skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the mobile crowd (which is basically most of humanity at this point) really prefer spending their money in a very specific genres, and innovative gameplay

Yeah although what percentage of mobile users actually play on their phones regularly these days?

It's anecdotal but I haven't played a mobile game in almost a decade now. I played a lot on my iPad 1 and 3.

The app fever of 2010 has passed. Again anecdotal, but I avoid installing apps on my phone as much as I can.

My wife still plays candy crush on her iPad almost every night but has zero interest in any other game.
It's for those for whom want a guaranteed good amount of money and work their ass off for it. They're competing with startups where you work your ass off for mediocre pay instead and a moonshot at equity with a ton of value.

Every other FAANG is going to have their problems, with the only one that I haven't really been able to identify serious downsides being Netflix.
when i was there and it was 3 days a week on call definitely wasn’t exempt
ACE 7 here.

I'm doing OK in life. It took a long time for me to stop running away from things because I didn't trust anyone for a long time. I'm still cynical and paranoid, but I have a steady government job, a solid early retirement plan, and a supportive wife that loves me.

People are surprised I didn't amount to more in life, but I live my life 100% on my terms, and that's what's important to me.

Not rich, not poor, but I enjoy life in general.
At what point do companies consider Android Open Source Project (AOSP, non Googled), primarily using Apache 2 license, over QT?
Love these old school scientist, lounging with shirt off and cigarettes, to give interview, and sounding more serious than most today.

"If I do it, then there is a mechanism that can do it"
What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
Re: hashing: Yes, but I'll leave that one to Paul who is a lot smarter than I am :)

Re: QA: can you say a bit more about the type of coverage you're worried about? Is your concern that we'd be missing APIs, or that the storage format itself breaks, resulting in fact elision? payne (the underlying project) has a borderline obnoxious amount of tests, but that doesn't mean we didn't miss anything :)
As Moore's Law fades, how can more transistors be fitted onto a chip?
Unfortunately yes, they'll send you a C&D if you pop up on an Oracle lawyer's radar. A coworker of mine had a course named "Rust for JavaScript developers" and received a C&D from Oracle.
D&D is based on the popular conception of the medieval era. This has very little to do with the actual history that happened during the medieval era, despite sharing the same name. But D&D didn't invent the ideas it's building on.
Instant PIP. That's how Amazon works.
Well, it's easy when you're the only decent [1] cross platform UI library left on the face of the earth that does not instantiate a browser. Also the only option to get a lot of infrastructure pre done for embedded projects.

[1] My friends who still do Qt whine occasionally about quality going down, but it's not like they have other options.
First language means the first language, the mother tongue. Which implies supplanting the existing first language.

Kids becoming bilingual is a different thing. It’s sort of weird if that was what you were talking about.
A Newco, or even a startup with a good shot that both with a WFH culture will have a good choice from these 'newly imprisoned' folk = might well lead to change of heart - When you have them....their hearts/minds will follow...
With a daemon approach and clever integration within applications that handle missing fifo correctly, all you need to do to get rid of the sounds is just stop the service. And it's also configurable, so you can set what actions actually do produce sounds.
You can hold that opinion, and there may be some merit to it (I’m not sure), but in doing so you also have to accept that the Federal Reserve faces pressure from the right to make the economy look artificially better under any given administration as well. Personally, I think we need to strengthen and trust, and fix our institutions versus casting doubt on them. Once they are too politicized or otherwise destroyed, we don’t get them back and that seems to cause preventable problems.

With respect to the national debt, neither party really has a great track record over recent years, in my opinion. It ballooned under Donald Trump as well. Neither party is particularly inclined to reduce it since it has yet to cause any real problems. To “fix” it you’d have to cut spending and also raise taxes. Nobody seems to want to undertake those actions.
They will automate their way out of the warehouse worker problem. The only reason they still employ human workers is that they are still cheaper than robots for some tasks.
GraphQL queries are a specific usecase for HTTP QUERY.

(Today they rely on HTTP POST.)
Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes
Hah! That jibes with my experience. I've applied for few startups in Seattle back in 2018 and every interview was prefaced with - "our engineering team is made up for ex M$ and/or AMZN".
"Disagree and Commit" to that argument.
> but for the most part they try do that via a story and art.

No they don't. When you are young and everything is new it seems that way, when you get older you realize it's all just nonsense for entertainment.

That's also why film critics seem to hate all films, except for the boring ones. They are looking for art, but it's not there.
This seems obviously wrong - the least you expect is of course for them to accomplish the goals of their position. If that requires physical presence, then obviously that's part if the deal implicitly. But for tons of jobs, that's part of the "above and beyond" bucket. I.e. things like after-hours availability, that may improve outcomes, but actually have downsides that mean they could be net negatives depending on the specific job and the specific individuals.

