skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hate for youtube is understandable when you consider how much of it Google changes without listening to anyone. They know they have an effectively monopoly position on video hosting and thus just do whatever they want.

They'll let their system ban whoever it wants, only letting a human review things if the person is sufficiently large/well-connected. They change their policies on a whim regardless of impact on people making a living off Youtube, same with demonetization, they also continue to allow content-ID and DMCA to be abused and have made search completely useless.

People are still using YouTube not because they like it, but simply because of the existing network effect and wanting to support their preferred creators. Thus it makes total sense why people would be willing to pay creators but not Google.
Lmao do people get that? The only thing I’ve ever gotten after final round lately have been ghosted or a useless generic rejection email. Even when a recruiter is involved, they don’t seem to get that sort of information.
I don't like it. It gives me pain in my hand muscles to have to hold Shift and write those symbols all the time. It also bores me and annoys me.

We're different my man.
It’s far too situational to give a blanket answer. I run a 15 person startup, and my preference is product focused people because of the breadth they can cover. However, we have a number of people who aren’t that way and are just good developers, which is great. My sense would be the narrow/deeper technically a space is, the less preference there is for product focus, but again just my personal guess.
Pluton, PSP, Intel ME, Remote attestation, Secure Boot
It kind of is an ad for Temu. Please don’t check it out. Temu is internet cancer. It needs to be cut out.
The idea that politics in academia are so fierce because the stakes are so low is a meme that has been around for many years, so perhaps it's just the first time you heard it?

I'm not convinced of the meme despite its cleverness or the many blog articles discussing it. I don't think it would get less politically intense if the stakes were raised.
When it fired into action…it just so happened to be, the best noise in the world
Perhaps you have to choose the audio track such that you don't fall asleep.
> I don't see how that would help.

Perhaps with the source you could setup an offline server on your own computer so you don't have to upload your data anywhere?
It’s a 3 year old laptop, it better not feel dated
The most I've ever made in my life was $28k. I'd probably be perfectly happy with 25k to be honest, at least until real self driving cars exist, that's pretty much the one expensive luxury thing I want besides a few vacations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

The logical conclusion of that is the Gish Gallop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

> The Gish gallop /ˈɡɪʃ ˈɡæləp/ is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper's arguments at the expense of their quality. The term was coined in 1994 by anthropologist Eugenie Scott, who named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution.[1][2]

Even if it's a moderated debate where an outright gallop isn't allowed, it's still easier for the dishonest party to erect a strawman claim than it is for the honest one to carefully rebut it, especially if the dishonest claim is so far into wackyland it's Not Even Wrong and requires a lot of its assumed premises to be demolished first.
They should merge into one company. Then all of these actions will be justifiable in the name of seamless user experience and vertical integration.
SIMD. Instead of having one value in one register, you have several values per register. (usually a small power of 2. SSE is 4 floats per register. AVX512 is 16 floats per register.)
as a computer practitioner I think google has done immense and irreperable damage to my field as a whole

as a consumer, yeah. but I can still mostly avoid them.
Professional Chefs Compete in a Knife Skills Speed Challenge [video]
I do appreciate what you are saying. And, I never meant my post to be a quick-fix. It may be that it would only work a little later when your kids are older. But it can still work as a general life plan.
Figuring out an eloquent solution to get work done faster and at higher quality is both smart and hard. It means taking the time to stop and think ahead, while also applying brain power to the problem.

The idea of avoiding rewarding ability is that we know it leads to smart kids who never learn how to put forth large amounts of effort, since often times up until college school is so bloody easy, they can skate by w/o developing good study habits.
I find this a very naive view point. Hiring is exceedingly difficult, and the reality is that no matter how well intentioned your process you never know whether the person you've hired fits with your organization, or isn't an outright liar. If you hire people, you will fire people (or be stuck with people who for whatever reason don't work well).
Thanks, I didn't know about that and so I just read a summary, it's kind of sad that even the C standard library is now obliged put prefixes on names for namespace reasons, but yeah, it is good.
My experience was an absolute TON of jobs that had no idea what I do as a Staff+ engineer, or what it costs to get someone with my experience and skills. I'm talking many many recruiters fishing with 75% off my total comp.

My take is there are lots of open roles, but companies are being slow to hire because they know they have the upper hand and want to wait out the market and get a great hire at a lower price. And right now with interest rates companies have lower opportunity cost (ie they're not incentivized to deploy capital as fast as possible) .
This person's adoration of the NHS, the mismanagement of which is possibly actively killing them, is somewhat amazing.

