skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most apps can relayout and redraw their window in a tiny fraction of the time that animation takes

Re-rendering to the same compositor target buffer (when you e.g. resize a window), and allocating new textures in (potentially) new formats under control of a new compositor target buffer, are different orders-of-magnitudes of work. Think about how much delay there is from the point you plug in an external display, to the point your windows finish "popping over" onto it and it becomes usable. Allocating a new virtual desktop and moving a window to become fullscreen on it, is doing 90% of that same work.

Why does each virtual desktop have its own compositor and own target buffer? Because each virtual desktop has its own active display mode it's operating under: its own display resolution, its own bitplane format [think RGB vs BGR displays], different memory allocation constraints depending on whether it's currently being mirrored / screen-shared or not, maybe allocated in the VRAM of a different GPU if it's being drawn on a monitor plugged into a discrete GPU's HDMI/DP socket, etc.

This "distinct target buffers with their own compositors" approach is also why you can't span windows across displays on macOS 10.9+. (Before that, macOS used a different approach, that allowed for single virtual desktops that span multiple monitors, but where this would use one big target buffer, formatted to the lowest-common denominator format acceptable to all display targets. So if you plugged in a shitty external display like a 720p projector, and "extended" your desktop to it, then the whole compositor target buffer would get reformatted, and so your internal display's resolution/color depth/refresh rate would decrease.)

> Anyway, I'd trade a bit of pop-in for a faster computer if that was necessary.

My point is that this wouldn't be the trade-off. Instead, you'd switch over to the new fullscreen view, half-rendered — and then it would very likely still take just as long to finish re-rendering and accept input as if there was no animation.

You can actually try this "experience" out for yourself: try having an external display connected; opening Mission Control; and then dragging the focused virtual desktop from your internal display, over to the external display (or vice-versa.) It takes about 3 seconds before all texture assets finish re-allocating in the new compositor target buffer's texture format and re-rendering; and because there's no animation to paper over this case, it just feels unresponsive, like the whole shell has stalled for 3 seconds.
Graeber had an HN account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgraeber

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24367226
I believe probably the issue with this is that there are only a tiny handful of devs with 3+ monitors hooked up who could develop a dock/taskbar with such features and test that it works as intended.
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I'd love to get your feedback!
Just use Yabai
I wish browsers did this as a default option. The back button should never have a noticeable delay.
> Everything you say can potentially bite you in the ass later.

Even if they didn't read you your Miranda rights before? My knowledge of legal affairs comes only from movies, but I got the impression that things you say before they read you Miranda can't be used against you. Are all the movies wrong?
Haha I don’t know if this is sarcastic, but I get it if so. Someone else said I was too indignant.

I apologize if I’m coming on strong. I’ve talked to one of my uncles in particular, who was a police officer for a long time and who now works for DHS, about the tactics that he’d use once he stopped people to try to get them to admit to something he could arrest them for. He obviously always felt like he was just doing his job: if he could get them to incriminate themselves, then he just nabbed a criminal. But he’d do a lot of really tricky stuff! And there are a lot of things that are technically illegal that they can get you in if they’re suspicious of you for some reason.

Anyway as a result this a thing that I feel pretty strongly about :)
internet explorer used to be the biggest browser at some point
If you look at old screenshots of how people used desktop computers [1], it was rare to see fullscreen windows, even on the tiny monitors of the day, and when most people used only a single monitor.

Today, we all have gigantic monitors, many have more than one, but for whatever reason people want to maximize or tile windows. Maybe it's the influence of the fullscreen only, unitasking paradigm from phones and tablet computers, but it just doesn't make much sense to me on a desktop computer.

1: https://anders.unix.se/images/desktop_b_moolenaar.png
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developer...
There are lots of jobs that make the world less livable but are clearly not bullshit jobs. Like if you work in marketing at a cigarette company you are probably a bad person, and you are advancing bad goals, but you are doing real, non-bullshit work every day.

The bullshit job concept is not "this is making the world worse off", it's "no one would notice if this job ceased to exist".

There is a real theory out there that index funds are making companies less cutthroat and competitive, but there's pretty limited evidence to support the theory. And if you can identify any companies with a notably high amount of fat to cut, there's a lot of money to be made working for an activist investor trying to get those companies to fire all their bullshit workers.

If you can't identify such companies, you may just be a bullshitter yourself though.
> Instead of windows where you can BAM drag a window to one side and snap it in 0.2 seconds

You can do just that. Drag it to either side to make it half-width or to the top to make if full width and height.
I've seen so many people do the "select function body, copy, toggle comment, paste copy of function, try out ideas on this new version" workflow. I've done it plenty too in Matlab and similar during various labs at school. I'm not talking about best practice during software engineering, I'm talking about having the confidence your code can easily get back to a known good state if you want to experiment, like beginners should do a lot of.

