skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram, to find the stories the mainstream media avoids until it's no longer avoidable. Basically gives me the news months in advance, without all the bs. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote it was safe and effective, made you immune, and prevented spread? The real experts were blocked and banned from most places but Telegram, so that's where they went. And only lately has the mainstream media started to write about it. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote that the war would last only a few weeks? Remember when they wrote Russia was losing? Remember when they wrote, and still write, that the economy is only seeing a temporary setback, and will bounce back, even though banks are crashing? Yeah, no thanks, I prefer the truth rather than propaganda.
Surely 5 is a warranty claim. I actually went through 3 head units on my 2014 Subaru XV with a very similar sounding issue.
I don't keep up on things I don't use, knowing that if I need to use it I can get to the GetThingsDone mode in a short time frame. I know I won't be an expert and nuanced things will not be apparent early on. Changing languages, frameworks, libraries or infrastructure types of things doesn't happen very often though.

Even newer cloud infrastructure things rely on HTTP verb based API's and lots of JSON with configs in YAML files. So if I was to learn a new cloud based thing, I would watch videos on how the overall process works, then install the necessary stack to begin tinkering and start doing stuff. Maybe read up on some ways people are using the thing to help understand how it fits into my set of problems it could solve.

Experienced engineers learn by doing.
Hmm, yes, that's an important factor.

Let's say the average CO2 concentration in a mask is 19000 ppm (mid-point of 8000 ppm and 30000 ppm). If only 5% of the air inhaled by volume is from the mask and 95% is from outside air (440 ppm), then the average CO2 content of that inhaled air would be around 1350 ppm. I would say that's at the limits where CO2 starts to affect our mental acuity.

If 95% of the air is typical office air (at about 900 ppm), then the inhaled air would be at about 1800 ppm. That is where most people would probably feel the high CO2 concentration if they knew the feeling.

If the 5:95 split is correct, it would seem that wearing a mask could increase the inhaled air CO2 content by around 2-3x. It could be more or less depending on some factors. But in orders of magnitude, it would seem closer to 2.5x than 25x or 250x.

This lines up with my experience. Maybe the air in an N95 mask I would wear for several hours indoors would feel even worse than 1800 ppm. But there are many factors to how inhaled air feels, including temperature and humidity. So I'm happy with 1800 ppm as an estimate.

Someone should build real experiment for this and get some hard numbers. It could be a topic for a nice and times-relevant publication in respiratory health or for someone in general practice.
I would point out that George Floyd, whose death brought on protests, riots, the proliferation of BLM signs, etc., was not shot, was in fact in custody.
You say this as if I have never been a part of a union vote. That's just such an ignorant assumption on your part. You also know nothing about me or my current working conditions. This comment especially is offensive: "even if it's against your own desires, so that you can see how much more money you'll get, how much better you can be treated, and how much more your voice will matter." like seriously, WTF? Actively hoping something happens to someone against their desires is utter bullshit. Also, your assumption my voice does not matter is also just so far off the mark, that it's like you asked GPT how to respond. You sound authoritative while being very wrong.
Back in the 90s a sabbatical was a fairly common thing in some professions.

Think of this as a sabbatical instead. It's unpaid, but your choice, and the pay from previous years is paying for it.

If you want to recover from burnout, I'd suggest that you don't add the pressure of starting side projects. Just enjoy some time off doing non-programming things. Maybe try setting a commitment of 1/2 year of no programming or side projects.
Who said anything about the government? In the article, Spielberg laments his own decision to censor the guns in ET. It was his decision to alter his own movie, not government-imposed. The article isn't about government-imposed censorship specifically, it's Spielberg lamenting censorship generally.

inb4 "it's not real censorship unless the government does it"
Nice, round number. I wonder if that was a carefully thought out coincidence, or they fiddled with the numbers a bit until they got the right payroll savings then rounded it to the nearest 100. I suspect the latter - when I see a nice, round number of people being fired it makes me think that they decided "how many people do we need to sacrifice to appease the finance gods" rather than "how many of these roles are really needed to achieve the goals we set ourselves".

Anyway, good luck to the former Dropboxers, I hope they land on their feet.
Yeah, I bailed around the time they switched to a gigantic electron app and increased the prices with no added functionality that I wanted.
I am developing a smart RSS reader that ingests roughly 1000 articles a day and selects roughly 300 to show me. The current classification workhorse works on a miniLM embedding which is also used for clustering (unlike every other document clustering system i’ve seen, this one really works)

The performance of the classifier is limited by the fickleness of my judgements, I am thinking about making it into a bookmark manager, an image classifier, something that can sort through 5000 search results, and a workflow engine.
It is for someone who can't stick to diets. It's an impulse control drug.
Ideal world:

The only thing the screen does is backup camera and provide bluetooth connection to CarPlay and AA and _maybe_ some tucked away very rarely used settings for things I definitely don't need while driving. No car company is going to write software that is better than CarPlay because a: they aren't Apple and b: my phone is also where all of my music, podcasts, contacts, map history, etc. is located.

