skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically, every browser now has to copy Chrome's incessant nagging, and continue to lose ground to Chrome.

Even with all the dirty tricks, Firefox is not able to claw back any user share.
What does he misunderstand about the point of UBI?
My 33 year old final fantasy cart still holds saves; other newer ones have died. There's a huge variance there.
I think unfortunately you are mistaken. Lots of large US companies do this and it's contractual - you sign a paper that they own any IP you create even on your own time.
Pressing the arrow keys on their own does nothing, but pressing DEL (no title update) then an arrow key does.
It's not like they promote people on a schedule but BigCos typically use the lower levels as part of the hiring pool for the higher levels. This has benefits since you know that anyone already working that role already knows your policies and procedures and are basically pre-vetted so you don't have to worry about getting them 90% of the way through the pipeline then failing the drug test or background check.

There's basically no chance of moving into a white collar role internally unless you get a degree but there's definitely room for advancement. Though you could probably advance faster by jumping ship.
Yep. You'll probably think "work remotely from home from anywhere" as the only smart way to proceed with your career.
Happy to hint that there is an upcoming plug-in to support Redux DevTools too. Soon.
It definitely feels like clubhouse is just a fad that will disappear into the ether or just get absorbed as a feature of other players and generally will end up being little used.. but who knows..
Switching Careers to Become a Data Engineer – From Cook to Engineer
I don't.
....want to.
Can it adjust speed without altering pitch the way VLC and YouTube do?

Is it hackable/programmable? I need a short nice bell every n seconds.

If it can do both I'm buying...
It's a fantastic talk that taught me several important principles about measuring performance.

Gil Tene also developed HdrHistogram, which has been ported to a bunch of languages, and is a great, lightweight way to collect accurate performance histograms: http://hdrhistogram.org/.
Oh is it that easy? /s
Just use the Web Notifications API! Maybe also act like some obnoxious "captchas" and actually check whether you got the permissions to nag you later or give you some flair reward.
> I assume they are increasing their hourly rate due to

Doesn't that maybe suggest that $18/hr is probably the current market rate then? My understanding of market rate is "amount at which the two parties are willing to negotiate", not "amount that the employer wants to lock in at, all other factors be damned"

If one can't afford to pay competitive wages, that may suggests they're not actually financially healthy enough to stay in business.
If you want to create these kinds of tooling, would that mean you have to create your own parser first? Seems like multiple effort wasted on multiple environment.

Is there a way to unify these? i.e, just one parser that works for all languages that want to implement JS tooling.
If a few wealthy people moving in has driven up housing prices so much, then the supply of housing is insufficient. The appropriate reaction to increased demand for housing is to meet it with increased supply. What local and state policies might be inhibiting this and harming these communities?
What do you mean when you keep saying “market rate?” You describe your competitors poaching your employees by paying them more, and saying it’s not fair because you can’t pay them that. Tough shit buddy! Sounds like you’re paying below market.
Does it require changes in rates? Interest rates determine absolute property prices, by way of per month payment prices, but it’s the latter that should have primacy, right? What people can afford to pay each month.
German c't magazine did a test in 2000. In the end most of the listeners (several audio professionals among them) liked the 256kbit MP3 as much as the original.

Here's an english copy of the test:

http://www.geocities.ws/altbinariessoundsmusicclassical/mp3t...
It depends on the culture of the person experiencing it. We don't all share the same cultural values. So, there is no reason this is not dystopian for many many people.
Was there just a year ago, right before the pandemic. That is one hell of a beautiful town and you should feel extremely lucky to be able to live there.

I lived in tourist heavy cities (London, Paris, Miami, NYC) and loved chatting with them. And some of them get you to be a tourist in your own city. It took me years before I finally visited the Eiffel Tower. It was always in my periphery and I blended it into the background. Then someone personally invited me to come along.
Money doesn't grow on trees. If there were two shops offering you the exact same breakfast, but one was charging 50% because it paid its employees more, would you patronise it? Even if you would, the majority of people wouldn't, hence why anywhere that charged so much more would go out of business, because people are much more willing to moralise about other people's businesses than put their money where their mouth is and support companies that pay their workers more.
And who would keep the data centers running? The invisible hand of the market? Labor does stuff.
The most successful crypto you haven't heard of is Tether. It has a daily volume of 3-4x of bitcoin. I'm not even sure what so much volume is being used for.
Minimalism is the most difficult design style.

- It's easy to end up with something that looks unfinished, unintentional or lazy

- If you over-simplify, the design loses character, like the uniform sans style critiqued in the article

But consider good minimalist design like the Nike logo. When it's done well it can be amazingly timeless.
Why does it slow down when I tab away from it (Safari)?
It goes to the website of the company named in the article: bilibili.com
> who are the greatest meta-entrepreneurs?

