skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially with the fear of inflation, you are 100% correct. I think this bubble has been created by interests being too low for too long. Keeping your money in the bank is barely better than putting it under the matters. So where does it go? Stock market, real estate and crypto. What else could anyone do? It seems like more and more people are becoming angel investors too, but that's not any better and certainly not an option for most people
> Why not hire them and pay them better wages

You would have to search a lot to find any big, international conglomerates with shareholders who would willingly pay higher wages for workers without a fight.
"Sure, it might not be this but there's a fair bit of co-incidence going on here isn't there?" is pretty much the definition of tinfoil hat nuttery.

You accuse people of serious crimes when you have evidence. Not before.

It's not like evidence would be hard to find if it existed. Is there a whistleblower? No. Is there a specific feature of SARS-CoV-2 that matches other known genes that would be difficult to explain by natural evolution? No.

Stop chasing coincidence and clicking on partisan opinion essays that confirm your priors and go find some evidence.
See, your response is a red flag for me. It tells me you'll treat your employees like shit and talk down to them if they express their feelings like OP did.

I wouldn't accept a job offer from anyone who has a problem with someone writing a blog post about their experiences working for another company, good or bad.

People are too quick to act as if companies have this protection and that as employees we have to bow to them and cannot say anything negative, but in a heart beat companies will drop employees like yesterdays news.

This is a two way street and we has employees have just as much rights to express our disinterest and experiences with companies we worked with too.
So in the context of this article, contract means that Google hires a company (Modis) for specific work, and Modis hires workers who Google considers to be from the contract company. Modis workers get benefits (healthcare, retirement, vacation) from Modis if they are eligible based on Modis's policies and if they're full time. This is different than an independent contractor, who would have to self fund all benefits.
For decades people from all over the country, many of these small towns moved to places like NY, Chicago, SF etc. and the respective suburbs in search for better jobs, opportunity etc. It didn't seem like it was a big concern then to anyone that the locals in these cities could be negatively affected by higher rents, home prices etc. Why is it different when the reverse happens?

If its ok for a young person to leave their hometown, move to a city and call it home to make a better life without thinking about the locals, then it must be ok for a person with a small family living in a city to move to a smaller town and call it home to make a better life for his/her family.
I agree with the general point in this article, but I think aiming the problem at the "API" versus a download button is slightly missing the culprit.

I don't mind an API that allows me to easily request the entire dataset I want to grab with a single unauthenticated call. When this is possible, it's easy to create a download link for less-technical users by hard-coding a query into an href tag. The issue is when an API forces me to make a large number of queries (often tens or hundreds of thousands) to construct a relatively small dataset. Combined with rate-limiting and authentication, the whole thing becomes a nightmare to work with.

Sure, the standard API interface is great if you want to programatically interact with an external database through a custom application. But that design does not lend itself well to accessing public data for the purpose of modelling and data analysis. But, it's not the API persay that's the issue. It's the way that APIs are designed.
I get what you're saying, but being deceitful / being nonconfrontational / sugarcoating stuff is a completely different matter. You can be direct, while being nice.

It seems a lot of people think that if you have to confront someone or tell the truth, you can't be nice. That is pretty sad.

You can be nice, and you can tell people what you really think. It is 100% possible.

It is about how you word it. It is about putting in some effort to take care of others' feelings. I.e. being caring and empathetic.
That’s cause they were sued and lost.

Google then added trainings to avoid future issues. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tv...
Why doesn't anyone make a variant of drywall that has copper mesh embedded in it? You could theoretically make it thin enough to cut with almost the same level of difficulty.

You would only want the shielded variant on your exterior walls & upper floor ceilings. All you would need to do is make sure you clearly label/color the shielded vs non-shielded drywall appropriately so the construction crew doesn't get em mixed up.
Sufficiently secured systems that don't allow certain read/writes in /home have the issue where Firefox can't tell if it's the default browser, so even if it is default it will continue prompting forever. I had that issue on a few Linux systems, and the default config on OpenBSD (specifically the 'unveil' setup for firefox).

It's not a good user experience, even for people who are used to things not working perfectly.
No, for the precise reason that whatever you think your product is, your users and customers value its data above everything else because it powers their own conversations and decision processes.

With the explanation, if you have a product without an API, I guarantee you have a conceptual gap in the value you provide and why. If your product/data is valuable, users will put up with the most terrible UXs, but if you have the shiniest UX with gaps in the underlying useful data, you've basically got a videogame.

