skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter’s policy used to read: “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”

> That last sentence was deleted about 10 days ago
I'm curious about why exactly this is so anxiety-inducing. I have multiple hypotheses: a) the way the numbers only come together for a moment means you need to concentrate. b) the feeling of objects being flung towards you. c) the color scheme. d) the frenetic, jittery movement of the blocks, kind of like insects. e) The large number of objects moving unpredictably makes it hard to track. f) The passage of time. g) Every 10 seconds, the digits get pounded and blocks fly at you.

This is probably over-analysis, but it's interesting that so many people have the same reaction to this page.
No, you never “catch up” unless you fire every software engineer (so income and trailing five years of amortization cancel out).

Year 5 is just a steady state of no more phantom profit taxes, but you never really get that extra tax you paid back if you want to keep operating at the same level or grow.
I guess I was hoping for something little clunky than that, but thanks for the suggestion.
It's a workaround if a website manages to make users accept cookies that would otherwise refuse just by making it so inconvenient UI wise to refuse them.
The limits and edge cases on this may be subjective but then again so are most laws.
I don't have any super thin mirrors on hand, but do you really not believe that solar sails are a real thing? Or do you think a container would act differently from a too-thin solar sail for some reason?
I've had some success asking it to write me basic elisp functions to perform basic transformations of data or do stuff for window management. It starts hallucinating when I involve 3rd party packages, though.
I mean, you can turn cookies off in your browser settings, but the browser doesn't have a good way to differentiate between a cookie that keeps you logged into something and a cookie that tracks you to show ads.
Attrition for a company that pays in the 95% percentile is going to be much lower than the industry average, especially when most of the other companies in that pay tier have also stopped hiring.
You can use this small lib for expressjs https://github.com/express-promise-router/express-promise-ro...
Two reasons:

Because this is malicious compliance by websites. They are attempting to annoy people into clicking the easiest button, which is always the "store all my data, spam me at will" button.

And then the second is: browsers don't really know the purpose of any particular cookie, or how much the user actually wants it or not. Due to how cookies work, they really have no way to know. Cookies are not standardized enough.
The linked theme looks nothing like the screenshots
That makes sense, thanks for clarifying. How do you think businesses would react to this? For example, I imagine self-hosted servers would need to be depreciated too, so the tech community invented cloud as the solution. Maybe this policy change will cause tech companies to hire more TVCs rather than FTEs?
Why do you consider something nonsense just because it’s a subjective judgement call?

Lots of things are subjective judgement calls. They are not all nonsense.
Did your autocomplete accidentally write "command" instead of "recommend", or are you doing an -f on us?
Well I'm sure they knew about it -- maybe there's an impassioned debate on a GH Issue/Discussion somewhere on why they left it out.

The refactoring of expect to a reusable library (that hopefully everyone could depend on) would be awesome as well. AFAIK there are multiple expect() implementations out there right now, would be nice if there was one.
Most economists would remove income tax in favor of sales / VAT, if the politics of the situation were not part of the equation.
There are a couple of telltale signs for Delphi in older apps: one is the use of TBitBtn control which adds an image to the buttons, the other is the use of icons in menus. While both can be done via "raw" Win32 (or MFC), they are much more cumbersome whereas with Delphi it is done by simply picking an icon from the visual designer - especially for the button one since Windows does not have a control like that (it is a custom control by Delphi). In general my first thought whenever i saw a GUI with lots of icons at the time was that it was made using Delphi.

Other toolkits added this sort of functionality so it doesn't look as out of place nowadays, but especially icons on buttons was kind of a Borland sign.

In Win3.1 times it was even more apparent since Borland OWL had its own sort of "theme" for dialogs that had a textured and chiseled look with large 3D controls, so these apps stood out more. This was toned down in 32bit versions of OWL though it still used custom controls (check the button shape here[0] and how it looks a bit off compared to other buttons).

Also Borland had a tendency to make their own icons for stuff that other programs used standardized icons for, often with very different symbols which also made them stand out and look weird. For example in the screenshot i linked at the first two icons are for open and save and the bolt icon is for running - those are from OWL. In Delphi the save was different (but still not a floppy) and the new and open icons were identical, a shining page of paper, except the open had words on it. Their "undo" icon was a red circle with a crossed line that in other apps would be something like "delete".

Also FWIW i noticed that Neverwinter Nights' editor was made in Borland C++ Builder (i wrote the linked post) because the arrow icons used in it (visible in the screenshot in the post below the 3d viewport) are straight out of Borland C++ Builder. Though Bioware did make their own icons for other stuff.

Again, nowadays these things do not stand out much, but back in the 90s/early 2000s when the Windows world was more uniform and developers did care about making applications that had the "Win9x" look they did.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/0KqRLuA.png
> your baseline for what performance is possible slows down.

