skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several alternatives worth exploring:

Alternative Search Engines:

- Bing Ads (Microsoft Advertising) is your best immediate alternative for Western markets - often lower CPC and less competition
- Yandex Advertising for Russian markets (if relevant to your market)
- Baidu Marketing for Chinese audiences (if relevant to your market)

Resolve Google Issues:

- Try reaching out to a Google Ads account manager - they can sometimes help resolve account blocks that automated support can't handle
- Consider working with a certified Google Ads agency who might have better support channels
- Document everything meticulously to demonstrate your legitimacy

Rethink Social Advertising:

While you've found social media ads ineffective, generally paid social is effective for most client, so you might want to reconsider with a different approach to define your audience:

- Target people discussing your problem space on LinkedIn/Reddit
- Use detailed interest targeting on Meta to reach people in relevant industries/roles
What kind of feedback was it? My guess is that those were pretty minor things that slightly improved your life. But the fact that it worked hints towards the fact that the managers were already competent, so the reports were already in a pretty good situation. No need for the advice of the featured article for that, right?
"But abstract concepts, like that every human contains the capacity for good and evil, absolutely. In fact that's what we're discussing."

I see. Well, I strongly disagree to the arbitary dividing of the world in good and evil. In fact, the whole "capitalism is the root of all evil" reminds me strongly of what was the devils doing before. All the bad just happens, because there is this evil force.

In my opinion, this is good ideology for controlling people - we are the good side - they are evil ones. And don't you dare question our side - then you are evil.

Still a surprise, that you see china as a positive force here.
We are using EKS

> I can't see how it can take 4 months to figure it out.

Well have you ever tried moving a company with a dozen services onto kubernetes piece-by-piece, with zero downtime? How long would it take you to correctly move and test every permission, environment variable, and issue you run into?

Then if you get a single setting wrong (e.g. memory size) and don't load-test with realistic traffic, you bring down production, potentially lose customers, and have to do a public post-mortem about your mistakes? [true story for current employer]

I don't see how anybody says they'd move a large company to kubernetes in such an environment in a few months with no screwups and solid testing.
Can't you just compile to WebAssembly and use it in Cloudflare Workers? Then you have no dependency nonsense.

Like this: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/webas...
Other folks made similar comments. I’ll have to see if this is possible. Your recommendation at the bottom sounds plausible so I’ll give it a go.
It's even worse than you think. Chromebooks run open source Coreboot and you can get the code here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/cor...
I'll grant you it isn't a perfect market. From the employer side, there's what you shared, as well as the fact that SWEs, like most employees, are not fungible commodities.

From the employee side, there are definitely non-monetary factors that play into the sale of labor as well. And H1Bs (in the USA) or other legal restrictions also impact how labor is sold.

However, would you dispute that there is some level of free market for software engineers? I think there's some level because:

* people can switch jobs (except as legally restricted above)

* companies compete for talent (as indicated by the rise in salaries from 2020-2021 and the AI hiring frenzy now)

* you can have an oversupply of labor (as we're seeing in other areas of software in 2024)

Those all seem like aspects of a market, if not a perfect one.
Yeah, there is no way that the majority of EU-based developers can retire at 45 on their meagre salaries.
Php.net Is Down
Ancient fish-trapping network supported the rise of Maya civilization
Seriously. This thread is a bunch of people who have never been homeless, who never bothered once to learn anything about the mechanics of homelessness, yet feel compelled to share their utterly wrong opinions anyway. It's still a sin to tell a lie.
Yes it is. That is, after all, the entire point of a message in a bottle (unless you're trapped on an island, that is). A fun, whimsical idea so people in some other region or time can get a glimpse of the world you're in. A list of names is extremely unexciting.
Rethinking How We Think We Think
I'm curious what folks who have implemented login using Cognito think of these changes. I'm not a cognito user, but they've ignored this product for so long, I'm glad to see some improvements.
Elizabeth calls for crackdown on Internet "monopoly" you've never heard of
For building a serious business CRUD app, to this day, I've never found a JS UI toolkit that matches the power and scope of the 4.X era of Ext JS: https://docs.sencha.com/extjs/4.1.3/
Tbh I agree the final light steps can give it more of an arcade style and feel less realistic. I think if I used this effect widely I’d make a more professional light rays image with a different opacity. I’m not entirely sure I’d use the subsurface effects or not. If I did I may reduce their intensity.

One challenge with a demo like this is that subtle effects may look better, but they are harder to see. So I balanced making them visible enough to appreciate which is more intense than I’d otherwise want.
How do you like biking 3 hours a day? I'm starting a new job next year that requires me to be at the office most days. It's 40-50 minutes each way by bus or about an hour (if you're fast or with an e-bike) by bicycle, and I'm already considering getting an e-bike for the summer months for this. (It would be only 20-25 minutes by car, but I'm not willing to commute daily by car I think. I also just don't want to own a car in the first place.)
>Something is definitely up.

