skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you.

Yeah this is definitely one of those things that sounds good on paper but has unintended "consequences" shall we say.

I worked for one company about a decade ago where the task was to redesign the corporate homepage. The "about us" pages on the homepage, not the actual product the company was selling. These pages got a few hundred hits a month. The decision was made to create two sub-teams, one would create a custom CMS, the other would "render" the data entered into the CMS to the website visitors. So that was about 10-20 people in total. The project took over a year. All completely unnecessary.

I didn't understand why this was happening. Who gained from this? I couldn't figure it out. I supposed it was just a lack of controls on how long things took, and this was the result, but that didn't really feel right to me. It felt like someone had to really gain from this, but I couldn't work it out.

Anyway, during my leaving drinks, after a few pints, my boss told me "yeah I think I'm going to get promoted, the other managers who are applying for this job manage far fewer people so I think I'm well positioned to get it".

The penny dropped. The purpose of this project was to occupy people, so that more people could get hired, so his headcount increased, so he could get a promotion, and a payrise.
Small correction: -ffat-lto-objects was meant to be added to Clang 17 but after it was finally done there was not enough time to properly test before release. It is implemented though and works in trunk so should be available in Clang 18.
I first thought it was comparing the program Everything with an alternative named Anything. Came away disappointed.
Your job offer in the U.S. won't help. And the U.S. company won't support a nonimmigrant work visa for you?
To what degree did this event contribute to “the dark ages”? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536
Part of me loves texture healing, part of me hates it, but I think enough of me likes it to maybe give it a try. Did find a "bug" or something where a bunch of "///////" goes out of whack though.
If by "defiency is with tooling" you mean that `dialyzer` is bad, then yes. The current type checking facilities that it provides are too lax and also sometimes demonstrably actually incorrect even in the face of the simplest examples.
Facebook account takeovers are really elaborate and very common. Since this is a very easy way to essentially block users from recovering their own account, I can see why they're killing this vector. The account was not taken over through the feature, but the feature made self-service recovery near impossible.
As a sibling commenter said, Sky Lagoon may be worth a look. It’s still a tourist destination, but my experience there was very quiet and tranquil. I think if people want to show off and take selfies, maybe party a little bit the Blue Lagoon might be the place, but for relaxation and an experience, sky lagoon really ticked the boxes for me.

You need to drive or get a bus there, but it wasn’t too far a journey from Reykjavik city centre.

There’s a in-spring bar there, which is practically the only time I was in close proximity to other people, except my party. The rest of the ritual and ‘journey’ space you go through was all really roomy, quiet and clean.

I think it was around £60, or ~$70 including the journey there and back, and a drink.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231109170628/https://www.nytim...
Can easily detect the difference between 60 and 144hz as well.
There are no actual vouchers, but the government pays whichever school the family chooses, so the end result is very similar.
I don't think we are on the brink of societal collapse :)

And it is just like now, I use a gun to shoot people that try to enter my house. What you're saying is that I should have people with guns in the house for the times that I'm not at home.

How is this different than today when your house gets robbed during the day?
I must admit that I'm in Scotland and my son went to a couple of private schools (though they seem to call themselves "independent" schools) - never heard anyone referring to a public school other that in UK media discussing Eton etc.
> I think Milton Friedman's idea, was that parents would actually receive education 'vouchers' and be free to use them in whichever education context they chose for their children.

> This is slightly different, as the private/public system is wholly handled by the State system: parents simply choose between alternative schools, and the state channels taxpayer's money to whichever school the child attends.

I don't see the difference between those two situations. In your first sentence you talk about a “voucher”, but if it's a voucher, then there needs to be someone who emits the vouchers, and collect them in exchange for money, giving money back. And the “someone” is necessarily the state since it's financing the schools out of its own pocket.
Anyone who has tried to compile Rust projects on a system with many cores while running htop could tell you that it spends a whole lot of time using only a few cores. Remember, Rust is not like C where the interface definitions (header files) exist on disk so all files can be compiled completely independently.
The facts matter so it's tough to advise without knowing them all but as general rule, as long as the overstay was for less than 6 months, you should be able to adjust status in the U.S.
So... Google is legally required to treat contractors as second class citizens to afford them the privilege of being able to mistreat them and fire them at the drop of a pin.

We understand the """"purpose"""" of having contractors.
I'm English and I thought of financially independent schools when I read the headline. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by your own interpretation.
> we can't grow exponentially forever!

We can't grow exponentially forever in space either. Somehow this gets forgotten.

O(N^t) > O(t^3), for all N > 1

Here t^3 is the future light-cone of Earth, ie this assumes [trans]humanity expands at the speed of light and instantly colonizes all matter. This is an optimistic upper bound IMO.
> Carthusian monks converted the ancient quarries under their monastery into distilleries for the green or yellow liqueur that still carries their name, chartreuse.

