skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably one of the better layoff notices I've read in recent times.

But the problem is I keep reading these layoff notices! Why on earth are these companies providing internal information to the public?

Yes, a financial disclosure might say "we laid off 7% of the workforce on 09/25/2023". That's fine. But I, as a member of the public, why am I reading about their severance package? Who to contact in the company? When they'll receive the layoff notice, and so forth?

Tech companies... not everything has to be public.
I think you pretty much have it spot on. Digital is the like another dialect of language that people think in.

The paradigm is "I can very, very, easily make this set of marks, and I'm gonna build my process around them" rather than "I can make any mark I want and I'll spend the time to figure out exactly what marks and what process to use".

It's incredibly easy and convenient, since it's all a prepackaged process with really only one medium, linear text, that only needs a tiny fraction of the skill... but we probably are losing something in the process.

I never got into paper or handwriting, and gave up on drawing pretty quick after discovering how much harder it is than I expected, so I never really felt anything missing from paper when moving to digital, but thinking more about it, I definitely do think the tech shapes my thoughts pretty heavily, ideas that are hard to express with current tech rarely occur to me, if I'm designing something physical I'll probably be thinking in the 2.5D way that you do with CAD without really understanding 3D structures, etc.

I tried to get into paper notetaking for quite a while(but found the level of attention to each letter needed to be kind of exhausting) and I tried to learn art drawing, but I never really paid much attention to or thought about the idea of trying to get into any kind of sketching or diagramming on paper, it's not as heavily talked about as text notetaking, perhaps I should try as an experiment.
There are a few. Cockos makes an amazing Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that competes with the top names in the industry.

While much of the rest of the industry is moving to subscriptions or jacking prices, Cockos has kept their prices extremely low and push new releases consistently.
The stupid people are lawyers and they definitely seem to think they have a good reason.
You can see one of these up close - both the device, and the airplane! - at the Evergreen Aerospace Museum in McMinnville, OR.

They also have on display another Blackbird payload labeled DEF-H. It’s a nondescript white box which you are allowed to look at, but not allowed to know what it does. XD
Yes, it was obviously filler.
Frankly, these don't sound any better than Google Cloud's TTS, and is orders of magnitude more expensive.
This is a personal choice, not economic policy.

No one is forcing anyone to become owners of assets, but in practice anyone (even the poor) can become asset owners, as assets can be more than just a home. Putting $30/mo into financial assets is attainable by anyone.

Poor financial decision making will always be present, and the idea is to encourage (but not force) people to make rational economic decisions.
There's also a significant chunk of "I need to be able to open the back catalogue of customer artwork without worrying about whether something's shifted slightly."
Import filters for opening legacy formats in newer software can be notoriously bad in that regard.
> Indie teams do not spend enough time making smaller (and less profitable) games first before transitioning to multi-year projects.

This worked well for romero and carmack. A game a month was it? That's how you refine your skills.
> are longer in average

When you write this people think about genital length. I've done that mistake as well, easy to make as a non native speaker, to get the right point say "taller" not "longer".
You know that the retail margin for a lot of products is at least 100%, right? And that's on the wholesale price, not the original cost of production.

Everyone takes their cut.
Maybe I'm thinking about it too simply but yeah I agree.

Language models in particular are very similar architectures and effectively a lot of dot products. And running them on GPU's is arguably overkill. Look at llama.cpp for the way the industry is going. I want a fast parallel quantized dot product instruction on a CPU, and I want the memory bandwidth to keep it loaded up. Intel should be able to deliver that, with none of the horrible baggage that comes from CUDA and nvidia drivers.
Oh well in that case yeah throw out any concerns or criticisms. `retrac`'s anecdote and invocation of the law of Occam's Razor is proof that the study is iron clad.
that's ridiculous. sorting is easy, building a neural net that controls every servo/motor in a humanoid robot so that it can complete a given task while maintaining balance and posture is not. this isn't a simple control loop keeping the robot balanced while doing a hardcoded task.
There is no Python 4 - and may not ever be.

If you have downloaded Python 2, you must have done it intentionally, it isn't even available from the Python.org website download anymore - and had not been for a long time.

>The problem is that you can't have one Python interpreter that covers all versions of Python, and Python is very unforgiving about using the wrong interpreter version.

Because it doesn't make sense. The language evolves. Nobody is going to stop working on it only because it could break some old code somewhere. The changes from 2 to 3 happened *15 years ago*.

There is no reason to try to compile/run old Python 2 code today - and if you still do need it for some reason, then you need to download the Python 2 version (which are still available, if you need them but one has to look for them). But then you better know what you are doing.

If some old code requires Python 2, any somewhat experienced Python developer will spot that right away (e.g. the use of print statement in Python 2 vs. print() function in Python 3 is a dead giveaway).