This is a problem that absolutely plagues our field. If your project isn't some wrapper around some incredibly complicated math or handling files well into the GB range, there's no excuse for a desktop application to take noticeable time to do anything. Yet here we are, with it taking about a half second just to open the search bar on windows. What is it doing? Why does it take so long? Who knows?
Is that why billionaires are pushing millions into civilian disarmament aka “gun control”?
The value people produce is an asset. After all, you don't own people, you buy their effort.

A contract can be an asset. Usually the unrealized future value of the agreement has value should you need to make a deemed disposition (or have some other valuation event). It gets very obviously complicated and fuzzy though, which is where accountants make the big bucks. It's pretty rare that a company chooses to make a contract valuable, but it often comes up in bankruptcy proceedings.

As an example of contracts having value, a few years ago I was involved in the acquisition of some media distribution assets, and one such asset was a transferable "MFN" contract with a major publisher. That was a very, very valuable asset.
I would assume because either the appropriate solution (to have the settings in the browser) wasn't proposed due to a dearth of technological competence in politics or the ad lobby pushed for each site to present its own in some poor attempt to pretend to provide "consumer choice".
The key word to me is "stored". The common-sense definition of storage refers to non-volatile storage, not RAM or data in transit.
It is indeed silliness, and out of character for Germans who have a reputation for being practical.
There would be so many that it’d just be background noise.
This has literally nothing to do with string theory except for one object sharing the same name.

> And within these theories it’s often necessary to go beyond points and particles to think about one-dimensional lines, or strings (which are conceptually distinct from the strings in string theory).

And for that matter, they literally discuss observations in TFA, what are you on about.

Anyway, if you don't know the role symmetries have played in physics for well over a century at this point, you aren't qualified to discuss the subject.
"Digital developers wrote the VMS kernel almost entirely in VAX assembly language. To be portable across different CPU architectures, Microsoft developers wrote NT's kernel almost entirely in C. In developing NT, these designers rewrote VMS in C, cleaning up, tuning, tweaking, and adding some new functionality and capabilities as they went."

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...
>> and setting a new state-of-the-art accuracy on Science QA.

Given the size of these things, would there be any more actual information in it than say Wikipedia and maybe some other sources? In other words, is it just able to summarize and answer questions about its training data?
I think that we should be careful about "gamed" speed tests, like Ookla. I've learned that I should ignore whatever Ookla says, as the ISP optimizes for it.

I've heard that the Google tests are pretty good, and I also just learned that fast.com is good, because it sits on Netflix's IP range, and ISPs can't game it, without also letting Netflix have full throttle.
There's 3 parts to the problem:

0. Lack of an enterprise sales org (think how VMware started or EDS or Perot Systems). I know an ex-Oracle sales guy who's itching to be an enterprise sales manager at Meta.

1. Lack of thoroughness in solving bugs and polish. Workplace video conferencing is damn good. Workplace the web and mobile apps have inconsistent and troublesome comment formatting bugs. I've sent task after task but they never get fixed. Basic things that should work don't.

2. Impact creates a cult that rewards new features while punishing better engineering and fixing things.

(My neighbor works for AWS high up. They treat most of their employees with borderline abuse.)
Paying enough to keep key engineers is not the same as hiring new ones they don't need
It's all so silly. The simplest solution would be to have a standard cookie (and/or API in javascript) that everyone can access which declares your preferences. Instead we have these multiple rounds of complexity.
> the irs hasn't offered too much guidance on how this tax change works.

They didn't offer too much guidance for trading crypto either. I reported my trades as you would for stocks. They ended up auditing me and charging me for $300k in profits when I made $3k (they did not recognize cost basis of my trades, yet decided to respect the sale proceeds) circa 2015. Meanwhile, people who did not report at all probably got off the hook.
How did it make it harder to browse the web?
Cool! I like the monochrome gradient variant!
> hobbled by its designers

Minor quibble, but the filibuster is nowhere in the Constitution. And it was most recently modified in 1975.
GPUs aren't necessarily synonymous with "super dense vector machines that happen to be good for graphics workloads". A linear frame buffer with a dedicated RISC-V core for drawing primitives can be called a GPU, too.
I'm simply stating the idea the P's present of "How terrible is this? I made 1,000,000, spent 1,000,000, but now I don't have money for taxes!" is quite literally a lesson any kid should have learned when they first went to the store to buy a $5 candy with a $5 bill and learned the way of the world.

Given restaurants aren't in the business of R&D I don't see why you're trying to make an argument based on applying R&D tax law to them. It's disingenuous, at best.
The other is easy, because the page has some text: "Astral: Next-Gen
Python Tooling". If you send an email to the mods, they may agree and fix it.

