skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iOS phone-as-camera is exceptionally good, but if you need your phone during a meeting, that’s not so great.

Which kinda confirms the point doesn't it? Even the iPhone company failed to put a decent camera into their 4000$+ laptops. It's utterly baffling how awful the 16" M1 camera is in comparison to even cheap Logitech external ones.
Who knew that a technology that serves the meeting-oriented agendas of the managerial class is fairly hype-limited?
Tenured faculty at university still exist to provide an aspiration to academic labor that they too can receive tenure. They're more like jackpot winners. Casinos need to produce some winners, but only because nobody would play otherwise.

The casino, however, is more fair. At least in the casino the winners don't have to submit their bets for approval to a committee of former winners who don't understand that they are a product of chance and had published many books and papers on gambling strategies. Awarding tenure at random might even produce better outcomes.
If someone doesn’t answer your direct question, but answers a different question, then they effectively have answered your original question with no.
That was my initial reaction as well. Counting bits arises quite naturally in many places.
This is such a bizarrely extreme non-sequitur. From the UK, which is neck-and-neck with the US on the Heritage Institute's economic freedom rankings, to Pol Pot. Good lord.
It seems you haven't read the article.
Security isolation isn't the only possible goal of virtualization.
When the metric-to-measure becomes the target, this is the type of silly real-world application we see.
I'm not a fan of the monster metaphor, it blows the power disparity way up and doesn't leave room for reconciliation.

Prefer thinking of the author as a pig instead, as in "men are pigs". In this case, instead of feasting sexually, they are gorging emotionally on attention that comes from their status.

Seeing "eye-to-eye" is an equal meeting of souls. It gets corrupted by power - the moment might be neutral, but the 2 parties aren't entering on even terms.
This is pushed from the smallest startup upwards as a way to make sure you’re building something people want. There are pros and cons of course, but I can understand why companies do this and why software folks think they need to. It’s related to the shipping early, fast, and iterating which is the currently taught best practice by places that have a lot of experience getting new things off the ground like YC.
>Space is not an elastic fabric

Space is an elastic fabric, if Einstein's explanation of a spacetime dimension is correct. This would mean that gravity is the warping and stretching of this dimension.

If it is not then the other solution is in quantum field theory, which would state that gravity is a field with a messenger particle, the graviton, in which case we are just detecting a group of gravitons as they pass by.
> However, Flakes bring welcome improvements to longstanding issues. Most notably, package pinning and explicit versioning, which are problematic when using channels.

I'm still not convinced by flakes; however, I agree that channels are problematic (and I still don't fully understand them, after a decade!). The first things I do after installing Nix are to delete all the channels and unset `NIX_PATH`. I used to use `<nixpkgs>` for bootstrapping via `fetchgit`, but even that's unnecessary now that `fetchGit` is part of `builtins` :)
you get what you pay for? the gripe with the ux is more a wxWidgets issue than a CodeLite issue. IMHO. It does what it claims it does. It doesn't waste cycles on making things pretty, but rather making things functional. Granted, I do wish devs would take some extra time on ux and colors, in this case though - it's out of scope.

However, I do see they support some VSCode themes so maybe in the future the UI could get some love. If you're used to vim and/or unix c/c++ development, you probably don't care - target audience of CodeLite.
Algebird is perhaps exciting in the same way as a plane crash. The only "functional" thing about this library is its utterly pointless focus on the simple algebraic structures/typeclasses like monoids and semigroups that are shoe-horned into the API. Yes, it so happens that both HyperLogLog and BloomFilter admit some kind of monoidal structure, but that's hardly the interesting thing about them. What you get is a crappy API centered around the wrong abstraction. The whole thing feels like it was written by an intern who desperately wanted to use some algebra he learned in a freshmen class... Certainly the code quality supports that theory.
One strategy that might actually work is what Brightline is doing- they want to build high speed rail between LA and Las Vegas by putting their rail line in the median of I-15 so they don’t need to acquire any additional land since the DOT already owns it.
You have to be careful. Stackless coroutines will only schedule if you call co_await, but a stackful coroutine can be scheduled in the depths of any call.

This can trick 2 parts of your program into thinking they have exclusive access to the same thing at the same time. E.g. they could both grab the same thread local or both enter the critical section of a recursive mutex.
The thing is, even though I distrust Google a lot, I distrust Microsoft, Oracle and Facebook even less. Even if Bing got 2x better than Google at being able to show me what I actually wanted to find, I'd probably prefer Google for quite some time before even thinking of giving Bing a shot.

