skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quackery.

Modern humans have extremely sheltereled lives compared to our ancestors. Yet, autoimmune diseases seem to be getting more common in modern societies.
You need to play Demeo.

They have a Non-VR version now so people without headsets can get in on the fun, but it's just not the same.
Couple Ideas:

- build some sub accounts and run a hackathon for a local school/ kids non-profit
- reach out to some non-profits and see if they have any processing jobs that could be helpful (you'd be surprised!)
- train a weird CNN and open source the model (like one that can find wheres waldo, or something silly
- do some benchmarking (really hard to find good benchmark data)
- do some ML research
- Run a job for a small startup that might struggle with compute costs
- the PhD idea previously mentioned is fine, just don't send it out of North America, and don't do tier 1 universities... if your endowment is larger than the GDP of first world countries you can afford to give your PhD students some compute
Funny thing being in a big company doing a job that's mostly pointless.

I'm paid well. Do everything I'm told. Top performer. I'm happy though as I'm providing for the family. My accomplishments amount to one day of effort, output, results every month.

This has been happening for years.

I am curious how many of me exist. The Twitter firing suggests that's it's over 50% so it's that's true, what exactly are managers doing?

Most tell me they're in meetings, looking over spreadsheets and meeting with staff. I run my house and meet with my spouse for about twenty minutes a quarter over financials. Everything is automated. Everything is scheduled. We are adults. Labor is divided, assigned, adjusted as we age.

Large companies get in the position of not reducing head count because, yes, they're people with lives and relationships matter.

Solution? I'm thinking more of a State style employment but limited. If hired, you're job is secure for five years. Automate you job entirely? Good on you! Do not apply...... TAKE a new job in the company. You're slow to onboard? Fine. Dead weight? Not renewed.

Take the fear of insecurity off the table. People will behave according to their character.
I want to play Diablo IV there!
It may not be "normal" but it's pretty common.
Counter argument to the author's point about software engineers:

People are now building agents who will write software, deploy, and test to see if it works, then iterate until it does. So in the future, people can just give an AI a sort of vague goal, then adjust the specs as the AI is performing the goal.

For example, "Scrape HN, then analyze the data and graph the number of comments over time, make this process run once a day and email results to me."

And watch live as the AI performs the goal. The thing is, business owners are already communicating these instructions to product teams. They can just skip the product team entirely.
Watch people, sure.

However most people who were just rocking a basic Casio from Sprawl-Mart probably never even thought to swap their band.

What is really impressive about the Apple Watch is that it convinced a lot of people who really didn't care about watches to start dropping $200-$500 on them.
That is probably why Zig has such a focus on seamless C interop. There’s a good thread in these comments talking about this.

Regardless, point taken. You’re more or less describing the internal fear I have (mentioned in another thread) that if I dedicate time to a nontrivial Zig project I will regret it if/when there’s no Zig community in N years
A 2007 paper from Jeff Dean on a 2T token 300B parameter LLM [pdf]
Hi eesmith, thanks for your insight! I've applied a lot of the improvements you mentioned, the collections.Counter one didn't even cross my mind- very neat:)

The lines are processed independently as they are separate sentences. One line may be from one source, and the next from a completely different source. The problem with simply concatenating them is that the target words on the boundaries between sentences can end up with context words from unrelated sentences.

>I liked seeing the 'η' - I haven't yet used non-ASCII in my code!

Then you may enjoy this april fool's python issue I made https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/103172

Yeah, I like using utf-8 chars for mathematical symbols, it makes my brain hurt a little less when mapping between the two! I also like using ŷ for predictions in ML contexts as that's the canonical symbol used in the literature.
Considering how miserably bad GPT is at writing Powershell scripts to perform functions in Windows, I wouldn't hold your breath on it being truly useful.
>I was assuming that calibration of difficulty implied some sort of curve.

No, it just means "last year's exam seems to have been a bit too difficult, so I'll make this year's a bit easier" (or vice versa). Curving means that you assign grades based on a student's performance relative to the others in the class rather than on their absolute score on the test.

>but I don't really understand why difficulty would be a useful metric,

If you really don't understand how it's possible for an exam to be too easy or too difficult, then I'm not sure what to say. The exam is intended to differentiate between students who've mastered the material, students who understand the basics, and students who learned nothing. To do that it has to be difficult enough that people who skipped half the classes† can't get full marks, but also easy enough that not everyone fails it. Even these basic boundary conditions on a good exam can be quite tricky to satisfy in some cases.