Is that right? Chartreuse is named after the eponymous mountain in the alps, on the other end of the country and it’s been made there for ages because it’s made out of plants and herbs that grow nearby and nowhere near Paris.
In Czechia there is the awesome Czech Hiking Markers System, used since 19th century (it has since spread to other, mostly European countries). No GPS needed, sometimes not even a map, because it is being constantly maintained by volunteers from Czech Tourist Club [1] who make sure the trail markers are visible and the trail is safe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Hiking_Markers_System

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Tourist_Club
It's not about taking these "virtual ethics" at face value. It's about watching a touching moment between characters and recognising that elements of that situation can be related to. If you are unable to consume fiction without being able to do this then I really don't know what to say.
So you're waving away hard statistics with your personal experiences?
For clarity:

Public schools - a handful of top level very expensive private schools, usually have existed for centuries, the children of the highest levels of society tend to go there, a great foundation for a career in public life. Examples include Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Marlborough.

Private schools - the rest of the private schools, less expensive, but less advantageous.

State schools - free, provided by the state for children in a local catchment area, this is where the rest of us go. Most are run by the local government, but there has been some experiments with 'foundation schools' which are tax payer funded but privately run.
Yep. It’s awkward. The language fights you every step of the way and it becomes hard to read and write your code. x.foo = 6 becomes x.set(String(“foo”), Num(6));. When you read that value back you’ll need to unwrap the type you expect before you can do anything with it. It would be utterly miserable. You’d be much better off just using Python, JavaScript or Ruby.

You also lose all of the performance benefits typing brings, and gain nothing in return. In JavaScript land, V8 moves heaven and earth to guess what your types are and optimistically compile your code behind the scenes assuming its type annotations are correct. Then it dynamically deoptimises and reoptimises at runtime with that new information, while your program runs. As well as being ugly, the equivalent “dynamically typed” rust program would have none of V8’s smarts. It would run dog slow compared to normal rust and still way slower than the (much cleaner) JavaScript equivalent.

Like wood, programming languages all have a grain. If you program in harmony with the language’s design, everything will seem easy. Compiler errors make sense. The standard library will seem useful and well designed. Program against the language’s design and you’ll hate every minute of it.
As a shareholder, I'm curious why others aren't more furious to hear that this is how things are run at Google. It's common knowledge how bureaucratic and political the company has become; these stories are everywhere.

If I were a large pension fund or asset manager, I would be asking questions to the board like, "Given nothing gets done on many teams, what would happen if Google reduced its headcount by 50%?" and "Why is increasing headcount currently an incentive for managers within organizations, especially without any apparent penalty function?"
Does the tech industry thrive on free work?
> I suspect this was a state actor funded operation, for this has effectively, and significantly reduced the usefulness of PGP/GNUPG.

If it was, they did us all a favour, because PGP as means of encrypting emails is a steaming pile of garbage, as it requires both, client support, and the counterparty to have the same OPSEC as you (e.g. not just forwarding the email unencrypted to someone else)

Email was never meant to be encrypted, and the existing implementations (including S/MIME) suck for this exact reason. And the worst thing is that it’s simply not possible to make it work.
Microsoft have run hotmail/outlook.com for decades.This is a service used by hundreds of millions of people, I would guess mostly non corporate. I think they have more than enough personal email data to train on if they wanted to.
Apple has also started to try to get users to switch to their Mail app, at least on iPadOS. Every time I switch gmail accounts on the web UI in Chrome, I get a popup from Mail asking me to set the account up in Mail.

I can't turn it off.
I mean it's easy to claim your actions don't hurt your competitors when you haven't got any.
Does this mean the new Outlook is actual malware? It's literally stealing your password.
> They pre-allocate a portion of the memory to the iGPU and the CPU can't access that memory

I don't recall the details, yes there's a BIOS setting to assign memory to the GPU, but that doesn't actually limit the memory used by the GPU. With any current OS and driver, the actual amount of memory used is set dynamically at runtime. The rest is as I said an API (OpenGL / DirectX pre 12) limitation.

https://docplayer.net/88302897-Memory-management-in-vulkan-a...

Page 20:

Memory types: AMD APU

● Memory is really unified – all heaps are equally fast.

