skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good one to keep in mind: https://xkcd.com/1205/ ("Is It Worth The Time")

Though of course the fun/cool factor is a separate thing (:
Sure, but he wouldn't keep her around if she was a bad producer.

Producers don't write or direct. They produce. And her Star Wars movies, even though not creatively great, made a ton of money – way more than Disney put in. She did her part of the job.

(And the reason the money argument is relevant here is because OP brought her up out of nowhere on a thread about layoffs at a separate entity)
I'm not sure if it's survival exactly, but it's comparatively bad outlook. They are making money now, but the profit rates are trending downward in some old reliable cash cows. If you look at say amazon, AWS is still very profitable but it's decreasing.

The part that is divorced from reality is when they manically over hire (because pandemic investment and consumption is permanent I guess?) then try to layoff their way back to the way it was which incredibly costly both in money and culture.
> this is employers resetting employee expectations.

Many of these companies transitioned to remote work at the same time they did massive hiring sprees. Many of these new hires were getting their first taste of remote work in companies that were doing their first trial of remote work, all while a massive influx of new employees and initiatives introduced more chaos.

Predictably, a lot of this chaos happening all at once wasn’t a good environment for those new employees, especially those learning how to work remote for the first time.

There’s definitely a resetting going on. Many companies are reversing everything all at once in an attempt to get back to some of the stability they had before COVID.

I think we’ll see more remote work opportunities, but companies learned their lesson that throwing everyone into remote all at once doesn’t work. Remote isn’t for everyone.
Twitch rans on a separate network. Bulk traffic is not on AWS.
Ask HN: What were the best API startups founded in 2023?
I'm looking to learn about new API products... doesn't have to be API's for software. I'm curious to see how the proliferation of APIs affects other industries
The marvel movies lately have just been bad.
Multiverse of madness, the marvels, black panther 2.
Just not good. Pretty dissapointing.
In which case, isn’t it in our collective interest to stop the rot? Doesn’t this imply that government (or some other representative body) should act to stop the decline in whichever manner seems most appropriate?
I hate this so much. I once worked at a place that did a layoff and caught a person who’d been a two-time intern and had just been hired out of college that same week. There’s no reason the company couldn’t have re-assigned her elsewhere. She’d already proven her value! What a waste to throw away the opportunity for a known-good new hire who could ramp up quickly, and what a horrible thing to inflict on someone just out of school. I know the execs deciding to do the layoffs don’t care about those details but at some level someone made the decision to pick this person over someone else. What monsters these corporations force us to become to each other.
I'd be fine ditching bluetooth. I'd be fine with an AUX cable. Most people have their phone on some charging mount anyways, so there's already a cable running to the location so wireless isn't much of an advantage here
Nope. 2^64 is the number of tries needed for a 50% chance of a collision between two of the tries. You don't have to stay poorly read on this, and groundlessly allege wrongness:

https://auth0.com/blog/amp/birthday-attacks-collisions-and-p...
Not sure if Tron Legacy is under Disney but I would love to watch another movie on the Tron universe.
>We need to stop reproducing tbh.

I love my family, thanks. You do what you want.
Given the state of the world not reproducing is providing value. I think we should pay people to not do a lot of things. Like say every year you don’t have a kid or don’t get on an airplane you get a bonus from the government.
I just wanted to comment regarding the rule you mentioned and wanted to say that I was always told that, unofficially, you can always move up but only a tier at a time and you don’t want to move down if you can avoid it because then you likely have to move back up. The calculus does get harder though the longer you’re in the game — you might elect to move down because you’re significant other gets a promotion or you don’t want to uproot your family, etc.
The UK and US cares more about shipping lanes than living breathing human beings in Gaza.
Speaking of the Extended Universe, everyone should watch the trailers of Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR), especially Kathleen Kennedy and anyone at Disney working on Star Wars content.

My understanding is this universe began as fan fiction and these trailers about an MMO are probably the most interesting Star Wars films since first two trilogies.

Betrayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFzfQs7vmk

Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmsNa9GOR0

Deceived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGDBTDnW7d0

The MMO is over ten years old, but the trailers are so celebrated that they re-released them in 4K two years ago. In a matter of minutes, they all manage to tell a better story, with more compelling characters and dialogue, than anything Disney has put out.
Satellites Show the East Coast Is Sinking
4.1 doesn't follow from or lead to 3.x or 4.x
French mail carrier spent 33 years building a palace by hand
I'm not sure I still buy that. Super Mario was great. I think the Troll movies are very well done and entertaining. Despicable Me, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Rio, Klaus, Iron Giant, and Studio Ghibli films are pretty good and competitive to the low-mid tier Pixar.
Bots can sign. and how do sigs stop the citogenesis ? people will continue to believe and reference BS.
That's a fair point.

