distinction was drawn.

My favorite metaverse is RuneScape, but I unfortunately haven't visited in a decade or more. Steam might also be considered a metaverse. Which would imply Xbox Online and all that are too.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/meaning-of-met...

[2]: https://about.meta.com/what-is-the-metaverse/

[3]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/09/23/fortnites-...
> There’s a bias that runs throughout our educational discourse, coming from our media, academia, and the think tanks and foundations that have such sway in education policy. It’s a bias that exists both because of a natural human desire to see every child succeed and because the structural incentives in the field make rejecting that bias professionally risky. The bias I’m talking about is optimism bias, the insistence that all problems in education are solvable and that we can fix them if only we want to badly enough. At least a half-century of research, spending, policy experimentation, and dogged effort has utterly failed to close the gaps that so vex our political class. But still we hear the same old song about how we could close those gaps tomorrow if we really wanted to, an attitude that has distorted education policy and analysis for decades.

> My first book, The Cult of Smart, was a commercial failure. It was released during the height of the pandemic and thus my ability to promote it was limited, but by any measure the market rejected it. It’s tough to produce a labor of love like that and find that few people were interested in it.

> But there was a silver lining: since publication in 2020 I’ve heard from dozens and dozens of teachers, thanking me for putting their thoughts to print. These educators come from public, private, and charter schools, from schools with affluent study bodies and schools that are mired in poverty, from big city school districts and from low-population regional rural schools. And again and again, these teachers shared the same perspective: they agreed with the book’s overall argument, and often had thought similar things themselves for years, but felt they could not express them publicly for fear of professional consequences.
All the interviews I got after I was laid off were through recruiters. I did not apply anywhere directly. I found them very helpful. However, you are not the first person to tell me this. It seems recruiters work very well for one kind of applicant and terribly for others.
Oh yeah, that is a good one for sure! Definitely hits a nerve when I look back at the last few years.
It’s also just fine to do away with the labeling and say that the fridge gets emptied after everyone leaves each Friday.
Not all CS programs are the same. Not all CS programs teach real world skills, or even entry level skills.

There is usually a gap of 1-3 years for university curriculum to be approved to update. Some of the above topics above might be just one course, or one chapter of one course, or a few pages of a chapter.

As you know, in that time things can completely change in both established and new areas of knowledge.

Learning how to learn is something that's the most important for a CS grad to learn from themselves.
she did so well, leading a life of promotion of vanity and desolation, drug abuse and promiscuity. Should we thank her for her contribution to a hyper sexualised world as well ?

As easy as it is to disregard life choices because of trauma, I'm actually kinda unconvinced.
Assume we hit 1.5C and "nothing happens" does this help the cause?

While I'm very concerned about how unchecked climate change could impact future crop yields I also worry that having a hard line like this probably won't help convince anyone, and could counter intuitively act as a "I told you so" for climate denialists when the world doesn't fall apart as soon as we hit 1.5C.

A lot of the more convincing arguments I hear from climate denialists (I hate that phase btw) is that past climate models have been highly inaccurate and many claims and concerns have in time been proven overstated. This is somewhat true.

But here we are once again looking down on the masses and effectively saying, "you plebs just don't get it, this is your final warning before you all die".

I think I'd rather the data was presented with less emotion and I think that would be more convincing personally, but at the same time I suspect we're probably going to have to see some dire consequences of climate change before any serious action is taken.
Office thermostat wars are back.

Office background music wars are back.

Office talking-on-the-telephone-at-your-desk wars are back.

Office clicky mechanical keyboard wars are back.

It's almost like the bosses want the workers to be fighting with each other over petty shit. And having open-plan offices exacerbates many conflicts.
I assume it's hard to find advertisers willing to pay for space on piracy sites.
>That's a bit of a surprise given how poor the tech environment is here.

It's all relative. I grew up in York County and lived in Harrisburg for a couple of years. Philly's tech scene is fucking great by comparison. Now that tech is so remote-heavy, you've got access to national/global salaries, while having comparably affordable housing, more methods of public transit than any other city in America (coverage is admittedly a different story), a nearby airport, the rail corridor, and comparably sane weather, aside from the subtropical summers.

While I work from home now, for years I worked in a historic 19th century bank building above a bar in a walkable neighborhood full of restaurants, art galleries, parks, and boutiques. My visits to the Bay Area remind me of the suburbs... sure, pay is way higher there, but you're driving to a corporate park that, from the outside, might as well be Exton PA or Springfield Ohio or something. And everything else is so far away.

If a show comes through town and I miss tickets, I can hop on a train (or drive) to New York or Baltimore or DC or Boston.

Everything has its pluses and minuses. Because of the Philly tech environment, I bought an old theater on a hill by the river that I live above, and during renovation found thousands of 18th century revolutionary war era artifacts, which became a whole side quest (and a 27 episode podcast to boot). I think it would be rare to be able to do something similar in a city with a more "rich" tech environment.

