skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A victory at trial, whether the damages were higher or lower than the settlement, would likely have been appealed & fought tool and nail by Fox to reduce the settlement amount. And even then there wouldn't be an admissions of guilt or anything like that-- it would have been spun as just more judicial activism as Fox maintained their innocence. There would never be an apology, never a public victory that Fox News viewers saw and acknowledged as a huge blunder by Fox.

This way still still sucks, but maybe some very few will see it as a tacit admission of Dominion's case again against Fox, after all why settle if you're innocent? Though I have my doubts. People are not easily shaken from beliefs held mostly out of ideological alignment.
Well theoretically you could, it's just that the big states would have to offer up an amazing deal to entice the smaller states to agree to call a constitutional convention.

The supermajority of the electorate in the smaller states might be willing to exchange future political influence for sufficient wealth or some other compensation.
Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text
Where is the bug tracker? What are all these "there is huge customer support" claims and no evidence?

No. You cannot submit a ticket and wait for developers to process it and get any feedback. You can either get an assigned person (which comes with extra pay and only for customers who are deemed worthy) who will not deal with issues like working with AWS bugs -- their goal is to tell you how to use AWS, but if something in AWS doesn't work, it's out of their hands.

Or you can get assistance with payments. Nice, but not what I was talking about.
Hey dahwolf I finally got a chance to skim through The Witch Trials of JK Rowling based on your recommendation and I thought it was pretty bad.
I honestly don't mind. The popups have a far more negative impact on my life. If I actually mind, which is very rare, I just open an Incognito window.
It's exactly the people keeping the wheels turning, the working class and lower middle class, who can't afford to have children at the moment. The spongers above and below are the ones able to breed with abandon. Doesn't seem sustainable.
Ah. In the USA it means people leaving and being replaced. If a company has "high turnover," it's usually an indication that something is amiss.
Eg if you're trying to shout over the wind.
Creating a Custom Command Bar in Neovim
Nothing ever goes away. Almost nothing at least. That's not what failure means.

I too think the tale of CORBA is greatly... what's a better word for bastardized? We have simple pat reductionist stories that it was bad & failed. And the truth is much more complex. On this is agree.

But it also seems like a world that got vendorized, that got stratified & too-far-away-from-the-practioners. It stopped delivering value. It grew in ways that lead to ossification & unsustainable ends. It misdeveloped & fell.
It's interesting to compare how different professions handle the ambiguity in left/right. In the maritime world they went with an approach at one extreme, where they just use two completely separate words, "port" and "starboard." (Though that's far from the only case where there's a special word for something on a boat.)

At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective. You could imagine that the maritime world could have gone with a similar convention. But the downside is that on very rare occasions someone along the way gets confused and the doctor operates on the wrong side of the body.

The theatrical world takes an intermediate approach, where they use the terms "stage left / stage right", which always refer to the perspective of an actor onstage facing the audience. Then the word "stage" tells you the perspective, but you still keep the words left/right so you don't have to memorize two completely separate words.
I'd bet port and starboard are easier to communicate unambiguously than left and right. Absolute positioning, one syllable vs two, different ending sounds vs both ending a "tuh" sound.
If you do it correctly it can help demystify function call/return and pointers... although, as I understand it pointers are NOT just addresses in memory.
Doing one perfect layoff that hits the exact target is ideal in theory, but it's really hard to do at this scale. Meta is so big that it can take many months to sort through everything. Logistically, a couple rounds of layoffs can make more sense than trying to force it all to happen at once.

There's also a big risk of cutting too deep. If you try to downsize the company to hit some gloomy economic outlook that turns out to be too pessimistic, you might have to rapidly rehire. It can be better to make a few incremental changes to the company with some time to reassess in between.

So yes: One, single, perfect layoff is ideal. But the real world isn't ideal. The real ideal would have been to not overhire in the first place, but everyone is trying to hit a moving target with the economy and the job market.

Rolling layoffs are terrible, though. My last company would do seemingly random layoffs every other week for months on end. Orgs would change, spend a few weeks trying to get things back on track with whoever was left, then layoffs would rearrange the company again. Meta is at least being precise about implementations and timing.
Thanks for the kind suggestion, I'll look into this
Broadband Consumer Labels
Oh great, now we will have flying ferrys.... or perhaps swimming planes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgweA8tlh8Q
I didn't expect this one would be one of those "IN MICE" things...