I think specifically for Sourcehut, to survive the DDoS they likely don't need 100% feature parity. Right now you can't even load their webpage - the service is effectively entirely down and users are left guessing what's going on. Getting web services back online would be significant.

The point for them would be to get breathing room to figure out a better long term plan. When the immediacy is gone, they'll be in a much better negotiating position with Cloudflare (or alternatives) for non-standard features.
I think the target audience is kids and their parents. As a parent of young children, I really enjoyed both Turning Red and Elemental, as did my kids.

It isn't easy to make movies that kids like and want to watch but parents don't mind watching multiple times (because that's how kids do movies... multiple times)

Disney still does a pretty good job of that.
This looks nice! If you like this it's possible you might like this thing I made a few years ago. It allows you to choose an area from a map of the world and play bird sounds from there:

https://trogon.onrender.com/
Perhaps another take on this:

Hard times create strong people
strong people create good times
good times create weak people
weak people create hard times

Obviously that's not some magic rule or anything, but people shape their surroundings, then the surroundings shape their people. When played out across generations (or multiple phases of ownership at a company, as in your comment), cycles often form.
Because there are only two manufacturers. It's impossible to get significant A321 delivered within the next decade as Airbus is (rightfully) sold out for most of their production.

Also it's extremely simpler for a 737 airline (the biggest being Southwest in the US and Ryan Air in the EU) to put another 737 in their arsenal rather than switch to a different manufacturer's plane. Anything from in-house maintenance to training to rostering to having the right type-rated pilots etc is easier for those cheaply run airlines to do when they're running just one type of aircraft.

Why airlines still order 737s at this point is beyond me. I guess some value having every type of aircraft in their arsenal for just-in-case one gets grounded while other airline groups are just caring about getting the cheapest thing (Lufthansa)
They do lots of things with AI, it’s just that most of it is transparent to the user. Voice recognition, OCR, image classification, recommendation algorithms, FaceID etc. It’s all baked into the hardware or some other service.

Apple is also mostly a consumer oriented business. I can’t see them selling AI as a stand alone service.
When doing what? Also why did you leave out that in the actual apples to apples comparison (the screenshot in the GitHub issue), IDEA literally is shown to have a worse latency versus vscode. Also, just going by pure graphical latency is... niche to say the least. What matters most is how fluid it is, how quick it actually processes stuff and how well it does all the required background IDE stuff without lagging or loading too slowly. Painting onto the display is just one part of the equation (and one that vscode still seems to beat IDEA on, even in a bug report about latency on... vscode)
Imagine working somewhere and then reading "The studio stressed the layoffs are not imminent, but will take place later this year as Pixar focuses on making less content". Then having to go to work each day at a place that keeps saying we are all family here knowing that 2/10 of you are going to get axed. I have to think they will lose at least 10% just through attrition. Although for many of those people I would imagine they have landed their dream job; feel bad for them.
Private equity piling on debt like never before
Odd that this topic is on HN, it seems to violate submission guidelines:

" On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
> It’s always managements fault for prioritizing speedy crap to meet some internal goal instead of prioritizing the end product.

100% with you there—I meant to imply a pipeline failure was a management failure of some sort.
You can't not give her credit for Star Wars and then try to blame her for the bad ones.

Either she matters or she doesn't, you can't only give her blame while denying credit for the same job.
Top most used Design Systems and UI Libraries in 2023
It has been a hard work of months gathering and rating each system based on the following criteria:

◆ Number of components

We went through each Design System and UI Library one by one, counting and recounting each of the defined components.

◆ Popularity

We collected dozens of posts and mentions on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, articles on Medium, blog posts, etc. And we organized them from the most mentioned to the least mentioned.

◆ Updated?

We review the date of their last commits, resolved issues, releases... to determine whether the System is still receiving maintenance or not.

◆ Does it have a Figma?

We reviewed in great detail whether the System had a public Figma. And if not, we checked if there was a popular Figma created by the community itself.

◆ Does it have an open repository?

This one was not so complicated. Most systems have a Github or a public repository, and generally, the link is visible on their page.

◆ Does it have a StorybookJS?

This was more complicated, as not all systems had a public playground. Many of them use tools like Stackblitz to be able to interact with their components.
Onward almost made me cry over a van, I don't think it was a miss. Really surprised that it lost money! It really holds up on rewatches.
Is three times a pattern yet? I love my FSD, and I though Autopilot was great (I got both when they were much cheaper)... but neither name matches the functionality.
And, in addition to what I posted above, that 1 non-Israeli-shill journalist (Owens) whose video you linked to, was NOT invited and actualy sneaked in by an acquaintance who was.

