skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Condolences to the affected Dropboxers. I think the silver lining for all of you is that amidst this turmoil, you're well positioned just by having Dropbox on your resume.

As someone laid off 2 weeks ago from a company with much less notoriety, I cringe at the idea of having to now compete with 500 of you.

Good luck out there.
So, by happenstance I know a little about some behind the scenes things of Lindell.

This isn’t about election fraud. Not really.

This is about a foolish wealthy guy who was very much taken advantage of by a con artist, and convinced of clearly stupid things.

I won’t type the guys name here, but Lindell met a guy who gave him all this “election data”. (Iirc there was literally some lorem ipsum in there). Lindell was dumb enough to go full bore on it.

The topic could have been anything but the con artist knew election data would be hot and Lindell couldn’t resist. This doesn’t excuse Lindell, but the topic could have been anything.

If you contain an amount of character that allows you to empathize with Lindell at all, he wasn’t being a bad guy. He actually thought that he had proof of election fraud, given to him by his magic friend, and was doing the righteous thing by exposing it. But again, extremely foolish. If you thought the election had issues, you should be furious at Lindell for making a mockery, the rest of us got to enjoy the show, and the hardline faithful got an unearned confirmation; this wasn’t about the election.
Ruby Weekly Issue 651: April 27, 2023
Thanks for the nice mention :)

I am about a week away from launching genre pages, age pages, and filters for all those things. So on the hard-science-fiction page, you can filter to see books in a variety of fun ways and keep following your curiosity:

Image showing how it works:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

Hit me up at ben@shepherd.com if you want to try the early preview, just tell me your fav genre and ill send you a link.
Good luck finding people with AI skills these days. Its seems possible that AI could be useful for accessing your files. Or having a chat using the files as expertise.
To elaborate, for those who aren't familiar, the Easter Vigil when done in its long form includes nine readings instead of the usual 3, and they are considerably longer than the usual ones too. It's also traditionally when converts are accepted into the Church, which, depending on how many there are, can add to the time considerably.

I say all of that to emphasize that it's not long because of a lack of pacing, but because there is a lot going on.
I actually love this angle. Personally trained models based on our own data. They have the storage infra. They also have a means of distributed compute since they are installed on so many PCs. If they werent an annoying and aimless product I would be excited!
whether you are using profit or market cap it's clear Apple, and therefore Tim Cook, is the winner. add to the fact that Apple clearly has been the most responsible in terms of keeping costs under control and therefore not having layoffs or other cost cutting measures now, says it all.
> Nice, round number.

500 is also a businessy-salesy round number, compared to 512 which is what an engineer would have considered a round number. Gives some clues as to where the number came from.
Both real time ray tracing introduced in 2018, and real-time denoising with super-sampling / up-scaling / frame-interpolation, both of these have made meaningful visual quality improvements in the last 12 years. If you do a Google image search for “best games with ray tracing” and compare to “best looking games from 2011”, there is an obvious and sizeable gap in quality.
The most real HN comment I've seen in years.
The money is in enterprise and with all of a company's files they're well positioned to do something AIish on them. Not sure there's anything really there but also don't think they have much choice but to jump on the hype train
I think the one we've seen so far had to pick and choose which pieces of the broader tangle of themes to engage with, by necessity of the constraints of the medium. But it did a very, very good job taking a movie-formattable slice out of the thing and presenting it with the honesty and scope of the source material.

> HBO paved the way for high value high production series,

HBO also paved the way to the superficialization of the stories of those series, the loss of themes and the reversion to sort of base storytelling patterns.
Ts'ao P'I (2004 Bp)
When one number is given as exact, and the other prefixed with "about", your intuition is that the exact number is not in fact an exact count? That is very odd.
Game changer’ method lets scientists peer into–and fly through–mouse bodies
I am the only one here who gave up reading this? There's something up with the writing that I can't put my finger on?
> Cars kill people. Bikes do not. Nothing you’ve said changes that.

The point I’m trying to make here is that countering an argument against bikes with “cars kill people, bikes don’t” is oversimplifying the problem much like “ban all the bikes” is oversimplifying the problem.

Neither of these positions moves the conversation forward and both of these positions discard a wide spectrum of complexity.

If we are to take this issue seriously, it involves infrastructure improvements to make cyclists safer, citations against cyclists who are obviously endangering others, and hopefully movement away from the need for cars to begin with.

Focusing on the binary version of this gets us nowhere.
Did someone suggest the telco as a malicious party?

My comment was about non-gov, non-telco malicious actors harvesting metadata via passive sniffing.
I think their mindset is considering the "storing files" product "done" and doesn't need more features.

Now they're creating completely new products to include with the same subscription that have little or nothing to do with the original product.