And plenty of times functions are self contained enough that you can change the function body without changing other code as well.
For me the suggestion algorithm used to insistently make me learn about music/celebs and random topics I don't care about, but now it just shows you friends of friends and random Blue users, who are largely crypto rightist propaganda like "black people getting in fights" accounts.

There does some to be an effort to make it look like the reddit default page since there's some viral meme pages mixed in.

Though for the last week it really desperately wanted to show me posts about some Spider-Man movie, so the old stuff still activates sometimes.
> Flying cars?

We have flying cars, Cessna makes them. We’ve had them since them 1950’s. I feel like there is room for innovation in the general aviation space but the FAA has very draconian and discriminatory rules for who can fly even as a private pilot.

My point here is that innovation in tech is dependent on how well they can squeeze it into the current regulatory scene in addition to find market fit, and produce a viable product.
I think it doesn't work on onion os 4.2 beta.

A pity, at least the amount of systems it supports is staggering.
Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system
I prefer rebasing (for the usual reasons). I have successfully worked with people who prefer merging (for the usual reasons).

I don't think I'd work successfully with people who don't care.
Some clarifications on the circumvention of EU sanctions against Russia
Just for the record, i did a full playthrough including hellfire on mac with this last year. No problems.
Lawyer: "Are you aware of the phrase 'juror nullification?'"

Potential juror: "I am now!"
This is a claim that emerged a decade after Nortel collapsed, but it makes no sense.

First, recall that Nortel collapsed because of its own bad investments during the Dot Com Bubble, followed by an accounting scandal.

Second, Huawei was barely even on the scene yet when Nortel collapsed. Huawei was still operating almost entirely inside China at the time. It wasn't Nortel's major competitor.
> I didn't see any police presence there.

How long did you stick around? A few minutes?

In my personal experience, as someone who has lived here for more than a decade, I see regular auto patrols going through the neighborhoods, as well as occasional foot patrols whose purpose seems to be to talk to some of the folks in the area and get a sense of what has been going on lately.

This isn't shit you're going to see if you're just passing through... you've gotta stick around and pay attention.
It's much worse than Ubuntu or Windows though. I just want to snap a window to the sides. The macOS solution forces you to go full screen to snap.
They're still working on a catchy name for it so they can't release it yet.

I'm told "Snap Pro" is current front runner
I've seen the argument before that humans find flowers pretty because they indicate fertile land, where there are flowers there will be animals, etc. Impossible to really know, I suppose.
Am one of the authors of the linked article. Thanks for all of your kind comments! Let me know if you have any questions and I'll be happy to answer.
And what about witnessing a crime committed against some complete stranger? Considering separately both the cases of a crime in progress, and one recently completed?

Also considering whether the crime is accidental e.g. hit-and-run, or professional, financially-motivated actors. Recall that among the latter class are the white-collar criminals capable of retaliation against witnesses, and the reason we have white-collar whistleblower protection laws.
I think op is referring to what I call “capital T tech”, or alternatively, “big internet tech”.

There’s plenty of technological improvements within the past 20 years, we just tend to ignore them the further they fall outside of internet-adjacent technology. As incredible as it is that solar panels keep getting cheaper and more efficient, the real miracle is that no one gives a shit about them. What captures people’s interests is internet-adjacent stuff, and that’s especially true if said thing can be compared to as “a new internet”. Hence why when people say they want to “work in STEM” they implicitly are referring only to programming most of the time, and also implicitly referring to being a web dev or phone dev, and not some guy that writes software for power plants or whatever. That’s “capital T tech”.

I also refer to it as “zeitgeist tech” because I think we’re currently in a phase where said tech has captured the public imagination, but I think we’re also seeing it’s end, the decline of all major social networking players being the most visible side-effect (I don’t consider TikTok to be a social network). Or, you know, a “tech reckoning”.

Kind of hope we return to 2008 with Occupy Wall St and more environmental consciousness personally. Maybe it was because I was 18 at the time, but man, there was so much more optimism.
Records from controversial twin study sealed at Yale until 2065
Come on, parent poster is not supporting anything. He's just pointing out that nobody is innocent, which is fair.
You seem like a pleasant person. Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think I will be returning anytime soon. You guys have a level of problems I want to stay far away from. Sometimes to be humane, you have to be inhumane.

You guys do have some great restaurants. I hope you're able to keep them.

Best of luck.
I find it extremely difficult to reliably find roses for sale that actually smell like anything at all.
Could you tell me what you want to accomplish by reimplementing query system? I really curious, because generally query systems used to query data from DB..
How does that translate to internal investigations? Should you talk to HR? If you're in school, should you talk to the principal?
They do not need to read you your Miranda rights to question you, no. They only read you your rights if you are being detained. But they are free to use anything you say before or after if for some reason you wind up in court.