Everything else has a physical button.
Standard web APIs are a lot like kernel-level OS features. They have a ton of inertia to them, so they arguably should be limited to stuff that is infeasible in "userland". (There are additional reasons for that in the case of OSs, but that's the relevant one here).

If you had such a high-level API baked in, it would get leapfrogged by some library project within a few years, and then we'd be stuck with yet another API to support that no one actually uses.
I agree completely; I just couldn't think of a semi-recent film where a historical person was whitewashed. It's especially relevant because as a political leader of a conquering dynasty, Cleopatra's differing heritage from her subjects may have, probably did have, effects on how her people thought of her and how she was able to wield power. The way the Ptolemy dynasty interacted with the people of Egypt is something I know almost nothing about and would have been very interested in seeing depicted onscreen.
I second this. It's super easy to setup and it comes with a lot neat features out of the box
It's a negotiation, like any other.

That's based on how much value the buyer is getting and how much money they have. According to the article, value is high and Citi has gobs of money. Therefore, the seller needs to negotiate harder. Negotiating hard to achieve a win-win is the most capitalistic outcome you could wish for.

"I want this for free" -> I'd like this to be accessible to lower income citizens, increase usage of cycles that improves health in general and lowers our city's impact on the climate.
you are not a failure in my eyes
> Prohibition was a “conservative” movement

This makes no sense, by definition it was a progressive movement at the time: for as long as we know, people drank alcohol, and then you get these progressive people (many of them women) trying to change the society for the better. It was a failed progressive policy, that if it stuck we would have seen it as a good thing in retrospect and call it progressive - just like banning opium in cough medicine.

Conservative means keeping the old way, in this case: keep drinking alcohol freely.
"distribute the Work [..] in Source [..] form"
Ask HN: How do you synthesize books that you read?
When you read nonfiction (i.e. Designing Data Intensive Applications, Thinking in Systems) how do you 'lock in' your understanding and apply it to your daily life?

Have tried note-taking, book reports, services like Readwise personally.
Taiwan made the foundry business a strategic priority for multiple reasons. Intel at least for the US was always a business with national security impact. Europe never realized the importance and didn't make it anywhere near priority. They did not provide enough on-going incentives nor did they protect their companies from being sold to foreign ones. Instead the companies jumped hard on the outsourcing train and pushed as much manufacturing abroad as possible. This was a very shortsighted move that temporarily increased profits but traded the future for it. When nation-states put their weight behind something then it's nearly impossible to compete unless your own nation-state puts their weight behind you as well.

There is still some chance for Europe to come back into it but I have doubts they'll find the will to do it.
There is nothing wrong with saying "It is not open source but you can freely use the binaries". That is the same thing, but upfront about it, but this feels like open-source-washing.
When I tried those I found the brightness and colour balance odd in places. I'm told this is because they are optimised to look as close as possible to how they would in a cinema in 1977 (hence the name) so are optimised for viewing via a projector not an LCD TV.
I don't think it's CarPlay specific. I occasionally get similar erratic results for both volume and speed control on my Model 3 if I spin the steering wheel dials too quickly (and in the case of speed control, it's actually intended to be a supported function, spin it fast enough and go up in 5-mph increments instead of 1). I suspect it's just an artifact of that sort of infinite dial technology.
The OP was advocating for banning bikes and bike lanes because they’re dangerous. Cars kill people. Bikes do not. Nothing you’ve said changes that. There will always be shitty, unnecessarily risk-taking people in the world. They exist on bikes, they exist in cars. I don’t think the proportion is significantly different among one population vs another. I’d rather have them on bikes.
Ask HN: Is Satya Nadella the best tech CEO of last decade?
He turned around an almost dying windows to become this Kraken that has the majority dev environment in its chokehold. That's impressive
Other candidates in my list are Frank Slootman of Snowflake and Tim Cook of Apple for how he has not dropped the ball from Steve Jobs. What are yours?
Its certainly controversial. Using canvas based rendering like this is essentially reverse-electron.

Electron builds native software by embedding a web browser and using the browser's layout engine and DOM. Canvas based rendering like this is the inverse. Here the application discards the browser's layout engine and DOM, and instead embeds its own layout engine. - Despite the browser being right there and available.

Hilariously, in a demo like this there's 3 layers of UI controls nested inside each other. First, there's the OS's native UI toolkit. Then there's the browser. The browser discards most of those UI elements, and reimplements its own controls. And then Egui discards all of that and embeds its own, third layout engine all written in wasm. No inertial scrolling. No web inspector. No native controls (especially a problem on iOS or android). No CSS - so I hope Egui's layout engine supports the layout you're after.