Document writing and signing, password storage, screen capture, video review/approval process, invoices (beta)...
Crysis with 2011 era mods looks about as good as a large chunk of modern AAA games, and even better in some cases such as compared to FF Strangers of Paradise.
This and Oppenheimer are the only two movies I'm excited for this year.
You’re not the target customer. A lot of people do use those tools, although most of them are outside of the tech world.

You’d probably be better off using a different service if it bothers you so much.
> HR background check companies don't always filter out names in criminal reports who aren't charged with anything

This is its own problem that requires strong privacy laws. If innocent suspects aren't used as a plausibly-indicative red herring, something else will be.
Dissolved CO2 forms carbonic acid which like most acids has a sour taste. It's not as strong as something like citric or lactic acid but it's certainly present. I personally don't really think of it while drinking carbonated beer but I definitely notice it while drinking sparkling water without other flavors to distract me.
90% of time people will use the default unless it doesn't work for them. So if you used a default with a popular language, many people would try copy-pasting and it would "not work" because they didn't substitute their own language.

They'd move begin searching for a new solution.

Some would recognize they should substitute their language.

Then a tiny fraction of users will actually read your documentation :)
They gave the employees who were let go the opportunity to clean things up and talk to their coworkers. It's weird how in this age that's considered shocking, but kudos to Dropbox for at least doing it the right way.
Companies adopting ChatGPT to add some useless chat bot is going to be the next “long island blockchain”.
Sure, Maven makes this possible.

But Maven Central has strict rules around what can be published there. I just double checked and it's a requirement to publish the source as well as the binaries:

https://central.sonatype.org/publish/requirements/#supply-ja...
More than 10x faster Rust and Cargo builds with Firebuild cache
In this particular case, even if performance is not concern I would use the hash map. It just reads better.
I haven't used it but I guess Nubank uses it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIdrT6r77gA
'No film should be revised.' full stop. And replace 'film' with any work of art... e.g. photo/painting/book/etc.
One of the claims about attention disorders IIRC is that it only affects thing people having to do things they don’t like. Which seems a bit sketchy to me so I probably am misunderstanding but the idea is even kids with adhd can play Minecraft for a day straight because they like it but can’t do math.
AI overtakes Money in Google search popularity
A limited series could be good, or it could be like the Foundation series where the creators decided the book(s) were too hard and are using the series to tell their own story instead (which isn't a bad story, but also isn't the story Asimov told in his books).
It's grifts all the way down!

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Lindell being a victim too unfortunately tracks.
Augustiner Edelstoff is really good.
You often also get it for even cheaper than 1,20€ per bottle (expensive for a german but quite cheap compared to most countries internationally).
Augustiner Hell is also very good.
Aside for actual military security, is there really any good reason for this taxonomy? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of "codenames" if they are public?

This specific theme sounds like it will increase the amount of cumulative errors given how closely related some of these names are.
Most likely you are correct. I suspect most citizens of India put “right to privacy” far, far below many other issues. So many are still affected daily by clean water and electricity shortages, lack of economic opportunities, and inconsistent (corrupt) governance.

Europe is afforded the luxury to spend energy on issues like this that are well higher on Maslow’s hierarchy.

However, due to prevailing issues between religions and castes in India, perhaps some would be interested in a blanket “right-to-privacy” in order to better hide their affiliations. This doesn’t seem to be the direction they’re heading but it’s a small fulcrum for change perhaps.
The author doesn't really debunk any of what he calls "excuses" when he jumps immediately to Facebook, then Twitter, Uber, Netflix, and Microsoft. Those are companies with huge scale problems. He even says as much, near the end, claiming "the evidence against these excuses comes from some of the largest and most financially valuable companies in the world". Nobody is arguing that performance doesn't matter at those scales.

Here's the author's five points, and how at least one of the examples he gives proves the reasons.

No need. These companies operate on the leading edge of hardware performance, on purpose. They can't just go out and buy faster hardware, it doesn't exist. Google even builds their own, just to optimize for their uses.

Too small. Again, at the scale of Facebook or Netflix, a 5% performance gain translates to an enormous advantage, which leads directly to the next point.

Not worth it. Here again, we're talking about saving millions of dollars but only because the systems are so enormous.

Niche. Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber's performance needs are a niche of their own.

Hostpot. Here we can get to a specific example the author quotes. "Cutting back on cookies required a few engineering tricks but was pretty straightforward; over six months we reduced the average cookie bytes per request by 42% (before gzip). To reduce HTML and CSS, our engineers developed a new library of reusable components (built on top of XHP) that would form the building blocks of all our pages."

So their Facebook does have a hotspot, it just happens that it's a very large spot on a colossal size system.

Finally, the author says, "If you look at readily-available, easy to interpret evidence, you can see that they are completely invalid excuses, and cannot possibly be good reasons to shut down an argument about performance."

