skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not trying to move the goalposts by suggesting "we should have a technical argument". Discussing whether the feature should even exist is itself a technical discussion.

Let's use WEI as an example. You're clear enough in your opinion: you think it shouldn't exist. Why, though? What does it do that you object to? Do you understand how it works well enough to be sure it does the bad thing you think it does? Imagine I'm interested in the discussion, but haven't formed an opinion. I just have Google on one side talking about guaranteeing the integrity of the browser environment somehow, and you saying "DO NOT WANT" on the other. You'll have a much easier time convincing me of your point of view if you can simply show me that you actually understand WEI, and if you can make me understand it too.
> If you can't be bothered to drive 10 minutes into work

Nice strawman. It's closer to an hour for a lot of people, though (especially with employers that value cheap rent over being in a good part of town).
> These models have little to no built-in physics and learn to forecast purely from data. Astonishingly, this approach, done correctly, produces better forecasts than traditional simulations of the physics of our atmosphere.

Haha. The old NLP saying "every time I fire a linguist, my performance goes up", now applies to the physicists....
That’s not a hot take. Literally thousands of people have written and said this exact same thing, for years.
Just did it myself today.

Personally it was fairly easy using the standard reset UI through settings over doing a full recovery wipe.

1. Upgrade to Sequoia

2. "Erase all Content and Settings" from Settings.
> I can see this being a valid argument for return to office for a lot of corporations, if its actually true. The tax benefits are too good to pass up and in office has been the status quo forever.

Holding on to what is now an outdated view of worker utilization might help them for a couple years with these tax incentives, but they're going to get a lower quality of worker, and incur a lot of retraining costs as people quit. They're going to have to pivot to having less commercial real estate eventually.
Compared to what?

You haven't truly experienced process misery until you've done a 4 year death march in a waterfall process.
I have not seen any L8/L9 ICs in Cloud get pushed out. If anything, G needs to hire more high level people.
Isn't RAM super cheap? Why can't they ship an iPhone with 16GB RAM to run all the LLMs locally?
Yeah it's cultural, exactly.

But also, if you're making hardware for example, you can't just go back and 'update' the molds, the assembly line, change the material composition, etc. The lead times are insane, the changes are expensive, and the downstream consequences can be disastrous. This applies to everything from medicine, to farming, to government.

Whereas software you just push new code to prod.
Even those politicians pick but a few products to do so. It's all theater. There's zero chance of the US succeeding in an all out trade war.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was complaining about the hypocrisy and double standards.

It's all well and good that they didn't doxx the guy in the costume. I'm just saying that they also should have respected Scott Alexander's wishes, which were arguably even more justified.
Meta bans Russia state media outlets
Thanks, I should have specified that!

I'll note that anyone running an out of date MacOS should use Chrome or Firefox. Safari gets its updates via OS updates, whereas third party browsers have their own update cycle.
Me. I've worked in a company where scrum was being done properly. It is wonderful.
Adding a bit more context.

Nvidia got the bid for Switch when they were basically dumping those unwanted Tegra to Nintendo for an incredibly low price.

Xbox and Playstation dont earn AMD much profits at all. AMD had this Custom Processor segment to barely keep them surviving, people may forget AMD was only worth ~$3B market cap in 2016. They are now at ~$250B.

On the subject of software compatibility though, one thing I got it wrong was my prediction of having AAA titles on Xbox and PS would have helped AMD's market share on PC, given those titles are already optimised on Xbox and PS anyway. That didn't happen at all. And Nvidia continue to dominate.
Rule:

If your OS is macOS, it's the application's fault.

If your OS is Linux, it's your OS's fault.
If you WERE hired into a remote job, then you also don't have any rights to expect or demand to stay remote. At least, in an at-will state.
I interviewed at a ride-share company (one that was not then working on self-driving cars mind you) once some 5 years ago or so and was shocked to find out that they had 1,000 software engineers. What did they need so many engineers for?! But then all their queries were hand-written to some key/value store w/o a query engine -- that has to explode your engineering needs a bit, though maybe still not to 1,000.
That requirement doesn't apply to most apps even though it says it does. Zoom/Teams/Slack all pick up the permissions immediately.
Emulating x86 would be an option - though given Sony's history, I doubt they'd consider it seriously.