Well duh - the figurehead of X buddied up with Trump so the dems are leaving.
I would argue that while it _feels_ wasteful to us humans, as we perceive it as a "big recomputation of the rendered graphics", technically it's not.

the redrawing of anything that changes in your ui requires gpu computation anyway, and some simple blur is quite efficient to add. Likely less expensive than any kind of animations of dom objects thar aren't optimized as gpu layers.

additionally, seeing how nowadays the most simple sites tend to load 1+ mb of JS and trackers galore, all eating at your cpu ressources, Id put that bit of blur for aesthetics very far down on the "wasteful" list
Not sure what you are trying to say here.

I personally have good managers right now, so I don't bullshit them.

I have had mostly bad managers in my career though, and my advice in this situation is: bad managers are adversaries, behave accordingly.
Very few online news sources can be trusted to fact-optimize their headlines these days. Vs. click-, revenue-, or similar metrics. Less-bad sources often put fact-centric subtitles on their articles...but that's not the case here.
Same in French
Looks awesome!!

On a semi-related note, the best in-game UI I’ve ever seen was in Prey 2017. The little computers and terminals you interact with look amazing, and every single I time I used one I was spellbound. The huge amount of effort that goes into small details in games in particular is incredible.
Do those articles use scientific evidence? Do they measure anything quantitative or is it just a bunch of opinion.

UX poses as a scientific field when really there is little evidence based research and it’s all just technical procedure and big words. Technical procedures are illusory they make you think it’s legit with a bunch of rules but to be scientific you need evidence. As technical as the rules are, a lot of it is made up bs.

UX design is one of those bs concepts that litter the world and poses as legitimate. It’s like the food pyramid from the USDA that says refined carbs are the most important part of every meal.

If the debate is on how much contrast then run some science. Instead UX just debates and as a result the entire field is made up conjecture.
Thank you; glad to see some people understand an analogy when they see one.
Is name validation even possible?
In all seriousness it would be fun to know a little more about the story. Was this a rebellious act? Is this practice more common? Did this company do more things like this? Was the restraint in the message a sign of professionalism? Was the message debated? Was there one guy who was like, "guys the internet is gonna hate this"? Was this OG sh*t-posting!?
Yeah because the GPU has special hardware which you can take advantage of for an optimized box filter.

https://www.rastergrid.com/blog/2010/09/efficient-gaussian-b...
I am sorry I am not sure I understand what you mean by your comment.
Looking at the selection of the controls, does any of this even require any JS or can all this be made with HTML/CSS only?
Tons of software runs locally but then still exfiltrates your data for a variety of reasons. Ads, product improvement, metrics, cross-device syncing, etc.
I doubt it will happen in 10 years, but I think there’s a good chance it will happen.

The economics of new nuclear improve significantly if you’re willing to build many at once, and repeal a few key low benefit but high cost regulations.

The power requirements of AI can only really be met with new baseload power. You don’t want to leave your expensive silicon idle when the sun isn’t shining, and while batteries might help with say to day fluctuations, they don’t solve the problems of seasonal cycles.
Overreaction to a definitely arguably true statement. You can tell the bitterest basement dwellers when they self-identify by using the word vapid. It's the dead giveaway word.
Damn good to know! Have been gaslit by the ever-changing docker install instructions. Of course it would be a lagging version, but I think the docker feature-set has converged years ago, why would I care any more about the docker version than e.g. about the version of grep?
Yes, it is essential when you want to avoid doing business with customers who have invalid names.
Sure it is. Context matters. For example, in clone wars.
There's something I don't understand. In the trap line for the parent process, the variable "$child_pid" appears. How did that get set?
Forza is a game, the background being distracting or not isn't a real problem. On Windows 11 however there is some transparency effect here and there and it's indeed very annoying when a window change color because of what is behind it. Thankfully there's a setting to turn that down.
Yes, it's easy

bool ValidateName(string name) => true;