Define "greatest" and "meta".

But in general there are a lot, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel who are more vocal and visible come to mind immediately.

> I'm surprised that pg's site does not use https?

Why would he want that? As far as I can see, he does not even have comment section. There is no data going the other way, let alone data that needs protection.

> Why is pg never listed on a billionaires list

I think the billionaires list is of founders of publicly listed companies whose wealth is determined by public records. Has YC IPO'd?

> pg says he was rejected by the MIT AI grad program. It's impossible to overstate how important this event is in startup/world history. At that time the MIT AI lab was the best AI lab in the the world by a huge margin so pg would've probably been sucked into a third-rate research job.

Wow! You do have a knack for extrapolation!
Yep, agreed. But when you're first starting out you have to make some sacrifices and employers know this.

In IBM's case, they've been burned pretty bad in the past. Gene Amdahl was one of the engineers that designed the IBM 360, the first mainframe. After having a rough go inside IBM's bureaucratic system he left to found the Amdahl Corporation that built hardware compatible mainframe computers. That REALLY pissed IBM off, mainframes are a huge money maker for them and sipping from their own drink was a declaration of war.

I'm not defending their behavior, but IBM really clutches it's pearls. I worked on iSeries hardware (AS/400) among other gear. Even inside IBM and taking IBM classes on the system it was next to impossible to get free-time on OS400 to learn on your own. I got to be friends with the 400 instructors and even then they wouldn't help me learn more than what I was allowed to know about the system. My speculation was they didn't want us field guys getting side work doing stuff for customers that IBM wanted to bill for. Just one of the many reasons I left.
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Is there a vanilla version so I can use this with Svelte
Most debt, at least personal/family debt (maybe other kinds). It is a way to let other people manage your money, to their advantage.

There are many references on better financial management (Dave Ramsey is one--we have tried to provide his materials to our adult children--but there are certainly others I can link to if anyone interested).
> Companies now have to be rude

Or, you know, not do the thing they want to do which is to have employees while pretending they aren't employees.
I'm a midlevel dev at a large company. I don't even have access to make a presentation to the true stakeholders. I can only make suggestions to my lead/boss and have them move it up the chain. On a side note, I've tried moving up th chain when I felt appropriate, but apparently a SQL injection vulnerability with full schema level privileges that was not being prioritized for remediation was not important enough to waste my department head's time.

Sometimes they take my suggestion, sometimes they are already working on it behind the scenes, and sometimes they go nowhere. In this case, they are already measuring most of the metrics like cycle times and mean time to recovery, etc. They already stated that they want microservices and have been building them out. The problem is that they implement it wrong and have no interest in re-architecting. Many of the apps are rewrites of legacy apps. Instead of evaluating the underlying business process, they just want us to build it the same in the new tech but use "microservices". The problem is that some of the business process was designed around the restrictions of the old technology or old industry norma. We should be evaluating the business process before building the technical system, otherwise we will continue to bake in these old constraints and not fully leverage the capabilities of new technology.

Edit: looks like I made someone angry since this is downvoted too.
> The critical thing nobody ever says is "I heard things I never heard before, then I went back to my regular system and I stopped hearing the new thing."

...well, I have, but only when I was a child, and my “regular system” was a thing my parents bought for probably less than $20.
the archetypal censure of jokes grows like crabgrass just as much as jokes grow like crabgrass (because they're both low effort).
singing apps. especially if you're using bluetooth headsets.
The crucial difference is that compared to our other senses, our ears are really, really, astonishingly shit. They can be highly precise in one context and ludicrously imprecise in another context. And they lie. They often tell us we're hearing what our eyes expect to hear.
> It is certainly a goal that some people strive for and we certainly have realized this goal now

I'm not so sure we can compare the impact of temporary changes to the goals that proponents of UBI have set out.

I suspect there's going to be significant pressure to wind back expansions and allow temporary programs to sunset. And it'll be hard to argue to keep them once vaccine access is high, schools are open, and things can "return to normal."

Not working at a time when you have access to significantly increased unemployment funds and in the middle of a pandemic is an extremely rational decision, but I suspect it is not how the long-term would look.
I’m very glad we’re only screwing over “some” people, good to have that cleared up, thank you for that...it’s still an abominable practice to put any amount of laborers through.
So what did he do to limit police brutality?

Limit qualified immunity for rogue cops by signing into law an act of Congress?

Eliminate civil forfeiture?
The statement goes far beyond any contractual obligation. But I agree, it is a mistake to sign away all intellectual property rights and such a contract is legally binding. It isn't clear that such a contract exists here.
Before you rail on how wrong this is for a company to do, please read this article by Joel on the subject.

