skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically enough, Epic did it the best. It's sudden (which I guess is for "security reasons" or whatever) and devastating mentally. But at the same time, you give me 6 months severance and I'll happily pack my bags. 3 months severance should be the expected amount, since that seems to be around the amount of time modern tech interviews take (4-6 rounds over 5-8 weeks. Plus some wiggle room).

I don't think there will ever be a "good layoff" strategy. Just make it less stressful to move on, either by making the interviewing process faster or the severance larger than 1 month (the amount I got on 2/3 occasions I was laid off. First layoff didn't give me squat).
Murphy's Law and Its Progeny
Frida: Greasemonkey for native apps, dynamic code instrumentation toolkit
Why do you think that democratic flagging needs a solution?
I mostly agree, and a big point that you mention here which a lot of companies that take on VC money miss is that it is inherently risky, even if the terms are good, and you need to have a purpose for getting the money that isn't just keeping in the cool kids club or a desire for hyper growth. I think it is possible to do it right, for example trying to get net-positive ASAP while taking on some money to be able to afford early engineers, but few companies try to approach it like this.

Also, for the sake of clarity, to expand on what I meant by it's safer: it's definitely not without its risks (as mentioned), but if we assume that the idea and team is good, and that it is possible that a competent competitor to take your idea but execute on it faster with more money, if you approach things right, with an actual good idea and business plan, taking on VC money can be good and relatively safe for the business.
Discussion here: "X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists with No Explanation"[0] (101 points, 67 comments)
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38927699
Fabulously, not as many. HP, Intel, Sun, SGI, Microsoft, Cisco, ... I mean all of these did leave people fabulously rich. So I'm not sure what you're talking about unless you mean the ZIRP IPOs of scam companies we've seen in the last fifteen years.

If anything, from 1970 to late 1997 you did have a few differences - the fraction of scams dumped at inflated valuations on the public markets was a lot lower, and the number of huge company exits was lower - but that's actually more about how the industry was healthier (less bullshit) and smaller (it hadn't grown yet).
> (this feature was cool in the 90s, but dreaded since at least 2010)

LOL this is a dead giveaway you haven't been around long. There have been people kvetching about the whitespace since the beginning. Haskell went on to be the next big thing for reddit/HN/etc for years and it also uses whitespace.
> Modern KYC should rely on cryptographically secure eID.

Agreed, in principle.

> Russia you can’t even buy a e-sim online without a cryptographic signature connected to your eID

And this already highlights the biggest caveat of establishing such a system: It lowers the bar for requiring KYC for all kinds of transactions that currently are possible anonymously.

In the best case, e-ID can be done in a more privacy-preserving way than analog ID (e.g. only revealing information on a need-to-know basis, e.g. your age or citizenship rather than your full name and photo); worst case, it becomes a privacy nightmare.
I wanted to get a simple, high quality digital frame for some older relatives and I had a hard time coming up with many options to choose from. It seemed like there were two groups of frames. Amazon cheapies and $600+ art frames. If you just want a nice 10" inch digital frame of high quality and at least moderate privacy from random apps with photo access good luck.
or if you can reduce the total cost of the payload.

That's what blue orgin is doing with the blue ring concept. Take avionics, data telemetry, battery's, and solar panels out of the design and let the customer focus on what end goal they are trying to achieve. I think blue ring is a very good business innovation as well.
With 5nm silicon process, I wonder where this is going to start with retooling and building new machines? I'm guessing they will start with 8bit RISC cpus with maybe the first 128 bytes as a data cache which could also be used as extra registers?

It will be great having a lot of expired patents and 50+ years of silicon work to build on, Machine Learning tools and free operating systems (NetBSD, Linux)

I hope they do it all again, I want to relive the C64, Amiga and 680x0 era again.
Chiming in here as someone who used to play in competitive GTA leagues. I quit playing because of too much time spent in load screens. It was worse than just this slow loading bug: random disconnects that triggered loading again got more and more common over time, too.
It’s all just people jockeying for influence and hype, like crypto before it.
The idea that it plateaus is a well studied phenomenon; most people don’t get significantly happier after 75k or so a year. I also think it’s very odd to suggest people with money (I’m imagining someone rich) have deeper bonds than poor people since my intuition would have led me to the opposite conclusion (poor people are more reliant on their communities).
Your anecdote is really interesting cause, while being poor is absolutely soul crushing, dating is an area that shouldn’t need to be expensive, yet social expectations that men be the breadwinners (outdated, since everyone is forced to work now) lead many women to absolute dicks about men not having a bunch of money.
>Do you think you know better than the companies developing these products and the consumers buying them?

Yes.

Do you think it's impossible for someone else to know better than the buyer if the latter got a good deal for a product at a given price?

If so, I have a bridge to sell you.

