skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do cool kids install Emacs with native-comp support on OSX these days? emacs-plus formula doesn't support it yet and neither does the Mitsuharu's port.
There's a difference between re-defining one's local monetary system to use 'chunks of time' instead of money, and variably pricing select goods and services in terms of 'how much money you make in an hour.'

The former scheme is hard because time, as the Ithaca HOURS currency experiment shows, isn't exactly fungible in the same way that money is. Being able to redeem 'an hour' assumes that all people can do the same level of work at all tasks.

The latter, however, requires a different way of thinking about pricing.

For instance, service providers might set their rates as multiples of one's hourly wage: a tennis teacher might charge 1x, a pro-tennis teacher might charge 3x, and a low-income psychotherapist might charge .85x... Such a scheme could work with a sufficient number of clients -- essentially one is sampling from the income distribution -- but the system is more equitable to income differences.

From this point, one can think of more complex schemes, like a non-linear mapping function that can prevent high-income individuals for paying drastically more than others.

Yes, one big issue is one of trust and verification of income... but if it were a culturally accepted practice, it could work. The other issue is the incentive to only target high-income people. Perhaps there could be a set of tax breaks for those whose distribution of client's incomes met some basic requirements.
There are not more workers than jobs, ive worked in the industry and this is a fact. Workers on ridhailing platforms come in varying levels of quality and amount of hours they can supply

You are thinking too much about just workers, when actually the smalelst divisible unit is hours. There is portion of drivers that barely ever switch, and then there is another portion that are constantly looking for the better deal, switching through outh the day. Its a scale.

So to keep drivers happy and on your paltform, you need to implement bonus schemes or have certain base pays.

Im not sure why so many people feel that they can comment on how the ridehailing platforms work without having any real experience in driving for them or working for them.
I think part of the reason he "falls" for it is the contents of the spam are things he wants to be true. In other cases he'd see the warning signs and know it's spam, but with things he actually wants to be true, he would rather someone he trusts to tell him there's no way.
Server optimization is huge business at Google and anywhere that burns an expensive amount of power. It can be incredibly lucrative, I'd look into it.
In response to your assertion that 99% of devs think they are in the top 1%, I'm not sure if that's true...

Here's my case:

Devs who work in a team with others are constantly exposed to the skills, cleverness and ingenuity of their colleagues. Most interns and juniors look at sys architects and senior devs with awe, not down on them.

Obviously we're all exposed to incompetent dev's at similar rates, but I feel like when you become the best dev in a company most realize they're unlikely to learn much more and should consider moving on, if not out of à desired to learn more, than likely out of frustration.

The wildcards are the "1 man shows", a dev in a department of 1. These people are often either incredibly brilliant and don't need any help or so stunted in their development and inflated I'm ego that they genuinely do believe they're the 1%.

As a 1 man show dev myself, I often have to remind myself I have no baseline reference for how good I am - despite my talents being sufficient for my employer to not need to hire others. To combat this, I just have to read HN and get a frame of reference for what others in the industry are accomplishing. It's quite humbling.
The sheer number of phone calls I would get from pissed-off friends and family for whom I installed Firefox would make me want to put a brick through Mozilla's window.
You'd be surprised, MS doesn't do this randomly. They'd rather break a game if the game is actively in production or the company is around. They only put in shims for applications if the vendor isn't still in business usually or can't get source code. But in quite a few cases they'll just put in a patch binary in the shims that just removes the anti-cheat all together from the binary when loaded. Game still runs... nobody cares.
Whats the difference between youtube paying creators $x/1000 views and Uber paying drivers $X per km/minute of driving? Surely they're both contractors right? What distinction am I missing here?
Seems like native JSON parsing should help with LSP performance!
> The rest of us have a % of money to spend on talent.

If the % of money allocated to talent is so low that the business cannot survive, then the business has no intrinsic right to survive. One possible exception to this would be a mission-driven non-profit, but that's not what we're talking about here.
Sometimes it feels like there are people out there who want Mozilla to fail and gleefully seek ways to make that happen (even by doing something as simple as amplifying misinformation), even though it is not really in their interests to do so.
I would argue that FAANGs have the ability to overpay in many cases and still acquire talent which skews market wages. A FAANG can possibly pay 200K to an average developer who would otherwise may be make 120K in a regular company. So now the developer thinks they are worth 200K everywhere.
Keep in mind that the cost of living in silicon valley is drastically higher than Colorado. You can use something like https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare... to estimate the difference and it's pretty staggering. You'd probably have to at least double your salary to consider moving.
In this case, it's a market distortion, and is arguably an example of anticompetitive behavior.
U.S. Appeals Court Throws Out Antitrust Ruling Against Qualcomm
Not all companies need $500k engineers or can afford them. An optimization at Netflix that improves performance by 1% may save them millions of dollars. The same optimization at a medium-size company may only save them a few thousand.