Then you need to look at what elitism is. It's not about requiring skills or physical competence to do something, as that would mean anyone who practised something would be a so-called elitist, which is absurd. Elitism is a way people without actual status affect or pretend to be as a way to convince others without status that they are elevated. Elitism is being a poseur. When you are a member of an actual elite, there is negative value in signalling it to an outsider, the only value is to signal your membership to other insiders. So someone who makes effort to signal their status to an outsider would therefore be an elitist.

Viewed that way, an API is not a signal, it is tool that literally refines the value of your data to that which is truly useful. My next product is starting as an API, and then I'm going to add UX skins to it because if it doesn't attract users, it won't be because of the trendy symbolism in the UX, it will be because it doesn't present the real meaningful data they need.

Please, make more APIs, as value for effort on all sides, it's the best possible solution.
Quality of Life is in the eye of the beholder. A fair number of people do prefer cities.

But to my own example. I live an hour drive out from a major city so, in normal times, within fairly easy range of going in for a night of theater or whatever. But between myself and a couple of neighbors where I live, while not really rural, we're on about 100 acres between us.
> Can anyone picture BoJo, Trump or Biden jumping off a chopper in Overtheristan killing locals?

Of course not, but given their age and the extreme-high risk aversion of modern people, yer not going to see that anytime soon. Not that many people have three sons (the third going into the military) in any case.

Nothing new here. I just assume that a sclerotic ruling class is simply a sign of late-stage empire. Eventually you'll see an interregnum followed by one of the other models for large scale social integration.
I worked briefly with a company that manufactured surveying equipment back in the mid 2000's and they had a similar setup (single sensor though). They could get sub-millimeter precision as well, but they had to 'chirp' the light power modulation from very long (e.g. 1km) to short (sub millimeter) in order to remove any aliasing that would occur when the distance was a multiple of the measurement baseline.

If these are 90 degrees out of phase I don't know how they eliminate that possibility without doing something similar. (e.g. imagine the modulation is at 30MHz and your measurement interval is 10m, how would you differentiate between 20.034m and 30.034m?
This sounds interesting! is there any more detailed write up that you link me to? Thanks!
Its quite interesting to see how most companies are just building ClubHouse like clones just to compete with ClubHouse.

I wonder if ClubHouse gets acquired by a bigger company
What is the HN equivalent of "slashdotted" ?
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Yep. At this time it wouldn't be great to just imitate the best mainframes compartmentalization, because we have much better experimental systems. But they are still much better than anything common on commodity hardware.
> We're in the process of switching to a ptrace-based approach that is more robust, at the cost of some additional runtime overhead.

Wouldn't eBPF be a better alternative?
16 hours since this post was made, and not one Spinal Tap reference. I'm getting old.
jesus, seriously. a prolific human.
The Windsor looks nothing like the four-in-hand. It's a symmetric, full knot. The four-in-hand is asymmetric and skinny. I happen to think the Windsor is the best looking knot here:

https://www.ties.com/how-to-tie-a-tie/windsor

(Scroll down to Explore More Knots.)

I've been using it since I was 13. My father taught it to me. His father taught it to him. I've taught it to my son.

I haven't tied the the Pratt knot before, but it looks like it's a nice nearly symmetrical knot that doesn't use up much of the tie.
Heh, this won't annoy me in particular since Firefox is already my default. Instead, it'll specifically annoy web developers who prefer some other browser, but are being good netizens and testing in Firefox too. I'm not really okay with making Firefox more annoying for these developers. It's their preference, and the checkbox in settings that is meant to control this prompt should actually control this prompt, all the time.
> I hope this is either a bug, or misunderstanding: this apparent change does not respect the "Always check if Firefox is your default browser" setting.

We absolutely continue to respect that check box. We won't always check at startup if Firefox is your default browser. When that box is left checked, you get a modal/prompt at every single startup. It literally always checks if Firefox is your default.

In contrast, the work resulting from this bug is just checking every 5 weeks and we happen to not be default, we'll ask with a more gentle infobar. We won't display the more disruptive modal/prompt.

I love Firefox, just stop shooting yourself in the foot.
There is no way that is a fair interpretation of that option.
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>You built a house there eight years ago

Sorry, I should've been more clear. I grew up here as well. I've lived here for my entire life (outside of the 6 years I was at college/grad school, and even then I was back to work on the farm on the weekends). It's not NIMBY. I don't care who lives here. That's actually what I like the most about rural living - for the most part if you leave people alone, they'll leave you alone. What I do care about is that the people I grew up with literally cannot afford their taxes anymore. Their kids can't stay here because they can't afford to buy a house. The community is dying.