>I would have words for such viewpoints, but for the sake of a civilized conversation, I won't express them here.

Good for you. I have similar words for your viewpoint.
Python is a convenient friendly syntax for calling code implemented in C. While you can easily re-implement the syntax, you then have to decide how much of that C to re-implement. A few of the builtin types are easy (eg strings and lists), but it soon becomes a mountain of code and interoperability, especially if you want to get the semantics exactly right. And that is just the beginning - a lot of the value of Python is in the extensions, and many popular ones (eg numpy, sqlite3) are implemented in C and need to interoperate with your re-implementation. Trying to bridge from Java or .NET to those extensions will overwhelm any performance advantages you got.

This JIT approach is improving the performance of bits of the interpreter while maintaining 100% compatibility with the rest of the C code base, its object model, and all the extensions.
SpaceX releases 'cringeworthy' Elon Musk staff meeting video
NileRed: I turned this MacBook Pro into Cotton Candy!
> the hype currently is for typed or gradually typed languages

So Python with mypy
As I find myself often saying: Why not do both?

Improve your friendship network and improve resilience.
In one of the comments I made elsewhere in this thread, I mentioned that my experience with DDG is that it's become extremely "PG-rated" even if you turn off safe search. It's a bit of an exaggeration, but to me it's pretty clear to me that DDG is way more normie-safe than when I began using it several years ago. DDG shows me more of what I consider detritus than Kagi does. It's extremely bad at finding any results by exact text, but to be fair, every search engine is bad at this now. And finally, DDG hasn't had what I would consider to be worthwhile feature improvements in a very long time. The doodads that sometimes show up when you use a particular term like "qr code hello world" are neat, but ultimately not that beneficial in contrast to being given more control over the results themselves. Their other features are mostly things that have been solved many times over.
Government authority is not absolute: it must derive power from some law or other legal basis, which does not presently exist for "websites [which] break in competitor's browser". And if you are suggesting creating precedence for it, I ask you to carefully consider that responsibility in the hands of government bureaucrats, which are generally of low skill and intelligence, and are potent to abuse it.
paywall help? can i see the video?
OK, I see what you mean now. It's a very subtle L :)

I am extremely familiar with this shape - my sister lives in one just like this in Walthamstow (prolly not worth 2M yet though).
>and having an appetite to upstream some meaningful work.

That's the part that probably won't happen, unfortunately. Not without specific contracting. Blind Squirrel (the devs behind the botched Sonic Colors remaster) didn't even credit Godot as an engine it based it's proprietary engine off of.
PEP 736: Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation
It did the math. I just didn't post it. Not sure if this is how DNA stories information.

"The storage capacity of DNA is typically expressed in bits or bytes, as DNA can be used as a medium for data storage. Each base pair can represent 2 bits of data (since there are four possible combinations: AT, TA, CG, GC). Therefore, the human genome, with 3 billion base pairs, can theoretically store about 6 billion bits of data.

To convert this into bytes, you divide the number of bits by 8 (since 8 bits make up 1 byte). So, the rough estimate for the data storage capacity of the human genome in bytes is approximately
6

billion bits
8
=
750

million bytes
8
6billion bits

=750million bytes, or equivalently, 750 megabytes."
The solution for this is for the government to provide IDs which operate with the PKI model.

Think about a lot of European countries where having an ID is mandatory (which frankly I'm not in favor of) and carrying said ID is mandatory (which I'm wholly against).

But the reality of things is that in Belgium I have no issue authenticating myself to any platform that needs to know my identity. I don't need to upload a photo of something. I don't need to look left/right while a camera takes a photo of my face and does a 3D scan trying to give some certainty that I am actually me, and that I am alive.

I put in the card which is just a smart card, and it contains a certificate. I sign the request with a PIN and I am me.
The most interesting bit to me:

> He also observed that Texas, where he lives, has a law on the books that prohibits social media companies from banning users based on their political viewpoints.

> "I would certainly be interested in hearing from people who are First Amendment lawyers about how that might apply in a situation if they don't provide some legitimate and well documented reason for my suspension," he said.

I doubt this goes anywhere but it would be an interesting test of this law.
> The obvious issue is that copyrighted material was used without permission

I think you are also dancing around the realities of the situation, to your benefit. What does "used" mean here? If I listen to Enter Sandman by Metallica and learn you can make a cool song in Em using natural minor scale and the blues scale, then right my own unique rock song in Em using blues scales, is that "using" Metallica's song without permission?

The hidden part of all of these copyright claims against LLMs is that they want new rights, expanded rights. They want rights to learn from their material, a right that has never existed before. Sure, they try to frame it by pointing at regurgitation cases and scream "they are stealing our work!", but then they absolutely do not stop at the request that the model not regurgitate their material, but that they own all derivative thought resultant from their works.