Downside: Its a 5mb wasm bundle. But on the plus side, 5mb is positively tiny compared to shipping electron!
Backblaze is too shy to give a hard number. When you really don't know, start with 90 days minimum. Then go do proper risk analysis and ask legal how long they need to keep everything.
>I take full ownership of this decision and the path that led us here.

There's the free bingo space!
The US Navy is also replacing touch panels for Navy vessels with physical controls when they found that touch panels were part of the reason of some accidents with Navy vessels.

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/09/navy-reverting-ddgs-back-to...

As someone who has both a car with only a touch panel and a car with only physical controls, I prefer the physical controls every time, all the time.
> Remember when they wrote Russia was losing?

In what Telegram channel is Russia not losing?
> In some areas, investments that showed promise before the downturn have more limited potential today.

Which areas? Which employment category are they cutting? Hard to tell from the message.
That seems unlikely, since annual averages are about 50% of pre-2020 office occupancy.
Public Transportation data also shows volume at roughly half of pre-pandemic normal.

However, commuter rail has recovered less than other modes, so if some of those people are now driving to their office instead, then they will be making traffic worse than it would have been at an equivalent pre-pandemic office occupancy volume.

https://www.kastle.com/safety-wellness/getting-america-back-...

https://www.mbta.com/performance-metrics/ridership-the-t
For our industry "impacted" is going to be the word of the year
There's something a bit discordant about using the Dropbox font to convey this message.

Feels a bit like having an illustrator create a corporate Memphis graphic of a layoff.
The reason I mentioned my opinion is because it's an example of opinions which are suppressed. You have demonstrated this, by insisting that nobody could possibly have and express my opinion in good faith (despite your insistence, I earnestly do believe what I've said, in good faith.) Such proclamation of bad faith are an attempt to suppress the expression of opinions like my own, you have tacitly declared my comment to be a violation of the forum rules and therefore deserving of suppression.

Your reaction to my statement has proved logicalmonster's point: "Most comments on HN on this topic that veer outside of a narrow range of acceptable thoughts, even from those people that generally support this topic, are flagged and killed."

You haven't succeeded in getting my comments flagged, but you called for it. I knew you would, and that's why I made that comment. To give you an opportunity to demonstrate your censorious inclinations.

Also Chris2048 is right:

> No, you don’t need to conduct a study to state your opinions. But at the same time, your opinion is meaningless

This is double-speak. You don't require me to have opinions based on scientific studies, but at the same time my opinions are worthless. That's double-speak.
If tech hype is more or less marketing + effective PR (tons of articles and blog post written about said tech), I've felt this author's sentiment toward the hype viz. reality of 5G with AR/VR, blockchain, and the current wave of AI as well.

So much of the 2010's internet UX is fully baked. We can communicate with voice, audio and video with the world from anywhere on cheap pocket devices. It would be harder to make this any more frictionless without some sort of new HCI paradigm. We've got wireless comms going wherever it made commercial sense, "enabling" workers to get directives and do business from their morning commutes. You can shop from the toilet.

You can also make original music in the palm of your hand for the cost of a used iPhone.

What I'm getting at is the digital revolution is here if not already over. We're in our cyberpunk future already, but surprise humans don't need too much to be absolutely sated if not overwhelmed by technology and I don't think they're itching for more of it. The business of selling tech right now is hard because so many of the jobs are _done_. All that you can do is generate hype.

I don't doubt I'm missing some of the forest through the hype trees here, but tech in the 2020's has a lot to prove to me.
CEO says AI casualties

Would anybody else be content with mass layoff messages in JSON format? { severance, healthcare, perks }

I’m okay without the explanations or attempt at empathy thats partially designed for other stakeholders like vendors who want to know the company is healthy

Just take the media L and move on, I bet there are people that would like them for that approach and attract talent. Its pretty insufferable to be around employees that actually like the “family” coddling talk so if they’re not there to begin with then its a better work environment
If I read the paper correctly the 2-MAXSAT problem is usually referred to as MAX-2-SAT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-satisfiability#Maximum-2-sat...
LTE latency is fine for gaming. 20-30ms, very similar to DOCSIS cable broadband.

The problem isn't LTE, it's that the LTE tower you are/were connected to is congested, so latency starts rising.

The exact same thing happens on 5G, though there is more capacity & fewer users on it right now. Congestion is starting to build everywhere on 5G in the UK. I imagine in a year or twos time performance will be pretty average on 5G in most places.
just wanna put this out there before someone else gets the nobel prize

it's a push, not a pull

thank me later
Taking full responsibility seems to mean literally nothing nowadays
Stung by losses, Filipino players ditch Axie Infinity crypto game
It is a problem if you use Edge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35703789
Many reasons, some of them not technical (e.g. historical baggage and closely guarded IPs), but mainly because GPUs are by far not as standardized and "open" as CPUs. On CPUs, the instruction set is basically the abstraction layer to the underlying hardware, on GPUs the abstraction layer is a software driver instead, and that needs to be much more abstract because the differences between the various GPU architectures are much bigger than the differences between ISAs like x86 vs ARM.

