skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks neat. FYI, doesn't seem to work for me on mobile (Chrome 120.0.6099.210, Android 14). I see an empty map. Clicking help displays the help modal which I'm then unable to dismiss.
As a hobbyist game developer, I would love to see the field move away from being so windows focused. It's pretty annoying that every other kind of development I do works well enough across all platforms, but when I want to do game dev I pretty much have to boot into windows.

And as a game user, I would also just rather have games be cross platform, than use whatever OS specific optimizations happen now. But I've also never really cared too much about having high framerates, high resolution, millions of polygons, etc.
That's due to the DOCSIS standard for cable modems. They specced out more channels for downstream than upstream because of the limited bandwidth of copper and consumer priorities. With fiber there's an order of magnitude more bandwidth available, so the uneven split is much less (if at all?) common with the big backhaul lines between datacenters. For consumer fiber you'll usually get symmetric but for the most part it doesn't make sense as the vast majority of consumers just don't make use of their upstream bandwidth.
US and UK launch strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen
If "losing the touch" is a euphemism for disrespecting the audience. Yes, that's what appears to have happened.
For those who want to test in unraid and run into root issue after initial setup:

https://3xn.nl/projects/category/unraid/

First time user, but its one of those things I did not know I wanted.
An Explainer on the Carta Scandal
You're correct. My first build was with wood (TERRIBLE idea). Wood is too weak and it weights a lot. The 440 watt panels wouldn't work, it would break. The carbon fiber telescopic tubes also broke.

Beta2 is made with 3d printed parts, carbon fiber, and aluminum. I also have to keep EVERYTHING (including the roof rack and panels) less than 165. So the 4000 watt version is being built now. The 200 watt panels are about 30x60 inches, the 440 watt ones are 47x82 inches -- so it still fits on the roof. However when the 9 panels are opened the overall device goes outside of the shadow of the car.

The 4000 watt model is as if you opened your doors... it would extend that far.
I'd be happy to discuss specific changes in good faith, but "Wow that means front end hasn't changed at all for 20b years!" is a gross misrepresentation and dismissal of my arguments.

I will maintain that the pace of change is not the same as you portray. Definitely not when it comes to professional frontend developers working in the industry. Blog-oriented-development or experimental niche frameworks that reach top of HN don't count as "industry" yet.
Is this new? It says pre-order but then when you click through to mouser it shows a ton in stock?
This is a fair point, but as of their most recent financials merchandise (excluding merchandise sold inside the parks) only made up $5bn of the $28bn in the "Parks, Experiences and Product" category. By contrast park admissions was $8bn, resorts was $6bn and food/merchandise sold in the parks was $6bn.

So IMO this is a departure from the classic merchandise based strategy. It seems pretty clear that the theme parks more so than the products are the major profit centers today.
SWEs are overcompensated? How do you figure? The revenue figures per-engineer tell the exact opposite story.

> the leadership of a sector-wide labor union) to push against all of us would be only too handy for them; negotiations would have nowhere to go but down.

I literally cannot follow this train of thought—surely, having a single collective negotiator is the only way to prevent this exact scenario.

Regardless, you seem to be conflating regular unions with trade unions. They're different, they serve different roles—arguably, I think we need trade unions far more than regular ones if we want to do anything useful as a country in the next few decades—but in all situations having a single-negotiator is the only way to stop engineers from being pitted against each other.
By watching which records the WAL changed since last backup, it saves a list of records to back up as incremental. Neat.

Now if your db works like append only, this may need t be as big as a savings as someone who updates the same records a lot (as at incremental backup time it only needs to save the final values of those records).

This could be used in replication topographies and scenarios. Maybe PG 18.
Why can’t airbus ramp up production and soak up Boeing’s customers? Too regulated?
> Agreed, but Alexa fails hard if you have no internet

It also fails hard with Internet. I’m sick of being on my living room asking Alexa to turn on the light just to get the bedroom light turned on (each room has its own Alexa/Light pair, so there should be no confusion).
Show me a great story that was written just by AI and I believe it (a story written by a good writer using AI as a tool to accelerate doesn’t count)
> retention of senior employees

I’m not convinced that any modern tech company is actually interested in keeping people around for too long.

I’d be thrilled to be proven wrong, but my own experience has me a bit cynical.

Childcare is good for folks in their mid-to-late twenties, and early thirties. Not even that “senior.” People older than that, often don’t need childcare as much.

So it seems as if they want to have a workforce of extremely young, unmarried people, or maybe a few older, “empty nesters.”
Yes, if you have a home hub (an Apple TV or a HomePod¹). https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207057

Homebridge is a great addition to a HomeKit setup, too. https://homebridge.io/

¹ EDIT: Removed iPad mention, since as @js2 notes, "iPad as a home hub" support is being deprecated.
Ah yep, that's the one I was thinking of. Really disapointing he never released it.
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MSFT employee here.