For all I know, they do have better search engines than Google right now. But also, fuck those guys.
> The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees

I’m sorry, but then your study doesn’t show anything useful. Interviews are supposed to determine whether someone is going to be a good employee, not whether they are “desirable to a lot of companies.” So yeah, all you were doing was mirroring the bias of those companies’ processes. As a recruiting company, that can be good business, because you’re giving the customers what they want. But it’s not effective hiring practice for the customer.

Furthermore, you did not follow up on the people that were weeded out to see if they would have been good employees. Current hiring practices weed out a lot of people that could have provided a lot of value, but they weren’t able to perform the prescribed ritual on cue, you didn’t have a chance to evaluate whether that was a good decision or not.
You don't need AGI. GPT-4's intelligence is good enough. The problem is context window size.

Heck for a lot of things you don't even need ML at all. Regular expressions are good enough:

https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-scr...

Inability to replicate is a very general and vague way to phrase the problem, because it implies that non-replicability is a sort of abstract issue that just randomly emerges. But in practice papers that don't replicate, don't for a reason, and often those reasons can be identified in advance given just the paper.

For a trivial example of this see the GRIM and SPRITE programs. If the numbers in a paper aren't even internally consistent, that's a good sign that something has gone wrong and the paper probably won't replicate.

For a less trivial example where you'd benefit from a tool-equipped LLM, consider asking a GPT-4 level AI to cross-check the claims in the abstract, body and conclusion against the data tables. If the claims aren't consistent then you can already assert it won't be possible to replicate because it's not even going to be clear what claim you are attempting to check in the first place.
>I'm amazed at the extent to which Google Meet's user interface remains at a preliminary technology demonstration or undergraduate project level of user interface design.

Google specializes in starting projects, not refining or maintaining them as part of some strategic vision. Expect to see Meet in the Google Graveyard in a few years when some enterprising L4 decides he needs a promotion and creates Google Meetings (not to be confused with Meet).
Aaah but in Mexico exactly the same thing happens: you can basically ignore Buro/Circulo de Credito and after 6 years by law they have to drop any unpaid debt report.

I worked in a Mexican credit startup 10 years ago and one of the main issues we dealt with was just that: there is no legal mechanism for a lender to recover the money they borrow. Not paying a loan is not illegal. And people in Mexico have 0 financial education .

So you have to include your default rates as part of your lending model. 30% default first loan. 15%-20% default mixed 2nd+ loan .

That in addition to a base bond rate of 10% (you can lend your money to the Mexican government for an extremely secure 10% interest) is what makes credit in Mexico Soooo expensive.

I have a friend who is lawyer and used to work in the enforcement area if Scotiabank mortgages . The stories he tells about people that just decided not to pay their mortgages but had 4 or 5 Harley Davidsons in their houses when they went to evict them... among other crazier stories.
> Video was supposed to be the future. Instead, it’s just another way to pick up the phone.

In the context of the pandemic, that was all it was ever meant to be, and anyone asserting otherwise (Eg zoom) was just trying to sell you something.
I don't believe so - the post is pretty much all about how you can do this right now in normal Go code. And e.g. a bit after that is a link to the "full code" which is runnable: https://go.dev/play/p/hniFxnbXTgH

Possibly you're interpreting yield as a new keyword? It's just an argument to Pull.

The only not-(currently-)available-in-Go stuff that I can recall from the post is the performance optimization at the very end.
Yeah, it was a long day yesterday and I must've been exhausted - because my brain saw rows of "125W" in TFA's table, but looking at it today, that column is "PBP", and then there's another column with more meaningful values along the lines of what you've shared.

Now I'm wondering, what's PBP? Processor Base Power, is apparently an Intel-specific term introduced with 12th generation Alder Lake chips, and it's meant to convey the thermal energy which must be dissipated when said CPUs are running at their base frequency.

https://liliputing.com/pbp-vs-tdp-intel-changes-power-consum...

Thank you brucethemoose for helping clarify this for me!
> We modify your PDF files in your browser, no upload required.

I can do all of this offline for free already with Acrobat or Preview.app on macOS.

> We try to make up some of the cost that we pay for hosting this service by employing a small amount of ads on our website.

Why?
People can fly to Texas because they rent a car or use taxis/rideshare once they arrive. Houston in particularly has absolutely atrocious walkability or transit lmao
> Flakes are coupled to git. You need to remember to stage changes whenever you do Ctrl+S in your editor before rebuilding. I've wasted more time than I'd like to admit wondering why what I'm building doesn't include my latest change.