I'm sure there are people who are perfectly content with their tech job in Omaha, or Austin, or Salt Lake City, or San Jose, and there are also people (like OP) who aren't content with what they have either. Heck, I was doing "fine" in York for a while.
Is that really a secret? I have worked both on the inside at AWS, and on the outside at groups which used AWS and Google Cloud. “They will do the huge amount of sysadmin toil” is, like, the number one selling point versus using on-prem systems, and its what justifies the prices.
The TikTok question and the urgency of a Federal privacy law
Yeah mine goes from my apartment to my work's underground parking so little risk here. Would be way more wary if I had to park it on the street
Give me some examples of intricacies?
Google famously underpays as it leverages it's name. Startups can't really compete on total compensation because so much is tied to equity which can be made liquid in the case of big tech. At the same time, startups don't want to give away their equity and are fairly conservative about it. I don't see this changing. The current situation will resolve itself in 1-2 yrs and we will be back again.
The Mastodon/Twitter format lends itself to a bite-sized form of conversation. Consumed and replied to in a moment.

It optimizes for something I'm sure. Maybe "conversation volume"

It's popular.
> Also I thought we got rid of handshaking, can't we do Japanese-style bows or something instead that doesn't involve hand-to-hand transfer of viral and bacterial particles?

Personally, I just do an open-hand salute. It started as something I did on Zoom calls and then expanded to real life.

I've never been comfortable with handshakes, even before the pandemic. And not even for disease reasons, the physical act of it just made me feel awkward and uncomfortable. So I'm happy to just salute now.
> Expecting a level of scientific rigor such that conclusions are unassailable is not realistic

A big chunk of the commenter community here is ready to hand the reigns of this decision-making to AI, simply because a data-driven decision must be the correct one. No need to look too deep at the completeness of that data or the methodology under which it was collected and analyzed.
https://archive.org/details/my-country-my-country-2006
Using FAANG to determine the job market is like using Monaco residents to work out the state of the world's wealth. They are outliers with enormous amounts of cash and they can spend in an illogical way to reduce risk that market changes will leave them left behind simply because they can afford to. For most of us in normal businesses earning normal amounts, our jobs are as secure as ever because of supply and demand.

How much is down to knowingly recruiting people you know you might fire later, how much is incompetence on the planning teams and how much is simply that very large companies are hard to manage: that I don't know.
You downvoters don't get it.

The homepage does not talk about what differs those apps from those in the App Store.

Does it let me install apps like apk's in android? That's it? The homepage DOES NOT tell me that, lmao.
While I don't disagree with your perspective on this, I think it is fair to say that the practice of CS has become broad and granular to the point where it is impossible to teach it all. There's a massive difference between becoming a software engineer 30 or 40 years ago and now. To state the obvious, most of what we do today did not exist back then.

The three bodies of knowledge you list (DB's, Concurrent and Network programming) are not mainstream at all. Someone can go through an entire career in software engineering and never touch any of these areas except for, perhaps, superficially through libraries, etc.

Is, it, then, fair to judge recent CS grads based on a test of these skills?

Again, while I agree with the general sentiment that the average CS graduate has serious gaps in knowledge, skills and experience, I have to temper my thinking.

I am not sure it is fair to use such skills tests as a metric any more than giving someone 60 minutes to complete 60 Calculus problems is a measure of their understanding of the topic, their ability to apply it and learn what they don't know.

That last part, to me, is the most important thing I try to learn about someone in an interview. I could not care less what they know today. The basics have to be there, of course. Past that, I need to understand how their mind works, if they are adaptable and what their approach to learning and applying something they don't know looks like.

Some examples of the stunts I will pull:

- Implement something in LISP, Forth or APL, knowing they don't know the languages. I want to see how they react and solve that problem. No, not the code challenge, the matter of being asked to do something they don't have a clue how to approach.

- Write an FPGA module in VHDL when they have never used anything other than Verilog.

- Design a multi-failure tolerant circuit when they have never done such a thing

- Explain how to design an electrical DDR4 interface (again, knowing they have never done it).

- Expanding on that, explain how to design an SDRAM memory controller from scratch

Etc.

This isn't at all about looking for the correct or perfect answers. In my 40 years in engineering I can probably say 75% to 90% of what I have worked on has had an element of "How the hell do I do this?". You want people who are able to deal with that, adapt and deliver. Engineering is constantly evolving, what someone learned in school, at some point, becomes irrelevant.

When I went to engineering school FPGA's, the internet and digital circuits running in the GHz range did not exist. I had to learn all of that, and more, as life and career progressed.

I think the right paradigm and metric is to evaluate the person rather than the contents of the mental database they happen to have stored at that point in their journey.
Density alone is a weak parameter. For photons with energy below 200 keV — that is, most of them — the attenuation is proportional to Z^2, so barium with atomic number 56 is four times as attenuating as nickel with atomic number 28, and lead with atomic number 82 is about twice as effective as barium — all of this before you account for density.

I've done a bit of searching for materials myself. Barium is mined as barite (BaSO4) or witherite (BaCO3), not baryta (BaO*xH2O, caustic), and USGS lists the price of barite as $180/t, or $0.20/kg.