Meaning the application can allocate a buffer on such a heap, load/generate some data into it, and "hand it over to" (just means promise not to change it concurrently without notifying) the GPU. No copies, the GPU can now use it.
[In contrast, different memory types on non-UMA systems are best for uploads (to GPU), downloads (from GPU), frequent use, one-time use... of buffers]

So, what's left of Apple's UMA advantage is, I don't know? Maybe a unified cache. Not a big deal, graphics working sets are much larger than any L3 cache. Oh, and marketing language.
> This is how life works. You do whatever you can to get ahead of other

Except its not how life works. Because we decided to make a law against it. You're trying to argue that the law is bad by... saying that it's not a natural law of the universe (no law is, murder is neutral on a cosmic scale)

> So the world would be better if everyone was poor, right

if you're arguing in this sort of bad faith its pointless discussing anything. Social mobility is demonstrably different across different nations, and policies do exist that actually affected social mobility. Social mobility correlates strongly with GDP. If you want a wealthy society, make it so hardworking people born into poor families can outcompete wealthy failsons
Good point. Mandamus actions - forcing the Government to act - often work in fact and there are some very good attorneys who specialize in this and I'd be happy to refer some to you. We don't handle these types of matters but have worked with several attorneys that do.
Something something heat death of the universe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornea#Structure

(Couldn't find a reference in your link, this discusses it in the first few sentences)

((Also, why does mobile wikipedia not have any way to get the contents tab, for linking? I get hiding it by default.. but why not have it available?!))
I doubt that this was widely adopted

Hell, even amongst my peers, I'm continually shocked at how many people have never used gpg, ever. And, anecdotally, the number gets lower as age gets lower. Young people aren't using it. It's dying.
It strikes me that touch typing prose is actually very different to coding due to all the symbols. Also unlike prose, a lot of time is spent editing or refactoring the code. How much would you say your typing competitions actually have an impact on your coding speed?
Thought this may be of interest given some of the discussions on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188689
I'd argue in favor of decoupling schools from summative assessment in general. If anything, I'd just have each course in each institution have its own well-specified entrance requirements/assessment, and have learners decide what institution/course of study would best prepare them.
Submitter here

I didn't want to editorialize, so I used the original title.

I changed "free school" to "charter school" which may make contextually more sense.

I hope that's acceptable.
Lots of RSI related comments. I switched my mouse from my right to my left hand 10 years ago. Fixed all my RSI issues.
Hash matching proposals for the Online Safety Act's implementation are dangerous
The example they provide for false positives is haunting
Yeah it's not just canonical even. A lot of commercial vendors are constantly pushing their stuff. My windows box is constantly trying to push me to use edge and "the new outlook" and I had to jump through hoops to install it without a Microsoft account. My Mac keeps warning me I haven't signed up for Apple pay and am not logged in with an apple id. It keeps this passive-agressive red dot on the settings icon as a reminder to "finish setting up my Mac".

I wish vendors would just let me use my computer how I want.
I had intermittent, debilitating back issues for years after a grappling injury in my 20s - spasms that would come in an instant or appear overnight and take me off my feet for weeks. Brutal. Multiple people recommended Sarno’s “Healing Back Pain’, and I resisted it as woo for years until yet another recommendation got the best of me. I needed to read only the first chapter to recognize that while some of Sarno’s conjecture about the actual mechanism of action may be wrong, his thesis about much (not all) back pain applied perfectly to my situation, and since then - years ago now - I’m effectively cured of my issue.

Passed the book to my dad, who had similar issues, and he’s had only a few such incidents in the intervening years - a huge improvement.
This is honeslty my favourite thing about windows in recent years. Now that you can just fire up native windows terminal and type 'ssh user@host.com' it has saved me so much time, and probably downloads for putty have dropped considerably as well.
Great. I hope everyone (except me) gets this pin. A society where everyone competes to yell out their texts is the kind of chaotic future I live for.
Maybe it’s one AI dissing another?
When you need an ESB, you can add one to the mix, but it still doesn't mean that you should use it for everything, even if it's not needed.
> What are those alternatives? Why talk in riddles when you can simply share those alternatives?

I have, you only had to read a short 2nd sentence of the original comment, they're listed after the comma separator

> Says who?

Who do you need to state this obvious and well publicised fact that lateral/pinky motions are unergonomic??? Though it does explain your later misunderstandings and confusing relative and absolute again
Who exactly are these Americans who are against all three of those things. It would seem that the workers would be against the first two and the owners would be against the Unions.

How exactly does outsourcing jobs and automation increase a factory worker's pay?
This is basically how the schooling system in the Netherlands works. Any group of people is free to found a school based on their own beliefs (religious, pedagogical, or otherwise), and such schools are quite common.

The historical reason for this freedom is that Christians wanted to found religious schools, but it has since widely been used by a variety of religious and non-religious groups.
Definitely scummy behaviour but it's funny how someone always has to bring up EEE and try their hardest to contort whatever the subject is to fit within that definition.

Back in my day we just wrote Microsoft with a dollar sign for an S
Interestingly, that's a different component than the GPU on these chips, which is the typical architecture in SoCs.