Cannot say for the entire Microsoft, but in Azure the only way to access customer data is through support flow for cases where customer explicitly gave permissions. Otherwise support portal will not allow access. And there is no other way of accessing customer data. Access is revoked after a case is closed.

The incentive for customers to give this access is simple - with this my team can answer questions right away without very lengthy back and forth (especially if customer is in different time zone). Which results in (way) faster support and problem resolution.
Liability is the explanation you're looking for.
Looked like the man on the video that aestetix linked [1], of the termination call, was a director. I hope he was one of the people who decided on the layoffs, or decided who would be laid off.

IMHO, the person's manager should've also been on the call, even if it was 100% out of their hands. (Unless the immediate manager was laid off at the same time.) A manager is responsible for the people reporting to them, and this is a failure.

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanypeachhh/video/73223013131344...
A few things.

First, if they are doing layoffs, shouldn't they expect people to be pissed off, and be prepared to handle that? I don't think the call was heated at all, but maybe it's a cultural difference. It could be that American corporate drones in general are less tolerant of conflict.

Second, why not include someone she knew on the call, instead of two people she had never met before? It's a total power move. If they had her direct boss included, or started out with a reason why it was just the two of them, that probably would have helped.

Third, the fact that others were getting laid off besides just her tells me that it was not solely a performance issue. It was a corporate level cost saving measure, combined with a performance issue. Had they admitted to that, instead of laying the blame on her, it would have been fine for me. She probably would not have been happy, but I personally would not agree with her posting a video where they said that.

Finally, I'm not sure what this stereotypical "HN commenter" is, but if you bring it up again, I may have to consider that you're not actually trying to engage with my arguments and instead dismissing me as a sockpuppet or something.
Thanks, that's interesting to know about the outsourced maintenance, that does make sense and would certainly increase that flexibility.

Re: pilot training. I could imagine that going from a 737 to a 787 would be substantially easier than from 737 to A320, due to standardisation in interfaces, processes, documentation, etc, within one manufacturer. Is that the case? 5-6 weeks does still seem like a lot of downtime for a commercial pilot, and rolling everyone through that sounds like it would be prohibitively difficult for many airlines. Plus my understanding is that it's sort of a one way street, pilots don't typically (or can't feasibly?) stay rated for two aircraft types for long periods, so it would still reduce flexibility if an airline split its fleet right?
The futuristic idea of a smart home is that you can talk to your smart home.

"Computer, dim lights by 30%"

"Computer, open curtains."

"Computer, vacuum the floor."

"Computer, play some jazz"

All of these are phrases are actual literal phrases that I use in my home, some on a daily basis. It can only be done, with current consumer tech, through the internet. All you need is a roomba, some 4$ smart bulbs, a spotify account, a 30$ auto curtain robot, and an alexa. For google home you can do the same but you can't call it a "computer."

In the future they will most likely be hooking up some LLM super computer to the home. In that case it can only be online.

The idealistic version of a smart home involves what we see in Star Trek TNG. Talking to the computer and only an online version of that can fulfill this vision currently and in the future. If you go offline, what you get is what I term a "programmable home" more than a "smart home".
Dungeon fighter is one of the most valuable media IPs ever, beat a ton of video games player count and revenue records.
It's one of the things that put tencent on the map.

Something north of $20 billion in revenue.
Just not known in the US.
I remember some good stories after the last MAX scandal, like https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg.... It's not clear whether Stonecipher simply outmaneuvered Condit, or perhaps McDonnell Douglas execs were knowingly elevated because Condit didn't trust others, who might also have resented his decisons.
From my observation it’s all about comfort. Having reports, especially ones with their own, who share your own background makes communication more frank. In other words, like a sibling, they all share the same state, it makes your job easier. It’s very hard to leave the comfort zone.
I’ve seen leadership chain made up entirely white guys in their 50s because the guy at the top has a type.
For me, mine are diverse but all are kids of immigrants or recent immigrants from Europe, Africa, Asia and West Indies. When everyone are qualified we tend to go with what we’re comfortable with. It’s unfortunate.
Optimizing AIs to be addictive to humans is always how humanity will end. It was the natural end to social media, and market forces will force the same to happen in this industry.

People worry about the robot uprising killing all humans but never think about the far more likely AI domestication of humans.
Appears to be 18 months old, give or take: https://youtu.be/hS-NiaGeeVA
They didn't ditch it

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
I believe that Bill Joy famously once refered to it as the Big Blue Dinosaur (ala Barney). I think the more general term "Big Blue" came before "Dinosaur" was appended.
Unlike a 172, an airliner is in near constant use, and subject to much more serious stresses, like heavy turbulence, storms, the temperatures at 35k feet, and pressurization.