In a decades-long technical tour de force led by Duke’s Center for In Vivo Microscopy with colleagues at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University, researchers took up the gauntlet and improved the resolution of MRI leading to the sharpest images ever captured of a mouse brain.
And did you submit a bug ticket? I bet you didn't. So what's this about?
What I find most confounding is that I know some folks who do what I'd call research, in that they do EDA and develop models, but since those aren't necessarily destined for development of software, their hours are not counted in this exercise. It's too, um, researchy to qualify as research, I guess? or it's just classified as fancy analytics.
I have a hard time believing it - the journos are interested in the kind of muck and if there have been additional 2 rounds of layoffs how did they keep it quiet?
I lived next to a post office distribution hub. Would drop dvds at Post office in morning. Get home and new dvd would be in my mailbox. Watch all of em. Return them in morning. Rinse and repeat until they started delaying how it took for the DVDs to arrive.
Slashdot did a pretty good job of romanticizing this type of thing for a couple of decades before HN. Miss the old /.
> Hence, your daughter being or becoming an incredible artist would have no meaning, except perhaps for herself enjoying the process of creating art.

There are lots of points and arguments to be made in this general area, but I have to ask, is this really so bad? I mean, what is the point of our lives and everything we do, other than to generally spend the rest of our time doing things we enjoy for their own sake?

If we're comparing "your daughter is an incredible artist, and here's a job for her designing product packaging for a multinational conglomerate" to "your daughter is an incredible artist, and the multinational conglomerate is using a diffusion model to design their packaging", I think it's really hard to say that the former is better than the latter. Of course, it all depends on the economic model, but the line I am quoting is within that assumption you made of the economic model being able to support this. In that case, I am for the latter wholeheartedly.

Economic incentives are great to get people "hustling", but they are rarely aligned with the human values you wish to protect, and mostly by chance if they are. Your daughter's artistry is better "spent" on art for art's (and personal enjoyment's) sake than on drawing clip art for an obscure HR form somewhere, IMO.
This (plausible deniability) feels like a necessary iteration to resist illiberal shitty policing by Western governments, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617773 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/18/french-publi...

The nations keep making fools of themselves. The Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace keeps speaking truer, the more illegitimacy & sadness these sad slow moving institutions keep bringing down upon their places. These institutions don't strike balances to protect individuals, they favor themselves in absurd & abject ways. Hence such a clear clarion call for Independence, for the re-legitimizing of humanity.
Or maybe, there’s a spot somewhere between bloated and skeletal that makes more sense.
This is the most stupidest comment I ever seen. No, it's not fun to be at a hospital. No, you shouldn't want to be at a hospital. And yes, it's a bit masochist.
It is fair because States are sovereign. The United States is a Union of States, after all.

The Union is predicated on the States agreeing to certain terms and conditions that guarantee certain State Rights while compromising on others.

One such compromise is representation within the Union, whereby the Lower House (House of Representatives) has the States represented proportionally by population and the Upper House (Senate) has the States represented equally regardless their population. Territories that aren't a State receive no representation.

Additionally, the Lower and Upper Houses each have different duties and powers afforded to them. The Lower House legislates matters concerning money, among other things, while the Upper House legislates matters concerning government appointments and foreign diplomacy (eg: treaties), among other things. Both Houses must also agree with each other on any bills that are intended to go to the President for signing into law.

The States in the Union are tantamount to independent countries in most other contexts, so States' Rights are a very big deal.
I'm working at a company where we perpetually don't have enough engineers and we've learned (the hard way) that adding more tends to make the problem worse (too many cooks).

Copilot helps a lot with that. I can write `// check if em` and it will finish the comment (email is valid) and write the actual check.

It's a massive productivity boost. I'm spending less time looking stuff up (what was that function name again?) and less time fixing typos/basic syntax errors.

Copilot doesn't always know the function name, but it does more often than me. And it makes errors too, but again less often than me (also, because I'm reading the code, not typing it, I tend to see the error immediately without needing to test it).
In terms of headcount.

No need to argue against a person, instead of the objective scenario I proposed.
This is a lot of personal information required to delete an account.

But I'm not sure what other way can be used to verify that original owner wants to delete an account (with paid purchases) and not some hacker (who may have obtained a password or 2FA token without permission).

Keeping in mind that if the original owner gets an account deleted without permission, the owner could sue Epic.
Might be the difference between a legally disclosed layoff and “my whole org was gutted by our director” but not big enough to require a legal disclosure.
I love DB Browser.

It's fast, does what I need it to, is open source ... great little tool.
But if you have a steering board on the other side of your ship, it's a lot easier to dock facing the other way.
Yes, this is also a great idea. Apply it to meat as well.
To me, it seems that nearly every layoff (especially recently) in tech results in a small spike in the stock price due to 'cost savings' and 'willing to make hard choices'
r and s are next to each other, l is closer to p than to anything else.
OK but “everyone” doesn’t want to do it. So take advantage of the opportunity before it skyrockets!
The "Don't talk about deno" release. Quite an interesting feature list. I'm really interested if wasi + a permission prescription + package authorization might allow us sharable cli tools like git hooks and filters that we can trust.
There’s already a de facto supermajority requirement in that you need the senate, which represents states, and the house, which represents people.