I'm still looking for the evidence.
>Wouldn’t a data science curriculum be more multi-disciplinary than a ‘statistics’ course?

I would say yes, however, the items listed in the comment I quoted fall squarely within the realm of statistics. I don’t have a problem with calling a curriculum of statistics + data manipulation tools “data science” but that’s not what’s realistically being covered in these high school programs.
It's nothing more than fan service for Wall Street. They like hearing about cost-cutting measures and new hotness ("AI! GPT!"). It's just like slapping "blockchain" onto arbitrary things in 2018 to stim your valuation.
So...no, it is not open source. I wish they would just answer that in a straightforward way.

"No, the source is not available, and the product will continue to be developed by us, internally. However, binaries are provided..."
So, to summarize, your point is "this was art that I don't like made by people I don't like so it's ok to destroy."

That about it?
They say the binaries are being made under Apache 2.

They don't say anything about the source code being published. That's why (to me) this is so interesting. I've never seen binaries released without source code before.
I love how simple your cargo toml is. A big turnoff of leptos for me was the incredibly messy cargo toml of the examples. I could barely touch it without bricking the project.
Tim Cook quintupled the value of Apple and passed on a lot of the fads that other tech companies fell victim to.
Is Solar Roof printing money already?
It is a current truth that there are modern apps of interest to me written in Python that I can't install because I need some special dependency manager or environment manager or something and it looks like I will do serious harm to my system environment if I follow the installation instructions.
Used https://lineicons.com the last time around.
I suppose for the last 10y I've been drinking above average amounts of milk and I really prefer our 1.5% over the 3.5%. Perfectly fine milk taste for me and there should absolutely no gobs of cream in there, ugh - I also don't drink cream. Just saying that your opinion about that is just that. But then again I've never tried American milk of any kind.

That said I've switched to oat milk for the last 1-2 years and I now prefer it, so maybe I should also stop having an opinion.
https://archive.is/ZBmqP
The history of Intel's decline, TSMC's rise and how the US lost the lead in manufacturing is one of the most relevant and poorly explored that I can recall.

If you speak to anyone not generally interested in the field, they are oblivious despite being profoundly impacted by it.
Gotta use that turbo button bro
Either this article was Google translated, or it's AI generated. Too many grammatical oddities.
Lucas is a phenomenal story-spinner.

But like many story-spinners, he needs an equally phenomenal editor to sit on him. And it happens time and time again that a story-spinner gets so famous/rich/whatever that they can sit on the editor instead, and then the quality drops.

It's a very rare breed of story-spinner who can sit on themselves, offhand I can think of Tolkien perhaps.
A fun Deimos fact is that there exist stable prograde orbits around it, while there are no such orbits around its bigger brother Phobos. Because Phobos orbits closer to Mars, its gravitational sphere of influence is smaller than its physical size.

A nice paper on the different ways of orbiting the Martian moons and their trade-offs:

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-5067
#2 seems to be a perennial favorite for people that morally judge fat people, and it actually seems worse from other fat people.

My partner got gastric sleeve surgery, and she got an inordinate amount of shit about how it was "cheating" to lose weight from some of her fatter friends as well as a bunch of her skinny friends. It's weird like that.
They licensed the binary under Apache. It's a publicity stunt.
A lathe can turn precise bores. Those can be used to make guns, which can be used to kill people. From my perspective, the analogy is you're anti-gun violence, but going after the people who admire the precision of the metalworking tools.

If you want to move away from fossil fuels, yes that's great. I'm with you. You're going to want the people with an appreciation for this kind of engineering on your side, as it will be necessary for transitioning any advanced economy.

If the problem is as bad as we all seem to agree it is, maybe we should cooperate to solve it instead of playing king of the hill for the moral high ground.
This is an awesome visualization, I am so impressed :). I've been working on (shepherd.com) with a similar goal to try to bring in human groupings to try to determine book connections via the many angles humans bring to the table. And more serendipity like wandering a local bookstore. I really love how you have done this.

Dropping you an email in a few hours :)
If that's the case then all the people running around praising the ""simplicity"" of golang got the wrong end of the stick completely from Rich's classic presentations.
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk
I don't see the relevance of the account age as long as the person is engaging in a healthy discussion.