For context...

- PS1 BC on PS2 was mostly hardware but they (AFAIK?) had to write some code to translate PS1 GPU commands to the PS2 GS. That's why you could forcibly enable bilinear filtering on PS1 games. Later on they got rid of the PS1 CPU / "IO processor" and replaced it with a PPC chip ("Deckard") running a MIPS emulator.

- PS1 BC on PS3 was entirely software; though the Deckard PS2s make this not entirely unprecedented. Sony had already written POPS for PS1 downloads on PS2 BBN[0] and PSP's PS1 Classics, so they knew how to emulate a PS1.

- PS2 BC on PS3 was a nightmare. Originally it was all hardware[1], but then they dropped the EE+GS combo chip and went to GPU emulation, then they dropped the PS2 CPU entirely and all backwards compatibility with it. Then they actually wrote a PS2 emulator anyway, which is part of the firmware, but only allowed to be used with PS2 Classics and not as BC. I guess they consider the purchase price of the games on the shop to also pay for the emulator?

- No BC was attempted on PS4 at all, AFAIK. PS3 is a weird basketcase of an architecture, but even PS1 or PS2 aren't BC supported.

At some point Sony gave up on software emulation and decided it's only worth it for retro re-releases where they can carefully control what games run on the emulator and, more importantly, charge you for each re-release. At least the PS4 versions will still play on a PS5... and PS6... right?

[0] A Japan-only PS2 application that served as a replacement for the built-in OSD and let you connect to and download software demos, game trailers, and so on. Also has an e-mail client.

[1] Or at least as "all hardware" as the Deckard PS2s are
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The official way, which is by going to the Privacy & Security screen to click the override button
> I eventually got a role director of a consulting company in 2009, and I was making $150k. I felt like a badass... I ‘retired’ during the pandemic. I’ve really struggled since then.

Honest question. I have often thought that not everybody enjoys retirement. Some people struggle to find a meaningful purpose on their own. Do you think you are in that group? And have you considered going back to work?
Yes and no?

Intel is being weighed down pretty dramatically by trying to do 5 nodes in 4 years AND do it at any scale. Intel's foundry business lost 2.8B last quarter, on revenue of 4.3B. That means they spent 7.1B in THREE months.

Intel currently can't use any of its new nodes to make their leading chips (AI PC, e.g.) because those nodes aren't operating at scale. So they're paying TSMC to make the chips. Which means that Intel isn't sending work to its own fabs to offset the costs of advancing nodes.

Plus, the foundry business hasn't managed to announce any flagship deals with outside parties.

By making it a sub at least they can raise funds to burn someone else's money while they try to spin things up.

The bigger headwind they face is that if Intel is tightly tied to the fabs, those fabs are going to be focused on serving intel, and not on serving the other customers it needs to service to have a leading node fab be remotely sustainable.
Oh, so you own a Mercedes-AMG Project One, then? After all, that's the car with the highest production values.
I used FF all day on Sequoia

The headline should probably say FF with special firewall rules most people never use
It brings to mind how much easier it is to do layoffs. No longer have a desk to pack up when let go.
Is this sarcasm or a reference to something I'm missing?
It's a very reasonable argument. And even if it isn't something now (where Amazon gives Seattle the bird... wait, that's San Francisco that got the bird from the bird), it is something that would impact their ability in the future to negotiate tax breaks with cities.

There's also the question of even if remote work was more productive on the whole (and I believe this to be true) and that these productivity gains come from the more senior workers who are able to identify tasks that they need to complete and effectively shut the door on the office and focus ... while also being able to handle other things at home (being more productive because you can put a load of laundry in at noon or being able to get something to eat without having to go all the way to the break room)...

