skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If its any consolation, their scroll hijacking is also hot garbage on desktop firefox.

Granted, its a hardware company, so I'm not that upset that their web design is atrocious, but the fact that a minimal level of review would've told them this was a problem suggests to me that the product itself won't be as polished as the videos suggest.
Nvidia Promotes Their Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Support
It wouldn't surprise me if Google is doing the exact same for every Android phone in existence already... but more discretely.
We're talking about changing the entire trajectory of someone's life when they're a child because they find school boring when they're 8 years old. Talking about ROI and hard numbers about this makes your look like a ghoul. I think aggregate measures over years are required to accurately measure the impact educational investment, but we should pay teachers more and hire more of them to reduce class size because we have a moral obligation to do so, not just because we'd get an ROI.
I love nuclear technology, but I feel like most nuclear proponents are pretending that the last 5 years haven’t happened.

It’s now basically inevitable that anywhere with an OK amount of sun throughout the year will build enough renewables and batteries that any day with an OK amount of sun/wind will let the region run on 100% renewables for 24 hours.

These regions are where most people live. I wish those of us up in the far north mattered in the global perspective, but we don’t really. There’s not that many of us.

So think about where that leaves room for nuclear. You think these sunny regions will bet on nuclear to cover rare weeks of Dunkelflaute? Or will they just continue to build more renewables and batteries, to the point that they can just cover the rest with some gas power plants (that many industrialised countries have anyway) burning a bit of biogas kept in reserves?

Will the north build nuclear power plants to cover winter demand? Maybe. If advanced geothermal doesn’t take off. If nuclear can be built cheaply enough. But it seems more likely that the global network effects around renewables and energy storage solutions will push those solutions to such heights that they will be good enough for the north as well. There’s already thermal storage solutions that can store heat energy for months. Geothermal, tide and wave power have promising developments recently. Reflect Orbital can make big solar plants more productive throughout the year in the north. (Hell, it just struck me that Reflect Orbital could make an agrovoltaic setup more productive throughout the year in the north as well)

The potential niche for nuclear is shrinking year by year.
I knew the CTO of a major telco in the early 90s who logged all the PRIVMSGs going through their network and used it to blackmail some people who weren't "out." When I found out I tried to report it, but this CTO faked some logs for their firm, making it look like I'd hacked them, and sent them to the dean of the university I was studying at to try to get me kicked out. That was a dicey moment.

On another security issue: I owned an EFnet server at the time, so I modified my HOSTS file to be able to go online as president@whitehouse.gov
On top of a horizontal scaling which isn’t a big deal (yet) you would definitely need to think about optimizing the data itself (100kb per row sounds big for marketing/analytics/bi piece of data) but most importantly the retention timeframe. To archive/dump/optimize old data not critical for the product.
I thought you were making a joke about TikTok the social media app at first. I wonder how many other products were named TikTok.
> Companies are waking far more $$ from you than they pay you. Especially profitable tech companies.

Well of course they are. But then asking to pay more will not help. What's the leverage of people who should be paid lot more ? Because IMO if any of those engineers have leverage they are not taken for chump and get paid appropriately when they negotiate.
It has the same logic of saying you dont want to use a computer to monitor or test your code since it will mean that a computer will monitor a computer. AI is a broad term, I agree you can use GPT (or any LLM) to grade an LLM in an accurate way but that’s not the only way you can monitor.
>if they're blue congressfolk they'll already want to make sure that NOAA survives

Even the blues will want to know that their constituents are paying attention. Swing state blues especially tend to lose their spine without support from their base.

Call them anyway and tell them to replace Biden with someone that can actually make a coherent case against Trump. These backroom discussions are happening right now.
It is the US citizens that must make the best decision for themselves.

I have faith that their kindness will always win, as the vicious must hurt those around them by their very nature. =)
It's a piece of molded silicone.
That's entirely fair, and precisely why I posted the framework. Thank you!

I guess what I'm solving for is trying to tag a specific person or group with why a decision got made, which... if there was an easy way to do that, politics would be a lot cleaner. Removing that, and just adding many-to-one tags for authors in-document, seems like it'll get to most of the desired requirement.
On the bright side that's going to be a terrible company to work at while it trends towards ruin.
Even this is being defunded in Ontario by the conservative Premier. We will only have news reports of packed hospital ERs to go on.
Paul’s great but this is a little outdated. The variant in Colorado has both alpha-2,3 and alpha-2,6[0]

0: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07766-6
Teachers and administrators have decades of experience at getting treated as targets for culture-war grandstanding. Having a 28yo tech CEO barely older than their students tell them that a cool website will reverse the effects of poverty is probably just a different flavor.
I've seen home depot workers lament on their subreddit how so many people buy a tool just to return it and steal the battery. Shrink must be absurd at these stores. They at least try and do something about it; I've seen people walked out in cuffs at the home depot when I've gone a few times now.
One thing brought up by the article is that for all their other sketchiness, they do provide a constant stream of software updates for existing devices. That makes it unlikely it was a pre-order scam.
Random color commentary you might appreciate: I grew up on iOS for several years, then went to Google, and after a couple years migrated to working on Android's Springboard equivalent.