Also, it's much more difficult to quantify the impact of a software engineer compared to investment bankers and consultants. The latter two are directly making money for the firm.
That's true, though you shouldn't entirely discount the protection it provides to you as well.
That's kind of the point though; would this whole arrangement work any better if it was all directly under the DoD hierarchy? Vs. private contractors like this? I was not intending to be snarky in the original comment. I've lived in a system where a lot more of the economy was under the government in the org chart and it was not magically better than the American system.
Thanks for the tip re donation!

Edit: Re "I used a new, clean org-roam database in an empty ~/Org folder because I wanted to leave behind all the cruft and stuff from the previous project, including potentially"

Exactly what I did and what gave me a boost in learning Emacs+Elisp and a fresh start. My old `.emacs' file was holding me back!
Agreed; it's certainly something we will keep in mind as we mature Sysbox.
You are right. The CPU speed was lame. They also dragged their feet giving the IIgs a decent OS. If they released a souped up IIgs (Apple IIx or whatever) back in 1984, do you think the Mac would even exist?
The only reliable dream test that worked for me was trying to put my finger through my palm. In dream world, there’s nothing stopping it and it goes through. Everything else I’ve tried, would lead to me convincing myself why is was behaving strangely.
Plucking a number randomly from a real-world point-in-time snapshot of https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/, I see a suggestion of ~150 satoshis/byte, so for your example, transaction fees for an ideal/max size block would be 600 million satoshis = 6 BTC, which roughly is about the same as the block reward.

Needing to roughly double the status quo transaction fees to make up for lack of the block reward in order to provide equivalent security, doesn't seem ridiculous to me at all. And this is the worst case scenario (i.e. the reward will go from 6.25 to 0 slowly, but it can't go negative).
I thought the US was considered to be a prime example of a low context culture.

E.g. https://www.unitedlanguagegroup.com/blog/communicating-high-...
I think they're quitting because the company is mismanaged by the founders and there is nothing they can do about it (it's the next Uber). See scandals about not paying their employees and recurrent fraud.

My wife used to use Revolut, had to close her account AND block all transfers from her normal bank to Revolut after repeated frauds.

Want to know how fraud works nowadays? Let's say a fraudster gets a card number somehow.

What they do next is open a revolut account under the same name as the card, then credit the account using the stolen card. It's easy because revolut has zero KYC (identity verification) and the name/address matching doesn't trigger fraud detection.
I use Flatpak to install things such as Signal and Zoom. It covers most of the situations where I'd install a deb or rpm in the past.
Hm... No single conservative or Austrian economic school think tank ranks US as #1 in freedom. NONE!

US is typically about #14 to #17... with these "socialist-leaning" countries being higher on the list. (CATO Institute has Estonia in lockstep with US in overall freedom)

US is surprisingly intrusive, considering it's supposed to be "leader of the free world".
The difference between taxation and rate hikes is that taxes are generally progressive, while rate hikes being progressive or not depends on a lot of factors (but they can be). Taxation is a much more precise tool than rate hikes.
This article has so many omitted words that it’s hard to follow, even if the content is decent. I’m left wondering - did the author ever actually read what they wrote, or did they just press send and hope for the best.
Elite do-gooders 'fixing' the world are part of the problem: Giridharadas
As someone who very much wants to like Pocket, but finds it immensely frustrating,[1] how 'zactly does Mozilla plan to monetise it?

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Notes:

1. "Pocket: It gets worse the more you use it" https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_... and "Pocket: The worsening continues" https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/688oc9/pocket_... There's been some progress and backsliding, most of the complaints still apply.
Alternatively, the government can be useful to ensure people know what options are available to them.
> The opinion specifically being that there is literally no way for Mozilla to survive.

I note they just cut 25% of their workforce. That's not a sign of a healthy company, unless they had 25% excess people in the first place, and then it would be a sign of bad management. So I'm going on the assumption that they are letting go of people they could ill afford to miss.

> Others in the thread think they can survive by focusing on Firefox (you disagree obviously.)

I disagree because the writing has been on the wall for a long time. The diminishing market share tells a pretty clear story. What is happening now is that Mozilla will try to jump from one shrinking ice-floe onto another that they hope will be more stable and may even give them room to expand again. They fail to recognize - again, my opinion - that this lack of focus is one of the drivers of the exodus in the first place.

> Some (like me) think they can survive by building new things people will pay for. (you think they are a 'one trick pony.')

