skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working professionally for 25 years now. I could take a year off financially, but I'm still shackled by health insurance being so expensive on the private market.

Think about this, when you are on your deathbed, whenever that is. Could be tomorrow, could be in 60 years. What regrets will you have?
This puts it well, albeit with (enjoyable) snark.

So often these criticisms read like it’s expected that Apple conform to the Linux “model” of doing things, and anything else is like the plague.
My only wish is that split mechanical keyboards be commoditized and be cheap. Right now, one has to pay a steep premium to get those.
>All these stalking counter-measures make it useless if your device is stolen rather than mislaid.

I think “useless” is a bit extreme. After three days, the thief may notice it when it starts beeping, but before then it will track just fine. Clearly there’s a trade off here, but I think having anti-stalking protections is pretty important for a product that millions of people are going to bug.
Profit sharing and healthcare are the minimum people want to keep do the same crappy jobs in hostile environments with creepy, violent, or domineering managers. The jobs have gotten harder, people have more bills, and pay hasn't budged. Some introspection by the "job providers" would be greatly appreciated as they complain about labor shortages.
> the 200 Terrawatt hours per data center.

That number is completely fictional, off by orders of magnitude.
I'm confused, does this use different IP addresses constantly? How is this mailserver able to send email without an IP based reputation? Is it just that Amazon is so giant other mega-corp email providers are wary to blacklist their IP range?

If so this is a wonderful way to send spam without ever worrying about IP reputation. I imagine it will be abused and then blacklisted quickly.
It means doing something very risky for little overall gain.
They can do that, but they also want to be paid by Google. So it doesn't help on that front.
Revolution is NOT the answer.

Think a bit harder on the problem than to simply cry revolution. Swaths of people die, families are destroyed, the economy is destroyed, the nation becomes vulnerable ( if you still have a nation ). You will have to deal with the problems you created before you ever get the opportunity to work on what you were originally revolting about.
Well, there's a straightforward (I don't say easy) way to fix this: you require a high enough minimum wage (and healthcare, and sick leave, and etc.). It's not like the restaurant owner has the option of just deciding to pay twice or three times the labor costs, and trust that their customers will be happy to cover the difference, if their competitors don't have to do the same.

Because, those restaurant (and retail and etc.) business owners are mostly not the ones making big money. Restaurants, in particular, are horribly low margin.

The end result of getting rid of "terrible" jobs, is that everything at the restaurant costs 2-3x as much, and so on at the many other businesses (agriculture?) which rely on cheap labor. Which means all those people in professional class jobs (e.g. programmers) will find that their salary doesn't go nearly as far as it used to.

Personally, I'm ok with that, I think it's the right thing to do. But it's not like it's the small business owners that are standing in the way of it; they cannot pay higher wages if their competition is not, so it has to be mandated. What's standing in the way of it is that this would be, at least temporarily, quite inflationary, and we have a professional class that is accustomed to not having to pay much for anything except houses.
I feel happy enough with the situation. No one should be forced to work a shitty job imo.
> earning 1 more dollar results in losing thousands of dollars

They might either go out of business or automate those roles if they can't afford to pay blue collar workers a living wage. I'm not a socialist, but some business do rip off low income workers. So they might as well cease to exist if they can't find workers to rip off, instead of claiming that people are lazy.
We All Sort of Underestimate the Power of 110%+ NRR
We would move faster towards post scarcity if businesses were economically incentivized to uptake automation faster (and then we tax businesses [1] to fund social safety nets).

If we continue to encourage an economic system through policy that is satisfied with labor making wages that provides a dystopian poverty level of life quality, it will take longer to arrive post scarcity. Economic incentives matter!

[1] https://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity
I won’t argue your overall point but I will point out that the “sweeping and wiping down tables” are the easiest parts of that job and a small fraction of the labor that is done.
I saw the Flash thing for what it was. And all their privacy features are not about being pro-consumer as much as they're about trying to choke off Google's revenue. I can't believe how many developers and other tech-savvy people seem willing to let Apple get away with their blatantly anti-competitive behavior. If you own an iOS device, you're not able to put code you wrote onto that device without both an Apple computer and and Apple developer account. And you probably need Apple's programming language and editor. And none of their devices are expandable or repairable despite charging a premium.
Except they don’t become bricks. They still work just fine. In fact, on some more recent unsupported devices, you can still redownload apps (but only up to the latest version supporting your device). Did the Apple II become a brick when Apple stopped supporting them? The IBM PC? Why is an older iDevice a “brick”, but not BlackBerrys or Nokias?
It's always a hazard. All reconstructions have to be taken with a grain of salt.

"Slant rhymes" like this have been used throughout history. Shakespeare is known to have used them in some places: some of his rhymes aren't consistent through his works.