>In any case, it was a serious problem that cost me a lot of time and really soured me on Python as an end user. I've not encountered a similar issue with any other language before, so this appears to be uniquely a Python thing.

I don't doubt it has costed you a lot of time but this was a problem entirely of your own doing by not doing your homework.

You would have exactly the same problems if you tried to compile old K&R C code or C++ code from 20 years ago using modern compilers. Or tried to feed modern C# code to a compiler from 10 years ago. Or, God forbid, tried to run some modern Javascript code using old browser - or that old HTML with Flash and what not in a modern browser ...

Python is actually much more lenient in this regard because a major language change has happened only once, 15 years ago, with Python 2 being deprecated for well over a decade. The point releases are all upward compatible with no issues.
As an important consideration, rats are usually considered nocturnal animals. They are less active when there is light out.
um, doesn't the sextant go back much much further than the 60s?
probably never had an offsite backup
Typical clickbait title. Thanks for the tldr
The F22 had an unintentional problem of being unable to cross the international date line, which was discovered when attempting to fly from Hawaii to Japan.

Given that it may very well be better to assume that anything untested doesn't work at all and to live within those restrictions.
Netflix ordered to cease and desist infringing on Broadcom patent in Germany
The link referring to 7 years of update. If you follow the leaker on Twitter kamila in the original leak tweet they mention it can be 5 years of OS update + 3 years of security updates or something along the lines. The leakers isn't sure if it will be full 7 years of OS updates. I think other people reporting on the leak are failing to differentiate OS updates vs security updates making people to think Google rolled back on updates.
You can write raw SQL with SA, while keeping the other nice features it has.
> I also don't see any controls for other circumstances, so it can also be explained that other factors could contribute both to eating processed foods and getting depressed (ex: working long hours, having low income, relationship stress)

Of course there were controls.

Directly from the article: “Adjusting for other health, lifestyle and socioeconomic risk factors for depression…”

As noted in another comment, the paper goes into further details on the controls they used.

Honestly, this kind of thing is insulting. If you’re going to levy that kind of accusation of incompetence against someone, you at least owe it to them to read the source material before doing so.
right, I dont want that. If I am using Python with a C plugin, or just compiling a command line C/C++ too, I dont want or need the full Visual Studio experience. and even with the Visual C++ tools or whatever its called, you still end up installing gigabytes of nonsense.
If you charge over the market rate you will get undercut by competition? Seems risky to make your site borderline unusable for cash you don't need.
"The English have a system. It is no system. That's also a system.
Only better." - unknown but mentioned in passing in [0]

[0] Steven B. Smith's course polsci https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114
> > namely that a subset of men should be allowed to disregard women's boundaries and consent with impunity

> What?

Men who desire to be women forcing their way into women's and girls' spaces, and who keep advocating for the law to be changed, where it isn't already, so they can keep getting away with this.
Just to pile on, change in chirality can also result in wholly different chemicals.
I put a small metal 'basket' that I put the float into. It's a fine-tuning thing to allow the line to tow, but 'pop out' with a bit of extra tension.

So we fly it out 200m and then lock the line and it pops out of basket.

Risky, but very fun
I would be shocked if more than 1% of the population lived 40 minutes from the nearest grocery store out of necessity. Can you provide a citation?

> And Americans being rich on a global scale doesn't mean shit when median expenses for said "rich" Americans are getting more expensive all the time.

This is a political choice.
> "Render the page in X width and Y height and then take a screenshot".

Isn't this the exact example of phantomjs?

```
page.viewportSize = { width: 600, height: 600 };
```

At least that is what I use to do for screen testing for some of our low-hanging-fruit QA.
At some point I rewrote it in puppeteer and it was as simple as the above line.

The screenshot results in being the X/Y size.

I'd be interested in why this doesn't work in your usecase.
I'm reading it as "minimal in scope". Scope creep tends to be a given for established/battle-tested libraries, and I'd argue that over time scope creep could counteract security benefits of being battle-tested.

Note that I'm not basing this on data, just on my intuition that a lot of major security bugs seem to be related to obscure/infrequently used functionality.
Is "processed" the problem? What's the process that makes you fat and sick? Is it boiling? Stirring? Heating? Freezing?

Or is it the added sugar?

It's the sugar
This was my freshman dorm. It was repurposed from an apartment building or a hotel (I forget which) 20-30 years before I arrived. I had the smallest unit on the floor (it was next to the lounge and you could tell they took space from my room to make the lounge bigger). It was fine for accommodating my minimal needs. Really I tried to minimize how often I spent in the room because if I wasn’t doing homework I was trying to be social and meet new people
What are you comparing against here that's leading you to a different opinion? Are you claiming file I/O would be faster or that you could write the equivalent functionality faster?

Also note that performance isn't just speed either.
Android and iOS 17 have native API to supply passkeys via system API, which will surface in browsers as well as native apps.