This one is difficult because the page has no text and the mods usually don't want to make a title from thin air. "3D animated clock" may be good, but it may be hard to convince the mods to change it.

The guidelines ask to use the original title. The tag line or the subtitle is many times a good alternative. If the title is too bad, sometimes a representative sentence is OK, but not cherry picking too much.
Yes, but "we don't need CS anymore" feels more like "we don't need to learn the rules of Chess anymore -- or the rules of anything -- the chatbot will figure things out for us anyway!"
Fast forwarding to today, that's what Rustaceans are trying to do. :)
He looks like Bowser.
> In my view, you're either a hustler, a hacker, or a manager of such to be essential to a tech business. You don't need any strategic hiring coordinating coordinators for higher-education.

I think it’s somewhat telling that you didn’t list “engineer” here.

Meta isn’t a quirky startup, and hasn’t been for a decade: it’s one of the largest corporations (by market value) on the planet. By all rights, there ought to be a lot of people performing boring, turn-the-crank work that doesn’t immediately surface to you.
TailScale is the HN darling - open source and great for stitching together computers across networks.

Most organisations though are looking at the NetSkope/ZScaler/Perimeter81s of the world and that's where Twingate seems to be picking up the business. It goes beyond the connectivity and has things like non-intrusive device controls which are essential for a lot of places that are in fin tech or have to do SOC2, etc.
The main difference on that page isn't between iOS and Android, but server/desktop and mobile. Former is cheap!

Is there anywhere that tracks more current prices?
What does your team do exactly? Are you hiring or is there a hiring freeze for all teams?
I think that’s missing the point that the department fined is unlikely to recover the whole fine and most departments respond to incentives to maximise their longevity and budget, so there is a meaningful incentive from intra-governmental fines of sufficient size.
Very sad to see this service go. I've never pirated since my subscription. I still have 100+ movies in the DVD queue which will likely never be streamed.
Its nice to have some pro regulation people in the FCC for a change. This was really needed.
> "Calling" on someone is a (somewhat anachronistic)

Way to make us feel old! I was at school when children started to have phones, through to MSN and early smart phones, but 'calling on' people was at least the bridge between that and RL interaction. (I'm sure we texted things like 'call on you later'.) Is it not still? Whatever the technology isn't there a need for that?

Obviously language can fade independently of technology, but it was quite funny to note some of the same weird school playground phrases familiar to both me and my father at the same school(s) 30y apart.
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This is a bad law. Tax revenue from online sales should be based on shipping address.
Good luck, their cops confiscate pencils longer than 15cm as weapons, let alone butter knives.
Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages
No time to look it up right now but iirc Apple TV were using anywhere from 20Mbps to 40Mbps depending on content. That is bitrate anywhere from 2x to 4x of Netflix.

No idea why they don’t up the bitrate considering bandwidth is extremely cheap and they do a lot of peering.

We have H.266 / VVC that is a lot better at the smaller details. Would love to see it being tested for those who are extremely sensitive to artifacts.
Things are only just getting started, and this is a relatively small model (13B).
cookies could be standardized/semantic - by name or by another cookies’ name (of course, there could still be violations if any part of a cookies value is opaque)
There was recently a big memo about that. I have completely separate work and personal devices. (This was written on a personal device.)

The only thing that goes in from personal -> work is music or random home office photos.

The only things that go out from work -> personal are public résumé-level performance reviews, tax, and benefits information.

Exceptions on work devices include Github and streaming services, but otherwise not much else should be co-mingled. Everything else stays in its own domain.

(I don't use personal social media accounts so I'm the wrong target audience. Personal FB and Insta accounts are linked to work, and Github if you have one.)
When I worked at Khan Academy, Charlie was an intern, and for a few months we worked together on building the KA app for Android. I can vouch that he was a damn good developer then, and I'm sure he's a much better one now.
Heraclitus, Aurelius, etc all use this in a similar way to how Freud and Jung extended it. You’re allowed to interpret it however you please just like I have. I believe they all are the same abstract concept. The dao, the logos, the divinity, the unconscious, etc.
Orb weaver spider glue properties evolve faster than their glue genes
I don't think Cloudflare is immune to organizational incompetence even if a lot of brilliant people work there. I have similar intermittent problems as ~tomwheeler, despite a mostly unchanged residential IP and a browser configuration that's only a little bit defensive.