One of the odder things to me about Android is this could happen too, with what felt like ~same rate as iOS. There wasn't nearly as good tooling as Instruments, instead it was ~always caught by testing but it was so much more work: testing was done on a batch of commits, so if there was a regression, there needed to be an additional layer of bisecting + test engineer in the loop to let you know it happened.

If someone does Android regularly and sees this, I'm very curious what you use for detecting cycles: my iOS habit was to, every month or so, and with each release, sit down with this tool called "Instruments" that displayed live objects and run through the app, and see if there was any unexpected objects representing screens / core workflows piling up.

I have a feeling this is totally possible on Android (maybe that Square leak canary library?), and it was more manually processed at Google because there was no way to enforce SWEs actually did it, and we couldn't(?)/didn't put the Square library in the OS.
I saved money by not buying a badly insulated house. There were some walls that shocked me in how little they were insulated. Also found a roof leak in another house
I've thought for a while Apple itself could probably have some pretty decent success bringing back a new generation of the iPod. There's a (somewhat) popular community of people who mod old iPods to give them ssd's, better batteries, bluetooth, better screens, etc.

Apple could make a really cool product again, and pitch it as like the "anti-phone" or "anti-social media" vibe that seems to be gaining some popularity.

I'm imagining like a weeks long battery life, large screen (but not like an iPod touch), bluetooth for wireless headphoens, ability to have more apps (basically just allowing watch apps), WiFi+GPS, maybe speakers if they're feeling bold... idk it could be cool but maybe it'd be too niche still
How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley Funded the Sudden Rise of JD Vance
Well this was an entertaining take on the job market.

tl;dr he's salty other people ended up better off doing the same work for other companies, based on views of tech compensation that are very divorced from reality:

> I look at my own place in the world compared to people who just started at Apple or Microsoft 20 years ago then never left, and now they have made eight figures just over the past 4 years while my life path has lead me to… practically nothing. Then the tech inequality continues to compound. Imagine joining a company where the teenage interns have already made a couple million off their passive stock grants and other employees have been making $2MM to $6MM per year over the past 5 years there, while you’re starting over with nothing again for the 5th company in a row so what’s the point in even trying

Nevermind that there aren't really any interns making a couple million off stock grants, and this part:

> Do we just sit here and die in our overpriced studio apartments where rent increases 7% every year while other ICs doing the same work at better companies are buying 5 vacation houses from doing the same work?

Also love the part where he implies he's too smart to pass coding interviews:

> According to all the interviews I’ve failed over the years (I don’t think I’ve ever passed an actual “coding interview” anywhere?), the entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk.
If we get to the convention and they haven't changed candidates by then it's probably going to be too late, unfortunately.
As an example Lorex, a Canadian security camera company founded in 1991, is currently owned by Dahua Technology, a major Chinese video surveillance manufacturer. Dahua acquired Lorex in 2018, which has led to some security concerns and restrictions on Lorex products' use by U.S. government agencies.

Lorex cameras aren't banned for personal use in the US, but face restrictions for government agencies due to cybersecurity concerns. If you own a Lorex NVR system:

Update firmware regularly
Use strong passwords
Limit remote access
Consider network segmentation
Monitor for unusual activity

No need to discard your system, but stay informed about developments. Alternative options exist if you're concerned.
https://archive.ph/1oVs2
It's because many natural alternatives to meat or dairy don't taste the same or necessarily as good as what they are replacing.

We need something that is more equivalent to convince large numbers of people to switch.

Bovine agriculture on a commercial scale is unsustainable and cruel.

The only way totally natural old fashioned options that might be less cruel could work is if only a very small portion of the population has access to them. Some people seriously would like to see 90% of the human population killed off and to regress to a largely pre-industrial system. In my opinion, this is a very ignorant idea.
Or help the environment
I’m divided. I can do what you ask, but not without googling it. I can produce performant and robust code, but not without double checking on google. I’m unable to deliver code that compiles in any language without checking the documentation. Pseudocode, yeah sure.

So, I wouldn’t pass these kind of interviews. In over a decade I’m never being asked these kind of questions though (I have done take home assignments and leetcode, but always with google opened)
It would be nice to see an example of a gig without logging in
Good luck proving it in court. (It is not that I disagree with you).
'It's a Bitcoin Play': Mark Cuban Speaks on Silicon Valley's Support of Trump
I don't remember the C-64 being shunned in SV, but if it was then it shows how feeble the effort was, considering that the C-64 remains the best-selling personal computer of all time.
Louis did extensive testing, it is all well documented. Wrong fuse can burn your house, and insurance will not cover that! Calling it "blow hard" is misinformation!