So, grant that on the whole productivity is higher with WFH for mid level and senior level individual contributors ... junior ICs may be suffering quietly without more direct mentorship, the listening in on ad-hoc hallway meetings, managers being able to pick up on work stress more easily.

It would be very easy to imagine a conversation at some director level (where I'm making up the numbers)... "From 2020 to 2024, we've seen the number of junior ICs advance to mid level drop from 20% to 16% compared to 2016 to 2020. This is a declining trend and when looked at year over year 2020 to 2021 had 8% advancement while 2023 to 2024 only showed 4% advancement. Furthermore, the senior ICs are comfortable in their role and the number of them moving up to management has dropped from 5% to 3% in the 2020 to 2024 time frame. If this continues, we may be looking at a lot of unsatisfied junior developers who are not progressing and a lot of satisfied senior developers and leads who would traditionally shift to the management track... well, not take that step in their career progression."

Yes, that's a just-so story. I find it to be a believable one.

So even if everything is great with remote work currently for productivity, some trends may be showing a problem years down the road where people are not improving and the company as a whole is stagnating (even more).

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(edit / addition) - from last year, that tax revenue thing with some numbers: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/community/amazon-return-to-...
When I worked at Amazon, I also was tired of paying for expensive lunches available nearby. But I didn't always have time to make pack lunches.

So I ordered canned soup, on Amazon, to be shipped to the office mailroom. Then picked up the soups and kept them in the drawer by my desk.
That's what the CDN is for
Wouldn't that lend credence to the author's claims? That it only appears to be a medieval society, but is instead something very different (a liberal capitalist world after grand social dissolution). After all, the two adventure/roleplaying game series that Bethesda is/was known for are The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, the latter, at least, explicitly taking place in a post-apocalyptic universe.
Why would you use iPhone Mirroring for this
And out of CommonMark John MacFarlane created djot[1], which (imo) is awesome and a solution to virtually all Markdown woes, while still being close enough to pure Markdown/CommonMark that it doesn't feel that different when using.

[1]: djot.net/
HaLow Wi-Fi tested at 9.9 miles: New Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase
FreeBSD 13.4-Release
> Yes SSDs in theory are faster but you are only as fast as your slowest link, which is the spindle drive. so that cache is a buffer only for frequently read data. in home environments they’re next to useless.

If you check the numbers I gave above, I have 2 TiB SSD and 8 TiB hard disk. My 'frequently read data' is basically all the data I care about accessing. The other 8 TiB is mostly for eg steam games I installed and forgot about or for additional backups of some data from cloud services, like Google Photos. These are mostly write-once-read-never.

And eg if I happen to access a steam game that's currently on the HDD, it will quickly migrate to the SSD.

My 'working set' of data is certainly smaller than 2 TiB.

Five disks are safer than a single disk (if you store things multiple times or with erasure coding), but if you stick all five disks in a single device, the safety gains are rather more limited.
Hybrid means I still have to live in $1000/sqft territory, but also need a home office.
Theres probably an open source library, probably not a startup. Who is really hair on fire about this?
I’m curious about the name. Since the move from cats to California regions, they’ve seemed to be regionally or biom grouped. We were in sierra regions for a while (10.10-10.13) then beach regions (10.13-13). 14 was Sonoma so I would’ve expect Napa, but seems we’re back to sierra mountain regions.

I wonder what goes into the product discussions over the name. Is there a rhyme or reason or is it just want sounds best to the PMs and marketers?
Reduces 'food noise' is the term I always hear.
I have Xcode set up to play a sound effect when a build or a test run finishes successfully, and a different sound effect (the Metal Gear alert) when it fails.
I'm in the same situation, though I design more hardware - I stopped going in most days of the week and avoided those commutes when my son was born, that allowed me to spend more time with him as a toddler. When he started highschool we left the US, he's mid 30s now and I've just retired.