This is a super difficult topic for corporations that most don't realize and the article below walks through those dynamics.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
So, they don't leave without fully understanding what's capable without anyone explaining?
Isn't it? Isn't that what the "bodyshop" is for? To protect the dynamic the buyer exploited previously, but now with a rent-seeker in the middle? It doesn't seem like the workers on either end are better protected as a result.

Honestly asking.
I am a parent of a kid who starts kindergarten in 6 months. Moved to a smaller mountain town in the same state six months ago, primarily because of the schools. Our old local school (4 block walk) has a 1/10 rating. The city just put in a homeless camp literally across the street from the school. I would do a needle sweep before letting my kid play on the playground there, and would regularly find needles on the playground (school grounds aren’t aloud to lock up outside of school hours due to federal laws).

I grew up middle class in a upper middle class school district, with attentive and loving parents. My mom stayed at home and raised us. I was still exposed to skipping class, drugs, and alcohol in middle and high school. I almost didn’t graduate myself, due to poor choices. This is in a school with a 92% graduation rate. I understand from intimate personal experience that the more opportunities your kids have to interact with peers making poor life choices, there is a higher chance your kid gets caught up in it despite what you do as a parent. This isn’t sheltering (I certainly wasn’t sheltered), it’s just repeat exposure to exciting but bad choices leads some kids to temptation.

I could have moved to a more expensive neighborhood in the city but the same fundamental problem exists. I don’t care about how much money people have, I care whether in aggregate, the parents in my community try to raise their kids with intention. There’s a shocking lack of that in 40% of the families in the schools in the city we moved from.
I don’t think JS has built-in parser API either, but grammars are available that you can use to quickly build parsers and generators.
I believe you can now query across DBs in Azure via a Linked Server. It still feels a little clunky to me though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/li...
Thank you, that's great example and a marvelous advice.
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I’m annoyed by this new notification because Firefox doesn’t recognize macOS Choosy.app as a multi-default browser router, which I use to control the directions of various links into the right places in my collection of browsers. I expect my use case is too rare to be of interest to the browser team, but it’ll serve as a useful reminder to me of why nothing is every fully correct at humanity scale.
I can easily afford to pay my mechanic twice the money. Of course just like google, I don't want to.
Apparently also moving the mouse triggers the notepad!UpdateTitle function.
If a company can't hire anyone at a specified pay rate, either they aren't advertising the position well enough or it doesn't pay well enough. If you've already tried more advertising, it leaves one thing..

It is a great thing when government forces businesses to pay living wages. We can hope and wish for them to do it themselves, but it just doesn't happen otherwise.
This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.
> Didn’t read the article

Then why are you commenting? Your point was addressed in the article.
> There's pretty much no safety gain from using Rust over OCaml.

> But if you use OCaml you don't have to worry about borrow checking.

I've never written any OCaml, when you choose not "to worry about borrow checking" how does OCaml arrange to ensure your program is free from data races in concurrent code anyway? Or do you consider that "pretty much no safety gain" ?
Make your own DIY time-blocking calendar?
10K visitors in one day: how I launched a Netflix recommendation app
Huh (confirmed), trying to imagine that code path.

Edit: Played around a bit, it's odd. For example <del> then click on a different window (release focus) does trigger the update.
First, I'm not looking for excuses for poor performance, and I don't want my kids doing that either. You screw up then own it. It's okay. You don't have to be perfect, no one is. But don't be a coward and hide from your own limitations.

Second, I think you're glossing over the part about process-oriented goals.

If one stays stuck on results-oriented goals, then your comment is pretty much on point. It doesn't matter who I'm competing with, I'll have bad days.

But with process-oriented goals, the focus switches how you do what you're doing, and that's something purely in your control.

To put it in exercise terms, you won't always be able to lift more than you did yesterday or run faster than you did 5 years ago--but you can always actually get off the coach and do it, you can always focus on your form, you can always push for that last rep or work hard into the last sprint.

It's really about an internal focus PLUS a process-oriented approach. Not just one or the other.
Have a look at the "power of prolog" YouTube channel (and website) by Markus Triska.
Detergent DRM Defeated on Diminutive Dishwasher
If I learned one thing from long distance motorcycle travel, it's that there will always be someone who's more hardcore than you. You can try to beat that person, or you can focus on your own experience, which will undoubtedly be unique and memorable.

In any case, no one is keeping score. No one will check your route to make sure it was as long and difficult as possible.