Aliexpress sells genuine power tools, Chinese brands like "Deko" has official store there! It even sells cars!

Doing juggling with bar codes on Amazon is not for everyone. You are one click away from counterfeit, just change color, boom! order is not from official store, but some bum!

And serial numbers can be faked too, obviously!
Doesn't Android have a tracing garbage collector? How do retain cycles cause leaks?
I wonder if we'll ever get hdcp on nvidia. As much as I enjoy 480p video from streaming services.
this was my biggest gripe w/ academic math. Whenever i'd ask my teachers how these concepts are applied in the real world, i'd get a non-answer that showed me a) the teachers themselves have no clue and b) they're hoping you'll just shut up and follow the curriculum.

I agree that we are ripe for an educational system that is truly disruptive. Our current educators are so disconnected from the real world and have no idea how to apply what they teach.
Ask HN: What is your favorite question to ask in job interviews?
Can be assessing competence or team fit or something else, just curious what people ask. It might also be helpful to specify the discipline.
My stylesheet doesn't have a dark mode and is kludged out of the fairly popular tufte.css, so it's probably worth your while to report this text-shadow bug to the browser extension you're using to create a dark mode.
> if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just fine.

This was the problem I ran into. They're not.

I held onto the iPhone SE for quite a while. Everything became progressively more cramped as the years went by. Some app UI controls were cut off. All sorts of web stuff was laid out funny.

While everything did _work_, I get too annoyed at knowing that I'm having a sub-par UX every time I see it.
That’s not obvious. If you are including “gotchas” this may be another one.
Had similar experience with my Legion 5i 3070 with Wayland and Nvidia 555, but my HDMI out is all screwed up now of course. Working on 550. One step forward and one step back.
Wait until you get RSI.
>My experience is that story points get a bad rep because they don't mean anything unless you use them as an explicit proxy for time.

So when you shop for clothes, Small/Medium/Large are useless? You require precise measurements for every item, and they have to be exactly the same size across manufacturers, or else sizes have no utility for you? The reality is that a Large can be large on you in different ways, even if it's a t-shirt. And software complexity has a lot more dimensions than a t-shirt. The utility of story points is that they allow a team to create a rough idea of their capacity over a sprint, so that they don't consistently under- (or more commonly) over-commit.

If you try to use story points purely as a uniform proxy for time, of course they're going to be useless, because you can always just use time instead.
i've been reading the unix programming environment from 01983 this week (the old testament of kernighan and pike), about 35 years later than i really should have. awk is really one of the stars of the book, the closest thing in it to currently popular languages like js, lua, python, perl, or tcl. (what awk calls 'associative arrays' js just calls 'objects'.)

the 7th edition unix version of awk from 01979 https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/aw... (from https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Henry_Sp...) is only 2680 lines of source code, which is pretty astonishing. the executable is 46k and ran in the pdp-11's 64k address space. as far as i can tell, that version of awk, and also the one documnted four years later in tupe, didn't even have user-defined functions. neither did the v7 version of the bourne shell, i think

bc, however, did
What is the problem. Isn't it well known that free market will provide better, cheaper and more efficient service? After all we trust free market with other things, so why not with weather forecasting?
Alternate link: https://archive.is/BPyLc

BTW, if discussing Bitcoin is something HN frowns on I will delete this. I've never seen a policy or preference expressed on this topic.
it sounds like it's more the non-human / non-embarrassing setup than the actual results. The same way I swear at tools or yell at clouds.
It's not a thesis, but one of my favorite acknowledgements is from Bob Atkey's paper on quantitative type theory (which assigns quantities of 0, 1, or ω to types):

> This work is dedicated to Orwell the dog. Orwell was a good dog and knew well the difference between zero, one, and many.

https://bentnib.org/quantitative-type-theory.pdf
Agree with everything you say here. I don’t have a 9th grader (yet!) but I tutored for years. The interpersonal component of tutoring absolutely dominates over the content component.

I think the “this time it’s different” argument is grounded not in “better content delivery” or “cheaper than a person”—which I agree are 100% not winning strategies.

Rather, the argument is some form of “so brilliantly delivered, so charmingly interpersonal, made so relevant to personal interests that even the most jaded, disinterested, burnt out 9th grader can’t help but learn the material”.

We’re not there yet, but even old-school automated tutors were fine at content and cheaper than a person. What modern AI brings is all the rest of what makes 1:1 tutoring great.

That’s what Karpathy et al should be building, IMHO!
NYC to Consider Indoor Air Quality Regulations (2023)
The Minix name has also been appropriated years ago by a line of miniPCs which apparently have no relationship with the legendary Minix operating system.