Having said that: your idea absolutely makes sense, and I would love to see shader compilers merged into regular compiler toolchains, so that CPU and GPU code can be easily mixed in the same source file (technically it's definitely possible, but this would also be the death of "3D APIs as we know them" - those would basically be merged into language stdlibs, and it would require many parties working closely together - so there's a risk of the 'many cooks' problem).

But give it a decade or so, and hopefully we'll get exactly that :)
- HN

- Reddit via libreddit.nl

- But for the last few days it has been almost only Bluesky because it’s new and fresh

I don’t have notifications enabled, so just check whenever I feel like it, but without the goal to catch-up necessarily. That’s too much pressure for me, I become too anxious.

RSS feeds didn’t work for me, I tried multiple time over the past 15 years but find myself accumulating links without reading. It’s often too much of an effort, so I just ignore.
You forget that both particles attract each other.

A heavier particle falling toward the sun will cause the sun to move which will in turn influence the path of the particle.
Yes Five Eyes is what I was thinking of just couldn't remember the name.
More detail here: https://www.polygon.com/23696346/humanity-game-preview-enhan...

Apparently, the game is also produced by Sega R&D legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
Might have to checkout the demo.
https://rclone.org/ is only like maestral if you squint hard enough, but it does support Google Drive (and Dropbox).
Heads roll at classified systems, information intelligence wing, U.S. Air Force
Big thumbs up for at least mentioning it in the first line rather than burying it. Shameful we can't even expect that little.
I've had problems with performance over large data sets, maybe 1M records and a few < 300 char fields per record.

I've never implemented full text search using a dedicated database so maybe 1M is too much to ask for.
Dropbox's art and typography style has always been dystopian and brutalist to me. Though it is just a smidge better now than it was.
The whole letter seemed pretty well written and as good as it could be, the severance and benefits are generous, all good except for this part. It reminded me of Gavin Belson laying off the Nucleus team. If you're "taking full ownership" but there's no financial effect on you, what does that mean exactly? You felt sad for a few minutes while you were writing the letter?
Can you please elaborate. Feels to me that the US trying to ban advanced semi in China combined with the fact they're produced an arm's distance away in Taiwan is a huge incentive for China to invade Taiwan.
Is the problem that the same systems are used for car media and potentially other systems and that encoders "can" be more flexible if they need to be?
It's escape velocity is about 5.5 m/s, you might be able to sprint fast enough to float away from it. I suspect walking on it would be an exercise in tedium as you took a step and waited while you floated back down to the surface.
On this thread there are multiple accounts created in the last few hours
Forums are still used a lot, you would think this would result in forum software that's great, but no Discourse is a horrible experience by default.

Discourse is so horrible people would rather use Discord or Reddit - that's how horrible it is.
1 app, no websites, ~100 notifications per day.

Self-hosted RSS Feed that broadcasts to my personal Telegram channel (MyNews). One and only source of "news" I consume.
That’s not a really good analogies. The real question is: are the people complaining about all industry ready to live in a world without industry? To which the answer is obviously no for most of them. It’s akin to asking: do you want 90% of the global population to die of starvation?
Getting back to the thesis, and without commenting on woke/not-woke (because I'm neither qualified nor care,) I am not sure what makes this particular comedy different from comedy we might otherwise consider problematic.

${X} joke about ${Y} -- if ${X} is only funny so long as ${Y} doesn't violate cultural taboos to make fun of, then we have an issue with the permanence of the joke. If a bad joke about ${Y} can be fixed by changing ${Y} to Republican (or whatever else is culturally acceptable to make fun of in time ${Z}, then the problem is not ${X} joke, it's our sensitivity to ${Y}.
Aside from the other comments which provide great answers about the way GPUs work and their history... I want to give my gut instinct for why an API like this doesn't exist on top of all that history.

I suspect it's simply because the "complexity floor" for running code on a GPU is already high. Obviously your trivial example is only for the sake of example. But I suspect that nobody has had the incentive to create an API that looks like that because anything close to that is just better done on the CPU.

Once you have problems that need a GPU to solve, then working through the peculiarities of the complex API is worth it.

I don't know this for a fact, but it's me reasoning backwards from the fact that nobody has seen fit to create an API like this, when all sorts of zany APIs exist.

For example, there are already plenty of code generators for graphics-oriented shader programs, which will take e.g. a material description like `{color: red, opacity: 0.5, reflective: true}` and generate the GLSL code.

Why would there not be an equivalent which compiles an expression language to GPGPU instructions? I must assume it's because the programs you might want to express with it are probably best run on the CPU.