Aside from such executive blindness, the only other reason anybody alive still thinks of commuting and in-office work in more innocent terms is because up until very recently (generationally speaking) they were simply a physical necessity for nearly 100% of jobs, so there was nothing to be gained by dwelling on it. That changed, so the acceptance of petty suffering changed. Also, the fact that the ratio of life improvement to hard work has steadily decreased since those times motivates employees to find other means of maintaining sanity.
This makes me sad because I've been trying to move to Seattle from Madison, WI for years and was hoping the startup market would be better out there
Stop Building the Wrong Tools: How Developer Surveys Transformed Our Focus
Good. Back in 2015-2016, I worked on an app that improved user's vision. Genuine science, publications in peer-reviewed journals (even Nature). But the whole category was a vast ocean of bullshit apps, and our product just sank in it, unable to differentiate itself and prove to the users that it was the real thing.
I don't think your death stops them from going after your estate.
> Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

For those unfamiliar. Worth a watch.
I thought this went out when the USSR fell?
> also "watched him die instead of helping him" is a lie. More correct would be "the supervisor walked him to medical staff instead of calling medical staff".

The worker, who previously was asking for help and was refused any, reports a stabbing pain in the chest and ask to a doctor. He already walked to his manager a long distance and can not walk any more. The manager refuses to call a doctor and says he can walk with the worker to the doctor but doesn't help him in any way like giving a hand. So the worker tries to do his best, is walking slower and slower trying to catch his breath, and finally dies.
CellGuard is a research project that analyzes how cellular networks are operated
I find default calendar notifications useless. They pop-up 15 minutes before the meeting so they get dismissed, out of site, out of mind. With an integration of Keyboard Maestro, iCalbuddy, Stream Deck and modified shell script I show the upcoming meeting on a Stream Deck key.

Stream deck key shows time of next meeting, how long until that is, with background colors changing as it approaches, and how many meetings remain for the day.

For the sound effect portion, at 1 - 2 minutes prior and at the meeting time, a sound effect is played giving me the heads up that a meeting is starting. Also at 1-2 minutes prior to meeting starting, the Sonos speaker in the office announces the meeting subject.
It's long gone the time people should stop doing business with Oracle.
Okay, but I want to be able to compare how much "nothing" I'm doing with my friends and have "do nothing" influencer tools so I can monetize "doing nothing." I need to be able to sell flairs, let people pay for private one-on-one "do nothing" sessions, and promote products integral to my "do nothing" success like Mountain Dew and Taco Bell.
I was talking about the original version of D&D that came in a box with three booklets and required Chainmail for combat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(1974)
How to build more powerful chips without frying the data centre
Toyota uses price premium and reputation to achieve this. Its not something every company can do, and I don't mean in theory. I mean that economics don't support it. Most buyers cannot and will not pay extra premium for reliablity. The reality is letting them break/damage/fix/replace actually is cheaper overall otherwise it would not be the popular choice.

If tomorrow Ford decided to start this process it would be a decade before the market believed that hey had changed their ways. Would they survive this gap? IDK the new ford Mach-E is not selling so I doubt it but I"m not an economist. People don't buy fords because of the reliability. They buy it because it's cheaper and the risk of downtime is less important to them than the price premium. Don't forget that in order to achieve that lost resource return you must be disciplined all the time and most people/corps cannot achieve that.
I'm never working in an office again. Forcing WFO is the start of a death spiral you can't recover from.
I'm not them but I suspect they mean a kind of "above my paygrade/not my problem" tendency. You can defer almost indefinitely (or make other people do it for you) a lot complicated work with phrases like "we need senior/staff buy-in on the design", "I think we need XYZ team on board/cross-team management approval", "maybe the cloud platform team should be building this, not us?", "I told the architect our requirements and they'll get back to us once they makes a design".

i.e. stop using your own brain and tell the people above you they need to make the hard decisions. Especially because so many decisions technically have impacts beyond your own team, its hard for people to push back on such behaviour.
5 reasons Why Calories Do Count
The irony here...

"On the first topic, we’ve always sought to hire very smart, high judgment, inventive, delivery-focused, and missionary teammates. And, we have always wanted the people doing the actual detailed work to have high ownership."

Then shortly later..