Replacing the airframe with a more competitive one is part of it, but part of the competitiveness is that you reach a point where you're having to do much more inspections and maintenance than a new plane.
Synthesizing Martian Speech for 'Mars After Midnight', Lucas Pope
Alexa and Google Home are literally microphones with connections into the cloud
Yes and it's true. Anyone who has ever dedicated themselves to their work for a year or so will be in that category.
You're welcome to make a counter-argument for why an individual is entitled to something in this world, and I would welcome reading it.
> That will spell the death of cookies across the web, ushering in one of the biggest changes in the history of the internet.

First-party cookies are not going away. I think the article should've explained that the website domain in the URL bar is the first party. The first-party website can load things from other parties, the third parties.

> For one thing, Chrome isn’t the first browser to block tracking cookies (formerly known as third-party cookies). Safari and Firefox, for example, have blocked these cookies for a long time.

Not all third-party cookies are tracking cookies. I think Firefox blocks only third-party tracking cookies by default, not all third-party cookies [1]. Not sure about Safari. But it's hard for the average website visitor to tell whether a third-party cookie is for tracking, so blocking all third-party cookies is a good idea.

> Others, especially big retailers including Amazon, Disney, and Walmart, are developing their own advertising businesses harnessing the mountains of data they already have about their customers. Meanwhile, you can expect websites all over the internet to fight to get you to log in so they can track you themselves.

I'm glad that the article brings up login walls.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't mention fingerprinting at all. Fingerprinting [2] lets third parties on website X figure out that the user who is currently visiting website X also visited website X a day ago. Fingerprinting also lets third parties on website X figure out that the user who is currently visiting website X also has visited a website Y that has the same third parties. The Topics API [3] (used to be the FLoC API) in the "Privacy Sandbox" gives third parties information about the user's preferences. Even though removing third-party cookies means removing one tracking vector, Google Chrome's "Privacy Sandbox" gives third parties a new tracking vector.

From less privacy to more privacy, the current order is roughly:

1. third-party cookies + "Privacy Sandbox" + fingerprinting

2. third-party cookies + fingerprinting

3. "Privacy Sandbox" + fingerprinting

4. non-tracking third-party cookies + fingerprinting

5. fingerprinting

Google Chrome is type 1 now and will be type 3 in the future. Firefox is type 4. You can manually disable all third-party cookies for Firefox (type 5) [1]. Firefox mitigates fingerprint-based tracking, but fingerprinting is impossible to eliminate completely. Regardless, today's Firefox already is a net-positive for privacy compared to future third-party-cookieless Google Chrome.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-fir...

[2] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/learn

[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-turn-googles-priva...
Try google assistant. Google assistant actually has a little bit of an LLM in it, so it's a bit smarter.
It's not a salary - the "8200" is Unit 8200 - part of the intelligence corps of the IDF. So, it the pay for soldiers, and soldiers in the IDF don't get a salary, but they do get "pocket money".
From the US court filing, https://www.universalhub.com/images/2024/ebay-information.pd...

[CEO] Executive 1 texted Executive 2: "Ina is out with a hot piece on the litigation. If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time."

... Baugh asked [CCO] Executive 2 by message, "If I can neutralize Ina's website in two weeks or less, does that work for you?" Within minutes, Executive 2 responded: "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes."

... Hi [Executive 2] - this is Jim Baugh's personal cell. My team ran an Op on our friend in Boston. Nothing illegal occurred and we were actually intending to team up with her and get her on our side in a positive manner. However, small town police got a couple of rental car plates and tracked it back to my people and the hotel the were staying at. They sent a note to ebay investigations GAP team who then passed it to legal and they are conducting an internal investigation on us. We are cooperating, but I know they realize something is off. We will continue to cooperate, but not sure how much longer we can keep this up. If there is any way to get some top cover that would be great. If not, I just wanted you to have a heads up because they are aware that multiple members of the ELT are not a fan of that website to include ___ and his wife. Again, no crime was committed and local police don't have a case. I don't want our legal team to give them one. Let me know if you want to discuss this weekend.

... The Individual Defendants took steps to conceal their harassment campaign from eBay investigators and state and federal authorities, by, among other things, using non-eBay electronic communications platforms, billing expenses related to the campaign to an outside contractor, monitoring law enforcement communications, forging records, lying to investigators, and destroying evidence.
Feels like I should maybe just do something else. The startup I cofounded with decent funding is starting to flounder and big tech seems to have zero jobs. Not to mention the market has been with a new wave of thousands of ex-faang engineers far smarter than me. Going to college for CS seems like a waste now, but at least I have savings to burn.

