skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume your third link was meant to be to this study: https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf

My first criticism would be that intervening only to restrict Facebook would likely just result in a substitution effect, with instagram, snapchat, youtube, reddit, etc filling the void. Likewise, if I remove cake from my diet for 4 weeks but make no restrictions on all other forms of sugary baked goods, I'm not likely to see the same magnitude of effect as I would've otherwise.

Here's an associational study that found almost 3x odds of having depression between the most and least frequent users of social media sites. This was among US adults aged 19-32 and adjusted for age, sex, race, relationship status, living situation, household income, and education level
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853817/
> Wikipedia is providing left-leaning information on a variety of important topics.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Full Stack Engineers Don't Exist
When I was in the navy, we used to ship both guns and secret material via the regular old US postal service.
Tinkerer's Sunset (2010) [dive into mark]
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Did they use this to train Gemini? Which raises the question, where is Gemini?
No true scotsman
This is misleadingly bimodal. There are a ton of great "builders" out there who just aren't cut out for early stage work - they want to work on a functioning team with a well defined role and clear goals/targets.

This is really orthogonal to the problem you are pointing out, which has a kernel of truth: if the money and/or impact gets big enough you start to attract people who are primarily motivated by that. This is true at all levels.
“During the period 2018-20, Space Norway carried out significant security related upgrades to the fibre connection.”

Sounds like someone was tapping cables with submarines?
Google has a megawatt-scale TPUv5 cluster that they can spare for stunts, and they are flexing it.
They were replaced by useless bots long time ago. These guys must have been coasting for years before someone discovered them
I moved to Personal Capital after the Intuit acquisition. Mint support had already dropped off the map. It remains to be seen whether PC will survive its recent acquisition by Empower, but so far so good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

The article for all to see.

> that Israel occupies Gaza since 1967

No, it says that it has been under Israeli military control since 1967. Disengagement is right there in paragraph 3. But its borders remain blockaded.

> that Hamas are not a terrorist organisation

This is in line with journalistic standards on the use of the word "terrorist."

> New guidance on terrorism that says to describe specific actions that are being perpetrated, and attribute the use of the word terrorism or terrorist to authorities except when talking about historical events widely acknowledged as terrorist actions.

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/new-ap-stylebook-includes-...

https://www.facebook.com/apstylebook/posts/3824207864268938/...

> that Israel blocks Gazan land, sea, and air space for no reason at all

No, it just says that they do and have since 2005. I could see adding a line contending that Israel does it for security reasons, but there is nothing about it being for no reason.

And before anyone accuses me of being an anti-Semite, see how many comments on my profile have been flagged to death for supporting Israel's ground and air campaign.

> "You can’t cite the Daily Mail at all," he claims. "You can’t cite Fox News on sociopolitical issues either."

For one thing, these organizations don't even claim to be telling the truth once they are in court and spend millions settling lawsuits for libel.
> Wedge pillow - Eliminated my chronic back pain completely in ~2 weeks

Do you place it behind your head or legs ?
We're getting into the weeds of semantics but I do think there is some cognitive disconnect in a right-wing/conservative mindset believing a post-scarcity society is even possible, much less desirable.
> It's time to negotiate with Russia.

You mean reward Russia for invading Ukraine and killing its people, by allowing it to steal Ukrainian land and making it official?

Neville Chamberlain would be so proud of you.

For me, the dead demand justice. And Russia cannot be forgiven for what it has done.
> This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community.

This seems like a dangerously bad idea.

Isn't it intuitive that, for every one-in-a-billion genius with a heart of gold, there will be numerous people who only think that they know vastly better than most others?

And we can see examples of people with much more than their share of influence or resources, who seem to see themselves as historical great figures, who will do what others don't have the mind/will/strength to do. With nary a hint of gold in them thar hearts.

How about, instead, we elevate the masses, and embrace more egalitarian models, like democracy?

That elevating was an early promise/hope of things like the Internet. Now we have to smack down a bunch of people who sabotaged that, with greed and dimwittedness, dragging down the intellect and character of the masses, while presumably fancying themselves great figures.
From the post:

> However, at this point the compiler has been heavily optimized and new improvements are hard to find. There is no low-hanging fruit remaining. But there is one piece of large but high-hanging fruit: parallelism.

From discussions I've seen, there's not much high-hanging fruit left either, short of rewriting the entire compiler for better incremental compilation.
That is bad, the author should have put that in there.
I really love how they made a slick and fast mail app for windows, even if it it didn't support everything. but it did its job of being a fast email client.

Then they decided not anymore and replaced it with a bloated one...
tl;dr - google has big computer (a lot of TPUs)

they just showed they could indeed make 50k TPUs do some flops.