COVID lockdown was a doddle, I had been working at home full time for almost 30 years by then
Should I still expect the cursor to disappear all the time in Terminal?
Forced attrition is definitely a goal with this. Markets cared little about previous cuts so doing it silently.
I believe x64 won the PS4 era because games devs were deeply sick of targeting a special purpose architecture for the console and also x86 for the PC game port. At the time all desktop computers for games were x86 based IBM clone things.

I don't know why AMD ended up with the PS4 and the xbox as opposed to Intel getting either, but x86 was probably inevitable. I wonder if these days something architecturally similar to the mac arm systems would be a reasonable alternative.
But people DO do the thing right. As a loose guideline, I think you can reasonably infer that anyone who is telling "you are doing Agile wrong" has first-hand experience with an agile process that is working reasonably well. So take that as a starting point.

And the reason they are telling you that: because an agile process that is working well is like night and day to all the crazy processes that preceded it. When it works, it is amazing!
Bizzare. When I was at AWS I'd IM my manager that I was working from home and he'd say, me too. There would be no need to ping the manager about my location, he knew. Amazon had such a big retention problem, and I hear they still do, that I'd doubt a manager would fire a good performer over work location. They had some tempting retention offers when I resigned. Amazon fires low performers aggressively, so avoid being in that category, on-site or otherwise. Sounds like it's completely changed?
Just some quick notes: Lines should be customizable for what sound is played: ie being able to make drum beats would be neat. And a silent-line should be an option too.

A line that toggles on/off when a ball passes through it or collides with it would also be fantastic.

Also a trampoline line/shock absorber line(s).

The default/starting line should be a diagonal too, since it makes it more clear what is happening and you don't get that decaying bouncing thing.

very cool idea
But this gets them in trouble with insurance providers for some reason.

What kind of trouble is this getting Zoomcare in? I've never used Zoomcare, just curious.
What is the benefit of running Python in Excel vs using Pandas for example?
Not changed my mind (on what? "The holocaust is bad"?) but Night (and its sequel Day; I haven't read Dawn, which comes in the middle, yet) by Elie Wiesel. Horrifying, but important. Note that it's semi-fictionalized.

On truly changing the way I thought of something, I'd say some of Cory Doctorow's writing on Pluralistic, namely on if enshittification was a necessary consequence of the SEO spammers or a conscious choice by Google to increase.

Finally, Lies My Teacher Told Me. It's about how textbooks (in the US at least) misrepresent history, and how many of them still teach things effectively from the 50s. It's great. If you struggle with context and/or comprehending it (it's written fairly academically), he has a young readers edition (actually I'd recommend it anyway; it's good and young readers editions often provide more context than the 'adult' versions)
And that's telling, isn't it? Even in this space, Intel's iGPUs are totally ignored or dismissed out of hand. I say it's because they have an unending string of broken promises, saying "This'll be the time we get integrated graphics right", over and over. It's never been true, and I for one have totally wiped them from my vision due to that.
'All good here': Last messages from Titan submersible
Yeah, it’s on them. But that doesn’t fix things.
Both of you guys are being condescending. But you had much less substance.

--WFH proponent
> If I thought the iPad was a real platform then I might be more interested but unless they make the Mac display thing much better and/or open up the Vision Pro to be a real computing platform then it's just a very expensive iPad and in most cases I'd honestly pick the iPad over it.

The Mac screen replacement enhancement is the “killer app” for me. Mac screen surrounded by simpler (mostly Safari) windows.

I would happily pay $4500, $5500 for a true “Pro” Mac replacement Vision. With an emphasis on maximizing the value of spacial computing for productivity.

I can think of dozens of small Vision OS tweaks they could make now that would better facilitate this, even before any hardware updates.

Alas, more power for its users is not an Apple priority. “Bicycle for the mind” is a lost mantra.

“Media kiosk” is in.

Even though they essentially created a new category of VR they show every sign of leaning back into “iOS, iOS, iOS”.