(With the caveat that a name might not be representable in Unicode, in which case I dunno. Use an image format?)
The wealthiest use issues like this to cheat the system. Solutions would involve WORK, plenty are still able, also temporarily assigning empty spaces in office buildings or other such reintegrative convergence points whereby reassuming ALL the lost habits and behaviors expected of productive members of society can find a place to be redonned much like release from prison. Reintegration is what needs to occur when the civilised suit is required to be worn again and the animal skin donned merely for survival can be retired. When conditions on the outside of a person are met it is within the grasp of that person to meet them internally as well. I will act civilised when im given the same respect afforded to people for whom the idea its ok to not have a home WOULD BE RIDICULOUS. In falling beneath all this contempt i wore the dirt i was considered sononymous with PROUDLY. If no one could thereafter imagine me clean, i too forgot the image. Thus i became my disgusting environment. Seeing as how in a moments flash of judgement i was seen less than human, how could i ever hope to regain a position so imaginary to begin with when i watched it die like a light in a strange mans eye.
Because immediately he could ascertain i held less possessions, owned less property, wore dirtier clothing, slept god knew where. For those reasons i was immediately upon sight cast down into a place i was NOT EXPECTED TO RETURN FROM EVER.By everyone who looked at me. And i stayed exactly where i was expected to down there in the dirt. Because i no longer held any more faith in THAT MAN and his fragile petty conclusions than he held of me. His suit was too pretty for me to desire its false presumptive lies.. and my dirt was to ugly and real for him to understand how i could be a man when soap is so readily available. What had i done so terribly wrong that i couldnt at least MIMIC the simple act of civilised proper upbringing? My response? I no longer freakin want to.
The eventual chain of personal deevolution was thereafter embraced where i saw a certain enlightenment in the adoption of more profound truths than being merely poor. At some point with the dropping of crumbs of concern for what people thought of me i unwittingly entered into a state of raw hostile savagery decorated with the accoutrements and badges of REAL SURVIVAL.
Only others like me understood me and i passed a place from which without outside intervention i couldnt possibly hope to return.
And this isnt my story alone. It is what you see written on thousands of faces when you look into the incomprehensible visage and life of the homeless person. Staring back at you is the return of incomprehensive shock at what theyve become from what looking at you they once were. And...the dread hopeless certainty theres no return.
What do you think it does to the soul who sees the ship sailing away without him never to return, in a land that is not home and from which theres no escape?
Inside, he dies.
So there is youre burdon the desire you swear you wish to understand and heal.
How to bring all these dead folks back to life?
You contradicted yourself and offered a solution that works in all cases. "Do what you want but you will be sued if something goes wrong". The problem with almost all of our regulations is that you have to prove you are compliant by satisfying inspectors before you can even start.
You got evidence to back that up?

The human body is designed to desire and consume the maximum amount of feel good tasty food for maximum energy but we are finding that the evolution of the human body is not designed to actually accept such massive consumption despite our desire for such food. Our bodies do not handle the highest capacity consumption instead they have narrowly evolved to fill a strangely specific niche.

Same with our eyes. It may seem easier to like high contrast designs but our eyes through millions of years of evolution are not optimized for high contrast signs since those things never existed in nature.
Back in the day I did a similar error with wrapping C graphic libraries directly 1:1 with improved C++ bindings, until I realised it was more ergonomic to think in higher level C++ abstractions, and exposed those concepts instead, fully hiding the underlying unsafe C APIs.
No, but it doesn’t stop people trying.
I briefly verified this before posting, and it appears to still be true [0].

The diversity is an illusion; like how 10 food companies own basically all the world's brands [1].

0 - https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/c...

1 - https://www.good.is/this-infographic-shows-how-only-10-compa...
> Running hydro, biogas (e.g. in Denmark) and offshore wind (UK, Spain, France, Italy) can definitely fulfill base load demand on the basis of renewable energy generation.

This seems entirely region dependant, but even so, I think a citation is needed here.

I know there are poster children for renewables, like Iceland which struck the energy lottery. But I don't know of many places other than that which can satisfy base load today with renewables unless you're going hyper-local.

Or was your point that we could do it if we threw billions at the problem?

Your entire second paragraph is basically "throw money at it" when, sadly, the politics (which are reflective of the will of the majority) of the world seem to be instead moving in the opposite direction.
The date of the massage is 4th Sept but it says about the event on 15th Sept. Suspicious :)
Isn't that just how people were taught to write at the time? I had always heard that children were taught to write differently in the uk than in the us, but all those letters were exactly how I was taught 90 years later in the us. The r varies a couple places but the one used more often is how I was taught. I was taught with a ballpoint/biro, but with a flexible nib or brush pen it comes out looking like that, just not as pretty. I'm not sure if that is iron gall. There is a little bit of water damage in one spot and I've never seen real iron gall move around at all onve dry. You can use watercolors or even alcohol markers over it.
Explanation video: https://youtu.be/HTdMwPqetMs
Well, that sounds good, but that also is true of heating which remains one of the largest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions.
Thanks for the hi-res images.

I couldn't resist blending the visible with ultraviolet in Photoshop, here's the result:
https://imgur.com/a/vRGav2d

I did a quick clean up of the hard edges, but didn't want to push pixels too much.
Or... we've found the most evidence of writing connected to an activity that would have naturally made the most effort to ensure it's preservation.
Mercedes might be bloated, but they also make over a dozen different vehicles including some commercial vehicles. They also, in my opinion, make vehicles at a level of quality and experience that Tesla can’t match especially at the mid to high-end.
Highly amateurish take if you call shell spaghetti a Kubernates, especially if we compare complexity of both...