Actually the early ones were not very good with the Windows 10 they had, and a fresh reinstall left you needing drivers that only came from their provided restoration images.

After about a year they were not useful for that any more with only 16GB of drive space and 4GB of memory soldered in.

After our IT guys replaced them with Dells, I repurposed by installing Windows 11 in Compact Mode from the command line and dedicating for spectrometer use which is not going on the internet.

Minix is still there with more powerful units which are quite a bit more expensive.

I would look closely at support downloads for little things like this, I still had to get some of the drivers for W11 from the (now externally saved) original W10 images from 2016.
Yes, if the browser enables SIMD! https://caniuse.com/wasm-simd
I was just using that Netflix comp as an example and not forming a generalization.

It's hard to follow what you are trying to say.
Are you paying me for that 4-5 hours of my time? If not, you'd better be a damn sight better in terms of what you offer as an employer, versus the rest of the market.

I get that it's different for the unemployed, but we shouldn't let people do this to us if we are in a position to help it.

I personally have only ever dropped a potential employer mid interview pipeline once, and it was when they sprung one of these on me. Even worse was, I was told it should only take 3-4 hours to do. Just eyeballing it, it seemed like 8 hours of work at least, which made dropping out of my candidacy an even easier decision.
This is sometimes done by asking for five years of experience in a library that has only existed for three. Don’t bother applying at companies like that if you’re not on a visa.
https://archive.is/Yi8Fn

...but that's still paywalled.
(In)famous Bandermobile.
fell out of love because it was no longer novel, or because the novel wore off and they realized it wasn't anything special?
FYI: Fastmail delayed mail on 2024-07-17
I love Fastmail still, just letting people know about this current degraded service since it's not obvious in the client currently.

Status page says no mail is lost, which is good. But I 100% have some delayed mail I have not received yet, which is also reflected in the status page.

(Aside: I guess I was smart to forward mail to 2 locations way back when; that's how I noticed.)
> Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part

Sure, granted. The claim isn't re-usable rockets and mass-market EVs aren't possible without Musk. It's that it wouldn't be reality at scale today.

Musk has a rare combination of leadership, management and political ability that lets him coordinate large groups of people and capital on resource-intensive, long-term, long-shot goals; achieve those goals; and make money on it, thereby making the process repeatable. That doesn't excuse his nonsense public behaviour. But that behaviour, in turn, doesn't erase his accomplishments.
> Some don’t even know the syntax of the language of their choice.

I still struggle with this. I don’t find it a blocker, though. The bottleneck is usually to understand and parse business requirements. If you know about good code practices as well, then the least of your problems is to know whether you can use ‘in’ or ‘[]’, ‘var’ or ‘let’, ‘foreach’ or ‘for’, ‘def’ or ‘fun’, etc.
The end game for ad blocking is to render each page in its own vm/container, have some AI blank out things that look like ads, and stream the transformed video to the user
Thank you for your service. I think it’s popular to be dismissive and say that all politicians are sociopaths, which sounds very similar to saying they’re all power seeking individuals. The reason they sound similar is because there’s this idea that seeking power is always bad, but your example proves otherwise. So again, thank you!
The original post asked what can you do. Apart from hopelessness, you can put your body on the line. Hold a sign. Be present. Take up space. It's something.
Try showing some evidence that your active traders/"curators" can consistently beat passive index investing over time.

The prevailing wisdom being that this is unlikely.
I'm hoping that Apple releases a new mini on a 3 year cadence. Maybe there wasn't enough demand to continue the line every year, but they'll bring it back occasionally?
Many countries in Europe have tons of older hunting guns, on top of newish guns for... personal protection? Sport? Or whatever reason people feel the need to have them.

Tens of millions as per wikipedia [1]. Also check other countries and continents. A very valid argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
>really nice DAC

Is there a Tidal app for WatchOS?
That's interesting. I've been expecting the AI cards to diverge more from the graphics cards. AI doesn't need triangle fill, Z-buffering, HDMI out, etc. 16 bit 4x4 multiply/add units are probably enough. What's going on in that area?
From Guns, Germs, and Steel, my impression is that cows as a species will go extinct if not domesticated.

I am all for grass fed free ranging happy cows, of course, and I personally don’t eat red meat.

But I don’t know where on the scale of animal suffering it all falls.
Even great C++ developers write shitty C++ code. It’s truly a “let’s take all the warning labels off” language.
Thanks for sharing. Not sure if the guidance to do shrooms in an appropriate setting and with an appropriate mindset ("set and setting") would have helped, but certainly that guidance is no joke!

And we should absolutely continue research to learn more about the adverse effects. Obviously they help a lot of people, but must be done with care and seem not to be helpful for every person. We must learn more about these conditions.
displaying ui and handling interactions ends up being most of the app though
haven't read it but probably the former