Lets take this to the extreme, let's say we get to sentient AI. Does that mean copyright owners own the actions of all sentience AI beings, because they learn from their copyrighted material? Do you have two systems of laws that try to dictate how an artificial but sentient being can learn, and how a biological one can? Putting aside the question of the possibility and timeline of sentient artificial beings, the legal ramifications devolve into absurdity immediately if you start with what copyright holders are asking for now.
Twitter, I'm seeing outright boner pill ads these days.
>BS consultancy and body shops

I've never heard of "BS". What language is this?

Isn't Python the lingua franca of AI/ML? I would tend to agree with the cynicism regarding failure rate and expensive housing take, however. Despite the hype I still think AI/ML does have more potential practical use cases than crypto/block chain did.
presumably that's why Elon tried to buy Twitter -- TSLA was sky-high, undeservedly so, and if he cashed out bigly then the price would tank.

so create a buy-now situation where he can convince the other investors he's not cashing out of a clearly-overhyped, over-valued asset, but is instead making Smart Guy Moves to buy another company, and is simply cashing out TSLA for that purpose.

Then he got stuck with the deal, tried to back out three times, and made it what it is today. Hell, he might have gone in with the idea that he'd actually take the TSLA money and put it into Twitter -- only to find the Twitter stock price shooting up + back-end financials and user info (e.g. all of the bot allegations) meant that it wasn't worth the squeeze. A good way to move that TSLA cash until he found out Twitter wasn't as shiny as hoped.
The Unity is fee is capped at 2.5% though. For example is your game is $20 it’s between 0.35-0.55%.

> Heck at free/open source you’re paying Unreal nothing and Unity a flat rate so then it’s infinite percent of your revenue

Unless you’re making < $200k then Unity is entirely free (and the mandatory splash screen is not a thing anymore). So really this only applies if your revenue is between 200k and 1 million (which is certainly not an insignificant proportion of the market but yeah it’s really not that clear cut and depends on your situation, also there is a lot more uncertainty in Unity’s case..).
It’s a problem that fixes itself. The market for renewable energy is different because of these peaks, it just takes a while for business to learn to take advantage of the opportunities periodic low pricing.
In my dealings with companies that had European offices, European workers had far higher non-salary costs that brought the total compensation numbers closer together.

Eg Europeans usually had much more time off. The costs of that time off scale with salary.

I do think labor arbitrage could work, I just don't think it would be in Europe. I suspect the total employee cost in Europe approaches that of the US, the money just goes to non-salary places (taxes, time off, labor protection, etc).
We can't figure out how the Egyptians (or Aztecs or Maya) built their pyramids. Stonehenge is an engineering mystery. The heads on Easter Island are likewise a riddle to moderns.

Indeed, it's well-documented that we have no idea how to reproduce a Saturn V booster at this point -- too much documentation, expertise, and manpower have been lost in the intervening years.

I'd reckon that there's more knowledge and skills that are lost, intergenerationally, than we gain through R&D.
China's home-grown C919 alights in Shanghai on first regular route from Beijing
Which basically makes devices with this processor the mentioned "legacy route for HiRes content", until content-providers decide to flag those trust-chains as broken and fall back to Widevine L3 (SW-based).

This happened more often in the past than people may realize, especially on devices from Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus.

Netflix is actively monitoring this and are escalating to device-vendors as soon as they see suspicious load and are about to flag the devices.
Musk stated he wanted transparency when he took over, and it is not silly to hold him to the standard he wanted. X could clear up all confusion in an instant. Personally, my benefit of the doubt well has run dry when it comes to this platform.
Have you tried polars? I agree that if pandas is all you've tried, that it's pretty far from an alternative frontend for query engines, but if you've tried polars it maps pretty cleanly to SQL, can be query optimized to a query plan similarly to SQL, I should've made it clear that I'm talking about an alternative to SQL used in an OLAP context, not for OLTP.
Read The Computational Beauty of Nature. Also, compile the samples from the GitHub repo. If the samples panic X or your window manager, use DieHard.
You're right, there's a certain point beyond which stress is just wear.
> Although not really part of a UI's "design", //talking to the customer// is often overlooked as well.

The single biggest cause of failure in UI design is isolation from the users and their requirements.

Everything else is coding.
This is very common in Germany, I and my wife both carry small metal "coins" for them.
The L comes at the back of the property -- most visible on the first floor of the floor plan linked. Someone's roofed over the side passage on the ground floor to make a bigger kitchen and knocked the two main rooms together to make a larger living room.

That design of terrace is exceptionally common in the UK, where each pair of houses is mirrored, with a kitchen out the back and a side passage letting light into the middle room on each level.
Paris Pneumatique is now a dead letter (1984)
There was never a regulated news model in the USA. For a while we did have the "Fairness Doctrine" under which the FCC required some radio and TV broadcasters to present balanced viewpoints as a condition of spectrum licenses. But that never applied to print media, cable channels, or online services.