Steve Balmer would be proud!
I mean, that's how a tuning fork, bell, string, or chime works in the real world. Frequency is inversely proportional to wave length.
If you're good enough to work for Amazon, you're probably also good enough to start your own startup or get equally paying work elsewhere, even in the current market.

I read the internal memo shown in the article and I really dislike how casually he tries to put a positive spin on forcing everyone back into the office with zero mention of the consequences on the employees and no hard evidence on any productivity benefit.

Studies show that out of full time in office, hybrid and remote, in office is the least productive.

I expect to see an exodus of top talent from Amazon and possibly a reduction in the quality of their services.
The descriptor word flag in flag football doesn’t need the quote marks used in the article (assuming a predominant US readership). Flag football has been played as a tradition at many/most large family gatherings during holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas in the US and Canada. When you mix ages and abilities and use little protective equipment, flag football has been the only safe way to play American/Canadian football for 60+ years.

Sounds like a fine way to get more visibility for an inherently safer form of a great sport. Can’t quite see it as a gender equality thing…it’s as much age as gender. Older football players rarely play full contact games for fun and flag football is a great alternative until your knees give out.
This assumes that China will make a good faith effort not to invade Taiwan sometimes 2028+. Current geopol intel is that they fully intend to without immense US deterrence.

Right now, you're more of the post-2014 invasion of Crimea camp, "let's not act too rash about helping Ukraine against Russia, hopefully they won't do anything more."

From someone who predicted the invasion of Ukraine: https://www.amazon.com/World-Brink-America-Twenty-First-Cent...
Thank you for the explanation, I hadn't clocked the difference between fair allocation for tasks and fair allocation for users.
> Tolkein, I think, is pretty much Beowulf + WWII

Tolkien was a/the leading scholar and Old English and the associated languages and cultures, including the myths. His knowledge was far deeper and wider than Beowulf. Much of the material in his books were from those myths.

Also, WWI was perhaps the greatest influence on Tolkien's life. Tolkien was an officer at the front; almost all his friends died in that war and his entire battalion was killed or taken prisoner (while Tokien was away recovering from illness).
MacOS seems to have a lot of apologists. Linux seems to have a lot of haters. If you haven't observed this to be the case, then it probably doesn't make sense. But it does seem to line up with what I've seen.
For visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noqBUEgyQ8A
A study says these drugs could prevent 1.5 million cardiac events over 10 years, add in a reduction in alcoholism and governments should be giving away these drugs to save on healthcare costs...

----- We identified 3999 US adults weighted to an estimated population size of 93.0 million [M] (38% of US adults) who fit STEP 1 eligibility criteria. Applying STEP 1 treatment effects on weight loss resulted in an estimated 69.1% (64.3 M) and 50.5% (47.0 M) showing ≥ 10% and ≥ 15% weight reductions, respectively, translating to a 46.1% (43.0 M) reduction in obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) prevalence. Among those without CVD, estimated 10-year CVD risks were 10.15% “before” and 8.34% “after” semaglutide “treatment” reflecting a 1.81% absolute (and 17.8% relative) risk reduction translating to 1.50 million preventable CVD events over 10 years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166206
After the upgrade a default firewall rule was added to block all traffic from Firefox. Running /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Firefox.app adds a rule to allow it and the app works as normal.
People smoke for different reasons, and have different experiences.

Separating medicinal use from recreational is far from trivial.

I can pretty much assure you that someone who smokes every day is not having the same experience as you, judging their life based on your experience makes no sense.
MSFT you need to be Principal 1 to make what an L5 at Google makes, according to levels. Maybe the is lower for Principal Engineer at MSFT?

When I interviewed at Azure (hiring event where I talked to 3+ TLs) I was not impressed at all, which is quite a contrast to when I interviewed at GCP. Maybe I got unlucky!
Why is speed of light the same in all frames? (An intuitive explanation) [video]