With no paper this is just a marketing press release - the only takeaway is that existing tech stacks can utilize it probably.
I worked at a FAANG-adjacent company for a ~year and was also woefully unprepared for the politics. Definitely not as bad an experience as OP, but it still took me by surprise at how cutthroat/scheming the average employee is at these top companies. Lots of empire building for headcount.

It also made me realize that the most successful engineers are ones who can market themselves well even for the most mundane of tasks, something I'm not great at and find exhausting. Every task/project was basically "how would this look in my performance packet?" otherwise it wasn't worth doing.
Reading the Lovelace Foundation's Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer
or maybe just the owner
I have lived on a streetcar line in Philadelphia and sometimes people double-park. It's not ideal.
If the water is not being heated from the bottom then I'd expect all the hottest water at the top/and or at the point of entry to the system. Heat loss into the holding substrate will cause rather rapid convection and surface boiling.
They’ll need to move 2x the volume of water, and have more infrastructure to maintain - even if it was actually 100% thermally efficient. Not counting capital costs. Which I’d count as efficiency issues.

The water pumping and maintenance costs are likely going to be their largest ongoing costs, no?
Refund by bank wont work, i ask them. Also, i cant block the charges
> It's a really vague ask and the article doesn't explain the specifics of what constitutes "plastic surgery filters."

They had specific rules in place with a ban, then Zuck removed the ban. It's not like there wasn't a line in the sand here.

> It's also a bit of a can of worms if Meta no longer allows certain modifications to images of people on its platform "for the sake of the children."

That's not what's being discussed here. There's been no proposal to ban images. The proposal is to ban camera filters. Nothing would be stopping you from modifying and posting images. Nobody is having their freedoms taken away (and having Meta offer you certain kinds of camera filters by default is in no way a form of censorship).

> Let's not pretend like young people chasing sex and beauty is some brand new concept only concocted in the last 15 years by the evil developers at Facebook.

Let's also not pretend that Facebook doesn't advertise filters in Facebook and Instagram, pushing kids to use them. Fifteen years ago you could photoshop a picture. Today, kids are being _actively solicited_ by social media to use these filters.

Researchers are actively telling us that these are harmful to kids' self-images (we've known this for many years!). They accomplish no useful outcome, and the largest net effect is harm.
A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter's origins
Was he talking about Somolia or was he talking about "It's good to be the king, even though the techno-fuedalism that enables that position is overlayed on a collapsing physical infrastructure and society"?
They absolutely do care, controversy or no

> Ads that appear near negative content cause a 2.8 times decrease in consumer intent to associate with the brands

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/consumers-believe-brands-...

Back to back videos (YouTube) makes it harder

> OMD has found that people associate commercials with content when they appear in a linear format, meaning a bad video could taint a company’s image

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/20/google-online-advertising-ad...
Snap also laid off 20 product managers. It sucks for those affected, but it’s not really a newsworthy layoff.
Supply-induced demand. It's tempting.

"All theses people keep offering me tons of money, but this mediocre-wage job keeps me and my family 100% financially satisfied"
just a quick aside, but the ipv4 address is mapped inside the ipv6 address space. 192.0.2.1 is represented in IPv6 as ::ffff:192.0.2.1. This is known as IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.
I've survived "What is your organization's Kubernetes strategy."

And then came along "You need to integrate Blockchain in your business processes."

And now is the time for "make your products smart with AI" season.
OMG would have loved to do that instead.
Something that doesn't seem worth bragging about is that the startup time increases linearly with the cluster size. Wouldn't you want it to be constant? What's the issue there?
Robust discussion from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38208016
1. A nice bed. In my case a hybrid spring foam. I got a Zinus green tea hybrid and a latex foam topper. About $800 together after tax

2. A massage chair and audiobooks. I have trouble getting relaxed to sleep. 30 minutes in a message chair listening to a nice audio book is great. Recommend Osaki and its rebadges like the insignia 3D. $1000 or so.

3. A dog. Mixed feelings on this. I love my dog that I got from a shelter and he encourages good habits, like touching grass and socializing with people outside, but it’s a lot of work. Buyer beware. $300 to adopt and about $300-$1000 on yearly needs.

4. Nice walking shoes, about $100.

5. Robot vacuum. Recommend the roborock s7+. About $800.
You two appear to be taking past each other?

I haven't been keeping my finger on the pulse of the issue recently, but in prior rounds of layoffs, engineering had been much less impacted than sales, marketing, HR etc.
Do software developers get cut more often? My impression was that it was the opposite.
> But the US still seems to have some remnants of a high trust society

It varies greatly depending on where you live. My sister lives in suburban Maryland, and leaving a package outside on a porch is just no big deal. The probability that it gets stolen is actually ridiculously low. In this case the high trust is completely warranted.