My outsider's impression is that Cloudflare has decided to rely much more heavily on browser fingerprinting than on classifying good/bad network activity. That puts them at odds with anyone that's taken steps to oppose being monetized by advertising firms.
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Because that would have fucked up Steve's commute. Apple HQ wasn't picked based on how much they could drag out of the local government. Their lawyers, however, were.
Doesn't the other side need to accept the settlement?
What do you mean by brain uploading
> The department has been auditing whether companies participate enough in online sales to assign them to cities with warehouses or offices.

This isn’t cut and dry the way you make it seem. This agreement is a common tactic and William’s Sonoma is apparently having the same issue with the state and is appealing.

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-report-state/apples-...
With three people there are limits with what you can build and how fast you can build it. At large tech companies there is a gigantic amount of scope. People will make up scope to justify their job, or to justify why they need to grow their teams to accomplish goals. If a company wants to invest into doing everything over prioriting what should be worked on then headcount will explode.
This is terrible news. They aren't streaming that disk catalog. It's often the only way to see a particular movie. And I'll miss the full-length snarky Eddie Mueller commentary on the film noir movies (better than the movie!).
Sure, but the vast majority of websites where I see these cookie prompts aren't even websites I'm logging in to in the first place... often they are websites I am not sure you can even log into at all. I get that if I want some kind of fine-grained cookie handling for websites that are legitimately using cookies for something I need to rely on them, but that initial "do I want this site to get cookies at all?" is almost always "no" and I should not have to rely on them for it.
But...how would you prove you've forgotten something?
I remember the good old days when Google penalized sites for showing content to their crawler that wasn't available to normal users.
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Are you arguing the government is actually getting less tax this way?
Since I don't know who you are, who your perceived adversaries are or what your risk tolerance is, I'd be really disingenuous if I told you who you should trust given your concerns; for all you know I could be an NSA operative. So how precisely is "Google one that is more to your liking" being 'purposely obtuse'? Seems like pretty clear, unambiguous advice since there are dozens of possible options that only you can prioritize, but clearly that recommendation bruised your painfully thin skin.

Very sad...anyway...
The legislature was split in two because it was considered the most dangerous branch. Or at least that’s one of the explanations they gave when arguing for its ratification.
The one where they altered a gif to invoke legacy pdf compatibility libraries that was somehow turing complete and used it to bootstrap a VM that performed memory analysis to escape a sandbox was likely the most impressive feat of engineering I have read...ever. I would love to read an entire book about how this was discovered, productized and deployed.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
Contingent workers, that's possible.

FTEs generally require an FB account to start the tech device provisioning process.
Might as well charge $0.99/year for Ultra too.
I absolutely did mean to be as snarky as possible. Asking for a source for something is one thing, but when the person you (not referring to you, but the original person I replied to) asked gave the word for word, verbatim search term who's first result is the EXACT thing you asked for, and you type "SOURCE TIMESTAMP" anyway, I can't be charitable.
Even then, the speedtest result would be more accurate than some theoretical max speed ISPs estimate their customers to have.
Building roads costs an incredible amount of carbon
Is there any silver lining here at all?
I'm somewhat confused. I've seen a number of comments of late talking about how google search is awful, but I use it 100+ times a day without issue. I tried the search you above "list QUIC implementations" and the top results all seemed reasonable?

1. Github: xileteam/awesome-quic

2. QUIC Working Group (quicwg.org)

3. "Comparison of Different QUIC Implementations" (a paper in a scholarly journal)

4. Wikipedia: QUIC

5. QUIC, a multiplexed transport over UDP (chromium.org)

Note: I use adblock plus which blocks all sponsored search results, so maybe that helps?
> The issue is, modernly, people equate not getting what they want with the system being broken

Since value is subjective, there is literally no other viable definition of broken, and if you think this is a modern idea, you haven't seen much of history.
Yeah I laughed at this. Whether or not you like the business model, Quest and AI are in Burlingame and is obviously very hard groundbreaking work.
Hiring freeze everywhere*.

* Supposedly not hiring freeze for senior ICs.
Forgive the dumb question, but what can a friendly website admin do with the Ray ID you send them, that can help you as a user, assuming they put Cloudflare in the middle as a CAPTCHA in the first place for a reason unrelated to you, and still want/need it there?
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I think you may have that backwards but yes. You are effectively always paying for expenses incurred 2.5 years ago.

EDIT: Nevermind, you had it the right way.
> The most impressive thing is how little training data this took.

Yes, this is just the beginning of multi-modality. Like how Alpaca was quickly overshadowed with much better finetunes with larger and improved datasets, I expect we'll see more capable (and truly open source) multi-modal models in the near future.

Interestingly, this "billion-scale corpus of images interleaved with text" was just open sourced a few days ago: https://github.com/allenai/mmc4

Looks like low hanging fruit for any team who wants to attempt to become the "Vicuna" of multi-modal transformers for a while!