There's an upside to this: I've been in situations where I've lost the definition of a previous configuration because I didn't check the state of it at that point into source control. By "forcing" the user (me) to at least add the current state to source control (if not commit it), it makes it more likely for me to have the configuration/definition for the state saved at the same time as the state itself.
It's a very useful instruction. Go uses it extensively in its core runtime and the compiler itself. I assume other languages do too if they care about performance.

Examples:

1. Growing a slice.

2. Runtime's heap bitmap.

3. Page allocation.

4. malloc.

5. Register allocation.
Also early 30s. I facetime with my friends all the time.
I moved from Chezmoi to Home Manager. Chezmoi is easily the best dotfile manager I had used at the time, and Home Manager is on a totally different level.
I go out of my way to recycle things appropriately: dropping off old computers at the local e-waste depo, recycling old rechargeable batteries at retail, etc. It may very well be pointless, but at least I feel I tried.
If you haven't checked out Next.js in awhile, the next/image output changed recently. It's just an img tag now, basically setting srcSet automatically on easy mode, plus the automatic optimization of images. Most of the props or modifications you can use are native <img> features. It's similar to Astro (which is great!).
Along similar lines, I wonder if gravitational waves can be focused.
The free version of Acrobat is bloated, full of spam, and can’t actually do all of this (eg splitting and merging)
This is Next.js in the "Pages Router" world (e.g. everything prior to 13.4). Past 13.4, you can also use the "App Router", which is kind of like a framework in a framework. It uses React Server Components, which can run server-only without hydration. Thematically similar to islands.
Whether it’s shift, mask, multiply, Kernighan’s method, or something else, it’s going to be multiple instructions and tens or hundreds of cycles to do this in software.

pop count instructions take a handful of cycles to run (~10 on ARM, ~3 on Intel?). It’s one of those things that silicon can do very well.
This is basic product-market fit. Don't sell the product unless you have a market to sell it to. That means marketing something you don't have, but can build.
Say your car and another car got in a crash, but you both panicked and drove away(that is, you did not inspect the damage.)

You get home and finally summon the courage to look at your car. It's busted. With that information you can infer that the other car is busted too, and you don't need to ever come in contact again with the other car to know this fact only that at some point in the past your car and theirs interacted.
US health care is not a free market, it's heavily regulated.

As a person living in the Eastern Block right now, I'd invite you to use the medical facilities in my town but I am not that cruel.

Luckily free private health care is becoming increasingly good so soon the state-provided horror show will become a distant memory like the communist era that spawned it.
Podcasts and Youtube Shorts have very different view count, I'm sure you know that.

In any case, it's clear that this podcast is not for you and that's ok.

Appreciate you taking the time to give us thoughtful feedback.
> not to be confused with Meet

Or Meet (original) https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/google-meet-original/id1013231...
Remix is entirely SSR, so not sure what they meant. Next.js is static first, but definitely still supports dynamic. It started out as a dynamic, SSR framework.
I agree firing should be the last resort, but I very much disagree that "it means either that the person is hopelessly, irredeemably unfit for the job, or that you are incompetent at leading people."

This is why I say that often times the worst people to hire are those that are "just below average mediocre". Reason being that, as you point out, it is not hard to fire people who are blatantly incompetent. And of course many/most people can be coached to improve, but I've seen cases where, despite lots of coaching, people chronically underperform.

I consider it a mark of bad management when these subpar performers are only let go during layoffs. Conversations should be open, ongoing and constant, and people should be given lots of coaching, time, and plenty of heads up, but it does nobody any good to essentially string people along when folks aren't cutting it.
In theory, yes.

In practice, no.

Just look at marijuana and abortion laws for two different prime examples of how supposed federal law superseding "lower" law can play out in ways that circumvent the nature of that power structure.

The reality is law is reactionary. Just because a law exists doesn't mean there is actually anything tangible preventing you from performing an action, and if the courts are acting in ways counter to federal law AND/OR federal law isn't asserting/executing authority that it has to supercede local law, then it's implicitly allowing it to continue and perhaps even setting precedent or groundwork to dismantle that particular paradigm.

Remember, this is America. States Rights advocates aren't just numerous, but hold significant power in state and federal legislature and courts. While the Federal law should reign supreme, the reality on the ground is that even when it does, it's often playing catch up, so there's still a gulf between how things work in theory, and in reality, if for nothing else just due to the slow operation of federal government and law.
I once had a collections report on my credit history. I paid off the debt and asked them to remove it, a few days later it was gone as far as I could tell.

Not that everyone's experiences will be like this, just pointing out it is not necessarily always 7 years on the report.
Not at the VP Product level.
Challenge: Replace faulty RAM on an M1/M2 MacBook. Then when you discover you can't, pull the SSD and dump the data for transfer to another machine. Slight problem there too...