I live in San Francisco, and if a delivery person ever leaves a package outside, it's always a scramble to either get there to take it in, or find a neighbor who can do it for you. (I live in a 4-unit condo building, so we all try to look out for each other's packages when this happens.) It's just bizarre to me that delivery people aren't specifically instructed to never leave packages outside here. I suspect they may be, but they're overworked and don't want to have to add yet another package to their delivery schedule for the next day. And/or they may be evaluated on number of completed deliveries, no idea.

(On the flip side, there are some neighborhoods in SF where it's ok for a package to sit on a doorstep for a while. Not many, but... they exist.)
> Switch to >32-bit when enough routers/hosts support it, i.e. they can parse the new packet format. We've already accomplished that with v6 long ago.

And who gets to decide when "enough" devices support it? Who decides on that flag day?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_day_(computing)

The Tier 1s?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network

Good luck coördinating that with the global Internet.
How did you establish that was a philosophical notion?
German courts also think a DNS resolver is liable as perpetrators of copyright infringement for a hostname they resolve, I'm not sure how anybody can take that country seriously. Their laws on copyright certainly have no legitimacy.

https://basic-tutorials.com/news/leipzig-regional-court-dns-...
Someone fell out of favor with the San Francisco government.

Remember: the whole point of bribery is not just for the briber to gain an unfair market advantage. It also lets the bribee unaccountably extract phantom taxes from the wider economy. Furthermore, because participation in this system is illegal, the bribee can further blackmail the briber into paying additional bribes to avoid prosecution.

Naive prosecutions of corruption can, ironically, institutionalize it.
> Fear of layoffs has increased productivity over the last 6+ months

That is never the case. You get the desperate types sucking up to management more perhaps. And people complain less about the snacks in kitchen. But people who already deliver start biding their time, looking around, and do the minimal needed to look acceptable.
It's not shoehorned, though. Corporate and home users find it convenient. It's very hard to screw up, unlike v6 firewalls which often have bad defaults or possibly don't work as intended. Especially when one of the other goals of ipv6 is to enable p2p applications, which might lead to permissive defaults.

My home router has one public IP and many private IPs. No matter how crappy my router is, it's impossible to address private IPs from the outside except on the random mapped ports. With v6, I'd instead be double-checking that my router firewall is doing its job, e.g. https://community.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet-and-High-Spee... . Even if the router turns out to be WAI, I shouldn't have to question that!
https://www.insider.com/man-wearing-heels-optical-illusion-h...

It's in the training set, folks.
I don't think it strictly does, no.
While I agree with the general feeling of the article, I would like to bring some attention to the fact that Apple’s competition is on the business of monetizing their user base in a worse manner.

Windows is so shock-full of dark patterns these days (I’m speaking of the start menu, the upgrade wheel, the survtech in the browser and the OS), that I will be between the sword and a dark place when I need to upgrade my hardware next time. The Windows 11 upgrade is free, which speaks to Microsoft’s commitment to make me their product.

Who knows, maybe I will end up paying five grands for a Mac Studio. In terms of hardware, that same amount of money would buy me a beefy workstation that I could arm myself, but Linux won’t run more than half of the software I use these days.
1. Servers, CPE, storage, and my Playstation 5

2. Coherent base install, license, ease of maintaining private variant

3. Personalities

4. The VMS distributed lock manager

5. style(9)
Wonder if they could force a seed box provider to provide the account owner’s info
Is Recognising Do Not Track Signals Required Under the GDPR?
I bet those innovators could come up with a solution that doesn’t involve eyesores placed on every surface imaginable, if traditional advertising were banned.
Not who you're responding to, but I also understand merge more readily than rebase. Your explanation doesn't really help.

Applying a commit "on another branch" isn't really well defined in my mind. In my understanding, a commit consists of one or more parent commits, and the complete state of a tree, including the entire contents of all the files in it.

Maybe there are other ways to be confused, but all of the uncertainty has been shoved into that simple phrase "apply a commit on another branch". What does that actually mean?
> how I wish I could restrict my eating to 2,500 calories a day

You can.
He had to leave his home and relocate to the US, because masses of stupid people suddenly decided that Jews are root of all evils. His words reflect exactly that sentiment. Unfortunately, 80 years on, there are still masses of people upholding the same belief.
Right before Arm becomes MIPS, they will sue customers to not put RV cores on the same die as their Arm cores.
JWT = JSON Web Tokens?
Older Americans Are Better Off Than
Ok wow, I didn't know the name comes from American Psycho!
> The number of times I got stuck fixing (mine and other people's) git issues is way more than seems necessary.

I almost never have any issues with git, I wonder if you're working differently than I do?

> I have not used a merge at a workplace for so long that I forget how it works, because rebases make so much more sense.

Oh, that's the reason.

I've been using git almost as long as github.com has been a thing and I'm convinced that if you find yourself rebasing, _especially_ if rebasing is a normal part of your workflow, you're using git wrong.