In fact, even in discrete GPUs, the display scanout engine is generally a nearly completely independent block relative to the rest of the GPU.
I can well believe that the madness of "public school" being a private school is a peculiarly English phenomena.
When you open the page you see the palm of a hand with a display showing; my brain thought 'A palm with some sort of LED matrix embedded under the skin - wild, creepy & cool!'. But nah, the projector device attached to your clothing is cumbersome and all sorts of problems (catching it, dropping it, easy to snatch/steal) will prevent this idea from becoming adopted.

And an AI app store? A little too much like 'hardware clickbait' to be taken seriously.
You can have strict/strong typing with a dynamic language.

And after all your Typescript code is compiled to Javascript.
Don't forget the network backbone for multiplayer game traffic.

I'd love to see a "what has Steam ever done for us?" sketch produced :)
Almost all government R&D spending is via small(ish) grants to academia for entirely unfocused "blue sky" research. Once you accept the premise that research should have no specific application in mind, it becomes impossible to determine if it's actually doing anything legitimae or is just fraud, which is why there's so much non-replicable crap coming out of universities.

Military R&D is done with a specific, achievable goal in mind. It's not blue sky, it's more like "we need a better missile, how do we do that". Most of the real impactful innovations out there came as a side effect of trying to achieve some other goal, with only rare exceptions (ChatGPT?).

As for why other countries don't, their military spending is too small to catch up and then exceed the state of the art. All the money gets spent on buying stuff the US developed.
Microsoft steals access data: Beware of the new Outlook (German)
>delusions of grandeur and immortality

Jobs took over his share of that.
The funny part is that was the problem they were trying to solve with flatpak, snap, appimage etc.

But of course every vendor wants their own IP to be the big winner so we end up in this situation: https://xkcd.com/927/
Also, the credentials have to be stored in plain text. M$ servers cannot auth with your IMAP host with a password hash, so they must be saving the plain text password somewhere which seems absolutely crazy to me.
I'd like to think I could cultivate a decent user base through decency and keep those types away. Plus I would add some technological features to make it only attractive to people who want a more deliberate experience.
TypeCheck – Fast and flexible runtime type-checking for your Elixir projects
With all these different faces being displayed at once, this risks being the typographical equivalent of "Angry Fruit Salad" syntax highlighting…
Or automated transcription.

For YT vids, especially shorts, it's because churning out shorts/reels/tiktoks of clips from longer form videos (and/or with the split screen gameplay of some mobile game/minecraft platforming run) is now a common tactic for trying to gain tons of views on your account for monetisation later.
Why is it surprising, it's not like content ownership gives you any advantage in the typical transcription algorithms
Barbara's work is in various collections around the world, including the V&A. But given that only part of her career was spent making computer art it comprises only part of those collections.

And I wonder how much editorial work like this isn't even documented at all?
I miss the days when Jezebel articles would be cross posted to Gawker.com and the commenter cultures would collide. Truly a golden age.
Debian is more than fine. A Debian stable installation is "forgettable", and that's a good thing.

Then, you can upgrade to new version in 5-10 minutes, and forget it again, except occasional reboots for new kernels.
This is amazing that it's possible and works, but I wonder if the electricity cost is sustainable in the long run.

For handicapped people who depend on tools like this for accessibility, it's justified, but I wouldn't use it myself if it uses too much power.

I'm sure OpenAI and friends love operating at a loss until everyone uses their products, then enshittify or raise prices, like Netflix, Microsoft, Google, etc., but CO2 emissions can't be easily reversed.

I'd be glad to listen to other points of view though, maybe everything we do on computers is already bad for the environment anyway and comparing which one pollutes more is vain, idk.
Ah come on, it's good writing. Sets the scene!
Even email verification might not be enough. Consider the following scenario

1. Attacker somehow gets control of email

2. Attacker uses email to "recover" facebook.

3. Attacker uses email to add pgp.

(time passes)

4. User realizes facebook and email are taken over

5. User somehow recovers email

6. User tries to recover facebook using email but is unable to
Anything can become everything, but everything is no longer anything. Like this article.
> I feel that qualifying Poland as a "poor country" is kind of dated and less true with each passing year.

That is the statement I made. I don't think the hard statistics presented so far contradict that.
Java vs. JavaScript: Battle of Concurrency
If it’s just squashfs, treat it as such.

Mobile failed but they still want a “marketplace” and the only way to get that is with wrappers on wrappers; presentation, management, intake…

Are these the keys to the handcuffs?

Not at all surprised they were touchy about Launchpad, unless I took that wrong.
Github asks you to log in again to add SSH keys in, this could've been similar

They're just looking for excuses