†Not that I care about people skipping classes per se. I just mean that typically they'll have significant gaps in their knowledge of the material.
Not really. It’s nice to have it built-in with a very polished UX, but FancyZones is more powerful.
So how does this work?

“Top 10 technology stocks by marketcap” for example.

I can see how it can take technology stocks when looking at the whole sentence and use that for a vector search. How do you pull things like “top 10”and turn that into a query?
I'd love a laptop with 64G worth of slots. And a huge battery.
Also even cheap Casios had the feature to infinitely adjust the strap they GP is talking about.
The two men didn't work together, and had very different motives:

Man 1) Super fan. Stole the game (1 copy) before release, stopped showing up to work and instead played Zelda all day.

Man 2) Pure theft & resale motive, including other zelda merch

I mean, I can kind of appreciate what the first guy did, with the exception of stealing a copy. A college-age kid, superfan, the game exists-- it's done-- there's just this arbitrary release date so he finds a loophole/backdoor into getting access to a copy.

It's just, you know, at 21 I hope he's dedicating at least a fraction of that energy into his future/career/education whatever.
Spring loaded with a button to move them easily to the side? Or spring loaded with the small rings to use a tool with?

My impression is that the button system did got more popular over the last years, but it certainly existed many years before. Hard to find sources though.
Exactly, at the beginning of a tech cycle the public need convincing that it's even a product category they need. Currently I'm not seeing much from Meta or others to sell to the masses, only to those who are already convinced they need a headset.
When you've never had a really close friend or someone really care about you, 2/10 seems pretty nice in the beginning.
> Most watch users don’t know how to change the strap and I bet pre-Apple Watch, many didn’t realize that was an option

Hmmm... what's this little springy thing on my Garmin watch? Oh! check that out! I can replace the bands!

Apple makes cool stuff, I even have some of it, but stop suckin' their butts.
Windows 11 task scheduler talks directly to the Thread Director, a microcontroller added added on gen 12+ CPUs, while Windows 10 scheduler was modified after release to account for them through collaboration with Intel.

According to both MS and Intel, thread scheduling on 10 is not as optimized as on Win 11.

According to benchmarks (typically games), performance is roughly the same. Most wins go to Windows 11, some to Windows 10, but within negligible ranges of difference to where it doesn't matter on either. That was reason enough to stick with Windows 10 on my 13600k i5 build still.
> Why do companies brag about this sort of thing?

I don't think Apple has made any such claims. This is "ex-engineers" as quoted by The Verge. I take everything in the article with a grain of salt, I expect it has been embellished.
A prepaid credit card, or virtual card (like those provided by Wise) would do the trick.

Unless AWS doesn't allow those.
not more than my experience, which you can trust or not. if it means anything to you my experience relates to banks in the EU. i also deal alot in multiple currencies

crypto delays are minutes to hours. banking delays are a matter of days. just this week i needed to do a significant transfer with my bank. because i did the transfer after 16:30 (in branch!) i needed to wait until 06:00 for the transfer to happen because it was outside transfer hours. if some crypto coin functioned like this it would be laughed at
wow only took them 30 years
The VirtualBoy was famously a disaster for Nintendo. They slashed its price from $180 to $100 within a year of release, and I got one brand new from Toys R' Us later in the year for $30. I actually still have it, though I no longer have the stand or the eye shield.
"seldom duplicated elsewhere"

I hear this same sentiment from marines, cops, fireman, and fraternity members. I also hear it from Masons, Elks, Shriners, etc.

I don't understand why men have to think they've "discovered" something about lifelong bonds that is exclusive to just men's clubs. My guess is that men are taught not to have strong emotional bonds with anyone but their mothers or wives, and then think it is something magical when they are allowed to have these feelings under the guise of life-threatening situations, or secular drinking clubs.
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No, FancyZones is much better. Probably the best window manager across all operating systems in my opinion. I wish it was on MacOS
The Next 50 Ideas to Shape the Future circa 2023
> In my experience, it seems like vendor disclosures, and measures that might impact correcting vulnerable components are insufficient, and slow, if they happen at all.