That said, there are great cardiac surgery hospitals on the continent that take private payers. He could get patched up near immediately for a small fraction of the price cited in the article.

I was going to write him specific information but his "contact" page doesn't have an email address.
I've re-read it.

There's no sign of that suggestion in this thread. The GP was talking about today, and has never mentioned huge sweeping policy changes from multiple governments around the world to make Google's business model obsolete.
Every single one of these 'quantified self' health/wellness trends conclude with "listen to your body, and do what feels right"

So then... what did I need the study/supplement/podcast/coaching/snake oil for?
A Silent revolution in mathematics (2013)
Later versions tried to counteract that by making it more a moving 3d thing of the original, LCARS-inspired interface. Incidentally that also was when I got sick of it.
EVEN MORE true at the VP level because the stakes are so much higer.
I pay for premium and more than half of the time I just use the browser version. Maybe slightly less snappy but it is fully featured and works.
I trust Google products less than Microsoft’s primarily because Google’s primary revenue stream is ads. This means their decisions are likely influenced by their ad division. While no tech giant is entirely trustworthy, we all have relative trust levels. It all about trusting and understanding their business model.

If Google spun off their cloud division as an independent entity, I’d trust Google Cloud more than Microsoft’s offering.
One time, after sleeping only 3 hours, I held a rope on someone's backpack, and hiked 2 hours with my eyes closed, just following them (and stumbling). I even conversed the whole time and hiked 4 more hours, and afterwards I felt rested enough to finish the day.
We've chosen to run on AWS/GCP for now so we can focus on building higher-level abstractions that help devs move faster, and we've always been very public about it.
I suppose not only to get moving but also to get cooperating with fellow hunters (i.e. social behavior).
It does say "edit PDF", but it doesn't really seem to allow editing any text on any PDF files.
have you tried installing it as a PWA, much less work :-) but i will write it in our product backlog
Yes: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver (at least on Mac OS)
Are you advocating for increasing the NHS budget, or replacing it with privatized health care?
Is there anything that makes it worse than AliExpress, eBay or Amazon?
What a great write up. Hope that Shaun will have his surgery soon.

I underwent mitral valve surgery this summer due to mitral insufficiency. Fortunately the surgeon was able to repair my heart valve using a Physioring. This means that I will not need life long warfarin treatment, only 3 months post surgery (which is soon up).

When I woke up after the surgery my first thought was "I can no longer feel my heart beat". Before due to the insufficiency my heart worked hard and I could mostly feel every heart beat even at rest.

Now that its been a few months I'm feeling so much better than before the surgery - like I've been given my life and a future back.

Without the surgery I would have developed heart failure and died in a few years time. Now I have good odds at making it to retirement age and hopefully even more. Certainly a humbling thought.
Saw similar tech at Microsoft a decade ago. Use case I saw was to raise buttons on software keyboards. Here’s an article on the patent from 2010: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/microsoft-patents-bumpy-...
The revolution is dead, long live the revolution.

One example. Deaf people use Instagram to group-chat with each other in Signed Language. I myself sometimes "phone" using WhatsApp and Signal.
Does anyone know a decent open source tool to edit PDF form fields (create them, assign a name, ...)?
You’re rightfully paranoid. LLMs are creative entities and there’s no repercussions for making up diseases. Like the chef one that recommended ingredients which combined yielding chlorine gas. Yummy.

Perhaps it knew that someone would die as a result and it did so intentionally. LLMs do have personalities and wit—and they know our human weaknesses.
Andrew Huberman, the same guy who panders chewing on a rubber ball to change your “face shape”?
When I was a kid I’d spend time on these phpbb forums where people would argue about Nintendo vs Sony. Later that included microsoft too.

Now it seems I have learned nothing since now I’m on forums where people are arguing microsoft vs Google vs Apple.

“No company is your friend”, is what I’d say as a kid, and is what I’ll say now too. It must be something about human nature that creates this behavior.
I use Wondershare PDFElement (free, Windows or Mac) and use its Pro feature to edit PDF, and finally Print to PDF to save. You are welcome.
Show HN: Generative AI photos of your dog
Hi I'm Devin!

I made a site where you can get AI generated photos of your dog! Upload 5 photos of your pet and get 20 photos of your chosen style to choose from.

Working on adding new styles so if you have any ideas happy to do something custom!