My point about my home price is that, that increase in value/cost is not realistic. It's neither realistic in actual value or in attainability should I choose to sell it. Very few locals can afford housing around us now, and they're leaving. That's actually led to an increase in young people leaving the area. New young people move in, but for every one of them, it seems like three of us have to move somewhere else!

>You should be complaining about state policy

What possible state policy could there be to help in this situation?

>not the people seeking a better life for themselves.

That's the thing. They're not (I guess by my definition). They're either using the property solely as an investment with zero intent to ever live on/use the land, or as a pad for their homestead/van life/other nature centered blog and influencing scheme. I wouldn't have a problem if these folks tried at all to integrate into the community. But they do not. For the investors - they don't even know what the property is or where it is. They just know they can pay cheap labor to put up extremely tall fences and security systems (for what reason I don't understand). The Yuppies mostly live here Monday through Thursday, to take nice shots of themselves 'working on the farm' and then spend all weekend in the closest urban area. They do not shop in our local shops. They do not work with our local businesses. They're like tourists in their own lives. It's weird to me.
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The law forces google to choose contractors instead of hiring employees?
Why is this gray?
I can see that somewhat. Maybe you like surfing or salt water fishing and move from the coast to the middle of the country where it just isn't geographically possible, or laws in one area prohibit it (homebrew, guns, etc), etc.

But I don't really see location as a major factor in most hobbies. I grew up as a military dependent and can't remember giving up hobbies just because we moved. You can almost always find ways to continue them.
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It's even worse. When you launch Edge just to go to search and type 'download firefox' Edge tries to stop you by putting a nag banner right inside the search results.
Then you'd just be optimizing even more for sociopathic politicians. It's not like caring more about your children than power is some universal behavior in humans.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXzppfQE8Q
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I live by my Sansa Clip Zip. It's amazing that nothing as good has been released since. It's super light, with rockbox it works extremely well. Sound quality is better than my phone (pixel 4a). Only gripe is that it doesn't support ext2,3,4 or similar and I'm forced to use fat32.
I'm a Prolog newbie myself, but an experienced ML practitioner.

Doing "high-level" model-building in a Prolog-like DSL might be interesting, but lower-level numerical code seems like a chore.

The real "value" of Prolog (in my novice estimation) is querying data (i.e. Datalog), transforming between data formats, and building "logic-driven" applications like command-line tools, API clients, etc.
Grew up in rural nowhere Midwest. Home prices are still cheap. Desirable places are expensive and will only get more expensive.
Happy to say that this also works well with TypeScript with minimal explicit types required. My main goal is to maximize the use of type inference. The documentation provides TypeScript version of each example (outside of the TL;DR cheat sheet), except in cases where TS version is the same as the JS due to type inference. Even where there is TS version, the difference from JS is minimal.
You said that "very little was built or maintained after 1989". The exact opposite is true - before 1989 there was a moderate amount of newly constructed incredibly dangerous and toxic buildings violating every urbanistic rule and past plans that were a major downgrade from pre-war comfort (keep in mind that these buildings were built in 1970's, 30 years after the war); and there was absolutely zero maintenance, any repairs that got done were carried out secretly by the inhabitants with stolen material because you couldn't even buy it, and if you could you wouldn't because you'd be accused of the terrible crime of conducting business.

After 1989 the economy was in a bad shape - understandable after 40 years of destruction, but once it stabilized (within a decade, a truly incredible achievement of free markets!) there has been a huge explosion of real estate development, and it's still not finished - I can see from my window right now 5 buildings being repaired and 3 buildings being constructed. But there isn't any propaganda about it, so people further away from my street have no idea, whereas the communists ordinarily used faked/false photos to show off their incredible achievement.
Are you sure you want to not use Edge? Please? I'm going to cry. Hey, I'll reset it to Edge in a bit anyway just in case.
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This is also true in Boulder, which has plenty of COVID restrictions. The supply of housing is completely insufficient.
If you have been watching California's experiments with homelessness, especially San Fran. you may have learned that homeless people prefer being homeless even when given free accomodations and when i say accomodations I mean nice hotel rooms of their own.

This is because homelessness is a side-effect of mental illness and drug addiction. The later is not all drug addiction, ( I used to live next to an "invisible" heroin addict which we only learned about when he OD'd) it's a certain type of disorganized-thinking and lifestyle which some addicts manifest.