It does help that sound change isn't arbitrary. When one sound changes, other sounds change as well. An entire category of consonants may lose or gain voicing, or shift in point of articulation. When one vowel changes to another, a lot of words can become homonyms, so usually every single vowel changes at once. These are called Chain Shifts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_shift

So a single instance of a rhyme is a weak piece of evidence, but when you take into account all of the texts at the time -- and the texts from surrounding times, both before and after -- you can make a good hypothesis. That hypothesis can then be tested against future discoveries, and modify as appropriate.

That's why all Proto Indo European reconstructions are marked with an * to say "We've never actually heard this word so we don't know if anybody ever said it". They're aware that all hypotheses are tentative. But that's how progress is made.
Unsolicited advice: dip your toe in the water and introspect after a couple of months to see if it's a sustainable change that you want to make.
This is really cool and I appreciate the JpegXL support as well, even if it's not super well supported right now. I recently moved all of my photos from Dropbox to a local Nextcloud and I have a bunch of old photos that I don't want to delete, but don't need to be taking up gigabytes either. I can definitely get some good use out of this.
Valve Illegally Monopolizes the PC Gaming Market, Class Action Alleges
>is it because making $37k a year in Texas isn't good enough for a no-education, no-experience job?

Maybe it's because it offers no meaningful health insurance, is most likely not full-time (such a job rarely is), and has little long-term promise.
I think this is also a reason why tables generally have set limits.
Hi! Squoosh team lead here :)

What kind of explanation would you like to see? We link to the repo and the Privacy explainer at the bottom of the page. Why is it important to you to know that it’s made by Googlers?
No, it's just another incident in a long history of getting people of color to capitulate to conservative interests in the mistaken belief that by doing so they'll finally be treated as equals.

But as we're all learning slowly, that's a game with no end. Today (well, yesterday), it's "don't sag your pants", tomorrow it's "don't 'talk back' to cops" where "talk back" includes simply asking why you're being stopped.

Conservatives will always have something they just don't quite like about what people of color do. It'll never be "being black", but it'll always oddly be something people of color disproportionately do.
It's a tradeoff of course, but I think they struck a pretty good medium.

I like how much they thought about this issue.
> Mechanical keyboards are ideal for programmers and fast typists

Don't fall for this hype. I've used mechanical keyboards for over 20 years and switched to non-mechanical 6 years ago. My typing has been never fast. You don't have to push/raise your fingers all the way down/up when you hit the key or when you release the the key respectively. That adds to the latency as well. The flatter the keyboard the faster it is - of course coupled with the actual mechanics of the keyboard. But mechanical keyboard? Not anymore for me!
Exactly, it's time they let others use the phone they built in Shenzhen to listen to music with apps not made by Apple.

There's 0 reason to over tax Spotify as punishment for trying to do it better. The capitalist thing to do would be to allow and enjoy fair competition in a pure and perfect market.
I pay taxes and I'd be super happy if my money went to support people in this country without jobs. It would lower crime and increase the quality of life for everyone living here. I could also be one of those people someday.

Unfortunately many of my tax dollars go to fund a military I find ethically abhorrent instead of improving the quality of life in the US.
Boy do I hate blog posts with no link to the page for the actual project. I’m tapping “Murex” in the banner, that should take me to the homepage so I can see what the heck it is!
That's a terrible take. The government is not "waging war" on businesses. Businesses that were (are) paying starvation wages simply socialize the costs of doing business. When Amazon's warehouse workers and Wal*Mart retail employees are also collecting SNAP benefits, their employers are getting all the benefits of low wages but – because they don't pay their fair share of taxes – the employers are avoiding the externalities. See "Cheap: This High Cost of Discount Culture"
VeGANs: A Python library to train various existing GANs
> Is it because the high-schoolers who would normally do that aren't looking for jobs due to pandemic?

The concept that entry-level food service is mostly staffed by high-schoolers who don't really "need" the money is the weirdest trope. Basically every restaurant is open during school hours. Who is handling the lunch rush?
No clue, I left the community around 2010, returned 2014 when the source been leaked for teaching myself about mmo development, I really don't know outside than some private servers still having 10+k players and that a few legitimate businesses /other games came out from the community
Were applets sandboxed?
Beyond some small changes I would make to use new-types all over the place, I personally like to rely on Deref impls to mimic inheritance (although not everyone agrees this is a good idea to do too often): https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

As you can see I also used a macro by example there to remove some of the duplicated code that you would otherwise have.
They never post how many tests were done on that dashboard, you can look at past years and see the same results. That data regarding testing doesn't doesn't seem available yet on the sites, but I see no real reason to doubt the CMO's claim, do you?
2011 Subaru WRX hatchback. Fun to drive (my priority), decent gas mileage, useful cargo space, good resale value, has a large aftermarket and enthusiast community behind it making parts cheap and plentiful. Everything I want in a car that's not a Mazda Miata, which is what I drove the previous two cars I had.
JIT Do It
Those exploited immigrants won't hold their breath.