Here’s a corroborating source: https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/when-must...

Movies are often really wrong about lots of things in the criminal justice system.
I guess I’ll spell it out for you.

An individual making $400K is rarer than a household making $400K so if the upper bound for a household is $250K, the individual upper bound is far lower, which is nowhere near $400K.

The claim that someone that makes even $300K is “middle class” anywhere is hilarious. That person becomes a millionaire in their 20s while living a very cushy life. You’re incredibly out of touch.
> Do you have any scientifically researched reason for this claim or is it just a hunch?
I almost always disable window snapping on Windows and Linux. Having a single window maximized, or even snapped to 50% of the screen is wasteful of screen space. I currently have 6 firefox windows visible, they're just overlapped. I can quickly access them, move them and resize them using the mouse.
Youtube without uBlock origin is a traumatizing experience, and it's gotten worse in the last month or so. It went from bearable to let's plug the laptop to the TV unbearable. A couple of weeks ago, I had 3 blocks of ads in 10 minute-videos for the first time. Now, I have 3 blocks of ad (before/middle/after) in 5 minute videos.
All jobs rely on attention. In this example, a security guard having to divert attention to interact with guests at the elevator is going to be distracted far more.

But again, this isn't about the security man!!
> Sometimes to be humane, you have to be inhumane.

And what -exactly- do you mean by that? Please do be specific.
> it requires you to surrender your identity and financial info to a company that is monetizing your privacy for profit.

As someone who has never owned an Apple device (apart from my work iPhone SE, which I rarely use): I always thought of Apple as a company that I can rather trust with my data. It might be marketing white-washing my brain, but Apple seems to be settled in the selling devices business, not in the "selling data" business.

My point being, "monetizing" my privacy is something that I feel very uneasy about with Google but not with Apple, somehow. The former screams "give us your data, so we can use it --- also you get to use this cool app, that relies on it" whereas the latter seems more like "Give us your data so you can use this cool app that relies on it, but honestly your data isnt that profitable to us".

Somebody please pop my naivity bubble.
That sounds like it might be true, but whereas I can't say I'm totally sure about the church being fastidious about the wine (most people don't take wine at mass, and I certainly didn't), I know for a fact that they'd not at all scrupulous about bread; I've taken communion from consecrated ordinary leavened bread, and when that happened, the priest who did the service explained that, essentially, bread was bread, and the words were what mattered.

I'm sure there's some traditionalist Catholic rebuttal to this! And I'm fine with that. I'd just say: traditionalist Catholicism is not the same religion that ordinary mainstream Catholics practice.
If the functionality is unrelated, I'm not sure why rebase would be inappropriate. It just wouldn't matter much other than keeping history clean (and rebase would make for cleaner history than merges).
IME it's the opposite
AI drive-thrus may be good for business. But not for the rest of us
https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

On a more serious note, most Java code on Github is now written by Copilot.
I wonder what it says about the Winklevii boys.
What about being able to function as a metric?
Basic level: Can you jump twice in a row, swim about 25 meters, run for 3 minutes without collapsing, make 5 squads.
Advsnced: pull yourself up 5 times, 5 pushups without rest, ...
Nothing especially hard or challenging, just use your body.
That's the bear minimum to survive and be "healthy'-er than looking at stupid numbers and feel bad.
Rwanda seeks to reintegrate genocide convicts
same with GitExtensions... never used the git CLI, never had to, but if I did, with GitExtensions all git commands are visibile and logged
I'm still Catholic and these would be my reasons too. :)
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition
In memory of the olden days when Hacker News focused on discussions for entrepreneurs, here's a question:

I have no doubt that hundreds of millions of BS jobs exist, but isn't that what management consultants are supposed to fix?

Whether or not management consultants actually do fix wasteful jobs is another issue. But my understanding of the sector was that it was aimed to fix these issues. Organisational refactoring, if you will.

Likewise, everyone complains about bad management, but good management is supposed to be able to fix the kind of issues Graeber describes. Steve Jobs' return to Apple in the late 90s is a famous example.

Years ago on this site someone who worked in senior management in a tech company told a story. It went something like this: there were two teams in the company, who were always complaining, not very productive, and seemed to waste enormous amounts of time and energy on pointless busywork or trying to coordinate tasks. Everyone on team A blamed team B, everyone on team B blamed team A, etc, etc. The manager realised this needed to be fixed, talked to the relevant people on both teams, figured out what the problem was, and ... fixed it. (I have no recollection of what the actual problem was -- let's suppose it was some kind of communication or process issue.) After that, things ran smoothly.