You also have a K-edge effect, which prompted me to wonder whether you can easily produce barium zirconate from the respective ores, which are both cheap — BaZrO3 (sg ~5.5) is not currently manufactured (Zircon sand was <$1/kg until a COVID-related shortage). But at this point I decided I was overthinking it.
or better yet, have brotli and gzip both in your pipeline
The dog is there to bark when the man falls asleep.
Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
You can disable some of firefox's background network requests by modifying the about:config key/value pairs of your firefox profile (for example, by using a user.js file). The Arkenfox user.js (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/) has some pretty good defaults that disable a lot of the background requests.

There are also firefox forks that disable background requests. Librewolf (https://librewolf.net/) is a popular fork that uses a combination of about:config tweaks, policies, and patches to disable all background requests (technically some requests still go through, but are replaced with a dummy url that you can block). Librewolf also downloads uBlock Origin by default, and is close to upstream. Overall it's a pretty good out-of-the-box solution.
So is walking anywhere
They're only now (when this was decided, maybe a month or 2 ago) figuring out the natural attrition in the next couple of years will be extremely close to 0%, down from 15% or even higher
For all meaningful definitions of "the metaverse" that I've seen, the internet fully qualifies.
hr cuts and cuts to other “cost center” no surprise.

from my time at amazon this feel like only small step in fixing so many issues. engineering has too many manager in promotion race..layer after layer of manager..empire building focus and not customer benefit.

step 1 to rid these “professional” managers who not understand technology, installed themself at company for cushy job title and pay. many come from other uninnovative company like ibm.
Mass property seizure and capital reallocation, i.e. a revolution on a global scale, will inevitably lead to the deaths of millions and a setback on living standards for the rest, i.e. degrowth; which will accomplish the objective of fewer carbon emissions.
Whenever something that used to work fine suddenly inexplicably breaks here or changes and is made obviously worse for no discernible reason, the following exchange inevitably occurs…

“What the heck happened? This was just working last week! Where’s the… ugh! Where did the button for this go?”

“It got Product Managed.”

Google Meets and Slack are repeat offenders.
Tractors and snowplows. Salt kills the bicycles and salty slush is much worse to drive in. Hard packed snow is actually the best to ride on.

Interestingly Oulu bike roads clearing contract states the company doing the snowplowing can do inspections only on bicycles, not cars :)
Totally! I tend both kinds of systems: Those with good tests and monitoring, I will deploy them whenever with confidence. Fire and forget. Those with no tests and scant monitoring? Ball of patches on Tuesday morning. Watch the service for a while.

In both cases I'm ready to patch whatever comes up. But the excpectation is different. So I keep less slack for the well tended depolys.
This is all in your head guy. You started throwing all these smears around, and now having done so, you congratulate yourself for having such virtue and integrity for despising these people.

It all just boils down to a fig-leaf for your hatred.
Or you could pay the 12 euros a month for YT premium to turn off ads if this is something that upsets you so much? I just don't really understand the entitlement
Was the parent comment edited? I don't understand who you're responding to, nobody here or in the article or report made that claim.
What is louder: 1 subway train, or 200 cars?
that's kinda my point
The “best” thing about layoffs/attrition is that onerous task you used to split with several people you now have to do twice as often.
I dont even get the Expires in 7 days, the hell are those.. someone explain?
> e.g. [...] very-small class sizes

Yep, but increasing the number of teachers 2-3x is indeed politically impossible. Guessing that'd mean like 30-60% higher spending on education (you'd also have to increase wages to attract enough qualified workers, in addition to having way more teachers on payroll, and it'd be a years-long process), which ain't happening.
I fully support the ICC warrant for Putin.

Where's the warrant for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc...?
PXT is their tech team supporting HR for Amazon. It grew a ton of the last 5+ years, but from the outside looking in it appears to be mainly empire building. The major initiatives I was aware of from my time there never seem to have been completed.
Twitter testing government ID-based verification, new screenshots show
I'm just thinking how powerful a XSS that launches a GPT chat injected into a major companies website would be. Think any service that allows bill pay, and or does customer service online.
I recall one Sega magazine had a cover VIDEO tape. It was a 20 minute preview of all the cool games coming out for the MegaCD, I think.

That was amazing to me in those pre-VOD days.
It's interesting. In the AI space all the big cloud providers are pairing off with an AI darling. Amazon AWS has partnered with Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/blog/the-partnership-amazon-sagemaker.... Microsoft Azure has OpenAI. Google has their own models for their own cloud, as does Facebook. (this makes me wonder what Apple's going to do)
So, does this apply to China, which is burning more coal than ever?

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips

This sounds unlikely for the average cycling commuter if parking alone is making the difference- cyclists (as motorcyclists) need to change (at each side) and shower etc; I think that is often forgotten in these calculations.
Here in Europe a typical course could be 5 CP, equalling 150h of work. One semester should average you 30 CP or 900h of work.

In CS, we regularly had courses worth 300h in a semester, fe. analysis, system architecture or software engineering.
The cloud providers like to pretend their secret sauce is massive scale automation. They have tooling, alerting, etc. to make this all work with no people at all. Of course it's all BS, and the people I know who came from AWS were some of the worst for throwing bodies at problems and manually tweaking shit without trying to understand or automate solutions.