That's possible, but survival of Mozilla the software house making a lot of other stuff that generates revenue which is not the browser is none of my concern nor interest. I can see why as a Mozilla employee it would be your concern. But I see no difference between that work and that of any other software company. The browser is where the difference can be made.

> A CEO who disagrees with your opinion isn't ignoring facts

If that CEO has a great plan on making Mozilla survive and manage to stave off further decline of the browser market share then I haven't seen it. So either that plan does not exist or they have already given up but are just not telling you (or me, for that matter).

> and a CEO who doesn't charter a strategy towards something other than catastrophic failure is not a good CEO.

That depends on how avoidable the catastrophe is.

Losing the browser would be a catastrophe, losing the rest would not even register, for everything else that Mozilla does that I'm aware of there are alternatives. But a browser with still some market share that is privacy focused and not beholden to some large advertising agency or hardware provider is a unique thing.

I think the big difference between our points of view is that you are looking from the inside out and I'm looking from the outside in. You have by virtue of your position more information at your disposal, but your interests and mine are not necessarily 100% aligned.

I would prefer for FireFox to be available as long as possible, you - apparently - would like Mozilla Inc as an entity to survive. Those two are not necessarily joined at the hip. Though obviously if Mozilla Inc survives FireFox may have a better chance of survival too.

But it looks to me, reading between the lines here, that Mozilla effectively announces that they feel that the browser as a source of revenue is a dead end and that if they do not move into other markets that the company will go under.
Yes it is. From the homepage [0]: "Dedicated to the stewardship of Ruby on Rails applications."

I guarantee no one needed the author to explain that "hit by a bus" applies to more than tragic accidents.

[0] https://www.neomindlabs.com/
When I was managing the goal for the team was to have at least two people know each thing, but avoid too much overlap between any two people. This is like some form of erasure encoding :)
Even if you have the best compensation in the market, sometimes people leave just because they want something different. I agree with your general point that we should be willing to pony up to keep people, but ensuring your system is straightforward for other people to pick up and maintain is also a good practice.
> If Google is willing to pay 200k above market rate

This is not possible according to the usual definition of "market rate".

If Google is willing to pay X, that is the market rate.
I went through the same thing for years. If I were young (early 20s?) and single, I'd probably consider it. But keep in mind that's the high end. Most people in the valley also don't come close to that number, so it's a gamble without an offer in hand.

I'm in my 30's now, with a family. There is no reasonable amount of money that could convince me to uproot and go to the valley. Sure I could come out ahead financially, but at what costs? Commuting for hours each day, working long hours, living in a smallish house with no yard, high crime, high pollution, etc. Those are just some negatives, but there are of course some positives too. For me, my time with family is my most valuable asset, and I don't think I'd sell it for $500k.

Sure you could go there and make a lot of money and basically retire in 10 years, but I'd rather have those 10 years back in time at the end I'm sure.
The start of the included song is the same as a ukrainian folk song (with a very similar theme).

https://nashe.com.ua/song/15379

another version (gaily gown-greening):

https://www.pisni.org.ua/songs/461535.html

And доню and собі́ would also be ukrainian. So it looks like I have to transliterate from polish to ukrainian, neither of which I have any experience with...

(Incidentally, wesele seems to be one of the false friends you mentioned. Part of the chorus in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPovcLSEfS4

is Давай, давай веселей, but somehow I doubt the context has much to do with weddings.)

Edit: and speaking of weddings, YT just gave me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOc0s0OXV0Q

I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth... probably had something to do with the distribution of the song?

Edit2: The instrumentation for Głęboka studzienka reminded me of my favourite bavarian cover band (for anyone that doesn't know they need to hear oom-pah metal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI

Edit3: TIL poland is a civilised country. You all also have carnaval! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clr9gqqZ6jg
My company gives us PluralSight and will pay for some certs like AWS. Other than that, we're basically on our own.
Yeah, and (as a brit) wtf does "60% (UK)" even mean!?
Super Fast String Matching in Python
The insurance marketplace brought about by the ACA actually seems like a pretty decent idea. The problem is that not everyone is using it and most people are still tied to whatever plan their employer picks. Usually politicians say something like "People like the health plans they have and want to keep them."

Meanwhile I have changed jobs once in the last 3 years but in that same timespan I have had 6 different health plans / providers because companies renegotiate their plan every year and often pick a new one because they can get a better deal or the previous plan increased in price.