Ships are inevitable. They let you avoid long detours or countries where your passport is no good, or where you must be escorted during your journey. In my case, that would be either Iran or China.
I saw this and immediately thought of the scene in The Other Guys
Considering that the people it was supposed to help are being fired every 2 years for 6 months I'd say the governments plan to help some people hasn't and caught people like the GP in the crossfire. Quelle surprise.
Something about this text just doesn't read right. It feels like someone babbling without end. Is it the lack of punctuation?

Ah whatever, fun stuff.
All the ones I have signed only claim IP directly related to the company's business model.

Obviously that gets trickier if the company is like, Microsoft which at least has tried to make every kind of software imaginable. But most companies do pretty much one thing, and I am free to develop whatever else besides that on my own time. It seems reasonable.
With UBI, if you take an additional job, you would lose a large share of your income to taxes used to pay for the UBI.

Yes, you can restructure income tax levels so that people get to keep most of their additional income, and then you'd have to tax the remaining people more heavily to compensate. But if that's the solution, why don't we do that today?

This argument shows that UBI doesn't solve the incentive problem. It can only be solved by keeping welfare benefits significantly lower than minimum wages, which means lowering one or raising the other. This isn't logically impossible, but it's matter of political feasibility. That's true of UBI also.
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Mondale proposed some interesting ideas during his Presidential campaign, in particular a national industrial policy, that I think we would have done well to take heed of.
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You're right. It's really as simple as labeling buttons. The information you want is clear and concise with no distractions and no fluff.
It seems like they tried to read it but hit a paywall. The same thing happened to me. But I still wanted to see the comments and participate in discussion.

I don't know why hacker news still allows articles with paywalls.
> 128k MP3s

Twenty years ago, such files would have been barely listenable. Ten years ago, this would have been tolerable but obviously compromised. Today, with the best encoders, 128k MP3s are shockingly good. Certainly not perfect. But good.

MP3 encoding has come a long way.
Which company doesn't have a "deep learning" team. Not to be cynical but tons of companies that barely even know what it is have AI/ML teams because its the hot thing.
I believe you, but what makes this illegal? I'm not familiar with the laws or protections around this.
Emailing this as a comment to the mods using the footer link is the most effective way to see the title corrected, as posting about it doesn’t always work out so well.
> There's just something about having a group of people singing that is just so appealing to me...

If you like The Longest Johns, check out Port Isaac's Fisherman Friends. Similar large vocal group.

I can tell you why I like a lot of those groups: It's people who can sing, singing. No autotune, no filters, no massive audio processing pipelines. I've heard plenty of groups like that at festivals over the years, and they tend to sound just like they do on the album (for good or for bad - Gaelic Storm's live shows have no energy to them, they're just performing the album).

Also, barbershop needs to come back. :D
"I have read and understand and agree to...", thinking it doesn't matter, when it can matter. We all seem to accept going farther down a slippery slope of saying things we don't mean to each other, out of convenience or because everyone else does.

I think we should know what we promise, and plan to keep it or not promise. And maybe not do business with those who push us to act otherwise...? Sometimes, when there is little choice, I guess it boils down to a matter of choosing very, very carefully whom to trust...?

I try to read & save these agreements, then I can use a little script to just see what changed (not reread the whole thing) when they are updated, and I try to not do business with places that have too-long terms or heavy-handed indemnity or other language.

Also: "You must re-check these terms every time you visit this site. Continued use of the site means you agree to whatever we put here (or maybe in several other documents or elsewhere on the site), without our providing notice to you." Fortunately some sites actually provide advance notice of changes, or at least a last-changed date.

I have written many more thoughts on that.
What's an airport name when you can get a week of mourning declared when you die?

They set up his body on display in a way that's eerily reminiscent of Kim Jong Il did when he died.

He said he didn't want a personality cult (more likely he didn't want to be seen to be having one) but still set one up anyway.

The press (notoriously one of the least free in the world) lionized him frequently and enthusiastically and attributed the various successes to his keen intelligence and vision, etc. Meanwhile he bankrupted detractors with libel lawsuits with savage abandon in an attempt to quash any criticism.
Nobody is stopping you from running a NAT gateway until 2120 at home. IPv6 solves specific problems in a datacenter context, namely address exhaustion. You'll never run into that problem at home.
I disagree, climate change is not an on/off switch. There is a spectrum of possibilities, and marginal changes can have marginal effects.

Of course group action is more meaningful, and that's why this group of investors is pressuring a group of banks.
Look at Bozeman on Google Maps with the satellite view. There are mountains to the NE, E, and South.

Many of these desirable mountain locations like Vail are in mountain valleys where there is a limited amount of land to build on.
They didn't even do that. They double punched the RJ45 jacks. They used the proper Cat5e everywhere (cables, jacks, and punch blocks) but the wiring was done terrible enough that I can't really use it.