However, I have noticed that in other comment sections, such as those on „Der Spiegel“, some people attempt to dismiss the opinions of users with recently created accounts as well.
This also happened to Northern Exposure. I have one of the only full copies in the world with the original music.
it seems strange that GPT4 wrote that that. It doesn't really have very good grammar/syntax.
I actually know for a fact that a new iDrive version was reimplemented from scratch even though it was just an upgrade from the previous version and there would have been enough code to reuse. Maybe he was sarcastic but this actually happens a lot.
Perhaps security by obscurity, it being now a proprietary component of a bank?
I think his flexibility to not make Windows first gave his engineers new life. Not being forced into a set of predictable actions based on ideology and being flexibly minded to let his engineer follow the best path is why Microsoft has risen from its decades of stagnation. He didn't lead with fear the same way Sundar is leading Google.
We do it all the time. Anti gambling rehab, anti gambling commercials, corrupt politicians, opportunity costs wasted by the addicts, bankruptcies, failed marriages.
They compromised on complexity a bit when they de-islamified the Fremen and decided they would be better off as crusaders rather than jihadis, which kinda turns some of the central themes of the story on its head.
Unfortunately TSMC does indeed use nm extensively https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/log...
If you’ve already read the book, you might enjoy the movie. If you haven’t, I’m reminded of this article: https://www.theonion.com/dune-part-two-to-pick-up-right-wher...
In the AI world, files will be created at a volume never before seen. Personal collections of files will matter less in this new limit. Dropbox probably sees the writing on the wall and may want to reconfigure itself to catch the upside.

Imagine selling Rolodex in the post-email era.
It's not simply revision history, it's a complete record of everything with time, without re-architecting your data or app. IIRC datomic structures your data so that all transactions and state have a time dimension so you can go forward or back in time trivially (no special query, no temporal sql, etc.)
I mean they've been calling it cocoa butter and yet it lives in the bathroom and not in the kitchen.
Its an extremely common meme.
Making your product available for free isn't a publicity stunt, it's a huge step for a business. And, in practice, it's not that much different for the average user if only the binaries are Apache licensed. When was the last time you needed to open up the Postgres source code and modify something?
Dennis Montgomery, the man that sold Lindell the “evidence” in the first place, is a fascinating character. He has been pulling con after con, including $30MM from the Department of Defense, with seemingly no consequences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_L._Montgomery
If every company is doing AI it sort of sounds similar to the ICO/coin phase of crypto hype curve and the every company having a dotcom/ecommerce department of the dot com boom/bust (which is actually the case nowadays). Because AI has more respect in tech circles than crypto did I suspect people aren't calling BS as much. It could very well be that in X years a lot of companies have AI doing bot types of work. It could also be a lot of if..then..ifelse or document search index stuff with "AI" lipstick on it.
10%? rookie numbers. You gotta pump that up.
I can't help but draw parallels from how Netflix manages their content to how Google manages their products. I listened to a podcast where they explained the economics of why Netflix is doing this and it's basically because they have to pay fees to keep the show up. This causes a similar pressure that seems to felt inside of Google, if something is not a smash hit right out the gate, kill it. But as we saw with Google, this is not a viable long term strategy, you save money in the short term, but in the long term people stop using your products / watching your shows because it might be gone tomorrow so why bother.
Doom would have been a much weirder game if they had use realistic surface gravities.
> replace your home internet with 5G

Mr Shannon enters the chat..
I don't care what Microsoft turned around, what they did to stagnate and gatekeep technology in the 90's is unforgivable, and always will be.
Deep cultural significance to who? Modern Greek culture has next to nothing in common with ancient Greek culture. The religion of the temple they came from no longer even exists, so what special meaning is there to modern Greeks (whose current religion is actually responsible for the destruction of many ancient Greek archeological sites anyway)?

I don't recognize claims of continuity here, and to me it sounds more like "it's valuable and I want it" with modern nationalism sprinkled on top. The arguments seem to be really "they're really emotional about it, so give them what they want," and I am not at all sympathetic to that.
Well, perhaps the problem isn't where you think it lies.

They may be willing to acknowledge your question and answer it with a whispered "yes", if you at least ask it in a way that cause them no excessive shame. Your denialism that the answer could be yes isn't quite the same thing as it being an "obvious no".

We all wander through a landscape of horrific truths that we blind ourselves to just to remain sane.
HN is becoming a meme, kind of like how HN used to write off Reddit.
> To me, there's something very specific about the way friction works with player movement in Unreal that feels very ... sticky? ... compared to Quake Engine games. Players come to a stop when input is released in a way that feels like being in glue - again, at least to me. There's more subtle gliding around in Quake.

UE movement is not physically correct. So it would make sense that it generates a nagging sense of uncanniness, especially when the rest of the game looks close to realistic.
We just bought a 2023 6-speed Crosstrek and it’s amazing. Also, fewer (color) screens because it’s practically the base.

Sadly the last year one can get it as a manual.
> Dropbox has basically been the same product for years.

I'm assuming you're just talking about your personal experience with their consumer product, because this statement is laughably false. Dropbox has made a tons of changes and acquisitions to beef up their enterprise offerings, which is clearly where they've been focused, and where the money is.
I'm sure it's the type of thing in an Elon meeting he would say "Surely we can think of a solution better than relying on drivers to provide meaningful input to the desired outcome?"