I'm sure those farms unwilling to pay a fair wage will start investing in those expensive machines' R&D. Then do it for all other crops.
Yeah, $18/hour sounds less appealing if it comes with an unpredictable schedule and uncertain hours from week to week. I used to work retail, and it was rough trying to attend classes not knowing when I might get called in for a shift.
If you find this interesting, and you like podcasts, I also recommend The History of English Podcast:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/

The host frequently speaks archaic forms of English with correct pronunciation.

It's also one of the highest-quality podcasts I listen to. It's very information-dense and each episode is exceptionally well-organised.
It varies wildly my TV manufacturer. My parent's smart TV is god-awful to navigate. You have to go into an app to get to the streaming apps...like what?

But my TV has Roku built-in and it's smooth as silk for the most part. Most of the issues I encounter are app-related. Like HBO Max is really clunky, but Netflix is rock-solid.
> Nearly everyone I've spoken to has reported that WFH productivity has been equal, if not better than pre-pandemic.

Whats more:

Late last year experienced search quality increased ever so slightly for me at least.

Granted Google is not my default search engine anymore so I cannot say for sure but I still consult it sometimes. (The quality on Google and DDG has been about the same for me but it is easier to go from DDG and back than the other way around.)
The solution to this is to only allow it if the user "installed" the PWA by adding it to their home screen. Same with the other complex api's like bluetooth etc.
Guessing your beloved sonos setup hasn’t run into the S1/S2 nightmare yet. Nothing like spending thousands on several of company’s products just to have the said company force obsolescence.

Personally, sticking with real speakers from real audio companies that won’t force me into either fragmenting my setup or throwing stuff away.
IQ is verifiably a tool to exclude people based on race. It used inane things like vocabulary to deign intelligence. It has no merit and is not worth discussing.
But then they'd have to provide benefits (like health insurance, parental leave, etc.) and treat workers with dignity and respect. In America, that's unlikely to happen without government regulations enforcing it.
I don't think pushing more noise their way is the right answer...
The Lambda doesn't send or receive email directly, it uses SES.

SES handles this in a delegated way via DKIM signatures (Domain Keys Identified Mail).
> Botnets continue to be the number one source of junk email and will likely continue as we add more and more insecure doorbells, garage openers, refrigerators, etc, to our home networks.

Surely that's an argument against blocking IPs?

Unless I suppose you argue they're predominantly in homes; and homes are predominantly not running (intentional, well-behaved) email servers, so sorry-not-sorry those who are.
> Do we have these answers for neural networks?

Not in general that I'm aware of.

I agree the result is not practical, but you asked what is known. There have been some refinements (the citations on that page give a reasonable flavor, fwiw).
Yeah and that's the kind of thing I would hope really does become more normal virtually everywhere. Especially when a job is so easily done remotely most of the time, it should be very low cost for people to be a more available parent when kids are sick, or stay home when they might be contagious, or just get errands done in a timely manner.

But this has happened to me so much, it didn't seem like it could be a coincidence that I happened to catch everyone on their WFH day that week...
How have I not heard of this!
While the sparring happens here as they are both ads companies, there's nothing to say the sparring won't happen between Google and Apple if they wanted the same level of customer data and Apple doesn't provide it.
Do you just buy stock X because you think it will do well, or do you buy a broad ETF because you believe in passive investing and diversification?

If the latter, well, the same applies to countries and asset classes. You can take your best guess on who the winners will be, or you can just buy the market. It doesn't mean you think "the globe will outperform the US," any more than buying VTSAX means you think VTSAX will outperform Apple.
I wonder if Apple will delist Spotify from the app store. It would be a power move on their part to say mess with us and lose what you have.
Out of all the things you mentioned, a political party membership is the only one I wouldn't pay for. May I ask what value you get out of being a paid member?
There are no such things as “jobs americans won’t do”. It’s just you have to compensate people accordingly. With this failing stealth UBI experiment that we are currently engaged in, people aren’t willing to work when many of them are getting near 100% the same income not to work. The rest of us are being crushed by inflation.
Washington state, not DC.
"According to "Papa" John Schnatter, the cost of providing health insurance for all of his pizza chain's uninsured, full-time employees comes out to about 14 cents on a large pizza."

And this is the reason he gave for not supporting ACA. $0.14 a pizza. To this day, I struggle to understand the psychology behind it.
Going back to an office 5 days/week seems absurd at this point, especially for anyone who is planning to move out of a city.
When your entire desktop is mostly Electron, no, apps don’t dictate what people buy. You can run the same stuff on almost any OS now.