I've given several of these to friends and family and they make great gifts for the dog lovers in your life.
Houses under 100k CAD are either

- So far away from a major (by Canadian standards) city you're basically living in the middle of nowhere

- Run down and you're looking at 100k in renovations and upgrades

- Unless you're working remotely or are already well off, there are no well paying jobs out in the middle of nowhere

- Education is an issue: far away from schools for kids and only southern BC, southern Ontario, southern Quebec have high ranking universities/colleges

Any house in a desirable location is out of reach for many people. More and more people are now looking further out, thus driving prices higher in those locations as well. I don't think these people are looking to necessarily move out into the middle of Saskatchewan or other middle-Canada provinces where they can get those 100k homes for the reasons listed above.
This is a shallow treatment of a complicated subject. It doesn't seem to acknowledge that the concept of growth mindset has been challenged, somewhat successfully. [1] It does not seem to have a large effect in the aggregate, according to most meta-analyses. Also, the largest positive effect seems to be for students who are struggling (not surprisingly), which means that perhaps it actually has a net negative effect for students who are not struggling. And there are benefits to praising students for ability when they have unique abilities — this can lead them to feel that they want to cultivate those abilities.

1: https://www.edweek.org/education/opinion-misinterpreting-the...
There's also Rachel's Whacker News: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/

And Filippo Valsorda's gem:

https://filippo.io/fakenews/

And of course my one (shameless plug):

https://coxomb.github.io/This-Hacker-News-Does-Not-Exist/

I think everyone should have their own fake HN side project lol
Why employ anyone labeling colleagues as transphobic? They're pushing religious beliefs onto others. That's not appropriate for any workplace.
I'm pretty sure even on 64bit v8 doesn't use NaN boxing. Do you have docs or code that show it does?

Yes other engines use NaN boxing, but not all engines do.
I’ve been slowly working on a DSL that takes a similar approach. I’m creating a language for UI designers to specify components:

https://github.com/matry/documentation

I’m using a pythonic syntax because it feels more intuitive to non-programmers. One thing I’m running into, and that you’ll run into as well, is that the lack of delimiters can be its own source of complexity. If you nest too deeply, it becomes hard to read.
Yes, the track matters. A good track for non-sleep deep rest will have you set an intention not to fall asleep and then keep your mind busy doing a body scan. I was the same way... skeptical I'd stay awake. But it actually works.

Try this track https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LXBzjxhdJDFiW2CWINGb3
They don't, you have mis-read the section:

> If hip, hernia and cataract waiting lists had a similar mortality rate then tens of thousands would die before they got their op.

For these other types of operations there can be very long waiting lists, but these are not conditions from which people die suddenly without warning.

The NHS has its problems, but I, for one, am glad that if I get a life-threatening condition I will be treated according to my need without having to bankrupt myself in the process. Additionally, I'm glad the insurance companies don't drive the pricing of quite cost effective drugs and treatments until they are out of range of the uninsured, even though they could easily be priced affordably.
The camera is good, but the execution is extremely un-Apple to me. It looks really not slick from a hardware stand of point. They don’t even have an official mount. Just put a good (AI) camera in the laptop.
Do you remember the title of it?
> tbh Im not sure what do you mean

Let me break it down:

- Archives attempt to backup Wikipedia.org for one thing.

- Wikipedia.org is blocked in Russia and China.

- Therefore it is logical to assume that they would not allow the hosting of an archive of a blocked site, in their own country.

The remainder of your comment is illogical.
To be fair it’s not different from C++ although it features namespaces. One still has to write “std::foo()” in headers in order to not pollute the global namespace, and therefore in template code, anyway.

As long as they stop adding locale and global/thread-state dependent functions I’ll be quiet :)
Do you happen to have a link to said docs?
Also check out Jim "Chaos" Crutchfield's work, and the mesmerizing video feedback he made with his analog video processing computer that he built at the University of California, Santa Cruz for his Ph.D. in physics in 1984.

Jim Crutchfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Crutchfield

https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/index.html

Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE

A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1984). Original U-matic video transferred to digital video. 16 minutes.

See:

https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/films.htm

Citation: J. P. Crutchfield, "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback". Physica 10D (1984) 229-245.

https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/pubs/stdvf-title.html

Chaotic Attractors of Driven Oscillators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8Vu40Bw1g

A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1982). Original 16mm transferred to U-matic video and then to digital video. 13 minutes.

In 2022, Crutchfield and his graduate student Kyle Ray described a way to bring the heat production of conventional circuits below the theoretical limit of Landauer's principle by encoding information not as pulses of charge but in the momentum of moving particles.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsquo-momentum-co...