Wear parts shouldn't be irreplaceable. That's like having a car you have to throw away when the brake pads or tires are worn out, because they're welded in place, AND have a computer making sure they don't get replaced anyway by someone who knows how to weld.
I agree, belief is the better word here.
Fedora Kinoite: The KDE Plasma desktop, in an immutable fashion
In other words, metasystems via metasystem transitions.

See Cosmic Evolutionary Philosophy and a Dialectical Approach to Technological Singularity

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cosmic-Evolutionary-Ph...
more likely driven by their sales team (which also influences marketing), sales people love to overpromise because most of their job is done after the sale - often the idea is that they’ll sell enough to warrant building it
Crazy Elon? Okay, but heed his advice if you're learning a computer language
I’ve spent years trying to get coding students to avoid this fatal mistake , but maybe you'll listen to Elon.
Sadly just one of the very many negative externalities of car-centric cities that are imposed on people who don't opt-in to the madness.
They also shut off the other ones periodically for maintenance which is where all the photos of the Niagara Falls but off come from
I don't have any experience with FCC false-advertising actions, but most deception laws require proof of actual deception, or at least damages based on reasonable reliance on a statement. If someone read a landing page, reasonably thought the product was available now, and then took reasonable action (maybe hiring someone to use the product and paying a salary), then there might be a valid complaint.

But the key is reasonable reliance, or actual deception. If a company says "coming soon!" for a new kind of bandage, and someone bleeds to death because they thought "soon" meant in the next 60 seconds, that's unreasonable, and nothing is actionable. Or if someone's actual damages were that they don't like when companies like Salesforce engage in test marketing before developing products, but they couldn't demonstrate that it hurt them other than annoying them, that isn't a cause of action because there's no deception.

For the 24-hour gas case, the store owner is clearly struggling, and can't afford to stay open during slow hours. They apparently can't afford to buy new signage, either, or are hoping business improves soon so they can go back to 24/7 operation. There might be a technical violation, but enforcing it would likely be the owner's last straw, meaning one fewer gas station in the community. What good would enforcement be?
Or just that the market is down, or you over hired, or your strategy has changed, or a million other reasons that you may have employees you no longer need.
very funny. But "NEW YORK - The year is 2122 and the fight for clean energy has taken an unexpected, yet entertaining turn." Shouldn't it read as a current news article writen in 2122? I wouldn't say "The year is 2023 and" today.
Obviously no one would rather pay 4x as much for the same thing. In that sense no one chooses the price of their house as they'd clearly pay $1 if they could.

But yes, you choose to pay a lot to live near work (you value your time), in a place with great weather and public schools and natural beauty (since we seem to be talking Bay Area here). The $300k house in BFE Ohio does not have these properties.

At one point in my life I chose to live in a basement for about 10% of my monthly post tax income. Why don't you choose that? Turns out you do, in fact, have agency in choosing your living conditions.
"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons.

I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally in my browser anyway.
Apple seemed to have noticed. The newer MacBooks have better webcams.

I suspect that much of the use for work was using pre-pandemic, or hardware purchased at the beginning of the pandemic. It takes years for a hardware update wave to soak in to the general user base.
Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake
I like to think that at some in the near future, probably when temperatures rise to the danger level a majority of the time, people will stop trying to cool entire buildings/structures and instead start wearing low-cost and low-energy personal cooling vests.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09707-8

I’m surprised they aren’t already readily available, to be honest. It’s fairly low tech at the first order.
A big benifit is all of that coal destruction happens somewhere else. The hydropower destruction happens right here.
> faculty are unwitting weapons of complete and utter annihilation aimed primarily at students

But - especially the "unwitting" part - this is exactly the point of the article.
It has absolutely nothing to do with millennials.
You can definitely use the platform for audiobooks. It's not native to importive an epub yet, but you can use the UI or the API to audify your book.
which are slow.

If you wanna count the number of occurrences of a certain character in a string, you ultimately have to use popcount on an ordinary register, there's no corresponding SIMD instruction (at least in <= AVX2). Something along the lines of:

__builtin_popcount(_mm256_movemask_epi8(_mm256_cmpeq_epi8(haystack, needle)));

So, if you wanna avoid horizontal reductions, you better sum the result of _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 and effectively keep track of 32 counters of 1 byte integers.

Meaning that you have an outer loop over the string, and a fixed-length inner loop of 255 iterations in which you accumulate counts, and after the inner loop a horizontal sum.

Then you go from 1 horizontal operation per iteration, to 1 horizontal operations per 255 iterations.