Also, it turns out that when the legislature doesn’t act, because it was deliberately hobbled by its designers, you end up with an ultra powerful executive rather than things being left to the states.

It would be better if more Americans recognized the flaws in the design of our system of government instead of quasi-worshipping the Founding Fathers and insisting that any problems are because we are unworthy of their great design.
You can also zoom in. That’s pretty neat.

Also, not sure if this is intentional or some ios specific bug/unintended feature, but you can do a quick 2-finger “zoom” motion, lift up your fingers, and it’ll keep zooming in at a constant speed. Then you can “steer” with one finger. It is mesmerizing.
> Using a lower-capacity plane is still less of an issue for SWA than other airlines since they also don’t do assigned seating so they can bump a portion of the booked tickets rather than all of them.

Other airlines can do similar. Assigned seats don't prevent an airline from bumping you; it's been a while, but I've had my seat changed without my involvement as well as had to figure out what to so when someone else had a boarding pass with the same seat as mine. I've had pleasant surprises too; booked towards the front of the cabin for a plane without an extra leg room section, but the plane that was used had extra leg room for that row, so bonus.

> I can’t imagine them getting any benefit out of having 737s with different seating capacities.

It's probably a mix of things; one being they bought many 737-700s before larger models were available, but it looks like they've got 192 737-MAX7s on order, so it seems that they'll have three sizes for a while and probably have two sizes once the 737-700s age out. Some routes probably don't provide enough customers to fill the larger planes, and using a smaller plane reduces operating costs. Two sizes isn't that many. Alaska operates more sizes and has fewer aircraft.
It's the quality of the image for me. I remember when DVD looked phenomenal (because compared to broadcast and VHS it was) but now it feels barely watchable.
StackOverflow has never once remembered my choice. It's the website that frustrates me the most because I felt like they had a lot of goodwill with me and now it's just gone.
I’m just saying, even if you get a promo and your stock-based comp jumps 30%, it’s a moot point if the stock itself has dropped 50%. Or, you know, you get laid off.
I think it's a "perversion to the norm" taking place: everything becomes subjected to Kirk Drift[0] over time. As much as we'd like to communicate something nuanced and specific to a pop culture audience, they eventually want to be told that the good guys win and that they are the good guys. Battle shonen stories do that by assembling together an unending series of soap operatic character arcs and pro wrestling matchups. There's inherent "pulpiness" to that kind of writing, and what manga has been strong at historically is producing products adhering to the formulas of Jump and other manga magazines: stories that are unique in their subject matter, but similar in their tropes.

What made Akira interesting to foreign audiences at the time wasn't exactly the thematic content - though it got critical praise - but the more adult subjects and violence. What you found in Western animation at the time was vastly weighted towards children's toy sales and Disney general-audiences content - there was nothing like the OVA boom. So Akira existed as "the anime with nukes, biker gangs and mutants", alongside Hokuto no Ken's "atomic wasteland where muscle men punch each other and their heads explode". And that was what defined imported anime throughout the 90's - if it wasn't violent, it was sexy. Or it was Ghibli. Interest in series like Evangelion took some time to catch up with that, as more of a fan culture arose and tastes became discerning.

[0] http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-remem...
Why are you referring to it as that?
Get Your App to Mars
His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around!

https://oimo.io/works/water3d/

Cloth is very cool too.

https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart.

https://oimo.io/works/jelly/
Just use ALBs.
I miss the Seattle Public Library! They had a great collection. I could place a hold on materials for my local SPL outlet and it would be delivered there from whatever others the material was at. Wonderful!

Here in the middle of nowhere, the public library's selection is slim, recent, and popular. It's hard to find classics or art house or cult film - the kind of things that nobody streams because streaming service libraries are slim, recent, and popular. I can use InterLibrary Loan to borrow up to 3 DVDs at a time.

The "borrowing" time is time from request to time of return, then I can request 3 more. This works out to about 3 DVDs a month.

I was doing DVD.com for another ~12 a month. Total about 15.

Now that fifteen movies is become three, I may have to see if I can get a library account from the local university and also ILL through them.
Are teams waiting to see if ChatGPT4 can pick up the slack instead of initiating a new job opening?
I've never been so happy to feel nauseous. Great work!
Love this. I wonder if we'll eventually have a new merge à la io.js/node.js

Deno and Node are converging more and more on every release, such a deja vu. The main difference being that deno offers much more as a business than just the "deno" product itself, so an eventual merge wouldn't be so trivial.

