skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Google Docs has some of the most cursed UI that I've used in the past 20 years (and I work with Jira). I'm forced to use it at work so I stick with it.

>FWIW, 90% of my gripes would go away if it just supported a "markdown mode" instead of WYSIWYG, and I don't understand what's so hard about that for somebody of Google's caliber.

I guess that's a philosophical point. I have pretty much zero interest in markdown. And, as someone who has used word processors since the 1980s, I really like Google Docs (and Google Slides) they pretty much do all of the things I want and rarely lack a feature I need. (Might feel different as a lawyer for revision tracking and my use of Sheets is far lighterweight than my use of Lotus and then Excel was back in the day.)

And I think I'd just give up were I to go make to emailing copies of documents around.

It's not perfect for everything and everyone but the Google Suite works really well for me.
This is making me think about doing performance tests between HTML JS and SVG JS
> Xi himself was the Party head of Fujian for most of his career and Xi's father was the Party head of Guangdong when he was rehabilitated in the Deng Xiaoping era.

This is because the CCP does not trust southerners (people from Fujian/guangdong especially) and will send northerners in to manage/rule those provinces. China is still afraid of Fujian revolting and joining Taiwan.
I'm surprised he hasn't deleted that video yet, he has a habit of deleting his old ones. Also don't support him and his extreme right wing views.
Clearly you're unaware of what's going on in Ukraine.

Drones are not there to take over for humans, drone-based weapons are ridiculously effective compared with anything before them and there's plenty of space for more computing power to make them even more effective.
The actual content of the painting is the arrangement of pigments on the canvas. Anything above that is interpretation. (E.g. I'd argue that discussion of the hare in "Rain, Steam and Speed" is often not really about the content of the painting)
> The city is incentivized to increase housing supply, but the voters are not

I have difficulty understanding this often repeated assertion.

I've been voting for over 30 years. I've never (to my best recollection) had a ballot question about increasing housing supply in my town. The town government is constantly approving (and sometimes rejecting) housing developments, but they have never asked me.
This is closer to "If you don't open your door, your fridge won't make ice"
Apple=expensive meme will only die if it stops being true. For example, I can get a Thinkpad T14 Gen 4 with the best processor AMD has to offer, 32 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD for less than the base M2 Air (€1250 vs €1300), which has a pitiful 8 GB/256 GB RAM.

If that's too expensive, an E14 Gen 5 has a previous-generation processor but can be had in a reasonable configuration (Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) for around €700.

You can knock a fair chunk (€60) off of the price by getting them without Windows as well, which is a nice option when you're gonna install Linux anyway. But the prices I mentioned is before you even do that!
in ten years there will be so many extra houses...
I actually think it's a good change
I bought two of the “white van speakers” in the late 80s. They were unexceptional but okay and lasted 5+ years of heavy college and immediately post-college usage.
I don't disagree that there are many different overlapping terms and identities related to the concept of "China" and the people who have an ancestral connection to it. However, I think it is incorrect to blend all of these together and come out with the conclusion that at the end of the day there is only One China and One Chinese People and these concepts are immutable, inescapable and eternal.

The CCP and other historical leaders have used these concepts to try lay claim to every land that a Chinese person ever walked across, every sea they ever sailed and every fen they ever earned, but that has to be understood as the imperialism it is. Inside the empire it behooves the subjects to not publicly challenge that narrative, but outside of it people have the freedom to define themselves as they see fit.

Polling shows that the vast majority of Taiwanese people today do not consider themselves Chinese citizens (中國人), nor do they support Chinese unification (中國統一). If you put a Taiwanese person on the spot and ask them "well, in the context of the last five thousand years, could there ever be a scenario in which the island of Formosa is ruled by the same leaders as the region of East Asia along the Yangtze, Yellow and Pearl rivers?" they might say yes, because in those last five thousand years there were a couple of hundred when that was indeed the case. But that doesn't mean that they see themselves right now as having any deeper connection to the PRC than the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, US, Canada or anywhere else.
I think it's more that US living requires the high salary. Living expenses quickly cripple anyone who doesn't have a high salary
There's a truck I've seen that sells meat at stupidly low prices, but they're sold in boxes so you don't really know what you're getting.

They'll sell you a box of 20 ribeye steaks for only $40, but you open the box and realize that each "steak" is only about 1/4 inch thick and is absolute dog-food level marbling, completely zero intra-muscular fat.
The art of doing nothing: have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture?
Great concept. Things I'd like to see:

1. Some way of knowing which Wikipedia articles are more interesting than others. All the pins are the same, so I don't know which to click on.