Starting to lose sight of the point of doing this anymore...
I’m unemployed in NYC right now - so, zero consistent income. I’m one of those people with the very worst marketplace health plans. Here’s what I get for $640/mo (with a $120 tax credit, oh boy!):
- Visits to my general practitioner (but not so fast! no diagnostic tests or ANYTHING else - those are 100% out of pocket until my $9,000 deductible is met)
- Pregnancy care (it’s currently a biological impossibility for me to give birth)

Everything else is entirely out of pocket until my $9,000 deductible is met. My coverage is basically a $6,000 guarantee that I won’t be completely bankrupted if I get run over by a garbage truck and live to tell the tale. Otherwise, it’s completely useless. Something’s gotta give.
> Growing the economy isn't inflationary.

It is if you provide a route to citizenship for ~16M americans, many of which are not making minimum wage.

> Rich people don't contribute to inflation as much because they have lower marginal propensity to consume. You need to combat demand-side inflation by taking money away from everyone else, and supply-side inflation by increasing production.

The goal is to use the inflation to drive a reduction in wealth inequality. If the rich person finds it unfair, I'm sure they can find something to mop their tears with.
The worst will know they will have trouble getting a job elsewhere. The best might assume they are known to be the best, so they are safe. I would think it would be the middle people who would jump ship.
> I literally cannot follow this train of thought

Can you point to a single union that operates this way for highly compensated professionals?

Unions discourage performance based compensation and measurement in favor of credentials and seniority.
So you mind me asking how you set that up, or what you bought? Have they been reliable?
Apple Pencil is an example of a nicely designed product that Steve Jobs almost certainly did not contribute to (he hated styluses).
“Anybody mind if I take over centrifuge 3 for a bit to test this PR?”
ArchiveBox is a great bit of kit and I've been using it for a while, I'm currently ingesting my browser bookmarks from Nextcloud bookmarks (using floccus sync from my browser) via RSS. That said, even though it's archiving features a poorer, I've been looking in using linkwarden for the partner approval factor and better integration with my SSO setup.
Individuals are also responsible for their own reading comprehension skills.
Source? Or... book even?
Doesn’t mean it isn’t intentional. Lots of companies don’t really seem to have a concept of “best people.”

Also cost savings to consider such as severance.
Congress approves resolution against Biden EV charger plans
I’m waiting for Uniquiti’s Amplifi to go to WiFi7. I don’t think they are in a hurry, and neither am I.
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If it is rubbish, how come you cannot offer a counter-argument, or even an example of an ethical business, as I have asked for?
Outside of the obvious mentions, including section 174 changes, I think that layoffs have caught on like a contagion and a bunch of mediocre managers and executives are borrowing from an outdated 80s layoff playbook.

The reality is that layoffs disconnected from a larger strategy (like discontinuation of a product line) are typically disastrous and highly predictive of underperformance relative to companies that didn’t perform layoffs. What typically happens is companies hire back the folks they let go very quickly with a huge dent in morale long term.

The concerning thing at this point is that general layoffs are so in vogue that they’re depressing tech wages. Few executives actually take any real responsibility for their overhiring either, the best you usually get is some generic I’m sorry followed by fat bonuses.
You can model pumped storage yourself in the Advanced options.
>Profit is not law, it’s not a god given right

Neither is continued employment at a job that doesn't generate value
Yeah, but then I'd have to use a windows machine with all its spying goodness.
"In past years your performance would have been sufficient to give this more time. But conditions have changed and we're letting X% go today. So we need to make very imperfect judgements for those who are new, unfortunately including you. This isn't a definitive verdict on your abilities — instead it's the best we can do with the limited data we have."

...would have gone a long way here.

It makes sense it's a surprise — they've likely been operating in more relaxed conditions — but then things change, the bar rises dramatically. Not sure why they don't just say that. It should be an _easier_ message to deliver if they can say that it's a noisy measurement because she's new...
When you know that you'll get fired with a 42 million severance package, maybe you indulge in a lot of crazy shit. Reading about the whole thing, I feel like drugs and or mental issues were involved.
> I just open Musescore.

I just rub wasabi into my eyes and hit my thumb with a hammer.

Different folks, different strokes.
Not even QEMU can manage it? I imagine it's slow of course, but I'm a little surprised that there's simply no solution. Is this a driver issue or something?
information about the economy and the finances comes in, heads of departments or companies evaluate it, they announce layoffs or hiring if necessary. You don't know before that. There's no point in waiting after that. Every person is a little tiny cog in a big concerted effort. the machine is acquiring resources and taking care of customers. every little cog is not the main focus, nor should it be.
Can you speak to how expensive? I'm trying to gauge childcare costs in the area and there's not a lot of transparency out there...
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Very few IPs are truly universal in a way that strongly resonates across all cultures. That's a really high bar that is seldom cleared.

Disney is likely not focusing on Southeast Asia because, despite of the population, box office receipts and licensing deals must be fairly low in dollar terms. Most companies would rather be extremely successful in China, North America and Europe alone than be mildly successful everywhere, so content is optimized for these regions.