The cost of housing doesn't cause homelessness; it causes roommates and the conflicts and violence and chaos that imposes on people's lives which is significant if under-studied.
FiiO make great-sounding products, but rather than carry a standalone music player, one might consider the FiiO BTR3 Bluetooth amp that lets you listen to music off your phone at high quality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the two FiiO devices shared the same DAC.
I mean, in this sense large highways are elitist right? They require a drivers license, which requires studying etc.

Now, I'm not saying that it's an equal metaphor in any way, but worrying about API's not being accessible enough is only valid if the given consumer is having difficulties using/consuming the specified format. You can't write a spotify client with a csv as input, just like you can't read a book in a language you don't know.
Yeah, I wish. I wanted to do this in a townhouse where we have RJ-45 ports in every room, but for some reason, they aren't actually internally connected to each other. Only I found the walls are all completely filled with insulation and running any new wiring at all requires pulling some of that out first and then putting it back in after, otherwise the nice noise barrier I currently enjoy from my walls shared with neighbors suddenly goes away. This means instead of making one hole upstairs, dropping a weighted cable, and making a second hole downstairs, I now need to tear out entire sections of wall.
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> On April 16, when I started up Firefox 87 (stable) on my Ubuntu laptop, it popped up a prompt asking if I want to set Firefox as my default browser. Firefox is already my default browser.

Apparently it will annoy you as well. :)
Yes, I'd probably trade some pacifist politicians for all collateral damage caused worldwide from war, both people and environment.
This is all due to Microsoft contractors (who were treated like regular employees in the 80s and 90s) winning a lawsuit that retroactively forced Microsoft to give them a ton of stock.

Companies now have to be rude to contractors to avoid a similar lawsuit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/business/technology-temp-...
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It should not be legal. You exchange your time to produce money for the company, and that's it. You should be able to do whatever you want out of the company hours, and I don't see how that can be a problem. It makes 100% sense from a worker perspective to not have your company have complete control of you. There are plenty of other workers to choose from if you are a company, in case you are dissatisfied with an employee.
> Social housing avoids this hypocrisy, since the "owner" is not a person (or person-surrogate, like a corporation).

Like the housing projects in the inner cities?
"other actual technical jobs, like electrician," have barriers to entry.

Ms Wait would have to break her back schlepping spools around a jobsite for a few years before she could get onto the actual electrician career track.

Before they took away the light at the end of the tunnel schlepping batteries around for Google was just as good.
To be honest with Firefox market share at an all time low I would want them to nag me more.
Nortel collapse has many reasons that I am not debating. The stealing of IP and then undercutting the bids of Nortel with the same tech but cheaper is where Huawei got their break. My point is if thats a starting point as a company what kind of culture is breed from it and what does that say about the current situation
There is a vast well of diminishing audio in the Hi-Fi world.

I think for almost anyone who doesn't want to actively turn listening to music into a hobby, I think ~$100 each headphones and a DAC is the highest end anyone will ever notice.
True but it becomes more of an issue once it evolves to be an industry standard. You're not forced to work for IBM but you're pretty much forced to work somewhere.
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Planning is much more than making a list of things. It's about preparing for the future and actively creating it.

To-do lists that don't capture the bigger picture are setting you to forget many tasks.
Obviously the practical problem employers have is that some employees will research using company time then produce on "personal time". It's a phenomena common to industries where creative work is compensated. Consider music, Hollywood, academia, etc. - other industries where this type of stipulation is common.
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I've been using the Full Windsor since my dad taught it to me when I was 13. I'm not much one for fashion, but I think it's a timeless knot. Apparently James Bond didn't think much of it though. :-)
I just recently found out, you can use "Look Up" on Firefox for Macs, by tapping a word (or highlighted text) with three fingers on the trackpad.
Especially with the rising cancer known as SaaS. Soon you'll need to be paying $10/mo for your thermostat to work, and you'll need to fork over another $200 every other year to upgrade the hardware.
I'm sick and tired of curated lists of books, whether it's by Amazon or anyone else.

Does Amazon present enough of an API that a person could write a user interface that allowed browsing of books by Dewey Decimal (or LOC)? Searching by name or some internal search engine's idea of how to maximize profits is crazy-making.

As a side note, I didn't like the bookstore model when it was applied to some libraries, much less a website. It's not appropriate for large collections and God knows there's plenty of top ten lists on the web.

note to self: Could libgen be presented in Dewey Decimal form?

I realize that Dewey doesn't apply to fiction.
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My music is actually flac...

But I think a lot of people have mp3's. When I read about ripping cd's to something it is usually mp3 or flac that is wanted.
Nah, the ruling class of flabby fiftysomething bureaucrats will stick around, we'll just have world peace.