A pure web extension password/passkey manager currently has to go the injection route, and will not surface credentials in native apps. This generally means that if you use such a manager, you need to make not to select any options to remove your password, either from your password manager or from the account behind that native app.
“Unable”? How did this manifest?!

> Given that it may very well be better to assume that anything untested doesn't work at all and to live within those restrictions.

There are an infinite number of untested cases though. Figuring out the important ones is the hard part, otherwise they likely would have been identified and fixed in development.
It's difficult to quantify but I don't doubt that what is deemed to be green energy can be more harmful to environment (local at least) than burning oil. We should have heavily invested in nuclear energy infra and fission research years ago. Unfortunately clowns control the narratives around climate change and the environment.

If the wind farms are being installed in farms they may actually save the lives of some jaguars. Despite the forced eviction I don't doubt that otherwise those jaguars would be eventually killed by the owners of the land where they roam and feast. The issue is that Brazil lacks decently sized national parks with sufficient infrastructure and policing. Though in conservation numbers I believe Brazil fares much better than most countries in NA and EU with the exception of Canada.
Or realize that on such a painful and personal subject that some people will share their personal anecdotes—totally unscientific, oh my!
It says they did have capability to navigate in Southern hemisphere though it might be implied one had to use two stars only visible in southern hemisphere.
My obscure protocols list even includes HTTP! I must be such an idiot!

It’s almost as if I copy+pasted from the curl man page or something!
None of that is necessary. In Windows/Mac/iOS/Android, when you set up your mail app you can click on Gmail, follow the web auth flow, give permission to the app, and it just works.
Anecdotally, plenty of people win the lottery. It does not make playing a sound strategy or something that works on average.

Sure, some will be alright. However, looking at statistics, the best way of not falling behind in terms of income is to get a good degree. Because that’s what we are talking about: average wages have been increasing more slowly than inflation for quite a few decades now. So we are talking about a generation falling behind, not a greedy generation.

It’s less and less the case that a degree is the best path forward (depending on the field), but still.
I regularly point the n00bs to this site to level up.
lol, lmafo.
I expect this behavior to be pretty common. In PostgreSQL, auto incrementing keys like this are backed by sequences.

Sequences, at least in the database products I'm familiar with, do not exhibit transactional behavior; I'm not sure if this is actually part of the standard, but if not, I at least expect this to be pretty common. Part of the reason for this is to avoid introducing a point of serialization in concurrent transaction processing. If we were to do what you're asking for, you can get quite a performance hit. Consider a long running transaction involving an insert into a table using an auto-incrementing key. Any other transaction that wanted to get an ID would have to wait for that long running transaction to finish to get a number from the sequence... the waiting transaction wouldn't know if the long running transaction was going to commit or rollback and so the sequence number would be undefined until the waiting transaction could get its own lock.

If we set forth the expectation that a sequence will only guarantee you that you'll get a unique number from within the range, but that any other desire like gapless numbering is out of scope for the sequence you can avoid that whole waiting game. Sure, you might have gaps as a result; if the long running transaction finally rolls back, you'd get a gap for the number it consumed.... but no one waited to find out if that was the case and all the records got unique IDs.

If you need to ascribe meaning beyond merely "unique identity" to such a record ID, it might be that an auto-sequencing is simply the wrong tool. I think the compromise and expectation that sequences, and extended functionality depending on sequence mechanics, are not transactional is a good one given the performance costs of ensuring gapless numbering whether you really need it or not.
Software as big as Open Office may not need to technically grow, but still needs a lot of work to stay current.

Various dependencies, like XML parsers, JPEG decoders, HTTP libraries, etc, change over time, drop deprecated APIs and need the main application to adapt. It'll also bump into the tech changing around it -- UTF8, year 2038, 64 bit CPUs, etc.

For a project this size it takes work just to stand still and keep it comfortably buildable on a modern Linux distro.
“Processed” is pretty well-documented at this point. There's a range and ultraprocessed seems to be the highest culmnination.
I think Intel's strategy, in a broad sense, makes sense. Xeon Phi succeeded in a few tiny niches, but they need a real GPGPU in order to compete in the broader market this decade. They tried to make their microarchitecture broadly similar to their competitors' to reduce risk and improve software compatibility. They knew their architecture (and software) wouldn't be as good as their experienced competitors' but thought that at the high end they could use their advanced packaging technology as an advantage. In hindsight that was maybe over-ambitious if it caused the substantial delays (I don't think we know that for certain but it's a good guess) but maybe it will pay dividends in the next product. You do have to take some risks when you're in last place.
Interesting but there’s a weird pause before the word ‘danced’ in each demo? Sounds unnatural
For real. Thank god!
Senolytics in the Clinic
It's a question of what you got annoyed by, the point was a 100mph home built FPV drone is dramatically louder, and the way they get flown makes a lot more noise.