SAP has a CVE dispute rate of exactly 100%. Just as a fun fact. It gets worse when you look deeper into hardware vendors, where they mark things as fixed even though they aren't. And Debian as a feature frozen distribution has sooo many tags that are similar to "code diverged too much from upstream", yet they mark the CVEs as fixed; even though they are still affected and the old code from 6 years ago on exploitdb still works.

That is what led me to building a vulnerability scraper that scrapes and correlates all linux security trackers, and rates them with a confidence value (with Debian obviously having the lowest) in order to be able to discover those issues that have been correctly tagged, deployed and fixed in other distros (e.g. Arch Linux).

> They had Mcafee's DLP deployed organization wide(...)

Holy shit, that's like every sysadmin's nightmare. I feel for you, man. With a pentester's voice I always like to say that the biggest castle walls are useless when you have an ADFS server running inside it. A lot of DMZ approaches are useless because they underestimate the attack surface of their core IAM infrastructure.
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I think this can be further generalized as – advertising and marketing are as important as building the product itself. Too many people (especially engineers) think that if you create something that is 10% better than the existing mainstream solution then the entire user base will flock to you overnight, but in reality no one will care because no one will know about it.
Reddit admins did ban a lot of subreddits on both the far right and left ends of the political spectrum. I don't agree with extremist voices, but I think that silencing and pushing people off the platform is bad for discourse overall.
As a physician I also fully support the not hot-at-all take that we do a huge disservice to these patients and a very poor job with psychiatric and constitutional symptoms/illnesses in general with “good care” being the exception, as you unfortunately experienced.
This is really yet another article that stumbles over the artificiality of the American nuclear families. Not just friendships, but kinship and familial relations in most cultures on earth right now are already the center of life.

This idea of the marriage partner as quasi-mystical figure in the center of your life was cooked up not so long ago. In most places marriage is practical, arranged for reproduction, and people are embedded in wide networks of friend and kinship relations. If your whole life centers around your spouse, you are the WEIRD one (https://weirdpeople.fas.harvard.edu/qa-weird)

Also funnily enough of course even in the Western classical tradition the most iconic relationship is the male companionship. Hephaestion and Alexander, Achilles and Patroclus. The Iliad's not exactly La La Land.

Another one of my favorite pieces on the topic comes from Vonnegut, a little too long to paste: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300997-ok-now-let-s-have-so...
One day, there will be a VR desktop environment with floating windows that I can use.

People have been playing with it - but it's got a ways to go still. I would love working in VR with many, many floating windows all around, instead of contained within the 2 viewing panes in front of me IRL.
Hi Douwe, Taylor, and team!

Congratulations on the launch, looks exciting!

I'm curious if you're planning to turn Meltano Cloud into a managed ELT solution.

The FAQ at the bottom of the pricing page[1] describes Meltano Cloud as an EL solution, but the docs for open-source Meltano[2] highlight that it's an ELT tool.

[1]: https://meltano.com/pricing/
[2]: https://docs.meltano.com/getting-started/part3
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Fair enough, I dug further into it and the bands are one of 2 apple technologies which do not require licensing. Cases and watch bands.

https://mfi.apple.com/en/who-should-join

Who does not need to join:

Developers and manufacturers of non-electronic accessories, including non-MagSafe cases and Apple Watch bands

I apologise for my previous incorrect statements.
Unrelated to the article, but it looks like the Twitter embed at the bottom of the article breaks the back button by adding another entry to the browser history.
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They've tried it with their watches.

https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-hermes/
https://www.techradar.com/news/why-apple-gave-up-on-its-18-k...
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Thousands of people work there.
In one comment you "don't want to discuss" politics but yet you are throwing loaded statement "authoritarian left" and are unwilling to back up such claims or discuss it because you will be attacked. What is the point?
async, yeah it could be better, given the pains. However note that adding async to .NET and C++ hasn't been a panacea either, to the point that there is a prototype of adding Go/Java green threading to .NET, done by the .NET team. While with the C++ standard library there isn't an executor runtime in the box.

Lifetimes are painful, and a other languages are exploring better ergonomics or combining automatic memory management with affine/linear types, yet it was Rust's adoption that pushed other language designers to actually look into this. So from that point of view, quite a success, even if Rust vanishes tomorrow.
Recruit other people to help manage them as much as you can.
eating undercooked boar and deliberately swallowing without chewing, seems like you enjoy living on the simultaneously boring and dangerous side.
Keys of higher risk should be done more frequently. How frequently is more a matter of risk (is your company a target?) + engineering bandwidth to do it.