People buy Apple because the hardware is great, the software is more integrated than Linux and Windows due to that tight hardware control, and the Apple Store model which “just works” for the average person.
I honor polite takedown requests. Many times they'll open an abuse ticket without even bothering to email the whois contact.

They almost always use some ridiculous cyber-scare language. "Confirmed digital threat incident", is one of my favorites.

Like the false DMCA spammers, I doubt they review the content in question before sending their boilerplate.
What's the holy grail switch for these enthusiasts these days? Is the tenkeyless/po3kr-sized keyboard format still considered "end game"?
I would say it is artificially shortened by design choices. It is a perfectly capable device, the harware is still fast and secure. However, I am just not allowed to fix the software, even if I have enough resources for that. This is exactly why we need free software.
Also, if you are google employee who already moved away from the bay area, it may actually be easier to switch jobs (to a full remote option) than it is to move back to the bay area on September 1.

Many of the employees that are angry have already left, and have been working remote for 6+ months. The hard part of moving is already done. If anything, staying with google would be the more difficult choice since they need to move back!
Ah, gotcha. Yes, that does make more sense, thanks. But I still don't think it really addresses the second point, which is the crux of the argument as far as I can see.
The bottom 99.9% in America enjoy healthcare, communications, caloric intake, political freedom, public services, education and safety from violence unprecedented in human history. By almost every metric society is better off now than it was in the 1950's, 1800's, etc. The over-focus on the negative propels us toward greater collective good - up to a point. We would do better as a society to revert to a mean that expresses some recognition and gratitude for the progress made. We're sowing the seeds of our own destruction via economic, racial, ethnic and class tribalism.
There is a great deal of ruin in a FAANG, as Adam Smith would say.
Murex is also a risk management software for financial institutions.
I saw the title and said WTF?!
The graph we're looking at when it jumps to 75%+ CPU usage is it single core? Also using 700MB+ of memory.
But Google managers don’t monitor you when in person.
Greed permeates all parties as it is a human characteristic. The point is to create an environment that encourages strong businesses and discourages greed. Left or Right.

Are you talking right business owners or politicians.

If you answer both, how many conservative business owners do you actually know? I know a number of them and they have thriving businesses with well compensated and well covered employees that have worked for their businesses for decades.
Video games are considered e-sports in South Korea and some people do get paid to play them. Imagine a full stadium with a few guys playing games and the audience watching them on big screens.
Kudos to you for doing that, and I'm sorry for your loss. I set up something similar a couple years ago for my 94-yo grandmother with failing eyesight, though my solution was a bit more off-the-shelf; I set up an old 32" TV and chromecast as a smart picture frame that would rotate through images from a specific Google Photos album. I then sent out a link and gave write access to the album to all of our family. Unfortunately it's now getting to the point where she even has trouble seeing those pictures. We also had success setting her up with an Echo with our Amazon Prime (got Unlimited Books) account to facilitate her listening to Audible books; every couple weeks or so we make her a curated list of Audible titles on Prime and she checks off which ones she wants and someone will load those up for her. The best part is that with her newer hearing aids, the Echo can play straight into her head over Bluetooth!
My car put the cupholders in front of the center console air vents, so they are heated in winter, and cooled in summer. But any spills end up on the radio/nav.
We have a similar problem.

Care to explain how you replaced Google?
Ok, but at some level of automation the number of low-skill jobs will be much less than the number of candidates. When this occurs, what's a viable career path for someone without a College education? Or even someone with a College education that's no longer relevant/in demand? We already have more than enough bullshit jobs...

Perhaps the answer is to start shortening the work week.
100% agree. After 3 month of WFH, I started coming in to the empty building. I was the only one here, but it is so much easier to get work done when I'm not at home.

Most of my co-workers feel the opposite from me, but my home is a sea of distractions that I'd rather be doing than sitting at a computer working (and I live alone, so no kids or spouse at home). Instead I could be playing piano, practicing violin, writing music, taking photos, developing film, or 100 other things. When I'm at work, I work (mostly).
Almost as if the trope were a pretext for why it's ok to pay shit wages.
> devices that are hard to repair

Define easy? (Modern electronics, for instance, is highly integrated, full of miniature surface-mounted components etc., and so the "repair process" might as well be simply selling you a replacement for the whole thing.)
So this is similar to how you could subscribe to queries in meteorjs.
Security issues are found in browsers every day. You get no updates anymore and you are not allowed to update yourself. If you care about (not) leaking any of your data, this is effectively a brick.
> This forced experiment in 100% WFH was clearly bad for productivity.

Could you link to some data that demonstrates that?

> A lot of it was to create an environment where workers worked longer hours and thus the firm got more productivity out of each worker.

"longer hours" "more productivity" is obviously false for the extremes. It is unclear what is the threshold when a programmer starts to introduce more issues than they fix.

It is hard to measure productivity for a programmer (e.g., what might be productive short-term may be counter-productive long-term).