2. Hover to preview the title of a pin, to save me clicking on each, one by one.

3. It would be nice if the map didn't change zoom level when clicking on a pin.

It's a very fun site overall, hope you keep working on it.
given car companies seem incapable of securing something as basic as a car key

how long until smart 12 year olds can remotely hijack major car brands on a freeway with a laptop and a small python script?
> Hirsh Theriault complained that executives are “trying to point in a vague direction” toward AI while waiting for lower-level staff to propose concrete, actionable ideas.

I'm not here to defend Google leadership at all, but this matches my mental model of what an executive should do: Define a vision and goals, then support proposals made by people under you. I think the opposite—when executives say not only what but how—is way worse.
Is there a single tech company where morale has been high since 2022? Microsoft had multiple layoffs and froze promos, bonuses and stock grants for all employees, and now they are the most valuable company in the world and have a great reputation in the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and the rest aren't much different.

If you are looking for groundbreaking innovation, competent management, no politics, freedom from shareholder demands etc. then it's best to steer clear of any multi-trillion dollar corporation.
Maze Proof Establishes a 'Backbone' for Statistical Mechanics
Id say fortnight has quite the ways to go then. Counterstrike and World of Warcraft have 15-20 years headstart and are still going.
When pressed, most of the people who support strict means testing for welfare will eventually admit that it's not about saving the government money, and that they support it even if it ends up costing taxpayers on net (which it almost always does). They're pretty clear that this is about punishing indigence.
Are they though? The paper is lacking evidence for this premise.
Is it though ? Even Meta's 5y return is higher than Google's, and that includes the enormous pivot-to-VR blunder drop.
Fortnite is playable in VR.

The "Fortnite creative engine" is roughly a Virtual Worlds editor / generator along side the Fortnite Virtual Worlds marketplace.
> chunk for chunk in chunks if chunk

I believe there's a saying about a woodchuck somewhere in here
We have a multi billion dollar machine built by developers with the goal of doing good things and profiting by them.

>Cell phone privacy

Sure we make a cell phone and we make a cell phone OS but its best to look the other way and never trust your privacy to a device that society has decided should follow you 24/7.
To be fair, you did mention replicating the “Disney park experience IRL”, so yes it does mean VR Disney rides since that’s the closest that you’ll get to that experience. A flat screen is not going to come close to it.
If you're a couple that could mean two stream of social security income and if you've paid off the 30 year mortgage by the time youre 65, your major expense is gone.

So you're at $60k income and low housing costs. Doable for sure.
I will take that bet. $5?
Why China Can't Export Its Model of Surveillance
Disney ironically being the smartest tech investor by being old school
and buying low.
There are a lot of things that large organizations can do that smaller ones can not. However, as organizations scale up for good reasons (it takes a lot of people to do some things) and bad (empire building), it takes a lot of people to corral most of those people in productive ways and to support them with all kinds of systems.
Because once the company is big enough, it becomes competitive and immoral enough for employees to start to fear each other. So everyone starts to develop an "every man for themselves" mentality.
Nice catch! That warning definitely wasn't emitted the last time I tried this.. I don't know about using something like your suggestion which has actual side effects, but probably something like #![cfg_attr(invalid, allow(unused_attributes))] instead would work (without side effects).
But since this is considering 'excess' deaths, wouldn't any there need to be an explanation for the temporal increase vs baseline for any non-COVID causes that would explain the excess?
They had better be; 5000G chips are based on old GCN Vega stuff, while these are based on the latest RDNA3 architecture. They're also clocked MUCH higher, as AMD focused a lot on clock speeds when developing RDNA2.

In fact, pretty much all of the performance gain going from a 5700 XT to a 6700 XT is based on the latter's higher clock speed, as their specs are very similar otherwise (although a 6700 XT has 12 GB 192bit memory and a heap of cache, whereas the 5700 XT has 8GB 256bit memory that runs a small bit slower, and crucially, way less cache).
Most people don't think simple enough
flashscore.com is what I usually use if scraping is ok (for other sports, but seems cricket is there). Bit difficult to parse sometimes though
Google Web Search is (supposed to be) changing the world for the better.
Deepl Write is also rock solid and free.
One of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way.

Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!
Summary: game developer gives out a handful of keys to game review sites. Many game review sites are selling the keys to game "resellers".

I guess steam could fix this by having accounts tagged as reviewers and allow generation of keys that are permanently locked for use by only reviewer accounts?
I actually wish that no one took the llm namespace. It's annoyingly vague.
Allow me to support the completely unsupported naysaying: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/16/gravity-storage-101-or-...

Cliff's Notes: any currently-considered form of gravity storage that isn't pumped hydro is orders of magnitude more expensive and more stupid than a Tesla Megapack.

Michael Barnard's abrasive tone aside, is he wrong?
Disney is the last standing Old Media company.

All other Media and Entertainment companies are either owned by Comcast/AT&T or are Tech companies (netflix, amazon,apple,sony,youtube,tiktokk) that have carved out a chunk of the media and entertainment sector.