All keys should at least be refreshed once a year. At least.

It's worth mentioning that refreshing keys could also introduce security risks if you don't have a defined process. For instance, if an engineer is consistently emailing new keys to another engineer, that's probably (most definitely) a bad idea.
Providing an option to the average user that will immediately kill an application and lose all unsaved data seems like a terrible idea. Are apps so prone to freezing that they require terminating on a daily basis? I can't even remember the last time I had to End Task a desktop application.
I have a whole boatload of straps -almost none, Apple straps.

You can buy all kinds of knockoff (and surprisingly high-quality) straps on Amazon, for $50 or less (many of mine were about $15).

Apple, on the other hand, charges eye-watering prices for fairly basic straps.

All that said, the last few years, I've just been getting the stainless steel variants of the Watch (I currently have an 8), and use a metal band that I got for about $25[0].

The Apple version of a similar band is ... slightly more expensive [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JWLYLG5/

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUHJ2AM/A/38mm-silver-lin...
I see your point but I think both need to happen. My guess is that the best VR games will only show their real appeal when played, because people don't have a great frame of reference otherwise.

I can look at a PS5 game and decide to buy a PS5, because I know what controller based consoles are like, I know the types of games, I know what I like. I can't do any of that with a VR game because I don't know what sort of headset I like, how it feels, what's important in a VR game that isn't in others and vice-versa.
It's run by the liberal equivalent of Evangelists, with all the moralistic and obsessive baggage that comes with it. Unless you're in the group that runs it, you're not going to be able to use it.
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Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't look like inline assembly.
I've seen the spinning beach ball of death enough times to refute this :)
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If they don't have strong security and a lot of cameras watching their stocks of trading cards they do. Those things are basically like cash to the right criminal. I know MTG has seen quite a few scams where people buy boxes brand new only to discover someone has removed all the good cards and almost perfectly sealed it back up. Often it's a rogue supply chain or retail employee involved.
For what it's worth, scaling the freestanding Mt. Kilimanjaro volcano is about as intense as a 4 day backpacking trip up up up to high altitude, little to no watch-risky technical climbing required for the common routes.
This is exactly what SPF and DKIM are designed to do. DMARC enforces this.

Obviously, this is opportunistic security, the receiver must support all this, but >99% does.
I agree but I understand why it's not happening. It takes money and experts to set up and maintain headsets in dedicated test areas, resetting them, maintaining hygiene since these touch your hair so hair products seep into the strap and people's faces sweat into the goggle frames, etc.

Apple will be able to do that easily in its own stores. But it's a lot harder for Meta to get Best Buy and other retailers to do it -- not only will they have to pay them a lot of money, but they just won't be able to ensure the quality.
Also, the additional task of tracking down all the monthly charges when my personal credit card number was compromised yet again and I need to update my payment details
14% - that's the first time i've seen a hard number like that. It's significant.

Have there been any good studies on programmer productivity? 14% would be a just a blip in the constant flow of productivity-enhancing language, tools, architectures etc. that have been steady accelerating the pace and scale of development for decades ...

When I moved from Java to Rails, for example ... definitely at least 14% more productive, I'm guessing much much higher. Even just from load times.

Or going from printed documentation all the way to Stack Overflow - how many multiples was that?

68000 to M2 ... page reload to React's fast refresh ... etc. etc.
Possibly because linux runs well on many OEM machines, and this niche really isn't needed in the market?
In more recent times, the Timex Weekender had a very large ecosystem of swappable bands. But it was designed such that you needed no tools and just slid the bands in and out.

The Apple system is really nice, in that you can quickly and easily change attached bands without tools.
That works most of the time. But sometimes you get something with more than one thread and windows will keep the application around but the foreground window is destroyed. Programmatically in win32 windows and the process are two different things. The user will not see it that way though. Task manager usually can take it out. But every once and awhile it will still get stuck depending on the resources the application has created. At that point you can pull out pskill from ms sysinternals or just reboot.
So you’ve just left the typo in the project? I’ve opened PRs just to fix one or two misplaced characters before. Just trying to do my part to help
I probably submitted more than 10 PRs that only fixed a single word in projects I like.

I do that when I see typos in documentation.