I've been annoyed and not talked to people too, but it was never the noise, it was blatant violation of the law flying over crowds, etc..
When I don't know something, posting what I know is wrong is usually the quickest way of getting someone to post the correct answer.
md5? blake3 is both faster and cryptographically secure, and not a novelty at this point.
If it existed, I'd love to own a 1-person car/motorcycle, and then rent an SUV the other 5 weeks out of the year.
It is not. Blocking IO (with some exceptions mentioned in the JEP) will automatically be translated by the runtime into non-blocking IO when it occurs on virtual threads, and no OS threads will be blocked. The Java code will look blocking and that's what thread dumps and other Java observability mechanisms will show, but to the OS it will seem as if it's running non-blocking code.

You can have a million threads blocking on a million sockets (obviously without creating a million OS threads): https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-c5m

You can't do that with thread pools. You could achieve that scalability with async code, but then observability tools will not be able to track the IO operations and who initiated them, but with virtual threads you'll see exactly what business operation is doing what IO and why.
Nowadays they usually have you sign something that says you agree to XYZ.
I don't understand. These seem exactly the same features as DreamBerd 1?
Ok. Took a couple reads but I think I understand.

I'll put you down as a yes on sorting, no on self balancing humanoid robot
"Hash consing", eh? Neat. I have actually used that technique in a compiler before, but didn't know there was a name for it.
Even if the blue light from electronics had any significant effect, my first instinct would be to say, it's a wash: the amount of time spent with such electronics correlates strongly with amount of time spent indoors and away from sunlight. If anything, this would be bringing us closer to status quo from 50+ years ago.
I arrived at the same conclusion, but I had to re-read it to be sure, because it doesnt exactly flow that well, particularly at the first third or so.
> I have had basically zero desire to cook (or really do much of anything in complete honesty) for the last couple weeks and I am super thankful for "processed" things like Huel.

I'd never heard of Huel. Just looking at the info on their bag of pasta bolognese:

* bag size is 721 grams but serving size is 101g!

* they put the "per day" measurement at 505g? But even there, you're be consuming 3200mg of sodium-- 139% of the daily recommended value

Honestly, eating a 101g serving sounds to me like attempting to eat 1/8 of a bag of M&Ms.

If I open that 721g bag for lunch, it's going to be gone by end of day, guaranteed. (Probably with half a baguette for dipping.)

Edit: I forgot it's for lunch and dinner in my example. So make that a whole baguette. :)
u/skrause mentions in another subthread that the government has commissioned a fiber optic network going live at the end of the year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37651113

https://web.archive.org/web/20230925221524/http://www.indepe... (page 3)
On the bright side, due to how the Power Tool industry works, that Craftsman is in many cases the previous gen Dewalt for 1/3 the price. Others are Porter Cable in red and without a sales rep. I’m tied to Ryobi batteries but I happily pick up Craftsman corded tools when those are an option.
Android common kernels(ACK) are downstream of Linux kernels with so many patches which are not there in the Linux kernels. So Linux having short 2 years update cycle doesn't have much implication on ACK.
As soon as I saw "visual capitalist" and the word "inequality" I knew with absolute certainty that they would be looking solely at income inequality and ignoring wealth.

It's a neat sleight of hand for misrepresenting the true level of inequality in our society. Income inequality is higher than it should be, wealth inequality is staggering.
Fascinating...my most recent deep work was around color so this really tickled me, ty!
And requires relearning, new terminology, etc.
I'd always prioritize factual correctness over emotional utility when reading the news anywhere.

Tangent: for me the sentence you quoted sounds a lot like ChatGPT, but I'm pretty that's just paranoia. I like reading the Guardian.
Knowledge is power. If they do not know about it they can't ask for it
Until recently I was using PostScript and EPS regularly.
I'd use a PostScript program to step-and-repeat EPS artwork for a business form or raffle ticket, and apply consecutive numbers in the appropriate place. I'd then use GhostScript to render a final multi-page PDF for printing.
I also used it to send artwork to an imagesetter. Yes, they're still used in some sectors, and while the RIP software we had supported PDF, I had much better control of the machine using PostScript with a PPD.
At the heart of it, if they want to do the bare minimum to "reclaim the internet", they just need to not alienate everyone still using firefox and let Chrome fall on its own sword with anti-adblock lockdown. That literally requires doing nothing but waiting.

I mean if they want to get bonus points they could be better, but that's just crazy talk.
The trick is you have to find a way to take it places that satisfy:

- It's OK to fly there and you're not going to annoy anyone

- You can get some interesting photos.

Having previously flow R/C airplanes and aircraft drones like DJI makes are not actually that entertaining to fly, they are too easy and not that engaging.

So it's all about the photos. You'll see new people flying at a park or something, but after a while you're basically thinking the park is not a very interesting thing to take pictures of.