And needless to say, he wasn't allowed to take the footage away with him, so that a careful forensic analysis could be done.

All of which FURTHER UNDERLINES what I said above.
This is meaningless. A few employees did this. Companies are composed of people. The whole company wasn't busy being distracted. They just had a worse business model.
that's not good. it's actually worse if it's not new. and I agree it's not new.
It's available here: (Home is uncapitalized) https://sites.google.com/site/santiagoontanonvillar/home/leg...

Wayback machine is another good place to check when old links die. I was able to find a copy with the original link there.
The MS Surface tablets at least used to be pretty good, and you're not locked to running just "app store" approved software.

So, Blender runs on on them, unlike on IPads. :/

That being said, I haven't used a Surface tablet in years so I have no idea if they're still as good as they used to be.
Companies shouldn’t overhire and also shouldn’t do layoffs. Why is this some hot take.

In 2018 people were advocating against bloat. Now they’re advocating against poor treatment of employees. Both are valid. In 2018, people were right, and the price of bloat is being paid by employees now.

Companies can start new products instead of laying people off. Companies constantly start new things, and can internally allocate resources. Google has open positions for hire right now; they just laid off 1K people.
Right past self employment and small business to fully on the dole? This country has a labor problem because it has a monopolization epidemic. It's what no court or advocate seems to consider when it endorses these mega mergers strictly for the impacts it has on one market, the products, and entirely ignores impacts on the other, which is labor.
Not going to engage in a discussion about valuing human lives, but what are you suggesting? The attacks on ships should be allowed to continue because the conflict?

I was pretty young when I was taught that two wrongs don't make a right.
> I thought Tesla's were low reliability across ALL vehicles (ICE included) but were the most reliable of all EV's?

My impression is very much the other way around: EVs are more reliable across the board for all vehicles (especially over ICE; most of the categories of unreliability that ICE invented don't exist at all for most EVs; catalytic convertors, belts, transmissions, spark plugs, ...) and somehow Tesla has managed to be the least reliable EV manufacturer despite their head start and despite some manufacturers intentionally sabotaging their EV car efforts to try to sell more hydrogen (Toyota) or dumber reasons.
You are not being logical. We’re talking about someone who has a problem with a car manufacturer not a tramp.
If I find something "infuriating", I'm most likely not going to buy it, unless I don't have much of a choice. "Infuriating" is a strong word.

If something just isn't as good as I'd like it to be, I'd call that "annoying".

I have a mechanical keyboard, and it doesn't tilt quite as much as I'd like. Otherwise, I like it, so I just sat the back of it on some spacers to raise it a bit. It's "slightly annoying", at most, that the keyboard didn't have enough height-adjustment range built-in to avoid this, but I certainly wouldn't call it "infuriating". That would be when the product just breaks irrepairably a day after the warranty ends.
I love that Google are willing to such a big swing at Microsoft in the text of this announcement - I just wish AWS wasn't so badly shackled busy it's marketing and PR people these days.
I'm agreeing with you. The only part i'm highlighting is that continuing a bad trend is even worse.
I don't know if anyone read the impact statement yet: https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2024/1/170...
Onward was released March 6, 2020 - things hadn't completely shut down yet but Covid surely had a huge impact on its gross as well.
> not exceedingly popular outside North America

I can tell you it is exceedingly popular in Hungary. I have no reason to believe it is not similarly exceedingly popular elsewhere.

> Star Wars itself is stretched out.

It is now. Franchises need nurturing to remain valuable.

The biggest crime they commited is that they did not employ the same screenwriter for all 3 of the sequels. When you are making a trilogy, and you know that you are making a trilogy, you better write the complete arch as a consistent whole and then find the 3 separate sub arches in that.

Instead of that what we got is 2 different teams subverting each other’s ideas and basically messaging to each other. (And the message was that “your ideas are baaad”) It was as if watching someone build a sand castle, someone else comming along kicking it down starting to build a different one, and then the first person returning and kicking the second sandcastle down to build a third.

“Yes, and…” is not just the way to do good improv, but also the way to build good movies built on each other.
Oh right. Not everyone modifies the torrent, then, just the maintainer. So as a user I get the magnet link, download (clone) the repo over torrent, then I can send a patch to the maintainer over email, discuss it there (maybe on a mailing list), and when the maintainer merges it, they can update the torrent and propagate the new state of the history.