"We are also going to bring back assigned desk arrangements"

So they hire smart people with great judgement who have high ownership but also treat them like incompetent workers who need to show up to the office, in their assigned seat & do their assigned tasks... And he calls this startup culture? Can Amazon even be considered a "tech" company at this point? It seems long gone are the days of innovation & growth at the cost of profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function
I'm pretty confident that the vast majority of union workers are expected to work from their employer's business premises. Workers should unionize if they're being mistreated, but it's not a magic wand that means I can get whatever working conditions I'd like.
I worked in an office 5 days a week, wearing a shirt and tie, for 20+ years of my career. My commute door-to-door was nearly an hour each way. Most of that by train fortunately. It was just normal.
It's mostly money. If you are good at your job, amazon pays much better than most companies. I tried looking for a new job last year, and the only ones increasing my current comp were HFT and pre-ipo startups. Google wouldn't even match my current comp.

In terms of the rest, only Netflix, meta, snowflake and roblox (why?) might have offered better, but the wlb in the first two is similar to amzn, and i didn't like the outlook of the latter two.
Reminder that Amazon is doing this for itself, and not for you.
CATL launches ultra-high-energy-density EV bus battery that lasts ~1M miles
I don't think the apple watch is as accurate as they claim, and it seems to need many nights of data to make a sleep apnea decision, so in that respect it is vastly inferior to polysomnography. But hey, if it helps more people seek a proper diagnosis, then I'm all for it. Sleep apnea sucks. It seriously ruins lives.

Also: SpO2 is less useful here than you might think. Most at-home sensors are pretty unreliable, and it's possible to have sleep disordered breathing without having significant desaturation.
Two products for one-way data transfer, based on L4Re:

- https://www.genua.eu/it-security-solutions/data-diode-cyber-...
- https://www.genua.eu/it-security-solutions/data-diode-vs-dio...

Disclaimer: I work for genua, the maker of these products.
Agent based modeling (ABM) is an attempt at this. I've wanted to forecast the economy on a per-person basis since playing Sim City as a kid (although Sim City is not an ABM to be clear). From doing a bit of research a while back it seemed like the research and real world forecasting have been done on a pretty small scale and nothing as grand as I'd hoped. It's been a while since I've looked into so I would be happy to be corrected.
Interesting. The article does mention the aspect of tech/weapons to mention it's not particularly "medieval" either:

> The D&D weapon list has a medieval feel to it, but partly that’s just because that’s what we’re expecting to find. In fact, it’s a sort of survey of (mostly) pre-gunpowder weapons. Most of the weapons and armor appear in ancient Europe and in Asia as well as in medieval Europe. Partial exceptions: Composite bows are mostly non-European, while longbows are associated with Europe. The halberd is basically a Renaissance weapon, and the two-handed sword appears in medieval Europe, India, and Japan, but not the ancient world. No one knows what “plate mail” is supposed to be.
No one has metrics on anything. High performers perform well at home and in the office, but if they prefer home they'll jump ship as soon as there's an opportunity. Low performers perform badly at home and in the office, but will cling in to their position as long as possible.
Yes, but...

> The fair use statute itself indicates that nonprofit educational purposes are generally favored over commercial uses.

[0] https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use.html
Tough job market or tough market? Seems a lot of companies are struggling right now, so attracting top talent on its own terms seems like the only chance for survival (or in Amazon's case, treading water).
US and Chinese scientists call for international AI regulation
The market is always looking to be seen, understood and helped.

Even a little help in the mix of those 3 can be overlooked more than it ought to be.

Perfect really is the enemy of Great/Good.
I think there's tons of companies in Seattle, but the sheer size of Amazon and Microsoft skew the distribution massively. I've spent my whole career so far ignoring the big companies you mention. There's lots of engineers working at the big names but there are also hundreds of smaller companies in the area.
Google got away with charging publishers more than anyone else
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/5gzYu
No, D&D is definitely set in medieval Europe except with magic added, and the mythical creatures are based on European fairy tales (albeit ones before the medieval era). The weapons are also medieval era specifically, with types of swords and armor that didn't exist prior and weren't used later.

Maybe it doesn't represent feudalism, but this was the inspiration, not the USA. And macro economy isn't a focus in the game. If you want to make it fit, you could say the adventurers are not adhering to the system, rather they're rebels, nomads, or pirates.
> it was obviously using a loophole for a roaming carrier

I'd call that an arbitrage opportunity, not a loophole :)
Most /populous/ island is what I presume you mean.
Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple's 'It's Glowtime' Keynote
Google and Meta have thousands of SWEs and multiple buildings up here, I don't know if I'd call that a smaller presence. Smaller than the bay area, sure, but still a major employer.
> Not useful!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)

[EDIT]: Also: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/linux-csprng/
If they don’t lose a ton of people from this, I would bet other faangs follow suit in the new year.
The irony of setting up a '“Bureaucracy Mailbox” for any examples any of you see where we might have bureaucracy' while announcing an edict enforced by centralised control to replace autonomous decision making about where & how to work.
"Don't anthropomorphise the lawnmower[0]"