Here's how I work:

1. All development is on a features branch
2. Feature branches are tight and focused
3. Frequent merges from `main` to stay up-to-date
4. Squash your branch into a single commit before merging

This gets you everything you want from source control (linear history of well-structured atomic changes) without any of the gymnastic skills necessary to be a competent rebaser.

Oh, and I never get stuck fixing weird issues, because it's impossible for me to generate weird issues. The worst thing I encounter is a merge conflict, and merge conflicts are the easiest possible conflicts to resolve.
Nah, New York is a place where you generally don't need a reservation. If you want to go to a specific place, especially one you just read about, sure. If you just want dinner, it's hard to walk a few blocks in any direction without finding a restaurant with an open table though.

You're also discounting the many fine places, particularly downtown, that explicitly don't take reservations.
A) start a town crier that names and shames mom and pop shops with tipping on their point of sale system

B) put social and legal pressure on point of sale systems like Block to stop pushing tipping interfaces on merchants. On the legal side regulate the merchant codes and what POS systems can show based on merchant code, create consequences for noncompliance. Mandate disabling it completely even for restaurants when in states where the tipped minimum wage is the same as other minimum wage. Do the same to the payment processor, Visa, Mastercard Amex etc

C) mandate disclosures to consumers when in states where the tipped minimum wage is the same as normal minimum wage

D) use the local alcohol licensing requirements to require all service personnel to discourage tipping. Verbally, on receipts, everywhere - in states with no separate lower tipped minimum wage. Or else no alcohol can be served.

E) deny other discretionary features such as outdoor parklets, if tipping culture is not discouraged

F) disable the ability to e-file payroll taxes for “high risk of tipping“ services, or anyone with many receipts

how to think of stuff like this: regulate the intermediary. this works under any governance system.
basically military budget will always eat 1/4 to 1/3 of the US budget no matter the output, so if it produces few dozen F35 then yes - it will look like costs per unit are outrageous.

a lot of military spending is fixed costs that pentagon is unable to dial down, has to spend due to contracts and maintenance, and basically jobs + pork barrel program.

so they just play "hollywood accounting" tricks by allocating their spend from line item A to line item B, depending on what voters will bear.

one decade it will be Afghanistan war, another decade it will be airforce development, this upcoming decade it will be Navy spending on new boats etc.
What they did with Ayer’s was so clearly unsustainable (and disproportionate) it’s a classic story in the business world of giving away the farm.

Anyone doing that at scale is going bankrupt quickly. Which is the point.
Precision is solved, but many of the solutions can be jammed.

What can't be jammed (easily) is laser guidance. The B-21 can fly over a target and a crewmember can point a laser at a target and the bomb will ride the beam down.

Remote laser guidance is difficult due to latency.

The B-21 was designed to operate both manned and unmanned.
How would you know the better one unless you sampled the other 100 PC variants at the same price point? Perhaps you were taken in by marketing and better than average PC components?

Me - running a Lenovo Legion with 5Ghz i9, 32GB, 2TB, 16GB 3080RTX and comfortably running large LLMs 34b, at a push 70b, at a 2K price point, whilst using a Mac Pro with M2 and 16GB at work that can't run any AI whilst working.
Apple is the same price, but in my experience poorer performance with build time and lacks hardware features.

Only benefit I've seen is the Mac lasts 2.5x on battery, but as it's a work machine it's nearly always plugged in :shrug:.
In the sense that someone living a reasonable medium class life in the bay area could save more than $1 million, definitely.
The blog post mentions a Mastodon post by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information[1]:

"The reports of suspected MS data collection via Outlook are alarming. At the meeting of European Data Protection Authorities on Tuesday, we will ask the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for a report."

[1]https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665
That's trust based on belief that qualification checking is supposed to work. Again layman here can't be bothered to verify anything, belief is enough.
> 2. Cranelift could potentially improve backend codegen compile times significantly as well.

I've been told that the Cranelift team (at least for the time being) doesn't have the intention on focusing on the optimizer to a degree where it would be competitive with LLVM's optimizers (which would also be a huge effort). So if you want faster compile times you would have to take significant performance hits (which for a lot of code compiled in CI is not a trade-off that people are willing to take).
What vitriol? I haven't even shown it yet.
Firefox reader mode can do it.
> instead of, say, creating new games.

The Steam store is utterly littered with indie games on preview, so I don't know how you can say that with a straight face.
If a kid is experiencing dysphoria to the point that they abandon a social network [0] because they can't use built-in tools to make themselves look like they have had plastic surgery, it's even more disgusting to suggest that keeping the kid engaged and on the platform is the most valuable outcome. If you look at that situation and say "well _someone_ is going to ruin their mental health, it had might as well be us" I really weep for our future.

[0] note: they're not switching, because kids are already using all of them