While a graduate student, Crutchfield and students from the University of California, Santa Cruz (including Doyne Farmer) built a series of computers that were capable of calculating the motion of a moving roulette ball, predicting which numbers could be excluded from the outcome:

The Eudaemonic Pie / Newton's Casino: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas

https://archive.org/details/eudaemonicpie00bass_0/mode/2up
I'm a veteran of terrible enterprise software and Salesforce is mostly not terrible. It's overweight, complex and expensive, but it's also powerful, customizable and interoperable in all the ways you need it to be. The main value to me is that if you look at any remotely related software like automation, data integration, billing, reporting they all have a native Salesforce integration as their first listed feature. That's incumbency and clout moreso than a technical vote of confidence, but it still matters to CTOs. I'll say that nearly all their acquired products I've worked with kinda suck and barely integrate in any meaningful way (I'm thinking Tableau and Marketing Cloud especially).
I don’t have a lot to show for my master’s (2 years in Europe), I didn’t get into academia for a PhD, and don’t intend to in the foreseeable future. On paper, my experience was practically nil before I joined AWS.

However, I found myself doing one half of the technical leadership of a major project at my org as a “new grad”. I am leading the science and deeply technical aspect and seniors do the operational aspect.

The reason I could do what I have is because of stuff I learned in gradschool. The last 4 years of my life (2 undergrad, 2 msc) put me in a very unique position. In the process, I earned plenty of “trust”, especially of senior engineers and skip+ managers.

I wouldn’t recommend a master’s tbh.
I think there's some valuable comments about mental health/ADHD that you should consider, but I'm not qualified to discuss that, so I'll leave that for others.

I don't know where you live, but where I live, everywhere is hiring, and every local business is understaffed and every owner/manager complains about the quality of employees.

If I really wanted to be employed and had no high school diploma or degree or employment history, I'd go figure out how to apply at the local restaurants, banks, and grocery stores. They all need people who can show up and follow instructions. If you can do that, you have a path to employability. Maybe that's not in the career field you like, but from your post, you don't have a track record, and it's hard to get hired as a programmer without any track record, holding down a retail job for a year or two is one way to get a track record.

If you have access to affordable adult education and/or community college, you might also look into starting on those paths. For many jobs, a high school diploma or equivalent is non-negotiable, and many local governments have programs to help adults get those. In many places, community college is affordable and you can take one course a semester which sets you up with a few hours of class time a week and again, a path towards a track record. Look at the courses offered, the requirements for a degree, and your interests and abilities, and pick something that can hit all three buckets. Yes, it will take a long time to get a degree if you do one class a semester, but it's still progress and a path.

That said, housework is valuable; you may contribute more to your household by being home to do housework than by being employed outside the home. An honest talk with your partner could establish what the balance is. When my partner left the workforce, it was better for both of us. You can certainly consider part-time work or education while managing a household, of course.
It's why meditation apps can be so useful, there are so many options in the 10-20 minute range and you feel much better than trying to time a nap and setting a horrible alarm sound to wake you up.

Most of them also have nice endings, in that they encourage you to stretch or something of the sort to "wake up" from your meditation.
This is unacceptable. You'd be well within your rights to ignore this request, but I'd appreciate an email with your details so we can fix the underlying problem.
Opal without the software is not great at all. Very bad lighting. They should’ve had much better firmware instead of software imho.
What recourse do we as workers have? We can soft boycott and quit/stop applying to onsite positions, but there are hundreds of thousands willing and able to take these positions.
The confusing thing here is that space time warps in the presence of mass.

But no mass is transmitted in a gravity wave.

So what is the fabric made of?
> I think this is significantly more common than you think it is.

For context: it was the first language taught in my CS degree in 2014. They switched to Python from Java due to its pedagogical advantages - namely, students being able to focus more on the high-level algorithmic semantics than on language design minutiae (Java) or memory management / poor diagnostics (C).

I wasn't a fan of the decision at the time, but I certainly see why they did it in hindsight!
Literally 3-6 taps (to fast forward 20-50 seconds) on a phone. Two-Three clicks using the web. Grabbing the remote, pressing 3 times "right" and "ok" for a TV running YouTube.

Creators can't live from YouTube alone (yt premium makes this better afaik, but you still get paid per watch time, which can go against your content or ethics), so they do sponsored ads integrated into their videos. For some the yt-alone revenue is only 20-40% of the total.
It’s been a while since I did this comparison, but I’m pretty sure a little poking around on Google will get you close.