Is that about right? It actually sounds cool :-). I guess the next issue I see is that torrents are not mutable (I think there are some specs maybe, but it's not common/implemented? Not sure).
You sound insufferable to work with and it's probably best you're a remote only worker. I can't imagine what working with you could possibly be like - you seem to hate literally every aspect of employment.

You seem to have no idea what the word micromanagement means either and it seems like you use it to describe any ritual you personally dislike.
The only reason I didn't list Fate/Grand Order (Japan) is because there is no Windows client. This also means most of my gaming time and money spent is, in fact, not on Windows but on Android. :V
BMc2020: "I would have to be a complete nut to say Hitler was a great man."

chris-orgmenta: BMc2020 said "Hitler was a great man."
>added them to the riposte xml message database

I've watched some parts of [1] on youtube, and it seems the riposte system is on the machines in the post office. if it is also used in headquarters, I don't know. they have messages that have incremental sequence numbers to identify the replicates messages.

messages are put into the message store where each message has a checksum. when a message is read and gives a CRC error, someone raises a call, and they rebuild the message store. which recalculates the checksums, I assume.

CRC errors can be caused by data corruption on the counters. so this implies data is stored on the counters. when they rebuild the message store it seems they can use data from the other counter which hopefully has no corrupted message (but the former software engineers can't quite remember if this was true, at least she says so). so it seems they have redundancy between these counters. when CRC erros happen often, they'll replace the counter.

I also assume they describe the Horizon system pre-2010.

[1] "Anne Chambers - Day 67 AM (26 September 2023) - Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72zvd9Iz3Q
Oh I don't treat it like a secret. It's more that it's not known or understood by many users in how it actually affects the security posture of your organization.

It's one of those commonly overlooked things.
More likely Drew. Lol
Good for her for saying all the quiet parts out loud. Great post. I'm a big Matthew Prince fan, a big CloudFlare fan, and a shareholder. Sadly, this rubs me the wrong way...
Reading Characters and Viewpoint by Orson S. Card and one of the main thing is that characters should answer these three points:

* Why should I care?

* Why is he doing that?

* What is happening?

IMO, most movies focus on the last one and not on the two first. They expect us to believe the answer for the first is our love for the universe and the second is "heroes good, villains bad". Which makes for a very bland story. I watched The Marvels and the most interesting thing was the sound in the theater (Dolby Audio). But I've done an all-nighter for Andor and watched it again the day after because:

1. Everyone had serious motivations which you discover during the show.

2. It was not a fairy tale

3. The story was clear and beautifylly put together.

These days, I prefer having my own curated collection that I can rewatch every now and then and add the few good things that come each year.
Does this violate HN submission guidelines?

" On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "
how can you tell if I'm being facetious or not?
> That is a far greater maintenance headache than "merely" various types by the same company.

You would think so, but it’s actually not. I used to work at an airline in IT, and asked that question of the Ops folks when the airline was evaluating switching fleets to Airbus. They said switching fleets or operating a mixed fleet is not cost prohibitive. This was midsize regional airline fwiw.
And they hate it. Patreon, too (particularly the ones with more risqué work). A dedicated platform would be a major boon in terms of community, reliability, and possibly remuneration.
I was literally in a meeting this morning where a co-worker mentioned he had reached out to Cloudflare a few days ago to ask about buying services and has not gotten a response. Certainly not a great start.
"UniversalHub" is a play on the old shtick that Boston is the "Hub of the Universe."

As a Bostonian, it's a reasonably well known local news blog run primarily by one individual (Adam Gaffin) that yes, does report on actual news. I sent him info about a robbery (with video stills) at an apartment complex I lived at, and he covered in, in which both FOX 25 and I think NBC Boston ultimately then used him as a source (and were referred to me by Adam for further info).

So super-Boston metro specific, very niche, and very tiny, but I've been aware of it for at least 15 years.
I think I have like, 50 extensions though not all of them are active at the same time (that's how vscode works I think) and I don't really see the lag. I have a high refresh rate screen, I'm pretty used to differentiating between laggy and non laggy graphics, etc and still nothing stands out. Maybe some extensions are resource hogs but I think vscode provides stats about extension resource usage and how much an extension slows down the editor so people can easily check what is causing their slowdowns.
I can rest easy knowing my spacewhaling on Fate Grand Order is still a better use of entertainment monies than Star Citizen.

...Probably.

:V
But Disney plans to keep dropping crapola at regular intervals with their old tired characters because it worked in past. I think there is partial blame to audience also who kept Disney afloat for so long despite their atrocious content.
Hopefully you won't need to run KVM or other virtualised things inside that Linux VM, as that won't work.