If you want non-profit, government funded news then NPR and VOA exist. The quality is generally pretty good, although they're not free of bias either.
It is gated on a lot of things, especially relative to early days of the company. It's just that browser compatibility isn't generally one of those things... They still handle that by the belief they can roll back quickly.

Relatively speaking, you can still undo the change to the front page faster than you can, say, roll out a new version of a desktop application, especially if the change fixes an active fire.
The development of this product is strongly tied to Juul and their investment from Japan Tobacco (prior to Philip Morris).

The history is covered in the excellent book[0] and documentary film[1] Big Vape, which I highly recommend. Also fascinating the USCF tobacco library[2], the compendium of internal documents, advertising, etc turned over during the Big Tobacco lawsuits.

[0] https://www.jamieducharme.com/big-vape-book

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/81444184

[2] https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
Agreed. I was rather hoping to see them post something about the GTA V source code leak.
Did they have a working EUV lithography process and machinery? These days it says on their website they supply DUV light sources.
It's not irrelevant! Quite the opposite, the overall experience is precisely what is relevant.

It's exactly what I expected from an Apple product. That's why I was never enthusiastic about this hardware to begin with: I knew anything I would want to do with it would be arbitrarily impossible. That's Apple's business model. Just because I'm not the target audience doesn't mean I don't exist!

The target audience is anyone who is willing to pay $3500 for a walled garden. For fucks sake, I'm allowed to be critical of that business model.
I've found the startup time for Graal Python to be terrible compared with other Graal languages like JS. When I did some profiling, it seemed that the vast majority of the time was spent loading the standard library. If implemented lazily, that should have a negligible performance impact.
I think Mike Pall has done enough work on LuaJIT for several lifetimes. If nobody else wants to merge pull requests and make sure everything still works then maybe LuaJIT isn't important enough to the world.
> but I was hoping for more insight than "Moai are cool. And video games are cool."

The project is likely "just" a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moai-emoji
this culture of "Rules Lawyering"

I’m with you on hating Apple but I actually like when judges stick to Rules Lawyering. It can be tempting to ask them to “consider the whole situation” and bend the rules towards justice, but that’s how we get unelected people doing stuff like a court unilaterally removing abortion protections in the US.
Why 737 Max in particular?
This would be a secondary source -- the primary source would be the manufacturers themselves. Secondary doesn't mean that there is no original research; in fact it's the opposite. Primary contains facts but no analysis or synthesis, secondary references facts established elsewhere but adds context.
Need to integrate this into a browser extension for when you purchase flights!
> keep counters of how often each block of code runs ... and then any block of code running more than a few thousand times run through a far more complex yet slower optimizing jit.

That's just all JITs. Sometimes its counters for going from interpreter -> JIT rather than levels of JITs, but this idea is as old as JITs.
I remember a conversation I had with my doctor once. She was talking about her son, and mused that she thought my disability had made me a much grittier and conscientious person than most of my peers.

That's a nice sentiment, but something I noticed when I eventually managed to graduate college was that there was no substitute for a good safety net and parental support.

I watched dumbfounded as some of my classmates went on to found or join risky startups during the great recession. For me, failure would have been catastrophic. I'd have likely wound up sleeping under a bridge. I was amazed they were so fearless! Only, I later learned the reason they were so fearless is they knew their parents would step in and pay for their living expenses while they got back on their feet.

TLDR: Some folks can swing for the fences, take outsized risks, and reap the rewards, because failure is always an option.
Calvary is the hill on which Jesus was crucified. I think you wanted to use “Cavalry” in context.

https://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online/spelling-book/...
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Googlers? Obviously scummy behavior should be highlighted.
I reckon there were a lot more "firsts" involved in Apollo 11 or the JWT mission.
That would be fair enough if they didn't have a message trail of execs positing iMessage is a stake against android that they can't let go.
The fact that this is an actual concern is wild and shows the depth of Boeing's problems.
Planify: Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux
At least bigstackD can recover the aluminum afterward.
see also: HP, Xerox, IBM, etc.

No one is a winner forever. MS is still going strong, but for how long?
Nimble is on the order of a week, not on the order of hours at their scale.

But it's also not on the order of quarters, is what I mean.
Social networks absorbed most of them, forums went into groups, small corporate websites went into pages and so on.
Can’t you just look at the equipment when making the reservation or the equipment on the “ticket”?
Actually design is not hard, it's mainly common sense and iteration + book learning. Where people go wrong is being unable to leave their ego at the door so they insist their design is right and don't look at the facts.
HN is not actually good at self deprecating jokes, either
They've been having major manufacturing and software quality issues. Have almost killed people several times at this point.
Farm: Fast Web Build Tool Written in Rust