Denode or Nodeno? Who wants to place bets?
biochar is a much cheaper and more plausible low-tech technology than burying desiccated biomass in polyethylene.
Honestly, whoever the NSO Group hires must be absolute wizards with some of these hacks.

I've read the in-dept writeups on some of the previous ones and they are insane. Combining 5+ seperate problems to finally achieve the goal.

I can't imagine what that interview is like.

Not that I condone any of this stuff, quite the opposite. But from a programming perspective, it's pretty incredible.
According to the Reddit thread, some sore losers in Fortnite matches had the winners' accounts falsely deleted.
No. There's support for financial issues, or you can get support to tell you how to use AWS. If something is broken in AWS, you are on your own. Those people owe you nothing and won't do anything out of the goodness of their hearts because in most cases they don't even have a clue who within the organization they need to talk to in order to get a bug ticket created and processed.

On a personal level: as an individual developer, I have never been even able to reach to anyone from AWS about their bugs simply because the "solution architect" wouldn't even bother to talk to rank-and-file, and other than that the only other option is to vent into a text area in the AWS console, which I'm sure is just some JavaScript for show. You cannot file a bug, nor can you see what other bugs have been filed. Nor can you get any estimates on whether the bug was reproduced, nor anything about the plans of fixing the bug.
Rotations always happen in a plane, in n-dimensions. In 3D there's a coincidence where planes and lines can be put in exact correspondence.

This is the root of the whole "axial" and "pseudo" vectors that plague physics -- there's a (Hodge) duality being hidden, and we're stuck with Gibbs & Heaviside's vector calculus.

But a plane (bivector) will always be the natural way to define a rotation.
My mobile device (iPhone) relays most traffic through the nearest Akamai datacenter. So they don't get my IP address. And that datacenter has a massive number of IP addresses, which are rotated.
> My last company would do seemingly random layoffs every other week for months on end.

This sounds like my current company. Only a few truly announced layoffs, but every few weeks we quietly lose another round of people, usually entire teams. The rest of us are split between hoping to be in the next round, and just jumping ship.
Does VSCode have anything like Emacs' zones mentioned in the article?
Just today (and many times before) I witnessed a coworker flummoxed by their Windows log in PIN not working. They insisted it was the same thing they used to log in not even 10 minutes ago, before locking it to go pee. However perhaps because I was asking for immediate information, the PIN they used countless times per day simply didn't work. I said "don't worry about it, I'll figure it out" and walked away. Few seconds later they shouted down the hall, "It worked this time, what did you need again?"
...It counts my fears
Layoffs happen at different scales within a company. Individual departments can have layoffs that aren't newsworthy. If someone's budget gets cut, they might have to layoff a number of people.

The reason the big layoffs are newsworthy is that they impact most or all of the company at once. The big layoffs are usually associated with company-wide hiring slowdowns. The individual org/department layoffs are often not really noteworthy in the context of the entire company.
Also, to be clear, it will eventually stack up and roughly even out as you amortize 1/5 of each of 5 years’ worth of R&D spend per year. Basically the part that sucks is that there was no 4-year phase-in period.
I mean I agree and I think most people do. The background for my argument is a feeling that a lot of important research is held back because of privacy concerns. At least in Sweden it feels like decision makers err on the side of caution instead of allowing important research programs as you describe. But I've only seen one such case and maybe that one is very non representative. Who knows.

My thought was that if we could just deal with privacy concerns in a comprehensive way we could open floodgates for research.

But then again it might just as well add another layer of technocratic stagnation.
This clock reminded me of a PSX game called: Forbidden Cube (or alternatively Intelligent Cube)
https://youtu.be/BZM9kTGFeko
Of all the insane, repressive and straight-up authoritarian systems in the United States today, you picked... A failed pilot for middle-school algebra in SF?
Your medical comment reminded me of the fascinating constellation of terminology used to identify locations and orientations in anatomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location

Some of the terms: dorsal/ventral, proximal/distal, anterior/posterior, superior/inferior, oral/aboral, basal/apical

When you're describing something like a microbe, the terms get fairly arbitrary; which is the "head" end of some little blobby thing?
Yeah they should've just written a nice letter to the nice news company
I see that you are blessed to work in an environment where your day is not a stream of Jira tickets linked to timesheets.
If you look at statistics, most deaths occur in small boats with a crew who have no idea what these words mean, because they don't have a license.

These are the most common reason of fatalities:

- Not wearing a lifejacket or PFD.

- Falling overboard.

- Capsizing, swamping, sinking, or running aground.

- Being involved in a collision.

- Operating a pleasure craft while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The goal of the license should be helping these people, not experienced ones, who anyways have more advanced license, not just the basic ones.