Having my own chosen plan via an open marketplace that was mine and not my employers would have actually resulted in more stability.
Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Boosts Learning of Foreign Language Sounds
For whatever it's worth, I've seen AT&T experiment with voice recognition for authentication. One of the Achiles' Heels of the system is you can collect a lot of the samples you need to bypass it from peoples' voicemail greetings. Especially if like for some jobs, they're required to re-record the greeting every day, i.e. "Today is Monday, June 17th, and I'm in the office..."

That being said, linear predictive codecs used in mobile/lower bandwidth IP networks have damaged the sound quality of the PSTN quite significantly (some are even vocoderized). If you're just dealing with, say, g.711 in wireline networks (when this was written, aside from g.722 in some ISDN networks, g.711 was used almost exclusively; GSM was very much a niche in its infancy), you might be able to squeak by with enough data to reliably recognize people.
You understand my point if you understand the two sentences I had the desire to type out on the topic. I wasn't responding to the full context of the grandparent's post. I was responding to the weak attempt at saying the Democrats and Republicans are the reverse sides of the same coin. Democrats have no desire to disenfranchise the same way Republicans do as it doesn't benefit them. They may try other ways to skew the results towards them but this tactic isn't used by them.
Unfortunately WINE can't just take the windows shim mechanism that largely just nukes these from orbit on binary load and removes the check all together. Maybe at some point MS will be more open about that.
I like how this post uses diffs to demonstrate how the code changes at each step, it's much easier to follow along than with blog posts that just show the complete code at each step and leave mental diffing as an exercise for the reader.
It's just a strawman. If they're attacking an argument nobody made, it's a strawman.

I would agree it was different if you meant they're attacking an argument that group X actually would make, but in that case I don't think it's a fallacy at all.
The biggest difference in the US is that "treated like an employee" also means being paid a minimum wage. As an employee in the United States, your employer is also responsible for paying a portion of your social security and medicare taxes, and for making sure taxes are properly withheld from your paycheck.

Even before the gig economy became a big deal, businesses like yoga studios would attempt to classify their skilled teachers as independent contractors so they could pay them well below minimum wage, but take away their ability to teach at the location if they taught somewhere else as well. Hair salons and yoga studios sometimes go so far as to charge their independent contractors rent, which would make sense if these people were truly renting the space and could freely take their clients elsewhere, but these businesses also frequently limit the contractors' ability to collect personal contact information.

When I volunteered to help people with their taxes, a large number of Uber/Lyft/DoorDash/etc. drivers were surprised to learn that not only did they have to pay large amounts of income tax that would usually be automatically deducted from their pay check, but they also had to pay double the social security and medicare taxes because they had to pay the employer and the employee portions. Companies that classify their workers as independent contractors in this way are taking advantage of the fact it can take people up to a year to realize that taxes and car maintenance will take what little income they have made.
I think that just ensures John Connor would be safe on a plane.
Well it is a lot more complicated. There is no "mental energy reserve", but we do get energized by norepinephrine in the brain and once it becomes saturated it it loses its effect.

A simple technique to reset it is to activate the "sigh reflex". You just breathe in twice at a normal pace and then slowly exhale through the mouth.

Another more powerful reset is to do yoga nidra for 10-20 minutes. Yoga nidra, once you figure it out, will actually deactivate the prefrontal cortex and simulate sleep. Which has a huge boost for your cognitive abilities.

Both of these techniques will increase serotonin and dopamine in the brain which will decrease norepinephrine. Once norepinephrine is no longer saturated you can become energized by it again.

For example, imagine a football team winning the super bowl. They've been pushing 110%. Suddenly, they're jubilant and jumping all over the place. The dopamine and serotonin pushes out the norepinephrine allowing to return and become effective again.
If Google is willing to pay $200k over your current employer for you, your employer is paying you $200k under your market rate.
That's sad, many of them would have joined Mozilla not just for money but genuinely believing they are working for social good and they did.

I understood how bad Mozilla, for lack of a better term 'sucked' at making money when I saw how the small team of KaiOS picked up the remains of Firefox OS and not only turned it to be a viable business but did so in the ruthless, hyper-competitive market of Smartphone OS ecosystem where even Microsoft had failed.

IMO Mozilla should have gone full throttle on Thunderbird Enterprise with support structure, Something for Microsoft Teams equivalent and finally embracing DDG with open hands.
Every single C-suite executive should be required to take a (2 * % of employees laid off) pay cut.

Lay off 25% of your company? Enjoy your 50% pay cut.

Have to lay off 50%? Enjoy working unpaid for a year while you rebuild.
This is a full blown dictatorship imprisoning innocent people, beating up protesters, blackmailing opposition candidate to escape the country by imprisoning her husband.

There are already dead protesters.

Calling these elections "controversial" is like calling WW2 "a disagreement".
I am lost between not believing you and questioning what I am doing with my life.