— Brian Cantrill on Larry Ellison, USENIX 2011

[0] https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?feature=shared&t=2115
but "JS" implies it is some sort of amalgam of the J and S programming languages - or it doesn't and probably the Java implication doesn't exist anymore either - who really, on hearing the name in a modern context is going to think "hey, it must be a scripting version of that one really old programming language granddad in the office is always reminiscing about"?
Maybe it's time for me to reread the book.
Section 3 in the whitepaper <https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf> describes how it is done: (1) they restrict themselves to a possible-to-reason subset of C (that they have a parser in Isabelle for), and implement a kernel and prove the implementation is formally correct, and (2) to avoid compiler/kernel bugs of host & trojan horses, they verify the compiled/linked output as well.

Their Figure 3.2 shows how this is done: each transformation into the "Graph Language" nodes is proven formally correct. They need two proofs because the binary is automatically proven correct, i.e. what they prove is that their formalized binary is equivalent to the original binary using a HOL4 disassembler, without knowing what sort of binary they have at their hands. On the C side, they preserve semantics while proving the program correct (manually, i.e. they wrote the proofs themselves), and then they prove the two are equivalent, again automatically, using SMT solvers and throwing small chunks of data at it.

As they explain, proving the two "Graph Language" representations to be equivalent semantically is, in general, undecidable like the halting problem. However, they get away with it because the C compiler is not too wild in its output.
Amazon steadily promotes packaging standards that create standard boxes/packs amenable to fast robo read/sort/grip/handle, so they are looking to this.
Any days in the office a week is going to filter out your talent pool to people who live by the office, thus giving you orders of magnitude less choice or opportunity to hire the best candidate.
My first job in development was at a lending division at a bank. After that, I was at a large health insurance company. (1999-2005) Waterfall certainly did exist and it got even worse at the health insurance company. My official title was "Application Developer" but I spent about 60% of my time filling out reams of paper that got passed around in meetings with everyone under the sun that took another 20% of my time.

The first time a startup recruited me and described how they worked, I jumped on that mainly because I'd actually be coding.
I updated, and my whole Elixir/JS setup works like before.

I like that they _finally_ added window snapping to the window manager, but keyboard shortcuts are still missing from what I can see.

Edit: it is possible! take a look at this Reddit post for a workaround https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1dcy6l2/comment/lax9...
If you know you're going to have certain recurring expenses, they can be great. That money's untaxed so you're basically getting a 25% or whatever discount on whatever you buy with FSA money. But yes, the expiration bit is insane. That's how I ended up buying a pair of prescription Ray-Bans in late December several years ago.
They've been successful by, been selected for, being "out of touch". Why would they stop now?
I really identify with the phases and experience you describe above. The act of being engaged as your body moves through them is powerful.

Writer Haruki Murakami, a distance runner, was asked by an interviewer what we thinks about when he runs. Murakami responded that he basically doesn't think of anything. He runs not to think, but to _not_ think. That He runs specifically to create a void. (from his book "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running")

I would also encourage anyone who hasn't experienced this before: find an activity that demands this from you. You will learn a lot about yourself.
Theres more to Seattle than that. But Amazon and Microsoft are HUGE so they are a very disproportionate amount of the people you’ll meet.

The upside is you don’t have to live in the Bay Area! Couldn’t pay me enough to move down there.
The critique was that the existing abstractions address the same set of problems as do the newly introduced abstractions. You’ve said that the existing abstractions are bad, as an invalidation of that critique.

It is perfectly reasonable to ask whether something for convenience adds value to something also for convenience.

Nearly everything in any high level language isn’t strictly necessary to achieve general purpose computation. That doesn’t invalidate any distinction between all higher level concepts! They specifically add expressiveness, so it’s eminently meaningful—for people who find expressiveness valuable—to discuss and distinguish between like solutions in those terms.
The original books missed the idea of initial motivation on the "adventurer" career path. Why and how did even these first level characters end up this way. That makes the rules and settings awkward and necessitates the world to contain bait for first level characters. Like posters seeking guards for (incompetent) caravan escort duty or that kind of thing. Some people noticed that and tried to formulate 1st level adventures or entire world settings which did not start with a fully formed 1st level fighter or mage. Perhaps you start as a bored teen farm hand, or something extraordinary happens in your life but it helps if there is something that kicks you outside of "normal" medieval life and into something far more individualistic.
Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones).

I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows has for many years) would be amazing.
Yuval Noah Harari Takes on AI
It wasn't really a java implementation - they used the APIs, but broke compatibility.
Nor was it before the pandemic.