Disney is basically on the back foot here, at a time when the attention economy is wrecking chaotic unpredictable havoc on the the media sector.They had to do something cause shareholder revolt has been brewing for a while.
I’m actually in the same boat right now (primary DB -> Clickhouse). We’re currently trialing Airbyte but it appears they’re removing normalization support for Clickhouse this year. Did you land on a custom solution, or some other ETL/ELT tool?
The list of some examples of ChatGPT-4’s responses for its reasoning on p.39 is a gem.

I’m laughing now but I’ll be crying if anyone with authority im the military actually thinks that this may be a viable application for an LLM. But you know somewhere, in some nation’s military, they def exist.

Here’s some of the choice examples of it explaining its ‘reasoning’…

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> "N/A"

> It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Em- pire. During the battle, Rebel spies man- aged to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ul- timate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

> blahblah blahblah blah

> Unnecessary to comment
———

Yep… ready to deploy… lets ship these bad boys. The Idiocracy movie ain’t got nothing on us…
Actual dialog here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/weve-g...

Love the proposed solution. And yet Linux will never be ready for the desktop because you need the command line to fix problems...
Like Microsoft killed Bing AI? I mean, renamed it to Copilot? Oh wait, Copilot already existed but for code. Wait, merged? Or is it the same thing? Hmmm... acquired and killed and rebirthed with a crappy new UI? Who fucking knows but Google gonna Google!
Can someone explain to the uninitiated what a YouTube short is and why you might want to automate creation of them?
If you think jira is bad you should try deltek costpoint. Holy shit.
Well he seems to advocate getting rid of the stupid and industrious.

The stupid and lazy can be put to work and will probably get something harmless done, they just can’t be trusted with anything challenging.

The stupid and industrious are an active danger wherever you put them in the hierarchy.
I totally agree, and this was a point of conflict between my last manager and I. On one hand, he'd be on my case for not getting some coding done, and on the other he'd be on my case for not jumping on a massive PR right away. Part of the problem I think was that we had a very bottlenecked QA process and decoupled feedback systems for reviewing and discussing.

I'd get a large PR and some smaller ones on GitHub that would likely have tests included, so I'd have to check those too, while also maintaining conversation over on Jira about some other ticket and trying to actually get code written. There was no concept iteration because every unit change needed to simultaneously be broken up by 2 week sprint AND be completely unit tested and flawless before asking someone to review it or getting it merged. Meanwhile, I'd never know when someone updated their PR or Jira thread after discussing unless I manually checked or always kept the browser tab open.

So I'd take a full morning to review a PR, then respond to things on Jira, and if I'm lucky, write some code. Eventually the PR would be updated but I'd forget to check because there wasn't a good system in-place to manage those notifications, and when I did it'd be another massive change that I'd need to take quite a lot of time to check.

So I started using Draft PRs for bigger or more complex changes, and explicitly note what wasn't functioning or written yet, which would provide for lower pressure time to get early feedback instead of trying to complete everything up front, and updates to those PRs would be more incremental.
Yeah, the 8500G is just not interesting in that sense at all. It has only 4 CU's, which is twice what a 7600 has but still not enough for anything even remotely graphically demanding. An 8600G has 8 CUs which starts to approach usable territory.
And maybe peaked at 3% marketshare between 2000 and 2003 during Apple's early resurgence. Remember that Apple almost died in the late 90s. It wasn't the juggernaut it is today by a long shot.

Mac IE became its own albatross for web development for a while once Safari hit its stride and supplanted it.

Prior to somewhere between 2003 and 2005, "web standards" were aspirational rather than the reality on the ground. There was Internet Explorer for Windows at 85-90% and all the bit players scrambling for a percentage point or two.

For the bit players, the standards were their only bid for survival since no one would tolerate putting extra dev time into an extra 1%. Together, you could make a case for a 10-15% target.

For Microsoft's part, "IE is the standard" had an extremely long tail.
So multiple game reviewers are the same person/group asking for multiple keys then selling them.
Apple Vision Pro.
>"Google just tests in production", we were told

well that sadly explains a ton of little quirks Ive seen in all sorts of google software over the years. Chromecasting functions is especially egrigious and it feels like connecting/disconnecting does a different thing each time.
> And prior to the app store, app writers dealt with carriers who wanted 70% of revenue, not 30%

Disagree there. Maybe to preload apps. But in all my Symbian dealings in Nokia-land, almost every app purchased was direct from producer, and pushed to the device by a sync cable, with zero revenue going to the carrier.
Greetings from Ukraine! Country at war, after decided to move from Soviet world to West.

When Ukraine is different, but we have very same troubles - we learned that Universities should make us new technologies, and why I said about war - new defensive technologies (or offensive if you wish), but they not do what they should, and we are defenseless because of this.