You know what would be even more bad? Introducing kubernates for your non-Google/Netflix/WhateverPlanetaryScale
App instead of just writing few scripts...
It's made from over 90,000 individual images that have been stitched/combined together. I'm not the original photographer so I can't comment on his process, but I think it would be silly to use upscaling (AI or otherwise) when your starting data set likely contains multiple gigapixels.
No we like photos with blur in the background. We prefer such photography. So who’s to say the faux surface fails?

Again we need evidence based measurements which the entire UX field lacks. It’s just a bunch of made up concepts strung together with little scientific research.
I agree office documents aren't the ideal format for business users' workflows. However, I disagree markdown is the solution.
That date picker is really good.

> Is there anything like this in React world?

None in any world, to be honest.

It's amazing that most UI libraries go out of their way to make month and year selection as awkward and non-intuitive as possible.
The 'giant' river crabs that live beneath Rome's ancient ruins
> Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive...

This is exactly what I have observed too. Notice how all commercial software comes very polished and modern with a very superficial UI. Despite most software products being hundreds of times more complex than simple electronic gadgets, such gadgets often come with more complex manuals.

It's obvious that the true end-game of AI is not to make end users more productive, but rather de-skill end-users and make them entirely beholden to third-party software. Most companies would love the tradeoff of making their employees more like cogs at the cost of lower productivity.

Alas, I too am held hostage by Emacs as most software doesn't even come close to the flexibility it provides.
How would you feel if bash scripts were replaced with Ansible playbooks?

At a previous job at a teeny startup, each instance of the environment is a docker-compose instance on a VPS. It works great, but they’re starting to get a bunch of new clients, and some of them need fully independent instances of the app.

Deployment gets harder with every instance because it’s just a pile of bash scripts on each server. My old coworkers have to run a build for each instance for every deploy.

None of us had used ansible, which seems like it could be a solution. It would be a new headache to learn, but it seems like less of a headache than kubernetes!
My process for creating API clients (with .NET)
Given that anyone who’s interacted with the LLM field for fifteen minutes should know that “jailbreaks” or “prompt injections” or just “random results” are unavoidable, whichever reckless person decided to hook up LLMs to e.g. flamethrowers or cars should be held accountable for any injuries or damage, just as they would for hooking them up to an RNG. Riding the hype wave of LLMs doesn’t excuse being an idiot when deciding how to control heavy machinery.
I started working in a project using prime and the exposed api is just frustrating compared to MUI, at least for me.

Feels like they take the idealistic view of things versus pragmatism.
Ten implausible-sounding scenarios for 2025
"To navigate the future, it can help to anticipate the unlikely"

https://archive.is/q2D2t
> It's like having a meeting about a project whose deadline was 3 weeks ago and the team really cares about making a success of it, but the finance department has told the board privately that if the project is a success it would make most of the rest of their incredibly lucrative business obsolete, so now they need to figure out how to make the project fail slowly in a way that makes it seem to the team that they're trying their best so they don't get the blame for it afterwards.

I disagree with you.

The "team" as you put it does not care about making it a success as we have seen in the last decade. Germany closing it's nuclear reactors and replacing them with Russian gas plants, France pushing diesel engines up until the end of the 2010s and marketing them as a safer alternative to other ICE engines, the list goes on and on with governments doing stupid things after stupid things.

Who is the finance department in this case? the corporations? The oil producers? Because that is not very clear to me.
You may not want Bobby Tables in your system.
Totall ok! As soon as the program does what I want, and my task is complete, I stop developing. Software is not my hobby.
i have a friend who helps the local homeless population out (around 5-10) and they are all on government subsidies. like disability or whatever.
Part of the problem of this form of benchmarking is that in some domains we wouldn't only be interested in the percent of times that an error channel is successfully mitigated, we would also be interested in the distribution of types of errors for cases where an error channel isn't successfully mitigated. The paper appears to be silent on that matter.
Many would be quick to argue that they are interlinked but I strongly agree with you - particularly in the context of this thread.

For me, optimism still provides a lot of value in my worldview. The beliefs that have changed the most for me in the last 25 years is the limits and boundaries of what tools can do for us.

Technology ‘fixing humanity’ (when that ‘fixing’ is based on your own personal value system) is certainly a fools errand. But that limitation shouldn’t get in the way of imagining a utopia which is worth having.

Sure, I miss my childhood feelings of the 90s. But I also never expected a techno utopia to be ‘easy’.
Here's a version with hard edges softened a bit, although my effort is a 5 min job, it scrubs up okay. Also this is a blend of visible and ultraviolet. Good old imgur, they allow massive jpeg uploads without needing to sign up or log in!

https://imgur.com/a/vRGav2d