Is this story realistic? No doubt -- after all anyone who has worked in engineering is familiar with chronic technical problems that can be fixed with very small amounts of work -- if one has the requisite knowledge. And no doubt there are chronic human problems that are similarly solvable.

Anyway - after many rounds of such management fixes you would have an organisation that ran like a swiss watch. In such places, good managers, like good sysadmins, fade into the background and become invisible. Google in the 2000s may have been a good example. But eventually either the organisation grows, or the good managers leave, or -- most likely -- people decide they no longer need to worry about good management, the organisation begins to rot, and eventually they're forced to bring in bad management. Corporate entropy proceeds in the usual way, and you end up with waste, bad practices, poor communication, doomed projects, crappy output, politics, and -- BS jobs.

This is why I'm skeptical of political intellectuals like Graeber who note a problem but misidentify the solution. Some of the things he categorises as "BS jobs" are themselves intended to fix BS jobs.

But I do not have much experience working in large organisations, so perhaps someone else can chime in.
You're right that our post doesn't quite show that GPT4 cannot perform well on MIT curriculum. We try to be up front about this in the conclusion:
> Our critiques are largely of the methodology and rigor of this study, not about its content. We make no claim about the ability of large language models to actually solve MIT curricula, only that this paper fails to prove it in a scientifically rigorous way. Though, as MIT undergraduates ourselves, we can at the very least say that the test set that we accessed does not, at least in our experience, accurately represent the breadth and depth of understanding required to complete an EECS degree at MIT.
FYI, huge PDF.
$ ls -sh DataBookV2.pdf
103M DataBookV2.pdf
A global conservation basic income to safeguard biodiversity
> Keep in mind that classifications tend to be married to the notion of physical records stored in a specific location, which is generally not the case for electronic data. For the latter, useful descriptions of the work or information, information on its provenance, unique item identifier(s), and cross references between related items (e.g., source or derived data) might be more relevant information to capture.

The many replies here on HN have made me come to this conclusion. As long as one can find the datasets they need for a use case. Solid metadata standards for good description and indexing is a must.

> It's quite useful to think of how any system you specify will be used, by whom, and how it will be applied and maintained [...]

These sentences are very good starting points to design said metadata standards internally. I'll keep these questions in mind.

> There are also organisations working with electronic data collections at scale, including the Internet Archive and the Wikimedia Foundation, most particularly Wikidata, which might be of interest or relevance to you.

These are very good suggestions, thank you!
When you start to pay attention to code you write, it accelerates in tremendous amounts, even without doing fancy optimizations. Also, clean and sensible code is easily optimized by compilers a great deal already.

A numerical Gaussian integration code I have written in 2017 or so can run at 1.7 million iterations per second, per core, on a stock, 3rd generation i7 3770K.

It's implemented in C++, and only written carefully. No fancy optimizations are done.

If programmers paid half the attention their code deserves, I bet most of the software we use would be 2x faster, on average.
Trying to run me down is a crime - assault. (If they hit me, it's assault and battery.)
Identikid
Reddit Admins are forcing protesting subreddits to open to the public again
Many subreddits have been forced open in the last few hours.

I wonder if r/pics' John Oliver policy will be reversed in the coming days: https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14bai7s/henceforth_rp...

Moderators voice their concerns: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14bwfai/moderator...
Google Wave surfs by: "whazzup, dudes?"
My semi-educated guess is that micro plastics wind up within the plant via nutrient uptake. No idea how a nail ends up in a potato.
That's exactly what they did with imap. I had scripts checking my gmail accounts using imap with password-based authentication, and for a while they allowed that as long as you expressly accepted that it was less secure, but not it's gone completely.
There are countries where the policy can beat up with impunity or let you off for minor infractions. In the past in the Ukraine they also took bribes at every opportunity.
We don't actually know that about Nortel. It's rumored that someone broke into Nortel's internal networks, but there's nothing to say it was Huawei. This also had nothing to do with Nortel's collapse, which was caused by its own massive failings.

The Cisco software issue was pretty minor, and was settled almost 20 years ago.
Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists [video]
Perfect example of how RPA with a sprinkling of LLMs will change the world of work.
Yes they do. In fact chiplets are bringing a lot of excitement to the semi testing industry. Chiplets have popularized the concept of “known good die”. I.E. a chiplet that has been tested so much that is practically proven to be error free.

This is necessary because packaging chiplets is usually nonreversible. So if you put ten chiplets in a package and one of them is bad, you have to toss the entire package with all ten chiplets and all your packaging costs.
I invite you to discover the wide world of existing literature and research that demonstrates solid links between regular neighborhood mounted and foot patrols and reduction in violent and property crime.