But we have not tough anti-monopoly laws any time. But we seen few successful commercial scientific entities, and near nothing from Universities, except propaganda, very similar to aggressive religious.

I think, answer is easy (at least for Ukraine) - our Universities become shelters of what they named "pure science". And scientists think themselves as monks of these sanctuaries, and totally avoid to work.
Then it sounds like we disagree on what the thread is about. When I hear "I updated PHP and everything broke" I think "because libraries break between version upgrades." You seem to be arguing against a position that people aren't taking, which is that there's something inherently wrong with PHP as a language that makes it break when upgraded (which nobody has said).

The same goes for Node, which doesn't break servers just because you upgrade it. I have updated from 12 to 20 with no problems because of the dependencies.
Shower accidents are a sub of home accidents, which is a sub of accidents. Accidents are, from recollection, in the top 5 causes of death.

Every time I wash my feet in the shower, and I mean this.. I stand on 1 foot, then the other soapy foot, and repeat to myself 'this is how I die'. Every time.
HTML seems to be doing pretty well.
Jedi Academy / KOTOR? Talk to me when you understand the wonder of Dark Forces and Outlaws. :)
> And that's worse than poor people not being able to eat how?

Food programs are pretty widely supported. People don't want poor people not being able to eat, they want poor people not being able to drink alcohol/do drugs/play videogames/watch movies/..., the things they see as a fun indulgence.
Failing up and sucking up are the two most powerful forces in corporate America.
Wouldn't the HBM-equipped Xeon Max be the bandwidth king of these tables?
I'm not going to argue with your central point that we spend too much time scrutinizing small dollar awards. The PPP program was ridiculous. I had a very difficult time helping two legit non-profits (one a nursery school, one a food pantry) get a fraction of the money they were entitled to under the PPP program, while less scrupulous people got far more.

In the EB-5 real-estate investment program, the government doesn't hand out money here. If you're a rich overseas individual who wants to relocate to the US, you can invest like $1-2m (used to be lower), and boom you're in.
Off the top of my head:

- HR professionals deal with a ton of shit, including assaults.

- First responders, obviously.

- Message board moderators?

- Customer service of any kind. (The Karen memes are irritating, and really, really mean, but I swear I recognize every one those interactions from my years in those kinds of jobs.)

- I was trauma-dumped plenty of times during my teaching career, as well as been loudly - even potentially violently - blamed (by students) for all of the problems they're having in class (or maybe even life, lol).

Maintaining professional aplomb in emotionally volatile situations is a critical part of jobs which deal primarily with people, rather than things - and is more relevant to engineering sorts of roles than many engineers realize.

Look, I'm not defending those particular questions - and far less the particular people asking them. I'm offering an alternate point of view about why they're being asked. It'd be great to see posters on this forum suggest some better ways to evaluate the traits at which they're aimed.
Nothing to do with it.
We're not mature enough to recognize the importance of a flat hierarchy and adopting a startup-like model with our internal teams (business and technical independence, succeed and you'll be rich, fail and you're fired)

As a result, the larger the company, the larger the hierarchy, the larger the inefficencies. At the extreme you approximate the government of a country.

Layers of managers who care only about collecting a paycheck, engaging in company politics and looking busy cause exactly this problem. Managers will pick the best decision for them, not anyone else.
Congrats on the pg_analytics launch! Great to see ParadeDB consolidating some of these tools. Useful at the early stage to not manage multiple databases.
Short version: no type classes (yet)

Longer version:

Building upon what Quekid5 mentioned, Unison abilities are an implementation of what is referred to as algebraic effects in programming language literature. They represent capabilities like IO, state, exceptions, etc. They aren't really a replacement for type classes, though in some cases you can shoehorn abilities in where you might otherwise use a type class.

For someone coming from a Haskell background, I think that abilities are closer to a replacement for monad transformers. But in my opinion they are much more ergonomic.

Discusson of type classes comes up a lot. Here is a long-standing GitHub issue: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/502

For what it's worth, I've written Unison quite a lot over the past few years and while I've missed type classes at times, I think that reading unfamiliar code is easier without them. There's no implicit magic; you can see exactly what is being passed into a function. So far I've been happy with a bit more verbosity for the sake of readability.
I wish more companies hired software engineers like you.
The amount of time and effort people spend looking at others instead of themselves is maddening
> A significant part of the workforce is just there to provide services to the workforce itself.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
AWS is certainly very capable but I haven't at all found that everything AWS is easy or makes sense and that's certainly not the general reputation it has among other devs I know. It's quite baroque and the UI is chaotic and confusing and the documentation is very badly organized.
As someone who worked in cloud security for a year, GCP's security mechanisms were a joke next to AWS IAM and Organizations. But some of their products like Bigtable were better.

Also, AWS answered the proverbial phone.